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1. Which distro do you use? (Most of the time, if applicable, etc.) Debian 2. What keeps you using Linux? It's the only OS that runs on the hardware. 3. What do you think is Linux's best point as an OS? The useful utilities 4. What do you think is Linux's most frustrating point? Configuring the thing 5. If Linux did not exist, what would you be using on your desktop? I actually use Windows 7 on the desktop. I switched from a Mac so I could play games.
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Most of them are buried in scripts or in the program itself, with no way to actually trigger them in-game.
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I want you all to watch this video
Khoth replied to MMXPERT-seraph of thermodynamics's topic in General
Despoilered because Holmes is way past the statute of limitations on spoilers. Originally Posted By: kafkaesque / kafkan Moriarty had never been seen, and Holmes is seemingly the only person to know about him, for starters. Holmes's description of him doesn't just make him sound similar in appearance to Holmes, he makes him the same as Holmes; 'His appearance was quite familiar to me' seems an odd choice of words. Holmes is the only one who believes that he's a master criminal. But apart from that, he has an established public life as a maths professor and author of a book (and Final Problem starts off with a reference to Moriarty's brother (another person with a public life, he's a colonel) defending his name). Lestrade even talks to him. Quote: when Holmes and Watson "give him the slip" by getting off their train early, all we see is another train speeding past. Trains are, I imagine, wont to use the same lines as trains that have passed before. It'd be impossible to see Moriarty on the train, so how does Holmes know he's there? Because it wasn't a regularly scheduled train. Moriarty hired a special train, and Holmes would know it was too soon for the next real train to have arrived. Quote: But, I think, my favourite line, in favour of this argument is possibly when Holmes says '"your memoirs will draw to an end, Watson, upon the day that I [...] capture [...] the most dangerous and capable criminal in Europe."' They'll draw to an end, because there'll be no more far-fetched and fancy crimes, because there'll be no Holmes, hiding under a guise, committing them. Either that, or the suicide note he leaves - he seems awfully sure that he'll take Moriarty with him, and yet, how could he be? Most of Holmes's cases clearly have nothing to do with Moriarty. In any case, if Holmes really is Moriarty, it would be terrible writing to have about fifty stories about Holmes and then have one short story where a master criminal is introduced and he's secretly been the criminal behind all his cases all along. (It was bad enough as it was, introducing a criminal mastermind just to have an excuse to kill off Holmes). The TV series can get away with this sort of thing because it had Moriarty in it from the beginning, so it's not just out of the left field. -
I want you all to watch this video
Khoth replied to MMXPERT-seraph of thermodynamics's topic in General
Originally Posted By: kafkaesque / kafkan I really enjoyed both series of this show, except, probably, this episode. The short story it was based on was, in my opinion, far superior... Click to reveal.. ...mainly because Moriarty never actually appears. Yes, Holmes says that he sees him, and is fleeing, but Watson never sees him, and, since he's the one trying to clear Holmes's name you'd think he'd be all for saying "yes, I saw this man, and he was pursuing us across Europe". It's been a while since I read it, but, between that, the struggle at the end (in which Holmes had time to leave a note for Watson?!), and several things Holmes says throughout (like, off the top of my head, saying that he and Moriarty were basically the same, except he had never "to his knowledge" used his powers for evil, or that Moriarty was "very familiar/alike to him"), the way I read it was that HOLMES was Moriarty, or rather, was inventing Moriarty in order to create the crimes he would then solve. The show did play with this idea, but in the end there was a Moriarty; a separate individual - the mystery was removed. I'd have liked it much more if it turned out that it was all Holmes, all along, and that he'd been playing a much more interesting game with Watson and the police than playing it straight like he had been. That's a pretty strained interpretation of the original stories if you ask me. -
Originally Posted By: Harehunter What I don't understand is how neutering our language engenders greater equality. Does the title of CongressPerson make any difference in the value of one's vote, as opposed to CongressMan or CongressWoman? I, for one, fail to see that it makes any difference. Equality is not a verbal thing, it is tacit. Actions speak with greater veracity than words. A Person Paper on Purity in Language
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Yes, we have different spelling in the UK, and sometimes different words, and sometimes the same words meaning different things, and sometimes the whole thing is an incomprehensible mess. Colour, optimise, pavement, biscuit, pants, glaikit.
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First Series Played vs Favourite Series (Poll)
Khoth replied to Punctuation rains from the heavens's topic in General
Exile first, Nethergate best. Exile series second-best. -
Community History: Name Users!
Khoth replied to Punctuation rains from the heavens's topic in General
I find this image offensive. Click to reveal.. The artifacting is terrible. Can you not find a better-quality version? -
Community History: Name Users!
