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Alien Terminator

This good game of Flair, a software company in the past that did not fail to surprise us with other excellent titles such as the legendary Trolls, is the rare personal conversion Computers Realm , probably one of the last games made for the Super Nintendo, an old 16-bit console. The story is set in a distant future, namely in 5069, and sees the Earth is completely destroyed from the classic threat: the usual alien invasion! However, most of the inhabitants were brutally killed and the cities are nothing more than the mere piles of rubble. Despite all the land were not completely destroyed, the few survivors, in fact, using the last means at its disposal, can give birth to their last hope: Biomech! In Alien Terminator, played, in fact, an enterprising Super Cyborg, be a bio-technology, which has the task to defeat the cruel enemies so as to prevent the imminent extinction.

level of gameplay, this translates into a healthy action platform that not only jump from one platform to another, we see to fire on all sorts of enemies. Along the course of the levels, in fact, we do this through our multi-directional shooting through, inter alia, various types of weapons, including: machine guns, laser, plasma, missiles and so on. Of course, do not miss the opportunity to collect power-ups and bonuses, the first aimed at strengthening our offensive capability while others to regenerate, albeit temporarily, our defenses. The action often will be interrupted by the appearance of many bosses to be defeated by adopting different tactics of attack. The game is quite challenging, includes three levels of difficulty, though, it seems, only two stages (!).

However, Alien Terminator technically not doing bad, at least by the standards of the old DOS-based PCs. The graphics are well done, has, in fact, a good use of color and a degree of detail. The animations are fluid as well as scrolling, the latter, among other things, is enhanced by the presence of parallax. Wallpapers also feature the animated special effects and even some special type of pseudo transparency example animated. The audio sector is characterized by reason rather catchy, reproduced directly from the CD, and sound effects on the whole effective. A title is certainly interesting, although it raises some doubts on the actual longevity. What remained at the prototype stage? Anyway, not bad for what little tough. Link:

Download Alien Terminator CD

NB: Alien Terminator has some problems with DOSBox, you can still play it directly from the CD by typing respectively d: and main prompt initial C : \\>, of course, after you have mounted the iso of the game as cd-rom drive D:. ;-)

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Psi-5 Trading Company

Psi-5 Trading Company è un’interessante simulazione spaziale ambientata nel lontano trentacinquesimo secolo, in un futuro in cui la razza umana si è diffusa sistematicamente per tutta la Galassia entrando in contatto, tra l'altro, con le specie aliene più bizzarre. Questi nuovi incontri hanno portato a dei significativi progressi sia scientifici che culturali ma soprattutto ad un progressivo intensificarsi degli scambi commerciali che col passare del tempo sono diventati sempre più remunerativi e diversificati. Nel gioco impersoniamo il comandante di un'astronave mercantile la cui missione consiste, appunto, nel trasportare i prodotti più disparati from one end of the Milky Way. Unfortunately, while the work is not lacking and future prospects are good, things are far from idyllic, not because of the very high running costs, but especially for the rampant piracy that afflicts the main trade routes. To counter this threat, the "cargo" business have become increasingly sophisticated and gigantic, it is becoming increasingly difficult to govern. To handle such large proportions of the vessels is essential to the presence of a well-trained crew. Early in the game we are given the opportunity to select three possible destinations, each of these routes provides a different perishable cargo to be delivered a certain time limit, a greater distance to be covered and a fee commensurate with the risk that s'incorre, in other words, each choice will correspond to a more challenging level of difficulty. Having decided on the destination and the cargo, and our pay, hired the crew for the mission, each person selected will manage a particular compartment of our merchants. Each screen presented to five for the record, one for each area of \u200b\u200binterest to us, gives us six possible candidates to choose from. Of course, for every character we have a real curriculum vitae to be evaluated, where, in addition to age and race, are also professional qualifications obtained, the studies supported the previous work experience, skills, character and the inevitable defects of character behavior. However, the choice of the crew will be crucial for the success of the mission, the presence or absence of some members will develop the various situations of the game in ways unimaginable. Once the existence of our "crew" , will start the real game.

