No the problem is that D&D sucks... Now Rolemaster from ICE thats a real system for real RPers and is much deserving of being ported. Then we would have real RPGs instead of this let me lead you down a story junk that comes from most other CRPGs. And yes I am a fan of Bethesda's TES series
No sitting naked in the woods breathing I am a) Part of the environment and possibly B) Dying of hypothermia or C) Critter food depending on the location of said woods and time of year
DO people simply not realize that all of these "Renewable" methods alter the environment? It can range from minor actions such as changing tidal patterns to larger ones that can lead to major changes over time. Don;t get me wrong I fully support renawable sources for energy but people do need to realize that the energy does have to come from somewhere. One windmill will not change much in the way of air patterns but hundreds of farms certainly will. For anecdotal evidence I provide this slightly off topic rant about my childhood home of Dallas Texas: Every year it seams that teh summers are getting wetter and wetter, As it turns out they really are and it is due primarily to teh changing of the eco system by people who want green lawns and pools, Grass releases much more moisture into the air ( especially with maint and watering) than does sage bruch and the like and damming up the rivers creates lakes ( there are no natural lakes in Texas) and increases evaporation again. The result: Much more atmospheric moisture increasing heat (perceptual (I would rather it be 110 and 15% humidity than 110 and raining)and real (moisture traps heat much more effectively than simple air))
And Jet Blue (aka AVGas & Jet A) in the UK is 103 - 107 Octane Or it was when I was first learning to fly down at Lashden Airfield in Kent some 14 years ago. Besides which, I would look gormless driving my STS from the wrong side of the car:)
Umm "Dude" no it doesnt AVGas is typically has a 100 Octane rating (r+m)/2 Jet A, Jet a-1 and Jet b run from 100 - 130 Octane ratings Fightercraft effectively run kerosine aka jet a-1 with additives at 130 Octane+ ratings. so I don't know where you buy your fuel but if you are snagging 100+ octane rated fuels let me know 'cause I will increase the compression on my STS or add a paxton centrifugal supercharger and come visit. For more information on fuel grades check out our friends at the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company's.ca division
In actuality I think you would find Mac Users tend to be at the extremes of the populous. I did a few quick searches and unfortunately could not find any demographics for Macintosh users in general but anicdotally I know several high level engineering teams use it and so does my grandmother (talk about your technical extremes) I recommend a Mac to anyone who just wants things to work.
It's installed on everyone's machine, it's very hard to remove
How exactly is dragging it into the trash to remove it hard?
While I tend to agree that Quicktime is not a "big black box waiting to be exploited" You will find that QuickTime is much more than the few applications you find in your applications folder. If you were to actually delete all of quick time you would have some serious issues with OS X. It is possibel to run Darwin sans Quicktime and it MAY be possible to run OS X sans it but I have never heard of anyone trying let alone being sucsessful at it. Quicktime is very tightly integrated into the UI and OS.
And the name of the virus was? Can you verify it was a virus for us?
There are several things that can take down a drive including severe corruption but that doesn't make it a virus. Any chance you still have a copy of the virus on a backup or did you have an AV scan it and find it?
no the initial argument was that PHP was by definition insecure not just in a shared environ, further nowhere did I say I was afraid to do anything, on teh other hand as I have said it is a medical application, and to be honest runs on a cluster of over 60 machines so its not like there would be any room for anyone else anyways. I will say that I would like to be able to run several instances of php seperately, and to the best of my knowledge that is not a trivial issue. I don't care what OS you run on (QNX is what we are looking at for the next project), but when you are dealing with federal medical regulations you dont let anything else play on your systems, to do so could mean big fines and even possibel jail time.
you aren't going to get hared hosting on one of my machines... plain and simple. Not only do we own the machines but the racks they sit in and the routers they connect with. We just lease the floor space, and the net connections. Again your argument is invalid, though thats expected for an AC.
And how are you going to comprimise the scripts? With good implementation none of the user input data is trusted anyways. PHP is sandboxed and will not allow any scripts outside of a particular directory to execute, and on our systems that directory is on read only media to begin with, SO i suppose yes if you break into the colo facilities manage to find my clusters amongst the racks and change out the storage arrays then I am in trouble otherwise I simply don't see it. Obviously I am not going to disclose details of the system in an open forum other than to say it is built fully from open source, and rivals teh largest listed databases in size and to this day has yet to have a breach. Of course it helps that we are always working to improve it and keep things patched too:) )
You don't like PHP thats fine and dandy. In fact its good because thats why we have a number of diverse languages. However there is no good reason to make such broad sweeping statements, especially when you aren't willing to go on the record as to who you are. I could say things like all windows products suck, but that simply is not true (yes I still like NT3.5x and NT 4 but yu have to know how and where to use them I will stick with my BSD boxes for anything needeing to actually be used). I could say all open source applications are used by terrorists, which would be nearly as silly.
