You may not have noticed, but some vendor kernel sources have features not found anyhere else. Many of these get folded back into the main kernel tree.
While I don't have hard statistics, I'd venture a guess that that's how most of the kernel development occurs these days. It sounds to me like CA wants home-user-centric features excluded. I'm having a hard time coming up with a plausible reason. The only thing I can think of is that they might think that by preventing such things from becoming part of the main kernel tree, vendors like Novell and Red Hat will stop working on them.
Maybe those two venders would; their money comes from enterprise sales, anyway. But user-centric distros, and the community at large, would pick up the slack, anyway.
My comment stems from the fact that I just finished updating the software on my XP machine which, for over a year, hadn't seen anything more recent than SP1. (Which came with it on the install CD.)
It wasn't a security risk, since I didn't have an internet connection at home until recently. I used one of my Linux machines as a dial-up gateway; Nothing could reach the XP box from the outside world, so I'm not concerned that it might be infected.
Took me four days to go through the whole process.:-(
And they even use Perl, which I often hear is unscalable as a dynamic-content technology. Add that to database connectivity, another potential bottleneck, and you have to admit they decent job, in most respects.
Now, if only they wouldn't keep pushing beta code at us, we'd be all set...We seem to be the proving ground. When was the last time Slashcode had a "release", anyway?
I suspect you're focusing on tiles because of the Columbia incident, which didn't have as much to do with tiles as it did with the insulation they applied to the fuel tanks.
I should point out how I'm going to do it. It's actually very simple, and shouldn't require any understanding of XML.
For the template, in place of useful data, I'm going to have unique identifiers. (five or six randomly-chosen alphanumeric characters should do the trick.) Using sed, I'm going to replace each one of these pieces with a unique value.
This should work fine for a date set whose length doesn't vary, like mine. If your data set length changes from report to report, you may need a bit better understanding of the internals of the XML file.
OpenOffice's files consist of ZIPped XML files. If you create an example document in OpenOffice that is laid out how you want it, you should be able to update the content by replacing individual pieces of data in content.xml.
That's one of the things I want to try with Citygen...automatically generating OpenOffice documents will be niice.:)
I'm no financial expert, but if they were anticipating a significant drop in revenue, and came close to expectations, doesn't that mean the drop occurred?
I don't own that book, but I have skimmed it at the bookstore.
It's not really intended for use by players to come up with evil characters, it's intended for use by DMs to come up with convincing villains. Villains constructed from that material will disgust both players and their characters, giving them a goal whose urgency allows the characters to to set aside differences of race, alignment...even religion.
(ROT13 the following text to see an example. But be warned, it's graphic!)
V zrna, qrfpevovat n xvat nf "bccerffvir" naq "ungrq" bayl tbrf fb sne gb pncgher gur cynlref' vzntvangvba. Qrfpevovat ubj n cfvbavpvfg xvat culfvpnyyl naq zragnyyl zhgvyngrf uvf pbaphovarf orsber bofreivat gurz orvat encrq ol qrivyf naq qrzbaf vf tbvat gb eribyg gur cynlref naq punenpgref fb gurl (gur punenpgref) qrqvpngr gurve yvirf gb uvf bireguebj.
Heck...that description will probably revolt some of the people reading this comment.
For campaigns with mature players, such villains are useful and effective. I wouldn't dream of having that kind of villain in a game with kids.
And there's a reason I don't own that book. I find its contents disturbing.
I'm certainly not the best DM. In fact, I'm fairly deficient in experience. But if I don't have a foolproof way of getting the players to go in the direction I prepared for, I don't give them an illogical trap, I use dialog with an NPC to convince the characters it's the right way to go.
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Bludgers is also often used to refer to anyone who is "being lazy" not just dole bludgers.
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Great! Now we add "impatience" and "hubris"
You may not have noticed, but some vendor kernel sources have features not found anyhere else. Many of these get folded back into the main kernel tree.
While I don't have hard statistics, I'd venture a guess that that's how most of the kernel development occurs these days. It sounds to me like CA wants home-user-centric features excluded. I'm having a hard time coming up with a plausible reason. The only thing I can think of is that they might think that by preventing such things from becoming part of the main kernel tree, vendors like Novell and Red Hat will stop working on them.
Maybe those two venders would; their money comes from enterprise sales, anyway. But user-centric distros, and the community at large, would pick up the slack, anyway.
That would have been nice.
:-(
My comment stems from the fact that I just finished updating the software on my XP machine which, for over a year, hadn't seen anything more recent than SP1. (Which came with it on the install CD.)
