Actually, that's about the best way to describe it. Keep the nose dead on the center-line of the runway, get your airspeed low and kill the engine once your wheels are over the blacktop. You should now be very near touching the blacktop. At this point, you're on glide-path and forcing the plane to descend... by trying NOT to land under these conditions, the instinct is to pull up which gives the requisite flare to keep from nosing in. Hopefully, you don't pull too hard and force the tail into the ground, but otherwise a very accurate description for a newb.
The Nexus S had a curved super AMOLED screen, though by comparison the curve was more along the Y axis as this appears to be more along the X. Guess what AMOLED is an acronym for?
So...you use both hands to hit Ctrl-A/X/C/V, Super(windows key)-E/D/R or Alt-Tab/F4? I'm a lefty, but most of the shortcuts I use are on the left side of the board...which means that when I do use a mouse, to increase my functional speed it's in my right hand. Also, there's not very many quality mice that are left handed and only a couple of left-handed gaming mice, which so far I find of dubious quality (looking at you, RAZER). There's only 2 keystrokes that I regularly use on the right side of the board: Super-L and Alt-Enter.
My wife also has similar complaints, but uses a TrackPad instead of a mouse now but when she did use a mouse, she used it on the right side even though she has next to 0 use of her right hand due to disability. Just what she's comfortable with.
So that's an additional sample of two against your sample of two...bringing it up to 3 to 2. We're more common.
Not really. IANAL, but I have had lawyers explain this one to me. The sting didn't force the firms to actually do anything illegal. There was always the option of the firm saying "That is not a service we can provide, but here's some services that may help your situation..." then list off services that fall in line with the law. Entrapment only happens when there's coercion to convince someone to do something that they wouldn't normally do. For instance, if the enforcement repeatedly contacted the same firm and specifically asked for the illegal service, and after several refusals, the firm gave in and began setting up an the illegal boosting, if the defense could provide a case that entrapment occurred, the prosecution would have to prove that the firm was predisposed to commit the act in the first place, which would be difficult if the defense had recorded conversations / time-stamps originating from the Sting-Op.
h4rr4r, this response is actually for everyone on this thread who called me out for being "stupid." There are many like me who don't fit into the case where prepaid saves money, and this is simply to show how.
I've been on prepaid. Service SUCKS no matter who you go with. It's great if you never have to get off the beaten path, and never have to do remote administration from your phone while you're out in the deep wilderness of the Southeast. If you go with a Sprint based prepaid carrier (Virgin or Boost Mobile), 10 miles off the Interstate and you have NOTHING for service, so the cheapest carriers can do nothing for me, thus I'm not even going to list their price point. Go with AT&T prepaid and at best you can get 2 Gigs data for $60.75/month PREPAID. Go over that 2 Gig limit, and you're paying $10 per gig EXTRA. Go with Verizon? even more expensive than AT&T. I need at least 6 Gigs / month to operate for what I do. T-Mobile? In most of the state I work if there's service it's either 2G or Service Partner roaming. Only in the metro areas do I get fair to good coverage with spots of Very strong to excellent Oh, and if I wind up on a congested tower on prepaid, guess who's getting preempted off the cell and have their call get dropped first to ensure that there's room for the people paying the contract premiums. I could also go with Net-10 or TracPhone....If I wanted to be limited to my home Zip code as a calling area.
Just for fun: I'm going to apply your recommendation by using the pricing on AT&T's go phone based on MY specific needs and see how much it costs over the same 2 year period.
Same Ebay phone @ $400. Plan: Unlimited Voice & SMS with 2 Gigs Data: $60 + 75 cents federal 911 service tax. +$40 for an extra 4 Gigs of monthly data. ($100.75 monthly on Pre-Paid)
400+(100.75*12)=400+2418= $2,818.
Wow! I can pay $800 more with a BYOD on AT&T over the course of 2 years than I pay for a Sub'd phone on Sprint with Unlimited Everything and get comparable coverage area (no-charge roaming on Verizon's network).
If we use Verizon prepaid instead, since that's the only other carrier with enough coverage area to matter to me, the plan would be Unlimited Voice & SMS with 4 Gigs data @ $70.75/mo, Plus an extra $40 to cover the $20 per gig they charge so I can have the requisite 6 gigs. Guess what, we're up to $110.75 monthly on a prepaid plan. Phone and plan over 2 years? $3,058.
tl;dr version: Tool for the job "idiots!" You *Can* save a lot if you fit into the constraints of what a prepaid carrier or T-Mobile offers. If you're situation is even marginally outside those constraints, it's better to go with a post-paid option and take the subsidized phone.
