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Happy Easter old friend No church for me, but I think I have some decent Cognac somewhere, I might just end the week with a bit of indulgence...

Odds are, if you wait 2 years, you will finally be able to get Windows 7 (formerly known as "Vienna", formerly known as "Blackcomb") which began development in 1999. Lots of trouble kept/keeps postponing Vienna and resulted in Vista being released as... not sure what it's purpose is really. A stop gap thing to ensure people buy Microsoft products? If possible, I would like to wait and skip Vista alltogether

I think what China needs/is aiming for is more internal stability. For all it's size and alledged powerful communist party rule, it is a very frail country, weakened by lack of infrastructure, corruption, lack of national identity, governed by tribal traditions, family clans and a truck load of other problems. What the world doesn't need is a China falling apart like Iraq. Creating external enemies to deflect attention has often been a successful formula for other countries in the past.

I have a cup of coffee here. I wonder if it is good or evil? That is, I don't really believe the world to be that black and white. Maybe you you can have actions that are perceived as good or evil by a majority of people? According to my own experiences, people perceive good as that which they agree with and evil as that they disagree with. That is based emtirely on subjective observation and not any deep philosophical reasoning

Poor Nick and Bok :sad: Lets just say, this thread is not such a hot idea. As a rule of thumb, threads dedicated to discuss other posters are bad, no matter their guise or intent.

The Hand is good. Full of dead elves too Edit: Trying to figure out if I want to play my fighter from NWN2 or create a new character for MotB. I would love to keep my fighter, but he is "Good". I want something evil this time and try out One of Many as a companion.

I am so trying to get that mental picture out of my head.... Trying to decide whether I should go shopping for some furniture or spend the day in the garden. *looks at garden, whimpers...* (it is all dead from the drought) I should go look for furniture during the day. Local police left baffled by this anonymous caller, identifying himself as "Walsingham"

Proof that sunbathing is not good for your health.

Just in time for me to finish my game of VMBL and get my fighter character from NWN2 going again in MotB

I am leaning towards Aliens at the moment, but that is based entirely on setting. I have no clue who Bauer or Bourne are and never got into the Frederick Forsyth stuff either

Same here. Darn best mouse I ever had All 5 buttons still working flawlessly. No cordless stuff for me either, it isn't worth the hassle.

Yeah, except Microsoft is like EA. Prepare for the 2008 version, the 2010 version, the 20?? version etc. Same game, just with added incompatibility with previous saved games and a few new flashy gimmicks.

Why do I find myself humming the tune from "Police Academy"... I am not sure lowering physical standards is such a hot idea. It depends on how important physique is for their particular line of work I suppose. Is it that essential?

Is this thread approaching unconsciousness?

Give it up Shryke. In the world of crates, a barrel is an alien concept (personally, I am more worried about the lack of sewers in NWN2, I hope that isn't a sign of things to come) *Starts counting fingers... gives up* Where did all these developers come from? :ninja10: Hi

He and Jorian could probably have an interesting discussion about that

Game over Man, game over! continues here: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=49251

Start of old thread: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=48832 End of old thread: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?sh...5&start=495 Yes, yes, I know. The old one was a few posts short of a full thread. It is just so nice and quiet at this time of day Still plugging away at VMBL, doing the lazy thing (sneaking with obfuscate on).

Sort of what I was thinking (being in the middle of a game of VMBL)

About the gender thing, I can't help but feel that those games that offers female protagonists have them there more to please male than female players. Maybe it is just my imagination, maybe there just is too few females working in the gaming industry? I wonder what a game would look like if the protagonist was actually designed by females to be played by females? ...and the first one to say 'The Sims' gets a kick over the shin

Lets for the sake of argument agree that human brains operates in ways similar to neural networks, trained through experiences and pre-programming (things you've learnt through your life time so far and things you were born with). All signals are impulses of some kind that can (or not) affect the state of nodes. I see two possible ways of creating a replica of a state of the brain, you can either train an empty (no previous state) network until it matches a given target or you can rebuild it with exact values and use the "Power On" switch. The first option might take a while. Needs a few generations of AMD's and Intels for that to happen (like the Intel 700 Petaherz N-dimension Core LGA60000 chip). The other option is not really an option either, what would we do? Send in an army of nano-bots with orders to attach themselves to chosen brain cells, check the meter reading and return to base? The interesting hybrid, doesn't deal with the state of the brain on a synapse level, but with how to view the brain through frequency analysis of brain waves. Fourier transformations are one of the few math disciplines I ever found useful (I used it for pattern recognition in images in a project). As I see it, the technological challenge is to scan and analyse the frequencies fast enough to get an "atomic" snapshot, i.e. not getting your left brain half today and you right brain half tomorrow. That consciousness would probably end up insane if inserted into a clone. I might agree that it may not happen in our lifetime, but then, when was man ever to back down from a good technological challenge? You just need to convince somebody that there is a tidy profit to be made in cloning and eternal life Edit: I guess what I am trying to say is, we need to free our minds from traditional thinking that the mind is a computer and not try to replicate it with a computer, rather we should examine the state of mind and figure out how to transform that state of mind.

It is not something limited to young people though, I've more than once experienced little old ladies (wearing expensive looking imitation clothes) in the supermarket with "manners" that made me want to trip them, take their walking stick away, something, seriously Ok, so one thing is not having manners. I guess what ticks me off is rudeness.

Way off-topic

Krezack... are you *really* sure that this belongs here? Edit: Moved to Computer & Console

Sorry to hear that If you don't mind me asking, what kind of enviroment do you live in? Doesn't sound like a healthy place. I am slightly privileged (lucky?), living in am "attractive" neighbourhood, but I am quite familiar (much more than I would like to remember) with the less than attractive parts of human habitats.