It is quite possible to make PHP very secure, it just takes decent coding and a lot of work. As for scripts being writable by other scripts, well the solution to that is to not allow any scripts other than a select set to be able to run and have none of them writeable, this is how I code for the medical industry.
Fool! as everyone knows all the heavy water is actually in pools at the bottom of the ocean gaurded by giant worms! I mean really they even showed it the Military Documentary Program I saw as a kid. The only way to safely get to the heavy water is shown on the next page where I shows the valiant troops shooting the bases of the giant tubeworms so they begin to float to the lower pressure area of the ocean and released those brave heroes.
Keep data on a removable drive of some type. Don't send documents via email. Your machine may need to be on and connected 24/7 (which I kind of doubt that you couln't segregate some things but you don't want to and that is fine) but that doesn't mean all your data needs to be avaiable online all teh time eitehr. firewire, usb and even hotswappable ata/sata/scsi drives are pretty darned cheap these days, so use one of them after all a hacker can;t get to your data or email if its not there right?
Umm you know who the NSA is right? What you describe is the FBI. Piss off the NSA and you are more likely to find out some or all of the following have occurred:
All your assets are frozen and or transfered
you have posted child porn to a Jesuit newsgroup
Gay photos of you and Osama bin Ladin are on the cover of Time
Your burth certificate shows you are really the bastard child of Hitler and Stalin.
Photos of you and Jane Fonda at an anti war rally have been mailed to several quasi fringe groups in Texas and Montana.
You haven't actually paid taxes for 14 years.
/me Waves to all my friends out at Ft. Meade - You know who you are.
That argument would work if teh numbers were proportional in that manner, however take a look at teh article I found and is now linked to my replay to my previous post in this thread.
After having posted a couple of hours ago I came across this study of movie ratings and box office sales. It is a geocities site, but that aside it is well documented. To quote from it:
An Analysis of Film grosses
Do film ratings effect the box office success of a film? Theoretically, the impact should be minimal. Strictly based on the size of the potential audience, G, PG, and PG-13 rated movies should have an equal probability of success, while R rated films should be slightly less (due to the portion of the audience that is cut off), while X rated films should be the least successful. On the other hand a 'carnal nature' analysis would indicate that the most obscene movies would attract the greatest audiences, with people desiring to see the 'forbidden fruit' of R and X rated films, while wanting to avoid the child play of G rated films. Furthermore, since the price of adult admission is higher than that for children, the adult films have another advantage in the quest for the box office dollar. In the first ten years of the modern rating system, it was found that from the implementation of the modern rating system that as a whole, more R rated films were produced than any other film type.[7]However, these restricted films were much less successful than their unrestricted counterparts. The G-rated films, though viewed as "box-office poison" were produced in the fewest number, yet enjoyed very high success ratios. The theory of movie ratings and their impact on the success of a film were analyzed to determine the success of the ratings system. Does the system appear to produce the films that the public desires? Does the system allow the motion picture companies to maximize profits? Is artistic freedom enhanced by the implementation of the rating system? In order to determine the conclusion to these problems, the ratings of films were compared with their box office gross. Furthermore the trend of the ratings were analyzed over time. The analysis led to a system similar to that found earlier[8], in which the number of restricted films, while enjoying a lower level of profitability were being produced in increasingly greater number. The most popular films continue to be those that are not restricted.
I was unable to find any definate statistics as for percentages of movies made. average box office sales etc unfortunately. I can say that no R rated movie is in the top 20 highest grossing films of all time nor was there one for 2003. yet appearently the majority of movies released are rated R. You can also find teh listing of top movies as adjusted by inflation here
Why are people raising such a furor over this Newby is teh CEO of Project Gutenberg. There is no relationship because PG is a non profit or
Donations are made to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF), a corporation registered in the US State of Mississippi. PGLAF is approved as a charitable 501(c)(3) organization by the US Internal Revenue Service, and has the Federal Employee Information Number (EIN) 64-6221541.
so of course there is "no relationship" between them and a group running a for profit enterprise. Do a little bit of research before you start shouting sue ESPECIALLY THE LAWYERS WHO HAVE POSTED Call up pg and tell them their tradmark is being depreciated and while your on the phone with teh ceo you can ask the registrar of pg2 why he is infringing because they are the same person. Different legal entities but the same physical person.