Just because the LTE network uses SIM's doesn't mean the phones themselves are now GSM Worldphones like AT&T's. Verizon and Sprint are still CDMA for voice & SMS, which means that the physical phone is still locked to the carrier... and the SIM won't activate the LTE network in an unregistered CDMA phone.
Let's see. Buy a $600 phone subsidized down to $100, and pay the carrier for the cheapest plan at about $80/month ($50/mo + federal fees & taxes) for two years. $2020 total cost.
Now we buy that same phone on Ebay for a steal at $400, and put it on the same carrier, same plan which costs the same because they charge for the subsidy anyway and since the subsidy is not a line item, there's no way for them to reduce the bill (still $80/month) over the same time period of 2 years: $2320 total cost.
Wow... I saved -$300 by buying the phone outright!...wait.
Unfortunately, as someone else in this thread stated, the Major Carriers charge for the phone subsidy whether you're on a contract plan or buy your phone outright, there is no line item for the subsidy on the bill that can be taken off; which means there is no savings and you actually wind up ultimately paying MORE for buying the phone outright. Hang on to a phone that you bought subsidized through the contract through the two years and don't upgrade with another 2 year contract when you're eligible? While you now have the ability to leave the carrier without any monetary penalty, your monthly bill isn't going down any. The only way one could get away with not having to pay the subsidy is to go with a No Contract carrier, which is fine if you don't go outside of your home area. Do any kind of travel, and coverage is no where near what you get on a contract carrier. For example: In Georgia going with Sprint's contract service, if a user travels outside of Sprint's coverage area (spotty areas along Interstates and good coverage in major metropolitan areas like Atlanta and Savannah), they would be roaming on Verizon's voice service for no extra charge. If they went with Virgin Mobile or Boost Mobile (Both serviced by Sprint) there is no roaming so if they go outside of Sprint's coverage area, they're SOL.
Even if you went with a no contract carrier with better coverage like Verizon Prepaid or AT&T Go phone, you're still no better than a third rate user. If you get onto a congested tower, the prepaid users are ALWAYS dropped first to guarantee priority to the higher paying customers in a contract. And even in contract, the more you pay, the better your service "uptime" is going to be, though that aspect is never advertised.
Finally, if you're a heavy data user, Verizon and AT&T no contract sucks, so you get a little better voice coverage, but paying out the nose ($60-80/mo) for 2 gigs of data, and then adding $15-20 for every gig beyond that within the limits of what the carrier allows.
You're confusing Operating System with Integrated Desktop Environment. On a *NIX based system (Unix, Linux, *BSD), I can run different Desktop Environments depending on how the mood struck me that day. KDE, Gnome, Xfce... it doesn't matter. It just depends on what features I want at that moment. I could even be using all 3 at the same time over a remote connection given enough memory and bandwidth. Though OS-X is *NIX based, I'm not absolutely sure if the same could be said. In theory I'd think so, but there's no telling what functionality Apple locked out in the name of control. I've yet to have the pleasure of working with it. However, even with Windows 9x/ME there was a separation between DE and OS. I had the ability to run Progman instead of Windows Explorer if I wanted to and often times, the systems would run better as fewer resources were used. Never tried it on Win7. Never had the need.
Greater probability of mechanical failure, whereas Glow in the dark temperature reactive paint may just need a very rare periodic repaint, just as the normal road paints require that are in use today.
If you looked at the concept art, you'd see that the lights are physically low level aimed directly across the road in front of a traveling vehicle. As the vehicle moves, the lights would "move" in sequence of illumination. No vehicle, no light. This would actually reduce the amount of light pollution over technologies currently in use. It would also reduce the amount of energy required by lighting systems.
A man telling his wife or girlfriend that a pair of jeans make her butt look big is telling the truth too. Who is going to sign up for that?
I do. Constantly. And my wife appreciates me for it. She appreciates the fact that I'm deadpan honest and wouldn't let her go out into public looking like a fool clown just so I could avoid her wrath for 10 minutes. She also knows that I don't do it out of criticism, but that I use my photographer's eye so that she can look her absolute best while she's out and about, whether it's with me or on her own.
