I know where you're coming from, but my defense of FF games is the same as my gripe about the FF movie: You're never going to get as involved with a 2 1/2 hour long story, as you are with a 100+ hour story. FF7 was by far my favorite title of the series, and it was also the one I played the longest. The characters simply become more "real," the longer you spend engrossed in the world.
Besides.... who would you rather look at? Yuna, Lulu, and Rikku? Or Mike Wazowski and Buzz Lightyear?
(the book of the samurai) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It might not SEEM geek related, but without it, I wouldn't have been able to put up with my users as long as I have.
I'm all for "converting the heathen masses," as it were. I like it when I see people looking for an alternative, and I can show them that alternative. It gives me that warm fuzzy feeling inside. But what I CAN'T stand, are people who abuse public forums. A lot of "newbies" treat people like me as if we were their personal tech support. I sometimes feel like HP in CmdrTaco's story: People to whom I owe nothing, and do not benefit at all from helping, treating me as if it is my duty to help them.
Just this week, (in one of those sporadic moments of EFnet connectivity), I was talking to one of my friends in a channel. Some guy who was installing linux for the first time had joined our channel, looking for ppp help, which anyone would have been happy to give him... could he remain civil. Unfortunately, he kept spamming with "PLZ HELP NOW!!!", "Y R U IGNORING ME?", "KWIT TAKING 2 HER AND HELP ME!!", et cetera. I was, as you can imagine, annoyed. If "making Linux mainstream" means I have to be the private and personal tech support monkey for every ungrateful Windows user who decides to give it a shot... then I'm content with Linux as a niche OS.
The plot of the movie was very similar to most of the games. Hero must save the world, most travel through time and/or space in order to do so, and there's a nice love story along the way.
I felt that Gray's three troops were a nod to the Turks, of FF7.
Aki picking the plant in Old New York City reminded me of the scene in FF7 where Aerith is selling flowers on the lowest platform of the city.
If you took FF8's Seifer and dyed his hair black, you'd have General Hein.
The good doctor was named "Sid," and characters by the name of "Cid" have made appearances in many FF games.
We had the Gaea/Gaia theme once again.
I thought the Zeus cannon might have been a reference to Odin, who has made a few appearances in FF games.
The big black guy who travelled with Gray reminded me of Barret, from 7.
A lot of anime titles I want aren't available on DVD yet. (Tenkuu no Escaflowne, Mononoke Hime, etc.) I can't stand looking at VHS. I'll be first in line to buy these titles on DVD when they're released, but until then, I'll keep watching on VCD. I love Hong Kong.
I have had this exact same problem with Gladiator, on both my Apex AD-600A and my roommate's Phillips Magnavox in the game room. In the exact same places, the mpeg breaks into big blocks on the screen (the same way Time Warner's digital cable likes to break up... heh). The Phillips player just keeps on chucking through the bad sections, and my Apex skips ahead to a good section. We probably just both got bad discs. I'd be interested to know if your Toshiba chokes on the same disc too.
I love mine. It plays back every format, it spoofs different regional encoding (read: imported anime DVD's), and they cost less than most anime DVD boxed sets.
I don't understand a whole lot about mergers and such. So it seems odd to me that all the fuss is being made over AIM and not over ICQ. Their stats, however fudged, claim that ICQ has at least 20 million more users than AIM. Does anyone really *want* to talk to AOL users, that isn't already an AOL luser themself? That's the only benefit of using AIM over ICQ (unless of course you LIKE advertisements... but they've added those to ICQ now, too). So it seems to me that this is less about instant messaging, and more about opening up AOL's ISP lusers to the rest of the internet.
What's wrong with arguing? Well, nothing, if the participants are mature enough to handle it. Problem is, most people *aren't* that mature. Most people can't stay objective in a debate on Libertarianism vs. The Rest of You Socialist Bastards... see what I mean? Our opinions are strong, our words harsh, our emotions get involved and then we start throwing punches. I'd like to think I'm mature enough to handle a good old fashioned argument. However, when a dinosaur who still lurks around the office told me "you only like gnome because you're too young to know any better" I got pissed off, and responded in kind. Same principle. As long as people believe that their choice of language/gui/linux distro/OS/text editor/etc makes them superior to the Unenlightened Everyone Else, advocacy hurts more than it helps. You don't change anyone's mind, you don't make them think, you just push them farther away.
