While I won't go as far as hating a company which is trying to make more money, I see where you are right. WoTC has changed the D&D way. It used to be about one off adventures, a minimal rulebook environement and a large amount of leeway for the DM.
Things have changed of course. D&D has grown into the largest system, encompassing many settings with a user base so large they feel they can milk it for profit indefinitely. At the same time, WoW is the hot new thing, a competitor to D&D like none before. Sales of the core books are probably slipping at this point and the 3.5 is unstable, so it's the perfect time to make a new edition.
However, it seems to me that this edition is likely the Vista of D&D as another./er pointed out. The features will be there, but it looks to me that a great deal of its design is around "how to make more money from our player base", rather then "how do we make a better game?"
Oh, and a blind friend of mine discounted the whole 4Th edition when I told him about the visual, computer based enhancements. I just don't see WoTC going out of their way to make a blind friendly online system.
Anyone who played the Net extension knows that computers secretly drain your Quintessence. That's the real threat, my friends. Now, march onwards, Virtual Adepts, and bring your Elite laptop.
No see, you obviously don't understand what's going on here. You work for the electricity and a nice computer, and the bot stays home and raises the characters. You are being used, and you don't even know it!
I say break out of this abusive relationship before it gets nasty and goes to divorce.
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And the stock market crash happened in 1929, four years after, the gdp wwent down. So by that figure, it gives us another 2 years to see the effect of the over investing bubble. And don't forget, we'll have a war to slow our bustling economy...
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People gets side tracked so easily. Some blame the generation, some blame people who have made bad decisions. But the article, in the very last paragraphs, points to the real cause.
And of the wealth the boom created, the richest households gobbled up a disproportionate amount.
And I agree completly with that statement, after reading some facts about the distribution of wealth in North America, and in the World. It's not all our fault, as Enron and WOlrdCom's greed pointed out.
I had moderation access, but I just had to reply to this. I had essentially the same idea about two weeks ago. I saw things a bit differently, thought. I think the server posting the link should check back on the url (and sub-url's) to see if it has been slashdotted, and if so, serve up a page cached before posting to the main news board.
This would go on until the story moved down or the server recovered. "Assisted serving", we shall say.
Of course, Slashdot could check on the server and if it goes down, then do as you suggested and link to a P2P network. That would be good.
Our entire financial system needs to be tweaked; if one person or group ends up taking the blame for an entire economy's faults, it will end up being an injustice to everyone in the United States.
First part true, however it requires more than tweaks, but complete reconstruction without using debt+interest as the mean of money creation. Second part false. There is a good reason for people to be angry at MR Bush, and it's got to do with his team, which essentially came out from the Enron team. And, looking at the past of Mr Bush, you'll see that he used more then the Harken energy situation to enrich himself. Strong allegations point to his dealing with the Texas rangers team, which was bought by a mystery investor, just after Mr Bush, as governor, had passed legislation to allow the University of Texas to hide its investments. So, that's two financial scandals, and not just one.
As for the president not knowing about the s11, that may or may not be true, but there is either criminal incompetency, or the willful creation of a situation similar to Pearl Harbor(ignored foreknowledge). As ONE example, please explain how the Pentagon was struck if they are passed all relevant air traffic information, receiving by their own admission the warning 50 minutes before the collision, as well as having the Andrews airbase just beside them? 50 minutes.
Please also remember than Bush was not elected, but selected. There has been scandal after scandal with this admin, and they try to keep everything hidden. That does not restore confidence in markets, and neither does passing ineffective legislation. To me, it seems likely that S11 and the economic crisis are interrelated. Check out this page about predictions back in 1999 about a crash occuring in 2001-2002, and the suggested probable solutions the administration would use, including declaring war, pushing for a massive tax cut and deregulation the Saving and Loans (without mentionning the little accounting trick of using YOUR retirement money to finance what was a surplus)
First thing that came to my mind. Just after S11, a string of researchers around the world found a large deviation from the norm of sources of randomness which they were observing.
A sec while I google this. There for example, a study which suggests 1)that the world is linked as Gaia, 2) there was forknowledge of the events, as the curve of randomness deviated from it's baseline about 2 hours before the strikes.
Wait a sec. I googled coffee, and I saw plenty of the bad stuff it can do. High-pressure, hardening of arteries, decreased blood flow to the brain. But still, heart attack or senility?
I'm not a musician, but I am a writer/poet, and also a programmer.
And so am I.
