Personally, I hated it because it was boring. There was almost no interaction when fighting a monster. You simply ran your characters over to the monster and they seemed to kill it by themselves.
I know that wasn't the cause. That was the irony in my original statement: they are delaying the game because they don't have the game done yet.
The only problem I have with that is if they knew they weren't going to have the game done when they made the original release date. It seems like a lot of games set up an early release date that they know they can't fill just to build up press and hype.
The game was originally planned to be released in fall 2005. Then the release got pushed back to April of 2006. Now they say it's coming out fall 2006.
Maybe this will be like Half-Life 2, coming out almost exactly a year after it was supposed to. Did Nintendo got their code stolen too?
I think it would be more accurate to say it was built with the help of mice, but in the use of the computer they tried to avoid mice interaction whenever possible.
What's the zaniest thing you did while developing ENIAC?
The mouse cage was pretty funny. We knew mice would eat the insulation off the wires, so we got samples of all the wires that were available and put them in a cage with a bunch of mice to see which insulation they did not like. We only used wire that passed the mouse test.
This should be taken to heart by forward-thinking engineers everywhere.
Google's stock price has doubled over the past year.
And I don't think we're going to stop using google search and google maps and all the other tools just because their quarterly earnings are a little under expectations.
If language does have such a profound effect on our thought processes, does this mean the Time Cube guy is right, and "Teachers are hired evil word pedants who enslave childish minds to a lifetime stupidity."?
Are we really "educated as a stupid android slave to the evil Word Animal Singularity Brotherhood"?
My brother got a copy of Dragon Warrior VIII for Christmas, and I had the opportunity to try out the FFXII demo.
I'm glad I did. The battle system was one of the most boring I've ever played in an RPG. The game practically plays itself. In the 'Boss Battle' in the second mission, I won without giving any orders to my characters at all except for using one ether when I ran out of magic points. Your allies heal themselves and you and there seemed to be little point in casting magic spells yourself except to heal. I realize that Final Fantasy has always been a game with changing mechanics and battle systems, but making the battle system as simple as possible is not a step in the right direction.
So maybe the high distribution of DW VIII will contribute to the downturn in sales in more ways than one...
If Charles Manson walked into the room right now carrying a bloody knife, I'd run the other way. If my boss came in, I'd ask him if he cut himself and if he needed help. Microsoft is Charles Manson.
But of course you would back up Apple, you're working for them. At least if I followed your metaphor correctly...
Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine. (emphasis added)
It seems to me like this guy probably got his PHD some time ago and is trying to reinstall with VMS and failing or he's really busy. If you're an executive, sure, you can afford a new computer every month when yours gets screwed up. But for normal folks, wouldn't it be easier to pay the kid down the block $50 to reinstall windows for you?
The client is integrated, therefore becomes as portable as Firefox on a flash drive. So I can now download torrents on machines I don't have administrator access on to install BitTorrent.
Why wouldn't you just put a BitTorrent client on the flash drive along side Firefox? Do the systems give special privileges to Firefox that they don't give to BitTorrent?
You have to follow traffic laws to drive a car. You have to pay sales tax when you buy a chair from a store. You have to pay into social security to get a job. Sucks, doesn't it?
I wish people would stop using acronyms like SCOTUS for US Supreme Court and POTUS for US President. It's not that they're extremely long or extremely difficult to figure out, they're just extremely ugly.
I'm rather skeptical of the whole thing, it seems to me to be like "Wouldn't it be nice if people documented their web page content better? Then we could do all these neat things." The second statement is right, but I fear the first statment is intractable.
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Personally, I hated it because it was boring. There was almost no interaction when fighting a monster. You simply ran your characters over to the monster and they seemed to kill it by themselves.
I know that wasn't the cause. That was the irony in my original statement: they are delaying the game because they don't have the game done yet.
The only problem I have with that is if they knew they weren't going to have the game done when they made the original release date. It seems like a lot of games set up an early release date that they know they can't fill just to build up press and hype.
The game was originally planned to be released in fall 2005.
Then the release got pushed back to April of 2006.
Now they say it's coming out fall 2006.
