Hold on... why would there be no need to change a birthdate? It is highly possible that some data entry mistake could happen and you would need to amend a mistake. For example you could have an employee or customer who is used to MMDDYY using a system that is DDMMYY and need to fix that.
How much money do the American officials expect you to have on you? I remember the first time I flew to Las Vegas, I had a few hundred dollars and a some Euros, the official seemed suspicious, "is that all? Do you think that will be enough for your stay?" So I said "yeah, well, that's all the cash I have but I have my bank and credit cards so I mean technically I have all my money" which seemed to satisfy him.
Everytime I've flown to the States they've been interested in whether I have enough cash money for my stay.
No. Pompeii was destroyed by a pyroclastic flow, which is only a danger in the immediate vicinity of the eruption. The danger from Yellowstone is that it could blanket much of the continent with ash.
Well... my understanding is that Pompeii was covered in hot falling ash over a period of about 6 hours, Herculaneum was hit by pyroclastic flows.
If you learn to play while drunk you improve your skills while drunk but not while sober. In order to be good while sober you need to learn while sober. The fun part is that you learn lots of things while in different states. You learn to do something only while heavily caffeinated/drunk/high? Then it only comes to you easily while you are caffeinated, drunk or high... Caffeine and coding. Drink and darts.
... if someone tells you something is broken don't tell them that it was working earlier, say "I'll find out what's happening and get back to you ASAP" and maybe something like "... I should have been notified if it was a server crash, hopefully it's not too serious and we can get everything back in order a soon as possible, to minimise the downtime".
Never tell someone who comes to you with a problem that there is/was no problem.
And finally, I might have missed a good networking opportunity and party when I decided not to print out the invitation and go to a reunion for some M.Scs that had graduated before my parents had even met....
I just wonder what the legal implications would be if I "played along" for a while. Could I have plausible deniability by pretending to be a little obtuse and thinking that the e-mails really were meant for me...
Always go to things you are invited to! Do not pretend to be the person though:)
Always, always respond to them. Always be nice about it. Why? Well... last year I got yet another misaddressed email, and as usual I responded to it and the situation snowballed and some lovely people had a whip around and flew me from Ireland to Boston to go to the party to which they had accidentally invited me... Luckily I had a visa waiver still in place and had some spare vacation days... One of the craziest things to ever happen to me... I'm hard pressed to think of anything crazier. I met one of the fellows with the same name as me, ate some good food, met some great people... Thanks guys!
I was logged in! honest I was! The trip to Boston was great, I don't think I've ever felt so lucky or grateful... I see lots of people here saying things like "if it's not for you it's spam" and "log in to the service, change their password and change the email address"... To be honest I think these are jerk ass moves. If it's an honest mistake then you should try to help the person out. If it's important then you would want them to help you. Sure it's not a mistake you might make but you make other mistakes in life and it's handy when people catch them before the shit hits the fan... and not in a "Ha Ha! you made a mistake and now I can make you look bad" kind of way but in a "uh oh, this guy dropped his wallet with the only pictures of someone important, I'd better get it back to him"... There is always something that you'll need help with.
Fewer people needed, fewer people killed and less resource with each iteration.
Each cuise missile costs US$1,410,000 The battle ship to launch it from cost money and resources too... The cost of taking out that building with a cruise missile is say 1.5 million dollars.
1 building. And the missile can't decide just before it blows up "oh crap our intelligence was bad! This is a school!" but a team of humans can.
Not having to work does not mean not working, it means that you have the freedom to take risk-free risks... Let's say he takes the money plays with some of it (new car, puts aside money for a degree) and puts most of it in some sort of investment, and ends up with 100k a year after tax. He's 19, he can now go out secure in the knowledge that any project he takes on will not ruin him. Start a new company, go looking for venture capital, spend the year networking, new company fails? Damn... oh well looks like he still has a solid enough income to just try again. Spend the Summer chasing tail coming up with a new idea, try again in the winter, fail. Try again in spring, oh this time it worked, made another load of cash.
Set for life does not, should not mean never working again, it means having such an amazing safety net that even when you fail you are still able to live well enough to try again with out the danger of losing you home, having trouble affording food, ending up back in your parents basement in your 30s.
