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

[quote]The ice core data, that's relevant.[/quote] Extremly relevant. They are our primary means of data about the composition of the atmosphere before we could measure it. That does by the way not mean they are more reliable than actual measurements. [quote]The last seventy years of incorrect data? Not so relevant. Yes, it's incorrect, the monitoring stations are severely abused, we know jack shit before the satellites, and they even adjusted the satellites number

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

[quote]If you can find a more accurate display of the last five thousand years, go for it.[/quote] Luckily scientists do more than looking at charts like that. I can give you a few charts that show similar things, with accurate numbers. It's true, a temperature rise of 2 degrees that we are talking about has happened before. Let me tell you, this does nothing to the current knowledge about in global warming and nothing about the consequences. The speed at which the temperature

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Einlanzerous" reply="7" id="1747341"]OpenGL for gaming sucks.[/quote] Why? Having coded for both Direct3D & OpenGL, I prefer OpenGL any time.

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Windows is a good gaming OS, but it is total crap for doing serious work. It's a toy OS. Just to play a GC2 game, I should reboot to Windows. Now, while in Windows, I cannot alt+tab to the more serious applications that I use under Linux. This makes it a serious annoyance. And here is the commercial reason to make games compatible with Linux. If there is a Linux version of a game, I am prepared to pay good money for it, since it makes enjoying the game to so much more comfortable.<

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

Well, I was sceptical about the decision making process too. However, what to think of the EU agreement in December? 20% CO2 reduction by 2020 and increasing to 30% if other countries join reductions. See http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/move/75/index_en.htm An ambitious goal, that I think will be very hard to achieve, but it's serious. The industry has to buy CO2 emission rights and every yea

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

#1. Natural temperature changes measured in the past have sometimes been larger than we are currently are seeing, but the speed in which the temperature currently rises has never been seen before. It becomes increasingly hard to flag the current trend as a natural phenomenon. #2. I don't think it will stop. There will still be coal and unconventional oil. There is plenty of both available and will allow us to continue fill ing up the atmosphere when tradional oil is exausted. Especial

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

[quote]All this alternative energy stuff is totally bogus. There is only one solution and it's actually pretty simple; Nuclear Power for the generation of electricity combined with a marginally efficient electric car. Yes there's a waste disposal problem but it's by no means insurmountable. It goes a long way towards addressing the carbon emmissions problem and it solves the energy problem in one fell swoop. With this in place I'm not even so sure we even have an over population problem at al

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

[quote who="7hyrael" reply="15" id="2004586"] but they need to be constructed. and that process of construction consumes so many power... one of these wind generators would be worthy that energy after 20 years of running perfectly... [/quote] While I do not believe in wind turbines mainly because of their network stabilization problems, this is not true. It is estimated that a wind turbine needs to run for about 3-6 months to win back the energy needed to construct it. Last year,

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

[quote who="7hyrael" reply="1" id="2004385"] but the reason for that is not "Co2"... that only a marketing-slogan. the reason is that we still are in a cold period of this planet, in something about the 14.000. year of this cold period which should already have ended for hundreds of years. now its slowly turning into the warmer periode... that is what i know about it. im not a geological but one of those (hes studing) tried to explain it for me so i would understand it a

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

It is also not that scientists are inventing something new. The greenhouse effect was discovered in the 19th century, by studying the properties of several gasses. By the end of the 19th century the knowledge got refined enough to be applied to earh's atmosfere. Long before anyone did talk about global warming, humanity started sending spacecraft to Venus, discovering that a huge tempurature there could be explained by applying the formula's about global warming from the 19th century

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[quote who="Sevenix" reply="17" id="2004069"]Russel's teapot. Done.[/quote] No, you are not done. Go ahead, give me an explanation for the global warming observations, that, á la Russel's Teapot, we cannot falsify with current technology. We'll then see what measures need to be taken to for that theory to stop global warming.

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

The harder it is to falsify a theory, the more trust it gets. Your theory about pirates is easily falsified (besides, it contains invented data, obviously there are more than 17 pirates today). While I am the first to concede that not everything has been cleared up yet, the mechanism behind global warming is for a large part well understood. To question global warming at this time, just must falsify it. Can you?

