I would have to agree with the parent on this one, sure Mac users are traditionally arty types, BUT they are arty types with CAD level experience, maybe 3D rendering, or some other heavy duty graphic experience. If they can master the intricacies of such programs they can easily come to terms with the OS as well!
Whilst it is true as other folk have rightly pointed out D&D does comes from a war gaming background. The sentence infers that this is the norm to use miniatures.
I have never used miniatures in D&D or any other RPG I have played and also do not know of anyone (outside of the film E.T.!) who uses them. They may be handy if all you are going to do is dungeon crawl but for more sophisticated RPGing there is just no point. It is a ROLE playing game not a BATTLE game, there is more to D&D than hack and slash
I've NEVER seen 2000 or XP produce a blue screen of death EVER
You are VERY lucky then, all it needs is for some @$%^wit to install the 'so called' recommended driver updates from windows update and chances are its BSOD city!!!
What is clearly needed is a plug-in that clears the screen when the unit is held upside-down and shaken!
Wowbagger, I don't like to use the word Hero lightly but You...
...are the greatest Hero known to mankind.
Genius!!! - finally life has imitated art once more and the famous Dilbert and the PHB laptop strip can now be made a reality
Love it.
If you had read the article, you'd know it's 24, Enterprise, and Six Feet Under...
I would just like to take this opportunity on behalf of my great nation to apologise for the Enterprise thing - not sure what we were thinking, the series must be playing on it's predecessors good PR!
We will petition the PM and get back to downloading Pr0n forwith!
you are obvisouly forgetting this little 'delicacy'
Recipe for Black Pudding
1lt (1¾ pints) Blood (Pig, Lamb or Goose)
340g (12oz) Shredded Suet
300ml (½ pint) Milk
50g (2oz) Oatmeal
3 Medium Onions, chopped
1 tbsp Salt
½ tsp Mixed Herbs
½ tsp Cayenne Pepper
Pinch Nutmeg
Pre-heat oven to 160C: 300F: Gas 2.
Mix all of the ingredients together thoroughly, making sure that the seasonings are evenly distributed.
Next fill the large sausage cases, see: Sausage Making Basics for advice on doing so.
Place into an ovenproof dish with a cover, standing in a larger dish half filled with water.
Bake for 1½ hours.
Allow to cool.
you mean THE Argument. I do not blame games or guns, my argument is purely with the state of American society today, caused mostly (I realise that more than one source is to blame) by the overly fear-mongering press/television.
Hear Hear, Canada has got stacks of guns, and yet the per annum death rate due to gun crimes is one of the lowest in the world! In fact a lot of other countries all have lots of people with lots of guns, some have more guns per capita than the USA and yet the USA has by far and way the greatest number of gun crime deaths than any other country in the world.
the reason????
the US media! never in my life have I ever seen a country fed so much FUD bullshit ever, period! You can't walk down the street without some 'news at 11' report saying 'watch out they are our to get you' - They of course being terrorists/anarchists/democrats/republicans/gang bangers/girl scouts/small fluffy birds - you get my drift.
The sooner the media stops whipping everyone up into a fear for your life frenzy the better the country will be. (IMHO of course)
The Original poster is obv a geek, otherwise he would not be on here, so he logically wants the opinions of his geek peers as to how good an apple switch would be. I imagine if he is savvy this will just be part of his research and not the totality of it (hopefully at any rate).
Oh, and how about a... taskbar!
Errrm, what about the dock?? That looks like a taskbar to me, plus it is more configurable than the windows one and even though it doesn't show child windows within a particular app expose is a good substitute, as IMHO I think it is easier to know which window is which by looking at them as they run even if they are small than the truncated mess that is the taskbar when you have more than 7 or 8 windows open at the same time.
ooops, just re-read your question and saw you are a linux man, please ignore my last sentence, but for anyone else thinking of upgrading to a better OS - the time is now! *Gets ready for the barrage of Mac zealot lines*
My first answer would be wait until 'Tiger' comes out, that way you will more than likely get Panther installed on the box and Tiger on CDs. At least that is what happened when I bought my Imac last year (cept of course it was Jaguar-Panther). I got two Oses for the price of one. Bargain.
on the flip side of that, you may as well upgrade now as every day on windows is a day when your PC can crash and die and get infected with malware etc etc. (Bit dramatic I know, but hey that is what too much time spent on billyware does to you!)
I'd rather not own a DB7 Vantage when the Autobahn is an ocean away.
Not to be a pedantic bugger, but this analogy is flawed. There are many other advantages to owning a DB7 (or any aston martin for that matter) that far outweigh the ability to drive fast in it. I mean it even looks like it is doing 100 when it is parked!
