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Reply to What would happen after an EMP attack? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

I think the EMP destruction of a single weapon (assuming it's from a nuclear weapon) would be closer to taking out a city, not the entire USA. Only the pre-cold-war Soviet Union and the USA have, AFAIK, enough resources to create enough weapons to wipe our entire naton. Of course, if you launch that many nukes, the EMP bursts are gonna be the least of your worries. Farm equipment is unlikely to go dead. The metal in a tractor is likely to act as a Farada

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.17 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm liking the camera changes :). It's nice being able to get a closeup of even the smallest ships now! I don't play multiplayer much, but I'm kinda liking the carrier slowdown; it means my carriers aren't sitting in front of the battles as often anymore. One of the bad habits the AI seems to have with the carriers is the tendency to pull them to the front lines along with all of the other capital ships. Problem is, that kinda kills the reason why I build carriers in the f

Reply to Star Trek in MyColors Stardock Forums

[quote]I don't see a "leader" or "follower". I feel that's false logic.[/quote] Well, maybe the the line isn't so distinct - but if somebody is continuously a full OS release behind with compatibility with their product, I find that equally absurd. What's the logic behind releasing a product mere months before it becomes out of date? What's the logic of spending the entire lifecycle of an OS to develop a product for it, especially a product that is very likely to have compatibility is

Reply to Star Trek in MyColors Stardock Forums

[quote]Cobra, The Skins Factory puts out high quality themes (they wouldn't be in business if they didn't). One can enjoy both and Winstep as well, without bashing any of them.[/quote] I suppose I could enjoy it for a few months - until Windows 7 comes out [e digicons]:\[/e] . After seeing what Windows 7 can do, I'm hooked. It's very high on my to-buy list. One of the reasons I like Stardock and buy their products is they're very good at staying up to date :). In my

Reply to Star Trek in MyColors Stardock Forums

[quote]Currently available only for Windows XP. This does NOT work on Windows Vista. Now every fan of STAR TREK can own the official STAR TREK Windows XP desktop theme designed by The Skins Factory's Hyperdesk division.[/quote] Bah, these people are no Stardock. Vista has been out how long and they still don't support it? I want a WindowsBlinds (or MyColors) theme!

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

mmk, I think I got it all sorted out here . . . pure socialism under the "centrally planned economy and gov't controlls all means of production" I think is infeasible. But - very few nations today are 100% pure. I think that a mixed economy does work, and frankly seems to be working the best. There will always be arguments over where the lines should be exactly, so I guess I'm not gonna pursue this thread any longer. Nice talking to everybody, talk later abou

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The real problem for ardent lovers of late-20th free market rhetoric is that they have no answer for the core critique in Das Kapital: money is not the root of all evil, it is the ultimate abstraction--and as such it is a profoundly corrosive element of larger social systems that use it.[/quote] I'm not familiar with "Das Kapital" - but it seems to me you have asserted that somehow being an abstraction creates some sort of "corrosion." So I now await the proof that all

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Were the original Christians... A. Capitalist B. Socialist C. Communist ?[/quote] They didn't get into economics much. Assigning an economic system to Christianity is rather silly. [quote]your mind is physicly cant undarstand a true socialism/communism.[/quote] False. I understand it - I just do not believe it works as intended. [quote]the reason why you have this "nothing comes for free" psychology is due to t

Reply to Star Trek **SPOILERS** in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]How do you reboot the franchise and wipe out the entire 43-year continuity of five entire series of hundreds of episodes and ten movies (not to mention the thousands of books), without "alienating all the fans by tossing aside the well-loved and already established content"? You can't.[/quote] They pretty much have to. They can't maintain continuity with an old series with actors being old or dead. They're not having much success creating a new series. Here are basicall

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]1. no one aked to be freeid[/quote] Should a fundamental human right need to be asked for? . . . and try telling that to all of the Iraqi women with purple thumbs, that voted for the first time, and those who have decided to not wear veils now that it is no longer law to wear them. [quote]2. usa did it to gain controll over the oil [/quote] Not our primary reason. But that is a subject for another day. [quote]Haha, here is the true face of capita

Reply to No Killing Floor thread? It's out tomorrow! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Killing Floor? What's that? Oh - Yet Another Horror Game™. No thanks.

