I'm talking about "direct" control, which is not a lot of fun with capital ships if it's truly direct. That's assuming that they feel big and steer like crap - X3 capital ships turn very quickly for their size, somewhat ruining the effect. Yep - that means something other than direct, i.e. setting ...

My feeling is that I'd love voice but realise it would be a lot of work to get it right, and may be at the cost of other stuff we'd like in the (initial version of) the game. As such I suggest that the game is developed with "future voice" in mind, so that it could be done as a subsequent add-on. In...

I like the idea of just flying one ship in my fleet, while an NPC commands. I would also like to be able to just command, without having to fly a ship at the same time. It should be possible to turn any ship with more than a certain amount of crew over to NPC piloting, and then command the ship as ...

I think that has potential. Another alternative is to do a 3D version of what some nautical sims do - just set a new orientation using the standard nav display. This could by done by having a polar coordinate style display, showing your current orientation in one colour. If needed, the two angles co...

A number of ships could be assigned to a Task Force, and that TF can be given orders. At the basic level a TF could be ordered to travel via a sequence of waypoints, and to carry out some action (or none) at each waypoint. If the waypoints have times allocated, then a number of TFs could be used for...

Well, bruteforcing isn't done manually so giving a message wouldn't really do anything. :) I am thinking about what kind of honeypots I can use though. I already have the firewall logs, smtp logs and phpbb registrations to base myself on. True, but the 100th attempt (or 100,000th) gets them "in" (t...

I think caterpilars roar every time a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody else around to listen. Maybe even tree-felling is a favourite caterpillar pastime, with audiences giving roars of approval every time one succeeds. So next time you wander through a deep forst and clamber over downed ...

Another thing you could do is have a dummy login page, so you can collect IP addresses of brute force attacks. If any IP tries it for the 100th time, you can have it give them a cheesy message about how much effort they've wasted!

When you fall asleep is it like turning off a light, or more of an exponential fall-off?

Gazz wrote:That's why the actual system is called (Infinite) Improbability Drive.

Good call, Zaphod!

What do you think about using python instead of c# ? I'm interested in python because it would also prove useful for programming a Raspy later. I don't really know, as I've never used python for building webapps, or even for any large project. However, I do know there's a plethora of frameworks out...

Is that a bit like unbreaking a leg? Now that would be a medical break-through! Er... unbreak-through... umm...

Or there's this wishy-washy song.

Actually, quantum mechanics doesn't place such energy limits on the concept itself; the various energy constraints are based on specific suggested methods. There may be other methods, based on physics we don't yet know but compatible with QM, which have much lower energy constraints. Indeed QM state...

« I know the heat of a planets core doesn't come from a smattering of solar radiation. I'm simply talking about time scale. Stars blink out of existence over a period of billions, or 100's of billions, of years. I'm just saying that over that course of time the planet would cool down. And I don't k...

Learning C will have to wait though. My shop really needs a website, and I can't find a webdesigner that fits within my budget. So, I'll have to learn some css and a server side scripting language and do it myself. :) I have a basic knowledge of php & mysql, css and html. But recently I've been try...