My wizards always used swords, except in OD&D. In AD&D, I'd start as a really smart human fighter (with tumbling, etc for AC bonuses sans armor), then quickly dual-class over to a mage. Pretty soon, I'd have a 3rd level mage wielding a long and short sword, with big HP. It was only later that I learned about the secrets of dart specialization (4 attacks per round, +specialization bonus, +str bonus _per_ dart), and that wizards can use darts, so I could have had my characters dealing more death during their early wizard levels too. Ah, nostalgia.
Planned obsolescence worked for Wizards with AD&D 2 -> D&D 3.x, why shouldn't it this time? Need to sell books? Make the ones people bought already less useful. This is why many people stick with OD&D or AD&D1/2; they already invested hundreds of dollars on the old system, so it's cheaper to stay put.
To what logins do you add the delay? If there's no way to identify the attacker (no IP yet, can't trust MAC), then you have to add the delay on _all_ logins, including the "good" one, making this an easy DoS as the login attempts reach huge time limits.
I've been heating an outdoor cat-house for years with a heavy-duty use incandescent bulb. It's not a heating bulb, so it doesn't get too hot, and the lack of light is a sure indicator that I need to replace the bulb. I'm not unique here either, I know many people who heat outdoor animal housing with one or more "general use" incandescents.
There's a difference between accidentally doing something (running a red light via carelessness / flashing a laser a brief fraction of a second across a moving target), and purposefully doing it (running a red light to hit someone on purpose, deliberately re-aiming so that the laser stays on the cockpit while the aircraft is in flight). That's the "evil intent" from legal statutes.
The only innocent way I can think of pointing a laser at a helicopter is
1) Not knowing that lasers blind people or not knowing that pilots need to see to fly
2) "hey, look at that helicopter" "Where?" "here, let me point it out to you with my handy-dandy new laser pointer"
Other than that, you'd have to be knowingly causing at _least_ discomfort to someone who doesn't have the option of just standing still (or putting on the brakes) and closing their eyes.
You do realize that this is effective attempted murder at worst, and assault at best? You don't eject too well out of a chopper, so blinding the pilot by shining a laser light (that might be at least a foot wide up that high) to fully illuminate the whole cabin can be deadly.
This couple didn't sound like a productive set of citizens. After the $5000 fine, they would have gone on to another form of dangerous "play" until someone died (or they might have been hoping for that, who knows).
Now, of course, we've discovered that TorrentSpy were actually lying about this,
No, we've discovered that Torrentspy has logs of IPs of forum visitors, completely unrelated to torrent tracker users. I can understand the judge not being able to fathom the distinction though.
1: TorrentSpy testifies in court that IP information [FOR TORRENT TRACKING SOFTWARE] simply wasn't available
2: MPAA finds evidence TorrentSpy can implement and enforce bans of users by IP address [ON INTERNET FORUMS, NOT TRACKING SOFTWARE]
3: Under oath, a TorrentSpy moderator testifies IPs were logged [FOR FORUM SOFTWARE] until April 07 (more than a year after they were sued)
Fixed that for you. phpBB =/= bittorrent tracker, and no, you can't assume someone who visits the forums downloaded something illegally... MPAA apparently visited the forums...
Shocked? Perhaps the military simply believes that the people most qualified to post articles are the ones that have been there. Perhaps they believe that they are the ones making corrections. I've dealt with enough Wiki's to know that you often have to _correct_ something a dozen times before a stupid editor stops reverting your corrections and realizes they're good.
Don't they know that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of editors paranoid enough about the Bush administration and war on terror to monitor the Gitmo page?
Perhaps they realize that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of editors who are biased against the Bush administration and war on terror who are willing to let inaccuracies get posted as long as they promote their personal bias?
You have a 5 second window to "cancel" the sending of the info, but it's worded in a way that you're forced to think about allow or deny... then it chooses on its own and sends. And... you don't get asked to confirm the post. The post happens whether you want it or not, then you are forced to remove it if you don't want it. Beacon==bad UI from a human user standpoint
The meteorite obviously exploded with so much force that its fragments traveled faster than light.
Duh.
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Also explaining why a unit of time feels longer to a younger person:
Perception of time == absolute time / sum of memories throughout time.
A decade sounds like a lifetime to a ten year-old, because it _is_ the ten year-old's experienced lifetime.
I fully support Microsoft's gaming and hardware stuff, because they do it well. It would be nice if they realized that too, because having a company focus its resources on its _strong_ products means the company will win down the road. If you have to cajole people to use your new Operating System, then guess what? It's not your strength as a company.
I read the first one, then found out how many more he had written within a short period of time and quickly deduced the rest must be pointless drivel. Your comment validates my decision to stop after #1.
I had a lengthy e-mail exchange with the author (once I figured out that I had to obfuscate the phrase "Ron Paul" to get past his Comcast spam filter).
This point intrigued me. I wonder if the point of Ron Paul spam is to force spam filters to put "Ron Paul" in the same category as "Nigerian Prince" and "Increase your member". That could go a long way to stifling the communications of Ron Paul devotees via email (since many people don't or can't check their Spam-traps).
"Nothing prevents a user from learning a strong password on Inkblotpassword.com and then reusing it at other sites," Microsoft's researchers said.
Common sense might.
I'll rent DVDs, but I'll seldom buy them because I don't want to violate the DMCA to get them on my PMP.
You can copy them to your PMP all you want, you just can't provide the means to do so to someone else (which means no one can provide them to you either, thus meaning that you have to do it yourself).
No, public libraries would just be public kiosks where people could sit and read, and the "fee" for the book would be spread across the donations/taxes that fund the library. The bad part is that you'd have to physically be in the kiosk to read the material.
