I know it breaks the budget, but an electric guitar and amp is a dream for geeks. You can build most effects pedals as they are not all that complicated, there's the music element, the chicks, the drugs. plus you get to rock out. Honestly I learned as much about electronics from playing guitar and building effects pedals as I did building robots in FIRST Robotics competitions.
http://www.smallbearelec.com/home.html has all the appropriate links.
One of the main reasons Deus Ex 2 was such a let down was the removal of the skill system affecting marksmanship. It was and extremely pivotal game device that affected how you'd play the game from level 1. You could not run in gun in the end game unless you were trained to run and gun.
Here are my concerns with 4e:
1. WotC has not responded to the "Ask the developers questions" that have been posted for over a month.... Not a single question. Agreed
2. WotC claims to still be playtesting and running into some major issues (War-Forged Palidins are nigh invincable). However, they are preparing to mass produce the books in order to ready for launch in June.
It takes time for books to be written, edited, and printed, the info in these books could be 6 months old, and they were released a bit ago too. theres a lot more time in this than you think.....a. After the 3edition vs. 3.5 edition issues, I will wait for the "Service Pack 2" (read 4.5) update... ; )
3. WotC wants ~$14.00 subsciption fee to continue to get online updates and erratas.
There's a lot more to the online component than errata, think Castle Ravenloth and whole adventures put up....a. It will also allow for "virtual tabletop" but from what I have seen, there are open source "virtual tabletop" systems that CURRENTLY offer more flexability... and are FREE!!!
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4. 4e will introduce "level specific" items. The playtesting reports indicate that at 11th level, a NON-combative character (wizard) is ASSUMED to have +5 bonus to thier armour class....
AC is completely reworked, no longer will a level 5 orc be able to take a level 20 wizard, whose probably crossed the length and bredth of the land, slaying dragons, in melee combat.
5. You have to be 11th level BEFORE you can use a ring!!!! You need to be level 21 before you can use a second ring
so? DM's can do whatever they want.
6. WotC seems to be creating a "digital devide".... The virtual tabletop will contain/replace miniatures... But they want us to buy miniatures as well. To my knowledge, these are mutually exclusive in the 4e gaming environment.
7. Supposedly, WotC will be releasing a NEW Dungeon Master Guide and Players Handbook ONCE A YEAR!!! (however, maybe these will elminiate the need for online errata's???? Not a good deal either way, IMHO)
Where do you get this information? it sounds like bullshit to me.
8. If this is a preview, why do we have to pay for it??? And, to the author, how is that "valuable"?
Yeah, these books are definatly cost 3 times to much. Theres some interesting stuff, kinda like the developer comments in HL2 in these books thats worth some money, but not the outrageous prices stated.
9. Now we need a new tag for "Hack and Slash-vertisement"
P.S. Please don't use the Gandalf quote of "There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggins, and none of them should be used lightly." to justify the level dependent rings... unless Bilbo was 11th level or higher at the time. ; )
Oh jeese, this has got to be "Fetch me a hoe" from progress quest
www.progressquest.com
In reality, The original Deus Ex had some nice stuff littered through that I enjoyed.
Why don't cell phones work in some houses? Maybe its all the interference, and metal siding. A cell phone is a wireless signal, if its being blocked by RF interfenrence or a barrier it cannot penetrate, of course its not going to work.
And no company is going to have a complete map of dead zones, simply because most a relativly small, so there may be a single dot on a map that isn't covered.
Its simply a disregard for the facts of physics that this article summery negativly views verizon. And by the way, all cell phone companys (or at least most) have a 15 day return policy, all have expensive early cancellation fees, this isn't just verizon. You should be happy they are giving you 200 bucks off your phone with a contract.
This would be great for paintball guns, just run the turbine off the already being used gas (usally CO2, NO2 or comp air) to power the guns electronics.
"Year after year landowners pour money into the school system even if they have never placed their children into the local system. "
The education of children is a common good, its like roads, you may not use everyone but you pay for them all because they benifit the community, This is why private school vouchers are a bunch of bullcrap, the tax you pay on eduction is not for the benifit of YOUR children its for the benifit of ALL children, and the smarter they are the more we all benifit.
But for the most part, they do work and are non-lethal, they save lives when bullets would normally have to be used, I'd rather be hit in the face by that laser than a.45 .
"Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (Xtreme A.D.S. or XADS), creator and developer of the StunStrike, Directed Energy, Non-lethal Weapon System, introduces the StunStrike CQSR (Close Quarters Shock Rifle). "
I hear its secondary fire shoots a ball of plasma out, then if you hit it with its regular fire mode...
Our landfills are FAR from overflowing, a landfill 35 miles swuare and 200 feet high could provide all the space we need (yes the USA) for 1000 years. Landfill overflow is a myth.
Say we do take a qbit and we just look at it from time to time, since it can be any number at any given time, can this be used to generate truly random numbers, just set up a qc and check qbits from a function's output that allows for an equal probability of getting the right state?
this number is because a nuetron star has blow most of its mass off, if after the supernova the mass is 1.4 suns then it may become a black hole. Which if I remember correctly about 50% of a stars mass is lost in supernova making the original star approx. 3 solar masses
It appears 90% of the slashdot readers are insightfull enough to point out you arrogant. Guess what, those same people view Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as arrogant.
The problem with colledge is this, all it amounts to is a piece of paper and a GPA, does anyone give a damn if you learned anything? No. Why is this? Simple you will learn how to do your job on the job, most people in the technical field really learn what they need to do in the field? Can you program, sure I've bet you've tossed together dozens of programs, now write a 3d engine. The point being, just because you know how to program, doesn't mean you know how to program very specific products.
So in closing, go to school, get a worthless paper (valued at 20-200 thousand dollars) but remember, that this is more of a test than a learning experience, sure you'll learn things, lots of stuff, then promptly forget it. Just like high school. Only when you get a real job where you do things over and over again will you learn what needs to be done.
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As one of my professors once said, a University is a series of Colleges connected with plumbing.
I know it breaks the budget, but an electric guitar and amp is a dream for geeks. You can build most effects pedals as they are not all that complicated, there's the music element, the chicks, the drugs. plus you get to rock out. Honestly I learned as much about electronics from playing guitar and building effects pedals as I did building robots in FIRST Robotics competitions. http://www.smallbearelec.com/home.html has all the appropriate links.
One of the main reasons Deus Ex 2 was such a let down was the removal of the skill system affecting marksmanship. It was and extremely pivotal game device that affected how you'd play the game from level 1. You could not run in gun in the end game unless you were trained to run and gun.
Old hard drive, free, full of pornography.
pffbt, NSFnet, all you had to do to hack the network is type NSF001 for the username and smashthestate for the password and you got admin acess.
Here are my concerns with 4e: 1. WotC has not responded to the "Ask the developers questions" that have been posted for over a month.... Not a single question. Agreed 2. WotC claims to still be playtesting and running into some major issues (War-Forged Palidins are nigh invincable). However, they are preparing to mass produce the books in order to ready for launch in June. It takes time for books to be written, edited, and printed, the info in these books could be 6 months old, and they were released a bit ago too. theres a lot more time in this than you think. ....a. After the 3edition vs. 3.5 edition issues, I will wait for the "Service Pack 2" (read 4.5) update... ; )
3. WotC wants ~$14.00 subsciption fee to continue to get online updates and erratas.
There's a lot more to the online component than errata, think Castle Ravenloth and whole adventures put up. ...a. It will also allow for "virtual tabletop" but from what I have seen, there are open source "virtual tabletop" systems that CURRENTLY offer more flexability... and are FREE!!!
.
4. 4e will introduce "level specific" items. The playtesting reports indicate that at 11th level, a NON-combative character (wizard) is ASSUMED to have +5 bonus to thier armour class....
AC is completely reworked, no longer will a level 5 orc be able to take a level 20 wizard, whose probably crossed the length and bredth of the land, slaying dragons, in melee combat.
5. You have to be 11th level BEFORE you can use a ring!!!! You need to be level 21 before you can use a second ring
so? DM's can do whatever they want.
6. WotC seems to be creating a "digital devide".... The virtual tabletop will contain/replace miniatures... But they want us to buy miniatures as well. To my knowledge, these are mutually exclusive in the 4e gaming environment.
7. Supposedly, WotC will be releasing a NEW Dungeon Master Guide and Players Handbook ONCE A YEAR!!! (however, maybe these will elminiate the need for online errata's???? Not a good deal either way, IMHO)
Where do you get this information? it sounds like bullshit to me.
