Simply the best quests I've ever done, the quest to unlock the Dragoon job, and later (in the 50's), the quest to get the Artifact armor for the job are some of the most touching, heart warming quests ever. They have fabulous cutscenes, and the end of the AF quests made me cry. If you want to see how to do a series of quests that involves a TON of running around, this is how it's done.
While I believe you probably did like the movie, I can't imagine a universe in which I/would/ like the movie. I've read the books, heard the radio plays, seen the BBC TV production, and loved them all. Then I went to the movie, against my better judgement, after having read the review by Adam's biographer. I went hoping that he was wrong. I looked for redeeming qualities in the movie. I couldn't find any. NONE. I chuckled/ONCE/ during the whole movie.
As a control to my experiment, my wife has only a passing aquaintance with most of the material, and really isn't that fond of most british comedy. She chuckled 2 or 3 times. And agreed with me that the movie wasn't even worth the time we wasted sitting in the theatre.
As a further control, in case I have influenced my wife unduly: The theatre was reasonably full. Not a sold out showing, but at least half the seats were filled. No one in the audience laughed more than my wife. Period. I heard people complaining loudly about the movie on the way out.
I met my wife in a text-based RPG called TowerMUSH. Many of my friends warned be to be extremely cautious, and even told me that it was a huge mistake. But we've been married for 7 years this June, and it's been great.
A few pieces of advice for others who are getting into internet relationships: Don't treat them any differently from a real relationship, with one exception: Be especially wary of being lied too. The internet makes it so much easier. Also, NEVER RUSH. Me and my wife knew eachother for 4 or 5 months before we met in person for the first time. And then it was another 14 months past that before we got married. And that was 14 months of her living in the same apartment building as me while we dated and got to know eachother.
So yes, it can work. It can be wonderful. But please, be careful. There are many real horror stories out there. My wife actually went through one before she met me. She had been engaged once before, and the guy cheated on her and used her, destroyed her credit, and then dumped her. The aftermath of that still hasn't gone away, though we're working on it slowly.
Don't have to. Do you know any other way to store 10+/Gigs/ of data that could change at any time?
If you're questioning whether FFXI even/will/ come out for the 360, you didn't pay much attention to any of the recent tradeshows. The FFXI Beta for Xbox 360 is due to start later this year, with a probably release sometime early next year.
I suppose you're right, literally.:) And that would probably be their defense. But it's still sad that he's so unaware of one of the major games planned for 360.:)
Quote: "I don't know who we've let down. There isn't a game on 360 that you can't play without a hard drive, so I think that's a good thing for consumers."
I can name it right now: FFXI. It/will/ require a harddrive to play.
That's interesting. I run Gentoo on *counts* 4 or 5 systems. One of those is my desktop, where I run the unstable arch, the others are servers of varying architectures, but I run Stable on all of them. I can't recall the last time I had an ebuild in the install process that was broken. Every now and then, I'll have issues with the PHP or MySQL ebuilds, but they're getting better, and the issues are usually because I catch them in the middle of transitioning to a new structure, like they're doing right now with PHP, moving it to a single package, instead of seperate packages for CLI, CGI, and Apache Module builds.
Actually, ColorZilla has a good zoom function, suprisingly. I've used it on a few occasions. Not sure if it's what you're looking for but I reccomend at least giving it a look.
If you want good 'realistic' space battles, David Weber's Honor Harrington series does a great job of dealing with inertia and missle/energy weapon ranges along with relative velocity and all that stuff.;)
I repeat, this will not fix anything. Verisign controls the.com and.net TLDs, and as such, OpenNIC has to delegate all queries to their servers. Result? All unregistered.com and.net domains will still resolve to the evil SiteFinder.
I love the Zelda ad! I saw it, and went nuts, until I found out it wasn't for Playstation (Of course it wasn't but a guy can dream...). When I found that out, I got pretty upset.;)
Actually, I'd have to disagree. I/love/ the Dummies series because of how they're written. They're very useful quick references for the basics. My copy of Perl For Dummies is very well used, and is a great help if I need to jog my memory on Regular Expressions. It's got nice simple examples, and explains things in plain language.
Flame me if you want, but For Dummies is a great series of books, and can be very helpful even to experienced computer users.
I'm the systems administrator at my company, and after a catastophic meltdown of our RAID array recently, I've had the opportunity to choose what distro to run. Needless to say, I dropped Redhat like a bad habit. We are now running Gentoo Linux (No Masked Packages) on our production server, and seeing a nice little performance boost.
For other Gentoo geeks out there, we're running the Vanilla kernel, not the Gentoo-Sources kernel. Our reasons for this are primarily stability. While I've had no obvious problems with the Gentoo-Sources kernel on my desktop machine, a production ecommerce server isn't something you mess around with.
