Actually, I've had more success introducing windows users to WindowMaker than the more "windowslike" managers. Generally I found that if it looked too much like windows people kept deciding to treat it "just like windows"; which kept causing problems because many individual elements were quite different. WindowMaker was simple to learn and different enough that people focused on learning new skills rather than retraining old ones.
But that's just my experience, your milage may vary
8 bucks for a movie?? Where do you live and can I move there? try $15-20 if you live in a major city
To reiterate some of the other responses to your post, 50 cents an hour? Try going to a used book shop, or if you choose well, even a new book store.
A number of video games have given me hundreds of hours of entertainment, wait a few months until they're on bargin and you're paying $30 for quite a bit (though there's a lot of crap out there too).
The Music Industry's prices have already been shown time and again to be the result of price fixing. Before they started fixing CD prices had dropped to 7-8 bucks for a short while. Read up on the case they just lost.
It's nice to have enough money to buy media at the current rip-off prices, but the current level of piracy is showing that people do NOT value what's currently being released and how it's being released (they're literally valueing it at $0).
Actually most first world nations are signatories to a version of the Geneva Convention which applies to all forces, the US is one of the few which has not joined in this version...Which is why in the BBC article it states that Taliban fighters will be held to the Geneva Convention standards while Al-Qaeda fighters will not be.
I'd give the actual version of the Convention and participating nations if my girlfriend wasn't gonna kill me for holding up dinner to post on/.
A minor point but size does figure in to your AC (unless one of the more recent rev's has bolloxed it all up) I'm not fully sure of where it states it (I don't really have time to be doing too much research, esp since I've not dealth w/ AD&D in a looooooong time) pg 99 2nd Ed DMG does however mention size as having a major factor in ranged combat into a melee (not that anyone used this pain in the butt rule). And I know somewhere there's mention of a bonus/penalty to AC for some size differences...
Also, there's the simple element of, most really small things have a stupid low AC for the simple reason they're hard to hit (though they are rarely well armored) Whereas large things with low ACs are just hard to hurt (though easy to hit...but wailing on a dragon's toe isn't gonna do much now is it?)
A few pages later it also states that there is also an initiative bonus/penalty based on size also.
Overall, AD&D did make use of size, it's just that the rules themselves (like many AD&D rules) tended to be a bit obscure and more trouble than they were worth. Plus people often forget that AC was a combined "How hard to Hit" with "How hard to Hurt". It's one of those elements that shows how abstract and in need of a human storyteller most AD&D really is...oh goddess I'm a dork...
Actually, if I recall correctly, the US is refusing to recognize the ICC because the court doesn't meet certain criteria put forth in the US Constitution, namely, it lacks a trial by jury. So the US can't legally let it's citizens be tried there. At least that's what my law professor said, though IAANL (just went to an austrian law school for a lil while...)
What's up with all the mechanical failures? Yeah, it's rough terrain, but we've been building human-powered vehicles that can handle it for decades! I'd think that keeping your engine going or your brakes from locking up would be the least "grand" part of the challenge.
I've seen this before in my robotics classes and a few of the articles I read about the challenge pointed out that one of the bigger challenges was not to get from point A to B but to get from point A to B without tearing itself to pieces along the way. Figuring out where you are and where you're going are trivial, finding the bump that's going to break your axle, or the hill that will burn out your breaks, those are much harder tasks (many humans still have trouble with that, esp. when they go off-road)
Plus, the time constraint of the challenge probably caused the designers to choose rather aggressive strategies with regards to how their 'bots would treat their bodies
I love my Al Lamy fountain pen too,
I use Fountain Pen Hospitalto get ink for it.
It does stink having to order it though;
I miss being able to pick some up on Jakominiplatz on the way to the Uni though:(
Well, as I bought a Dell about two years ago and since have had no problems taking it in and out of the US (repeated trips into Austria as I've been studying there) I can tell you that you're wholly incorrect. When I bought it I checked that I could take it (which came with Win2k) abroad with me; Dell and US Customs had no problem with this so... whatever
Regarding the main question that started all this; go to amazon.de, I know the german amazon will ship pretty much anything pretty much anywhere, including Hungary. The same goes for most german versions of american sites that I've seen. Now, I don't know about the Hungarian versions of said sites...you DO know Hungarian don't you? I hate when my fellow Americans go abroad and don't learn the local languages...if you don't, well then I think it's more a problem of the poster being USA-centric rather than the sites...::shrug::
Well we could built an anti-computer out of anti-silicon, run anti-windows98 on it, then laugh when the whole thing explodes and blame it on microsoft:)
This entire ADTI paper sounds just like something an Ayn Rand villian would say, all conjectures, FUD, no hard facts because you can fight facts but how do you fight grey meaninglessness?
I wonder how much different it will be, and how us "old-timers" will deal with it.
Digital computing won't go away though, as the article mentions, quantum isn't good for many tasks. Most likely they'll come out with hybrid machines, a digital machine calling on the power of the quantum processor when needed. Sorta the way a gas-electric hybrid uses the better engine for a given speed. I'd think that you'd have a digital processor calling on a quantum one when the problem warrants it's power. Digital programmers'll write programs for the digital one and call the "quantum functions" via an API.
