The way I think I heard it was that the da sound is in nearly every language and tends to be the first a child makes (or maybe something similar like pa). Mothers got some evolutionary advantage from convincing fathers that this sound refers to them... create some bond there and make it harder for the nomadic hunter to move on without dragging the family along... or something like that... it's kinda fuzzy but I think the basic idea makes sense...
If a mother can convince the father that he should stay, they'll have an easier time raising the child. Mother (usually) already has an intense bond with the child, father might need some convincing.
I've been wanting to play for a long time but never have (until recently). The stars finally aligned recently. My friends seemed mildly interested and I found some books that apparently fell off a truck or something (**cough** torrent **cough**) so I managed to read a little of each of the core 3 and downloaded and printed out a short module for 1st level PCs. It was a hit so I got the real books (I find pdfs made from scanned jpegs hard to read, but they did the trick for finding out that the group really was interested).
Anyway... I've read like a hundred pages or so into the PHB and DMG (3.5) and am a bit daunted by how many little rules there are. That first session went pretty well, but I had to BS my way through most of it... mostly calling on vague memories of how things worked in Neverwinter Nights.
The same time I got the books, I picked up the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game. That was fun but was too limiting and I wasn't comfortable modifying it too much.
I'm getting the idea that my players want a whole game world I create, but that seems a daunting task and generic settings will probably suffice for a time while getting used to the rules. I'm just worried that might take too long and they'll lose interest.
So, that's some background. I'm just looking for some tips. What pages should I have memorized? Any tricks for simplifying the more complex systems (I haven't even looked at grappling rules)? I've googled a bit, but mostly find stuff for experienced DMs... got any links more useful to newbies?
I'm guessing there's nothing but experience that will help me get familiar with the rules but any other tips would help.
At that point in the game I took off the wrist strap and played more rotating the remote around with two hands. It was easier for me to visualize what's going on and make small adjustments.
Sounds like you're saying "Well, they haven't taken over the whole world yet, might as well let them have the bits they don't have already."
Like others have said, the internet is different, Microsoft's tactics haven't worked there yet.
I would tend to agree with you, that letting them expand into a market they aren't currently that successful in, and where they will have stiff competition, might not be a bad thing. I keep going back to "they've got so much and don't behave with what they've got, why allow them to take more?"
When I plugged it into a Windows XP machine with a standard mini USB to USB2 cable, it did almost nothing, would not even charge. I found that there was a driver I needed to install just to get the thing to charge properly.
It worked just fine plugged into my ubuntu laptop, but I guess it came with a driver that does the same thing, I just didn't have to download it from Motorolla first.
not that a Mac would... I've gone too far with this line... time to stop posting in this thread I think.
note to self... don't post a contradiction to a car analogy on/. even if I'm absolutely sure I'm right... this time I wasn't, but even if I was it's not that important.
Not my analogy. The post I replied to compared a Ferrari to a Ford (saying Ferrari's are prettier) and then said Apples are pretty. I made the mistake of correcting a car analogy on/.
Ferrari's are prettier and more powerful than Fords. Their style is backed up by actually performing better than the lower cost alternative.
Macs are prettier than PCs, but not as powerful. You get something that looks nice, but is less capable? I don't want to pay the premium for style. To each his own I guess.
never mind... I shouldn't try to correct a car analogy... this is/.
I'm pretty sure UAC is a good thing... I'm still wet behind the ears and am not sure I can properly articulate why UAC is good, but anything that might pop up and say "evil malware wants to do evil things - cancel/allow" seems like a good idea.
I paid about 80 USD for the year (I got the bundle thing with the camera) so if it were completely down for a full week I'd be out about 1.54 USD. Microsoft giving me 10.00 USD worth of extra service is pretty nice of them I think.
I do think the whole gold and silver thing should go away and the whole thing should be free (still buying points to get games/movies/useless crap if you want), and while that might be more likely to happen with the playstation network being free, I kinda doubt it ever will.
You're probably right, but I'm just saying that if most of the 'omg stop the evil video games' talk stopped, whether by Rockstar dying, or people finally accepting it, would be good for everybody in the business. Thinking about it, it does seem like there really isn't THAT much sensationalism lately, and those who go too extreme are pretty obvious as kooks. I just wonder if other regular people notice that they're kooky. The last time I heard about school shootings, the 'did video games cause this?' talk was played down a bit, but it was still brought up several times.
