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Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches. [/quote] That's interesting, but rather meaningless. [quote]I dont think you understand the shear amount of planets out there[/quote] sheer. Problem is, it doesn't matter - as we don't have any idea what fraction of planets have life. It could be an exceedingly small amount. It could even in fact be just us - the issue is not how many planets there

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]I dont understand statistically there has to be other intelligent life out there.[/quote] Did you walk up to every planet and ask, "do you have life?" So far, [i]we have no statistics.[/i] . . . except maybe from SETI. And out of the heaven knows how many stars they've looked at, we're - well we've got a big, fat zero. Problem with zero is no matter how many times you multiply it, you still get zero. [quote]How could you possible argue that there

Reply to Need help with an 8086 Assembly project please! in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry, can't help much, not an ASM person. Try asking somebody from the same class to look at it.

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]life outside of earth exists, the chances for atleast 1 other lifeform to exist (bacterial or intelligent) is closer to infinite then one can comprehend[/quote] How do we know this? The opponents claim the opposite it true (that the chances are closer to zero than one can comprehend).

Reply to Need help with an 8086 Assembly project please! in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I'm using Tasm and Tlink to compile and create the application. My problem is that when first point click's Y position on the screen is > the second Y position then the line doesn't draw. Also, I can't draw the line all around the screen. If the angle(slope) is greater or less then a certain number then it won't draw or it will be weird (I can't seem to figure it out).[/quote] I don't know much about ASM, but I've played around with Bresenham's line algorithm a long time ago

Reply to The Discovery of Life outside Earth. (and its causes and effects) in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]And when, if, we do find life outside Earth... [/quote] Assuming of course, you're right about both life on other planets and about religions. [quote]Maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but racism and hostility between groups of humans will cease, or atleast be greatly reduced in the event of finding intelligent alien life.[/quote] You're being too optimistic here. Very likely, we'll argue about it for a year, send out some radio signals that will take many tho

Reply to Torrents, Is it ever OK in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I think people will stop pirating games when games installed files are going to be like 20 GB.[/quote] Heh, games are getting there! WoW is ~14 GB, and GRID comes to about 10 GB installed. With realism and huge worlds being demanded more for games, I imagine it'll happen soon. Interestingly enough WoW uses bittorrent to download updates. I've been pretty skeptical of the technology of bittorrent, though. It hates firewalls, and finding good peers is prob

Reply to WindowBlinds 7 Sneak peek in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

One thing I'd like to ask for is perhaps the ability to be used on 600 pixel height screens? Got myself a new netbook, and WB actually works great on it, despite the limited power of my netbook. It just gets cut off at the bottom :(. Actual screen size is 1024x600, so it can go a bit wider. It's just pretty height limited.

Reply to Games keep minimizing when using windowblinds in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Do you have Skype installed? If so, in Skype: tools->options->"visual style of window" from "Skype" to "Classic Windows"

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]Allows everyone to meet the optimal ways of communications headon and to perform maintenance duties on bazillions of similar sites that use (Main servers & nodal dispatchers) bandwidths - thus, accelerating access to the entire grid itself.[/quote] I think you're confusing high level styles of communication with low level network architecture. TCP/IP does not care about the nature of the information is is carrying, and is already capable of both centralized and decentralize

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Okay, I've heard of DB being used for database - but that didn't seem to make sense in the context. [quote]Taken into context, "information" flow is a feedback loop that can be available in alternate formats present in multiple places. [/quote] That is one possibility. [quote]Whereas a DB source can be perceived as some of the usual RSS feeds coordinated perpetually to link at general content.[/quote] I suppose you can think of it that way, but that's a rather

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]Have you seen the movie "I-Robot" (Will Smith as police officer) loosely based on the Asimov book? Skynet in Terminator(s)? Etc![/quote] Yeah, they were some nice fiction. DB? I am unfamiliar with that acronym. [quote]the connectivity ratio will eventually bring forward a coordinated attempt by ISP providers to "internationalize" content.[/quote] I believe the term you are looking for is decentralize? That's the concept behind P2P n

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Zyxpsilon: Agreed. I think the end result is not going to be "cloud computing" as most imagine it, with next to no processing power at the clients. I seriously, seriously, doubt we're going to ever see dumb terminals or thin clients again. I think the end result is going to be some computing power at both server and client ends, and I think that access to local computing and storage is here to stay. For the purpose of having some redundancy and availability when the netw

