I tried Pathfinder and it wasn't really a change. They still try to solve overcomplicated rules by adding more rules.
I didn't notice that with one of the complex rule sections, which would be combat. Pathfinder mostly left base combat unchanged, thus it remains just as complex in figuring out Attacks of Opportunity (there's still a table showing a list of distracting acts), The attack/full-attack dichotomy (my most recent DM didn't know the rules here), the wolves' trip ability, etc.
While they did a start and had some common abilities used by monsters, the DM didn't really look at them, and instead used his own interpretation. For example, Fast Healing 5 incorrectly caused the monster to regain 5 health whenever it was injured.
Regardless, it's just like the other old RPGs that need a rules cleanup (or at the least, other D&D editions.)
There's plenty of royalty free music around, no worry about licensing even when the song is correctly identified by an algorithm, and even in the unrealistic case where the algorithm can detect remixes of existing songs.
It can be pubic domain from copyright expiry, because the author decided so, or otherwise be close enough to public domain that there's no need to worry (e.g. Creative Commons license)
If I press alt-f4 I don't want you to ask me whether I am sure I'd like to quit
This is acceptable, just in case some multiplayer troll says that this combination is a menu that activates cheats, options, or some other valid reason. (Perhaps the user forgot to save the game, etc.)
True, an MMO could run on a single computer with a single player. However, MMOs are supposed to be massively multiplayer with perhaps 1500+ people playing at once, sometimes having 40+ people in a local area for a raid, along with the need to ensure that the servers never go offline (thus needing redundancies, etc.), which becomes the expensive part of maintaining the service. They also need multiple server admins that handle day-to-day problems with accounts (including data corruption, scams, etc.) and a creative team to keep the content fresh if necessary.
A random private server may replicate gameplay, but lacks the commercial-grade redundancy that ensures that multiplayer still works when there's one major failure. Thus the random minecraft server can suddenly stop for practically any reason. In exchange, one can switch to a different private server and still play the same game (at most, they may need to export/import/rebuild the character for an MMO).
The scam bit is locking down multiplayer rather than allowing private servers, something that's also happening to some games that previously worked on LAN. The best option against that is pushing back by making a large number of non-server-locked games available (and there's still plenty of free ones around, either board games or computer ones.)
Said supreme court case mentions that you are incorrect, giving 15 U. S. C. Â1226(a)(2) as an example of a valid law that overrides mandatory arbitration via the saving clause. Other laws may also exist, but need not be listed here.
For reference, that supreme court case relates to the mandatory arbitration clause in combination with the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. Â 157), and mentions that the NLRA didn't have a clause that prohibits mandatory arbitration.
Since that case, the Supreme court ruled against forced arbitrarion: https://www.pe.com/2019/01/15/... - specifically that the question on whether or not the forced arbitration applied was a role for the courts and not private arbitrators.
Minor details of a contract, such as mandatory arbitration, aren't relevant if there's already a material breach. In this case, it's declaring that the contract is worthless in its entirety.
Also, some locations are stating those clauses are unenforceable, whether it interferes with the right to use the court system, whether it's a one-sided clause, or for any other reason.
Nothing is stopping the police from brute forcing the password.
Some phones, such as some older Blackberry models, do a factory reset if the password is misentered too many times. This prevents brute force in most circumstances, because extracting the data otherwise requires an expensive technology forensics lab.
They still have unlimited attempts once they copy the phone.
When it was first released, the same type of security problems that related to browsers automatically executing whatever code gets shoved down it's mouth.
Not that it's specific to Java, because it was a very wild west with how browsers handled security.
I seem to recall the ACA being pretty expensive over 10 years
Plenty of other countries have something similar, yet still do so more cheaply than in the US. Whatever is causing it to be expensive is specific to the good old USA.
Building a wall is a ONE TIME expense.
The Berlin Wall needed more than just that one time expense. For it to be useful, the wall needed patrols, maintenance crews, and political clout to ensure it didn't get dismantled by a mob - all of which have a continuous expense. Should it last long enough or otherwise becomes historically important, it becomes a historical structure and requires special crews designed to manage them, creating a further expense. If it's an eyesore, a future government needs an expense to take it down (or at the very least, the manpower expense of people who could have been doing something better.)
