Of course I'd rather see him working on FreeBSD myself. =)
He's very effective in Linux because he's the top dog with Linux.
FreeBSD doesn't work like that. I doubt Linus would have nearly the effect he does with a system that has the type of management that FreeBSD does. Note that I'm not dissing FreeBSD's management or Linus at all, but most of the things that people admire Linus for wouldn't have happened at all if he was a FreeBSD developer. It's the whole committee vs. dictator thing.
Linus isn't known for playing well with others. The same qualities that make him so well suited for running the Linux kernel project make him pretty much unsuitable for FreeBSD.
The BSDs do stuff differently, and there's a lot of cross-pollination among them (and to a lesser extent linux). Someone might have an idea they implement in NetBSD that ends up getting ported to FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and vice-versa.
You also have the fact that the focus of the three major BSDs are different - FreeBSD is a general system, OpenBSD is focused on security, and NetBSD is focused on portability between different architectures.
This also gives more people the chance to contribute to the system in general. If you've got an idea for a new scheduler, you can try to get it implemented on one of the systems. If it works, other systems may copy it for themselves. If there's only one system, though, it's a lot harder to get into development because there's fifty other people with scheduler ideas you have to compete with.
Then, of course, the real reason why there's multiple BSDs around - developers want to work on them. Let them have their fun - just 'cause they make it doesn't mean you have to use it.
If I own a carpark, should I be allowed to turn away people based on what car they drive?
Yes. You have the right to run your business however you want, given that:
If I own a hotel, should I be allowed to turn away people based on their religion?
Generally, no. There's areas you aren't allowed to discriminate, and religion is one of them. There's exceptions, of course - the boy scouts at least used to require faith in a monotheistic religion, for example - but it's best to stay away from it unless you want your ass sued.
I think you're misunderstanding my meaning here. I'm not saying that firefox is noncompliant because of this one bug. I don't really even care that much about the bug anymore, since the project I encountered the bug on is long since over. What I'm saying is that firefox isn't fully compliant _yet_ and may never be - I'm sure there's some brain-dead stuff in there that the mozilla people would know better than I that will never be implemented, kind of like how everyone ignores certain parts of the POSIX standards that don't work well in practice.
Firefox _in general_ is more standards compliant than IE. It's not fully standards compliant _yet_.
I don't do java for a living. I code as a hobby, and I actually use java for running a few java apps that I didn't write a lot more than I use it for writing my own stuff. If I did code professionally, then it'd be a priority.
As far as the power issue goes, my power bill isn't huge, so I'm not worried about it. These machines are pretty decent power-wise - I don't remember the power supply rating, but I'd guess it around 150W - they're ancient HP Vecra workstations. I'd imagine my main server and my workstation pull more power than those old machines.
All my servers are in an old telco cabinet in the spare bedroom, so I don't hear them, but I used to run four or five machines in my dorm in the air force and you'll find you quickly get used to the fan noise. Disk noise is a bit more annoying, and I remember waking up instantly one night when a head crashed... not a fun thing to wake up to at three in the morning. It was nice being able to tell by the sound if someone logged in remotely though.
A bonus is that the old pentium boxes are very resistant to heat. My air conditioning doesn't extend to that room very well. This summer I've had my athlon server go down a couple of times due to overheating, but I haven't had a blip out of those machines, even though they're the type that have a passive heat sink with the power supply fan blowing on them instead of a dedicated processor fan. And again, if the heat damages them, I can just chuck 'em and put another in its place.
Cool about your router. I wouldn't mind playing with something like that someday myself, although automated scripts and web interfaces tend to take all the fun out of it if you can't override them.
I've got about fifty of these machines left in storage, and it's nice being able to actually use them for something. I don't do sysadmin work professionally anymore, but it's fun to putz around with, and these things are perfect for someone who lives in a money trap style house like I do.
Programming isn't learning languages - it's learning how to give instructions to a machine.
There's some differences between languages, yes, but if you know C, learning Pascal is just picking up the syntax. Most everything else is the same. Java/C++/Python are all object oriented - learning one will step you right into any of the others. ML and Haskell are functional languages that use similar concepts, and if you're proficient in one functional language, you've done most of the work for programming in any of them.
The biggest thing is to learn how to program. A programmer from the 1960s can use those same skills today for many purposes (although picking up OO would be necessary for some things).
In any event, what you're probably looking at is an MIS degree instead of CS. They deal with things like networking, database operation, systems admin, and the like. There isn't much emphasis on programming beyond the small scripting level.
