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Reply to The Political Machine tomorrow in Strategy JoeUser Forums

Is that v0.70[b].004 I see on SD Central?

Reply to The Political Machine tomorrow in Strategy JoeUser Forums

Argh, you've done it to me again Brad! Today is now forfeit to me clicking to refresh the program list in SDCentral!!! Is it up yet? *click* damn.... Is it up yet? *click* damn.... ;-) Definitely looking forward to this one. -Z

Reply to Political Machine Update: April 2004 in Politics JoeUser Forums

I got so excited when the press release said beta for April 8th, I spent all day refreshing SDCentral to see if it was there yet... guess I'll just have to wait another week :)

Reply to Destiny and Desire.... in Misc JoeUser Forums

My desire is to lead a good and fulfilling life and be well-remembered by those close to me after I'm gone.

Reply to Blog Navigator preview in Windows Software JoeUser Forums

Something I thought of after playing with BN a bit more this morning: I'd love to have the ability to update my blog from the app, sort of like the external applications used for LiveJournal.

Reply to Blog Navigator preview in Windows Software JoeUser Forums

A few bugs still in it (I expect as much from beta apps), but all-in-all a nice solid program. On my next paycheck I may have to buy it. Oh, and you can log into your JoeUser account in a sort of roundabout way. Whenever you're viewing an article, just click on the JoeUser Home link in the upper right corner of the browser window, and it'll take you back to the homepage where you can login via the login box on the right. -Z

Reply to The Longest Day Of My Life in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

She had no memory at all of why she did what she did, what set her off (me breaking up with her). It went better than expected, now she's forced to accept it and she has time to deal with it. Her parents have more or less refused to come down to see her because to them it would be pointless to drive several hours only to see her for a bit, and that she should just grow up and get over it (I want to slug them for that!). She's got some friends around

Reply to HERE'S THE PROOF THAT GOD EXISTS in Religion JoeUser Forums

The problem I have with most pure creationists (i.e. the ones who go with the 7 day model from nothing to Adam & Eve) is the fact that they use the bible as their definitive proof of argument. The very foundation of sciences and scientific proof is to provide evidence that can be confirmed, experiments that can be reproduced. The Bible does NOT offer that. It offers lessons, rules for life, and a bit of cultural history in the form of a rather compe

Reply to Should Americans care what Europeans think of candidates? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The problem exists when we do things like the war in Iraq and we try and get international support. Half of the President's job is to manage the nation in domestic affairs, the other half is to manage the nation's interests abroad, and honestly you need to be able to get support internationally for doing a great many things. How the rest of the world regards a president is a very important thing, because it dictates trade and military situations. Th

Reply to The Longest Day Of My Life in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I'm going out tonight and making things firm and final... that's all I can do at this point... it'll probably take all 2hrs of the visiting time available to do, but her best friend and I have to set things straight, because she's acting now like this is nothing and that things can just keep going like they were.

The Longest Day Of My Life in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Before I get into the events of this past Wednesday (3/31), I need to provide a little bit of background information... My girlfriend of 3 months and I had been having problems in our relationship, she was getting far too attached, clingy and demanding for having dated such a short time. I had tried to approach the topic of breaking it off a few times earlier in the week (last Friday, and again on Monday), but when I did she'd go into histerics and would beg me to reconsider. The only way I co

Reply to Political Machine: Interview questions in Politics JoeUser Forums

One interesting possibility with these issues is to every few months provide a new set that users can download and incorporate into their game. This way, people could go to an issues page and download the sets for certain years and elections. It would be a lot of fun to try and simulate past races, as well as being able to use it as a tool to simulate future races. I would enjoy seeing user-mods of the game where issues and variables have b

Reply to World of Warcraft: Better communication in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Another great VoIP tool to try out is TeamSpeak. It works pretty much the same as Ventrillo. My SWG guild uses it all the time to chat.

