To Sarcasm, To Wit, and to Rational thinkers alike ponder these two small points a moment.

1. IF you do Deep Sea Drilling in a sensitive Biosphere for a toxic substance but do not have ANY Workable Contingency if something goes wrong at the seabed. Then should deep sea drilling be allowed?

2. IF you are responsible for one of, if not the largest, ecological disasters in human history. Shouldn’t you spend more of your energy on fixing it than a Public Relations Spin deflecting blame on things as bizarre as insinuating Louisiana bayou shrimp fishermen are Anti-British.

BP, They don’t care where your company is from, your starving their children.

The danger this spill presents as “Flaming Tornadoes,” that might sell in a Hollywood thriller. Unlike fresh from the well head most the light volatile stuff has evaporated off when it gets to beach. That black brown gooey sludge is really thick and mixed with a lot of what fire fighters use to put out flames. If you have ever had a cracked head or leaking gasket on a engine that mixed the oil and coolant you have seen a really thin version of the sludge.

Sadly, what is forgotten is the diverse sea life this effects. Here is a sample of just human food sources Shrimp, Gulf Sturgeon, Red Drum, Florida Stone Crab, Spiny Lobster, Red, mutton, gray, dog, lane, and yellowtail, Snappers, Scallops, Oysters, Blue Crab, The goliath, red, gag, and yellowfin Groupers, Menhaden, Mullet, Bluefin Tuna, King and Spanish Mackerel, Spotted Seatrout, Cobia, Greater Amberjack, Plus many more less interesting or more nitch foods such as Shark, People do eat it you know…

Here we go friends, just when we have not burned enough useless code methods into damaged neurons with late night frenzied fits fueled by main lining caffeine or other stim’s directly to the brain for three straight days.

Forget Logo, Basic, IBAL, Cobal, Fortran, Pascal, Ada, Lisp, Delphi, C, Java, AWK, Batch, Python, SQL and all the others. Gawd help you if you think putting a prefix like GW, MS, Turbo, on any name makes it more fully developed or supported. May someone have mercy on you if you honestly believe adding a suffix like, +, ++, /, ( ), - somehow boosts it’s power. And we all know your delusional or just plain blind if your drawn only to the ones with Visual or VB in the name.

But for the next great phase in programing history, go and read of:

Babbage - The language of the future

AWOL?

Even a lowly foot soldier deserves leave for R&R M8, I think we can forgive someone of your importance for a absence for recoup.

As for the Italians, If any are wounded remember the phrase…

“Io vengo in pace”

As you make for the boarding ramp on your ship 8-)

Hacker is a cool word still to some of us,

The ones of us that still remember once “Hacker’s” where known as kings of code, and pioneers of cutting edge. Not introverted, antisocial, types only out to spread anarchy…

But to turn a different phrase,
"… Adoxa is defiantly one of the “Rock Star’s” of recent FL MOD Fame… "

X <- The line starts right here for us groupies to get a autograph… 8-)

Thanks so very Much M8, Keep it up, Please…

Bullwinkle wrote:
One of the Freelancer All-Stars.

Thanks, man.

PS: Is there anything we can do for you? Job references? Put in a good word with your parole officer*?

• Sorry… a little Hackers humor there!

Seriously… you make “hacking” a good thing!

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Ahhh, that is what your getting at.

Well I recall a discussion on this once, longer ago than I care to admit. I can boil it down in to two issues for you.

1) The earths atmosphere is “Blue” due to Rayleigh scattering. So obviously you can’t paint a consistent hue of blue from edge to edge of a approx round planet and have it look “Real.” It should be more like outdoors in a cloudless blue sky, lighter shade at horizon, (Edges) Darker overhead (Center).

2) Think a moment about the filters placed in front of the cameras in all cases to reduce the light intensity of that local star (Sun), to avoid burning out camera’s, film, or astronauts retina’s. The different shades and colors of these will always make comparing photos open to interpretation.

