That was mine, with a 168 IQ and an Undergrad degree. I fudged with it a bit, and dropping the IQ by 15 points only drops the int score by 1, and raising the degree up to PHD only puts it up by 3. So it seems to be a little odd... But it got my Dex right.>:)
I've been running games and playing in them since around 1988-89, when we got annoyed at some part of 2nd edition we all sat down and rewrote chunks of it to work how we thought it should work. Some of these rewrites were horrible! They broke the game to an unbelievable degree, others were perfect and helped make our gaming a more enjoyable experience. One of these great alterations was converting the Thac0 system into a system that used fewer negative numbers and made more sense. It came out almost exactly the way 3rd edition rules are. The current d20 system used in D&D 3rd ed is incredibly friendly and lends itself to customizing the world to an excellent degree. The mechanics can apply to almost anything you can think of. I'm maddly in love with the current d20 system over every other system I've played, and that's a LOT of systems.
As an anecdote relating to this: My little brother was doing a lot of business on Ebay and using Paypal for a lot of it. He sold some stuff, and got paid 600$ for it, directly into his Paypal account, he then took the 600$ out to pay for other stuff. A few weeks later Paypal sends him an e-mail saying that the 600$ he got might have originated from a fraudulent source, as a result they claimed he owed them $600. Luckily he had already taken the money out, and he immediately notified his bank not to let them take any action against his bank account and blew them off. But if he had been a few days slower taking his money out he would have been out $600!
Bah! take a little risk! So what if you get maimed or killed or your pants get set on fire! A little revolution would do us all good! Oddly enough I think I would gladly accept the risk that I would be one of the first against the wall just to know that the american people stopped sitting on their fat asses long enough to put me there. A little hardship would do a lot of these people good.
You aren't missing anything. The site is TERRIBLE. It's a 3 pictures on a HORRIBLE background that hurts my eyes. Oh, and incidentally, there were 972 people on his counter when I saw the story, and there were no comments for it yet. I wonder how many hits he has now? >:)
No shit sherlock! You figure that all out for yourself?
Go rent yourself a couple of martial arts movies, one with primarily asians and one with primarily Westerners. Watch the fluidity of motion that the asians exhibit. The superior range of motion. It's not because they are Asian, it's because they PUT IN THE FUCKING TIME TO BE GOOD. And americans just don't do that. Thought a couple of good Non-Asian martial artists are the Aussie kid from Gorgeous and the shorter blond twin in Kiss of the Dragon.
Because Americans are shitty martial artists. Just as a disclaimer, I'm an American martial artist. Thought luckily I have a more asian body type. But Every major american martial artist (Chuck Norris, Steven Segal, etc...) is slow, awkward, and has poor technique. It's like they don't even bother to work on their art any more once they hit the movies. Even Chuck Norris' FIRST role (The bad guy in a Bruce Lee movie, I believe it was Enter the Dragon, but it may have been Fists of Fury, or Return of the Dragon... In fact, I'm now almost certain it was Return of the Dragon.) he was slow and awkward. Bruce made him look like an amateur. Most Americans just don't have the attention span or determination it takes to make themselves good Martial Artists. And it seems like the ones that do have better things to do than go into movies... But that's just my opinion, and if you don't like it, why the fuck did you read all this way? >:)
Just this feature alone will probably get a LOT of companies/schools/etc... to buy one. The ability to point at something you wrote a few minutes ago and have it enlarge itself is just invaluable. Especially in a room filled with people who may not be able to see clearly from the back. Additionally I'd love to see someone rig their smartboard to dump the output to a website somehow, so you could sit in on lectures without having to deal with vid-conf software, just a sound pickup and a smartboard dump. Should be MUCH lower bandwidth than trying to do any kind of readable video.
