dmantione

Reply to Look out Microsoft, Google is coming for you again in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

This is a hype. Linux had a competitive browser since about the year 1997. If it is so easy to defeat Microsoft that you only need to have a system that can run a browser, Microsoft would have been beaten by Linux long ago. Winning the desktop is complicated, you need compatibility with existing software and documents, allow users to seemlessly migrate settings & documents. In addition, people are resistant to change. No, it won't be easier for Google than for other Linux distrrib

Reply to Notice: Pending mods now under review! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="14" id="2291505"]Nothing new in the queue, no. [/quote] At least there should be an update of the Dutch language mod in the queue, I did update it on 14/06/2009 with the Dark Avatar translation and is still marked "pending approval". I originally wanted to upload the Dark Avatar translation as a separate mod, but uploading is broken for more than a half year now (will it ever be fixed?).

Reply to Initial Impressions of Windows Home Server in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]What are the advantages/disadvantages of Windows Home Server compared to a Linux home server? Ease of configuration. What's the old adage? "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing." DrGonzo [/quote] Let's not turn this thread into a religion one. Setting up a few shares for Windows client machines is both a few mouse clicks on Windows & Linux. Advantages/disadvantages please. I.e. things like platform X has better internet connection shar

Reply to Initial Impressions of Windows Home Server in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

I have a home server for 12 years now. Nowadays I store all my documents in Subversion rather than via NFS or SMB. This works really, since it not only solves the issue of having your documents in one place, but also the "laptop synchronisation" problem, you do a checkout on your laptop, work on it on the road and check in your modifications later. What are the advantages/disadvantages of Windows Home Server compared to a Linux home server?

Reply to Ah, back to Galactic Civilizations love in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

It's been said before, but... ... in awe of the frog! [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]

Reply to impulse and win7 without IE in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Don't be fooled by the PR. Just like in the Media Player case, the DG Competition wants all middleware removed, i.e. the MSHTML.DLL. Microsoft already made the user application removable in IE7. What they have announced today is that they will not ship the user application as part of Win2007 in the in European Economic Area. Apparently it is working because even the mainstream press is reporting it. In fact, I just saw in it on television. This will make it harder for the DG Compet

Reply to GalCiv3? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Afaik the plan was to develop Elemental first before starting work on Galciv3. So, nobody is working on Galciv 3 (yet).

Reply to Does this require Pixel Shader? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Works fine without.

Reply to I have XP and am very happy with it! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Impulse works fine on XPerimental. Official requirements: [quote] Impulse Requirements: Windows XP (32-bit) / Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Athlon/Pentium III (1GHz or higher) 512MB RAM 1GB HD space recommended [/quote]

Reply to I have XP and am very happy with it! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Don't know what you are talking about, GC2 works fine on XPerimental.

Reply to Views on Digital Distribution in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Well, Impulse is Internet Exploiter combined with 7zip turned into a frustratingly slow resource hog thanks to bad-idea-from-start .NET technology. Having said the bad things, there are quite a bit of things to say in favour of it. Impulse's main point is competition. It has good games at low price and has forced Steam to join the competition, like sales events. Then, I think Impulse certainly has a few must-have titles, to name a few not in

Reply to Regret i bought this game (Demigod) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I'm reading this on https://forums.galciv2.com and the game being discussed obviously isn't GC2. Please find a better (non-shared) forum to discuss this.

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Afaik XP 64 is capable of a 3GB user space, so, if you do the modification, GC2 should be able to use more memory. I would not expect performance increases, it'll be mainly of use to prevent the game running out of memory when using the largest maps.

Reply to Lost Serial Number in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you did register your serial number -> Just install Impulse and let it install the game for you. You can also make it print your serial number. If you did not register your serial number -> Bad luck, no up to date version for you, but be happy the game has no copy protection, you can still install from CD.

Reply to Serial Number in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

More information please. What are you trying to do, registering with Impulse? If yes, did you select the right product to register?

Reply to Way to run the game without having to install it - not a dumb as you might think! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. Simply copy the game directory to another PC, run activate.exe, and have fun playing.

Reply to Putting the Core I7 through its paces in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

I made an offer last week for a customer who wanted several "powerfull workstations". So I offered him systems with: 4 * Opteron 8384 "Shanghai" 64 GB RAM 2 * Geforce GTX 285 4 * WD Velociraport in hardware RAID6 Ok, some people run demanding applications, but this is almost a supercomputer on your desktop...

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="10" id="2063831"]@dmantione - Your criticism of Will is interesting for what it ignores: Don't know about you, but I was also an adult in the 1970's.[/quote] That is exactly why I did not immedeately wanted to judge about this part of Mr. Will's argument, I was born in 1977, so I cannot judge from my own memory of the matter. Prima facia his argument was correct. However, now that I have read up he was just bringing up the point of a sci

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Curious, also, that you choose not to defend the proposition, just trash one of its critics. Actually, not so curious... rather, typical of AGW zealots.[/quote] Argumentum ad hominem, isn't it? No, I do not consider myself an AGW zealot. If you know me in daily life you would know that I can be pretty critical to green lobby. Compare this defending the free market amonst the few people with communistic ideas, while you might have a pretty neutral standpoint, you'll be

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The burden of proof is on those inisisting on drastic change.[/quote] Agree. [quote]They've failed to meet it.[/quote] Because of clowns like Mr. Will? I can only smile at that.

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="3" id="2062718"] They just did not have the ability to create accurate climate models. We still don't, that's the conceit.[/quote] Prima facia, indeed, you can ask the question: if climate models still aren't pefect, why won't scientists change their mind again? That question is valid, but can be adequately answered if you look at the full picture.

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="2" id="2062716"]I repeat, his point about the value of scientific 'consensus' is valid. Not to mention the point about media magnification of that consensus into dire predictions. You can't pretend it didn't happen and 30 years barely qualifies as a partial blink in geologic time.[/quote] Quoting Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling , underlining by me: [quote] Global cooling was a conjecture duri

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Stating his point is entirely valid doesn't make it so. As I said, I do not know the strength of the case back then, If you do happen to know enouh about the scientific concensus in the 70's to make a verdict, please enlighten me, because I have no knowledge about it. You really have to compare both cases, but I cannot judge here. 30 years of observation are enough to observe a climate change, because climate is defined as the weather patterns over a period of about this order o

Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="20" id="2062203"]@dmantione - Thanks for the direct link. I agree he should have been more careful on that. But that doesn't really undermine his main point - that the consensus scientific opinion was 180 degrees wrong at the time and that the track record of 'consensus' climate science suggests that betting the farm on it, at any given point in time, might not be the wisest move.[/quote] Well, his argument is basically like this:

Reply to What Did You Play This Weekend? in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I had some good hours with World of Goo for Linux.