Yes, the plot elements, "collect the seven spirits; foil the evil villain; find love," are all basic components of the Final Fantasy games. The comparison with the later games 7, 8, 9, and 10 is especially true.
The story of FF:TSW is somewhat important in the Final Fantasy universe since it shows how the FF world was created, why there are strange creatures walking around, and how there is a mix of magic, technology, and traditional weapons.
It's still not a great movie. They should have made it a game and called it Final Fantasy Zero. Oh well.
Are you trying to say that they send a variable number of bits for the serial number and that it is not simply a fixed-width field (32 bit, 64 bit, 128 bit, etc)? And that you think that is likely? It is far more likely that they use a fixed width number. So maybe it's 2**128 combinations, but it's not even close to infinite.
AdvanceMAME is a good example. They modified video output to make it tweak a standard VGA card to output signals which are compatible with arcade monitors. It wasn't really cross-platform though.
I think the thing that the MAME people objected to most was the emulation of more modern recent games.
States that wish to tax differently than this should also look into taxing catalog sales.
They ARE looking into taxing catalog sales. Aparrantly catalog sales are still bigger business than internet sales, especially around the winter holidays.
They only way I see them getting around that Supreme Court ruling would be for them to scrap state sales taxes and institute a national sales tax. Otherwise, the states aren't supposed to interfere with each others interstate commerce.
They -=know=- that the overwhelming majority of their target audiance for every movie they release (execpt maybe Sneakers or whatever) is so technologicaly clueless as to require tech support to find the "any" key.
Sneakers was not an exception to that rule. Sneakers, you may recall, featured Robert Redford as a "hacker" who along with his gang, tracked down a magical decryption chip which automatically not only decrypted but cracked into any computer on any network in the world. Around that time, I remember talking to people who actually thought that type of thing was possible.
Hackers was far more technically realistic if you ignored the dial-in graphical nonsense. Sure, Hackers was a "teensploitation" film, but it had a great soundtrack, and it had Angelina Jolie topless.
Logical paradoxes involving God such as these are like Zen koans for Christians, especially Catholics. It is a mental exercise now just as it was back then.
Computer Science has nothing to do with punch cards or SDRAM or hard disks or video cards or big endian or little endian or any of that hardware stuff. That's all computer hardware enginnering. Computer Science is all about formal languages and Turing machines and mathematical proofs of complexity and computability. Real hardware is often considered vulgar by the elite Computer Science people.
That proverb is about conformity. If you do not conform yourself, you will be conformed. What Linus does is he ignores the people who want him to do things their way.
Some moderator seems to have considered your comment Interesting. I however, would have called it Offtopic.
It won't work./dev/random isn't usually marked as executable. Even if it were, it wouldn't even get to run anything unless by some miracle the random string was a valid ELF header. Of course, the random string could also be something like "#!/bin/bash", thereby giving them a shell.
What you want to do is make a script like:
#!/bin/sh cat/dev/random
Then make that script their shell. When they log in, they'll just get lots of random crap.
with a highway, you remove a level of control (specifically, the actual driving of the vehicles) from the hands of the idiots.
Around here (los angeles) it seems like control of the vehicles is securely in the hands of the idiots. And that idiocy doubles when considering bus drivers. Personally, I would welcome a train system. I realize it will never happen though. Or when it happens, people won't need to physically commute as much since everything will be done online so it will be useless.
No, the casinos don't want that. They don't want it to be completely random, because eventually in that randomness, there would be a string of payouts long enough to bankrupt the casino (unlikely in a slot machine, it might not happen for 1000 years, but it is still theoretically true). With pseudo-random number generators, they can analyze the output and make sure that strings of events like that do not happen. Anyway, you do not even want true randomness. You want an even distribution of numbers and you want it to be absolutely unpredictable to the players.
I had a PCjr. I liked it. It came with a 360KB 5.25" floppy drive, 128KB of ram, color graphics, wireless keyboard (although it was infrared, so it was somewhat useless). It also is the only PC that I know of that had two cartridge slots (One was for a BASIC rom that would load if you didn't have a disk in the drive).
I thought it was pretty sweet for the time, although if you wanted to spend (a lot) more money, a full IBM PC or XT or AT with a color graphics card, color monitor, two floppy drives, and more memory was a better and more expandable system.
That VIC-20 processor is a lot more interesting than a small form factor PC.
No it's not. The VIC-20 used an 8-bit Motorola 6502 microcontroller. It's dead simple. If you took a university course in computer systems architecture, they might have you design a similar CPU for your semester project. They might even have you build it in VHDL, which you could synthesize onto an FPGA.
Some old systems are intersting for the nostalgia. Others are interesting for novel design. The CPU in the VIC-20 is far less interesting than the nostalgia gleamed from playing old games and reliving your childhood for an hour or so.
It is not necessary to include GNU software with a Linux distribution. There are plenty of small Linux installs (such as for portable devices like iPAQ's or eMpeg's) which do not include any GNU utilities and do not even need to be linked with GNU libc (glibc). Busybox provides a rather usable shell and set of shell utilities (things like ls, cat, vi, sh, init, login, stty, etc). It can be compiled with uClibc (a free, lightweight libc) and it uses no GNU code.
