Charles Lindsey

quote:Originally posted by XOR: so i was wondering if its because he had a High AI and there was some bugs with him or something??? Try this old thread. This is OLD, OLD stuff. Like not even on this forum stuff. Like on the previous forum stuff. Resnig would override your orders. ALWAYS!!! It was very aggravating and we "bugged" Derek to death till he changed it. Let's say you had assigned your first marine in the list to guard medibay. The marine goes to medibay and all is fine and dandy UNTIL intruders board. Resnig would then take the first ten marines and asign them to search duty. EVEN THE ONE you had PREVIOUSLY ASSIGNED to medibay. At which point the injured intruder would trek his happy butt up to medibay and heal himself. All sorts of odd things would happen with this. Let's say your first five marines were dead. You get intruders. Resnig assigned the first ten marines IN THE LIST to search duty. Well five are dead so now you only have five marines searching. That's the way I remember it at least. Therefore Resnig became the butt of many jokes back then and to this very day. He's not perfect. But what would be the fun in that? If you watch closely the medical officer will pull some of the same stunts Resnig does.

I ordered the complete series with (three un-aired episodes) from amazon.com. Cool. I haven't watched them yet but this weekend may be a good time to start. PS. FYI Fireflysupport.com link is now dead. Those boards I mentioned above are probably dead too. PPS. Yeah yeah, should be in arts now. Just couldn't resist reviving this thread. If inclined, would a kind moderator please move this thread?

Usually conning a con is funny but now I don't konw what I feel about the whole thing. That is just creepy. Didn't even wait for the body to get cold so to speak.

quote:I forget how accurate this is, but this comes to mind, some chinese/japanese Philospher once said concerning it "Mahjonng takes a few minutes to learn the rules, but a lifetime to master" I seem to remember that from Othello but perhaps they borrowed it. quote:There's always a correct sequence to remove tiles I beg to differ. I have had games with the last two tiles were on top of each other. But it's probably an unprovable theorem. Try http://www.lenagames.com/ and get the free/shareware "Desktop Tapei". Three free setups, shareware if you want to buy more. Edit: I may have to eat my words. She provides a Solution mode in the latest version.

Wow, who'da thunk those little things were that much? I went through three software demonstrations from various vendors. I saw at least two of those things from one and one vendor had about six of them. quote:Who do you think we are JOE MILLIONAIRES!!! Would be nice wouldn't it?

Gee, I hate Microsoft business practices with a passion but I was way more gracious than that.

Try this thread. That's only one of many. I found that one by using the search function with the words "flight engineer". I would try Newbie Discussions and General Issues separately. Searching "all open forums" takes a while.

I just had a thought. Happens sometimes when things rattle around in my brain for a while. Why not use one of those projectors they use in presentations. You know the ones hooked to laptops (or a PC) that projects to a wall?

From Jaguar's quoted article quote:Microsoft hopes to resolve the problem in a way that is agreeable to both parties: "We are currently in the process of resolving this matter in a way that will be fair to him and satisfy our obligations under trademark law," the representative said. From this yahoo article quote:In exchange, Microsoft will pay for Rowe's expenses, the cost of switching over to a new site, provide training for certification on Microsoft's products, a subscription to Microsoft's developer program Web site, and an Xbox (news - web sites) video game console with games, as well as an invitation to bring his parents along for a visit to Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters for an annual technology fair. That seems awfully nice. While the XBOX is a neato whizzbang thing I bet that training for certification will come in far more useful. The only way they could have done better would be to hire the guy.

