... I don't know what you guys call mediocre. I'm not a big gamer but always make time to to play the newest expansion to the FF franchise (imo only the FF(int) titled games excluding MMORPGs). I have played all of the above mentioned games and, with exception of FFX-2, have been entertained by all of them for many many hours (my usual game times are about 120h).
FF10 had a great story, beautiful beautiful soundtrack and tons of side quests. I have to admit that side questing was a bit of a grind IMO. Especially those hunting missions I never got finished. That mostly is because I don't like "fetch X" missions though. those missions are a lazy programmers meze
but anyway, there was lots and lots of other stuff to do and that was much more fun.
FF12 had an incredibly designed world that was very expansive, it had very well crafted characters. Not to mention a world exploration mechanic and fighting mechanics that made exploring an unprecedented joy. This game wanted you to wander off and discover it yourself. Not to mention hours of falling from one quest into the other. The best part? The sidequests now were less than in FFX but at least they were less grindy, usually well presented with dialogues and back story and very accomplishable. Also while talking about this game lets not forget the Hunting guild, that was an awesome implementation and I was more than happy to see it implemented in FF13 aswell (cie'th stones).
FF13 is excellent fun if you take it for what it is, a beautiful story in a beautiful world, presented through an interactive interface. FF13 has lots and lots of lore that you acquire during the progression of the storyline. The settings are incredible, the feeling of ascension and manipulation ever present. Most people really didn't get it, because it is such a deviation from the classic jrpg prototype, but you have to look at it (and everything actually) for what it is and not what you want it to be.
tl;dr version: FF10/12/13 are very good games, just take them for what they are and stop nagging
You are almost right. The words are wrong but that is hardly the essence of the story./.ers care about this story (and that idiotic apple rectangle patentmarksuit) because it is corporate faggotry turning into a legit lawsuit. No one could care less if the correct word is patent, copyright or trademark. The fact of the matter is that franchises cannot (according to my, apparently, undisputable logic) call legal claims on generic properties. In this case it is B calling M an infringer because he named his game after a stationery item. In the other mentioned case it is A calling S a copier because they, shamelessly, decided to make a mobile computer that is rectangular and has rounded corners (in other news: apple sued my picture frame)
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the right-wingers would want to stop it from being distributed
They sure would be, but I think it has more to do with the fact that Medical companies make a lot of money on the "die slowly, take massive amount of medication" strategy. By just running around and curing anyone with a couple of pills all those honest, hard working, busynessmen will end up with income suport!
And then who is going to pitch in for the next elections?
Bash is (conveniently supporting the story's title) more of a play thing than a power tool imho. Sure as a sysadmin you might do a hell of a lot of work in it, on it or through it, but its quirky command structures and compactness really make me perceive it more as a toy than a tool. Normal programing languages (C, C#, java, py... NOT haskell/lisp) are very straight forward as far as a well documented/structured source goes but CLIs have that very interesting part of being line oriented in their program structures.
Opening up a bash script to see how it ticks is much more an adventure (decrypt all the loaded one liners) than a boring code review in an IDE (take a peek at the functions you are interested in).
Also CLIs are very very immediate in their responses, which means you can see your nifty, godlike command wreaking havoc on your system immediately after you pressed Enter. Of course when examining your history you will find out that that grep loop grepped much more than you originally expected (thank you perl). This leads you to respect (actually: fear) the CLI. Of course your unending curiosity (ie what happens if I `dd if=/dev/rand of=/dev/speaker` ) will keep driving you towards it. In the long term the fear and agony will fade and be replaced with the endorphins that flood your bloodstream once that godlike command actually does something that it was supposed to do. Make sense?