Not to mention that the wall itself is an ongoing expense because it represents that the USA isn't as good of a trading partner as it used to be.
IF you are all upset over Trump trying to come back to congress for more wall funding, fund the whole thing, ONCE.
Trump made a campaign promise that Mexico would fund the wall.
. employees had more than 60 days' warning that this was extremely likely to happen,
The flipside is that the employers also had more than 60 days to make sure that it wouldn't happen. In fact, they had decades to do so.
The USA is adjacent to another country which doesn't have shutdown panics at all. This is handled by two methods - first is that the governor can issue warrants from the treasury to ensure that public employees get paid, and second is that failing to pass a budget is known as a non-confidence motion and causes a new election so that the replacement government can fix things.
Then hurry up with the universal payment system that works in all situations. It's trivial to make for such a Very(tm) Smart(tm) person such as yourself.
Just because one company lets you pay with cash, doesn't mean every other company is required to.
Irrelevant. You wanted to know if I could pay a phone bill with cash, and I can do so because my provider accepts cash. How other companies behave, including other phone companies, is their own business.
Those phone companies can survive with non-cash payment methods because there's plenty of time to make those payments. Retail stores do not have this luxury, and should expect what will happen when there's an issue with the credit/debit card.
There is an extra burden to them with cash: the cash in the tills need to be reconciled (counted, checked with total that the till thinks it should be) at the end of the day and then taken to a bank.
Paycards also have a burden associated with them. A quick glance is a 0.13% fee for all transactions, plus $0.0195 per credit card authorizations, a Kilobyte access fee, and plenty of other fees that likewise would appear on a cash transaction. The only difference is that it's directly deducted from the amount the company received rather than having someone count and transport the money.
Regardless of payment method, there's also an overhead to ensure that things are correctly handled for tax purposes.
It's also still easy to handle cash, since vendors were able to handle that for centuries.
Trivially done, I walk into the phone store where I got my phone, and give them cash. They still have a cash register in the front and a safe in the back, as per every normal store. It's not like they're an internet-only company that doesn't have a physical means to receive cash.
Want to know what happens whenever there's an outage, similar to what happened with the three tornado cluster this year? E-payment only stores can't get income even if they're otherwise able to operate.
Whether or not the five sentence paragraph or the five paragraph essay are useful, my exposure to it was a poor explanation on how it was to be done. It also only appeared in one grade, never to be used again aside from the infrequent mention of it. It also resulted in text that felt rigid compared to conventional writing.
How it was explained: The five paragraph essay is a composite of five sentence paragraphs. The first paragraph is the intro (which lists the three points covered in the next three sentences), paragraphs 2-4 each describe one of the three points, and paragraph 5 is the conclusion that relists the three supporting points. Each five sentence paragraph is similar - first is the intro, the next three are supporting, and final is the conclusion (or transition in case of the five paragraph essay.)
The result was that I had to shoehorn more content into the essay, because it was also explained that each example should be independent from each other, but related to the paragraph. This brings the total from 3 examples to 12 examples, and it will grow exponentially if this is extended into a five essay chapter (48 examples), or a five chapter book (192 examples).
Writing normally means I can instead put as many examples as needed without having to stuff excessive examples in a fractal pattern. While the five paragraph essay could have been the same, it wasn't the case in how it was explained.
There's still other ways of doing tests without sending people into harm's way. Automobile crash tests have often used crash test dummies rather than live persons, and I'm sure parachute drop tests can do the same as well.
Easiest way is to purchase a force sensor that works for impacts.
This first test involves something the lab boys call 'repulsion gel.' You're not part of the control group, by the way. You get the gel. Last poor son of a gun got blue paint. Hahaha. All joking aside, that did happen â" broke every bone in his legs. Tragic. But informative. Or so I'm told. --Cave Johnson
Meanwhile, the researchers didn't produce anything new, similar "research" was done in the past where researchers didn't know how strings worked in Java.
