1. This is taken into account. There are size modifiers to armor class. If you're bigger you're easier to hit and if you're smaller you're harder to hit. I'm not sure if there are size modifiers in 2E AD&D, but it wouldn't be hard to add them.
2. The rest of this I agree with. A CRPG with something resembling intelligence would be amazing.
That is entirely incorrect. At this time the second patch is being prepared to be released and the publisher still supports the game. Secondly it is not as badly bugged as you think. The game does have issues with some computers but on mine I didn't experience a lot of the problems people have complained about.
The game is intended to be played with a party not a single character. If you know what you are doing, sure you can avoid combat and not have any fun, but if you're playing the game to have fun then don't do the things that cause you not to have fun. If you make a full party that's good at combat then you can complete the end by going through the elemental nodes. If you bypass them then you bypass a good bit of story in the game. Just because beating them isn't necessary to beat the game doesn't make them superfluous.
One of the proposed uses for the technology is to reach rural areas where DSL and cable don't go. There are a lot of locations where people can only get one or the other type of broadband service and offering a third option will increase competition in places where there isn't any right now for broadband service.
I have a Creative Labs TNT PCI video card that I could never get to work properly with Windows 98. The card worked perfectly with xfree86, and I have it currently installed in the Linux server next to me. Sometimes Windows just doesn't work with some hardware, and it's considered ready for the desktop.
Overall it seems to me that Human Rights Watch's position is close to the Bush administration's position. I haven't seen anyone claiming that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply in a military conflict, or any suggestions that our government is torturing anyone. The prime disagreement is over the specific legal interpretation of article 4. The US government is releasing people from Guantanamo Bay that it thinks are not members of Al Qeada. You have to remember that both Taliban and Al Qeada militias fought in Afghanistan. The Taliban fighters are being relased while the Al Qeada ones are not.
The argument that our actions will result in American prisoners being treated out of accordance with the Geneva Convention is bunk. American prisoners are generally not given the legally required treatment anyway.
I did search on the text of the Convetion and could only find a signal instance of the word 'tribunal'.
He was held as a material witness. The executive branch has the legal right to hold people as material witnesses. They have had this right for a long time. His being held had absolutely nothing to do with USA PATRIOT.
I'm curious, can you show me the section of the Geneva Convention that requires an independent court? I read it and it said if there is doubt it must go before a tribunal, how that tribunal is to be constituted is unspecified.
Well then by your argument Mike Hawash should have simply been arrested, turned over to the military and summarily executed. You know that is the punishment allowed under international law for someone who is a non-uniformed member of a foreign government attempting to engage in sabotage.
The fact is that games can not simply act as a glorified frame buffer and transmit keystrokes and mouse movements to a centralized server and then display the results with minimal computation on the client side. To get around the limits of network connectivity available to vast majority of people developers have to allow the client to render the graphics and interpret the input and then send back the minimum that is needed. While we all know that open source generally increases security, when you're dealing with people who are trying to abuse features you can't let them know all your secrets. Open source security assumes that the people working together want access to each other, but want to keep others out. The game security model assumes you want to let anyone in, but keep them from doing bad things. Thus unless you move all potentially abusable functionality to the server side, open source gaming will be limited except for games which tolerate low bandwidth and slow ping times.
More likely this will spur innovation in the wireless field. SO if you have cable and dsl and both are just stagnating with high prices and restrictions it gives another company prime opportunity to come in and sell bett, cheaper wireless access and make a lot of money.
The fourth amendment does not and has not ever covered private collection of data. If I go and get information about you that the government would need a warrant to get, and it is legal for me to collect this data (Good example: recording telephone conversations like Linda Tripp did. Comlpetely legal in most places) and give it to the government. If they give me some money in return that's even better.
