[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="62" id="2966989"]Orion isn't going to make it at the rate they are going... [/quote] ...It's first scheduled test flight is two years away... the same as it was before Constellation was cancelled.[e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]
I'm kind of suprised with myself; I'm actually looking forward to Battlefield 3. There's so many Call of Duty and CoD-esque games out there that when I see another "modern FPS" I just write it off, but BF3 looks interesting. I'll probably wait for it to go on sale, though. I'm also looking forward to Sins: Rebellion, but other than that there isn't much. Maybe SotS2, but I couldn't get into the first one.
[quote]Sandybridge has a really strong CPU-core, paired with an barely adequate integrated graphics core. Llano has an older weaker CPU-core, paired with a state of the art ATI graphics-core.[/quote] I'm confused. Why can't you get a laptop with Sandybridge and a good graphics card? I've looked around, I know you can find them. Or have you narrowed it down to just those two?
[quote who="Leeovold" reply="116" id="2950398"]Ok yeah we got another month, then we pay Russia to get our guys to the ISS that American taxpayers have built.[/quote] You're forgeting about private companies... EDIT: That "I" in ISS stands for International, as in other countries helped pay for and maintain the ISS. [quote who="Leeovold" reply="116" id="2950398"]And by the way, if the Air Force is in control of the X37, it is not for peaceful purposes. Don't be
[quote who="Leeovold" reply="114" id="2950211"]Yep, X-37B it is you got me! Point is the money was used under the false pretense that it would be a human shuttle with small cargo capacity. Now - it's top secret and I do believe INTERNATIONALLY illegal. I would imagine, Kyorgre12, you are aware that we will have no means of taking humans into space by our own nation. How does that grab you? Ya fine with that?[/quote] The X-37 was never claimed to be a human shuttle. The NASA versio
[quote who="Leeovold" reply="110" id="2949990"]we now have the X-39B is it? Autonomous mini-space shuttle that was siezed from NASA by the Air Force. It can stay in space, without humans, for 9 months.[/quote] I'm going to assume you're talking about the X-3 7 , as X-39 hasn't been assigned to any projects at the moment[e digicons]:P[/e] . "Siezed" is an interesting choice of word, as that is not what h
I'm all for space exploration and research, but lets be honest; SETI isn't doing much to further either of those. Yeah, it's a cool idea, but it's not doing anything "useful." It would take over four years to get the closest star, traveling at the speed of light , and it's incredibly unlikely to have any planets that can support life. Yes, there is almost assuredly life out there somewhere, but if we ever find it, it's doubtful that we will be
[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="3" id="2918741"]Besides the Castlevania games, i have been pretty disappointed with most of the releases. Most of the games might as well have been game boy advance games... and the games that do use touch are usually gimmicky or annoying because they force you to use touch.[/quote] So if a game forces you to use the touch screen it's bad, and if it doesn't it should've just been a GBA game?[e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Seriously, when was the
Heheh, I was just thinking about posting the same thread[e digicons]:P[/e] I got mine on Monday and have been playing it since. I didn't get any games with it, because none of the release ones looking interesting. Pilot Wings looked decent, but meh. The 3d is pretty awesome, particularly for the AR games. The first time you see a dragon come out of your table is ****ing amazing. There isn't really any other way to describe it. It's just so awesome to fight a dragon coming out of
[quote]The Nintendo DS is the highest selling console of all time for that reason; it's was, for it's time, a unique experience.[/quote] I agree with everything you said, except that. The PS2 is still currently the best selling console I believe, although the DS is closing that gap.IIRC the PS2 has something like 150 million sales and the DS has 145 million.
