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Isn't that just the away message that will be displayed when someone MSG's you or Queries you, it won't show up in the USERS list, or will it? |
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It changes your nickname in the Users list.
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Going to #se4 is like sitting in a waiting room and you know how people LOVE that don't you? If people go to #se4 and used it to say, mmmm, CHAT! then it might become more popular. If new players drop by and get the silent treatment then it stands to reason that they won't return. Placing a note at log-in that "please be patient and wait 10 mins if you get no response. Some people might not be at their computer or may be busy." HELLO! then they should set their status to say this.. 'Busy', or 'away' or 'brb' etc. Don't get me wrong, I love #se4, but I fully understand why it's not as popular at it could/should be. [/babble mode off] Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif [ August 02, 2004, 12:00: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ] |
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How's this for a 'Mascott' for this thread?
.. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Activities...ages/Hippo.jpg "Feed the Hippo, Pad this thread. And let no thought, go unsaid." Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif [ August 02, 2004, 13:44: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ] |
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Of course, I know you're joking (I speak : ) ), but practicing this with limited characters to the nickname could be, but then if your nick is long, everyone shortens it anyway. Too much typing takes away from clever thinking, and typing clever things. On th subject of IRC, anyone who hasn't checked out http://www.bash.org should do so. Unless, of course, they do not find foul language and rude situations to be funny or are unable to appreciate funny things when they are found in the midst of the unfunny and downright opjectionable. |
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Further, the idling on #se4 is the same on pretty much ANY IRC channel. The difference is that we do not get many visiters (even during periods of high activity), so the idlers tend to stand out a lot more than in larger channels. If you can think of any ways to attract more people to the channel, we are open to suggestions. |
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Why don't they do it in the road?
Why don't they do it in the road? No one is watching them, why don't they do it in the road? |
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Ni!
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Has anyone else noticed Primitive is now a Major? [ August 05, 2004, 15:56: Message edited by: Ragnarok ] |
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A "Major" what?
A Major Good Guy? A Major SEIV Player? A Major ....? |
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A Major Primitive, of course. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
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Were you lurking or just on hiatus? Just curious. |
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Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif |
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Were you lurking or just on hiatus? Just curious. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">A little of both. I got away from forum world for a little while (stopping by to lurk) but I have been still playing PBW consistently. Currently in Master of Orion 4. [ August 06, 2004, 15:33: Message edited by: Perrin ] |
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Massachusettes residents did you know that August 14th is a "Retail Tax Free Holiday". No sales tax on oanything under $2500.
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*cough* BUMP *cough*
I saw a tiny little kitten the other day. He was smaller than my foot, and he liked watching people play poker. |
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Darmak and Jelad at Tenagra. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
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Where is the square root button on the Microsoft Calculator accessory program? Somebody asked me... It's not there.
Then I noticed that it's there on the 'standard' view but not on the 'scientific' view. So if you need sqrt in scientific view, you can use the [x^y] button to raise the number to 0.5 power. You can also use the following button sequence to do e^(0.5 ln x) to get the square root: [ln] * 0.5 = [INV] [ln] But the guy didn't like that option for some reason. |
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"Thread Overflow Depository (AKA: The Hijack This if David E Gervais you Dare Thread.)"
Ah, the unintentional Engrish of forums without borders http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif I may not be David, but I'll double-dog dare you all to try and hijack this thread! |
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I'm not sure if I can make it to the chat session with Aaron on Friday evening. My friends might want to go see Alien vs. Predator and then I'll go with them...
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Help! I am trapped at work. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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I would help you out but I am in the same prediciment. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
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I'm Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
Don't worry Rags, the cantinas still open http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif |
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Hey, I was just wondering about "The Sound of Music"
So Capt. Von Trapp was in the Austrian Navy? Except for some beautiful lakes and a major river, Austria is a landlocked country. Did they used to have a port? Hope this doesn't bring up any touchy wartime issues. Heidi can sure get going down those Alps in her chair! |
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*Waits for the inevitable reply from our Resident Dutchman Timstone* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif |
Work sucks!!
