NWN had me for so many hours that I just can't even estimate them. The mods were responsible for much of that. My own mods too, for that matter. I made many mods, though I never made my mods available publicly because they simply weren't good enough to match up with those of the better mod writers. NWN2 is coming along similarly. I can't get a grip on its tool kit, so can't do any mods for it--so far. But, you're right. Many creative people are adding great mods to NWN2 and games that allow or encourage it. They're good for the community and they help sell the games.
Yet, since the first announcement of 'Cold Fusion', has anyone followed the price increase of Palladium? Its price has gone into the stratosphere. Why wonder? http://www.psc.edu/science/Wolf/Wolf.html
I have to ask, why in the hell isn't the FBI so vigorous in going after leakers of classified information? Does the fact that there is a political spin on recent leaks make them back off? Appears like a damaging leak from a journalist backed by a major rag is immune from prosecution but something with content that can improve things, from a single individual, is not.
The descretion the justice system has shown with the serious leaks just doesn't seem to be seen when it applies to an individual with good intent.
We've had nuclear reactors at sea for decades but they are not simple barges. What a target barges would be for terrorists! Did I miss something here, as to how they would be defended? That's the only thing about this that might give me heartburn.
If we're not a first responder, why do we need the info in real time? I'd agree with letting the information out, but delaying it for, say an hour or so. Not to make it inconvenient to get to, just not immediate info.
The bad guys have found a hole in the system and are exploiting it. They know it'll take law-enforcement years to catch up, so they reign in the cash while they can. Meanwhile, national security is also taking a hit through our potential enemies using this very technique. I don't have a clue about how much our government is addressing this threat, but I do clearly see that whatever they are doing isn't enough.
Certainly the math escapes me after so many years but I think that the chronos sinclastic infindubula theorms cover this nicely. Clark covered this nicely in the early '70's.
Would that mean that a photon emitted from a matter source would be the same as one from an anti-matter source? Are light emissions from either the same to our sensors?
Besides price per Gig, my next main concern is, "How long will it last?". Throughput speed and power consumption are important but long life usually beats those criteria. Warranties don't mean much when your data gets hosed from a drive's early death. A five year design life is a nice thing to have but I'd be a bit more comfortable if their warranty extended for that duration.
I've had mixed reliability results from both Seagate and Maxtor. Hopefully this union will take the best from both and result in new drives that regularly surpass the five year design.
Why blame anyone when leading edge technology has a problem? It happens. The Russian's deserve our hats off to them for their dependable rides to the ISS. The US deserves a hat tip for the brilliant images brought to us of space, from space. Though different, it is all high tech and subject to the problems that always happen when we're pushing the envelope. I just don't see how we would blast the Russians anymore than we would blast the US, if the US has a failure in one of their most publicized systems.
Any old timers here remember the 'Dean Drive'? Probably from the late 50's or so, but there was quite a bit of interest in it back then. Supposedly, it obtained a thrusting force from mechanical means. Tests at the time showed potential but no theory could explain how it might work. It came from someone tinkering outside of the conventional envelope thinking and hoping that they had discovered something. The least it did was give the tinkerer's some fun. Though it didn't work as hoped, probably as this microwave device doesn't work as hoped, the experimenters shouldn't be discouraged. As long as they're not taking funding away from mainline research, I encourage the experiments into oddball ways of obtaining thrust. It's fun to think that someday, sometime, someone will find an exploitable hole in the laws of physics we know today.
Regularly received one starting with, "Hello. My name is Michell O'...". Finally I filed a formal complaint with the 'Do not Call' folks. It stopped. Never did find out what she was selling but I didn't want it and I was on the 'Do not Call' list. This list has helped me immensely.
Where I work, in a technical field, the old HP had a long history of excellence. Our test equipment was mostly HP, and we liked it. Then it went down hill. I'm curious if the products went downhill first or the quality of their management did. I'd have to guess that management did. Sad that they are still sliding down that slope. When the masters, Hewlett and Packard, had control things were superb but once they left and the investors took over everything turned into crap. Looks to me like this is the way of great companies though. I remember what happened to Northrop, Douglas, Hughes, and other old biggies and have to wonder if when the spirit that guided them to greatness is gone, can any maintain the excellence they had once that inspiration is gone. A formerly great company like HP acting as desperately as this tends to make me think that it cannot be done.
