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It's not that tech sat still; it's just extrapolated out from a point. Clearly what they do with tubes surpasses what we do with transistors; they have tubes with 125 years of research on top of them. Just because it is a tube it must not be thought of in terms of a mid-20th century tube. It...

Unless the setting is pushed back a few hudndred years to much sooner after the war, this isn't likely. One climactic battle that sacrifices a few working vehicles is one thing, but if car combat is engaged in regularly it stretches the probability of the developed setting and scarcity of...

Dunno if it's been said but the baseball bat is suspisciously missing from Fallout and there's only one in FO2 which requires doing an unsavory and little-known quest to obtain. Axes of all sort, from hatchets to fire axes to wood chopping axes are also missing. While an actual medieval...

Ah, fun with radar! My dad was a controller in the Air Force. In an exercise once a bomber was about to slip through the defenses (due to it putting out massive amounts of jamming), so they ordered 3 or 4 height-finders LOCKED on it (as opposed to their normal operation of a vertical sweep)...

Holodisk/tape technology is actually extant (but little known) technology developed by RCA as a home video format and surprisingly, envisioned by the Fallout Devs without them knowing a lick of info about RCA's device. http://www.cedmagic.com/history/holotape.html and also Motorola sent...

OK that's weird. When you open device manager, how does it show up? Does it have a little "!" or "?" next to it? Try searching Google with the text of the error message (in quotes if neccessary) and the scanner's model number or name.

What is happening? Are you just getting the little thing that searches for drivers in the corner of the screen, or are you getting the full-scale "found new hardware" box? If the latter is the case, then just cancel the install and do it manually. If you get the little baloon in the corner...

There is a big difference between unintelligible and unintelligible AND terrible. Lots of great singers are hard to understand -Kurt Cobain, that woman who sang for Nightwish, I could name about a zillion others, all of whom have musical tallent. The guy for FOB sings like a goddamn mental...

Yeah, she's very hot. I certainly wouldn't kick her outta bed for eating crackers. Politically, she's... odd. She's definitely doing her own thing, inasmuch as she's not a wringer for Bush & co, but she's got some pretty bass-ackwards ideas about the way things are. She doesn't like...

Ah, Fall Out Boy has one redeaming quality (while it doesn't make up for their blatant abuse of the Fallout name) -their lead singer completely lacks enunciation and therefor his lyrics are totally uninteligable. So enter the string "Fall Out Boy" on Google Video and watch what come up. It is...

1: DO NOT DOUBLE POST 2: DO NOT DOUBLE POST 3: sounds like it could be the mod 4: Er, do you, by any chance, have eye damage? It tends to do bad things to your chance to hit, and it's not easy to spot if you're not paying close attention to the DID.

I think that the sameness of the guns was a big issue with immersion -raiders in a wasteland.. and gods knows why; they're all equipped alike like some modern millitary force. There should have been dozens more of each type of gun, even if they're more of less similar. Fallout has the Desert...

Systems Shock 2 is indeed said to be excellent and terrifying. I attempted to play it to recapture the magic that once was; from playing DOOM late at night back when that was the thing... Ah, but unfortunately the only scary thing that happened was Kernel Panics and Core Dumps. I've tried...

The Canary Islands and Yellowstone Caldera scenarios seem a little bit unlikely in my humble opinion. The force of a nuclear bomb cannot be shaped; which at first glance seems to be how he got his figures, that is if he has figures at all. A blast takes the path of least resistance and always...

Yes, I AM sickly oblivious to propaganda. Figures don't like but liars can figure. SUVs have higher statistics for rollovers because people take them off-road. People who do not know how to drive off-road and then do something stupid. If peole took their Buicks and Toyotas off-roading...

The cars I see all the time are mostly those conversions. A company called "Solectria" does 'em. They work great where they are used; on the millitary base and college campus. Never too far from "home base", electric motors provide loads of torque for city driving, don't have to leave them...

And why not? You've never said anything that proves this. How come my personal life if irrelevant yet yours always seems to be? And again we have the fallacy that all vehicles are the same. "Normal" speeds for a car and a truck (i.e. an SUV) are QUITE different. There is an off-ramp near...

Sander: The only behavior I'm questioning is the very questioning of other's behavior -the only thing I feel legitimately entitled to question. Why do you care what other people do with their cars, or what the are, or how they drive them, and what they carry in them. IT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS...

An SUV, or anything bigger than that car would have helped somewhat. It certainly wouldn't have emerged unscathed, but it would have held up much better. That is not to say that they are the only path to safety, but you cannot discredit something's safety becaues it has an inherant capability...

But SUVs roll due to driver error, not poor vehicle design. So a rigid, stronger frame is an advantage. And why isn't being safer a good reason to buy a car? Sports cars are also more prone to being handled improperly because they are capable of much more than an "average" car. And some...