EnderAndrew

Except with Beta and VHS movies were released on both formats at the same time. Right now movie studios are supporting either one format or the other, and most of them are supporting Blu-Ray.

What are you talking about? Both require new players. You can't put out a native high-def picture from any existing DVD player. Most every single movie studio is backing Blu-Ray. That's where the movies will be. Blu-Ray will also be in the PS3, where as M$ decided not to include HD-DVD in the XBox 360. Blu-Ray also stores vastly more data. You keep saying that HD-DVD doesn't require a new player. I think you are quite mistaken.

Postulates are used to prove other things. Postulates as per their definition can't be proven. Thusly, you have to believe them without proof. How is that not being expected to believe something outright?

Toshiba has been working with Sony to merge the formats. Blu-Ray holds far more data than HD-DVD and is the superior format. The formats won't really merge. Toshiba is trying to work out a non-competition deal where they still get paid. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both have players already on the market. Consumers will support the format all their favorite movies are on. They could care less about the rest.

His name was Mitch Pileggi if I recall.

Except that you do. Postulates may make sense, and that's why they are accepted. But you can't say that science is based solely on evidence, when postulates are a large part of science and they are unproven. You can't deny that science requires a portion of belief and then discount how we are expected to believe something that is unproven as as the basis of evidence for everything else.

Programming for the PS1 or PS2 at launch was a new trick to learn for companies. People didn't know how to properly utilize the console originally. The XBox was easier to learn initially.

In Post-McCarthy America, doesn't Communist equate directly to Evil on the alignment scale? See, again I'm always on topic.

I didn't know they also had another unannounced project. Any ideas what it might be?

Those are the house rules. The main rules are at: http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/resources...s/2000AH4th.pdf

Apparently you've never heard of postulates? Postulates are unprovable commonly accepted "truths" of mathmatetics and sciences. We use them as starting grounds for futher theories and proofs. We simply believe them to believe them.

I'll read through all the rules here in a minute, and I will drop an email with country preferences.

Not as much, until HDTVs become more common. I don't think consumers will purchase HDTVs en masse until more television stations broadcast in HDTV. By 2006 all TV signals have to be digital, and some have suggested that as stations switch to digital signals in 2006, they'll then jump to HDTV. I have a HDTV, and I get something like 10 channels in HDTV. A few of those channels only broadcast certain programs in HDTV. For instance, the CBS HD channel shows CSI in HD, but most programming is still in standard def, and all the commercials are in standard def. Without a HDTV, Blu-Ray movies don't look any better than standard DVD movies.

Mira's rocket-launcher is fairly useful, and she is good at dealing with mine-fields. Add to that she can become a Jedi, and I wouldn't call her useless. T3 is a droid with skills and personality. HK is a droid will skills and personality. G0T0 is pretty useless.

1. You ditch out on chores and vanish mysteriously because you have to find the True Sith.

Did they make that statement, or did LucasArts?

You suggest that Blu-Ray will only be worthwhile for holding game data. Blu-Ray is also the format for high-def DVD movies. Blu-Ray players are fairly rare and expensive. The PS3 will be my Blu-Ray player. I think you also overlook the leap in graphics between the current gen and next gen. Oblivion might be released on a single dual-layer disc, but it won't take long for games to push past 9 gigs, and we'll need multi-disc games which is a pain.

It should be noted that I haven't really looked into the matter. If I recall Tycho of Penny Arcade is the one who was discussing private/free WoW servers. Who knows if anything has changed lately.

An Atari employee told us all several times last year BG3 was well into development and that we'd get an announcement on it soon. I have trouble figuring out who would be working on it. Irrational Games is working on Bioshock currently, and I don't know if they have enough staff to be working on BG3.

Clearly muscles determine how well an actor can pull off a role.

Ick. I loathe caviar, and I dig salty foods.

The actor's name is Christian Bale. I have yet to see the movie as I've been attending the College World Series. I do want to catch it as soon as I can. I have been told there is a bit of a twist to the movie, and the ending is fantastic. This isn't your standard comic book movie.

I often use gravity as an example of science since this is perhaps the most commonly accepted law of physics. Also, you don't have to have a great understanding of science to understand gravity. It is commonly accepted that science is based off evidence, and religion is based on faith in the abscene of evidence. So, let's take gravity. If you were to drop a pen, it would fall to the ground. Logical leaps seem to suggest that objects drop down. However, perspective tells us that down is relative. If we look at a scale larger than our own world, down doesn't exist really. We then theorize that objects of smaller mass are attracted to objects of larger mass. This attraction only extends so far, as we call a gravitational well. A large problem then exists when we start to observe how objects in space react to each other. Our calculations on gravity don't seem to work, because when studying that appear to have gravitational relationships with each other in space, we can only account for 10% of the mass that should be making various gravitational pulls. Unless 90% of the mass of the universe is hiding from any means of detection we have, we don't really understand gravity. Science can't accept it's previous theory was flawed. Science can't accept that we need a new perspective on the whole picture. Science plucks an answer from the heavens and gives it to us with no real rhyme or reason. Dark matter supposedly exists, which if it were to exist, would explain this missing mass. We have no real evidence to suggest dark matter does exist, but we teach it in classes to cover what science can explain. When you really dig, you will find countless stopgaps such as dark matter. Science is all about perspective. When man stands and looks out on the horizon, we see what clearly appears to be the sun revolving around the earth, and that is what science claimed for ages. A perspective comparing shadows in different locales led us to realize the sun doesn't revolve around the earth, but rather vice versa. When we launched into space, a clearer perspective helped reassure the now commonly accepted belief that the earth revolves around the sun. Scientific theories are guesses at explaining things we can't explain. Religion is a means of explaining the universe as well. There are those that would contend that meditation, prayer, or prophetizing is just as valid a means for gathering answers as observations and calculations. Surely, as we have logic, we also have emotions. What you feel can be in contradiction to what you think in a given moment. If there is logical truth, can there not also be emotional truth? I'm not saying one is more valid than the other. I just think the two are far more similiar than people are willing to let on.

When the game was in development I joked we needed a floating talking skull, like Morte from Torment. We got G0T0. Morte was great. G0T0 was less than great. Let me put it that way.

So often, D&D is just a big numbers game anyway. It might as well be a slot machine. Keep through CR and hope you survive and win the jackpot on your random treasure encounter. Do this enough times and get an epic character.