Has everyone forgotten the Dec 25 Birthday?
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All this talk of finding new ways of being flashy and new during the holidays and so little talk of the important birthday celebrated on December 25. Really, would it kill you to pay some respect to the very important individual whose birth is celebrated yearly on that one day of the year?
I mean honestly, you all give each other gifts but I, the birthday boy, don't get so much as a card from you!
Without comparing storylines, I didn't like the storyline of FF8 period. It wasn't that the other FF games had "better" storylines, it was that FF8's storyline bored me -- I had no interest in the characters nor did I have any interest in furthering the plot after destroying that metal walker thing.
It and FF2 (the Japanese version) are the only Final Fantasies I've not completed (well, apart from FFX, but I'll probably do that one). Further, I'll probably go ahead and play through FF2 sometime, I just never got around to it.
The earlier FF games are not "free", as the copyright is still owned by Squaresoft and in fact the three Super Famicom incarnations of the Final Fantasy series were re-released and still available for purchase for the Playstation console. Stop encouraging people to commit software piracy and steal Squaresoft's well-deserved revenue you filthy thief.
By the way, do you know if the latest translation patch for the Japanese Super Famicom FF6 has been released? I've been dying to patch my ROM image with it so I can see a more faithful translation of the dialogue.
If he can pull the same kind of innuendo that he created in the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling" during the song "I'm Under Your Spell", I'm sure that this show will have a lot of fanboys pulling for it.
Don't blame Joss for Alien Resurrection, FOX tends to meddle with every movie he has a hand in and he is never happy with the results.
That isn't to say that he's a paragon of direction and production -- X-Men was rather popular amongst moviegoers even though Joss personally hated the changes Apparently exactly two segments of dialogue that he wrote made it into the final cut ("Prove it" "You're a dick" was one of them).
...with Joss's work on Angel, Fray, the animated show and the limited work he does on Buffy (since Marti Noxon does most of it now), how is he going to manage everything?
Not only can you not find Gamecubes in stores, but try finding Gamecube accessories. It seems pretty hot in KY -- but then Louisville isn't representative of the rest of the US. From what I've heard console success is partly regional.
I think that the most glaring physics error commonly seen in many games -- especially platformers and FPSers -- is violations of inertia. Take almost any game where 1) your character can jump and 2) there are horizontally moving platforms of some sort. Stand on a moving platform and jump as it moves. In almost every single game you play your character will jump straight up in the air and the platform will move out from under the character, even though real physics should have the character continually moving in the direction of the vehicle (air resistance isn't that strong or your characters wouldn't be able to move at all).
I think that I've seen one game (whose name escapes me atm) that actually got it more or less correct -- and I think that was just a game engine quirk that caused it.
Your question is a very dangerous question to ask on GTA3 or PS2 based forums. You usually get an answer like the following:
NO!!!! NO!!!!!!! NO!!!!!! GODDAMNIT, A THOUSAND FUCKING TIMES NO!!!! THE GAME IS NOT BEING BANNED, EDITED, ALTERED OR CENSORED IN ANY WAY IN THE US!!!!!
As you might have guessed, it's a common question. The game isn't being pulled or banned, despite what some people claim on Ebay.
Offer to buy the UK version for them and mail that. The game has not been banned in the UK, the UK version is PAL and thus compatable with most Aussie TVs and the regional encoding system (for PS2 games) is set so that the UK and Australia are the same region, so people in Australia can play the UK version without problem.
Of course, if you live in the UK then its less hassle. Or New Zealand -- I understand that many Aussies are importing from NZ.
Consider this from the CNN article (And I've seen it before):
The OFLC was firm on the point that the game would not allowed in Australia, saying "if you have already purchased a game you will need to contact your retailer about return procedures."
Are people who purchased the game before the ban now expected to return it? Exactly how many Aussies are going to return what is essentially a collector's item in their country?
