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How come we can't ever seem to summon any interesting developers?

Started by J Arcane, September 01, 2008, 09:24:46 PM

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J Arcane

#30
September 02, 2008, 03:43:55 PM
Quote from: Aos;243224I'm on a mac as well- a shiny new one in fact. I don't like Safari.
I don't either.  I use Firefox 3 with one of the GrApple themes.  Used to use Camino but got tired of not having my damn extensions.

I'm gonna check out this new Google Chrome thing though.  It sounds like it could be cool.
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#31
September 02, 2008, 03:52:34 PM
Quote from: HinterWelt;243218That reminds me Clash. Would a huge earth satellite network called the Shield fit in the setting you and I were working on? Remember, we did not have a name for it but it was pretty cool and I wrote up a city on Mercury. I think it would be a cool item even if it is just a string of killer satellites. Alternatively, I could see it around Neptune as an artifact left over from the ancients.

Oh, right, what were we supposed to be bitching about...

Bill

I think it would fit best on Neptune, actually. The setting name I've been using internally was "Lowell Was Right!" though that won't make it to release... Too few would understand the reference, and it sure ain't catchy! :D

-clash
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arminius

#32
September 02, 2008, 03:57:34 PM
Quote from: Aos;243224I'm on a mac as well- a shiny new one in fact. I don't like Safari.
Well, there you go. I'm still mostly using PPC-based machines, and they're beginning to drag.

J Arcane

#33
September 02, 2008, 03:58:02 PM
Quote from: HinterWelt;243218That reminds me Clash. Would a huge earth satellite network called the Shield fit in the setting you and I were working on? Remember, we did not have a name for it but it was pretty cool and I wrote up a city on Mercury. I think it would be a cool item even if it is just a string of killer satellites. Alternatively, I could see it around Neptune as an artifact left over from the ancients.

Oh, right, what were we supposed to be bitching about...

Bill
I read this awesome short story once, about a guy in Ecuador who banded together all the poorer nations at the equator, and declared they were extending their airspace upward into orbit.  Since the vast majority of communications satellites in orbit are centered above the equator, it basically meant they had to start paying all these otherwise poverty stricken countries or else move their satellites out of orbit.
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J Arcane

#34
September 02, 2008, 04:00:18 PM
Quote from: Elliot Wilen;243240Well, there you go. I'm still mostly using PPC-based machines, and they're beginning to drag.
Ahh.  I use FF2 on my old Powerbook G4, but I don't think I'd dream of using FF3 on it.  Just too big for it.  It's old though, it has troubles with Flash even.
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StormBringer

#35
September 02, 2008, 04:02:13 PM
Quote from: Elliot Wilen;243240Well, there you go. I'm still mostly using PPC-based machines, and they're beginning to drag.
How do you get online with particle projector cannons?  I thought it was hard enough with two medium lasers and a gauss gun.
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flyingmice

#36
September 02, 2008, 04:03:26 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;243241I read this awesome short story once, about a guy in Ecuador who banded together all the poorer nations at the equator, and declared they were extending their airspace upward into orbit.  Since the vast majority of communications satellites in orbit are centered above the equator, it basically meant they had to start paying all these otherwise poverty stricken countries or else move their satellites out of orbit.

And they were going to defend their claim how? I mean it sounds nice, but would mean abandoning space entirely, since those satellites are there above the equator for a reason, and submitting to that claim would just lay any space-going nation open to legal hijacking.

-clash
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HinterWelt

#37
September 02, 2008, 04:03:48 PM
Quote from: StormBringer;243247How do you get online with particle projector cannons?  I thought it was hard enough with two medium lasers and a gauss gun.

It has to be clan tech. Shesh, whipper snappers.

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#38
September 02, 2008, 04:04:43 PM
Quote from: StormBringer;243247How do you get online with particle projector cannons?  I thought it was hard enough with two medium lasers and a gauss gun.

If he has Particle Projector Cannons, who's going to argue with him?

-clash
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Pseudoephedrine

#39
September 02, 2008, 04:04:45 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;243225Mearls.

Malcolm Sheppard still reads the site from time to time, though I don't see him post much anymore.
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HinterWelt

#40
September 02, 2008, 04:12:51 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;243250If he has Particle Projector Cannons, who's going to argue with him?

-clash

Someone with an Atlas...or Daishi? I could see that being very persuasive.

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StormBringer

#41
September 02, 2008, 04:17:41 PM
Quote from: HinterWelt;243249It has to be clan tech. Shesh, whipper snappers.

Bill
Pffft.  Lowborn.
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J Arcane

#42
September 02, 2008, 04:20:31 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;243248And they were going to defend their claim how? I mean it sounds nice, but would mean abandoning space entirely, since those satellites are there above the equator for a reason, and submitting to that claim would just lay any space-going nation open to legal hijacking.

-clash
I forget the details involved exactly.  IIRC there was also some American entrepreneur involved who had come to them with some method (surface to orbit missiles I think, or a computer virus, I don't remember) by which they could disable them.  The idea of the scheme was to get them all to band together as a bloc and essentially hold the airspace for ransom until the more affluent West started handing some more of the profits their way.  

I think I was in like, junior high, when I read it, in some old Analogs I'd gotten free.  Wish I could remember a title or an author or sometihng.
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#43
September 02, 2008, 04:23:08 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;243258I forget the details involved exactly.  IIRC there was also some American entrepreneur involved who had come to them with some method (surface to orbit missiles I think, or a computer virus, I don't remember) by which they could disable them.  The idea of the scheme was to get them all to band together as a bloc and essentially hold the airspace for ransom until the more affluent West started handing some more of the profits their way.  

I think I was in like, junior high, when I read it, in some old Analogs I'd gotten free.  Wish I could remember a title or an author or sometihng.

Was it maybe Fred Saberhagen? Sounds like something he might have written, and he wrote a lot for Analog as well as Galaxy (my favorite mag)

-clash
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J Arcane

#44
September 02, 2008, 04:30:31 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;243261Was it maybe Fred Saberhagen? Sounds like something he might have written, and he wrote a lot for Analog as well as Galaxy (my favorite mag)

-clash
No bloody clue, man.  Sorry.
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