Reply to The Changing Face of Information Technology in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

>>>Why is outsourcing a problem ? Read this article for a different point of view. I understand there are different takes on outsourcing, I am merely speaking from the point of view of an IT worker in the US who has to deal with jobs fleeing overseas. Outsourcing is a great solution for upper management looking to make a company increasingly cost-effective (which is the entire point, I do understa

Reply to The Changing Face of Information Technology in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Penn State created a new academic school called Information Sciences & Technology right on the high-point of the boom of the 90s... I was the second class to go through the program and all around me were people who didn't even know how to use their own PCs, but they were in the major because they thought it would make them a lot of money. Most of them don't even like computers. As a result of having 90% of the student body of the school being compute

The Changing Face of Information Technology in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Outsourcing has become the largest problem for the IT industry since the dot-com bomb. However, it is not the last major shake-up we'll see in this industry, nor is it a sign of its eventual demise in the US. IT is just advancing along the same trend as every other form of technology throughout history. First there is the point where only masters and experts can participate, making these ind

Reply to Making a MMRPG community that's friendly in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

This holds true for the very early testing phases for any MMORPG when there is a small group of people involved. I was in the first beta phase for Star Wars Galaxies, and though there were in theory 500 testers by the end of the first phase, there were perhaps 25-50 of us who were in-game for every test session. The reason for this is typically the kiddies and griefers don't really have the patience for an early alpha/beta version of a game, they can

Reply to Some initial thoughts on World of Warcraft in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Sadly I didn't make the first cut for public beta, just gotta hope my name gets pulled in later phases (though, with 400,000 other applicants, that's going to be tough). From your preview, it sounds like WoW is more in it's formative stages than we were led to believe at this point. Looks like Blizzard worked on making a stable client and engine and is now filling with content and characters. I've seen nothing but positive reviews thus far, but ever

Reply to Anti-War or anti-action? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There are two main reasons I've been against the war: 1) Our reasons shifted too much and didn't stand up to hard scrutiny. The exception to this is the humanitarian reason, to remove a very very bad man. I agree with that reason fully, it is a positive result of what we've done. However it was the claims of WMD that were used as the primary argument for the UN going in (and later for just us and a few of our allies when the UN wouldn't

Reply to A preview of Blog Navigator in Work Reports JoeUser Forums

Just so long as you bring me back to life afterwards... :)

Reply to A preview of Blog Navigator in Work Reports JoeUser Forums

How'd you manage to get your hands on World of Warcraft? Somehow manage a spot on the Friends and Family Alpha Test? :-) Very cool tool btw, definitely looking forward to getting my hands on it.

Reply to BECOME A 'FRIEND OF SIR PETER' MAXWELL in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I hereby pledge my life and service to the greatness that is Sir Peter, may Maxwell Blogs forever rule the online world! *grovels*

Reply to The Horrors of Finding Mr. Right in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

It's not that everyone's taking, it's just that you're not interested in any of the single guys. I was always hearing from my female friends how there weren't any good available guys... they actually had the nerve/lack of intelligence to TELL ME THAT usually shortly after I had told them I was interested in them. Widen your horizons a bit, look in places you wouldn't normally and you might be quite surprised.

Reply to Mozilla's Firefox is getting compelling in Windows Software JoeUser Forums

I've been using Firefox for a bit now, especially since I started having trouble under IE with displaying JoeUser themes. It's sleek, fast and doesn't clutter things up as much in my experience. I'm also a huge fan of the tab element over opening a new window, keeps my already cluttered taskbar a little cleaner. This is leaps and bounds better than Mozilla and Netscape (though it's coded by the same people). This has become my browser of choice for

Reply to JoeUser resembling High School in Blogging JoeUser Forums

It happens any time you get a decent sized group in one place. It's just too hard to have one large, cohesive group. Differing ideas and politics make it impossible to keep everyone together. You'll see this happen in any community, period. You're drawn to those most like you and most in agreement with you, those are the ones you get along the best with. It's not exclusive to High School, I've seen the same behavior at College, and in places I've