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I haven't played FEAR MP.

Anaheim has a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong road to climb back. Edmonton will still win the series. Anaheim might squeeze out another win, but I don't think it will go past 6. It sort of makes sense, as my roommate and I figured that the Oilers would maximize their potential profits by going to 6 games every series

Me neither. I enjoyed my romp through FEAR.

Won't happen. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The only reason it won't happen is if people are buying it, which is a win for Sony.

uh, i did not say it was AT 100%, i said "near its peak" and, 75% is near the peak in terms of what i was saying. at least, 75% of the specific wavelength is being trapped which is an overwhelming majority, i.e. their ain't much more to trap. Err, just a clarification...what exactly do you mean when you say "specific" wavelength. Are you implying that only 1 specific wavelength gets absorbed? Also, are you taking into consideration that anything that doesn't get absorbed, gets reflected (think back to your example with the blinds. Much of the light is reflected back)? I also disagree that 75% is near it's peak, especially consider that that number is an absolute value. it reached the peak, and its atmosphere is 96% CO2. ours is 0.038%. biiiiiiig difference. venus also has a much denser atmosphere to begin with. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm confused here, why is reaching the peak in Venus result in the runaway greenhouse effect, whereas ours won't? Not sure what citing the CO2 values means anyways, as the theory is that, with a runaway greenhouse effect, your CO2 values will explode. Not all that shocking that after it occurs, the atmosphere is 96%. This of course overlooks the fact that water vapour played a key role in Venus, as well as the fact that water vapour is the primary contributor to Earth's greenhouse effect.

Because taunting encourages the behaviour. Because people view the taunting as unsportsmanlike (ironically the fighting isn't, but that's the history of hockey I suppose). For the record, I agree that people are overreacting about nothing.

So Oblivion and Morrowind are completely independant of each other, right? But you do find DX and DX:IW sequels... even though the entire game-machanic got changed and raped... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> At least the world is the same in Oblivion/Morrowind, as well as Deus Ex.

Well, the fact that they aren't using Starforce is reflective of the fact that Ubisoft as a company has decided not to use them, isn't it?

Lagactica is why I'm on hiatus. (that and I'd need to reinstall the game ")

Since you're not a fan of fighting and would like to see it taken away, you'd think a player taunting and glorifying in the fight afterwards would make you upset.

It certainly coincides with my belief that the people having problems are a vocal minority. The only problem I have ever had with Starforce was on one game (Superpower 2), and it was having problems authenticating the CD-Key. Which was kind of funny, because all games shipped with the same CD-Key. They provided a version that bypasses this CD check though, so meh.

Hehe.

as you approach the limit, you need more and more CO2 to get that last bit. the example provided by junkscience is a window shade. pull one shade, and you block half the light coming into a room. pull a similar shade over the top and you will not block the rest, only half again. keep doing this repeatedly and the light in the room decreases logarithmically. the same analogy can be used with sound from a speaker. put a 3dB attenuator (power, not voltage) in the line and you lose half of your power. put another in there and you don't lose all of your remaining power, you lose half again even though it is the same size attenuator. in other words, CO2 is sort of an attenuator on re-radiated heat (well, wavelengths which happen to correspond to heat). double it and you absorb half of what you have... capiche? taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where have you heard that the reflected solar energy is already near 100% absorption? The number I remember in my astronomy class (which briefly covered it, since it was discussed when covering Venus) was 75%. How would this explain the runaway greenhouse effect that was believed to occur on Venus?

Grim Fandango is a decidedly more obscure game than Starcraft.

At least the 8 million or so that have bought the game.

DUde, it's totally a man!

Why would it be logarithmic? It would seem that an increase in CO2 molecules would result in a linear increase in how much absorption could go on.

Well, best and most balanced are also subjective terms. I didn't care much for TA either, and prefer SC. But you're right, it's pointless to argue over subjective things.

Clearly.

Pure chocolate cake for me! Chocolate cake, with chocolate icing! Oh, as for Einstein and Newton and whatnot. Physics WAS their recreation.

It wasn't so much because we didn't like his opinion. It was more his rather rude and aggressive approach to things, insulting people even when he was incorrect about something.

This whole thread is about who started the standard and made the biggest impact. Besides, the point still stands that it's 2 months earlier release is hardly "long before" Starcraft did it. When TA was released, the world was still drooling in anticipation for Starcraft.

Gestalt: "The Sum of the Whole is Greater Than its Parts"

Total Annihilation came out 2 months before Starcraft. And how many people played it compared to Starcraft? Starcraft's influence is much, much greater than Total Annihilation's.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> :ph34r: Sucks to be a dev sometimes. :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Back in the day credits used to be hidden via Easter Eggs.