You know, strange enough, this idea has been popping up in a few places yet... been considering implimenting it as a project to get my PHP skills honed... but I'm too lazy.
I'd skip the put $20 into a fund, and go with an ebay style comment system for relyability. Not simply slashdot style Karma, where people can hide.
Not all libraries have geeks on staff that can select decent sc-fi and fantasy... but in a good library, they tend to pick one trustworthy patron to help them make selections... use to do that at the one library I went to.
Made good use of the interlibrary loan system too...
For eye medications I can see this... but using it for other medication? Is there really that large of an advantage of useing this vs a patch based method?
It mentions use for people who forget to take eye drop or pills... now, unless they already use contacts, what's to say they won't forget to put 'em in?
Though, personally, I just don't like the idea of contacts for some reason. Contacts and dentists just make me shudder thinking about them.
That's been happening for a long time now. in fact since the time of the original gameboy, once it went to the smaller retail packaging, they've not included gamelink cable or headphones.
They also went on the cheap with games, not providing their clamshell cases with the cartridge, which is annoying (dispite that the gamepacks are damn rugged to start with)
Nordock's a wonderful world... been playing on it for a while now... it's a good persistant world (and, has been released for public use by the author... not compleatly up to date like the offical servers though) and while the main quest is pretty limited (takes scads of time, and nearly forces team work though) when DM's pop on and run a quest, then it gets fun.
I think what renenoel wastrying to infer was that if Sony was really serious about preventing of mod chipping of thier machines, they'd havedeveloped a way to do it on the hardware level, rather than relying on the courts.
I don't think that the russians have the means to get their pogram back online... they're space program is cash strapped as is.
anyhow, if memory serves, the russian shuttle isn't actually better than the US version. The current NASA shuttles are lighter and have more advanced systems (although, those are -still- extreamly dated). The russians built heavy, because they didn't have the materials that NASA used avaliable to them... but you're right, the russian shuttle could certainly be used as a cargo carrier...
But myself, I think that the folks in NASA should work on designing and building the next launch vehicle...
aah. Now, that sort of work can be a strain on nearly any system... photoshop particuarly. I have enough problems with it draggin it's heels on smaller images than that.
Photoshop doesn't eat memory and CPU cycles... it sucks them up like a blackhole.
I can see where you're coming from now, thanks for explaining.
What the hell are you doing with it? That question needs to be awnsered before anything else.
I've used windows 2000 reguarly for a while now, first on a k6-2 300 mhz machine (starting at 96M of Ram, then in the end 396M) and it did everything I threw at it fine (and in the beginning it had a 4mb video card, later a Geforce II MX based card).
Definatly not high end, even when Windows 2000 was released.
I used it for day to day things, email, web bowseing, word processing, as well as less normal things (Image creation/manipulations with Photoshop & Poser), as well as playing various games.
It ran fine. Laggy with image editing and some games, but I knew I was pushing beyond the limites of the machine. You're either exagerating, or were doing something incredibly odd.
I don't think you understand corectly... he's wanting to learn what DVD player is the least picky with the brands of burned DVD media, not simply the formats that it will play.
I dunno... I know plenty of people who price out printers, and price out replacement cartrages for it at the same time, to see what the total cost will be...
*glances at my bookshelf* Uh... no. I doubt my mentality is going to put WotC out of business, considering the fact that I own books for at least 3 of their current lines (D&D, Star Wars and WoT), and fully intend to purchase more in the future, including the revised D&D books.
-Those- books pay for the staff members.
You don't seem to get what PCgen is... it's a program that can be used to organise character data. the authors of the program went out of their way to create the data files so you need the books to understand what you're doing, because they want to support the companies as well.
Acid Fog SCHOOL:Conjuration SUBSCHOOL:Creation COMPS :V S M DF CASTTIME:1 action RANGE:Medium EFFECTS:30' rad x 20' high EFFECTTYPE:Fog DURATION:1 round/level SAVEINFO:None SPELLRES:Yes SOURCEPA GE:p.172 DESCRIPTOR:Acid|Water
(2 random examples from an old version...)
Utterly useless without the book, no? There was a huge discussion at one point on the PCgen list about actually putting in a decription for the feats/spells/skills, but the creator chose not to, to prevent copyright issues from cropping up.
The -only- way PCGen costs WotC any money (seeing it's done by the community) is the fact that WotC can't make decent sales with thier own character creator (and other tools bundled with it), due to the low quality, and the fact that it was greatly delayed in release.
Now, if PCgen was released by WotC, as an official product, I can see them quite rightly having a cost associated with it... however it's not, and it's very existance is seen as a benifit by a number of other d20 publishers.
Yeah, but PCgen has a huge user base... it adds to WotC's bottom line.
Myself, I'd like to know what percent of the cost goes towards PCGen, and what goes to WotC as licensing fees... not to mention that it's unclear if $1 to $5 will net you the entire set of data files, or if it will be per book... (probably per book, at a guess)
I actually prefer generating characters by hand anyway... PCgen just tends to make it simple to make and update digital copies of the character.
