Diablo guarantees you a legendary the first time you kill him (after loot 2.0)....you've gone 40+ hours and haven't reached Diablo yet?
That got patched in later, it was originally the Skeleton King that had a guaranteed Legendary drop. I know my husband didn't get a legendary on Diablo the first 2 times he killed her (spoilers sweetie;P ) since loot 2.0.
He has had a bucket of legendaries drop overall though. And at least 1 set item. I got a plans for a L21 Set the other night, not sure if they would be worth making for an alt. Given how quickly you level now, they would be replaced before I could earn the materials back. Might make them just to have them in the transmog panel.
I thought it was a commonly believed position that the reason penalties make for bad deterrents is that most crimes are committed either on the spur of the moment or by people who don't believe they will get caught. Either way - they don't expect the penalty to apply to them.
If you look at the stats for how many homicides go unsolved, it's really scary that one of the crimes with the biggest social taboos and possibly one of the highest penalties, goes unpunished so often.
I'm having flashbacks to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air - there have been plenty of TV representations of black families that are not 'Ebonics' ghetto dwellers.
As someone who doesn't live in the US, I honestly couldn't tell you if the Cosby show or The Wire is a more accurate picture of the typical experience of a someone growing up as an African American. I'm not sure how many non-blacks could tell you that either.
The "computer graphics" from the original HHGTTG TV series were hand animated cells. It was the only way for them to animate the guide within budget at the time. From memory they used a blue screen to project the animations onto the guide's screen in post production.
Remembering back 25 years or so when I worked as an architectural draftsman, the yellow paper printed to a purple-blue-ish line on white paper - it was quite pale. There were also gloss versions that left a black line but I can't remember if they were also 'yellow' before being exposed. We also used a stock that came out sepia brown.
Generally a print was made from a 'positive' drawing on tracing paper, the image would appear where ink obstructed the UV light from reaching the transfer sheet/copy. Anywhere with no light got exposed and would come out white-ish. Prints would fade with exposure to daylight.
The paper would be stored in black plastic sleeves in light-fast draws before use to ensure it didn't go bad. We used to go through a ton of the stuff. In the practice where I worked, we usually had one person running the print machine full time. The yellow paper version exposed to UV light was way better than the older ammonia machines, which used to leave me feeling light-headed after about 20 minutes of use.
CAD wasn't really common at that point, so we hand drafted everything, if you had to make a significant change to the drawing, it often meant starting again, minor changes were made be scratching the ink off the sheet with a razor blade and making your amendments to the 'original' sheet.
I used to explain computers in terms of an office workspace. Your desktop (memory) is the display of what you are currently working on, if you want to write a letter, you get your typewriter (application) out of your drawer (storage). Your desktop can only hold so many things at one time, so sometimes you need to put something away before you can access then next thing. Some application need more room than others - say a drawing application might need more space. At the end of the day when you switch off the computer, the desktop is wiped clear, but what ever is in your drawer is available to be used again. If you want to be able to use something again you need to make sure you save a copy to the drawer.
I've yet to find someone who can't be made to understand basic principles on how a computer operates conceptually by that metaphor.
Personally, when on one of my "Leggings are not pants" rants, I wouldn't think it would be that much of a stretch to say that some people are walking around partially nude. Recently I've been seeing french knickers as shorts as a trend on younger women (late teens, early 20s, mostly east-asian). They're not pants either.
I know I wore a fair bit of lycra when I was their age, so I can't complain too much. It was the '80s though, so I have a bit of an excuse. Looks askance at Olivia Newton-John and Madonna.
IANAL but you could argue that we are all partially nude (I'm naked under my clothes) and the fact that I am wearing a skirt means I have an expectation that my privates will remain private.
Skirts make an assumption that nobody will have a line-of-sight view from directly beneath you -- an assumption that was never entirely valid, but is a whole lot less valid now that technology has given people access to discreet digital cameras that they can easily position at floor level.
In some respects it's like circumventing DRM - an effort was made to conceal (wearing a skirt), but someone deliberately positioned themselves in a abnormal position closer to the floor in order to create a line-of-sight that would not generally be available through normal activity.
and studies on the subject often glaze over the possible contributors to disease spread in the vaccinated population (going to work while infectious instead of staying home)
I don't understand - are you saying they ignore the risk of infection vectors or do you think that most people stay home immediately they become infectious - which is generally before they are symptomatic, somehow they just 'know'.
