FFX explictly paints technology, or 'machina' as they call it, as evil, and the Al-Bhed, who are the primary users of machina, as heretics who are subject to open racisim and oppression.
When the Crusaders attempt to use machina to fight Sin, and lose, the standard reaction is 'well, what did you expect? You used the tools of evil, of course you lost!'
Of course, the strictures against machina were built into the religion to keep the man down, so to speak. Which is an interesting take on the somewhat traditional nature vs science dynamic in FF games.
A bit, but the main reason is that the Japanese voice actors are so much better than american. In Japan, it's a legitimate profession. In America, it's what you do when you can't find better work, for the most part. Also, American voice directors do stupid things, like telling the actors to match their vocal cadence to the lip flapping of the animated character. (Note that the Japanese don't do this, either). Which is why, in FFX, Yuna..talks kind...of like...an under.stated... Captain Kirk. And why Auron is (IMHO) the best-voiced character; you can't see his mouth, so the VA can just do his thing. Or just handing the VAs a script and telling them to start talking, and no, you don't need to see the actual material. You're a whiny soccer player, and start reading!
I would have thought they had multiple nodes at multiple locations with no single point of failure. Or at least three redundant and independent systems, a main system, a backup system and a system for testing upgrades. Or is it like most commercial companies they designed the cheapest system possible.
Paid for how? Increased service rates? We see things like this all the time. When it's cheque signing time, they talk up and down about how they understand that they're leaving redundancy or uptime on the table, that they are choosing to trade cost for said redundancy or uptime, and that when it's down, they can wail and gnash their teeth and pull at their hair and talk about how their 'business depends on it!' all they want, and it won't matter, because they haven't paid for it. And the answer is invariable 'Sure, sure, we understand, no problem!'
And what happens the next time something does down? A wailing and gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair and anguished screams.
Now, in this case, I can also see the failover system being specced for normal system load, but not for the huge backlog of messages. Or maybe even for the backlog, but they wern't expecting that every blackberry user would instantly start sending messages to each person in their contact list saying 'did u get this? Rply if u did!'
Certainly, volence by women against men or against children should be treated seriously, but what stinks is men that get all upset when people try doing something to reduce voilence against women, and these men shout 'reverse sexism' or other such crap.
Well, rather than reducing 'violence against women,' wouldn't it be better to reduce violence? Rather than fighting for 'equality of women,' wouldn't it be better to fight for equality?
He's saying that the elected officials shouldn't have been so stupid as to put themselves in the position of needing to shell out taxpayer money, when five minutes of a lawyer's time would have told them that the law was unconstitutional and would certainly be struck down.
Unfortunately, he has a point. It's the same logic that means that Austin Powers on DVD costs less than the Austin Powers soundtrack on CD.
For example, maybe there's no Live multiplayer because the rights holders regard that as 'public performance' or 'broadcasting' and demanded more money. Or as soon as they heard 'these will be downloaded' figured it was just like downloading music, and demanded more for that. The way he mentioned leaderboarding makes me think that the price got jacked up for that.
But it all goes back to Austin Powers DVD vs Austin Powers OST; things are farked right up when it comes to music distribution.
Maybe the Karaoke people had the foresight to negiotiate multi-platform releases.
Maybe the copyright owners noticed that Guitar Hero is a hell of a lot more popular, and demanded more money.
Guys, this isn't at all new. Go check out DVD forums and listen to all the bitching about why music in old series needs to be replaced; because they didn't have the rights for home 'video' distribution, and to acquire them now would be damn expensive. Nowadays, it's all written into the contracts; music rights, actors appearing in the bonus features and commentaries, rights to bundle the commercials and trailers, and so on.
I remember the release notes for Solaris 2.6, back in, what, the late '90s, mentioning changes made to the TCP/IP stack to improve performance when dealing with satellites.
Not, I'm sure, that you're intentionally trying to be misleading, but from the linked article, and emphasis mine:
"Nagios was not really the problem," Shin said. "It was the JVM stack not being able to respond to it correctly. It was recording events in SNMP that were then watched by Nagios and that made things crawl. There were a lot of man hours wasted, and it would trigger the 4 a.m. pages."
Except, of course, for those of us who a) sold our PS2 versions, and b) want the GH1 songs with the improved engine and cooperative capabilities of GH2. Let alone the better graphics, leaderboarding, and all that sort of stuff on the Xbox 360 version.
The downloads are about 10 megs each, which is about right for three songs in DD5.1. Unlike, say, the DDR Universe song downloads, which are 108 KB each, and are pretty obviously just unlock codes for content already on the disc.
For a lot of modern desktop Linux users, who think that KDE or Gnome are the 'standard unix interface,' an article on ls would probably be quite eyeopening, not to mention incomprehensible.
