Except I don't think the expansion applies at the galactic level, so anything in a galaxy will still have the whole galaxy with it. Now if you're talking about galaxies themselves as the objects of the universe, then that's likely true.
I learned a valuable lesson, though: skip all song lyrics and poetry tucked into prose. Not just with Tolkien, but with everyone. I've never missed anything important by skipping that stuff, and I've gained many unwasted minutes by doing so.
You may also enjoy "Armor," by Steakley, which is another take on the Bug War. Not sure what his credentials are, but it's a mostly personal and action-packed perspective.
But it's a babbling brook with a history. It was known to the First Men, and had a name and a nickname from the dwarves, and was the site of a battle (known by four separate names, of course) with the orcs, but only the elves know its true name, which was...
Those mostly aren't mistakes, but differences in style. Much of the English-speaking world treats company names as plural nouns, while stateside we tend to treat companies as singular. It's no more a mistake than someone calling an elevator a 'lift.'
True. Gmail is still trying to sell me a new Nissan, eight months after I bought one. I don't think I'm going to want another car for about ten more years, guys.
A co-worker discovered a 'bug' in this traditional sense just a few months ago. Some kind of beetle got pinned in the fan of a power supply, causing it to jam and the device to repeatedly overheat.
They should build bikes with a switch for that shit, then, so that it only activates when they're on the road. I don't need to hear it for an hour while my neighbor is tuning and revving his engine across the street from me before he goes out for a ride.
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Yep, I've seen a number of different bugs and errors in my classes. A bad video here, a broken link there, misconfigured test answers that have to be fixed, small outages for which they extend deadlines, and a couple of email notices sent either too late or sent twice. Most of this stuff is relatively minor. I'd be a little nervous if I had a college degree hinging on these things and I'd paid a lot for them, but for free personal education I'm perfectly content to relax and just run with it as they work out the kinks. There's a lot of good in the classes I've taken, too, and I would think even the second time around they would likely fix 90% of the problems I'm seeing in the first run.
There's also the level of student interest to consider. For some classes, I don't have much interest in doing the homework and "completing" the course. As far as the instructor is concerned, I may be a dropout or a failure, but I can still be getting what I want out of the course -- the lectures, the readings, online discussion -- without completing the components (homework and exams) that a traditional student is required to. I'd never throw away good money on a physical college course that I just wanted to play with, but with a free course I have the freedom to sample what I want without having to fulfill all the requirements of a traditional course.
One of the online courses I've signed up for (a personal finance class) seems to REALLY get this point. The instructor specifically calls out the different segments of the course and suggests that some students may only be interested in certain topics, and that's perfectly fine with him if they only participate in the parts they want. From the standpoint of a traditional class, it's a "failure" if you only show up for a third of the lectures and only do a third of the homework, but it strikes me as a perfectly acceptable approach with a free online class.
As more people catch on to that kind of approach, we're going to need other kinds of metrics for determining if students had a satisfying experience from a class, based on things other than a simple "did they pass?"
My guess is so they can claim to be an example of a "good pirate" and support that image in a public place to the publishing companies. I'm not quite sure if it's misguided propaganda or helpful activism - or a bit of both. Still, more examples like this (even if this one doesn't make much sense) can probably only help the cause.
I think the Alt key is supposed to toggle the loot buttons. Does that work? (Sorry, just kind of a guess, I've only played about an hour so far, haven't pried into interface settings.)
I pre-ordered Torchlight 2 when Diablo 3 came out and I concluded I wouldn't buy it because of the always-online requirement. However, I never got any notices that Torchlight 2 had become available, so until just a few minutes ago I didn't realize it was out. Apparently Steam doesn't bother sending notices when pre-orders are released, unless a spam filter ate it or something.
I'm looking forward to giving the game a shot, though after about 1.5 playthroughs of the original Torchlight I started to find that game a little hollow, as it seemed to mostly boil down to a lot of dice rolls while attempting to enchant equipment, and mostly failing. I still figure I can get my money's worth out of the game before the fun fades.