Linux may be GPL, but it is not necessarily associated with GNU (except that it expects to be compiled with GCC-compatible tools).
(By the way, Linus has always praised GCC, without which, he says, Linux would not have been possible. Linus does not, however, request that his kernel be called GNU/Linux.)
I'm surprised the TV Studios and MPAA don't give up on TV and film entirely, and devote all their efforts into producing live theatre.
Actually, if they stopped releasing things on home video or TV and essentially forced people to go to movie theaters to watch movies, they could possibly make more money (i.e., $50 for taking your family to a movie versus $5 for renting the video at blockbuster). The theater companies would be happy; consumers most likely would not.
The culture of the United States is based on violent revolution against an oppressive overseas regime (the Revolutionary War), violent abuse of kidnapped people for labor (slavery), religious fanatacisim (the Puritans), westward expansion (killing indigenous peoples), the bloodiest war in human history (the American Civil War), and glorification of violence (during the Great Depression, of bank robbers like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillenger). These influences carry on today in current American culture such as television and movies.
How come Henry Bemis doesn't just find an optometrist's office? I mean, *some* lenses must have survived the nuke, right
That wasn't the point of that episode. It was supposed to be ironic that he had everything he wanted except he was screwed by the loss of a particular piece of technology (his glasses).
You wouldn't have that problem if you were typing the beginnings of phrases in Japanese and using that little wheel thing to select the Japanese words/phrases you want.
A CD-R copy of a game is not worth the same price as a legitimate copy you buy at the store, so you can't say you are earning money by copying games. First of all, a CD-R copy will only play on a modified PSX. Second, you can't take a bunch of CD-R copies down to a local used game shop and trade them for cash or store credit.
Some publishers (mostly Japanese) have figured out that they need to include special items with the games, limited edition boxes, special editions, passcodes to get into special websites, etc. When a game comes with extra stuff like that, it's easier to justify spending $50 on it.
The fact is that if a game is just a disc with some bits recorded on it and the publisher expects you to pay $50-60 for it, then they are disrespecting the consumer.
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Yes, the plot elements, "collect the seven spirits; foil the evil villain; find love," are all basic components of the Final Fantasy games. The comparison with the later games 7, 8, 9, and 10 is especially true.
The story of FF:TSW is somewhat important in the Final Fantasy universe since it shows how the FF world was created, why there are strange creatures walking around, and how there is a mix of magic, technology, and traditional weapons.
It's still not a great movie. They should have made it a game and called it Final Fantasy Zero. Oh well.
Not to mention national security issues. LANL has had many problems with security in the last few years.
I do not believe in trolling, if you are a troll please do not respond to my posts.
How can you have that as your sig when your entire post was one big troll against Intel, Maxtor, and DDR SDRAM? It's not ironic, it's hypocritical.
Are you trying to say that they send a variable number of bits for the serial number and that it is not simply a fixed-width field (32 bit, 64 bit, 128 bit, etc)? And that you think that is likely? It is far more likely that they use a fixed width number. So maybe it's 2**128 combinations, but it's not even close to infinite.
I thought Gov. Gray Davis (www.egray.com) gave all of California's money to Enron.
AdvanceMAME is a good example. They modified video output to make it tweak a standard VGA card to output signals which are compatible with arcade monitors. It wasn't really cross-platform though.
I think the thing that the MAME people objected to most was the emulation of more modern recent games.
States that wish to tax differently than this should also look into taxing catalog sales.
They ARE looking into taxing catalog sales. Aparrantly catalog sales are still bigger business than internet sales, especially around the winter holidays.
They only way I see them getting around that Supreme Court ruling would be for them to scrap state sales taxes and institute a national sales tax. Otherwise, the states aren't supposed to interfere with each others interstate commerce.
They -=know=- that the overwhelming majority of their target audiance for every movie they release (execpt maybe Sneakers or whatever) is so technologicaly clueless as to require tech support to find the "any" key.
Sneakers was not an exception to that rule. Sneakers, you may recall, featured Robert Redford as a "hacker" who along with his gang, tracked down a magical decryption chip which automatically not only decrypted but cracked into any computer on any network in the world. Around that time, I remember talking to people who actually thought that type of thing was possible.
Hackers was far more technically realistic if you ignored the dial-in graphical nonsense. Sure, Hackers was a "teensploitation" film, but it had a great soundtrack, and it had Angelina Jolie topless.
Logical paradoxes involving God such as these are like Zen koans for Christians, especially Catholics. It is a mental exercise now just as it was back then.
Computer Science has nothing to do with punch cards or SDRAM or hard disks or video cards or big endian or little endian or any of that hardware stuff. That's all computer hardware enginnering. Computer Science is all about formal languages and Turing machines and mathematical proofs of complexity and computability. Real hardware is often considered vulgar by the elite Computer Science people.