Linux giving new life to old-PCs is a myth. It is in fact a lot slower at common tasks than f.e. Windows 98 with Office 97 - so why bother?
I've got four pentium 1 class machines running right now, all running linux. One's a laptop, and I just can't afford a new laptop to replace it right now, and it does suck for office stuff, although it's fine for coding. Java's kind of slow on it, but it does the job.
The other three machines are all headless and are in my cabinet. One runs my DHCP, DNS, and IRC. Another was originally set up for VOIP, although I don't really use it for anything right now. The third is my firewall, which runs nothing but the iptables scripts and raccoon. It does things most cheapo routers won't, since it has the full flexibility of iptables, and it does come in handy.
Why would I want to pay good money for fast machines for stuff that doesn't require them? I'm not worried about reliability - backing up drives smaller than a gig isn't a problem, and I've got about fifty more of those exact machines in storage - and I've got a nice athlon xp mobile box acting as a server for my database server and webserver. I'm a hobbyist nowdays, along with some small-time contract work, so I don't need anything more.
If you don't have a use for old PCs, that's fine. There's plenty of us who do.
No argument there. Firefox fixes vulnerabilities much faster than IE, and I assume it has better design in reguards to safety, but nothing's perfect. Only time will tell.
My point was that firefox isn't absolutely safe. It's probably safer than IE (like that's hard), but there's certainly bugs in it that open vulnerabilities. That can be said of pretty much any large software project. That's just the way of things, and you can't let your guard down.
I didn't submit the bug, although I voted for it. It was preexisting whenever I encountered it.
This was way back in the early days, when mozilla still crashed like crazy. This was back when they were relasing milestones.
I'd have to look up the HTML standard for the exact item, but it has to do with the tag - there's a way to specify the actual value passed via the form (other than the content of ) and mozilla didn't do it.
It's been years, and the project I was working on at the time is long since dust, and I don't even have the same email address so I don't get any updates. It may have been fixed in the last year, for all I know, but last time I checked it it was still open.
Mozilla and Firefox are not standards compliant. They're just a lot closer than IE, and standards compliance is a priority for them.
I'm still waiting for them to fix a bug I filed five years ago reguarding forms, which happens to be a compliance issue in HTML.
There's other browsers that say they're more compliant than gecko, although I haven't tried any of them (or, in the case of Opera, I haven't tried it in many years).
Still, IE doesn't even come close, at least as far as standards compliance goes. It is free, however, on every platform that it is available on, and who knows what vulnerabilities lie beneath that behemoth that firefox is?
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Occasionally when you finished the game, she would start flashing and would appear in a one-piece swimsuit. It was obvious at that point she was female (especially since during the flashing for a second you could see her nipples. Hey, I was 13 or so at the time, sue me).
You could also play her in the swimsuit. There was a code starting with JUSTIN BAILEY that would start you at the beginning of the purple fire area without the spacesuit.
One of the key points of cache is that if you change something on the disk, that overrules the cache. That's implemented in hardware.
Disks have cache now, although it's volatile. All this should change is that the cache will be there when the system boots. Sure, getting a virus in there will be just like if you had a virus on your hard drive, but any changes to the disk should be changed in the cache as well by the controller. The system itself probably won't have any way of directly accessing the cache itself, unless the ATA standard is expanded.
All that, of course, applies to the hybrid drive setup. The other idea, where the cache is on the motherboard, might be implemented differently, and might be cause for alarm. You can't really tell, but unless they're going to break a few fundamental ideas behind the ISA, there should be little to worry about.
In the United States. It's all up to your provider. I pay a bit extra a month to my cable company to not be under a contract. It's worth it to me since my income is very unstable and I've had to cancel it temporarily before.
I believe AT&T will also allow you to get DSL without a contract. It costs more, but you can cancel at any time.
The odd ones (2.1, 2.3, 2.5) _were_ development versions.
Nowdays (starting with 2.6), all the action happens in the mainstream kernel. Generally, distributions are a few kernel releases behind anyway, so it doesn't affect people who use the kernel that their distro provides.
Reguarding the swords, I have no comment, since I'm not an ancient weapons expert.
Reguarding the armor, I can't really say I've ever watched people in armor do the 440 yard dash, so I can't say how slow it makes you movement wise or how well that is represented by the speed penalty. However, the limit to your dex bonus makes you average at worst. Someone in full plate can do things that someone with an average dexterity can do, or even better than average (full plate has a dex modifier cap of +1), but not someone with extraordinary dexterity, like a contortionist or martial artist.
Like I said before, you can't do gymnastics while wearing heavy armor. That's what the dex limit is for.
