My only problem with Classic BTech was the amount of time it took to run a single scenario. If you had more than 4 or 5 mechs on the field, unless at least 1 or 2 of the players (one including the GM) memorized all the hit tables for all of their stuff, it was hugely time consuming to play even just one session of Btech. Don't get me wrong, I spent plenty on sourcebooks and stuff, with my latest purchase being the 4 pregenerated mech books (3055 light, med, heavy, and ultra mechs, both clan and IS included), but I don't think this is a game that one picks up to kill "a couple" of hours. miniumum 4 hours or better has been my experience, but it was usually pretty entertaining. At least with D&D, you can usually find a decent stopping point pretty easily. Btech you had to either play through, or document every movement you made in the last turn before quitting.
The exception is built into the numbers. Here's the theory: Only *most* things in Russia are back to front. The French have surrendered in (almost?) *all* confrontations they've been involved with.
No, not a preamp on completely passive ones, but the signal isn't balanced. Most cheap guitars *do* have crap for wiring tho, and almost all cheap guitars have insufficent shielding to deal with RFI. Hell, even some *nice* guitars suffer from this, but that's neither here nor there. Single coil pickups are the worst about this kind of problem. Something about how the signal is generated by the inductive coil. However, humbucking pickups do help in this manner, but I'm not up on the electrical theory to say how it helps, tho. Probably something to do with having 2 coils generating the signal... maybe someone who's an (aspiring?) EE might be able to speak up on it.
I can personally vouch for motorcycling. I ride to and from work 31 miles each way on my 82 honda silverwing. No, it's not a nice bike, but it is two wheels, no cage, and (most importantly) bulletproof reliable with almost 60k miles on it. There's something freeing about being able to see everything around you unobstructed. There's also the thrill of dealing with inept drivers, but that's another story entirely.
If you're interested, I'd highly recommend checking out The Suzuki SV series, some of the new Triumphs (speed 3 for experienced riders only), BMW, or Moto-Guzzi. Seems that everyone and their dog has a Harley anymore. I personally don't see the attraction, but hey, to each their own.
There are very few guitars with balanced outputs that I know of. Not that it hasn't been done, but you start getting into the "seriously boutique" area when you start asking for this.
For fx processing and stuff, yeah, but you're probably still going to have an unbalanced signal from your source.
They do. they use PCMCIA cards to store the data on. I work with the county election supervisor, so I've seen these things work. Pretty nifty. Thing is that if the data gets hammered on the card, you just plug in a new card and rescan the entire box. The county election supervisor would have to make the call when/how/who to do that, however.
nope, no more 'replys' after this. Y would anyone contend further with people 'like you'. Everyting I stated is common knowledge, seen in the media almost constantly by everyone (except you I guess).
I have my reasons for only having a playstation 2 hooked up to the television, and one of them is to avoid the "unbiased" media on both sides of the fence. You know, the "unbiased" media like Dan Rather. I look for facts and reputable sources, and feel that most major network media is biased to the left, and most internet news to be one of the following:
1. Biased left 2. Biased right 3. Biased "tin-foil hat"
So yeah, "everyone except me". Go ahead, continue your insults, I'll still ask for evidence, that can be backed up by numbers, from a credible source.
yea, and just what is the statistics for men and women who are/have been incarcerated some how in the usa (approaching 3-10)? and most of them (nearly all) are there illegally because they were threatened with more jail time if they 'didn't confess'??
Evidence?
no, that's because 'Kent State' took care of that years ago..
Kent state was tragic. There's no denying it. That was 30 years ago, however, and the track record for these kind of incidents suggessts that it was an anomoly, not something that happens on a regular basis.
I wasn't there, so I don't know what happened, but if I was on duty there and the fecal matter was hitting the fan, I could probably admit that my trigger finger would be a little jumpy too. Hell, just 2 days earlier the ROTC building on campus was torched by an unknown assailant(s), so you can't claim that everything was "status quo". Humans make mistakes when under duress. Get over it.
u know, just because *YOU* can't think or reason honestly, doesn't mean you can expect others to think as ridiculous and un-american as you do.
I had hoped that we were above insults, but that's me overestimating the users of slashdot. If my thinking is wrong, prove it to me with facts or logic.
I haven't dug in the website deeply, but I'll bet that 99% of the site concerns internal matters which, quite frankly, most other countries usually won't care about, as long as we're not abusing human rights.
