1. Make yourself a bank/auction character. This character will ONLY ever run between the Auction House and the mailbox in Org/IF. Get him to level 5 before you take him to his position. Then later on, you can get him enchanting to disenchant all the drops you can't sell.
2. Send everything valuable from your main characters to your bank toon. Everything. Get two gathering professions (I do mining and skinning). Send him all the materials you get, all the gems, hides, etc. All the green drops, all the cloth, etc.
It's amazing how much this simple trick works. If you only sell things from your main, you have to constantly go to the AH, and find yourself room in your bags. So every time you hit a town, just send all that crap to your bank character. Then every day or so log him in, get all his mail, and sell it all.
I've never had a problem getting decked out in runecloth bags by level 15 or so with this system.
Everything in WoW seems to be pushing players to join enormous homogenous communities. Why?
Why is there no concept of a "group of guilds" like an alliance in Dark Age of Camelot? Sure, you can attempt to approximate this with a custom channel, but guild administrators could control who has access to the alliance channel if it was actually supported with code.
Why is there no way for players to find groups quickly without being in one geographical location or another? The lag in Ironforge is horrid on my server, which is not high population. A simple "Looking for Group" interface (useable from anywhere as just part of the player GUI) that allowed you to select the type of group, classes you need, instances you are interested in, and so on would help so much in reducing the time sink of looking for groups.
I would guess it was modded troll because of the trollish way he referred to the press as being a liberal lobby. Yeah, he had a point. Yeah, he used inflammatory language. Yeah, he deserves modded down.
Parrots are even more of a handful. We have a relatively small parrot (a pionus), and him chewing on our "gear" is a minor problem compared to him eating the friggin house and furniture. He really likes to whittle away at the tops of doorframes and windows.
I showed my girlfriend this discussion and she replied with the following truisms:
1. Parrots like spicy things, including hot peppers. They also like lemon juice, bitter apples, aluminum foil, and toxic chemicals. 2. Parrots are tiny and they can fly, so they can get anywhere your cables are. 3. Parrots don't mind sticky tape. In fact, sticky tape is just an additional source of amusement. AFTER eating through the tape and cables, the parrot can then walk around wiping its sticky-tape-beak all over your couch. 4. A parrot will eat through your cable cover and then eat through the cable too. If there's a bookcase in front of the cable, it will eat through the bookcase, and then eat through the cable. 5. If you give your parrots its own cable to chew on, it will immediately assume that ALL the cables in the house are really an ingenious bird toy and will try to attack any human that touches one.
I can't imagine a large bird like a macaw. You would need to have a set off portion of your home just for the bird.
I see more and more of these articles on/. about outsourcing and clearly a lot of us have problems with some aspect of it. If you have problems with this trend and want to see somebody in government who is aware of the problem and will try to help American workers, consider voting for Kucinich in the primary.
A description of his policies on international trade is here.
I want to get my girlfriend a hard drive based mp3 player for christmas, but I'm not sure what to get. Ipods look great, but they are quite pricey. When you get music files off itunes, what format do they come in? Can you then make them into general purpose mp3's that can be used in any player (the Rio Karma looks nice otherwise)?
I would check myself but I can't go to the itunes site at work and have never used it.
I recently got my old Mandrake 7 partition connected to the web, and am trying to use it more and more. I have KDE and Gnome installed, but the KDE is KDE 1. How hard is it to upgrade to KDE 2? I've seen that there are RPM's and so on, and that I'd need to upgrade QT, but what I am really concerned with is the process itself. Will I hose my whole machine if I mess it up? Upgrading a windowing system seems like a big step to me, but then I'm a Linux newbie. Is it a simple matter of using RPMDrake to upgrade QT and KDE and then restart KDE?
First of all, I applaud you on your well-rounded education. The college I attended, the University of Chicago, requires such rounding in its students.
However, your statement:
Note that the school differentiate among philosophy, social science, and humanities. But for non-tech majors, all of physics, chemistry, biology, mech engineering, chem engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, continuous mathematics, and discrete mathematics were lumped together as the undifferentiated blob "math/sci". And fuzzies only had to take a total of two math/sci courses.
is misleading.
There is a reason that schools differentiate among subjects such as philosphy, history, and so on...and require their students to take courses in each of them. It is because they are equally applicable to people who choose to become scientists, and those who do not choose to become scientists. I would wager that your grounding in these "fuzzy" disciplines was at a very basic level. People who go into these fields professionally are required to go much deeper into their subject matter, just as you are required to take more science courses.