I would never GPL my stories or poems. The reason: there's a lot more intrinsic value in my writings, and it means a lot more to me emotionally, whereas software is purely intellectual and hard work.
I ask the permission to politely disagree. By taking your comment and adjusting them to my views, I have essentially GPL'ed what you were saying. The reality is the bits and bytes, just like music, as soon as released, belong to all of us. The common intelligence.
Of course, the comment is still yours, but let me ask you honestly: why do you write? If it is just for yourself, then I agree you should be able to copyright it. But you want to communicate with others, right? And you know what Kundera had to say about immortality, that whatever we create will, in some future, not be respected, but deformed to be adjusted to whatever present political cause, or intellectual point the people want to make. And look! That's what I have done with your comment. Want to stop me? Stop creating!
I get attached to what I write, be it software or stories. But in the reality that we live in, there is nothing to prevent another person from taking bits of inspiration from all the places around, and melting them together in their own, individual way. Unless we the recipients, choose to respect the content, forever. And that leads to religion (or any sort of -ism), and you know were those lead to.
I am not an editor, but I have taken the liberty to correct a small mistake in your posting (nad). Would you like to protect your property against my challenge, and revert the change to a non-existing word?
Seriously, having stickers will make a few people laugh, but is it a real way to change things? I don't think so.
After hearing the news of Palladium, I begun to ponder on ways to dramatically increase the Linux base. The best way I have found so far is to approach educational institutions. My university, for example, has a huge people-to-computer ratio, and I suspect that the reason we don't have more computers is that the average users knows only Windows. Since windows machine are a pain to operate ($$$) and the license (more $$$) go into the university budget (more teachers or more machines?) and the fact that computers are inexpensive, they try to push off the responsability of fair education on the student side.
Ironically, there are rooms filled with x11 terminals to unix system, which are nearly empty. The users who want to get into the system have to personally request access, instead of this being standard, or going with a guest account.
So when I get back, I hope to push the student assosciation into making real noise about this lack of access problem. At the same time, approach the Linux base we have, and get them involved to teach the newbies that the switch is not nearly so painfull.
Universities are really worth our time: they have huge visibility, the people coming out of there are the future leaders of ours societies, and are a few thousand strong of smart individuals, capable of installing Linux and using it.
If there are any people reading this that are from the University of Montréal, write to me or something. It's time to push. As we say in french, Pousse, mais pousse égal.
All very nice, except I still have no idea what a movie night chair is. It seems you are talking about the school chairs, except that I have sit through many models, ie complete wood, part plastic part metal, complete metal.
I googled movie night chair, and unsurprisingly, I found nothing on the net. I'd love to see what one of these chairs look like, so I'd know what to look for.
Well, how about this? This is great news considering that the States want to attack the P2P networks . Now the P2P networks will have a place to hide, because it will prove to be challenging to selectively remove the USA users, while avoiding those in the UK.
From the article:
And what if some government thinks that Palladium protects information too much? So far, the United States doesn't seem to have a problem, but less tolerant nations might insist on a "back door" that would allow it to wiretap and search people's data. There would be problems in implementing this, um, feature.
Ok, so let's think. The USA will have the We-Own-Your-Computer bill (remember this ships in 2004), so of course they don't mind. The EU, on the other hand, already has a privacy bill. I wonder what the EU, which is already investigating Microsoft on the Passport system, will think of this one?
So, all my secure information will be available for any nation to come and read?? Just who is secure here?
The manufacturers are going to be extremely happy about this. It's the only way for them to get people to buy computers again, since most people computers computer are powerful enough for their daily application. And when enough early adopters buy it, it's going to snowball, ie: child can't talk to mother because his system is secure and her's isn't.
But, seriously, if they do get this Palladium to work, then I am not going to use computers again. What will be the point? It's going to remove all freedom from computers, essentially turning them into TV's.
In a world chasing imaginary terrorists for purely propaganda reasons, though, I'd certainly see that average people will want it.
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While I won't go as far as hating a company which is trying to make more money, I see where you are right. WoTC has changed the D&D way. It used to be about one off adventures, a minimal rulebook environement and a large amount of leeway for the DM.
./er pointed out. The features will be there, but it looks to me that a great deal of its design is around "how to make more money from our player base", rather then "how do we make a better game?"
Things have changed of course. D&D has grown into the largest system, encompassing many settings with a user base so large they feel they can milk it for profit indefinitely. At the same time, WoW is the hot new thing, a competitor to D&D like none before. Sales of the core books are probably slipping at this point and the 3.5 is unstable, so it's the perfect time to make a new edition.
