To cancel AOL. Call, tell them who you are, say I wish to cancel. They will beg and plead, etc. Say "Cancel my service." then hang up. Then, dispute the charges when they bill you. This is much faster.
4E has no replay value. You can play each class on each path once, and there is only 1 choice at each level, most of the time. I'm playing warlock: Fey is good, Infernal is good, star seems to stink. There are 2 warlocks. There's 1 wizard. etc. No variation or real choice for the player. Making the mechanics smooth is one thing, taking out the fun of building a unique character is another. D&D is just an MMO, with everyone identical now. I (and some friends/others) am working on a 3.5streamlined system, which will take elements of 4th and retain the choices. Lots of work though.
Or maybe the sugared tap water is often the only non-water, non-alcoholic drink available wherever I'm eating. At home I'll make myself an Italian soda (sparkling water, flavoured syrup, cream/half & half) but that's not common in a restaurant. Most don't even have fruit juice. And the beer is often fizzy yellow goat piss. So the sugared tap water is often the only thing to drink with a flavour.
Also, one of my neighbours is a ham. He and many other hams use their radios to aid emergency services when normal communication lines are down. In the recent San Diego fires he relayed calls for the fire department in the area, since their systems couldn't handle the load. If BPL interferes with Ham radio, it interferes with emergency services.
Less likely with swords though. No good swordsman ever touches their blade, only the handle, and that is wrapped, most often in leather. This is because fingerprints will corrode the metal. Swords aren't made of stainless steel, they rust quite easily. Normal sword care involves re-polishing the blade regularly, which should remove fingerprint corrosion if present. Chalices are another story, of course.
"in" is a Latin prefix, meaning into, onto, or against. inflammable means capable of turning into flame. unflammable is not capable of turning into flame.
On the "with regard to/regardless/irregardless" issue, all 3 are words. The first and last have the exact same meaning. ir means without, so irregardless means without having a lack of regard to, id est "with regard to". Irregardless is both redundant and often used to mean regardless, which means the exact opposite.
That's enough time playing Latin Grammar Praetorian for today.
free software is software you don't have to pay for. Free Software is software with a GPL or compatible license. Open Source is open-source, such as much BSD licensed software or other gpl-incompatible stuff. Free Software is a FSF term.
See, "don't need a plugin" or "can chose functionality based on installed plugins" are 2 schools of thought. Opera takes the first, Firefox (mostly) takes the second. Personally I'd prefer if they took it even further: URL autocompletion should be an addon, RSS should be an addon, etc, and all enabled and installed by default, in their own section of the add-ons dialogue. I (and several others) would prefer an even less featureful browser with even more addons, just have all new features as installed-by-default addons.
I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit: XKCD We probably all know this one. Cyanide and Happiness Somewhat twisted humour. Errant Story Excellent art and storyline. Bunny Strange humour about bunnies. QC Indy rock comic of social interaction. Megatokyo Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art. Penny Arcade Gamer comic, quite famous. PBF Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does. Edible Dirt is a series of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted. Ctrl-Alt-Del is a comic about a few gamer roomates. LFG WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall. Two-Lumps is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one. Gunnerkrigg Court Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots. underpower hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before. Girl Genius is all about Mad Science. Bunny System is a comic about psychotic rabbits. Something Positive is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out. Head Trip is... a head trip. FLEM hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now. VGCats video game cats is excellent, if you play video games. Clan of the Cats Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art. Dr. McNinja The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire. Code Name: Hunter Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals. Awkward Zombie gamer comic similar to vgcats. No Need for Bushido Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written. Giant ITP hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario. Last Blood Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story. Chopping Block Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny. Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art. The Traveling Gnome Great art, story seems good so far. One-Liners may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.
I use a mix. Things I check daily/semidaily (webcomics and such) are normal pages. forums are normal pages. RSS feeds are used for pages I rarely check, or pages with lots of headlines (fark, BBC, etc). Slashdot has a feed, but I also regularly browse the main page. So it seems mostly good for pages where I might want 1 or 2 headlines out of many, and can wait a bit for them to scroll by while doing something else.
Oh, I use the RSS Ticker addon for firefox. I normally have FF open, so it ends up being just as good as a standalone reader.
As a bagpipe player, I resemble that joke!
Seriously, amateur bagpipe players (like me) should not try to play in public. They give the good ones a bad reputation. Well-played bagpipes are beautiful, badly played bagpipes should be banned by the Geneva conventions. Soundproofed music practice rooms exist for a reason.
