Chupacabra

Can I have a hotkey that walks to the fridge and opens me a beer? ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I believe they saw action with KG Peiper, but I don't have any sources for that onhand. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

While I'm thinking about it - Karateka Prince of Persia Civ 1-2 ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

It's used to cancel previously issued movement orders. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Many of the Infocom games, before they were bought by Activision. Wasteland Neuromancer Bard's Tale Aces of the Pacific/Over Europe Falcon 3 Fallout Worms Jagged Alliance 2 System Shock 2 ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh. [This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 12-01-2000).]

I agree with Jeff. It takes less time to pay a bit of attention and actually make sure you're not about to do something unintentionally than it would take to click on a confirmation button, which I find incredibly annoying. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Terence - I don't believe anyone is attacking you personally for liking Ambrose. It's your time and money, you should read whomever you like. However, do realize that Ambrose is, in my opinion and in that of others, at best not to be taken at face value. He simply gets too much wrong. I don't have any of his books in front of me, and so cannot quote them, but I believe quite adequate evidence of his failings has been shown, and I don't really want to belabor the point any further. As for a suggested reading list, I'd add as well B.H. Liddell Hart. History of the Second World War Winston Churchill The Second World War An excellent prime source. Of course, Churchill's view of the war is hardly unbiased, and is flawed in that the books were written before Ultra was declassified. John Erickson The Road to Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin Primarily a look at the war from the Russian POV. Excellent. John Keegan The Second World War and Six Armies in Normandy. British bias, but his facts are (as far as I can tell) correct, and he's quite readable. Russell Weighley Eisenhower's Lieutenants Michael Doubler Closing with the Enemy Dwight Eisenhower Crusade in Europe In addition, Guderian, Manstein, and IIRC Paulus have all had their memoirs translated into English. All are worth reading. There are more, of course, but these are all that spring to mind. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Wait until CM6: Way The Hell Beyond Overlord. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Appears to have cleared up, my opponent was giving me the wrong ip address Seem to have found a bug, however. I've emailed you the details, Matt. Thanks again both for the help. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Terence - I'm not sure why you're convinced that serious scholars deride popular history. I personally believe that the study of history would be extremely well served if more scholars were writing so-called popular histories. Nothing but good can come out of more people being interested in and engaged by history. Or more precisely, by good history. Unfortunately Ambrose is simply not good history. If I presented a paper with the same level of generalization, specious reasoning, and pure untruth that Ambrose demonstrates, I would be laughed down, and rightly so! Likewise, being an American historian is quite alright. I am one after all. The trouble with Ambrose rises because he is unable or unwilling to separate his nationality from his scholarship. As Jeff said, he makes a better cheerleader than a historian. Historians very rarely succeed at being completely unbiased. Unfortunately it is quite difficult for human beings to completely separate themselves from their work. However, we are required to make the effort. I don't believe Ambrose makes this effort, and so, disregarding his intelligence, which university he teaches at, or anything else, I believe he is a poor historian for this reason. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

As I mentioned earlier, I think Ambrose is an excellent interviewer, who gets excellent material out of the vets he speaks to. Which is why it's such a pity that he's such a poor historian. The American tradition of oral history is not particularly well served by Mr. Ambrose, I agree. IMO a far better oral history of WW2 is Studs Terkel's The Good War. It shares all of the flaws of oral history, but Terkel is a better historian by leaps and bounds than Ambrose. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Terence: I think that the US landings were tougher fights than the British landings, and took more pages to describe. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I believe that many would take issue with you on this one. Omaha was a very tough fight indeed, but Utah was something of a walkover, and probably no more difficult than the fights at Juno and Sword. Basically, Ambrose is an American historian whose understanding of other nations is quite lacking. He makes a lot of highly questionable statements, and should be taken at best with a grain of salt. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Yeah, ping and tracert both go through. Thanks for helping, btw, I appreciate it ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I think that the best education one can receive is traveling to a different country, or studying with teachers and students of different nationalities than one's own. I feel very fortunate to have been able to do both. It's erased a lot of preconceived notions. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I'm nearly certain that I'm not connected through a firewall, as I've used a telnet client which, IIRC, doesn't connect through firewalls at all. In addition, I've played other multiplayer games with no hitch. I'll double check, but I'm reasonably sure that's not the problem. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Actually, that's true as well. 'Going gold' is also used to refer to a game which has sold, I think, 100,000 units. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Going Gold is typically the term used when software has been sent by a software company to a CD pressing company. ie., the software is ready and will be shipping soon. IIRC the term itself refers to the gold color of the master CD. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I've tried to play a tcp/ip game, and wasn't able to connect. I'd punch in my opponent's address, and CM would return Error: Cannot connect to specified IP address. Nor could my opponent connect to me when I tried to host. I'm running Win 98SE, connecting to the internet via a 3Com Megahertz ethernet card and my university's network, no firewall. Any ideas? I have this sucka waiting for a beatdown, you see... ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally mewled by Croda: Hey look guys, Meeks likes me! No, check it out, Meeks likes me! My mom says I'm cool, too!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> First of all, Meeks is lying dead on the Ross Ice Shelf with penguins nibbling at his nibbleables. I made sure of that. Second, it is indeed a pity that your tactical prowess doesn't live up to your exaggerated sense of self worth. I have eaten Malaysian tamarind-flavored candy which possessed more intelligence than you. You are as ridiculous as the site of a Mexican midget wrestling a stripper, without the aestheticly pleasing form. Now send me a turn. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

