If a guy died in X-COm I just reloaded a save from a turn or two back.
GF-X.com, which is creating a marketplace on the Internet for trading airfreight capacity.
It is popular with some eBay users (X.com claims that a tenth of eBay transactions are settled through its service).
But had I been a bit older, or had I happened to play the original X-COM, my opinion might have varied.
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Was UFO: Enemy Unknown (or , if you prefer, X-COM: UFO Defense) the best PC game ever (spoiler: yes), and could a remake scale those heights?
As they were working on this, another company in the online payments space, X.com run by now-Tesla (TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk, was located down the street.
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Yeah, the first x-com had some relatively simple maps (how many farms and wheat fields did you go to?) but it still made the game immensely replayable.
It feels almost exactly how I remember the original X-Com feeling, even though I have a feeling that game might not hold up so well all these years later.
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Possibly 2K softened us up by first mooting a first-person shooter based on the X-Com narrative (in short, aliens invade Earth, and are opposed by a shadowy transnational agency).
Not only do Firaxis have quite a strategy pedigree of their own, they were also founded by former employees of Microprose, publishers of the original X-COM (which, PS, is the best PC game ever made: just putting that out there).
With the entrance of the dot.com bubble and Gen X (and eventually Gen Y) came a much more instant gratification, self-oriented nature to the workforce.
Another option: The "Instant X-Ray" function on Morningstar.com will calculate an investor's exposure to sectors, geographic regions and security styles across a full portfolio.
The "Portfolio" section of Morningstar.com also has an "Instant X-Ray" tool, which shows you how much of your mutual funds and exchange-traded funds are in specific stocks.
Just as cigarette smoke could waft into the non-smoking areas before it was banned, so too will noise, said George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog.com, speaking to NBC news when AirAsia X's new option was announced last year.
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Not long after the the theft of more than 100 million user account details from Sony, Fox has confirmed that hackers also breached fox.com and obtained a file of details on 73, 000 people who requested information about the X-Factor auditions.
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