I don't know... it's an interesting reminder. I'll peruse the release notes that the other poster gave a link to, but really... the only reason I'm not excited about a new release is because everything in 9.04 is working right for me.
Yahoo shouldn't have to apologize. They only reason they are apologizing is because people are complaining, but as you rightfully point out, people shouldn't be complaining to begin with.
I agree with you 100%. I haven't played since before my college days (my HS friends and I all went to different colleges... and the college kids where I ended up were "too cool" to play... or, maybe I just could find the right ones). Now we're talking almost 25 years.
So I started getting interested again, hoping that my son would become interested. When 4E was released last year, I bought all the main books and some extras, the first level adventure, and then... and then it was like trying to run through molasses. He's only ten, and he and his friend were completely bored, even doing the fun part of creating a character... which used to take maybe 30 minutes, at MOST, and was a lot of fun as you had your gold pieces and just equipped your guy.
I'm thinking we're going to just slug through it from now on with graph paper, like we used to... the great thing about graph paper and actually writing on it is that it gives the players perspective of where they are in relation to other things (like the exit), but I'm not so sure yet. I do know I'd like to see a lot more automation in creating characters, and was thinking of just rolling my own... but who's got the time?
Good point... better informed is better than legislation demanding anything of anybody (except to be truthful in advertising, especially energy efficiency).
I would have preferred an independent, non-government organization did it (UL, CU, or some group like them), but you can't have everything.
No, no, no. This is *not* the way to apply computing to roleplaying.
Laughing... my first thought on looking at the demo was "all the boredom of the real thing."
Ok, on a serious note, I'm an old timer, and I really dislike the new D I think around the first AD&D they hit a the mark between complexity (simulating reality) and playability... that's just my tastes, I know others like the newer systems, and I have no problem with that, but it seems to me that slim is right... a system like this should allow you to keep the complexity, but make it work a lot more smoothly.
If you like rolling dice so much, perhaps a computerized version of the game is pointless.
The problem is that California is so large, manufacturers are not going to make a CA TV and a rest-of-the-world TV; neither will they stop selling there.
So, the problem is that even if the TV ends up costing only a few dollars more, it costs a few dollars more for EVERYONE.
False dichotomy... it's not like either you live in the biggest most densely packed city or you're screwed, you simply need to live in an area where it's profitable for a company to do business.
There's a second false dichotomy in your post, too... that either some big mega conglomerate offers you service, or you get nothing. A lot of people still use well water, for crying out loud (and it's better than the chlorinated crap many large cities have), and many even use windmills and generators for their electricity. Here's the thing - that makes electricity cost more for them, as they have made the decision to continue living in an area that would actually cost utilities to provide service to as opposed to making them money. Furthermore there are local providers who do charge more for their services because it costs them more.
The problem is requiring everyone else to subsidize someone else's standard of living. Yes, I realize they do it now, I realize the government hands over billions of dollars and what do we get? Inferior service compared to most other first world countries. Maybe if profit from customers actually became more of a motive by having the government actually stay out of it, some companies would step up to offer better service, but then you actually have to (gasp!) support capitalism.
I don't see why the concept is so difficult to understand... you provide a service; you're happy, your customers are happy... then the government steps in and declares your service to be a "right," and requires you to provide it to everybody regardless of the cost to yourself. Sounds great when you're talking about "evil," "greedy" mega company, doesn't sound so great applied to you. It sounds even worse when it's applied to a luxury like broadband.
And really, it depends what the site says. Click here to see: "some" reviews, "selected" reviews, any number of ways to word it so as to be misleading, but nice and legal.
Now we're about the same, except we're a melting pot of xenophobes (maybe not at the citizen level, but definitely at the administrative/political level.
That's such crap. Illegal immigration IS A PROBLEM, believe it or not, but the higher safety measures are in place since 9/11, not because we've suddenly become xenophobes any more than we were before (as citizens or government).
I agree the process sucks and doesn't help anything but piss off honest people who want to visit here, you'll get no argument from me, it's like VRM (visitor rights management) instead of DRM - the dishonest people get around it anyway, and end up having a much easier time than the people who try to do things the "legal" way.
I wondering (no kindle experience) if you can highlight, too. It seems easy enough to implement.
As far as virtual dog-ears (or stickies), I'd imagine something like when an option dialog has too many tabs and you can just run your finger over them with your labels popping up...
It is touch screen, isn't it? It really doesn't seem too bad to me. I think, for the benefits (cost and weight) I'd just deal.