Well, the data in question was being released free (to a point, I don't think it went to the detail that the new stuff will, because the PCgen crew was trying to play it safe and stay on WotC's good side... didn't quite work) before WotC got pissy... but that's quite some time now, 6 months, more maybe, my sense of the passage of time is rather off... so the data hasn't been seen in a long time with reguards to latest PCgen releases.
There is none, not for the program, or for the "anything but WotC Copyright Material"... but soon, there's going to be new datafiles with WotC copyright materias that you need to pay for (classes creatures, spells, feats... anything that isn't in the D20 System Referance Document in other words...
That's how it can hurt them... by releaseing long before the WotC's tools, and providing better quality and support, PCGen pretty much torpedoed WotC's software product... so, this is the result... WotC came down on PCGen, got their copyrighted stuff removed (before they were indiffernt/tolerant) and now this licensing deal...
I think the complaining is because there's a number of other d20 companies who did allow the PCGen team to use their data, just a few holdouts like WotC, who were tollerant at first, then came down onto PCGen...
That you'll be able to download them off your favorite P2P client in a short time?
Boy... Wotc is sure grabbing for money now... this play, as well as the upcoming revised editions of the core books... which in all likely hood will not get the same reduction in price to start with as the un revised version did...
Actually, while some details could be expanded in Episode 2 (dealing with the creation of the clone army... the more shadowy aspects of it), what is happening to the republic is being chronicaled,but in more of a background aspect (it's all Jar-Jar's fault...)
No, anime doesn't always equal good, and I've fully aware of that. Read my post... where it states that -some- could pull it off. Not all, or even most. There's a wide variety of styles in anime, some would work, plenty wouldn't. something done in the style of Cowboy Bebop would likely work, and feel "right", at least to me.
I just like certain styles of animation, and the style of Samurai Jack doesn't cut it... which is too bad, because the story and voice acting are enjoyable. So I listen to it, rather than watch...
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You know, strange enough, this idea has been popping up in a few places yet... been considering implimenting it as a project to get my PHP skills honed... but I'm too lazy.
I'd skip the put $20 into a fund, and go with an ebay style comment system for relyability. Not simply slashdot style Karma, where people can hide.
Not all libraries have geeks on staff that can select decent sc-fi and fantasy... but in a good library, they tend to pick one trustworthy patron to help them make selections... use to do that at the one library I went to.
Made good use of the interlibrary loan system too...
For eye medications I can see this... but using it for other medication? Is there really that large of an advantage of useing this vs a patch based method?
It mentions use for people who forget to take eye drop or pills... now, unless they already use contacts, what's to say they won't forget to put 'em in?
Though, personally, I just don't like the idea of contacts for some reason. Contacts and dentists just make me shudder thinking about them.
That's been happening for a long time now. in fact since the time of the original gameboy, once it went to the smaller retail packaging, they've not included gamelink cable or headphones.
They also went on the cheap with games, not providing their clamshell cases with the cartridge, which is annoying (dispite that the gamepacks are damn rugged to start with)
Nordock's a wonderful world... been playing on it for a while now... it's a good persistant world (and, has been released for public use by the author... not compleatly up to date like the offical servers though) and while the main quest is pretty limited (takes scads of time, and nearly forces team work though) when DM's pop on and run a quest, then it gets fun.
I think what renenoel wastrying to infer was that if Sony was really serious about preventing of mod chipping of thier machines, they'd havedeveloped a way to do it on the hardware level, rather than relying on the courts.
I don't think that the russians have the means to get their pogram back online... they're space program is cash strapped as is.
anyhow, if memory serves, the russian shuttle isn't actually better than the US version. The current NASA shuttles are lighter and have more advanced systems (although, those are -still- extreamly dated). The russians built heavy, because they didn't have the materials that NASA used avaliable to them... but you're right, the russian shuttle could certainly be used as a cargo carrier...
But myself, I think that the folks in NASA should work on designing and building the next launch vehicle...
So I'm not the only one to check out the sites and say "What the hell?"
Maybe the guy is a great optimiser... but useful design, isn't his game.
aah. Now, that sort of work can be a strain on nearly any system... photoshop particuarly. I have enough problems with it draggin it's heels on smaller images than that.
Photoshop doesn't eat memory and CPU cycles... it sucks them up like a blackhole.
I can see where you're coming from now, thanks for explaining.
*scratches head*
What the hell are you doing with it? That question needs to be awnsered before anything else.
I've used windows 2000 reguarly for a while now, first on a k6-2 300 mhz machine (starting at 96M of Ram, then in the end 396M) and it did everything I threw at it fine (and in the beginning it had a 4mb video card, later a Geforce II MX based card).
Definatly not high end, even when Windows 2000 was released.
