Posts by Thecowking 550 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009
5th ed looks good to me, my players say no though, we did the play test and they weren't impressed.
Pathfinder, on the radar, but I was never a fan of 3rd ed (didn't play 3.5). Shadowrun, I used to play and enjoy, wouldn't mind seeing what my players think of that.
Paranoia is my business trip game (we send nerds to all corners of the world!) :)
Maybe later in the year I'll run a pile of one shots, see what people think. All these suggestions are appreciated, thanks.
I'm just wondering what it's better than, as in which edition of the D&D rules? And in what way?
I've been running a 4th ed session for some co-workers recently, but there's likely to be a few leaving and some fresh blood joining so I am seeing if I can get more opinions on the options before I splash another couple of hundred on a pile of books.
The criteria are:
Dragons are a must.
The rules have to be reasonably simple in the basics.
The dice have to be within the normal set (4,6,8,10,12,20)
Suitable for groups between 4 and 8 people.
Any suggestions?
I thought the point was that it wasn't warranted?
As in they quite literally were without a warrant. If they had a warrant, I don't think many here would complain, you have to be able to do that kind of thing, but judicial oversight is a safeguard.
What you need to be asking is how many innocent people had their rights violated because this kind of warrantless tapping was/is going on?
Reasonable suspicion, go to a judge, get your warrant, get the baddie (or not if it turns out they're innocent). That's how it's supposed to work. A judge will say "yes, this looks like reasonable grounds" or "No, you're just fishing, stop it."
I did drop about £20 on Final Fantasy: Dimensions, but that's because it was a Final Fantasy game you can't get on non-mobile platforms.
No in game purchases though, I paid my money, I got a game (and patches/bug fixes, which is nice).
Only time I've ever spent money on a game on a phone.
Before RoS I had played a little D3, finished inferno and pretty much gave up, then I got RoS and frankly it's now the sequel to Diablo 2 that we always wanted, PvP needs work, but when ladders and seasons come in with 2.1, I can definitely see a lot of my free time vanishing into the ether.
it was built to transmit jake's wisdom to the great unwashed.
May his tecknowledge shine on us all.
Of course I don't need his knowledge, it's like I told Archimedes when he was having a bath (different times, told him a few things about displaced fluids too, very excitable those ancient Greeks), "Archy", I said, "It's like jake always says, everything that isn't a ranch owned by jake is suspect. You have to install a hardware firewall on your datastore."
Daft bugger set fire to Alexandria.
Still you can't help everyone.
Not necessarily , it could be orbiting at an angle, so the time it spends in shadow could be much lower, or possibly never in shadow at all.
If it's in an elliptical orbit it can skim close to the moon on the day side and then swing far above the moon's shadow on the night side too.
So there's a couple of ways it can not experience this in normal operation.
I don't follow why using all the "energy" for want of a better term would lead to the universe disappearing. I assume you're thinking of a halt to expansion and then a big crunch?
Current evidence suggests that we're accellerating, not slowing down, so no crunch in our future.
Penrose has a nice idea about heat death and minimal entropy being indistinguishable from maximal entropy that I find quite satisfying, I can tell you that we can probably work out when the heat death of the universe will occur.
I have no clue why you think energy and space/time are interchangable. I am sure I don't remember anything about that. Energy/matter can affect space/time, but the one isn't the other.
In other words, do you have a real hypothesis here or are you just trying to put a different spin on something you don't understand well enough?
It's definitely not slow charging, my nexus 4 charges as fast at least on the Zens pad by my bed as it ever did on a cable/wallwart.
A Qi charger shouldn't have any issues keeping a phone topped off with the screen on, though I have seen some handsets drop charge while plugged in if they're thrashing the radios and CPU and screen, so it could still discharge slowly even while being charged on QI I suspect (but what I saw was on some benchmarking so probably not real world scenario).
And it has USB OTG (unlikely, but I can hope), it's suddenly my new raspberry pi replacement, with an integrated screen, built in Wifi and it's own little UPS in the form of that battery.
Ok I'm assuming a fair bit with the OTG, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility. It'd make a lovely little hack project for me at that price point.
