wanted game feature : GPL and family members

< GPL *** mode ON > How many of you haven't found yourselves in a situation like this: You are on the 17th lap in this very intense race in GPL (who am I fooling? what race isn't, in GPL...),and you are actually not last ..the air is very tense,and you have no need and no possibility to slow down or quit......this time might actually be the one,you think...... then suddenly some family member come barging through the door and demands attention for help with deciding on where to go on the Sunday picnic or what to have for dinner,what to do with the mess in the garage etc.... ...your thought flicker away from the race for an instant ,and the next thing you now you are wrapped around a street lamp in Monaco or similar.....DAMN,now you have to start all over again....... Wouldn't it be nice if there was some mechanism that made it possible for you to recieve the messages of those family members in a less intrusive way,or at least get notified that they wanted attention... but where should you get the info? Well,we already have a proven mechanism in the game (aaaah! I said the "g-word" !) for communicating info to the drivers,namely our old and trustworthy pitboard! Let's say you had your home computers wired in a network, and you had icq on all those computers....then a small add-on for GPL could be hacked ,that interoperated with icq. Now,when there was a family member who wanted you attention while you were racing,all he/she had to do was to go to one of the other computers in the home and send a short msg to your computer,and it would come up on your pitboard the next time you passed the pits,so you could have the possiblity to respond to the message in proper way. Of course ,this hack could also be extended with an email or PCS interface for cellular phones,so you could be available even if you did not have a second computer in the home....... ;-)))))) No,I am not ***ed to GPL. I can quit whenever I want.....I just don't want to ! <GPL *** mode OFF> -- Robert S?derberg If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress. Robert S?derberg If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.

Or you could just post a "Please do not disturb" sign somewhere prominent.... Marc

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> < GPL *** mode ON > > How many of you haven't found yourselves in a situation like this: > You are on the 17th lap in this very intense race in GPL > (who am I fooling? what race isn't, in GPL...),and you are actually > not last ..the air is very tense,and you have no need and no possibility > to slow down or quit......this time might actually be the one,you

think......

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> then suddenly some family member come barging through the door > and demands attention for help with deciding on where to go on the Sunday > picnic > or what to have for dinner,what to do with the mess in the garage etc.... > ...your thought flicker away from the race for an instant ,and > the next thing you now you are wrapped around a street lamp in Monaco > or similar.....DAMN,now you have to start all over again....... > Wouldn't it be nice if there was some mechanism that made it possible > for you to recieve the messages of those family members in a less > intrusive way,or at least get notified that they wanted attention... > but where should you get the info? > Well,we already have a proven mechanism in the game > (aaaah! I said the "g-word" !) for communicating info to the

drivers,namely > our old and trustworthy pitboard! > Let's say you had your home computers wired in a network, > and you had icq on all those computers....then a small add-on > for GPL could be hacked ,that interoperated with icq. > Now,when there was a family member who wanted you attention while > you were racing,all he/she had to do was to go to one of the other computers > in the home and send a short msg to your computer,and it would come > up on your pitboard the next time you passed the pits,so you could > have the possiblity to respond to the message in proper way. > Of course ,this hack could also be extended with an email > or PCS interface for cellular phones,so you could be available even if you did

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> not > have a second computer in the home....... > ;-)))))) > No,I am not ***ed to GPL. > I can quit whenever I want.....I just don't want to ! > <GPL *** mode OFF> > -- > Robert S?derberg > If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress. > Robert S?derberg > If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.

Hi! Tell the family not to disturb you, lock the door, put a "Come in and die"-sign on it and wear headphones. Maybe you'll win ;))) Regards Crash

well, I live on my own, but a ringing phone does the same for your concentration and fun - and pressing the pause key is no solution as you can't get back into the zone from such a jumpstart ... so I use the "unplug-phone-and-lock-door"-hack to prevent from being disturbed. Lio