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Talk about Smurfette! Do little Transformers apear throughout the series? What does RC transform into?

Paxman is a legend in his own time; he brooks no fillibustering form politicians who are schooled in the art of answering the question you wanted the interviewer to ask, rather than the one they asked (a political philosophy that surfaced in the 80s). He will flat-out ask the same simple question repeatedly, to make it quite clear that the politician is deliberately avoiding the question "I'll ask again ...", "I'll ask one more time ...". Necessarily his attitude to those elected representatives has more often than not turned into a sneer, as he regards them with the same contempt that they have for democracy and the principle of holding politicians to account.

Actually I think that's very interesting. You should hear my thesis (which you can always get from my university library): all about the practical application of a Just-in-Time (JiT) Manufacturing Methodology for a factory using MRP-II. I also did a minor dissertation on the roles of women as portrayed in fiction of the last three hundred years (back to the first novel, Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones"), which I thought was much more interesting because I got to read lots of good fiction. Toim Jones is regarded as having the best plot of any novel (and has been used countless times since).

Urban legend. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you seen this disproved, or are you just asserting such? (If you have a link, post it!) Anyway, the mass of energy is not going to be measurable; scientists have measured the weight of a smell, however. This means that odour sinks (as well as stinks), so a posie of flowers place high up will disseminate the floral payload downwind as well as downwards. :cool:

Not if you're cremated.

What are you going to do your dissetation on?

That was probably because you were posting in all the fora at once, Mr Baley; even a spamming machine, like yourself, can't be expected to be error-free with a duty cycle like that.

Micro$oft announce products and targets within the Quarterly cycle (e.g. "End of Q3, 2006"). Yes I have. Consoles will never out perform the leading edge computers systems. Atleast not anytime soon. Soon we'll have a 64-bit OS to run our 64-bit systems on. My 512mb multi-gpu graphics will smoke a console. In my opinion anyways. :D Of course you probably won't have almost 3 grand wrapped up in your console either. Btw, I shouldn't have said "crappy port". KOTOR was a very good console game. It just doesn't have the depth that a computer game can have. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The next generation consoles will have better performance than what is readily and affordably available for PC hardware for a short time, however (maybe six months or so); in any case KotOR games are ported from the console. What would be good is doing the Half-Life 2 idea of porting the game from the PC, though I am sure Micro$oft will not reliquish a major marketing aid for its new Xbox 360, like a new KotOR game, just be taken by a competitor (Sony) or delayed by non-primacy development schedule, after the PC. After all, "aquiesce" is not in the Micro$oft dictionary ...

Yes, but this could be handled by the Lightsaber Form one has currently selected (assuming this feature would be taken through to any future game). No, there is no confirmation of any further work in the KotOR series at all.

I guess that explains why she didn't bother to use it on the Exile, because if it was a "Death Field" that could kill three Jedi from the Council in a blink, then it surely would have made an impression on the PC!

Speak to the Kreia, she's the one that can convert you into Prestige; but only after level 15, apparently. (I do what you did, leave the witch behind. Nag, nag, nag does not a fun game make.)

You cry in games? Wow, I was wondering if any games actually affected anyone enough for that: can you name some, maybe I have forgotten some really moving moments?

One planet would suffice, as long as it had multiple areas. What's with this idea that a planet (i.e. a block of solid stuff 20000km in circumference) has an explorable area of about a hectare? And the characters have to walk around it, because everyone else has motorised transport except the PC and party.

Did you hear that? The web site is going down! I wonder what this means? Maybe there's a problem? Maybe they're not going to finish the mod! Maybe the sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! (Thanks for the update Dashus. )

I don't think the world is a dump, it was a comparison between "heaven" and here; but if it's no worse than heaven, then why go there? Why does god need an army of faithful people? And why decide who gets sent to hell before they are born? How is that free choice? God knows all! Even the future, doesn't God? So God is deliberately damning people who have no chance. Not fair. Not merciful. Not good. Not a god I like.

Dr Smith, as played by Gary Oldman in Lost in Space of the cult series, was a Lawful Evil person. You're lucky (or young, or na

Errr.....5 battleships a day??? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, maybe it was five flying fortresses a day. Whatever the statistic, it was an ungodly amount of production. That was always -- and has remained -- the US miltary strength: production capacity. Actually I listened to one of Doctor Who's rants: Tom Baker's fourth Doctor, in the "Genesis of the Daleks", when confronted with the choice of whether it was "right" to destroy the cradle of the Daleks, mutant creatures that had been genetically altered to only have hate as an emotion, and whose sole xenophobic ambition was to destroy all that was not Dalek in the universes. (And whom, it has recently transpired, caused the death of the Time Lords and the Daleks in the last Great Time War.)