I replaced my car six months ago, and I'm still struggling with a couple of switches. The controls for both the windshield wipers and the bright headlights are reversed from the old car, and I really have to think about it before I use either. I had the old car for 15 years, so that's part of the problem. Everything else is becoming fairly ingrained though.
The prices between 'cheap' and 'craft microbrew' aren't that large. Around here even the cheap stuff averages out to more than $1/can for a 12-pack, while many of the craft microbrews are only $8 for a six-pack. The difference between $1.10 and $1.33 is not that huge.
I know what you're getting at here, but the yeast itself does have a stronger and different flavor than the actual beer. A sip from the bottom of a bottle of homebrew, with many times the normal yeast, is not going to taste the same as a sip from the top which has minimal yeast. And I do find the yeasty components to be generally less pleasant.
But I'll back you any day on the claim that just because a cloudy wheat beer like a hefe may have more yeast floating in it, there's nothing at all wrong with it. In fact, a good hefe is quite sublime.
Note: The person you're replying to is invisible to me, so I can't see the specifics of whatever is being said. Just elaborating on a favorite personal topic.
Ah, New Glarus is a treat. I went to a wedding outside Madison, and spent most of the weekend trying every flavor of New Glarus I could get my hands on. Tried 7 or 8 over all -- good stuff!
A few years ago my brother ran across a pack of Billy Beer at a garage sale, still unopened. He figured there was no way it was still good and passed on buying it, but we both sort of wish in retrospect he'd picked it up as a collector's item.
Heh, what does that make me, then? Most of my worst homebrews have been failed stouts and porters, while most lighter beers (kolsch, amber, red, ligher saisons) have been among my better batches. Lucky, I guess?
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Except I don't think the expansion applies at the galactic level, so anything in a galaxy will still have the whole galaxy with it. Now if you're talking about galaxies themselves as the objects of the universe, then that's likely true.
I learned a valuable lesson, though: skip all song lyrics and poetry tucked into prose. Not just with Tolkien, but with everyone. I've never missed anything important by skipping that stuff, and I've gained many unwasted minutes by doing so.
You may also enjoy "Armor," by Steakley, which is another take on the Bug War. Not sure what his credentials are, but it's a mostly personal and action-packed perspective.
Emilio Estevez came out okay, though. So I'd say Martin Sheen's respectable at 50% success.
But it's a babbling brook with a history. It was known to the First Men, and had a name and a nickname from the dwarves, and was the site of a battle (known by four separate names, of course) with the orcs, but only the elves know its true name, which was ...
Those mostly aren't mistakes, but differences in style. Much of the English-speaking world treats company names as plural nouns, while stateside we tend to treat companies as singular. It's no more a mistake than someone calling an elevator a 'lift.'
Why do dwarves always dig too deep? Won't they ever learn?
You, sir, are a saint. Also, that should be standard on all loud vehicles.
True. Gmail is still trying to sell me a new Nissan, eight months after I bought one. I don't think I'm going to want another car for about ten more years, guys.
A co-worker discovered a 'bug' in this traditional sense just a few months ago. Some kind of beetle got pinned in the fan of a power supply, causing it to jam and the device to repeatedly overheat.
Probably for the best anyway since living under an HOA would mean having to groom my lawn religiously, and I'm not a fan of yard work.
Or find an HOA that does the yard work for you. Of course you'll pay for it, but it's certainly convenient.
They should build bikes with a switch for that shit, then, so that it only activates when they're on the road. I don't need to hear it for an hour while my neighbor is tuning and revving his engine across the street from me before he goes out for a ride.
Yep, I've seen a number of different bugs and errors in my classes. A bad video here, a broken link there, misconfigured test answers that have to be fixed, small outages for which they extend deadlines, and a couple of email notices sent either too late or sent twice. Most of this stuff is relatively minor. I'd be a little nervous if I had a college degree hinging on these things and I'd paid a lot for them, but for free personal education I'm perfectly content to relax and just run with it as they work out the kinks. There's a lot of good in the classes I've taken, too, and I would think even the second time around they would likely fix 90% of the problems I'm seeing in the first run.