It is not reasonable to assume that you can divide coursework into "science" and "nonscience". For one thing, I majored in biological anthropology...where does that fit in?:P There's a whole bunch of non-science that is required for a person to understand and function in our society. More reasonably, we can divide our coursework into subjects such as history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, psychology, physical science, math, biological science, art, and so on. After your basic grounding in EACH of these disciplines, you can tack on coursework in your major.
Yes, I know you can want to add things like chemistry, physics, discrete mathematics, and computer science to the list above...but that's not really fair without adding archaeology, linguistics, civilization studies, and so on to the "non-science" list. By making your list for science very specific, and your list for non-science unspecific, you skewed the balance of course work.
"Man the Hunter" was a pre-Raymond Dart era philosophy that was thrown out by almost all paleoanthropologists. Early humans and pre-humans were not great hunters. Most paleoanthropologists suggest that early humans were scavengers. The article immediately launched into a suggestion that since there were mass extinctions associated with the arrival of people, it must have been because people were hunting the animals to extinction. That is pure crap. Later in the article, someone suggests disease as a possible agent of extinction. This is much more likely. Any change to an ecosystem can result in disaster. People could have introduced new diseases, replaced the soon-to-be-extinct species in the food chain, or any other action that resulted in an imbalance in the ecosystem. However, the idea that our ancestors wasted all the big animals by hunting them to extinction is patent, sensationalist nonsense powered by a drive by modern scientists to say that extinctions are caused by people. While this is definitely the case today, it most likely was not so many millions of years ago.
ColdFusion works with Unix as well as Windows. Perhaps you should have leafed through that book a little longer.
The great advantage to CF is the extent to which it enables very easy and quick database access. It is also an easy language to learn if you know HTML and SQL. Used in conjunction with Javascript, ColdFusion apps can be very powerful.
I agree that it is somewhat simplistic and you can't use it on its own unless you have very simple needs, but your comment that it only works if you're "locked into a Windows world and you don't want to do anything complex" is patently false.
interesting find, but take it with a grain of salt
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These specimens from Lomekwi are very interesting, and definitely deserve to be studied. However, the evidence given to support the finds as a new genus is scant at best. There is no post-crania available...only fragmented face and a brain-case. Unfortunately, the only way that paleoanthropolical finds get published in mainstream newspapers is by saying that they are:
a new species, or
ancestral to humans
Somehow this find miraculously does both of the above. Scientists do not generally accept that Australopithecus afarensis is directly ancestral to humans, which both the mainstream newspapers claimed (as much as Donald Johanson might disagree). However, A. afarensis is a well-documented species with many different fossils. Most likely, both these new specimens and the earlier specimens that some call A. anamensis are different phenotypes of A. afarensis.
Species generally exhibit a great deal of variation between groups that are separated geographically, culturally, or by other means. There would have to be much more evidence presented to indicate that this find is a new species, let alone a new genus. It is a gracile australopithecine in East Africa, which suggests that unless there are massive morphological differences, it should be classified as A. afarensis.
HELLO. Movie Ratings aren't a bad thing! Why are ratings on video games a bad thing? Responsible parents will like a system like this because their kids will obviously want to play games, and parents usually have no clue as to their content.
Ratings for information is a useful thing...so Mom could look at the game cases and see what kind of games little Jonny is playing, but ratings are used for much more than information. Kids under 17 aren't allowed into R rated movies, should the government be able to prevent certain ages from buying games based on a rating? I think not...that goes beyond an aid to parenting and becomes a surrogate.
SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU COMPLAINING? I mean, Christ! It's not like they're storming into your house, pointing a semi-automatic weapon at your head, and READING the ratings to you. It's a fucking tiny little label on the packaging!
In a way, they are stomping into my house. They are preventing me from having the ability to make my own decisions. Beyond blatantly dangerous licensed materials like weapons, the government should not be able to police what people buy. The rating system described in the article is just such a mechanism.
I support games being rated against standards so that people can look at the labels and determine the "class" of the game. For one thing, this will encourage game makers to make games that are oriented towards 20-30 year olds. But the gov't shouldn't use ratings systems to regulate commerce.
I agree with the original poster that most coders are men. The original post was tongue-in-cheek, but not worthy of the derision shown by perlstar. Studies have shown that standardized tests favor certain ethnic groups. Given that cultural differences between ethnicities will allow tests/programs of study to favor one group over another, why is it so ridiculous to argue that a field with a huge male majority might need a bit of an overhaul? There are more women than men in the world. Attracting women to CS and IT programs would at the least increase competition and generate better coders because of it.
