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Steve Schacher

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  1. I've been doing some more testing. I have a savegame where an SOS fighter is less than 20 clicks from Idan, my shuttle has it in its tractor, but it won't deliver it to Idan. Targeting my shuttle and using the F10 camera view shows that Idan is almost directly behind my shuttle. I wonder if this is related to the same feature that is causing ships to hyperjump backwards because they are almost perfectly aligned 180 degrees backward instead of forward. In that situation, the hyperjump effect seems to be moving forwards, but space is moving backwards (and the debris effect that falls into a ball in rear views is happening in the forward view screen). It's almost like ships towing disabled ships that are oriented 180 degrees from their targets get stuck because they don't rotate and orient forwards first.
  2. Savegame sent. I now think the issue is A/P ship orientation towards the delivery destination when towing a craft. I disabled the A/P on my CC and manually oriented the ship towards Idan, then enabled the A/P and the CC started flying towards it. The A/P would not orient the CC on its own, so the ship just sits there.
  3. Answered privately. Maybe somebody would be willing to be my guinea pig and try towing a disabled fighter back to a station for credit and experience?
  4. Now that I'm registered, I'll put this topic back. I searched the forums and found many references over the titles to disabled fighters that can't be moved when they're towed. I'm playing as a raider at Idan, and the region is now littered with disabled fighters. One is emitting an SOS and has engine status of 1, and is drifting at 155mps. Other fighters are in similar disabled status, but not emitting an SOS. Here are the many things that I'm seeing: o I can order a shuttle to Tow the SOS ship. The shuttle will tractor it successfully. When I order the shuttle to Deliver To Idan, the shuttle gets stuck, and will start to slow drift away from Idan. When I order the shuttle to stop towing the SOS fighter, the shuttle behaves normally. AI for the marine piloting the shuttle is 18 or so. o I manually fly the CC to the SOS fighter. When I switch on the A/P AI and order the CC to tow the shuttle, the CC will tractor it successfully. When I order the CC to Fly To Idan, the CC won't move until I disable the tractor. o I've seen NPC Paramedic ships tractor disabled fighters and then also get stuck. o When I order the CC A/P AI to Fly To the SOS fighter, it switches to Target Search instead. o When I order the CC A/P AI to Hyperjump to the SOS fighter, I get the message "Unable to compute jump coordinates." o I can manually fly the CC to the SOS/disabled ship and manually fire my guns to destroy it. Missiles can lock onto the SOS/disabled ships. All of these disabled ships were disabled via PTA firing. I would lock the fighter in the VDD to watch its damage, and my PTA's would first take the shield to zero and then the hull to zero. At that point, the fighter would become disabled. I do not recall any fighters being destroyed by the PTA's, only disabled. I'd think that some of these fragile fighters would be destroyed by the CC's PTA's, but they only get disabled, hence the littered region. I'm wondering if there is some kind of ship data corruption going on from the PTA damage routines. Maybe the fighters are supposed to be destroyed, but are sometimes behaving like they're destroyed, but also behaving like they're disabled?
  5. I turned off the acceleration in the Control Panel -> Sounds -> Volume Tab Speaker Settings Advanced button -> Performance Tab -> Audio Playback Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to off. I didn't try the other two settings (Basic and Standard), only full and off (Emulation Only).
  6. You're right. It was my mistake. Two things: 1. I misread the driver notes from an earlier fix 2. When I tested the game getting 40 FPS, I thought it was better than I had gotten the last time, but with the sound card acceleration turned off I get 100 FPS. My apologies. Please delete the prior comment. I really WAS hoping it was fixed.
  7. Creative released an Audigy driver update in May 2005 that I think fixes this problem.
  8. quote:but I'm not a rich SOB who has a multi-million dollar home and drives a Mercedes Benz or Porshe around either, so they wouldn't look twice at me....You misunderstand. You are EXACTLY the person who is affected by this ruling. This is about taking normal bedroom community homes and small businesses that pay single-family and single-business taxes, and handing them over to developers to build condos, hotels, and offices that pay orders of magnitude more in taxes. They're not going to seize the mansion in the exclusive part of town, they're going to seize the average homes in order to create more revenue-generating parts of town. The bottom line is that this about governments taking your property because you weren't using it in a way that maximizes its value to the government.
  9. I figured as much, but I didn't want to assume. In hindsight, I should have known better since it was you.
  10. It was posted by a military guy. He was being a bit sarcastic.
  11. Has anybody seen this recent Powerpoint slideshow from Iraq? http://www.goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseFor...s/iraqitour.pps
  12. If ever there was a "now we can move on" moment, this is it. Watergate was the watershed moment for everything that is happening now, from media distrust of government, to Vietnam analogies like quagmire, to the media taking sides. Can we now move on?
  13. quote:Me is starting to thinks that this whole granstanding with the dems on the objection to the Ohio vote was a diversionary tactic to the Washington state issue along with the mainstream media black out of it.The real reason was to delegitimize Bush's second term, so he can have another "selected, not elected" presidency. They're now diminishing Bush's Ohio win by saying that if 75,000 votes in Ohio went the other way, Kerry would be president. They're also not looking into Pennsylvania, which was an even closer margin of victory than in Ohio. Kerry won Pennsylvania, BTW.
