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Jan 10, 2002, 1:07am

> Yeesh! I think you both need to:
>
> a) Read some quantum physics books
>
> b) Move this to general.discussion
>
> And I thought *I* was a geek :P

Nah I take that category. :) It's all just "theories" and none of it as
actually true so there's no point in reading more theories to prove that our
theories are just theories. LoL catch that? Since it's all theories,
there's no point in arguing anymore because both I and lilalpha are more
then likely wrong.

--Bowen--

Jan 10, 2002, 10:38am

>
> Did you look that up, or are you just assuming?

Yes, our radio telescope arrays are the most powerful telescopes, they can
see about a 10,000 light years distance away from earth. If I'm assuming
you are too. It's all theories from below this point.


:)
> neck.
> No, read what i said again....

If you exert a constant amount of pressure on something (ie, water drops on
the same spot of your head for 20 years). Eventually that water will put a
hole in your head.

> it
magnetic
there
> there's
pushes

> They arn't powerful enought to push the stars out of orbit, what makes you
> think they could move galaxies?

They're as powerful as black holes which suck mass and light in. Proto-suns
can get more powerful. You don't know that a star hasn't been pushed out of
orbit. If it pushes the star it's probably pushing everything else with it.

slow-down
> of
when
down
> the

> Alright, how about this? you throw a ball straight up, it comes back
> down....

That's a vertical plane. You're moving on AW with a horizontal plane.

> with
> fast
> OBJECTS
> THEM
> they
> numerous
to
with
> 2
a
>
> since when were we talking about comet's and binary systems?

Where'd you get this from?

blowing
> up
> As
> the
bowl,
pulls
galaxy
what
spirals..
>
> Duh i know galaxies rotate. When i said spirals, i meant thier course
> trajectory, as in where a galaxy as a whole is going...
> Marbles in a bowl are a bad example...

I would like to hear a better example.

> the
but
gravity,
black
> is
the
> light,
> closer,
> closer.
finite
> on
me,
it's
> gravity
exerting
>
> Yeah, but our mass is also exerting force on the galaxies on the otherside
> of the universe...

Yes but they're also exerting it on us. So it's both internal and external.

--Bowen--

Jan 10, 2002, 4:20pm

> /:| u know what goob, where changing ur name from "goober kind" to the sir
> complain-alot! ( got that name from boy meets world :) )

LoL :) almost as bad as me.

--Bowen--

Jan 6, 2002, 3:53am

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?pilman&1

--Bowen--

Jan 6, 2002, 3:14pm

Requiring your CC to use something.. starting to sound like a porn site.
Maybe the only people that'll be left are the Gor group. No offense.

--Bowen--

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Jan 7, 2002, 5:50pm

No they do not. They license the program/server to a company. If the
company owns the license, it doesn't have to do anything AW didn't ask
originally in that license.

--Bowen--

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Jan 8, 2002, 7:16pm

LoL all MMORPG's are $10 or below. AW is NOT a MMORPG.

--Bowen--

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Jan 8, 2002, 11:00pm

LoL the following is correct. Windows 95 was originally $100. Win 98, ME,
and 2K brought that to around $150. XP is now $200 for the home version.
They seem to progressivly worse as you get on.. 2K was a good one though, as
was 98SE. They really need to invest the time that they used to in
developing a new product. It's seeming to take less then half a year for a
new windows to come out over the past year and a half.

--Bowen--

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Jan 9, 2002, 5:58pm

>
> Much of what comes in 3.3 will make AW yet slower for you people who are
> still going slow as hell with 3.2 (I get 30fps when I'm not even moving
and
> about 75 to 80 in crowded areas with near to no slow-down at all). Believe
> me, it's a LOT harder than it seems. Most of the work is trying to make
sure
> that it's all compatible with shitty systems so that more people can be on
> AW as well, rather than going at 0.5fps LOL :-P

How can you get higher FPS when there's extra things to render? That makes
no sense. Plus, 3.2 is capped at *around* 30-35 FPS max.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2002, 6:04pm

> Play X-Box before you tell me that. I've played it and GameCube and I
> honestly cannot tell which is the better system, they're both awesome.


GameCube has a higher max polygon count. The Mini-DVD's are also based on a
great Sony compression technology. So those give it an edge that it can
hold more information :). Plus, it's smaller and weighs about 5 lbs
compared to the X-Box's 25 (approx). X-Box has a little bit more ram, but
not enough to make a difference. Be careful, if your X-Box overheats you
run around an 80% chance of it blowing up. PS2 even beats the X-Box in some
of the things. Also if I might add, X-Box's controller is VERY poorly
designed LoL.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2002, 6:06pm

Ananas said that Roland capped it at low framerate so they could do work
with other programs and not see a degredation in computer proformance. 3.1
was at 100.

Oh blasto, if you're computer isn't rendering much or you're standing still
your framerates would be much higher then they would if you were in a
crowded area with lots of people.

--Bowen--

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Jan 9, 2002, 8:33pm

> Could be a densely populated (object-wise) area ... still plenty of work
to
> be dont to render the objects within the visibility radius.

That's true, but I thought he was talking about a pretty much empty radius.
Then he said it went up when there's a really dense area with people.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2002, 8:38pm

> I have yet to see a problem with polygon counts. Why would you want a
> mini-DVD? What's the difference in like 3" diameter? LOL. Smaller? So? I

The max polygons the GameCube can get is about 6 million higher then X-Box.
The Mini-DVD can hold about 250-500 megs more then the normal DVD can.

