But, but I though RMS was an insane rambling ideologue who wants all software developers to be homeless?/s
Flamebait? Trolling? Maybe, but what I'd like to point out is that some people come to hate the person from a single statement attributed to them at some point (regardless of whether they actually said it, or it was taken out of context, etc) that anything they say is automatically hated as well. This is no better than the opposite, worshiping someone such that anything they say is loved without considering the merits. I just wish people would pay attention to why they feel the way they do, rather than just associating the emotion with a person and leaving it at that.
At first I liked some of the ideas in it, but after a while it seemed it mattered very little which class you played, they all end up pretty close to being the same, often with abilities that are the same (or very nearly the same) but with a different name. All the spells with great non-combat use, for example, are missing. All the abilities of every class in fact, focus on combat. Hack and Slash is fun and all, but it isn't the sole reason why I play rpgs. If I wanted that only, I'd just play a computer game. Some of the best sessions I've ever played in were games where not a single attack was made the whole time. I'll probably play 4E again some time, but probably like the board game it feels like it is trying to emulate.
Now that Fantasy Craft is out and I've had a chance to read through it a bit, I think it is what 3.5 should have been. The rules are complete, handle combat and non-combat well, and give you real choices as you level up as to what you want to do with your character.
That's what I thought was rather interesting about Anthrax. It basically turns your immune response into overdrive to the extent that it kills you. And then the bacteria can feed on your remains at leisure.
Probably because Perl was already installed on the system so he didn't have to install anything else? Perl would make something like this pretty easy, too. Of course, this being/., I didn't RTFA yet.
I'd like to disagree with you. But I can't. I have a friend that I do a fair amount of business with in another city and for some reason, his email is extremely unreliable. I knew he was extremely busy (a wife, 3 kids, a more than 40 hr/week job, oh, and working on his Masters degree) so I didn't expect immediate response from him. But he didn't respond very often at all. So I finally called him and asked him about something, and he told me he didn't get most of the emails (well, he did get some, but not very many, which just enhanced the confusion for awhile). We chalked it up to an overactive spam filter, and verified some was getting caught that way, but since he got literally hundreds per day (he has a public facing email address) he just couldn't go through them all. Then we found other people who were having the same problem getting through to him via email. Eventually he signed up with Cloudmark and for a little while it seemed to be getting better, but based upon a conversation last week, I think emails are just flat out not getting to him for some reason. All in all, very annoying problems, and no matter what the root cause is, it all just illustrates your point.
IIRC, it was to improve the prediction algorithm for ratings. Basically, if you rated this movies at this level, then Netflix tries to predict you will rate these movies at this many stars each, or something to that effect. I've found the old method they used seems to generally work pretty well for me, though there are times I've been surprised. Though I'm not convinced my ratings are really all that accurate anyway. I'm pretty sure if I'm in a certain mode before I see some movies I'd rate them quite a bit differently than other times, though without some way to wipe my memories of seeing it the first time, I'm not sure how I'd actually test that.
Oregon and NJ are the only two states that prohibit pumping your own gas. I live in Oregon and they usually try to claim safety. I live in Portland, and it borders another town in Washington which allows people to pump their own gas. If it is so unsafe, why don't I hear about all the gas station explosions that must be happening over there? A-giant-pain-in-the-ass-of-anyone-whose-ever-had-to-wait-while-the-attendant-finally-gets-around-to-you is what I call it. You know, when I'm not out of breath.
My grandfather is dying right now of congestive heart failure (among other things). He was supposed to die in December of last year. He's done absolutely nothing (just called hospice) because he's resigned to dieing (he has plenty of other health issues which prevent any surgery, and his second wife just served him with divorce papers, etc) but he is still alive. Sometimes estimates, even when very close to death, are just wild guesses.
Now if there were things you could do that had a great likelihood of helping people like your dad to live longer, wouldn't you want to know about them? People who lie about treatments make it much harder to get people to the treatments that actually work. They cloud the issues and attempt to make everything look equally acceptable, when that's simply not the case. After all, fraudulent treatments are usually extremely low cost (to the professional 'providing' them, usually not so much to the patient) so the profit margins are insane. If we do nothing about people like this we will be flooded with them.