  14. Keep digging. There are about 3,850 more votes tallied than voters recorded as voting in King County. There are dead voters voting, about 500 voters with the same address -- the county registrar office, military votes sent out too late to be legally received, unvalidated provisional ballots mixed into the general ballot pool, mysteriously "found" ballots that were not included in the two machine recounts but that were added to the hand recount (one bunch "found" in a ballot machine in an unsecured warehouse), ballots that were "enhanced" by counters by blackening in ovals to make them "readable", Democrats obtaining a list of addresses and phone numbers of absentee voters whose signatures didn't match the requests to have them "fix" their absentee ballots for the hand recount, etc. The King County Elections official said that they certified the election without reconciling the votes counted with the votes cast, and admitted that the discrepancy is "larger than I'm comfortable with." When Rossi won the initial count by 250 votes, the Democrats called for a recount. Gregoire called it a "virtual tie." When that recount (which included the enhanced ballots and "fixed" absentee ballots) reduced his lead to 42 votes, they called for the hand recount. After the hand recount (which included a trip to the Washington State Supreme Court to allow the 750 mysteriously "found" ballots to be included in the hand recount) gave Gregoire a 124 vote lead, the Democrats declared victory and called for "healing" and to "move on." It's amazing that they can't accept a 125,000 vote win by Bush in Ohio, but a 124 vote win in Washington State is absolute victory even though a Rossi 250 vote win was a "virtual tie." BTW, the media is blacking this all out. I should include a cross-reference in the Media Bias topic.
  15. quote:The sad part, is that the most important irregularity concerning this election, is being overlooked.I agree!!! The sad part is that they should be focusing on Washington State instead of Ohio. The governor's race is being stolen in plain sight over there.
  16. I thank my Senator Barbara Boxer for helping the Republican cause better than I ever expected her to.
  17. quote:Military budget when Clinton assumed office was 312.1 billion. When he left it was 305.4 billion. More like a 2% to 3% cut. You can't blame the reduction of enlisted on ClintonFrom The Facts About Military Readiness: quote:http://www.heritage.org/Research/MissileDefense/images/1151506.gif> quote:Steve: Something happened during the 90's that induced the former administration to believe that military budgets could be reduced. Why do you refer to the administration handling of military affairs during this period without replacing this in its historical context ? Glasnost & Perestroika never took place ? Had the collapse of the Soviet Union and the WAPA pact nothing to do with it ?What happened is that they were chasing after the "peace dividend," thinking that the world was finally safe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I guess they were a bit premature in their thinking?
  18. quote:While I can only guess how losing a loved one would feel, I cant for the life of me see why someone would be upset that the SecDef uses a machine to sign condolence letters to families of slain troops.It's payback for his comment about "going to war with the army you have." The "army we have" is a result of a 25% reduction in forces during the 1990's (hint: a prior administration), and Rumsfeld's remark was taken as a slap at the Democrats, ergo, payback. It's the DC way.
  19. We'll see how often he really appears on 60 Minutes.
  20. This is absolutely hysterical, if you ever seen the Don KnottÔÇÖs movies as a kid. http://dubyamovie.com/
  21. DeLay Appears To Be Off The Hook quote:The powerful GOP chieftain is unlikely to be indicted by a state grand jury probing alleged campaign finance violations in Texas, according to an official involved in the investigation. "No, no, I really donÔÇÖt think DeLay will be indicted," the official told CBSNews.com. "And to be quite honest, [DeLayÔÇÖs] lawyers know that." Anticipating a possible indictment by a state grand jury in Travis County (Austin) Texas, House Republicans last week took steps to protect DeLay's position by changing a party rule that would have forced him to step aside as majority leader if indicted on a felony charge. The change will leave it up to a committee of GOP House members to decide whether an indicted leader should step down. Gee... Did the Republicans change their rules for nothing, or did the Democrats back down after the GOP protected DeLay? I wonder...
  22. quote:I wonder, are you or have you ever considered teaching?Only here.
  23. quote:The question then becomes whether this an intrinsic part of political process or something that we the people can cure with our votes.That is a good question. If you read biographies of the Founders, such as the excellent John Adams by David McCollough, you'll see that this kind of politics has been going on since the campaign between Adams and Thomas Jefferson. However, I think a lot of it is also generational, because the Senators eventually feel personally affronted and become hardened to their enemies. I say generational because it will take a full turnover in the Senate for the personalities to change. Look at this past election. The Senate lost Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Zell Miller, Bob Graham, John Breaux, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Don Nickles, and more will follow as long-time senators retire and new, younger senators emerge. The freshman senators will either establish new personal relations or join in on a Hatfield vs. McCoy feud. On the other hand, a repeal of the 17th amendment would allow state legislatures to recall their senators if the legislature feels that the senator is not behaving in the State's interest. That might have put a reign on the behavior of senators. Another nice thing about a repeal of the 17th amendment is that if a third party were to ever gain control of a state legislature, it could appoint a third party senator, where a popular vote might not have elected one.
  24. quote:Democratic Party leaders said Wednesday they want to know why Sen. John Kerry ended his presidential campaign with more than $15 million in the bank, money that could have helped Democratic candidates across the country. Simple reason -- he was banking the money expecting to fund recounts and election contests in court. The Republican turnout was too great, so he did the wise thing amd backed down. After all, he still had a Senate seat to go back to, and the last thing he wanted to do was poison the atmosphere by dragging out the election like Gore did four years ago.
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