Actually CLIs are just like a BDSM session with Jigsaw they are a lot of pain and you most probably will self mutilate and die; but there is a small chance you might live and have a long live filled with mind therapy and night terrors. So yes, CLIs do have the qualities to become fetishes.:-)
On another note: that playback thing needs some better controls/UI, clicking on the progress line doesn't do anything and when you pause to copy something that huge play button hides everything...
well............. Bash is an interpreter just like all the other ones you {"mentioned","didn't mention"}. They only difference I can tell about interpreters is that they have `some` different keywords and some command structures might differentiate but in general they all represent the same thing, a line input to throw commands at an OS and some space to visually retrieve the impact of what you did (think `rm -v- r -f/`).
So there really isn't a big deal when people treat cli as a synonym for bash because, functionally, there isn't a huge difference. From a historic standpoint sure but we are not debating the evolution of OSs do we?
I might be generalizing here but: if you have been on the Internet you have used at least some part of ffmpeg. If this doesn't apply to You then I'm sorry for your miserable colorless lifestyle.;-)
also: stop nagging about unrealistic things in a serious manner. Yes, I am talking about your signature.
Ok, I RTFA which was like reading 'Der Spiegel' talking about hydroponics AND it doesn't answer my question.
Anyway, I did the math 732km @ 0.024s = 305000000m/s = c*1.017.... which is really big for lab settings. This was not done in "a lab". We aren't good at detecting the passage of time or detecting sub atomic particles (imagine how good we are at both, simultaneously, over large distances). So it's either a measurement failure or just some theoretically calculated constant is a bit of atm which happens all the time...
So yeah, they went 1.7% faster than expected. "Everybody put your tinfoil hats on, this is going to change the world"
I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when there is evidence something actually important happened.
The reason we (the humans) need FOSS is because it is in our best interests to be able to keep the information age functional after the Company bites the dust. The one best quality of FOSS is the power to keep a project going long after it's creator gave up on it. The walled garden is just a small tasting of what it means to have your life governed by corporate strategy || it's failings. Look at how that has infuriated people from time to time.
Proprietary software companies are getting too big too quickly and sooner or later will be, in senate, begging for some trillions to not go bust. Just like the automakers and investment Bankers of the USA did a couple of years ago and look how nice that was. Want another example? main population ignores the effect proprietary monopolies have on their lifes because it suits them. That way Bob 6pack won't have to learn one thing more until he dies and he likes that. He ignores the monopolies because it is convenient for him. Now look at all the Greeks and how that worked out for them. Ignoring the doings of their elected officials for personal interest for almost two generations now; Greece has sunk into so much excrement it bankrupt itself and now is threatening to bankrupt the euro-zone aswell.
But yeah as long as the idiot gets health insurance and his cerotic kidney replaced, who cares.
Have his collection on programming, very good stuff. Didn't know about ogg frog, looks a bit like WIP so I think I'll give it some time and check back later.
I do agree that the IKEA effect is real but I don't think that FOSS is a pile of crap like the OP hints from the summary: "... while the general market resists them... "
I'm no expert here but I think the general market embraces FOSS software. I mean look at firefox, openoffice, vlc, mpc-hc... and when you get to smaller utilities it is even more open source stuff: ffmpeg (and many other codecs), hundreds of browser plugins, you name it they have it in open source.
If the OP meant FOSS OSs then I partially agree, the genpop is not interested and mainly avoids FOSS OSs but the reason behind it is not the IKEA effect but the "I am afraid to learn new things" effect which has plagued humankind for that best part of last century and the full ongoing one.. just my 2c
Well, as you said, it is a very gray line. Making, or not, sense of it is more of an academic exercise than anything else. The legal system is a shit storm of badly depicted ideals and foul wishing. All you can reliably do is just acknowledge this ambiguity's existence and move on.
On another note: crying "Fire" in a packed theater is probably the best way to get "/permanently?/" rid of the hysteric idiot that will start jelling at their spouse in the middle of the play. Just saying...
