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  1. Famous Ancestors?

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

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    I was talking the other day with svede about family ancestors and heritage... that sort of thing. He turned out to have quite a few interesting charecters in his liniage. But, I'll let him tell you if he wants...

    So do you have anyone famous in your family tree?

    Here.. I'll give it a shot:

    It is speculated that Robert Burns wrote a poem about one of my ancestors - Grose

    My great great grandfather was in the cafe of in the middle of Spokane, Washington when the nearly the entire downtown was destroyed in 1889 - Klein

  3. What Is The Most Efficient Way To Work ?

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

    Posted

    Ah, good man Swellick *gives high 5*

    Here is what you do Tim... don't turn on the computer in the morning, don't turn on the computer when you get home. Only turn on the computer when you finish your homework B)

    Yeah... and I'm one to talk, I should be doing my homework right now B)

    But, anyway, the point is to put your priorities on your schooling!

    I personally find that if I need to get work done (WFG related), I have to turn of MSN messenger. Then I have to not post in every thread on the forum that I find is interesting... Stop surfing the net for the latest world and gaming news... and just start doing stuff. A few ours later I have some pretty good fruits from my labor.

    So to answer you questions:

    How can I improve my situation ?

    Don't turn on your computer till after your homework is done. Not only is it good incentive to complete your homework, but you'll find you do it faster. Remind yourself that you are the only person who can discipline yourself. Its better to learn it now than when your 32 and fat, lazy and out of a job :)

    How do you spend your valuable time ?

    Besides homework (in this order) - Emails, WFG work, WFG forums, WFG chat, World news, HG News, surfing for tutorials

    Do you think you use your time efficiently ?

    I think I'd give myself the letter B grade right now. Could be better.

    Is there some general rule how one should use his/her time ?

    Fun stuff after the required stuff. Can't eat dessert before you eat dinner.

  7. 0 A.d. Borders And Boundries?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks for the ideas guys. One comment:

    Roads:

    In RoN and the Empires demo, when you get to a certain age roads will appear automatically to connect your buildings and trade routes....very fun and cool altho no advantage in those games.....could this be useful??

    Yeah we are looking into this and hopefully can do it. We will see ;)

    Have any of you ever played 'Risk' the board game? If you guys were going to 'computerize' that game, how would you do it? Could you do it in a real-time fashion? Would it be enjoyable to play?

    General Clark Says He'd Fire Rumsfeld

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    CLARK

    General Clark says he'd relieve Rumsfeld of his command

    By JAMES W. PINDELL and SAM YOUNGMAN

    PoliticsNH.com

    http://www.politicsnh.com/archives/pindell...9_27clark.shtml

    NEW CASTLE, Sept. 27 -- Gen. Wesley Clark, told a New Hampshire audience Friday night he had only fired one person in his life. On Saturday he said he wanted to fire a second person: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

    When asked at a house party on the Seacoast about what he would do in Iraq if elected president today, he was met with applause when he said, "First of all I would change the Secretary of Defense. Then I would go to the commanders of the ground and go to Iraq myself personally and I would develop an exit strategy that gives us a success and lets us downsize our commitment there."

    Besides Rumsfeld, Clark also criticized Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice for her views of the world and then U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay, also a Republican, for his vote on a measure involving Kosovo.

    "So when I got out of the military and into business I looked at both parties," Clark explained to the crowd on why he was a Democrat. "I talked to Condoleeza Rice right away. I found out I didn't like her view on foreign policy. She said American troops shouldn't do peacekeeping they should do real fighting. But she is an academic, what does she know? I've been on the front lines. I tried to explain it to her. She let me know she was going to be in charge. And I spoke out on the election campaign on what we are trying to do on behalf of Bosnia and the Balkans and so forth. And when I went home to Arkansas I was in business and I wanted to meet both sides. The Republicans came to me and said 'Hey we would like for you to speak at our Lincoln Day fund-raiser. I said I am not going to be there for Lincoln Day. They said 'General we'll hold Lincoln Day whenever you can get here.' So I did. I spoke to about 450 Republicans there at Embassy Suites. I was non-partisan. I basically praised Republicans for being Republicans. . . . But I knew what the Republican Party was like and I couldn't identify with that party. They are the party that when I was commanding in Kosovo, they were the party led by Tom Delay against our airman who were in the skies over Yugoslavia taking fire from Serb anti-aircraft and this party voted against them. They claimed they weren't. They claimed they were voting against just a policy, but I read what they said. They wanted the policy to fail. They didn't have a vision. They didn't understand what America was about. They put their interest of the party above the interest of the party. I'll never put the interest of the party above the interest of the country."

