On the other hand, I've seen plenty of underpasses here in Texas where there is a small armor strip running the width of the approaching lanes. That probably isn't enough to avoid the kind of damage from the accident yesterday in Dallas (the picture I just saw had no sign of an armor strip), but it should help on lesser incidents.
I don't know what kind of hand-to-eye coordination they'll practice after they get the inevitable RROD, but it could involve their fisted-up hands hands in someone else's eye.
First you have to have been to the crag, then you have to find a white mage who will teleport you, then you pay the white mage, and then you pay for a chocobo and ride for ten minutes to get to town.
Haven't played in a while, have you? Since a couple of months ago, all the crags now have a Field Manual nearby, and if you've been earning tabs (usually you get 30-70 at a time), you can get sent home for 50 of them.
Or you can just level WHM and BLM and warp yourself. It's not that hard to level BLM to 17, and if you don't know how to get 3 fame in Bastok by then for the spell quest, you might as well just give up and gb2wow.
Have you played WoW? Every single character can warp to their home point from level 1, and it's free. No need to beg a black mage for Warp II or farm for scrolls of warp.
You can do that in FFXI too. Just tap on the shoulder of any nearby monster, and it will helpfully kill you so you can go back to your home point. (If you're level 3 or less, you don't even lose XP.) The most extreme case I've seen is someone who used a Venom Potion to warp out of a crafting guild.
I will admit that Rank 5 is a bit much for you to get airship access, though. It usually takes a few months to get to that point.
From time to time I do think of UO's rune marking system, then realize how broken that would be in FFXI, because of all the places that are behind obstacles of various sorts.
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Lots of companies are guilty of that crap these days.
Or even better yet, Dennou Coil, where all the cool kids (and most of the uncool ones) have glasses which overlay a virtual world onto the real one, and can also be used as cell phones. The kiddies go around trying to find various places where there are bugs in the virtual world that they can exploit.
Actually, Sony had very little to do with the laserdisc format. They came out with some lame players (actually, any player but a post-digital-audio Pioneer or a high-priced Home Theatre brand player was lame), and they manufactureddiscs. Oh wait. Carry on.
But as it wasn't a Holy Sony Format, naturally they wouldn't care if their quality was crap.
I've wondered about that myself, and it's always great to see people come up with interesting combinations (for instance, PLD/RDM is good for solo and PvP). There are some combinations are automatically useless since you can only have one "pet" active at a time, so DRG, BST, SMN, and PUP are useless in combination. There are some subjobs which are useful with almost anything else (/NIN when you have Utususemi, and/WHM or/RDM for soloing), and there are some special-purpose subjobs as well, such as/THF15 for Treasure Hunter (increases drops when farming) and/RNG for Wide-Scan when looking for specific monsters.
How many expansions and updates ago did you stop playing?
First of all, there are the constant campaign battles from WotG (and the infrequent Besieged battles from ToAU) which work rather like a "group solo" kind of play, though mostly intended for level 60+. Then there was the introduction of Level Sync back in September, which meant that you weren't endlessly LFG just because nobody wanted your level range (FFXI needs a tight level range in a party to get decent XP). At the same time, they increased XP for "easy prey" monsters, making them worth soloing for the squishier jobs that couldn't handle even the "decent challenge" monsters. And, as someone else has mentioned, they just added Fields of Valor, which gives you extra XP for killing a certain number monsters from a list (one set per hour), most of which can be done solo, and being 5+ levels above the "recommended" range doesn't nerf the bonus XP.
Also, while it may be difficult for many jobs to solo many monsters without perfect gear and weapon/magic skills capped from a previously leveled job, duos and trios work very well for many jobs. Duo blue mage can really kick some ass.
And then, of course, there's the whole point of why you apparently could never find people to party up with from a linkshell. Though admittedly this was much harder before Level Sync, it would still have been easier to find a duo or trio in a linkshell. There's more to leveling up than forming a party of 6 and going to the same overcamped areas that everyone else does. And there's also crafting, which is very solo. I have as much fun playing the economic game as anything else.
Thanks to the campaign battles and Besieged (both of which favor white mages at levels much lower than every else), I've been mostly soloing white mage as my first job, up to 61 so far. Experience points for healing FTW. I turn down the random party invites I get with my LFG flag off because guerilla healing in campaign battles is much more fun than sitting in the back row in trying to keep people alive, while trying to not attract the monster's attention by healing too much, lest it come back and smack me down. And WotG areas are much nicer looking than the infinte mud and shrubbery of ToAU areas.
