Call To Power II was cool because the tech tree went off into the future quite a bit more than Civ III (and Civ IV by looking at it). There where alot of interesting units, tech, and so forth that I really wish another, modern game would pick up on.
Mainly because we have had many natural resources to pillage that has kept the flow of money going to perpetuate the "system". That's why we've gone to war for the oil...it's the basis of our economy. We don't really need the reserves right now...but who controls the spice controls the galaxy.
From what I've seen, support for streaming media is heading away from Real and toward Windows Media merely because all the computers with Windows XP preinstalled can play WM files already, as opposed to having to download and run the Real installer.
That's pretty much why Real won. MS bundled their player and their media codecs into the OS, so people just use the "default" player. Their abusing their desktop OS monopoly.
instead, there's Microsoft's MPEG 4, DivX, XviD, QuickTime, blah, blah, blah. Users are turned away due to the sheer number of codecs they have to download just to view one video.
I just install either the K-Lite Codec Pack or the Nemo Codec Pack...just one installer and there isn't much I can't view. It's really not too difficult...but it fails the "not built-in" test and forces users to do something else before watching anything.
This reminds me of one of his stories...I think it may have been Ubik. The scene where the main character couldn't get out of the door of his place because he owed rent, and the door refused to open, arguing with him as he dismantled it...
A NASA website said that the moon has a very low density, and is more like a clump of dirty ice than a solid. It's probably riddles with caves as well...will make some interesting spelunking once we have the tech to visit it as tourists.
The new design of NASA's next (or second-next) manned program is going back to more of a capsule design anyway...so really why not use Soyuz vehicles until our own capsules are ready to go? NASA has already basically admitted the capsule idea is safer and cheaper anyway for our level of tech.
Personally, I would much rather be sent to the ISS in a Soyuz than go up in a Shuttle. The ride might not be as comfortable and roomy, but my chances of surviving are far higher. It might be a bit cramped, but that's far better than flying apart on re-enrty due to having a too-complex system.
I watched some C-SPAN where NASA was talking about the new safety measures they implemented with all the cameras and such. Honestly, it's cause people to freak out more than it does to pacify due to the ability to see all the little problems that occure during lift-off that normally aren't seen. NASA had to explain a dozen times that "that's normal wear-and-tear, people" because the press was worried about all the little problems no one have ever really looked at before because of the new camera system. The good news is that most of the manuevers they did to fix it all are brand-new and never before done, and has given NASA much needed experience in dealing with space-based repair.
"Most likely I'll never know the answers to any of these questions."
You might after you die, but I wouldn't count on it. According to my research, continuance of consiouness after death does happen, but in a much different form than we're used to. And this continued existance doesn't really bolster the existance of God either, any more than your current existance does. It's quite strange, to be sure, but probably because I'm only used to being "here" as opposed to "there", and am only "there" for relativly short periods (even though sometimes they seem to last a long long long time whilst there)
Any type of life elsewhere in our system would really kick up our exploration efforts...intellegent life in our own system would probably cause mayhem and panic among the populace!
Actually, they aren't getting releasaed back to the public. They go into a 45-day "rendition period" where all those domains are unregisterable unless you want to pay to get them "out of rendition", which is usually between $125-$250. That is a total rip-off.
I work in IT at the city-level. It's been interesting to watch the dress-code battles. Personally, I have bright-blue laces on my steel-toed combat boots. I don't have any peircings or tats visible though...but others around me do. There was a girl with some purple streaks in her hair that got slapped down a bit and was made to wear a uniform when she went out into the feild, but I'm in the midwest bible-belt so it's not too suprising.
As long as it's not overtly offensive, no one really gives a damn. If I had something on my head or upper neck someone might say something, but I know that and wouldn't dothat anyway. I would really like to re-do my industrials, but that is going to have to wait until I'm a full-time contractor again I think.
I shudder to think that my work might be buying Emachines for our desktop replacements...We have over 800 users. And four techs. Ack. It will be a nightmare in 2-3 years, if not sooner.
I'm a computer tech for my local city gov, but instead of buying movies I spend all my money on broadband, d/ling movies, renting movies, burning DVDs, and learning how to burn multi-episode...and ink so I can make my own labels.
If I run across a movie I really did like on sale (for under $12) I'll buy it, but that's about it.
Scotty: Do ye mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now, and they want it their way. But the secret is to give only what they need, not what they want!
Geordi: Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: And how long would it really take?
Geordi: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, ye didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ye?
Geordi: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie, ye've got a lot to learn if ye want people to think of ye as a miracle worker!
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Nah...Darl would bring coke, and snort it in the bathroom.
Call To Power II was cool because the tech tree went off into the future quite a bit more than Civ III (and Civ IV by looking at it). There where alot of interesting units, tech, and so forth that I really wish another, modern game would pick up on.
I work for IBM. Yes, call us...join us...your requirments are mearly a speck on the windsheild of Big Blue!
Mainly because we have had many natural resources to pillage that has kept the flow of money going to perpetuate the "system". That's why we've gone to war for the oil...it's the basis of our economy. We don't really need the reserves right now...but who controls the spice controls the galaxy.
Probably another child of Tiamat would be my best guess.
