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  1. Re:Burning Wheel on State of the Pen and Paper Industry · · Score: 1
    Of course, WotC also has the problem of selling a durable good: these books don't just wear out. Once they're sold, they're on the market forever. No gamer will ever buy more than one. They've tried to mitigate this with tricks like "3.5th edition," but few gamers ever bothered updating. Throw in the rampant piracy of the books and rules themselves, and there's really no way WotC can continue with D&D as it is.

    I've never thought about it before but you are absolutely right. One thing to say for them, their books just do not wear out.

  2. Re:TLDs on Tim Berners-Lee on the Web · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that's what .name is supposed to be for.

  3. Re:What's wrong with German cars? on Mark Vena on Dellienware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, East Germany refers to cold-war era communist germany (you know post world war II), wherein it would take forever to get your hands on a lousy generic car. They're not talking about modern day BMWs, Porches, VWs or Audis.

  4. Re:Sudo is only useful when there are lots of admi on Sudo vs. Root · · Score: 1

    Dude. Open . is totally sweet! Thank you I had no idea open worked with directories.

  5. Re:Far from "brutal" on Ubuntu, Macintosh and Windows XP · · Score: 1

    It is some Linux distribution you haven't heard of before. It's based on Debian. http://www.ubuntu.com/

  6. Re:My recommendations for a PHP reading list on Recommended Reading List for PHP · · Score: 1

    Ruby and Python are both strongly typed. As for there being no compile step, that can be a blessing as well as a curse. (Technically, there is a compile step, the results just aren't saved to disk. Well, python does, some what.)

  7. Re:Wow, this one was tough! on PS2 Controller Suit Goes Badly For Sony · · Score: 1

    Um, I don't think this is the usual "company that exists for the sake of having a patent portfolio and suing people." At least according to their website, they you know, make stuff.

  8. Re:Manual vs. Automatic on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    Just a guess but I'm sure that if imagemagick was only good enough for small runs they would be aware of, and would have tried using the bindings to the library. (Whether C, Perl or whatever).

  9. Is the Chicago Tribune really that naive? on Internet Searches Reveal CIA's Secrets · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Come on guys, as this information has obviously been fabricated by the CIA in order to smoke out anyone trying to find info about them via the internet. Are the tin foil hats not tight enough today? This is the freaking CIA, they invented the mind-control ray! (No matter what the NSA would like you to believe).

  10. Re:a troll on Discovering Bottlenecks in PCs Built for Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Did you even read the question?

  11. Re:Which RE4 did he play? on Black Review · · Score: 1

    A second person game would suck. It would have no controls and you would just watch your character go through the game.

  12. Re:Yeah Great Site.. on Trekkie Dating, is it Good for the Gene Pool? · · Score: 1

    Russia? China? Australia? Canada? (Is Canada bigger? I'm not sure). Am I missing one?

  13. Re:My wife found me online on Trekkie Dating, is it Good for the Gene Pool? · · Score: 1

    We have our first anniversary coming up in June, and have yet to have a fight or even cross words.

    That's not good... You have to fight about something, sometime. I hope the two of you aren't secretly nursing hurt feelings that you won't express in order to "keep the peace". Either that or your wife is a fembot.

  14. Re:Anyone else Railed-out? on Exploring Active Record · · Score: 1

    It turned out that I'd forgotten two (), and was now instantiating a variable instead off accessing the setter function. Which leads me to a problem I have with Ruby: the fact that function calls do not need (). Syntactically this is confusing.

    There's an easy solution to this particular problem, just ALWAYS use ().

  15. Re:Anyone else Railed-out? on Exploring Active Record · · Score: 1

    This is why I think working in the opposite way to Rails - designing your data model in terms of classes and letting the ORM product generate a schema from that (still DRY, but in the other direction) makes far more sense - I can move my apps between those databases with no effort at all.

    If you want to do web apps in ruby in that style, you should try Nitro + Og.

  16. Re:Still waking up on Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, hot liquids and milk, the curdling thing.

  17. Re:Still waking up on Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink! · · Score: 1

    I like milk in the bottom of the cup( before the coffee goes in the cup), no option like that at starbucks. Also starbucks tastes icky.

  18. Re:OMFG! error bars! on Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Chart Tool · · Score: 1

    Its not my decision. I certainly wouldn't mind using Matlab (especially if the school paid for it (well I pay for Excel, but its lumped in with everything else in the bill)), but .doc is format they require. Using OO.org was mostly a tactic to avoid having to reboot into Windows to do my lab reports, although now I have a Mac and Office:mac.

  19. Re:OMFG! error bars! on Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Chart Tool · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I spoke too soon. How do I get y AND x error bars?

  20. OMFG! error bars! on Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Chart Tool · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have been trying to find error bars in OO.org for an eternity, and I see them in one of those screen shots. YES! (I don't have any real statistical need, but they're part of the requirements for my ugrad. physics lab reports. Hopefully it'll all spit out into Microsoft formats correctly)

  21. Re:0.00 defects per infinity lines of code on LAMP Lights the OSS Security Way · · Score: 1

    Even if everything it finds IS a bug (which it may not be) that doesn't mean that it has found ALL the bugs in a given piece of code.

  22. Re:What about printing? on Where is the Real Ajax/Flex Revolution Happening? · · Score: 1

    No dice in Safari :(

  23. Re:Don't Believe the Skype on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's interesting, you can't trap it? Well I guess you probably can' trap an add instruction either now that I think about it.

  24. Re:DMCA/TOS/EULA on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1

    He didn't reverse engineer it in order to copy it.

  25. Re:You think it's bad *now* on College Student Receives Email of the Lost · · Score: 1

    Well I just spent 10cents to try and test that. On my phone (a Sanyo RL-4192) with Sprint as soon as the message is received the text of the message is displayed. I had no opportunity to not download it. Maybe your provider/phone uses a more reasonable system. But I couldn't have denied that message and the associated charge if I wanted to.