Galactic Civilization (too lazy to google the url) is a great turn based game that can provide hours and hours of fun. You can only choose one race, humans...but the games can last into the weeks if you make everything huge with hard AI's.
Your mileage may very on my second reccomendation, Space Rangers. It's made by a Russian game company but I do hear this month a British based publisher will be released Space Rangers AND Space Rangers 2, to the rest of Europe and America. I played Space Rangers and it reminds me of a turn-based top style privateer. You buy and sell materials, can attack and raid ships, buy new ships..equipment, etc.
I reccomend you google up each respective game creators site and check em out. It's a shame there hasn't been that many really good space games out, as those are my favorites. Ever since Origin Systems was bought out by EA and decimated by them, things have sucked.
Seriously, I think with implanted chips in the brain and the internet, could be be getting close to an ability to "google" information and have it implanted directly into our brain. A novel for instance, or even how to do something. Is there a possibility in the future school from Pre-k to college can be downloaded in a few minutes into an 18 year old?
My name is Scott Richter, but you can call me Snotty Scotty. My company has come under attack from an evil empire and I was forced to flee for my life. I have $10 million in assets I wish to hide. If you let me sign over these assets to you I will be forever in your debt. I will glady split half of this sum with you once I have fled to the tropical paradise of Canada.
If you agree please send a registered letter with your name, address, e-mail address, social security number and bank routing number to:
Prisoner #773849
San Quentin Prison
San Quentin, CA 94964
Please hurry, they let me out to the exercise yard soon, and I feel my other assets will soon be raided.
"Terra Prime," will be a direct continuation of "Demons," scheduled to air on the 6th of May. In this episode, the Enteprise tries to stop a human isolationist leader, played by Peter Weller, who's threatening to destroy Starfleet Command.... "These Are The Voyages..." will be set six years after the other fourth-season episodes, and will see Archer and the rest of the crew return home for the decommissioning of the Enterprise, as well as the signing of the Federation charter."
Isn't this what the fans complain about? That B&B completly disregard trek history. If I remember correctly, wasn't the federation formed in reponse to the end of the war between us and the romulans? Further didn't that happen like 50+ years after Enterprise? Correct me if i'm wrong...
that Friday the 13th is the last day for Star Trek Enterprise. Maybe it's no such bad luck after all. Now all we need is someone to step on a crack and break Braga and Berman's backs, and the circle of life will be complete.
This way the secret service could have identified him, he's the guy with the annoying blue spotlight shining out of his ear while yelling "Can ya shoot her now?"
Why do people have to create problems with it. I'm not endoering blind faith of what is told to you, but let's be reasonable here. This is an airport where there's a chance very dangerous people can do something. Yes, the 9/11 hijackers did have valid ID and they got through, but the issue is chekcing for valid ID's are better than nothing at all. It angers me that elitists like this feel the need to screw around to prove their point. 'Oh god, they check for ID at the airport, the next step is concentration camps!' This is really a story about a guy with too little brains and too much time on his hands. Nobody is getting hurt, and it's very little inconvienece to hopefully make the airlines safer.
Is it possible they brought their web pages down on purpose in order to create a little hype and maybe some panic amongst Torrent users. Then in a week or two they will release that new P2P file sharing program the have had in beta for a while? Seems like a good enough marketing campaign as a lot of Torrent users are students, or kids, and Slashdot may not be their source of information, though this story did find itself on the front page.
A cult? Puhleeze
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Macs and Apple products are just liked by a group of people, hardly a cult. I'm starting to believe that a minority of Apple users try to propegate this stereotype of Mac cults and absolute devotees. I know plenty of mac users and for them it's simply a tool. They may like a certain Apple product over something else, usually because Apple does put a little extra either in features of looks, but they aren't obsessed with Apple itself. I think what we see is a small majority of Apple users, and this small majority is the portion that actually contributes their "philisophies" onto the net. Eventually people believe that this minority speaks for the majority.
Apple is just like any company, but it's only a company. Today, tomorrow, a year from there, there's a chance, albeit slight there won't be a company anymore. Twentyfive million people won't be killing themselves in the street chanting "Give me Apple of give me death!" Face it Apple users, you're just consumers, Apple isn't a rightous power, a church or even humanitarians. They're a corporate machine, just like IBM, Cisco or GASP even Microsoft. They make a product and you buy it, that's all. So to that minority of Apple zealots, get a damn life.
Probably around the same time Rockstar has released the other two titles. Usually May of the year after. All things staying the same, I would venture a safe guess GTA:SA for PC will be released May 2005. Cheer up! It's only seven months away.
