I said that the review was in-depth.. very informative on the book.. much like Cliff Notes.. yes reading Cliff Notes is not reading the real book, but will give you the just of it to get you by without spending tons of time reading something that has already been complied for you.
When reading for pleasure, the story is only one component of why you read. The flavour of the text, the subtleties of characterisation and setting all add to the journey.
While the Cliff Notes may give the the bare bones of the story, they will never convey the joy of letting the telling of that story wash over you.
I suspect that disruptive part of the technology will actually be the distribution chain. By making the textbooks availabile via a tab in the iTunes store, suddenly people will be able to compare similar texts easily and rate them. Comments will highlight if the text is of decent quality. It will make it easier to educators to consider alternate texts if required, because they will be in all the same place./p.
Not sure what the current price is, but 20 years ago I had a required book that was over $300. It was used for one of the core classes of my undergraduate degree. Not the most expensive book I own, but in the top 5.
Mod this up. PDF is essentially Postscript in a viewable wrapper. Postscript is designed for accurate and repeatable printing of formatted information in a fixed manner.
Hrm.. based on the Wikipedia article, I seem to be suffering from adrenal stress related hypothyroidism. I can tick maybe 19 out of 20 symptoms there. Not sure about my heart rate.
My husband sufferes from severe sleep apnea, it came with a side serve of seizures, both absent and petit mal, memory loss, fatigue, mood swings, hallucinations, aphasia, etc...
When I first took him to the Dr for hallucinations, they referred him to a psychiatrist who diagnosed bi-polar disorder and put him on lithium. He didn't improve over 18 months and found the Psych to be generally unhelpful so stopped taking the meds and stopped seeing the Psych.
The seizures got worse, so his doctor decided it must be epilespy. They started treating with Epilum and increasing the dose as he got progressively worse over the course of several years. He was fitting most days and having extended periods of blackouts.
He was eventually diagnosed when he went in for a specialists' appointment and his regular doctor was away and he saw someone else who was filling in. As a coincidence I was present at the appointment, and was asked when he last fitted. I told them that it was two nights earlier in his sleep. The specialist commentetd that epileptics don't fit in their sleep, and ordered some different tests.
Nearly 5 years after we first started seeking a diagnosis, with a steadily declining situation, we got a diagnosis that actually resulted in an improvement. No drugs involved, just a CPAP machine. The change was nearly miraculous.
Multiple professionals failed to see what was happening, most put an intrpretation on the data that most aligned with their specialty. It's possible that if he had not seen a sleep specialist by accident (the guy back filling for the epilespy guy) we would still not have a workable diagnosis.
In Australia medical records involving children or pregnancies must be retained until the relevant child is at least 18 years old (or it may be 21, can't remember). This is in addition to any standard data retention rules, which generally require you to hold records for 7 years.
From memory you no longer need to click on something to loot it - you run across it. You can also have temporary companion pets which will loot for you. In multiplayer mode, each player gets a unique loot spawn for each mob killed, which they can then choose to drop and becomes visible to your team mates, if you want to share something you got with someone else.
You can currently sign up for a BattleTag ID in the BattleNet account management system, it's being used for the D3 Beta. I think I signed up some time early December.
At some point I need to post my BattleTag ID to my guild forums so I can hook up with my WoW guildies in D3 once it ships.
D3 is starting out as a PC game and being ported to console, not the other way around. The Diablo franchise has always been based around mouse play with minimal keyboard interaction.
Bliz have stated there will be actual Oceania servers for D3 - as in located locally, as oppose to the WoW Oceanic servers which are located stateside with a different clock setting.
I'm guessing they will be located in Sydney and hosted by Telstra, but that's based soley on their previous attempts to negotiage for local WoW servers.
I don't believe it is scientifically possible (speed of light and all that) for my latency to drop below 190 (it's generally about 230) from eastern Australia to the Bliz West Coast data centres. Hearing US players telling me that anything over 50ms is unplayable makes me want to beat my head against a wall.
Bliz have gone on record saying there will be real local Oceanic services for D3, probably based in Au or Singapore at a guess.
As someone who's been playing WoW since release, I rarely find the auth servers down for planned maintenance. Most weekly 'maintenance' these days are just a restart of the world servers unless there is a significant patch to be deployed or hardware changes to be made. In those cases the maintenance time generally cuts well into the US play time too.
I guess we won't be seeing you in Sanctuary then, because D3 requires an always on net connection. This has been debated here and other forums previously. This move is primarily (according to Bliz) to stop the hacking and loot dupping that was rife in D2. Your character data will be stored server side, as will all loot information.
WRT to the summary comment about the PC game being a console port - you do realise it's been in Public Beta for PC and Mac for months?
Under the DnD4E rules for skill challenges, it's a straight difficulty roll. It IS possible to have a skill check that based on your current base skill you can't succeed with a roll of 20. E.g Years ago I wrote a con module which was a thieves' gauntlet which was intended to be a mastery challenge (olympics type event) for high level thieves. If you sent a low level thief in, it's entirely possible the traps would be too sophisticated for them to detect or dismantle.
Given I've been playing for nearly 30 years, I've seen a few variations in game play and style. For pure lethal chaos you can't beat Grimtooth's traps.
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Oddly enough, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is our book club book for next month.
It's my turn to pick next and we will be doing "Brave New World".
Just because a book is 'old' doesn't mean it's not worthy of consideration or that everyone is familiar with it.
I said that the review was in-depth.. very informative on the book.. much like Cliff Notes.. yes reading Cliff Notes is not reading the real book, but will give you the just of it to get you by without spending tons of time reading something that has already been complied for you.
