You can largely solve that problem by implementing realistic time-scales and offering players benefit to out of play aging.
It doesn't work in MMORPGs, but a DM can easily have you travel uneventfully for weeks or months between realms and have you return to the gaming table after a layoff to a character that has been gaining languages or other useful skills at the expense of an aging hit.
The out of play aging is great because a good DM can allow players to create their own interim story and choose from a palette of minor but useful skills that will help during the new campaign. A good group can spend a couple evenings 'back rolling' their stories with each other; and when the actual gaming begins everyone is already in the right headstate.
Anyhow, the cumulative effect of travel time and out of game aging is a character that needs to begin looking at replacing valuable eq slots with anti-age eq around the same time that the game starts to break... If the eq is balanced of course.
The syntax 'GET LAMP' has nothing to do with immersion. Whether the GET command behaves similarly with all described objects or only works with defined items like LAMP would be the immersion consideration.
Wait a second. It isn't like these iphone users chose knock off hardware and are now paying the price. The hardware was dictated by Apple and now the customers aren't getting critical security patches because Apple only wants to deal with their most current hardware configs? I would never buy Apple again if they did this to me... No fanboyism necessary.
I don't know about cosmic rays, but immediately following the Easter day Earthquake in Guadalupe Victoria (about three hundred miles from where I was located) I tried to fire up my laptop and then my desktop, both of which had been suspended to RAM. Neither one would wake up, though the lappie displayed a garbled screen. No errors in the log files (Ubuntu 9.10 on the sys76 lappie, Deb Lenny on desktop).
Your comment is consistent with most of what I saw growing up in the Catholic community in uptight O.C. California way back when. Religious conservatives are often a different breed from the Prohibitionists. The latter treat religion as a tool, the former honestly believe that an immature mind needs to be protected until the kid is old enough to understand the consequences of sin to their immortal soul.
I use PXE for stuff like this, or a simple tftp server for embedded devices. As long as you don't get stuck needing to work with emdeb crush (arm) the custom roll is the hardest part and even that is dead simple these days.
Running a U3 drive is asking for trouble. I don't know of any portable storage technology that has more malicious payloads available for free download on the net. The problems have been detailed widely... I stopped using U3 devices after an article in 2600 (Winter07/08) got me looking into the technology. I absolutely could not believe what my research uncovered.
Telling people beforehand is supposed to be insurance when you are not committing an illegal act. Imagine being caught with surveillance equipment at the G20 without having public disclosure to fall back upon.
Anyhow, this is beginning to smell like a festering mess of Godwinity.
And the relationship with Poland will never be the same as Canadian politicians blocked Polish attempts to exercise an agreement allowing independent investigation of incidents involving Polish Nationals in Canada.
Being Canada I hope someone named some farm animals after the politicians involved.
This tripped me up as well. I think it is a language issue. Mathematically 1*1.5=1.5. For some reason reading 1.5 times more indicated 1+1+.5... 1.5 vs. 2.5.
I was good at word problems; I don't know why my reaction to this one was to think the poster was incorrect. Then again, maybe you are talking about something else altogether:)
I've never been a good story writer, but one of the few I tried submitting was this one... back in 2007: ushering05401 writes "The BBC writes about info delivered at the current Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (Concluded today, April, 20).
Apparently solar flares follow 'coronal loops.' These loops funnel acoustic signals much like a pipe organ does — leading the reporter to liken the sun's corona to a musical instrument.
From TFA: "These loops can be up to 100 million kilometres long and guide waves and oscillations in a similar way to a pipe organ," said Dr Youra Taroyan, from the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at the University of Sheffield.
There were recordings etc... and at least three other posters that submitted the same thing. It ran on the front page.
Physical distribution is an interesting thing. For starters, you could use 2600 distribution and sales figures to make heat maps both of friendly and hostile regions, you can't down a physical magazine with a bullshit DMCA notice, and every retail outlet is a canary in the coal mine against the rise of some podunk candidate looking to make a platform on the skulls of dead hackers. I believe people have tried to get 2600 out of their local stores before.
Anyhow, have you tried the beverage yet? I'm thinking of ordering a case on faith. Physical distribution seems to be their thing.
It is a good thing when non-technical customers start saying they are sick of the trauma of using a dominant proprietary product. Whether or not that results in a willingness to embrace an alternative is a different matter, but it is a start.
These visualizations are used to condense the information gathered on one second intervals from running systems. Any graph of substantially advanced material is going to require explanation until you understand what is being measured, how it is being graphed, and how this information translates in real world performance.
Of course a casual reader from the net needs to read text to understand what is going on. These aren't sales figure pie-charts and shouldn't necessarily be accessible for uninformed parties.
On another note.. Do you think casual readers would have any more success interpreting the raw data files? Anyhow, I am interested in the technique as it is not one I am currently using. With a little practice this may be a good at a glance technique.
Also, more handy if you catch someone tampering with your onboard computer... base of the skull punch-through carries more fatality points than hammer to temple.
I'm not bashing Slackware. If deb stable didn't give me everything I wanted for my servers I would be on Slackware.
The CentOS drama from a couple of months ago bothered me more than any of the things I mentioned last post about Slackware.
The things I pointed out all challenged the air of permanence that had built up around Slackware, though.
If I were going to knock Slackware my comment would be more about other distros than about Slack itself, ie: You can start with any major distro repos and build minimal servers with ease these days.
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You can largely solve that problem by implementing realistic time-scales and offering players benefit to out of play aging.
It doesn't work in MMORPGs, but a DM can easily have you travel uneventfully for weeks or months between realms and have you return to the gaming table after a layoff to a character that has been gaining languages or other useful skills at the expense of an aging hit.
