This bit of software will help tremendously as well.
Gee, talk about not getting wikis. I went to this page and, no offence to parent but this is just one of those websites where I can't figure out what this product is, you know? Like, where would it reside?
All I can see is a lot of dudes in ties and dudettes in power suits, grinning from ear to ear beacuse they're winning, collaborating and just being successful because of the magic pixie dust this app gives them.
They may even mention synergy on there somewhere...
That first sentence is a genuinely surprising statement. When you say you've 'been around computers for a long time' do you mean you've had one sat on a desk quite near you for a long time?
Totally agree. DX was a very good game with a great plot but I don't think it touched SS2 in terms of atmosphere. Theres nothing like...
SPOILER! (altho you really should have played it by now..)
..finding Janice Polito dead in that room.. or the creeping horror when I first saw the 'residual psychic emanations'. SS2 is the only game I have ever completely finished (to my huge annoyance, I could never kill the giant baby at the end of HL and then the machine - and my savegame - bought it). You may take this as evidence that I am not qualified to pontificate about games... whereas I know it is merely a symptom of the fact that I am extremely discerning , tasteful and, well.. correct.
In DX I also ended up using the glowing sword all the time - why bother with bullets when this was so lethal? Scenarios also tended to become repetitive but worst of all: the guns were utterly crap. There is no sensation of using them. FarCry has a shit plot but you feel like you're battering lead all over the place and there are still few game experiences to compare with the joy of launching a grenade or the terror of tripping a laser-mine in HL.
Bring on SS3!
However you would be locked out of the real internet. Your new "freenet" would not have access to any of the millions of existing websites. You would not have access to anyone on the real internet. You would not be able to run any of teh new software.
Keep talking... you've almost convinced me. Proper discussions of techie things, no more pop-up-mercials, a-holes outnumbered by engineers in useful newsgroups and no spam. So I can't go over to PWC's corporate site and 'Find out the difference Between Good Advice and Great Advice' via a Flash animation? Hey, I'll live with it.
Seriously though, in some senses one can argue that the net is shot to hell and we need to start over anyway.
Wait a minute.. I've been dim. They're saying the Viking orbiter is visible from the ground... But the thing is tiny! Anyone know what kind of magnitude they're claiming this had?
I entirely agree - are they really suggesting this could be one of the Vikings re-entering? The odds against that happening while Spirit was looking there have to be *eye-wateringly* high. Even assuming that the field of view of the entire image is a good bit wider. The US sticks this in orbit in 1974ish (whatever) and 30 years later a surface probe with an operational life of a few months happens to be looking the correct part of the sky when it re-enters?!?
Is it conceivable that NASA knew enough about the Vikings' last-reported position and orbital decay to predict this? Sorry, thats got to be less likely - they'd have crowed about it for a start.
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Gee, talk about not getting wikis. I went to this page and, no offence to parent but this is just one of those websites where I can't figure out what this product is, you know? Like, where would it reside?
All I can see is a lot of dudes in ties and dudettes in power suits, grinning from ear to ear beacuse they're winning, collaborating and just being successful because of the magic pixie dust this app gives them.
They may even mention synergy on there somewhere...
That first sentence is a genuinely surprising statement. When you say you've 'been around computers for a long time' do you mean you've had one sat on a desk quite near you for a long time?
SPOILER! (altho you really should have played it by now..)
In DX I also ended up using the glowing sword all the time - why bother with bullets when this was so lethal? Scenarios also tended to become repetitive but worst of all: the guns were utterly crap. There is no sensation of using them. FarCry has a shit plot but you feel like you're battering lead all over the place and there are still few game experiences to compare with the joy of launching a grenade or the terror of tripping a laser-mine in HL. Bring on SS3!
Keep talking... you've almost convinced me. Proper discussions of techie things, no more pop-up-mercials, a-holes outnumbered by engineers in useful newsgroups and no spam. So I can't go over to PWC's corporate site and 'Find out the difference Between Good Advice and Great Advice' via a Flash animation? Hey, I'll live with it.
Seriously though, in some senses one can argue that the net is shot to hell and we need to start over anyway.
Wait a minute.. I've been dim. They're saying the Viking orbiter is visible from the ground... But the thing is tiny! Anyone know what kind of magnitude they're claiming this had?
Is it conceivable that NASA knew enough about the Vikings' last-reported position and orbital decay to predict this? Sorry, thats got to be less likely - they'd have crowed about it for a start.