i have been trying to fix ever since windows media upgrade messed up my seesmic video. the comment video is blank.

There is one issue you didn’t mention that I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around – no tech trading. In the article, they say you can make tech-learning alliances so you both work together to earn a tech. I picture this working exactly like it does when you play multiplayer teams in Civ4. But from there, no tech trading? I can’t imagine they don’t allow any transfer of knowledge between players. Maybe the other players learn what you learn after a while naturally.

I like to play fast and lose with taking a primitive civ, holding them under my thumb, and raising them to a warp civilization when I need a friend.

And I REALLY hope they expand on the vassal state mechanic. It was a great idea that, imho, was a little underplayed in Civ4.

To address your point about protecting your trebs…they are going to let ranged units shoot over a couple tiles. This is, imho, probably a more accurate picture of a battle. On the other hand, if they are trying to increase realism of battle formations, I would think a normal battlefield in a RTS would take up one hex and all the units for both teams fit into the same screen. One unit per tile makes the game look more like a legit boardgame.

Thanks for the direction!

It’s not clear to me which way we should roll, need to look into where Rails 3 / ActiveModel is headed. Please fire up an issue on Github and we’ll take a look.

For some instant gratification, you can probably change line 459 from:

if @object.present?

to:

if @object.present? && @object.respond_to?(:reflections)

Yes, the JS meetup clashing with 3 other meetups including a duplicate talk is epic failure. I’m just glad the group got started again! I’m sure Jaye, the organizer, will be aware of these things going forward.

Hope to see you in 2010!

We do have an extra fee associated with leaving the club. It is more of a processing fee than a penalty, and it is very small when compared with an equal equity stake in the club already.

When we are seeking out new members, we are looking for people who we don’t expect to ever want to leave the club. The club itself isn’t about money, but rather education. The intent is that you make your money on your personal investments, fueled by the knowledge gained in the group environment of the club.

Still, obviously circumstances arise where a member may want or need to make an exit from the club. We don’t seek to create artificial barriers to exit (‘penalties’), but we do have to take into account the actual cost of making our various investment assets liquid for such an occurrence (transaction fees if we sell stocks, opportunity costs for having an empty bank account, etc.)

For a more definitive answer, you’d probably need to talk to your accountant and have them look over your partnership/LLC/Inc. and tell you how it’s setup.