Beat Mania (and its 20 sequels)
Samba de Amigo (one of my favorites).
That proverb is about conformity. If you do not conform yourself, you will be conformed. What Linus does is he ignores the people who want him to do things their way.
Some moderator seems to have considered your comment Interesting. I however, would have called it Offtopic.
It won't work. /dev/random isn't usually marked as executable. Even if it were, it wouldn't even get to run anything unless by some miracle the random string was a valid ELF header. Of course, the random string could also be something like "#!/bin/bash", thereby giving them a shell.
/dev/random
What you want to do is make a script like:
#!/bin/sh
cat
Then make that script their shell. When they log in, they'll just get lots of random crap.
Around here (los angeles) it seems like control of the vehicles is securely in the hands of the idiots. And that idiocy doubles when considering bus drivers. Personally, I would welcome a train system. I realize it will never happen though. Or when it happens, people won't need to physically commute as much since everything will be done online so it will be useless.
No, the casinos don't want that. They don't want it to be completely random, because eventually in that randomness, there would be a string of payouts long enough to bankrupt the casino (unlikely in a slot machine, it might not happen for 1000 years, but it is still theoretically true). With pseudo-random number generators, they can analyze the output and make sure that strings of events like that do not happen. Anyway, you do not even want true randomness. You want an even distribution of numbers and you want it to be absolutely unpredictable to the players.
I had a PCjr. I liked it. It came with a 360KB 5.25" floppy drive, 128KB of ram, color graphics, wireless keyboard (although it was infrared, so it was somewhat useless). It also is the only PC that I know of that had two cartridge slots (One was for a BASIC rom that would load if you didn't have a disk in the drive).
I thought it was pretty sweet for the time, although if you wanted to spend (a lot) more money, a full IBM PC or XT or AT with a color graphics card, color monitor, two floppy drives, and more memory was a better and more expandable system.
No it's not. The VIC-20 used an 8-bit Motorola 6502 microcontroller. It's dead simple. If you took a university course in computer systems architecture, they might have you design a similar CPU for your semester project. They might even have you build it in VHDL, which you could synthesize onto an FPGA.
Some old systems are intersting for the nostalgia. Others are interesting for novel design. The CPU in the VIC-20 is far less interesting than the nostalgia gleamed from playing old games and reliving your childhood for an hour or so.
It is not necessary to include GNU software with a Linux distribution. There are plenty of small Linux installs (such as for portable devices like iPAQ's or eMpeg's) which do not include any GNU utilities and do not even need to be linked with GNU libc (glibc). Busybox provides a rather usable shell and set of shell utilities (things like ls, cat, vi, sh, init, login, stty, etc). It can be compiled with uClibc (a free, lightweight libc) and it uses no GNU code.
Linux may be GPL, but it is not necessarily associated with GNU (except that it expects to be compiled with GCC-compatible tools).
(By the way, Linus has always praised GCC, without which, he says, Linux would not have been possible. Linus does not, however, request that his kernel be called GNU/Linux.)
I'm surprised the TV Studios and MPAA don't give up on TV and film entirely, and devote all their efforts into producing live theatre.
Actually, if they stopped releasing things on home video or TV and essentially forced people to go to movie theaters to watch movies, they could possibly make more money (i.e., $50 for taking your family to a movie versus $5 for renting the video at blockbuster). The theater companies would be happy; consumers most likely would not.
The culture of the United States is based on violent revolution against an oppressive overseas regime (the Revolutionary War), violent abuse of kidnapped people for labor (slavery), religious fanatacisim (the Puritans), westward expansion (killing indigenous peoples), the bloodiest war in human history (the American Civil War), and glorification of violence (during the Great Depression, of bank robbers like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillenger). These influences carry on today in current American culture such as television and movies.
What's the point in watching porn if you can't jack off at the same time?
What do you think those blankets they give you on the airplane are for?
How come Henry Bemis doesn't just find an optometrist's office? I mean, *some* lenses must have survived the nuke, right
That wasn't the point of that episode. It was supposed to be ironic that he had everything he wanted except he was screwed by the loss of a particular piece of technology (his glasses).
You wouldn't have that problem if you were typing the beginnings of phrases in Japanese and using that little wheel thing to select the Japanese words/phrases you want.
Why not just make it SGID kmem (or mem or whatever group owns /dev/mem and/or /dev/kmem)?
It seems like that would be as easy a way of partitioning "root-like" permissions as any other.
A CD-R copy of a game is not worth the same price as a legitimate copy you buy at the store, so you can't say you are earning money by copying games. First of all, a CD-R copy will only play on a modified PSX. Second, you can't take a bunch of CD-R copies down to a local used game shop and trade them for cash or store credit.
Some publishers (mostly Japanese) have figured out that they need to include special items with the games, limited edition boxes, special editions, passcodes to get into special websites, etc. When a game comes with extra stuff like that, it's easier to justify spending $50 on it.
The fact is that if a game is just a disc with some bits recorded on it and the publisher expects you to pay $50-60 for it, then they are disrespecting the consumer.