If I were an author, and I wrote a book and encrypted and allowed people to download it off a website, but sold people the program to decrypt. And if the encryption was only single byte XOR, and somebody cracked it, and released a program that would decrypt XOR encrypted files, and would allow you to enter whatever key you wanted. If they gave out my key along with this program could sue them for what they did? Even if my encryption is incredibly weak is it still legally protected?
Let's count how many ways you're wrong.
1. Both the U.S. and China recognize 12 miles as being the limit to territorial waters.
2. The plane is not spying. It is a marked U.S. military plane monitoring electronic signals over international water. Nothing spying there.
3. They fly in a loop and anyway if they do this then China should know it and anticipate it.
4. The Chinese refused to allow the U.S. to help rescue the pilot. It is possible he is still alive and being used for PR purposes. And the 24 members of the Navy are not spies. They were in international space in a marked Navy plane, and are all uniformed. Therefore nothing near being a spy.
5. All media distort facts.
6. They kidnapped 24 U.S. citizens. I don't know exactly what treaties they have signed, but they are morally wrong.
7. This is why we need to force the Chinese to give up. I doubt they would risk, war, international sanctions or anything like that if they refuse to released the kidnapped Americans.
If you register the source, then if someone tried to patent your ideas you could show them the registered copyright containing those ideas. Which would pretty much blow any patent application out of the water.
About what I said about cost of living, I meant that the cost of living in the mid west is less than in California, for example I know one engineer who moved here from California who sold his small house for $200,000 and bought a nice house for his wife and six children.
I want to know if working in Sweden it would be possible to get an equivalent standard of living to what I could get in the U.S. doing programming type jobs. I come from the midwest, so I know salaries here are less than in say California, but the Cost of Living is also less, so basically my question is what kind of opportunities are there in Sweden, say with an American company. I know language wouldn't be a serious problem as almost everyone speaks English, and I could probably pick up some Swedish vocabulary and take classes to get proficient.
If VA was shut down most likely their assets would be sold off. So Andover would be sold off, and Slashdot would go with it. And with Rob's contract they couldn't do anything to damage Slashdot except for not hiring any extra developers to work on the code. So if Microsoft bought Slashdot it would stay the same.
I was home schooled for a couple of years, and I know a lot of home schoolers, and none of them are as messed up as a few a people I know that went to public school.
I would have to say that my greatest inspiration to do the things I currently do was the associate pastor of my church, whose paying job was as a systems analyst at Boeing, it was through his family that I got introduced to the Internet, BBSes, warez, and all that good stuff associated with computers. My family bought their first computer from him, and I got several games for free, like the Quest for Glory series from his son. Ultimately this led up to my installing Linux in 1996 at the end of my freshman year in high school.
How has the court transferred power to the federal governement? THEYDIDNOToverturn the Florida Supreme Court. They gave them the chance to explain their ruling without any federal influence. If the Florida supreme court used the U.S. constitution or a federal law as the basis for their decision then the Supreme Court will examine it, if they only used state law then the supreme court will not look at it.
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ok you want code:
[BITS 16]
extern init_scr
extern game
global array
segment code code
..start:
mov ax,data
mov ds,ax
mov ax,stack
mov ss,ax
mov sp,stacktop
call init_scr
;more code but not relevant to example
initscr.asm:
[BITS 16]
GLOBAL init_scr
SEGMENT code PUBLIC
..start:
init_scr: push bp
mov bp,sp
mov ah,0
mov al,3
int 10h
;the program crashes at int 10h under dos but works perfectly on NT 4 and Windows 2000
I have found more information regarding perveted practices and terms of the 'Open Sauce' community
see here!!!!
This document details a new disgusting prastice called grope which is short for GNU rope!!!!
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I have experience coding for Windows 98, NT, and 2000, and I can tell from personal experience that there are many ways these OSes are incompatible. For example writing some simple 16 bit assembly programs I had numerous places where my program on NT or 2000 would just work, no bugs. But put it on 98 and the program hangs or generates an exception. The same binary will work on NT 4, and 2000 but will not execute under dos or Windows 98.
