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No I really enjoyed network design, or redesign in my case. But since I wrapped up the West Florida project I was involuntarily reassigned to customer complaint/ response. It's only been 4 weeks and I'm already sick of explaning to people why they lose cell sevice once they travel 10-15 miles off shore and still have "4 bars" of service. I applied for an in company position in Nashville as the transport manager. Still waiting on that one. I've never done DSP design (beyond one class in college). My whole career has been in RF. I'm also looking at a position with TTC in Montana. Never been there but it sounds nice and has to be cheaper to live than West Palm Beach.

Started looking for a new job, in a new state, or even country.

That seems to be a developing trend in gaming. It takes the talents of modders to breathe life into otherwise mediocre games. If it was not for modders there would have been no NWN2 because NWN1 by itself (without SoU or HoTU and all that came after) was pretty bad. Vanilla Oblivion is pretty meh, but throw in a few of the top mods (like Oscuros) and you have a really good game. I wont even mention a certain Star Wars game we all know about that is seriously depending on a mod team to secure it a better place in gaming history. I guess that's just what it's come to.

The Grateful Dead: Casey Jones

Come back and give us your thoughts on it. I have this title on my must-buy list.

Ebay will probably have a UK release up before long. Otherwise:http://www.amazon.co.uk/ I tried Amazon.co.uk. They won't ship it to the US. And I just don't like to use eBay. I guess you could hit up someone here on the board from the UK to buy it and UPS it to you. I have no idea what the dollar to pound rate is right now but it will probably be a little expensive. Wals might play ball on this one.

Ebay will probably have a UK release up before long. Otherwise:http://www.amazon.co.uk/

Here is a rotten potato in the stew: Officials: Arson Behind Santiago Fire

Like Tale said, the wind is the killer out there. It's spreading the fire faster than it can be controlled and hampering air dops at the same time. Talk about a two edge sword. Firefighters from six states plus Navy and Marine Corps assets are hitting it around the clock. I just saw an article on cnn.com about a family in a shelter that saw their house burning on TV. I can not even imagine that. Not for nothing but I'd bet a thousand dollars California's law against cutting fire breaks in public land gets changed after this. All of the sudden hurricanes don't seem that bad.

Nevermind, I figured out how to do it. Close this thread please Lucian.

Does anyone who still has KOTOR I installed have the Padawan or Force Sensitive mod? If so please PM me. Thanks!

Thats is a heck of a good idea. I am so going to do that in my NWN2 mod. actually you should pull volo and cano and put yourself and taks in as you two are now some of the more active political debaters. Heh, Taks will get in but not me. That would be a little narcissistic. Besides I was already in NWN1. I'm standing outside the Shining Knight in the City Core. . As for the mod, all of the dialog, journal entries, floaters, and most of the scripts are written. I write in Word then copy to the TS. About 1/2 the areas are done in at least rough form, some are pretty much finished. Heck all the writing weighs in at 65000 words not counting scripting. I wrote most of it during downtime at work. Back OT, I was lurking on the BIS forums during the submit-a-character mess. It was a shame something that could have been a lot of fun turned into such a debacle.

The leveled gameplay part that just bugged the heck out of me was bandits wearing daedric armor. Why were they hitting me up for 100 coins when their armor alone could have bought all of Bravil?

Thats is a heck of a good idea. I am so going to do that in my NWN2 mod.

That is an excellent point. I will admit to having pretty narrow tastes in RPGs and not many out there appeal to me (I'm more into RTS games now) but it is nice when there are a few decent if not so flashy "cookie cutter" games with a few subtle twists to fill in the time between the big titles.

Tarna as a point here. 4 years ago GSM was in it's infancy and almost all cell phones used either IS-136 (TDMA) or IS-95 (CDMA). Today TDMA is utterly obsolete and is not sold anywhere, and most companies have dismateled their TDMA networks. IS-95 is still around but only in small markets and GSM and CDMA-2000 are the standard signal formats. They are both very very different from their predecssors and if TDMA might have caused interference it certainly does not follow that GSM would. The modulation and transmission format are totally different. Ditto for IS-95 and CDMA2000. Citing old data when talking about cell phones does not mean anything really. If it's 2-3 years old, everything has changed since. On a side note, GSM is about to give way to UMTS.

Actually Tale, if you are really interested in this subject there is a book I highly reccomend: Six Easy Pieces and Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman. OK, I'll be honest, I never finished it. I really only read the parts about Gauss's law and Kirchhoff. But what I did read was pretty interesting. It is not a text book, and it will not make you a physics expert but it does a pretty good job breaking down the concepts to the essentials

See post #18 on pg 2 of this thread.

Frequency=3.0x10^8/Wavelength. I use that almost every day for channel planning.

Does in game advertising and product placement detract form the experience? Or make it more realistic? I could ask the same about movies too. Opinions?

I don't play sport games. Oh, I don't eat at McDonald's either or drink Starbuck's coffee. I also don't shop at Wal-Mart. So you are thin, sleepy, and pay too much for groceries. But seriously, it does not make sense to say all Bioware games will suck now because of EAs involvement. EA may well let Bioware continue to do their own thing. Past history would seem to say no, but as someone else said, we can hope. My niggest Beef with EA is that they are not interested (so far) in unique and new IPs. As someone else pointed out, the like a secure franchise title and simply rehash a slightly improved version every few years.

Well I can prove that temperature rise creates increases in CO2 (just burn a piece of charcoal). But no I can not prove the reverse which is what Gore assets to be true. Of course neither can he. But as Calax says you have to have faith! It's funny, this whole global warming thing is nearly becoming a religion. And it is a zealous one that hates pagans and heretics (thats you and me Taks).

I'm sure you have heard of the legend of the frog and the scorpion? Sometimes a company (or a person, or a scorpion) does things just because its what they do. Even if it is against their interests, it's just their nature. Now, I haven't taken many classes in the way of economics, but I'm pretty confident that a thomistic/teleological account of market dynamics isn't terribly popular or well-supported. Nobody mistakes a company's past behavior with an obligation to some account of "nature". Sorry Pop, I didn't realize we were having a serious discussion on this. I usually go to WOT for those. Besides, I've been waiting for a chance to use that story!

That is true. Global warming became a hot button issue in scientific communities about 15 years ago. Al Gore is only using it to give himself an issue to stand on. I remember the first major news article about global warming I read was in 1991. That was right about the time the chicken littles of the world realized the dire warnings about "Global Cooling" from the 1970's were bunk. Oh yes, here is a link to one of the thousands of dire warning about how humans were causing global cooling. The part I like is about how the glaciers would cover North America and Europe by the late 1990's and they seriously discussed ways to melt the polar caps to stave off an ice age. For you reading enjoyment: http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm and http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialrep.../fireandice.asp. As for you second point that is a fair argument. But I would point out there are a large number of VERY fuel efficient models of cars and light trucks for sale here. But they do not sell well because they are very expensive and not very durable. The government cannot compel a company to sell certain models, or not not sell others here. Just as they cannot compel me to buy them. But they can reward me for doing so. And they do. If you buy a fuel efficient car you get a nice tax break. I will tell you right out, I drive a Mercury Mountaineer. It is not terribly fuel efficient but I have a lot of dogs and I need a truck that can carry as many as possible at one time if needs be. The little electric hybrids will not do that.