I used it for day to day things, email, web bowseing, word processing, as well as less normal things (Image creation/manipulations with Photoshop & Poser), as well as playing various games.
It ran fine. Laggy with image editing and some games, but I knew I was pushing beyond the limites of the machine. You're either exagerating, or were doing something incredibly odd.
I did go there, I did read the comments... and while some are useful... many simply arn't.
I don't think you understand corectly... he's wanting to learn what DVD player is the least picky with the brands of burned DVD media, not simply the formats that it will play.
Isn't dangerious... unless of course, you ingest it... then it can be rather harmful...
Oh well, stuff makes damn good gas line anti freeze in the mean time, without the water.
I dunno... I know plenty of people who price out printers, and price out replacement cartrages for it at the same time, to see what the total cost will be...
I'm more of a fan of Rapists getting a STD that can only be cured with liberal use of lye and sand paper...
*glances at my bookshelf* Uh... no. I doubt my mentality is going to put WotC out of business, considering the fact that I own books for at least 3 of their current lines (D&D, Star Wars and WoT), and fully intend to purchase more in the future, including the revised D&D books.
S :V S M DFA GE:p.172
-Those- books pay for the staff members.
You don't seem to get what PCgen is... it's a program that can be used to organise character data. the authors of the program went out of their way to create the data files so you need the books to understand what you're doing, because they want to support the companies as well.
Take a look at the old data files...
Crippling Strike
TYPE:Rogue
VISIBLE:No
PRECLASS:Rogue=10
SA:Crippling Strike SOURCEPAGE:p.48
Acid Fog
SCHOOL:Conjuration
SUBSCHOOL:Creation
COMP
CASTTIME:1 action
RANGE:Medium
EFFECTS:30' rad x 20' high
EFFECTTYPE:Fog
DURATION:1 round/level
SAVEINFO:None
SPELLRES:Yes
SOURCEP
DESCRIPTOR:Acid|Water
(2 random examples from an old version...)
Utterly useless without the book, no? There was a huge discussion at one point on the PCgen list about actually putting in a decription for the feats/spells/skills, but the creator chose not to, to prevent copyright issues from cropping up.
The -only- way PCGen costs WotC any money (seeing it's done by the community) is the fact that WotC can't make decent sales with thier own character creator (and other tools bundled with it), due to the low quality, and the fact that it was greatly delayed in release.
Now, if PCgen was released by WotC, as an official product, I can see them quite rightly having a cost associated with it... however it's not, and it's very existance is seen as a benifit by a number of other d20 publishers.
Yeah, but PCgen has a huge user base... it adds to WotC's bottom line.
Myself, I'd like to know what percent of the cost goes towards PCGen, and what goes to WotC as licensing fees... not to mention that it's unclear if $1 to $5 will net you the entire set of data files, or if it will be per book... (probably per book, at a guess)
I actually prefer generating characters by hand anyway... PCgen just tends to make it simple to make and update digital copies of the character.
Well, the data in question was being released free (to a point, I don't think it went to the detail that the new stuff will, because the PCgen crew was trying to play it safe and stay on WotC's good side... didn't quite work) before WotC got pissy... but that's quite some time now, 6 months, more maybe, my sense of the passage of time is rather off ... so the data hasn't been seen in a long time with reguards to latest PCgen releases.
There is none, not for the program, or for the "anything but WotC Copyright Material"... but soon, there's going to be new datafiles with WotC copyright materias that you need to pay for (classes creatures, spells, feats... anything that isn't in the D20 System Referance Document in other words...
That's how it can hurt them... by releaseing long before the WotC's tools, and providing better quality and support, PCGen pretty much torpedoed WotC's software product... so, this is the result... WotC came down on PCGen, got their copyrighted stuff removed (before they were indiffernt/tolerant) and now this licensing deal...
It can hurt them... have you ever tried to use the master tools that WotC put out? Gah... that was simply an ordeal...
I think the complaining is because there's a number of other d20 companies who did allow the PCGen team to use their data, just a few holdouts like WotC, who were tollerant at first, then came down onto PCGen...
That you'll be able to download them off your favorite P2P client in a short time?
Boy... Wotc is sure grabbing for money now... this play, as well as the upcoming revised editions of the core books... which in all likely hood will not get the same reduction in price to start with as the un revised version did...
Actually, while some details could be expanded in Episode 2 (dealing with the creation of the clone army... the more shadowy aspects of it), what is happening to the republic is being chronicaled,but in more of a background aspect (it's all Jar-Jar's fault...)
No, anime doesn't always equal good, and I've fully aware of that. Read my post... where it states that -some- could pull it off. Not all, or even most. There's a wide variety of styles in anime, some would work, plenty wouldn't. something done in the style of Cowboy Bebop would likely work, and feel "right", at least to me.
I just like certain styles of animation, and the style of Samurai Jack doesn't cut it... which is too bad, because the story and voice acting are enjoyable. So I listen to it, rather than watch...