I would say that depends, firstly I am a geek and yet I value the aesthetics of Apple, plus it helps to 'sell the idea' to the wife (no obv jokes please - I am not self delusional) in this case small and quiet are good points. If the box is in your bedroom then quiet is certaibnly a good point as no doubt it will be on 24/7 either searching for ET or folding or rendering or whatever. Plus it is the perfect size for a media centre another plus point and if you want to get ubergeeky it is the perfect size to make a damn big cluster without needing an airplane hangar to house all the nodes in. Imagine 16 Dell boxes stacked up on top of each other - urrghh sorry bad mental imagine, my brain now needs a clean.
I would say it is important that they look AND act how they should when acted out on film, but also do something new that the comics have not done. IMHO the X-men movies have done exactly that, they have shown the usual heroes we all know and love but in a different way. e.g. it is nice to see Rogue before she absorbs Ms. Marvel's powers i.e. to delve into her real mutant ability rather than just being a strong flyer who is also pretty invulnerable. To my mind, this would not have been as good if she was a Canadian accented oriental dwarf (not that there is anything wrong with such a person - but that person is not ROGUE). I appreciate I am not really adding anything new from what I said before except I do stick with the comics, but I would also like to see new ways of portaying the comic characters without destroying the originals.
I think you have an excellent point and it should only be taken partly as a joke as it is a serious point put across using sarcasm. (one of my favorute forms of communication btw!) it is not a case of being PC or not. In the comics the kingpin is not black, he is white (actually I think he is a quarter asian - someone with a better memory can correct me on that) Catwoman is also white not black, thank you Ms. Berry. Is it wrong that I want comic characters to be played by people who ACTUALLY look like the characters they are portraying? Particuarly as these characters are from a visual medium and so there is plenty of references on how they should look.
please, PLEASE, don't mention the canoe again. I am feeling far too sensitive to contemplate his sheer lack of talent.
John Constantine is a Liverpudlian with blonde hair - Canoe is a yank with black hair and he may as well be not trying to do an english accent it sounds that p155 poor. I saw the trailer and wanted to rip out my eyes. Sorry but I need to go lie down now.
Errm have you actually READ much spidey? He's about as sappy and sentimental as they come - how many times can one man say 'with great power comes great repsonsibilty' anyhow? give me the X-men any day.
well hopefully, we might be paying to see a wobbly outlined version of it - if you squint hard enough you may be able to make the lovely curvaceousness of it!
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I would have to agree with the parent on this one, sure Mac users are traditionally arty types, BUT they are arty types with CAD level experience, maybe 3D rendering, or some other heavy duty graphic experience. If they can master the intricacies of such programs they can easily come to terms with the OS as well!
Whilst it is true as other folk have rightly pointed out D&D does comes from a war gaming background. The sentence infers that this is the norm to use miniatures.
I have never used miniatures in D&D or any other RPG I have played and also do not know of anyone (outside of the film E.T.!) who uses them. They may be handy if all you are going to do is dungeon crawl but for more sophisticated RPGing there is just no point. It is a ROLE playing game not a BATTLE game, there is more to D&D than hack and slash
I've NEVER seen 2000 or XP produce a blue screen of death EVER
You are VERY lucky then, all it needs is for some @$%^wit to install the 'so called' recommended driver updates from windows update and chances are its BSOD city!!!
What is clearly needed is a plug-in that clears the screen when the unit is held upside-down and shaken!
...are the greatest Hero known to mankind.
Wowbagger, I don't like to use the word Hero lightly but You...
Genius!!! - finally life has imitated art once more and the famous Dilbert and the PHB laptop strip can now be made a reality
Love it.
Exactly!
If you had read the article, you'd know it's 24, Enterprise, and Six Feet Under ...
I would just like to take this opportunity on behalf of my great nation to apologise for the Enterprise thing - not sure what we were thinking, the series must be playing on it's predecessors good PR!
We will petition the PM and get back to downloading Pr0n forwith!
but we do have doctor who!!!
you are obvisouly forgetting this little 'delicacy'
Recipe for Black Pudding
1lt (1¾ pints) Blood (Pig, Lamb or Goose)
340g (12oz) Shredded Suet
300ml (½ pint) Milk
50g (2oz) Oatmeal
3 Medium Onions, chopped
1 tbsp Salt
½ tsp Mixed Herbs
½ tsp Cayenne Pepper
Pinch Nutmeg
Pre-heat oven to 160C: 300F: Gas 2.
Mix all of the ingredients together thoroughly, making sure that the seasonings are evenly distributed.
Next fill the large sausage cases, see: Sausage Making Basics for advice on doing so.
Place into an ovenproof dish with a cover, standing in a larger dish half filled with water.
Bake for 1½ hours. Allow to cool.
hmmmmmmm, pig's blood!
you mean THE Argument. I do not blame games or guns, my argument is purely with the state of American society today, caused mostly (I realise that more than one source is to blame) by the overly fear-mongering press/television.
