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I really don't see the point in big names ... all they did was bankrupt the voice acting budget. Better to have a bunch of unknown GOOD VOICE actors, rather than a couple of (well known) GOOD actors.

It's more when the drives are nearly full that they slow down. You can buy it again. I'm just at the end of Hell's Kitchen.

I would conclude that her heart wasn't in it. Never assume extra intelligence when negligence will suffice.

So you dont wear them while tending the Tulip fields!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In the shadows of the wooden wind mills? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Never seen a tulip field; just isolated tulips in peoples gardens. I saw a wooden wind mill once, but I was in germany at the time. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're a tad young and evidently ignorant of Dutch Seventeeth Century history. Tulipomania

Hey, that's really cool. Here's my latest:

System Shock 2 (w00t)

Yes.

They are two cropped and shrunk photos from my lovely 8.1Mp Sony Cybershot DSC-N1: one of the originals was over 13MB.

There's evidence that the sun has an active cycle lasting many centuries; this caused the mini Ice age (1600s) when the Thames froze regularly, for example. Further, the sun appears to be entering a low activity phase ...

DeNiro improvised that entire scene.

Nah. You're forgetting that there is a two-term limit for Presidents. Even Tony Blair will be out of office within a year. That's the benefit of democracies, as Churchil said:

If you really want to get to him, date one of his daughters.

Has someone been editing?

The graphics programming will be larger on a platform that has a more complex graphical system. So, all other things being equal (i.e. assuming that a game of similar complexity and length on all platforms), the platform with the more complex graphics will cost significantly more. Otherwise graphics wouldn't be an issue: all games would have the best graphics available. Which isn't the case.

No, it adds playing depth, as the player can utilize the probability process of the speechcraft skill.

Pruned.

Heh. Finished Half-Life 2:Episode 1, only to find that I was within one savepoint of the end the first time I played it. Thinking of uninstalling Steam now, to free up some hardrive real estate. HDs are significantly faster when they are emptier. Just re-installed Deus Ex ... up to Hell's Kitchen :D

That's about the size of it. A very good system as a way to (micro-) manage the character and all the NPCs in the vicinity. Not so much fun to play, though, as it tends to become quite tedious.

Are you raising a point of interest due to the cybernetic nature of HAL 9000, or because it (he) was actually doing what it (he) thought was right ... the first objection would invalidate Shodan, the second would invalidate an awful lot of villainous characters, in literature and real life. E.g. I could mount a pretty convincing argument that Hitler was "just doing what he thought was right" for the German people (apart from the small matter of genocide, of course).

Cigarettes are a leading cause of impotence. BBC News tinfoil hat wearing and chemtrails

Ah. As long as it wasn't an email bomb ... "

I doubt it. The problem is that there is a significant population of people who hate Microsoft and want to hurt the company, and their products are complicated and created by large teams. There will always be bugs, regression errors (where a bug that was fixed in one release is not in a subsequent release, due to the bug being added to one development code and that not being used for the newer release, usually due to simultaneous development by more than one team) and general logic flaws (compromises) in the designs. IE 7 is playing catch-up to Firefox, but should be equivalent in features (Opera still has better features that the others are implementing catch-up); I would predict that IE 7 will not be fall behind Firefox by as much (if at all) again, because M$ is now prioritizing it (and must have some spare capacity when Vista rolls out the door). Firefox is regarded as the underdog, so it doesn't attract every script-kiddie trying to make a name for themselves / stick it to da man, though there are viruses and trojans for EVERY OS, including Linux and OS X.

I agree. I am becoming increasaingly irate with the boot time of my laptop with XP.