As commander of the ship, we have to supervise the various activities of crew members, this task is mainly to receive service communications from the individual compartments of the vessel and in imparting the necessary instructions to deal with any type of situation. The control room features two large screens and a series of indicators that provide instant status of major vehicle systems, including: cruising speed, the status of weapons, the presence or absence of defensive shields and sector of origin of each message. The first gives us a visual display of what happens in the immediate vicinity of our ship, among other things with a perspective that will change periodically. This, in addition to show the motion of stars and the numerous ships passing through, we will attend to the numerous conflicts that characterize our long journey. In the next screen appears, instead, our interlocutor, the head of a particular compartment of the vessel. Using the browser we establish the strategy to be used during the trip, since the destination has already been decided at the time of selection of the mission. Provider and giving the appropriate orders to change both the cruising speed the path to follow, in particular, we decide, for example, the shortest route, the longest or various other possibilities in between. Every choice we are offered in the form of a prioritized list of where we need to put just the top one che più preferiamo. Il pilota, ovviamente, farà quanto in suo potere per assecondare la nostra volontà. Ogni voce della lista contempla una particolare velocità di crociera, una determinata distanza da coprire, una certa durata del viaggio ed una differente percentuale di rischio, quest'ultima intesa come la probabilità di essere attaccati. Tale scelta non va assolutamente sottovalutata ai fini del buon esito della missione, anzi deve essere ponderata attentamente anche per via della natura prettamente deperibile del nostro prezioso carico. A seconda di come evolverà la situazione, saremo costretti a modificarla più volte durante il corso della partita, spesso utilizzando anche delle manovre evasive per tenere a bada gli innumerevoli pirati space.

During the course of the journey we encounter often in ships for the most unknown, to avoid being caught off guard by an unexpected attack, we will analyze the advance of issuing appropriate directives to responsible for sensors. Through these, we examine systematically all the ships in our vicinity, for any purpose we assign a certain level of importance and, once concluded its analysis phase, we obtain a range of information about its position relative to ours, distance, the intentions (friendly or not) and, in the case, even the most effective weapon for damage. To defend against enemy attacks, or why not, to be the first to initiate hostilities, we exploit the skills of our "gunner." He once acquired the various targets, we will focus systematically, provided, however, of them previously identified by the ship's sensors. To determine the priority of each enemy attack, the weapon to use (guns, lasers, missiles and so on) and finally also the firing mode: a will or through a number of hits. The performance of motors, sensors, weapons, shields and many other onboard systems are defined by a particular system che ripartisce l'energia prodotta dal reattore dell'astronave. L'ammontare di tale afflusso energetico stabilisce, inoltre, il grado di operatività di un particolare dispositivo, inteso come: pienamente operativo, parzialmente operante o infine disattivato. Tramite l'ingegnere di bordo modifichiamo la distribuzione dell'energia secondo le nostre esigenze, così da avere, ad esempio, una velocità di crociera più sostenuta o una maggior potenza degli scudi e delle armi in presenza di qualche conflitto. Anche in questo caso, il tutto si decide da un apposito elenco di voci in cui poniamo al vertice i settori che preferiamo privilegiare. Quando necessario, in genere nelle situazioni più critiche, possiamo anche decidere di disattivare i sistemi non indispensabili così da reindirizzare più energia presso quelli più importanti.

I danni vengono riparati impartendo degli opportuni stimoli al capo meccanico. I numerosi sistemi che caratterizzano la nave possono subire tre tipi di guasti: un semplice malfunzionamento, un danno ripristinabile o la distruzione completa, per quest'ultimo caso, ovviamente, non vi è alcun tipo di rimedio. Ad ogni dispositivo guasto, o comunque mal funzionante, assegniamo un particolare "Robodroid", uno speciale automa che si occuperà solamente di  una ben precisa riparazione, il gioco ne mette a disposizione sette. Poi, decidiamo anche la priorità per ciascun intervention in order to differentiate them in order of importance. All service, in addition to requiring a high power output, will also call for some time to complete. The various compartments of the ship can be destroyed completely, the game, however, prematurely ending only in the case of a collision and subsequent theft of the entire load. The amount of cargo residue will be indicated by a specific percentage. For the rest, Psi-5 Trading Company, consists basically in trying to carefully balance all these aspects, it is certainly not an easy undertaking. Part of the challenge is also to identify the best combinazione dei membri dell'equipaggio, tenendo conto ovviamente anche di ciascuna indole caratteriale. Graficamente, sebbene la maggior parte delle schermate siano caratterizzate più che altro da una serie di schede testuali, Psi-5 trading Company non è poi così male, almeno per quanto riguarda lo stile impiegato per ritrarre i differenti membri dell’equipaggio. Al di là dello stile grafico prettamente caricaturale, ironico se vogliamo, ciascun personaggio presenta anche una serie di simpatiche animazioni volte a descriverne il particolare stato emotivo. L'azione è accompagnata da una serie di motivetti tutto sommato soddisfacenti, così come da una serie di effetti quanto meno efficaci. Concludo semplicemente aggiungendo che, Psi-5 Trading Company, in addition to being a title rather than the original and innovative, he was also one of the first space simulation in real-time video game history. Not bad, the link:

Download Psi-5 Trading Company (disk images)

NB: To run the game properly with your emulator of confidence, whether the CCS64, the ' Hoxs64 or WinVice , you select the file that corresponds to the second disc, of course, without restarting from scratch emulation, at the screen that asks you to confirm the crew just selected, the one with the voice " Accept final crew ". In altre parole, non attendete che Psi-5 Trading Company vi chieda di inserire il secondo disco, fatelo prima. ;-)

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Atheism sostituirà le religioni?

