This might be flamebait and controversial, but something deep inside me tells me that the Wii will have been a collector's item for quite a while when the US recession will finally be over.
You have no idea what lies ahead, sorry to say that. Next up: all-out thermonuclear war in the Middle East.
Correct. Gmail explains it this way (try sending an e-mail to yourself, putting in some dots, and you'll of course receive it yourself, with a small link in the header next to the recipient address (appropriately named, 'yes, this is you'):
Sometimes you may receive a message intended for someone whose address resembles yours but has a different number or placement of dots. For example, your address might be homerjsimpson@gmail.com, but the message was sent to a Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com. What's going on?
Gmail allows only one registration for any given username. Once you sign up for a particular username, any dot or capitalization variations are made permanently unavailable for new registration. If you created yourusername@gmail.com, no one can ever register your.username@gmail.com, or Your.user.name@gmail.com. Furthermore, because Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won't change the actual destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@gmail.com, your.username@gmail.com, and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are all delivered to your inbox, and only yours.
If you're homerjsimpson@gmail.com, no one owns Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com, except for you. Sending mail to Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com is the same as sending mail to homerjsimpson@gmail.com, or even HOMERJSIMPSON@GMAIL.COM. If you're getting mail addressed to Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com, most likely someone was trying to send a message to Homer.J.Sampson@gmail.com, or Homer.J.Simpson1@gmail.com, and made a mistake. You might even get messages from mailing lists or website registrations because the intended recipient accidentally provided the wrong email address. In these cases, we suggest contacting the original sender or website when possible to alert them to the mistake.
For security reasons, when you log in to Gmail, you must enter any dots that were originally defined as part of your username.
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You do have a point. Who needs multiple discs if the pre-rendered cutscenes can be in SD and the texture quality stay of the same quality as in FF XII?
In any other case, though, just wait and you'll see.;)
They've done multi-disc releases before (VII, VIII, XI). I don't think they'll have any issues doing it again.
I think by virtue of them achieving an identical experience on both consoles you subject yourself to some technical compromise.
I wouldn't think that Squenix would have any issues doing that, either. Mind you, it might be just wishful thinking on my part, but SE just gave up the one major technical advantage the Blu-ray platform would have made possible: a non-linear gaming experience (maybe for the first time in the series?). Not that I think Square was actually planning to give us that (would depend on the story, anyway), but restricting themselves to traditional, linear gameplay just to be able to do a multi-platform release, might just not be the wisest of choices.
Finally, while I do see the point of selling to more than double (or, in next year's numbers, roughly double) the installed user base, Square/Enix clearly seems to have forgotten the meaning of the term 'system seller' (yet they do remember it for the Japanese market), and to what extent that always was synonymous with a new Final Fantasy franchise. In my case, personally, that means no pre-order, not a must-buy anymore. I'll wait for the in-depth reviews, and might just happily wait for the platinum version as well, if the game turns out to be sub-par compared to what it could have been.
What a shame if Square/Enix just found a second foot to stand on only to shoot themselves in the other.
You are, because this post is more final than yours.
Just one question: Will the 360 version be a bare bones, no-cutscenes version, or will it sport 5 discs, or more? I mean, taking MGS4 as an example, that game renders all cutscenes in-game, yet _still_ fills up a whole dual layer BD, meaning 50 GB of textures and sound (minus some GB of double content for better reading performance, I know).
I just hope this doesn't mean dumbing down both versions, technically.
I never heard someone use overmorrow either (and my spell checker does underline it just now), but it seems to be the same thing etymologically as the German 'übermorgen', which is in full active use. Maybe using that as a loan word will do the trick?
By the way, there doesn't seem to be a word for 'the day before yesterday', either. That would be 'vorgestern' (foreyester?), respectively.
Now wait, you want to increase the output of hot air in an icy region that is already melting more each year? Microsoft will have all of Greenland terraformed in no time. Like, they'll send Ballmer out once or twice each day to 'cool off', and the land will be green again, birds will be singing...
Wouldn't that be the first one after the first, technically speaking? Speaking of which, as Head First is actually a series of books very similar in style, it would be nice to have someone elaborate on how much the authors re-use explanations, clip arts and examples their fellow authors already employed in Head First Java or the OO book.
Has anyone ever studied more than one of those books? However, I really like the approach, and I couldn't disagree more with the negative tone about the stated redundancy, because that's there on purpose. As those books are not meant as a reference but as a means of getting those language concepts into even the slightly ignorant minds (or the easily confused, or the easily distracted, your pick), repetition in slightly different wording is _great_.
