This was always a problem with D&D: generating the right kind of character was always a matter of luck, unless you played with the DM before or were running a known published adventure. A wizard with Fireball doesn't do much good in a political high intrigue campaign, and a bard with maxed out Diplomacy doesn't do much good against a dungeon full of ochre jellies. Few DMs are good at providing very wide diversity.
It might be nice if there were two categories of skills: One with things like Perform, Diplomacy, etc, and the other with things like Jump, Tumble, etc, and then give equal number of skill points in each category so you're equally prepared for either type of campaign. But then where do you put something like Bluff, that crosses the lines?
I suspect people pulling from the iTunes store were loading video onto their iPod and watching it while commuting or the like. At any rate, on their iPod without Internet access.
Reality Master 101: "Say what you want about the United States, but the one thing we do well is breed independence. You can't teach that, it's cultural. It has to be bred early."
WrongMonkey: "I've never heard of anyone in the workforce telling me to give 80% to 85% effort, why should school be different?"
If Reality Master 101's focus is on the development of independence, why should he care what someone tells him to do?
In OS X Leopard, both Ruby and Python can be used to code Cocoa applications. In my opinion, those completely leapfrog C# as far as ease of development goes.
Keith Olbermann is a recently-added anchor to the MSNBC crew. Certain segments seem inspired by The Daily Show, even if Countdown with Keith Olbermann is normally straight news. An example: when Jennifer Wilbanks started making headlines again, they cut to a picture of her and, as Keith claimed something along the lines of "She now makes money by mowing lawns... WITH HER EYES," added laser beams shooting out of her eyes (including suitable sound effects) to her photograph; Keith then said something along the lines of "Okay, that last part I made up."
More notably, in the Top 3 Soundbites featured on Countdown, both Colbert and Stewart have had multiple appearances.
Television news is entertainment. Colbert and Stewart are showmen, so they're better at it than the straight-laced anchors.
I just placed mine this morning, 10:20 Central, after arriving at almost exactly 7 AM. The people earliest in line had been there since 5 AM. Only the first eight people in line were able to place preorders, but with a target of six million systems out before Christmas, I'm predicting this isn't the last wave of purchases we'll be seeing. Still, the line had more than doubled before opening, despite reports from the employees that only eight preorders were available and people having left the line.
I'm with you on the recommendation of learning Erlang, but not for the same reason you are. The vast majority of new systems are at least dual core today. Most people run at least two programs, often meaning that one program can run entirely on one core, and another program runs on another core. Intel recently announced quad-core CPUs, and the first prototypes have got into a few people's hands. It looks like as time goes on, instead of upping the clock speed, the number of cores will increase. Most programming languages in use today, make it hard to do concurrency (or at best, don't make it easy), but Erlang was designed as a concurrent language from the get-go. I am inclined to say that the next generation of effective languages will be similar to Erlang, in their ability to support concurrency, and that programmers who don't get used to writing in some form of concurrent languages will be left behind.
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"Plug in?" How quaint.
Why couldn't your job be done remotely?
Who will rid me of this meddlesome director?
This was always a problem with D&D: generating the right kind of character was always a matter of luck, unless you played with the DM before or were running a known published adventure. A wizard with Fireball doesn't do much good in a political high intrigue campaign, and a bard with maxed out Diplomacy doesn't do much good against a dungeon full of ochre jellies. Few DMs are good at providing very wide diversity.
It might be nice if there were two categories of skills: One with things like Perform, Diplomacy, etc, and the other with things like Jump, Tumble, etc, and then give equal number of skill points in each category so you're equally prepared for either type of campaign. But then where do you put something like Bluff, that crosses the lines?
I'm very [rolls dice] upset about this.
Houses are for living in. Why focus more on resale value than enjoying living where you do?
Or donate to his campaign.
I suspect people pulling from the iTunes store were loading video onto their iPod and watching it while commuting or the like. At any rate, on their iPod without Internet access.
You could also use them while exploring ancient Chozo ruins.
The press doesn't have to make him a laughing stock. He does that on his own.
I figured that it would be he listened to the recording he made before passing it along, destroying the contents.
Reality Master 101: "Say what you want about the United States, but the one thing we do well is breed independence. You can't teach that, it's cultural. It has to be bred early."
WrongMonkey: "I've never heard of anyone in the workforce telling me to give 80% to 85% effort, why should school be different?"
If Reality Master 101's focus is on the development of independence, why should he care what someone tells him to do?
It's also referenced in this Penny Arcade comic.
No one does--gmail addresses must have at least six characters, much to my frustration.
There's a great story about a six-year-old writing his own number guessing video game, with focus on how simple the game is. You might consider a similar strategy.
In OS X Leopard, both Ruby and Python can be used to code Cocoa applications. In my opinion, those completely leapfrog C# as far as ease of development goes.
Quick, create the Wikipedia article!
Keith Olbermann is a recently-added anchor to the MSNBC crew. Certain segments seem inspired by The Daily Show, even if Countdown with Keith Olbermann is normally straight news. An example: when Jennifer Wilbanks started making headlines again, they cut to a picture of her and, as Keith claimed something along the lines of "She now makes money by mowing lawns... WITH HER EYES," added laser beams shooting out of her eyes (including suitable sound effects) to her photograph; Keith then said something along the lines of "Okay, that last part I made up."
More notably, in the Top 3 Soundbites featured on Countdown, both Colbert and Stewart have had multiple appearances.
Television news is entertainment. Colbert and Stewart are showmen, so they're better at it than the straight-laced anchors.
The idea that what you experience isn't real predates Descartes easily, dating at least as far back as Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
You can also use this technique to warn people about the serial killer in their back seat.
The Maxim giant magazine cover isn't a logo, that's the only real difference here.
Before anyone recommends it, surprisingly, in Switzerland at least, going to all mail-in ballots reduced voter turnout.
I just placed mine this morning, 10:20 Central, after arriving at almost exactly 7 AM. The people earliest in line had been there since 5 AM. Only the first eight people in line were able to place preorders, but with a target of six million systems out before Christmas, I'm predicting this isn't the last wave of purchases we'll be seeing. Still, the line had more than doubled before opening, despite reports from the employees that only eight preorders were available and people having left the line.
I fear you may have just created a new Slashdot meme.
I'm with you on the recommendation of learning Erlang, but not for the same reason you are. The vast majority of new systems are at least dual core today. Most people run at least two programs, often meaning that one program can run entirely on one core, and another program runs on another core. Intel recently announced quad-core CPUs, and the first prototypes have got into a few people's hands. It looks like as time goes on, instead of upping the clock speed, the number of cores will increase. Most programming languages in use today, make it hard to do concurrency (or at best, don't make it easy), but Erlang was designed as a concurrent language from the get-go. I am inclined to say that the next generation of effective languages will be similar to Erlang, in their ability to support concurrency, and that programmers who don't get used to writing in some form of concurrent languages will be left behind.