It's also a useless analogy. Lexmark was keeping people from making replacement ink cartridges that would work in Lexmark-branded printers.. For your analogy to be correct, Lexmark would have to have been preventing other companies from using Lexmark ink in non-Lexmark printers. Your analogy would only apply if Apple prevented people from installing another operating system such as Windows or Linux or Solaris on an Apple-branded computer.
They don't even need to go that far. They also store the serial number onboard every unit. All they have to do is make a system where you get an activation code based on your serial number, which they could print on a sheet of paper and include in the box with new computers for those who don't have easy internet/phone access. They wouldn't even have to make it based on the version of OS X if they don't want to, allowing a "wink wink nudge nudge" upgrade for actual customers. And even that should be enough for the DMCA.
And it's not like they haven't done it before. Remember the Lisa? The OS and apps were distributed on floppy disc, and each one was keyed individually to the serial number of the Lisa unit it was packaged with.
Assembly Language. Hell, make 'em enter the hex code themselves.
I'm only half serious here. I'm old enough to have gotten my start on a TRS-80, and it was only a few months (and a Z-80 Quick Reference Card) before I was disassembling BASIC and learning good assembly language coding from none other than Bill Gates himself. But then I guess I was just born to program.
In my case, I ended up the the former telephone number of someone with a shady business selling crap exercise equipment. The number was on his merchant account as the contact number, and as far as I know it was never changed. I haven't gotten a call in a couple of years about this, but I was quite happy to tell people who called about being charged for that crap what his number had apparently changed to.
But at least I got no automated calls... except when the credit card company somehow decided that was his fax number and started sending me his statements daily... at 0730. I had to hook up my laptop to receive one of them to find out who tell to freaking stop it already.
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On the other hand, I've seen plenty of underpasses here in Texas where there is a small armor strip running the width of the approaching lanes. That probably isn't enough to avoid the kind of damage from the accident yesterday in Dallas (the picture I just saw had no sign of an armor strip), but it should help on lesser incidents.
Is it anything like a Car Park?
I can't help but imagine dozens of sleeping tigers lined up in rows.
I don't know what kind of hand-to-eye coordination they'll practice after they get the inevitable RROD, but it could involve their fisted-up hands hands in someone else's eye.
In Soviet Cosmodrome, you kill O.J.!
Yeah, really! Then they'd have to find email addresses by looking in address books with trojans and bots... err, wait.
Er, hold on there, cowboy!
That's not THE crappy Atari 7800 port. That's the even crappier 2600 port.
First you have to have been to the crag, then you have to find a white mage who will teleport you, then you pay the white mage, and then you pay for a chocobo and ride for ten minutes to get to town.
Haven't played in a while, have you? Since a couple of months ago, all the crags now have a Field Manual nearby, and if you've been earning tabs (usually you get 30-70 at a time), you can get sent home for 50 of them.
Or you can just level WHM and BLM and warp yourself. It's not that hard to level BLM to 17, and if you don't know how to get 3 fame in Bastok by then for the spell quest, you might as well just give up and gb2wow.
Have you played WoW? Every single character can warp to their home point from level 1, and it's free. No need to beg a black mage for Warp II or farm for scrolls of warp.
You can do that in FFXI too. Just tap on the shoulder of any nearby monster, and it will helpfully kill you so you can go back to your home point. (If you're level 3 or less, you don't even lose XP.) The most extreme case I've seen is someone who used a Venom Potion to warp out of a crafting guild.
I will admit that Rank 5 is a bit much for you to get airship access, though. It usually takes a few months to get to that point.
From time to time I do think of UO's rune marking system, then realize how broken that would be in FFXI, because of all the places that are behind obstacles of various sorts.
RYFL.
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Lots of companies are guilty of that crap these days.
Or even better yet, Dennou Coil, where all the cool kids (and most of the uncool ones) have glasses which overlay a virtual world onto the real one, and can also be used as cell phones. The kiddies go around trying to find various places where there are bugs in the virtual world that they can exploit.
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Sony Laserdisc
Actually, Sony had very little to do with the laserdisc format. They came out with some lame players (actually, any player but a post-digital-audio Pioneer or a high-priced Home Theatre brand player was lame), and they manufactured discs. Oh wait. Carry on.
But as it wasn't a Holy Sony Format, naturally they wouldn't care if their quality was crap.
I'm pretty sure that's Clearwire, not Clear Channel.
They always come up with the funniest stories.