Frankly I want to get an IP addie assigned at birth, and then spawn my devices off as ports on that IP. Like, my machine at work could be first.middle.last.unique:666 and my machine at home could be port 777, and my coffee maker could be port 42, and my refrigeratore could be port 32, and my TV would be whatever... Then I wouldn't need so many ip addies, since no one is going to end up with more than 65K devices until we start using nanotech and my pants need 3 billion ip addies to administer all of the fibers...>:)
Sigh, 800# dialup won't work, he's constantly connecting into other companies networks for things, so that's the connection he uses. I suppose I could do a VPN, but as far as I know that requires that I know what his IP addie will be, which we don't. Someone else recommended SMTP Auth, which is what I'm about to go look at.
Oh and before people start telling me to use smtp-pop, it's an imap server and no one wants to change it to pop. And for some reason he doesn't want to use the web-based e-mail we set up... Bah nevermind.... >:)
My boss doesn't want to change his SMTP server every time he is connected to a different network (about 5 times per day) nor does he want to have to worry about having 5 different connections set up (one for each network even though he is using the same e-mail address for all of them) and he travels out of state and out of country a lot, which adds yet another set of random SMTP servers he would have to deal with. My problem is that SMTP has no authentication that I can find that would allow me to let him use our SMTP server from wherever he was, so I found a list of open relays and changed his SMTP server to use that. I wish there were a better technical solution, but I haven't been able to find one so far... If anyone has a suggestion I'd be happy to hear it, but until then Open Relays have a place in the world in my opinion.
Which still seems kinda silly. The only time I ever had anyone run into me, we didn't even call the insurance companies, he paid to have it repaired. No one ever wants to involve the insurance companies because then their rates go up. The insurance business only survives at the current level because it's legally mandated.
Jeez, when I bought my car they required I have full comprehensive insurance, which was costing me 300$ a month on a car that was 400$ a month. A couple of years later I moved to a place where I don't need the car and got rid of it. YAY! Now I'm no longer driving illegally! >:) Insurance is the biggest ripoff around, especially car insurance. Paying out 300$ a month I could have dropped into a savings account and easily replaced my car and paid my medical bills if I'd had an accident. And I still haven't had one. I've dumped Around 5 grand to the insurance bastards and not seen one single benefit from it!
Well, I've posted over 1000 times, but I'm stuck at 78 Karma. Before the Karma cap I pretty much never got modded down, After the Karma cap I post whatever silly crap pops into my head (like this) and I still have more Karma than the cap allows for. So how do you measure the quality of a poster if they hit the cap and keep posting? I can stay at 78 karma pretty much indefinately and continue posting. So right now everytime I post my supposed value goes down since my Karma/Post ratio is getting lower.
When the population begins to feel powerless within the system it means the system is breaking down. I'm advocating armed revolution and forced government restructuring. It's time the citizens of the US who actually CARE what happens get off of their asses and go do something about it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the charges levelled against him were all related to the act of creating the circumvention device, which was done exclusively in russia. All he did in the US was demonstrate it and talk about it. Which is not illegal. He was arrested for creating the device, not selling it.
I'm on your side in the browser wars, Opera until it hurts.>:) And the OSS vs Free Software people are always getting muddled together in my mind because a lot of people seem to support both or to lump them both together. So yes, I agree that Open Source Software is the way things should be for probably 90% of all software and I would be willing to pay for it assuming it met a need I had.
I don't care about the money. But unless my facts or horribly mangled they are the ones who are responsible in one fashion or another for the region encoding on the DVDs. And if it's not them, it's the MPAA and I pirate movies to avoid paying them anything as well.
Watch out for spyware removal software that has backdoors stuck in it. One of the IRC chans I hang in has been getting a lot of rumors of some of the software widgets that are supposed to remove the spyware also installing remote control backdoors on their machines.
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holy lord, how did you manage a Dex of 19? I'm a magician and a martial artist and only ended up with a 17.
