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Apparently not. I can edit and delete posts but not adjust other user's profiles. I should imagine E probably can.. it is insanely big! In the meantime.. adblocks!

Happy Birthday Krytos!

Read some excellent comments here concerning what was released, so thank you! Ship stats: They were released with the beta from cards returned to our graphics god La_Forge in the middle of some testing. It would have been better if original stats had been deployed. So I apologize. They didn't work at those levels, and are hardly going to without some serious adjustments. One thing I had attempted to do was blur somewhat the difference betweeen the two Star Destroyers. A MKI being outguned by an assualt frigate never made march sense to me, or being over powered by three Corellion Corvettes, but there you go, i'm only human and got it a bit wrong. The MK II having four regiment capacity is simply bonkers. The Allegiance is something that needs to go. Playing the game against the Empire is easier because it's ships take that much longer for it build capital ships, pointless giants like the Allegiance, based upon comic art completely over analyzed by nerds like the force.com simply doesn't make the grade. I was one. But i've seen the light!

http://www.merzo.net/ Always the best place to start

I have to agree with you there. In fact Hayden Christensen bothered me just as much as Jar Jar. Vader was such a great character in the OT and to see him start off as a whiny b**ch was horrible. The only thing that kept the PT at least somewhat interesting was Palpatine and the craziness that is Yoda's saber battles. First off, Hayden Christensen appearing at the end as a jedi spirit was something i'm not to bothered about, it was in the prequel he was seduced to the dark side and ties up the original movies with the prequels to some respect given George Lucas suddenly decided all the movies were about Anakin Skywalker, and not his earlier vision of Luke, in Star Killer, or whatever it was. He's being making it up randomly since the inception of the prequels without the slightest regard to his commercial franchise. So it the ghost was a remembrance of when Anakin was 'pure' with the force, then cool with me. And this entire Hayden Christensen crap business; would rather have had a famous actor like Tom i'm a twat Cruise? The entire point of the original movies was that GL went for unknowns; it's part of the fundamental essential ingredients of the Star Wars magic! Would Star Wars have been the movie with Dustin Hoffman as Obi-Wan, or a mumbling Marlon Brando as Tarkin? I speak as a Brit to some point here I guess, but would the original magic have worked with the 1975's A-set? Hayden Christensen was cast to portray a vulnerable youth seduced to the dark side through emotional manipulation. All things considered, that's what I got wth the latter prequels. I usually cringe in real life whenever I encounter a teenager 'and how cool they obviously are' when to the rest of the adult world, we simply see someone being a prat; but that's how they behave at that age. We were all that age once!

Sorry M fella but I timed myself how long I could last with that, and the grand total was incredible 1.13 of pain. Shear pain. She's great to look at etc, but christ, she would have to start singing..

An eleven mile long web page illustrating, to scale, a hydrogen atom

Appears still shagged matey! Edit: oh hang on, I recognize that divine body! http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1181671186/alizeejabba.gif What a babe!

Emm.. that actually sounds like the entire expanded universe.. *flees*

When I was at Bigpictures spending all day in Photoshop, it was on a Mac, and one thing that amazed me was the shear power of the thing. I could have an entire photoshoot open (2500-odd pixel, 1.5mb each generally) and the machine would glide along quite smoothly. I work on a crappy office Dell now.

Not to pile on Kaja, but some of the stone work to construct Machu Picchu is almost impossible to duplicate to this day with modern technology. Imagine "blocks" of stone weighing in the tons, not having any right angles or parallel edges, some with multiple edges, but when put next to their neighbor blocks they fit so tightly together that a piece of paper can NOT fit into the seam where the blocks meet! No computers, no milling machines, just primitive tools; plus moving them from the quarry to the construction site. Definitely amazing in my book ^Exactly this, the achievement was incredible. All that, and it remained hidden from the Spanish, and the government of Peru ,up until some local farmer revealed it's location to Bingham in 1911. Far more incredible than some statue built, as JH pointed out, in the twentieth century with the subsequent technology.

Heh, six of those i'm happy about, because they are obvious wonders, all things considered. But Christ Redeemer? It's not a religious objection by any means, but it hardly ranks with the other six in terms of human achievement or wonder. Surely the Great Pyramids of Egypt have more merit, by about a mile as well..

Where did you get the source image from Eagle? I found this whilst out for my early morning internet jog: http://www.jahled.co.uk/hiltonbleach.gif

Just normal cards.. I even got the 200x100 jpg down to 2kb, which is a first

It's worked fine for years, Bill, just apparently not at the moment. Something simply astray I guess

Just tested it, and there's definitely a bug. Upon upload it generates a white page with 'file not found'

Yes quite. Speaking of pissed Irish blokes, this guy was a teacher at my school: The legend that is Dougie Barnett. Dougie was a physics teacher at my secondary school, and retired a couple of years before I left. The stories about him are numerous, and I'll try to summarise some of them as best I can: Someone in his class asked him whether you would get an electric shock from urinating on a piece of railtrack. He disappeared into the store room for a couple of minutes and came back with a steaming beaker of yellow liquid in which he proceeded to place a couple of electrodes connected to a power pack. Once, with virtually no prompting, he drew the chemical structure of LSD on the blackboard for us and was part way through describing how it could be created before coming to his senses and exclaiming "I'm not telling you that!" One of the guys in our class once recieved a piece of pretty ordinary work back from Dougie with "11/10 A++++" as his mark. No explanation was given. One lesson, we decided to play chess instead of doing any work. Dougie calmly watched us play all lesson without comment. Apparently, his wife threw him out of his house at one point. During this period Dougie was found sleeping in the labs by one of the technicians. At this time, he was seen around school with his trousers tied up with bunsen burner tubing in lieu of a belt. While briefing us on an experiment in static electricity, he produced a 12" polythene rod and spent a good 5 minutes rubbing it vigorously against his groin to demonstrate how to generate static. He was completely mystified by the ensuing hysterical laughter from the class! He did a 'practical' once to demonstrate inertia, which involved us taking turns riding passenger in his Nissan Micra while he performed handbrake turns on the school car park. These are just some of the things I observed with my own eyes - doubtless he did much more... Ah! The crazy Irish!

Watching J.K.Rowling being interviewed by the rather excellent Johnathan Ross on BBC1, and whilst I must confess to not having read any of the Harry books, she has just confirmed the last word in the books WILL NOT BE 'SCAR' Oh the mystery..

I last trained in Steel Wire Mantis Kung Fu six or seven years ago, but stopped attending because I was a courier doing about fifty hours a week on a bike here in London at the time, so didn't really have enough energy to spend two nights a week of training after work. Judo as a kid, Aikido yonks ago, kickboxing very briefly.

voila Mask bumped into some technical problems, and after a day of real-life ie: work, is working to resolve them. So fingers crossed.

It's not mine Rob, like I said, I came across it last night elsewhere having a discussion about what "Utini!" (or "Ooteeny") means!

Ouch Bill. Sorry to hear this mate, my, and I guess, all our thoughts are with you right now.

Mess not with kitty!

Hahaha I just came upon this: http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/Martini.jpg

Err.. http://hagen.let.rug.nl/~s1133624/linkto/up/harry_potter.jpg