I swear to god
I've just heard a duck tell a joke
there was as group of ducks on a pond near where i live
one of the ducks was quacking away looking straight at a group of like 10 ducks
then he stopped and all the other ducks went mental
I assumed the OP meant a nice informative diagram rather than an actual image of the planets... the pretty artists rendition of a star and a planet doesn't do the complexity of the orbit any justice.
That's a very good point... People *should* link to the main article, but then the main article should be on one page, not spread over 5 pages and surrounded by massive piles of crud... also the print page still has adverts on it, so there is still some advertising revenue from your visit.
Of it can refer to the physically impenetrable Walls of Troy which were only breached through cunning trickery... Much like when she takes all your condoms and secretly pokes holes in them through the packaging so that she can have your baby... actually that's more likely to happen the other way round but anyway.
Well... He could state clearly that he is using it for his personal email as it is his name... and that he would sell it to them for a reasonable amount, but that for the first year(or more?) they would forward any/all mail sent to XYZ@DOMAIN.com (what ever address he has been using)...
This would allow him to receive any mail from people/companies that are slow to update their contact lists.
I'd say; reply and say you've been using it for personal mail for X number of years, you've never heard of them before they contacted you, it's your name but you would consider selling it for a reasonable amount but you are not sure what is reasonable... and you would need several addresses to be forwarded to you for a while to make sure that you don't lose any correspondence from people that have not updated there lists. You don't want to send mails from the address but you would need to receive them...
if you can insure 1,500 people at a single day event for $383 then you can insure 60 people at a lan party for less... probably not much less as but even at $200 for the event you would just need to charge and additional $3.5 to each person to cover it...
Hell go for the 1,500 people policy, it covers "Weddings And Receptions, Trade Shows, Concerts, Dances, Festivals, Conventions, Meetings, Graduations, etc." it would work out at $6.5 per person...
1500 People DANCING! at a wedding with booze, that's got to be at least as dangerous as a LAN, with 60 people sitting in chairs, banging on keyboards.
I presume slashdot UIDs don't get recycled... Do they?
If they don't then OP's account must be fairly old (checking old posts shows that by 1999 there are UIDs >30,000)... even if they were 15-16 at time of registration they would be ~25 now... Old enough to have a mortgage on a house...
Suppose somebody gets hurt? Are you ready to handle a big personal liability lawsuit?
I would NOT do what you are describing.
That's really disappointing... I've seen this argument stop lots of events from happening... Public Liability insurance is not expensive for this sort of affair... if you hold the event in a hotel or other such place then most straight forward issues could be covered by the hotels insurance...
Also, 20178 is pretty low... so your probably old enough to have actual assets worth suing over, where as students and younger people aren't as big a target. No assets, no point suing.
Carp were dangerous because they had the default bite and could drag the dwarfs into the water, where the dwarfs would get stunned and either get ripped a part of drown... also due to an over sight they constantly gained stat bonuses from swimming all the time and ended up stupidly strong, but that's fixed now.
Play it... The learning curve isn't too bad if you've played a rogue-like or two. First hurdle is the ASCII like graphics (actually openGL tiles), this puts most people off but if you've played nethack, angband or what ever then you're used to it all ready.
The controls seem a little hard to pick up, there are for example a few different 'look' keys, 'v' for Viewing creatures, 'k' for looKing at objects/terrain, 'q' for looking at and controlling buildings, and 't' for looking at iTems that might be IN the building.
It's not clear at first why this is the case, once you get used to it, it starts to make sense, there's a lot of information to dig out, but why the developer picked those keys is sill a mystery to me.
The game is still in alpha, there are new features arriving all the time and there are only so many keys.
A revamp of the interface is listed as things to fix. Along with a whole mess of features.
Slashdot Mirror
Hold on... why would there be no need to change a birthdate? It is highly possible that some data entry mistake could happen and you would need to amend a mistake. For example you could have an employee or customer who is used to MMDDYY using a system that is DDMMYY and need to fix that.
How much money do the American officials expect you to have on you?
I remember the first time I flew to Las Vegas, I had a few hundred dollars and a some Euros, the official seemed suspicious, "is that all? Do you think that will be enough for your stay?"