When reading for pleasure, the story is only one component of why you read. The flavour of the text, the subtleties of characterisation and setting all add to the journey.
While the Cliff Notes may give the the bare bones of the story, they will never convey the joy of letting the telling of that story wash over you.
Great. Now I have a craving for their light bubbly chocolate. The dark chocoalte version is the best.
I wonder what's in the vending machine in the break room this week...
The sad thing is I water my plants in my PvZ Zen Garden many times more frequently that I water my RL plants. :(
Important information for and planned hiking trip in Australia...
I suspect that disruptive part of the technology will actually be the distribution chain. By making the textbooks availabile via a tab in the iTunes store, suddenly people will be able to compare similar texts easily and rate them. Comments will highlight if the text is of decent quality. It will make it easier to educators to consider alternate texts if required, because they will be in all the same place./p.
Not sure what the current price is, but 20 years ago I had a required book that was over $300. It was used for one of the core classes of my undergraduate degree. Not the most expensive book I own, but in the top 5.
Mod this up. PDF is essentially Postscript in a viewable wrapper. Postscript is designed for accurate and repeatable printing of formatted information in a fixed manner.
I have 4 scars from the gall bladder removal, and two more from an exploritory. Not sure how you'd know which are which. :P
Hrm.. based on the Wikipedia article, I seem to be suffering from adrenal stress related hypothyroidism. I can tick maybe 19 out of 20 symptoms there. Not sure about my heart rate.
My husband sufferes from severe sleep apnea, it came with a side serve of seizures, both absent and petit mal, memory loss, fatigue, mood swings, hallucinations, aphasia, etc...
When I first took him to the Dr for hallucinations, they referred him to a psychiatrist who diagnosed bi-polar disorder and put him on lithium. He didn't improve over 18 months and found the Psych to be generally unhelpful so stopped taking the meds and stopped seeing the Psych.
The seizures got worse, so his doctor decided it must be epilespy. They started treating with Epilum and increasing the dose as he got progressively worse over the course of several years. He was fitting most days and having extended periods of blackouts.
He was eventually diagnosed when he went in for a specialists' appointment and his regular doctor was away and he saw someone else who was filling in. As a coincidence I was present at the appointment, and was asked when he last fitted. I told them that it was two nights earlier in his sleep. The specialist commentetd that epileptics don't fit in their sleep, and ordered some different tests.
Nearly 5 years after we first started seeking a diagnosis, with a steadily declining situation, we got a diagnosis that actually resulted in an improvement. No drugs involved, just a CPAP machine. The change was nearly miraculous.
Multiple professionals failed to see what was happening, most put an intrpretation on the data that most aligned with their specialty. It's possible that if he had not seen a sleep specialist by accident (the guy back filling for the epilespy guy) we would still not have a workable diagnosis.
In Australia medical records involving children or pregnancies must be retained until the relevant child is at least 18 years old (or it may be 21, can't remember). This is in addition to any standard data retention rules, which generally require you to hold records for 7 years.
I expect is depends on which end...
up until the point that Blizzard fixes it.
Working as intended - whether you like it or not. They don't consider it broken, so they won't be 'fixing' it.
From memory you no longer need to click on something to loot it - you run across it. You can also have temporary companion pets which will loot for you. In multiplayer mode, each player gets a unique loot spawn for each mob killed, which they can then choose to drop and becomes visible to your team mates, if you want to share something you got with someone else.
You can currently sign up for a BattleTag ID in the BattleNet account management system, it's being used for the D3 Beta. I think I signed up some time early December.
At some point I need to post my BattleTag ID to my guild forums so I can hook up with my WoW guildies in D3 once it ships.
D3 is starting out as a PC game and being ported to console, not the other way around. The Diablo franchise has always been based around mouse play with minimal keyboard interaction.
Bliz have stated there will be actual Oceania servers for D3 - as in located locally, as oppose to the WoW Oceanic servers which are located stateside with a different clock setting.
I'm guessing they will be located in Sydney and hosted by Telstra, but that's based soley on their previous attempts to negotiage for local WoW servers.
I don't believe it is scientifically possible (speed of light and all that) for my latency to drop below 190 (it's generally about 230) from eastern Australia to the Bliz West Coast data centres. Hearing US players telling me that anything over 50ms is unplayable makes me want to beat my head against a wall.
Bliz have gone on record saying there will be real local Oceanic services for D3, probably based in Au or Singapore at a guess.
As someone who's been playing WoW since release, I rarely find the auth servers down for planned maintenance. Most weekly 'maintenance' these days are just a restart of the world servers unless there is a significant patch to be deployed or hardware changes to be made. In those cases the maintenance time generally cuts well into the US play time too.
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I guess we won't be seeing you in Sanctuary then, because D3 requires an always on net connection. This has been debated here and other forums previously. This move is primarily (according to Bliz) to stop the hacking and loot dupping that was rife in D2. Your character data will be stored server side, as will all loot information.
WRT to the summary comment about the PC game being a console port - you do realise it's been in Public Beta for PC and Mac for months?
Under the DnD4E rules for skill challenges, it's a straight difficulty roll. It IS possible to have a skill check that based on your current base skill you can't succeed with a roll of 20. E.g Years ago I wrote a con module which was a thieves' gauntlet which was intended to be a mastery challenge (olympics type event) for high level thieves. If you sent a low level thief in, it's entirely possible the traps would be too sophisticated for them to detect or dismantle.
Given I've been playing for nearly 30 years, I've seen a few variations in game play and style. For pure lethal chaos you can't beat Grimtooth's traps.
I seriously don't miss calculating THAC0.