This can sometimes take at least a few hours. Especially because the downloads are usually slow and the rendering itself can take a couple hours, because I started making all my uploads in HD instead of 480p to give them a little extra clarity."
So, the shows themselves are in ~480p, and the uploader thinks it looks better if converted over to HD? Wasn't there a recent post here saying how upscaling HD causes distortion in the properly made film?
Plus can't the uploader use the computer to do something else while the encoding proceeds? It's not like it's being encoded on a uni-tasking operating system like MS-DOS.
Nuclear proliferation, or the rights of the poor? Clean drinking water, or stopping human/animal trafficking? AIDS or Lung Cancer?
Get enough people, and you can divide them into teams to tackle each issue. Perhaps those teams could be termed as "organizations".
One organization keeps track of nuclear proliferation. One organization assists the rights of the poor. One organization figures out means for clean drinking water. One organization stops human/animal trafficking. One organization does medical research towards HIV. One organization does medical research towards Lung Cancer.
There's enough people around that all these social problems can be tackled in parallel, perhaps even recruiting the various unemployed people who have trouble finding a job.
When there's just 1 war, you know where to enlist.
If only there was an organization that helped with that too.
The video of the two people talking wasn't actually convincing, because it sounds as if the film maker is trying to say that the retro-effect of 24FPS is good, and that all movies should be like that.
Instead, there should have been a slight demonstration of what goes wrong with interpolation, such as a quick show about how things get distorted, and how it can make things look a little off.
When it comes to laptops, there's not as much of a choice. If a buyer needs a laptop, it's unlikely that they'll build their own, and thus they have to rely on brand-name equipment.
Around that time, the major brands had pre-installed garbage that slows down computers or otherwise send telemetry. The question is by how much, rather than which ones.
Cashless has a big risk - it takes one outage, and the restaurant can't get income.
When I went to a fast food restaurant that had an outage with their credit card system, the cashiers seemed to know what to do, and were keeping a ledger on pen and paper. Perhaps slightly slower and has less payment options, but they can still do business.
More recently, there was a set of tornadoes that took out power over a large area. While most business had to be closed, any business that relied on cashless can't attempt to do business because the cashless systems require power.
People always correct what they said, provide links to their new video about a topic or whatever.
If only there was a place where they could write some text to provide some errata. Maybe it could be placed below the video, perhaps after the major title, and account that uploaded the video... placing it before the comments...
It would be quite a useful feature if it were implemented./s
But really, I've seen obnoxious use of annotations outnumber the proper use.
No one ever told me to look at the padlock, and I never told anyone to look at the padlock.
I don't have to look at the padlock, but when I do, I've often seen the word "Secure" right next to it, even when I know it is not the case. Browsers blindly plopped that word on any HTTPS page, giving a false user impression for anyone who randomly glances in that general direction.
The "https" system was basically announced as secure since ~1995, originally via popups. This implied that it's secure in that you aren't going to get phished, have content tampered, etc. While the notification changed from a big popup over to an icon in the status bar, I still consider it a big issue when it's misrepresented as secure.
If you don't check the domain it's pointless.
Still won't help, one just needs the domains that uses unicode characters that look like English letters, or simply have a typo similar to switching "l" and "I" around. This requires going back and forth between the browser and some external program to check the text, and eventually causes the user to become bored of this excessive verification.
Or worse, a punycode domain that looked like apple.com - something that was a problem with Google Chrome previously.
With HTTPS being prevalent, it's not difficult for ISPs to have an install disk that sets up your computer for optimal browsing (i.e. installs a root certificate that tricks browsers into accepting intercepted HTTPS content.)
It probably already happened with SuperFish and Lenovo.
Actually, third party scripts can't trigger a redirect. It's part of the standard.
I've had this standard violated within the past month when listening to Internet radio. Leave radio running in the background, then suddenly the page is redirected to some virus alert. Another person i help with tech support also reports getting redirected to a virus alert page as well.
We used to have fun crashing mail clients and IRC clients and even FTP servers with some dodgy data.
