Just because it's not widely used doesn't mean it isn't used. Everyone that I know that uses Linux uses it as a desktop OS. Maybe not their only one or primary one, but they still use it as a desktop OS.

So Linux is entirely viable as a desktop OS... the fact that it isn't widely used is just one ilustration of the old saying about leading a horse to water.

...except to the extent that one is owed the opportunity to be a productive member of a society, unless one adopts the premise that said society would be better off if those that were unemployed would simply die.

But in general, yes, I fully agree.

You are driving unsafely for the conditions around you.

My driving abstract would disagree with your assessment. In nearly 25 years of driving, in all kinds of road conditions and all kinds of traffic (mostly city driving,,, maybe about 15% highway), I have never been in any car accident where absolutely any amount of driving skill could have prevented it (other than to have not been at that location at that exact time in the first place, which is not really reflective of how good or bad a driver one is). The three accidents that I have been in were all at intersections while I was fully stopped, and my car was hit from behind. Two of which were while I was waiting for a red light, and the third was at a crosswalk where I was waiting for pedestrians to cross. All three incidents were at times and places where I was required, by law, to be stopped.

I'm not suggesting that either format is more correct, only that it actually *is* redundant to have to fully type out the type name of a variable whose type can be entirely determined by the expression on the right hand side of the equals sign.

Not to be a fanboy, but...

Gotta love those disclaimer headers that are essentially outright lies.

"Not to be rude but...."

"Not that I'm bragging, but..."

"I don't mean to crtiticize, but.."

The return type is already declared in the prototype. If your variable only needs to be the same type as the prototype declaration, then the explicit declaration of its type is redundant, since it can be deduced by the compiler.

Thank you, yes.... I am well aware of OSRIC. There's a handful of differences between it and AD&D, but not many. One of my former players (before real-life commitments made regular scheduled gaming unworkable) used the OSRIC materials for his player's handbook.

Considering Berners-Lee didn't even invent what would ultimately become HTML until very late into the 1980's, with the first formal publication of it not being around until 1993, I'd suggest that some of the snark which may have been intended by your comment may be lost by what is all too plainly an exaggeration.

Driving faster means that you are making your own vehicle capable of doing greater damage to anything that it hits, and producing greater injury to its occupants. I can't control how fast other people drive, but I can control how fast I drive. I do not drive slower than the speed limit unless road conditions actually warrant it, but I also don't deliberately speed just because everyone else is. If were to ever get hit in the rear by another car while travelng the speed limit, it's because they were tailing my vehicle too closely for the speed that *THEY* were traveling at, and that is *their* responsibility, not mine.

Actually yes... you really can get a ticket for driving too slowly. There's a sign that's not dissimilar to the one in the above picture that's not that far from where I live.

The upper speed limit for a road, however, is *NEVER* considered too slowly... even if everyone else is speeding.

You could try leaving a little earlier so that you don't have to race to where you are going.... if you can't budget your own time well enough to do so, that's hardly a reason to make your vehicle less safe in the process (you might very well handle your vehicle safely, but as momentum equals mass times speed, and most cars are pretty heavy, the faster your vehicle is moving, the more dangerous it is to others, regardless of how well you can drive. Because shit happens, and the faster you are moving, the less time you will have to react to it before you've hit it).

One word: feats.

blech.

1e forever.

More speed equals a car that is more dangerous to things that it hits. A slower speed car may present more danger to faster moving things that may hit it, but I'm not responsible for how fast other people drive, I'm responsible for how fast I drive, and the faster that *I* drive, the greater the danger that my car will pose to anything that my car might hit with the momentum that I impart upon it by choosing its speed. If someone hits my car in the rear, then they clearly were tailing too close for the speed they were traveling in the first place, and that is entirely on them... not me. You want to pass me? Feel free... Heck, if you adequately signal your intention, I'll generally even slow down a bit after you've signalled to let you back in front of me if that's the lane you want to be in.

I won't usually be in the left lane on a highway, since highway exit ramps are usually off towards the right, and I generally make an effort to get in the lane I need to be in as soon as it is safe for me to do so, and stay there until I turn off of the road.

I don't drive below the limit either, however.... at least to the same level of accuracy that the speedometer conveys my actual vehicle speed.

3e turned the game into something resembling a video game, being quite rules heavy, lots of bean counting that gets pretty tedious to track after a while, and the dungeonmaster is relegated a role that could almost be replaced by an automaton. I never cared for the way 2e handled specialization wizards, because most of them felt way too similar to eachother to be distinctive. The problem was even worse for clerics. In part this is because they didn't really try to consider that spells in different spheres or when cast by different specialists, should actually be set at a different level, and it's possible with some rather large changes to the class system and spell lists available to the appropriate classes, a good system could be created, but I never had the energy to devote to trying to do that. The psionics system in 2e was so overpowered as to be absurd, and the psionics system in 3e and beyond just feels like another magic spell list instead of anything particularly special.

The best edition of D&D was the first edition of AD&D, and I'm sticking to it.

Why is everyone doing 80 if the speed limit is only 45? And if the speed limit is 80, I would be moving at 80. If the speed limit is 50, I'd be doing 50 and not 45, unless the road conditions were pretty bad and warranted driving more slowly (icy or whatnot).