The out of play aging is great because a good DM can allow players to create their own interim story and choose from a palette of minor but useful skills that will help during the new campaign. A good group can spend a couple evenings 'back rolling' their stories with each other; and when the actual gaming begins everyone is already in the right headstate.
Anyhow, the cumulative effect of travel time and out of game aging is a character that needs to begin looking at replacing valuable eq slots with anti-age eq around the same time that the game starts to break... If the eq is balanced of course.
The syntax 'GET LAMP' has nothing to do with immersion. Whether the GET command behaves similarly with all described objects or only works with defined items like LAMP would be the immersion consideration.
Wait a second. It isn't like these iphone users chose knock off hardware and are now paying the price. The hardware was dictated by Apple and now the customers aren't getting critical security patches because Apple only wants to deal with their most current hardware configs? I would never buy Apple again if they did this to me... No fanboyism necessary.
I was thinking EMP related to the seismic activity. IIRC that is still somewhat controversial though.
I don't know about cosmic rays, but immediately following the Easter day Earthquake in Guadalupe Victoria (about three hundred miles from where I was located) I tried to fire up my laptop and then my desktop, both of which had been suspended to RAM. Neither one would wake up, though the lappie displayed a garbled screen. No errors in the log files (Ubuntu 9.10 on the sys76 lappie, Deb Lenny on desktop).
OMG, it's full of appstore!!!
... or maybe just a desire to cut costs going forward without losing functionality?
Your comment is consistent with most of what I saw growing up in the Catholic community in uptight O.C. California way back when. Religious conservatives are often a different breed from the Prohibitionists. The latter treat religion as a tool, the former honestly believe that an immature mind needs to be protected until the kid is old enough to understand the consequences of sin to their immortal soul.
I use PXE for stuff like this, or a simple tftp server for embedded devices. As long as you don't get stuck needing to work with emdeb crush (arm) the custom roll is the hardest part and even that is dead simple these days.
Running a U3 drive is asking for trouble. I don't know of any portable storage technology that has more malicious payloads available for free download on the net. The problems have been detailed widely... I stopped using U3 devices after an article in 2600 (Winter07/08) got me looking into the technology. I absolutely could not believe what my research uncovered.
Telling people beforehand is supposed to be insurance when you are not committing an illegal act. Imagine being caught with surveillance equipment at the G20 without having public disclosure to fall back upon.
Anyhow, this is beginning to smell like a festering mess of Godwinity.
And the relationship with Poland will never be the same as Canadian politicians blocked Polish attempts to exercise an agreement allowing independent investigation of incidents involving Polish Nationals in Canada.
Being Canada I hope someone named some farm animals after the politicians involved.
This tripped me up as well. I think it is a language issue. Mathematically 1*1.5=1.5. For some reason reading 1.5 times more indicated 1+1+.5... 1.5 vs. 2.5.
I was good at word problems; I don't know why my reaction to this one was to think the poster was incorrect. Then again, maybe you are talking about something else altogether :)
I've never been a good story writer, but one of the few I tried submitting was this one... back in 2007:
ushering05401 writes "The BBC writes about info delivered at the current Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (Concluded today, April, 20).
Apparently solar flares follow 'coronal loops.' These loops funnel acoustic signals much like a pipe organ does — leading the reporter to liken the sun's corona to a musical instrument.
From TFA: "These loops can be up to 100 million kilometres long and guide waves and oscillations in a similar way to a pipe organ," said Dr Youra Taroyan, from the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at the University of Sheffield.
There were recordings etc... and at least three other posters that submitted the same thing. It ran on the front page.
Physical distribution is an interesting thing. For starters, you could use 2600 distribution and sales figures to make heat maps both of friendly and hostile regions, you can't down a physical magazine with a bullshit DMCA notice, and every retail outlet is a canary in the coal mine against the rise of some podunk candidate looking to make a platform on the skulls of dead hackers. I believe people have tried to get 2600 out of their local stores before.
Anyhow, have you tried the beverage yet? I'm thinking of ordering a case on faith. Physical distribution seems to be their thing.
Nah, they are trying to convince you to challenge him to a boxing match... This time lets get it right, I'll be your cut man.
"Freakin' Sharks" and the FDA? I don't even want to know what was wrong with the meat.
So we had the power to censor speeches supporting the Iraq war?
Australia: Live the Shower Scene.
Think the Tourism Authority will make it a motto?
It is a good thing when non-technical customers start saying they are sick of the trauma of using a dominant proprietary product. Whether or not that results in a willingness to embrace an alternative is a different matter, but it is a start.
These visualizations are used to condense the information gathered on one second intervals from running systems. Any graph of substantially advanced material is going to require explanation until you understand what is being measured, how it is being graphed, and how this information translates in real world performance.
Of course a casual reader from the net needs to read text to understand what is going on. These aren't sales figure pie-charts and shouldn't necessarily be accessible for uninformed parties.
On another note.. Do you think casual readers would have any more success interpreting the raw data files? Anyhow, I am interested in the technique as it is not one I am currently using. With a little practice this may be a good at a glance technique.
Well at least we know their app review process does not include license review.
AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
- Ordell Robbie
Far superior to a hammer: http://www.copsplus.com/prodnum4497.php
Also, more handy if you catch someone tampering with your onboard computer... base of the skull punch-through carries more fatality points than hammer to temple.
I'm not bashing Slackware. If deb stable didn't give me everything I wanted for my servers I would be on Slackware.
The CentOS drama from a couple of months ago bothered me more than any of the things I mentioned last post about Slackware.
The things I pointed out all challenged the air of permanence that had built up around Slackware, though.
If I were going to knock Slackware my comment would be more about other distros than about Slack itself, ie: You can start with any major distro repos and build minimal servers with ease these days.