"even RAID 5 buys you some extra integrity protection"
WTF?! That's the highest integrity of the types you listed. RAID 1 is mirroring without parity and is thus the cheapest of the redundant solutions mentioned. RAID 10 is Mirroring and striping without parity, and thus nearly doubles the cost for greater speed, but no greater redundancy. Probably not what is needed here. RAID 5 is a striped set with distributed parity. This effectively means that any 1 disk in the RAID 5 set can fail and the others will keep working. This needs an extra disk, but is effectively the same amount of protection as a RAID 1 for 2/3 drives. It also provides a speed benefit, and so is similar to RAID 1+0 at a lower overall cost. However, speed is not an issue here, so RAID 1 is probably the best. RAID 5+1 (A mirrored set of RAID-5s) is, of course, the most protection, but probably unnecessary. An off-site backup would be a better use of money than that.
I should also note the possibility of using FreeBSD/OpenSolaris and ZFS for this, since the copy-on-write nature of ZFS+RaidZ means you aren't screwed if you accidentally delete/overwrite a file, and snapshots are easy. Also, like linux, it's easily administrable over SSH, so you don't need a monitor/video card, just a network connection.
That depends. Building a small computer to act as a NAS (and run a projector, and a few other things) with a 200GiB raid-1 recently cost my friend about %500, with monitor. Without the video card and monitor it would be even cheaper, or the same price with more storage/raid-5. And that's for a whole new computer. NAS w/raid on site, off-site something else. Either a network backup service, or DVDs in a safety deposit box, upgrading to the latest format every few years.
There are also solder-suckers, those little things where you click the pump down, then press the button to vacuum up the solder. I find they work quite well, and are cheaper than a full desoldering iron. Also easier to clean.
Radio shack also published a series of pamphlets/books by Forrest M. Mimms III. Start with "getting started in electronics", it explains all the basics (all basic components, types of transistors, logic gates, etc), then proceed to get project books for the things that interest you.
Also, get a solderless breadboard or two, and some sort of power supply. The book mentioned above has instructions for how to build a 9v supply, but you may not want to start out with a home-built wall-current supply, so get a battery holder or some such.
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To cancel AOL. Call, tell them who you are, say I wish to cancel. They will beg and plead, etc. Say "Cancel my service." then hang up. Then, dispute the charges when they bill you. This is much faster.
TI-92 kama sutra I remember a TI-89 version, with 7-level greyscale as well.
Lashing out with maple syrup and molasses could be interesting.
4E has no replay value. You can play each class on each path once, and there is only 1 choice at each level, most of the time. I'm playing warlock: Fey is good, Infernal is good, star seems to stink. There are 2 warlocks. There's 1 wizard. etc. No variation or real choice for the player. Making the mechanics smooth is one thing, taking out the fun of building a unique character is another. D&D is just an MMO, with everyone identical now. I (and some friends/others) am working on a 3.5streamlined system, which will take elements of 4th and retain the choices. Lots of work though.
Or perhaps just doesn't leak fuel like a seive. The SR-71 is cool, but had some major problems.
Or maybe the sugared tap water is often the only non-water, non-alcoholic drink available wherever I'm eating. At home I'll make myself an Italian soda (sparkling water, flavoured syrup, cream/half & half) but that's not common in a restaurant. Most don't even have fruit juice. And the beer is often fizzy yellow goat piss. So the sugared tap water is often the only thing to drink with a flavour.
This is the width of the comment box, to me, on a 1600x1200 monit
or. Not quite as bad as you make out.
They're not fascist, they're totalitarian. Similar, but different.
Damn near anything. It's a computer drafting table. An old, outdated, non-parametric one, but that's slowly changing.
Also, one of my neighbours is a ham. He and many other hams use their radios to aid emergency services when normal communication lines are down. In the recent San Diego fires he relayed calls for the fire department in the area, since their systems couldn't handle the load. If BPL interferes with Ham radio, it interferes with emergency services.
So you run and you run to catch up with the Sun but Java's still closed.
Racing around to recode that sound lib again!
Making Engine. Lots and lots of Engine.
Less likely with swords though. No good swordsman ever touches their blade, only the handle, and that is wrapped, most often in leather. This is because fingerprints will corrode the metal. Swords aren't made of stainless steel, they rust quite easily. Normal sword care involves re-polishing the blade regularly, which should remove fingerprint corrosion if present. Chalices are another story, of course.
"in" is a Latin prefix, meaning into, onto, or against. inflammable means capable of turning into flame. unflammable is not capable of turning into flame.
On the "with regard to/regardless/irregardless" issue, all 3 are words. The first and last have the exact same meaning. ir means without, so irregardless means without having a lack of regard to, id est "with regard to". Irregardless is both redundant and often used to mean regardless, which means the exact opposite.