The skill modifiers for armor make some amount of sense as well. I've climbed ropes and cliffs before, and I don't imagine that wearing armor will make that any easier. Moving silently in heavy armor is a lot harder to accomplish as well - most armor isn't made to be quiet. You'd have to practice in heavy armor quite a bit to be able to balance on a beam or tightrope as well as you can normally. Same goes with tumble.
The rules don't say you _can't_ do these things - they just say you can't do them as well.
The pure anal-retentiveness of the design is what sucks about it. Bonsues and penalties are divided by types and most can't be stacked. You get a +1 to something because of this or that and another +1 but you don't get a +2. No, you still only get a +1.
No kidding. The whole stacks/don't stack thing drives me up the wall - especially with newbie players. I've got a cheat sheet I use for it myself that helps out a lot. It does act as a bit of a deterrant to munchkins though, which is good in my book.
Why do paladins and rangers need a separate spell list from clerics?
They only get four spell levels each. Rangers are closer to druids anyway - why would a ranger be able to cast spells which are deity-oriented?
Paladins/clerics just have different sets because a paladin's training is so different than a cleric's (at least that's how I rationalize it). As far as actually playing, why would someone play a cleric over a paladin if a paladin was just a superset of the cleric (besides the obvious roleplaying reasons)?
And they give attacks of opportunity for the stupidest things! Why should someone get a free attack against you just because you're not armed? Why should doing virtually anything provoke an attack of opportunity?
I agree with you here. I always joke that attacks of opportunity are a way of goading you into using miniatures (which add a few hundred dollars to the hobby). I do without them, but there's a lot in the game that uses the assumptions that you at least use tokens.
Why is evreything divided into 5-foot squares?
It's easier to use miniatures with it. When you play without them, it's mostly a non-issue.
If I'm not mistaken, you can't attack soemone in the same 5-foot square as your character. Huh? You can't attack someone who is within 5 feet of you?!
That depends what weapon you use. Polearms, obviously, are useless against an adjacent foe.
I'm aware of no rule that says you can't attack anyone in the same square as you. It doesn't happen in miniature games, because you can't physically stack the minis.
It helps if you've actually watched combat with the types of weapons used here - ren faires and SCA events are a good chance for this. If someone's up your ass, you can easily get 'em with a dagger, but a greatsword? No way.
This doesn't become an issue in my campaigns either (except the polearm thing). The DM should run the game by common sense, and unless an opponent is attempting to grapple, I assume that there's enough arm room to use a weapon unless it's a confined space (extremely small tunnel, for instance, and there's rules in the book for that as well).
And how come your utterly helpless when you're knocked down? What, do your arms and legs automatically become paralyzed every time you're prone? Lie on back and tell me how much sense that makes.
You can, albeit at a -4 to hit with melee weapons, no negative to crossbow, and you can't use a regular bow. The DM can adjust this as the situation allows. See table 8-8 in the 3E PHB.
Now, I'll fully admit the combat rules for AD&D always felt incomplete, so I completed them for my campaigns, but there was no need to over-complicate it to this extent, let alone throw in a bunch of "because I said so!" rules that don't make sense in the first place.
Personally, I feel the combat rules are the most complete part of 3E. It's lacking on the roleplaying part in my opinion.
Psionics.
Can't comment here, I don't use them in my campaigns.
Well, excuse me, I didn't know my game was subject to their approval. And here I thought we could play however we wanted. How foolish of me.
You can play however you want. The books describe the greyhawk campain setting (as much of one as there is outside of LG), but you can certainly bend the rules however you wish.
I agree the whole good/evil thing is a bit undefined. What makes someone 'evil'? Palla
This is streamlining, as least as far as the SQLite conversion goes.
They can toss the parsers for mork, html bookmarks, javascript preferences, and whatever else for a unified data layer. SQLite is made for this sort of thing, and it's optimized to be small and fast.
Basically, they're not really adding anything with this, they're just taking a lot of stuff they already had and going with a better solution. Best of all, SQLite is a separate project so they don't have to maintain the code, which lessens the burden on the dev team.
It'll also make it easier for 3rd party utilities to manipulate firefox data, since SQLite has all kinds of bindings for various scripting and non-scripting languages. I expect some really cool stuff to come out of all this, and improvements in existing 3rd party utilities since they won't have to rely on handbuilt parsers anymore.
Libraries on UNIX systems do this, in general terms: major functionality/API change -> major version increase, minor feature change -> minor version increase, bugfix -> point number increase. Not every library follows that, but most do.