More often than not, such crashing is an explicit violation of the standard where you send data which those clients don't know how to handle them. Easily fixed by making a better client/server that is less prone to malfunction.
With Javascript, it's a blob of executable content that everyone knows is going to execute. It is completely foolish to allow such code to have free reign, which was practically the case when it first became popular - as if programmers never learned the lessons from floppy boot sector viruses, or even from MS Office macro viruses. As it's part of the design, any corrections has to be done in the standard itself, and will have unintended side-effects for legitimate scripts.
Blindly run everything was default in the 1995-2005 era, and perhaps persisted even longer. In fact, it took that long just to find a way to prevent the simplest of malicious scripts (the alert() loop) to lock down the entire browser.
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I didn't notice that with one of the complex rule sections, which would be combat. Pathfinder mostly left base combat unchanged, thus it remains just as complex in figuring out Attacks of Opportunity (there's still a table showing a list of distracting acts), The attack/full-attack dichotomy (my most recent DM didn't know the rules here), the wolves' trip ability, etc.
While they did a start and had some common abilities used by monsters, the DM didn't really look at them, and instead used his own interpretation. For example, Fast Healing 5 incorrectly caused the monster to regain 5 health whenever it was injured.
Regardless, it's just like the other old RPGs that need a rules cleanup (or at the least, other D&D editions.)
There's plenty of royalty free music around, no worry about licensing even when the song is correctly identified by an algorithm, and even in the unrealistic case where the algorithm can detect remixes of existing songs.
It can be pubic domain from copyright expiry, because the author decided so, or otherwise be close enough to public domain that there's no need to worry (e.g. Creative Commons license)
This is acceptable, just in case some multiplayer troll says that this combination is a menu that activates cheats, options, or some other valid reason. (Perhaps the user forgot to save the game, etc.)
On the other hand, this is not.
True, an MMO could run on a single computer with a single player. However, MMOs are supposed to be massively multiplayer with perhaps 1500+ people playing at once, sometimes having 40+ people in a local area for a raid, along with the need to ensure that the servers never go offline (thus needing redundancies, etc.), which becomes the expensive part of maintaining the service. They also need multiple server admins that handle day-to-day problems with accounts (including data corruption, scams, etc.) and a creative team to keep the content fresh if necessary.
A random private server may replicate gameplay, but lacks the commercial-grade redundancy that ensures that multiplayer still works when there's one major failure. Thus the random minecraft server can suddenly stop for practically any reason. In exchange, one can switch to a different private server and still play the same game (at most, they may need to export/import/rebuild the character for an MMO).
The scam bit is locking down multiplayer rather than allowing private servers, something that's also happening to some games that previously worked on LAN. The best option against that is pushing back by making a large number of non-server-locked games available (and there's still plenty of free ones around, either board games or computer ones.)
Said supreme court case mentions that you are incorrect, giving 15 U. S. C. Â1226(a)(2) as an example of a valid law that overrides mandatory arbitration via the saving clause. Other laws may also exist, but need not be listed here.
For reference, that supreme court case relates to the mandatory arbitration clause in combination with the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. Â 157), and mentions that the NLRA didn't have a clause that prohibits mandatory arbitration.
Since that case, the Supreme court ruled against forced arbitrarion: https://www.pe.com/2019/01/15/... - specifically that the question on whether or not the forced arbitration applied was a role for the courts and not private arbitrators.
Minor details of a contract, such as mandatory arbitration, aren't relevant if there's already a material breach. In this case, it's declaring that the contract is worthless in its entirety.
Also, some locations are stating those clauses are unenforceable, whether it interferes with the right to use the court system, whether it's a one-sided clause, or for any other reason.
Some phones, such as some older Blackberry models, do a factory reset if the password is misentered too many times. This prevents brute force in most circumstances, because extracting the data otherwise requires an expensive technology forensics lab.
They still have unlimited attempts once they copy the phone.
When it was first released, the same type of security problems that related to browsers automatically executing whatever code gets shoved down it's mouth.
Not that it's specific to Java, because it was a very wild west with how browsers handled security.