Every time I've been paired up on a project, it just encourages me to go goof off with whoever I'm paired with. This kind of mentality: "Since we're the only ones on this project, if it takes us a while longer to finish, no one else will notice. Hey, let's go play Tokyo Wars at Dave & Buster's." If, on the other hand, I'm doing a project solo, I feel like I have to get it done because my boss will actually be paying attention to what I'm doing. And it's so much harder to BS by yourself, than when you've got someone to collaborate on your bullshit excuses with:)
It might just be me, though...
Paul had his sons in the next book and not one of them was killed in the first.
Chani gave birth to a son and a daughter in Dune Messiah, Leto II and Ghanima. Their first son was killed during the raid on Sietch Tabr. (erm... might not have been Tabr, but I believe so.)
The emporer's daughter was created solely for this television adaption.
Shaddam IV had a daughter named Irulan. Yes, they took great liberties with her character in the TV adaptation, but she was not "created."
There were no weirding modules in the television mini as there should have been, nor did Paul use the weirding voice to crash the ship that was taking he and his mother over the desert! Key to the development of the character's awareness of his abilities!
....and all of these elements left out of the tv miniseries were complete bastardizations of the BOOK. "Weirding modules" et al, were figments of Lynch's imagination and had no basis in Herbert's writing.
Duncan did not rescue Paul and his mother from the deep desert.
RTFB.
They never attacked the Harkonans until Paul was Moadib and they had the weirding modules.
Again... RTFB
He DID NOT marry the fabricated emporer's daughter in the book! Complete garbage!
Ummmm.... well, at risk of sounding like a broken record... RTFB. Read The Fucking Book.
Oh, and the guy playing Gernie sucked a dead donkey's balls dry. He was horrible!
And after all that garbage, you finally say something true. Gurney Halleck was a badass warrior-- this one was a doughnut eater. Just like the doughnut eater who played Stilgar, another character who was a lean badass in the books.
The "weirding way" refers to the Prana-Bindu training of the Bene Gesserit. This is basically an ultra-fine honing of the senses that allow one to discern what an opponent is going to do before he does it, because of the miniscule body launguance clues prior to the action. It also encompasses superhuman control over one's own body. In the book, the painbox scene is explained better than either of the screen adaptations: the mind's control over pain is what sets humans apart from animals. (Most wild animals will chew off a limb to escape from a manmade trap, so I never agreed with this theory -- though that's another discussion entirely.) The Voice, truthsaying, and prana-bindu are all part of BG training; but they are not synonymous.
Can you imagine what freeways would be like if people running off the road because they were watching the TPM dvd? Hmmm, ok maybe that would never happen:) But it's nice to hope.
When I first switched to Linux I was having some problems configuring my network card to connect to my pre-existing Roadrunner account. I called tech support, explained my situation, only to have the tech support monkey say "We dont offer any support for linux, as stated on the user agreement you signed, thanks for calling Time Warner" and hung up. Incidentally, Time Warner does not allow any Austin-area users to run servers. I hosted a few Tribes games and got a Nastygram from them. "You are in violation of your service contract, cease and desist this action or we will terminate your service."
It sounds to me like this is branching off of AOL's old gripe that cable modem services wouldn't provide their broadband access directly to the AOL network. You get your typical AOL trained monkey, who gets excited about the idea of high speed access, cancels his AOL account and gets a real service, only to stare at his Windoze desktop and say to himself "Where is my Internet? Where is my Mailbox? Why don't I have any chainmails and getrichquickmails?" I could be misinterpreting this statement, but that statement struck me as AOL just saying "Now you can have the speed you want, with the" [worthless drivel] "content you've come to expect from AOL! Only $100/mo for high-speed access to Spam Central and Tic-Tac-Toe Online!"
I work in Business Sales here at Dell, and combed our intranet for info on this. I did not find any changes in our support policy for Linux on Laptops. To my knowledge we support Linux on our PowerEdge servers only. (And the Precision workstation? It's been too long since I have had any "enlightened" customers on the phone.)
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I know where you're coming from, but my defense of FF games is the same as my gripe about the FF movie: You're never going to get as involved with a 2 1/2 hour long story, as you are with a 100+ hour story. FF7 was by far my favorite title of the series, and it was also the one I played the longest. The characters simply become more "real," the longer you spend engrossed in the world.