Blasphemy! Each person only has 1 muscle cell that grows larger as they work out./s
I learned the same things in school myself. We ere even taught that nerve cells didn't get repaired after they were damaged (to the point of dying). Oh, except in the tongue. Those were unique for some reason. And then we started learning that other nerve cells (like in the spine) did sometimes heal, but that perhaps the 'muscle memory' was lost, and learning to walk when you are an adult is much harder than it was as a child. At some point I think we may just have to say, "We don't know what we think we know, and maybe we should just start all over again." We stand on the shoulders of giants when we discover something new, but apparently sometimes it turns of those are midget's, not giant's shoulders, and we are forced to unlearn something we thought was true. Thus goes the ways of science.
Well, first you have to read each email to make sure it doesn't make the city look bad, and if it does if you can just rewrite it to sound better (for clarity, of course), and if you can't do that, then you have to delete it, and all this 'proof-reading' takes manpower. And then, of course, there's the bribes that have to be paid...
Or they tried playing too many multiplayer games of it. *Disconnected, okay we will restart it, it was saved last turn, no big deal. Oh, you can't load a saved game and make it multiplayer? again? Okay, we will start all over again. Disconnected, okay we will...*
That seems likely and should be easy to test. All you have to do is convince some of the subjects that they are about to find out if they won a large jackpot, have them take the test, and then tell them what was really going on. That's basically how the Nigerian scams work, isn't it? I wonder if it would work just as well to have a attractive individual talk to someone before asking them to do something stupid (rather than offering money), would the success rate be better? I think it would be. Though more difficult to do of course.
The systems here in Portland don't work to that level of detail. The slip isn't linked to a spot or a car. You are free to move your car and use the remaining time in another spot. You could even use the slip in another car since there's nothing saying what car it was bought for.
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His complaint isn't with typing the password to install. It is with typing the password and then 'nothing happens.'
But, but I though RMS was an insane rambling ideologue who wants all software developers to be homeless? /s
Flamebait? Trolling? Maybe, but what I'd like to point out is that some people come to hate the person from a single statement attributed to them at some point (regardless of whether they actually said it, or it was taken out of context, etc) that anything they say is automatically hated as well. This is no better than the opposite, worshiping someone such that anything they say is loved without considering the merits. I just wish people would pay attention to why they feel the way they do, rather than just associating the emotion with a person and leaving it at that.
At first I liked some of the ideas in it, but after a while it seemed it mattered very little which class you played, they all end up pretty close to being the same, often with abilities that are the same (or very nearly the same) but with a different name. All the spells with great non-combat use, for example, are missing. All the abilities of every class in fact, focus on combat. Hack and Slash is fun and all, but it isn't the sole reason why I play rpgs. If I wanted that only, I'd just play a computer game. Some of the best sessions I've ever played in were games where not a single attack was made the whole time. I'll probably play 4E again some time, but probably like the board game it feels like it is trying to emulate.
Now that Fantasy Craft is out and I've had a chance to read through it a bit, I think it is what 3.5 should have been. The rules are complete, handle combat and non-combat well, and give you real choices as you level up as to what you want to do with your character.
... we should fear goverment run health car...
Would they just run you over with that car when you hit a certain age? A bit like Death race 2000?
You must be a better coder than I. QQ /s
OMG, I think I have that right now! Will I not be seeing my doctor next?
As long as it is only dry-humping, I'm cool with that.
That's what I thought was rather interesting about Anthrax. It basically turns your immune response into overdrive to the extent that it kills you. And then the bacteria can feed on your remains at leisure.
In related news, this winter is set for record lows in Hell. Frost is being expected for the first time ever.
Probably because Perl was already installed on the system so he didn't have to install anything else? Perl would make something like this pretty easy, too. Of course, this being /., I didn't RTFA yet.
I'd like to disagree with you. But I can't. I have a friend that I do a fair amount of business with in another city and for some reason, his email is extremely unreliable. I knew he was extremely busy (a wife, 3 kids, a more than 40 hr/week job, oh, and working on his Masters degree) so I didn't expect immediate response from him. But he didn't respond very often at all. So I finally called him and asked him about something, and he told me he didn't get most of the emails (well, he did get some, but not very many, which just enhanced the confusion for awhile). We chalked it up to an overactive spam filter, and verified some was getting caught that way, but since he got literally hundreds per day (he has a public facing email address) he just couldn't go through them all. Then we found other people who were having the same problem getting through to him via email. Eventually he signed up with Cloudmark and for a little while it seemed to be getting better, but based upon a conversation last week, I think emails are just flat out not getting to him for some reason. All in all, very annoying problems, and no matter what the root cause is, it all just illustrates your point.