Personal opinion: Knowledge is not incriminating or a crime
well actually to the end user it really is just confusion. The only guys who might need to know exact version and build are devs and probably IT maintenace crew and those guys know to type about:$string into the browser bar (no kidding). So yes please remove all versioning info and please please auto update and please please don't even tell me about it except when i'm on a slow connection and might want to waste my bw on html (which apparently only opera knows how to determine).
Well, if you have a popular plugin you could at least make an effort and write it in a maintainable way. if you write your plugin with API changes in mind you would probably have everything wrapped up neatly so that api changes are just some five minutes changing declarations...
I'm running nightly builds and miraculously all my plugins (noscript,torbutton) work great. I really don't know what you are on about... OTOH: I run chromium from time to time and the stupid privacy plugin just doesn't want to work properly...
I do concede though that chromium breaks down much more elegantly. ff6 just disappears on me once in a while, chromium 123454321.2.432.5322.1.2.4.1sd when it goes wrong gives me some text telling me that it went wrong.... Which is nice.
... no guarantee that the patent holder is going to stay true to its values,... Companies go belly up
Which is exactly why products of intellect (of which patents are a sub group) should immutably be attached to the mind that created them. Whether that is one single or two thousand minds.
the above only applies if there, actually, exist patents.
... nobody's going to travel to physical location just to get a shoddy cellphone app experience...
Ohhhhh... they will! they will and in doing so will also become clients of the Physical shop. Regardless if they like the virtual one or not they will become clients. It's a well known conversion mechanism. You get them to ${location} they convert into whoever naturally roams ${location}.
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... I don't know what you guys call mediocre.
I'm not a big gamer but always make time to to play the newest expansion to the FF franchise (imo only the FF(int) titled games excluding MMORPGs). I have played all of the above mentioned games and, with exception of FFX-2, have been entertained by all of them for many many hours (my usual game times are about 120h).
FF10 had a great story, beautiful beautiful soundtrack and tons of side quests. I have to admit that side questing was a bit of a grind IMO. Especially those hunting missions I never got finished. That mostly is because I don't like "fetch X" missions though. those missions are a lazy programmers meze
if(killedAnimals('animalName','X')) mission('title')->completed();
but anyway, there was lots and lots of other stuff to do and that was much more fun.
FF12 had an incredibly designed world that was very expansive, it had very well crafted characters. Not to mention a world exploration mechanic and fighting mechanics that made exploring an unprecedented joy. This game wanted you to wander off and discover it yourself. Not to mention hours of falling from one quest into the other. The best part? The sidequests now were less than in FFX but at least they were less grindy, usually well presented with dialogues and back story and very accomplishable. Also while talking about this game lets not forget the Hunting guild, that was an awesome implementation and I was more than happy to see it implemented in FF13 aswell (cie'th stones).
FF13 is excellent fun if you take it for what it is, a beautiful story in a beautiful world, presented through an interactive interface. FF13 has lots and lots of lore that you acquire during the progression of the storyline. The settings are incredible, the feeling of ascension and manipulation ever present. Most people really didn't get it, because it is such a deviation from the classic jrpg prototype, but you have to look at it (and everything actually) for what it is and not what you want it to be.
tl;dr version: FF10/12/13 are very good games, just take them for what they are and stop nagging
meant Galileo
not Gallileo
You are almost right. /.ers care about this story (and that idiotic apple rectangle patentmarksuit) because it is corporate faggotry turning into a legit lawsuit. No one could care less if the correct word is patent, copyright or trademark. The fact of the matter is that franchises cannot (according to my, apparently, undisputable logic) call legal claims on generic properties.
The words are wrong but that is hardly the essence of the story.
In this case it is B calling M an infringer because he named his game after a stationery item.
In the other mentioned case it is A calling S a copier because they, shamelessly, decided to make a mobile computer that is rectangular and has rounded corners (in other news: apple sued my picture frame)
EOT
No, that was Gallileo suing God about the earth.
You got your copyrights on the wrong way.
... the Eldar Scrolls and Bethesda ...
wow Bethesda infringes on Tolkien now?!?!?!?!?!??!