8. If this is a preview, why do we have to pay for it??? And, to the author, how is that "valuable"?
Yeah, these books are definatly cost 3 times to much. Theres some interesting stuff, kinda like the developer comments in HL2 in these books thats worth some money, but not the outrageous prices stated.
9. Now we need a new tag for "Hack and Slash-vertisement"
P.S. Please don't use the Gandalf quote of "There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggins, and none of them should be used lightly." to justify the level dependent rings... unless Bilbo was 11th level or higher at the time. ; )
Technically, the study of logical systems. Nowadays it's just computer programing :(.
More than enough reason to believe they are not true geeks. Hell most of them shave!
Oh jeese, this has got to be "Fetch me a hoe" from progress quest www.progressquest.com In reality, The original Deus Ex had some nice stuff littered through that I enjoyed.
And every time we would need bigger and bigger chunks of ice, thus solving the problem forever
Why don't cell phones work in some houses? Maybe its all the interference, and metal siding. A cell phone is a wireless signal, if its being blocked by RF interfenrence or a barrier it cannot penetrate, of course its not going to work. And no company is going to have a complete map of dead zones, simply because most a relativly small, so there may be a single dot on a map that isn't covered. Its simply a disregard for the facts of physics that this article summery negativly views verizon. And by the way, all cell phone companys (or at least most) have a 15 day return policy, all have expensive early cancellation fees, this isn't just verizon. You should be happy they are giving you 200 bucks off your phone with a contract.
This would be great for paintball guns, just run the turbine off the already being used gas (usally CO2, NO2 or comp air) to power the guns electronics.
"Year after year landowners pour money into the school system even if they have never placed their children into the local system. " The education of children is a common good, its like roads, you may not use everyone but you pay for them all because they benifit the community, This is why private school vouchers are a bunch of bullcrap, the tax you pay on eduction is not for the benifit of YOUR children its for the benifit of ALL children, and the smarter they are the more we all benifit.
But for the most part, they do work and are non-lethal, they save lives when bullets would normally have to be used, I'd rather be hit in the face by that laser than a .45 .
"Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (Xtreme A.D.S. or XADS), creator and developer of the StunStrike, Directed Energy, Non-lethal Weapon System, introduces the StunStrike CQSR (Close Quarters Shock Rifle). " I hear its secondary fire shoots a ball of plasma out, then if you hit it with its regular fire mode...
also it clearly states in the articles that the dics are 100% recyclable. Not that its viable.
Our landfills are FAR from overflowing, a landfill 35 miles swuare and 200 feet high could provide all the space we need (yes the USA) for 1000 years. Landfill overflow is a myth.
He was choosing an arbitrarly large number, but that was pretty nteresting any way.
Probably redundent, but there are no such things as ruby atoms, only ruby molecules.
How was that modded flamebait, that was an AWSOME pun!
Say we do take a qbit and we just look at it from time to time, since it can be any number at any given time, can this be used to generate truly random numbers, just set up a qc and check qbits from a function's output that allows for an equal probability of getting the right state?
(5 - 3) + 3 = 5, 5 * 5 = 25, sqrt(25) = 5. 53 clearly abides by the LAW OF FIVES, therefore it is significant.
this number is because a nuetron star has blow most of its mass off, if after the supernova the mass is 1.4 suns then it may become a black hole. Which if I remember correctly about 50% of a stars mass is lost in supernova making the original star approx. 3 solar masses
It appears 90% of the slashdot readers are insightfull enough to point out you arrogant. Guess what, those same people view Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as arrogant. The problem with colledge is this, all it amounts to is a piece of paper and a GPA, does anyone give a damn if you learned anything? No. Why is this? Simple you will learn how to do your job on the job, most people in the technical field really learn what they need to do in the field? Can you program, sure I've bet you've tossed together dozens of programs, now write a 3d engine. The point being, just because you know how to program, doesn't mean you know how to program very specific products. So in closing, go to school, get a worthless paper (valued at 20-200 thousand dollars) but remember, that this is more of a test than a learning experience, sure you'll learn things, lots of stuff, then promptly forget it. Just like high school. Only when you get a real job where you do things over and over again will you learn what needs to be done.
Wyoming Michigan, 5.50 before 6 pm, 6.50 after that.