It wasn't a security risk, since I didn't have an internet connection at home until recently. I used one of my Linux machines as a dial-up gateway; Nothing could reach the XP box from the outside world, so I'm not concerned that it might be infected.
Took me four days to go through the whole process.
Well, it's true!
And they even use Perl, which I often hear is unscalable as a dynamic-content technology. Add that to database connectivity, another potential bottleneck, and you have to admit they decent job, in most respects.
Now, if only they wouldn't keep pushing beta code at us, we'd be all set...We seem to be the proving ground. When was the last time Slashcode had a "release", anyway?
We can. This site does it, constantly.
Or fly apart. I read recently that astroids are essentially gravity-collected gravel. Try putting spin on that!
Everything is failure-prone.
I suspect you're focusing on tiles because of the Columbia incident, which didn't have as much to do with tiles as it did with the insulation they applied to the fuel tanks.
In short, I call "Karma Whore."
I should point out how I'm going to do it. It's actually very simple, and shouldn't require any understanding of XML.
For the template, in place of useful data, I'm going to have unique identifiers. (five or six randomly-chosen alphanumeric characters should do the trick.) Using sed, I'm going to replace each one of these pieces with a unique value.
This should work fine for a date set whose length doesn't vary, like mine. If your data set length changes from report to report, you may need a bit better understanding of the internals of the XML file.
So 55% were PG-13 or higher. That means 45% were PG or lower.
Unless we're voting for President, that's not a significant margin.
I haven't tried this yet, but it should work:
:)
OpenOffice's files consist of ZIPped XML files. If you create an example document in OpenOffice that is laid out how you want it, you should be able to update the content by replacing individual pieces of data in content.xml.
That's one of the things I want to try with Citygen...automatically generating OpenOffice documents will be niice.
To get the full effect, it wouldn't be stated all at once. You'd let the characters hear things, in graphic detail.
Maybe the king keeps a graphic account of the events, the account was stolen, and the characters have the oppertunity to read it.
Ah. No offense intended, then. :)
How about a supergeek middle-schooler? IIRC, that's where I was. :)
I'm no financial expert, but if they were anticipating a significant drop in revenue, and came close to expectations, doesn't that mean the drop occurred?
Save your work, then hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. X will load back up in moments.
Now try rebooting your computer. Depending on the services you're loading it could take a few minutes.
You forgot to mention that updating Windows, from a clean install, requires three or four reboots, anyway.
Until you naysayers bother to give an honest effort trying it, I'll expect to keep hearing more of the same.
See the other post regarding Synaptic. Or try SuSE and their package manager.
The long and short of it is, you never bothered to try it, so you don't know what you're talking about.
Yup. And they've been under active development ever since in projects like Quakeforge, Darkplaces and Twilight.
There's other OSS engines out there, too, such as Crystal Space.
Tabletop RPGs: The television-equivalent that makes kids think!
:)
Cool.
For those that didn't get the reference.
You've never played Paranoia, have you?
No, but I've wanted to. Sounds like fun.
I suppose I should have mentioned that it depends on the intent of the gaming system.
I haven't, though I've thought about it.
Now might a good time to disable the "Subscriber Bonus" by default...that way, they won't know who you are.
I don't own that book, but I have skimmed it at the bookstore.
It's not really intended for use by players to come up with evil characters, it's intended for use by DMs to come up with convincing villains. Villains constructed from that material will disgust both players and their characters, giving them a goal whose urgency allows the characters to to set aside differences of race, alignment...even religion.
(ROT13 the following text to see an example. But be warned, it's graphic!)
V zrna, qrfpevovat n xvat nf "bccerffvir" naq "ungrq" bayl tbrf fb sne gb pncgher gur cynlref' vzntvangvba. Qrfpevovat ubj n cfvbavpvfg xvat culfvpnyyl naq zragnyyl zhgvyngrf uvf pbaphovarf orsber bofreivat gurz orvat encrq ol qrivyf naq qrzbaf vf tbvat gb eribyg gur cynlref naq punenpgref fb gurl (gur punenpgref) qrqvpngr gurve yvirf gb uvf bireguebj.
Heck...that description will probably revolt some of the people reading this comment.
For campaigns with mature players, such villains are useful and effective. I wouldn't dream of having that kind of villain in a game with kids.
And there's a reason I don't own that book. I find its contents disturbing.
I'm certainly not the best DM. In fact, I'm fairly deficient in experience. But if I don't have a foolproof way of getting the players to go in the direction I prepared for, I don't give them an illogical trap, I use dialog with an NPC to convince the characters it's the right way to go.