Hear Hear, Canada has got stacks of guns, and yet the per annum death rate due to gun crimes is one of the lowest in the world! In fact a lot of other countries all have lots of people with lots of guns, some have more guns per capita than the USA and yet the USA has by far and way the greatest number of gun crime deaths than any other country in the world.
the reason????
the US media! never in my life have I ever seen a country fed so much FUD bullshit ever, period! You can't walk down the street without some 'news at 11' report saying 'watch out they are our to get you' - They of course being terrorists/anarchists/democrats/republicans/gang bangers/girl scouts/small fluffy birds - you get my drift.
The sooner the media stops whipping everyone up into a fear for your life frenzy the better the country will be. (IMHO of course)
What the FUCK is wrong with this country?
Errrr, how much time have you got?
I believe the poster was originally talking about his own neighbourhood - Hell's Kitchen!
The Original poster is obv a geek, otherwise he would not be on here, so he logically wants the opinions of his geek peers as to how good an apple switch would be.
I imagine if he is savvy this will just be part of his research and not the totality of it (hopefully at any rate).
Oh, and how about a ... taskbar!
Errrm, what about the dock?? That looks like a taskbar to me, plus it is more configurable than the windows one and even though it doesn't show child windows within a particular app expose is a good substitute, as IMHO I think it is easier to know which window is which by looking at them as they run even if they are small than the truncated mess that is the taskbar when you have more than 7 or 8 windows open at the same time.
ooops, just re-read your question and saw you are a linux man, please ignore my last sentence, but for anyone else thinking of upgrading to a better OS - the time is now! *Gets ready for the barrage of Mac zealot lines*
My first answer would be wait until 'Tiger' comes out, that way you will more than likely get Panther installed on the box and Tiger on CDs. At least that is what happened when I bought my Imac last year (cept of course it was Jaguar-Panther). I got two Oses for the price of one. Bargain.
on the flip side of that, you may as well upgrade now as every day on windows is a day when your PC can crash and die and get infected with malware etc etc. (Bit dramatic I know, but hey that is what too much time spent on billyware does to you!)
I'd rather not own a DB7 Vantage when the Autobahn is an ocean away.
Not to be a pedantic bugger, but this analogy is flawed. There are many other advantages to owning a DB7 (or any aston martin for that matter) that far outweigh the ability to drive fast in it. I mean it even looks like it is doing 100 when it is parked!
Ey up mi duck, owya goin? It's black ovver bill's movvers. :`)
I would say that depends, firstly I am a geek and yet I value the aesthetics of Apple, plus it helps to 'sell the idea' to the wife (no obv jokes please - I am not self delusional) in this case small and quiet are good points.
If the box is in your bedroom then quiet is certaibnly a good point as no doubt it will be on 24/7 either searching for ET or folding or rendering or whatever. Plus it is the perfect size for a media centre another plus point and if you want to get ubergeeky it is the perfect size to make a damn big cluster without needing an airplane hangar to house all the nodes in. Imagine 16 Dell boxes stacked up on top of each other - urrghh sorry bad mental imagine, my brain now needs a clean.
yes indeedy, he was probably the highlight of the movie - Doc Ock was pretty good as well - certainly looked enough like Roy Orbison to qualify!
I would say it is important that they look AND act how they should when acted out on film, but also do something new that the comics have not done.
IMHO the X-men movies have done exactly that, they have shown the usual heroes we all know and love but in a different way. e.g. it is nice to see Rogue before she absorbs Ms. Marvel's powers i.e. to delve into her real mutant ability rather than just being a strong flyer who is also pretty invulnerable. To my mind, this would not have been as good if she was a Canadian accented oriental dwarf (not that there is anything wrong with such a person - but that person is not ROGUE).
I appreciate I am not really adding anything new from what I said before except I do stick with the comics, but I would also like to see new ways of portaying the comic characters without destroying the originals.
I think you have an excellent point and it should only be taken partly as a joke as it is a serious point put across using sarcasm. (one of my favorute forms of communication btw!)
it is not a case of being PC or not. In the comics the kingpin is not black, he is white (actually I think he is a quarter asian - someone with a better memory can correct me on that)
Catwoman is also white not black, thank you Ms. Berry.
Is it wrong that I want comic characters to be played by people who ACTUALLY look like the characters they are portraying? Particuarly as these characters are from a visual medium and so there is plenty of references on how they should look.
please, PLEASE, don't mention the canoe again. I am feeling far too sensitive to contemplate his sheer lack of talent.
John Constantine is a Liverpudlian with blonde hair - Canoe is a yank with black hair and he may as well be not trying to do an english accent it sounds that p155 poor. I saw the trailer and wanted to rip out my eyes.
Sorry but I need to go lie down now.
Errm have you actually READ much spidey? He's about as sappy and sentimental as they come - how many times can one man say 'with great power comes great repsonsibilty' anyhow?
give me the X-men any day.
well hopefully, we might be paying to see a wobbly outlined version of it - if you squint hard enough you may be able to make the lovely curvaceousness of it!