Sidenote here, but your contention that there is only one language spoken in America is patently false. Check out this site at the census bureau for some information. Choose "Education and Language Spoken At Home". There are over 30 million in the US who have a native language other than English...that the Census found. I would guess that this number is very low, these are the folks who would tend to get skipped.
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1. Make yourself a bank/auction character.
This character will ONLY ever run between the Auction House and the mailbox in Org/IF. Get him to level 5 before you take him to his position. Then later on, you can get him enchanting to disenchant all the drops you can't sell.
2. Send everything valuable from your main characters to your bank toon.
Everything. Get two gathering professions (I do mining and skinning). Send him all the materials you get, all the gems, hides, etc. All the green drops, all the cloth, etc.
It's amazing how much this simple trick works. If you only sell things from your main, you have to constantly go to the AH, and find yourself room in your bags. So every time you hit a town, just send all that crap to your bank character. Then every day or so log him in, get all his mail, and sell it all.
I've never had a problem getting decked out in runecloth bags by level 15 or so with this system.
Absolutely false. You can automate almost anything in IIS by using VBScript and the metabase.
Everything in WoW seems to be pushing players to join enormous homogenous communities. Why?
Why is there no concept of a "group of guilds" like an alliance in Dark Age of Camelot? Sure, you can attempt to approximate this with a custom channel, but guild administrators could control who has access to the alliance channel if it was actually supported with code.
Why is there no way for players to find groups quickly without being in one geographical location or another? The lag in Ironforge is horrid on my server, which is not high population. A simple "Looking for Group" interface (useable from anywhere as just part of the player GUI) that allowed you to select the type of group, classes you need, instances you are interested in, and so on would help so much in reducing the time sink of looking for groups.
Windows and Unix are not the only two operating systems. Windows is in fact, based more on VMS than Unix.
Be happy that your directories don't look like this in Windows: disk1:[programfiles.mozillafirefox]
I would guess it was modded troll because of the trollish way he referred to the press as being a liberal lobby. Yeah, he had a point. Yeah, he used inflammatory language. Yeah, he deserves modded down.
Nice tiels. :)
Parrots are even more of a handful. We have a relatively small parrot (a pionus), and him chewing on our "gear" is a minor problem compared to him eating the friggin house and furniture. He really likes to whittle away at the tops of doorframes and windows.
I showed my girlfriend this discussion and she replied with the following truisms:
1. Parrots like spicy things, including hot peppers. They also like lemon juice, bitter apples, aluminum foil, and toxic chemicals.
2. Parrots are tiny and they can fly, so they can get anywhere your cables are.
3. Parrots don't mind sticky tape. In fact, sticky tape is just an additional source of amusement. AFTER eating through the tape and cables, the parrot can then walk around wiping its sticky-tape-beak all over your couch.
4. A parrot will eat through your cable cover and then eat through the cable too. If there's a bookcase in front of the cable, it will eat through the bookcase, and then eat through the cable.
5. If you give your parrots its own cable to chew on, it will immediately assume that ALL the cables in the house are really an ingenious bird toy and will try to attack any human that touches one.
I can't imagine a large bird like a macaw. You would need to have a set off portion of your home just for the bird.
A description of his policies on international trade is here.
I want to get my girlfriend a hard drive based mp3 player for christmas, but I'm not sure what to get. Ipods look great, but they are quite pricey. When you get music files off itunes, what format do they come in? Can you then make them into general purpose mp3's that can be used in any player (the Rio Karma looks nice otherwise)?
I would check myself but I can't go to the itunes site at work and have never used it.
I recently got my old Mandrake 7 partition connected to the web, and am trying to use it more and more. I have KDE and Gnome installed, but the KDE is KDE 1. How hard is it to upgrade to KDE 2? I've seen that there are RPM's and so on, and that I'd need to upgrade QT, but what I am really concerned with is the process itself. Will I hose my whole machine if I mess it up? Upgrading a windowing system seems like a big step to me, but then I'm a Linux newbie. Is it a simple matter of using RPMDrake to upgrade QT and KDE and then restart KDE?
However, your statement:
Note that the school differentiate among philosophy, social science, and humanities. But for non-tech majors, all of physics, chemistry, biology, mech engineering, chem engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, continuous mathematics, and discrete mathematics were lumped together as the undifferentiated blob "math/sci". And fuzzies only had to take a total of two math/sci courses.
is misleading.