1) Sorry, I certainly neither type nor spell very well, I guess that comes from spending more time in the sciences and less time in grammar and typing classes. 2)They are appearently not that obvious if they were missed initially. 3)Corrections? I am sorry I am unsure of what yu are implying 4)My citations were made in my original post all data may be obtained from the IUPAC site. 5)Well then dont read my posts. If you think my attitude is vindictive, well I am sorry you read it that was but you are most certainly entitled you your opinion
Of course when I critisize a post or issue I do so on teh record rather than as an anonymous coward (slashdot's term not mine)
Mayhaps but not a very good one it would seem from your non-conversivness of the subject.
Technically O is 1s(2) 2S(2) 2P(4)
H is 1S(1)
Gven that the exact location of an electron cannot be determined with out affectsing it (heisenburg) we define teh electron orbitial probability paths based on the quantum energy states they respersent and refer to them as shells
Attractve force between and two objects is inversly proportional as to the square of the seperating distance
The actual electronegativity delta between O and H disregarding all other factors is 1.34 not 1.4
The hydrogen bond is caused by the differental displacement of the Oxigen's P shell and its affinity for the Hydrogren's single 1S electron.
Without the aformentioned polar covalency ( see your post) which is just a fancy term for a covalent bond with SIGNIFIGANT ionic properties ( for those of you who do not know only 2 atoms of the exacy same electronegativities will ever share a truly covalent bond ever other bond exhibits some level of ionic interaction. Conversly the archtypical ionic bond NaCl shows some signigigant covalent properties also) the increase in potential energy from the removal of an S1 electron would be a much higher value, however due to the ionic nature of the polar covalent bond the said delta increase is offset by the Hydrogen ion (just a proton in the vast majority of cases else we are deling with isotopes) forming a bond with another H2O molecule forming the H3O+ ion.
Finally I will note again that the presence of signifigant numbers of these ion (HO- and H3O+) in pure water is why i stated
Actually the OH- pair is considered to be ionicly bonded to the H+ ion (or really to an H3O+)
please note the phrasing rather deliberately used... CONSIDERED... not is.
with me so far Mr Chemist? Now are you a chemist or a student who will be when he grows up one day? Not to be terribly harsh but when you put a smiley after you IAAC and use wiki for citations on scientific matters I start to have my doubts. Am I a chemist? Hardly but I certainly did take grad classes in both Chem and Materials sciences. I deal with and build laser systems (so I know a little something practically about atomic valances and their quantium states) as part of my part time job as a security consultant and the rest of my time I spend in seminary or writing medical database applications.
However the name hydrogen hydroxide is incorrect since that would indicate that the OH part of HOH (H2O ) is an ion and that the extra hydrogen is ionically bonded to it. This is not the case, in H2O both hydrogens are covalently bonded to the central oxygen atom.
