Jonnan001

Reply to Best "file rename' utility??? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Another good one for Mp3's ogg, etcetera is Easytag: http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ GPL of course - {G}. Jonnan

Reply to Way to make the minors less... minor in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah - I find it annoying myself, simply because the major/minor dichotomy is so arbitrary. One of the relatively few things I don't care for. Jonnan

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="10" id="1985598"] [quote]Good lord, I graduated from a hick farming community,[/quote] Maybe the farming communities were all conspiring to prove global warming so that Bush would approve a Farming Industry bailout. [/quote] I'm sure that's it - {G}. Jonnan

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, no, I'm answering that - Because the math they use is an entirely inappropriate attempt to treat a humongous radioactive iron core as a black body problem - When Lord kelvin tried it, it was in fact logical - because when *he* did that math, radioactivity was not yet known. But that was over 150 years ago! So no - knowing enough math to misapply equations to completely incorrect models does not magically make it 'logical'. Second - no, you said "So really the debat

Reply to Google Chrome Gets Out of Beta in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Well, if you're really bored, you can always waste time dropping random searches into Ms. Dewey . Just as evil, but far more distracting - {G} Jonnan

Reply to Disappearing Spies in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Oh - *there's* my agent problem - My competency slider seems to be pegged on the left hand side! No, wait . . . hey, this says " Player Competency"?!?!? What are they trying to tell me here!!!!! {G} - Jonnan

Reply to Galactic Guide Book / Advance Navigation Center in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well, on #1, be sure you're looking at the price not the size - the survey module is still large, it just costs nothing. Unfamiliar with the navigation center; I leave that to someone brighter than myself. Jonnan

Reply to Regarding PSAT scores and scholarships... in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Thrawn2787" reply="17" id="1982858"]Kryo if MIT would look at your SAT scores and accept you right away... wouldn't you be able to get scholarships somewhere!?!?!?![/quote] Not really - GPA has a lot more to do with scholarships (IMO) than the SAT's. I know for me, I could get in to MIT easy, but I couldn't get scholarships because my GPA was only moderate and my class placement was in the bottom quarter of my graduating class. So I went to the Military an

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Okay - I'm going to say, pre-emptively, that at this point Luckmann I at least am thoroughly confused by what, if anything, you were attempting to say regarding the need or lack thereof of debating whether claimat change exists and whether, if so, it is attributable to man, purely setting aside the (Not imo funny, but I don't care that much) presumed sarcastic nature of the holocaust comment. I originally assumed it was in the nature of "Can't we agree that polution

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]P.S. Jonnan - I think that there currently is very little or no method for determining the accuracy of the current global warming claims made by either side because (1) experiments on a global scale take a very long time, and (2) the pro-global-warming side doesn't see the need to objectively study the case because it has been 'resolved' in their favor. So really the debate is one of which side has the better cumulative argument, because no absolutely conclusive, all-encompassing stud

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="IQofSpam" reply="6" id="1982327"]Good lord, a Holocaust denier? My estimation of humanity's intelligence has fallen considerably. And Jonnan, I get what you mean - the petition does have issues, and I would certinaly admit that, and I think it is a good point you bring up about those people not publishing why they think global warming isn't a problem. However, it is possible that they actually have, and nobody knows about it or thinks it noteworthy enough to

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I would have to disagree with you Vandenberg - at least to the extent that I am not placed to independently verify or debunk global warming personally, my evaluation of the evidence is very much influenced by the consensus view - i.e., by committee. That said . . . You get points for linking to the Oregon petition sir. You lose a point however for obviously not having read the article to completion. First of all - 'Climatologists' that claim to have proof that debunks

Reply to Farms Versus Economic Improvement in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I've been fiddling with google docs, but haven't figured out how to make it interactive - if anyone knows off hand, I'll add an interactive toy to the spreadsheet so it will calculate the point of diminishing returns for marginal rates a and y. As it stands (always assuming my formula is right), even a +1 farm is worth it if you have 12 or more stockmarkets. Jonnan. edit: does anyone have the actual morale modifiers for population and tax rates? I'd love to crossrefere

