My friends and I hoped that DDO would allow us to relive our D&D pen and paper days, but as others mentioned, DDO falls far short of that. We did however search the net and found a couple of programs that did a better job of it.
My personal favorite is Fantasy Grounds (http://www.fantasygrounds.com/, which mimics a table top with dice and such. There's no real automation in it, but if you know XML you can customize the rulesets and such.
There are a few others, Klooge (http://www.kloogeinc.com/) is a bit more complex, but you can tweak the heck out of it if you know what you're doing. OpenRPG (http://www.openrpg.com/) is another one.
To each their own, but these programs (combined with voice comms) can really help ya relive the tabletop experience if your friends are long distance like mine.
That's one reason I asked about the booths, thanks for clarfying it. It'd probably be better as small things just to raise awareness of the issue in that case.
I may have problems with evoting, but going to jail wouldn't help anything.
I have wondered this: If someone created stickers that said something simple such as "How do you know this machine recorded your vote correctly", or something of that sort, then distributed those to people who would go into the voting booths and affix these stickers to the machines or voting booth walls or what not.
Would that get a stir out of people? How would John Doe going into the booth and seeing this colorful sticker asking the simple question react?
Granted, this would be a 'too late' type of situation, and I urge people to speak out ahead of time (I've already wrote my election officials, have you?). But what sort of reaction would this have at the booths...suddenly people questioning the machines, at the time of voting?
It doesn't matter what measurement system we use, no matter what size paper you print on, your report will always come out too small to be read without a magnifying glass.
Here's an extermly simple grocery shopping tip for people trying to save money. It doesnt require clipping coupons or anything.
Don't buy namebrand.
Go into the store, look at the cost of Chef Boyardee Ravoli, then look at the generic, store version. At my store I can get two generic versions for the price of one name brand. Check out ketchup, or BBQ sauce, frozen veggies, canned goods (soups).
I estimate I save about 10-20 dollars per trip just by putting "Shur Fine" products in my cart instead of Hunts, Campbell, Birds Eye, etc.
So the companies have found out what they can do to fix it, etc. But what are the people going to learn? I remember seeing this happen (from afar) and watching some people panic, a run on a few stores and so on. A buddy of mine told me that people were at a complete loss for what to do for food and water and someplaces were just nuts (not riots, but near mob-like).
What bothers me the most is that these people got their power back 12-24 hours later, then settled into their lives again.
I live out in the boondocks in a itty bitty town in the middle of no where. Last year a major windstorm went through here and took out power for 10s of thousands of people, including every home and business in my town. At my house I have a water pump so no electricity = no water, air conditioning/heating, lights, etc. Didn't bother me...I'd had power outages in the winter, so I made sure to learn my lesson.
I had a mini propane grill (and fortnatly a propane stove) that I could cook the small stash of soup I had put aside for this purpose. I had 8 gallons of water and a cooler to keep my perishables in, plus a propane latern for when it got dark.
It took seven days before the power came back on at my house, but other then the lack of internet/computing power, I don't think I suffered much. Heck, it was a great week, very relaxing and it let me do a lot of things I don't normally do (work outside, excersise, read, etc).
I was greatly amused to see the people 'suffering' from this short outage, because when it happens again, they're probably going to repeat their actions rather then learn from them.
I work for a large ISP, and we did something like this recently. I don't work in that department, but I believe that a modem configuration file was modified to allow you to have better upload/download speeds (I think mine doubled out here).
But, until the customer rebooted their modem, they wouldn't get the new configuration. Thus, unplug modem and replug it.
Some companies will go and force reboot your modem in the evening (usually 2-5am) and give it to you without you even noticing.
In other news a new startup company (founded last week) has announced the release of a revolutionary new game: Full Life: The Adventures of Frodan Greeman."
I was looking for these the other day, someone once put up for sale "Don't Panic Towels" that I though were entirly appropiate for HHGTTG....but I can't locate them anymore. Anyone happen to know where they'd be?