Besides.... who would you rather look at? Yuna, Lulu, and Rikku? Or Mike Wazowski and Buzz Lightyear?
(the book of the samurai) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It might not SEEM geek related, but without it, I wouldn't have been able to put up with my users as long as I have.
I'm all for "converting the heathen masses," as it were. I like it when I see people looking for an alternative, and I can show them that alternative. It gives me that warm fuzzy feeling inside. But what I CAN'T stand, are people who abuse public forums. A lot of "newbies" treat people like me as if we were their personal tech support. I sometimes feel like HP in CmdrTaco's story: People to whom I owe nothing, and do not benefit at all from helping, treating me as if it is my duty to help them.
Just this week, (in one of those sporadic moments of EFnet connectivity), I was talking to one of my friends in a channel. Some guy who was installing linux for the first time had joined our channel, looking for ppp help, which anyone would have been happy to give him... could he remain civil. Unfortunately, he kept spamming with "PLZ HELP NOW!!!", "Y R U IGNORING ME?", "KWIT TAKING 2 HER AND HELP ME!!", et cetera. I was, as you can imagine, annoyed. If "making Linux mainstream" means I have to be the private and personal tech support monkey for every ungrateful Windows user who decides to give it a shot... then I'm content with Linux as a niche OS.
The plot of the movie was very similar to most of the games. Hero must save the world, most travel through time and/or space in order to do so, and there's a nice love story along the way. I felt that Gray's three troops were a nod to the Turks, of FF7. Aki picking the plant in Old New York City reminded me of the scene in FF7 where Aerith is selling flowers on the lowest platform of the city. If you took FF8's Seifer and dyed his hair black, you'd have General Hein. The good doctor was named "Sid," and characters by the name of "Cid" have made appearances in many FF games. We had the Gaea/Gaia theme once again. I thought the Zeus cannon might have been a reference to Odin, who has made a few appearances in FF games. The big black guy who travelled with Gray reminded me of Barret, from 7.
A lot of anime titles I want aren't available on DVD yet. (Tenkuu no Escaflowne, Mononoke Hime, etc.) I can't stand looking at VHS. I'll be first in line to buy these titles on DVD when they're released, but until then, I'll keep watching on VCD. I love Hong Kong.
I have had this exact same problem with Gladiator, on both my Apex AD-600A and my roommate's Phillips Magnavox in the game room. In the exact same places, the mpeg breaks into big blocks on the screen (the same way Time Warner's digital cable likes to break up... heh). The Phillips player just keeps on chucking through the bad sections, and my Apex skips ahead to a good section. We probably just both got bad discs. I'd be interested to know if your Toshiba chokes on the same disc too.
I love mine. It plays back every format, it spoofs different regional encoding (read: imported anime DVD's), and they cost less than most anime DVD boxed sets.
I don't understand a whole lot about mergers and such. So it seems odd to me that all the fuss is being made over AIM and not over ICQ. Their stats, however fudged, claim that ICQ has at least 20 million more users than AIM. Does anyone really *want* to talk to AOL users, that isn't already an AOL luser themself? That's the only benefit of using AIM over ICQ (unless of course you LIKE advertisements... but they've added those to ICQ now, too). So it seems to me that this is less about instant messaging, and more about opening up AOL's ISP lusers to the rest of the internet.
What's wrong with arguing? Well, nothing, if the participants are mature enough to handle it. Problem is, most people *aren't* that mature. Most people can't stay objective in a debate on Libertarianism vs. The Rest of You Socialist Bastards... see what I mean? Our opinions are strong, our words harsh, our emotions get involved and then we start throwing punches. I'd like to think I'm mature enough to handle a good old fashioned argument. However, when a dinosaur who still lurks around the office told me "you only like gnome because you're too young to know any better" I got pissed off, and responded in kind. Same principle. As long as people believe that their choice of language/gui/linux distro/OS/text editor/etc makes them superior to the Unenlightened Everyone Else, advocacy hurts more than it helps. You don't change anyone's mind, you don't make them think, you just push them farther away.
...Until the web designer decided his Super Soaker was more effective than our nerf weapons.
He chased one programmer into the server room. This resulted in an entire rack filled with fried boards.