In addition, words with negative meanings are removed as redundant, so "bad" becomes "ungood". Words with comparative and superlative meanings are also simplified, so "better" becomes "plusgood", and "best" becomes "doubleplus good". Intensifiers can be added, so "great" became "plusgood", and "excellent" and "splendid" become "doubleplus good". This ambiguity between comparative/superlative forms and intensified forms is one of the few examples of ambiguity in Newspeak.
Trying to read this broke my brain. If you have something of value to communicate, it's considered polite to do so in a manner that HELPS your audience, not one that makes them work harder to guess what you are trying to say.
Everytime I want to use the datedif function in Excel 2010 I have to google it because it's not listed as an available function in the Excel UI. It works perfectly fine if you follow the correct argument components, I just don't use it often enough to remember them. I"m sure there are plenty of other orphan functions in there too.
I'm posting from a work machine which is still running XP.
We have started upgrading to Win7, but we are finding that a number of our proprietary systems won't run under Win7 and have to be run under Citrix for the users that have been upgraded. This kinda defeats the purpose of upgrading as they have less functionality than they had before the upgrade.
My current office doesn't have a coffee machine at all (though it has a sign up at the entrance saying to switch it off at night), instead we get caterers sized tins of Nescafe Blend 43.
From memory it was Steven Levitt of Freakonomics Fame who drew the inference between abortion rights and crime statistics. He has an extraordinary way of looking at the world.
The sig started out as "In an NT World", "Metro" doesn't have the same 'ring' to it, the cadence is wrong. Tempted to go back to the original.
At the time I originally came up with it, I was bombarded constantly with how Apple was going out of business - Dell's statement that they should return the money to the shareholders was not the most pointed remark along that line. It's almost funny that they are currently one of, if not the, most valuable companies on the planet.
Sounds a lot like drinking 'Turkish' style coffee. I had a lot of this style of coffee in Indonesia as an exchange student many (many) years ago. You go used to stopping just before the grounds, leaving a residual sludge in the bottom of the cup.
I'm really surprised to have gotten this far down the thread without anyone mentioning the parallels to ink jet cartridges with DRM. I'm looking at you Epson.
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It's called the Crusader. I was going to link directly to the Bliz gameplay guide but was still getting the press release in my hasty search string.
Diablo guarantees you a legendary the first time you kill him (after loot 2.0)....you've gone 40+ hours and haven't reached Diablo yet?
That got patched in later, it was originally the Skeleton King that had a guaranteed Legendary drop. I know my husband didn't get a legendary on Diablo the first 2 times he killed her (spoilers sweetie ;P ) since loot 2.0.
He has had a bucket of legendaries drop overall though. And at least 1 set item. I got a plans for a L21 Set the other night, not sure if they would be worth making for an alt. Given how quickly you level now, they would be replaced before I could earn the materials back. Might make them just to have them in the transmog panel.
I thought it was a commonly believed position that the reason penalties make for bad deterrents is that most crimes are committed either on the spur of the moment or by people who don't believe they will get caught. Either way - they don't expect the penalty to apply to them.
If you look at the stats for how many homicides go unsolved, it's really scary that one of the crimes with the biggest social taboos and possibly one of the highest penalties, goes unpunished so often.
I'm having flashbacks to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air - there have been plenty of TV representations of black families that are not 'Ebonics' ghetto dwellers.
As someone who doesn't live in the US, I honestly couldn't tell you if the Cosby show or The Wire is a more accurate picture of the typical experience of a someone growing up as an African American. I'm not sure how many non-blacks could tell you that either.
The "computer graphics" from the original HHGTTG TV series were hand animated cells. It was the only way for them to animate the guide within budget at the time. From memory they used a blue screen to project the animations onto the guide's screen in post production.
Remembering back 25 years or so when I worked as an architectural draftsman, the yellow paper printed to a purple-blue-ish line on white paper - it was quite pale. There were also gloss versions that left a black line but I can't remember if they were also 'yellow' before being exposed. We also used a stock that came out sepia brown.
Generally a print was made from a 'positive' drawing on tracing paper, the image would appear where ink obstructed the UV light from reaching the transfer sheet/copy. Anywhere with no light got exposed and would come out white-ish. Prints would fade with exposure to daylight.
The paper would be stored in black plastic sleeves in light-fast draws before use to ensure it didn't go bad. We used to go through a ton of the stuff. In the practice where I worked, we usually had one person running the print machine full time. The yellow paper version exposed to UV light was way better than the older ammonia machines, which used to leave me feeling light-headed after about 20 minutes of use.
CAD wasn't really common at that point, so we hand drafted everything, if you had to make a significant change to the drawing, it often meant starting again, minor changes were made be scratching the ink off the sheet with a razor blade and making your amendments to the 'original' sheet.