[quote]Far as I know, it doesn't work well at all if the unit isn't stationary, and it certainly won't be on a bus. Would probably work alright on a plane, except for the battery life.[/quote] Once I get mine, I'll get a friend to drive me around the block and I'll see how well it works[e digicons]:P[/e] How often do people fly long enough to need more than 3-5 hours of battery life? After you subtract the periods of time where electronics are forbidden, you can get accross th
[quote who="Tridus" reply="11" id="2896510"]Its interesting that Nintendo is rolling out an expensive handheld this expensive at the same time as the entire handheld game market is facing serious trouble from gaming on phones. I'm taking a pass on this one. I mostly play my DS on the bus going to/from work, and the 3d flat out won't work in that environment due to the bumps. So it's a drastically more expensive DS to me with worse battery life. Goodie? [/quote] You don
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="8" id="2895747"]Money is not everything. If Stardock's Fallen Enchantress goes well, and there are very positive signs that it will, Stardock will have gained something much more important - trust and goodwill in the eyes of many. And they may well, after the lessons they've learned and after the games department gets back in the black, do better then if they'd just cut their losses and run. It's good to be the publisher as well as the developer
[quote]Quoting mentalinstra, reply 3Looks like its $250 in the US. It's also regionally restricted, and the games are region locked. If I buy a US Version 3DS, I have to buy US Games. Then I can't play multiplayer with any of my friends who buy an Australian 3DS and Australian games. Blizzard are doing the same thing; their digital purchases cost US$90.00 in Australia and New Zealand.[/quote] That's not quite the case. Games are only region locked if the publish
I pre-ordered mine from Amazon a month ago, January 19th, when the US price and release date were finally revealed. I've got a countdown on my computer going until release day[e digicons]:P[/e] . Yes, it is $250 in the US, and yes, that is kind of a lot for a handheld. Even if it didn't have 3D, I would still probably consider it worth it for all the other stuff it brings to the table. Honestly, I think the 3D is a bit of a gimmick, albeit a very cool gimmick. I still
[quote]I beleive there were 7 wizards on the council - white, grey, blue, brown and 3 more that tolkien intentially did not mention so that others could write about them.[/quote] There were five wizards; white (Saruman), grey (Gandalf), brown (Radagast), and two blue. According to the Unfinished Tales , the names of the two blue wizards were Alatar and Pallando. They both went into the far East, evidently to help in the war against Sauron in some way, but little else is known
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is doing an exhibit on the art of video games (if you hadn't picked that up from the title[e digicons]:P[/e] ). The exhibit starts in March, but starting today you can vote on which games will be included. They divided video game history into five eras, seperated each era by platform, divided each platform into four genres, and there are three nominations for each genre for each platform (it will make more sense when you look at it, trust me). The
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="38" id="2881666"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 36 That's exactly what I was thinking Once you have learned one langauge, learning the others is not that hard. And learning a langauge is the easy part if you are going to do more than simple data manipulation. [/quote] I know, I have fairly proficient knowledge of Java. But as a number of classes at my school use Python, and none use Lua, I'd
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="13" id="2881392"]I was trying to learn Python. Don't make me start with LUA too. [/quote] That's exactly what I was thinking[e digicons]:P[/e]
[quote]This week I’ve been presenting internally our company business plan for 2011. Part of this is the Stardock Customer Report 2011 (which we’ll be making available publicly soon) along with our road map on the studio games (this doesn’t count future titles from our partner Ironclad who developed Sins of a Solar Empire nor does it address next steps in the Demigod franchise.[/quote] There are future plans for Demigod? I just assumed it was pretty much done. And pl
[quote who="FreedomShot" reply="137" id="2878097"]I must say compared to Civ 5 this games mods are very slow coming - I guess the tools are not up to the job yet. I have not seen one accessable mod yet. [/quote] Does that mean your mod is done then? Let's see it.
[quote] But let us not forget either, that we are still in the early stages of learning about quantum mechanics, and some weirder and even more wonderful findings may yet be in store, that could possibly debunk some or all of what is thus far considered known. More to the point, what this says about quantum theory is that it is either proving that causality applies, or that it doesn't necessarily not apply.[/quote] The first discoveries in quantum mechanics date back as far as 1838, a
[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="583" id="2872197"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 582 Quantum mechanics shows that there is an inherit randomness to the universe. Events are only likely to happen, but there is almost always a possibility that something else will happen, even if it is a very unlikely. I'm going to ask some noob questions. I'm honestly asking the questions because I'd like to see some feedback. Just going to fi
[quote who="Istari" reply="567" id="2871929"] Quoting Uvah, reply 559 Must there be, as you say, a beginning? Duh ...... everything must begin somewhere. Its just that knowing the some'when' is beyond our understanding and that because we are not alive long enough as a species to understand it. Think of a circle. No beginning and no end. Now apply that to causality. A > B > C = A. Round and round, over and over. Cyclic universe(s). No
[quote who="FreedomShot" reply="134" id="2870838"]This is a long dead mod I take it? How can it even be a mod for this game when the post was written in 2009? [/quote] It's not dead. I've just been busy with other things, and I don't have any work on the mod that make good screenshots[e digicons]:P[/e] These forums were around for a long time before the game actually came out...