The only downside I can think of is you can't resell it (or can you?), but that wouldn't be much of an issue if it were already significantly cheaper as an e-book, and most textbook publishers use that excuse to charge the exorbitant fees... huge books with limited runs (hey, these aren't best sellers).
No, it can be nukes; we can say what we want, we can refuse to sell them anything, whatever... if they do it on their own, we have no authority over them.
I still can't agree... at any moment, any of the nations with nuclear weapons could go "rogue."
Perhaps every few generations is going to need a disaster to remind us why we haven't used them.
Moreover, along the "children" analogy again, Iran is not our one of our children; that's the problem with the analogy. We can tell them they can't play with us, but we can't tell them they can't play at all.
Still, to further your analogy, we can tell them they can't play in our game, but we have no authority to tell them they can't start their own.
You can all be optimistic if you want, but one day every nation on earth will have a nuclear weapon, and there are too many loose cannons to not have something bad happen.
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That's what I was wondering. What about Iran?
I'm a fence sitter on this; I don't want them to have Nuclear Weapons, but I don't see how, as a country with thousands of them, we have any right to dictate their policy.
I have had about equal success in both windows and linux.
Me too. Frankly, it shocked me when Ubuntu "just worked" and Windows didn't, but it's happened. I'd really come to expect the opposite to happen, to be honest... I've used Linux off and on for years, but Ubuntu finally made me a full time user.
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I don't know... it's an interesting reminder. I'll peruse the release notes that the other poster gave a link to, but really... the only reason I'm not excited about a new release is because everything in 9.04 is working right for me.
I'm a self proclaimed libertarian, and FOSS certainly does fit within my ideologies, although net neutrality doesn't.
Free demo... and free if you subscribe.
You're right.
Yahoo shouldn't have to apologize. They only reason they are apologizing is because people are complaining, but as you rightfully point out, people shouldn't be complaining to begin with.
I agree with you 100%. I haven't played since before my college days (my HS friends and I all went to different colleges... and the college kids where I ended up were "too cool" to play... or, maybe I just could find the right ones). Now we're talking almost 25 years.
So I started getting interested again, hoping that my son would become interested. When 4E was released last year, I bought all the main books and some extras, the first level adventure, and then... and then it was like trying to run through molasses. He's only ten, and he and his friend were completely bored, even doing the fun part of creating a character... which used to take maybe 30 minutes, at MOST, and was a lot of fun as you had your gold pieces and just equipped your guy.
I'm thinking we're going to just slug through it from now on with graph paper, like we used to... the great thing about graph paper and actually writing on it is that it gives the players perspective of where they are in relation to other things (like the exit), but I'm not so sure yet. I do know I'd like to see a lot more automation in creating characters, and was thinking of just rolling my own... but who's got the time?
Good point... better informed is better than legislation demanding anything of anybody (except to be truthful in advertising, especially energy efficiency).
I would have preferred an independent, non-government organization did it (UL, CU, or some group like them), but you can't have everything.
No, no, no. This is *not* the way to apply computing to roleplaying.
Laughing... my first thought on looking at the demo was "all the boredom of the real thing."
Ok, on a serious note, I'm an old timer, and I really dislike the new D I think around the first AD&D they hit a the mark between complexity (simulating reality) and playability... that's just my tastes, I know others like the newer systems, and I have no problem with that, but it seems to me that slim is right... a system like this should allow you to keep the complexity, but make it work a lot more smoothly.
If you like rolling dice so much, perhaps a computerized version of the game is pointless.
The problem is that California is so large, manufacturers are not going to make a CA TV and a rest-of-the-world TV; neither will they stop selling there.
So, the problem is that even if the TV ends up costing only a few dollars more, it costs a few dollars more for EVERYONE.
Agreed, to a large extent; what surprises me is this:
California could avoid the $600-million cost of building a natural-gas-fired power plant, says Ken Rider, a commission staff engineer.
With all of California's power problems, it's incredibly short sighted. Is the population not increasing? Are they not building new homes?
False dichotomy... it's not like either you live in the biggest most densely packed city or you're screwed, you simply need to live in an area where it's profitable for a company to do business.
There's a second false dichotomy in your post, too... that either some big mega conglomerate offers you service, or you get nothing. A lot of people still use well water, for crying out loud (and it's better than the chlorinated crap many large cities have), and many even use windmills and generators for their electricity. Here's the thing - that makes electricity cost more for them, as they have made the decision to continue living in an area that would actually cost utilities to provide service to as opposed to making them money. Furthermore there are local providers who do charge more for their services because it costs them more.