I published a new article by Nigel Barber on atheism as opposed to religion. Like the previous ( Why atheists have a higher IQ? ) is very interesting and provocative, but I leave judging to those who want to read it. The original is here.

Why atheism supplant religion

Atheists are heavily concentrated in the economically developed countries, particularly in European social democracies. In underdeveloped countries there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is therefore a particularly modern phenomenon. Because the conditions of modernity promote atheism?
First, as regards the distribution of atheism in the world, you can see a pretty clear pattern. In sub-Saharan Africa there is hardly atheism (Zuckerman, 2007). Faith in God is declining in most developed countries, particularly in European countries such as Sweden (64% of non-believers), Denmark (48%), France (44%) and Germany (42%). By contrast, the incidence of atheism in the majority of sub-Saharan countries is below 1%.

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32,508,000 10,311,000

Pos	country	Population	Perc atheists, agnostics , unbelievers (min - max)	projection. on population
1	Sweden	8,986,000	46-85%	4,133,560 to 7,638,100
	Vietnam		82,690,000 81% 66,978,900
3	Denmark	5,413,000		43-80% from 2,327,590 to 4,330,400
	Norway	4,575,000		31-72% from 1,418,250 to 3,294,000
5	Japan		64-65% 127,333,000 81,493,120	- 82,766,450
6	Czech Republic	10,246,100		54-61% from 5,328,940 to 6,250,121
7	Finlandia	5.215.000	28-60%	1.460.200 - 3.129.000
8	Francia	60.424.000	43-54%	25.982.320 - 32.628.960
9	Corea del Sud	48.598.000	30%-52%	14.579.400 - 25.270.960
10	Estonia	1.342.000	49%	657.580
11	Germania	82.425.000	41-49%	33.794.250 - 40.388.250
12	Russia	143,782,000	24-48%	34,507,680 to 69,015,360
13	Hungary	10,032,000	32-46%	3210 .240 - 4,614,720
14	Netherlands	16,318,000		39-44% from 6,364,020 to 7,179,920
15	Britain	60,271,000	31-44%	18,684,010 to 26,519,240
16	Belgium	10,348,000	42-43%	4,346,160 to 4,449,640
17	Bulgaria	7,518,000		34-40% from 2,556,120 to 3,007,200
18	Slovenia	2,011,000		35-38% from 703,850 to 764,180
19	Israel	6,199,000		15-37% from 929,850 to 2,293,630
20	Canada			19-30% from 6,176,520 to 9,752,400
21	Latvia	2,306,000	20-29%	461,200 to 668,740
22	Slovakia	5,424,000		10-28% from 542,400 to 1,518,720
23	Switzerland	7,451,000		17-27% from 1,266,670 to 2,011,770
24	Austria	8,175,000		18-26% from 1,471,500 to 2,125,500
25	Australia	19,913,000		24-25% from 4,779,120 to 4,978,250
26	Taiwan	22,750,000	24%	5,460,000
27	Spain	40,281,000		15-24% from 6,042,150 to 9,667,440
28	Iceland	294,000	16-23%	47,040 to 67,620
29	New Zealand	3,994,000		20-22% from 798,800 to 878,680
30	Ukraine	47,732,000	20 %	9,546,400
31	Belarus		17%	1,752,870
32	Greece		10,648,000 16% 1,703,680
33	North Korea		22,698,000 15% ( ?)	3,404,700
34	Italy	58,057,000		6-15% from 3,483,420 to 8,708,550
35	Armenia	2,991,000	14%	418,740
36	China	1,298,848,000	8-14% (?)	103.907.840 - 181.838.720
37	Lituania	3.608.000	13%	469.040
38	Singapore	4.354.000	13%	566.020
39	Uruguay	3.399.000	12%	407.880
40	Kazakhstan	15.144.000	11-12%	1.665.840 - 1.817.280
41	Estonia	1.342.000	11%	147.620
42	Mongolia	2.751.000	9%	247.590
43	Portogallo	10.524.000	4-9%	420.960 - 947.160
44	USA	293.028.000	3-9%	8.790.840 - 26.822.520
45	Albania	3.545.000	8%	283.600
46	Argentina	39.145.000	4-8%	1.565.800 - 3.131.600
47	Kyrgyzstan	5.081.000	7%	355.670
48	Rep. Dominicana	8.834.000	7%	618.380
49	Cuba	11.309.000	7% (?)	791.630
50	Croazia	4.497.000	7%	314.790

Da " Atheism: Contemporary numbers and patterns ", Zuckerman (2007)

Le percentuali indicate con un punto interrogativo a seguito sono be considered uncertain

The question of why the economically developed countries are requested from atheism has been discussed by anthropologists for nearly eighty years. The anthropologist James Fraser has suggested that scientific predictions about the nature and control are replacing religion as a means to overcome the insecurity in our lives. This idea is supported by data showing that more educated countries have a higher number of non-believers and there are strong correlations between atheism and intelligence (see here ).

