Re:Moon base may make more sense than the ISS
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You're joking, right? The distance to the moon is like 400,000 km. The distance to the ISS is like 400 km, which make the moon 1000 times further away. The logistics of making that trip is exponentially more difficult.
Getting into a zero-g environment isn't an issue at all - you can't have a true zero-g environment whenever there is even one body of mass in your universe since its gravitation force will exert on you, no matter how small. Remember, the astronauts are orbiting the earth, which means that they are actually falling towards it because of gravity. The fact that their entire environment is falling at the same time as them is why it seems like they are in zero g. The balance between gravity (centripedal acceleration) combined with their motion perpendicular to gravity is what sets up the orbit. Pick up your high school physics textbook.
You could simulate the same thing the astronauts are doing on a falling elevator, or a plane, which is what they do for astronaut training.
TA is definitely the best war RTS ever. I've been playing Warcraft 3 and it is just not as good. TA had great balance, great graphics (every object was rendered in 3d), great AI, great features, and great multiplayer. Pick it up at a used software place, and get all the patches and Cavedog units. I would used to play 3-4 hours games that were more like chess matches, it was so awesome.
The one really bad part of warcraft 3 is that the action happens waaaayy too fast and your heros die really easily and before you get a chance to use their spells. In fact, in the middle of a big battle, you waste too much time trying to figure out where your hero is so that you can cast the right spell. Also, you can't cue up builds which really sucks because it means you need to micromanage even more.
In TA, you could speed up or slow down the game speed on the fly, but Warcraft 3 only has 3 settings, slow normal and fast. Slow is still too fast. I wish Chris Taylor would just go ahead and make TA 2. Kingdoms beautiful to look at but wasn't very fun, and Dungeon Siege was a disaster.
Back to the original point, TA has been modded to death. Way before Age of Empires did it, the TA community did a Star Wars mod, and it's pretty awesome. As well, it was really easy to create your own units. It's 5 years old but still kickin'!
I would love to see Spielberg fuck up another movie franchise.
Lucas has already annihilated the Star Wars franchise. That fucker has 1 more movie to go, and a whole shitload of ground to cover before he can even get close to trying to bridge Episode 2 to Episode 4.
He's like the engineers who dug the Chunnel. As they got closer to completion they realized they were off by a couple of feet. It's the same with Lucas, he has written himself into a fucking corner with Episode 2, just like X-files. He's going to have to make Episode 3 AND Episode 3.5 just to bridge the gap.
And Spielberg. What is he going to do, try to relive the legacy of Lucas like he tried to relive the legacy of Kubrick with that ridiculous piece of shit A.I.? Kubrick's estate should sue him for defamation of character. That piece of tripe that Spielberg shat out his ass is nothing like what Kubrick would have done, unless Kubrick was lobotomized.
Spielberg hasn't spat out a great movie since Raiders. Everything else has been mediocre with 2 or 3 really-hard-to-swallow-plot-problems.
But watching Spielberg put the final nail in the coffin of the Star Wars franchise as well would be sado-maschistic pleasure.
Lord knows that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was shitty except for the hot Nazi chick. Everything that is the trademark of Indiana Jones was explained in a 2 minute period of his life. Didn't anyone have the guts to tell these idiots that that is just the stupidest thing they had ever seen? No, and that is why Indiana Jone 4 is going to suck, and so will Episode 3. These guys more worreid about erasing terrorist Halloween costumes and adding Barba-papa Jabba the Hutts than they are about making a quality story with acceptable dialogue.
All you guys are forgetting that the only reason why you make something user friendly is that so other people will use or, more importantly, buy it.
It's typical that Linux/Open Source nerds don't give a rat's ass about user friendliness, which is the reason why Linux was the way it was until a couple of years ago. A lot of improvement has been made to the UI for the specific reason of getting more people to use it.
But to companies that want you to buy their product, of course they need to make the UI as easy as possible, because you want people to pay you money for it and NOT return it. For more advanced users, they can add more features and gadgets for bragging rights, but really it's whoever sells the most units that wins at the end of the day.
If corporations had a choice, they wouldn't give a shit whether or not we liked their product, or used their product, as long as we paid them money. That's why monopolies like Microsoft are so dangerous, because inherently they don't care about us. The only reason why they do is because we have choice over who to buy, and where to spend our money, which is why they end up throwing us a bone and trying to appeal to the larger masses.
Depending on what type of fire you have, CO2 could actually fuel the fire. This same goes for H2O as well. Things such as magnesium or aluminum will react with a lot of different chemicals.
Most systems today will check the CPU fan, but none check the power supply fan. As long as the thing produces power, who cares, right? The power supply produces a surprising amount of heat.
I have had several power supplies fans go out on me as well. I have 11 computers in my room in varying stages of age, from a 486 running my FreeBSD firewall, to Pentium 133, to an Athlon 1800. Dust accumulates like a mofo, so after almost starting a fire with a dead power supply fan (it must have been running for a couple of days without a fan, because it burnt my fingers when I picked up the case), I regularly maintain all my boxes like a lab technician. I dust them, check the fans, including the cpu and video card fans, etc. It's the only way to go, until the motherboard includes diagnostics for every component of the computer.
