I do not recall Square saying that. Anyway, FF7 and 8 have both appeared on the PC as well as the PlayStation, so I wouldn't be surprised if future Square games appeared at least on the PC, if not other platforms as well. (The X-Box is a likely candidate.)
Nearly all computer screens in movies and TV are showing mock-ups of a GUI running on a Macintosh. It's probably a safe bet that there are almost no Linux or Unix screens in Hollywood today. There was "Contact" and "Jurassic Park" but those were from a different era.:^)
Personally, I'm more excited about the VM that's going to be in an upcoming release of Guile. Guile is one of the most robust Scheme implementations out there, and thanks to this VM, it will soon be one of the fastest as well.:)
I'm a Squaresoft RPG fan. More than once, I've had dreams where I'm fighting this powerful bad guy with a few of my friends... and then a little menu pops up with a pointing-hand cursor: "Attack/Magic/Summon/Item/..."
There is a community in Georgia whose name escapes me, where every family is required by law to own a firearm. The crime rate is among the lowest in the country over there.
It's likely not possible. Lawyers are among the hardest people to satisfy, typogrpahically. When you submit a brief, it has to be on a certain size of paper, with certain margins and a certain point size and spacing. Anything not up to spec will be summarily rejected just as if it were hand-written on college-ruled notebook paper. Some legal documents require bizarrely nonstandard paper sizes which means you need to diddle your margins in Word and then make heavy use of a paper cutter. IANAL, and my father isn't either, but he's filed enough documents in his day to run into some of the strange technical vagaries of the judicial system.
If I understand correctly, with the exception of texture maps, sounds, and other formats that just can't be helped, id Software is changing the formats of its next Doom game to straight ASCII text-based formats, which is a Good Thing for guys who like to tinker with their games.
I had one. Parsec, Munch Man, Blasto... I even had the Scott Adams Pirate Adventure. How could you not say those games rocked? Oh, and I had the speech synth too... the pinnacle of coolness at the time. It even did digital audio, one game I played (a Frogger clone) used the speech synth to make the frog do a realistic "ribbit, ribbit".
Comparing the artificial, state-sanctioned IP "rights" to a woman's $DEITY-given right not to have her body violated is not only bogus, it's also an insult to women.
You gotta admit, S. Miyamoto's games may appear kiddie-like at times, but he never fails to serve up steaming hot, overflowing dishes of original gameplay. Contrast this with the PlayStation, where every other game seems to be "put a girl in hot pants and give her a gun". Tomb Raider, PE, Fear Effect, R. Evil, Dino Crisis... the list goes on and on.
Nintendo is trying the same tactic with Perfect Dark. Hopefully this will help it shake its cutesy image and make room for various game types on Gamecube.
OK, let's suppose the treaty appears before the Senate and they vote it down. President Clinton will then sign a bunch of Executive Orders which do an end run around the legislative branch, basically stating that the various executive agencies are to act in accordance of the terms of such-and-such a treaty. Then it doesn't matter whether your actions are legal or not, the jackboots are still gonna bust your door down and seize your machine.
I *still* use a Matrox Millennium 2 w/ Voodoo 2! It rocks! No noticeable image degradation whatsoever, even on this 17" monitor (which requires a more consistent video signal to deliver a clear image). I've been holding off on shelling out money for a new card: When the Voodoo 3 was hot, I wanted a GeForce. When the GeForce came out and NVIDIA stubbornly refused to release source for their drivers I decided a Voodoo 5 was the way to go. Now it looks like I'm gonna get an ATI Radeon... I hope I scrounge together enough money to buy one before holographic displays become practical.:)
This should be patently obvious to everyone. Whenever you have a project involving multiple coordinated contributors, *some* kind of management is necessary. It's just not the traditional business type management. The managers of free/open-source projects tend to do some of the work themselves, taking an active role in the writing and maintenance of code, as opposed to sitting in a plush office and telling other folks what to do.
Industry continues to rule, and will continue to for quite some time. Alan Greenspan knows this and so does every other economist worth his/her salt. The "New Economy" is just some rhetoric to help us swallow the bitter pill that the US will no longer be a superpower because its industrial infrastructure is being dismantled, and be replaced by China or Russia as the world's political and economic leader.
We're moving into an era where your Wintel CPU is really a sort of front-end processor which "drives" a pixel-pushing graphics subsystem which is almost a computer in itself. Actually we're well entrenched in this era and now we're trying to fold the high-speed transfer functions previously handled by specialized hardware, back into our main CPU (viz., MMX, AltiVec, the entire design of the PlayStation 2). It's called the "cycle of reincarnation" and it's happened many times before in hardware (remember when FPUs were sold separately?).
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... that gave us those Gaming God trading cards, including Cliffy B. and "Killcreek"? If so, I take everything they say with a shaker of salt.
I do not recall Square saying that. Anyway, FF7 and 8 have both appeared on the PC as well as the PlayStation, so I wouldn't be surprised if future Square games appeared at least on the PC, if not other platforms as well. (The X-Box is a likely candidate.)
