Contribute them to a group project with a shared index. It would be immensely useful for academics to have a central resource and dig up, say, historical events as portrayed across the globe.
The problem is that public domain texts can potentially be re-copyrighted... not the text itself, but indexing, annotations, etc.
Va te faire foutre, and have the fucking balls to log in when being condescending.
...how many people reading the Slashdot blurb can actually read the linked Le Monde article well enough to follow what the guy's saying?
I'm just curious. Personally I'm pretty rusty at French myself, but it's easy enough to get the gist. I don't see a great deal of difference between the two languages; modern English uses many words derived from French and various other languages... it simply has more vocabulary to draw from, because it isn't fussy about including new words from any source.
And since the rankings are about zeitgeist, this makes them pretty accurate.
Re:Played Doom board game... a mini-review...
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if you're into games with lotsa bits, Doom has some serious heft to it.
Yeah, it's reasonable value when you look at the price of other boardgames and what you get for the cash.
Maybe the dice were just not with us.
I think an "every X shots you lose an ammo token" rule would be a better way of handling things.
Buffy kept things simple, which Doom bogged down with the details.
Plays a lot quicker once people are familiar with the setup. And yep, the Evil player has a decided advantage if they're sharp enough to use all of their options. It's probably best if everyone gets a turn being the Evil.
Re:I spent New Year's eve playing this...
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It's a lot like Space Hulk and that sort of thing, yeah. There's very little RPG element, though... although there are 'encounters' which you'll usually need to go through to pick up keys or get door codes, it's very minimal.
Most of the entertainment value is in the tactics, so it's more like a tabletop wargame in an enclosed space. Not very enclosed though; it does need a big table surface to lay out a mission.
I spent New Year's eve playing this...
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...yes, I know, I should get out more. We were dog-sitting and drinking as well, though.
The rules provided in the box aren't always clear, but the game does have a lot of replayability. In fact, playing a mission you haven't played before can be extremely difficult, as it's easy to waste too much time and too many respawns exploring.
Some people would argue that the ammo system is rather sucky, though. You collect ammo counters and lose them on the basis of the dice, not for every shot you make, so you may get no opportunity to use the bigger weapons with two dice that have chances to miss. This is especially crucial when you consider some monsters can't even be harmed by most weapons. Oh, and the losing armour on respawn really, really sucks, because there's so little of it in most missions, and without it, pretty much everything that attacks you will do damage.
If you play it much, you'll probably want to establish some tailored rules for your group.
Other stuff: the miniatures are decent and painting allows you to see the nice amount of detail they have on them; the playing pieces and cards are all heavy enough stock that should last a fair while.
Why would you expect to write a program for one type of GUI, port it, but keep exactly the same interface, and expect the people on the second platform to think your program works very well?
There's often a difference between things working (performing a function) and looking nice.
Amongst other sources. Of course, the fact that quite large parts of the world don't have access to clean drinking water (let alone libraries) makes this a bit of a no-brainer, if a rather depressing conclusion.
I read more than the majority of adults, am in the position of recommending book sources to students and to friends/family, etc. and Amazon is my main recommendation: reliability, good at dealing with (very occasional) mistakes, and an integrated marketplace feature.
I'm not suggesting there aren't other good outlets out there, especially in locations other than the UK, but Amazon may as well be the only online bookstore for many people and educational faculties. They have a popular brand over here and they deliver in the service stakes.
By running a publically-available webserver, you're inviting them in. By running a forum, you're even inviting them to upload and modify data. Bottom line: you're responsible for what scripts running on your space do, including accepting commands from strangers to wipe files and attack other servers.
It's useful to indicate that the page author intended that there be additional content. Of course, I'd support users who wanted it getting an option to turn it off permanently... and there probably already is buried in about:config, where casual users can't disable it permanently and then wonder why things don't work...
It's six episodes of a BBC adaptation, actually. Not a bad one, either, in parts -- the 'CGI' for the guide iteself is actually meticulously hand-drawn, and the game sequence with the fleet being eaten by a dog is spot-on.
Re:firefox 1.0 installer overwrote my bookmarks
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Yeah, I've had trouble with that in previous releases, but it was absolutely fine this time going from 1.0PR to 1.0 for me under Win2K. The old version of SessionSaver (0.2) I was carrying over seems to crash 1.0 though...
I tend to use payphones in pubs when a mobile runs out of batteries, but the same principle operates -- cellphones require coverage (which isn't total) and charging every few days. Payphones are also generally a lot cheaper to dial into, and potential lifesavers in emergency situations.
Whilst not the big thing they used to be, keeping a few in service is worthwhile.
...still have a pile of decaying copies somewhere. Crap games corner, loads of software on the cover tapes, Linda Barker being the girl everyone wanted as their best mate, Julian Gollop's "Chaos"...
...especially to myself, as I'm more of an English geek than a computer one: I'd never heard of Neal Stephenson either.
So, time to do a little digging. The design of his website is painful to navigate, but I have every intention of tracking down a book or two by him because that interview was one of the most interesting things I've read on Slashdot in four years. In particular the bifurcation and accountability issues raised in question two--that's a useful and engaging summary for writing class students.
it turns out that a bookstore is a lot more than a machine that swaps money for books.
People who've read The Salmon of Doubt should appreciate that line all the more.:)
I'm a parent. Those aren't just bodies on the screen, those are people. Do some reading about the brutality and degredation of the Porn industry. Very few people earn any respect at all.
Do some reading about the conditions your clothes, food, electrical equipment and other supplies are manufactured under.
