Finding 1st Gen books is totally hard nowadays. Nobody has them and mine are covered in coffee stains and beer sludge. I would totally buy the 1st and 2nd Gen rules in PDF!
We tried 3rd gen but it slowed the story down too much.
Not trying to troll, but I just hope the GOOD d&d books will be in PDF -- you know -- the 1st Gen rules and the non-dumb 2nd Gen. rules like THACO.
All the 3rd gen stuff is for video games, IMHO. Seriously who really cares if a stick falls four feet from my character while he's trying to backstab a 4th level ranger from 11.474m and it "may" cause him to lose concentration. By the time you figure out the math the beer is warm and the prezels are gone!
This could be a PR stunt, because any thief stupid enough to steal ALL the black DS units would never be able to sell them without getting caught. On the other hand... maybe Nintendo should hold off on shipping more?
This is one of the best Zen comments I've read on Slashdot, in a long time. There is too much internet clutter and the bottom line is that you can look at each piece of a forest if you want -- each specific twig and rock -- and you can spend your life classifying them all and arguing about the relevance of each item, or you can simply sit under a tree and eat a fig.
I'm on the fence with you on this one. Sometimes a vendor will try and bombard the market with misconceptions just to create enough confusion that the mainstream market will be hypnotized by long enough for the company to make budget. Is that the case with Intel? Not as much as it used to be, because people are onto the way they used to do business. ViiV really hurt Intel. Did you know that the media center ports on HP Media Center systems won't do audio alone? They need the video cable too! Half of my customers buy the AMD Media Center and the other half get the ViiV. How many of them do you think blame ViiV and not HP and not Microsoft?
Where do you point a finger?
It might not even be related to ViiV, but the customer doesn't know it. Their negative experience ties in and compounds the disatisfaction. Because they knew they bought a ViiV -- they remember that.
There are a lot of forces working against Intel... including bad design on systems running it. So anything else might tip the scales one way but certainly not the other...
You have a point about the Intel thing, there. Just like the response time on a monitor -- if the benchmarks come from the manufacturer, how valid can they truly be? Where are the stips?
Point is -- Core 2 Extreme has great specs but the map and the landscape are wholly different. Time will tell.
This is a great example of logical thinking. I'm curious though... what would you suggest we do for all the people who are currently entrenched in copyright? What purpose could they service society?
I propose we take many of them and enrich outerspace with their remains -- spread the DNA a little around.
Scanning books is ideal for rapid human progress. While we're at it, the concept of the library is also the epicenter of p2p. Yet, money -- better yet, grant money, restricts the natural development of humanity. Therefore if power is a weed, the ultimate power must be anarchy (or should I say LIBERTY).
True story and a kind of interesting local example of what I'm talking about:
I live on a very long dead-end road. They fixed the mouth of the road I live on a while back -- it used to be a fork but now it's a 3-way stop. There was once a very dangerous fork at the mouth of the street and some neighbours complained about drainage problems when it rained (then sent the flooding bill to the town hall). The town met on the subject, and figured they would simply kill two birds with one stone, so they rebuilt the fork to make it less dangerous when they reconstructed the drainage for the whole area.
Because my street is LONG, the bulk of the people in the area live on the road that feeds up the NEW stop sign. When it was a fork, there was a YEILD sign so you could quickly look down the TINY side street and quickly go.
You would understand if you could see the way they reconstructed this area -- it makes no sense whatsoever to have a stop sign there. It should be a thoroughfare.
Guess how many people stop at the new stop sign now that the street has been "repaired"? About one in fifty.
If a law is stupid, you are obligated to break it because that is the essence of what liberty is!
Peter Lada is the only design to survive the slashdotting so he should win. The other designs must soak up too much bandwidth. I wonder how they would fair on Slashdot's own servers or if this is just a configuration thing?
Hmmm... that name is familiar. Oh yes... not to be confused with Lada.
His design looks more like Porsche to me! Good job, Peter!;-)
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Why not? Just scan them on and add them to the PDFs yourself!
Finding 1st Gen books is totally hard nowadays. Nobody has them and mine are covered in coffee stains and beer sludge. I would totally buy the 1st and 2nd Gen rules in PDF!
We tried 3rd gen but it slowed the story down too much.
Not trying to troll, but I just hope the GOOD d&d books will be in PDF -- you know -- the 1st Gen rules and the non-dumb 2nd Gen. rules like THACO.