There's nothing wrong with guarded secrets when it's to prevent external enemies from getting ahold of information that would reveal what we know about them and our strategies. What's wrong with the secrets we have is that the Eye of Sauron is looking directly at us and we are not allowed to pull the blinds closed. "If you are not doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" I ask you this then... Do you fuck your wife in the missionary style only? ANYTHING else is illegal in most every state. And you never do anything questionable in front of a Kinnect, right? Just sayin'.
Just because other manufacturers that use the Android platform don't push the OS Updates out to their phone in a timely matter doesn't make it Google's fault. With any Android based phone I have the option of rooting it and installing whatever version of Android I want to use, including a version I rolled myself from the ground up. Unfortunately, because of fragmentation in the market, if I want to take the "easy route" and make sure that the update supports all the features of the phone I have with official support from the manufacturer, I have to wait for my phone's manufacturer to roll out their custom flavor of the update and have it approved and sent by my carrier.
With the Nexus platform, there's none of that problem. When a new version of android comes out that the hardware can support, the user has the option from release date to put that version on their phone, simply because of Google's control of the Nexus platform. There's no other company that needs to roll their own brand before it can be approved and pushed. It's just build and go.
To more clearly show my bias: I currently have two phones: A Samsung Infuse and an LG Optimus V. The Infuse is tied to AT&T and is my primary phone, the Optimus V is no longer connected to a phone # and I simply use it as a tinkering platform. I'm currently running Cyanogen-Mod 7.0 on the Optimus and on the Infuse I have it updated to the official release of Samsung's Gingerbread variant (Authorized by AT&T only a few months ago). Looking forward to upgrading to a Galaxy S III in the near future, upon which time the Infuse will be delegated to another tinkering phone which I intend to test my own personal roll of Jelly Bean on. My only reason for not gravitating towards the current Nexus: There's no removable SD storage available. Not a major issue, just a preference.
in a public forum... and THEN stated that you are editing out the likeness in a public forum...
I for one have never seen the GoT series, and until now had no interest in it. Thankfully, we have the season in question recorded (my wife likes it). Now I'm gonna go through and find that scene, and make sure it never gets lost from the archives of the interwebs. Muaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
I've driven SUV 4x4's and several full sized vans (the SUVs worked out quite well for performing computer repair work up in the mountains, being able to hold tool boxes,6 spools of various cables and several PC's while keeping everything nice and dry). I've been able to avoid rear-ending idiots at lights so far. The way I've been able to avoid the accidents has hardly ever been "leaving the distance open," it's always been keep an escape route open in the lane next to you, cuz some idiot with suicidal tendencies is going to swap lanes five feet in front of you and slam on their brakes for the yellow. Granted, more than once I had two wheels start coming off the ground while I did the swerve, but the worst of it is if I had actually hit anyone it would have been my fault, since it wasn't until very recently that the legislature put "Illegal Lane Change" into the Code.
I'm not going to say I'm the best driver out there, but being trained in advanced maneuvers by State Patrol, I'm better than some (how many of y'all can pull a J-turn in a Chevy G-20 Conversion Van without spinning out or tilting it over while rocketing off at 30mph and accelerating in the complete opposite direction you were initially facing? without blowing the transmission?)
I still want to see Green Lantern, though. Even though it could be this year's transforrretch. I still can't say it.
I doubt it's going to be this year's Transforretch...as there's already a Transforretch due out in theaters this year. It may come close though as I've never been a fan of the two Greens (Lantern and Arrow) from DC.
On a side note, the trailer for the remake of "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" has caught my attention. Might just be the music they used for it.
The MechWarrior Series has been effectively killed by Microsoft. Although Microsoft has sold the rites to the MechWarrior back to the original creator, Piranha Games has been mired in a lawsuit from Harmony Gold over "the unseen" having been seen in an early trailer. Until this mess is sorted out once again, MechWarrior is effectively dead. Thank you MicroShyte for killing a game franchise I greatly enjoyed.
I say re-release the PC version without the bugs, without the MIDI, without the horrible models, and replace it with a proper PC Port (Proper High Res, Smooth models, Dynamic environments (instead of static rendered backgrounds) and High Fidelity Music.