However, it seems to me that this edition is likely the Vista of D&D as another
Oh, and a blind friend of mine discounted the whole 4Th edition when I told him about the visual, computer based enhancements. I just don't see WoTC going out of their way to make a blind friendly online system.
Anyone who played the Net extension knows that computers secretly drain your Quintessence. That's the real threat, my friends. Now, march onwards, Virtual Adepts, and bring your Elite laptop.
Your sig. La Rochefoucauld.
Step one: Submit story on high performance web servers.
Step two: ???
Step three: Die of massive slashdotting, loss of reputation and business
Still, if someone has a link to a cache...
Grammar patrol.
how in the world are they going to know which account his is
is his?
No see, you obviously don't understand what's going on here. You work for the electricity and a nice computer, and the bot stays home and raises the characters. You are being used, and you don't even know it!
I say break out of this abusive relationship before it gets nasty and goes to divorce.
And the stock market crash happened in 1929, four years after, the gdp wwent down. So by that figure, it gives us another 2 years to see the effect of the over investing bubble. And don't forget, we'll have a war to slow our bustling economy...
People gets side tracked so easily. Some blame the generation, some blame people who have made bad decisions. But the article, in the very last paragraphs, points to the real cause.
And of the wealth the boom created, the richest households gobbled up a disproportionate amount.
And I agree completly with that statement, after reading some facts about the distribution of wealth in North America, and in the World. It's not all our fault, as Enron and WOlrdCom's greed pointed out.
I had moderation access, but I just had to reply to this. I had essentially the same idea about two weeks ago. I saw things a bit differently, thought. I think the server posting the link should check back on the url (and sub-url's) to see if it has been slashdotted, and if so, serve up a page cached before posting to the main news board.
This would go on until the story moved down or the server recovered. "Assisted serving", we shall say.
Of course, Slashdot could check on the server and if it goes down, then do as you suggested and link to a P2P network. That would be good.
Our entire financial system needs to be tweaked; if one person or group ends up taking the blame for an entire economy's faults, it will end up being an injustice to everyone in the United States.
First part true, however it requires more than tweaks, but complete reconstruction without using debt+interest as the mean of money creation. Second part false. There is a good reason for people to be angry at MR Bush, and it's got to do with his team, which essentially came out from the Enron team. And, looking at the past of Mr Bush, you'll see that he used more then the Harken energy situation to enrich himself. Strong allegations point to his dealing with the Texas rangers team, which was bought by a mystery investor, just after Mr Bush, as governor, had passed legislation to allow the University of Texas to hide its investments. So, that's two financial scandals, and not just one.
As for the president not knowing about the s11, that may or may not be true, but there is either criminal incompetency, or the willful creation of a situation similar to Pearl Harbor(ignored foreknowledge). As ONE example, please explain how the Pentagon was struck if they are passed all relevant air traffic information, receiving by their own admission the warning 50 minutes before the collision, as well as having the Andrews airbase just beside them? 50 minutes.
Please also remember than Bush was not elected, but selected. There has been scandal after scandal with this admin, and they try to keep everything hidden. That does not restore confidence in markets, and neither does passing ineffective legislation. To me, it seems likely that S11 and the economic crisis are interrelated. Check out this page about predictions back in 1999 about a crash occuring in 2001-2002, and the suggested probable solutions the administration would use, including declaring war, pushing for a massive tax cut and deregulation the Saving and Loans (without mentionning the little accounting trick of using YOUR retirement money to finance what was a surplus)
Totally agree with you here.
First thing that came to my mind. Just after S11, a string of researchers around the world found a large deviation from the norm of sources of randomness which they were observing.
A sec while I google this. There for example, a study which suggests 1)that the world is linked as Gaia, 2) there was forknowledge of the events, as the curve of randomness deviated from it's baseline about 2 hours before the strikes.
Wait a sec. I googled coffee, and I saw plenty of the bad stuff it can do. High-pressure, hardening of arteries, decreased blood flow to the brain. But still, heart attack or senility?
I'm not a musician, but I am a writer/poet, and also a programmer.
And so am I.
I would never GPL my stories or poems. The reason: there's a lot more intrinsic value in my writings, and it means a lot more to me emotionally, whereas software is purely intellectual and hard work.