You are getting better. Your thread title stinks though. PROBLEM Verbose but decent description. Much better would have been; "while viewing Tacops, support craft appear to enter space at the main planet in the region instead of the moon they were assigned to." And even that may not be good enough. REPRODUCE 1: May be abbreviated as SNG (One of the very few abbreviations allowed) 2: SNG implies that you have logged out and launched (left) Galcom . And then Ouch, fly what to the moon? I'm serious. 3: Decent 4: Decent 5: Very poor. "Be amazed" says nothing. Your last step should reinforce your problem. I'm not being mean (I hope). Derek has me upside the head so many times it isn't even funny. If you're gonna report something you gotta be super super duper anal retentive about the format. I myself still screw up. Rest assured Derek can filter out what he doesn't need. [ 01-25-2004, 02:45 AM: Message edited by: Cmdr Chavik ]

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Read a story today that they figured out it's the flash media. the same as in your digi camera. (they didn't say what flavor but there aren't that many) They put it in cripple mode and are getting more out of it. Also I went to the rover home page and found out under perfect conditions it generates 140 watts of power and needs 100 watts to drive.

quote:Supposedly, feed containing brain and spinal tissue is banned in the States. The one reference I looked at said 1997 but a loophole still allows blood. quote:(Nonetheless, it would be hypocritical for the U.S. to ban Canadian cattle and, at the same time, complain about U.S. beef being banned elsewhere.)I think that is already happening somewhat. Maybe not with Canada but some other countries have banned our beef and sent cattle ranchers into a tizzy. quote:Genetically engineered food has been the stuff of science fiction since Verne wrote about Captain Nemo.If you want to be anal about it (and I'm not saying you are ) technically we have been "genetically modifying" food and animals for centuries. But that's with selective breeding and more natural. The story I read was in the oddly enough section of the yahoo news. It was aobut a company suing a farmer for having to much roundup┬® ready wheat on his farm. He claimed it crossbred naturally but they claimed he had to much for that to happen. As I was reading I went "wait a minute. Roundup ready wheat?" This roundup ready wheat allows them to spray the entire field to kill weeds. So now what? Are we eating herbicides? I certainly wouldn't want to experiment on fetuses. Embryos I'm kinda iffy on but would give that up. I have no problem whatsoever harvesting stem cells from the umbilical cord. I just find it slightly hypocritical to genetically modify by splicing, dicing, and julienne fry the genes of stuff that we ingest while being against taking naturally occuring stem cells and coaxing them into a useful organ. I don't think they are there yet but it's interesting. Imagine if a couple harvested the stem cells of their child and they were able to save them by freezing. Now that child is in his 50's and needs a new heart. They thaw his stem cells and coax them into a new heart to replace the diseased one. Yes it's science fiction but it would be wonderful if it could happen. And it won't happen without research. We've gone off topic but I won't tell if you don't. Thanks for the discussion. Hopefully I didn't sound shrill.

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quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: What I find so amusing is that during the state of the Union, the ruling party always blows it's own horn, ALWAYS.Well Duh. That's a given. What I find hilarious is the social programs Bush wants to start. Sounds like a DEMOCRAT to me. Of course Bush wants to get us back into space in a big way. China is getting there and we have to assure we are there in a bigger way militarily. Of course Bush wants to start a program to train workers in health services or bio technology. That's where the "new jobs" are. Hmmmmmmm wait a friggin minute. The US is sueing the UK over genetically modified foods. Oh let's see, we can feed our cows their own brains and cause mad cow disease. We can create genetically modified crops that are resistant to herbicides. Yet Bush and Company are against Stem Cell Research. So we can do all we want to genetically modify something so long as it for sale but we can't do what we want to cure diseases. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Will be interesting to watch the rest of this.

Well what about this State of the Union Speech?