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Actually, that's about the best way to describe it. Keep the nose dead on the center-line of the runway, get your airspeed low and kill the engine once your wheels are over the blacktop. You should now be very near touching the blacktop. At this point, you're on glide-path and forcing the plane to descend... by trying NOT to land under these conditions, the instinct is to pull up which gives the requisite flare to keep from nosing in. Hopefully, you don't pull too hard and force the tail into the ground, but otherwise a very accurate description for a newb.
Or was your post supposed to be sarcasm?
Sounds like you need an iGrill.
That would be a *WOOOOSH* Here's a hint: Think of the Party Mascots.
So...you use both hands to hit Ctrl-A/X/C/V, Super(windows key)-E/D/R or Alt-Tab/F4? I'm a lefty, but most of the shortcuts I use are on the left side of the board...which means that when I do use a mouse, to increase my functional speed it's in my right hand. Also, there's not very many quality mice that are left handed and only a couple of left-handed gaming mice, which so far I find of dubious quality (looking at you, RAZER). There's only 2 keystrokes that I regularly use on the right side of the board: Super-L and Alt-Enter.
My wife also has similar complaints, but uses a TrackPad instead of a mouse now but when she did use a mouse, she used it on the right side even though she has next to 0 use of her right hand due to disability. Just what she's comfortable with.
So that's an additional sample of two against your sample of two...bringing it up to 3 to 2. We're more common.
Not really. IANAL, but I have had lawyers explain this one to me. The sting didn't force the firms to actually do anything illegal. There was always the option of the firm saying "That is not a service we can provide, but here's some services that may help your situation..." then list off services that fall in line with the law. Entrapment only happens when there's coercion to convince someone to do something that they wouldn't normally do. For instance, if the enforcement repeatedly contacted the same firm and specifically asked for the illegal service, and after several refusals, the firm gave in and began setting up an the illegal boosting, if the defense could provide a case that entrapment occurred, the prosecution would have to prove that the firm was predisposed to commit the act in the first place, which would be difficult if the defense had recorded conversations / time-stamps originating from the Sting-Op.
h4rr4r, this response is actually for everyone on this thread who called me out for being "stupid." There are many like me who don't fit into the case where prepaid saves money, and this is simply to show how.
I've been on prepaid. Service SUCKS no matter who you go with. It's great if you never have to get off the beaten path, and never have to do remote administration from your phone while you're out in the deep wilderness of the Southeast. If you go with a Sprint based prepaid carrier (Virgin or Boost Mobile), 10 miles off the Interstate and you have NOTHING for service, so the cheapest carriers can do nothing for me, thus I'm not even going to list their price point. Go with AT&T prepaid and at best you can get 2 Gigs data for $60.75/month PREPAID. Go over that 2 Gig limit, and you're paying $10 per gig EXTRA. Go with Verizon? even more expensive than AT&T. I need at least 6 Gigs / month to operate for what I do. T-Mobile? In most of the state I work if there's service it's either 2G or Service Partner roaming. Only in the metro areas do I get fair to good coverage with spots of Very strong to excellent Oh, and if I wind up on a congested tower on prepaid, guess who's getting preempted off the cell and have their call get dropped first to ensure that there's room for the people paying the contract premiums. I could also go with Net-10 or TracPhone....If I wanted to be limited to my home Zip code as a calling area.
Just for fun: I'm going to apply your recommendation by using the pricing on AT&T's go phone based on MY specific needs and see how much it costs over the same 2 year period.
Same Ebay phone @ $400. Plan: Unlimited Voice & SMS with 2 Gigs Data: $60 + 75 cents federal 911 service tax. +$40 for an extra 4 Gigs of monthly data. ($100.75 monthly on Pre-Paid)
400+(100.75*12)=400+2418= $2,818.
Wow! I can pay $800 more with a BYOD on AT&T over the course of 2 years than I pay for a Sub'd phone on Sprint with Unlimited Everything and get comparable coverage area (no-charge roaming on Verizon's network).
If we use Verizon prepaid instead, since that's the only other carrier with enough coverage area to matter to me, the plan would be Unlimited Voice & SMS with 4 Gigs data @ $70.75/mo, Plus an extra $40 to cover the $20 per gig they charge so I can have the requisite 6 gigs. Guess what, we're up to $110.75 monthly on a prepaid plan. Phone and plan over 2 years? $3,058.
tl;dr version: Tool for the job "idiots!" You *Can* save a lot if you fit into the constraints of what a prepaid carrier or T-Mobile offers. If you're situation is even marginally outside those constraints, it's better to go with a post-paid option and take the subsidized phone.