The problem I have is that most downloadable content seems to be either of the 'here's the stuff that we didn't get to finish before the publisher shipped' or 'Ok, there's 15 maps ready; lock 5 of them off, and we'll put out a 'downloadable content' patch that reenables them in a few months.'
I was flipping through the downloads for Dance Dance Revolution Universe, to see if they had any songs availble here in Canada; DDR Ultramix for the Xbox didn't allow Canadians to buy additional songs. Sure enough, there are, and the downloads are 108 KB. That means they're unlock codes, not new content. That's not right.
"Cleatus done gone told me to go steal that stuff" isn't a defense, no. "Cleatus sold me his old car. Oh, it wasn't his car? He swore it was." could very well be, though. You still have no claim to the property; it wasn't Cleatus' to sell. However, you were, possibly, acting 'in good faith' and aren't actually guilty of any wrongdoing.
Would it matter? If having type O blood pumped directly into your veins is OK, what's the problem with having the blood in your veins turned into type O?
All morality is learned, period. Just like the Human Brain has specific hardware for vocal communication, but isn't born knowing how to speak, even if it has specific hardware for morality (which it probably does, see below) a baby isn't born knowing right from wrong.
Humans, however, are smart. And humans in a group will quickly learn that things just work better when there's a common framework of rules and boundaries. What those rules and boundaries are, of course, changes from group to group.
So, yes. Take a bunch of feral humans, throw them all together, and they'll develop morality and a social order. Doesn't mean it's inherent, just that given a certain set of circumstances, you'll generally get a certain result. To quote Data, just because wood can be set on fire doesn't mean that there is fire contained in wood. Well, just because humans will generally figure out that morality is good in group environments doesn't mean that morality is 'built in'.
Tigh (giving a briefing to the Viper pilots): Gentlemen, we have indications that a Cylon Ace is operating in this area. You all probably know him as the Fruit Fracker.
Random Pilot: Why is he called Fruit Fracker?
Tigh: Well, lets just say that sometimes you pop the toaster, and sometimes the toaster pops you.
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FFX explictly paints technology, or 'machina' as they call it, as evil, and the Al-Bhed, who are the primary users of machina, as heretics who are subject to open racisim and oppression.
When the Crusaders attempt to use machina to fight Sin, and lose, the standard reaction is 'well, what did you expect? You used the tools of evil, of course you lost!'
Of course, the strictures against machina were built into the religion to keep the man down, so to speak. Which is an interesting take on the somewhat traditional nature vs science dynamic in FF games.
A bit, but the main reason is that the Japanese voice actors are so much better than american. In Japan, it's a legitimate profession. In America, it's what you do when you can't find better work, for the most part. Also, American voice directors do stupid things, like telling the actors to match their vocal cadence to the lip flapping of the animated character. (Note that the Japanese don't do this, either). Which is why, in FFX, Yuna..talks kind...of like...an under.stated... Captain Kirk. And why Auron is (IMHO) the best-voiced character; you can't see his mouth, so the VA can just do his thing. Or just handing the VAs a script and telling them to start talking, and no, you don't need to see the actual material. You're a whiny soccer player, and start reading!
Paid for how? Increased service rates? We see things like this all the time. When it's cheque signing time, they talk up and down about how they understand that they're leaving redundancy or uptime on the table, that they are choosing to trade cost for said redundancy or uptime, and that when it's down, they can wail and gnash their teeth and pull at their hair and talk about how their 'business depends on it!' all they want, and it won't matter, because they haven't paid for it. And the answer is invariable 'Sure, sure, we understand, no problem!'
And what happens the next time something does down? A wailing and gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair and anguished screams.
Now, in this case, I can also see the failover system being specced for normal system load, but not for the huge backlog of messages. Or maybe even for the backlog, but they wern't expecting that every blackberry user would instantly start sending messages to each person in their contact list saying 'did u get this? Rply if u did!'
Well, rather than reducing 'violence against women,' wouldn't it be better to reduce violence? Rather than fighting for 'equality of women,' wouldn't it be better to fight for equality?
"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you print that."
He's saying that the elected officials shouldn't have been so stupid as to put themselves in the position of needing to shell out taxpayer money, when five minutes of a lawyer's time would have told them that the law was unconstitutional and would certainly be struck down.
Unfortunately, he has a point. It's the same logic that means that Austin Powers on DVD costs less than the Austin Powers soundtrack on CD.
For example, maybe there's no Live multiplayer because the rights holders regard that as 'public performance' or 'broadcasting' and demanded more money. Or as soon as they heard 'these will be downloaded' figured it was just like downloading music, and demanded more for that. The way he mentioned leaderboarding makes me think that the price got jacked up for that.