Yeah, but to do it gracefully on a production server takes a little more time than just modifying a line in fstab.;)
Never fear, it will get done, but it's not a high priority, like I already said. Perfecting the backup system/is/, so we don't have a major disaster like we did a month or 2 ago when 3 drives in our RAID array died, and took all our client websites with them.
I may do that eventually, but it's low on my list, behind getting a/real/ backup system written. My boss has finally put out the money for a complete backup server with a nice tape drive and a DVD burner, so I can finally make our data truly secure.
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I've got the Perl cookbook, and have used many of the source code samples found inside in my work. However, most of the development I do is PHP, and I'm extremely excited to hear that they've released a cookbook for PHP. I reccomend this and the Perl cookbook to any developer who wants advice or inspiration.
atime is necessary for one major component of a lot of websites: The PHP Session files.
The default PHP session handler uses the atime of the files to expire them properly. If they don't have atime, they get expired prematurely. (I think... It's been a while since I made the mistake of noatime on the partition that holds the session files.)
My solution to this is to use noatime everywhere except the/tmp partition. I also use notail on the/tmp partition, and anywhere that has frequent file IO.
I'd have to agree with linuxbaby. Shareware is very much alive, and Ambrosia is one of the best Shareware companies around.
When I used to own a Mac, their games were some of the few I played religiously. Most notable was Escape Velocity, their excellent space adventure game.
Just recently, I got wind that they were porting two of their games to PC, and I managed to get accepted into the beta test program for Deimos Rising, their scrolling shooter game in the style of the old arcade games like Aero Fighters. I've played every version so far, and I must say, they have done an excellent job with the port. The graphics are just as good as they were on the Mac, and there's no slowdown from the port.
I recommend everyone try their two games that are being ported. Deimos Rising is about to be released... They're just deciding on an Installer to use for it now. Escape Velocity is still a ways out I believe, but it is going to be very much worth the wait.
Stephen King, (bear with me!) The Dark Tower series, which is sort of dark, parallel-world fantasy drawn from contemporary popular culture, and not really like anything else King's ever written.
I have to agree with you here. The Dark Tower series is wonderful! I've listened to all of the books on tape, unabridged, and enjoyed every second of it.
I would also have to recommend Elizabeth Kerner's Song in the Silence, and The Lesser Kindred. They are the first two books in a series, and the third is due out (Hopefully) later this year.
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Yes is does. As in 'of'.
Simply the best quests I've ever done, the quest to unlock the Dragoon job, and later (in the 50's), the quest to get the Artifact armor for the job are some of the most touching, heart warming quests ever. They have fabulous cutscenes, and the end of the AF quests made me cry. If you want to see how to do a series of quests that involves a TON of running around, this is how it's done.
While I believe you probably did like the movie, I can't imagine a universe in which I /would/ like the movie. I've read the books, heard the radio plays, seen the BBC TV production, and loved them all. Then I went to the movie, against my better judgement, after having read the review by Adam's biographer. I went hoping that he was wrong. I looked for redeeming qualities in the movie. I couldn't find any. NONE. I chuckled /ONCE/ during the whole movie.
As a control to my experiment, my wife has only a passing aquaintance with most of the material, and really isn't that fond of most british comedy. She chuckled 2 or 3 times. And agreed with me that the movie wasn't even worth the time we wasted sitting in the theatre.
As a further control, in case I have influenced my wife unduly: The theatre was reasonably full. Not a sold out showing, but at least half the seats were filled. No one in the audience laughed more than my wife. Period. I heard people complaining loudly about the movie on the way out.
I met my wife in a text-based RPG called TowerMUSH. Many of my friends warned be to be extremely cautious, and even told me that it was a huge mistake. But we've been married for 7 years this June, and it's been great.
A few pieces of advice for others who are getting into internet relationships: Don't treat them any differently from a real relationship, with one exception: Be especially wary of being lied too. The internet makes it so much easier. Also, NEVER RUSH. Me and my wife knew eachother for 4 or 5 months before we met in person for the first time. And then it was another 14 months past that before we got married. And that was 14 months of her living in the same apartment building as me while we dated and got to know eachother.
So yes, it can work. It can be wonderful. But please, be careful. There are many real horror stories out there. My wife actually went through one before she met me. She had been engaged once before, and the guy cheated on her and used her, destroyed her credit, and then dumped her. The aftermath of that still hasn't gone away, though we're working on it slowly.
Don't have to. Do you know any other way to store 10+ /Gigs/ of data that could change at any time?
/will/ come out for the 360, you didn't pay much attention to any of the recent tradeshows. The FFXI Beta for Xbox 360 is due to start later this year, with a probably release sometime early next year.
If you're questioning whether FFXI even
*thhppt*
:) And that would probably be their defense. But it's still sad that he's so unaware of one of the major games planned for 360. :)
I suppose you're right, literally.
Heh. He lies in that statement. Flat out.
/will/ require a harddrive to play.
Quote: "I don't know who we've let down. There isn't a game on 360 that you can't play without a hard drive, so I think that's a good thing for consumers."
