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Reply to SkinStudio 6 Preview! in SkinStudio Help WinCustomize Forums

ooo i might have to sign up to object desktop again just to play with this, it looks and sounds fab! This is what i love about stardock

Reply to G4 Gives Dark Avatar a 5/5! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

rofl, what a great review, congrats! .... 5 *gulp* gulp* *gulp* *gulp* *gulp* outta 5!

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

... students from economically lower classes do not do as well in school (typically) and therefore do not do as well on the tests. Ah, so then is 'equal opportunity' a myth? Some children are disadvantaged because their parents don't read to them, don't speak good English and don't encourage them to t

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

EVERYONE has an opportunity at the lottery. one in 180 million.Only one wins. But how does that relate to this debate? I can see that everyone has the opportunity to make it on to the Honours program but its not luck that gets you on to it? I'm not trying to obtuse, I just don't understand what you mea

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Find a way of testing that measures ability, not knowledge. I was wondering if the problems were in the test themselves. I don't know much about them, so are they internally assessed (assignments), one big written exam or an oral exam etc? And how about the actual questions in the exams, could

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

... there are many Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers that care nothing for the liberal arts, so they are not represented. I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean? Do you mean they are not represented on the Honours program? <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 clas

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Which is in fact nothing more than a form of racism. Aren't the existing standards already racist? If they weren't racist in the first place wouldn't there be more diversity? (Sorry for the double negatives).

Reply to Capitalism Offers the Best Answers for Poverty in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hmm, I thought it was greed and corruption, not socialism that was the Soviet Union downfall. Greed and corruption are also the problem with Capitalism. Hasn't capitalism failed before? I think the best cure for poverty is community care and support, being neighbourly.

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Taking the top 10% based on race, gender, or any other biological grouping will ultimately fail because it is just a well-meaning form of segregation. Aren't the standards at the moment already promoting segregation? Who were the standards written by anyway? Minorities are on the back foot from the star

Reply to Should we force diversity? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I think diversity is a good thing and if you want to encourage it then you probably can't hold everyone to the same standard because we are all different. Not smarter or dumber just different. So to look at this differently, how about something like the 'Cream of the Crop' instead? Top 10% of students based on Gender, Race, etc?

Reply to SciFi.com Loves Dark Avatar in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

And frankly who has the time to find every review out there and post a link to them?! Maybe Stardock peeps are taking a well deserved holiday I think these days we're all grown up enough to go out and scroogle our own reviews. I can't blame Stardock for getting enthused and posting positive reviews, they are proud of Dark Avatar and why shouldn't they toot their own horn?

Reply to .. But I don't want to have to wait for a sequel... in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

dang so us earlier adopters had to pay more!?! ah well i guess we do get more fun and earlier ...

Reply to Xion... A new skinnable media player in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

its a bit buggy but otherwise its pretty coo! i got the skin with the wobbly speakers and it is so cute! looking forward to creating a skinning for it in PS, what a great concept that is! I can't wait for stardock to implement PS formats for skins too

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.31 released in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The long-standing problem is that when you finish an improvement and simultaneously research or trade for the next level building's technology, the newer building type gets built, but it produces nothing until you restart the game. Ah thanks MarshallONeil that sounds like what happened to me, good to know its an existing reported bug not a new on

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.31 released in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

food bonus tile exploit. Didya break something when you did this? I had a 300% food tile but when I put Xeno Farming on it I got no extra food production at all?! Luckily this was fixed by saving the game and quitting and restarting.

Reply to Epic Generator Journal in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Sort of remins me of the 4th Harry Potter and Rita skeeters amazing pen

Reply to Stardock being a little personal with there poll now! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I'm surprised that there aren't more girl Civ II gamers?! Dang I'm always in the minority. And sorry I don't live in southern indy and I think the torians are cute, espcially when I'm slaughtering their homeworld...

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.11 released in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

i got the account information invalid message in Stardock Central as well ... but strangely enough it downloaded the tutorials, movies and multimedia?! So all I did was click on the Galactic Civilisations II line and the little update button popped up so I clicked it and it downloaded no problemo?! ... I'm guessing that the serial was incorrectly sent in the first place and resent properly when I clicked the update button .... yay .... <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.

Reply to GalCiv2 shirts are here! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Can we see some pics of someone wearing one of the T-Shirts? The logo's look strange to me ... way too small? I too would like to see a shot of the back of the shirt. And as Zanato said a pithy quote from the race would have been cool too. Are those logo's embroidered?

Reply to G4's XPlay gives GalCiv II 5 out of 5! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I subscribe to XPlay videocast via iTunes so I can't wait for them to post up the review ... yay

Reply to Ooh. 2 page ads in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I agree with polysyllabist suggestions on the ad, show someone making a ship in ship design, then show a screen shot of that ship in a fleet approaching another fleet and then show a screenshot of the battle, from different camera angles .... with lots of text and stuff .... sweeeeet ... I don't usually buy comp mags anymore but I always flick thro

Reply to GalTrek™: The Defiant in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Runabout, runabout!! Awesome work .... *drool* Thanks for laying out all the steps you did, that was really interesting

Reply to UI Niggles in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Note:- I'm not using the beta version 1. Unable to delete in-progress buildings by selecting them in their square as this does not select them in the build queue. That would be nice. As it is you can't even click on the title in the build queue to select it ... you have to click to the right of t

Reply to Question for the Serenity/Firefly fans in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I only recently got GalCiv2 (NZ always sooo slow at getting games and broadband is still crawling ). Gee where in NZ do you live, Invercargill? I'm a kiwi and I dl'd it aaages ago, mind you it did take all

Reply to Pirates not scaling properly? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sota like Reavers that way. Now that would be an interesting mod