From what I've seen, support for streaming media is heading away from Real and toward Windows Media merely because all the computers with Windows XP preinstalled can play WM files already, as opposed to having to download and run the Real installer.
That's pretty much why Real won. MS bundled their player and their media codecs into the OS, so people just use the "default" player. Their abusing their desktop OS monopoly.
instead, there's Microsoft's MPEG 4, DivX, XviD, QuickTime, blah, blah, blah. Users are turned away due to the sheer number of codecs they have to download just to view one video.
I just install either the K-Lite Codec Pack or the Nemo Codec Pack...just one installer and there isn't much I can't view. It's really not too difficult...but it fails the "not built-in" test and forces users to do something else before watching anything.
This reminds me of one of his stories...I think it may have been Ubik. The scene where the main character couldn't get out of the door of his place because he owed rent, and the door refused to open, arguing with him as he dismantled it...
A NASA website said that the moon has a very low density, and is more like a clump of dirty ice than a solid. It's probably riddles with caves as well...will make some interesting spelunking once we have the tech to visit it as tourists.
Nah, I suspect this will be the way to launch payloads. Russian tech as well!
The new design of NASA's next (or second-next) manned program is going back to more of a capsule design anyway...so really why not use Soyuz vehicles until our own capsules are ready to go? NASA has already basically admitted the capsule idea is safer and cheaper anyway for our level of tech.
Personally, I would much rather be sent to the ISS in a Soyuz than go up in a Shuttle. The ride might not be as comfortable and roomy, but my chances of surviving are far higher. It might be a bit cramped, but that's far better than flying apart on re-enrty due to having a too-complex system.
I watched some C-SPAN where NASA was talking about the new safety measures they implemented with all the cameras and such. Honestly, it's cause people to freak out more than it does to pacify due to the ability to see all the little problems that occure during lift-off that normally aren't seen. NASA had to explain a dozen times that "that's normal wear-and-tear, people" because the press was worried about all the little problems no one have ever really looked at before because of the new camera system. The good news is that most of the manuevers they did to fix it all are brand-new and never before done, and has given NASA much needed experience in dealing with space-based repair.
"Most likely I'll never know the answers to any of these questions."
You might after you die, but I wouldn't count on it. According to my research, continuance of consiouness after death does happen, but in a much different form than we're used to. And this continued existance doesn't really bolster the existance of God either, any more than your current existance does. It's quite strange, to be sure, but probably because I'm only used to being "here" as opposed to "there", and am only "there" for relativly short periods (even though sometimes they seem to last a long long long time whilst there)
Any type of life elsewhere in our system would really kick up our exploration efforts...intellegent life in our own system would probably cause mayhem and panic among the populace!
All three unfortunatly. Just be watchfull when the Presidential Guard start wearing red robes...
Skype is currently the only provider to allow calls to landlines and cellphones
Funny...I can pick up my VoIP phone (a Vonage phone) and call landlines and cellphones all day...
Living in Oklahoma, I can say you can at least usually out-run a tornado (or hide from it), and it doesn't last a whole day either...
NEway, we've got CA retiries moving here now. Having some spice from New Orleanes would be sweet.
Everytime I think of Russia I think of all the Russian prostitution sites on the net...like http://nuderussianamateurgirls.com/ and such...
Actually, they aren't getting releasaed back to the public. They go into a 45-day "rendition period" where all those domains are unregisterable unless you want to pay to get them "out of rendition", which is usually between $125-$250. That is a total rip-off.
I work in IT at the city-level. It's been interesting to watch the dress-code battles. Personally, I have bright-blue laces on my steel-toed combat boots. I don't have any peircings or tats visible though...but others around me do. There was a girl with some purple streaks in her hair that got slapped down a bit and was made to wear a uniform when she went out into the feild, but I'm in the midwest bible-belt so it's not too suprising.
As long as it's not overtly offensive, no one really gives a damn. If I had something on my head or upper neck someone might say something, but I know that and wouldn't dothat anyway. I would really like to re-do my industrials, but that is going to have to wait until I'm a full-time contractor again I think.
If I was in Texas, I would be buring down the billboards or something else drastic. That would get people's attention on the subject...
I've watched a bunch of them. The best episode was a musical where Ki told his "story" of how he became a Great Assasin.
Yes, for sufficiently small values for 3 combined with sufficiently large values of 2.
I shudder to think that my work might be buying Emachines for our desktop replacements...We have over 800 users. And four techs. Ack. It will be a nightmare in 2-3 years, if not sooner.
I'm looking for another job as we speak.
I'm a computer tech for my local city gov, but instead of buying movies I spend all my money on broadband, d/ling movies, renting movies, burning DVDs, and learning how to burn multi-episode ...and ink so I can make my own labels.
If I run across a movie I really did like on sale (for under $12) I'll buy it, but that's about it.
Kirk: "Tell me, Mr. Scott. Why do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?"
Scotty: "T' preserve me reputation as a miracle worker, Sir!"
Scotty: Do ye mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now, and they want it their way. But the secret is to give only what they need, not what they want!
Geordi: Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: And how long would it really take?
Geordi: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, ye didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ye?
Geordi: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie, ye've got a lot to learn if ye want people to think of ye as a miracle worker!