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[quote who="kenata" reply="61" id="2910559"] I don't understand. If the oilprice rise then every link in the chain that uses oil and the endconsumer has to pay more, but how does that affect the warehouse worker? The owner of the warehouse will simply charege the next guy in the chain (retail) more. .[/quote] The effect translated into the economy as "stagflation". The economic activity plunges, because people have less purchasing power due to the higher l

I believe the impact will be much bigger, worse, and most importantly, faster. First of all, the cost of oil projects into many areas of our lives - it increases cost of transport, food (since fertilizers and machinery is fossil fuel dependent, plus biofuels compete for arable land), healthcare (plastics and medicines), and it also increased costs of globalized networks - distance costs more and more money. That said, the impact is far greater on poorer people - after paying f

From my point of view, you can perceive it as finished, because it's fairly stable (for me), it's playable, and I really like its artistic style. However, it tries to do many things at once and IMO fails at most of them. - It fails providing interesting system of spells - Dominions 3 IMO succeeds here much, much better with really wonderful synergy. Even the old MoM offers much more varied and interesting. One example - in Dom3, you can cast a globa

If you want to be sure your communication is not "inspectable", there is a way - use encryption. That's why USA banned all cryptography tech exports some 10 years ago (until they realized how futile it is) - Uncle Sam wants to read your packets too. Better yet, if you are really paranoid, use TOR.

Yay for ridiculous female units!

What I did not like most on combat in DAO was how the combatants were running around each other like crazy chicken. You tried to form a protective line of warriors, but the enemies just jogged between them and all whacked your mage.

What can you say about the combat system in DAO2? Is it the same chaotic mess as in the first one?

The game is beyond hopeless. I played an island game as Japan. Though the AI built a reasonable force, it parket all the units on water in front of my city and waited there to die from ships and city fire. No attack, no maneuvering, nothing. And not once, but multiple times. A simple scripted event that went wrong, I guess (problably pathfinding of a unit failed, and the others got stuck behind it). The AI declares war, then you built a few units, and suddenly, it offers surrender, gi

Personally, I am very skeptical about the game. I played the demo, somehow it looks worse graphically than ETW - strange lighting, faces look rubbery, melee animations are stiff and jerky. Charging soldiers run, and then all stop before attacking. Yari ashigaru (peasant conscripts) use katana for close combat (wtf?) I looked through the encyclopedia, and prevalent fantasy elements stick out still - women armed with naginata listed under "heavy infantry", invisible black-pyjama-clad ni

psychoak - once again, you are wrong, oil has been heavily subsidized for years: Like the percentage depletion allowance just described, the oil depletion allowance lets certain companies deduct 15% of the gross income they derive from oil and gas wells from their taxable incomes, and continue to do that for as long as those wells are still producing. Some smaller companies get to increase the deduction by 1% for every dollar the price of oil falls below $20 a barrel. This

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="40" id="2891549"] What happened? Oh yeah, absolutely #$%#ing nothing.[/quote] Well, that's where you are wrong. More expensive gas maybe just a nuisance for you, because you have reserves and you'll just cut spending. First aspect of it that when everyone is forced to cut back spending because of energy prices, we will have another round of recession (since we still have that obsolete consumption-rewarding system). However, in poorer

The problem is that it's not just about the money, it's mainly about energy itself. Surely we know how to make sythetic oil, but the proces COSTS energy, and if it costs more than it gives back, it's no energy source. Money can be used to all sorts of trick - you can make them out of thin air in the form of bonds, derivatives, or loans. However, you can't loan energy, you can't say "I will produce today, and pay the cost next year". We are too much

Plus, there are other problems - the producing countries are increasing domestic consumption, which means exports are falling even faster than production. Many countries turned from exporters to importers recently - when everyone will import, who will be the exporter? Peak oil is not about running out of oil. It is about reaching a global maximum of production and entering an era of terminal production decline. US oil has peaked this way, Brent has peaked too, why should be the global

Look at the graph carefully - the light blue part is the only one growing - existing fields are in steep decline. The light blue represents "oil to be found", but it anticipates growth in the amount of oil found - but no such thing is happening, oil discoveries peaked in 60s and are in decline now.

Okay, here are the links: Saudi reserves overestimated: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/09/wikileaks-saudi-oil-reserves-exaggerated_n_820641.html http://www.jeffrubinssmallerworld.com/2011/02/16/wikileaks-reveals-imminent-saudi-oil-peak/ Jeff

Luckily, there are crack of steam games that work without steam.

Recently, a Wiki Leaks cable indicated fears that Saudi oil supplies are overestimated by as much as 40 percent. Global production is on a plateau for some 5 years, and most large, cheapest oil fields are in decline. Many countries, like China, Indonesia, and notably Egypt stopped exporting oil and started importing. Jeff Rubin sees the dwindling oil supplies in Egypt as a major reason for the current political changes - the country could not afford to subsidize food a

Isn't it possible to use more than 4GB of memory even on 32-bit OSes with PAE-enabled kernel? I know Windows XP has a hard-coded limit, but newer version should be able. I know for certain that Linux can.

Everyone knows (and it was statistically proven), that every successful computer game must contain at least one of these: Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot Best to combine them into a single unit for maximum effect:  http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Ninja_pirate_

Just a hunch - but I would strongly recommend running a memtest overnight on your machine - faulty RAM can slowly corrupt not only your savegames. http://www.memtest.org/ Also, try running a disk test for bad blocks on the partition you have your saves installed.

Elemental fanboiz are teh worstest!

Hello, I have this issue every time, here are the registry values:

I believe that everyone has a strong opinion about this, so it's probably not good to add to the buzz, but people, seriously... WTF??? Why do you criticise Brad's decision to enlist a person most of you I bet personally don't know? You don't know why CIV V failed (at least for me personally, it failed). And even if you knew, you don't know what role, if any Mr. Shafer played in its failure. And even if it was chiefly his failure (which I strongly doubt

The best firewall is one that is not installed on your computer! Why? I assume that you use a privileged user (admin rights) to do your gaming and browsing, right? (Installing apps is a hassle in Win otherwise). So after clicking on something nasty on the web, a malicious code can be executed, gaining your (admin) rights, and it can proceed to install a rootkit, switch off your firewall, open a backdoor, whatever it pleases.

The game has a charming artistic design which I quite like (that, and the promise of MOM legacy). However, it's really a matter of belief. Most people here utterly, absolutely believe that in the end, Elemental will be something great (and it's good that the devs are among them). Personally, I have played about 10-15 games so far, and the game still fails to suck me in - and I cannot precisely define why. I tried to play older games just to see if it's not just my age - but MOO2, MOM,