This isn't the release of the next major version. This is a press release for an event for which there is speculation for the next major release being announced.
The announcement of the release or upcoming release would actually be FP worthy.
My cats say that such a study would be idiotic and not worth the time of any cat participating, but they also find it predictable that a human would still find it the pinnacle of research.
I'm not sure if you are joking, serious, or trying to be cute with a quote, or some combination of the above, but I agree with the literal interpretation.
It's a wonderful test to advance our abilities in space travel. And, if the test works, we could keep adding on to the module, and if we really want to do something interesting, have multiple fueling trips, for larger fuel capacities and better/faster flight times for different locations in the solar system.
Am I too optimistic if I find this *VERY* exciting?
If someone say A->B, you simply need to show an example of B->!A to disprove the statement. This example DOES NOT mean the individual is trying to say B->!A.
It's not a bad phone for the non-business, non-dev phone user.
I sure as hell wouldn't get one, but I'm a power user. Any tech-savvy / power user / business would be silly to get an iPhone over a good Android phone or a Blackberry.
But there are plenty of users not in those categories, where the UI polish (vs. Google) and wide app variety (vs. Blackberry) is actually not a bad thing. Now, in 3-5 years, I see Android being polished enough to make the choice of iPhone of Android be a silly decision for any group, but for now? No, I can't see it.
The Wii is focusing on a different crowd than the 360 and the PS3 -> casual gamers and kids. It's also quite a bit cheaper, particularly at the release of either the 360 or the PS3. Their lack focus on hardcore gaming probably says less bad about them than you...
Also, since the classic gaming systems are hard to get for a reasonable price, the Wii isn't a bad choice to get a bunch of classic games relatively inexpensively.
Also, technically, Android doesn't run Java, it runs Dalvik. Dalvik is CURRENTLY only compiled from Java, to my knowledge, but the compiler and java stuff are not on the phone, it is on the developer machines.
(1) as far as I can tell, this being intended as an attack on Android is PURE speculation. There are other options as to why this could have been done... (2) It seems that the issue is the decision of Oracle, but the decision of IBM that is making the challenge for Google. Why blame IBM? It's like *punches self in face, NO CAR ANALOGIES*... It's like trying to blame the committer team of some *BSD for Apple choosing to make OS X based on BSD rather than Linux, thus adding a bit of challenge for people who want to make Apple ports of Linux software, instead of blaming Apple.
Oh, there is difficulty and skill involved in this game.
But when the difficulty is due to UI screwups or simple, tedious, grindfests, then the difficulty is more a problem for the non-crappy gamers than the crappy gamers.
Sadly, this one is an improvement over XI. You can actually solo decently in it (excluding one class). There are some good classes, and the scenery isn't bad - that's though those are in line with the previous. You no longer lose XP when you die, very nice. Like most soon-after-release MMOs, the content is somewhat lacking - but that's not a surprise, and sqeenix seems to be ramping that up. Like their previous MMO, and contrary to what a previous user said, this isn't the usual train JRPG.
A lot of good ideas, but the crafting system is overly convoluted, with at least one material in any given recipe of worth being a bit too rare. Sadly, this is still an improvement over XI - less convoluted, but everything seemed to be too rare. Add to that most recipes require a web of ingredients going through many different skills - some of which 10-15 levels higher than the final product... It can be a pain in the ass without a good trade infrastructure.
You know, auction houses and mailboxes. Squeenix, in their infinite lack of wisdom removed these. They wanted to get rid of the RMT problem. Apparently their method of getting rid of the problem was to make it a desirable feature. Now you spend real money on items rather than money, because spending hours going through the user market is so much fun. Guess I should explain that. You can get a "retainer" this individual will stand around in one of about 15 zones in a city (and three cities, 45 zones). A retainer can have up to 10 items for sale, and can also "look" for" items (each look-for counts as two sale items as far as slots go) in his/her bazaar. When you want to buy user stuff, you can either look at the sales of these retainers or of people running around (each player can also have a bazaar, which works identically to that of a retainer). Consider that it takes 5-10 seconds to open and close a bazaar - and that each can only hold about 10 items. Now the busier zones probably have 50-100 retainers. Do you really want to sort through that in the "hopes" that you find what you want?
