In other news: President Bush announced today that as part of his "No Government Agency Left Behind" plan, any agency that could not show marked improvement in performance within 16 weeks would be grounded, have its allowance withheld, and would not be allowed to go to Prom. In related developments, the NRC and NSF would like their lunch money back.
Oh, I dunno... Real nerds know that nothing is the world is sexier than a woman who is smarter than they are. First, we want to crib off their trig homework, then make wild, passionate love to them until she reluctantly asks if we can stop -- because Battlestar Galactica is coming on.
I have the same trouble... I get out of it by speeding through the commercials. Our DVD player lets you play at 2x, 4x and 8x, so they're passed in moments. Thank goodness the discs don't turn *that* feature off.
What you mean to say is, "The person who recommended this needs to have his or her employment opportunites redirected before his or her ideas continue to be validated in an open, constructive environment."
Wow. Stupid me. And here I thought that the idea behind law enforcment was -- heh -- to enforce the law. Not to tally your tax bill and let you buy your way out of prosecution.
So the richest 10% of the country pays 90% of the nation's tax bill -- we let them all off the hook for the crimes that only they can afford to perpetrate anyway?
The reason we can have R2D2 in a conversation is that there's someone else in it too, interpreting the negative linguistic space. Ditto with Chewie.
e.g.:
R2: Beep beep beepledee boop! C3PO: What do you mean, I prance around like a gay frenchman at a Ren fair?
Chewie has the additional advantage of being a biped with mobile arms and facial features, capable of exhibiting body language.
"Rawwwwrararar" + hug == "I am happy to see you out of carbonite encasement!" "Rawwwwrararar" + flailing arms == "I am angry at this negative power coupling!"
Other cues include voice pitch, speed, and inflection. Situational context helps too.
Agreed -- to a point. The tabletop rules can still be a bear to remember and apply appropriately. I played a 4 hour session of 3rd edition last weekend, and out of all that time, probably 2 1/2 hours of it was bookkeeping and rules consultation. Two minor battles and a pittance of dialog made up the rest.
Neverwinter Nights is fantastic for making combat *fast* and exciting. None of this pussy-footing around waiting for 5 other players wondering which square to step in to gain maximum advantage shit -- get in, put yourself where you'll think you'll do the most good, and the let the computer role the dice. Turn-based playing can be simulated with the pause key if you really need it, but most of the time "I swing -- do I hit?" is good enough.
A DM who is sufficiently nimble with the interface can take nothing but a landscape and a few stock characters (like shopkeepers) and turn it into a lush world that you'd never know wasn't scripted. I've seen it. It's amazing.
A DM who is sufficiently nimble with the rulebook can do the same thing in tabletop, but it may take longer.
Either way, I love tabletop and NWN both. I'd really like to get some good desktop machines, put them in a room, and do the roleplaying on the table while combat, shopping and other chart-heavy rules actions happen on NWN. That, my friends, sounds like a match to me.
I have to agree. The animationg was less a celebration of the 40th anniversary and more a digging up of your grandmother's corpse and skullfucking it. On Easter. In front of your 5 year old daughter.
Meanwhile, Big Finish has been pumping out some damn fine original radio drama material for years with Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy reprising their roles. Paul McGann has been involved too, and numerous companions come back as co-stars. Sir Derek Jacobi has even done a one-shot as the Doctor!
The BBC is absolutely the wrong outfit to depend on for a reprisal of the Doctor we all know and love. BBC policies drove the original series into the ground in the first place!
If we *must* have a new TV Doctor, can we get Phillip Hinchcliffe or one of that bunch to come back and produce it? Those middle years of Tom Baker's run were classic -- but for goodness sake, don't let John Nathan-Turner in on it.
"The whole idea behind these machines is that they are portable, so it made more sense to bring them to where you had the technology and the people to fix . . . these problems," Luca said.
Really?
I thought the whole idea behind the machines was that they would record and report votes accurately.
Something about that name was tickling my brain for a while before it settled in for me. It was the planet that the Doctor and Romana visited while looking for the 6th segment of the key to time. A propaganda-soaked, war-torn ruin of a world run by an insane military dictator.
Funny, that.
And now that I'm completely unvieled as a goober, I'll go away. Damn, I have having an itch like that in my head.
I'd love to give BSD a try. I downloaded FreeBSD 5.1 a few months ago and installed it, but lacking support for my wireless network card (Atheros chipset), I decided to put it off. I'm sure I could learn all about fetching drivers and recompiling the kernel and so on, but I have to admit I'm a little spoiled by Gentoo to take the trouble.:)
5.2 promises to have support. At that point, I'll be happy to give it a shot, though I don't know how long that will be...
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In other news: President Bush announced today that as part of his "No Government Agency Left Behind" plan, any agency that could not show marked improvement in performance within 16 weeks would be grounded, have its allowance withheld, and would not be allowed to go to Prom. In related developments, the NRC and NSF would like their lunch money back.
They installed emacs on the BIOS?
Oh, I dunno... Real nerds know that nothing is the world is sexier than a woman who is smarter than they are. First, we want to crib off their trig homework, then make wild, passionate love to them until she reluctantly asks if we can stop -- because Battlestar Galactica is coming on.
Thanks, Ernie Cline.
No, seriously... Pictures, anyone?
GMFTatsujin
Just put a RFID reciever in your hand. Every time you shake hands with someone -- cha-ching!
Hey, that'd be a great way for campaigning politicians to rack up the donations at a rally, hmm?
