honestly all the FF games seem to look the same to me. i think they need new art direction and to focus on what made their old games classics to begin with. actually a more open hybrid game breeding games like elder scrolls/FO3 and the Final Fantasy franchise could be cool.
re-release couldn't hurt if they add value, and i'm not talking about just porting chrono trigger to the iPhone. i would totally buy a re-release of FF7 with updated graphics and gameplay for the Wii or the PC.
were you working on a robot for the FIRST competition?
i worked on one back in 2000. they used BASIC STAMP instead of a visual language. was a modified basic which was pretty easy to use especially if you had any prior knowledge.
also for robotics i remember the lego mindstorms setup. it wasn't too bad, it could be a little frustrating if you were already experienced with programming but otherwise was ok to get it to do stuff.
surprised nobody has mentioned money. guess when you're throwin' $300 around every few months for a new iPhone it doesn't matter to some people but last i checked the economy still sucks gas is like $4.00 gallon and i look at that $250 price tag (+ game cost) with a fairly weak opening line of games and walk on by.
there may be a reason, if the cracked version lets you play without steam. I hate steam and have pirated games that I already bought just because my computer was steam free and I didn't want to install steam.
it's hard to tell but they might have a special adapter for plugs. i have read that cables will wick the oil in the shielding braid (usb cat5 etc) which can cause a mess.
also there are a lot of server rooms out there that aren't that organized. i'd imagine in a working installation everything would end up oily, i'd be also a bit wary of installing hard drives in these things. i thought they had the pressure hole for a reason and if your coating failed you could have a massive drive failure.
that said i'm sure it does a good cooling job and it would be easy to integrate it into the building hot water and heating system.
overall though I don't think this will make it big
dammit. how the frack am i supposed to keep up with all these browsers to make sure my site remains compatible? can't install 3 versions of each simultaneously , need a goddam VM farm to be able to test.
standards are getting better but still not perfect enough. i remember banking my head against the wall trying to fix a css display error on a simple site for a while. wasn't till i figured out firefox thought that margin was inside a block element (ie more padding) instead of outside the element. like Opera and IE thought. had to re-write a lot of crap to get my layout lined up across all the browsers/versions
I concur, this was a really cool technique, i had seen a few articles with clever use of transparency for certain effects. this one is pretty sweet though i suspect it takes quite a bit of work to make sure your layers blend in a nice way
you also still have to avoid uinque features. for example even if you were varying width and height to make say a stone or gravel pattern, if you had one particularly unique stone in the upper layers it would stick out still. same with knots in wood.
bah we already have dark matter. this is an obvious case of Dark Inertia.
its actual a form of anti inertia which can cause thrust. it consists of 99% of all inertial forces but is unobservable locally because we're special and live in the 1% of the universe that doesn't suck.
we hope to discover evidence of this by renting the LHC for a year to super-collide flubber particles while covering our ears and making disparaging remarks about opposing theories (dark inertia doesn't like opposing theories so we have to scare them off).
there's about as many games that could be argued are 'art' that there are movies.
was spiderman 3 art? then mass effect 3 could be art...
is ICO art or just a moody puzzler? was schindlers list art or just a history lesson? did you care more about the girl in the red coat or about Aeris (Aerith) when she died?
*anything* can be art or artistic. games can be moving and emotional visually stunning just as much as movies. both have independent branches and corporate franchises. the concept of art is up to interpretation and the argument is all a bit silly.
i think its both greed and a catch 22. 9.95 is bout right for a book at a bookstore. so since its the same product the ebook goes for the same price.
logic would say that the cost of distribution is lower so the ebook would be lower.(in reality printing has been pretty cheap anyway so that's not a big deal)
so you lower the ebook to match peoples perceived value (it's the same price i could own something tangible), then people buy more ebooks, but the paperbacks suffer because the ebook is so much cheaper ("its half price online, why buy the book"). then as paperbacks go away our acclamation to higher prices of the physical product goes with it. mostly it seems to be a game of artificially inflating value. these damm small time writers and their 99 cent bullshit are messin up all their hard work and profitessss:-p
It's a bit different. you can trademark the same thing but in different areas. "windows" are generic objects in walls and objects within an application. however if i create a *program* and call it windows i'm infringing. if i create a new car and name it windows it's likely not to be confused with the software.
same for "apple" and "apple" and "apple" one is a record label one is a computer another is fruit, once again calling above said car an "apple" its not likely to be confused with any of them. if i build a new laptop and call it an apple it could be confused with the trademark for the computers.
