"First, life is short." not necessarly, life is as long as it is. don't think that your is longer or shorter than anyone elses, that goes for dick size too. "Second, people are stupid." Dose this inclde you? "And third, with the exception of a scant few, sequels to good movies suck--hard" I aggree with you on this one.
But as regards a game this goes off the point. I have only ever played one star wars game "Rouge Squadren", I have looked at others playing them but that as far as my intrest went, and i thought that it was o.k. But i think that the, and i hope that i haven't missed it, star wars game collection need a stratage game. you see when i first saw Star wars in 77' I was taken by it epic quality. Vast Emperial fleets crusing space looking for a small band of rebels, star systems to hold or liberate, good versus evil. But with the games i never got this feeling with a star wars game? Some games do have this epic feeling, Civilation, so why not Star Wars? Running around shooting people is all well and good but it's still just running around shooting people. And now with all that out there about the Star Wars universe; tonnes of books, 5 films and millians of imaginations, shurly someone would write a game that harneses that.
Now there would be a good series to return, and please don't screem at me but i was just thinking that J. Michael Strasinsky...(qzxvytkp....how ever it's spelt) (of Babalon5 fame....btw dose anyone know if B5 is going to be relaced on DVD?) should write it. I always felt that it should have had more of a story arc.....
"...and buffy fans are not dr who fans..." Oh yes they are, i'm one. I like both for different reasons. I like Dr. Who because i grew up with it and it was the first SF series i remember watching(I can still remember sitting on the table in our old house watching Dr. Who, I was about 5yo), I like Bufy because it makes my laugh (and Cry). It's basicly the same standpoint, Buffy and the doctor have been thrown into a situation where they are expected to know everything and to defend the innocent. That thay have both been given a chance of changing the fate of the world (or in the Dr.'s case the universe)I think that the buffy writers should come on board, and i think that they should "pick another Doctor" expand the universe a little, then you could have it different but the same....Also another thing, I thought that Anthony Head was doing Ripper with the BBC? Anyways here ends my rant......
Well the cat is amond the OS's now. I agree with alot of what he said, I had switched from Win to Linux and lasted about 3 months. I now run a dule booth, win98 and Suse 7.2pro. I appricate the flexability of linux and the sheer control that you get, but for the basic user windows works. And then there is also the games issue....i like playing games and there are not that maney games to play under linux...that's all i have to say on this.
I live in Ireland and in the evening news about 2 weeks ago they did a story about this and one of the major objections was that the mountain has streems running through it. Now what their storing down there won't be safe for ten thousand years, there is no way to predict what will happen to the area within that timespan. Will water seep in and croad the containers? No? what about a thousand years from now, can you say that they still will be safe? and those mountains are changing over time, who can say what will happen to them and the stuff that they are holding? what if the waste got into the watertable? I don't feel that those questions habve been answered with certinty. It just seems that because we have had anylitical science for about the last 400 years, and it has done alot for us (me science guy, ugg!), it jsut seem like complete arrogence to say that we will know exactly what will happen to this stuff (taking into account error calculations and guessing at uncertinty....). We need to take a step back and think about this for a moment, is this the kind of christmas (or whatever) present we want to leave for our children. All american readers, think about this and let that decide how you vote in november!
O.k. just a further slight rant on the state of the planet.....the world wildlife fund for nature releaced a report yesterday that states that their is only about another 150 years of resorces left on this planet. that if we continue at the pace were going things are going to start getting bad about 2030. that by 2050 we'll need another planet the size of Earth just to keep up....the full report can be found at http://www.panda.org/news/press/news.cfm?id=3017
Hope you are all keeping well and all that.....have a nice day....:>
LOL o.k..now i understand the situation better. You are right, I was looking for the stand point of everyone can learn, it's just that they might need different methods. Your situation is I'm big and old enuf to buy this what do i need a manual for? those people need to be left in a room and the only was to get out or get food or use the loo is by cuting and pasting with out asking questions...:>
HAHAHA!!!! O.k. you got me. What i ment to say what that if columbus haden't gotten finance from the Queen of Spain then their would have been no United States of America, Europe would have decayed and become anerchy and that would be it. Except for asia and africa, they would ahve been fine. I know this because my christal ball tell me so.
this is true, but i think that the majority would be and that would be a start. the rest is anybodys guess. But here is an intresting question, who would pay for it? the US and Russian space programs are older and they have been throwing stuff up there for the last 40 years....would the US and Russia pay for the clean up of near orbit space?
Finding the debris: well it all within about 22,000km of the surface of the earth.
Burning lots of fuel to change course to the debris, more to slow down upon approach: I was thinking that we could send up some big magnets the would either change there orbit (into or away from the earth) or they would stick to the magnets. you could have then controled from the ground and they would be like... vacum cleaners (every pun intended), being able to turn them on and off at the flick of a switch (i know tech isn't perfect...) you could turn it off if they get near something important. I know that they would have to be BIG and POWERFUL but you could have it on half the day and recharging half the day. spin some around the center and some around the pole's.
