And the Final Fantasy Chronicles release with some extra cutscenes is worth picking up if you can find it.
But the horrible load times on the Playstation version makes it almost unplayable for those of us who remember the SNES version. The original game has aged better than the remake.
Remember Alien Front Online, the game that went offline less than 10 months after it was launched because the server's IP address was hard-coded into the client?
Remember Phantasy Star Online, which was so buggy it allowed malicious players to delete other people's characters, didn't save anything on the server side, and disabled local backups?
Remember how Sega pretty much ignored the bugs, choosing not to inform customers about them, and not to update the client?
Remember Sega first announcing its online Dreamcast games would require a subscription (online play was free when you bought them), then terminating support altogether? It's a wonder no class action lawsuit was brought against the company.
I'll never pay for an online Sega game again, and if I play one for free, it will be a game that relies on short-term fun, not long-term character building.
I learned my lesson - and so have many one-time Sega fans.
No, they are analog. "Analogue" is a British spelling using unnecessary letters at the end which serve no purpose and lead to confusion about pronunciation for those learning English. That's why Americans have dropped that archaic affectation of British spelling.
Why not just use the method that crypt() uses, and use a salt? It's not terribly difficult to implement, and it would mean their database would need to be roughly 3,800 times as big as it is now
That's silly. If you're going to salt the passport, why not use the current time (down to the millisecond)? then the database would have to be a little larger...
I think this will change when non-IE browsers start ruling a larger percentage in the server logs and too many customer complain.
1. Web sites check the user-agent header, refuse access to anybody not claiming to be MSIE. 2. Users of advanced browsers change their user-agent strings to claim to be MSIE. 3. Webmasters check logs, see most all hits come from MSIE... 4.... and decide there's no need to support anything else.
I thought that any act by government restricting our freedom, no matter how benevolent their intent, was a bad thing.
Telus is a telco, not the government.
How bout they focus on educating the public about malware instead?
Have you ever tried educating the public about anything?
Remember last week, when CERT recommended MSIE users consider switching browsers, and MSIE usage fell to under 10%? It didn't happen quite that way, now did it?
Remember, this is the same public that buys RIAA music, believes they'll go to hell if they "sin", and trust voting machines because they're convenient.
It may look cool, but we'll have to reserve judgement on whether it's actually worth owning (or giving) until we can tell how accurately the games are reproduced.
P.S. Also available: Spongebog squarepants. Guess which part of his body is the joystick!
RIAA would be charged criminally for trying to push explicit lyrics on children
Are you by any chance a US citizen?
In the rest of the world we let the parents raise their children.. really.. what do you think happens to kids who listen to "explict lyrics"? I'm seriously curious.
I don't know how it works in the rest of the world, but here in the U.S. 80,000 minors were temporarily or permanently blinded after accidentally viewing nippular tissue in a televised wardrobe malfunction.
I have no direct evidence to support this, but it seems logical to me that if any children tried to listen to these CDs, their ears would fall off.
And if that's not criminal negligence on the RIAA's part, I don't know what is.
Sco is too suing it's customers. Autozone, Daimer Chrysler, who knows who's next.
The parent was supposed to be funny. The only way to get to the music industry is a massive boycott - as in, get 50% of consumers to stop buying music altogether until this nonsense stops. And since CDs are shiny, that's not likely to happen.
The only major thing in my experience with most Linux distros is that the X server keeps port 6000 open and waits for requests. However, that lil' nuance can be taken care of by changing a line in the appropriate config file. For Example; if you're running XFree86, find the file(s) "Xaccess" and change the "#*" and "#* CHOOSER BROADCAST" to "!*".
Sure... if you're running it. What about the people who don't know about it? You know, the non-technical people you claim Linux is good enough for?
Or maybe it's a case of "only people who are as smart as us and have as much free time as we do deserve to run linux"?
It depends on the developer, the freedom they have, and the original movie material.
Have movie-based games become better (relative to other games released around the same time on the same platforms over the last decade? Probably, and that's probably the result of Hollywood paying more attention to them, as well as games becoming the big business it is today. Is the average movie-based game as good as the average non-movie-based game? Possibly, since they typically contain very little innovation (which of your favorite games is movie-based?) little polish (since the games are typically rushed to meet the movie deadline) but are seldom completely unplayable.
But if I were to try and come up with a list of my top 50 games of all time, it would probably include one or two movie-based games at most, and yours probably would, too.
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And the Final Fantasy Chronicles release with some extra cutscenes is worth picking up if you can find it.
But the horrible load times on the Playstation version makes it almost unplayable for those of us who remember the SNES version. The original game has aged better than the remake.
Remember Alien Front Online, the game that went offline less than 10 months after it was launched because the server's IP address was hard-coded into the client?
Remember Phantasy Star Online, which was so buggy it allowed malicious players to delete other people's characters, didn't save anything on the server side, and disabled local backups?
Remember how Sega pretty much ignored the bugs, choosing not to inform customers about them, and not to update the client?
Remember Sega first announcing its online Dreamcast games would require a subscription (online play was free when you bought them), then terminating support altogether? It's a wonder no class action lawsuit was brought against the company.
I'll never pay for an online Sega game again, and if I play one for free, it will be a game that relies on short-term fun, not long-term character building.