"app sore" is similar to "book store" or "hardware store", the term "app" is already too abused within the computer world it would be like trying to trademark "pc store". it's more generic in the terms of other people using it for existing things that would likely infringe.
this is easier to shrug off if you think of it as just average users using gmail. in general it's a personal mail and not intended for business. still hurts but there's only you to be upset.
the university i work at is working on migrating towards gmail for.edu domains. we have already moved our alumni to gmail and are progressing towards all students, faculty and staff on gmail.
It would be quite the s*hitstorm if some or most of our employees lost their email.
sounds like a good use of the money. I mean that's only half the cost of a single stealth bomber to improve security so that we don't get p0wned by some hacker.
I'd mod you up if i could. Hotmail invents aliases. woo. ive been doing this as well. i have a new alias for everything i sign up on helps mitigate spam and track things I have signed up for.
An interesting Idea though there may be many pitfalls for that. for example how much mass does it take to bend light enough to even measure. does the apparatus have to be calibrated for redshift of the light. does the mass you are testing need to be a specific density how accurately do you need to measure the distance from the light beam to the mass sphere. how perfect does the sphere need to be to be able to accurately measure it's mass. it's all probably possible but not necessarily a good way to do it.
i pondered using inertia/kinetic energy unfortunately KE is measured in Joules which is a product of newtons which i derivative of Kilograms. so if you didn't know what a Kg was you couldn't measure the force in a way to calculate your KE:-/
might depend on market - for regular desktops it's not really true anymore.Intel still does the "hey are you EXTREME?!?! pay $1000 for this" thing but the Phenom 970 is about $185 bucks and so is the similar performing intel i5 750. and the new sandy bridge processors are performing very well even against their 6 core gulftown cousins for bout half the price or less ($300 )
at this point in time the bang/buck isn't favoring AMD like it used to and when spending so much on a PC sliding $20-$50 for a much better CPU isn't too bad.
AMD will probably be fine though they had much better CPUs a few years back when the D series intels were sucking.
Too bad really, I like the google captchas because they were easy to read (and served a greater purpose with the book scanning). honestly I wish they would make some of these things harder though. how often do you really need to make an email account? I've done it just a couple times with google and wouldn't be bothered by a more complex captcha system. i suspect they don't do this because they wouldn't want people to get frustrated and go to hotmail instead because the captcha was too hard.
though in the end you can never really win since the most high profile targets will just get focus from actual humans
on a side note i wish the article had more details on how he was cracking. I suspect most slashdotters like myself have pondered captcha systems and how to improve them.
50's era logic. at that time it would seem unlikely for someone to want to accidentally launch them. ie hack the system to cause a fake launch.
however it would be useful to prevent launch. thus giving a first strike advantage to the russians. so the failsafe is actually M.A.D
honestly i think in the cold war context that makes sense. you build it so if something goes wrong you take everyone with you and if you know your enemy has that mentality you don't effin hack their shit.
now in a more modern context with many extremest groups and no real nuclear M.A.D pal aiming at you it makes more sense to err on the side of launch failure.
yeah it was easier for linux but the plugin doesn't even have linux support yet that's why i'm wondering how it works. even more curious that a browser plugin has that level of access to the system.
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honestly all the FF games seem to look the same to me. i think they need new art direction and to focus on what made their old games classics to begin with. actually a more open hybrid game breeding games like elder scrolls/FO3 and the Final Fantasy franchise could be cool.
re-release couldn't hurt if they add value, and i'm not talking about just porting chrono trigger to the iPhone. i would totally buy a re-release of FF7 with updated graphics and gameplay for the Wii or the PC.