The sound quality of .wav files is completely dependent on their sample rate. CDs typically have a 44.1 kHz sample rate, whereas MP3s are sampled at, IIRC, 22ish kHz. Meaning that MP3s contain about half as much information as a CD of the same song. Meaning they sound much worse. Typically MP3s lose a lot of high end, making them sound muddy or muffled. In contrast, a .wav file sampled at 44.1 will sound much better than an MP3, although it will be a larger file, since it's more information. A .wav file sampled at 22 will sound equally good or bad as an MP3, and a .wav file sampled at 8 kHz will sound far worse. It has very little to do with the file format. Also, Quenalin, you're incorrect when you say "Mp3 format erases sound information permanently and wav format doesn't." Again, it's dependent on the sample rate. If a .wav file is sampled at 22 kHz, it loses just as much information as an MP3 file. And although it's possible to take a .wav file sampled at, say, 44.1 and resample it at a lower sample rate, it's impossible to take a .wav file sampled at a low rate and resample it to a higher rate. The information, in that case, is just as permanently gone as is the information in an MP3 file. Since stupid Media Player 7 doesn't display sample rates, I don't know offhand what sample rate BTS used for the CM sounds. Anyway, cheers. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

All the PCs I've owned have been Dells, and I've been happy. Excellent tech support is IMO Dell's big advantage. When I moved to London earlier this year, my laptop had a fairly major breakdown. Even though my laptop was bought in America and I had not had it registered with Dell UK, they still sent someone out to fix it the next business day. Dells also in general use less propreitary hardware than manufacturers like Gateway and Compaq. I had no trouble upgrading my old Dell 486 to a Pentium chip, back in the day. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Er, I haven't played a TCP/IP game yet, but IIRC there is an 'unlimited' timer option. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I think the disclaimer's just typical cover yr. ass legalese. The patch has been in internal testing for a week or more, and the game is programmed on G4s, so I'd imagine any serious crashing bugs have been hammered out, if there were any to begin with. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I haven't used the TCP/IP feature yet, but on my system at least, this patch seems to actually be more stable than 1.05. With 1.05, my computer would crash every five minutes or so. I just played through a 15-turn QB in about 45 minutes with the beta patch, and it ran like a champ. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally spewed forth by GI Tom: In other news, the complete and utter (or udder in chup's case) destruction of chup and morse is in progress. The setup files have been sent<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> They have? Er, no they haven't. Ah, perhaps I see the problem. Git, you silly git, when moving to a different continent, it is generally customary to change one's email address. Mefinks your snickerworthy little setup is most likely languishing away in a forgotten AOL account somewhere. Try this, my beamish boy - wipe the drool off your mouse, and shake it around. Whee! Shaking things is fun, isn't it? Now, did you notice that when you did that, the white pointy thing on the screen moved? OOOOOH! I know it's exciting, but stop humping my leg. I said stop it. Now. Move the mouse so that the white pointy thing is over my little profile thingy. You're almost there, tiger! Now! Press on the clicky thing on the mouse. Do you notice anything? Like, say, where it lists my email address? 3l33t uSoRz TIp: Use that email address, not the old one. Ta! ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.