I love Pandora, and I listen to it for five or six hours every day. However, they won't stream anything you can't buy on CD, which means some music is hard to come by. The soundtrack to MechWarrior 2, for example. Or the Doom series and Quake series soundtracks. Or the vast quantities of module-format music out there that I've grown to love. (Granted, the quality of that last can be dreadful...)
It's unfortunate. There's lots of great music out there (even music you can legally download for free), but Pandora's stuck on the CD model.
To my knowledge, no variety of chkdisk or fsck repairs dead sectors. They read the data out of the surviving sectors in a cluster (or inode), and move it to another area of the drive. Then they mark the old cluster (or inode) as unusable.
That said, with modern drives' sector remapping, if chkdisk finds a bad sector, your drive has had enough sectors fail to use up its spares, and you're going to get nothing but problems from it in the very near future.
Magnetic and flash-based drives are alike in this sense.
You just need to have some spare space (say 20% of additional capacity) and dynamically remap areas from the 'working' part of the disk. It's worth pointing out that magnetic hard disk manufacturers already do this, because magnetic drives have limited surface lives as well.
And the internet is not a truck. Its a series of tubes. You've never been tubing down a creek with a redneck?
As a kid, I did it lots of times down Buck Creek. We stopped, though, after a sign was posted at our destination park prohibiting swimming due to animal feces count./True story.:-/ Last time I was up a creek.
Where's the bottleneck? In the fiber link between Chicago and New York? Or in the connection between Comcast's IT offices and their customer loops? Or is it in the customer loops themselves?
I've heard countless stories about how the Internet was going to be choked, but it's been a long time since I've heard widespread complaints about over-subscription on a particular cable loop. And I haven't heard anything specific about data not getting from Chicago to San Diego fast enough, or from New York to Europe.
Instead, all I've heard are complaints by ISPs and industry bloggers saying that ISPs can't push all the data they're being paid to. I haven't seen any real evidence in a while. (But then, most of my tech news comes from Slashdot...)
(Hey, quote with tags, not with linefulls of apostrophes.)
Just because one/can/ speak (well) in one context does NOT mean that one can speak well in another. Certainly speaking to a camera lacks certain cues such as audience interaction, but it has the benefit that you can go back and edit the results until it looks right.
Nor does it mean that one is inclined to. What do you mean? Why would someone be disinclined to speak well in a context where speaking well will enhance your subjective credibility, and give you greater impact on your audience? (Unless you meant "has the talent to", rather than, "is inclined to". If so, see my mention of video editing above.)
You're also assuming that aside from the profound amount of time/work going into a paper, that after the fact, the researcher(s) are willing to put significantly more time/work into developing a proper presentation, doing it, and uploading it and going through yet another review process. As the person you're attacking mentioned, many scientists are paid lecturers. Hell, they're scientists. That means they're no strangers to the need to obsessively address every detail. And they're certainly no strangers to the need to make persuasive presentations; They've got to get funding, don't they? A video production, properly done, has the potential to be far more generally persuasive than a paper one.
but why do I have to explain relatively simple things, especially to my physics professor? Because you weren't supposed to be practicing writing papers to your instructors, you were supposed to be practicing writing papers to people who would learn something from them.
It is fun to slap templates on some monsters... really makes them interesting. What, a vampiric Great Wyrm? "I, er, try turn undead." "Your holy symbol melts. Roll a save vs fire damage."
The story for the in-game creation of such a thing would be amusing in itself.
With that said I have no real problem adjusting the gods and such to make them ultra epic and allow for my PCs to grow past 20. I dunno...becoming the next St. Cuthbert would seem like a worthwhile quest for those characters. Deicide might be involved...
At least some companies plan to keep publishing 3.5 based materials. I'd also argue that books are only obsolete once you can't get a group together to play a campaign from them. And judging by this thread, even 1st edition isn't obsolete by that standard.
fighters/barbarians/monks/samurai/melee don't get to do anything because magic scales FAR faster than feats. You know, my roommate had an easy solution for situations where party members' capabilities were unbalanced. The party gets split, and each group (which may be as small as a single individual, or consist of most of the party) gets different challenges. As a simple example, say the child needing rescue is behind a timed trap, whose disabling switch is elsewhere. One group heads for the disabling switch, while the other snatches the kid when the trap opens, and protects him from local vermin.
It doesn't add as much to combat time as you might think.
Mystic Theurges don't interest me as much as Heirophants...I'm playing my first cleric (and, incidentally, my first magic user. Never got around to it before.), and while that character is going to retire Saturday (As a LN cleric serving a LG deity, he doesn't very well fit in with the largely CN party.), I intend to get a neutral- or good-aligned character with a level or two of Heirophant.
Cure Serious Wounds as a ranged touch spell? Just what a cleric needs when dealing with a party member too stupid (INT 6) to realize he can't best every opponent with physical strength.
Said party member has an STR score of 22. Going into rage brought him up to 26. Then I cast Bull's Strength on him, bringing him up to STR 30. ("What kind of door?" "It is a heavy wooden--" "Not anymore...") Thank God the player role-played a 6 intelligence well, or that character would have been grossly unbalanced. A creature capable of demonstrations of such feats of strength ought to have a trail of his own followers. He hauled back most (all?) of 10,000 copper pieces from the giant we killed last week...
