Why, you'll junk your existing A/V reciever and buy a shiny new Toshiba one that acts as a video switch for their new cabling format, to go with your new TV and DVD player.
The skills were indeed Traveller's main weakness. It was kind of a bummer to realise you had to play a middle aged character to have decent skills (unless you were using the High Guard et al supplements for generation), and that it was pretty much impossible to progress skill wise. Most people IU kjnow ended up hacking the skill system.
It was also one of the first classless systems I encountered, and a relief from the Rolemaster/Palladium (or AD&D 2nd ed + supplements) bazillion and one class options.
I find it ironic people are complaining that modern versions are too rules lawery and detailed, because that's what made most people (me included) think 2nd Ed was a steaming mound, especially once you added in the supplements.
If you wanted simple, you'd play with Traveller, or the Chaosium rules (Runequest et al), or even Palladium.
humans have the self-preservation failsafe, meaning that they will not put themselves in unnecessary danger,
Right. That will be why one third of all fatal motorcycle crashes in New Zealand are "single-vehicle, rider at fault"; that will be why one of the most dangerous stretches of road in my neck of the woods is one where people kill themselves overtaking on a double-yellow line in an area heavily signposted as a black spot.
I do not trust technology to start taking control of my vehicle.
If you have ABS, a traction control system, fly-by-wire throttle, or any one of a number of features already present in cars made in the last 5 years, you already do. Oddly enough, those cars are generally safer than older ones where only people made decisions about managing them.
In a world where people are too dumb to wear seat belts, the sad reality is that we either need to (a) set our legal conditions for driving absurdly low, or (b) get tough on who is allowed to drive on public roads.
The latter will never happen, so we're stuck with rules formulated to try and protect us from ourselves. Because too many of us are clearly to stupid to do anything to that end, and we like taking innocent bystanders with us.
Have you actually seen the cretins on the road? There are plenty who most definitely should not be control of cars, but have somehow managed to wangle a license, anyway.
Well, it's a huge disadvantage. As Americans learned in the last few elections, wounds or even losing limbs in Vietnam shows you're a coward who's soft on the enemy.
Hiding from the draft and failing to fly jets makes you a Real American Hero.
Many Japanese car and bike makers manufacture more in the US than so-called American companies. Check out how many, say, Hondas are built in the US versus Fords built in Mexico.
Let me know how that works out with oil supplies, and steel, and all those natural resources in this thing called the "real world" that seems to present such a challenge to so many economists (or those who follow them around, shitting out poorly-understood aphorisms).
They don't need to violate continuity if they really want to give him more than 12 lives. The Master, another Time Lord, has gone past that limit by stealing bodies from others. So there's an easy out by having others sacrifice themselves for the Doctor (or perhaps having another Time Lord volunteer regenerations).
Oh. Were you actually interested, or just another Trek weenie slagging off Enterprise?
Sure. Go ahead, show me how easy it is to install a stable release of Debian if you want software RAID on your root and boot partition. Bonus points if it works with LVM.
No, really, I'm interested. I mean, I must have been too stupid to find the point-and-click interface that lets be build RAID and LVM partitions, like RedHat's, only better.
I'll be more impressed if they apologise for all the slanderous accusations they published about databases that have them, or developers who want them.
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Why, you'll junk your existing A/V reciever and buy a shiny new Toshiba one that acts as a video switch for their new cabling format, to go with your new TV and DVD player.
Or not.
The skills were indeed Traveller's main weakness. It was kind of a bummer to realise you had to play a middle aged character to have decent skills (unless you were using the High Guard et al supplements for generation), and that it was pretty much impossible to progress skill wise. Most people IU kjnow ended up hacking the skill system.
It was also one of the first classless systems I encountered, and a relief from the Rolemaster/Palladium (or AD&D 2nd ed + supplements) bazillion and one class options.
Why?
I find it ironic people are complaining that modern versions are too rules lawery and detailed, because that's what made most people (me included) think 2nd Ed was a steaming mound, especially once you added in the supplements.
If you wanted simple, you'd play with Traveller, or the Chaosium rules (Runequest et al), or even Palladium.
If you have ABS, a traction control system, fly-by-wire throttle, or any one of a number of features already present in cars made in the last 5 years, you already do. Oddly enough, those cars are generally safer than older ones where only people made decisions about managing them.
In a world where people are too dumb to wear seat belts, the sad reality is that we either need to (a) set our legal conditions for driving absurdly low, or (b) get tough on who is allowed to drive on public roads.
The latter will never happen, so we're stuck with rules formulated to try and protect us from ourselves. Because too many of us are clearly to stupid to do anything to that end, and we like taking innocent bystanders with us.
Fantastic. I don't consider your income worth risking my life for.
Have you actually seen the cretins on the road? There are plenty who most definitely should not be control of cars, but have somehow managed to wangle a license, anyway.
Oh, obviously. Not being able to treat the road as a race track is a sign of the rise of Nazi germany.
No, wait, it was the Nazis who built the Autobahn!
Well, it's a huge disadvantage. As Americans learned in the last few elections, wounds or even losing limbs in Vietnam shows you're a coward who's soft on the enemy.
Hiding from the draft and failing to fly jets makes you a Real American Hero.
The programmable car would almost certainly cost more than a cheap upgrade from your 200 MHz pentium to a much faster MoBo/CPU.
The tax code is simple enough in New Zealand that most people simply go with what IRD asseses, and that's usually right.
Yeah, like that wouldn't change in an instance if any US aerospace manufacturer had a commercial supersonic liner in their portfolio of products.
ITYM "Revolt in 2100".
But yes, certain of the themes could be interesting today.
Hataitai.
This is where it lives in my house, and yeah, the peak transfer speeds appear pretty consistent. I haven't bothered roaming around the city with it.
I've played with a wireless CDMA setup used exclusively for IP (Whoosh if anyone cares).
Maximum of 250-odd Kbit/s down, and 130 - 150 ms latency to servers with 30 ms by cable.
It's not as bad as you think, but it's not that good, either.
Many Japanese car and bike makers manufacture more in the US than so-called American companies. Check out how many, say, Hondas are built in the US versus Fords built in Mexico.
Let me know how that works out with oil supplies, and steel, and all those natural resources in this thing called the "real world" that seems to present such a challenge to so many economists (or those who follow them around, shitting out poorly-understood aphorisms).
Whatever measurement allows the grandparent to chant, "USA! USA! USA! Number One! Best country in the history of history!"
Seriously, the contortions some people will go to rather than think about whether they ought to be concerned about the state of their nation.
Having the Romanas wasn't enough for you?
They don't need to violate continuity if they really want to give him more than 12 lives. The Master, another Time Lord, has gone past that limit by stealing bodies from others. So there's an easy out by having others sacrifice themselves for the Doctor (or perhaps having another Time Lord volunteer regenerations).
Oh. Were you actually interested, or just another Trek weenie slagging off Enterprise?
I said *stable release*.
Sure. Go ahead, show me how easy it is to install a stable release of Debian if you want software RAID on your root and boot partition. Bonus points if it works with LVM.
No, really, I'm interested. I mean, I must have been too stupid to find the point-and-click interface that lets be build RAID and LVM partitions, like RedHat's, only better.
I'll be more impressed if they apologise for all the slanderous accusations they published about databases that have them, or developers who want them.
Yeah, a Nokia 7710 could never support anything more than a half-arsed browser.