IIRC, it was to improve the prediction algorithm for ratings. Basically, if you rated this movies at this level, then Netflix tries to predict you will rate these movies at this many stars each, or something to that effect. I've found the old method they used seems to generally work pretty well for me, though there are times I've been surprised. Though I'm not convinced my ratings are really all that accurate anyway. I'm pretty sure if I'm in a certain mode before I see some movies I'd rate them quite a bit differently than other times, though without some way to wipe my memories of seeing it the first time, I'm not sure how I'd actually test that.
Oregon and NJ are the only two states that prohibit pumping your own gas. I live in Oregon and they usually try to claim safety. I live in Portland, and it borders another town in Washington which allows people to pump their own gas. If it is so unsafe, why don't I hear about all the gas station explosions that must be happening over there? A-giant-pain-in-the-ass-of-anyone-whose-ever-had-to-wait-while-the-attendant-finally-gets-around-to-you is what I call it. You know, when I'm not out of breath.
Obviously it must. I wonder if it is yet covered by insurance?
My grandfather is dying right now of congestive heart failure (among other things). He was supposed to die in December of last year. He's done absolutely nothing (just called hospice) because he's resigned to dieing (he has plenty of other health issues which prevent any surgery, and his second wife just served him with divorce papers, etc) but he is still alive. Sometimes estimates, even when very close to death, are just wild guesses.
Now if there were things you could do that had a great likelihood of helping people like your dad to live longer, wouldn't you want to know about them? People who lie about treatments make it much harder to get people to the treatments that actually work. They cloud the issues and attempt to make everything look equally acceptable, when that's simply not the case. After all, fraudulent treatments are usually extremely low cost (to the professional 'providing' them, usually not so much to the patient) so the profit margins are insane. If we do nothing about people like this we will be flooded with them.
I really expected that link to redirect to http://www.timecube.com/
Blasphemy! Each person only has 1 muscle cell that grows larger as they work out. /s
I learned the same things in school myself. We ere even taught that nerve cells didn't get repaired after they were damaged (to the point of dying). Oh, except in the tongue. Those were unique for some reason. And then we started learning that other nerve cells (like in the spine) did sometimes heal, but that perhaps the 'muscle memory' was lost, and learning to walk when you are an adult is much harder than it was as a child. At some point I think we may just have to say, "We don't know what we think we know, and maybe we should just start all over again." We stand on the shoulders of giants when we discover something new, but apparently sometimes it turns of those are midget's, not giant's shoulders, and we are forced to unlearn something we thought was true. Thus goes the ways of science.
Well, first you have to read each email to make sure it doesn't make the city look bad, and if it does if you can just rewrite it to sound better (for clarity, of course), and if you can't do that, then you have to delete it, and all this 'proof-reading' takes manpower. And then, of course, there's the bribes that have to be paid...
Yeah, except his would be correct and yours would be wrong. But we can't expect anything more from someone afraid to use their real user name.
Why are those mutually exclusive?
Life-spawn more Overlords!
Or they tried playing too many multiplayer games of it. *Disconnected, okay we will restart it, it was saved last turn, no big deal. Oh, you can't load a saved game and make it multiplayer? again? Okay, we will start all over again. Disconnected, okay we will...*
That seems likely and should be easy to test. All you have to do is convince some of the subjects that they are about to find out if they won a large jackpot, have them take the test, and then tell them what was really going on. That's basically how the Nigerian scams work, isn't it? I wonder if it would work just as well to have a attractive individual talk to someone before asking them to do something stupid (rather than offering money), would the success rate be better? I think it would be. Though more difficult to do of course.
I'm in Oregon and haven't seen any problems today. I didn't see any problems the last time this was mentioned either.
The systems here in Portland don't work to that level of detail. The slip isn't linked to a spot or a car. You are free to move your car and use the remaining time in another spot. You could even use the slip in another car since there's nothing saying what car it was bought for.