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    Anyone make it round 2 beta SWTOR?

    Last I heard this week's BETA invites were only being released for applicants in NA "/
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    Spontaneous Combustion of Humans Reality?

    I read an article not so long ago regarding people able to stick things to there bodies, i.e people who are so called "Magnetic", apprently if you have poor hygiene it can with objects being able to stick to your skin becuase of the layers dirt and oil released and gathered. Could it be...
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    Good site or book on database management and scaling

    As Easy Rhino said most of the database systems books on amazon will cover what you need. I've got a book which I used at University, it went into alot of detail regarding subjects such as normalization and other methodoligies, it's an information systems dev book rather than purley database...
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    Codeblocks to MSDN

    Using VS for the first time is quite daunting and can be an annoying process becuase it's quite alot different to other IDE. Before you attempt to pass your code into VS you should really learn how VS works, there's hundreds of tutorials running about on the internet, a good one would be VC in...
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    Pirate themed games?

    There's also DLC for Two Worlds Two, I can't remember the name but it was apart of the steam sale yesterday, it had a pirate theme and skimming through the game facts it added "Sailing" as a new form of movement.
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    DIII Beta up!

    I totally forgot to opt in on battle.net! I wonder if I were to do it now I can get a cheeky invite when the EU beta invites begins, I think not! "/
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    Begining 3D Game Design

    You can also check out http://www.ogre3d.org/ it's an open source 3d engine, heard its good. I haven't used it myself but there's apprently alot of tutorials about for it :) Have fun
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    Elder Scrolls V SKYRIM !! 11-11-11

    Has this been confirmed? Last I read they didn't want to shed any light on it, they were keeping it very hush along with lycan(whatsItCalledphy). This was a few months ago though and I haven't been following the offical forums or news much since. :shadedshu
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    Opening a Folder in VC++

    Thanks for all of the help guys, I've managed to get it working now. I used OpenFileDialog in the end and I've used a StreamReader to open the file. As of right now I'm not reading from a textbox to find the file, the file's I actually need are all in the same directory/folder so I've just put a...
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    Opening a Folder in VC++

    I've got the button working now, it opens the folder which I've stated. I'm now looking at reading a string the user inputs, from this string I want to be able identify and open the folder using the button. Is this in the range of someone at intermediate level? Furthermore, is there a...
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    Opening a Folder in VC++

    Cheers, I'm going to go and have a play with this now :)
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    Opening a Folder in VC++

    I've recently started learning VC++ and it's coming along quite nicley, I've now been given a little task by my boss to add a button to an excisting Incident report program. All the button needs to do is open a new explorer window and open the folder selected in the incident report program...
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    C++ using "IF's

    I'm new to programming myself but I'm sure you can use a do/while statement, just make the while something like; // Very roughly done #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { do { (insert code) { (more code) } }...
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    Elder Scrolls V SKYRIM !! 11-11-11

    Do you have the Avatar of Akatosh mount mod installed? Probably get you even more ready :D
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    Elder Scrolls V SKYRIM !! 11-11-11

    The battle for Bruma made me laugh in Oblivion. I don't think any of the NPC's died from the dremora's, they died by their supposed saviors accidental hand :S
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