Arguably, given the way data storage is being merged into a single format that's different than any of the previous formats supports a major change. There was mention of changes in the way extensions were handled, so if extensions have to be rebuilt/modified for 2.0 then that also supports a major change.
Other people have said that the next major update to gecko will be in 3.0, which definitely deserves a major number.
All this is conjecture, and you're right on the idea that version numbers are basically pulled out of the developers' asses. Only the mozilla guys could say for sure.
I assume the grandparent meant they could license the code directly to companies such as Cisco and IBM as closed-source licenses for a fee. MySQL does this, for instance.
You make the code freely available under the GPL, and for companies who can't deal with the terms of the GPL, you offer a license they can purchase. It makes sense, but I seriously doubt the OpenBSD community would go for it. In my experience, the *BSD folks are pretty firm about their license.
My complacency is acceptance of something that isn't going to change in the near future. I'm not in the military, and when I was, I was enlisted. That means I can do jack shit about the situation other than write a little letter to my congressperson, and personally, I got more important things to bother my congresscritters about.
Up until a recent supreme court decision, most states had similar laws. It's SOP for prosecuters to tack on additional charges like this, military or no. You'll have to change the way the entire court system is set up (not just the military courts) to get rid of stuff like this, and get the legislature (both local, state, and federal) to remove laws if people aren't going to be charged with them.
Commanders have a lot of power. If a commander doesn't like you, he can do all kinds of nasty shit to you. Bear in mind though, no commander in the military stands alone - there's always someone above his head, and you can bring any issue as high as you can, as long as that person will speak with you. If it goes to court martial, then you stand in front of a court, not just your commander.
Your buddy got caught getting head in a van. Tell me, how the hell did they catch him in the act if he wasn't visible? There's something you aren't saying here. If he was court martialled, then whatever he did was bad enough for the court to think him guilty. That's got nothing to do with his commander. If he wasn't court martialled, then he voluntarily accepted an article 15.
They've got safeguards. Your friend fucked up. And if you haven't at least written a letter to your congressman about it, then you can shut the fuck up yourself.
Yes. Kinda like 'RTFM' actually means 'Read The Fucking Manual'.
One of the nice things about UNIX culture is that it's obscure enough that you get things like profanity in acronyms and messages like "lp0 is on fire!".
I can see what you mean, however, you'll note that even in a draft situation the upper class generally can either get out of the draft (they can afford college) or they enter as officers (after college). The draft doesn't help in reguards to class equalization.
The draft is very disruptive to life in the states. At that age, young non-college men are generally thinking about getting married, starting careers, or pretty much anything but getting shot. Families are seeing their boys dragged off, not knowing if they'll see them again. Remember, most drafts in the U.S. weren't peacetime drafts - we've had a volunteer army throughout most of our history, and the times when the draft has been in effect are generally during war.
Any president who started talking about reinstating the draft would lose all popularity almost instantly unless it was a dire emergency. The current war certainly doesn't qualify as that - I'm talking if we or one of our immediate neighbors were invaded.
Right now, as it stands, our politicians tell us this war is necessary, and they have enough support to go through with it. The last thing they want is another Vietnam, but they can't back down either. We'll pretty much have to wait and see how the wheels turn.
As far as the behaviour of the soldiers and sailors after the draft, bear in mind a lot has changed over the past fifteen years or so. That sort of behavior isn't tolerated anymore. A lot of people have said that the fun has gone out of the military, and that might be true, but we're also causing a lot less trouble for our foreign hosts nowdays. Of course, Bush is making up for it by making the entire world hate our guts, but what can I say, I didn't vote for the asshole.
I'm a veteran, and I don't consider myself or people currently in the military as second class citizens, although legally they are. That's neither here nor there.
The example you give is exactly what I was talking about in the first place. He was getting a blow job in a parking lot - that's illegal for reasons not involving the oral sex issue, most notably as public nudity. The military considers that as behaviour that's unbecoming a serviceman. He woulda got a fine or jail time either way, even without it.
Somebody tacked on that to get him jail time. That happens, and not just in the military. Prosecuters throw everything they can at you. This guy fucked up and got unlucky in court.
I'm not an apologist. I think the law is stupid. But you're not going to get zapped by it unless you're doing something wrong in the first place. They're not going to burst into your room while you're getting a little head from your girlfriend and arrest you for it.
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Of course I'd rather see him working on FreeBSD myself. =)
He's very effective in Linux because he's the top dog with Linux.