Soooo, Just use your creative minds to find the hue you like, and if it is questioned, blame it on the cockpit window tint… XD

BTW, Who has not noticed the sky is a darker blue on a cloudless clear, cold winter day, than a clear and sunny hot summer day?

I don’t know about you guys, but I have known for 42 years the earth looked like this from space…

Gentlemen, way too soon to debate at any matter.

I hope that “IF” they add Freelancer they not limit it to only official publisher files. And “IF” they allow community MOD’s they are not forced to meet a standard for approval. Because “IF” that is a case it rubs a lot of MOD makers the wrong way. But, I seriously doubt that is a lot of “IF” we will have to worry about… Very Long Odds they will accept a title with a Original Release Date of March 4, 2003 into the Steam Catalog.

Huh???
OH, In the older games like Freelancer your only talking about the Valve Games Aren’t You…

I hear the Non-Valve older titles are quite “Eunuched” and “Sterilized” in the MOD area to fit into Steam.

Trainwiz wrote:
What are you talking about? Nearly any moddable game that’s been added to steam is still just as moddable, with the exceptions perhaps being some more complex mods for some other games, games don’t loose their moddability

The Monkey has you all figured out Mr. Ed…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTRr6cSqcr8

It’s Still MINE!!

When Intel first released the Pentium chip my spell checker seemed so philosophical on the CPU’s true value.

It kept insisting I swap it for a “Penny.”

Too Bad Wolfie, My guard ate your banana, it added more ammunition to the truck…

Still is Mine!!

Nope… It’s MINE now so back off…
I left a guard and a truck full of poo just to keep it!

Oh, My Twisted, Twisted mind,

Why does that evoke such a humorous image of a father yelling threw a bathroom door…

NeXoSE wrote:
I’m play at localhost, anybody with me?

I often wonder how the FreeAllegiance group convinced Microsoft to allow them access to the Allegiance source code myself.

They are distributing a fully functional and fixed version with no fear of Microsoft legal actions.

That is the direction I wish Freelancer could go…

I put it in my signature so I could always find my way home…

I am all for anything that promotes Freelancer in a positive light. Have to use care with the words “Torrent” and “Patch” in vicinity of commercial products or a real bad opinion forms.

They have not actually stopped selling the game in retail stores. I find three major store chains with a quick search…

Target Sells Freelancer

Radio Shack Sells Freelancer

Walmart Sells Freelancer

I doubt the story is different on the European side of the pond, someone is still selling it. They don’t do that for very long if no one is buying a product. I still see new players myself, the activity just goes up and down.

Last thing Azureus, there is other servers and MOD’s with less rules.

You could try what I use as a fail safe. Upload the file for a test at this link below, there it will run the gauntlet of 41 Mal-ware products. And reports what if any of them find.

http://www.virustotal.com/

Then if A-squared is the only one screaming foul,

EDIT:
If it is a real large download file try using the md5/sha1/sha256 Hash Value first, someone else may have recently tested the same item.

http://www.virustotal.com/buscaHash.html

Welcome M8, glad to see you found The Starport.

I can think of no “IRC” channels offhand. Most have moved beyond IRC these days and use IM Client’s such as MSN and AIM or Voice Communication with Teamspeak, Ventrilo, or a game customized Text & Voice messager such as Xfire for communications in addition to the game and forums.

Because going fishing in bedclothes at three AM will catch more than a meal.

That and I really like the exploring, collecting, and shooting people in a Sci-Fi world…

My thought on this is. Most wish to limit what is on a client for several clear intertwined reasons.

[olist]* To Avoid Conflicts and Problems in the Game Code.

• To Keep all Players on a Level and Equal Playing Field.
• To Avoid Discussions and Disputes among players.
  [/olist]

Truth is I have seen even a “Visual” improvement argued as an advantage in gaming. And if you honestly consider seeing a Target easier than your opponent as what it is, you will as well.

And I am reminded of way back in the “Stone Age” of computing playing a TxT based Real Time MOG with ANSI Graphics. The “Hated Evil” Cheat at that time was a “Keyboard Macro Utility”