Atheists are generally college-educated people living in cities and are heavily concentrated in European social democracies. Atheism So blossoms in the midst of well-being, where the majority of people feel economically secure. But why?

seems that people talk of religion as a balm for the difficulties and uncertainty in their lives. In the social democracies there are fewer fears and uncertainties about the future because the social assistance programs provide a safety net, and better health care means that fewer people can expect to die young. People less vulnerable to hostile forces of nature they feel better able to control their lives and have less need of religion.

" Religion is the sigh of a creature
oppressed
the feeling of a heartless world
, the spirit of a
provided free spirit.
is the opiate of the masses "(Karl Marx)

Religion, as well as being the opiate of the masses (as Karl Marx called it disparagingly), may also promote fertility, particularly by supporting marriage, according to the copious amount of data analyzed by Sanderson (2008). Large families are favored in many agricultural countries providing arms free for work. In developed countries, and "atheists", women have families exceptionally small and do not need a religion that helps them grow large families.

also psychological functions of religion face a tough competition today. In modern societies, when people experience psychological difficulties please ask your doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist. He wants a remedy Scientific and prefers the tangible psychotropic medication provided by specialist opiate metaphorical offered by religion.

addition, psychologists have found that sports fans sports gives more or less the same social and spiritual benefits that people get from belonging to a church. In a previous article I showed how the sport is replacing religion. The same argument can be made for other forms of entertainment in which viewers are deeply involved. In fact, religion is fighting back by trying to compete in the popular media, as with tele-evangelism and Christian Rock, hosting live entertainment or layman in the church.

The reasons why the churches are losing ground in the developed countries can be summarized in terms of the market. First, with better science, with social safety nets and smaller families there is less fear and uncertainty in people's daily lives and therefore less market for religion. At the same time offers several alternatives such as psychotropic medications and electronic entertainment, more free and straps and laces that do not need to comply so slavish to non-scientific beliefs.

(Nigel Barber's Blog: "The Human Beast", at the Psychology Today)

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References:

• Original article by Nigel Barber on Psychology Today: Why atheism will replace religion ( link)
• Sanderson, SK (2008). Adaptation, evolution, and religion . Religion, 38, 141-156 (PDF ).
• Zuckerman, P. (2007). Atheism: Contemporary numbers and patterns. In M. Martin (ed.), The Cambridge companion to atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This Book Is Not Held By Any U.S. Library ( abstract, PDF)

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Perché gli atei hanno un quoziente intellettivo superiore?

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Every so often on forums, blog comments or discussion groups turns out that once again the provocateur round - from a racist - IQ studies that show that blacks are less intelligent whites. All

Whenever someone reacts violently and perhaps taken from the rush to deny affemazioni blatantly racist and disgusting attacks the studies referred to the wrong conclusions instead of racist.

The same situation will recur after some studies found that, on average, the IQ of atheists is higher than that of religious people.

I found an interesting article of Nigel Barber on Psychology Today trying to calmly explain the reasons for environmental, social, and economic characteristics of this fact by itself is very challenging ...

The real reason why the Atheists have a higher IQ

Diffusion of religion in the world

Atheism is a sign of intelligence?

were recently published rather controversial theories to explain the fact that atheists of religious people have better results in tests of intelligence quotient (IQ).

Is there a simpler explanation, and - like many correlations of this type - probably less exciting than what they appear to others. Atheists are probably more intelligent than religious people because they benefit from many delle condizioni sociali che risultano correlate alla perdita delle convinzioni religiose.



Se si guarda a questo fenomeno confrontando i vari paesi del mondo, non è difficile ipotizzare diverse possibili ragioni per cui i paesi più intelligenti hanno più atei, come riportato da Richard Lynn (2009). Eccone alcune:



I paesi altamente religiosi:

• sono più poveri


• sono meno urbanizzati


• hanno livelli più bassi di istruzione


• hanno meno esposizione ai media elettronici che aumentano l'intelligenza (Barber, 2006);


• hanno un carico maggiore di malattie infettive che indeboliscono le funzionalità cerebrali;


• i bambini hanno minor peso alla nascita;


• hanno una peggiore alimentazione infantile;


• controllano scarsamente inquinanti ambientali come il piombo che riducono il QI.

Dato che ognuno di questi fattori è una causa riconosciuta di bassi punteggi ai test QI (Barber, 2005) c'è ben poco di misterioso sulla ragione per cui i paesi molto religiosi risultino più scarsi in questi test.



