Games are simply better than real life! In computer games, I can kill dragons, rescue Princesses, become a rich intergalactic trading tycoon, conquer armies and destroy worlds.
I blew up the Death Star this morning while the people who wrote this were at work. Enough said.
Jerri Ryan, that Vulcan from 'Enterprise', Erin Grey, Lt. Orora, Tasha Yar (I think that was her name), Debbie from Sealab, um... someone from Babylon 5, uh...
The 'far away galaxy' thing was a good fudge, explains how they managed to develop all this technology to traverse a galaxy in a few hours but didn't figure out how to fire weapons that locked on target. (Hang on, they did, Jango Fett had one. But how come they couldn't do it years later... )
Simple - the Empire introduced draconian Intellectual Property laws that stifled technological development.
...the 9/11 World Trade Towers attack (both planes) equivalent to about 900 tons.
Are you honestly trying to tell me someone tried to equate the energy of two massive planes hitting a couple of deformable steel structures at uncertain speeds to a definite mass of TNT? Or is that how much TNT you'd need to bring both the towers down?
Assuming that this group uses a Proton launcher (the heavy Russian launcher currently used to lift ISS sections and Soyuz spacecraft) they would only be able to lift 44,000 lbs into LEO per launch.
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what could he possibly say on the radio that would increase the value of the company by that much?
That Sirius owns the rights to Unix and the Linux kernel contains some of their code?
No network hardware
Secure Windows 98 server!
May I be the first to use the soon-to-be-popular acronym Write The Fucking Manual. (Yes I put acronym in Google to see if I spelt it right.)
That means it won't be able to predict Quake IV :(
Games are simply better than real life! In computer games, I can kill dragons, rescue Princesses, become a rich intergalactic trading tycoon, conquer armies and destroy worlds. I blew up the Death Star this morning while the people who wrote this were at work. Enough said.
I've got everything installed properly but all I get is a black screen. Any ideas?
And this year's nominees for the Virgin of the Year prize are...
I'm a bit sceptical about that 40% figure - I'd say it was closer to 2 in 5.
Simple - the Empire introduced draconian Intellectual Property laws that stifled technological development.
An unidentified fluid was found on the grave of the Baldur's Gate series. Urine suspected...
I know which picture immediately springs to mind for custom levels. Open wide now. =808=
...the 9/11 World Trade Towers attack (both planes) equivalent to about 900 tons.
Are you honestly trying to tell me someone tried to equate the energy of two massive planes hitting a couple of deformable steel structures at uncertain speeds to a definite mass of TNT? Or is that how much TNT you'd need to bring both the towers down?
Someone's doing some crank yanking.
...Peru is real?
90% of the world would rather have clean water and free speech.
Assuming that this group uses a Proton launcher (the heavy Russian launcher currently used to lift ISS sections and Soyuz spacecraft) they would only be able to lift 44,000 lbs into LEO per launch.
Yeah, but what about a Beowulf cluster of those?
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