Just because the LTE network uses SIM's doesn't mean the phones themselves are now GSM Worldphones like AT&T's. Verizon and Sprint are still CDMA for voice & SMS, which means that the physical phone is still locked to the carrier... and the SIM won't activate the LTE network in an unregistered CDMA phone.
Let's see. Buy a $600 phone subsidized down to $100, and pay the carrier for the cheapest plan at about $80/month ($50/mo + federal fees & taxes) for two years. $2020 total cost.
Now we buy that same phone on Ebay for a steal at $400, and put it on the same carrier, same plan which costs the same because they charge for the subsidy anyway and since the subsidy is not a line item, there's no way for them to reduce the bill (still $80/month) over the same time period of 2 years: $2320 total cost.
Wow... I saved -$300 by buying the phone outright!...wait.
Unfortunately, as someone else in this thread stated, the Major Carriers charge for the phone subsidy whether you're on a contract plan or buy your phone outright, there is no line item for the subsidy on the bill that can be taken off; which means there is no savings and you actually wind up ultimately paying MORE for buying the phone outright. Hang on to a phone that you bought subsidized through the contract through the two years and don't upgrade with another 2 year contract when you're eligible? While you now have the ability to leave the carrier without any monetary penalty, your monthly bill isn't going down any. The only way one could get away with not having to pay the subsidy is to go with a No Contract carrier, which is fine if you don't go outside of your home area. Do any kind of travel, and coverage is no where near what you get on a contract carrier. For example: In Georgia going with Sprint's contract service, if a user travels outside of Sprint's coverage area (spotty areas along Interstates and good coverage in major metropolitan areas like Atlanta and Savannah), they would be roaming on Verizon's voice service for no extra charge. If they went with Virgin Mobile or Boost Mobile (Both serviced by Sprint) there is no roaming so if they go outside of Sprint's coverage area, they're SOL.
Even if you went with a no contract carrier with better coverage like Verizon Prepaid or AT&T Go phone, you're still no better than a third rate user. If you get onto a congested tower, the prepaid users are ALWAYS dropped first to guarantee priority to the higher paying customers in a contract. And even in contract, the more you pay, the better your service "uptime" is going to be, though that aspect is never advertised.
Finally, if you're a heavy data user, Verizon and AT&T no contract sucks, so you get a little better voice coverage, but paying out the nose ($60-80/mo) for 2 gigs of data, and then adding $15-20 for every gig beyond that within the limits of what the carrier allows.
Ummm....yes it is.
You're confusing Operating System with Integrated Desktop Environment. On a *NIX based system (Unix, Linux, *BSD), I can run different Desktop Environments depending on how the mood struck me that day. KDE, Gnome, Xfce... it doesn't matter. It just depends on what features I want at that moment. I could even be using all 3 at the same time over a remote connection given enough memory and bandwidth. Though OS-X is *NIX based, I'm not absolutely sure if the same could be said. In theory I'd think so, but there's no telling what functionality Apple locked out in the name of control. I've yet to have the pleasure of working with it. However, even with Windows 9x/ME there was a separation between DE and OS. I had the ability to run Progman instead of Windows Explorer if I wanted to and often times, the systems would run better as fewer resources were used. Never tried it on Win7. Never had the need.
Greater probability of mechanical failure, whereas Glow in the dark temperature reactive paint may just need a very rare periodic repaint, just as the normal road paints require that are in use today.
If you looked at the concept art, you'd see that the lights are physically low level aimed directly across the road in front of a traveling vehicle. As the vehicle moves, the lights would "move" in sequence of illumination. No vehicle, no light. This would actually reduce the amount of light pollution over technologies currently in use. It would also reduce the amount of energy required by lighting systems.
I don't care who you are. I am not responsible for your lack of impulse control.
I do. Constantly. And my wife appreciates me for it. She appreciates the fact that I'm deadpan honest and wouldn't let her go out into public looking like a fool clown just so I could avoid her wrath for 10 minutes. She also knows that I don't do it out of criticism, but that I use my photographer's eye so that she can look her absolute best while she's out and about, whether it's with me or on her own. There's nothing wrong with guarded secrets when it's to prevent external enemies from getting ahold of information that would reveal what we know about them and our strategies. What's wrong with the secrets we have is that the Eye of Sauron is looking directly at us and we are not allowed to pull the blinds closed. "If you are not doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" I ask you this then... Do you fuck your wife in the missionary style only? ANYTHING else is illegal in most every state. And you never do anything questionable in front of a Kinnect, right? Just sayin'.