Naturalmente gli stessi fenomeni sono rilevanti anche all'interno di una stessa nazione. Anche in questo caso, gli individui più agiati hanno una vita diversa da quelli più poveri, sviluppando QI più alti e maggior scetticismo religioso.



Come per explanations more exciting, I doubt that religion is a cause of stupidity, if only some of the most brilliant men of history, as Isaac Newton, were very religious, like most of their contemporaries.

say if intelligence push people to reject religious beliefs is more complex. It is certainly plausible that highly intelligent people have more trouble accepting some of the most improbable beliefs required by their churches. In addition, modern science offers explanations of phenomena that were previously justified in religious terms, and intelligent people may prefer scientific explanations.

In short, discuss correlations between IQ and religiosity without taking account of major underlying factors is to talk to the living room. Remember the long and tedious debate about the correlation between IQ and skin color, but he did warm up a lot of people who turned out to be a scientific dead end.

(Nigel Barber's Blog: "The Human Beast", at the Psychology Today)

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References:

• Original article by Nigel Barber on Psychology Today: The real reason atheists Have Higher IQs ( link);
• Barber, N. (2005). Educational and ecological correlates of IQ: A cross-national investigation . Intelligence, 33, 273-284 ( HTML )
• Barber, N. (2006). Is the effect of national wealth on academic achievement mediated by mass media and computers? Cross-Cultural Research, 40, 130-151 (Abstract + PDF)
• Lynn, R., Harvey, J., & Nyborg, H. (2009). Average Intelligence Predicts atheism across 137 nations . Intelligence, 37, 11-15 (PDF ).

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Googled I found myself in front of this authentic masterpiece that I do not hesitate a moment to post!

(click on image per la versione full-size)

È stato fatto da Crispian Jago, cattivissimo come il cognome suggerisce, il cui blog che non conoscevo finisce di filata tra i miei preferiti. Lo consiglio a tutti. Si chiama Science, Reason and Critical Thinking : qui .

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Incubation

Incubation è la quarta incarnazione del celebre brand Battle Isle , una famosa serie di wargame sviluppata dalla Blue Byte a partire dai primi anni '90. Questa realizzazione, però, prende le distanze dai tradizionali tratti che hanno caratterizzato i titoli precedenti, se nei primi giochi supervisionavamo, infatti, il dispiegamento bellico del nostro esercito in scenari prettamente bidimensionali, in Incubation comandiamo una singola squadra di soldati attraverso una serie a fully three-dimensional environments. The game, although unusual in the context of the saga, it still takes up some elements. The story spread, in fact, Scayra on a distant world colonized by the same civilization that originated on the well-known Chromos, the planetary system are centered on which the earlier conflicts. The background shows the failure of the energy barrier that separates the settlements from the rest of the world, especially from Scay'Ger: the peaceful natives of the place. The problem was not so bad if only one virus did not mutate into a multitude of facts to be super aggressive, capable, among other things, to put on fire even Scay Hallwa, the capital. The game is set right between the buildings and structures and the latter is divided into something like thirty-five missions divided into five "theaters" of war different. The goal of missions is variable, as an example, we do not only clean up a given location by enemy presence, but on the contrary, there will often and always enjoy having to reach a particular position, to survive for a certain number of rounds, to take out specific enemies and so on. Each mission also has clauses that survive usually require us to keep alive some members of the team or limit the number of shifts to which we can use. Each scenario must be selected from a screen that shows the different buildings of the capital, as they will continue with the game, there will be offers of different locations. Also from this kind of map, choosing the appropriate places, as well as attend the briefing information that clarifies the matter further, we can also buy weapons and equipment more efficient.

Incubation, in addition to tactical aspects, including many elements from the universe of mutual role-playing games, especially with regard to the management of individual Marines. Each character is characterized by several parameters that describe both the skills physical condition. At the beginning of each mission properly settle our men on possible areas of deployment. The game is developed in a long series of shifts that we see contrapporci units managed by the computer. In each round we have to handle every character of our team, in general this is reflected in him to do various actions that, for the most part, are to move from one location to another, using any object, interacting with some elements of the stage, opening fire on an enemy or providing aid to a wounded comrade. Our every action consumes a certain amount of "Action Points", each soldier has a population of a certain amount for each shift, the amount depends on the experience gained in the field, this device binds us to having to consider carefully all of our tactical decision. To protect our men during the turn of the enemy we can activate, in addition, a special defensive mode which will give them a minimum of self-preservation instinct. To complete the objectives of each mission, we also often have to resolve some "puzzles" which generally is to use ports, switches, lifts and levers so as to provide a way to cross a particular scenario. The three-dimensional game engine allows us to rotate the view as we please in order to observe the action from different angles, in so doing we will light the most hidden areas. For the firefights we can use a large arsenal of weapons, each requiring a certain level of competence, also to be increased as they will continue to accumulate experience. Each weapon is characterized by some parameters that describe the performance: the precision, power, the amount of ammunition and range, not forgetting, then, the possibility of using a mo 'with bayonets. In practice we do out of the aliens using something like twenty-four different weapons, among which: pistols, rifles, machine guns, lasers, particle guns, grenade launchers and flamethrowers. With regard to the "bestiary" Incubation, has eleven different monsters, the most "stupid" to the more lethal requiring the involvement of more soldiers.