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Some advice, never EVER become a farmer or rancher. I'm not, but as the kid of one, I experience it all... |
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Although for me being at work means sitting at home, alone, in the air conditioning, close reach to the fridge, easy walk to a bathroom I dont share (during work hours), playing games and occassionally peeking in here to see what you guys are posting. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Did you know that Internet is fattening? |
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'Austria' was not just that little land-locked remnant until recently. It used to be a major European power with several other nations under its control. The city of Venice (now in Italy) was one of their ports, as well as all the cities along the Adriatic coast of Croatia. Even though they were stripped of these holdings after WW I they probably kept their Navy out of a sort of pride/pig-headedness.
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Thanks Baron. I kinda suspected it, but was a little unsure about it. Like Bolivia use to have a port until Peru? I think invaded a little strip of land. Bolivia still has a Navy though...on a lake!
Gandalf, try adult diapers and you wouldn't even have to get up to go to the bathroom. I threatened my wife to do that Last superbowl so I wouldn't have to leave the couch. I thought rigging up a tap line to my mouth from a keg would be even more efficent. My wife threatened to strangle me with it like Princess Lei did with Jabba. Hey I'll buy her the outfit! |
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Just for fun, a view of what SE4 would have been like on a CGA enabled 80806 PC:
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Just for the fun, If you had an EGA graphics card it could have looked like this.. (aaah the difference 12 more colors made. (from a palette of 64)
http://69.56.133.54:81/threads/uploa...Intro16EGA.gif Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif |
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* /me wonders what the first computer game was... |
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First computer game? Probably something like Tic Tac Toe
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CGA and EGA.... that brings back memories. I remember one time when I was in school, the best PC in the lab was something like a 286 and I think it had EGA and we thought it was so great because it was better than CGA. When we played games, we wanted to use the machines with the color monitors, because most of the other machines were IBM XT's with green monochrome monitors. Some of the games ran incredibly slowly on the XT's.
Also, some games, every time we wanted to play them we had to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys and change the files= and buffers= and stuff to make them run, and then after we finish playing the game, edit the configuration back. I remember it was a hassle and it was sometimes hard to get some games to work properly back then because they didn't fit in memory, or it barely fit or something, I forget the details... that was a long time ago. |
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DOS is evil... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/mad.gif[/img] (need some sort of twisted, evil emoticon... this is best available [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]... also need eye rolling emoticon!)
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Oh, yeah, and some of the old machines didn't have the EDIT command in DOS, so we had to use the EDLIN command, which we all hated.
Back in those days, we used 5 1/4" floppy disks which held 360 K of data. Then those high-density 5 1/4" disks came out which held twice as much. We used to use scissors to cut a notch in our one-sided floppy disks so that we can flip them over and use the other side. Then, later, when those 3.5" floppy disks came out, many people called them "hard disks" because the pLastic case is hard compared to those flimsy 5 1/4" diskettes. So those of us who knew better had to keep pointing out that the 3.5" diskettes are still called floppy disks, and they are not the same thing as hard disks. When we formatted those 3.5" floppy disks, we had to type in some command in DOS like FORMAT A: /N:9 /T:80 or something like that, to specify the number of sectors and tracks. |
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I found it easier for people to accept that they were "floppys" if you showed them why they were called that. I kept an opened one around for the purpose.
Oh: They were called floppys because of the mylar that the data was written on. Took folka quite a while to learn not to leave them in the direct sunlight. They seemed so durable. |
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What next though? Is Moore's Law still in effect. I'm not seeing anything too fancy or powerful coming out lately. That Quantum processing is still 10 years away at least. They always wait until I buy a new computer then something revolutionary comes out. I tricked them this year. I bought an XBOX. Strickly for shooters of course.
Still got my TI-99/4a & Commodore 64! |
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Moore's law is still in effect. It is good for probably another decade or so. Microprocessors still have a ways to go before the transistors become so small that the magnetic fields created by the currents flowing through them become a major issue and rewire the circuits constantly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
I got my 2.0 GHz CPU 2 years ago, when the best around was maybe 2.2 or 2.4 GHz. Now, they have them approaching 4.0 GHz. Still roughly doubling. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif |
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And they still don't parralel process, right?
Our amiga did that. Probably why our 8MHz amiga 500 had better graphics than our 33MHz ibm. |
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I see this thread is going ALL over the place http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
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