Another option is advertisement-based datapads that the library hands out. At the end of every chapter, you're subjected to an ad for another book you might like (to buy), x-ray glasses, or sea-monkeys.
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Maybe, but only if Mr. T is handy with a printing press.
My wizards always used swords, except in OD&D. In AD&D, I'd start as a really smart human fighter (with tumbling, etc for AC bonuses sans armor), then quickly dual-class over to a mage. Pretty soon, I'd have a 3rd level mage wielding a long and short sword, with big HP. It was only later that I learned about the secrets of dart specialization (4 attacks per round, +specialization bonus, +str bonus _per_ dart), and that wizards can use darts, so I could have had my characters dealing more death during their early wizard levels too. Ah, nostalgia.
Planned obsolescence worked for Wizards with AD&D 2 -> D&D 3.x, why shouldn't it this time? Need to sell books? Make the ones people bought already less useful. This is why many people stick with OD&D or AD&D1/2; they already invested hundreds of dollars on the old system, so it's cheaper to stay put.
To what logins do you add the delay? If there's no way to identify the attacker (no IP yet, can't trust MAC), then you have to add the delay on _all_ logins, including the "good" one, making this an easy DoS as the login attempts reach huge time limits.
Mods: Why is the parent "Insightful +5"? "Funny" or "Troll" maybe, but it has no basis in fact, and thus is not "Insightful"
And there's a tag I can buy that allows me to "order" my "favorite" lane on the toll roads and pass by the losers using cash.
I've been heating an outdoor cat-house for years with a heavy-duty use incandescent bulb. It's not a heating bulb, so it doesn't get too hot, and the lack of light is a sure indicator that I need to replace the bulb. I'm not unique here either, I know many people who heat outdoor animal housing with one or more "general use" incandescents.
There's a difference between accidentally doing something (running a red light via carelessness / flashing a laser a brief fraction of a second across a moving target), and purposefully doing it (running a red light to hit someone on purpose, deliberately re-aiming so that the laser stays on the cockpit while the aircraft is in flight). That's the "evil intent" from legal statutes.
The only innocent way I can think of pointing a laser at a helicopter is
1) Not knowing that lasers blind people or not knowing that pilots need to see to fly
2) "hey, look at that helicopter" "Where?" "here, let me point it out to you with my handy-dandy new laser pointer"
Other than that, you'd have to be knowingly causing at _least_ discomfort to someone who doesn't have the option of just standing still (or putting on the brakes) and closing their eyes.
You do realize that this is effective attempted murder at worst, and assault at best? You don't eject too well out of a chopper, so blinding the pilot by shining a laser light (that might be at least a foot wide up that high) to fully illuminate the whole cabin can be deadly.
This couple didn't sound like a productive set of citizens. After the $5000 fine, they would have gone on to another form of dangerous "play" until someone died (or they might have been hoping for that, who knows).
No, we've discovered that Torrentspy has logs of IPs of forum visitors, completely unrelated to torrent tracker users. I can understand the judge not being able to fathom the distinction though.
2: MPAA finds evidence TorrentSpy can implement and enforce bans of users by IP address [ON INTERNET FORUMS, NOT TRACKING SOFTWARE]
3: Under oath, a TorrentSpy moderator testifies IPs were logged [FOR FORUM SOFTWARE] until April 07 (more than a year after they were sued)
Fixed that for you. phpBB =/= bittorrent tracker, and no, you can't assume someone who visits the forums downloaded something illegally... MPAA apparently visited the forums...
Don't they know that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of editors paranoid enough about the Bush administration and war on terror to monitor the Gitmo page?
Perhaps they realize that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of editors who are biased against the Bush administration and war on terror who are willing to let inaccuracies get posted as long as they promote their personal bias?
"Imagine a Beowulf movie made using these!"
You have a 5 second window to "cancel" the sending of the info, but it's worded in a way that you're forced to think about allow or deny... then it chooses on its own and sends. And... you don't get asked to confirm the post. The post happens whether you want it or not, then you are forced to remove it if you don't want it. Beacon==bad UI from a human user standpoint
That's funny, the SATA DVD drives I've got in a lab full of optiplex 755's work just fine with Ubuntu 7.10 32bit.
The meteorite obviously exploded with so much force that its fragments traveled faster than light.
Duh.
Also explaining why a unit of time feels longer to a younger person:
Perception of time == absolute time / sum of memories throughout time.
A decade sounds like a lifetime to a ten year-old, because it _is_ the ten year-old's experienced lifetime.
I fully support Microsoft's gaming and hardware stuff, because they do it well. It would be nice if they realized that too, because having a company focus its resources on its _strong_ products means the company will win down the road. If you have to cajole people to use your new Operating System, then guess what? It's not your strength as a company.
I don't see the punch-holes anymore, I just see blonde, brunette, redhead...
I read the first one, then found out how many more he had written within a short period of time and quickly deduced the rest must be pointless drivel. Your comment validates my decision to stop after #1.
This point intrigued me. I wonder if the point of Ron Paul spam is to force spam filters to put "Ron Paul" in the same category as "Nigerian Prince" and "Increase your member". That could go a long way to stifling the communications of Ron Paul devotees via email (since many people don't or can't check their Spam-traps).
Common sense might.
Sure, you can do 3D images, etc. But nothing in an e-book will amaze a child more than a good old fashioned pop-up book.
You can copy them to your PMP all you want, you just can't provide the means to do so to someone else (which means no one can provide them to you either, thus meaning that you have to do it yourself).
No, public libraries would just be public kiosks where people could sit and read, and the "fee" for the book would be spread across the donations/taxes that fund the library. The bad part is that you'd have to physically be in the kiosk to read the material.
Another option is advertisement-based datapads that the library hands out. At the end of every chapter, you're subjected to an ad for another book you might like (to buy), x-ray glasses, or sea-monkeys.