And those shameless pricks talk about an indie company stealing from them?
German for new Terinos
Terino (Canis lupus familiaris): domestic dog breed know for their irritating barking at speeds faster than light (ie: you'll never see it comming and you never hear the end of it)
Fair point. Do pharmaceuticals get patents for their medicine? If yes this might actually work.
BTW: comment moderation troll? really?
the right-wingers would want to stop it from being distributed
They sure would be, but I think it has more to do with the fact that Medical companies make a lot of money on the "die slowly, take massive amount of medication" strategy. By just running around and curing anyone with a couple of pills all those honest, hard working, busynessmen will end up with income suport!
And then who is going to pitch in for the next elections?
I think you are replying to the wrong post.
Otherwise your reply would be just nonsensical and unfounded.
Bash is (conveniently supporting the story's title) more of a play thing than a power tool imho. Sure as a sysadmin you might do a hell of a lot of work in it, on it or through it, but its quirky command structures and compactness really make me perceive it more as a toy than a tool. Normal programing languages (C, C#, java, py... NOT haskell/lisp) are very straight forward as far as a well documented/structured source goes but CLIs have that very interesting part of being line oriented in their program structures.
Opening up a bash script to see how it ticks is much more an adventure (decrypt all the loaded one liners) than a boring code review in an IDE (take a peek at the functions you are interested in).
Also CLIs are very very immediate in their responses, which means you can see your nifty, godlike command wreaking havoc on your system immediately after you pressed Enter. Of course when examining your history you will find out that that grep loop grepped much more than you originally expected (thank you perl). This leads you to respect (actually: fear) the CLI. Of course your unending curiosity (ie what happens if I `dd if=/dev/rand of=/dev/speaker` ) will keep driving you towards it. In the long term the fear and agony will fade and be replaced with the endorphins that flood your bloodstream once that godlike command actually does something that it was supposed to do. Make sense?
Actually CLIs are just like a BDSM session with Jigsaw they are a lot of pain and you most probably will self mutilate and die; but there is a small chance you might live and have a long live filled with mind therapy and night terrors. So yes, CLIs do have the qualities to become fetishes. :-)
On another note: that playback thing needs some better controls/UI, clicking on the progress line doesn't do anything and when you pause to copy something that huge play button hides everything...
well..... .... .... /`).
Bash is an interpreter just like all the other ones you {"mentioned","didn't mention"}. They only difference I can tell about interpreters is that they have `some` different keywords and some command structures might differentiate but in general they all represent the same thing, a line input to throw commands at an OS and some space to visually retrieve the impact of what you did (think `rm -v- r -f
So there really isn't a big deal when people treat cli as a synonym for bash because, functionally, there isn't a huge difference. From a historic standpoint sure but we are not debating the evolution of OSs do we?
I might be generalizing here but: if you have been on the Internet you have used at least some part of ffmpeg. If this doesn't apply to You then I'm sorry for your miserable colorless lifestyle. ;-)
also: stop nagging about unrealistic things in a serious manner. Yes, I am talking about your signature.
Ok, I RTFA which was like reading 'Der Spiegel' talking about hydroponics AND it doesn't answer my question.
Anyway, I did the math
732km @ 0.024s = 305000000m/s = c*1.017....
which is really big for lab settings. This was not done in "a lab". We aren't good at detecting the passage of time or detecting sub atomic particles (imagine how good we are at both, simultaneously, over large distances). So it's either a measurement failure or just some theoretically calculated constant is a bit of atm which happens all the time...
So yeah, they went 1.7% faster than expected. "Everybody put your tinfoil hats on, this is going to change the world"
I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when there is evidence something actually important happened.
The reason we (the humans) need FOSS is because it is in our best interests to be able to keep the information age functional after the Company bites the dust. The one best quality of FOSS is the power to keep a project going long after it's creator gave up on it. The walled garden is just a small tasting of what it means to have your life governed by corporate strategy || it's failings. Look at how that has infuriated people from time to time.