FreeBSD doesn't work like that. I doubt Linus would have nearly the effect he does with a system that has the type of management that FreeBSD does. Note that I'm not dissing FreeBSD's management or Linus at all, but most of the things that people admire Linus for wouldn't have happened at all if he was a FreeBSD developer. It's the whole committee vs. dictator thing.
Linus isn't known for playing well with others. The same qualities that make him so well suited for running the Linux kernel project make him pretty much unsuitable for FreeBSD.
There's a lot of reasons to have it around.
The BSDs do stuff differently, and there's a lot of cross-pollination among them (and to a lesser extent linux). Someone might have an idea they implement in NetBSD that ends up getting ported to FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and vice-versa.
You also have the fact that the focus of the three major BSDs are different - FreeBSD is a general system, OpenBSD is focused on security, and NetBSD is focused on portability between different architectures.
This also gives more people the chance to contribute to the system in general. If you've got an idea for a new scheduler, you can try to get it implemented on one of the systems. If it works, other systems may copy it for themselves. If there's only one system, though, it's a lot harder to get into development because there's fifty other people with scheduler ideas you have to compete with.
Then, of course, the real reason why there's multiple BSDs around - developers want to work on them. Let them have their fun - just 'cause they make it doesn't mean you have to use it.
If I own a carpark, should I be allowed to turn away people based on what car they drive?
Yes. You have the right to run your business however you want, given that:
If I own a hotel, should I be allowed to turn away people based on their religion?
Generally, no. There's areas you aren't allowed to discriminate, and religion is one of them. There's exceptions, of course - the boy scouts at least used to require faith in a monotheistic religion, for example - but it's best to stay away from it unless you want your ass sued.
The floppy interface has been standardized since the 70s. It's not plug & play.
Many operating systems tend to just assume it's there, even if it's not, for compatability reasons. Windows has had floppy issues in the past.
Probably about a year ago. What's it matter?
I think you're misunderstanding my meaning here. I'm not saying that firefox is noncompliant because of this one bug. I don't really even care that much about the bug anymore, since the project I encountered the bug on is long since over. What I'm saying is that firefox isn't fully compliant _yet_ and may never be - I'm sure there's some brain-dead stuff in there that the mozilla people would know better than I that will never be implemented, kind of like how everyone ignores certain parts of the POSIX standards that don't work well in practice.
Firefox _in general_ is more standards compliant than IE. It's not fully standards compliant _yet_.
I don't do java for a living. I code as a hobby, and I actually use java for running a few java apps that I didn't write a lot more than I use it for writing my own stuff. If I did code professionally, then it'd be a priority.
As far as the power issue goes, my power bill isn't huge, so I'm not worried about it. These machines are pretty decent power-wise - I don't remember the power supply rating, but I'd guess it around 150W - they're ancient HP Vecra workstations. I'd imagine my main server and my workstation pull more power than those old machines.
All my servers are in an old telco cabinet in the spare bedroom, so I don't hear them, but I used to run four or five machines in my dorm in the air force and you'll find you quickly get used to the fan noise. Disk noise is a bit more annoying, and I remember waking up instantly one night when a head crashed... not a fun thing to wake up to at three in the morning. It was nice being able to tell by the sound if someone logged in remotely though.
A bonus is that the old pentium boxes are very resistant to heat. My air conditioning doesn't extend to that room very well. This summer I've had my athlon server go down a couple of times due to overheating, but I haven't had a blip out of those machines, even though they're the type that have a passive heat sink with the power supply fan blowing on them instead of a dedicated processor fan. And again, if the heat damages them, I can just chuck 'em and put another in its place.
Cool about your router. I wouldn't mind playing with something like that someday myself, although automated scripts and web interfaces tend to take all the fun out of it if you can't override them.
I've got about fifty of these machines left in storage, and it's nice being able to actually use them for something. I don't do sysadmin work professionally anymore, but it's fun to putz around with, and these things are perfect for someone who lives in a money trap style house like I do.
Programming isn't learning languages - it's learning how to give instructions to a machine.
There's some differences between languages, yes, but if you know C, learning Pascal is just picking up the syntax. Most everything else is the same. Java/C++/Python are all object oriented - learning one will step you right into any of the others. ML and Haskell are functional languages that use similar concepts, and if you're proficient in one functional language, you've done most of the work for programming in any of them.
The biggest thing is to learn how to program. A programmer from the 1960s can use those same skills today for many purposes (although picking up OO would be necessary for some things).
In any event, what you're probably looking at is an MIS degree instead of CS. They deal with things like networking, database operation, systems admin, and the like. There isn't much emphasis on programming beyond the small scripting level.