2 factor is useless if you never log the hell out of facebook. I just want my flippin session to timeout after 30 min >_>
were you working on a robot for the FIRST competition?
i worked on one back in 2000. they used BASIC STAMP instead of a visual language. was a modified basic which was pretty easy to use especially if you had any prior knowledge.
also for robotics i remember the lego mindstorms setup. it wasn't too bad, it could be a little frustrating if you were already experienced with programming but otherwise was ok to get it to do stuff.
obligatory XKCD (alt text is relevant)
surprised nobody has mentioned money. guess when you're throwin' $300 around every few months for a new iPhone it doesn't matter to some people but last i checked the economy still sucks gas is like $4.00 gallon and i look at that $250 price tag (+ game cost) with a fairly weak opening line of games and walk on by.
as pointed out this is fake if for no other reason then it actually says "app store" in the menu.
"App Store" is trademarked by Apple; MS would not be so stupid to actually use that term.
there may be a reason, if the cracked version lets you play without steam. I hate steam and have pirated games that I already bought just because my computer was steam free and I didn't want to install steam.
it's hard to tell but they might have a special adapter for plugs. i have read that cables will wick the oil in the shielding braid (usb cat5 etc) which can cause a mess.
also there are a lot of server rooms out there that aren't that organized. i'd imagine in a working installation everything would end up oily, i'd be also a bit wary of installing hard drives in these things. i thought they had the pressure hole for a reason and if your coating failed you could have a massive drive failure.
that said i'm sure it does a good cooling job and it would be easy to integrate it into the building hot water and heating system.
overall though I don't think this will make it big
dammit. how the frack am i supposed to keep up with all these browsers to make sure my site remains compatible? can't install 3 versions of each simultaneously , need a goddam VM farm to be able to test.
standards are getting better but still not perfect enough. i remember banking my head against the wall trying to fix a css display error on a simple site for a while. wasn't till i figured out firefox thought that margin was inside a block element (ie more padding) instead of outside the element. like Opera and IE thought. had to re-write a lot of crap to get my layout lined up across all the browsers/versions
I concur, this was a really cool technique, i had seen a few articles with clever use of transparency for certain effects. this one is pretty sweet though i suspect it takes quite a bit of work to make sure your layers blend in a nice way
you also still have to avoid uinque features. for example even if you were varying width and height to make say a stone or gravel pattern, if you had one particularly unique stone in the upper layers it would stick out still. same with knots in wood.
it might have some uses in textures for games.
bah we already have dark matter. this is an obvious case of Dark Inertia.
its actual a form of anti inertia which can cause thrust. it consists of 99% of all inertial forces but is unobservable locally because we're special and live in the 1% of the universe that doesn't suck.
we hope to discover evidence of this by renting the LHC for a year to super-collide flubber particles while covering our ears and making disparaging remarks about opposing theories (dark inertia doesn't like opposing theories so we have to scare them off).
try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
there's about as many games that could be argued are 'art' that there are movies.
was spiderman 3 art? then mass effect 3 could be art...
is ICO art or just a moody puzzler? was schindlers list art or just a history lesson? did you care more about the girl in the red coat or about Aeris (Aerith) when she died?
I mean they put this crap in museums as "art"
*anything* can be art or artistic. games can be moving and emotional visually stunning just as much as movies. both have independent branches and corporate franchises. the concept of art is up to interpretation and the argument is all a bit silly.
i think its both greed and a catch 22. 9.95 is bout right for a book at a bookstore. so since its the same product the ebook goes for the same price.
logic would say that the cost of distribution is lower so the ebook would be lower.(in reality printing has been pretty cheap anyway so that's not a big deal)
so you lower the ebook to match peoples perceived value (it's the same price i could own something tangible), then people buy more ebooks, but the paperbacks suffer because the ebook is so much cheaper ("its half price online, why buy the book"). then as paperbacks go away our acclamation to higher prices of the physical product goes with it. mostly it seems to be a game of artificially inflating value. these damm small time writers and their 99 cent bullshit are messin up all their hard work and profitessss :-p
It's a bit different. you can trademark the same thing but in different areas. "windows" are generic objects in walls and objects within an application. however if i create a *program* and call it windows i'm infringing. if i create a new car and name it windows it's likely not to be confused with the software.
same for "apple" and "apple" and "apple" one is a record label one is a computer another is fruit, once again calling above said car an "apple" its not likely to be confused with any of them. if i build a new laptop and call it an apple it could be confused with the trademark for the computers.
