Spuzzum wrote:
And if someone had thermal goggles, you'd be lit up like a Christmas tree. I'd like to add, for anyone making a graphical game with lasers, that lasers are invisible from the side, unless they are passing through visible particles, like dust or smoke. but that doesnt look very good in a game, now does it? | |
I'd like to add, for anyone making a graphical game with lasers, that lasers are invisible from the side, unless they are passing through visible particles, like dust or smoke. but that doesnt look very good in a game, now does it? Well, not exactly. If a laser is massively high-temperature (which is kinda the whole point of a laser weapon =)), it can superheat the molecules it passes through, and any particle that is heated enough will emit visible light. Lasers in space are invisible, of course. But yeah, that doesn't look very good. =) Light-speed "solid-state" beams, which lasers are comprised of, don't usually look good, either, except in rare circumstances -- projectile "beams" that go far less than the speed of light are almost always far more interesting. | |
Spuzzum wrote:
Not true. Speed Disk, Disk Doctor, and WinDoctor are other great goodies out of the pack. [snip] Hmm. Guess I should try them out. I wrote off the entire thing except for NAV when "Protected" Recycle Bin and CleanSweep dismally failed to impress me. (They were on my hard drive for about a week before I could be bothered to erase their sorry behinds.) Norton CrashGuard is also an excellent piece of software, though I think in recent years they separated it out of the standard Systemworks package. It saved me from the Blue Screen of Death countless times. It doesn't seem to be in there. (I have the 2002 version.) | |
*slaps self repeatedly*
Why!?
If you haven't already read what I wrote to another guy who uses this, then I severely advise you to go here now.
A better write-up that I did though, is here.
--Lee