There's also the level of student interest to consider. For some classes, I don't have much interest in doing the homework and "completing" the course. As far as the instructor is concerned, I may be a dropout or a failure, but I can still be getting what I want out of the course -- the lectures, the readings, online discussion -- without completing the components (homework and exams) that a traditional student is required to. I'd never throw away good money on a physical college course that I just wanted to play with, but with a free course I have the freedom to sample what I want without having to fulfill all the requirements of a traditional course.
One of the online courses I've signed up for (a personal finance class) seems to REALLY get this point. The instructor specifically calls out the different segments of the course and suggests that some students may only be interested in certain topics, and that's perfectly fine with him if they only participate in the parts they want. From the standpoint of a traditional class, it's a "failure" if you only show up for a third of the lectures and only do a third of the homework, but it strikes me as a perfectly acceptable approach with a free online class.
As more people catch on to that kind of approach, we're going to need other kinds of metrics for determining if students had a satisfying experience from a class, based on things other than a simple "did they pass?"
My guess is so they can claim to be an example of a "good pirate" and support that image in a public place to the publishing companies. I'm not quite sure if it's misguided propaganda or helpful activism - or a bit of both. Still, more examples like this (even if this one doesn't make much sense) can probably only help the cause.
I think the Alt key is supposed to toggle the loot buttons. Does that work? (Sorry, just kind of a guess, I've only played about an hour so far, haven't pried into interface settings.)
I only log in when I'm actually playing, so I don't see that stuff much. Next time I'll mark the calendar if I preorder something, I guess.
I am not always online, to take your complaint about complaining elsewhere.
I pre-ordered Torchlight 2 when Diablo 3 came out and I concluded I wouldn't buy it because of the always-online requirement. However, I never got any notices that Torchlight 2 had become available, so until just a few minutes ago I didn't realize it was out. Apparently Steam doesn't bother sending notices when pre-orders are released, unless a spam filter ate it or something.
I'm looking forward to giving the game a shot, though after about 1.5 playthroughs of the original Torchlight I started to find that game a little hollow, as it seemed to mostly boil down to a lot of dice rolls while attempting to enchant equipment, and mostly failing. I still figure I can get my money's worth out of the game before the fun fades.
I replaced my car six months ago, and I'm still struggling with a couple of switches. The controls for both the windshield wipers and the bright headlights are reversed from the old car, and I really have to think about it before I use either. I had the old car for 15 years, so that's part of the problem. Everything else is becoming fairly ingrained though.
The prices between 'cheap' and 'craft microbrew' aren't that large. Around here even the cheap stuff averages out to more than $1/can for a 12-pack, while many of the craft microbrews are only $8 for a six-pack. The difference between $1.10 and $1.33 is not that huge.
If you do not like yeast you do not like beer.
I know what you're getting at here, but the yeast itself does have a stronger and different flavor than the actual beer. A sip from the bottom of a bottle of homebrew, with many times the normal yeast, is not going to taste the same as a sip from the top which has minimal yeast. And I do find the yeasty components to be generally less pleasant.
But I'll back you any day on the claim that just because a cloudy wheat beer like a hefe may have more yeast floating in it, there's nothing at all wrong with it. In fact, a good hefe is quite sublime.
Note: The person you're replying to is invisible to me, so I can't see the specifics of whatever is being said. Just elaborating on a favorite personal topic.
Ah, New Glarus is a treat. I went to a wedding outside Madison, and spent most of the weekend trying every flavor of New Glarus I could get my hands on. Tried 7 or 8 over all -- good stuff!
A few years ago my brother ran across a pack of Billy Beer at a garage sale, still unopened. He figured there was no way it was still good and passed on buying it, but we both sort of wish in retrospect he'd picked it up as a collector's item.
Heh, what does that make me, then? Most of my worst homebrews have been failed stouts and porters, while most lighter beers (kolsch, amber, red, ligher saisons) have been among my better batches. Lucky, I guess?