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I'll take that as a no.

Hi, Is Stardock going to be present at South By Southwest in Austin this year? Speaking? Panels? Just showing up?

[quote] How about the University of Illinois? British Antarctic Survey? Roger Pielke? Norwegian Polar Institute? NSIDC? Are these your "Rush Limbaughs"? Well to some they may be, but to most cognizant people, they represent truth, not fiction. And they all say the ice aint melting away.[/quote] So do all these "credible organizations" have solid evidence that the sky is green and the world sits on a turtle, too? I know blue when I see it.

I see you have a good fundamental understanding of the greenhouse effect.

[quote]Why anyone would get hysterical over the retreat of ice built up during the ice age is beyond me[/quote] It requires a little understanding of Thermodynamics. I'll just quote from another source: http://www.finewaters.com/Water_Ice.asp [quote]The heat used to transform a certain mass of solid into liquid, without changing its temperature, is called the latent heat of melting. The bonds between wat

[quote]but I think the public won't be convinced there's a problem until the ice caps are gone[/quote] Not even that. The talk radio has people like Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh saying the ice caps are not melting. Which is just plain delusional. If any of these people actually went up there and looked at it, it's pretty obvious. The ice caps could be completely non-existent, and these guys could convince the public they were advancing.

If you nuke cities, that increases global warming drastically. I learned that from a very scientific source: from playing Civilization III a lot.

Talk about a no-win situation. The scientists who actually collect the global data are all part of a grand conspiracy to enslave you into environmental correctness, but you can't gauge global warming by looking out your window, either. Either way, you're screwed. Just plug your ears and sing something: la la la la la la I can't hear you.

I could see Galciv3 reusing the 3D graphics engine. Only with Galciv3 maybe it'll really be 3D gameplay, and not just a Z-axis you never use. And the love bomb--a Galactic Wonder that could project culture somewhere remotely would be interesting. And the big red button--blow up ships in neighboring hexes. And I hope Galciv3 has an option for lots and lots of asteroids.

IT budgets are directly proportional to top-line sales. Mid-level managers and higher are very much aware of industry trends when it comes to companies' IT budgets as a % of sales. The CIO gets to spend some of that on network upgrades, some on servers, some of it on software licensing, and some of it on compensation for the staff. There can be a "fudge factor" involved, i.e. to justify why your company should be a higher or lower %. The rabid fanbase in executiv

I think BoogieBac deserves a raise. *whispers to BoogieBac: do you have my free copy of Elemental waiting for me?*

An upgrade to the fileservers, and take it out of the sysadmins' paychecks!! And if any of the slaves complain, the next announcement will come at 9pm on a Saturday night!

IT wimps. [e digicons]:P[/e]

I don't think I would use that feature. The developer would have to find not just the closest starbase, but the closest starbase that has upgrades available. Plus you have to count the # of constructors already headed there. And the worst part: it has to have upgrades available that I am actually interested in. How is the developer ever going to know?

[quote]and saying things like "some people in that camp think we should kill all humans"[/quote] Actually, it's true. There are advocates of radical depopulation, as the means to solve our environmental problems. And there is one bit of reality to it: the earth's growing population is a growing source of environmental problems, like it or not. You don't have to agree with the solution to see there's a problem. And what's the point of this, anyway?

[quote] You mean doing things like making cars run 20 times cleaner? Oh right, we've already done that. It's probably what got this CO2 nonsense started, the hippies ran out of shit to bitch about when the automobile industry spanked the shit out of everyones expectations and damn near eliminated exhaust byproducts with unleaded gasoline, a chunk of charcoal, and an oxygen sensor. Printing more money that doesn't exist is not a means to create new te

[quote]Allowing constructors to build more than one module..its a drag building lots of constructors to beef up critical starbases.[/quote] I wholeheartedly agree with this one. That is small, but that would be SWEET!! That opens up tons of economic options after you've researched some Miniaturization...do you get the Tiny Hull with one module, or the cargo hull with two?

[quote]But like all of us, he forgot that during the revolution, a full 40% still sided with the crown. Of that 40%, some left America after it, but many stayed. [/quote] We have no idea of the political landscape at the time, but I'm inclined to believe the 40% sided with the crown for the very reasons you just cited. Colonists kept running to the British government to protect them from the Native Americans--and as we well know, in the white man-red man disputes, the colo

It's this simple: Free market = give the companies all the power. If the companies are corrupt, free market bad. Socialism = give the government all the power. If the government is corrupt, socialism bad. Guess what: in the USA, they're both corrupt. You can argue free market vs. socialism all day, but in so doing you're going after the wrong thing.

Obama said something I tend to agree with: he said free market is good, but not all things should be free market. Antitrust regulation, for example, is not free market, and we have fostered that for quite some time now--ironically because antitrust encourages a free market. Arms dealing should not be free market. Human trafficking should not be free market. Your health care is not something that should be left to the free market. I am inclined t

[quote] If they brought Joss Whedon's Firefly back and started making new episodes, would you watch?[/quote] No.

[quote]The devs are only focusing on the result of the relationship without putting any thought into the means of forming a relationship, which is what diplomacy is all about.[/quote] This is true.... I think that's largely what missions are all about. Do their bidding, give them lots of Christmas presents, they'll trust you. But also there needs to be degrees of cease fire, and degrees of war. It's like, I trust you to send scouts through my system, bu

Which point are you referring to? Saturating the bus, or certain pressure-voltage-temperature limits, or hot-electron degradation over time? I think you are referring to the latter. I would be very surprised if the newer SSD's fix that, because electromigration is what makes flash possible. Kinda hard to get rid of electromigration if that's what it uses to store 1's and 0's.

This dwarf boss on Montero in King's Bounty is majorly kicking my butt right now.

Maybe ask if the mouse's name is Reepicheep (Narnia joke).