Nice strawman.
Just because other manufacturers that use the Android platform don't push the OS Updates out to their phone in a timely matter doesn't make it Google's fault. With any Android based phone I have the option of rooting it and installing whatever version of Android I want to use, including a version I rolled myself from the ground up. Unfortunately, because of fragmentation in the market, if I want to take the "easy route" and make sure that the update supports all the features of the phone I have with official support from the manufacturer, I have to wait for my phone's manufacturer to roll out their custom flavor of the update and have it approved and sent by my carrier.
With the Nexus platform, there's none of that problem. When a new version of android comes out that the hardware can support, the user has the option from release date to put that version on their phone, simply because of Google's control of the Nexus platform. There's no other company that needs to roll their own brand before it can be approved and pushed. It's just build and go.
To more clearly show my bias: I currently have two phones: A Samsung Infuse and an LG Optimus V. The Infuse is tied to AT&T and is my primary phone, the Optimus V is no longer connected to a phone # and I simply use it as a tinkering platform. I'm currently running Cyanogen-Mod 7.0 on the Optimus and on the Infuse I have it updated to the official release of Samsung's Gingerbread variant (Authorized by AT&T only a few months ago). Looking forward to upgrading to a Galaxy S III in the near future, upon which time the Infuse will be delegated to another tinkering phone which I intend to test my own personal roll of Jelly Bean on. My only reason for not gravitating towards the current Nexus: There's no removable SD storage available. Not a major issue, just a preference.
in a public forum... and THEN stated that you are editing out the likeness in a public forum...
I for one have never seen the GoT series, and until now had no interest in it. Thankfully, we have the season in question recorded (my wife likes it). Now I'm gonna go through and find that scene, and make sure it never gets lost from the archives of the interwebs. Muaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Cue Streisand Effect in 3...2...1...
Maybe it's just supposed to mean HexTenC or HexTaC. Some sort of play on words for Extacy?
I thought of Deus Ex, actually.
I've driven SUV 4x4's and several full sized vans (the SUVs worked out quite well for performing computer repair work up in the mountains, being able to hold tool boxes,6 spools of various cables and several PC's while keeping everything nice and dry). I've been able to avoid rear-ending idiots at lights so far. The way I've been able to avoid the accidents has hardly ever been "leaving the distance open," it's always been keep an escape route open in the lane next to you, cuz some idiot with suicidal tendencies is going to swap lanes five feet in front of you and slam on their brakes for the yellow. Granted, more than once I had two wheels start coming off the ground while I did the swerve, but the worst of it is if I had actually hit anyone it would have been my fault, since it wasn't until very recently that the legislature put "Illegal Lane Change" into the Code.
I'm not going to say I'm the best driver out there, but being trained in advanced maneuvers by State Patrol, I'm better than some (how many of y'all can pull a J-turn in a Chevy G-20 Conversion Van without spinning out or tilting it over while rocketing off at 30mph and accelerating in the complete opposite direction you were initially facing? without blowing the transmission?)
I'm not a grammar Nazi to others normally, but just as a clarification:
"it's" is ALWAYS a contraction for 'it is'
"its" is always possessive.
I still want to see Green Lantern, though. Even though it could be this year's transforrretch. I still can't say it.
I doubt it's going to be this year's Transforretch...as there's already a Transforretch due out in theaters this year. It may come close though as I've never been a fan of the two Greens (Lantern and Arrow) from DC.
On a side note, the trailer for the remake of "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" has caught my attention. Might just be the music they used for it.
The MechWarrior Series has been effectively killed by Microsoft. Although Microsoft has sold the rites to the MechWarrior back to the original creator, Piranha Games has been mired in a lawsuit from Harmony Gold over "the unseen" having been seen in an early trailer. Until this mess is sorted out once again, MechWarrior is effectively dead. Thank you MicroShyte for killing a game franchise I greatly enjoyed.
I say re-release the PC version without the bugs, without the MIDI, without the horrible models, and replace it with a proper PC Port (Proper High Res, Smooth models, Dynamic environments (instead of static rendered backgrounds) and High Fidelity Music.