I haven't followed facial recognition too much but...wouldn't twins have an issue with this? I'm an identical twin, I've had my lights punched out by someone who thought I was him (Thanks bro..grumble)...
Anyone able to tell me how this would differentiate between siblings that look very very much alike?
My brother and I run a online game called TFOS Mux (www.tfosmux.org). It's based on a roleplaying game by R Talasorian Games and we have permission.
Our game is set in the fictional city of Pebble Beach, in an undetermined state. We state on our web site that it is not affiliated with the original Pebble Beach Golf Course (which we learned about five years after we'd started playing), but jokingly make a comment about a mini golf course for wayward visitors.
In January we received a C&D letter from the lawyers of Pebble Beach Company, stating that our online site was causing confusion in the marketplace and that we must immediatly change our name.
TFOS stands for Teenagers From Outer Space. It's a roleplaying game based in anime, where aliens come to Earth, go to high school and such. -Aliens -High School -Anime -Statement that we aren't the REAL Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach Company -Golf -Florida (or is it CA?) -Real
These corporations/DMCABots are sending out C&Ds without even looking at what they're sending it out. Five seconds on our web page would have saved them and us a lot of trouble.
Fortunatly, my brother contacted the EFF, and a lawyer wrote to them....and we haven't heard from PBC since.
RE: Cokes vending machine that changed price on temperature.
Pardon the spelling, but isn't Price gouging illegal? I remember after the Gulf War II started, several nearby gas stations threw the gas prices up 20-30 cents more per gallon. Then there were threats of fining and such.
Difference in soda and gas...but the theory is the same.
How long would it take before the computer of someone at the House or Senate gets destroyed from something like this? Weither be accident (oops, that really wasn't file sharing) or someone was actually trading (One of the Policy enforcement people at the ISP I work for trades...he just conviently forgets it's against the user agreement when it comes to him...)
"Mary, do you have that bill I need to present to the Senate today?" "Um...."
I remember reading a while back in a Star Trek Next Generation tech book (Yup, geeky enough) that their 'keyboards' were something like this. It was a touch screen that 'morphed' depending on what you did.
Example: Worf wants to attack that pesky enemy of the week. Touchpad has 'Weapons, Shields, Runaway'. Pushes Weapons and the touchpad changes to show Phasers, Photo Torpedos, Modified Deflector Array. Pushes Phasers, comesup with a list of the phasers, etc.
A changing keyboard/touchpad is sort of a neat idea here....
Nowadays I consider Babylon 5 as the best all around Sci fi show I've ever seen. I picked it up in the second season when a friend recommended it to me, enjoyed it from then on. When TNT showed the reruns I finalyl got to see the first season to pick up the pieces.
If I had started watching B5 right away with the first season, I probably would have given up due to the simple msitakes that others have mentioned, like poor dialogue, actors not seeming 'in tune' with their characters and such. And if I had given up, I'd have missed the best sci fi ever.
Since then I've always though that a new show should be given a shot despite initial showings. Firefly has great potential, once the actors really get in tune and people get used to the different universe, it could really take off.
That's all...computer games (a full 50% of my harddrive is just games in my windows partition). And printing cuz I have a non linux compatiable printer.
Everything else: web browsing, music, burning, text editing, programming, video watching...can be done in Linux.
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My friends and I hoped that DDO would allow us to relive our D&D pen and paper days, but as others mentioned, DDO falls far short of that. We did however search the net and found a couple of programs that did a better job of it.
My personal favorite is Fantasy Grounds (http://www.fantasygrounds.com/, which mimics a table top with dice and such. There's no real automation in it, but if you know XML you can customize the rulesets and such.
There are a few others, Klooge (http://www.kloogeinc.com/) is a bit more complex, but you can tweak the heck out of it if you know what you're doing. OpenRPG (http://www.openrpg.com/) is another one.