Actually the OH- pair is considered to be ionicly bonded to the H+ ion (or really to an H3O+). Where do yo think we get pH from? pH is defined as the inverse exponent of H3O+ concentration. example: Pure water has a concentration of 1x10(-7) (sorry cant do superscripts) and thus has a pH of 7, NaOH 4% has a concentration of 1x10(-13) and so a pH of 13 and HCl 4% aqueus a concentration of 1x10(-0) thus a pH of 0. You really should check your electronegativies before saying bonds are covalent. This is pretty basic chemistry and explains amongst other things why water is liquid at livable temperatures for we humans and many other phenomenon. You can find more about naming of chemical structures via IUPAC the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists
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No the problem is that D&D sucks ... Now Rolemaster from ICE thats a real system for real RPers and is much deserving of being ported. Then we would have real RPGs instead of this let me lead you down a story junk that comes from most other CRPGs. And yes I am a fan of Bethesda's TES series
No sitting naked in the woods breathing I am a) Part of the environment and possibly B) Dying of hypothermia or C) Critter food depending on the location of said woods and time of year
DO people simply not realize that all of these "Renewable" methods alter the environment? It can range from minor actions such as changing tidal patterns to larger ones that can lead to major changes over time. Don;t get me wrong I fully support renawable sources for energy but people do need to realize that the energy does have to come from somewhere. One windmill will not change much in the way of air patterns but hundreds of farms certainly will. For anecdotal evidence I provide this slightly off topic rant about my childhood home of Dallas Texas: Every year it seams that teh summers are getting wetter and wetter, As it turns out they really are and it is due primarily to teh changing of the eco system by people who want green lawns and pools, Grass releases much more moisture into the air ( especially with maint and watering) than does sage bruch and the like and damming up the rivers creates lakes ( there are no natural lakes in Texas) and increases evaporation again. The result: Much more atmospheric moisture increasing heat (perceptual (I would rather it be 110 and 15% humidity than 110 and raining)and real (moisture traps heat much more effectively than simple air))
And Jet Blue (aka AVGas & Jet A) in the UK is 103 - 107 Octane Or it was when I was first learning to fly down at Lashden Airfield in Kent some 14 years ago. Besides which, I would look gormless driving my STS from the wrong side of the car :)
Umm "Dude" no it doesnt .ca division
AVGas is typically has a 100 Octane rating (r+m)/2
Jet A, Jet a-1 and Jet b run from 100 - 130 Octane ratings
Fightercraft effectively run kerosine aka jet a-1 with additives at 130 Octane+ ratings. so I don't know where you buy your fuel but if you are snagging 100+ octane rated fuels let me know 'cause I will increase the compression on my STS or add a paxton centrifugal supercharger and come visit. For more information on fuel grades check out our friends at the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company's
In actuality I think you would find Mac Users tend to be at the extremes of the populous. I did a few quick searches and unfortunately could not find any demographics for Macintosh users in general but anicdotally I know several high level engineering teams use it and so does my grandmother (talk about your technical extremes) I recommend a Mac to anyone who just wants things to work.
While I tend to agree that Quicktime is not a "big black box waiting to be exploited" You will find that QuickTime is much more than the few applications you find in your applications folder. If you were to actually delete all of quick time you would have some serious issues with OS X. It is possibel to run Darwin sans Quicktime and it MAY be possible to run OS X sans it but I have never heard of anyone trying let alone being sucsessful at it. Quicktime is very tightly integrated into the UI and OS.
And the name of the virus was?
Can you verify it was a virus for us?
There are several things that can take down a drive including severe corruption but that doesn't make it a virus. Any chance you still have a copy of the virus on a backup or did you have an AV scan it and find it?
no the initial argument was that PHP was by definition insecure not just in a shared environ, further nowhere did I say I was afraid to do anything, on teh other hand as I have said it is a medical application, and to be honest runs on a cluster of over 60 machines so its not like there would be any room for anyone else anyways. I will say that I would like to be able to run several instances of php seperately, and to the best of my knowledge that is not a trivial issue. I don't care what OS you run on (QNX is what we are looking at for the next project), but when you are dealing with federal medical regulations you dont let anything else play on your systems, to do so could mean big fines and even possibel jail time.
you aren't going to get hared hosting on one of my machines ... plain and simple. Not only do we own the machines but the racks they sit in and the routers they connect with. We just lease the floor space, and the net connections. Again your argument is invalid, though thats expected for an AC.
And how are you going to comprimise the scripts? With good implementation none of the user input data is trusted anyways. PHP is sandboxed and will not allow any scripts outside of a particular directory to execute, and on our systems that directory is on read only media to begin with, SO i suppose yes if you break into the colo facilities manage to find my clusters amongst the racks and change out the storage arrays then I am in trouble otherwise I simply don't see it. Obviously I am not going to disclose details of the system in an open forum other than to say it is built fully from open source, and rivals teh largest listed databases in size and to this day has yet to have a breach. Of course it helps that we are always working to improve it and keep things patched too :) )
You don't like PHP thats fine and dandy. In fact its good because thats why we have a number of diverse languages. However there is no good reason to make such broad sweeping statements, especially when you aren't willing to go on the record as to who you are. I could say things like all windows products suck, but that simply is not true (yes I still like NT3.5x and NT 4 but yu have to know how and where to use them I will stick with my BSD boxes for anything needeing to actually be used). I could say all open source applications are used by terrorists, which would be nearly as silly.
It is quite possible to make PHP very secure, it just takes decent coding and a lot of work. As for scripts being writable by other scripts, well the solution to that is to not allow any scripts other than a select set to be able to run and have none of them writeable, this is how I code for the medical industry.