How is the parent posting -- wording aside -- a troll, exactly? TFA and the Slashdot article are indeed wrong about this: There never has been a recall from Microsoft, all they did was to extend the warranty and _set_aside_ one billion dollars to cover for that. Not all consoles out of the first 11 million sold have been sent in and exchanged/fixed yet (whereas some people have (had) to send in their replacement units just the same because the same problem occurred again), so that sum of money obviously hasn't been used up just yet.
Whereas of course some formal recall would have used up a larger percentage of that money on the spot. So let me conclude that their way of handling this is actually better for both Microsoft and the consumer, provided the warranty applies to each and any replacement unit as well. Anyhow: what does happen to Xboxes breaking after the 3-year-warranty has finally run out?
So you have been considering a Linux install, but didn't actually do it; nevertheless you are convinced the PS3 is 'a really poor linux system'. I will agree that given the limited RAM and such the PS3 will not make a good general purpose Linux desktop, but apart from that you wouldn't know how well it would cater to specific users of Linux systems.
It is surely not out of incompetence that many scientific organizations set up PS3 clusters to do some of their number crunching, and many natural science or CS students will love having some extra cores to peruse.
One anonymous coward's crude is fine enough for me, thanks. Most of the world is (and remains) uncharted by the Microsoft birds, so, while it is great that you can count your koi population from two years ago by looking at Live, most of us obviously couldn't care less.
The UK is the country furthest along the road to 1984. I may be mistaken, but isn't this more likely a case of some US government agency setting up a honeypot and sending out arrest requests to affiliated states' agencies to "please arrest the following IP numbers' users, timestamps provided, charges to be announced"?
What's more, concerning the threats that modern civilization and democracy have become subject to, references to 1984 do increasingly look out of context. This is not some Big Brother striving to stay in control of the general populace, but instead anti-democratic groups and death cults trying to bomb and murder the Western states into abandoning freedom and peoples' rights by themselves. Which might be clever tactics if they weren't just so cynical.
Def.: the Slashdot Effect: Look here, a secret URL I just found, but shhh, don't go there and don't tell anyone!
One Question for Miss Morissette: Slashdotting a music service that is essentially nothing but a denial of service (a.k.a. sham), which effectively puts it out of service for a while, is that
Thanks, and guess what: in this case, I'm perfectly happy to stand corrected.
Not so sure about the BNP guy, anyway. If those guys were opposed to Islam and similar cults only, that would be ok, but seeing that they are openly xenophobic against all non-whites (and some white folks as well, I figure), they would make bad allies for the case of defending civilization. The German neo-fascists are openly embracing Islamists, by the way, and are trying to join forces against Israel and the US.
While I fear that _anything_ being posted below this rather abusive first post will get modded Troll, I have to say that wasn't all that offtopic in the first place.
Maybe American readers of this site are not that much aware of the situation in Britain, but for the last years signs held up at demonstrations asking to 'behead those who insult Islam' or for 'death to Israel' have gone 'unnoticed' by the British authorities, meaning that no-one ever got arrested for displaying them (or relentlessly shouting similar slogans). Many Europeans are already taking this as proof that Britain has finally fallen to the Islamists.
In that light, it would have been outrageously laughable if voicing this rather common sense opinion on Scientology would have resulted in prosecution.
Moderators, go and get a sense of humor here, ok? It's especially funny (for the first time here on slashdot?) that this first post didn't quite make it better than to come in in ninth place.
That's what I was wondering: Imagine they had indeed strictly obeyed that order for six years now, and would just 'finally' re-plug their > six year old PCs and laptops, having missed security and virus signature updates for such a long time: That would be like they say, when the cat's away...
Watch out for new torrents of sensible data from the same evening on. But of course, that's just my little hysterical hyperbole, they wouldn't have taken that order by the word, now, would they? They cannot, no, can they?
I think the only ones that make themselves look bad here are the anti-twitter trolls. If you mod down bog standard, moderately insightful posts because you _think_ you know something about the identity of the poster, and completely unrelated to its contents, then my guess is that you are the one who has been played.
As for me, I've noticed a lot of this lunacy over the last months, where posts went flamebait just for the fact that someone pointed them out as stemming from twitter, something that wasn't obvious from what the post in question was about. There are hundreds of thousands of active accounts here on slashdot, why don't you do what the rest of us do: ignore the ten or whatever twitter account's postings unless one of them posts something interesting, instead of creating tenfold more inappropriate and offtopic posts because of your little paranoia? You and your kin don't even log in any longer because you are afraid twitter will mod you down? Let me tell you something: if I had had mod points now, I would have modded you down just as well.
