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quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: ...and now with DNA and genetic fingerprinting and study, we can now tell, approximately, when we broke off from a common ancestor. It's fascinating.I think this leads to the idea the evolution does happen, but it could be occuring with a little help and guidance from a supreme being?

I don't know if there is a similar thing out there, but I wrote one I use occasionally that goes through my drives and tells me using a tree view exactly how much space is being used by each directory. I wrote it because I would want to install something but my 40 gig drive (80 gig now, almost full) was full and I didn't know what was using it all. After running the program I would discover that a game I hadn't played in months and had forgotten about was taking up 1-2 gig.

If it's like the first I will probably pass until I can pick it up in a bargain bin. For some reason Battlefront just didn't have the same replay value (at least against bots) that battlefield 1942 had. I could play BF1942 and the Desert Combat mod for hours on end, but with Battlefront I was usually done after one or two rounds.

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quote:Originally posted by Remo Williams: I challenge Matchoo to a heavy cruiser duel this Sunday the 23rd at 12:30 PM PST. It shouldn't take long my aims improved. I actually remembered we are having a birthday party for my cousin on Sunday afternoon so I won't be able to make it.... Also, I'm not quite sure I'm ready for a duel quite yet. I'd rather get on and be someone's practice dummy to start out with.

A few weeks a go I was made the wing leader of the RP authors because I didn't have an internet connection I could use to play. I have one now, so I'll be doing MP instead of RP and I guess I should probably be lowered back down to cadet, and then someone else can be made wing leader of RP Authors for Vanguard.

quote:Originally posted by Remo Williams: quote:Originally posted by Pisces-21: The Vortoss Is standing by and ready. Cool if you have time on Sunday at 12:30PM PST Drop by fleet server 1 we could use some more targets for our fleet practice maneuvers. Can anybody drop by? Cause if so, the ECV-Clay Pigeon (oops, I mean ECV-Aneres) should be able to make a brief appearance (brief meaning the short time before my destruction )

House OKs Protection for Gun Makers from Lawsuits It's about time on this one, too.

quote:Originally posted by Darkling: I'm offering 10 bucks an hour to work the phones, PLUS commissions and I'm lucky if I get 1 person every 2 months to take the offer. Is it part-time or full-time and is it on-site or can it be done over the internet?

Now that deserves an

It's about time. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would block lawsuits by people who blame fast-food chains for their obesity...

link quote:ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ÔÇö The author of a new state law that allows felony charges against owners of dangerous dogs was hospitalized over the weekend ÔÇö after his own dog attacked him. Bob Schwartz, who also is Gov. Bill Richardson's crime adviser, was hospitalized at University of New Mexico Hospital on Sunday night with bites on both his arms, said Pahl Shipley, a spokesman for the governor. The hospital declined to release Schwartz's condition, but Shipley said Schwartz is "going to be fine." Schwartz has three dogs registered with the city: a boxer and two English bulldogs, said Denise Wilcox, who oversees Albuquerque's animal care centers. Schwartz was instrumental in getting a law passed this year that would allow felony charges against owners of dogs deemed dangerous or potentially dangerous and that seriously injure or kill another animal or person. The law was designed to make dog owners accountable, said Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, who worked with Schwartz to pass the bill. "But I guess when it happens in your own family, that's another story," she said. "That's tragic."

He actually did help, even though he wasn't the one that rescued them in the end. If someone is lost in the mountains and I go up with 200 other people to search for them, if they are found by someone else I still did help, even though it wasn't me who found them. I agree, though, that the article was biased and gave Kennedy far more credit than he deserved.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Don't take my word for it. Try this. No wonder davewave doesn't like your games. At 12:11 he creates the topic complaining about your games. At 12:18 someone asks him who you are and what it has to do with X3, and at 12:20 he requests that someone close the topic because as he puts it: quote:Originally posted by davewave on X Universe forum: Hmm, im sick of this topic, someone close it off. I guess if my attention span was 9 minutes or less I probably wouldn't be able to play your games either.