Plenty of other countries have something similar, yet still do so more cheaply than in the US. Whatever is causing it to be expensive is specific to the good old USA.
The Berlin Wall needed more than just that one time expense. For it to be useful, the wall needed patrols, maintenance crews, and political clout to ensure it didn't get dismantled by a mob - all of which have a continuous expense. Should it last long enough or otherwise becomes historically important, it becomes a historical structure and requires special crews designed to manage them, creating a further expense. If it's an eyesore, a future government needs an expense to take it down (or at the very least, the manpower expense of people who could have been doing something better.)
Not to mention that the wall itself is an ongoing expense because it represents that the USA isn't as good of a trading partner as it used to be.
Trump made a campaign promise that Mexico would fund the wall.
The flipside is that the employers also had more than 60 days to make sure that it wouldn't happen. In fact, they had decades to do so.
The USA is adjacent to another country which doesn't have shutdown panics at all. This is handled by two methods - first is that the governor can issue warrants from the treasury to ensure that public employees get paid, and second is that failing to pass a budget is known as a non-confidence motion and causes a new election so that the replacement government can fix things.
Then hurry up with the universal payment system that works in all situations. It's trivial to make for such a Very(tm) Smart(tm) person such as yourself.
Irrelevant. You wanted to know if I could pay a phone bill with cash, and I can do so because my provider accepts cash. How other companies behave, including other phone companies, is their own business.
Those phone companies can survive with non-cash payment methods because there's plenty of time to make those payments. Retail stores do not have this luxury, and should expect what will happen when there's an issue with the credit/debit card.
Paycards also have a burden associated with them. A quick glance is a 0.13% fee for all transactions, plus $0.0195 per credit card authorizations, a Kilobyte access fee, and plenty of other fees that likewise would appear on a cash transaction. The only difference is that it's directly deducted from the amount the company received rather than having someone count and transport the money.
Regardless of payment method, there's also an overhead to ensure that things are correctly handled for tax purposes.
It's also still easy to handle cash, since vendors were able to handle that for centuries.
Trivially done, I walk into the phone store where I got my phone, and give them cash. They still have a cash register in the front and a safe in the back, as per every normal store. It's not like they're an internet-only company that doesn't have a physical means to receive cash.
Want to know what happens whenever there's an outage, similar to what happened with the three tornado cluster this year? E-payment only stores can't get income even if they're otherwise able to operate.
Whether or not the five sentence paragraph or the five paragraph essay are useful, my exposure to it was a poor explanation on how it was to be done. It also only appeared in one grade, never to be used again aside from the infrequent mention of it. It also resulted in text that felt rigid compared to conventional writing.
How it was explained: The five paragraph essay is a composite of five sentence paragraphs. The first paragraph is the intro (which lists the three points covered in the next three sentences), paragraphs 2-4 each describe one of the three points, and paragraph 5 is the conclusion that relists the three supporting points. Each five sentence paragraph is similar - first is the intro, the next three are supporting, and final is the conclusion (or transition in case of the five paragraph essay.)
The result was that I had to shoehorn more content into the essay, because it was also explained that each example should be independent from each other, but related to the paragraph. This brings the total from 3 examples to 12 examples, and it will grow exponentially if this is extended into a five essay chapter (48 examples), or a five chapter book (192 examples).
Writing normally means I can instead put as many examples as needed without having to stuff excessive examples in a fractal pattern. While the five paragraph essay could have been the same, it wasn't the case in how it was explained.
There's still other ways of doing tests without sending people into harm's way. Automobile crash tests have often used crash test dummies rather than live persons, and I'm sure parachute drop tests can do the same as well.
Easiest way is to purchase a force sensor that works for impacts.
This first test involves something the lab boys call 'repulsion gel.' You're not part of the control group, by the way. You get the gel. Last poor son of a gun got blue paint. Hahaha. All joking aside, that did happen â" broke every bone in his legs. Tragic. But informative. Or so I'm told. --Cave Johnson
Meanwhile, the researchers didn't produce anything new, similar "research" was done in the past where researchers didn't know how strings worked in Java.