Can a 17 year old Canadian even legally enter into a contract? This works both ways. Technically Microsoft could not have entered into a contract with a 17 year old. Technically the 17 year old shouldn't have been able to "contract" (buy/register) a domain name.

quote:Wherever Spirit goes, it will take its time getting there. The craft's top speed is about 2 inches per second, which works out to roughly one tenth of a mile, or 528 feet, per hour. From Yahoo: Reuters article by Steve Gorman . And CNN quoted 9 mph? Certainly more flashy. quote:To lose the rover because of over dust on the solar panel would be, in my opinion, more embarassing that lossing the thing on actual landing. Someone should have put window wipers on the damn thing. Hehe. Bet they will next time. Here is a nice article . I like the one guy's idea for sending modules to mars and having them connect robotically so that the habitat will be prebuilt for astronauts.

quote:LostInSpace countered with: lots of rocks to crawl over adding wear and tear to it's suspension system,It's not a dune buggy; I dooubt they are going to take it rock jumping. What is the top speed anyway? And it steers. quote: then added: bombarded by solar radiation,Ya got me there. I'm just babbling. Ok 90 day life span for "must do" experiments then everything else is freebies. I'm just saying that with a motherboard, a BIOS, and a 20 year James Bond/Military/Nasa grade battery (and it probably already has all this, well maybe not the battery) they could do all they want then when the main rechargeable batteries give out it would boot up every morning and they could go driving around and do whatever the solar panels would allow them to do. The only problem with this is that the panels may not have enough juice to actually drive the thing. I will admit that. But it's a nice thought and a bang for buck kinda thing. Like I said about Hubble; Drive it till the wheels fall off.

Latest news I'm sure you have all heard. Solar panels operating at 70% efficiency due to extra dust. Running warmer than expected. Main ramp blocked due to air bag. Will use secondary ramp. The shocker? They are like kids in a candy store. Spirit was designed to go like 900 ft ( ); Now they want to go like 2 miles to some hills. Hehe. That's funny. I really do wish them the best. One thing has always boggled my mind. The thing has solar panels. What is to keep it from operating indefinitely? Seriously. Give the motherboard a ten/twenty year battery so that when the main batteries give out and they can't do experiments they can still drove around and take pics. Or maybe the panels do give enough juice to run some other things. Personally I think they ought to keep Hubble flying too. To paraphrase a colloquialism "drive it till the wheels fall off". When the instruments go bad it still has a lens right? Let universities or even grade schools use it. Best of luck to Spirit team. I hope they achieve all their goals and the extra stuff they want.

A yahoo article from Reuters news service. Not the best article but towards the end: quote:While rented or purchased DVDs will play on any DVD player or recorder, a TV program or home movie recorded onto a DVD may only be compatible with certain formats. Consumer electronics makers, however, are beginning to offer devices that are compatible with several of the formats, Wood said. ... Similarly, certain television programs cannot be copied, according to Wood. "Just because you can see it on your TV doesn't mean you can record it on your DVD recorder," he added. Wonder how they do that. But that's what I wanna do; record specials and stuff. Like the recent Battlestar Galactica special.

Knocking a man's car is almost as bad as knocking his religion or politics. Watch it there Wolferz. I believe there is a Car Karma. Some people have good luck with Chevy etc. (GM) and some people have luck with Ford etc. (Lincoln Merc). Some people just have luck with certain cars. I had a 86 Escort that was a POS. I had a 89 Escort that had 108,000 miles when I bought it and had 258,000 miles when I sold it. I sold it to a kid that still drives it. All that said ain't it purdy? They shoulda done that the first time. Large humpy hood extending beyond the big mouthy grill. The hint of the retro side scoops. Can't wait to see one on the streets.

Remeber a few years ago when Ford went Retro with the mustang and redesigned it? Remember how the first year was ok and then the designers brains fell out of their heads and they started doing all those horrid angles? This is what they shoulda done the first time. Photo page

That's what I thought you said. quote:but I hadn't noticed dreadx.Yeah I have an embarrassment of riches. Thanks guys. Pugwash, Finder1, and you still hanging around. Then came Weegee and dreadx. Dreadx is running a BCMG server. Chappy managed to get approved when Gallion cleared everybody out (or in ). To Chappy I dedicate Johnny Cash's "Ghost Riders in the Sky"

quote:Charles is the big man on the station, he'll only be flying a desk {Shuffles through reports requesting a ship for garbage scow duty}