Okay... so the Monster Manual will be unnecessary for all shapechanging and summoning powers...
This is either a damn lie, or they're making powers far more limited and less interesting.
I don't see why that's so hard to believe. Players that were summoning or shapechanging for crunch reasons generally always shapechanged into the same things. Players that were summoning or shapechanging for role-playing reasons generally don't care what the stats are. You could honestly take the Monster Manual, cut it down to the 20 or less animals that players actually used and move it into the PHB, without any real issue. Other books could (and probably will) expand that number, but to actually play a full game from level 1 to 30, you'd only need the PHB.
Yeah, the SRD for 3.5 is actually pretty expansive for free content. It's the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, Expanded Psionics Guide and a little bit of Unearthed Arcana. Some enterprising gentleman in St. Louis compiled it into a cross-referenced document online. It's not surprising that they're axing the SRD. With the Hypertext SRD, you honestly didn't need to buy a single book from WotC to play or DM.
On top of that, the victim also notes that she herself thinks 54 mil is too much, but thinks it is necessary to get the media attention to make Best Buy do the right thing.
I'm no lawyer, but publicly admitting that you think that your own case is bogus sounds like a horrible, horrible thing to do. Especially when you admit it in communications to the legal counsel of the defendant, who has filed to dismiss the case.
So, when are you, cpt kangarooski and Compulawyer going to form up like Voltron and deliver an unholy (but fully legal) beating to RIAA? Also, how much will tickets be to attend said event?
On the plus side, if they decide to prosecute you for sharing a pair of ear bud headphones with your buddy, you'll only be liable for "stealing" half the song!
And your point 3 just makes you sound like an ass. No decent human being is going to NOT be sympathetic to someone dying of HIV and say "Well, you asked for it so tough luck!"
I'm not saying that there's no sympathy; I'm saying that there's reduced sympathy. Every little thing that hurts public perception of a problem is going to make developing a public demand to deal with it harder. Declaring eminent domain on AIDS treatments just isn't going to happen in the present culture.
And to answer your question, there were ~46k new diagnosed AIDS cases and ~38k new diagnosed HIV cases in 2005. High mortality rate, but the percent of infected are still low enough to prevent the average person from knowing many, if any of them, making it "someone else's problem" in their minds. The old adage "out of sight, out of mind" is still true.
I can give you a few decent reasons why Uncle Sam's not going to seize any AIDS cures or treatments:
Uncle Sam is scared of Big Business. (More properly, the weasels that make up Uncle Sam are scared of losing Big Business' money)
AIDS is overblown. WHO reported ~17k AIDS deaths in the US for 2005. US Census reported ~300mill Americans, making it a pretty low priority illness, even though it's nasty and fatal. ~0.006% of the population is statistically insignificant, sad to say.
Most AIDS victims get themselves infected through willing sexual contact. While that shouldn't matter for getting help to people, the fact is that it's more difficult to muster sympathy for illnesses that people inflict upon themselves.
Sad thing about the federal government stepping in to deal with it is that there just aren't enough people dying to get those on the Hill to take any real action. The mandate from the people isn't there, they don't want to touch Big Business, for fear of fucking up the economy and dozens of other reasons that should pale in comparison to people dying. It's not fair and it sucks, but that's life.
Someone mod the parent up and find someone with a three digit UID to post in response to him. Let's move people! We have meme standards to uphold here!
and maybe more. those are just two i've noticed a problem with on comcast. and those two happen ALOT more often if any bit torrent downloader is running. even the damm wow updater.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=222480&s=27845&a=222482&po=2,00.asp The article gives its resolution as 848x480, which is on par with most consumer model projectors. I don't know what the refresh rate is, but the image in the photo looks perfectly watchable. It's quite possible that it'll be flicker-riffic and headache inducing, but as far as image quality goes, it looks fine.
