Nah, I'd just be wasting their time (like I'm wasting yours now... sorry). Besides, I'd be surprised if finding the answer to the meaning of life was that easy :)

"alcohol increases the amount of the chemical dopamine in the brain's reward center, which creates the feeling of pleasure that occurs when someone takes a drink"

"and it inhibits the thought processes, making it difficult to think clearly"

Lucky you... I'm 100% certain I'm nowhere near rock bottom, in fact I'm doing rather well compared to pretty much everyone else around me... yet I can never quite loose the feeling that nobody will miss me, not for long anyway... I haven't created anything significant... I haven't made a big impact on anybody's…

As a former support person, we were required to know the NATO alphabet, as well as its German variant. And 24-hour time is pretty popular already, just not in the USA :)

There's a reason some people play RPGs to the point of forsaking the real world - progress is easily measurable, rewards are closer together, the tasks to be completed are clearly defined... You can say that to-do lists are also a form of RPG, just without fantasy elements (so, just the quest tracker part).

Another great tip for NirSoft BlueScreenView or WinDBG users is that if the results from several different crashes in quick succession (e.g. you get bluescreens every other day) are different, i.e. it shows a different driver as the cause every time, then the issue is almost 100% with your RAM or CPU (or, of course,…

I haven't used BlueScreenView, but from the screenshots I assume it's a great tool that will often get the job done. WinDBG is not really in the same category, though - it's a full-fledged debugger that will tell you not only what went wrong, but how. I think the best solution is to check with BSV first and if the…

You can also analyze the memory dumps yourself, they are under C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\ (in the default mini-dump mode). You just need WinDBG (which is what the Microsoft engineers use to write and debug Windows - and it's free). There are many guides about windbg + bsod, like this one for example.

I'm very happy with where I am in life, thankyouverymuch :) In fact, I'm one of the few people whose hobby and day job are the same, which, I'm told, is a rare privilege.

You know why you're wrong, don't you? "Real vacation" is whatever makes you happy, relaxed and lets you forget the stress for a while so you can regain your strength. For me, this is playing video games with my friends. When we're waiting on a game together, it's the same as planning a vacation on a tropical island,…

I used to turn on my home server by touching the terminals on the mainboard with a screwdriver (the "case" was a cardboard box, so no power buttons there), but this doesn't make it good UX :)

41 ms end-to-end at 24 fps is impossible. There's double or triple buffering, the display latency, the engine latency (they often use animation interpolation and don't react immediately to input) and your mouse latency (except if you use a 1000 Hz mouse).

24 fps means there will be quite a delay between moving your mouse/controller and the picture changing on the screen, just because getting a new picture will be a relatively rare event... even if we're talking about tens of milliseconds, you will notice it as the game not being fluid and the controls being…

Mostly because movies are not interactive, there is no need for them to be able to change to a different picture in a hundredth of a second. In games people notice millisecond delays, even if it's just a subconscious feeling of the "controls not being responsive enough".

Normal computer operating systems just do more - so they are more complex and prone to be unpredictable because of this. If you know how to handle this - great, you get to enjoy games that look better, play better and are lighter on the wallet. If you don't or won't, then you can either install SteamOS and use your…

Not to mention the white dress... White is what black is for western cultures, the color of death....

At least in Korea being a pro gamer is like being a rock star - they get all the chics, the cash, the respect... They literally have servants that follow them around and wash their clothes...

Well.... who looks for a power button on the back?

...because your AdBlock is malfunctioning?

...or they'd get advanced enough to program a Facebook client for whatever hardware you gave them. Which would be an epic win.