Hrqls: There are a couple players (or at least one, that many know about) who has had at least 90 (possibly 120!) vacation days in 2008 because of doing this. Not fair at all to the other players in any tournaments they are holding up.

Bernice: that will have to mean he has to buy another year of membership every 7 weeks (35 days + 7 weekends) .. i dont think anyone will do this just to prolong a game

rabbitoid: all he has to do is what the other person does on here........buy another years member ship, and you can go months without even moving....he does this when he is losing a game, just to make it difficult for other people in tournaments..

Fencer: Thanks, good to know.

rabbitoid: No. If someone sets vacation days for the next year, the counter will be properly deducted.

by the way: I have this opponent who sets vacation days for next year, out of his stock from this year. Then, come Jan 1st, he can add to them.

This is surely not the way this is intended to work. why, in a couple of years he can set 365 off days! Now, if I could figure out the way to make this gimmick work for me on my job -

Why this guy ever paid for a black rook, if he goes this far to find loopholes in order not to move in games, is beyond me.

Fencer: Ok thanks, i couldn't quite remember but i thought that was the case.

furbster: Yes.

Do we get new vacation days as of January 1st?

Pedro Martínez:  thanks  

Artful Dodger: I woudn't call it a "grace period", but games time out approx. 5-6 minutes after the time runs out.

Artful Dodger: i think its checked once every hour ... but i could be mistaken :)

WinterAngel: there is a webtv fellowship, I believe...you may join and find the answer to your questions there.

http://brainking.com/en/ShowFellowship?fid=85

is there a grace period for timing out on games or do they time out exactly when time runs out?

Vikings: ah so..................thanks for that............

Bernice: It wont let you move your piece that is in the 6 spot because you wouldn't then be able to move a second piece so you have to move your piece that is in the 11 spot first

Hyper Backgammon (Bernice vs. Pepi®)

can someone look at this and tell me why it wont let me move

rabbitoid:guess it depends on which way you look at it :O)

rabbitoid: Yes a smile when it comes to the thought of my Grandkids.. haha.. way different then when the babies were my children..

ScarletRose: no objection to the description, but do you mean to tell us that with you, during the administration of the treatment, the subject resembles, even remotely, to a smiley? lucky you!

Eriisa: Don't forget the wiping, especially on those icky teething ones.

 Tuesday:  

Eriisa:Man was I confused until I remembered my original question ...  Thanks!

ScarletRose:There's no sticky strips on my smileys!!

alanback: Settings > Javascript....



THEN you lay them on the table.. get some powder and a fresh diaper.. Then.. tear back the sticky strap.. and discard the icky poohie diaper.. Dust with powder and restrap the new diaper..

alanback: first you lay them on the table.. get some powder and a fresh diaper.. Then.. tear back the sticky strap.. and discard the icky poohie diaper..
Dust with powder and restrap the new diaper..

How can I change my favorite smileys?

pauloaguia: you are right... I guess this one has too many sides for an easy, one size fits all, solution.

Czuch: I can see some reasons why people could prefer to still receive those messages.
I think you still have the hability to get out of the fellowship... or you can always ask the BB to kick you out

Fencer, if you are going to change some pawn things around.... when you revert back to a pawn, you should not receive group fellowship messages anymore, my box is full of them, and I cant even get in there to change my preferences, it should just be automatic?

Hrqls: Funny thing was that the lady at MS did not know anything about the policy... I had to send a copy of the email to her from the laptop company. That's when they/she said sorry.

(V): a free copy of xp sp3 ? nice! i should call them as well ;)

please move this discussion to the computer board

rabbitoid: I don't.... I've only seen two articles on MS recently. This one and another which reported a mess up by MS over a patch that caused some people to lose the internet connection thanks to compatibility problems with a firewall program.

.... I in that case had to phone MS to find out which patch to remove.

.... Oh there has been one incident regarding MS though over policy which I took them to task relating to a laptop makers ability to keep software before a certain date that was basically essential if the laptop went unstable and needing a complete wipe and reload.

..... In the end MS said sorry and sent me a free copy of XP sp3 for my partners laptop.

rod03801: So this time the "wolf" cry really corresponds to something? My apologies to (V), and of course this doesn't change much my opinion of MS products.

rabbitoid: True, but this also made the News today too.

(V): yawn

I'm no big fan of MS, but this is something I get hundreds of by email each day. My /dev/null folder is always hungry

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.

Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it.

"Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser."

"The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough."

Snoopy: Yes, you are.

alanback:but they make yummy cocktails

Czuch:Seems especially harsh, since prawns can't live out of water

Czuch: It's like a religion. You are supposed to obey, not to understand.
Seriously - I want to make some changes in January, regarding this one and some other pawn restrictions.

I dont see any harm letting pawns finish ponds that they have started before becoming pawns? It doesnt happen that way with tournaments, does it?

I think you can get kicked out of tournaments that have not yet started, and the same could be done with ponds, but again, I dont understand the reason to not let pawns finish their started ponds?

Nirvana: hmmm i wondered what you meant earlier by your post, now i see

Is the 'All Games' option going to come back sometime ?

EDIT

I just tried to create a Random Elimination Tournament, but it just went to a blank screen with url - http://brainking.com/en/DoTournament


I will try another way

EDIT 2

Tried it a couple of different ways using Random, it will not let you

can't we set tournaments using the 'all games' option any more?

Snoopy: Haven't heard anything differant.

coan.net: its already in bug tracker a few times

rod03801: Since it stops showing the fellowship right before the list of games are shown, even if the fellowship does not have the new game - I would guess a small bug that has to do with the new game added to the site.......

rod03801:Both of these Sarah & Angie Sinking Sensation and Knights Of The Round Table also have the same problem.

I also have a problem creating tournaments in that I go through all the settings etc, click on 'create' and a blank page comes up. Incidentally when choosing which game why can't we select All Games like we used to be able to?

Nirvana: I take that back. I just tried the link in your post, and I still see the problem. Odd. The ones I checked last night were all like that, and when I checked THOSE just now, they were back to normal.