I have the same trouble... I get out of it by speeding through the commercials. Our DVD player lets you play at 2x, 4x and 8x, so they're passed in moments. Thank goodness the discs don't turn *that* feature off.
I *so* object.
What you mean to say is, "The person who recommended this needs to have his or her employment opportunites redirected before his or her ideas continue to be validated in an open, constructive environment."
Wow. Stupid me. And here I thought that the idea behind law enforcment was -- heh -- to enforce the law. Not to tally your tax bill and let you buy your way out of prosecution.
So the richest 10% of the country pays 90% of the nation's tax bill -- we let them all off the hook for the crimes that only they can afford to perpetrate anyway?
The reason we can have R2D2 in a conversation is that there's someone else in it too, interpreting the negative linguistic space. Ditto with Chewie.
e.g.:
R2: Beep beep beepledee boop!
C3PO: What do you mean, I prance around like a gay frenchman at a Ren fair?
Chewie has the additional advantage of being a biped with mobile arms and facial features, capable of exhibiting body language.
"Rawwwwrararar" + hug == "I am happy to see you out of carbonite encasement!"
"Rawwwwrararar" + flailing arms == "I am angry at this negative power coupling!"
Other cues include voice pitch, speed, and inflection. Situational context helps too.
*Girds for battle* America, here I come!
Oh, wait... I'm here.
Damn. Self-invaded again.
GMFTatsujin
Agreed -- to a point. The tabletop rules can still be a bear to remember and apply appropriately. I played a 4 hour session of 3rd edition last weekend, and out of all that time, probably 2 1/2 hours of it was bookkeeping and rules consultation. Two minor battles and a pittance of dialog made up the rest.
Neverwinter Nights is fantastic for making combat *fast* and exciting. None of this pussy-footing around waiting for 5 other players wondering which square to step in to gain maximum advantage shit -- get in, put yourself where you'll think you'll do the most good, and the let the computer role the dice. Turn-based playing can be simulated with the pause key if you really need it, but most of the time "I swing -- do I hit?" is good enough.
A DM who is sufficiently nimble with the interface can take nothing but a landscape and a few stock characters (like shopkeepers) and turn it into a lush world that you'd never know wasn't scripted. I've seen it. It's amazing.
A DM who is sufficiently nimble with the rulebook can do the same thing in tabletop, but it may take longer.
Either way, I love tabletop and NWN both. I'd really like to get some good desktop machines, put them in a room, and do the roleplaying on the table while combat, shopping and other chart-heavy rules actions happen on NWN. That, my friends, sounds like a match to me.
GMFTatsujin
I will have you know, sir, that I neither jerk my knee, not affiliate myself with hippies. Shame, sir, shame.
Which is odd, considering all the patches, locked-in app suites and huge upgrade fees that Microsoft routinely crams down its users' throats...
... and little black cats would never take more than three steps.
I stand corrected.
I have to agree. The animationg was less a celebration of the 40th anniversary and more a digging up of your grandmother's corpse and skullfucking it. On Easter. In front of your 5 year old daughter.
Meanwhile, Big Finish has been pumping out some damn fine original radio drama material for years with Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy reprising their roles. Paul McGann has been involved too, and numerous companions come back as co-stars. Sir Derek Jacobi has even done a one-shot as the Doctor!
The BBC is absolutely the wrong outfit to depend on for a reprisal of the Doctor we all know and love. BBC policies drove the original series into the ground in the first place!
If we *must* have a new TV Doctor, can we get Phillip Hinchcliffe or one of that bunch to come back and produce it? Those middle years of Tom Baker's run were classic -- but for goodness sake, don't let John Nathan-Turner in on it.
Ditto "Internet-Explored", "RealOned", "Gatored"...
There's that... or you can always take Bob the Angry Flower's approach...
I think *I* might be a property of Time/Warner. If then, then I'm a Clearchannel affiliate for sure.
The next review is in the works, but subscribers can beat the rush!
"The whole idea behind these machines is that they are portable, so it made more sense to bring them to where you had the technology and the people to fix . . . these problems," Luca said.
Really?
I thought the whole idea behind the machines was that they would record and report votes accurately.
Silly me.
GMFTatsujin
Anybody who kept their software up to date didn't run into any of those problems
I didn't think that #emerge -u world would make such a big difference to security, but I'm glad I'm in the habit.
Thanks, Bill!
In *2004*???
I'd been holding out on buying a MP3-enabled device until Microsoft put one out. Thank goodness the wait is almost* over!
GMFTatsujin
* For high values of "almost"
Something about that name was tickling my brain for a while before it settled in for me. It was the planet that the Doctor and Romana visited while looking for the 6th segment of the key to time. A propaganda-soaked, war-torn ruin of a world run by an insane military dictator.
Funny, that.
And now that I'm completely unvieled as a goober, I'll go away. Damn, I have having an itch like that in my head.
... but I get a little nervous when I look at a brochure for voting booths with product lines named "Edge" and "Advantage."
What's next? The "Backdoor" line?
I'd love to give BSD a try. I downloaded FreeBSD 5.1 a few months ago and installed it, but lacking support for my wireless network card (Atheros chipset), I decided to put it off. I'm sure I could learn all about fetching drivers and recompiling the kernel and so on, but I have to admit I'm a little spoiled by Gentoo to take the trouble. :)
5.2 promises to have support. At that point, I'll be happy to give it a shot, though I don't know how long that will be...