That's enough time playing Latin Grammar Praetorian for today.
free software is software you don't have to pay for. Free Software is software with a GPL or compatible license. Open Source is open-source, such as much BSD licensed software or other gpl-incompatible stuff. Free Software is a FSF term.
See, "don't need a plugin" or "can chose functionality based on installed plugins" are 2 schools of thought. Opera takes the first, Firefox (mostly) takes the second. Personally I'd prefer if they took it even further: URL autocompletion should be an addon, RSS should be an addon, etc, and all enabled and installed by default, in their own section of the add-ons dialogue. I (and several others) would prefer an even less featureful browser with even more addons, just have all new features as installed-by-default addons.
I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit:
XKCD We probably all know this one.
Cyanide and Happiness Somewhat twisted humour.
Errant Story Excellent art and storyline.
Bunny Strange humour about bunnies.
QC Indy rock comic of social interaction.
Megatokyo Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art.
Penny Arcade Gamer comic, quite famous.
PBF Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does.
Edible Dirt is a series of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a comic about a few gamer roomates.
LFG WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall.
Two-Lumps is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one.
Gunnerkrigg Court Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots.
underpower hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before.
Girl Genius is all about Mad Science.
Bunny System is a comic about psychotic rabbits.
Something Positive is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out.
Head Trip is... a head trip.
FLEM hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now.
VGCats video game cats is excellent, if you play video games.
Clan of the Cats Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art.
Dr. McNinja The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire.
Code Name: Hunter Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals.
Awkward Zombie gamer comic similar to vgcats.
No Need for Bushido Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written.
Giant ITP hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario.
Last Blood Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story.
Chopping Block Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny.
Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art.
The Traveling Gnome Great art, story seems good so far.
One-Liners may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.
I use a mix. Things I check daily/semidaily (webcomics and such) are normal pages. forums are normal pages. RSS feeds are used for pages I rarely check, or pages with lots of headlines (fark, BBC, etc). Slashdot has a feed, but I also regularly browse the main page. So it seems mostly good for pages where I might want 1 or 2 headlines out of many, and can wait a bit for them to scroll by while doing something else.
Oh, I use the RSS Ticker addon for firefox. I normally have FF open, so it ends up being just as good as a standalone reader.
Proof is required for good drinks.
As a bagpipe player, I resemble that joke!
Seriously, amateur bagpipe players (like me) should not try to play in public. They give the good ones a bad reputation. Well-played bagpipes are beautiful, badly played bagpipes should be banned by the Geneva conventions. Soundproofed music practice rooms exist for a reason.
"even RAID 5 buys you some extra integrity protection"
WTF?! That's the highest integrity of the types you listed. RAID 1 is mirroring without parity and is thus the cheapest of the redundant solutions mentioned. RAID 10 is Mirroring and striping without parity, and thus nearly doubles the cost for greater speed, but no greater redundancy. Probably not what is needed here. RAID 5 is a striped set with distributed parity. This effectively means that any 1 disk in the RAID 5 set can fail and the others will keep working. This needs an extra disk, but is effectively the same amount of protection as a RAID 1 for 2/3 drives. It also provides a speed benefit, and so is similar to RAID 1+0 at a lower overall cost. However, speed is not an issue here, so RAID 1 is probably the best. RAID 5+1 (A mirrored set of RAID-5s) is, of course, the most protection, but probably unnecessary. An off-site backup would be a better use of money than that.
Use a normal (not mechanical, too sharp) pencil to write on transparent tape. It doesn't smear as easily as a sharpie.
I should also note the possibility of using FreeBSD/OpenSolaris and ZFS for this, since the copy-on-write nature of ZFS+RaidZ means you aren't screwed if you accidentally delete/overwrite a file, and snapshots are easy. Also, like linux, it's easily administrable over SSH, so you don't need a monitor/video card, just a network connection.
That depends. Building a small computer to act as a NAS (and run a projector, and a few other things) with a 200GiB raid-1 recently cost my friend about %500, with monitor. Without the video card and monitor it would be even cheaper, or the same price with more storage/raid-5. And that's for a whole new computer. NAS w/raid on site, off-site something else. Either a network backup service, or DVDs in a safety deposit box, upgrading to the latest format every few years.
There are also solder-suckers, those little things where you click the pump down, then press the button to vacuum up the solder. I find they work quite well, and are cheaper than a full desoldering iron. Also easier to clean.
Radio shack also published a series of pamphlets/books by Forrest M. Mimms III. Start with "getting started in electronics", it explains all the basics (all basic components, types of transistors, logic gates, etc), then proceed to get project books for the things that interest you.
Also, get a solderless breadboard or two, and some sort of power supply. The book mentioned above has instructions for how to build a 9v supply, but you may not want to start out with a home-built wall-current supply, so get a battery holder or some such.