To each their own, but these programs (combined with voice comms) can really help ya relive the tabletop experience if your friends are long distance like mine.
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That's one reason I asked about the booths, thanks for clarfying it. It'd probably be better as small things just to raise awareness of the issue in that case.
I may have problems with evoting, but going to jail wouldn't help anything.
Thanks!
I have wondered this:
If someone created stickers that said something simple such as "How do you know this machine recorded your vote correctly", or something of that sort, then distributed those to people who would go into the voting booths and affix these stickers to the machines or voting booth walls or what not.
Would that get a stir out of people? How would John Doe going into the booth and seeing this colorful sticker asking the simple question react?
Granted, this would be a 'too late' type of situation, and I urge people to speak out ahead of time (I've already wrote my election officials, have you?). But what sort of reaction would this have at the booths...suddenly people questioning the machines, at the time of voting?
Just a question that I felt like tossing out:)
It doesn't matter what measurement system we use, no matter what size paper you print on, your report will always come out too small to be read without a magnifying glass.
Here's an extermly simple grocery shopping tip for people trying to save money. It doesnt require clipping coupons or anything.
Don't buy namebrand.
Go into the store, look at the cost of Chef Boyardee Ravoli, then look at the generic, store version. At my store I can get two generic versions for the price of one name brand. Check out ketchup, or BBQ sauce, frozen veggies, canned goods (soups).
I estimate I save about 10-20 dollars per trip just by putting "Shur Fine" products in my cart instead of Hunts, Campbell, Birds Eye, etc.
So the companies have found out what they can do to fix it, etc. But what are the people going to learn? I remember seeing this happen (from afar) and watching some people panic, a run on a few stores and so on. A buddy of mine told me that people were at a complete loss for what to do for food and water and someplaces were just nuts (not riots, but near mob-like).
What bothers me the most is that these people got their power back 12-24 hours later, then settled into their lives again.
I live out in the boondocks in a itty bitty town in the middle of no where. Last year a major windstorm went through here and took out power for 10s of thousands of people, including every home and business in my town. At my house I have a water pump so no electricity = no water, air conditioning/heating, lights, etc. Didn't bother me...I'd had power outages in the winter, so I made sure to learn my lesson.
I had a mini propane grill (and fortnatly a propane stove) that I could cook the small stash of soup I had put aside for this purpose. I had 8 gallons of water and a cooler to keep my perishables in, plus a propane latern for when it got dark.
It took seven days before the power came back on at my house, but other then the lack of internet/computing power, I don't think I suffered much. Heck, it was a great week, very relaxing and it let me do a lot of things I don't normally do (work outside, excersise, read, etc).
I was greatly amused to see the people 'suffering' from this short outage, because when it happens again, they're probably going to repeat their actions rather then learn from them.
I work for a large ISP, and we did something like this recently. I don't work in that department, but I believe that a modem configuration file was modified to allow you to have better upload/download speeds (I think mine doubled out here).
But, until the customer rebooted their modem, they wouldn't get the new configuration. Thus, unplug modem and replug it.
Some companies will go and force reboot your modem in the evening (usually 2-5am) and give it to you without you even noticing.
In other news a new startup company (founded last week) has announced the release of a revolutionary new game: Full Life: The Adventures of Frodan Greeman."
(I got nuttin)
I was looking for these the other day, someone once put up for sale "Don't Panic Towels" that I though were entirly appropiate for HHGTTG....but I can't locate them anymore. Anyone happen to know where they'd be?
I haven't followed facial recognition too much but...wouldn't twins have an issue with this?
I'm an identical twin, I've had my lights punched out by someone who thought I was him (Thanks bro..grumble)...
Anyone able to tell me how this would differentiate between siblings that look very very much alike?
My brother and I run a online game called TFOS Mux (www.tfosmux.org). It's based on a roleplaying game by R Talasorian Games and we have permission.
