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WalMart. The technology to do this, or pretty close to it is sold in toy stores all over the world. You'd need a computer connected to the controller to implement the AI components, and there are high school kids who can do that. I thought I was developing a conspiracy theory problem, when I...

That couldn't possibly have been a TESTie though. It was flying way too straight, and him broadside first try.

Sunday evening, 3.0 isn't out yet. only 1 bottle of beer left...and it's a Shiner Bock amber, which is why it's the last one left - so what the hell. Simple answer is, a roll of toilet paper has 1 hole going through it, like an open cylinder. The hole through an open cylinder is end-cap to...

Welcome to TEST Voodoo! And just for the record: You're not old unless you played Asteroids, Tank Battle, Space Invaders and Pong on dedicated consoles the size of bar tables... in fact they were bar tables. There used to be an extra side benefit to wanting a beer.

While I really like this idea... This is more like how I see it too. It could function as a primary loading dock, with the more "courier entrance" being on the landing pad. The missing component in all this is, how exactly would we move heavy cargo out of a Starfarer or Caterpillar? I...

There's actually another word for Sailor. It's seamen (plural), or seaman (singluar). There are ranks in some Navy's like "Leading Seaman" and "Master Seaman" among the seamen too. These seamen are theoretically slightly better than the semi- functional Able seamen, or Ordinary Seamen which...

Arrrrrrr MOAR!!!!!!!!!!! FYI. I found this. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UieVs5k0abU Listen to the video played by the Glorious Leader, and how Chris Roberts describes the system. He's obviously new to the concept when this video was taken, but he gets it. This is cloud...

Well no, I simplified it, a lot, and I'm not going to get into the nuts and bolts much more than I have. But this is what the communications backplane is for. All servers in a shard are in a single cluster and can interact with each other. They share the same objects, what's happening with...

Long post. Most sentient part is in first paragraph below. Yes, Vav is a geek. Maybe I can explain. What CIG is doing right now has nothing to do with how many players the PTU will support. But it does have a bearing on the total cost and the architecture they ultimately implement. For...

This is actually really good news. Most other games support somewhere between 40 and 100 players per server instance, so this sounds like middle of the road right now, and they're not done yet. What I'd like to see is the way they implement shards, but the main thing I learned doing cloud...

I think in any case it's too much speculation, so I wouldn't worry about it. The mechanic for this is still in flux, and this info is from 2015. It seems far too simplistic, and doesn't jive with other things they've said recently about piracy and other criminal activities.

For me, November 11 will always be Remembrance Day, and today is rather a unique one. On October 26, 100 years ago the Canada Corps, which included my paternal grandfather who was a machine gunner in the corps, went over the top and the Second Battle of Passchendaele began. His brigade was in...

Oh now we have both a thread and jumping in a lake! Cool. I happen to be in the same boat, for largely the same reason - certainly the same manufacturer. I design software, some of which is used for high end simulations, so I used to know how to select performance hardware, but for the...

Welcome to TEST Fox! Ramming is maybe not the cheapest thing to do, but it sure is fun sometimes.

I love it so far! The toggle switches give it the same kind of look as the switch panels of an F-86 or T-33 from the 50's and 60's. The F-86 was also known as the "Saber" by the way.

Uh. Does that include in combat? Or are we not allowed to piss on our enemies?

Perhaps. Did you ever notice that when you engage your ship's quantum drive, that your field of vision changes very quickly and very dramatically? Everything kind of compresses. Also you don't become a red stain on the back wall of your cockpit. The only thing I know of that works in...

Sure, but that's not what my point is. I was pointing out that the story doesn't jive with either science, nor the game's own lore. Even if you discount science totally, the dots simply do not connect.

I would have ignored this but the article struck me as really odd that in 2947 they don't know that Oxygen is the third most common element in the universe, and Hydrogen is the first - and Oxygen's primary source in the universe is in the form of molecules of water. A star is a fusion reaction...

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/16238-New-United-War-On-Water I find some of the lore to be a little out of place, or very thin. For example, this most recent story about a drought on Yar. For heaven's sake it's not 2017 anymore, we have 930 years of...