Let me join in with the sighing. I love to rant against MS at every given chance just the same, don't get me wrong: I think your (dhavleak) points are plainly wrong, but this constant feeding of the trolls on slashdot has got to stop.
You get the impression sometimes that all those people obsessed with pinpointing twitter aliases are incarnations of twitter themselves. The user IDs on slashdot are in the million range, hundreds of thousands of them actively posting. How much static could a few dozen twitter accounts even generate?
Good luck with that, but at least make sure there's still some warranty left for the thing. I'd love to see diagrams at some point in the future that show how the installed base of xbox 360s does actually deteriorate over time.
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This might be flamebait and controversial, but something deep inside me tells me that the Wii will have been a collector's item for quite a while when the US recession will finally be over.
You have no idea what lies ahead, sorry to say that. Next up: all-out thermonuclear war in the Middle East.
Yes, and using the exploit referred to in the article, your real names will be revealed as Jekyll and Hyde, respectively.
You do have a point. Who needs multiple discs if the pre-rendered cutscenes can be in SD and the texture quality stay of the same quality as in FF XII?
;)
In any other case, though, just wait and you'll see.
They've done multi-disc releases before (VII, VIII, XI). I don't think they'll have any issues doing it again.
I think by virtue of them achieving an identical experience on both consoles you subject yourself to some technical compromise.
I wouldn't think that Squenix would have any issues doing that, either. Mind you, it might be just wishful thinking on my part, but SE just gave up the one major technical advantage the Blu-ray platform would have made possible: a non-linear gaming experience (maybe for the first time in the series?). Not that I think Square was actually planning to give us that (would depend on the story, anyway), but restricting themselves to traditional, linear gameplay just to be able to do a multi-platform release, might just not be the wisest of choices.
Finally, while I do see the point of selling to more than double (or, in next year's numbers, roughly double) the installed user base, Square/Enix clearly seems to have forgotten the meaning of the term 'system seller' (yet they do remember it for the Japanese market), and to what extent that always was synonymous with a new Final Fantasy franchise. In my case, personally, that means no pre-order, not a must-buy anymore. I'll wait for the in-depth reviews, and might just happily wait for the platinum version as well, if the game turns out to be sub-par compared to what it could have been.
What a shame if Square/Enix just found a second foot to stand on only to shoot themselves in the other.
You are, because this post is more final than yours.
Just one question: Will the 360 version be a bare bones, no-cutscenes version, or will it sport 5 discs, or more? I mean, taking MGS4 as an example, that game renders all cutscenes in-game, yet _still_ fills up a whole dual layer BD, meaning 50 GB of textures and sound (minus some GB of double content for better reading performance, I know).
I just hope this doesn't mean dumbing down both versions, technically.
What, naked chicks, the size of a Volkswagen Beetle? Where is the shortest way OUT of this jungle, back home into civilization? No, wait...
I never heard someone use overmorrow either (and my spell checker does underline it just now), but it seems to be the same thing etymologically as the German 'übermorgen', which is in full active use. Maybe using that as a loan word will do the trick?
By the way, there doesn't seem to be a word for 'the day before yesterday', either. That would be 'vorgestern' (foreyester?), respectively.
Now wait, you want to increase the output of hot air in an icy region that is already melting more each year? Microsoft will have all of Greenland terraformed in no time. Like, they'll send Ballmer out once or twice each day to 'cool off', and the land will be green again, birds will be singing...
What a sick twist!
Wouldn't that be the first one after the first, technically speaking? Speaking of which, as Head First is actually a series of books very similar in style, it would be nice to have someone elaborate on how much the authors re-use explanations, clip arts and examples their fellow authors already employed in Head First Java or the OO book.
Has anyone ever studied more than one of those books? However, I really like the approach, and I couldn't disagree more with the negative tone about the stated redundancy, because that's there on purpose. As those books are not meant as a reference but as a means of getting those language concepts into even the slightly ignorant minds (or the easily confused, or the easily distracted, your pick), repetition in slightly different wording is _great_.
How is the parent posting -- wording aside -- a troll, exactly? TFA and the Slashdot article are indeed wrong about this: There never has been a recall from Microsoft, all they did was to extend the warranty and _set_aside_ one billion dollars to cover for that. Not all consoles out of the first 11 million sold have been sent in and exchanged/fixed yet (whereas some people have (had) to send in their replacement units just the same because the same problem occurred again), so that sum of money obviously hasn't been used up just yet.
Whereas of course some formal recall would have used up a larger percentage of that money on the spot. So let me conclude that their way of handling this is actually better for both Microsoft and the consumer, provided the warranty applies to each and any replacement unit as well. Anyhow: what does happen to Xboxes breaking after the 3-year-warranty has finally run out?
