Kingdom Hearts, the big RPG collaboration between Square and Disney, has several pretty-well-known voice actors in it:
Haley Joel Osment - Sora David Gallagher - Riku Hayden Panettiere - Kairi David Boreanaz - Leon Mandy Moore - Aerith Christy Carlson Romano - Yuffie Lance Bass - Sephiroth Sean Astin - Hercules Dan Castellaneta - Genie
I guess this would be the first MMORPG with Hollywood actors, though. Doesn't seem like a real big deal to me.
Where did you get that list? If true, that's a rather geographically scattered list of cities. I wonder why Brigham City and Tremonton, but not Ogden? And Cedar City??? That one city alone, so far to the south, has got to double their costs! If it were me, I'd have started by focusing on the Salt Lake to Ogden metropolis, then expanded out if the demand were there.
Ah, but Logan IS a university town, home to Utah State University (my alma mater), which has a booming Engineering department and CS department. I think that if the local high school kids get familiar with Linux, they'll take it to USU when they get a little older. Every little bit helps.:-)
Of course, it helps to know that the decibel system is based on logarithms. A quick look in a physics textbook or a quick Internet search will show you that a difference of 3dB signifies a doubling of power!! So yes, 173dB is actually about 208,000 times more intense than 120dB!
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Completely offtopic, but I can't stand it anymore...
Can you please explain the meaning of the binary numbers in your sig? Thanks.:-)
If the Senate also approves CSEA, the new law would also: ...Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."
Well, some of us actually are moving around a lot of the time anyway, so a motion-powered phone would simply be taking advantage of something that we already do. And it's hardly logical to imply that we humans are wasting natural resources through the simple act of motion. Burning coal, yes... using CFC's, sure... walking to the john, I don't think so.:-)
You need only search the space up to the square root of the first number, a moments thought will let you see why.
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is.... larger than my hand calculator can do. But it's still got to be ridiculously large. So it's still not as easy as you make it out to be.
Actually, it seemed to me that a lot of the story elements in the movie came straight out of Final Fantasy 7, e.g.
the big energy cannon they were hoping would destroy the enemy
the gang of people on a mission to save the world (Grey's team should have been named Barret, Wedge, and Biggs)
the whole Gaia theory, and especially the crater scene near the end (admit it: you were thinking "lifestream" the whole time, too!)
the not-quite happy ending and the conflicting feelings you're left with when the world is saved, but all is not really perfect in the end
I thought the movie was excellent, considering the current limitations on the technology, and the story was very representative of the Final Fantasy series. It certainly wasn't as complex as the video games, but you have to realize that the games typically get over 40 hours to develop the plot, whereas the movie had to do the same thing in just over an hour and a half.
The original GameBoy never interested me much, because there simply weren't enough games that I liked to make it worth the buy. However, if Nintendo starts porting all their SNES games to the GBA, I'll definitely have to get one!
One question, though: If the GBA was designed to play SNES-type games, where are the X and Y buttons that were on the SNES controllers? It seems that it would be very difficult to play SNES games that required those buttons. Or maybe they just won't port any of those?
That's very scary. If Microsoft bought uu.net (is that possible?), they would own a large chunk of the Internet, so to speak. Then could they publish some kind of policy which says, "If you use the Internet, you are subject to our terms and conditions..."?
When the court ruled against them, MP3.COM offered to settle with the recording industry. As leverage, they threatened to notify the Copyright Office that every recording industry copyright registration (which all say that the songs are works for hire) entered since 1978 was defective.
So if that's all it took for MP3.com to win their settlement with the RIAA, couldn't Napster use the same blackmail... er, argument in their current "negotiations?"
I take a great risk posting this after all the "anti-Utah" posts I've seen. Perhaps I'm biased because I've lived in Utah all my life, but I think it's a great place to live. I'll admit that Utah isn't exactly the technology hub of the nation, but I don't think that's because of the prevailing environment/beliefs/religion/laws/whatever.
This article implies that techies don't move to Utah because of strict liquor laws. So does techie=drinker always? Personally, I find that hard to believe. I'm an engineer, I don't drink, and I'm sure there are others out there like me, even outside of Utah. Again, the fact that I don't drink probably biases my opinion, so take what you will.
People with similar social habits will group together to enjoy those same social habits together. The majority of the U.S. already has bars and other facilities for those who drink. Don't you think it's only fair that those of us who don't drink should have a place to group where drinking is not THE social thing to do? And if we're in the minority, and we all end up in Utah, so be it. Everybody will be happy doing what they want to do. The non-drinkers can all be together without being bothered by the drunk people, and the rest of the nation can party as hard as they want.