I think it's going a little too far to ask what would happen if the US tried to "turn-off" the internet, how about if it simply started massive censoring operations? Difficult yes, but as such systems as Carnivore suggest there are steps being made... If the US simply "turned it off" cutting the internet out of the country entirely of course the rest of the world would eventually route around it, but in the case of censorship I think there would be less demand and "pressing need" There would be outcry but if such systems were put in place slowly enough I believe most people would accept them... Maybe the US couldn't "kill" the internet, but given some more time and tech, could it control it???
I too am a stess tester but haven't found it as terrible as many have said... Early on yeah the servers were down constantly but after a day or two they went up and I haven't found them down in quite a few days now. Nor have I found lag to be a serious problem, I'm on a 56k and find the game often runs with little or no lag. I will agree however that player killing is still a problem, not as bad as in the past but I'm once again seeing high level players hunting lower level ones for fun and profit. An extremely vexing practice. But as there is a bug/feature that allows you to switch worlds and your characters body will follow, which prevents such annoyances from stealing all the rare equiptment you've worked so long for. Hopefully this will reduce the profitability of player killing down to a point where people can actually play the game with those of other levels ("oh no! they're a level higher! they're going to kill me!!") Otherwise I felt they added much to the game since the previous one. The skill tree system seems to work well (I can only judge from the barbarian however) and the experience bar helps you really keep track of how much further to the next level. The jog option really helps speed up travel time also.
ummm well, this ended up much longer than I intended...I'll go now...
Slashdot Mirror
There we go!
...what's scary is that this probably already existed
Rent-a-Pet.com! Need to seem sensitive for awhile? Just don't have time to actually grow attached to another living being?
Rent-a-Pet.com!
Actually, I've had more success introducing windows users to WindowMaker than the more "windowslike" managers. Generally I found that if it looked too much like windows people kept deciding to treat it "just like windows"; which kept causing problems because many individual elements were quite different.
WindowMaker was simple to learn and different enough that people focused on learning new skills rather than retraining old ones.
But that's just my experience, your milage may vary
8 bucks for a movie?? Where do you live and can I move there? try $15-20 if you live in a major city
To reiterate some of the other responses to your post, 50 cents an hour? Try going to a used book shop, or if you choose well, even a new book store.
A number of video games have given me hundreds of hours of entertainment, wait a few months until they're on bargin and you're paying $30 for quite a bit (though there's a lot of crap out there too).
The Music Industry's prices have already been shown time and again to be the result of price fixing. Before they started fixing CD prices had dropped to 7-8 bucks for a short while. Read up on the case they just lost.
It's nice to have enough money to buy media at the current rip-off prices, but the current level of piracy is showing that people do NOT value what's currently being released and how it's being released (they're literally valueing it at $0).
whatever
I think this shows the main reason why they may actually get used by theatres; the "Cool! I get to play w/ night vision goggles!" effect
Actually most first world nations are signatories to a version of the Geneva Convention which applies to all forces, the US is one of the few which has not joined in this version...Which is why in the BBC article it states that Taliban fighters will be held to the Geneva Convention standards while Al-Qaeda fighters will not be.
/.
I'd give the actual version of the Convention and participating nations if my girlfriend wasn't gonna kill me for holding up dinner to post on
Could you also list the drawbacks?
From what I've heard though biodiesel is renewable it's also far more polluting in terms of exhaust;
though I most certainly would like to be wrong
Ha! I was ready for you! Back in my school days I wore hard sole jumpboots; you can't make them harder! ...gods I was stupid
That's from when computer's were made to last
I grew up on an old IBM 286, thing fell down the stairs twice! (thanks bro) Still runs fine. Makes me think of how Real Programers Don't Eat Quiche
You are a gentleman and a scholar and I salute you.
"I am Jennifer Lopez, I eat tacos and burritos." - Eric Cartman
I'm sorry, I guess this is offtopic, but ROFL
A minor point but size does figure in to your AC (unless one of the more recent rev's has bolloxed it all up) I'm not fully sure of where it states it (I don't really have time to be doing too much research, esp since I've not dealth w/ AD&D in a looooooong time)
...oh goddess I'm a dork...
pg 99 2nd Ed DMG does however mention size as having a major factor in ranged combat into a melee (not that anyone used this pain in the butt rule). And I know somewhere there's mention of a bonus/penalty to AC for some size differences...
Also, there's the simple element of, most really small things have a stupid low AC for the simple reason they're hard to hit (though they are rarely well armored) Whereas large things with low ACs are just hard to hurt (though easy to hit...but wailing on a dragon's toe isn't gonna do much now is it?)
A few pages later it also states that there is also an initiative bonus/penalty based on size also.
Overall, AD&D did make use of size, it's just that the rules themselves (like many AD&D rules) tended to be a bit obscure and more trouble than they were worth. Plus people often forget that AC was a combined "How hard to Hit" with "How hard to Hurt". It's one of those elements that shows how abstract and in need of a human storyteller most AD&D really is
-ikoL
Actually, if I recall correctly, the US is refusing to recognize the ICC because the court doesn't meet certain criteria put forth in the US Constitution, namely, it lacks a trial by jury. So the US can't legally let it's citizens be tried there. At least that's what my law professor said, though IAANL (just went to an austrian law school for a lil while...)