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Apparently you missed this part of the article:
When asked about possible adverse effects a megawatt laser might have on the Earth's weather patterns Prof. Criswell responded, "Why...no...of course not...whatever gave you the idea that this device could be used to hold the world hostage under threat of global weather disasters should they fail to meet my demands? MUHAHAHAHA!"
Spamming should be a capital crime. Seriously, if the penalty for deliberately sending out unsolicited bulk e-mail was death, we would have a lot fewer spammers in this country. Of course sometimes you have the problem where a US-based company spams but uses an offshore spammer to do it. In those cases, long periods of incarceration for knowingly arranging a spamming run would be sufficient, IMO.
"is designed to protect the rights of composers, artists, writers, and others whose work is distributed over the Internet or other digital media."
I suspect that "others" refers to corporations and creators of shoddy encryption systems with enough money to throw at the politicians drafting the treaty to protect them from evil researchers who might discover that Rot-13 isn't that secure after all?
I remember that cartoon from when it aired on Nickelodeon.
I remember very little about it though, other than most of the series was about them trying to get to the city and they didn't actually get there until the last episodes.
Hey, my IP changed since my initial signup with Insight@Home...
Of course it changed only once, and that was when the node was split up.
Of course I don't seem to be affected by any "changes" yet. I have configured my firewall/NAT router with static IP in mind, but I've been able to get a dynamic setup working for a PPP backup connection and I could probably apply that to a dynamically-assigned IP from the cable modem connection.
My biggest concern is that when my cable provider seeks a new ISP partnership following @Home's death they will go with some ISP that requires Windows-specific software to make the connection work at all.
I'd say that the ISPs that don't say anything are the ones to worry most about. Unfortunately BellSouth is incredibly lax in upgrading their circuits for DSL (a sudden slowdown in their efforts after the FCC ruled that they had to allow other ISPs access to DSL service), so if Insight's service dies, I'm screwed. I do have a dialup account and my NAT router is configured to access it, but I don't want to have to share three computers on a 56k connection.
Should @HOME try to query my home NAT/ipmasq router it won't receive anything -- any incoming non-return packets get dropped to the floor regardless of the destination port.
Honestly I'm not sure how you could easily detect a NAT connection short of 1) breaking into the box or 2) examining every packet to look for return port discrepencies.
Well, only the Joe Average who hasn't already bought a LinkSys hub and is NAT-sharing the two computers in his house already -- an increaslingy common occurance. It's odd, they're pitching CAT technology as though people will think to adopt it when NAT is readily available now.
Allegedly static IPs don't exist with my @HOME service, but I've only had my IP address change once, and that was when the oversized and overtaxed node was split. In fact, on our initial installation invoice our IP was written down, as though it was assigned specifically fo our connection. How often does your IP change?
Seems that there's always a bug in every new kernel release lately and it either is so major that it warrants switching to a previous kernel lest I suffer catastrophic effects or its minor but it's still something that affects me (such as ntfs or emu10k support).
I somehow missed the 2.4.15 announcement so fortunately I wasn't hit by any problems (I also missed the 2.4.13 release, dunno how), but even though I normally pop in the newest kernel upon release I'm pondering waiting this one out.
Hrmm, it might have something to do with the mail class as well -- an individual First Class stamped letter may be returned with different rules than bulk mail.
I recall a story about a church that mailed out religious-themed videotapes to every address that they could snatch up within their city -- and then they had to pay return postage when a number of recipients returned the video (often with bricks attached to increase the postage). I'll have to investigate the law further.
With postal junk mail, I always write "RETURN TO SENDER" on the envelope and drop it back into the mailbox. It's my understanding that the sender must pay postage for the returned mail -- even if that isn't the case my junk postal mail has dropped significantly since I started the practice.
Unfortunately there isn't necessarily an analog for e-mail. Perhaps you might consider setting up a filter so that junk e-mail addressed to a store-specific mail alias is auto-forwarded to every contact address that you can dig up for the offending online retailer they might get a hint?