Of course it's gona cost billions ("they" think about $20B) were going to Mars, not down to the shops. But if anything is worth doing then it's worth doing right. And the cost will be spread over 4 agencies NASA, ESA, the Russians and the japaneese (I hope i've spelt that right). But beside's the whole velcro thing (didn't the space program invent anything else?) going into space and exploring the universe around us will have untold advantages, for example: 1. we could see if there is anything in the big crack. (like Arni gasping for air please god) 2. it could be a new vecation spot, Mars on E50 a day! (offer subject to terms and conditions) 3. we have more of a chance of not letting exploration be decided by public opnion (example: the moon!). It just seems to me that it's not technology that's stopping us doing these things but money pinchers and doomsayers. "Why do we have to do this?" and other such whine comments realy get on my nerves. Where would america be if columus had given up when he hit the first hurdle? Also vastly more important, this is one tiny planet and the resorces we have here are GOING TO RUN OUT. so why not do some survaying and see exactly what's out there and use that to help us back here. It would also be cheeper in the long run if we start doing it now at our own pace instead of having to rush it and it costing the Earth (Absolutly every pun imaginable intended) But this is the most important thing; I want to retire to the moon. and that the first place we will have to set up on.
Sara, with all due respect.
Computers are a relatively new appalince, the comsumer verson is only about 20 years old. it's also a very complex pice of techonology. your mother is not brain damaged, she just has no experence with this type of tech. Remember people around the 1890's thought that the moving pictures on the wall were real and that the train was going to run them down. (I do reconise that i am making an assumption here, but this is what i'm getting from what you wrote) So contunilly asking for help to do what "we" would conside simple tasks is just a sign of not knowing how it all fits together. Why don't you sit down with her and ask her what questions dose she have. Also, being honest here, she probable sences what you are feeling, esp. considering what you said in your post. Remember you had to be repeatly shown how to tie you shoes.
Also I think that the term "user frendly" should be only used if someone, who has no knowlage of the software and/or computers, can use it. because when "we" (i'm using that term for poeple who use and work with computers on a farly regular bases) use a new pice of software we know that we can mess up and all we have to do is reinstall or whatever. that messing about with it is not going to kill the computer. Except of course the stuff that can really kill the computer, then we behave like someone who has just sat down infront of win98 or whatever. perhaps there should be a grading system of User Friendlyness 1. my brothers new born daughter could use it, to 10. deepthought has trouble getting it to work. then people will know what kind of learning curve there getting into when they buy it.
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"First, life is short." not necessarly, life is as long as it is. don't think that your is longer or shorter than anyone elses, that goes for dick size too. "Second, people are stupid." Dose this inclde you? "And third, with the exception of a scant few, sequels to good movies suck--hard" I aggree with you on this one.
But as regards a game this goes off the point. I have only ever played one star wars game "Rouge Squadren", I have looked at others playing them but that as far as my intrest went, and i thought that it was o.k. But i think that the, and i hope that i haven't missed it, star wars game collection need a stratage game. you see when i first saw Star wars in 77' I was taken by it epic quality. Vast Emperial fleets crusing space looking for a small band of rebels, star systems to hold or liberate, good versus evil. But with the games i never got this feeling with a star wars game? Some games do have this epic feeling, Civilation, so why not Star Wars? Running around shooting people is all well and good but it's still just running around shooting people. And now with all that out there about the Star Wars universe; tonnes of books, 5 films and millians of imaginations, shurly someone would write a game that harneses that.
Well here's one star wars fan that's hoping.
this link dosen't seem to be working....
Now there would be a good series to return, and please don't screem at me but i was just thinking that J. Michael Strasinsky...(qzxvytkp....how ever it's spelt) (of Babalon5 fame....btw dose anyone know if B5 is going to be relaced on DVD?) should write it. I always felt that it should have had more of a story arc.....
"...and buffy fans are not dr who fans..." Oh yes they are, i'm one. I like both for different reasons. I like Dr. Who because i grew up with it and it was the first SF series i remember watching(I can still remember sitting on the table in our old house watching Dr. Who, I was about 5yo), I like Bufy because it makes my laugh (and Cry). It's basicly the same standpoint, Buffy and the doctor have been thrown into a situation where they are expected to know everything and to defend the innocent. That thay have both been given a chance of changing the fate of the world (or in the Dr.'s case the universe)I think that the buffy writers should come on board, and i think that they should "pick another Doctor" expand the universe a little, then you could have it different but the same....Also another thing, I thought that Anthony Head was doing Ripper with the BBC? Anyways here ends my rant......
Well the cat is amond the OS's now. I agree with alot of what he said, I had switched from Win to Linux and lasted about 3 months. I now run a dule booth, win98 and Suse 7.2pro. I appricate the flexability of linux and the sheer control that you get, but for the basic user windows works. And then there is also the games issue....i like playing games and there are not that maney games to play under linux...that's all i have to say on this.
I stand corrected....