I wonder if that would hold up in court. Misrepresenting a product is misrepresenting a product, regardless of whether or not there's a boilerplate "we didn't mean it" in the catalog. I suppose we'll find out if the case gets that far.
The best part of Rise of the Dragon is when security guards charge after your character through Star Trek-esque sliding doors. Depending on whether or not you were intelligent enough to lock the doors, they either face planted into them or blew you away. I always wanted to see Kirk, in full stride, eating a door. The game was the next best thing.
Even if you replace "minumum-wage drive jockey" with "qualified IT professional or three", I can't see how you'd get anywhere near $12k per year.
Err, minimum wage is 12k USD per year. Replacing the "minumum-wage drive jockey" with qualified IT personnel will most assuredly not just near, but exceed $12k per year. Perhaps you meant $120k?
The straps on those things would have to be seriously reinforced. If people were breaking stuff with ordinary Wiimotes, just think how much worse it'd be if there was some actual force behind them. I'm not saying that the idea doesn't have merit, just that some dude is going to bury that thing in his TV if they use the same wrist strap.
I want to make a point.. But.. how the fuck can I make an mp3 of the Sphinx?
I don't know about the Sphinx, but you could probably violate the copyright on the Pyramids with four sawtooth waveforms laid on top of one square wave.
I'm with ya, I call it the diluting the english language. People are always screwing up words and adding new meanings to them in such away as to destroy the original meaning.
You mean like misusing the verb brick to mean "disable" instead of "build a masonry structure"?:p
Sounds kind of like Grand Theft Auto, a game series that has released 8 different games (not including expansion packs) during the development history of DNF and is likely to release their 9th game before we get a full trailer for the current iteration of DNF. Never mind that the last FPS to really go for funny and strange minor details was Postal 2 and was just fucking awful.
I've been using trackballs for gaming since Doom on a 386. I've used about a dozen different models of them. Thumb trackball suck for gaming. Thumbs simply aren't dexterous enough to stop on a pixel. They're certainly not better than a traditional mouse. There are certain angles of movement with your thumb where you cannot move in a smooth arc, simply because of the way the digit is constructed.
However, center-mounted trackballs involve the pointer and middle fingers. These are your two most precise digits. Trackballs designed in that fashion are some of the most comfortable and precise pointing devices out on the market. In case anyone is wondering, my trackball of choice has been the Microsoft Trackball Explorer for the past few years. It has a nice, large optical trackball, ergonomically designed (for right-handed users. Lefties are screwed), 5 buttons (including the scroll wheel) and has pretty decent looks. I'll eventually break the ones I have and go in search of something better, but until then, I can't see myself switching over to anything else.
The requirement for the memory isn't its memory footprint. It's the storage footprint. The XO-1 uses conventional memory for its RAM, but flash memory for its storage.
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Yeah, the SRD for 3.5 is actually pretty expansive for free content. It's the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, Expanded Psionics Guide and a little bit of Unearthed Arcana. Some enterprising gentleman in St. Louis compiled it into a cross-referenced document online. It's not surprising that they're axing the SRD. With the Hypertext SRD, you honestly didn't need to buy a single book from WotC to play or DM.
So, when are you, cpt kangarooski and Compulawyer going to form up like Voltron and deliver an unholy (but fully legal) beating to RIAA? Also, how much will tickets be to attend said event?
On the plus side, if they decide to prosecute you for sharing a pair of ear bud headphones with your buddy, you'll only be liable for "stealing" half the song!
And to answer your question, there were ~46k new diagnosed AIDS cases and ~38k new diagnosed HIV cases in 2005. High mortality rate, but the percent of infected are still low enough to prevent the average person from knowing many, if any of them, making it "someone else's problem" in their minds. The old adage "out of sight, out of mind" is still true.
- Uncle Sam is scared of Big Business. (More properly, the weasels that make up Uncle Sam are scared of losing Big Business' money)
- AIDS is overblown. WHO reported ~17k AIDS deaths in the US for 2005. US Census reported ~300mill Americans, making it a pretty low priority illness, even though it's nasty and fatal. ~0.006% of the population is statistically insignificant, sad to say.