Yeah. I understand that the majority of items in the game couldn't be extracted since they don't have an actual model that goes with it, but those things that did could be removed from the cargo pod and have their actual game objects placed on the ground within a close proximity of the pod. You could then use a shuttle to tow the sams into position. Maybe someday.....

Okey-Dokey.

I've searched the manual, appendices, and the forum for the answer to this question but I haven't been able to find it. If I put items into a cargo pod and beam it down to a planet's surface, is it possible to get the items out of it so I can use them. e.g. I want to set up a small base on a planet guarded by a couple SAM's. I put the SAM's, some ammo, and nutripaks into a cargo pod and beam it, my AE, and 10 marines down to the planet. When I get down there I have a nice pod with the equipment, but no way (that I know of) to actually get them out so I can use them. Is this possible?

quote:Originally posted by firestar: Tek, I think I got the sig now but if not tell me how to correct it and thanks for your help. It looks like you are missing the Earthcom logo and the actual links. The stuff below is similar to how mine is set up, but with most of your info. Make sure everything below is correct and be sure to replace the XXXX in the system profile information with your actual profile number. This should get you mostly there as far as the sig goes, and then when we have the exact details this weekend on how it should look we can fix our sigs. code:Commander Firestar ECV Firestar Earth Command Alliance - (Bulletin Board) Roleplay Authors - Vanguard Fleet System Profile Information

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quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: As I suspected, nobody in the Beta team has been able to reproduce this thus far. Thank you to everyone who looked at it. It appears to be my problem only (which I guess free money isn't really a problem ) and I will stop worrying about it.

I tried it out last night using Military/Earthcom/Police/Raider/Assassin/Mercenary space force marines and Military/Insurgent/Earthcom/Police/Raider/Assassin/Mercenary commanders. I didn't do the insurgent SFM because I knew it already did it (big mistake). The only one that did it was the military SFM. At that point I figured there was a good chance it was just a SFM issue, but just to be sure I went ahead and tried the Insurgent SFM and it didn't do it. It looks like recreating it requires exiting to the desktop and restarting the game, not just going to the main menu. I had been going to the main menu for all my tests except the first in which the problem happened. I restarted the game and tried playing as an insurgent commander and it did it, so it's not just the SFM. By this time I just wanted to play the game, so I stopped looking into it. I will try some more tests tonight and see what else I can find. I'm not sure if anybody else has seen this, but if someone could give the original scenario in the top post a try to see if they get the same results I would appreciate it. It should only take 3-5 minutes to do. I don't want to dwell on this issue if it's just my PC that's doing it. Thanks

I wasn't suggesting that we could or should cut ourselves off from the world (except maybe the U.N. ). I was just explaining what my understanding of Jaguar's post was.

quote:Originally posted by Aperson: I doubt that as it dosn't make sence to me on how a country that imports more then it exports (when it comes to gas, oil and electricty for example) would be less affected then the entire world which has an equal import-export amount (duh). I think Jaguar's point is that a large majority of our imports (cars, electronics, clothing, etc.) are luxuries, where as in those countries that we are buying them from they are their livelihood. If we cut off all imports, the cost of goods may go up here and we won't be able to get that 50" plasma screen t.v. that we've been eyeballing, but across the ocean in Japan, 500 workers from the ACME plasma t.v. company are going to lose their jobs because there is no longer the demand for their product that there used to be.

Fair enough. I'll try the same scenario out tonight with a wider range of test cases to see if I can narrow it down.

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to make someone else figure it out for me. I just noticed I could recreate it everytime as a male/terran/insurgent/SFM so I tried it as a male/terran/military/commander and it didn't happen, so I thought it might be a problem. If you want me to I can continue testing it to see if any other career/castes are doing the same thing. It just seemed odd to me that at the start of the game a SFM would get a 428400 credit bonus just for docking with a supply station and sitting there for 12 minutes while a commander gets nothing. (Maybe since I was an insurgent these were just kickbacks from illegal arms sales. ) I wanted to make sure it could be re-created, in case it was abnormal behavior and you wanted to investigate it. If it is normal behavior, though, then cool. I can alway use more money at the start of the game.