Eerongal

on an unrelated note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNan63q_pM

curses! what have i done!? D:

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well, some browsers automatically stream audio files when they're linked to (chrome, for example). Instead of downloading it, you get a little "player" screen in the window and you can watch as it buffers more of file

well, that makes some sense, i suppose. It was pretty long, so if it was pretty large so far as disk space goes, and with all the people who would have downloaded/streamed it, that makes sense that it would have skyrocketed our bandwidth use.

Whoa...What the heck happened to our bandwidth in november?! Edit: oh, ya know what? i'll bet that was when the upload of the TWG archive happened.

heh, concerning CM, for the longest time with my phone (the samsung epic 4G) i was keeping stock (with root) waiting on CM 7 (gingerbread) to come out for it. I figured once that came out, I'd slap it on there and be good to go. I finally broke down a couple weeks ago, and assuming it would never come out for it, put a custom rom on it. The very next week, the CM team announced that CM 7 for it.was now available :-|

well, ya know, rooting is one of those things where if you have a need for it for any particular reason, go ahead and do it given that you understand the consequences of doing so. If you're going to root simply for the sake of rooting, you're probably making a bad choice in the first place, even if you understand the risks.

So since there's talk about the nexus in here, I figured I would post up that as of today a one-click root has been released. Disclaimer: if you aren't sure what i'm talking about, you probably shouldn't go through with it.

An open letter: Dear 17th Shard, Hello, how are you? First off, let me start by saying sorry for the double post, but stick with me on this for in this instance I feel it is warranted. I was using the reputation finder, for that's what this topic is about thus why this is being posted here and not elsewhere (say in the mistborn section) when I noticed something odd. I was using the reputation finder to look at people's reputation points, because i'm cool like that, when I noticed something under peter's reputation. First off, let me get out of the way that, at current, peter is up to 62 points of reputation which, in my opinion, is far too little for the man. We're talking about the right-hand man to Brandon himself. If that's not someone who deserves the highest rep here, then that surely means that Brandon himself is posting here, which to the best of my knowledge is not true. This is the man who gives out clarifications, parcels out small tidbits of info, and general makes the entire world of Brandon's work, schedule, and just about anything else all that much more clear to us. He deserves more rep. Get to work people. Anyways, this brings me to the whole point of my letter. I was browsing peter's reputation, as I said earlier, when I noticed something. Out of Peter's 62 rep, 6 of them appear to be coming from this post. That's right, nearly 10% of all of peter's reputation is coming from a post talking about me being a woman. 17th shard, I am disappoint. What have I done to you? Don't you remember all the fun times we've had? The days back when we were young, down at old Johnson's pond? Don't you remember those? We would waste away the whole day doing nothing but swimming, catching frogs, or playing down on the old oak. Don't you remember that time you slipped and fell in the mud and got your nice dress all dirty? How you sat and cried to yourself about how ugly you now looked with a stained garmet and soiled hair? And what did i do? I came up and sat down next to you, brushed a lock of hair out of your face and told you, "17th Shard, you're beautiful to me no matter what. And since I seem to be the only here, I think the only person's opinion you need to worry about is mine." Sure, we haven't talked much in a while, just you and me. And I know you've moved on with yourself since the old days. You've grown up real nice, gotten a nice large member count, changed your look a few times, heck even upgraded your software. But this doesn't mean that I don't still care about you. And then lo and behold, I come across this blatant piece of backstabbing. Did I make you angry? Was is something I said? Well, I suppose at this late juncture, it doesn't much matter. What's done is done, but I just felt that I should at least make my feelings known. So in closing, I don't want your pity, and I don't want you to try to take it back. I just wanted you to know, and now know you do. Cordially, Eeron-man

I was about to post and say "you haven't been on that terribly long, have you?" then i checked your join date and saw it's all ready been a year as of this month. Which is kinda crazy because i remember your intro topic (something about it being 'that girl' again, or something along those lines) and it doesn't seem that long ago, but it apparently is. Also, yeah, I went through and read a lot of my up-voted posts when i first saw this as well. Good times.

no problem. It's easy to get ahead of yourself, forget the small stuff, and make a simple mistake.

I don't know....that's quite a bit of atium (and thus, a portion of ruin himself) to move from one planet to another. I'm going to have to agree with Argent. It's more likely that his inability to understand "evil", yet ability to comprehend "destroy" leads him to have a very ruin-esque personality by its base nature.

Yeah, also IIRC sazed specifically said that the power to do so was there, he just didn't know how to use it yet. Though i'm willing to bet if he comes back in any corporeal manner it will more of a "reincarnation" thing (that is, same soul, different body) than resurrection.

Fixed.

i always figured that Adonalsium was essentially the shard-i-verse's "big bang", in that it basically created the universe as we know it (note that this doesn't mean that hoid couldn't have been around, just that things were different back then). I don't think i've ever heard anyone refer to Adonalsium being whole as a paradise, though....I do subscribe to the idea that a whole Adonalsium = God with a capital G.

actually, in going through it again, ive noticed a bit of a trend. As the main PoV characters come further into the story, they seem to be able to read Aes Sedai better and better. At the very beginning, when they were just dumb country bumpkins and Aes Sedai were a thing of marvel, all Aes Sedai always seemed to be all cool composure. Where as later in the series, you get parts where they're like "obvious fury hidden behind that calm face", so this may very well be an extension of this. If this scene was redone from the PoV of Rand/Perrin/Mat/Egwene/Whoever from like book 11, we probably would have a better view into Moiraine's feelings on the matter than we did back then.

ha HA! I'm not the only one who thinks so! Now we can form a coalition, and protest! It's not fair that the 99% get to veto our position! We are the 1%! Occupy 17th Shard! Row row, fight the powah!

yeah, as stated above (the statements about overlapping in the RPG are what made me think of using it like i mentioned above), they simply act as positive/negative numbers and are simply added together. So a bubble of +5 time and a bubble of -5 time will cancel out to zero, but two bubbles of +5 Time overlap just fine.

Or you could just "chain" bubbles together. That is, overlap them on the edges at the same strength to achieve total area coverage.

it's basically the whole "warp bubble" thing you always see in si-fi stuff. However, it hinges on the idea that cadmium would indeed warp space-time (and warp it sufficiently hard enough) to actually affect the speed of light. Which isn't a bad position to take (its certainly a PLAUSIBLE idea. After all, time is all ready warped, why not space?), but isn't certainly something we could just take as "oh yeah, it could certainly do that, no doubt" for a fact

but just think how fun it will be to get to the highest rank! We can put it at the 16th rank! Think of the bragging rights! You would only need 18,446,744,079,709,551,616 rep points! I'm sure chaos will be there in like...what...a week?

i still say we need to go with the originally discussed "powers of 16" rule for the titles.