[quote who="Zubaz" reply="5" id="2072551"]Try VirtualBox. I'm much happier with it than VMWare and MS VirtualPC.[/quote] OH I have to soooooo agree...! I have an USB stick with a Portable VirtualBox Version from which I can boot an XP version on every rig I want to.
[quote]I do so love these Mac fanbois and their attempt at making what they think are balanced, objective comments or reviews. Heaven forbid if they actually thought before they posted.[/quote] The very same thing can be said about the Windows Fanbois as you so effectively proved with your post. [quote]If it (VISTA) really was "crap", why did so many people actually BUY it...[/quote] Errrrr, coz they dind't know better, or had no other choice because it
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[quote]if this is what people refer to as intelligent design then I have no issue with it[/quote] Well, I have to admit that it IS hardly imaginable that intelligent life is just an accidental alignment of carbon-oxygen groups, amino acids, biochemical reactions, electrical impulses and whatnot, and that it ceases to exist after death. But on the other hand ID is even harder to imagine. Still, IRRC it was at the end of the first MiB movie when they showed t
[quote]we cannot achieve lightspeed[/quote] Not with tardyons, no. But if ever the existence of tachyons could be proven...
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[quote]Theory of relativity is pretty much proven.[/quote] This is because there are empirical observations/experiments to back it up. For String/M-Theory this proves a bit more difficult, to say the least. As long as we don't stumble over magical timetravelling bunnies I guess we'll have to stick to mathematical models (if you get the reference ;) ).
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[quote]To my knowledge, there are no theories with any concrete evidence that currently suggest a universal origin.[/quote] Maybe not concrete evidence, but if you read Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" you get an idea as to how, according to String/M-Theory the singularity and hence the known universe were "formed". Btw.: If there would be proof for those theories, they wouldn't be a theory anymore. ;) As a little side note concerning creationism:</
[quote]My theory is that this was not the first Big Bang. There was another universe before ours.[/quote] "This has all happened before, and it will happen again." Don't think that they were referring to the whole universe in BS:G though. ;) On a side note: In the Akashic Field theory it has also been postulated that our universe has indeed been formed a number of times before, until it was stable enough to exist in the form we now experience.
[quote]It is affected by the curvature of space-time around a black hole or any other large body. Light travels in a straight line on the space-time continuum, which means when space-time is severely distorted by a large gravitational body such as a black hole, the light can get trapped or at the very least bent. This phenomena was I think the way they proved relativity to be correct; by measuring the bending of light around the moon. That is how gravity works, by bending s
Careful though with Firely. It's somewhat like a Western in Space but very funny. If you like that: Keine Ursache! ;) I have to agree that the orignal series has been brought to a good end. But Crusade needs a real ending, so I'd really like TMoS to be somehow be done. Until there is any reliable news out whether a new movie will be done or not, and what it will revolve around I think I'll sit back and relax instead of holding my breath.
I read a WiKi article that the Hand might somehow be related to the TS race. But that might very well be just be more of a wild guess than a fact. I'd also have liked to see more of both, but sadly LotR flopped so badly... As for the the whole beyond the rim thingy: Well, what else could the old races have done but to ride into the sunset and head for new frontiers after the younger races proved to be self sufficient and they grew tired of their childish squables? And even ful
Hehe, my nick on the JMS B5 Board is "I love Lyta" (little tribute to "I love Lucy") so guess who MY favorite was. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Though I always considered Lise Hampton Edgars to be very beautiful. As for C. Sakai:"I don't want to startle you, but it seems your pants are talking to you." You mean the ones from Third Space or from Legend of the Rangers (The Hand)?
[quote]... strike a balance between making a movie for fans and for the general crowd. I mean, the b5 universe is fairly extensive, so a couple of things would need to be explained to newcomers.[/quote] Not nescessarily. Dunno if you have seen the Serenity movie. But this one also didn't care about the general crowd. It was made for the Firefly fanbase to wrap things up. If it, as a side effect, hooked up more people with the origial series all the better, but that was n
No Spartan, Peter Jurasik ist still alive - thank goodness. I would also like to see him in a potential movie. "Oh, it would be quite annoying, yeees?!" *grin* Though my guess is that the story would revolve more about Earth and the ongoings on B5 itself than the Centauri. The Centauri story was well told in the Legion of Fire Trilogy. The TMoS story as far as it was outlined by JMS sounded pretty promising. Maybe he would give it another try to give people a c
People, sorry to burst your bubble, but not even the direct to DVD release of The Lost Tales made it farther than the first part because JMS didn't want any more cheap solutions to feed the fans. And considering the failure of the Memories of the Shadows movie project BECAUSE WB wanted to make it cheap and a recast I hardly hold any high hopes. Oh, and: Yes, Richard Biggs also passed away.
Errr, why doesn't Earth's High Command just tell UNIT to call The Doctor? ;) :D
As for how long people tend to play games: Suffice to say I just finished re-playing Wizardry 6 and 7. :D
Yep. Absolutely...
How about no Vista at all? [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Well, it might work well enough for private users, but in the business world everyone with some common sense wouldn't touch it for all the money in the world.
[quote who="garion333" reply="16" id="1944784"] Dragon Age . . . ? [/quote] As much as I like Bioware for the quality games they produce, it most probably comes with an infestation of DDRM thanks to EA. So that's a no-go. [quote]The thought of a modern day BG2 has raised a similar reaction in me, but you need to be more controlled.[/quote] Yeah, like Master Yoda said:"Control, Control... you must learn control!" But HEY! I'm no Jedi learner
OH YEAH! Baldur's Gate like games. GIMME, GIMME, GIME...!!! :D
ARGH! Like I said on another thread: I tried to get an english version of AOWII: SM for ages to no avail. :( OH! At an affordable price, I forgot to mention. ;) Btw. I managed to get MoM to run on an old WinNT 4.0 Workstation without DosBox once! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote who="tetleytea" reply="9" id="1943331"] after I played through Wizardry 6 again (which would be by tonight *grin*). Now this one caught my interest. How are the later Wizardries? I played 1-3 as a kid, and later Return of Werdna (is that 4?). Didn't really touch Cosmic Forge. I think I got stuck on some puzzle pieces and just stopped playing at some point.[/quote] Well, I can't really tell in comparison to the earlier games,
Yeah, good point. But once again we would have to face the harsh reality then, that Atari would NEVER give up either of those license either. However, considering the potential design of Elemental: War of Magic, I'm pretty optimistic that it might make MoM rest in peace. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
I never touched 4 and 5 so I can't testify, but I loved 3. I should probably DL the 3.5 mod and give it another shot after I played through Wizardry 6 again (which would be by tonight *grin*). Yes I'm becoming quite a bit of an retro player lately. ;) Concerning Age of Wonders 2: I tried to get an english copy of Shadow Magic for ages - to no avail. :(
Well, after getting MoO3 modded to no end, it was quite playable. :D But let's face it: After the desasters that were MoO3 and Temple of Elemental Evil I would hardly be willing to buy a game published by Atari. Same with Ubi after the new version Pools of Radiance. If I could be sure that SD would not be leashed by the publisher and made to release a buggy piece of mess just to keep a release date I guess I would probably reconsider though. :D