Oh, and since I mentioned it there. Laggy UI.
What would move this from a rather painful to a rather good game, in order?
(1) Mailboxes, this would make cross character trade a lot easier. (2) Mailboxes/direct trade with more than 4 item slots - the UI is really laggy, having us need to trade multiple times is just PAINFUL. (3) An auction house, there are better methods to hinder RMTs (implement your own microtransaction system, in-game tradeable 30-day subscriptions, etc.) (4) Tweak the UI so it isn't nearly as slow. (5) More content - only last because Sqeenix is actually working on this, and seems to be putting in reasonable effort.
I'm sure this prediction will work out like many of his other predictions and ambitions. About as vaprous and fragrant as what comes out my ass after eating a nice large beany burrito.
Since when was the taskbar the only menu in windows? Firefox's menu isn't on the taskbar. Nor is that of IE, MS Office, Open Office, or any other program I can think of.
Anyway, I keep the taskbar to auto-hide and always on top, so, it's location is rather irrelevant to screen real-estate
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This isn't the release of the next major version. This is a press release for an event for which there is speculation for the next major release being announced.
The announcement of the release or upcoming release would actually be FP worthy.
My cats say that such a study would be idiotic and not worth the time of any cat participating, but they also find it predictable that a human would still find it the pinnacle of research.
Yes, he most definitely does not, however the rest of the GPs post does seem to be reasonable.
Typically this type of login requires both the one time passwords AND your normal passwords.
Then again, it is implemented by FB and I didn't RTFA, so it is quite possible that they intend to use the OTP without the original passwords.
I would say, both sides.
Oh I get it. I'll just say "wooooooosh" to myself now.
True, but such knee-jerk reactions of blaming us for everything don't help fix the issue.
But people will blame the USA no matter what.
I'm not sure if you are joking, serious, or trying to be cute with a quote, or some combination of the above, but I agree with the literal interpretation.
It's a wonderful test to advance our abilities in space travel. And, if the test works, we could keep adding on to the module, and if we really want to do something interesting, have multiple fueling trips, for larger fuel capacities and better/faster flight times for different locations in the solar system.
Am I too optimistic if I find this *VERY* exciting?
If someone say A->B, you simply need to show an example of B->!A to disprove the statement. This example DOES NOT mean the individual is trying to say B->!A.
It's not a bad phone for the non-business, non-dev phone user.
I sure as hell wouldn't get one, but I'm a power user. Any tech-savvy / power user / business would be silly to get an iPhone over a good Android phone or a Blackberry.
But there are plenty of users not in those categories, where the UI polish (vs. Google) and wide app variety (vs. Blackberry) is actually not a bad thing. Now, in 3-5 years, I see Android being polished enough to make the choice of iPhone of Android be a silly decision for any group, but for now? No, I can't see it.
Not sure that's a good comparison.
The Wii is focusing on a different crowd than the 360 and the PS3 -> casual gamers and kids. It's also quite a bit cheaper, particularly at the release of either the 360 or the PS3. Their lack focus on hardcore gaming probably says less bad about them than you...
Also, since the classic gaming systems are hard to get for a reasonable price, the Wii isn't a bad choice to get a bunch of classic games relatively inexpensively.
Also, technically, Android doesn't run Java, it runs Dalvik. Dalvik is CURRENTLY only compiled from Java, to my knowledge, but the compiler and java stuff are not on the phone, it is on the developer machines.
(1) as far as I can tell, this being intended as an attack on Android is PURE speculation. There are other options as to why this could have been done...
(2) It seems that the issue is the decision of Oracle, but the decision of IBM that is making the challenge for Google. Why blame IBM? It's like *punches self in face, NO CAR ANALOGIES*... It's like trying to blame the committer team of some *BSD for Apple choosing to make OS X based on BSD rather than Linux, thus adding a bit of challenge for people who want to make Apple ports of Linux software, instead of blaming Apple.