So I said "yeah, well, that's all the cash I have but I have my bank and credit cards so I mean technically I have all my money" which seemed to satisfy him.
Everytime I've flown to the States they've been interested in whether I have enough cash money for my stay.
isnt this what happened in pompeii?
No. Pompeii was destroyed by a pyroclastic flow, which is only a danger in the immediate vicinity of the eruption. The danger from Yellowstone is that it could blanket much of the continent with ash.
Well... my understanding is that Pompeii was covered in hot falling ash over a period of about 6 hours, Herculaneum was hit by pyroclastic flows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
State Dependent Memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
If you learn to play while drunk you improve your skills while drunk but not while sober.
In order to be good while sober you need to learn while sober.
The fun part is that you learn lots of things while in different states.
You learn to do something only while heavily caffeinated/drunk/high? Then it only comes to you easily while you are caffeinated, drunk or high...
Caffeine and coding.
Drink and darts.
... if someone tells you something is broken don't tell them that it was working earlier, say "I'll find out what's happening and get back to you ASAP" and maybe something like "... I should have been notified if it was a server crash, hopefully it's not too serious and we can get everything back in order a soon as possible, to minimise the downtime".
Never tell someone who comes to you with a problem that there is/was no problem.
Why are the cranky ones so often wrong?
http://grammarist.com/usage/ar...
And finally, I might have missed a good networking opportunity and party when I decided not to print out the invitation and go to a reunion for some M.Scs that had graduated before my parents had even met....
I just wonder what the legal implications would be if I "played along" for a while. Could I have plausible deniability by pretending to be a little obtuse and thinking that the e-mails really were meant for me...
Always go to things you are invited to! :)
Do not pretend to be the person though
I was logged in! honest I was!
The trip to Boston was great, I don't think I've ever felt so lucky or grateful...
I see lots of people here saying things like "if it's not for you it's spam" and "log in to the service, change their password and change the email address"...
To be honest I think these are jerk ass moves.
If it's an honest mistake then you should try to help the person out.
If it's important then you would want them to help you.
Sure it's not a mistake you might make but you make other mistakes in life and it's handy when people catch them before the shit hits the fan...
and not in a "Ha Ha! you made a mistake and now I can make you look bad" kind of way but in a "uh oh, this guy dropped his wallet with the only pictures of someone important, I'd better get it back to him"...
There is always something that you'll need help with.
Each cuise missile costs US$1,410,000
The battle ship to launch it from cost money and resources too...
The cost of taking out that building with a cruise missile is say 1.5 million dollars.
1 building.
And the missile can't decide just before it blows up "oh crap our intelligence was bad! This is a school!" but a team of humans can.
set for life means not having to work a job.
Not having to work does not mean not working, it means that you have the freedom to take risk-free risks...
Let's say he takes the money plays with some of it (new car, puts aside money for a degree) and puts most of it in some sort of investment, and ends up with 100k a year after tax.
He's 19, he can now go out secure in the knowledge that any project he takes on will not ruin him.
Start a new company, go looking for venture capital, spend the year networking, new company fails?
Damn... oh well looks like he still has a solid enough income to just try again.
Spend the Summer chasing tail coming up with a new idea, try again in the winter, fail.
Try again in spring, oh this time it worked, made another load of cash.
Set for life does not, should not mean never working again, it means having such an amazing safety net that even when you fail you are still able to live well enough to try again with out the danger of losing you home, having trouble affording food, ending up back in your parents basement in your 30s.
I wish I hadn't gone to bed early last night...
Here's a little video from Ireland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6BZF8dhYJI
I have a copy of (most of) 0th edition at home (the "little brown books" that came out before Basic).
And if it's made from animal hide, it's vellum, not parchment.
parchment = skin (of various animals).
vellum = high quality skin (of various animals).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum
Clearly you don't read enough bash.org
http://bash.org/?334762
I swear to god
I've just heard a duck tell a joke
there was as group of ducks on a pond near where i live
one of the ducks was quacking away looking straight at a group of like 10 ducks
then he stopped and all the other ducks went mental
I assumed the OP meant a nice informative diagram rather than an actual image of the planets... the pretty artists rendition of a star and a planet doesn't do the complexity of the orbit any justice.