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You're joking, right? The distance to the moon is like 400,000 km. The distance to the ISS is like 400 km, which make the moon 1000 times further away. The logistics of making that trip is exponentially more difficult.
Getting into a zero-g environment isn't an issue at all - you can't have a true zero-g environment whenever there is even one body of mass in your universe since its gravitation force will exert on you, no matter how small. Remember, the astronauts are orbiting the earth, which means that they are actually falling towards it because of gravity. The fact that their entire environment is falling at the same time as them is why it seems like they are in zero g. The balance between gravity (centripedal acceleration) combined with their motion perpendicular to gravity is what sets up the orbit. Pick up your high school physics textbook.
You could simulate the same thing the astronauts are doing on a falling elevator, or a plane, which is what they do for astronaut training.
TA is definitely the best war RTS ever. I've been playing Warcraft 3 and it is just not as good. TA had great balance, great graphics (every object was rendered in 3d), great AI, great features, and great multiplayer. Pick it up at a used software place, and get all the patches and Cavedog units. I would used to play 3-4 hours games that were more like chess matches, it was so awesome. The one really bad part of warcraft 3 is that the action happens waaaayy too fast and your heros die really easily and before you get a chance to use their spells. In fact, in the middle of a big battle, you waste too much time trying to figure out where your hero is so that you can cast the right spell. Also, you can't cue up builds which really sucks because it means you need to micromanage even more. In TA, you could speed up or slow down the game speed on the fly, but Warcraft 3 only has 3 settings, slow normal and fast. Slow is still too fast. I wish Chris Taylor would just go ahead and make TA 2. Kingdoms beautiful to look at but wasn't very fun, and Dungeon Siege was a disaster. Back to the original point, TA has been modded to death. Way before Age of Empires did it, the TA community did a Star Wars mod, and it's pretty awesome. As well, it was really easy to create your own units. It's 5 years old but still kickin'!
Lucas has already annihilated the Star Wars franchise. That fucker has 1 more movie to go, and a whole shitload of ground to cover before he can even get close to trying to bridge Episode 2 to Episode 4.
He's like the engineers who dug the Chunnel. As they got closer to completion they realized they were off by a couple of feet. It's the same with Lucas, he has written himself into a fucking corner with Episode 2, just like X-files. He's going to have to make Episode 3 AND Episode 3.5 just to bridge the gap.
And Spielberg. What is he going to do, try to relive the legacy of Lucas like he tried to relive the legacy of Kubrick with that ridiculous piece of shit A.I.? Kubrick's estate should sue him for defamation of character. That piece of tripe that Spielberg shat out his ass is nothing like what Kubrick would have done, unless Kubrick was lobotomized.
Spielberg hasn't spat out a great movie since Raiders. Everything else has been mediocre with 2 or 3 really-hard-to-swallow-plot-problems.
But watching Spielberg put the final nail in the coffin of the Star Wars franchise as well would be sado-maschistic pleasure.
Lord knows that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was shitty except for the hot Nazi chick. Everything that is the trademark of Indiana Jones was explained in a 2 minute period of his life. Didn't anyone have the guts to tell these idiots that that is just the stupidest thing they had ever seen? No, and that is why Indiana Jone 4 is going to suck, and so will Episode 3. These guys more worreid about erasing terrorist Halloween costumes and adding Barba-papa Jabba the Hutts than they are about making a quality story with acceptable dialogue.
It's typical that Linux/Open Source nerds don't give a rat's ass about user friendliness, which is the reason why Linux was the way it was until a couple of years ago. A lot of improvement has been made to the UI for the specific reason of getting more people to use it.
But to companies that want you to buy their product, of course they need to make the UI as easy as possible, because you want people to pay you money for it and NOT return it. For more advanced users, they can add more features and gadgets for bragging rights, but really it's whoever sells the most units that wins at the end of the day.
If corporations had a choice, they wouldn't give a shit whether or not we liked their product, or used their product, as long as we paid them money. That's why monopolies like Microsoft are so dangerous, because inherently they don't care about us. The only reason why they do is because we have choice over who to buy, and where to spend our money, which is why they end up throwing us a bone and trying to appeal to the larger masses.
Most systems today will check the CPU fan, but none check the power supply fan. As long as the thing produces power, who cares, right? The power supply produces a surprising amount of heat. I have had several power supplies fans go out on me as well. I have 11 computers in my room in varying stages of age, from a 486 running my FreeBSD firewall, to Pentium 133, to an Athlon 1800. Dust accumulates like a mofo, so after almost starting a fire with a dead power supply fan (it must have been running for a couple of days without a fan, because it burnt my fingers when I picked up the case), I regularly maintain all my boxes like a lab technician. I dust them, check the fans, including the cpu and video card fans, etc. It's the only way to go, until the motherboard includes diagnostics for every component of the computer.