Apple is getting to the point where they're releasing a new iPod every few months. You had a lot of angry people on the last release with the 4th gen, who ordered a 3rd gen a week before and Apple refused to exchange. Now think of the people who waited for the 4th gen clickwheel's bugs to be worked out, bought it and now this model comes out. Eventually people will just start waiting, figuring Apple will release a new product in XX amount of time.
Happened to be in the local mall last night to find out GameStop and EBX were going to start selling at 8pm that night. There were roughly 3000 people waiting online between the two stores. I love GTA but yeesh, you think people would have better things to do, considering I walked right in this morning and picked up a copy.
Well they might, but not for a while. San Andreas is technically GTA 3.2. They use the same GTA 3 engine. Think of Vice City and San Andreas as large expansion packs. Possibly when GTA 4 comes out on the new consoles with a new engine, they might open up the old code, since by then it won't be a big issue.
"An estimated 25,000 fans in 1,200 stores celebrated the anniversary Saturday". Wow, A vacuum of virginity only rivaled by that of a Star Trek convention.
I kid! I kid!
Ironically I scanned the list of passwords, and God isn't even on there! When I saw that documentary Hackers with that big lipped chick they said God is the most popular password! Someone really dropped the ball on that one.
Then when you have all the guys on that bus ride to jail, and they're all comparing stories. You got the guy that killed six people, another one who raped several women, then someone who was doing drug dealing. They turn to this lilly kid and ask him what he's in for...he meekly replies, "I umm wrote a computer virus." He realizes his mistake as he sees the smiles on those hardened criminal faces as they have a new cell b****. Then during those nights when this young man cries himself to bed, I wonder if he'll think it was all worth it for a few laughs. Friggin idiot.
Now *there* was a great OS. Small, lean, easy to use, ran great. I know there's an attempt at an opensource BeOS but it seems to be a long way away. I looked at Syllables website, atleast they have a livecd, I might as well try it, got nothing to lose. Until then i'll still keep my midnight candlelight vigil until BeOS comes back.
Unfortuneatly what will happen is after said lawsuits, the Patent Office will just raise the fees to file a patent. They won't actually change anything, just keep raising prices. It will be even harder for regular people to file for patents, while the corporations still can afford it.
But Microsoft beat me to it. But it's still useful for the early Slashdot posts! I may go back and patent the printing press though, that'll show you all.
I remember my time machine....
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I used it to go back in time, ended up in Dallas in 1964. I landed on some guy, Lee Harvey something...well long story short I had to get future JFK to go back in time with me to kill past JFK from the grassy gnoll. So after that little mishap I just use my time machine to go through time and make sure I'm within the first 5 posts of a Slashdot story. If you're good, tomorrow i'll tell you about that whole time when they thought my name was Jesus like 2000 years ago.
Doesn't the Micro-ATX boards usually have like THE worst onboard video system? When you throw in the fact that a nice high end card won't fit in the case, doesn't that make it sort of useless for gaming?
I belive Gotham City is the comic book version of New York City. In fact NYC used to be called Gotham. On a side note, I believe comic book Metropolis was based on Chicago.
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Your mileage may very on my second reccomendation, Space Rangers. It's made by a Russian game company but I do hear this month a British based publisher will be released Space Rangers AND Space Rangers 2, to the rest of Europe and America. I played Space Rangers and it reminds me of a turn-based top style privateer. You buy and sell materials, can attack and raid ships, buy new ships..equipment, etc.
I reccomend you google up each respective game creators site and check em out. It's a shame there hasn't been that many really good space games out, as those are my favorites. Ever since Origin Systems was bought out by EA and decimated by them, things have sucked.
Seriously, I think with implanted chips in the brain and the internet, could be be getting close to an ability to "google" information and have it implanted directly into our brain. A novel for instance, or even how to do something. Is there a possibility in the future school from Pre-k to college can be downloaded in a few minutes into an 18 year old?
My name is Scott Richter, but you can call me Snotty Scotty. My company has come under attack from an evil empire and I was forced to flee for my life. I have $10 million in assets I wish to hide. If you let me sign over these assets to you I will be forever in your debt. I will glady split half of this sum with you once I have fled to the tropical paradise of Canada.
If you agree please send a registered letter with your name, address, e-mail address, social security number and bank routing number to:
Prisoner #773849
San Quentin Prison
San Quentin, CA 94964
Please hurry, they let me out to the exercise yard soon, and I feel my other assets will soon be raided.
They do have one with a TV out. They call it the PS2, ask the guy at the counter, they only sell them to people..in the know *wink* *wink*
Isn't this what the fans complain about? That B&B completly disregard trek history. If I remember correctly, wasn't the federation formed in reponse to the end of the war between us and the romulans? Further didn't that happen like 50+ years after Enterprise? Correct me if i'm wrong...
that Friday the 13th is the last day for Star Trek Enterprise. Maybe it's no such bad luck after all. Now all we need is someone to step on a crack and break Braga and Berman's backs, and the circle of life will be complete.