I ask the permission to politely disagree. By taking your comment and adjusting them to my views, I have essentially GPL'ed what you were saying. The reality is the bits and bytes, just like music, as soon as released, belong to all of us. The common intelligence.
Of course, the comment is still yours, but let me ask you honestly: why do you write? If it is just for yourself, then I agree you should be able to copyright it. But you want to communicate with others, right? And you know what Kundera had to say about immortality, that whatever we create will, in some future, not be respected, but deformed to be adjusted to whatever present political cause, or intellectual point the people want to make. And look! That's what I have done with your comment. Want to stop me? Stop creating!
I get attached to what I write, be it software or stories. But in the reality that we live in, there is nothing to prevent another person from taking bits of inspiration from all the places around, and melting them together in their own, individual way. Unless we the recipients, choose to respect the content, forever. And that leads to religion (or any sort of -ism), and you know were those lead to.
I am not an editor, but I have taken the liberty to correct a small mistake in your posting (nad). Would you like to protect your property against my challenge, and revert the change to a non-existing word?
We already have enough minuses on our side - don't act like 3 Charisma morons.
In Vampire, 3 dots of charisma is very good. Sorry, I couldn't resist. But I entirely agree with what your saying.
Seriously, having stickers will make a few people laugh, but is it a real way to change things? I don't think so.
After hearing the news of Palladium, I begun to ponder on ways to dramatically increase the Linux base. The best way I have found so far is to approach educational institutions. My university, for example, has a huge people-to-computer ratio, and I suspect that the reason we don't have more computers is that the average users knows only Windows. Since windows machine are a pain to operate ($$$) and the license (more $$$) go into the university budget (more teachers or more machines?) and the fact that computers are inexpensive, they try to push off the responsability of fair education on the student side.
Ironically, there are rooms filled with x11 terminals to unix system, which are nearly empty. The users who want to get into the system have to personally request access, instead of this being standard, or going with a guest account.
So when I get back, I hope to push the student assosciation into making real noise about this lack of access problem. At the same time, approach the Linux base we have, and get them involved to teach the newbies that the switch is not nearly so painfull.
Universities are really worth our time: they have huge visibility, the people coming out of there are the future leaders of ours societies, and are a few thousand strong of smart individuals, capable of installing Linux and using it.
If there are any people reading this that are from the University of Montréal, write to me or something. It's time to push. As we say in french, Pousse, mais pousse égal.
Just a few days ago on /., there was this article which talks about reduced risks of getting Alzheimer if drinking 3 or more coffees a day.
Why would I want to get rid of the ingredient that actually does anything good?
All very nice, except I still have no idea what a movie night chair is. It seems you are talking about the school chairs, except that I have sit through many models, ie complete wood, part plastic part metal, complete metal. I googled movie night chair, and unsurprisingly, I found nothing on the net. I'd love to see what one of these chairs look like, so I'd know what to look for.
nucleosis? Doesn't anyone doing stuff for Microsoft these days come up with names *other* then toxic, deadly, contagious stuff?
To provide excuses for any action. Destroying the world's most peaceful creatures because we want to kill each other is ironic and disgusting.
Well, how about this? This is great news considering that the States want to attack the P2P networks . Now the P2P networks will have a place to hide, because it will prove to be challenging to selectively remove the USA users, while avoiding those in the UK.
All in all, great news
Sorry to dissappoint you. Chocolate and red wine are both excellent for your health.
From the article: And what if some government thinks that Palladium protects information too much? So far, the United States doesn't seem to have a problem, but less tolerant nations might insist on a "back door" that would allow it to wiretap and search people's data. There would be problems in implementing this, um, feature.
Ok, so let's think. The USA will have the We-Own-Your-Computer bill (remember this ships in 2004), so of course they don't mind. The EU, on the other hand, already has a privacy bill. I wonder what the EU, which is already investigating Microsoft on the Passport system, will think of this one?
So, all my secure information will be available for any nation to come and read?? Just who is secure here?
The manufacturers are going to be extremely happy about this. It's the only way for them to get people to buy computers again, since most people computers computer are powerful enough for their daily application. And when enough early adopters buy it, it's going to snowball, ie: child can't talk to mother because his system is secure and her's isn't.
But, seriously, if they do get this Palladium to work, then I am not going to use computers again. What will be the point? It's going to remove all freedom from computers, essentially turning them into TV's.
In a world chasing imaginary terrorists for purely propaganda reasons, though, I'd certainly see that average people will want it.
Sad.