So you have been considering a Linux install, but didn't actually do it; nevertheless you are convinced the PS3 is 'a really poor linux system'. I will agree that given the limited RAM and such the PS3 will not make a good general purpose Linux desktop, but apart from that you wouldn't know how well it would cater to specific users of Linux systems.
It is surely not out of incompetence that many scientific organizations set up PS3 clusters to do some of their number crunching, and many natural science or CS students will love having some extra cores to peruse.
Oh great, you installed all of those on "a 640Kb PC-Limited ("Dell") 80286!"? I, for one, welcome our Vista running fine on an 80286 overlords!
One anonymous coward's crude is fine enough for me, thanks. Most of the world is (and remains) uncharted by the Microsoft birds, so, while it is great that you can count your koi population from two years ago by looking at Live, most of us obviously couldn't care less.
Neither for your koi nor for Live, that is.
Dang, I just bought a book on UML 2. I should have read the writing on the wall, though: it was heavily discounted...
What's more, concerning the threats that modern civilization and democracy have become subject to, references to 1984 do increasingly look out of context. This is not some Big Brother striving to stay in control of the general populace, but instead anti-democratic groups and death cults trying to bomb and murder the Western states into abandoning freedom and peoples' rights by themselves. Which might be clever tactics if they weren't just so cynical.
One Question for Miss Morissette: Slashdotting a music service that is essentially nothing but a denial of service (a.k.a. sham), which effectively puts it out of service for a while, is that
a.) ironic, or
b.) a self-fulfilling prophesy?
Thanks, and guess what: in this case, I'm perfectly happy to stand corrected.
Not so sure about the BNP guy, anyway. If those guys were opposed to Islam and similar cults only, that would be ok, but seeing that they are openly xenophobic against all non-whites (and some white folks as well, I figure), they would make bad allies for the case of defending civilization. The German neo-fascists are openly embracing Islamists, by the way, and are trying to join forces against Israel and the US.
While I fear that _anything_ being posted below this rather abusive first post will get modded Troll, I have to say that wasn't all that offtopic in the first place.
Maybe American readers of this site are not that much aware of the situation in Britain, but for the last years signs held up at demonstrations asking to 'behead those who insult Islam' or for 'death to Israel' have gone 'unnoticed' by the British authorities, meaning that no-one ever got arrested for displaying them (or relentlessly shouting similar slogans). Many Europeans are already taking this as proof that Britain has finally fallen to the Islamists.
In that light, it would have been outrageously laughable if voicing this rather common sense opinion on Scientology would have resulted in prosecution.
Moderators, go and get a sense of humor here, ok? It's especially funny (for the first time here on slashdot?) that this first post didn't quite make it better than to come in in ninth place.
That's what I was wondering: Imagine they had indeed strictly obeyed that order for six years now, and would just 'finally' re-plug their > six year old PCs and laptops, having missed security and virus signature updates for such a long time: That would be like they say, when the cat's away...
Watch out for new torrents of sensible data from the same evening on. But of course, that's just my little hysterical hyperbole, they wouldn't have taken that order by the word, now, would they? They cannot, no, can they?
I think the only ones that make themselves look bad here are the anti-twitter trolls. If you mod down bog standard, moderately insightful posts because you _think_ you know something about the identity of the poster, and completely unrelated to its contents, then my guess is that you are the one who has been played.
As for me, I've noticed a lot of this lunacy over the last months, where posts went flamebait just for the fact that someone pointed them out as stemming from twitter, something that wasn't obvious from what the post in question was about. There are hundreds of thousands of active accounts here on slashdot, why don't you do what the rest of us do: ignore the ten or whatever twitter account's postings unless one of them posts something interesting, instead of creating tenfold more inappropriate and offtopic posts because of your little paranoia? You and your kin don't even log in any longer because you are afraid twitter will mod you down? Let me tell you something: if I had had mod points now, I would have modded you down just as well.
May I introduce you to my friend, Nico Bellic? Except, of course, if cooking is really _that_ important.
Let me join in with the sighing. I love to rant against MS at every given chance just the same, don't get me wrong: I think your (dhavleak) points are plainly wrong, but this constant feeding of the trolls on slashdot has got to stop.
You get the impression sometimes that all those people obsessed with pinpointing twitter aliases are incarnations of twitter themselves. The user IDs on slashdot are in the million range, hundreds of thousands of them actively posting. How much static could a few dozen twitter accounts even generate?
Good luck with that, but at least make sure there's still some warranty left for the thing. I'd love to see diagrams at some point in the future that show how the installed base of xbox 360s does actually deteriorate over time.