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It likely uses a solid state memory device. Thus diskless. It doesn't mean that it boots off a network. Your second link is irrelevant to the product.
Do you have any links to this? I was curious about it and tried googling for information but found none.
1. This is taken into account. There are size modifiers to armor class. If you're bigger you're easier to hit and if you're smaller you're harder to hit. I'm not sure if there are size modifiers in 2E AD&D, but it wouldn't be hard to add them.
2. The rest of this I agree with. A CRPG with something resembling intelligence would be amazing.
The game is intended to be played with a party not a single character. If you know what you are doing, sure you can avoid combat and not have any fun, but if you're playing the game to have fun then don't do the things that cause you not to have fun. If you make a full party that's good at combat then you can complete the end by going through the elemental nodes. If you bypass them then you bypass a good bit of story in the game. Just because beating them isn't necessary to beat the game doesn't make them superfluous.
One of the proposed uses for the technology is to reach rural areas where DSL and cable don't go. There are a lot of locations where people can only get one or the other type of broadband service and offering a third option will increase competition in places where there isn't any right now for broadband service.
I have a Creative Labs TNT PCI video card that I could never get to work properly with Windows 98. The card worked perfectly with xfree86, and I have it currently installed in the Linux server next to me. Sometimes Windows just doesn't work with some hardware, and it's considered ready for the desktop.
Overall it seems to me that Human Rights Watch's position is close to the Bush administration's position. I haven't seen anyone claiming that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply in a military conflict, or any suggestions that our government is torturing anyone. The prime disagreement is over the specific legal interpretation of article 4. The US government is releasing people from Guantanamo Bay that it thinks are not members of Al Qeada. You have to remember that both Taliban and Al Qeada militias fought in Afghanistan. The Taliban fighters are being relased while the Al Qeada ones are not.
The argument that our actions will result in American prisoners being treated out of accordance with the Geneva Convention is bunk. American prisoners are generally not given the legally required treatment anyway.
I did search on the text of the Convetion and could only find a signal instance of the word 'tribunal'.
He was held as a material witness. The executive branch has the legal right to hold people as material witnesses. They have had this right for a long time. His being held had absolutely nothing to do with USA PATRIOT.
I'm curious, can you show me the section of the Geneva Convention that requires an independent court? I read it and it said if there is doubt it must go before a tribunal, how that tribunal is to be constituted is unspecified.
Well then by your argument Mike Hawash should have simply been arrested, turned over to the military and summarily executed. You know that is the punishment allowed under international law for someone who is a non-uniformed member of a foreign government attempting to engage in sabotage.
The fact is that games can not simply act as a glorified frame buffer and transmit keystrokes and mouse movements to a centralized server and then display the results with minimal computation on the client side.
To get around the limits of network connectivity available to vast majority of people developers have to allow the client to render the graphics and interpret the input and then send back the minimum that is needed.
While we all know that open source generally increases security, when you're dealing with people who are trying to abuse features you can't let them know all your secrets. Open source security assumes that the people working together want access to each other, but want to keep others out. The game security model assumes you want to let anyone in, but keep them from doing bad things.
Thus unless you move all potentially abusable functionality to the server side, open source gaming will be limited except for games which tolerate low bandwidth and slow ping times.
More likely this will spur innovation in the wireless field. SO if you have cable and dsl and both are just stagnating with high prices and restrictions it gives another company prime opportunity to come in and sell bett, cheaper wireless access and make a lot of money.
The fourth amendment does not and has not ever covered private collection of data. If I go and get information about you that the government would need a warrant to get, and it is legal for me to collect this data (Good example: recording telephone conversations like Linda Tripp did. Comlpetely legal in most places) and give it to the government. If they give me some money in return that's even better.