Wow, not only is the FP a GOOD post, but it's probably one of the best the article will see.
Hats off to you, sir.
Oh, there is difficulty and skill involved in this game.
But when the difficulty is due to UI screwups or simple, tedious, grindfests, then the difficulty is more a problem for the non-crappy gamers than the crappy gamers.
Of course, you don't need full screen anymore, which is nice.
Yes, those are all annoying too. However, at least to me, they don't make it unplayable. Everyone is different/YMMV
Sadly, this one is an improvement over XI. You can actually solo decently in it (excluding one class). There are some good classes, and the scenery isn't bad - that's though those are in line with the previous. You no longer lose XP when you die, very nice. Like most soon-after-release MMOs, the content is somewhat lacking - but that's not a surprise, and sqeenix seems to be ramping that up. Like their previous MMO, and contrary to what a previous user said, this isn't the usual train JRPG.
A lot of good ideas, but the crafting system is overly convoluted, with at least one material in any given recipe of worth being a bit too rare. Sadly, this is still an improvement over XI - less convoluted, but everything seemed to be too rare. Add to that most recipes require a web of ingredients going through many different skills - some of which 10-15 levels higher than the final product... It can be a pain in the ass without a good trade infrastructure.
You know, auction houses and mailboxes. Squeenix, in their infinite lack of wisdom removed these. They wanted to get rid of the RMT problem. Apparently their method of getting rid of the problem was to make it a desirable feature. Now you spend real money on items rather than money, because spending hours going through the user market is so much fun. Guess I should explain that. You can get a "retainer" this individual will stand around in one of about 15 zones in a city (and three cities, 45 zones). A retainer can have up to 10 items for sale, and can also "look" for" items (each look-for counts as two sale items as far as slots go) in his/her bazaar. When you want to buy user stuff, you can either look at the sales of these retainers or of people running around (each player can also have a bazaar, which works identically to that of a retainer). Consider that it takes 5-10 seconds to open and close a bazaar - and that each can only hold about 10 items. Now the busier zones probably have 50-100 retainers. Do you really want to sort through that in the "hopes" that you find what you want?
Oh, and since I mentioned it there. Laggy UI.
What would move this from a rather painful to a rather good game, in order?
(1) Mailboxes, this would make cross character trade a lot easier.
(2) Mailboxes/direct trade with more than 4 item slots - the UI is really laggy, having us need to trade multiple times is just PAINFUL.
(3) An auction house, there are better methods to hinder RMTs (implement your own microtransaction system, in-game tradeable 30-day subscriptions, etc.)
(4) Tweak the UI so it isn't nearly as slow.
(5) More content - only last because Sqeenix is actually working on this, and seems to be putting in reasonable effort.
Chances are, unless it doesn't work well in such situations, Parallels and the competition thereof will be put to use.
Funny, Adobe is one of the few companies worse at insecure bloat that Adobe. I'm not sure, but I think I'm frightened by this merger.
Will it make MS products worse, or Adobe products better?
What, just because your burritos give you the runs rather than gas... doesn't mean all do that. Damn, get better burritos.
I'm sure this prediction will work out like many of his other predictions and ambitions. About as vaprous and fragrant as what comes out my ass after eating a nice large beany burrito.
dear editors/devs, please remove the mod cap from parent post.
as far as I can tell SFW in even some of the more restrictive environs in the US.
Although, while not scantily clad, I think she is someone I'd still prefer to see in a Burqa.
My rat leaped down from just about anywhere when I had a pet - that wouldn't have stopped her.
I miss my rat now...
Since when was the taskbar the only menu in windows? Firefox's menu isn't on the taskbar. Nor is that of IE, MS Office, Open Office, or any other program I can think of.
Anyway, I keep the taskbar to auto-hide and always on top, so, it's location is rather irrelevant to screen real-estate