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All this talk of finding new ways of being flashy and new during the holidays and so little talk of the important birthday celebrated on December 25. Really, would it kill you to pay some respect to the very important individual whose birth is celebrated yearly on that one day of the year?
I mean honestly, you all give each other gifts but I, the birthday boy, don't get so much as a card from you!
Without comparing storylines, I didn't like the storyline of FF8 period. It wasn't that the other FF games had "better" storylines, it was that FF8's storyline bored me -- I had no interest in the characters nor did I have any interest in furthering the plot after destroying that metal walker thing.
It and FF2 (the Japanese version) are the only Final Fantasies I've not completed (well, apart from FFX, but I'll probably do that one). Further, I'll probably go ahead and play through FF2 sometime, I just never got around to it.
The earlier FF games are not "free", as the copyright is still owned by Squaresoft and in fact the three Super Famicom incarnations of the Final Fantasy series were re-released and still available for purchase for the Playstation console. Stop encouraging people to commit software piracy and steal Squaresoft's well-deserved revenue you filthy thief.
By the way, do you know if the latest translation patch for the Japanese Super Famicom FF6 has been released? I've been dying to patch my ROM image with it so I can see a more faithful translation of the dialogue.
I've never gotten any virus of any nature through e-mail. Either no one likes me or no one I know is stupid enough to open e-mail attachments.
If he can pull the same kind of innuendo that he created in the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling" during the song "I'm Under Your Spell", I'm sure that this show will have a lot of fanboys pulling for it.
Don't blame Joss for Alien Resurrection, FOX tends to meddle with every movie he has a hand in and he is never happy with the results.
That isn't to say that he's a paragon of direction and production -- X-Men was rather popular amongst moviegoers even though Joss personally hated the changes Apparently exactly two segments of dialogue that he wrote made it into the final cut ("Prove it" "You're a dick" was one of them).
...with Joss's work on Angel, Fray, the animated show and the limited work he does on Buffy (since Marti Noxon does most of it now), how is he going to manage everything?
Not only can you not find Gamecubes in stores, but try finding Gamecube accessories. It seems pretty hot in KY -- but then Louisville isn't representative of the rest of the US. From what I've heard console success is partly regional.
I think that the most glaring physics error commonly seen in many games -- especially platformers and FPSers -- is violations of inertia. Take almost any game where 1) your character can jump and 2) there are horizontally moving platforms of some sort. Stand on a moving platform and jump as it moves. In almost every single game you play your character will jump straight up in the air and the platform will move out from under the character, even though real physics should have the character continually moving in the direction of the vehicle (air resistance isn't that strong or your characters wouldn't be able to move at all).
I think that I've seen one game (whose name escapes me atm) that actually got it more or less correct -- and I think that was just a game engine quirk that caused it.
Your question is a very dangerous question to ask on GTA3 or PS2 based forums. You usually get an answer like the following:
NO!!!! NO!!!!!!! NO!!!!!! GODDAMNIT, A THOUSAND FUCKING TIMES NO!!!! THE GAME IS NOT BEING BANNED, EDITED, ALTERED OR CENSORED IN ANY WAY IN THE US!!!!!
As you might have guessed, it's a common question. The game isn't being pulled or banned, despite what some people claim on Ebay.
Offer to buy the UK version for them and mail that. The game has not been banned in the UK, the UK version is PAL and thus compatable with most Aussie TVs and the regional encoding system (for PS2 games) is set so that the UK and Australia are the same region, so people in Australia can play the UK version without problem.
Of course, if you live in the UK then its less hassle. Or New Zealand -- I understand that many Aussies are importing from NZ.
Consider this from the CNN article (And I've seen it before):
The OFLC was firm on the point that the game would not allowed in Australia, saying "if you have already purchased a game you will need to contact your retailer about return procedures."
Are people who purchased the game before the ban now expected to return it? Exactly how many Aussies are going to return what is essentially a collector's item in their country?
