Magister Lajciak

Ouch, so she was actually prevented from voting by the voting authorities because of their mistake. Ouch!

Sounds pretty bad - at least you did manage to vote after the ordeal. Did they allow your wife to vote in the end too?

Bethesda has the full IP. Interplay does have the right to make a Fallout MMO, but it's right is limited even in that regard. I don't recall the precise details, but it is something like, one game only, has to enter development by a certain date, Interplay has to raise a certain amount of money for it by a certain date and so on.

I'm not sure Beth would be that strict about that. I mean they're also a developer, so they're sitting on the same side of the table, right? It would be more a matter about relationship and trust I think, but I think if Obsidian is interested in it and Ferg presses Beth to make a deal, it could really happen. I meant financially strict in favor of Bethesda. Fallout is a lucrative license, especially now that it has been reinvigorated by Fallout 3.

I guess it could do so in theory, but it would probably want to develop further Fallout games by itself, so unless Obsidian was willing to accept a very strict contract to the benefit of Bethesda, I don't see this happening.

Hmm, perhaps you can find some drivers for it on the manufacturer's website.

They don't really lie. It stems from the difference in definitions of prefixes. Standard definitions: Kilo = 1,000 Mega = 1,000,000 Giga = 1,000,000,000 Tera = 1,000,000,000,000 Therefore, in standard terminology Terabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. In computing terminology, however, each new prefix is defined by being a positive integer in 2^10n, so: Kilobyte = 1,024 bytes Megabyte = 1048576 bytes Gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes Terabyte = 1099511627776 bytes (Note, this terminology has now been officially replaced to avoid confusion with lame names, such as Gigibyte...) Hence, your HDD probably has 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, which is 1TB in standard terminology, but in the old, but still widely used computing terms, this only amounts to 909.4947017729282379150390625 computer Gigabytes (Gigibytes).

That's weird. Have you perhaps tried installing the drivers from the CD that came with it?

Try to unplug it and plug it in again. Sometimes it works for me. Oh, and congratulations on getting a 1TB HDD!

Right. Like Jade Empire. Oh, wait, no huge organization of elite warriors or ancient race. BG2? I don't recall a huge organization of elite warriors and I wouldn't call Irenicus an 'ancient race.' NWN, it has the ancient race, but no HOEW. Very true!

I don't actually play/use mods. I know they are an important feature for many, but for me it is the main campaign itself that matters.

Yes, this is a fair point.

...components/devices which were most probably designed by European immigrants, and manufactored in China/South Korea. But yeah, sales and marketing ususally is unprecedented in the US. Now you are just being unfair to the U.S., but it doesn't matter anyway whether the devices were designed by European immigrants or long-time Americans - the point is that they were designed in the U.S. and are U.S. products. You thus have to trade to get them. Uhm, I don't know how you came to the conclusion that agricultural products are garbage in the U.S. I just moved to the U.S. a month and a half ago, and I can tell you that there are many quality food products here. The only thing that I truly find inedible here is the bread. I love eating bread, but not here. I don't think trade will suffer due to a new president. It will likely improve. But it *could* suffer, if some protectionist tendencies come to the fore and the new president proves receptive to them. I agree that EU leaders often outright ignore the interests of their people (us) in order to pursue their 'vision', but trade with the U.S. is not an issue where this happens.

You win the thread!

Trading almost everything! From cars to airplanes to machine tools to agricultural products and so on! The U.S. is a huge market for us This has nothing to do with the fact that we will still benefit by trading with one another. Our production is also being outsourced to these places... The EU has no chance of becoming independent in terms of resources any time soon. Some components of your products, such as your computer, might in fact be from the U.S. Some of the food you eat may be from the U.S. Companies may use U.S.-made machines to make the products you enjoy. And you benefit via your country's economy by exporting things to the U.S.

Good point... I usually don't go back to edit my posts to insert more stuff in (at most to correct spelling or grammar), but it is a practice I might have to start implementing.

Who is Hal Halpin? You can read about it on that website I linked, but he's the founder and president of the ECA. He's also probably the most active advocate for gamers. He's done numerous interviews on news stations and the like. He's pretty well spoken, although he's definitely an odd looking guy. OK - thanks!

And yes, I too remember that Revan being male and Exile being female being the cannon. But, of course, cannon is just that - we all have our own playthrough experiences dictating our own cannon - for me, for example, both are male and both are light side.

Also, IIRC: Revan is a Light Side Jedi Exile is Dark Side Jedi

Improve relations, as long as it fits US interests. Unfortunately, the EU leaders are weak and dumb enough to buy into this bs. I agree that our EU leaders are often pretty pathetic, but I would say improving relations with the U.S. can serve the interests of both sides. In what way? We have many common interests on numerous issues that we can better advance by cooperation. An example of this would be trade.

New machine to arrive this week: Intel Core 2 Duo P8100 2.1GHz 4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM 500GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 17" WUXGA

Luckily, the above rig is about to be replaced!

Pentium M 760 2GHz ATI Mobility Radeon X700 2GB DDR2 533MHz RAM 100 GB HDD 15.4" WXGA

Who is Hal Halpin?

Improve relations, as long as it fits US interests. Unfortunately, the EU leaders are weak and dumb enough to buy into this bs. I agree that our EU leaders are often pretty pathetic, but I would say improving relations with the U.S. can serve the interests of both sides.