See, for internal politics (which is what people here care about, when you get right down to it. Esp. when it comes to social security/welfare checks) we don't give a rats ass about what most countries think. We aren't running over protestors with tanks like they did in Tienaman, killing people who don't agree with the current polticial climate like they did in Iraq and whatnot.
Overseas ballots should already be done and in the mail. IIRC, if you haven't done it by now, you're probably not voting.
what pisses me off about a lot of things in the Windows world is that many smaller developers assume that the user has admin rights to the machine. I work for a small county sheriff's office, and (unfortunatly) am seldom asked about software purchases and am just told to "make it work". If developers for the windows world would make it a little easier to not have to use admin rights, it would make my life a lot easier.
From someone who wishes that his desktop wasn't the only linux desktop in the shop.:)
The problem with this "no one owes you anything" attitude is that if you're paying for something, whether in work or dollars, it very distinctly owes you something in return.
The problem is that all this guy paid for, in effect, was a piece of paper, just like when you get a license from a software vendor. This one just says "yeah, he paid his bills and made decent enough marks for us to say that he attended here and passed all of our requirements to get this piece of paper". Shure, some college recuriter might have said "you'll be in such hot demand, you won't be able to breathe without getting a job offer!", but the fact that the employment landscape is changing is not the fault of a salesman, which is what a recruiter is.
So, no, "the world" doesn't owe this guy anything. The world doesn't have morals. It is amoral, neither inherently evil or good. Business is the same way. The sooner everyone on the planet realizes this, the better off we'll all be.
I'll be happy to oblige you by leaving a honda silverwing shaped impression on your bumper. I'll be shure that I have a full tank so that when you do kill me by impact, your truck's engine compartment will burn.
I actually did this as well. I was in the middle of the first level of the game when you are trying to go down the elevator. Headphones, alone in the house, 1130 or something like that, all the lights off... I was walking down a hallway and xerxes started talking. Even though I'd head it before, this startled me enough to turn around. When I turned back around, a zombie was beating the piss out of me, doing those creepy groans. I shut the game off and turned on every light in the house.:)
wow, that's broken. I'm shure glad I'm not you, because the easiest person to fix in any relationship is yourself. If you're a magnet for freaks and psychos, perhaps you should analyze yourself to figure out why.
If businesses are amoral, then the society is amoral.
This is a true statement. Like it or not, humans (as a general rule) suck. I am included in this statement. Every religon on the face of the planet acknowledges this, and tries to do something to fix it. Most laws are created because... say it with me... people suck. If society wasn't amoral, there would be no need for lawyers. Some *individuals contained in a society* may not be amoral, but as a whole, society is amoral.
Please note that I didn't disagree with you on the fact that "business as usual" sucks. I agree with that to a certain extent, however it remains true: If you don't make money as a business, you won't be in business for long.
This is my last comment on this subject, as I believe that I've already made my case, and it's wandering down the "off topic" path, as we're getting into philosophical and societological argeuments now.:)
Once you're to the "stock investor" class of business, it doesn't really matter who runs them. The investors want a return on their investment. If you think any differently, you're just lying to yourself.
Business is designed to do one thing: Make money for those who work for/invest in it, and therefore, amoral.
See, that is exactly what is wrong with Corporate America... almost no sense of social responsibility. I'm sure most spammers have a very similar excuse. "I gotta make money and I'm not breaking any laws..."
Duh. Businesses are amoral entities. They are driven by investors, which demand a healthy return on their investment.
You're like this too... you do something for someone in return for $$$. This is just supply/demand at work.
Do I like it? Hell no. Do I see the reasoning. Definatly.
But the have nots will always outnumber the haves by a huge margin right?
When too few people have too much, it is time for a riovolution!
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, what the hell do you want, a Communist regime? "To every one according to their need, from everyone according to their ability"? Grow up and learn that if you apply yourself, you too can eventually make a decent income, and then bitch about how much the big bad government takes from your paycheck.
Oh, and since I'm being a complete ass this morning, it's "revolution".
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+1 Paranoia reference
My only problem with Classic BTech was the amount of time it took to run a single scenario. If you had more than 4 or 5 mechs on the field, unless at least 1 or 2 of the players (one including the GM) memorized all the hit tables for all of their stuff, it was hugely time consuming to play even just one session of Btech.
Don't get me wrong, I spent plenty on sourcebooks and stuff, with my latest purchase being the 4 pregenerated mech books (3055 light, med, heavy, and ultra mechs, both clan and IS included), but I don't think this is a game that one picks up to kill "a couple" of hours. miniumum 4 hours or better has been my experience, but it was usually pretty entertaining.