Proprietary software companies are getting too big too quickly and sooner or later will be, in senate, begging for some trillions to not go bust. Just like the automakers and investment Bankers of the USA did a couple of years ago and look how nice that was. Want another example? main population ignores the effect proprietary monopolies have on their lifes because it suits them. That way Bob 6pack won't have to learn one thing more until he dies and he likes that. He ignores the monopolies because it is convenient for him. Now look at all the Greeks and how that worked out for them. Ignoring the doings of their elected officials for personal interest for almost two generations now; Greece has sunk into so much excrement it bankrupt itself and now is threatening to bankrupt the euro-zone aswell.
But yeah as long as the idiot gets health insurance and his cerotic kidney replaced, who cares.
brainless unprovoked rants
Donald Knuth
Have his collection on programming, very good stuff. Didn't know about ogg frog, looks a bit like WIP so I think I'll give it some time and check back later.
I do agree that the IKEA effect is real but I don't think that FOSS is a pile of crap like the OP hints ... while the general market resists them ... "
from the summary: "
I'm no expert here but I think the general market embraces FOSS software. I mean look at firefox, openoffice, vlc, mpc-hc... and when you get to smaller utilities it is even more open source stuff: ffmpeg (and many other codecs), hundreds of browser plugins, you name it they have it in open source.
If the OP meant FOSS OSs then I partially agree, the genpop is not interested and mainly avoids FOSS OSs but the reason behind it is not the IKEA effect but the "I am afraid to learn new things" effect which has plagued humankind for that best part of last century and the full ongoing one..
just my 2c
Since you did read TA and I didn't, How do they coordinate their timing? Because the summary reeks timing lag...
Intent matters in law.
did not know that. Please elaborate
If you have to plan for something the only certain thing is that everything will not go as planed.
me
Well, as you said, it is a very gray line. Making, or not, sense of it is more of an academic exercise than anything else. The legal system is a shit storm of badly depicted ideals and foul wishing. All you can reliably do is just acknowledge this ambiguity's existence and move on.
On another note: crying "Fire" in a packed theater is probably the best way to get "/permanently?/" rid of the hysteric idiot that will start jelling at their spouse in the middle of the play. Just saying...
Personal opinion: Knowledge is not incriminating or a crime
well actually to the end user it really is just confusion. The only guys who might need to know exact version and build are devs and probably IT maintenace crew and those guys know to type about:$string into the browser bar (no kidding). So yes please remove all versioning info and please please auto update and please please don't even tell me about it except when i'm on a slow connection and might want to waste my bw on html (which apparently only opera knows how to determine).
Well, if you have a popular plugin you could at least make an effort and write it in a maintainable way. if you write your plugin with API changes in mind you would probably have everything wrapped up neatly so that api changes are just some five minutes changing declarations...
I'm running nightly builds and miraculously all my plugins (noscript,torbutton) work great. I really don't know what you are on about...
OTOH: I run chromium from time to time and the stupid privacy plugin just doesn't want to work properly...
I do concede though that chromium breaks down much more elegantly. ff6 just disappears on me once in a while, chromium 123454321.2.432.5322.1.2.4.1sd when it goes wrong gives me some text telling me that it went wrong.... Which is nice.
... no guarantee that the patent holder is going to stay true to its values, ... Companies go belly up
Which is exactly why products of intellect (of which patents are a sub group) should immutably be attached to the mind that created them. Whether that is one single or two thousand minds.
the above only applies if there, actually, exist patents.
... nobody's going to travel to physical location just to get a shoddy cellphone app experience ...
Ohhhhh... they will! they will and in doing so will also become clients of the Physical shop. Regardless if they like the virtual one or not they will become clients. It's a well known conversion mechanism. You get them to ${location} they convert into whoever naturally roams ${location}.