It angers me to see what some of you folks are getting and comparing it to what I can get. I'm in the Los Angeles area and have aDSL going through AT&T copper. I get about 30 KBps down and half that up. There are two big orange fiber cables terminated about a block from my house and they've been there undisturbed since they were pulled almost two years ago. RCN, I think, owns them but they don't want me to have fixed IP's and won't quote me a price to connect to me without phone, TV, and I don't want to know, extras. TV is mine--I have a big dish and it works flawlessly. I have a cell phone that provides phone service reliably. I need internet service that will allow servers and be faster than my copper lines offer and not block ports!
Guess I have to ask, those of you with really impressive throughput rates, do you have fixed IP's?
Kick it all you want, you won't hurt it. But, don't put it on a railroad track. Mine came out from that test looking like a long flat cockroach that I'd just stomped. It didn't work any more.
I feel that our building into the future based upon the pyramid of past achievements is being chopped off at the knees by these laws. Original thought is certainly the best way to go, but we didn't get where we are without the works behind us.
It's not all as bad as you might see, humankind. NASA may have given up old groundstations, but they're not totally lost. I suggest looking at http://www.pari.edu/ as an example of one oldy put to very good use.
Hoped that if noticed, it would be figured to be funny. Back as a kid in science class our teacher was telling us how to use a time exposure to photograph the stars. One kid brought down the house with such a statement, "Why use time exposure when you have a flash?".
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How in the hell can that post be justified as a Troll?
NWN had me for so many hours that I just can't even estimate them. The mods were responsible for much of that. My own mods too, for that matter. I made many mods, though I never made my mods available publicly because they simply weren't good enough to match up with those of the better mod writers. NWN2 is coming along similarly. I can't get a grip on its tool kit, so can't do any mods for it--so far. But, you're right. Many creative people are adding great mods to NWN2 and games that allow or encourage it. They're good for the community and they help sell the games.
Yet, since the first announcement of 'Cold Fusion', has anyone followed the price increase of Palladium? Its price has gone into the stratosphere. Why wonder? http://www.psc.edu/science/Wolf/Wolf.html
I have to ask, why in the hell isn't the FBI so vigorous in going after leakers of classified information? Does the fact that there is a political spin on recent leaks make them back off? Appears like a damaging leak from a journalist backed by a major rag is immune from prosecution but something with content that can improve things, from a single individual, is not.
The descretion the justice system has shown with the serious leaks just doesn't seem to be seen when it applies to an individual with good intent.
Wasn't so long ago that another org was fighting this battle vigorously. It wasn't the courts that put them down though. It was the blasted Spammers!
It's designed for Vista, but I want it for Linux. How long until then I wonder?
We've had nuclear reactors at sea for decades but they are not simple barges. What a target barges would be for terrorists! Did I miss something here, as to how they would be defended? That's the only thing about this that might give me heartburn.
If we're not a first responder, why do we need the info in real time? I'd agree with letting the information out, but delaying it for, say an hour or so. Not to make it inconvenient to get to, just not immediate info.
The bad guys have found a hole in the system and are exploiting it. They know it'll take law-enforcement years to catch up, so they reign in the cash while they can. Meanwhile, national security is also taking a hit through our potential enemies using this very technique. I don't have a clue about how much our government is addressing this threat, but I do clearly see that whatever they are doing isn't enough.
Certainly the math escapes me after so many years but I think that the chronos sinclastic infindubula theorms cover this nicely. Clark covered this nicely in the early '70's.
Would that mean that a photon emitted from a matter source would be the same as one from an anti-matter source? Are light emissions from either the same to our sensors?
Besides price per Gig, my next main concern is, "How long will it last?". Throughput speed and power consumption are important but long life usually beats those criteria. Warranties don't mean much when your data gets hosed from a drive's early death. A five year design life is a nice thing to have but I'd be a bit more comfortable if their warranty extended for that duration.