At least with D&D, you can usually find a decent stopping point pretty easily. Btech you had to either play through, or document every movement you made in the last turn before quitting.
The exception is built into the numbers. Here's the theory:
Only *most* things in Russia are back to front.
The French have surrendered in (almost?) *all* confrontations they've been involved with.
Makes sense when you think about it.
This post is not for the humour impared.
No, not a preamp on completely passive ones, but the signal isn't balanced. Most cheap guitars *do* have crap for wiring tho, and almost all cheap guitars have insufficent shielding to deal with RFI. Hell, even some *nice* guitars suffer from this, but that's neither here nor there.
Single coil pickups are the worst about this kind of problem. Something about how the signal is generated by the inductive coil. However, humbucking pickups do help in this manner, but I'm not up on the electrical theory to say how it helps, tho. Probably something to do with having 2 coils generating the signal... maybe someone who's an (aspiring?) EE might be able to speak up on it.
I can personally vouch for motorcycling. I ride to and from work 31 miles each way on my 82 honda silverwing. No, it's not a nice bike, but it is two wheels, no cage, and (most importantly) bulletproof reliable with almost 60k miles on it. There's something freeing about being able to see everything around you unobstructed. There's also the thrill of dealing with inept drivers, but that's another story entirely.
If you're interested, I'd highly recommend checking out The Suzuki SV series, some of the new Triumphs (speed 3 for experienced riders only), BMW, or Moto-Guzzi. Seems that everyone and their dog has a Harley anymore. I personally don't see the attraction, but hey, to each their own.
There are very few guitars with balanced outputs that I know of. Not that it hasn't been done, but you start getting into the "seriously boutique" area when you start asking for this.
For fx processing and stuff, yeah, but you're probably still going to have an unbalanced signal from your source.
I'm sorry then, for IIRC, a Blizzard rep said that StarCraft 2 isn't going to happen.
They do. they use PCMCIA cards to store the data on. I work with the county election supervisor, so I've seen these things work. Pretty nifty. Thing is that if the data gets hammered on the card, you just plug in a new card and rescan the entire box. The county election supervisor would have to make the call when/how/who to do that, however.
that works out to 666493 Joules, according to the equasion presented here. Plug that number into here for a look at it. Pretty interesting.
nope, no more 'replys' after this. Y would anyone contend further with people 'like you'. Everyting I stated is common knowledge, seen in the media almost constantly by everyone (except you I guess).
I have my reasons for only having a playstation 2 hooked up to the television, and one of them is to avoid the "unbiased" media on both sides of the fence. You know, the "unbiased" media like Dan Rather. I look for facts and reputable sources, and feel that most major network media is biased to the left, and most internet news to be one of the following:
1. Biased left
2. Biased right
3. Biased "tin-foil hat"
So yeah, "everyone except me". Go ahead, continue your insults, I'll still ask for evidence, that can be backed up by numbers, from a credible source.
yea, and just what is the statistics for men and women who are/have been incarcerated some how in the usa (approaching 3-10)? and most of them (nearly all) are there illegally because they were threatened with more jail time if they 'didn't confess'??
Evidence?
no, that's because 'Kent State' took care of that years ago..
Kent state was tragic. There's no denying it. That was 30 years ago, however, and the track record for these kind of incidents suggessts that it was an anomoly, not something that happens on a regular basis.
I wasn't there, so I don't know what happened, but if I was on duty there and the fecal matter was hitting the fan, I could probably admit that my trigger finger would be a little jumpy too. Hell, just 2 days earlier the ROTC building on campus was torched by an unknown assailant(s), so you can't claim that everything was "status quo". Humans make mistakes when under duress. Get over it.
u know, just because *YOU* can't think or reason honestly, doesn't mean you can expect others to think as ridiculous and un-american as you do.
I had hoped that we were above insults, but that's me overestimating the users of slashdot. If my thinking is wrong, prove it to me with facts or logic.
Evidence?
And? You make it sound like this is a problem.
I haven't dug in the website deeply, but I'll bet that 99% of the site concerns internal matters which, quite frankly, most other countries usually won't care about, as long as we're not abusing human rights.
See, for internal politics (which is what people here care about, when you get right down to it. Esp. when it comes to social security/welfare checks) we don't give a rats ass about what most countries think. We aren't running over protestors with tanks like they did in Tienaman, killing people who don't agree with the current polticial climate like they did in Iraq and whatnot.