Apparently you missed this part of the article:
When asked about possible adverse effects a megawatt laser might have on the Earth's weather patterns Prof. Criswell responded, "Why...no...of course not...whatever gave you the idea that this device could be used to hold the world hostage under threat of global weather disasters should they fail to meet my demands? MUHAHAHAHA!"
Spamming should be a capital crime. Seriously, if the penalty for deliberately sending out unsolicited bulk e-mail was death, we would have a lot fewer spammers in this country. Of course sometimes you have the problem where a US-based company spams but uses an offshore spammer to do it. In those cases, long periods of incarceration for knowingly arranging a spamming run would be sufficient, IMO.
"is designed to protect the rights of composers, artists, writers, and others whose work is distributed over the Internet or other digital media."
I suspect that "others" refers to corporations and creators of shoddy encryption systems with enough money to throw at the politicians drafting the treaty to protect them from evil researchers who might discover that Rot-13 isn't that secure after all?
I remember that cartoon from when it aired on Nickelodeon.
I remember very little about it though, other than most of the series was about them trying to get to the city and they didn't actually get there until the last episodes.
Hey, my IP changed since my initial signup with Insight@Home...
Of course it changed only once, and that was when the node was split up.
Of course I don't seem to be affected by any "changes" yet. I have configured my firewall/NAT router with static IP in mind, but I've been able to get a dynamic setup working for a PPP backup connection and I could probably apply that to a dynamically-assigned IP from the cable modem connection.
My biggest concern is that when my cable provider seeks a new ISP partnership following @Home's death they will go with some ISP that requires Windows-specific software to make the connection work at all.
I'd say that the ISPs that don't say anything are the ones to worry most about. Unfortunately BellSouth is incredibly lax in upgrading their circuits for DSL (a sudden slowdown in their efforts after the FCC ruled that they had to allow other ISPs access to DSL service), so if Insight's service dies, I'm screwed. I do have a dialup account and my NAT router is configured to access it, but I don't want to have to share three computers on a 56k connection.
Should @HOME try to query my home NAT/ipmasq router it won't receive anything -- any incoming non-return packets get dropped to the floor regardless of the destination port.
Honestly I'm not sure how you could easily detect a NAT connection short of 1) breaking into the box or 2) examining every packet to look for return port discrepencies.
Well, only the Joe Average who hasn't already bought a LinkSys hub and is NAT-sharing the two computers in his house already -- an increaslingy common occurance. It's odd, they're pitching CAT technology as though people will think to adopt it when NAT is readily available now.
Allegedly static IPs don't exist with my @HOME service, but I've only had my IP address change once, and that was when the oversized and overtaxed node was split. In fact, on our initial installation invoice our IP was written down, as though it was assigned specifically fo our connection. How often does your IP change?
Whew, glad to hear it. I've been splitting my cable line between my cable modem and my TV card :)
Seems that there's always a bug in every new kernel release lately and it either is so major that it warrants switching to a previous kernel lest I suffer catastrophic effects or its minor but it's still something that affects me (such as ntfs or emu10k support).
I somehow missed the 2.4.15 announcement so fortunately I wasn't hit by any problems (I also missed the 2.4.13 release, dunno how), but even though I normally pop in the newest kernel upon release I'm pondering waiting this one out.
Hrmm, it might have something to do with the mail class as well -- an individual First Class stamped letter may be returned with different rules than bulk mail.
I recall a story about a church that mailed out religious-themed videotapes to every address that they could snatch up within their city -- and then they had to pay return postage when a number of recipients returned the video (often with bricks attached to increase the postage). I'll have to investigate the law further.
With postal junk mail, I always write "RETURN TO SENDER" on the envelope and drop it back into the mailbox. It's my understanding that the sender must pay postage for the returned mail -- even if that isn't the case my junk postal mail has dropped significantly since I started the practice.
Unfortunately there isn't necessarily an analog for e-mail. Perhaps you might consider setting up a filter so that junk e-mail addressed to a store-specific mail alias is auto-forwarded to every contact address that you can dig up for the offending online retailer they might get a hint?