Linux giving new life to old-PCs is a myth. It is in fact a lot slower at common tasks than f.e. Windows 98 with Office 97 - so why bother?
I've got four pentium 1 class machines running right now, all running linux. One's a laptop, and I just can't afford a new laptop to replace it right now, and it does suck for office stuff, although it's fine for coding. Java's kind of slow on it, but it does the job.
The other three machines are all headless and are in my cabinet. One runs my DHCP, DNS, and IRC. Another was originally set up for VOIP, although I don't really use it for anything right now. The third is my firewall, which runs nothing but the iptables scripts and raccoon. It does things most cheapo routers won't, since it has the full flexibility of iptables, and it does come in handy.
Why would I want to pay good money for fast machines for stuff that doesn't require them? I'm not worried about reliability - backing up drives smaller than a gig isn't a problem, and I've got about fifty more of those exact machines in storage - and I've got a nice athlon xp mobile box acting as a server for my database server and webserver. I'm a hobbyist nowdays, along with some small-time contract work, so I don't need anything more.
If you don't have a use for old PCs, that's fine. There's plenty of us who do.
No argument there. Firefox fixes vulnerabilities much faster than IE, and I assume it has better design in reguards to safety, but nothing's perfect. Only time will tell.
My point was that firefox isn't absolutely safe. It's probably safer than IE (like that's hard), but there's certainly bugs in it that open vulnerabilities. That can be said of pretty much any large software project. That's just the way of things, and you can't let your guard down.
I didn't submit the bug, although I voted for it. It was preexisting whenever I encountered it.
This was way back in the early days, when mozilla still crashed like crazy. This was back when they were relasing milestones.
I'd have to look up the HTML standard for the exact item, but it has to do with the tag - there's a way to specify the actual value passed via the form (other than the content of ) and mozilla didn't do it.
It's been years, and the project I was working on at the time is long since dust, and I don't even have the same email address so I don't get any updates. It may have been fixed in the last year, for all I know, but last time I checked it it was still open.
Maybe this program will be used to freeze history into the parallel universe where no intelligent species other than humans evolves in the galaxy.
Then it'll transfer itself to the moon and hide out for twenty thousand years.
Mozilla and Firefox are not standards compliant. They're just a lot closer than IE, and standards compliance is a priority for them.
I'm still waiting for them to fix a bug I filed five years ago reguarding forms, which happens to be a compliance issue in HTML.
There's other browsers that say they're more compliant than gecko, although I haven't tried any of them (or, in the case of Opera, I haven't tried it in many years).
Still, IE doesn't even come close, at least as far as standards compliance goes. It is free, however, on every platform that it is available on, and who knows what vulnerabilities lie beneath that behemoth that firefox is?
Occasionally when you finished the game, she would start flashing and would appear in a one-piece swimsuit. It was obvious at that point she was female (especially since during the flashing for a second you could see her nipples. Hey, I was 13 or so at the time, sue me).
You could also play her in the swimsuit. There was a code starting with JUSTIN BAILEY that would start you at the beginning of the purple fire area without the spacesuit.
One of the key points of cache is that if you change something on the disk, that overrules the cache. That's implemented in hardware.
Disks have cache now, although it's volatile. All this should change is that the cache will be there when the system boots. Sure, getting a virus in there will be just like if you had a virus on your hard drive, but any changes to the disk should be changed in the cache as well by the controller. The system itself probably won't have any way of directly accessing the cache itself, unless the ATA standard is expanded.
All that, of course, applies to the hybrid drive setup. The other idea, where the cache is on the motherboard, might be implemented differently, and might be cause for alarm. You can't really tell, but unless they're going to break a few fundamental ideas behind the ISA, there should be little to worry about.
In the United States. It's all up to your provider. I pay a bit extra a month to my cable company to not be under a contract. It's worth it to me since my income is very unstable and I've had to cancel it temporarily before.
I believe AT&T will also allow you to get DSL without a contract. It costs more, but you can cancel at any time.
The odd ones (2.1, 2.3, 2.5) _were_ development versions.
Nowdays (starting with 2.6), all the action happens in the mainstream kernel. Generally, distributions are a few kernel releases behind anyway, so it doesn't affect people who use the kernel that their distro provides.
Reguarding the swords, I have no comment, since I'm not an ancient weapons expert.
Reguarding the armor, I can't really say I've ever watched people in armor do the 440 yard dash, so I can't say how slow it makes you movement wise or how well that is represented by the speed penalty. However, the limit to your dex bonus makes you average at worst. Someone in full plate can do things that someone with an average dexterity can do, or even better than average (full plate has a dex modifier cap of +1), but not someone with extraordinary dexterity, like a contortionist or martial artist.