Burney:And a great thing about.Net is, it's not mutually exclusive with Linux. Basically.Net just means that some of your application runs on the desktop, and some on the server. There's no stipulation that the desktop has to be Windows. And in fact, the Corel Linux distribution is on the list to have.Net put in, to tie in to the Web. So I think it's great for the Linux community. It gives them access to the.Net Web services. It's also good for Microsoft, because it's a convenient way for them to accept the fact that Linux is here to stay, and [you can] still generate some revenue from it.
After reading this paragraph a few times, I started to wonder if Bill Gates is actually thinking of trying to market.Net to Linux users. First of all, I don't see how that's technically feasible, unless he (heaven forbid!) made all his Windows applications Linux-compatible. Second, I don't see how anyone will accept it, because don't many people use Linux specifically because they don't like Microsoft?
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Kingdom Hearts, the big RPG collaboration between Square and Disney, has several pretty-well-known voice actors in it:
Haley Joel Osment - Sora
David Gallagher - Riku
Hayden Panettiere - Kairi
David Boreanaz - Leon
Mandy Moore - Aerith
Christy Carlson Romano - Yuffie
Lance Bass - Sephiroth
Sean Astin - Hercules
Dan Castellaneta - Genie
I guess this would be the first MMORPG with Hollywood actors, though. Doesn't seem like a real big deal to me.
Where did you get that list? If true, that's a rather geographically scattered list of cities. I wonder why Brigham City and Tremonton, but not Ogden? And Cedar City??? That one city alone, so far to the south, has got to double their costs! If it were me, I'd have started by focusing on the Salt Lake to Ogden metropolis, then expanded out if the demand were there.
Ah, but Logan IS a university town, home to Utah State University (my alma mater), which has a booming Engineering department and CS department. I think that if the local high school kids get familiar with Linux, they'll take it to USU when they get a little older. Every little bit helps. :-)
Of course, it helps to know that the decibel system is based on logarithms. A quick look in a physics textbook or a quick Internet search will show you that a difference of 3dB signifies a doubling of power!! So yes, 173dB is actually about 208,000 times more intense than 120dB!
Completely offtopic, but I can't stand it anymore...
:-)
Can you please explain the meaning of the binary numbers in your sig? Thanks.
If the Senate also approves CSEA, the new law would also:
...Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."
So, no more X10 popups, then? :-)
I doubt greatly that the first movie will tank. There's too much hype, and too many Tolkein fans, to let that happen.
Now, if it turns out to be a bad movie anyway, then the second movie could possibly tank.
Well, some of us actually are moving around a lot of the time anyway, so a motion-powered phone would simply be taking advantage of something that we already do. And it's hardly logical to imply that we humans are wasting natural resources through the simple act of motion. Burning coal, yes... using CFC's, sure... walking to the john, I don't think so. :-)
And yet, the square root of2 04
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is.... larger than my hand calculator can do. But it's still got to be ridiculously large. So it's still not as easy as you make it out to be.
Of course not. Every country, I'm sure, has its good and bad TV programming.
Malcolm in the Middle is freakin brilliant
You've GOT to be kidding! This is a perfect example of the caliber of our TV-watching population in today's world. Sheesh.
Actually, it seemed to me that a lot of the story elements in the movie came straight out of Final Fantasy 7, e.g.
I thought the movie was excellent, considering the current limitations on the technology, and the story was very representative of the Final Fantasy series. It certainly wasn't as complex as the video games, but you have to realize that the games typically get over 40 hours to develop the plot, whereas the movie had to do the same thing in just over an hour and a half.
One question, though: If the GBA was designed to play SNES-type games, where are the X and Y buttons that were on the SNES controllers? It seems that it would be very difficult to play SNES games that required those buttons. Or maybe they just won't port any of those?
Very scary, indeed.
So if that's all it took for MP3.com to win their settlement with the RIAA, couldn't Napster use the same blackmail... er, argument in their current "negotiations?"
This article implies that techies don't move to Utah because of strict liquor laws. So does techie=drinker always? Personally, I find that hard to believe. I'm an engineer, I don't drink, and I'm sure there are others out there like me, even outside of Utah. Again, the fact that I don't drink probably biases my opinion, so take what you will.
People with similar social habits will group together to enjoy those same social habits together. The majority of the U.S. already has bars and other facilities for those who drink. Don't you think it's only fair that those of us who don't drink should have a place to group where drinking is not THE social thing to do? And if we're in the minority, and we all end up in Utah, so be it. Everybody will be happy doing what they want to do. The non-drinkers can all be together without being bothered by the drunk people, and the rest of the nation can party as hard as they want.
This is not a troll. This is my actual opinion.
Let the flames begin! :-)
After reading this paragraph a few times, I started to wonder if Bill Gates is actually thinking of trying to market .Net to Linux users. First of all, I don't see how that's technically feasible, unless he (heaven forbid!) made all his Windows applications Linux-compatible. Second, I don't see how anyone will accept it, because don't many people use Linux specifically because they don't like Microsoft?
Just a thought.