About a month or so ago, I read an idea about how to address car pollution (maybe it was in a book by Jane Jacobs?).
The idea was to require car manufacturers to move the exhaust pipe to go into the cabin of the car, instead of outside the car. Very quickly, a solution would be found for the pollution coming out of cars.
It's not at all unfair. It's against the law to litter and car exhaust can easily be described as a form of litter. In fact, it's also a form of assault (a very slow and drawn out assault, but it does cause harm - eventually fatal).
The more I've thought about this idea, the more sense it makes. I can't see anything unfair about it, either - whereas there is much that is unfair about the current policy and practice of allowing pollution from cars.
I figure that if we said to the car manufacturers: "In three years, you will not be permitted to have any pollutive emissions from new or refurbished cars," that they would very quickly come up with a solution.
Amnesty International is calling for urgent support to prevent "the flogging of Intisar Bakri Abdulgader" which is currently scheduled for January 23 in Sudan.
Having just hit the milestone of serving 1,000,000 maps via HAC’s in-game downloader and serving well over 100,000 maps/month, it seems like a fitting time for a rundown of the most popular maps.
The Halo 4 medal pack has had slight adjustments to its animations and the audio files have been replaced with the high-quality originals rather than lower quality recordings than were previously used.
The Halo 3 medal pack received a small change to its script to correct an oversight (perfection can no longer be attained after a suicide or a betrayal) and a single sound file replacement.
You can download the Halo 4 medal pack here and the Halo 3 pack here. See this post if you need instructions on installing the packs.
Added a command, ‘visible_objects <number>‘, that can be used to control the number of objects drawn. Most users will have no need for this command.
Fixed a medals related bug some users were experiencing that would cause the game’s process to remain open after exiting.
Fixed a small typo that causes the Halo Reach medals script to fail when awarded the ‘Unfriggenbelievable’ medal. Download the updated script here.
Just a minor update to redirect all 1.09 clients (update to 1.10 already) to the new master server now that Gamespy has pulled the plug.
Fixed a bug with 1.10 where the draw distance wasn’t automatically being increased for certain custom maps.
For those using WINE, if you could post your distro and whether you’re using HPC or HCE in the comments, that’d be helpful.
Windows XP users will now be able to see the custom chat, although it’ll use an installedÂ typeface rather than the featured one. Â This bug is caused by Windows XP itself and there isn’t a suitable workaround (apart from getting a newer OS), although you’ll be able to select your own typefaceÂ at some point in the future.
Some maps could cause the game to crash after downloading. This was a regression (plain English: it worked, then I broke it) introduced in the January update.
This update introduces a Lua scriptable medal system. To get the ball rolling, I’ve provided three example medal packs (click to download); Halo 3, Halo Reach and Halo 4. To install a medal pack, simply download it to your HAC folder under the ‘packs’ directory (create it if it doesn’t exist) but do not extract it. For example:
The optic load command only needs to be used once. HAC will remember your preference for the next time you start the game.
Although you’re welcome to open the provided medal packs to see how I’ve done things, documentation will be forthcoming (next week, ideally).
Fixed a HUD issue where the game type icon wasn’t being scaled correctly on extremely wide resolutions.
Corrupt chat text on low-end graphics hardware. May not be able to solve this without access to a machine experiencing the problem.
Halo Chat V2 won’t work if custom_chat 1 is being used (and vice versa). This isn’t considered to be a bug, so there are no plans to fix this.