As another Linux user, I can tell you they're video streaming services. It's not like you can't run Netflix in Linux.
https://launchpad.net/~ehoover/+archive/compholio/
You can even get Lovefilm in there too, it's a little wine container that lets silverlight run. Works pretty well.
I'm assuming you were being a facetious troll, but it might help others who would like to use these services. (I use Netflix far too much).
If Apple or Google had started shipping phones which plugged into a dock and became desktops, he would have had a point.
Saying that devices of the future will have better processors and RAM isn't exactly clear evidence that people are copying him. It's like the above example of storage space, exactly like that.
Was a rather enchanting little piece to my work email address imploring me to buy an oscilloscope.
I'm guessing that because I downloaded some BSPs they think I actually do hardware. Mind you I've never been so tempted by spam. I mean I don't _need_ an oscilloscope, but it's something you can imagine always being handy.
*goes to dig out the mail and see if there were any good oscilloscopes in there*
For the sake of sanity, I'll assume you're serious.
A ram raid is when someone uses a vehicle to break into premises to steal something.
In this case the author has cleverly used the non-existence of said ram raids for the article in question (type-writers) to mock the squirrelling away of many of these articles instead of, for example, putting them in the bin or some other central location. (like a skip, tip, charity shop or E-bay)
I assume the word notorious was used to highlight the utter non-existence of type-writer theft or associated coverage.
I think that's pretty much killed that joke. Sorry Mr Dabbs.
Quite.
I use my library regularly to borrow books, but I've never been there in person. I am not certain why these papers should be limited to a physical presense when a book isn't.
That said, if I wanted to really read a physics paper, I'd probably want to be in a library where it's nice and quiet. I'd like the choice though.
Are home to the best named terrorist organisation in the world.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
The headlines from SE Asia often carry news of MILF attacks (and more recently talks, good news all round) and sometimes a MILF army gets a mention.
Sabah's incursion was by the troops of the Sultan of Sulu too. Scotty was too busy talking to Alex Salmond to join in.
I tried to get a surface with the academic offer, it was like getting blood from a stone, eventually I gave up.
Shame really, because the RT was something I wanted, it actually feels like a nice piece of kit in the hand. I just didn't want it enough to pay the full price for it, but I might pick one up on ebay at some point.
As a tablet UI though, I prefer Android partly because I'm used to it, partly because I can hack the crap out of it :P
I can see a lot of use for something that, for example, let me read a website while streaming a video at the same time, or let me chat and have a comic open on the same device.
Two years ago I couldn't see the need for a tablet (check my posting history, it's true). Then I got a nexus 7. Then a Nexus 10, now I can really see that the extra screen and the multiwindow support would be awesome for my usecase. As it stands I'm often sitting on a bus with nexus 7 in one hand watching a film/tv series/anime and my nexus 4 in the other chatting to some people.
I'd _love_ to have them both in the one device.
Ok, it's not for everyone, I can see that.I've been resisting Samsung devices (well nexus 10 aside), because I like the stock android ui too much. This however has the screen size to let me actually use it with a couple of reasonable sized applications so I can forgive the rest of the Samsung ui (which I generally hate, the app drawer and the settings screens especially. Not keen on Odin either)
First controlled lunar landing in my lifetime and the comments pages are full of petty racism.
Really? They did what no one else has had the gumption or ability (or both) to do in over 40 years and people decide it's all a cheat or worthless because they're not white? Or time for some good old racial stereotyping, I mean after all it's not like the Chinese have any track record in innovation over the last six millenia is it?
I can't decide if it's just jealousy or plain bigotry. I'm normally pretty thick skinned, I've made my share of dentist time jokes, but this is a truly remarkable achievement and it's being mocked simply because it wasn't the West that did it.
I'm going to get a lot of downvotes for being a sanctimonious prick (probably true), but this event deserved more than some back handed compliments and petty racism.
For shame.
To see every single comment as AC, that is unusual.
I'd post AC too but I can't be bothered. The S4 is like the iphone 5S and the Nexus 5, slightly better than their predecessors, but not really enough to make the average person care.
Sure they're all nice phones, but hold them next to what they replace and you're hard pushed to find much to care about.
We're definitely in an incremental increase phase for mobile phones at the moment.
(Not commenting on the Win Phone and Blackberries because I've not used either enough to get a proper feel for them)
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