But it all goes back to Austin Powers DVD vs Austin Powers OST; things are farked right up when it comes to music distribution.
Maybe the Karaoke people had the foresight to negiotiate multi-platform releases.
Maybe the copyright owners noticed that Guitar Hero is a hell of a lot more popular, and demanded more money.
Guys, this isn't at all new. Go check out DVD forums and listen to all the bitching about why music in old series needs to be replaced; because they didn't have the rights for home 'video' distribution, and to acquire them now would be damn expensive. Nowadays, it's all written into the contracts; music rights, actors appearing in the bonus features and commentaries, rights to bundle the commercials and trailers, and so on.
I remember the release notes for Solaris 2.6, back in, what, the late '90s, mentioning changes made to the TCP/IP stack to improve performance when dealing with satellites.
Not, I'm sure, that you're intentionally trying to be misleading, but from the linked article, and emphasis mine:
In other words, tool, job, GIGO.
Except, of course, for those of us who a) sold our PS2 versions, and b) want the GH1 songs with the improved engine and cooperative capabilities of GH2. Let alone the better graphics, leaderboarding, and all that sort of stuff on the Xbox 360 version.
The downloads are about 10 megs each, which is about right for three songs in DD5.1. Unlike, say, the DDR Universe song downloads, which are 108 KB each, and are pretty obviously just unlock codes for content already on the disc.
For a lot of modern desktop Linux users, who think that KDE or Gnome are the 'standard unix interface,' an article on ls would probably be quite eyeopening, not to mention incomprehensible.
The problem I have is that most downloadable content seems to be either of the 'here's the stuff that we didn't get to finish before the publisher shipped' or 'Ok, there's 15 maps ready; lock 5 of them off, and we'll put out a 'downloadable content' patch that reenables them in a few months.'
I was flipping through the downloads for Dance Dance Revolution Universe, to see if they had any songs availble here in Canada; DDR Ultramix for the Xbox didn't allow Canadians to buy additional songs. Sure enough, there are, and the downloads are 108 KB. That means they're unlock codes, not new content. That's not right.
Nonsense. It's called room for expansion.
When I had a nasty SD 4:3 television, I still made a point of buying anamorphic DVDs, and I still enjoyed my Xbox.
Then, when I got a widescreen HDTV, I needed only tell my DVD player that I now had such a TV, and tell my Xbox the same thing, and boom; done.
So, yeah. People with 720P sets will get a benefit out of HD-DVD/BluRay. And, at some point, if they upgrade their displays, boom.
"Cleatus done gone told me to go steal that stuff" isn't a defense, no. "Cleatus sold me his old car. Oh, it wasn't his car? He swore it was." could very well be, though. You still have no claim to the property; it wasn't Cleatus' to sell. However, you were, possibly, acting 'in good faith' and aren't actually guilty of any wrongdoing.
Trigger an immune response due to something intrinsic in the enzyme, or strictly on general principles, in that the enzyme is a foreign compound?
Replace 'broadcasters' with 'drug companies' and 'television shows' to 'affordable drugs'.
Canada has a lot of faults, don't get me wrong, but mote, eye, pluck, glass house, stones, blah blah blah.
Would it matter? If having type O blood pumped directly into your veins is OK, what's the problem with having the blood in your veins turned into type O?
So move to procedural textures. Or, better yet, shaded polygons. Why put a texture of a belt on a character when you can just model the belt?
Summer Games, Winter Games, World Games and California Games. Epyx for the win!
Not off hand, but I can think of one that is just spending itself into ruin.
All morality is learned, period. Just like the Human Brain has specific hardware for vocal communication, but isn't born knowing how to speak, even if it has specific hardware for morality (which it probably does, see below) a baby isn't born knowing right from wrong.
Humans, however, are smart. And humans in a group will quickly learn that things just work better when there's a common framework of rules and boundaries. What those rules and boundaries are, of course, changes from group to group.
So, yes. Take a bunch of feral humans, throw them all together, and they'll develop morality and a social order. Doesn't mean it's inherent, just that given a certain set of circumstances, you'll generally get a certain result. To quote Data, just because wood can be set on fire doesn't mean that there is fire contained in wood. Well, just because humans will generally figure out that morality is good in group environments doesn't mean that morality is 'built in'.
Tigh (giving a briefing to the Viper pilots): Gentlemen, we have indications that a Cylon Ace is operating in this area. You all probably know him as the Fruit Fracker.
Random Pilot: Why is he called Fruit Fracker?
Tigh: Well, lets just say that sometimes you pop the toaster, and sometimes the toaster pops you.
Those who give up essential time for temporary sunlight deserve neither.