Nuclear power is very clean compared to any power source that burns fuel
Perhaps you'd like to contribute to the £3bn cleanup bill (current estimate) for Dounreay? And maybe donate some of your time to the 30 year cleanup (current estimate) too...
Mmm... I'm not sure I'd trust Valve. When I uninstalled Half Life it took everything in the same directory tree (C:\Games) with it. Sadly this was a known bug, but I didn't know about it until after it happened. Although I had my Baldur's Gate save games backed up at some point previously, I lost 10-12 hours of game play. I never was able to get back into Baldur's Gate to finish it, which is a great shame.
Even the original System Shock used a 32-bit protected-mode extender. I'd have thought that almost all DirectX/OpenGL games would be Win32 applications.
It was a sod to get it to run at the time it came out, with different graphics drivers supplying different texture coord offsets, leading to graphical corruption all over the shop. I dread to think what it's like nowadays.
Fortunately the IFE system is totally disjoint from the avionics.
I was at a presentation (about nine years ago, now) where someone from the aviation industry was showing us the future (or the future as he hoped) of aircraft systems - in particular a new bus that was being used for communication around the aircraft. And yes, the in-flight-entertainment used the same bus as the avionics. It was being actively presented as a positive feature. Sadly, I don't remember the details.
"...Grand Theft Auto series, in which the gamer plays a criminal on the make in the big city, is pretty amoral."
The later Grand Theft Auto games, as has been pointed out in other forums, are presented within a strong moral framework, so I think it is wrong to call them "amoral". Whether they are immoral would be a different question, but not one to which I'd immediately jump up with an answer in the affirmative.
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Nuclear power is very clean compared to any power source that burns fuel
Perhaps you'd like to contribute to the £3bn cleanup bill (current estimate) for Dounreay?
And maybe donate some of your time to the 30 year cleanup (current estimate) too...
Mmm... I'm not sure I'd trust Valve. When I uninstalled Half Life it took everything in the same directory tree (C:\Games) with it. Sadly this was a known bug, but I didn't know about it until after it happened. Although I had my Baldur's Gate save games backed up at some point previously, I lost 10-12 hours of game play. I never was able to get back into Baldur's Gate to finish it, which is a great shame.
Ah, I see. I'll just shut up now, then.
...3D 16-bit...
In what way 16-bit, and why should this matter?
Even the original System Shock used a 32-bit protected-mode extender. I'd have thought that almost all DirectX/OpenGL games would be Win32 applications.
It was a sod to get it to run at the time it came out, with different graphics drivers supplying different texture coord offsets, leading to graphical corruption all over the shop. I dread to think what it's like nowadays.
...of my list, if not at the top, are Looking Glass Technology's System Shock and Mythos' X-COM Apocalypse.
Well, they admitted there wasn't any, but they made liberal use of the word 'radiation'
Well, it is radiation.
along with scary graphics of pulsating wifi base stations
CTHULHU FHTAGN!!!
CTHULHU FHTAGN!!!
CTHULHU FHTAGN!!!
Suckers!
Fortunately the IFE system is totally disjoint from the avionics.
I was at a presentation (about nine years ago, now) where someone from the aviation industry was showing us the future (or the future as he hoped) of aircraft systems - in particular a new bus that was being used for communication around the aircraft. And yes, the in-flight-entertainment used the same bus as the avionics. It was being actively presented as a positive feature. Sadly, I don't remember the details.
"...Grand Theft Auto series, in which the gamer plays a criminal on the make in the big city, is pretty amoral."
The later Grand Theft Auto games, as has been pointed out in other forums, are presented within a strong moral framework, so I think it is wrong to call them "amoral". Whether they are immoral would be a different question, but not one to which I'd immediately jump up with an answer in the affirmative.
The Clangers will take it as an act of war and start nuking us from orbit.
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...he might have an accident involving his accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a couple of rubber bands.