Kintanon
Str: 9
Int: 12
Wis: 9
Dex: 17
Con: 11
Chr: 15
That was mine, with a 168 IQ and an Undergrad degree. I fudged with it a bit, and dropping the IQ by 15 points only drops the int score by 1, and raising the degree up to PHD only puts it up by 3. So it seems to be a little odd... But it got my Dex right.>:)
Kintanon
I've been running games and playing in them since around 1988-89, when we got annoyed at some part of 2nd edition we all sat down and rewrote chunks of it to work how we thought it should work. Some of these rewrites were horrible! They broke the game to an unbelievable degree, others were perfect and helped make our gaming a more enjoyable experience. One of these great alterations was converting the Thac0 system into a system that used fewer negative numbers and made more sense. It came out almost exactly the way 3rd edition rules are. The current d20 system used in D&D 3rd ed is incredibly friendly and lends itself to customizing the world to an excellent degree. The mechanics can apply to almost anything you can think of. I'm maddly in love with the current d20 system over every other system I've played, and that's a LOT of systems.
Kintanon
As an anecdote relating to this:
My little brother was doing a lot of business on Ebay and using Paypal for a lot of it. He sold some stuff, and got paid 600$ for it, directly into his Paypal account, he then took the 600$ out to pay for other stuff. A few weeks later Paypal sends him an e-mail saying that the 600$ he got might have originated from a fraudulent source, as a result they claimed he owed them $600. Luckily he had already taken the money out, and he immediately notified his bank not to let them take any action against his bank account and blew them off. But if he had been a few days slower taking his money out he would have been out $600!
Kintanon
Bah! take a little risk! So what if you get maimed or killed or your pants get set on fire! A little revolution would do us all good! Oddly enough I think I would gladly accept the risk that I would be one of the first against the wall just to know that the american people stopped sitting on their fat asses long enough to put me there. A little hardship would do a lot of these people good.
Kintanon
You aren't missing anything. The site is TERRIBLE. It's a 3 pictures on a HORRIBLE background that hurts my eyes. Oh, and incidentally, there were 972 people on his counter when I saw the story, and there were no comments for it yet. I wonder how many hits he has now? >:)
Kintanon
No shit sherlock! You figure that all out for yourself?
Go rent yourself a couple of martial arts movies, one with primarily asians and one with primarily Westerners. Watch the fluidity of motion that the asians exhibit. The superior range of motion.
It's not because they are Asian, it's because they PUT IN THE FUCKING TIME TO BE GOOD. And americans just don't do that. Thought a couple of good Non-Asian martial artists are the Aussie kid from Gorgeous and the shorter blond twin in Kiss of the Dragon.
Kintanon
Because Americans are shitty martial artists.
Just as a disclaimer, I'm an American martial artist. Thought luckily I have a more asian body type. But Every major american martial artist (Chuck Norris, Steven Segal, etc...) is slow, awkward, and has poor technique. It's like they don't even bother to work on their art any more once they hit the movies. Even Chuck Norris' FIRST role (The bad guy in a Bruce Lee movie, I believe it was Enter the Dragon, but it may have been Fists of Fury, or Return of the Dragon... In fact, I'm now almost certain it was Return of the Dragon.) he was slow and awkward. Bruce made him look like an amateur. Most Americans just don't have the attention span or determination it takes to make themselves good Martial Artists. And it seems like the ones that do have better things to do than go into movies...
But that's just my opinion, and if you don't like it, why the fuck did you read all this way? >:)
Kintanon
Change the size of already-drawn elements
Just this feature alone will probably get a LOT of companies/schools/etc... to buy one. The ability to point at something you wrote a few minutes ago and have it enlarge itself is just invaluable. Especially in a room filled with people who may not be able to see clearly from the back.
Additionally I'd love to see someone rig their smartboard to dump the output to a website somehow, so you could sit in on lectures without having to deal with vid-conf software, just a sound pickup and a smartboard dump. Should be MUCH lower bandwidth than trying to do any kind of readable video.
Kintanon
Frankly I want to get an IP addie assigned at birth, and then spawn my devices off as ports on that IP. Like, my machine at work could be first.middle.last.unique:666 and my machine at home could be port 777, and my coffee maker could be port 42, and my refrigeratore could be port 32, and my TV would be whatever...
Then I wouldn't need so many ip addies, since no one is going to end up with more than 65K devices until we start using nanotech and my pants need 3 billion ip addies to administer all of the fibers...>:)
Kintanon
Welp, either way I've decided to go with SMTP Auth on Qmail here and that should fix it.
