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I've been on a rereading kick lately, recently reread the book of the new sun by gene wolfe. Also reread the earthsea series by Ursula K. LeGuin. After that, I read War Stories by Joe Haldeman (at least most of it), and I'm currently (slowly) reading The Science of Materials and Structures by JE Gor...

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Ok, I think I know the answer already, but tell me, would this work with the logitech cyberman 2? http://www.3dgamers.com/articles/more/38/ I picked one of these up for cheap, and it would be very cool to get it working with a laptop. It is definately a 'digital' device and not an analog gameport de...

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I tried a two joystick setup for a while, the left one was a saitek evo, which is reversible: http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/cyborg_evo.htm I used the left stick for the motion axes and the right for pivoting. I found that it was really precise for aiming by pivoting in the general direction of t...

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Hmm... maybe I should clarify. I'd like to fill up that 16:9 screen of mine, but without cutting off vertical FOV. This is what happens when you change the aspect in Descent, right? The vertical angle gets cut off, and you don't get any more horizontal angle to compensate for it. I'd rather not give...

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I just want to have Descent (or core decision maybe) display correctly on whatever monitor setup I'm using. More and more monitors these days have a 16:9 aspect ratio; a game that is locked into 4:3 just looks stupid and out of date. People want to maximize the use of their gaming hardware, a game t...

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It simple, SD is popular because it levels the playing field. You drop a noob into a typical indika game, and they're going to get annihilated; they may not score a kill the whole game. How much fun is that? Not alot. With SD, the noob has a chance to get a kill once in a while, so they keep coming ...

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The assumption here is that the conveyor moves in the opposite direction of the vehicle, matching the speed of its wheel rotation so that the vehicle is stationary. If the vehicle is a car, it all makes sense. No matter how fast the wheels spin, the car is stationary and the belt moves as fast as th...

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Around my office my boss was playing around with my coworker's gel wrist pad and basically destroyed it, ripping the cover off. So we took gobbets of the slime and attached it under the arms of his office chair, and under the door handles on his car. Got him on both!

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I agree with roid; if you're going to 'clone' descent, do something a little different with it so you stand out from the competition. There are a lot of ideas floating around out there, on this board and on others. Pick an approach that makes your game different in terms of gameplay. Personally I'm ...

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Descent 3
Richard Burns Rally

No 3rd game 'cause that's all I play anymore.

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Light armor would be good for motorcyclists or mountain bikers (esp. downhill). And you know the road bikers would be all over a helmet that would save them a few grams. It sounds to me like the material might be best applied in bike frames though, or as a strutural element in skis. One downside abo...

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Just saw the original with Gene Wilder a couple days ago, funny stuff. They'll probably be showing the original on cable now that apparently there's a new movie out.

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Couldn't use it, I use my thumb for forward and I coulnd't find a comfortable button for that on the N52. Plus the keys are way stiffer than the keys on my laptop keyboard, so oh well.

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Yes, good find. I've been looking for something like this for a while now, and the programs I've tried have pretty much sucked. Microsoft SyncToy: locks up with 100% cpu. SyncFolder, Allwaysync: These two had some problems which I can't completely remember, but it amounted to either being uber slow ...

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Foo should be considered along with its partner, bar. These two have been used as function names in programming examples since forever. I theorize that they derive from the fubar acronym, "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition", so in this case the proper spelling would have to be FU. Foo is ju...

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You fit in with: Taoism Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Taoist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life. 20% spiritual. 20% reason-oriented. When it asks whether I'd want a technical c...

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So, should I watch the series first or does it not really matter? I woulnd't mind catching it while its still on the big screen if there's no huge spoilers for the TV series, or some other good reason for watching the series first.

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Some possible uses for a working mech: - urban combat. A mech that was small enough could be an excellent weapon for storming an enemy position inside a building, where a tank can't go. - Jungle terrain might be a possibility, the mech/armored suit could be a bulletproof point man for an infantry co...

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The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=zA7r4W8Cp6&isbn=0312890176&itm=3 The Golden Age series, but John Wright. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=zA7r4W8Cp6&isbn=0812579844&itm=10 Bot...