The game does not have a proper inventory, the few usable items are handled with the appropriate icons on the control panel. During the game we can use a wide range of objects, the most useful are without any doubt: the inevitable medical kits that allow us to replenish health, explosives to blow up the access points where they exit from the Scay'Ger , the electrodes to effectively protect our men, the different types of scanners that ferret out hidden enemies, the jetpack to climb over the barriers, stimulants temporarily increase the points for action and finally some systems and some aim to improve the ability of our Marines. Again, the use of some objects require a particular level of experience and also a certain amount of points "equipment", the latter briefly summarize the weight and bulk in your backpack. At the time of the exit, Incubation offered a graphic industry certainly impressive, featuring, among other things, a fully three-dimensional scenario. The latter enjoyed a high degree of detail, the models of the soldiers, as well as other objects in the game, they were fully polygonal and effectively exploited the use of texture-mapping. Among the features inedite va segnalato che supportava anche i primi acceleratori 3D, in particolare i prodotti della 3DFX, sebbene funzionasse degnamente anche col solo rendering via software, seppur con richieste hardware decisamente più elevate. Il comparto audio si difendeva bene, l'atmosfera generale traeva sicuramente beneficio dalla presenza delle tracce audio. Tirando le somme, Incubation, è un titolo sicuramente coinvolgente, soprattutto per via dell'ottima atmosfera sci-fi che lo caratterizza, in alcuni frangenti riesce persino ad intimorire. Consigliato, agli amanti del genere. Il link:

Download Incubation CD (English version)

N.B.: Il gioco gira sia con Windows XP and Virtual PC, the latter by means of virtual machines based on Windows 98/95. Before playing I suggest you also install the two patches included in the archive.

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Telepatia... artificiale!

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La telepatia è, secondo la definizione del vocabolario, la facoltà di trasmettere o percepire messaggi senza l’uso dei sensi. Ad oggi, secondo la comunità scientifica, there is no satisfactory evidence that there are people with telepathic abilities.

However, there are people unable to move and speak in a very serious because paralyzed as a result of serious injury or terrible diseases such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ) that they would derive great benefits from telepathy.

On the site of "Le Scienze", the Italian version of Scientific American's news absolutely fascinating to me. In short, a group of researchers at the University of Utah, conducted by Bradley Greger published an article on Journal of Neural Engineering which explains a technique for decoding words by patients think reading the electrical potential of the cortical surface of the brain ...

I quote the abstract of the article:

pathological conditions such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or damage to the nervous system can sink patients, severely paralyzed but fully conscious, in a condition called locked in syndrome . The disclosure in these cases is often reduced to select letters or words one at a time using the movements with residual fatigue. A more intuitive and faster communication could be restored by interfacing directly to the areas of language the cerebral cortex.

We used a grid of micro electrodes close together and not penetrating to record local electrical potential (local field potentials or LFP) directly on the facial motor cortex and Wernicke's area. From these LFP we were able to successfully classify a small set of words at levels much higher than pure chance.

The prototype captures the brain signals through two grids of 16 micro-electrodes implanted beneath the skull without penetrating the cortex in two brain areas known to be centers of language and was tested on a patient with severe of epilepsy. The patient repeated

Sometimes a more than ten words and the researchers recorded data from grids, computer processing to recognize patterns of neuronal activation corresponding to each word.

The items selected for the experiment were those that might be more useful to a patient completely paralyzed: yes, no, more, less, hunger, thirst, cold, heat, hello and goodbye.

The experiment showed that the most requested when patients had pronounced the words the facial motor cortex, involved in the control of facial muscles to produce sound, while the area of \u200b\u200bWernik was activated more when the patients were thanked by researchers, indicating the involvement of this part of the brain in high-level understanding of language.

The researchers found that the patterns of activity concerned in different ways different columns of neurons below the electrodes.

The identification of words is not yet perfect, but well above the pure randomness (ie recognizing a word out of 10 with a precision much higher than 10%, the percentage that would be obtained guessing), and researchers think of using for the next step of the grids with multiple elements (121 per grid), which can provide huge amounts of data from which should be possible to obtain not only greater accuracy but also the recognition of more words.