Maybe this will be like Half-Life 2, coming out almost exactly a year after it was supposed to.
Did Nintendo got their code stolen too?
I think it would be more accurate to say it was built with the help of mice, but in the use of the computer they tried to avoid mice interaction whenever possible.
The mouse cage was pretty funny. We knew mice would eat the insulation off the wires, so we got samples of all the wires that were available and put them in a cage with a bunch of mice to see which insulation they did not like. We only used wire that passed the mouse test.
This should be taken to heart by forward-thinking engineers everywhere.I agree. Now we just have to explain it to CNN Headline News and MTV.
Google's stock price has doubled over the past year.
And I don't think we're going to stop using google search and google maps and all the other tools just because their quarterly earnings are a little under expectations.
All we need now is an Anti-Anti-Anti-Missile-Missile to shoot down their Anti-Anti-Missile-Missile.
If language does have such a profound effect on our thought processes, does this mean the Time Cube guy is right, and "Teachers are hired evil word pedants who enslave childish minds to a lifetime stupidity."?
:-(
Are we really "educated as a stupid android slave to the evil Word Animal Singularity Brotherhood"?
I'm scared.
My brother got a copy of Dragon Warrior VIII for Christmas, and I had the opportunity to try out the FFXII demo.
I'm glad I did. The battle system was one of the most boring I've ever played in an RPG. The game practically plays itself. In the 'Boss Battle' in the second mission, I won without giving any orders to my characters at all except for using one ether when I ran out of magic points. Your allies heal themselves and you and there seemed to be little point in casting magic spells yourself except to heal.
I realize that Final Fantasy has always been a game with changing mechanics and battle systems, but making the battle system as simple as possible is not a step in the right direction.
So maybe the high distribution of DW VIII will contribute to the downturn in sales in more ways than one...
But of course you would back up Apple, you're working for them. At least if I followed your metaphor correctly...
Why will wealthy individuals fail to make stupid judgements like the one made by the City Commissioner of Valparaiso?
Are they smarter or more reasonable in virtue of their large sums of cash?
When was fox anything but useless commentary?
Well, when they reprint stuff from their AP feed, like here, occasionally.
Who here run pre-2.0 kernel on their Linux boxes?
Kernel 2.2 was released a year before Windows 2000.
And I don't think even running a 2.0 kernel would affect your ability to run a copy of Firefox.
Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine. (emphasis added)
It seems to me like this guy probably got his PHD some time ago and is trying to reinstall with VMS and failing or he's really busy. If you're an executive, sure, you can afford a new computer every month when yours gets screwed up. But for normal folks, wouldn't it be easier to pay the kid down the block $50 to reinstall windows for you?
I think so. Of course, I was that kid.
Quick way to fix the problem: hire whores for the boys with the good grades.
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "grade inflation"...
Why wouldn't you just put a BitTorrent client on the flash drive along side Firefox? Do the systems give special privileges to Firefox that they don't give to BitTorrent?
I use and enjoy tabbed browsing daily.
What I don't ever use is a taskbar at the top of the screen. What's the big fuss about dragging your taskbar all around?
I don't even need to check his record to tell you that he fails to defend freedom in some area.
I don't even need to read the rest of your post to tell that you are a libertarian.
Looks like Taco didn't even RTFA...
Governments are not companies.
They do things differently.
You have to follow traffic laws to drive a car. You have to pay sales tax when you buy a chair from a store. You have to pay into social security to get a job. Sucks, doesn't it?
Maybe you want to move to a desert island.
I think it sucks for news-type images too. Look at "Bush Cincinnati":
Google image search
Yahoo image search
The Yahoo one returns the images that I was expecting.
I wish people would stop using acronyms like SCOTUS for US Supreme Court and POTUS for US President. It's not that they're extremely long or extremely difficult to figure out, they're just extremely ugly.
Hasn't everyone heard of this already?
W3C semantic web activity from 2001.
Heflin's Thesis from 2001.
I'm rather skeptical of the whole thing, it seems to me to be like "Wouldn't it be nice if people documented their web page content better? Then we could do all these neat things." The second statement is right, but I fear the first statment is intractable.