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]Is a joke.[/quote] For a "joke," I find it quite a bit more useful that XP's. It seems to do a much more thourough check, and even if it doesn't find the problem, it'll usually tell you if it's your settings or something on the network messing up. XP's "repair" is about as useless as it gets. It just resets the connection and hopes for the best. Vista's seems to at least be aware that the problem could be due to bad settings and tries to be more intelligent about fixing

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Right now, yes computers are very gimmicky. They're machines that are supposed to eventually make lives easier, but right now waste about as much productivity as they give. I think the hardware side is getting to the point where it should be, and a key indicator of that is the rising popularity of smart phones and netbooks. We're starting to accept that we can in fact trim down some processing power for the sake of price and form factor. In addition, Windows 7 has put a very b

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]Assuming that the preloading of apps was the only difference in the OS, that statement would be valid. But focusing on that and not acknowledging any of the other benefits of the OS is a bit ignorant.[/quote] I'd agree. When I switch to XP, I miss a lot of Vista's other features. Things like: The search box The automatic networking troubleshooter The stability and performance tools Seeing the contents of the windows when alt+tabbing

Reply to What happens when OD expires? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

[quote]an angel gets it's wings (or something like that).[/quote] An angel gets it is wings? (Hint: the possessive has no apostrophe)

Reply to What happens when OD expires? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I'll just renew the subscription when summer comes. I should be able to get a summer job.

Reply to Not buying Entrenchment in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote]Why would I want to fix windows?[/quote] So you can run SoaSE. [quote]The only reason I have windows on my computer is to play Sins of a Solar Empire[/quote] So if you can't run SoaSE on it, it's time to fix it. Reinstalling should work fine. [quote]Sins of a Solar Empire runs great on Ubuntu![/quote] That's great! [quote]Does it matter that it's "unsupported"?[/quote] Yes, as you just explained: [quote]This word just mean

Reply to Not buying Entrenchment in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote]Because of impulse, I can't run the latest version of the game with WINE.[/quote] [quote]Regardless of any of your valid views, I CANNOT PLAY SINS OF A SOLAR EMPIRE ON MY COMPUTER, ALTHOUGH I HAVE PAID FOR IT.[/quote] . . . and I can't use my digital camera if I were to accidently buy AAA instead of AA batteries for it. I could possibly use a couple of pieces of metal to "hack" it to make the smaller battery work in the larger compartment, but there's no way the camera

What happens when OD expires? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Umm, wow, has it been a year already? My OD subscription expired, apprently . . . So, what happens now? What happens if I don't renew? What happens if I do renew?

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I dunno if a single council is the best way to go, if they add such a thing. If you look at real life - it's not very realistic. There is a tendency to create several bodies for such things (UN, NATO, EU, etc), depending on relations between nations of the groups and the purpose of the groups. Sometimes allies will band under some common flag, while the enemies of an allience will often go off and form their own group(s). The simplistic "either you're in the single intergalact

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

This is mostly a player vs AI point of view, as I haven't really played many games against other players. But here goes: The ability to give missions to the AI. Right now, it's a royal pain that this whole mission thing is one sided. The ability to refuse misisons or suggest a counter-proposal to missions. Because sometimes, in all honesty, one of two things often happens: Sometimes the mission is not in line with my own personal goals for which direction

Reply to Not buying Entrenchment in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Myabe it's just me - but this DRM istuff is getting a bit tiring. You wanna do a personal boycott of a $10 addon for game just because you can't give a copy of it to your friend for free, then go ahead. The point of running a business is, as I understand it, to make money. With today's technology, we can basically duplicate a single copy of a digital product into millions with minimal effort. IMHO, you can't really have no protections at all. While I'm against some of

Reply to Windowblinds window size problem in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

This problem also seems to happen with Microsoft's Live Mesh - folder windows that have Live Mesh's extra "bar," where it becomes obvious that it's the two working against each other. It only happens when WindowsBlinds is active, and only happens when a "meshified" folder is shown, and especially happens when trying to resize a "meshified" folder. I think in general it's an effect of something that tries to hook into the same interfaces that WindowsBlinds does, and neither knowing tha