So, it might be effective... as long as general stupidity is taken into consideration.
Every time I've been paired up on a project, it just encourages me to go goof off with whoever I'm paired with. This kind of mentality: "Since we're the only ones on this project, if it takes us a while longer to finish, no one else will notice. Hey, let's go play Tokyo Wars at Dave & Buster's." If, on the other hand, I'm doing a project solo, I feel like I have to get it done because my boss will actually be paying attention to what I'm doing. And it's so much harder to BS by yourself, than when you've got someone to collaborate on your bullshit excuses with :)
It might just be me, though...
Paul had his sons in the next book and not one of them was killed in the first.
Chani gave birth to a son and a daughter in Dune Messiah, Leto II and Ghanima. Their first son was killed during the raid on Sietch Tabr. (erm... might not have been Tabr, but I believe so.)
The emporer's daughter was created solely for this television adaption.
Shaddam IV had a daughter named Irulan. Yes, they took great liberties with her character in the TV adaptation, but she was not "created."
There were no weirding modules in the television mini as there should have been, nor did Paul use the weirding voice to crash the ship that was taking he and his mother over the desert! Key to the development of the character's awareness of his abilities!
....and all of these elements left out of the tv miniseries were complete bastardizations of the BOOK. "Weirding modules" et al, were figments of Lynch's imagination and had no basis in Herbert's writing.
Duncan did not rescue Paul and his mother from the deep desert.
RTFB.
They never attacked the Harkonans until Paul was Moadib and they had the weirding modules.
Again... RTFB
He DID NOT marry the fabricated emporer's daughter in the book! Complete garbage!
Ummmm.... well, at risk of sounding like a broken record... RTFB. Read The Fucking Book.
Oh, and the guy playing Gernie sucked a dead donkey's balls dry. He was horrible!
And after all that garbage, you finally say something true. Gurney Halleck was a badass warrior-- this one was a doughnut eater. Just like the doughnut eater who played Stilgar, another character who was a lean badass in the books.
The "weirding way" refers to the Prana-Bindu training of the Bene Gesserit. This is basically an ultra-fine honing of the senses that allow one to discern what an opponent is going to do before he does it, because of the miniscule body launguance clues prior to the action. It also encompasses superhuman control over one's own body. In the book, the painbox scene is explained better than either of the screen adaptations: the mind's control over pain is what sets humans apart from animals. (Most wild animals will chew off a limb to escape from a manmade trap, so I never agreed with this theory -- though that's another discussion entirely.) The Voice, truthsaying, and prana-bindu are all part of BG training; but they are not synonymous.
Then again, I *am* just another idiot.
Any gaming console running in the same OS as my palm pilot should be taken out and shot.
Can you imagine what freeways would be like if people running off the road because they were watching the TPM dvd? Hmmm, ok maybe that would never happen :) But it's nice to hope.
....that some of us geeks DO have lives!
You know, like "SuzyQ" only instead, it would be the "SuSE Cue".
When I first switched to Linux I was having some problems configuring my network card to connect to my pre-existing Roadrunner account. I called tech support, explained my situation, only to have the tech support monkey say "We dont offer any support for linux, as stated on the user agreement you signed, thanks for calling Time Warner" and hung up. Incidentally, Time Warner does not allow any Austin-area users to run servers. I hosted a few Tribes games and got a Nastygram from them. "You are in violation of your service contract, cease and desist this action or we will terminate your service."
It sounds to me like this is branching off of AOL's old gripe that cable modem services wouldn't provide their broadband access directly to the AOL network. You get your typical AOL trained monkey, who gets excited about the idea of high speed access, cancels his AOL account and gets a real service, only to stare at his Windoze desktop and say to himself "Where is my Internet? Where is my Mailbox? Why don't I have any chainmails and getrichquickmails?" I could be misinterpreting this statement, but that statement struck me as AOL just saying "Now you can have the speed you want, with the" [worthless drivel] "content you've come to expect from AOL! Only $100/mo for high-speed access to Spam Central and Tic-Tac-Toe Online!"
I work in Business Sales here at Dell, and combed our intranet for info on this. I did not find any changes in our support policy for Linux on Laptops. To my knowledge we support Linux on our PowerEdge servers only. (And the Precision workstation? It's been too long since I have had any "enlightened" customers on the phone.)