Like I said before, you can't do gymnastics while wearing heavy armor. That's what the dex limit is for.
The skill modifiers for armor make some amount of sense as well. I've climbed ropes and cliffs before, and I don't imagine that wearing armor will make that any easier. Moving silently in heavy armor is a lot harder to accomplish as well - most armor isn't made to be quiet. You'd have to practice in heavy armor quite a bit to be able to balance on a beam or tightrope as well as you can normally. Same goes with tumble.
The rules don't say you _can't_ do these things - they just say you can't do them as well.
The pure anal-retentiveness of the design is what sucks about it. Bonsues and penalties are divided by types and most can't be stacked. You get a +1 to something because of this or that and another +1 but you don't get a +2. No, you still only get a +1.
No kidding. The whole stacks/don't stack thing drives me up the wall - especially with newbie players. I've got a cheat sheet I use for it myself that helps out a lot. It does act as a bit of a deterrant to munchkins though, which is good in my book.
Why do paladins and rangers need a separate spell list from clerics?
They only get four spell levels each. Rangers are closer to druids anyway - why would a ranger be able to cast spells which are deity-oriented?
Paladins/clerics just have different sets because a paladin's training is so different than a cleric's (at least that's how I rationalize it). As far as actually playing, why would someone play a cleric over a paladin if a paladin was just a superset of the cleric (besides the obvious roleplaying reasons)?
And they give attacks of opportunity for the stupidest things! Why should someone get a free attack against you just because you're not armed? Why should doing virtually anything provoke an attack of opportunity?
I agree with you here. I always joke that attacks of opportunity are a way of goading you into using miniatures (which add a few hundred dollars to the hobby). I do without them, but there's a lot in the game that uses the assumptions that you at least use tokens.
Why is evreything divided into 5-foot squares?
It's easier to use miniatures with it. When you play without them, it's mostly a non-issue.
If I'm not mistaken, you can't attack soemone in the same 5-foot square as your character. Huh? You can't attack someone who is within 5 feet of you?!
That depends what weapon you use. Polearms, obviously, are useless against an adjacent foe.
I'm aware of no rule that says you can't attack anyone in the same square as you. It doesn't happen in miniature games, because you can't physically stack the minis.
It helps if you've actually watched combat with the types of weapons used here - ren faires and SCA events are a good chance for this. If someone's up your ass, you can easily get 'em with a dagger, but a greatsword? No way.
This doesn't become an issue in my campaigns either (except the polearm thing). The DM should run the game by common sense, and unless an opponent is attempting to grapple, I assume that there's enough arm room to use a weapon unless it's a confined space (extremely small tunnel, for instance, and there's rules in the book for that as well).
And how come your utterly helpless when you're knocked down? What, do your arms and legs automatically become paralyzed every time you're prone? Lie on back and tell me how much sense that makes.
You can, albeit at a -4 to hit with melee weapons, no negative to crossbow, and you can't use a regular bow. The DM can adjust this as the situation allows. See table 8-8 in the 3E PHB.
Now, I'll fully admit the combat rules for AD&D always felt incomplete, so I completed them for my campaigns, but there was no need to over-complicate it to this extent, let alone throw in a bunch of "because I said so!" rules that don't make sense in the first place.
Personally, I feel the combat rules are the most complete part of 3E. It's lacking on the roleplaying part in my opinion.
Psionics.
Can't comment here, I don't use them in my campaigns.
Well, excuse me, I didn't know my game was subject to their approval. And here I thought we could play however we wanted. How foolish of me.
You can play however you want. The books describe the greyhawk campain setting (as much of one as there is outside of LG), but you can certainly bend the rules however you wish.
I agree the whole good/evil thing is a bit undefined. What makes someone 'evil'? Palla
This is streamlining, as least as far as the SQLite conversion goes.
They can toss the parsers for mork, html bookmarks, javascript preferences, and whatever else for a unified data layer. SQLite is made for this sort of thing, and it's optimized to be small and fast.
Basically, they're not really adding anything with this, they're just taking a lot of stuff they already had and going with a better solution. Best of all, SQLite is a separate project so they don't have to maintain the code, which lessens the burden on the dev team.
It'll also make it easier for 3rd party utilities to manipulate firefox data, since SQLite has all kinds of bindings for various scripting and non-scripting languages. I expect some really cool stuff to come out of all this, and improvements in existing 3rd party utilities since they won't have to rely on handbuilt parsers anymore.
