*Most* of the graphics in FFX are amazing. One problem I have with the game is the player character graphics. When the camera is within 10 feet of them, they look absolutely beautiful. Get any further away than that and they look worse than the player characters in a PS1 Final Fantasy. They end up being all jagged, pixelized and blurry.
Also, there are a couple times when you get too much action going on around the screen and the system lags for a split second. Not much of a problem because it doesn't last long, but I've already seen people complaining about it.
On an off-topic note, I have to say I'm very disappointed with the introduction to the blitzball mini-game (tiny spoiler ahead for those who haven't gotten past the first blitzball game). Why would a game designer introduce a mini-game by using a version of the game that is almost impossible for the player to win? Do they think that makes me want to keep playing the mini-game throughout the rest of the game? Luckally I think blitzball is kind of fun, so I'll end up playing it from time to time. I still think it's bad design.
Have you considered writing into the opinon section of your local newspaper? That might just get the job done.
Say your senator has 50,000 people to represent and he/she get's 500 letters (e-mail or otherwise) speaking against an issue. Will they really care all that much? Especially when the "national concensus" is to say the hell with rights, because we need more security.
If you could get something printed in your local newspapers, it might give the other voters something to think about. In turn they might just call or write the senator too.
Our elected representatives need to learn to not simply "go with the flow", and realize that what the nation thinks doesn't count. It's the opinions of people in their state that matter the most.
Personally, I think taking down communications networks is a MUCH better response than any alternatives at the moment.
Alternative 1) Do nothing, let them know they can do this sort of thing all the time.
Alternative 2) Bomb the hell out of random Middle Eastern countries. Lots of people will die.
Taking down communcation networks sends a message and doesn't physically hurt anyone. All it does is make it that much harder for these terrorists to get the orders out and perhaps inconvience a few people in the mean time (people that are giving sanctuary to terrorists no less).
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Well, it's not totally fake. As you can see by that page, the quatrain that's running around the net is a combination of several different quatrains with the date changed, which is of course completely stupid.
The event does have a remarkable resemblance to the original "King of Terror" quatrain, although not exact. Especially because the date was set in July of 1999. For everyone's information, the quatrain that mentions the King of Terror coming in July of 1999 is THE ONLY original Nostradamus quatrain that mentions a specific date. So if you see ANY alleged quatrain with a date on it other than July 1999, it has been edited for the scare factor.
I say if the United States government doesn't retaliate by this weekend, we should work at taking down all lines of communication across the Middle East.
Sure, the entire Middle East isn't to blame, but I doubt shutting down the com networks of one or two small 3rd world nations will send up a red flag.
Let's show that side of the world that even if our government is slow to act, the people of the civilized world won't stand for it!
Besides, aren't you people tired of cracking the White House web site?
I live just outside of DC and work closer in to the city. My fiancee woke me up with the news that the Pentagon was attacked. I don't think I've ever jumped out of bed so quickly. We sat around watching the news for about 3 hours until I finally had to go into work. I told my fiancee to stay inside today and that I'd keep in touch with her throughout the day. I work out near Dulles airport which was where the plane that crashed into the Pentagon took off from. It's just terrifying to think that just yesterday these terrorists were walking the streets where I live.
I made my way into work up route 66 toward DC. The sky was filled with emergency and police helicopters. Every 5 minutes or so a cop/FBI/Secret Service car would fly up the HOV lane towards DC with it lights on. The lanes going into DC were almost empty, but suprisingly the lanes coming out of DC weren't all that bad (although a lot worse than normal for that time of the day). I got into work and our building was on security alert. The doors were locked and almost everyone had gone home already. Not many of the people around the building really talked about the situation. It hit too close to home for all of us here in DC. Even things that came about due to consequences of the attacks (schedule changes, etc.) were talked about as if they had nothing to do with any attack.
Coming back home tonight was so strange. At a time when the highway is normally packed full of cars, there were actually very few cars. Everyone had already gotten home to their families.
We have many friends that work at the Pentagon, as many people who live in DC do. Haven't heard from anyone yet, but I'm sure it's been a busy day for them. I just hope that nothing like this happens again for the rest of my life.
It'll be a long time before the DC area, and really the world, will be back to normal.
There is another Nostradamus prophecy that points to a great fire making buildings collapse in the new city at 45 degrees. Century I - Quatrain 83 I believe it is. I remember years ago hearing that this was a reference to New York City (something about NYC is on 45 degrees lattitude or longitude).
There was also a television program I saw on Nostradamus that said something about WWIII would be started first by an attack on NYC, followed by an attack on Paris, followed by an attack on DC.
Anything going down in Paris?
I wonder what the average life expectancy of one of these is. Cats can live as long as 20 years in some cases. I'd bet this thing would wear out in about 5 if it was kept operational all day long, as a real animal is.
The NSA probably is behind... way behind. I've worked on several government projects (none classified or anything though) and they've all been way behind the times. Why do you think there was such a big call for legacy programmers a few years back? And why do you think there isn't anymore? Did they just all of a sudden get everything up to date? No... They quit.