That's a very good point...
People *should* link to the main article, but then the main article should be on one page, not spread over 5 pages and surrounded by massive piles of crud... also the print page still has adverts on it, so there is still some advertising revenue from your visit.
Of it can refer to the physically impenetrable Walls of Troy which were only breached through cunning trickery...
Much like when she takes all your condoms and secretly pokes holes in them through the packaging so that she can have your baby... actually that's more likely to happen the other way round but anyway.
And what was this game called?
From An mBunreacht Na hÉireann, The Constitution of Ireland
Airteagal 4
Éire is ainm don Stát nó, sa Sacs-Bhéarla, Ireland.
Article 4
The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland.
It also wants to Enhance My Browsing Experience by installing a browser tool bar... yippy
Well... He could state clearly that he is using it for his personal email as it is his name... and that he would sell it to them for a reasonable amount, but that for the first year(or more?) they would forward any/all mail sent to XYZ@DOMAIN.com (what ever address he has been using)...
This would allow him to receive any mail from people/companies that are slow to update their contact lists.
I'd say; reply and say you've been using it for personal mail for X number of years, you've never heard of them before they contacted you, it's your name but you would consider selling it for a reasonable amount but you are not sure what is reasonable ... and you would need several addresses to be forwarded to you for a while to make sure that you don't lose any correspondence from people that have not updated there lists. You don't want to send mails from the address but you would need to receive them...
Even if he was charging I don't think that it would work out the same way...
Take a look at this insurer for example...
http://www.sadlersports.com/specialeventinsurance/index.html
if you can insure 1,500 people at a single day event for $383 then you can insure 60 people at a lan party for less... probably not much less as but even at $200 for the event you would just need to charge and additional $3.5 to each person to cover it...
Hell go for the 1,500 people policy, it covers "Weddings And Receptions, Trade Shows, Concerts, Dances, Festivals, Conventions, Meetings, Graduations, etc." it would work out at $6.5 per person...
1500 People DANCING! at a wedding with booze, that's got to be at least as dangerous as a LAN, with 60 people sitting in chairs, banging on keyboards.
I presume slashdot UIDs don't get recycled... Do they?
If they don't then OP's account must be fairly old (checking old posts shows that by 1999 there are UIDs >30,000)... even if they were 15-16 at time of registration they would be ~25 now...
Old enough to have a mortgage on a house...
That's really disappointing ... I've seen this argument stop lots of events from happening...
Public Liability insurance is not expensive for this sort of affair...
if you hold the event in a hotel or other such place then most straight forward issues could be covered by the hotels insurance...
Also, 20178 is pretty low... so your probably old enough to have actual assets worth suing over, where as students and younger people aren't as big a target.
No assets, no point suing.
Carp were dangerous because they had the default bite and could drag the dwarfs into the water, where the dwarfs would get stunned and either get ripped a part of drown... also due to an over sight they constantly gained stat bonuses from swimming all the time and ended up stupidly strong, but that's fixed now.
Small fish are considered vermin and don't appear as creatures on the map as such...
These are the sort of carp that appear on the map
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/07/21/worlds-largest-260-pound-carp/
Don't forget that dwarfs are smaller than humans.
What's really frightening is undead carp that crawl onto the land... their gills having long rotted away they do not asphyxiate like living fish...
Play it...
The learning curve isn't too bad if you've played a rogue-like or two.
First hurdle is the ASCII like graphics (actually openGL tiles), this puts most people off but if you've played nethack, angband or what ever then you're used to it all ready.
The controls seem a little hard to pick up, there are for example a few different 'look' keys, 'v' for Viewing creatures, 'k' for looKing at objects/terrain, 'q' for looking at and controlling buildings, and 't' for looking at iTems that might be IN the building.
It's not clear at first why this is the case, once you get used to it, it starts to make sense, there's a lot of information to dig out, but why the developer picked those keys is sill a mystery to me.
The game is still in alpha, there are new features arriving all the time and there are only so many keys.
A revamp of the interface is listed as things to fix. Along with a whole mess of features.
Strike the earth!
Losing is fun!
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Losing