This way the secret service could have identified him, he's the guy with the annoying blue spotlight shining out of his ear while yelling "Can ya shoot her now?"
Why do people have to create problems with it. I'm not endoering blind faith of what is told to you, but let's be reasonable here. This is an airport where there's a chance very dangerous people can do something. Yes, the 9/11 hijackers did have valid ID and they got through, but the issue is chekcing for valid ID's are better than nothing at all. It angers me that elitists like this feel the need to screw around to prove their point. 'Oh god, they check for ID at the airport, the next step is concentration camps!' This is really a story about a guy with too little brains and too much time on his hands. Nobody is getting hurt, and it's very little inconvienece to hopefully make the airlines safer.
Is it possible they brought their web pages down on purpose in order to create a little hype and maybe some panic amongst Torrent users. Then in a week or two they will release that new P2P file sharing program the have had in beta for a while? Seems like a good enough marketing campaign as a lot of Torrent users are students, or kids, and Slashdot may not be their source of information, though this story did find itself on the front page.
Apple is just like any company, but it's only a company. Today, tomorrow, a year from there, there's a chance, albeit slight there won't be a company anymore. Twentyfive million people won't be killing themselves in the street chanting "Give me Apple of give me death!" Face it Apple users, you're just consumers, Apple isn't a rightous power, a church or even humanitarians. They're a corporate machine, just like IBM, Cisco or GASP even Microsoft. They make a product and you buy it, that's all. So to that minority of Apple zealots, get a damn life.
Probably around the same time Rockstar has released the other two titles. Usually May of the year after. All things staying the same, I would venture a safe guess GTA:SA for PC will be released May 2005. Cheer up! It's only seven months away.
Apple is getting to the point where they're releasing a new iPod every few months. You had a lot of angry people on the last release with the 4th gen, who ordered a 3rd gen a week before and Apple refused to exchange. Now think of the people who waited for the 4th gen clickwheel's bugs to be worked out, bought it and now this model comes out. Eventually people will just start waiting, figuring Apple will release a new product in XX amount of time.
Wait time for line losers= 5 hours
Wait time for me=5 minutes
Well they might, but not for a while. San Andreas is technically GTA 3.2. They use the same GTA 3 engine. Think of Vice City and San Andreas as large expansion packs. Possibly when GTA 4 comes out on the new consoles with a new engine, they might open up the old code, since by then it won't be a big issue.
Justice will be served as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else.
"An estimated 25,000 fans in 1,200 stores celebrated the anniversary Saturday". Wow, A vacuum of virginity only rivaled by that of a Star Trek convention. I kid! I kid!
Ironically I scanned the list of passwords, and God isn't even on there! When I saw that documentary Hackers with that big lipped chick they said God is the most popular password! Someone really dropped the ball on that one.
Then when you have all the guys on that bus ride to jail, and they're all comparing stories. You got the guy that killed six people, another one who raped several women, then someone who was doing drug dealing. They turn to this lilly kid and ask him what he's in for...he meekly replies, "I umm wrote a computer virus." He realizes his mistake as he sees the smiles on those hardened criminal faces as they have a new cell b****. Then during those nights when this young man cries himself to bed, I wonder if he'll think it was all worth it for a few laughs. Friggin idiot.
if I only have implied oral consent..but not expressed written consent?
Now *there* was a great OS. Small, lean, easy to use, ran great. I know there's an attempt at an opensource BeOS but it seems to be a long way away. I looked at Syllables website, atleast they have a livecd, I might as well try it, got nothing to lose. Until then i'll still keep my midnight candlelight vigil until BeOS comes back.
Unfortuneatly what will happen is after said lawsuits, the Patent Office will just raise the fees to file a patent. They won't actually change anything, just keep raising prices. It will be even harder for regular people to file for patents, while the corporations still can afford it.
But Microsoft beat me to it. But it's still useful for the early Slashdot posts! I may go back and patent the printing press though, that'll show you all.
I used it to go back in time, ended up in Dallas in 1964. I landed on some guy, Lee Harvey something...well long story short I had to get future JFK to go back in time with me to kill past JFK from the grassy gnoll. So after that little mishap I just use my time machine to go through time and make sure I'm within the first 5 posts of a Slashdot story. If you're good, tomorrow i'll tell you about that whole time when they thought my name was Jesus like 2000 years ago.
Doesn't the Micro-ATX boards usually have like THE worst onboard video system? When you throw in the fact that a nice high end card won't fit in the case, doesn't that make it sort of useless for gaming?
I belive Gotham City is the comic book version of New York City. In fact NYC used to be called Gotham. On a side note, I believe comic book Metropolis was based on Chicago.