All the 3rd gen stuff is for video games, IMHO. Seriously who really cares if a stick falls four feet from my character while he's trying to backstab a 4th level ranger from 11.474m and it "may" cause him to lose concentration. By the time you figure out the math the beer is warm and the prezels are gone!
At least death doesn't get WORSE every year!!!
Yeah but would thieves sell them in Asia or Europe?
Yes, please add the word LITE in your photo. Otherwise -- they both fit the same description.
This could be a PR stunt, because any thief stupid enough to steal ALL the black DS units would never be able to sell them without getting caught. On the other hand... maybe Nintendo should hold off on shipping more?
Here's a mugshot of the evidence.
If you love God, why not read up on his work?
... cause major problems with the globally accepted definition of vapourware. My god, what if the damn game actually gets released?
What would the kittens do?
It's just the early phases of the New Death Star. Just wait till they launch it towards their moon complex.
This is one of the best Zen comments I've read on Slashdot, in a long time. There is too much internet clutter and the bottom line is that you can look at each piece of a forest if you want -- each specific twig and rock -- and you can spend your life classifying them all and arguing about the relevance of each item, or you can simply sit under a tree and eat a fig.
I don't mind. Mac trolls windows users with their ads -- so it's fair game.
I'm on the fence with you on this one. Sometimes a vendor will try and bombard the market with misconceptions just to create enough confusion that the mainstream market will be hypnotized by long enough for the company to make budget. Is that the case with Intel? Not as much as it used to be, because people are onto the way they used to do business. ViiV really hurt Intel. Did you know that the media center ports on HP Media Center systems won't do audio alone? They need the video cable too! Half of my customers buy the AMD Media Center and the other half get the ViiV. How many of them do you think blame ViiV and not HP and not Microsoft?
Where do you point a finger?
It might not even be related to ViiV, but the customer doesn't know it. Their negative experience ties in and compounds the disatisfaction. Because they knew they bought a ViiV -- they remember that.
There are a lot of forces working against Intel... including bad design on systems running it. So anything else might tip the scales one way but certainly not the other...
You have a point about the Intel thing, there. Just like the response time on a monitor -- if the benchmarks come from the manufacturer, how valid can they truly be? Where are the stips?
Point is -- Core 2 Extreme has great specs but the map and the landscape are wholly different. Time will tell.
... that it's all about killing them at exactly the right moment.
That's an easy one because 15% of all software is just garbage. The rest is open source and you can't pirate that.
It's called Linux.
Says the Goose.
We just spent $30k on a new server. Now we will have to upgrade!
... a worthy opponent against the RIAA.
I hope XM tears em a new one.
This is a great example of logical thinking. I'm curious though... what would you suggest we do for all the people who are currently entrenched in copyright? What purpose could they service society?
I propose we take many of them and enrich outerspace with their remains -- spread the DNA a little around.
The rest, could work in mines.
The bulk of them would simply entertain us.
Scanning books is ideal for rapid human progress. While we're at it, the concept of the library is also the epicenter of p2p. Yet, money -- better yet, grant money, restricts the natural development of humanity. Therefore if power is a weed, the ultimate power must be anarchy (or should I say LIBERTY).
True story and a kind of interesting local example of what I'm talking about:
I live on a very long dead-end road. They fixed the mouth of the road I live on a while back -- it used to be a fork but now it's a 3-way stop. There was once a very dangerous fork at the mouth of the street and some neighbours complained about drainage problems when it rained (then sent the flooding bill to the town hall). The town met on the subject, and figured they would simply kill two birds with one stone, so they rebuilt the fork to make it less dangerous when they reconstructed the drainage for the whole area.
Because my street is LONG, the bulk of the people in the area live on the road that feeds up the NEW stop sign. When it was a fork, there was a YEILD sign so you could quickly look down the TINY side street and quickly go.
You would understand if you could see the way they reconstructed this area -- it makes no sense whatsoever to have a stop sign there. It should be a thoroughfare.
Guess how many people stop at the new stop sign now that the street has been "repaired"? About one in fifty.
If a law is stupid, you are obligated to break it because that is the essence of what liberty is!
I've fallen and -- oh you're here already. Thanks.
I'm getting an EXTREME RASH from the use of the word EXTREME. But the other possible marketing buzzword candidate was taken.
Peter Lada is the only design to survive the slashdotting so he should win. The other designs must soak up too much bandwidth. I wonder how they would fair on Slashdot's own servers or if this is just a configuration thing?
;-)
Hmmm... that name is familiar. Oh yes... not to be confused with Lada.
His design looks more like Porsche to me! Good job, Peter!