Khoth replied to Punctuation rains from the heavens's topic in General
Room 3 was me, Saunders, Arctic, I think also Scorp, Morgan and sometimes Riibu. It's been so long... We were responsible for the fluffy turtles, and I think possibly also "leave your sanity at the door". A google search turns up some posts from 2006 where I'm being nostalgic about back then. So now I have double-nostalgia... -
Community History: Name Users!
Khoth replied to Punctuation rains from the heavens's topic in General
It's been so long, I don't remember if Arctic was just a standard active poster or a member of some clique (apart from Room 3 of course). He did at least attract enough attention to get a custom title (which goes with mine) -
Nothing specific, but TED talks are often very good and may well contain the sort of thing you want.
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Aha, thanks.
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Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba It tells me only admins can edit mod profiles. I'm tempted to do it in sql but I don't want to accidentally destroy the database.
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Part of me wants there to be never any mod elections because of all the drama. Part of me wants there to be mod elections every year because of all the drama. (And on the subject of custom titles, why won't the forum software let me have my navel trauma back?)
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Originally Posted By: Soul of Wit On the other hand, I favor both seatbelt laws and mandatory helmets for motorcyclists. In my state, medical coverage via auto insurance is unlimited. That is marvelous when you are injured, but we have to reduce the most expensive injuries. Hence, my stance on seatbelts and helmets. I suspect that seatbelts and helmets actually increase the costs of injuries. Dying is cheap. I'm in favour of laws forcing people to wear seatbelts and not text, because it's human nature to be really bad at judging rare but catastrophic risks*. Someone texting while driving is far more likely to be pulled over than to crash, so the existence of the law makes people less likely to do something stupid. * There's evidence I can't be bothered looking up that increasing the penalty for a crime has very little effect on crime rates compared to increasing the chance that a criminal will be caught. It's the same thing.
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Originally Posted By: Lilith The dilemma seems inescapable to me: either any difference between two entities makes them different, in which case personal responsibility is meaningless because any individual person only exists for an instant in time before becoming someone else, or it doesn't, in which case there's no meaningful way to say that I'm a different person from you. Presumably if you eat too much when you're 20, and that causes health problems when you're 50, then You[50] ought to be able to sue You[20] for damages. Sadly this is impossible, but escaping your legal responsibilities through a quirk in the laws of physics seems to be like an immoral thing to do. My point, of course, is that you can construct a theory of personal responsibility without continuity of identity, by considering the hypothetical actions of time-travelling lawyers.
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I don't want online voting - that way, people can make you show them how you voted. (I don't like postal voting for the same reason, and think it should only be allowed if you have a reason). On the other hand, voting day should be a national holiday and there should be enough polling stations that you don't have to queue for more than fie minutes.
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A:EftP - Stats and Abilities (SPOILERS)
Khoth replied to Randomizer's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Originally Posted By: Kennedy So is the game like Avadon where you get 1 point to place in the stat of your choice and 1 point that gets allocated by the computer? Also how many skill points do you get when you level up? And does it cost more skill points to increase a skill from zero than to raise it past 1? Yes, the computer allocates a stat and you choose a stat. You get two skill points per level, and every skill increase costs one skill point. Unlike Avadon, you can increase a higher-tier skill based on the highest of the prerequisite skills, rather than the lowest. -
A:EftP - My patience is about to burst.
Khoth replied to AethirWeb's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Don't worry, it'll soon be released. I'm a beta tester, and I've seen it come along wonderfully. All that's left now is to do the graphics. Here's a screenshot of what it's looking like at the moment: Revamped Avernum! -
A:EftP - Checking every day...
Khoth replied to Ociporus's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Checking every day won't help you. It's going to be released at night! -
Different why? From both points of view a stationary star system is at risk from something crashing into it at ludicrously high speed. I can't help thinking that if you meet an alien with reversed time, there's probably some way of using it to make some kind of thermodynamics-break power generation system.
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Locally, everything's worldlines are going in roughly the same direction, and it takes a lot to significantly shift the direction of your worldline, so you can't just wander back to last week. The major threat in the book is when the characters' star system looks set to hit a star system where time is pointing in a different direction. Apparently, mechanics at low speeds works the same as it does for us, but things involving light and chemistry are pretty different. If you're curious enough, it's all described in horrific detail on the author's website.
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I've been reading Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan. He takes the science in his science fiction really seriously - it has to have more diagrams and graphs than any other fiction book ever, and that's not even including the 80000 word university-level explanation on the author's website. I'm enjoying the book even though I'm not really following all the physics explanations. (It's basically an exploration of how things would work if spacetime intervals worked like s2 = x2 + y2 + z2 + c2t2.)
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Originally Posted By: Triumph Hmm...new historical theory: there are no more than six degrees of separation between Karl Marx and anything that's happened since his lifetime? No Marx -> no Internet -> no time-travel -> Marx's parents never met -> no Marx.