Reply to Farms Versus Economic Improvement in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Unfortunately Mumblefratz and Sole Soul are correct, in that it is a vast over-simplification to model this in a vacuum as if neither the influence bonus or morale penalty of farms were a factor on this, when both obviously are. I intended to point this out in the first post, but must fall back on the excuse that it was past my bedtime. That said, yeah - the morale penalty is a major factor, *if* you have a government system affected by it. The Yor (By default - in my current game I h

Farms Versus Economic Improvement in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I've lost the thread I saw this in, and I'm tired, so I apologize in advance. But I caught a thread in which a comment was made about economic items being a far better return on value than farms, since you have to quadruple your population to double the tax base, and the more I mulled it over the more a little voice in the back of my mind started mumbling "No, logarithmic curves don't work quite like that." So I did the math out in a spreadsheet on Google docs (Yeah,

Reply to XPeriment; Free software only low maintenance installation in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

From bits we all came . . . to bits we all shall return . . .

Reply to Finances in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Those are your tax revenues and immediate planetary expenses. That does *not* include trade revenues, economic treaties, and tourism - and you will always get some small tourism revenue at a minimum. So you're being supplemented by Drengin with Hawaian shirts and cameras - {G} Jonnan

Reply to Stardock Games Make Top Ten in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Nice to know - I certainly have enjoyed the heck out of of Galactic Civilizations. If I get my PC upgraded next year I will have to try Fallout - I was kinda mixed on Oblivion, but Morrowind was one of the best single player RPG's I have had the good fortune to play. Sin's will need to acquired at some point too. Jonnan

Reply to Stardock forums incompatible with Firefox spellcheck? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Weel Ah'll b dimmed - ah ain't bin abel tu yoos speelchek cince ah wuz furst heer! Ah yes, thank you so very much chap - having access to my automated system for correcting those minor, but oh so embarrassing momentary lapses helps my posting immensely. Ta! Jonnan

Reply to 10 things GalCiv II 2.0 needs still in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Or for that matter just go all the way and let the system calculate a size for your 'bond market' at whatever interest rate you choose to set for it, with all the effects implied in a galactic economy. Set the rate too low, and deal with 'inflation' raising the cost of producing items. Too High, and your economy stagnates, but the pool of money for you to borrow from gets bigger. For that matter, the pool of money should be the total of all money produced by all planets in the

Reply to APOCALYPSE - The Great Lie in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="IQofSpam" reply="11" id="1973596"]Well, there are certainly both sides to the issue. I personally think that based on objective information (water = stability in temp, more CO2 = more plants and less CO2, etc.) that the earth's temperature merely cycles every so often, and that global warming is not caused by humans. The 'denialosphere' seems to have the better argument. But yeah, the information is out there if you just look for it. EDI

Reply to What's your custom race name? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The Psilon, of obvious lineage; Unimatrix001, a Yor/borg rip . . . er spinoff The Gigum (From Star thugs : Well worth the price just for the manual if you ever get the chance.) They breed. A lot. And of course, those terrifying monsters before whom the galaxy trembles . . . the SPEMIN !!!!! (No points in any advantage, no techs researched, no

Reply to colony rush (how to?) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I typically buy the first industrial complex, but nothing past that. Jonnan

Reply to Can you unload a transport or colony ship on al already owned planet? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ah - knew it was obvious - {G}. At the moment, I'm playing the Unimatrix a Yor offshoot with the 'xenophobe' slowdown ability, which seems fun. Plus I want to play with the Yor tech tree - I'm fiddling around with modding and trying to learn the trees - {G}. I'm a lttle surprised - I'm liking the Yor tree more than I thought I would from the beginning - that +3pop looks really lousy till you realize it combines with a morale boost. Jonnan

Reply to Too much money?? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Amazingly enough, you can sometimes simply buy underpopulated colony worlds from the other races for 1-4 k.Develop their population, and start flipping worlds across the map from you - {G}. This is particularly nasty when someone has not yet researched the Plague Cure and is droppping population like it's going out of style - assuming of course you *have* researched plague cure - {G}. Jonnan