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How 'bout that. I went to high school with that guy, haven't seen him since like '84. He was always big into making sci fi movies in his backyard....

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Hmmm interesting, I tried sticking various things on there but couldn't come up with anything that felt right. Maybe I'll revisit. will_kill, the wireless js has great performance - its pretty much lag free. Problem is the durability. I really don't care about the wireless part anyway, I like it bec...

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Try VLC player. Its free, it works on most videos, and there are few headaches with all the codecs out there.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Isaac: Looks like an interesting controller, i'd have to actually hold one to see how it felt though. It looks like with all the buttons on there you might need some 'dead' space where you can just hold it without pressing a button down. What might be cool would be to have two more sticks on the bot...

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Yikes, according to google maps thats 961 miles! I was hoping for something a bit more local...

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I'm back too, started back about a week ago. Still more fun than any other FPS I've played. Last FPS I bought was doom 3, got bored and quit 3/4 of the way through. I'm seeing alot of the same names from last time I was playing, I wonder how many have been playing straight through. I know bettina is...

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I'm relocating to Boulder in a couple months. Any descenters out there up for some LAN games?

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It sounds like maybe, for some reason, on your TV the brightness control doesn't affect the auxiliary inputs like the PS2, only the main coax input. I don't know why this would be, but assuming that's the case, why don't you try running your DVD/PS2 either through the VCR or through the same TV inpu...

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I'd recommend a projector - for about the same money as rear projection you get an adjustable size picture up to a 100 inch diagonal. Works fine with a computer - that's how I use mine. I have a sanyo plv-z2, which I like. projector pros: - bigger picture than any TV. - can be portable with a roll u...

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So does this make the ships a little easier to see? With the regular stadium sometimes its hard for me to see the ships when I"m in the big room, all that gray on gray.

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I've done the dual thing before, with a logitech 2.4 wireless for the right hand, and left hand a saitek cyborg evo. The cyborg is reversible, the logitech is right hand only. I found that it worked ok, but its not the best for descent, at least for me. I had it set up with the right joystick doing ...

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Hey Nos; that looks like a CH stick. Does it have the twist? Or do you use the pedals for twist?

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Space Giants (japanese)
Kung Fu w David Carradine
original Star Trek

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I've never had any problems with Descent - except the one time I tried playing with a mouse. THAT made me want to yak. All that quick jerky movement I guess. What's wierd is I'm perfectly ok mousing away on quake and halo. Anyway, I don't know how you D3 mousers do it! Here's a post I read today on ...

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8 of 10. I got fooled by the golf ball (the grass didn't look real to me) and the nails laying everywhere. What was the giveaway in the nails photo? On the grass one the blade of grass in the foreground had a slightly off CG looking texture to me. The blue glasses it looked like it would be too hard...

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I'd have to say that there is sometimes too much accountability these days. People are liable to be sued at the drop of a hat. Somebody slips and falls in front of your store? sued. Say something insensitive, get fired and sued. Like the girl scouts in the news lately, left cookies late at night for...

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I'd have to say that there is sometimes too much accountability these days. People are liable to be sued at the drop of a hat. Somebody slips and falls in front of your store? sued. Say something insensitive, get fired and sued. Like the girl scouts in the news lately, left cookies late at night for...

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The chances of proteins spontaneously forming in the ocean today may be low, I don't know. But in the past it may not have been that way: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53am.html In the above experiment, running electrical discharges (similar to lightning) through a mix of chemicals ...

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I have to admit that I haven't read everything in this lengthy and verbose thread, so maybe this has been covered already. Skimming over the posts above what bothers me is that ID seems way too vague. Apparently ID can include everything from a fundamentalist the-world-is-5000-years-old view to the ...

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A new kind of science - stephen wolfram killer on the road - james ellroy just reread the Golden Transcendance by Stephen Wright, and finished "a stanislaw lem reader", which has been laying around the house for quite a while now. I really liked Wright's golden age trilogy, that's twice I'...

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