My guess would be that the rate at which computer books are outdated means that it probably doesn't make sense for a traditional bookstore to carry them. Add to this the fact that people who are going to buy advanced computer books are more likely to be the kind of people to save money buying them online and you get a computer section reduced to dummies books and visual quickstarts.
The problem with your wanting to use the latest translations is that they will be under copyright, even if the original works aren't. However, something being better than nothing, older translations should still suffice for a free cd.
I would especially highly recommend the Escape Velocity series, Chiral, and Barrack.
They have enough games, of enough different styles, that you can just download all of them (they are all shareware) and try each one in turn until you find one you like.
>However, if you scale it in all dimensions, they will do just fine--until they try to walk down >main street and take a 6kV power line in the crotch.
Wrong. Expanding dimensions doesn't work because the physical size isn't the only consideration. Area expands as the square of the size, volume as the cube.
Increase the length and girth 100 times and the weight would increase 100^3 or 1,000,000 times. Your leg bones would snap like toothpicks.
Two examples of "movie myths":
Giant insects would be crushed under the weight of their own exeskeletons.
People the size of insects would have to eat several times their own body weight in food just to keep their body temperature constant.
ObTopicRef: A previous poster was right, strength in compression is only useful in specific applications. Take aerogel, for example. It can support 100 times its own weight in compression. Handle it the wrong way and it crumbles to itty bitty pieces.
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This wasn't banned, it just only played in Las Vegas.
If this is true, why are casinos switching to autoshufflers? Is the advantage versus a single deck?
My guess would be that the rate at which computer books are outdated means that it probably doesn't make sense for a traditional bookstore to carry them. Add to this the fact that people who are going to buy advanced computer books are more likely to be the kind of people to save money buying them online and you get a computer section reduced to dummies books and visual quickstarts.
The problem with your wanting to use the latest translations is that they will be under copyright, even if the original works aren't. However, something being better than nothing, older translations should still suffice for a free cd.
All of their games are excellent.
I would especially highly recommend the Escape Velocity series, Chiral, and Barrack. They have enough games, of enough different styles, that you can just download all of them (they are all shareware) and try each one in turn until you find one you like.
>However, if you scale it in all dimensions, they will do just fine--until they try to walk down
>main street and take a 6kV power line in the crotch.
Wrong. Expanding dimensions doesn't work because the physical size isn't the only consideration. Area expands as the square of the size, volume as the cube.
Increase the length and girth 100 times and the weight would increase 100^3 or 1,000,000 times. Your leg bones would snap like toothpicks.
Two examples of "movie myths":
Giant insects would be crushed under the weight of their own exeskeletons.
People the size of insects would have to eat several times their own body weight in food just to keep their body temperature constant.
ObTopicRef: A previous poster was right, strength in compression is only useful in specific applications. Take aerogel, for example. It can support 100 times its own weight in compression. Handle it the wrong way and it crumbles to itty bitty pieces.
Or if you need to use an E-Trade ATM. They cut you off at 4 as well. Idiots.