Kintanon
NOT using Sendmail.
Using Qmail, and I just found the SMTP Auth patch for Qmail. Now I just have to get that installed...
Kintanon
Sigh, 800# dialup won't work, he's constantly connecting into other companies networks for things, so that's the connection he uses.
I suppose I could do a VPN, but as far as I know that requires that I know what his IP addie will be, which we don't. Someone else recommended SMTP Auth, which is what I'm about to go look at.
Kintanon
Oh and before people start telling me to use smtp-pop, it's an imap server and no one wants to change it to pop. And for some reason he doesn't want to use the web-based e-mail we set up...
Bah nevermind.... >:)
Kintanon
My boss doesn't want to change his SMTP server every time he is connected to a different network (about 5 times per day) nor does he want to have to worry about having 5 different connections set up (one for each network even though he is using the same e-mail address for all of them) and he travels out of state and out of country a lot, which adds yet another set of random SMTP servers he would have to deal with.
My problem is that SMTP has no authentication that I can find that would allow me to let him use our SMTP server from wherever he was, so I found a list of open relays and changed his SMTP server to use that. I wish there were a better technical solution, but I haven't been able to find one so far... If anyone has a suggestion I'd be happy to hear it, but until then Open Relays have a place in the world in my opinion.
Kintanon
Which still seems kinda silly. The only time I ever had anyone run into me, we didn't even call the insurance companies, he paid to have it repaired.
No one ever wants to involve the insurance companies because then their rates go up.
The insurance business only survives at the current level because it's legally mandated.
Kintanon
Jeez, when I bought my car they required I have full comprehensive insurance, which was costing me 300$ a month on a car that was 400$ a month. A couple of years later I moved to a place where I don't need the car and got rid of it. YAY! Now I'm no longer driving illegally! >:)
Insurance is the biggest ripoff around, especially car insurance. Paying out 300$ a month I could have dropped into a savings account and easily replaced my car and paid my medical bills if I'd had an accident. And I still haven't had one. I've dumped Around 5 grand to the insurance bastards and not seen one single benefit from it!
Kintanon
Well, I've posted over 1000 times, but I'm stuck at 78 Karma. Before the Karma cap I pretty much never got modded down, After the Karma cap I post whatever silly crap pops into my head (like this) and I still have more Karma than the cap allows for. So how do you measure the quality of a poster if they hit the cap and keep posting? I can stay at 78 karma pretty much indefinately and continue posting. So right now everytime I post my supposed value goes down since my Karma/Post ratio is getting lower.
Kintanon
Greasing the pillars didn't stop me, I ended up with close to 50lbs of beads after climbing one greased pillar.>:)
Kintanon
When the population begins to feel powerless within the system it means the system is breaking down. I'm advocating armed revolution and forced government restructuring. It's time the citizens of the US who actually CARE what happens get off of their asses and go do something about it.
Kintanon
Actually, I'm pretty sure the charges levelled against him were all related to the act of creating the circumvention device, which was done exclusively in russia. All he did in the US was demonstrate it and talk about it. Which is not illegal. He was arrested for creating the device, not selling it.
Kintanon
I'm on your side in the browser wars, Opera until it hurts.>:)
And the OSS vs Free Software people are always getting muddled together in my mind because a lot of people seem to support both or to lump them both together. So yes, I agree that Open Source Software is the way things should be for probably 90% of all software and I would be willing to pay for it assuming it met a need I had.
Kintanon
I don't care about the money. But unless my facts or horribly mangled they are the ones who are responsible in one fashion or another for the region encoding on the DVDs.
And if it's not them, it's the MPAA and I pirate movies to avoid paying them anything as well.
Kintanon
My goodness, he knocked you for having 700+ posts? I hope he never takes a look at my user profile... And I'm not even that prolific a poster.
Kintanon
Watch out for spyware removal software that has backdoors stuck in it. One of the IRC chans I hang in has been getting a lot of rumors of some of the software widgets that are supposed to remove the spyware also installing remote control backdoors on their machines.
Kintanon