Also, the NSA has been really trying hard to get new young faces in their information security departments. They've even gone so far as offering dot-com competitive salaries and benefits to their programmers and systems people.
Besides, they're not gods. They're just people like you or me, and it's just a 'company' like any other. Why couldn't they be having some financial difficulties? Sure, we pay tons of taxes, but the government is more interested in feeding bums and helping other nations than protecting our country.
This is such terrible news. Douglas Adams is definately my favorite author, as I'm sure he is to many of you as well.
Recently I had read that he was working on a new Hitchhikers computer game to be in the style of the Starship Titanic game. I'm wondering what the status of this will be now, and hope that it will still go on as planned. What a way to start the weekend, eh? =(
Who does the MPAA think they are? They're not the US government. Who gave them the right to spy on people and then contact ISP's about banning users? If I ran an ISP I'd laugh at them and tell them to call the feds or something. The MPAA are nobody special, yet they're acting like they are.
I'll be getting my CS bachelor's degree here in about 7 weeks, plus I've been working in the industry for the past 5 years, so I've seen the results of a college CS education. They're not good. I'll tell you right now, if most of my graduating class came in to ask me for a job, I'd tell them to get lost.
CS has become the popular degree to get, mostly because of the promise of big bucks upon graduation. What I find though, is that a lot of people coming into the CS program aren't hobbyists, but people who are drawn to making lots of money. That's problem number one. They don't care about what they're doing, only that it'll make them semi-rich.
Getting past that, to the students who do care about their degree, the problem of specialization arises. You go through an entire CS program learning little bits of this and little bits of that. That's fine and dandy for the first year or so, but after that it's pointless. CS brings together many different areas. Some people go into scientific programming, others into database applications, and yet others into game/graphics programming and so on. At a base level these are all very similar, yet at an advanced level they're very different. I'd suggest after the first or second year, allowing students to pick a specialization block and then take only classes that deal with that specialization.
The big problem I see with graduates coming into the industry is they know how to do lots of little piddly crap at an average skill level, but no one thing at an (at least somewhat) advanced skill level. You don't get any advanced training through a degree program. Currently if you want to learn enough to do important stuff, you have to be a hobbyist and be willing to spend your own time between classes learning the really useful stuff.
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*Most* of the graphics in FFX are amazing. One problem I have with the game is the player character graphics. When the camera is within 10 feet of them, they look absolutely beautiful. Get any further away than that and they look worse than the player characters in a PS1 Final Fantasy. They end up being all jagged, pixelized and blurry.
Also, there are a couple times when you get too much action going on around the screen and the system lags for a split second. Not much of a problem because it doesn't last long, but I've already seen people complaining about it.
On an off-topic note, I have to say I'm very disappointed with the introduction to the blitzball mini-game (tiny spoiler ahead for those who haven't gotten past the first blitzball game). Why would a game designer introduce a mini-game by using a version of the game that is almost impossible for the player to win? Do they think that makes me want to keep playing the mini-game throughout the rest of the game? Luckally I think blitzball is kind of fun, so I'll end up playing it from time to time. I still think it's bad design.
I wish they would hire Matthew Broderick to do something about all those poor monkeys being killed in flight training.
I heard he's been looking for a job ever since that Wellville fiasco.
Have you considered writing into the opinon section of your local newspaper? That might just get the job done.
Say your senator has 50,000 people to represent and he/she get's 500 letters (e-mail or otherwise) speaking against an issue. Will they really care all that much? Especially when the "national concensus" is to say the hell with rights, because we need more security.
If you could get something printed in your local newspapers, it might give the other voters something to think about. In turn they might just call or write the senator too.
Our elected representatives need to learn to not simply "go with the flow", and realize that what the nation thinks doesn't count. It's the opinions of people in their state that matter the most.
Personally, I think taking down communications networks is a MUCH better response than any alternatives at the moment.
Alternative 1) Do nothing, let them know they can do this sort of thing all the time.
Alternative 2) Bomb the hell out of random Middle Eastern countries. Lots of people will die.
Taking down communcation networks sends a message and doesn't physically hurt anyone. All it does is make it that much harder for these terrorists to get the orders out and perhaps inconvience a few people in the mean time (people that are giving sanctuary to terrorists no less).
Here's some more Bin Laden ass kicking...
http://www.nullityvoid.com/
Well, it's not totally fake. As you can see by that page, the quatrain that's running around the net is a combination of several different quatrains with the date changed, which is of course completely stupid.
The event does have a remarkable resemblance to the original "King of Terror" quatrain, although not exact. Especially because the date was set in July of 1999. For everyone's information, the quatrain that mentions the King of Terror coming in July of 1999 is THE ONLY original Nostradamus quatrain that mentions a specific date. So if you see ANY alleged quatrain with a date on it other than July 1999, it has been edited for the scare factor.
