Recent content by MakaveliTheDon

I think the lesson here is that you shouldn't get your history from people who aren't historians, especially those that harbor extreme bias. The Cosmos episode on the Library of Alexandria was terrible in terms of accuracy, for example.

But...they aren't the same. Environment determinism says Europeans are superior genetically because of their environment and therefore were able to take over the world, geographical determinism says that Europeans took over the world because of their environment. You may think that's a subtle...

I see what you're saying, and I agree with you (and I believe Diamond would too) that these chance happenings are simply chance happenings and not determined by large geographical forces. Where I disagree with you is by how much these chance happenings end up changing the course of human...

I believe you missed the last part of that paragraph: Also, environmental determinism, at least in the context that has fallen out of favor by historians, is entirely separate from geographical determinism.

As I said in my post above this is idea really hard to swallow as a scientist/engineer who has studied the history of science. It's generally not been the case that sweeping inventions by one or two men change the world. It may be that one or two men get credit for the inventions (and the...

Hi Dachs, Could you be more specific about what you mean by geographical determinism? The only relevant reference I can find by searching google is Diamond's book, or derivatives of it, which implies Diamond was the originator of the term. If you mean environmental determinism (which sounds...

Star Wars

If you've ever wanted to see a game series that is almost broken at release look no further than the total war games. Medieval 2 and Empire (day 1 buys for me) were completely unplayable for months after release. In Empire the AI was 100% unable to launch naval invasions for like 6 months until...

Anyone have an idea?

My C drive is partitioned to have the windows files on one part and all my programs on another, but Civ4 wants to install Civ4 on the partitioned part and I don't know how to change it the default setting, anyone know how? I'm running windows 7 32bit premium edition.

Here ya go, any other information you guys need?

It's a Nvidia card. GeForce GTX 260

Hi I posted this in the FfH forum but was unable to solve the problem. The game ran fine up until around turn 400~ and then it crashes every few turns. Every time I play I can get a bit further but the crashes come more frequently the farther in the game I get. The error I get is: "Failed to...

My drivers/directX are up to date. I've posted the exact error in a search engine and am seeing a lot of other people are also getting these errors, although they are pretty dated. I'm going to try posting this in the Civ4 technical support to see if there's any known solution to the problem...

Hey thanks for the help! I've turned on logging and this time when it crashed it said: "Failed to allocate video memory. Please try reducing your graphics settings. File:\main\Civilization4\SDKs\Gamebryo2_0\CoreLibs\NiDX9Renderer\NiDX9VBManager.cpp, Line:1019" Any idea what this means?