What? Fox News? But they got the story from The Onion, right?
That's Lunix, you insensitive clod!
Best Buy seems to have three different sizes of stores. That's probably one of the small size stores.
I've wondered about that myself, and it's always great to see people come up with interesting combinations (for instance, PLD/RDM is good for solo and PvP). There are some combinations are automatically useless since you can only have one "pet" active at a time, so DRG, BST, SMN, and PUP are useless in combination. There are some subjobs which are useful with almost anything else (/NIN when you have Utususemi, and /WHM or /RDM for soloing), and there are some special-purpose subjobs as well, such as /THF15 for Treasure Hunter (increases drops when farming) and /RNG for Wide-Scan when looking for specific monsters.
How many expansions and updates ago did you stop playing?
First of all, there are the constant campaign battles from WotG (and the infrequent Besieged battles from ToAU) which work rather like a "group solo" kind of play, though mostly intended for level 60+. Then there was the introduction of Level Sync back in September, which meant that you weren't endlessly LFG just because nobody wanted your level range (FFXI needs a tight level range in a party to get decent XP). At the same time, they increased XP for "easy prey" monsters, making them worth soloing for the squishier jobs that couldn't handle even the "decent challenge" monsters. And, as someone else has mentioned, they just added Fields of Valor, which gives you extra XP for killing a certain number monsters from a list (one set per hour), most of which can be done solo, and being 5+ levels above the "recommended" range doesn't nerf the bonus XP.
Also, while it may be difficult for many jobs to solo many monsters without perfect gear and weapon/magic skills capped from a previously leveled job, duos and trios work very well for many jobs. Duo blue mage can really kick some ass.
And then, of course, there's the whole point of why you apparently could never find people to party up with from a linkshell. Though admittedly this was much harder before Level Sync, it would still have been easier to find a duo or trio in a linkshell. There's more to leveling up than forming a party of 6 and going to the same overcamped areas that everyone else does. And there's also crafting, which is very solo. I have as much fun playing the economic game as anything else.
Thanks to the campaign battles and Besieged (both of which favor white mages at levels much lower than every else), I've been mostly soloing white mage as my first job, up to 61 so far. Experience points for healing FTW. I turn down the random party invites I get with my LFG flag off because guerilla healing in campaign battles is much more fun than sitting in the back row in trying to keep people alive, while trying to not attract the monster's attention by healing too much, lest it come back and smack me down. And WotG areas are much nicer looking than the infinte mud and shrubbery of ToAU areas.
It's also a useless analogy. Lexmark was keeping people from making replacement ink cartridges that would work in Lexmark-branded printers.. For your analogy to be correct, Lexmark would have to have been preventing other companies from using Lexmark ink in non-Lexmark printers. Your analogy would only apply if Apple prevented people from installing another operating system such as Windows or Linux or Solaris on an Apple-branded computer.
They don't even need to go that far. They also store the serial number onboard every unit. All they have to do is make a system where you get an activation code based on your serial number, which they could print on a sheet of paper and include in the box with new computers for those who don't have easy internet/phone access. They wouldn't even have to make it based on the version of OS X if they don't want to, allowing a "wink wink nudge nudge" upgrade for actual customers. And even that should be enough for the DMCA.
And it's not like they haven't done it before. Remember the Lisa? The OS and apps were distributed on floppy disc, and each one was keyed individually to the serial number of the Lisa unit it was packaged with.
Assembly Language. Hell, make 'em enter the hex code themselves.
I'm only half serious here. I'm old enough to have gotten my start on a TRS-80, and it was only a few months (and a Z-80 Quick Reference Card) before I was disassembling BASIC and learning good assembly language coding from none other than Bill Gates himself. But then I guess I was just born to program.
Here is an even more permanent erasure method.
It might be an easy fix... you might have to do nothing more than turn the white gear a dozen or so clicks. I've repaired a broken PS2 that way.
...to be followed up by one hell of a Pink Floyd laser light show.
Uh, it's not the USGS, it's NOAA.
Please turn in your nerd card immediately.
In my case, I ended up the the former telephone number of someone with a shady business selling crap exercise equipment. The number was on his merchant account as the contact number, and as far as I know it was never changed. I haven't gotten a call in a couple of years about this, but I was quite happy to tell people who called about being charged for that crap what his number had apparently changed to.
But at least I got no automated calls... except when the credit card company somehow decided that was his fax number and started sending me his statements daily... at 0730. I had to hook up my laptop to receive one of them to find out who tell to freaking stop it already.