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

[quote who="di55ec7ion" reply="1" id="2002935"]I did not read it, but i just tell you something: The whole CO2-thing in fact isnt that clear the media suggests us to be.[/quote] Just do what mama said, just save energy, ok? [e digicons]:sun:[/e] Wether you do it to save the climate, to prevent further wars about oil, our just to save money, not important.

Reply to What is DRM? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The idea behind DRM is that content is only playable through trusted devices. Encryption is used to prevent untrusted devices playing the content. As a further measure, the entertainment industry wants laws like the DMCA and EUCD to prevent untrusted devices playing the content. A content provider will only trust a device if it enforces the policies of the content provider. So, if the content provider says a movie cannot be watched on wednesday, trus

Reply to Soren Johnson in the credits in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="12" id="2001385"]Sid founded Microprose and his job was to manage the company... Say again? [/quote] Don't worry, I know my history :) Microprose was founded by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey (I hope I spell his name correct). Initially it was a game developer, then became a publisher. Microprose is old. When I was a child I spent many hours playing Microprose Soccer on the Commodore 64. The last

Reply to Soren Johnson in the credits in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

He was also one of the lead coders (or the lead coder?) of Civilization III. Sid Meier's credit is mainly getting the ideas for the games. Older "Sid" games were mainly coded by Brian Reynolds and Bruce Shelley. And actually there is nothing wrong with that, Sid founded Microprose and his job was to manage the company, not actually program the games.

Reply to ID’s 2009 Tech Predictions in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Windows 7 will become a flop just like Vista is. Even if it is good, it is arriving in the wrong economic climate where consumers are not eager to upgrade their computers to run the latest and greatest. I see no large movements in the Mac world. Linux vendors will do good business because of cost saving efforts in the industry. I expect 2009 will be the year we move to 64-bit. By the end of this year all new computers will be equiped with&n

Reply to Dread Lords Campaign Questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I believe you just get different starting technologies in each mission. The Dread Lords are though guys that shoot anything in one shot. The only way to defeat them is to build ships faster than they can destroy. Because they shoot your ship in one shot, don't bother with ship defences, spend all available space on weapons. Attack in large fleets and make sure you are the attacker and not them (the attacker shoots first, this gives you an extra shot). Their transports are be

Reply to Dread Lords Campaign Questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hmmm... I finished the campaign at the "though" level, at least it should be doable at the "normal" level. But I can remember one mission where I indeed could not get planets colonized fast enough, it might be this mission. I solved it by allocating more ability points to ship speed. That did help a lot. The AI should play perfectly fair at normal difficulty and some its intelligence is disabled at that level. Research from one mission is not

Reply to Very Disappointed; Galciv2 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Try to throttle the framerate, or even better, enable Vsync. It seems your computer has on-board Intel Extreme graphics? If yes, are you sure its drivers are uninstalled without any trace left?

Reply to Dread Lords Campaign Questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It really sounds like you need to put more resources in research. If your allies are ahead in technology they have likely researched faster propulsion for their ships. Your allies also know how to use money to get many colony ships fast. Join them, you should buy many colony ships in the first turns of the game. Your survey ships should bring in enough cash to do so. For social improvements, my start planet often has a mix of everything (manufacturing, econ

Reply to Very Disappointed; Galciv2 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

A crashing computer doesn't sound like a fault in the game. It is the task of the operating system to make sure applications cannot crash the system, and the newer Microsoft operating systems do that reasonably well. I'd blame the hardware vendors. Unfortunately hardware issues are hard to troubleshoot. You may try to turn off features like AGP texturing or uninstall GART drivers. Does your computer survive 20 minutes of 3DMark? I can't believe Impulse cannot handle a Gold Edition tha

Reply to Question... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The expansion bundle seems to cost USD 44,95: http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-TGN-W263 Allthough they are rather hard to find, the expansion packs have a webpage that tells what has been changed: https://www.galciv2.com/darkavatar/ https://www.galciv2.com/twilight/

Reply to Question... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Afaik, TotA requires Dark Avatar, which requires Dreadlords. You best buy the "Ultimate bundle". Considering the fact that the game has been under active maintenance and enhancement for years, the price asked seems very reasonable to me.

Reply to World of Goo, a fantastic present in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

All Impulse needs to do is drop the Linux executable next to the Windows executable. I think it can do that.