-reference to 'The Science article and publishing Journal of Neural Engineering for full details. For

irony of fate, while the parapsychology has not yet been able to demonstrate in a scientifically acceptable that someone can read your mind, the much insulted "official science" begins to really do it!

Deed To Ny Revocable Trust

Candeggina contro il cancro?

Corriere della Sera on-line today was published this news . In short, the Food and Drug Administration , the American authority for health inspection, said a health hazard the Miracle Mineral Solution , a treatment invented by a certain Jim Humble, former researcher mining, aerospace engineer and now Minister of the "Church of the Second Genesis' , based in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

In short, this treatment is the administration of drops of a 28% solution of sodium chlorite in water with vinegar (acetic acid) or lemon juice (citric acid). The reaction with these two substances free chlorine dioxide , the active ingredient of this treatment. According to this substance Humble - with high power bleach and disinfectant, used in low concentrations for potable water - used to treat various diseases, from AIDS to cancer, passing through the cold, and hepatitis. Quoting directly

Courier:

Humble offers its water via the internet "miracle" through a network of branched sale on five continents. The water would be "miraculous" and, to hear Humble, " should be no fanfare for one of the most important medicines ever proposed humanity," but, obviously, even miracles have a price. And so on Italian site dedicated MMS , the miraculous water is for sale the 'moderate' figure of 35 €, including postage.

But they have to complain? What are 35 € for a miracle?

Jim Humble

The Italian site talks about the MMS tones no less enthusiastic:

The wonder of the twenty-first century. Save your life and that of your loved ones. [...] Ion of chlorine dioxide (ClO2), known as stabilized oxygen is the most powerful killer of disease that has ever been known. The answer to a wide range of diseases. It is able to eliminate viruses, bacteria, germs, fungi, molds, the primary cause of many diseases. Malaria, No. 1 killer of mankind, healing in 4 hours.

course, according to the Italian site:

absence of medical studies should be based on success stories reported by those who have used the reported healings are: cancer, leukemia, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, herpes, lupus, hepatitis , tonsils, appendicitis, malaria, AIDS, food poisoning and heavy metal and dozens of other diseases.

pity that instead of checking the so-called success stories, as suggested by common sense dealing with such extraordinary claims, Italian site adds:

The Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), is another interesting findings that may be effective after months of use, MMS is acting in a few hours. In Malawi ono s been treated 75,000 people suffering from malaria without any failure , Uganda health authorities have allowed to treat hundreds of AIDS patients, but only the people sent home to die, 60% healed in 3 days in the remaining 2 / 3 weeks .

Note that this is not just a little excited that advertise 'unconsciously what for them is a miracle cure: the on-line! It is therefore da chiedersi se, promettendo tanto, costoro se ne assumano anche la responsabilità. Vi stupirà apprendere che la risposta è: no . Infatti, a fondo pagina, c'è una nettissima presa di distanza:

L'MMS è una soluzione per potabilizzare l'acqua e solo a tale scopo va usato. Ciò che è scritto nel sito www.miraclemineral.it a proposito degli usi curativi dell'MMS Tradotti dal libro dello scopritore, sono solo opinioni e non consigli medici. Qualunque cosa lei decida di fare con la sua salute, si tratta di una sua scelta ed esclusivamente di una sua decisione. Il Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) non è una medicina, ma una soluzione per potabilizzare l'acqua. Non è inteso come medical advice, it is not intended as advice to leave by doctors. Does not state that the MMS treatment, diagnostic or prevent disease. Anyone in need of medical treatment you should consult doctors. The Miracle Mineral Solution has not been evaluated or approved by health authorities.

Well, write that cures cancer and AIDS, but really do not mean that it cures cancer and AIDS. They write that cure malaria, but it's just their free idea, really do not know if the cure malaria or some other illness. In fact, for medical care should contact doctors. They speak of miracles, but it is clear that in case of problems they just admit that their wonder of the twenty-first century only serves to disinfect the water. The rest are just opinions that they may not share either. Etc.

try to figure it out. Sodium chlorite (Cl Na O) is an industrial bleach: a type of bleach (one per household, Na Cl O 2 , is the ' sodium hypochlorite).

a substance is quite stable and can be sold in solution. To become chlorine dioxide must be "activated" (as reported by the Protocol of use Humble exposed site) and you therefore react with acids like vinegar or juice lemon. Is formed so that chlorine dioxide is a substance considered toxic in the concentrations of the leaflet proposed by MMS. The card Wikipedia , in the section of the risks (hazards) says that it is a highly toxic oxidant, corrosive and hazardous to the environment. It is effective as a disinfectant at low concentrations. The site of Lenntech , a company that deals with treatment and water purification, has a page that describes the use of chlorine dioxide as a disinfectant: here.