    It should be noted that Clark only took questions after several in the crowd of about 70 verbally complained.

    Traditionally in New Hampshire candidates attend house parties and briefly explain their platform and why they are running following by about 30-40 minutes of taking questions from the audience. Here Clark spoke for 20 minutes and quickly began shaking hands.

    A Clark aide noted it was his first house party ever as a presidential candidate and didn't understand protocol and was not hiding from questions.

    The house party in New Castle ended a two day trip to New Hampshire, his first trip since announcing he was in the presidential race.

    Clark has been criticized by some of the other candidates for flip-flopping on issues during his 11-day-old candidacy, but

    seemed to become more comfortable in his role with each stop.

    “I never say the same thing every day,” he told a supporter in New Castle. “I grow every day.”

    Earlier on Saturday Clark visited with patrons at Chez Vachon, a French-Canadian diner once adored by a candidate named Bill Clinton. After that he met with Manchester fire fighters and briefly discussed Homeland Security. On Monday the union representing New Hampshire fire fighters will formally endorse John Kerry's presidential campaign.

    Arguably the biggest test for Clark came to his trip in Dover at lunchtime. Dover is the site of the only Draft Clark office in New Hampshire, where about 250 supporters from all over New England came to hear the General rally his troops and ask for support and explicitly for money.

    At none of the events Saturday did Clark take questions from the media.

    Terry Evans, of Windham, said she worked for Rep. @#$% Gephardt in the early 1970s, but said Saturday afternoon that she was still undecided, but she was leaning toward Clark.

    Evans said after the rally that Clark’s position as a political newcomer and his NATO command were contributing factors in her swaying support, adding that “he’s definitely the best looking candidate the Democrats have.”

    James Pindell can be reached at

    pindell@politicsnh.com

  13. Birthrates

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted

    The closest thing 0 A.D. has to a villager is a female worker. There isn't even a male 'worker' in the game. This is because of the new 'instant army' (by Ken Wood) concept that is new to the RTS genre (to our understanding)

    This idea of birth wouldn't really have any relivance for 0 A.D. because the units in the game are 'hired' not born. All the 'king' has to do is supply his 'hired' man with the appropriate ore, wood, and food - then the unit is equiped to fight.

    Win32/parite Virus And It's Removal

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    You have probably already seen these, but take a look at these links just in case:

    http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/virusin...u_id=1&v_id=137

    http://www.viruslibrary.com/virusinfo/Win32.Parite.htm

    Reformat? Done it. Full reformat? Out of the question. Over seven years of programming, net scouring, and accumulation and re-accumulation of Star Trek CAN NOT be lost.

    From what I read, it only attatches itself to *.exe and *.scn files. If I were you I would have a freshly formated HD, then I would move all my files I wanted to backup onto that harddrive (except the files the virus can infect). Then I would full format the bad drive again like you said. You should be totally clean of everything then. Then reinstall all your software from cds.

  20. Language Support

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    We decided to go with Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew. I need to talk to you about Hebrew though... we have some questions about word wrapping with text that is written from right to left vs. left to right.

    So if you see me online sometime, please messege me. Oh and if you read the programmers meeting minutes from today that would further familiarize you with the dilemna that Gee presented.

    Question About Msn On Xp

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    Can't you just create her own account? Then don't have it automatically log in and she would just enter her name and password?

    The only way (to my knowledge) for it to go automatically is if there is only one account and that it automatically fills in your password.

    Rise Of Nations

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    I use a Quadro 4 (workstation graphics card for 3d programs) - its a 550XGL made by PNY

    Its really not made for games, I wouldn't recommend it. It works in this case, but in 2 years I doubt it will run the super games (more demanding than Half Life II and DOOM III) very well.

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