Yes, but consider this: this SDI, or child of SDI, or whatever its official name is, is out of our reach for the time being. That's right, billions of dollars of taxpayer money is being thrown down the drain. Any scientist or engineer worth his/her salt laughed at the Strategic Defense Initiative when Reagan suggested it, and they continue to laugh now.
Yes, but Gorbachev didn't find it quite so funny. As the USSR tried to counter SDI, they poured craploads of money into a comparable program that had no value to them (since it wasn't going to work, and SDI was not a threat), while ignoring serious problems at home, speeding up their demise. So in that way, it worked, even if the US couldn't get it to work technically.
Besides, currently the threat of a nuclear attack is more from rogue states and leaders, then China or Russia. With a limited scope, this program could while I think it would be a while until it could handle an assault from a few hundred warheads.
But in fairness to PC programmers, Console programmers have a specific platform with specific specs to program (and debug). With PCs, you need to support a very wide range of hardware/drivers etc. I would guess that AO might have been more stable if they could have said everyone needs video card X with driver Y running on operating system Z etc. But I would assume that most people would be against that.
System Shock 2 is probably the scariest game I've played. Those screaming monkeys freaked me out to no end. And the gameplay was great. I like it better than Half-Life, though I love Half-Life too. It was a shame that it got buried amidst a slew of other FPS games.
Ban (or throw in jail), the people. A symbol has no inherent power, except what you give it.
And not give a mini-history lesson, or start another war, but maybe if your country honored its treaties and went after Germany after the Polish invasion of '39 - when Germany had almost no troops in the West - rather than wait to get overrun, you wouldn't have to worry about banning some vectors (which used to have a positive connotation). The largest army in Europe up until to their surrender was France's.
As for the fellow who mentioned the US's anti-nudity laws, well, don't think a lot of us don't agree with you.
Way back (well, ~97 or so) when they first started, they pretty much just covered Voodoo/3dfx stuff. Sort of how Stomped used to just cover Quake, IIRC. And they expanded to other things, but I guess decided not to change the name since everyone already knew it as that. Someday, no one may get the Voodoo reference.
OK, but who is "defining" this world? I don't want mainland China having a say on Free Speech laws. You seem to assume that the world would be globalized by some benevolent power. If it were to happen, I'd guess it wouldn't be by a benevolent power. More likely, it would be Coca-Cola, Nike, and Microsoft. And human rights would be pretty far down on their lists of things to do.
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Yes, but consider this: this SDI, or child of SDI, or whatever its official name is, is out of our reach for the time being. That's right, billions of dollars of taxpayer money is being thrown down the drain. Any scientist or engineer worth his/her salt laughed at the Strategic Defense Initiative when Reagan suggested it, and they continue to laugh now.
Yes, but Gorbachev didn't find it quite so funny. As the USSR tried to counter SDI, they poured craploads of money into a comparable program that had no value to them (since it wasn't going to work, and SDI was not a threat), while ignoring serious problems at home, speeding up their demise. So in that way, it worked, even if the US couldn't get it to work technically.
Besides, currently the threat of a nuclear attack is more from rogue states and leaders, then China or Russia. With a limited scope, this program could while I think it would be a while until it could handle an assault from a few hundred warheads.
But in fairness to PC programmers, Console programmers have a specific platform with specific specs to program (and debug). With PCs, you need to support a very wide range of hardware/drivers etc. I would guess that AO might have been more stable if they could have said everyone needs video card X with driver Y running on operating system Z etc. But I would assume that most people would be against that.
System Shock 2 is probably the scariest game I've played. Those screaming monkeys freaked me out to no end. And the gameplay was great. I like it better than Half-Life, though I love Half-Life too. It was a shame that it got buried amidst a slew of other FPS games.
Ban (or throw in jail), the people. A symbol has no inherent power, except what you give it. And not give a mini-history lesson, or start another war, but maybe if your country honored its treaties and went after Germany after the Polish invasion of '39 - when Germany had almost no troops in the West - rather than wait to get overrun, you wouldn't have to worry about banning some vectors (which used to have a positive connotation). The largest army in Europe up until to their surrender was France's. As for the fellow who mentioned the US's anti-nudity laws, well, don't think a lot of us don't agree with you.
Way back (well, ~97 or so) when they first started, they pretty much just covered Voodoo/3dfx stuff. Sort of how Stomped used to just cover Quake, IIRC. And they expanded to other things, but I guess decided not to change the name since everyone already knew it as that. Someday, no one may get the Voodoo reference.
OK, but who is "defining" this world? I don't want mainland China having a say on Free Speech laws. You seem to assume that the world would be globalized by some benevolent power. If it were to happen, I'd guess it wouldn't be by a benevolent power. More likely, it would be Coca-Cola, Nike, and Microsoft. And human rights would be pretty far down on their lists of things to do.