You mean: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon's Razor
I used to explain computers in terms of an office workspace. Your desktop (memory) is the display of what you are currently working on, if you want to write a letter, you get your typewriter (application) out of your drawer (storage). Your desktop can only hold so many things at one time, so sometimes you need to put something away before you can access then next thing. Some application need more room than others - say a drawing application might need more space. At the end of the day when you switch off the computer, the desktop is wiped clear, but what ever is in your drawer is available to be used again. If you want to be able to use something again you need to make sure you save a copy to the drawer.
I've yet to find someone who can't be made to understand basic principles on how a computer operates conceptually by that metaphor.
Personally, when on one of my "Leggings are not pants" rants, I wouldn't think it would be that much of a stretch to say that some people are walking around partially nude. Recently I've been seeing french knickers as shorts as a trend on younger women (late teens, early 20s, mostly east-asian). They're not pants either.
I know I wore a fair bit of lycra when I was their age, so I can't complain too much. It was the '80s though, so I have a bit of an excuse. Looks askance at Olivia Newton-John and Madonna.
IANAL but you could argue that we are all partially nude (I'm naked under my clothes) and the fact that I am wearing a skirt means I have an expectation that my privates will remain private.
Skirts make an assumption that nobody will have a line-of-sight view from directly beneath you -- an assumption that was never entirely valid, but is a whole lot less valid now that technology has given people access to discreet digital cameras that they can easily position at floor level.
In some respects it's like circumventing DRM - an effort was made to conceal (wearing a skirt), but someone deliberately positioned themselves in a abnormal position closer to the floor in order to create a line-of-sight that would not generally be available through normal activity.
and studies on the subject often glaze over the possible contributors to disease spread in the vaccinated population (going to work while infectious instead of staying home)
I don't understand - are you saying they ignore the risk of infection vectors or do you think that most people stay home immediately they become infectious - which is generally before they are symptomatic, somehow they just 'know'.
You seem to have missed the 'un' in the 'doubleplusungood'.
It was classic Newspeak
In addition, words with negative meanings are removed as redundant, so "bad" becomes "ungood". Words with comparative and superlative meanings are also simplified, so "better" becomes "plusgood", and "best" becomes "doubleplus good". Intensifiers can be added, so "great" became "plusgood", and "excellent" and "splendid" become "doubleplus good". This ambiguity between comparative/superlative forms and intensified forms is one of the few examples of ambiguity in Newspeak.
Trying to read this broke my brain. If you have something of value to communicate, it's considered polite to do so in a manner that HELPS your audience, not one that makes them work harder to guess what you are trying to say.
TL:DR version - learn English.
Everytime I want to use the datedif function in Excel 2010 I have to google it because it's not listed as an available function in the Excel UI. It works perfectly fine if you follow the correct argument components, I just don't use it often enough to remember them. I"m sure there are plenty of other orphan functions in there too.
I'm posting from a work machine which is still running XP.
We have started upgrading to Win7, but we are finding that a number of our proprietary systems won't run under Win7 and have to be run under Citrix for the users that have been upgraded. This kinda defeats the purpose of upgrading as they have less functionality than they had before the upgrade.
Surely in that circumstance it should be considered a form of assault and jail time would be more appropriate.
Hack the Planet!
My current office doesn't have a coffee machine at all (though it has a sign up at the entrance saying to switch it off at night), instead we get caterers sized tins of Nescafe Blend 43.
You don't work here for the perks.
With the withdrawal of Alcoa from the Australian market, we will no longer have Aluminum recycling locally available.
From memory it was Steven Levitt of Freakonomics Fame who drew the inference between abortion rights and crime statistics. He has an extraordinary way of looking at the world.
The sig started out as "In an NT World", "Metro" doesn't have the same 'ring' to it, the cadence is wrong. Tempted to go back to the original.
At the time I originally came up with it, I was bombarded constantly with how Apple was going out of business - Dell's statement that they should return the money to the shareholders was not the most pointed remark along that line. It's almost funny that they are currently one of, if not the, most valuable companies on the planet.
Sounds a lot like drinking 'Turkish' style coffee. I had a lot of this style of coffee in Indonesia as an exchange student many (many) years ago. You go used to stopping just before the grounds, leaving a residual sludge in the bottom of the cup.
That's why Keurig have partnered with Epsom.
I'm really surprised to have gotten this far down the thread without anyone mentioning the parallels to ink jet cartridges with DRM. I'm looking at you Epson.
There are some indications that coffee actually reduces your risk of some cancers.