I live in Ireland and in the evening news about 2 weeks ago they did a story about this and one of the major objections was that the mountain has streems running through it. Now what their storing down there won't be safe for ten thousand years, there is no way to predict what will happen to the area within that timespan. Will water seep in and croad the containers? No? what about a thousand years from now, can you say that they still will be safe? and those mountains are changing over time, who can say what will happen to them and the stuff that they are holding? what if the waste got into the watertable? I don't feel that those questions habve been answered with certinty. It just seems that because we have had anylitical science for about the last 400 years, and it has done alot for us (me science guy, ugg!), it jsut seem like complete arrogence to say that we will know exactly what will happen to this stuff (taking into account error calculations and guessing at uncertinty....). We need to take a step back and think about this for a moment, is this the kind of christmas (or whatever) present we want to leave for our children. All american readers, think about this and let that decide how you vote in november!
O.k. just a further slight rant on the state of the planet.....the world wildlife fund for nature releaced a report yesterday that states that their is only about another 150 years of resorces left on this planet. that if we continue at the pace were going things are going to start getting bad about 2030. that by 2050 we'll need another planet the size of Earth just to keep up....the full report can be found at http://www.panda.org/news/press/news.cfm?id=3017 Hope you are all keeping well and all that.....have a nice day....:>
LOL o.k..now i understand the situation better. You are right, I was looking for the stand point of everyone can learn, it's just that they might need different methods. Your situation is I'm big and old enuf to buy this what do i need a manual for? those people need to be left in a room and the only was to get out or get food or use the loo is by cuting and pasting with out asking questions...:>
HAHAHA!!!! O.k. you got me. What i ment to say what that if columbus haden't gotten finance from the Queen of Spain then their would have been no United States of America, Europe would have decayed and become anerchy and that would be it. Except for asia and africa, they would ahve been fine. I know this because my christal ball tell me so.
this is true, but i think that the majority would be and that would be a start. the rest is anybodys guess. But here is an intresting question, who would pay for it? the US and Russian space programs are older and they have been throwing stuff up there for the last 40 years....would the US and Russia pay for the clean up of near orbit space?
Finding the debris: well it all within about 22,000km of the surface of the earth. Burning lots of fuel to change course to the debris, more to slow down upon approach: I was thinking that we could send up some big magnets the would either change there orbit (into or away from the earth) or they would stick to the magnets. you could have then controled from the ground and they would be like... vacum cleaners (every pun intended), being able to turn them on and off at the flick of a switch (i know tech isn't perfect...) you could turn it off if they get near something important. I know that they would have to be BIG and POWERFUL but you could have it on half the day and recharging half the day. spin some around the center and some around the pole's.
There would be no problem of the earth pulling anything out of a stable orbet around the moon.
Of course it's gona cost billions ("they" think about $20B) were going to Mars, not down to the shops. But if anything is worth doing then it's worth doing right. And the cost will be spread over 4 agencies NASA, ESA, the Russians and the japaneese (I hope i've spelt that right). But beside's the whole velcro thing (didn't the space program invent anything else?) going into space and exploring the universe around us will have untold advantages, for example: 1. we could see if there is anything in the big crack. (like Arni gasping for air please god) 2. it could be a new vecation spot, Mars on E50 a day! (offer subject to terms and conditions) 3. we have more of a chance of not letting exploration be decided by public opnion (example: the moon!). It just seems to me that it's not technology that's stopping us doing these things but money pinchers and doomsayers. "Why do we have to do this?" and other such whine comments realy get on my nerves. Where would america be if columus had given up when he hit the first hurdle? Also vastly more important, this is one tiny planet and the resorces we have here are GOING TO RUN OUT. so why not do some survaying and see exactly what's out there and use that to help us back here. It would also be cheeper in the long run if we start doing it now at our own pace instead of having to rush it and it costing the Earth (Absolutly every pun imaginable intended) But this is the most important thing; I want to retire to the moon. and that the first place we will have to set up on.
Sara, with all due respect. Computers are a relatively new appalince, the comsumer verson is only about 20 years old. it's also a very complex pice of techonology. your mother is not brain damaged, she just has no experence with this type of tech. Remember people around the 1890's thought that the moving pictures on the wall were real and that the train was going to run them down. (I do reconise that i am making an assumption here, but this is what i'm getting from what you wrote) So contunilly asking for help to do what "we" would conside simple tasks is just a sign of not knowing how it all fits together. Why don't you sit down with her and ask her what questions dose she have. Also, being honest here, she probable sences what you are feeling, esp. considering what you said in your post. Remember you had to be repeatly shown how to tie you shoes. Also I think that the term "user frendly" should be only used if someone, who has no knowlage of the software and/or computers, can use it. because when "we" (i'm using that term for poeple who use and work with computers on a farly regular bases) use a new pice of software we know that we can mess up and all we have to do is reinstall or whatever. that messing about with it is not going to kill the computer. Except of course the stuff that can really kill the computer, then we behave like someone who has just sat down infront of win98 or whatever. perhaps there should be a grading system of User Friendlyness 1. my brothers new born daughter could use it, to 10. deepthought has trouble getting it to work. then people will know what kind of learning curve there getting into when they buy it.