CobraA1

Remember, you can always restart. If you're playing a campaign, you can always restart a level. My advise is to revise your strategy. Think about what kind of results you want, and invest money in it. Take a close look at your tech tree and your planets. They both play vital roles in maintaining your status in the game. Spend that $150k on some improvements on your planets that benefit your strategy and invest research in your strategy. In fact, it does indeed sound li

[quote]If you don't suffer the consequences of your mistakes, you rarely learn from them, if ever.[/quote] I think this deserves repeating. Because it is true.

I was sorta hoping they'd up the core count. The GHz bump is nice, but I thought everything was headed towards having more cores. 64 bit is the future of computing in any case :). It will be some time before I can afford to upgrade my computer, though.

[quote]How about no Vista at all? [/quote] Vista is the future, and Windows 7 will be an upgraded version of Vista. The biggest problems are 99.9% solved, despite the insistence of whiners to keep whining. It's pointless to get a new computer with XP.

If you know some CSS, another option is user stylesheets. You can apply them in both IE and firefox . There is also an addon for firefox that makes it easier.

[quote]English words do not always have a 1:1 mapping to a word in another language. There can be a group of words that mean approximaly what is intended. Even if a 1:1 mapping exists, the literally translated word may not be what a native speaker would use in that context. Selecting the right one for these words is the most difficult thing when translating from/to English.[/quote] That's the truth - and it's not just words. It's grammar as well. Not to mention figures of speech and c

[quote]"Joe the Plumber" is a fucking liar . . .[/quote] So it's your word against his. Do you have anything better than ad hominem attacks against him and accusations of lying? I'm not very impressed. [quote]Have you not seen the news lately?[/quote] This financial crises has to do with owning homes and Franklin D's Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, not with lower taxes. If you're gonna whine about Bush's tax cuts, the least you can do is provide proof that they caused what

[quote]When you start talking about things like whether a tax cut will encourage "business" to create more jobs or a tax hike will be directly passed on to consumers, you're totally in astrology-land.[/quote] Nope, not astrology land at all. I can see the numbers on my paycheck. I can go to the websites of nearly any publicly traded organization and get their reports, statements, releases, etc with a wealth of information, including how much they pay in taxes. Maybe you can argue abou

[quote]Joe the Plumber isn't a business owner. He's intending to buy the business he works at...[/quote] . . . and I'm assuming he intends to do stuff with it. I don't think he'd buy it if it didn't have potential for growth. [quote]Tax Cuts certainly have benefits, but have very little impact on job growth. Let's look at a very recent example that's glaring and punching both of us in the face right now. The Bush Tax cuts.[/quote] Okay. I'm waiting for your numbers an

[quote]One last point, I've never met or known one owner that created a job from getting a tax cut.[/quote] Joe the Plumber. I'm pretty sure if I asked around I could find more. A lot of businesses that run on slim margins are affected greatly by tax rates. [quote]Even when Business gets a cut, they don't use that money to pay their people more[/quote] Can you prove this? Have you done a survey of businesses? Have you asked their accounting departments? Have yo

[quote]Try CALLING IT LIKE IT IS for once in awhile, you'll feel better.[/quote] It's a central location for accessing, downloading, updating, and managing my games and software. It's a platform that allows developers to concentrate on their game rather than mundane things like managing installers, communities, e-commerce sites, etc. It's a great place to get games with little to no DRM. It allows me to play games instantly, without have to search

If anybody wants to check out the budget figures (unless Obama changes them, which he is likely to do), they are here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/budget.html [quote]The claims that he was some hate filled racist that wanted to end slavery because he just couldn't stand the sight of all them damn niggers and wanted to send them all back to Africa is bullshit.[/quote] Wow - people are actually saying that about Lincoln [e digicons]8C[/e] ? So th

[quote]Not only did the American people vote for a liberal candidate, in a landslide might I add[/quote] Well, according to the Wikipedia, it was 52.7% to 46% on the popular vote. A landslide, really? It may have been a landslide by electoral college, but that's nowhere near the same as saying vast numbers of us are liberal. We're still pretty split in our politics. Dozerking: Of course CNN wants you to believe that having slightly larger margins somehow makes it a "landslide.