Or d) when the code breaks its own API.
Libraries on UNIX systems do this, in general terms: major functionality/API change -> major version increase, minor feature change -> minor version increase, bugfix -> point number increase. Not every library follows that, but most do.
Arguably, given the way data storage is being merged into a single format that's different than any of the previous formats supports a major change. There was mention of changes in the way extensions were handled, so if extensions have to be rebuilt/modified for 2.0 then that also supports a major change.
Other people have said that the next major update to gecko will be in 3.0, which definitely deserves a major number.
All this is conjecture, and you're right on the idea that version numbers are basically pulled out of the developers' asses. Only the mozilla guys could say for sure.
I assume the grandparent meant they could license the code directly to companies such as Cisco and IBM as closed-source licenses for a fee. MySQL does this, for instance.
You make the code freely available under the GPL, and for companies who can't deal with the terms of the GPL, you offer a license they can purchase. It makes sense, but I seriously doubt the OpenBSD community would go for it. In my experience, the *BSD folks are pretty firm about their license.
My complacency is acceptance of something that isn't going to change in the near future. I'm not in the military, and when I was, I was enlisted. That means I can do jack shit about the situation other than write a little letter to my congressperson, and personally, I got more important things to bother my congresscritters about.
Up until a recent supreme court decision, most states had similar laws. It's SOP for prosecuters to tack on additional charges like this, military or no. You'll have to change the way the entire court system is set up (not just the military courts) to get rid of stuff like this, and get the legislature (both local, state, and federal) to remove laws if people aren't going to be charged with them.
Commanders have a lot of power. If a commander doesn't like you, he can do all kinds of nasty shit to you. Bear in mind though, no commander in the military stands alone - there's always someone above his head, and you can bring any issue as high as you can, as long as that person will speak with you. If it goes to court martial, then you stand in front of a court, not just your commander.
Your buddy got caught getting head in a van. Tell me, how the hell did they catch him in the act if he wasn't visible? There's something you aren't saying here. If he was court martialled, then whatever he did was bad enough for the court to think him guilty. That's got nothing to do with his commander. If he wasn't court martialled, then he voluntarily accepted an article 15.
They've got safeguards. Your friend fucked up. And if you haven't at least written a letter to your congressman about it, then you can shut the fuck up yourself.
Yes. Kinda like 'RTFM' actually means 'Read The Fucking Manual'.
One of the nice things about UNIX culture is that it's obscure enough that you get things like profanity in acronyms and messages like "lp0 is on fire!".
I can see what you mean, however, you'll note that even in a draft situation the upper class generally can either get out of the draft (they can afford college) or they enter as officers (after college). The draft doesn't help in reguards to class equalization.
The draft is very disruptive to life in the states. At that age, young non-college men are generally thinking about getting married, starting careers, or pretty much anything but getting shot. Families are seeing their boys dragged off, not knowing if they'll see them again. Remember, most drafts in the U.S. weren't peacetime drafts - we've had a volunteer army throughout most of our history, and the times when the draft has been in effect are generally during war.
Any president who started talking about reinstating the draft would lose all popularity almost instantly unless it was a dire emergency. The current war certainly doesn't qualify as that - I'm talking if we or one of our immediate neighbors were invaded.
Right now, as it stands, our politicians tell us this war is necessary, and they have enough support to go through with it. The last thing they want is another Vietnam, but they can't back down either. We'll pretty much have to wait and see how the wheels turn.
As far as the behaviour of the soldiers and sailors after the draft, bear in mind a lot has changed over the past fifteen years or so. That sort of behavior isn't tolerated anymore. A lot of people have said that the fun has gone out of the military, and that might be true, but we're also causing a lot less trouble for our foreign hosts nowdays. Of course, Bush is making up for it by making the entire world hate our guts, but what can I say, I didn't vote for the asshole.
I'm a veteran, and I don't consider myself or people currently in the military as second class citizens, although legally they are. That's neither here nor there.
The example you give is exactly what I was talking about in the first place. He was getting a blow job in a parking lot - that's illegal for reasons not involving the oral sex issue, most notably as public nudity. The military considers that as behaviour that's unbecoming a serviceman. He woulda got a fine or jail time either way, even without it.
Somebody tacked on that to get him jail time. That happens, and not just in the military. Prosecuters throw everything they can at you. This guy fucked up and got unlucky in court.
I'm not an apologist. I think the law is stupid. But you're not going to get zapped by it unless you're doing something wrong in the first place. They're not going to burst into your room while you're getting a little head from your girlfriend and arrest you for it.