I can name it right now: FFXI. It
That's interesting. I run Gentoo on *counts* 4 or 5 systems. One of those is my desktop, where I run the unstable arch, the others are servers of varying architectures, but I run Stable on all of them. I can't recall the last time I had an ebuild in the install process that was broken. Every now and then, I'll have issues with the PHP or MySQL ebuilds, but they're getting better, and the issues are usually because I catch them in the middle of transitioning to a new structure, like they're doing right now with PHP, moving it to a single package, instead of seperate packages for CLI, CGI, and Apache Module builds.
Actually, ColorZilla has a good zoom function, suprisingly. I've used it on a few occasions. Not sure if it's what you're looking for but I reccomend at least giving it a look.
Actually, it's in a highly elliptical /EARTH/ orbit.
If you want good 'realistic' space battles, David Weber's Honor Harrington series does a great job of dealing with inertia and missle/energy weapon ranges along with relative velocity and all that stuff. ;)
This is NOT a solution!
.com and .net TLDs, and as such, OpenNIC has to delegate all queries to their servers. Result? All unregistered .com and .net domains will still resolve to the evil SiteFinder.
I repeat, this will not fix anything. Verisign controls the
Moderators, please mod this up.
I love the Zelda ad! I saw it, and went nuts, until I found out it wasn't for Playstation (Of course it wasn't but a guy can dream...). When I found that out, I got pretty upset. ;)
Here's a solution for that problem...
1. Put your CD of MP3s into the drive
2. Share said CD with Kazaa.
3. ?
4. Make Money!
Actually, I'd have to disagree. I /love/ the Dummies series because of how they're written. They're very useful quick references for the basics. My copy of Perl For Dummies is very well used, and is a great help if I need to jog my memory on Regular Expressions. It's got nice simple examples, and explains things in plain language.
Flame me if you want, but For Dummies is a great series of books, and can be very helpful even to experienced computer users.
Hey, could you contact me privately? I could use some advice on this front, and would really appreciate hearing from someone who's been there.
I'm the systems administrator at my company, and after a catastophic meltdown of our RAID array recently, I've had the opportunity to choose what distro to run. Needless to say, I dropped Redhat like a bad habit. We are now running Gentoo Linux (No Masked Packages) on our production server, and seeing a nice little performance boost.
For other Gentoo geeks out there, we're running the Vanilla kernel, not the Gentoo-Sources kernel. Our reasons for this are primarily stability. While I've had no obvious problems with the Gentoo-Sources kernel on my desktop machine, a production ecommerce server isn't something you mess around with.
That is an understandable mistake. Now, back to work. ;)
Yeah, but to do it gracefully on a production server takes a little more time than just modifying a line in fstab. ;)
/is/, so we don't have a major disaster like we did a month or 2 ago when 3 drives in our RAID array died, and took all our client websites with them.
Never fear, it will get done, but it's not a high priority, like I already said. Perfecting the backup system
I may do that eventually, but it's low on my list, behind getting a /real/ backup system written. My boss has finally put out the money for a complete backup server with a nice tape drive and a DVD burner, so I can finally make our data truly secure.
I've got the Perl cookbook, and have used many of the source code samples found inside in my work. However, most of the development I do is PHP, and I'm extremely excited to hear that they've released a cookbook for PHP. I reccomend this and the Perl cookbook to any developer who wants advice or inspiration.
atime is necessary for one major component of a lot of websites: The PHP Session files.
/tmp partition. I also use notail on the /tmp partition, and anywhere that has frequent file IO.
The default PHP session handler uses the atime of the files to expire them properly. If they don't have atime, they get expired prematurely. (I think... It's been a while since I made the mistake of noatime on the partition that holds the session files.)
My solution to this is to use noatime everywhere except the
I'd have to agree with linuxbaby. Shareware is very much alive, and Ambrosia is one of the best Shareware companies around.
When I used to own a Mac, their games were some of the few I played religiously. Most notable was Escape Velocity, their excellent space adventure game.
Just recently, I got wind that they were porting two of their games to PC, and I managed to get accepted into the beta test program for Deimos Rising, their scrolling shooter game in the style of the old arcade games like Aero Fighters. I've played every version so far, and I must say, they have done an excellent job with the port. The graphics are just as good as they were on the Mac, and there's no slowdown from the port.
I recommend everyone try their two games that are being ported. Deimos Rising is about to be released... They're just deciding on an Installer to use for it now. Escape Velocity is still a ways out I believe, but it is going to be very much worth the wait.
Matthew
I really like this idea. Can someone with mod points mod this up?
I have to agree with you here. The Dark Tower series is wonderful! I've listened to all of the books on tape, unabridged, and enjoyed every second of it.
I would also have to recommend Elizabeth Kerner's Song in the Silence, and The Lesser Kindred. They are the first two books in a series, and the third is due out (Hopefully) later this year.