The problem is requiring everyone else to subsidize someone else's standard of living. Yes, I realize they do it now, I realize the government hands over billions of dollars and what do we get? Inferior service compared to most other first world countries. Maybe if profit from customers actually became more of a motive by having the government actually stay out of it, some companies would step up to offer better service, but then you actually have to (gasp!) support capitalism.
I don't see why the concept is so difficult to understand... you provide a service; you're happy, your customers are happy... then the government steps in and declares your service to be a "right," and requires you to provide it to everybody regardless of the cost to yourself. Sounds great when you're talking about "evil," "greedy" mega company, doesn't sound so great applied to you. It sounds even worse when it's applied to a luxury like broadband.
Nevertheless, there's still a LOT more to cover in the U.S. and a LOT more people living farther from the cities than in Finland.
If this story were about Canada, you might be able to whine that the U.S. hasn't done it.
On the other hand, declaring broadband a "right" goes against pretty much everything I believe.
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Oh no they don't.
And really, it depends what the site says. Click here to see: "some" reviews, "selected" reviews, any number of ways to word it so as to be misleading, but nice and legal.
Now we're about the same, except we're a melting pot of xenophobes (maybe not at the citizen level, but definitely at the administrative/political level.
That's such crap. Illegal immigration IS A PROBLEM, believe it or not, but the higher safety measures are in place since 9/11, not because we've suddenly become xenophobes any more than we were before (as citizens or government).
I agree the process sucks and doesn't help anything but piss off honest people who want to visit here, you'll get no argument from me, it's like VRM (visitor rights management) instead of DRM - the dishonest people get around it anyway, and end up having a much easier time than the people who try to do things the "legal" way.
All you're really saying is they should not be able to advertise it as "unlimited."
Laughing...
I was wondering the same thing; actually, I just thought "how do they know if you really are dead?"
But I don't think artificial heart recipients should be drinking themselves into stupors, and if they are they probably have a death wish anyway.
Moreover, if you don't try to prevent copying, they should upgrade it to their newest technologies as time goes by.
I don't expect the video tape I bought 25 years ago to be useful forever, but I should be able to copy it to DVD... then BluRay.
I should be, anyway.
I wondering (no kindle experience) if you can highlight, too. It seems easy enough to implement.
As far as virtual dog-ears (or stickies), I'd imagine something like when an option dialog has too many tabs and you can just run your finger over them with your labels popping up...
It is touch screen, isn't it? It really doesn't seem too bad to me. I think, for the benefits (cost and weight) I'd just deal.
The only downside I can think of is you can't resell it (or can you?), but that wouldn't be much of an issue if it were already significantly cheaper as an e-book, and most textbook publishers use that excuse to charge the exorbitant fees... huge books with limited runs (hey, these aren't best sellers).
No, it can be nukes; we can say what we want, we can refuse to sell them anything, whatever... if they do it on their own, we have no authority over them.
I still can't agree... at any moment, any of the nations with nuclear weapons could go "rogue."
Perhaps every few generations is going to need a disaster to remind us why we haven't used them.
Moreover, along the "children" analogy again, Iran is not our one of our children; that's the problem with the analogy. We can tell them they can't play with us, but we can't tell them they can't play at all.
Still, to further your analogy, we can tell them they can't play in our game, but we have no authority to tell them they can't start their own.
You can all be optimistic if you want, but one day every nation on earth will have a nuclear weapon, and there are too many loose cannons to not have something bad happen.
That's what I was wondering. What about Iran?
I'm a fence sitter on this; I don't want them to have Nuclear Weapons, but I don't see how, as a country with thousands of them, we have any right to dictate their policy.
It's like the "do these jeans make my ass look big?" question... no, you're big ass makes your ass look big.
Do these posts erode public trust in the department? No, the department erodes public trust in the department.
I have had about equal success in both windows and linux.
Me too. Frankly, it shocked me when Ubuntu "just worked" and Windows didn't, but it's happened. I'd really come to expect the opposite to happen, to be honest... I've used Linux off and on for years, but Ubuntu finally made me a full time user.
No... that's what I mean; it's not two, it's one netbook that you use as two (unless I misunderstand what you're saying).
There are netbook "packages" that include carrying cases and DVD drives, but I haven't seen one with everything.