[quote]I find all anti-viruses to be absolutely worthless, because no matter what they are, they never completely protect your system.[/quote] That's like saying house doors are useless because a determined criminal might get through anyways. Jonnan001's metaphor works as well :). Nothing's 100%, not even a router. That's why security experts generally recommend several layers of security. Putting all of your eggs into one type of security solution is generally not a g

Looks great :). Still wondering why the undeletable tabs in the first place . . . Anyways, a cleaner interface is always good. Performance enhancements are always a welcome addition. Looks like it's going to be a welcome update.

Whoops, my mistake, meant to type a date further into the future, lol. I think 1012 was in the high middle ages. The dark ages came much later, around the 1300s.

[quote]My, will these free updates ever stop... [/quote] Flash forward to the year 1012: Stardock announces that GalCiv II 5.0 is indeed under development along with GalCiv V 2.0, GalCiv IV 3.0, and GalCiv III 4.0. The Emperor of the planet Stardock was overhead muttering "I'm always finding something new to tweak, so I'm keeping my holographic issue resolver turned on while I play it." Stardock has also renewed its policy of never constructing a Copyright Defense system, saying "it j

[quote]I wouldnt use any free versions as they dont catch everything thats out there.[/quote] Not entirely true. The free version of AVG is the same detection engine as the paid version of AVG. It's just that the paid version has more features for power users. . . . and a zero day exploit will even catch people with antivirus software, so it's always important to have backups and [b]layered protection.[/b] I've been using AVG, but may have to switch for two reasons:</p

[quote]Well I hope it doesn't make me reinstall, 12-20 hours of downloading doesn't suit me well.[/quote] You'll probably have to doanload the complete version of TA. I don't know how long it will take, because I don't know how slow your connection is. [quote]People who spend their hard-earned money on anything will find something to complain about, even if they get exactly what they want.[/quote] If they allowed signatures on this forum, that would be my current sig .

[quote]Yeah but the update page doesn't give me an order, it has all 3 stating they need an update.[/quote] I just did it. I didn't pay attention to order. I don't think it matters.

64 bit is the future. Today's games are eating up memory like crazy as textures get larger and models get more detailed. For hyper-realistic games like Crysis, you're gonna need as much memory (both system and video) as you can spare. Even games like GalCiv 2 and WoW are eating up memory like crazy as people keep demanding larger maps and longer draw distances. Huge worlds and large universes means lots of memory, even if it's not a game that pushes video cards to their limits! <

[quote]Whats the order of update? DL -> DA -> TA? or just download the TA update?[/quote] I just updated in the order it gave me. Just update whatever Impule tells you to update, and follow the directions. If it requires uninstalling previous versions or restarting, it will tell you.

[quote]We're going to be adding a feature to hide tabs, change the skin and more.[/quote] I'm just not sure why there were permanent non-deletable tabs to begin with. With Impulse supposedly being a flexible next-gen platform, why have stuff hard coded like that?? Changing the skin sounds good. May I suggest allowing more integration with WindowsBlinds? Then an impule user could use any skin they want :).

[quote]Can't you guys just make it WORK?[/quote] As a developer who has seen my share of difficult debugs: They're asking themselves the same question. Unfortunately, debugging is one of the most difficult parts of programming.

[quote]And it crashes something fierce, too. Apparently it's got something to do with the Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering. Turning those off completely (and forcing mipmapping in your graphic drivers' settings for the sake of visual quality) tends to improve stability.[/quote] Sigh - yup, it's overheating. Got a lot more play time with AA and AF off, but it still crashed, and when I left the game and looked at nVidia's MonitorView, the temperature started dropping like a stone.