One word: Civilization.

Just a small point, Mr Dyslexic, the character's name is REVAN, not Raven. You have a transposition vowel error in your proper noun.

Depends on the type of game. Some genres just really don't translate well onto a console. RTS games for example. IMO the best games to play on a console are sports and fighting games. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Marble Madness never really worked as a console game. (Though, it was pretty crap as a PC convert, too.)

Ah, Steve, I think you've posted your Way Off-Topic response in the wrong thread, or we have an inter-dimensional forum breach in process ... :ph34r:

The ships were an example; unfortunately I'm not a WW2 munitions geek, or I'd produce some wonderful bumph about that, the ships were one reference I recall without searching. Here's some US WW2 weapon production figures, compared to the German figures. I have no doubt the Germans were a ferociously talented armed forces: it took the rest of the world and nearly six years to stop them (even if they did have a running start: Hitler building the autobahns to join hands with the rest of Europe masking his true intentions of using them to transport tanks!); and their motivation, to remove the stain of reparations from WW1, was a just cause. Their Blitzkreig tactics of the Sichelschnitt were pure innovative genius, for example; it would take the US another three years to begin to perfect the Marines amphibious forces in the Pacific. (Avoiding the Maginot Line was pretty clever, too.) Anyway, I come not to praise Hitler, but to bury him.

What about babies before they are "saved" by baptism? Do they get a free ride, or do they go to limbo (next to hell, take a left before the last turnoff), like the goood Roman Catholics believe? There is a theory that the universe goes from Big Bang to Big Crunch and keeps cycling (over 50 billion years or so, I would guess, for a cycle). Either this, or it has only happened this once, and there is not enough matter to bring the universe back to a Big Crunch, so it will eventually lose all energy through eventual critical entropy, where all energy will be so degraded as to be a fuzz, and matter so equidistant as to not exert any net gravitational force. Asimov wrote (at least) two interesting short stories on the meaning of life (quoting from memory, so may not be completely accurate; I have paraphrased callously, but the gist is still intact): 1. Death of a Man A man close to death thinks back over his life. He is at peace and takes no ill with him as he dies. After a time, he becomes aware that he is still thinking. He becomes aware of another presence. "Are you God?" "Such notions are not for here." "Where am I?" "You are here, with me." "Where was I, before?" "You were not here." "I see," said the man, not really sure what to think, "Why am I here?" "That is a very good question." "Ok, why are you here?" "I do not know." "Ah," said the man, "that's why I'm here!" "Exactly.". 2. How Do You Reverse Entropy? This involved a futuristic humankind wrestling with the ultimate question; eventually they create a computer to help (we'll call it Deep Thought in memory of Douglas Adams, although Asimov wrote this short story in the Fifties). Deep Thought was placed in hyperspace, outside the normal matter boundaries of the universe and set about thinking. Many, many years passed, into eons and eons. Human civilization rose and fell many times, until it disapeared completely. Eventually the universe sustained heat death. Still, Deep Thought contemplated. Eons passed, until, finally, Deep Thought spoke: "Let there be light ..."

We choose to come back or stay? That makes no sense (and has no correlation with any religious teaching I'm aware of, so I'm wondering what bizarre religion you think you are " ) If heaven is so great, why would anyone come back to this dump? So they might accidentally chose the wrong life and go to hell next time? And how can an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving God permit some people to have everlasting torture? God made them, God knew what they would be, how they would chose, and yet still, with all God's unlimited power, knowledge and merciful goodness, there they are, right now, suffereing the torments of the damned. I'll pass on that god, thanks. Bloody noisy and smelt of weird things. Oh, wait -- you mean before conception, not birth! That was okay, I guess. Not much happpening. I guess some might call it boring. I thought it was nice and serene, no chores to do, no ladders to climb or slides to fall down. Just a pleasant nothing, like warm zephyr on a balmy day. I remember reading somewhere that some scientists had weighed a body just prior and post mortem, and there was a difference in weight ... the soul has a physical manifestation! (I wonder what the mass of energy is? Like the elctro-chemical energy in the brain.) Do you know the brain is 60% fat?