Nearly all computer screens in movies and TV are showing mock-ups of a GUI running on a Macintosh. It's probably a safe bet that there are almost no Linux or Unix screens in Hollywood today. There was "Contact" and "Jurassic Park" but those were from a different era. :^)
This is Cambridge, in England, where you have no right to bear arms.
Personally, I'm more excited about the VM that's going to be in an upcoming release of Guile. Guile is one of the most robust Scheme implementations out there, and thanks to this VM, it will soon be one of the fastest as well. :)
I'm a Squaresoft RPG fan. More than once, I've had dreams where I'm fighting this powerful bad guy with a few of my friends... and then a little menu pops up with a pointing-hand cursor: "Attack/Magic/Summon/Item/..."
There is a community in Georgia whose name escapes me, where every family is required by law to own a firearm. The crime rate is among the lowest in the country over there.
It's likely not possible. Lawyers are among the hardest people to satisfy, typogrpahically. When you submit a brief, it has to be on a certain size of paper, with certain margins and a certain point size and spacing. Anything not up to spec will be summarily rejected just as if it were hand-written on college-ruled notebook paper. Some legal documents require bizarrely nonstandard paper sizes which means you need to diddle your margins in Word and then make heavy use of a paper cutter. IANAL, and my father isn't either, but he's filed enough documents in his day to run into some of the strange technical vagaries of the judicial system.
Thoreau? From Weld Pond to Walden Pond... heh. :)
If I understand correctly, with the exception of texture maps, sounds, and other formats that just can't be helped, id Software is changing the formats of its next Doom game to straight ASCII text-based formats, which is a Good Thing for guys who like to tinker with their games.
I had one. Parsec, Munch Man, Blasto... I even had the Scott Adams Pirate Adventure. How could you not say those games rocked? Oh, and I had the speech synth too... the pinnacle of coolness at the time. It even did digital audio, one game I played (a Frogger clone) used the speech synth to make the frog do a realistic "ribbit, ribbit".
Oh, wait, there's not. Guess I'm screwed.
Comparing the artificial, state-sanctioned IP "rights" to a woman's $DEITY-given right not to have her body violated is not only bogus, it's also an insult to women.
You gotta admit, S. Miyamoto's games may appear kiddie-like at times, but he never fails to serve up steaming hot, overflowing dishes of original gameplay. Contrast this with the PlayStation, where every other game seems to be "put a girl in hot pants and give her a gun". Tomb Raider, PE, Fear Effect, R. Evil, Dino Crisis... the list goes on and on.
Nintendo is trying the same tactic with Perfect Dark. Hopefully this will help it shake its cutesy image and make room for various game types on Gamecube.
Me, I own a PlayStation. Why? RPG's.
Oops... by the time all this happens Gore will be President.
OK, let's suppose the treaty appears before the Senate and they vote it down. President Clinton will then sign a bunch of Executive Orders which do an end run around the legislative branch, basically stating that the various executive agencies are to act in accordance of the terms of such-and-such a treaty. Then it doesn't matter whether your actions are legal or not, the jackboots are still gonna bust your door down and seize your machine.
I *still* use a Matrox Millennium 2 w/ Voodoo 2! It rocks! No noticeable image degradation whatsoever, even on this 17" monitor (which requires a more consistent video signal to deliver a clear image). I've been holding off on shelling out money for a new card: When the Voodoo 3 was hot, I wanted a GeForce. When the GeForce came out and NVIDIA stubbornly refused to release source for their drivers I decided a Voodoo 5 was the way to go. Now it looks like I'm gonna get an ATI Radeon... I hope I scrounge together enough money to buy one before holographic displays become practical. :)
It'll likely come in its own hermetically sealed, liquid-cooled case, and connect to your PC via a SCSI connector or something.
:)
Y'know, Netherlands might not be so bad... I hear there's a lot of pr0n that's aired on normal TV over there...
;^)
Does that mean that (theoretically) GNU/Hurd would also run on top of Darwin's Mach? That'd be sweetness... a honkin' G4 running Hurd...
This should be patently obvious to everyone. Whenever you have a project involving multiple coordinated contributors, *some* kind of management is necessary. It's just not the traditional business type management. The managers of free/open-source projects tend to do some of the work themselves, taking an active role in the writing and maintenance of code, as opposed to sitting in a plush office and telling other folks what to do.
The Jargon File called it "keyboard dandruff"... apparently that entry was lost somewhere in the 4.x Jargon series...
1000 kilos, or 1.1025 regular tons, or 2.205 pounds.
Industry continues to rule, and will continue to for quite some time. Alan Greenspan knows this and so does every other economist worth his/her salt. The "New Economy" is just some rhetoric to help us swallow the bitter pill that the US will no longer be a superpower because its industrial infrastructure is being dismantled, and be replaced by China or Russia as the world's political and economic leader.
We're moving into an era where your Wintel CPU is really a sort of front-end processor which "drives" a pixel-pushing graphics subsystem which is almost a computer in itself. Actually we're well entrenched in this era and now we're trying to fold the high-speed transfer functions previously handled by specialized hardware, back into our main CPU (viz., MMX, AltiVec, the entire design of the PlayStation 2). It's called the "cycle of reincarnation" and it's happened many times before in hardware (remember when FPUs were sold separately?).