Its $44.3 billion in annual sales are puttering along at an 11% growth pace.
Now I'm no economist, but isn't $44.3 billion per year WITH an ELEVEN PERCENT growth rate, like..... amazingly-fucking-good? Someone clue me in on how it possibly isn't, please.
When you have a populace so absurdly uneducated as to buy into this nonsense, evidence and facts are meaningless. No doubt they're being whipped up some pseudo-scientific con-artist, and used their cordless phones to spread the news. Too bad gullability wasn't fatal. That would weed some of the most ludicrous ninnies on the planet out of the gene pool.
With a loving attitude like that, it's no wonder the world treats you in such a way that makes you bitter. Yikes, man.
Am I the only one who saw this and thought: "Okay, I remember what a Red Box did and what a Blue Box did . . . but what in the world is a Beige Box?"
Then I looked it up and I remembered . . . and realized that with VOIP and cell phones abundant these days, a box to steal someone else's phone line really isn't all that useful anymore . . .
Man, I feel old.
I have absolutely no clue what the hell you're talking about. Yes, you are old.;)
You missed my point entirely. I'm not saying they're not both the same thing, I'm saying it's Intelligent Design that he was thinking of that claims to be a science.
This is god in his aspect of 'having to make all the animals himself because he is too stupid to create a universe that can do this shit on its own'.
That doesn't make any sense. He's too stupid to create something to create something, so he creates the second something directly, proving how dumb he is!
Indeed. But if the patent office doesn't read the proposals, why should the Slashdot submitter? (Granted, the other option is that the patent office did read the proposal, but the patent office worker was so ignorant it sounded like a new idea to him/her.)
I'm not proposing any theories here, but I do think you may be in danger of assuming incompetence where there's corruption.
How about something more along the lines of an RTS? Each player writes a script that directs how their side will build up, attack and defend, then you load them in the game and start it. After each game, the players can tweak their scripts more and more. I've never written bot or AI scripts, but if a game like this was made, I just might learn.;)
Thanks! I'm gonna give IX a shot. At one point I decided to play the games in order, starting with I, but I eventually got bored with it. So now, I figure I'll just play the "best" ones (as subjective as that is) since the point is to have fun, right? And I know I'd never get through them all anyway.
I think the FF7 FMV for the PC was just the PS1 video ripped and resized or something (the aspect ratio looks off)
I don't know about the aspect ratio being off, but try comparing the videos to each other. The PC ones were grainy as all hell in comparison (to anything, actually).
Actually, I've got VII to run on XP, with alot of work. Check here: http://www.qhimm.com/
However, with enough filters and tricks, VII can actually look better emulated. And best of all: the cutscenes are seemless like they're supposed to be (the PC version had the lowest quality FMVs imaginable).
I lost track of Final Fantasy somewhere after VII or VIII, since the Playstation is the last console I bought. I have a deep love for Final Fantasy VII and would hate to disappointed by an inferior game. Has another VII-quality been made since? Or, what's the best one?
Wikipedia was set up in 2001, and initially there was much skepticism that an encyclopedia wholly written, edited, and peer-edited by the general public would be a reliable source of information, but it is now in common usage.
Now I love Wikipedia and think it represents the future of... stuff, and all, and I definitely think it's a good and legitimate place to do research, but this quote implies that those fears went away. If fact, the number or people vocalizing these fears have been growing since the beginning.
Actually, I refuse to believe that effect can't be used anywhere affect can. Taken literally, it makes just as much sense. It's just that affect can't be used everywhere effect can. I declare "affect" archaic.
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Now I'm no economist, but isn't $44.3 billion per year WITH an ELEVEN PERCENT growth rate, like..... amazingly-fucking-good? Someone clue me in on how it possibly isn't, please.
-Jeff
Ahh, I gotcha. In that case, I don't know.
I believe that the point was "there's reason to think it MAY be dangerous, AND there's no proof that it isn't."
Wanna trade ID numbers?
With a loving attitude like that, it's no wonder the world treats you in such a way that makes you bitter. Yikes, man.
I have absolutely no clue what the hell you're talking about. Yes, you are old.
The first IBM PC was called..... the IBM PC.
I can do things I normally can't when I'm doped, too.
You missed my point entirely. I'm not saying they're not both the same thing, I'm saying it's Intelligent Design that he was thinking of that claims to be a science.
Genesis
That doesn't make any sense. He's too stupid to create something to create something, so he creates the second something directly, proving how dumb he is!
Creationism purports to be some sort of Scientific view of the Earth's history.
No, you're thinking of Intelligent Design. Look at this website. It's pure "the Bible is under attack!"
That was a tofu monster, you heathen! I challenge you to a war!
I'm not proposing any theories here, but I do think you may be in danger of assuming incompetence where there's corruption.
How about something more along the lines of an RTS? Each player writes a script that directs how their side will build up, attack and defend, then you load them in the game and start it. After each game, the players can tweak their scripts more and more. I've never written bot or AI scripts, but if a game like this was made, I just might learn. ;)
I propose a new catchphrase: "Think of the already congested legal system! Won't somebody please think of the already congested legal system?!"
Thanks! I'm gonna give IX a shot. At one point I decided to play the games in order, starting with I, but I eventually got bored with it. So now, I figure I'll just play the "best" ones (as subjective as that is) since the point is to have fun, right? And I know I'd never get through them all anyway.
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Also, I enjoy spreading the good Word of the Final Fantasy VI Retranslation Project (or whatever they're calling it now). In case you didn't know, http://www.rpgone.net/modules.php?name=Projects&o
I don't know about the aspect ratio being off, but try comparing the videos to each other. The PC ones were grainy as all hell in comparison (to anything, actually).
Actually, I've got VII to run on XP, with alot of work. Check here: http://www.qhimm.com/
However, with enough filters and tricks, VII can actually look better emulated. And best of all: the cutscenes are seemless like they're supposed to be (the PC version had the lowest quality FMVs imaginable).
Wow... I was about to send you some links and tell you "not too well" but...= 1&s4=1&s5=1&p=3
http://www.pcsx2.net/compat.php?&c=f&s1=1&s2=1&s3
Fucking sweet.
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I lost track of Final Fantasy somewhere after VII or VIII, since the Playstation is the last console I bought. I have a deep love for Final Fantasy VII and would hate to disappointed by an inferior game. Has another VII-quality been made since? Or, what's the best one?
Now I love Wikipedia and think it represents the future of... stuff, and all, and I definitely think it's a good and legitimate place to do research, but this quote implies that those fears went away. If fact, the number or people vocalizing these fears have been growing since the beginning.
You just admitted that I'm right and went on to make two irrelevant points.
You shoulda modded me -1 uninsightful for that.
Actually, I refuse to believe that effect can't be used anywhere affect can. Taken literally, it makes just as much sense. It's just that affect can't be used everywhere effect can. I declare "affect" archaic.