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Also, your description of how AC is implemented seems a bit too simple for my tastes. I'd prefer if armor provided a defense rating and a damage mitigation rating, so a physical attack could be broken into three checks... *points at your username*
I guess we'll never see it in D&D, but one of the RPG combat systems I like best (of the RPGs I've played) is the one in Top Secret. Each body part has its own hit points and could be individually attacked, injured, and disabled. When we were in high school, my brother modded 3rd edition to do something similar. Largely because three of our players were SCA swordfighters IRL.
Fortunately there are several cool games based on the D&D rules engine which I enjoyed a lot because I wasn't stuck with the pen-and-paper stats management I wrote most of a character sheet in PHP. The code's GPL'd, if you want to take a look at it. It needs a major rewrite, though; I've learned a lot about PHP since then.
Feng Shui I was part of a weekly Feng Shui campaign from last November through around April. It was an interesting game. While it was cool that one only needed a couple d6, it was odd that they had to be different colors.
I ultimately wrote a PHP die roller for it. It's offline now, though; It didn't get moved over when I changed hosting. The PHP die roller revealed just how wild the roll rules in Feng Shui could be. Hand-rolled dice have a much less random result distribution than a computer.
Ah. I didn't try specifying the resulting units, as I didn't recognize kg/s^2 as equivalent to meters. (It's been a long, long time side I had a physics class.)
That's nice, but does nothing to explain the massive amounts of energy required to convert energy into matter. This has nothing to do with "patterns" and everything to do with particle physics. You brought up the term pattern; I presumed you meant it in the context of the show. As for energy requirements, I can only mumble something about plasma conduits...
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I love Pandora, and I listen to it for five or six hours every day. However, they won't stream anything you can't buy on CD, which means some music is hard to come by. The soundtrack to MechWarrior 2, for example. Or the Doom series and Quake series soundtracks. Or the vast quantities of module-format music out there that I've grown to love. (Granted, the quality of that last can be dreadful...)
It's unfortunate. There's lots of great music out there (even music you can legally download for free), but Pandora's stuck on the CD model.
To my knowledge, no variety of chkdisk or fsck repairs dead sectors. They read the data out of the surviving sectors in a cluster (or inode), and move it to another area of the drive. Then they mark the old cluster (or inode) as unusable.
That said, with modern drives' sector remapping, if chkdisk finds a bad sector, your drive has had enough sectors fail to use up its spares, and you're going to get nothing but problems from it in the very near future.
Magnetic and flash-based drives are alike in this sense.
Of course, you'd have to be any of clueless, foolish, or malicious to do that...
Brings to mind a fake advertisement clip from Streets of SimCity:
"Fuzzy dice accessories: Chew toys for your car."
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As a kid, I did it lots of times down Buck Creek. We stopped, though, after a sign was posted at our destination park prohibiting swimming due to animal feces count.
Where's the bottleneck? In the fiber link between Chicago and New York? Or in the connection between Comcast's IT offices and their customer loops? Or is it in the customer loops themselves?
I've heard countless stories about how the Internet was going to be choked, but it's been a long time since I've heard widespread complaints about over-subscription on a particular cable loop. And I haven't heard anything specific about data not getting from Chicago to San Diego fast enough, or from New York to Europe.
Instead, all I've heard are complaints by ISPs and industry bloggers saying that ISPs can't push all the data they're being paid to. I haven't seen any real evidence in a while. (But then, most of my tech news comes from Slashdot...)
The story for the in-game creation of such a thing would be amusing in itself.
It doesn't add as much to combat time as you might think.
Mystic Theurges don't interest me as much as Heirophants...I'm playing my first cleric (and, incidentally, my first magic user. Never got around to it before.), and while that character is going to retire Saturday (As a LN cleric serving a LG deity, he doesn't very well fit in with the largely CN party.), I intend to get a neutral- or good-aligned character with a level or two of Heirophant.
Cure Serious Wounds as a ranged touch spell? Just what a cleric needs when dealing with a party member too stupid (INT 6) to realize he can't best every opponent with physical strength.
Said party member has an STR score of 22. Going into rage brought him up to 26. Then I cast Bull's Strength on him, bringing him up to STR 30. ("What kind of door?" "It is a heavy wooden--" "Not anymore...") Thank God the player role-played a 6 intelligence well, or that character would have been grossly unbalanced. A creature capable of demonstrations of such feats of strength ought to have a trail of his own followers. He hauled back most (all?) of 10,000 copper pieces from the giant we killed last week...
What area are you in?
I ultimately wrote a PHP die roller for it. It's offline now, though; It didn't get moved over when I changed hosting. The PHP die roller revealed just how wild the roll rules in Feng Shui could be. Hand-rolled dice have a much less random result distribution than a computer.
I should still have the code somewhere...
The last time I recall that happening was when Zonk wrote up an original review--complete with graphics--of the 3.5 core rulebooks.
*listens intently*
Ah. I didn't try specifying the resulting units, as I didn't recognize kg/s^2 as equivalent to meters. (It's been a long, long time side I had a physics class.)