I've had mixed reliability results from both Seagate and Maxtor. Hopefully this union will take the best from both and result in new drives that regularly surpass the five year design.
Why blame anyone when leading edge technology has a problem? It happens. The Russian's deserve our hats off to them for their dependable rides to the ISS. The US deserves a hat tip for the brilliant images brought to us of space, from space. Though different, it is all high tech and subject to the problems that always happen when we're pushing the envelope. I just don't see how we would blast the Russians anymore than we would blast the US, if the US has a failure in one of their most publicized systems.
Any old timers here remember the 'Dean Drive'? Probably from the late 50's or so, but there was quite a bit of interest in it back then. Supposedly, it obtained a thrusting force from mechanical means. Tests at the time showed potential but no theory could explain how it might work. It came from someone tinkering outside of the conventional envelope thinking and hoping that they had discovered something. The least it did was give the tinkerer's some fun. Though it didn't work as hoped, probably as this microwave device doesn't work as hoped, the experimenters shouldn't be discouraged. As long as they're not taking funding away from mainline research, I encourage the experiments into oddball ways of obtaining thrust. It's fun to think that someday, sometime, someone will find an exploitable hole in the laws of physics we know today.
We know what they want to say but can anyone suggest, in a word, a better way?
Regularly received one starting with, "Hello. My name is Michell O'...". Finally I filed a formal complaint with the 'Do not Call' folks. It stopped. Never did find out what she was selling but I didn't want it and I was on the 'Do not Call' list. This list has helped me immensely.
Where I work, in a technical field, the old HP had a long history of excellence. Our test equipment was mostly HP, and we liked it. Then it went down hill. I'm curious if the products went downhill first or the quality of their management did. I'd have to guess that management did. Sad that they are still sliding down that slope. When the masters, Hewlett and Packard, had control things were superb but once they left and the investors took over everything turned into crap. Looks to me like this is the way of great companies though. I remember what happened to Northrop, Douglas, Hughes, and other old biggies and have to wonder if when the spirit that guided them to greatness is gone, can any maintain the excellence they had once that inspiration is gone. A formerly great company like HP acting as desperately as this tends to make me think that it cannot be done.
It's fair to assume he's now enjoying the company of Rodney William Ansell, as they recount tails of when things weren't so complicanted.
Sorry to see you go, Steve.
... why else is the night sky black with so many damn stars out there?
You do nudge me to think that there could be far more out there than are seen by our current abilities.
It angers me to see what some of you folks are getting and comparing it to what I can get. I'm in the Los Angeles area and have aDSL going through AT&T copper. I get about 30 KBps down and half that up. There are two big orange fiber cables terminated about a block from my house and they've been there undisturbed since they were pulled almost two years ago. RCN, I think, owns them but they don't want me to have fixed IP's and won't quote me a price to connect to me without phone, TV, and I don't want to know, extras. TV is mine--I have a big dish and it works flawlessly. I have a cell phone that provides phone service reliably. I need internet service that will allow servers and be faster than my copper lines offer and not block ports!
Guess I have to ask, those of you with really impressive throughput rates, do you have fixed IP's?
Computers are devices from hell. It's only with loud cussing that one can get them to work with a new installation.
Kick it all you want, you won't hurt it. But, don't put it on a railroad track. Mine came out from that test looking like a long flat cockroach that I'd just stomped. It didn't work any more.
I feel that our building into the future based upon the pyramid of past achievements is being chopped off at the knees by these laws. Original thought is certainly the best way to go, but we didn't get where we are without the works behind us.
It's not all as bad as you might see, humankind. NASA may have given up old groundstations, but they're not totally lost. I suggest looking at http://www.pari.edu/ as an example of one oldy put to very good use.
Hoped that if noticed, it would be figured to be funny. Back as a kid in science class our teacher was telling us how to use a time exposure to photograph the stars. One kid brought down the house with such a statement, "Why use time exposure when you have a flash?".