Porn is not a bad thing--exploiting people is. Porn is not inherently exploitative, unless you're proposing a baby-Jesus-cry rationale.
I'm a consultant; I frequently work at home. Would you want your kids looking over your shoulder when doing work of this kind?
You're transposing your working arrangements onto his. When his kids reach the age of majority, they can decide for themselves if they want to view porn. Until then, the parental role is to filter content as they (and the law, to an extent) see fit--whether films, magazines or websites.
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The problem is that public domain texts can potentially be re-copyrighted... not the text itself, but indexing, annotations, etc.
Va te faire foutre, and have the fucking balls to log in when being condescending.
I'm just curious. Personally I'm pretty rusty at French myself, but it's easy enough to get the gist. I don't see a great deal of difference between the two languages; modern English uses many words derived from French and various other languages... it simply has more vocabulary to draw from, because it isn't fussy about including new words from any source.
...they're prepared to scan books themselves and contribute them to the effort.
Yes, but corners weren't being cut to keep production costs to the bare minimum.
And since the rankings are about zeitgeist, this makes them pretty accurate.
Yeah, it's reasonable value when you look at the price of other boardgames and what you get for the cash.
Maybe the dice were just not with us.
I think an "every X shots you lose an ammo token" rule would be a better way of handling things.
Buffy kept things simple, which Doom bogged down with the details.
Plays a lot quicker once people are familiar with the setup. And yep, the Evil player has a decided advantage if they're sharp enough to use all of their options. It's probably best if everyone gets a turn being the Evil.
Most of the entertainment value is in the tactics, so it's more like a tabletop wargame in an enclosed space. Not very enclosed though; it does need a big table surface to lay out a mission.
The rules provided in the box aren't always clear, but the game does have a lot of replayability. In fact, playing a mission you haven't played before can be extremely difficult, as it's easy to waste too much time and too many respawns exploring.
Some people would argue that the ammo system is rather sucky, though. You collect ammo counters and lose them on the basis of the dice, not for every shot you make, so you may get no opportunity to use the bigger weapons with two dice that have chances to miss. This is especially crucial when you consider some monsters can't even be harmed by most weapons. Oh, and the losing armour on respawn really, really sucks, because there's so little of it in most missions, and without it, pretty much everything that attacks you will do damage.
If you play it much, you'll probably want to establish some tailored rules for your group.
Other stuff: the miniatures are decent and painting allows you to see the nice amount of detail they have on them; the playing pieces and cards are all heavy enough stock that should last a fair while.
Give it a try, though!
Things like this are why some ex-friends of mine became ex-friends when they got into relationships with yapping partners.
Some things stay private, else communication stops.
There's often a difference between things working (performing a function) and looking nice.
No obituary is popping out of Google, so I presume he's hanging in there.
Nope. You don't own a webmail account, you have a service agreement (for a service which, in the case of most Yahoo mail accounts, provided free.)
The value I use is: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=
Amongst other sources. Of course, the fact that quite large parts of the world don't have access to clean drinking water (let alone libraries) makes this a bit of a no-brainer, if a rather depressing conclusion.
I'm not suggesting there aren't other good outlets out there, especially in locations other than the UK, but Amazon may as well be the only online bookstore for many people and educational faculties. They have a popular brand over here and they deliver in the service stakes.
By running a publically-available webserver, you're inviting them in. By running a forum, you're even inviting them to upload and modify data. Bottom line: you're responsible for what scripts running on your space do, including accepting commands from strangers to wipe files and attack other servers.
It's useful to indicate that the page author intended that there be additional content. Of course, I'd support users who wanted it getting an option to turn it off permanently... and there probably already is buried in about:config, where casual users can't disable it permanently and then wonder why things don't work...
What you're saying is that you're screwed if the system dies or even if someone clears your stored data.
Invest a little time with software which can reveal passwords, write everything down and seal that information away in a physically secure location.
Alternately, consider creating passwords according to a formula.
It's six episodes of a BBC adaptation, actually. Not a bad one, either, in parts -- the 'CGI' for the guide iteself is actually meticulously hand-drawn, and the game sequence with the fleet being eaten by a dog is spot-on.
Yeah, I've had trouble with that in previous releases, but it was absolutely fine this time going from 1.0PR to 1.0 for me under Win2K. The old version of SessionSaver (0.2) I was carrying over seems to crash 1.0 though...
Whilst not the big thing they used to be, keeping a few in service is worthwhile.
Some of the magazine's original content is archived here: The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years. Go easy on the server, people.
More info about Chaos (one of the most addictive eight-player games ever) here: The battle of the wizards.
It's almost as if the last fifteen years never happened.
So, time to do a little digging. The design of his website is painful to navigate, but I have every intention of tracking down a book or two by him because that interview was one of the most interesting things I've read on Slashdot in four years. In particular the bifurcation and accountability issues raised in question two--that's a useful and engaging summary for writing class students.
it turns out that a bookstore is a lot more than a machine that swaps money for books.
People who've read The Salmon of Doubt should appreciate that line all the more. :)
Do some reading about the conditions your clothes, food, electrical equipment and other supplies are manufactured under.
Porn is not a bad thing--exploiting people is. Porn is not inherently exploitative, unless you're proposing a baby-Jesus-cry rationale.
I'm a consultant; I frequently work at home. Would you want your kids looking over your shoulder when doing work of this kind?
You're transposing your working arrangements onto his. When his kids reach the age of majority, they can decide for themselves if they want to view porn. Until then, the parental role is to filter content as they (and the law, to an extent) see fit--whether films, magazines or websites.
Apparently this is affecting some people with PayPal debit cards far worse, though.