I learned my lesson - and so have many one-time Sega fans.
No, they are analog. "Analogue" is a British spelling using unnecessary letters at the end which serve no purpose and lead to confusion about pronunciation for those learning English. That's why Americans have dropped that archaic affectation of British spelling.
You suckue!
If it's "copy protected", it's not a CD. Using the music industry's term is not the way to get non-geeks to understand the issue.
Let's come up with a name that reflects the true nature of these things, stick to it, and start using it.
Yes.
Glad I could help. If you've got any more questions, let me know.
Mind you, this figure includes all channels in all countries, including channels displaying only information (weather, program guides, etc).
Glad I could help. If you have any more questions, let me know.
Why not just use the method that crypt() uses, and use a salt? It's not terribly difficult to implement, and it would mean their database would need to be roughly 3,800 times as big as it is now
That's silly. If you're going to salt the passport, why not use the current time (down to the millisecond)? then the database would have to be a little larger...
That's two stories in a row about the SMS.
since the Dreamcast is backward compatible with the SMS.
P.S. source code is included, and the original developer needs somebody to maintain it. What are you waiting for?
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Although since the game was removed I guess it might have been the smart thing to do from Midway's perspective.
But using the actual "Tetris" trademark was just plain stupid.
And besides.. IT IS A FUCKING GAME.
Exactly! It's even called NBA Ballers, for crying out loud... what do you expect?
I think this will change when non-IE browsers start ruling a larger percentage in the server logs and too many customer complain.
... and decide there's no need to support anything else.
1. Web sites check the user-agent header, refuse access to anybody not claiming to be MSIE.
2. Users of advanced browsers change their user-agent strings to claim to be MSIE.
3. Webmasters check logs, see most all hits come from MSIE...
4.
After last week's CERT advisory, there should only be a handful of them left.
you'd have to basically invade the country and overthrow the corrupt government if you wanted to stop them.
Well, that's certainly a nobler purpose than the last time the U.S. invaded a country. Given a choice, I'd go with that.
I thought that any act by government restricting our freedom, no matter how benevolent their intent, was a bad thing.
Telus is a telco, not the government.
How bout they focus on educating the public about malware instead?
Have you ever tried educating the public about anything?
Remember last week, when CERT recommended MSIE users consider switching browsers, and MSIE usage fell to under 10%? It didn't happen quite that way, now did it?
Remember, this is the same public that buys RIAA music, believes they'll go to hell if they "sin", and trust voting machines because they're convenient.
It only affects their customers, and only with malware dialing to four specific countries.
With that kind of sensationalist headline, you'd think they released a benevolent worm that safeguards against hijacking.
Seriously, is following the money, reversing the charges and putting the people responsible behind bars all that difficult?
It may look cool, but we'll have to reserve judgement on whether it's actually worth owning (or giving) until we can tell how accurately the games are reproduced.
P.S. Also available: Spongebog squarepants. Guess which part of his body is the joystick!
RIAA would be charged criminally for trying to push explicit lyrics on children
.. really .. what do you think happens to kids who listen to "explict lyrics"? I'm seriously curious.
Are you by any chance a US citizen?
In the rest of the world we let the parents raise their children
I don't know how it works in the rest of the world, but here in the U.S. 80,000 minors were temporarily or permanently blinded after accidentally viewing nippular tissue in a televised wardrobe malfunction.
I have no direct evidence to support this, but it seems logical to me that if any children tried to listen to these CDs, their ears would fall off.
And if that's not criminal negligence on the RIAA's part, I don't know what is.
Anyone know why Trillian isn't paying for use?
Trillian isn't using yahoo's network. Trillian users are.
Sco is too suing it's customers. Autozone, Daimer Chrysler, who knows who's next.
The parent was supposed to be funny. The only way to get to the music industry is a massive boycott - as in, get 50% of consumers to stop buying music altogether until this nonsense stops. And since CDs are shiny, that's not likely to happen.
I wonder when they'll ever figure out that suing your consumers is not an effective business model?
When SCO files for bankruptcy.
The only major thing in my experience with most Linux distros is that the X server keeps port 6000 open and waits for requests. However, that lil' nuance can be taken care of by changing a line in the appropriate config file. For Example; if you're running XFree86, find the file(s) "Xaccess" and change the "#*" and "#* CHOOSER BROADCAST" to "!*".
Sure... if you're running it. What about the people who don't know about it? You know, the non-technical people you claim Linux is good enough for?
Or maybe it's a case of "only people who are as smart as us and have as much free time as we do deserve to run linux"?
Systems should be secure out of the box.
I hope they're not thinking about the same one I'm thinking of...
Next question, please.
It depends on the developer, the freedom they have, and the original movie material.
Have movie-based games become better (relative to other games released around the same time on the same platforms over the last decade? Probably, and that's probably the result of Hollywood paying more attention to them, as well as games becoming the big business it is today. Is the average movie-based game as good as the average non-movie-based game? Possibly, since they typically contain very little innovation (which of your favorite games is movie-based?) little polish (since the games are typically rushed to meet the movie deadline) but are seldom completely unplayable.
But if I were to try and come up with a list of my top 50 games of all time, it would probably include one or two movie-based games at most, and yours probably would, too.