- Most AIDS victims get themselves infected through willing sexual contact. While that shouldn't matter for getting help to people, the fact is that it's more difficult to muster sympathy for illnesses that people inflict upon themselves.
Sad thing about the federal government stepping in to deal with it is that there just aren't enough people dying to get those on the Hill to take any real action. The mandate from the people isn't there, they don't want to touch Big Business, for fear of fucking up the economy and dozens of other reasons that should pale in comparison to people dying. It's not fair and it sucks, but that's life.Cantonese: "Hey! Get out of the way! The brakes in my tank don't work!"
Hindi: "Why the hell do people keep forgetting about us?! There's a couple billion of us and we have nukes, dammit!"
Arab: "Holy crap! I think I just saw a glimpse of female flesh, I must stone her to death and then put out my eyes!"
African: "Whoa! Cheap, brightly colored laptops for children!"
That ought to round out your list a bit.
Someone mod the parent up and find someone with a three digit UID to post in response to him. Let's move people! We have meme standards to uphold here!
I'm pretty sure he'd just bork it up.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=222480&s=27845&a=222482&po=2,00.asp The article gives its resolution as 848x480, which is on par with most consumer model projectors. I don't know what the refresh rate is, but the image in the photo looks perfectly watchable. It's quite possible that it'll be flicker-riffic and headache inducing, but as far as image quality goes, it looks fine.
I wonder if that would hold up in court. Misrepresenting a product is misrepresenting a product, regardless of whether or not there's a boilerplate "we didn't mean it" in the catalog. I suppose we'll find out if the case gets that far.
It depends. If the auctioneer at the actual auction was claiming that it was worn by Spiner, then there's still a case to be had there.
The best part of Rise of the Dragon is when security guards charge after your character through Star Trek-esque sliding doors. Depending on whether or not you were intelligent enough to lock the doors, they either face planted into them or blew you away. I always wanted to see Kirk, in full stride, eating a door. The game was the next best thing.
The straps on those things would have to be seriously reinforced. If people were breaking stuff with ordinary Wiimotes, just think how much worse it'd be if there was some actual force behind them. I'm not saying that the idea doesn't have merit, just that some dude is going to bury that thing in his TV if they use the same wrist strap.
I'm with ya, I call it the diluting the english language. People are always screwing up words and adding new meanings to them in such away as to destroy the original meaning.
:p
You mean like misusing the verb brick to mean "disable" instead of "build a masonry structure"?
Sounds kind of like Grand Theft Auto, a game series that has released 8 different games (not including expansion packs) during the development history of DNF and is likely to release their 9th game before we get a full trailer for the current iteration of DNF. Never mind that the last FPS to really go for funny and strange minor details was Postal 2 and was just fucking awful.
I've been using trackballs for gaming since Doom on a 386. I've used about a dozen different models of them. Thumb trackball suck for gaming. Thumbs simply aren't dexterous enough to stop on a pixel. They're certainly not better than a traditional mouse. There are certain angles of movement with your thumb where you cannot move in a smooth arc, simply because of the way the digit is constructed.
However, center-mounted trackballs involve the pointer and middle fingers. These are your two most precise digits. Trackballs designed in that fashion are some of the most comfortable and precise pointing devices out on the market. In case anyone is wondering, my trackball of choice has been the Microsoft Trackball Explorer for the past few years. It has a nice, large optical trackball, ergonomically designed (for right-handed users. Lefties are screwed), 5 buttons (including the scroll wheel) and has pretty decent looks. I'll eventually break the ones I have and go in search of something better, but until then, I can't see myself switching over to anything else.
Null sheen, chummer.
The requirement for the memory isn't its memory footprint. It's the storage footprint. The XO-1 uses conventional memory for its RAM, but flash memory for its storage.