So, the shows themselves are in ~480p, and the uploader thinks it looks better if converted over to HD? Wasn't there a recent post here saying how upscaling HD causes distortion in the properly made film?
Plus can't the uploader use the computer to do something else while the encoding proceeds? It's not like it's being encoded on a uni-tasking operating system like MS-DOS.
Get enough people, and you can divide them into teams to tackle each issue. Perhaps those teams could be termed as "organizations".
One organization keeps track of nuclear proliferation. One organization assists the rights of the poor. One organization figures out means for clean drinking water. One organization stops human/animal trafficking. One organization does medical research towards HIV. One organization does medical research towards Lung Cancer.
There's enough people around that all these social problems can be tackled in parallel, perhaps even recruiting the various unemployed people who have trouble finding a job.
If only there was an organization that helped with that too.
The video of the two people talking wasn't actually convincing, because it sounds as if the film maker is trying to say that the retro-effect of 24FPS is good, and that all movies should be like that.
Instead, there should have been a slight demonstration of what goes wrong with interpolation, such as a quick show about how things get distorted, and how it can make things look a little off.
When it comes to laptops, there's not as much of a choice. If a buyer needs a laptop, it's unlikely that they'll build their own, and thus they have to rely on brand-name equipment.
Around that time, the major brands had pre-installed garbage that slows down computers or otherwise send telemetry. The question is by how much, rather than which ones.
Cashless has a big risk - it takes one outage, and the restaurant can't get income.
When I went to a fast food restaurant that had an outage with their credit card system, the cashiers seemed to know what to do, and were keeping a ledger on pen and paper. Perhaps slightly slower and has less payment options, but they can still do business.
More recently, there was a set of tornadoes that took out power over a large area. While most business had to be closed, any business that relied on cashless can't attempt to do business because the cashless systems require power.
If only there was a place where they could write some text to provide some errata. Maybe it could be placed below the video, perhaps after the major title, and account that uploaded the video... placing it before the comments...
It would be quite a useful feature if it were implemented. /s
But really, I've seen obnoxious use of annotations outnumber the proper use.
I don't have to look at the padlock, but when I do, I've often seen the word "Secure" right next to it, even when I know it is not the case. Browsers blindly plopped that word on any HTTPS page, giving a false user impression for anyone who randomly glances in that general direction.
The "https" system was basically announced as secure since ~1995, originally via popups. This implied that it's secure in that you aren't going to get phished, have content tampered, etc. While the notification changed from a big popup over to an icon in the status bar, I still consider it a big issue when it's misrepresented as secure.
Still won't help, one just needs the domains that uses unicode characters that look like English letters, or simply have a typo similar to switching "l" and "I" around. This requires going back and forth between the browser and some external program to check the text, and eventually causes the user to become bored of this excessive verification.
Or worse, a punycode domain that looked like apple.com - something that was a problem with Google Chrome previously.
With HTTPS being prevalent, it's not difficult for ISPs to have an install disk that sets up your computer for optimal browsing (i.e. installs a root certificate that tricks browsers into accepting intercepted HTTPS content.)
It probably already happened with SuperFish and Lenovo.
I've had this standard violated within the past month when listening to Internet radio. Leave radio running in the background, then suddenly the page is redirected to some virus alert. Another person i help with tech support also reports getting redirected to a virus alert page as well.
More often than not, such crashing is an explicit violation of the standard where you send data which those clients don't know how to handle them. Easily fixed by making a better client/server that is less prone to malfunction.
With Javascript, it's a blob of executable content that everyone knows is going to execute. It is completely foolish to allow such code to have free reign, which was practically the case when it first became popular - as if programmers never learned the lessons from floppy boot sector viruses, or even from MS Office macro viruses. As it's part of the design, any corrections has to be done in the standard itself, and will have unintended side-effects for legitimate scripts.
Blindly run everything was default in the 1995-2005 era, and perhaps persisted even longer. In fact, it took that long just to find a way to prevent the simplest of malicious scripts (the alert() loop) to lock down the entire browser.