-ikoL
What's up with all the mechanical failures? Yeah, it's rough terrain, but we've been building human-powered vehicles that can handle it for decades! I'd think that keeping your engine going or your brakes from locking up would be the least "grand" part of the challenge.
I've seen this before in my robotics classes and a few of the articles I read about the challenge pointed out that one of the bigger challenges was not to get from point A to B but to get from point A to B without tearing itself to pieces along the way. Figuring out where you are and where you're going are trivial, finding the bump that's going to break your axle, or the hill that will burn out your breaks, those are much harder tasks (many humans still have trouble with that, esp. when they go off-road)
Plus, the time constraint of the challenge probably caused the designers to choose rather aggressive strategies with regards to how their 'bots would treat their bodies
If the US is ever again drawn into a conflict as large-scale as WW2 was, be sure that a draft will be put in place
If the US is ever again drawn into a conflict as large-scale as WW2 there won't be a draft because you can't draft nuclear sludge
I love my Al Lamy fountain pen too, :(
:'( Graz, I miss you
I use Fountain Pen Hospitalto get ink for it.
It does stink having to order it though;
I miss being able to pick some up on
Jakominiplatz on the way to the Uni though
You can in German also
Well, as I bought a Dell about two years ago and since have had no problems taking it in and out of the US (repeated trips into Austria as I've been studying there) I can tell you that you're wholly incorrect. When I bought it I checked that I could take it (which came with Win2k) abroad with me; Dell and US Customs had no problem with this so... whatever
::shrug::
Regarding the main question that started all this; go to amazon.de, I know the german amazon will ship pretty much anything pretty much anywhere, including Hungary. The same goes for most german versions of american sites that I've seen.
Now, I don't know about the Hungarian versions of said sites...you DO know Hungarian don't you? I hate when my fellow Americans go abroad and don't learn the local languages...if you don't, well then I think it's more a problem of the poster being USA-centric rather than the sites...
If I remember correctly, the full name for Nero is "Nero Burning ROM"
Well we could built an anti-computer out of anti-silicon, run anti-windows98 on it, then laugh when the whole thing explodes and blame it on microsoft :)
No, we'd blame anti-microsoft...ie Linux
Ummmmm, they basically do this already;
dunno, maybe you've not seen them but they now got these LCD screens on most of the long flights I've been on lately where
you can watch movies, play games, and see outside, and I was travellin' kickme class
This entire ADTI paper sounds just like something
an Ayn Rand villian would say, all conjectures,
FUD, no hard facts because you can fight facts
but how do you fight grey meaninglessness?
This world makes me sick
I wonder how much different it will be, and how us "old-timers" will deal with it.
Digital computing won't go away though, as the article mentions, quantum isn't good for many tasks. Most likely they'll come out with hybrid machines, a digital machine calling on the power of the quantum processor when needed. Sorta the way a gas-electric hybrid uses the better engine for a given speed. I'd think that you'd have a digital processor calling on a quantum one when the problem warrants it's power. Digital programmers'll write programs for the digital one and call the "quantum functions" via an API.
but then again I could be compleatly wrong
-ikoL
I think it's going a little too far to ask what
would happen if the US tried to "turn-off" the
internet, how about if it simply started massive
censoring operations?
Difficult yes, but as such systems as Carnivore
suggest there are steps being made...
If the US simply "turned it off" cutting the
internet out of the country entirely of course
the rest of the world would eventually
route around it, but in the case of censorship
I think there would be less demand and "pressing
need" There would be outcry but if such
systems were put in place slowly enough
I believe most people would accept them...
Maybe the US couldn't "kill" the internet,
but given some more time and tech, could it
control it???
-Ikol
I too am a stess tester but haven't found it as terrible as many have said...
Early on yeah the servers were down constantly but after a day or two they went up and I haven't found them down in quite a few days now.
Nor have I found lag to be a serious problem, I'm on a 56k and find the game often runs with little or no lag.
I will agree however that player killing is still a problem, not as bad as in the past but I'm once again seeing high level players hunting lower level ones for fun and profit. An extremely vexing practice. But as there is a bug/feature that allows you to switch worlds and your characters body will follow, which prevents such annoyances from stealing all the rare equiptment you've worked so long for. Hopefully this will reduce the profitability of player killing down to a point where people can actually play the game with those of other levels ("oh no! they're a level higher! they're going to kill me!!")
Otherwise I felt they added much to the game since the previous one. The skill tree system seems to work well (I can only judge from the barbarian however) and the experience bar helps you really keep track of how much further to the next level. The jog option really helps speed up travel time also.
ummm well, this ended up much longer than I intended...I'll go now...
-Ikol
Give users a chance to be quoted on the "Post Comment" screen. Two checkboxes saying "this can" or "this can NOT" be quoted in a different medium
You may also wish to add an "Ask me first" option, some may just not want to be quoted without knowing where their words are going