Reply to Model creator in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]....only $6000...[/quote] heh - IMHO it's pretty insane to pay more for a piece of sofware than for the computer you're running it on . . . [quote]The issue with Blender is that it just isn't at the level of the professional tools we use in the industry. [/quote] More professional than any other piece of freeware I know of. If you don't want to blow away more money than you did on your last two computers, then Blender is as professional as you can get for free.<

Reply to I want a 3d OS in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

All modern OSes are actually using graphics acceleration behind the scenes, so theoretically 3D is possible. In addition, they also have 3D cues such as drop shadows and lighting on buttons. It's just that the 2D "desktop" metaphor really does work best for managing documents and applications. I don't really see any advantage to moving to a "true" 3D metaphor.

Reply to Star Trek **SPOILERS** in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

It's a good movie. Kinda fast paced, though, I think in a couple of spots they should have slowed things down a bit. I want to have a nice long look at that new bridge :). I'm not quite understanding this new audience . . . When the new Knight Rider came out, I had hopes that it would be good - but after the first few episodes aired, I basically turned it off. I can't really put a finger on what I didn't like - but it seemed rather directionless and without focus. Too much cha

Reply to What Were They Thinking: The Worst/Weirdest Game Ideas Ever in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I think a lot of the old adventure games (usually by a name with "___ quest") derserve a lot of "weirdest" awards. Although they were fun anyways :). Why did adventure games die anyways? It was a fun genre.

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]A simple deduction of facts.[/quote] Or simple assertions of consequences masquerading as "facts." [quote]omg people fix your quotes, what up with all the over enters?[/quote] Agreed! What's up with the scrolling, Brewski?

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Something for nothing? Wanting someone else to pay for it? Where did you pull that from? Socialism is about collectively paying for something and collectively benefitting from it. It is in no way, shape or form a tool for the purpose of taking from one person and giving to another. You sound like you are more interested in your own lot and walling it off than working with society for a more efficient solution overall, which increases your own lot anyway.[/quote] In that case, I

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

CocaColaAddict - you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, there are some products where reliability is not primary? Yeah, people buy Xbox 360s. And they buy it knowing full well it's not reliable. Why? Because reliability isn't always everything for all products. The Xbox 360 is a gaming device, and gamers are notorious for wamting more power in their systems and are willing to pay extra for it and pay the penalty of reliability for it. You're right - the Wii p

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]and "AMUSINGLY" enough you dont know WHO buy the Wii and WHY...[/quote] Congratulations - you threw a red herring. Do you want to whine about sales, or do you want to talk about the subject at hand? [quote]remember that we are talking about WW2... if USSR was still here today i bet they would of maintain the suprimacy[/quote] Well, geez, that didn't happen - because their economy sorta collapsed. Last I checked, we were talking economics, right?

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]note: USSR tank (T-something...) was cheap to produce in mass numbers, and very easy to fix and maintain.[/quote] Cheap, but ineffective. With half the range of an M1 tank, they turned out to be useless when they were finally put to the test in recent wars. I don't think I've heard of a T-anything that could really stand up against modern MBTs. As we say around here - "you get what you pay for." You pay little, you get little. If you let the government buy your

Reply to 3D Realms closed days ago! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Apparently most of the IP rights are going to Apogee software .

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]America does not have medicare, Australia for example does.[/quote] Umm, what ?? [quote]Anarchy seams to be unworkable for sure only because it requires certain level of intellectual and ethical sophistication from each individual in a society...[/quote] . . . which makes it unworkable. Without law enforcement, it only takes a very small number of criminals to

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Time has long come for global Anarchy but not many understand this as yet[/quote] Nah. I don't think that should be the ultimate direction. Even as a believer in minimal government, the idea of no government at all seems quite extreme and unworkable. There needs to be some way to maintain order. IMHO going to either extreme is totally unworkable and merely asking for major troubles.

Reply to 3D Realms closed days ago! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

. . . so it's really true. Sigh. What will happen now to their older products?

Reply to Socialism Vs Capitalism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]there are open minded people, who check facts before they counter attack others[/quote] I checked my facts. That's the whole problem, in fact: You just linked to some random page with a wild claim. That's sheer idiocy, because ANYBODY CAN MAKE UP STUFF AND DUMP IT ON A WEB PAGE . I checked the page and found it lacking in credibility. It just made claims - it did not say where the claims came from, other than WHO's website, and I did not find that statis