Still, there are some good things about this case: it demonstrates the ridiculousness of these "rights" of "people who create nothing but merely buy rights from others", as you so eloquently put it.
$521M is a large sum, enough to draw a lot of attention to this case, and in this case the victim is Microsoft. The one company that we here don't like very much, and which can afford to pay such a sum, or litigate against it.
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Personally, I liked those changes made in Civ 3.
Culture: very good
Army paid out of national budget instead of by home cities: very good
Farms, irrigate twice for really high food production: cheesy.
Unit-based spies and diplomats, like caravans and trade. The trade system in Civ 3 is great. It actually gives you a reason to go to war when negotiating a trade fails. Besides, those caravans were kinda lame. Espionage got a similar overhaul, and became abstracted, and I think it's a good thing.
Workers vs. Settlers: Workers are cheaper than Settlers, so you can produce a lot of them quickly if you need them: Great! Also, if you're particularly aggressive, raze enemy cities and gain half their population as slave workers, who cost nothing to maintain, and work half as hard as normal workers: optional, but great if you're playing as a ruthless warlord!
Unique units: great, they add more flavour to the game, as do the special abilities that the civilizations have (Industrious, Religious, Scientific, &c.). They actually differentiate the civilizations. Great idea!
Bombing missions for planes: it always was nonsensical to have planes in the air for multiple turns.
Still, mostly it was the fact that the army is paid out of the national treasury instead of maintained by the cities that produced the units that made me prefer Civ 3 over Civ 2. Now, it actually is easy to make some cities just produce lots of units (e.g. when they've run out of buildings to produce), and not have them get slowed down immensely by maintaining existing units with shields, or the necessity to send those units to less important cities first, so they can become the home cities.
I'm really tempted to get the Civ 4 Collector's Edition, though the new game looks a lot different, and I'm not completely sure I'll actually enjoy it, so I wouldn't mind a demo (well before the release date, so I can still get the Collector's Edition, of course;-) ) to get a taste for it, and decide if I really like it.
One more turn... one more turn... one more turn...
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Even the file formats used in the game itself suggested that efficiency wasn't the top priority. My 4-floppy copy of CivWin, for example, uses plain old WAV files.
You do realise that decoding compressed audio (e.g. MP3) costs processor time?
'Star Trek Voyager' started off slow but ended as one of the better 'Star Trek' spinoffs.
I thought it was the consensus here that it was the other way round? I'm not sure, since I never saw the last couple of seasons; when they began routinely defeating the Borg, I quit watching. I saw the final episode because I was curious as to how they'd get back, and it really was on par with an average Enterprise episode. I mean, Voyager got in the top 50 and DS9 did not?
And Futurama on 41? What are they smoking? I'd really like to know, so I can avoid it myself. Not that I smoke, but just on general principles.
No, it's not. You're stating Linux is inferior for gaming, while in fact, it's not perfect for running games that were programmed to run in a Windows environment. Using SDL, for example, it's perfectly possible to write games that run perfectly on Linux (as long as Linux and SDL are properly configured, and the hardware is powerful enough, of course).
Actually, virus is from the Latin virus, which means poison, and has no plural, and doesn't belong to the same noun group as most -us words (which go -i in plural). So the English plural should be viruses. Viri and virii are just wrong.
Octopus comes from Greek, and its plural would be octopodes or something like that. So the English plural is just octopuses.
I think cactus is a normal Latin -us word, so if you want to pluralize it as cacti, go ahead, but cactuses should be fine too. </grammar fascist>
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If that were the case, I'm sure they could come to an agreement, since those two don't necessarily conflict.
Clearly you are too stupid to understand the Time Cube. 24 / 4 == 6 !
Still, there are some good things about this case: it demonstrates the ridiculousness of these "rights" of "people who create nothing but merely buy rights from others", as you so eloquently put it.
$521M is a large sum, enough to draw a lot of attention to this case, and in this case the victim is Microsoft. The one company that we here don't like very much, and which can afford to pay such a sum, or litigate against it.
It could derive from the Dutch word "gek", which means madman as a noun, or mad/weird/crazy as an adjective.
(Legal notice: this does not imply that all Dutch nouns can be used as adjectives as well.)
What if I invented the finglonger?
Sorry, somehow, Slashcode mangled the link destination by stripping out most non-alphanumeric characters. You'll have to copy-paste a bit now.
Here's a movie in which a Firaxis developer demonstrates the game: "mms://a633.m.akastream.net/7/633/5372/1/gamespot. download.akamai.com/5372/netshow/gslive/2005/05/2s tream_civ4demo_e305_hi.wmv".
I. Want. It.
Personally, I liked those changes made in Civ 3.
Still, mostly it was the fact that the army is paid out of the national treasury instead of maintained by the cities that produced the units that made me prefer Civ 3 over Civ 2. Now, it actually is easy to make some cities just produce lots of units (e.g. when they've run out of buildings to produce), and not have them get slowed down immensely by maintaining existing units with shields, or the necessity to send those units to less important cities first, so they can become the home cities.
I'm really tempted to get the Civ 4 Collector's Edition, though the new game looks a lot different, and I'm not completely sure I'll actually enjoy it, so I wouldn't mind a demo (well before the release date, so I can still get the Collector's Edition, of course ;-) ) to get a taste for it, and decide if I really like it.
One more turn... one more turn... one more turn...
You do realise that decoding compressed audio (e.g. MP3) costs processor time?
I thought it was the consensus here that it was the other way round? I'm not sure, since I never saw the last couple of seasons; when they began routinely defeating the Borg, I quit watching. I saw the final episode because I was curious as to how they'd get back, and it really was on par with an average Enterprise episode. I mean, Voyager got in the top 50 and DS9 did not?
And Futurama on 41? What are they smoking? I'd really like to know, so I can avoid it myself. Not that I smoke, but just on general principles.
And where do you think that comes from?
This guy can probably do it. He'll want some green pieces of paper in return, though.
No no, that should be:
Newtonian or Einsteinian?
You mean like schools? Or ships? Or just plain old skyscrapers?
"*Zed* P. M.?"
"He's Canadian, Sir."
"I'm sorry."
You've been reading Quicksilver on a screen? That's just wrong on so many levels...
Also, from http://ereader.com/welcome/howtogetstarted2.html, I direct your attention to the following phrase:
So their DRM enables you to access your files when entering your credit card number. How does that work if/when you get a new credit card number?Dawn of War, an RTS game without resource harvesting as you know it, uses Lua too.
Plus, it only costs one lousy bead...
Alright, now try the same trick with inkjet cartridges...
Yes, I remember Something Awful collecting $22,000 for body armor for a unit of soldiers, and I wondered why they didn't have it in the first place...
No, it's not. You're stating Linux is inferior for gaming, while in fact, it's not perfect for running games that were programmed to run in a Windows environment. Using SDL, for example, it's perfectly possible to write games that run perfectly on Linux (as long as Linux and SDL are properly configured, and the hardware is powerful enough, of course).
You're already using FoxIE? Or did you just have a deja-vu?
No, it's proof that the emulation isn't perfect.
It's called the "analog hole"...
Actually, virus is from the Latin virus, which means poison, and has no plural, and doesn't belong to the same noun group as most -us words (which go -i in plural). So the English plural should be viruses.
Viri and virii are just wrong.
Octopus comes from Greek, and its plural would be octopodes or something like that. So the English plural is just octopuses.
I think cactus is a normal Latin -us word, so if you want to pluralize it as cacti, go ahead, but cactuses should be fine too.
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