"Spend this on flu research" is OK. "Give this to Company X to build a research center in District Y to maybe do some flu research" is not.

If you can have six people in a group, then I think you can have at most 6 viable classes.

Call them
A
B
C
D
E
F

Subclasses would then be like:

A - a + (b or c or d or e or f) which would create a need for (B or C or D or E or F) + a - (b or c or d or e or f).

Where the capital is the class and the lower case is an ability of that class.

EQ has really messed up the game lately by providing simulated player A and F.
The simulated A (call it warrior) isn't so great. But the simulated healer is more than enough (even rez's the dead automatically).

In my DND game, I have 9 classes with 3 of them being racial variants. No one plays the racial class variants. They play racial characters but in the main classes (so we have a hobbit magician and an elven theif).

We have 3 fighters, 1 mystic (aka monk), 1 bard, 2 thieves, two magicians, 3 clerics.

One of the fighters has gone psionic. To master it, over time he lost 20% of his attack bonus and is hit about 15% more (since points went into psionics instead of attack bonuses). He mainly likes it since it lets him fly 90mph and teleport up to 105 miles.

The bard class is very powerful but lacks a big gun so it lacks sizzle. I am looking into that issue.

IANAL, but she's filed the suit as Jane Doe. Whether this actually protects her or not someone who is a lawyer may be able to chime in.

Remember the Nintendo Virtual Boy? It got one display for each eye and still gave you headaches. I suspect that the problem has to do with head movements: Just like how we unconsciously move our heads to determine the direction of sound we may be moving our head to determine distance of objects.

Anyone getting tired from reading 3D comics?

I use greylisting to reduce spam volume, and I whitelist outgoing mail servers for domains that a) have trouble with greylisting and b) publish SPF records. In other words, I use SPF given existing trust for a particular domain, but only if not relying on SPF causes problems. I thought I hadn't set up SPF records for my own (vanity) domains, but apparently I have... not that I particularly notice. It's just not a big deal.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/2390330/detail.html

In 2002, the top-paid garbage collector made $66,000. Almost half of that was overtime pay. Another garbage collector made $62,000. Three others had annual pay of more than $50,000.

One reason overtime is so high is because these guys can start collecting overtime while they're still on their regular eight-hour shift.

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Also, no forced holiday work, and probably better status than most IT people.
Many IT people I know must work either thanksgiving or christmas each year. And every other holiday is viewed as an installation opportunity by the business.

I left IT as a worker and have been recommending against entering the field for the last 6-7 years.

There are many other fields you can go into which have better hours, more women (better dating prospects), higher status (better dating prospects, more parties paid for by the company, more quality company travel to nice locations), and no forced holiday work.

IT has sucked as a field badly since SOX (so about 2001-2002). It sucked before that, but it was more of a trade off. I know some "developers" who get to program 1 week and spend the next 5 testing and filling out documentation.

An hour is a long time to do mundane crap. I should know.

Eminent domain is not a right, it is a power. Governments have powers, individuals have rights.

And when your house is condemed, what exactly is the difference? I understand your point, but its unnessary nitpicking, because it doesn't change the fact that the government can do it.

And as I have been saying - legal authority is not moral authority. The USC has its imperfections, but it's what we have.

Ya, so we should not be able to have a civilization because a few people can't be happy in another home? Checkout the Woodhaven Expressway, it's what happens when a few selfish people block improvements that would benefit many.

I think she had just watched too many of the Re-Animator movies, and was suffering from a popcorn overdose.

Shaw pulls the same Crap as Telus. I haven't tried Rogers but the flier they stick in my mailbox sounds about the same. And Vonage... I don't see why I'd go Voip if I've got a computer and Skype.

From that amazon page:
> Ward and Brownlee admit that "It is very difficult to do statistics with an N of 1. But in our defense, we have staked out a position rarely articulated but increasingly accepted by many astrobiologists."

So, they have realised that their sample is statistically insignificant, and have thus substituted it with "everybody does it".

Left turn Clyde.

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Hello Whirled.

If by easy, you mean faster to level, is there something wrong with that? Now, if only the instance server will stop crashing on the last boss of the Heroic dungeon. lol 3 times I failed to get the heroic daily bonus because of the server crash (I gave up trying) and once I got locked out of a decent Halls of Reflection heroic because the server crashed. lol, I only laugh at the irony of when it crashs. It seems to know when I will succeed and stay stable every other time. =P It's just growing pains, I know.

I don't get relieved for work for another 20 minutes, but I grow weary of this, so I'm about done with the trolling

I hadn't registered yet, but probably will next week (I don't browse slashdot from home, and I'll forget about it until then).

My only complaint is that it doesn't seem to grab movies from a wind enough range of years. I need to look and see if there is more info in the 'about' page, but I suspect some of the things that tend to annoy me are either design choices that are valid, expressing preferences that don't matter in an objective way and/or the source material forces certain choices.