"app sore" is similar to "book store" or "hardware store", the term "app" is already too abused within the computer world it would be like trying to trademark "pc store". it's more generic in the terms of other people using it for existing things that would likely infringe.
this is easier to shrug off if you think of it as just average users using gmail. in general it's a personal mail and not intended for business. still hurts but there's only you to be upset.
the university i work at is working on migrating towards gmail for .edu domains. we have already moved our alumni to gmail and are progressing towards all students, faculty and staff on gmail.
It would be quite the s*hitstorm if some or most of our employees lost their email.
sounds like a good use of the money. I mean that's only half the cost of a single stealth bomber to improve security so that we don't get p0wned by some hacker.
I'd mod you up if i could. Hotmail invents aliases. woo. ive been doing this as well. i have a new alias for everything i sign up on helps mitigate spam and track things I have signed up for.
An interesting Idea though there may be many pitfalls for that. for example how much mass does it take to bend light enough to even measure. does the apparatus have to be calibrated for redshift of the light. does the mass you are testing need to be a specific density how accurately do you need to measure the distance from the light beam to the mass sphere. how perfect does the sphere need to be to be able to accurately measure it's mass. it's all probably possible but not necessarily a good way to do it.
i pondered using inertia/kinetic energy unfortunately KE is measured in Joules which is a product of newtons which i derivative of Kilograms. so if you didn't know what a Kg was you couldn't measure the force in a way to calculate your KE :-/
might depend on market - for regular desktops it's not really true anymore.Intel still does the "hey are you EXTREME?!?! pay $1000 for this" thing but the Phenom 970 is about $185 bucks and so is the similar performing intel i5 750. and the new sandy bridge processors are performing very well even against their 6 core gulftown cousins for bout half the price or less ($300 )
at this point in time the bang/buck isn't favoring AMD like it used to and when spending so much on a PC sliding $20-$50 for a much better CPU isn't too bad.
AMD will probably be fine though they had much better CPUs a few years back when the D series intels were sucking.
Too bad really, I like the google captchas because they were easy to read (and served a greater purpose with the book scanning). honestly I wish they would make some of these things harder though. how often do you really need to make an email account? I've done it just a couple times with google and wouldn't be bothered by a more complex captcha system. i suspect they don't do this because they wouldn't want people to get frustrated and go to hotmail instead because the captcha was too hard.
though in the end you can never really win since the most high profile targets will just get focus from actual humans
on a side note i wish the article had more details on how he was cracking. I suspect most slashdotters like myself have pondered captcha systems and how to improve them.
wonder if this means he plans on leveraging his 'Insurance' File to get out of this mess.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/05/wikileaks-ready-release-massive-insurance-file-shut/
while reading the article i couldn't help thinking that the immune system would make a cool Flash game.
50's era logic. at that time it would seem unlikely for someone to want to accidentally launch them. ie hack the system to cause a fake launch.
however it would be useful to prevent launch. thus giving a first strike advantage to the russians. so the failsafe is actually M.A.D
honestly i think in the cold war context that makes sense. you build it so if something goes wrong you take everyone with you and if you know your enemy has that mentality you don't effin hack their shit.
now in a more modern context with many extremest groups and no real nuclear M.A.D pal aiming at you it makes more sense to err on the side of launch failure.
yeah it was easier for linux but the plugin doesn't even have linux support yet that's why i'm wondering how it works. even more curious that a browser plugin has that level of access to the system.