> dunno bout you but I don't lug my X-Box all over the place with me. I have
> played my X-Box for 6+ hours and even left it on overnight and have yet to
> see it overheat or even lag at all.

I bring my GameCube to school. 6 hours is nothing! ;) I'm a hardcore
gamer, I can go for about 16 hours. Lagging is not an issue, I seriously
doubt you were playing it while you left it on, which would cause it to
overheat.

> Lots of people say they dislike the controllers but honestly, I dislike
> GameCube's controllers! They're too small and weird feeling, they're just

They conform to the shape of your hand and take about 5 minutes to work out.

> really small and kinda forces all my fingers to hit so many buttons too
> close to my palms... mainly just too small.

You're not too dexterous? :)

> I like the X-Box's
> controllers... maybe that's just cause I have bigger hand's than most
people
> but *shrug* if the shoe fits... :-P

Well it's not that it's too big, it's just poorly configured.

Someplace on the net it compares the PS2, GameCube, and X-Box. I forgot
wear.. it's pretty cool that they all use Renderware though. :)

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2002, 10:30pm

>
> grrr... lag is a slowdown in a network connection, I hate when people
misuse it :P

Lag means a delay in general.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2002, 10:58pm

> Yeh, ever heard of jet lag?

Yeah I know what it means :). But we can excuse Fox, he's foreign.

--Bowen--

Jan 12, 2002, 6:05pm

> Unless of course, you're rendering your objects for a world in AW for
people
> with 1.8ghz and geforce3 LOL :-P

LoL right. I've seen better objects with about 40 polygons then some of the
objects that have thousands. It's not about the polgyons.. it's about
textureing ;)

--Bowen--

Jan 12, 2002, 7:57pm

> And anyone else, whatever you do, NEVER MAKE A SOLID OBJECT! OMG! LOL
> I went to a world a few days ago (cant remember what it's called) and all
> the objects were completely solid! That was like 40,000,000 polys in a 40m
> radius! ROFLMAO, needless to say, it lagged my entire program to hell. I
had
> to restart AW

LoL those worlds aren't even worth my bandwidth to download. And it's
usually always the same objects. Those cars from AWTeen and other "awteen"
truespace objects.

--Bowen--

Jan 10, 2002, 12:00am

Someone knows your password. You probably gave out your aworld.ini. E-mail
AW tech support and give them info about your account. Where are your
builds?

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 12:15am

LoL did you give anyone your aworld.ini?

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 12:25am

Wow, someone must've guessed your password. That's not an easy task :)
E-mail tech support at AW.

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 12:25am

You could e-mail them to me.

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 5:34pm

Hm.. what a pickle. Since this was given to you it is your cit, they have
no right to take it back. If they're paying for the renewal it's their own
fault. ;)

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 5:58pm

LoL which world? :) If AW said it wasn't under any worlds originally, then
it shouldn't be now.

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 6:10pm

They could've had the name changed. In which case, how can they reclaim it?
It was given to you. If you give something to someone it automatically
becomes theirs. ;) like I give you $20, that's yours to spend isn't it?

--Bowen--

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Jan 10, 2002, 7:15pm

Well BlueMax55 owns the world armor. But I don't know who owns the world
loki. Most likely someone told AW that they owned that cit and AW believed
them.

--Bowen--

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Jan 11, 2002, 1:13am

The newsgroups are slow to update :)

--Bowen--

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Jan 15, 2002, 11:16pm

> Did the two of you sign an ENFORCEABLE LEGAL DOCUMENT of some kind????
Did
> $$$ change hands between the two of you??? If neither of these happened,
> YOU HAVE **NO **CASE!!!

Yes he does, if the owner agreed to give it to the person who gave it to
data that's a contract agreement since it was typed. And the contract
between data and the 2nd owner is still a contract. Even if it were verbal
it might still be void depending on the Mass' laws.

--Bowen--

Jan 16, 2002, 10:35am

> verbal
>
> But even then Bowen, his argument would be weak at best because it wasn't
> Data's citizenship to begin with...

Not originally, but it still is his. Think of it as buying something at a
store, that store is the middle man, so was the guy that gave Data the cit.
Unless you're lucky and can get it directly from the guy.

--Bowen--

Jan 17, 2002, 1:03am

> No no no no ... its a 3D Homepage!! :o)

Lmao :) sit down.

--Bowen--

Jan 12, 2002, 4:44am

> (Quote)
> "We believe that NetBroadcaster's proven marketing strategies and
> state-of-the-art broadcast network will lead to immediate
revenue-generating
> opportunities for Activeworlds, by increasing our subscription base and
> introducing the Activeworlds' technologies to the entertainment industry,"
> said Rick Noll, chief executive officer of Activeworlds.
> (End quote)
>
> Sure, and skyrocketing the price of a citizenship will also lead to
> immediate revenue-generating opportunities, won't it Rick? Jeez...When I
> thought that AW was jacking up prices to keep their heads above water, I
was
> unhappy but semi-OK with the idea.
> Now that I know that they're just making us pay for their new toys, I'm
not
> as OK with it anymore.

Agreed. If they can afford to "buy" another company, they're not too far in
debt, now are they. Besides, the point of this rise in price for us was for
their market department to get the word out about AW. Looks like they have
everything they need. Why are they still doing this to us? Capitalism at
work.. gotta love it.

--Bowen--

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