Our game is set in the fictional city of Pebble Beach, in an undetermined state. We state on our web site that it is not affiliated with the original Pebble Beach Golf Course (which we learned about five years after we'd started playing), but jokingly make a comment about a mini golf course for wayward visitors.
In January we received a C&D letter from the lawyers of Pebble Beach Company, stating that our online site was causing confusion in the marketplace and that we must immediatly change our name.
TFOS stands for Teenagers From Outer Space. It's a roleplaying game based in anime, where aliens come to Earth, go to high school and such.
-Aliens
-High School
-Anime
-Statement that we aren't the REAL Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach Company
-Golf
-Florida (or is it CA?)
-Real
These corporations/DMCABots are sending out C&Ds without even looking at what they're sending it out. Five seconds on our web page would have saved them and us a lot of trouble.
Fortunatly, my brother contacted the EFF, and a lawyer wrote to them....and we haven't heard from PBC since.
RE: Cokes vending machine that changed price on temperature.
Pardon the spelling, but isn't Price gouging illegal? I remember after the Gulf War II started, several nearby gas stations threw the gas prices up 20-30 cents more per gallon. Then there were threats of fining and such.
Difference in soda and gas...but the theory is the same.
Stretch or not, Mercer admits that DirecTV has dismissed some cases after the defendant proved his or her innocence to the company's satisfaction.
I'm confused...Guilty until proven innocent?
How long would it take before the computer of someone at the House or Senate gets destroyed from something like this? Weither be accident (oops, that really wasn't file sharing) or someone was actually trading (One of the Policy enforcement people at the ISP I work for trades...he just conviently forgets it's against the user agreement when it comes to him...)
"Mary, do you have that bill I need to present to the Senate today?"
"Um...."
I didn't know politicians were going in space again...
(I got nothing, too dang early).
ping....
Pong!
Ahkay, that was weak...:)
We have one at work. They're awesome, they prevent us from getting to anything bad!
/sarcasm...sarcasim....gah, speeling bad
No more do I have to worry about someone accessing www.BITCHx.org while on the clock!
Everyone speeds while driving, so let's start issuing speeing tickets to everyone once a month.
Everyone litters, so let's start fining everyone.
Everyone videotapes a show off tv, so let's start sending a bill for buying those movies.
I remember reading a while back in a Star Trek Next Generation tech book (Yup, geeky enough) that their 'keyboards' were something like this. It was a touch screen that 'morphed' depending on what you did.
Example: Worf wants to attack that pesky enemy of the week. Touchpad has 'Weapons, Shields, Runaway'. Pushes Weapons and the touchpad changes to show Phasers, Photo Torpedos, Modified Deflector Array. Pushes Phasers, comesup with a list of the phasers, etc.
A changing keyboard/touchpad is sort of a neat idea here....
Make them use the software they broke into for X amount of time.
:)
Break into a Windows NT server? Use it for a year.....that'll teach'em
Working in the NOC. Gotta raise money before they lay us off :(
(and a plug to help the one slashdotter find his kid in case you didn't read the website:
http://findsabrina.org/
)
Well, that would explain a lot about my family....
We wont get laid off
Nowadays I consider Babylon 5 as the best all around Sci fi show I've ever seen. I picked it up in the second season when a friend recommended it to me, enjoyed it from then on. When TNT showed the reruns I finalyl got to see the first season to pick up the pieces.
If I had started watching B5 right away with the first season, I probably would have given up due to the simple msitakes that others have mentioned, like poor dialogue, actors not seeming 'in tune' with their characters and such. And if I had given up, I'd have missed the best sci fi ever.
Since then I've always though that a new show should be given a shot despite initial showings. Firefly has great potential, once the actors really get in tune and people get used to the different universe, it could really take off.
That's all...computer games (a full 50% of my harddrive is just games in my windows partition).
And printing cuz I have a non linux compatiable printer.
Everything else: web browsing, music, burning, text editing, programming, video watching...can be done in Linux.