Overseas ballots should already be done and in the mail. IIRC, if you haven't done it by now, you're probably not voting.
so I'll ask again: This is a problem?
what pisses me off about a lot of things in the Windows world is that many smaller developers assume that the user has admin rights to the machine. I work for a small county sheriff's office, and (unfortunatly) am seldom asked about software purchases and am just told to "make it work". If developers for the windows world would make it a little easier to not have to use admin rights, it would make my life a lot easier.
:)
From someone who wishes that his desktop wasn't the only linux desktop in the shop.
The problem with this "no one owes you anything" attitude is that if you're paying for something, whether in work or dollars, it very distinctly owes you something in return.
The problem is that all this guy paid for, in effect, was a piece of paper, just like when you get a license from a software vendor. This one just says "yeah, he paid his bills and made decent enough marks for us to say that he attended here and passed all of our requirements to get this piece of paper". Shure, some college recuriter might have said "you'll be in such hot demand, you won't be able to breathe without getting a job offer!", but the fact that the employment landscape is changing is not the fault of a salesman, which is what a recruiter is.
So, no, "the world" doesn't owe this guy anything. The world doesn't have morals. It is amoral, neither inherently evil or good. Business is the same way. The sooner everyone on the planet realizes this, the better off we'll all be.
I'll be happy to oblige you by leaving a honda silverwing shaped impression on your bumper. I'll be shure that I have a full tank so that when you do kill me by impact, your truck's engine compartment will burn.
I actually did this as well. I was in the middle of the first level of the game when you are trying to go down the elevator. Headphones, alone in the house, 1130 or something like that, all the lights off... I was walking down a hallway and xerxes started talking. Even though I'd head it before, this startled me enough to turn around. When I turned back around, a zombie was beating the piss out of me, doing those creepy groans. I shut the game off and turned on every light in the house. :)
Outlook Calendar, for one. Sunbird just isn't there yet. Any other suggesstions for server based calendaring programs are welcome.
wow, that's broken. I'm shure glad I'm not you, because the easiest person to fix in any relationship is yourself. If you're a magnet for freaks and psychos, perhaps you should analyze yourself to figure out why.
If businesses are amoral, then the society is amoral.
:)
This is a true statement. Like it or not, humans (as a general rule) suck. I am included in this statement. Every religon on the face of the planet acknowledges this, and tries to do something to fix it. Most laws are created because... say it with me... people suck. If society wasn't amoral, there would be no need for lawyers. Some *individuals contained in a society* may not be amoral, but as a whole, society is amoral.
Please note that I didn't disagree with you on the fact that "business as usual" sucks. I agree with that to a certain extent, however it remains true: If you don't make money as a business, you won't be in business for long.
This is my last comment on this subject, as I believe that I've already made my case, and it's wandering down the "off topic" path, as we're getting into philosophical and societological argeuments now.
Duh. Businesses are amoral entities.
Only as amoral as those who run them.
Once you're to the "stock investor" class of business, it doesn't really matter who runs them. The investors want a return on their investment. If you think any differently, you're just lying to yourself.
Business is designed to do one thing: Make money for those who work for/invest in it, and therefore, amoral.
See, that is exactly what is wrong with Corporate America... almost no sense of social responsibility. I'm sure most spammers have a very similar excuse. "I gotta make money and I'm not breaking any laws..."
Duh. Businesses are amoral entities. They are driven by investors, which demand a healthy return on their investment.
You're like this too... you do something for someone in return for $$$. This is just supply/demand at work.
Do I like it? Hell no. Do I see the reasoning. Definatly.
there was an episode where one of these would have come in really handy.
But the have nots will always outnumber the haves by a huge margin right?
/flame off
When too few people have too much, it is time for a riovolution!
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, what the hell do you want, a Communist regime? "To every one according to their need, from everyone according to their ability"? Grow up and learn that if you apply yourself, you too can eventually make a decent income, and then bitch about how much the big bad government takes from your paycheck.
Oh, and since I'm being a complete ass this morning, it's "revolution".
Does SciTE support syntax highlighting for all of: Python, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, OCaml, Ruby, Ada, Common Lisp, Standard ML?
to quote directly, Yes, Yes, No, No, No, Yes, Yes, Yes, No. SO maybe not *every* language under the sun, but quite a few.
SciTE is open source, however, and the ability to build the syntax sense files is there. Documentation is at http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/Lexer.txt
More documentation and source is avaiable on the sourceforge site.