The fact that a toxic substance is used for potable water is not a contradiction: a disinfectant to kill bacteria. The problem is that when a substance is toxic to the bacteria, often it is for humans if ingested. It is no coincidence that in all the bottles of disinfectant is printed clearly: for outdoor use.

The effectiveness of this drug is given by its reactivity, ie the ability to steal electrons from other substances, all substances and without looking at anyone, then not only harmful bacteria, viruses or diseased tissues but also healthy ones .

Not only that, but toxicity depends on the concentration. For example, a healthy adult with a glass of wine does not hurt (anzi!). But when the concentration of ethyl alcohol in the blood reaches the 3 / 4 grams per liter ethyl you go into a coma and you risk your life. Ethyl alcohol is toxic.

Let's see what he says precisely the Food and Drug Administration on this matter "miracle" in its press :

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take the Miracle Mineral Solution, a liquid to be taken by Oral also known as Miracle Mineral Supplement or MMS.

The product, when used as explained above, produces an industrial bleaching agent that can cause serious damage to health.

The FDA has received several reports of health damage caused to consumers who have used this product, including severe nausea, vomiting and low blood pressure with risk of death due to dehydration.

Consumers who have the MMS should immediately stop using it and throw it [...]

The MMS is distributed by internet sites and through online auctions from several independent suppliers. Although these products share the name MMS, the packaging and label may vary.

The product instructions say to mix the 28% solution of sodium chlorite with an acid like lemon juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent used for bleaching textiles and for the treatment of industrial waters. High oral doses of this bleach, come quelli raccomandati dalle istruzioni, possono causare nausea, vomito e sintomi di grave disidratazione.

Si afferma anche che la MMS può essere usata per trattare diverse malattie non legate tra di loro, come l'HIV, le epatiti, il virus influenzale H1N1, comuni raffreddori, acne, cancro e altro ancora. La FDA non è a conoscenza di alcuna ricerca che mostri l'efficacia della MMS nel trattamento di nessuna di queste malattie.

L'uso della MMS mette a rischio la salute dei consumatori anche perché scegliendo di auto-curarsi con essa non cercano trattamenti approvati dalla FDA per questi casi.

La FDA continuerà its investigation and may take criminal or civil penalties to protect the public from this potentially dangerous product.

The FDA advises consumers who have experienced adverse reactions from the use of MMS to consult a medical professional as soon as possible and to discard the product. Consumers and health professionals should report adverse incidents to the FDA's MedWatch program [...].

So taking MMS cause nausea, vomiting, dehydration. False? No, true, according to the website of Humble that this page tells us that if during the treatment ...

" [...] Notice diarrhea or even vomiting is not a bad sign. The body is simply expelling poisons and are cleaning up. All said they felt much better after the diarrhea. You should not take any medicine for diarrhea. It will go as it came. It will not last. It is not real diarrhea as the body is just cleansing, and is not caused by bacteria or viruses. When the poison is gone, even if the diarrhea will go "

I find it simply appalling.

Needless to say, supporters of alternative remedies are already screaming in the plot, saying that the FDA is in the pay of the multinational drug companies, that if the chlorine dioxide can be used as a disinfectant, then it can be dangerous to your health, that all these success stories can not be false, that the censorship of the FDA action is a test of the effectiveness of MMS in the usual crescendo of nonsense that fanaticism is able to produce in these cases. Of course, part of the conspiracy even newspapers that speak of people killed by this "care" as the Sydney Morning Herald .

Let me be clear: the medical lobby and the pharmaceutical companies exist, they are powerful, they try to sell drugs of dubious effectiveness or even unnecessary (see the vaccine 's H1N1), there is no transparency in their dealings with states and I suspect that the bodies the FDA may face severe and undue pressure is more than legitimate. It is also certain that virtually all drugs have legitimate contraindications, possible side effects that are also very heavy (just read the leaflet to be aware of any drug) and that each year a number of people die because of drugs. But between taking note of this and claim that it can be evidence of the effectiveness of certain remedies go there.

To realize just how bleak the Italian scene on this matter just a Google search: http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=Jim+Humble+diossido . Of course, these are the usual sites of crap, ready to disseminating any news without sounding the least verify it, but that certain topics are treated so irresponsible, however, puts sadness.

Update (November 3):

The police of the NAS of Turin have referred two people for the misuse of the medical profession and sales in the territory of a toxic substance sold as a medicine. On the home page of the site MMS Italian there is now a press release in which the Italian retailers are asking the Italian courts to order clinical trials ... I would not be in the shoes of the unfortunates who have to undergo the test!
For more information on the latest developments:

• informed consumers national union;
• article QuotidianoSanità.it ;
• service in La Stampa.
  

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sitography:

• article in the Corriere della Sera
• Site of Jim Humble MMS Site
• Italian
• Site MMS International
• Press FDA