Fool! as everyone knows all the heavy water is actually in pools at the bottom of the ocean gaurded by giant worms! I mean really they even showed it the Military Documentary Program I saw as a kid. The only way to safely get to the heavy water is shown on the next page where I shows the valiant troops shooting the bases of the giant tubeworms so they begin to float to the lower pressure area of the ocean and released those brave heroes.
According to The Inflation Calculator What cost $1000 in 1954 would cost $6468.58 in 2002 and I know teh US hasn't been dropping prices of late.
Keep data on a removable drive of some type. Don't send documents via email. Your machine may need to be on and connected 24/7 (which I kind of doubt that you couln't segregate some things but you don't want to and that is fine) but that doesn't mean all your data needs to be avaiable online all teh time eitehr. firewire, usb and even hotswappable ata/sata/scsi drives are pretty darned cheap these days, so use one of them after all a hacker can;t get to your data or email if its not there right?
All your assets are frozen and or transfered
you have posted child porn to a Jesuit newsgroup
Gay photos of you and Osama bin Ladin are on the cover of Time
Your burth certificate shows you are really the bastard child of Hitler and Stalin.
Photos of you and Jane Fonda at an anti war rally have been mailed to several quasi fringe groups in Texas and Montana.
You haven't actually paid taxes for 14 years.
/me Waves to all my friends out at Ft. Meade - You know who you are.
I stand corrected. As for the top 112 movies of all time adjusted by inflation I think I counted 7. The trend however stands.
That argument would work if teh numbers were proportional in that manner, however take a look at teh article I found and is now linked to my replay to my previous post in this thread.
I was unable to find any definate statistics as for percentages of movies made. average box office sales etc unfortunately. I can say that no R rated movie is in the top 20 highest grossing films of all time nor was there one for 2003. yet appearently the majority of movies released are rated R. You can also find teh listing of top movies as adjusted by inflation here
1) Sorry, I certainly neither type nor spell very well, I guess that comes from spending more time in the sciences and less time in grammar and typing classes.
2)They are appearently not that obvious if they were missed initially.
3)Corrections? I am sorry I am unsure of what yu are implying
4)My citations were made in my original post all data may be obtained from the IUPAC site.
5)Well then dont read my posts. If you think my attitude is vindictive, well I am sorry you read it that was but you are most certainly entitled you your opinion
Of course when I critisize a post or issue I do so on teh record rather than as an anonymous coward (slashdot's term not mine)
Technically O is 1s(2) 2S(2) 2P(4)
H is 1S(1)
Gven that the exact location of an electron cannot be determined with out affectsing it (heisenburg) we define teh electron orbitial probability paths based on the quantum energy states they respersent and refer to them as shells
Attractve force between and two objects is inversly proportional as to the square of the seperating distance
The actual electronegativity delta between O and H disregarding all other factors is 1.34 not 1.4
The hydrogen bond is caused by the differental displacement of the Oxigen's P shell and its affinity for the Hydrogren's single 1S electron.
Without the aformentioned polar covalency ( see your post) which is just a fancy term for a covalent bond with SIGNIFIGANT ionic properties ( for those of you who do not know only 2 atoms of the exacy same electronegativities will ever share a truly covalent bond ever other bond exhibits some level of ionic interaction. Conversly the archtypical ionic bond NaCl shows some signigigant covalent properties also) the increase in potential energy from the removal of an S1 electron would be a much higher value, however due to the ionic nature of the polar covalent bond the said delta increase is offset by the Hydrogen ion (just a proton in the vast majority of cases else we are deling with isotopes) forming a bond with another H2O molecule forming the H3O+ ion.
Finally I will note again that the presence of signifigant numbers of these ion (HO- and H3O+) in pure water is why i stated
with me so far Mr Chemist?
Now are you a chemist or a student who will be when he grows up one day? Not to be terribly harsh but when you put a smiley after you IAAC and use wiki for citations on scientific matters I start to have my doubts. Am I a chemist? Hardly but I certainly did take grad classes in both Chem and Materials sciences. I deal with and build laser systems (so I know a little something practically about atomic valances and their quantium states) as part of my part time job as a security consultant and the rest of my time I spend in seminary or writing medical database applications.
You really should check your electronegativies before saying bonds are covalent. This is pretty basic chemistry and explains amongst other things why water is liquid at livable temperatures for we humans and many other phenomenon.
You can find more about naming of chemical structures via IUPAC the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists
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