I say if the United States government doesn't retaliate by this weekend, we should work at taking down all lines of communication across the Middle East.
Sure, the entire Middle East isn't to blame, but I doubt shutting down the com networks of one or two small 3rd world nations will send up a red flag.
Let's show that side of the world that even if our government is slow to act, the people of the civilized world won't stand for it!
Besides, aren't you people tired of cracking the White House web site?
I live just outside of DC and work closer in to the city. My fiancee woke me up with the news that the Pentagon was attacked. I don't think I've ever jumped out of bed so quickly. We sat around watching the news for about 3 hours until I finally had to go into work. I told my fiancee to stay inside today and that I'd keep in touch with her throughout the day. I work out near Dulles airport which was where the plane that crashed into the Pentagon took off from. It's just terrifying to think that just yesterday these terrorists were walking the streets where I live.
I made my way into work up route 66 toward DC. The sky was filled with emergency and police helicopters. Every 5 minutes or so a cop/FBI/Secret Service car would fly up the HOV lane towards DC with it lights on. The lanes going into DC were almost empty, but suprisingly the lanes coming out of DC weren't all that bad (although a lot worse than normal for that time of the day). I got into work and our building was on security alert. The doors were locked and almost everyone had gone home already. Not many of the people around the building really talked about the situation. It hit too close to home for all of us here in DC. Even things that came about due to consequences of the attacks (schedule changes, etc.) were talked about as if they had nothing to do with any attack.
Coming back home tonight was so strange. At a time when the highway is normally packed full of cars, there were actually very few cars. Everyone had already gotten home to their families.
We have many friends that work at the Pentagon, as many people who live in DC do. Haven't heard from anyone yet, but I'm sure it's been a busy day for them. I just hope that nothing like this happens again for the rest of my life.
It'll be a long time before the DC area, and really the world, will be back to normal.
There is another Nostradamus prophecy that points to a great fire making buildings collapse in the new city at 45 degrees. Century I - Quatrain 83 I believe it is. I remember years ago hearing that this was a reference to New York City (something about NYC is on 45 degrees lattitude or longitude).
There was also a television program I saw on Nostradamus that said something about WWIII would be started first by an attack on NYC, followed by an attack on Paris, followed by an attack on DC.
Anything going down in Paris?
I wonder what the average life expectancy of one of these is. Cats can live as long as 20 years in some cases. I'd bet this thing would wear out in about 5 if it was kept operational all day long, as a real animal is.
The NSA probably is behind... way behind. I've worked on several government projects (none classified or anything though) and they've all been way behind the times. Why do you think there was such a big call for legacy programmers a few years back? And why do you think there isn't anymore? Did they just all of a sudden get everything up to date? No... They quit.
Also, the NSA has been really trying hard to get new young faces in their information security departments. They've even gone so far as offering dot-com competitive salaries and benefits to their programmers and systems people.
Besides, they're not gods. They're just people like you or me, and it's just a 'company' like any other. Why couldn't they be having some financial difficulties? Sure, we pay tons of taxes, but the government is more interested in feeding bums and helping other nations than protecting our country.
This is such terrible news. Douglas Adams is definately my favorite author, as I'm sure he is to many of you as well.
Recently I had read that he was working on a new Hitchhikers computer game to be in the style of the Starship Titanic game. I'm wondering what the status of this will be now, and hope that it will still go on as planned. What a way to start the weekend, eh? =(
Who does the MPAA think they are? They're not the US government. Who gave them the right to spy on people and then contact ISP's about banning users? If I ran an ISP I'd laugh at them and tell them to call the feds or something. The MPAA are nobody special, yet they're acting like they are.
I'll be getting my CS bachelor's degree here in about 7 weeks, plus I've been working in the industry for the past 5 years, so I've seen the results of a college CS education. They're not good. I'll tell you right now, if most of my graduating class came in to ask me for a job, I'd tell them to get lost.
CS has become the popular degree to get, mostly because of the promise of big bucks upon graduation. What I find though, is that a lot of people coming into the CS program aren't hobbyists, but people who are drawn to making lots of money. That's problem number one. They don't care about what they're doing, only that it'll make them semi-rich. Getting past that, to the students who do care about their degree, the problem of specialization arises. You go through an entire CS program learning little bits of this and little bits of that. That's fine and dandy for the first year or so, but after that it's pointless. CS brings together many different areas. Some people go into scientific programming, others into database applications, and yet others into game/graphics programming and so on. At a base level these are all very similar, yet at an advanced level they're very different. I'd suggest after the first or second year, allowing students to pick a specialization block and then take only classes that deal with that specialization.
The big problem I see with graduates coming into the industry is they know how to do lots of little piddly crap at an average skill level, but no one thing at an (at least somewhat) advanced skill level. You don't get any advanced training through a degree program. Currently if you want to learn enough to do important stuff, you have to be a hobbyist and be willing to spend your own time between classes learning the really useful stuff.