Don't you think that EA et al. would like the politicians to stop telling their potential customers that their products will turn their children into mindless killers?
I agree that there are likely to be bad things that come from this, mod chip prohibition and such. There are also likely to be good things, like less censorship, or at least less sensationalized crusading for the "think of the childrens" b.s.
umm... that's exactly what I've been doing since the Fall update. They added MPEG4 (and some others) support. A little while later, uShare has been patched to serve these. Ever since I've been ripping my DVD collection with mencoder and have nearly filled up my shiny new Christmas present
They start learning how to move hands, then lift things and put them in their proper place and that's useful enough. Eventually they ask "am I alive?" Then you're screwed, try to eradicate them and you end up forced into exile to wander the galaxy in a flotilla of old ships that are always on the verge of falling apart.
Yea I know... nobody really cares, but that happens to be the first thing I thought of... been playing too much Mass Effect
If you rated Die Hard 4 highly, and rated lowly some other movie featuring the "I'm a Mac" guy, but rated highly another featuring Bruce, would it be hard to figure that out?
You rate some movie well, it should recommend a similar movie, see how you rate that and keep building the data set.
It wouldn't even have to know anything about the movie in particular, just how other people rated the same movies.
Find somebody who rated movies rather similarly to how you have rated your movies and recommend to you things they liked and recommend to them things you liked.
Before November last year they weren't giving out the numbers. When media folks were asking for the numbers for the new systems they decided to, for a limited time, make more information public for free. They have been selling the data all along, and presumably haven't been giving all of it out. The whole thing was just to answer what they thought would be a short lived higher demand due to the launching of the new gaming systems.
Apparently they've noticed the whining from the blogs and are surprised at the outrage, but may or may not do anything about it.
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The way I think I heard it was that the da sound is in nearly every language and tends to be the first a child makes (or maybe something similar like pa). Mothers got some evolutionary advantage from convincing fathers that this sound refers to them... create some bond there and make it harder for the nomadic hunter to move on without dragging the family along... or something like that... it's kinda fuzzy but I think the basic idea makes sense...
If a mother can convince the father that he should stay, they'll have an easier time raising the child. Mother (usually) already has an intense bond with the child, father might need some convincing.
I've been wanting to play for a long time but never have (until recently). The stars finally aligned recently. My friends seemed mildly interested and I found some books that apparently fell off a truck or something (**cough** torrent **cough**) so I managed to read a little of each of the core 3 and downloaded and printed out a short module for 1st level PCs. It was a hit so I got the real books (I find pdfs made from scanned jpegs hard to read, but they did the trick for finding out that the group really was interested).
Anyway... I've read like a hundred pages or so into the PHB and DMG (3.5) and am a bit daunted by how many little rules there are. That first session went pretty well, but I had to BS my way through most of it... mostly calling on vague memories of how things worked in Neverwinter Nights.
The same time I got the books, I picked up the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game. That was fun but was too limiting and I wasn't comfortable modifying it too much.
I'm getting the idea that my players want a whole game world I create, but that seems a daunting task and generic settings will probably suffice for a time while getting used to the rules. I'm just worried that might take too long and they'll lose interest.
So, that's some background. I'm just looking for some tips. What pages should I have memorized? Any tricks for simplifying the more complex systems (I haven't even looked at grappling rules)? I've googled a bit, but mostly find stuff for experienced DMs... got any links more useful to newbies?
I'm guessing there's nothing but experience that will help me get familiar with the rules but any other tips would help.
At that point in the game I took off the wrist strap and played more rotating the remote around with two hands. It was easier for me to visualize what's going on and make small adjustments.
Not saying they can pull it off, but...
Sounds like you're saying "Well, they haven't taken over the whole world yet, might as well let them have the bits they don't have already."
Like others have said, the internet is different, Microsoft's tactics haven't worked there yet.
I would tend to agree with you, that letting them expand into a market they aren't currently that successful in, and where they will have stiff competition, might not be a bad thing. I keep going back to "they've got so much and don't behave with what they've got, why allow them to take more?"
Atlantean hillbilly out having fun with a shotgun?
