Yup, I stopped watching tv a few years ago, and now I'm utterly addicted to pointless internet activity. In fact, I'm indulging the addiction right now.
"It won't. A good anaology would be crashing the empire state building into Wyoming. It would look sorta cool, but that's about it."
This is perhaps the worst analogy designed to combat irrational fears ever.
Don't forget, it's in Google's best interest that the internet in general becomes less Microsoft dependent, and that the alternatives be Google friendly. Any excuse to support Firefox is a good one for them, and doing it as a business venture adds legitimacy and opens the door to future collaboration. And personally, I probably make more google searches because of the ease of doing so with firefox.
When I heard RMS speak earlier this year he mentioned that a lawmaker's support for open standards and non-proprietary stuff in government makes a good litmus test of their integrity. It's an issue that's pretty straightfoward, since no reasonable government should be locked into proprietary formats and whatnot, but your average Joe couldn't care less, and isn't going to be basing any votes on the subject. There's so much money being thrown around by software companies, and so little political incentive to resist, that it's a wonder any polititian would be on the side of free software. This is why the whole Massachusetts thing is so important, since it's very much an exception to the rule and could raise public aweness even if it's not entirely successful.
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It runs fine on my year and a half old laptop quite well, although any map size above standard makes the game does run at a crawl. For whatever reason I haven't been having the stability issues a lot of people have been having, so I can't really comment.
But as far as gameplay itself goes, I consider it to be almost as good as my favorite game of all time, Alpha Centuri, and I considered CivIII to be a travesty. The interface has be streamlined incredibly, with all sorts of game information at your fingertips in new and innovative ways. Things have been simplified, such as the resource system and zones of control, but they've managed it in a way that doesn't ruin the game for old Civ hacks like myself and opens the game up to beginning players more than before. And the graphics and animations are so good that it really adds to the immersion of the game. There are options to turn the excessive fighting animations off, but I enjoy them so much that I haven't even done so yet.
It's a shame the game doesn't work well for you, because I've been having a great time with it.
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Yup, I stopped watching tv a few years ago, and now I'm utterly addicted to pointless internet activity. In fact, I'm indulging the addiction right now.
"It won't. A good anaology would be crashing the empire state building into Wyoming. It would look sorta cool, but that's about it." This is perhaps the worst analogy designed to combat irrational fears ever.
Don't forget, it's in Google's best interest that the internet in general becomes less Microsoft dependent, and that the alternatives be Google friendly. Any excuse to support Firefox is a good one for them, and doing it as a business venture adds legitimacy and opens the door to future collaboration. And personally, I probably make more google searches because of the ease of doing so with firefox.
Or perhaps it would be better to say that fighting technology is their business model.
When I heard RMS speak earlier this year he mentioned that a lawmaker's support for open standards and non-proprietary stuff in government makes a good litmus test of their integrity. It's an issue that's pretty straightfoward, since no reasonable government should be locked into proprietary formats and whatnot, but your average Joe couldn't care less, and isn't going to be basing any votes on the subject. There's so much money being thrown around by software companies, and so little political incentive to resist, that it's a wonder any polititian would be on the side of free software. This is why the whole Massachusetts thing is so important, since it's very much an exception to the rule and could raise public aweness even if it's not entirely successful.
It runs fine on my year and a half old laptop quite well, although any map size above standard makes the game does run at a crawl. For whatever reason I haven't been having the stability issues a lot of people have been having, so I can't really comment. But as far as gameplay itself goes, I consider it to be almost as good as my favorite game of all time, Alpha Centuri, and I considered CivIII to be a travesty. The interface has be streamlined incredibly, with all sorts of game information at your fingertips in new and innovative ways. Things have been simplified, such as the resource system and zones of control, but they've managed it in a way that doesn't ruin the game for old Civ hacks like myself and opens the game up to beginning players more than before. And the graphics and animations are so good that it really adds to the immersion of the game. There are options to turn the excessive fighting animations off, but I enjoy them so much that I haven't even done so yet. It's a shame the game doesn't work well for you, because I've been having a great time with it.