There is a reason that schools differentiate among subjects such as philosphy, history, and so on...and require their students to take courses in each of them. It is because they are equally applicable to people who choose to become scientists, and those who do not choose to become scientists. I would wager that your grounding in these "fuzzy" disciplines was at a very basic level. People who go into these fields professionally are required to go much deeper into their subject matter, just as you are required to take more science courses.
It is not reasonable to assume that you can divide coursework into "science" and "nonscience". For one thing, I majored in biological anthropology...where does that fit in? :P There's a whole bunch of non-science that is required for a person to understand and function in our society. More reasonably, we can divide our coursework into subjects such as history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, psychology, physical science, math, biological science, art, and so on. After your basic grounding in EACH of these disciplines, you can tack on coursework in your major.
Yes, I know you can want to add things like chemistry, physics, discrete mathematics, and computer science to the list above...but that's not really fair without adding archaeology, linguistics, civilization studies, and so on to the "non-science" list. By making your list for science very specific, and your list for non-science unspecific, you skewed the balance of course work.
"Man the Hunter" was a pre-Raymond Dart era philosophy that was thrown out by almost all paleoanthropologists. Early humans and pre-humans were not great hunters. Most paleoanthropologists suggest that early humans were scavengers. The article immediately launched into a suggestion that since there were mass extinctions associated with the arrival of people, it must have been because people were hunting the animals to extinction. That is pure crap. Later in the article, someone suggests disease as a possible agent of extinction. This is much more likely. Any change to an ecosystem can result in disaster. People could have introduced new diseases, replaced the soon-to-be-extinct species in the food chain, or any other action that resulted in an imbalance in the ecosystem. However, the idea that our ancestors wasted all the big animals by hunting them to extinction is patent, sensationalist nonsense powered by a drive by modern scientists to say that extinctions are caused by people. While this is definitely the case today, it most likely was not so many millions of years ago.
The great advantage to CF is the extent to which it enables very easy and quick database access. It is also an easy language to learn if you know HTML and SQL. Used in conjunction with Javascript, ColdFusion apps can be very powerful.
I agree that it is somewhat simplistic and you can't use it on its own unless you have very simple needs, but your comment that it only works if you're "locked into a Windows world and you don't want to do anything complex" is patently false.
Somehow this find miraculously does both of the above. Scientists do not generally accept that Australopithecus afarensis is directly ancestral to humans, which both the mainstream newspapers claimed (as much as Donald Johanson might disagree). However, A. afarensis is a well-documented species with many different fossils. Most likely, both these new specimens and the earlier specimens that some call A. anamensis are different phenotypes of A. afarensis.
Species generally exhibit a great deal of variation between groups that are separated geographically, culturally, or by other means. There would have to be much more evidence presented to indicate that this find is a new species, let alone a new genus. It is a gracile australopithecine in East Africa, which suggests that unless there are massive morphological differences, it should be classified as A. afarensis.
Ratings for information is a useful thing...so Mom could look at the game cases and see what kind of games little Jonny is playing, but ratings are used for much more than information. Kids under 17 aren't allowed into R rated movies, should the government be able to prevent certain ages from buying games based on a rating? I think not...that goes beyond an aid to parenting and becomes a surrogate.
SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU COMPLAINING? I mean, Christ! It's not like they're storming into your house, pointing a semi-automatic weapon at your head, and READING the ratings to you. It's a fucking tiny little label on the packaging!
In a way, they are stomping into my house. They are preventing me from having the ability to make my own decisions. Beyond blatantly dangerous licensed materials like weapons, the government should not be able to police what people buy. The rating system described in the article is just such a mechanism.
I support games being rated against standards so that people can look at the labels and determine the "class" of the game. For one thing, this will encourage game makers to make games that are oriented towards 20-30 year olds. But the gov't shouldn't use ratings systems to regulate commerce.
I agree with the original poster that most coders are men. The original post was tongue-in-cheek, but not worthy of the derision shown by perlstar. Studies have shown that standardized tests favor certain ethnic groups. Given that cultural differences between ethnicities will allow tests/programs of study to favor one group over another, why is it so ridiculous to argue that a field with a huge male majority might need a bit of an overhaul? There are more women than men in the world. Attracting women to CS and IT programs would at the least increase competition and generate better coders because of it.
Sidenote here, but your contention that there is only one language spoken in America is patently false. Check out this site at the census bureau for some information. Choose "Education and Language Spoken At Home". There are over 30 million in the US who have a native language other than English...that the Census found. I would guess that this number is very low, these are the folks who would tend to get skipped.