If I were an author, and I wrote a book and encrypted and allowed people to download it off a website, but sold people the program to decrypt. And if the encryption was only single byte XOR, and somebody cracked it, and released a program that would decrypt XOR encrypted files, and would allow you to enter whatever key you wanted. If they gave out my key along with this program could sue them for what they did? Even if my encryption is incredibly weak is it still legally protected?
Let's count how many ways you're wrong.
1. Both the U.S. and China recognize 12 miles as being the limit to territorial waters.
2. The plane is not spying. It is a marked U.S. military plane monitoring electronic signals over international water. Nothing spying there.
3. They fly in a loop and anyway if they do this then China should know it and anticipate it.
4. The Chinese refused to allow the U.S. to help rescue the pilot. It is possible he is still alive and being used for PR purposes. And the 24 members of the Navy are not spies. They were in international space in a marked Navy plane, and are all uniformed. Therefore nothing near being a spy.
5. All media distort facts.
6. They kidnapped 24 U.S. citizens. I don't know exactly what treaties they have signed, but they are morally wrong.
7. This is why we need to force the Chinese to give up. I doubt they would risk, war, international sanctions or anything like that if they refuse to released the kidnapped Americans.
If you register the source, then if someone tried to patent your ideas you could show them the registered copyright containing those ideas. Which would pretty much blow any patent application out of the water.
About what I said about cost of living, I meant that the cost of living in the mid west is less than in California, for example I know one engineer who moved here from California who sold his small house for $200,000 and bought a nice house for his wife and six children.
I want to know if working in Sweden it would be possible to get an equivalent standard of living to what I could get in the U.S. doing programming type jobs. I come from the midwest, so I know salaries here are less than in say California, but the Cost of Living is also less, so basically my question is what kind of opportunities are there in Sweden, say with an American company. I know language wouldn't be a serious problem as almost everyone speaks English, and I could probably pick up some Swedish vocabulary and take classes to get proficient.
If VA was shut down most likely their assets would be sold off. So Andover would be sold off, and Slashdot would go with it. And with Rob's contract they couldn't do anything to damage Slashdot except for not hiring any extra developers to work on the code. So if Microsoft bought Slashdot it would stay the same.
I was home schooled for a couple of years, and I know a lot of home schoolers, and none of them are as messed up as a few a people I know that went to public school.
I would have to say that my greatest inspiration to do the things I currently do was the associate pastor of my church, whose paying job was as a systems analyst at Boeing, it was through his family that I got introduced to the Internet, BBSes, warez, and all that good stuff associated with computers. My family bought their first computer from him, and I got several games for free, like the Quest for Glory series from his son. Ultimately this led up to my installing Linux in 1996 at the end of my freshman year in high school.
How has the court transferred power to the federal governement? THEYDIDNOToverturn the Florida Supreme Court. They gave them the chance to explain their ruling without any federal influence. If the Florida supreme court used the U.S. constitution or a federal law as the basis for their decision then the Supreme Court will examine it, if they only used state law then the supreme court will not look at it.
ok you want code:
[BITS 16]
extern init_scr
extern game
global array
segment code code
..start:
mov ax,data
mov ds,ax
mov ax,stack
mov ss,ax
mov sp,stacktop
call init_scr
;more code but not relevant to example
initscr.asm:
[BITS 16]
GLOBAL init_scr
SEGMENT code PUBLIC
..start:
init_scr: push bp
mov bp,sp
mov ah,0
mov al,3
int 10h
;the program crashes at int 10h under dos but works perfectly on NT 4 and Windows 2000
I have found more information regarding perveted practices and terms of the 'Open Sauce' community
see here!!!!
This document details a new disgusting prastice called grope which is short for GNU rope!!!!
I have experience coding for Windows 98, NT, and 2000, and I can tell from personal experience that there are many ways these OSes are incompatible. For example writing some simple 16 bit assembly programs I had numerous places where my program on NT or 2000 would just work, no bugs. But put it on 98 and the program hangs or generates an exception. The same binary will work on NT 4, and 2000 but will not execute under dos or Windows 98.