Seriously, why would they use a guy like him for a two line character.

Ah that explains why Carter's ship was called the Hammond.

Actually this sounds like fun to me, I get bored with running pretty quickly and I could see some sort of treadmill game being a good way of helping with that. Especially if it's not just about the running as in this case.

It looks like a South African rifle actually, so neither Warsaw Pact nor NATO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denel_NTW-20
http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn55-e.htm

No for that you need a Mountain Howitzer.
http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm
(this is somewhat old so just disregard if you have seen it before)

I had a compound bow at the age of 7 and was using it without supervision within 6 months.
At no point between the age of 7 and now have I ever used a projectile weapon irresponsibly.
I think it is completely possible for this 11 year old to be responsible enough to own and use a cannon.
Do I think this is the norm? No not at all, I didn't trust most of my friends to use my bow without supervision until I was maybe 12, but to just write this kid off because of your own irresponsibility is not fair.

A lot of the Empires players are ex Natural Selection players.
Most of them will probably play NS2 when it comes out.

That would probably be a Sten.

http://www.empiresmod.com/
Try that out it's what you are describing.
I enjoy it, but it has its share of problems, usually due to the commander being unable to control bad players.

The animation was smooth, the audio played without a hitch, it was great.

Cystic Fibrosis... that brings back bad memories of when I lived in Canada and my friend got minimal care for CF because he wasn't "high enough priority", people that think the medical system in Canada is absolutely wonderful are deluded.
Those that think the American system is any better are also deluded.
Something needs to be done here, but it's not copying another broken system. /rant (I know I'm just spitting in the ocean)

If you ever get a chance to watch him present on Armadillo Aerospace you will understand why.
This really is his baby now and he is really making sure that they build everything from the bottom up rather than trying to start at some mid point.
The result of this is a very thorough knowledge of all of the systems, how to optimize them and their potential problems.

Good to see more NEAT stuff I worked on NERO while I was at UT.
GAR looks pretty cool glad to see some of the ideas we discussed back then being put into action.

I saw Carmack give a talk a couple weeks ago and OpenGL came up in the Q&A session.
Carmack's take on it was that OpenGL had not continued to be update to take advantage of newer technology and had therefore largely fallen into disuse, though he also said that the graphics code was not that large a portion of their codebase so they could fairly easily write OpenGL and Direct3D versions of their engines with minimal effort.

I've never understood your antigun bigotry anyway, but in this case your just being silly.
People have been using stocks on cameras for somewhere around a century now, they aren't useless they are actually quite useful.
One area where they shine is if you are trying to do any sort of photography where you need to be able to take a steady shot of a subject that only holds still for a moment.