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Full Name Bao Nguyen
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GD Gathering City Bellevue, WA, United States
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Planescape Torment on GOG I think several people here wanted to play Planescape Torment but could no longer find it. I got a used copy a while back for $45, but now it's available on GOG for $9.99. 
Posted September 28, 2010 12:28:46 PM
Switcher for Windows Vista Download Switcher (requires Vista+Aero) Hello everyone, this is Switcher, my application switcher for Windows Vista. It lets you see all open windows as thumbnails with two types of arrangements: 1) a Mac Expose-like arrangement, and 2) a taskbar-... 
Posted February 27, 2007 8:59:07 AM
What did you get for Christmas? I haven't opened gifts yet (waiting for relatives to arrive), but so far I know that I got: - 2 plastic storage containers. - I think bed sheets. 
Posted December 25, 2009 2:45:25 PM
10 years 10 years ago I joined GameDev :) 10 years ago I was still in high school, learning C with classes, maybe dabbling with Python, and writing lots of graphics engines. To date I've completed only one game, and I got sick of playing it soon... 
Posted August 23, 2009 3:50:41 AM
BrokenPictureTelephone Here's a fun site I found: http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/ The idea is that a person writes a description based on a drawing, someone else creates a drawing based on that description, and repeat for a number of cycles. I know t... 
Posted March 15, 2009 2:36:44 PM
Photosynth http://photosynth.net You can create your own synths and view those created by others. One really awesome feature is the ability to detect objects and create a 3D point cloud from them. The Harlequin Beetle synth is a great example. Update:... 
Posted August 21, 2008 12:34:24 AM
XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/05/07/announcing-xna-game-studio-3-0-community-technical-preview-ctp.aspx It's available! Supports VC# 2008 Express and Visual Studio 2008 Standard or higher. Also supports Zune and Windows development, but n... 
Posted May 7, 2008 12:29:05 PM
Zune + XNA http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=400948 Anyone find this awesome? The best part was when he was debugging a game running on the Zune using VC# running on the computer, including setting breakpoints and changing variables in... 
Posted April 28, 2008 10:34:34 PM
12 months free XNA Creators Club for students I just saw this interesting announcement of free development stuff for college students: http://blogs.msdn.com/mithund/archive/2008/02/19/dreamspark.aspx Offical site here: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/ Quote:Students will be able to dow... 
Posted February 19, 2008 5:37:13 AM
C# will fail without a beard Someone performed a scientific study on beards and the success of programming languages. Given the abundant evidence I'm going to try to grow one again. 
Posted September 16, 2007 4:32:12 AM
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Seattle + Snow = Fun Yeah, winter tires sound like a good idea, but on the other hand snow/ice events like these are relatively rare so buying a set of these tires isn't easily justified. I don't recall any snow/ice at all last year, for example. The cheaper alte... 
Posted November 24, 2010 12:52:35 AM
Seattle + Snow = Fun I had to drive down an iced-up hill Monday evening. I've driven on snow before and don't have a problem with it. The hill, on the other hand, was rather scary. I was going slower than walking pace because the car in front of me was crawling... 
Posted November 24, 2010 12:36:23 AM
The right direction for a student? I agree with everyone else, quit the retail job and concentrate on school. Furthermore, you're a CS student so you should be looking for CS internships for summers. Those will be worth significantly more in terms of experience and resume materia... 
Posted November 13, 2010 12:54:49 PM
Seattle Area? Quote:Original post by NickGravelyn Quote:Original post by cutthepeaceQuote:Are there any massive downsides to the area to be aware of? TRAFFIC: I-405 is horrible and I-5 in Seattle gets squeezed down to two lanes each way.All highways around here... 
Posted October 17, 2010 11:26:13 PM
School sucks Quote:Original post by way2lazy2care Quote:Original post by Concentrate I guess bad wording. Most of my classes are proofs. Prove that this is true or that is false. Write a language that accepts language of this form, or prove the union of R1 and... 
Posted September 11, 2010 10:36:11 PM
Talking about yourself in code Quote:Original post by superpig *** Source Snippet Removed ***Reminds me of Paula Bean. 
Posted August 12, 2010 12:22:00 AM
Pitfalls to VS2010? Quote:Original post by Shinkage I just upgraded to 2010 this week myself and, though I hate to say it about a new purchase of yours, I find it to be an almost strict DOWNgrade compared to 2008. I was totally unimpressed with the new intellisense, t... 
Posted July 16, 2010 11:57:06 PM
The GDNet Classic Black theme Wow, I didn't realize this theme was available. It's like a time machine. Now I feel like I should be going to high school instead of work. 
Posted July 15, 2010 1:32:23 PM
MS Office documents as container formats Quote:Original post by capn_midnight ARGH! I just got one that was a PowerPoint slide!I once saw a PowerPoint presentation with a single slide containing a .zip file. 
Posted July 14, 2010 12:09:29 PM
Anyone else used OnLive? I just tried OnLive with Unreal Tournament 3 on my Comcast cable connection. I've played UT3 locally before so I know how good the graphics can be, and while OnLive's graphics were noticeably degraded it wasn't to the level of unplayabil... 
Posted July 7, 2010 10:21:08 PM
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