My Motorolla RAZR V3m has a mini usb port on it.
When I plugged it into a Windows XP machine with a standard mini USB to USB2 cable, it did almost nothing, would not even charge. I found that there was a driver I needed to install just to get the thing to charge properly.
It worked just fine plugged into my ubuntu laptop, but I guess it came with a driver that does the same thing, I just didn't have to download it from Motorolla first.
heh... same with my PC :)
not that a Mac would... I've gone too far with this line... time to stop posting in this thread I think.
note to self... don't post a contradiction to a car analogy on /. even if I'm absolutely sure I'm right... this time I wasn't, but even if I was it's not that important.
Not my analogy. The post I replied to compared a Ferrari to a Ford (saying Ferrari's are prettier) and then said Apples are pretty. I made the mistake of correcting a car analogy on /.
Ferrari is to Ford as Apple is to $PC_RESELLER?
Ferrari's are prettier and more powerful than Fords. Their style is backed up by actually performing better than the lower cost alternative.
Macs are prettier than PCs, but not as powerful. You get something that looks nice, but is less capable? I don't want to pay the premium for style. To each his own I guess.
never mind... I shouldn't try to correct a car analogy... this is /.
pick one... security or convenience
I paid about 80 USD for the year (I got the bundle thing with the camera) so if it were completely down for a full week I'd be out about 1.54 USD. Microsoft giving me 10.00 USD worth of extra service is pretty nice of them I think.
I do think the whole gold and silver thing should go away and the whole thing should be free (still buying points to get games/movies/useless crap if you want), and while that might be more likely to happen with the playstation network being free, I kinda doubt it ever will.
You're probably right, but I'm just saying that if most of the 'omg stop the evil video games' talk stopped, whether by Rockstar dying, or people finally accepting it, would be good for everybody in the business. Thinking about it, it does seem like there really isn't THAT much sensationalism lately, and those who go too extreme are pretty obvious as kooks. I just wonder if other regular people notice that they're kooky. The last time I heard about school shootings, the 'did video games cause this?' talk was played down a bit, but it was still brought up several times.
Don't you think that EA et al. would like the politicians to stop telling their potential customers that their products will turn their children into mindless killers?
I agree that there are likely to be bad things that come from this, mod chip prohibition and such. There are also likely to be good things, like less censorship, or at least less sensationalized crusading for the "think of the childrens" b.s.
I got page not found for the videos.
How's that working out for copyright?
I don't see the original comment you replied to, but this was an interesting read none the less.
umm... that's exactly what I've been doing since the Fall update. They added MPEG4 (and some others) support. A little while later, uShare has been patched to serve these. Ever since I've been ripping my DVD collection with mencoder and have nearly filled up my shiny new Christmas present
A state granted monopoly (temporary) on whatever you can sneak past the auditors is EXACTLY what a patent provides.
There, replaced your facts with some truthiness.
IEEE, held firm that nothing would be finalized until January 2007, so 802.11n got a pass. No broken promise, no award.
Then again... it is just another top X of Y for the year list.
Finally... Vista got on one of those $SUPERLATIVE of 2007 to bad it's not a top X of Y of the year list.
Most people around here don't even R the A... He went above and beyond and F'd it.
Yea I know... nobody really cares, but that happens to be the first thing I thought of... been playing too much Mass Effect
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1616248
I'm probably wronger...
If you rated Die Hard 4 highly, and rated lowly some other movie featuring the "I'm a Mac" guy, but rated highly another featuring Bruce, would it be hard to figure that out?
You rate some movie well, it should recommend a similar movie, see how you rate that and keep building the data set.
It wouldn't even have to know anything about the movie in particular, just how other people rated the same movies.
Find somebody who rated movies rather similarly to how you have rated your movies and recommend to you things they liked and recommend to them things you liked.
Before November last year they weren't giving out the numbers. When media folks were asking for the numbers for the new systems they decided to, for a limited time, make more information public for free. They have been selling the data all along, and presumably haven't been giving all of it out. The whole thing was just to answer what they thought would be a short lived higher demand due to the launching of the new gaming systems.
Apparently they've noticed the whining from the blogs and are surprised at the outrage, but may or may not do anything about it.
Got some updates from http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164195