From what I can tell it seems Squaresoft was by far first among equals in that merger. Final Fantasy this, Final Fantasy that, and yet very little seems to be on the horizon in the world of Dragon Quest/Warrior. The old FF games have been ported seventeen different ways to Sunday but we still haven't seen ports of DQ 5 or 6 in English. Going to the Square-Enix homepage, I don't see anything that looks like something that would have come from Enix, and you really have to dig before you see the phrase "Dragon Warrior." You give us an update to Seiken Densetsu 1 for the GBA SP that manages to break the beauty of the ring menu system but you can't be bothered to finally bring Terranigma to North America? It's not like you even have to translate it...
Squaresoft is alive and well, it's Enix that seems to be floating belly-up. Where's Soul Blazer IV? Can we at least get a Chrono III?
I'm not sure you would need as much graphical processing power that 2D renditions of 3D scenes. A lot of the math involved is for the "camera" and answering the question "What would element X look like when viewed from angle Y?" If you're dealing with holograms, there is no "camera" angle to worry about, since that's determined by where your eyes are in The Real World.
"After all, the "real" time is determined by when exactly the sun is at the apex of its arc in the sky, which we call "high noon.""
Then you're screwed, since the length of time between two consecutive solar noons varies throughout the year, with the sun drifting by as much as 15 minutes from mean noon (i. e. where the sun would be if all solar cycles were the same length). Mean noon and apparent noon coincide only four times a year. Blame Kepler.
This is why everybody has switched to mechanical clocks to begin with; they're actually far more consistent timekeepers than the sun and don't require a degree in astronomy to figure out. "Real time" is determine by 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium-133 atom.
"the sundial is right:"
Your basic sundial is only right four times a year. If you know what day of the year it is you can figure out the correction factor between local apparent time and local mean time, and many of the more detailed "analog" sundials have analemmas instead of a straight noon line so that you don't have to do any math, but I really don't see how you could work that into a digital sundial like this (especially since you'd need an analemma for each and every point marked on the sundial to get local mean time at any point other than noon).
That's nice, except that wasn't my point. I was trying to make the point that this wasn't anything new by any account, and for the parent to say that it's all we've been seeing "lately" is disingenuous.
How about this: changing your clocks for Daylight Saving Time is just like changing your watch after you cross a time zone boundary. The only difference is that you changed time zones without moving. The clock you don't change is still right for the time zone you used to be in (Standard Time), but you're now in a different time zone than it (Daylight Time) for the next few months.
Standard Time doesn't change. Daylight Time doesn't change. The only thing that changes is you when you decide to stop living in one and start living in another.
"Lately they've put out a cart racing game, a golf game, an RPG and a tennis game."
I see "lately" for you means "ten years ago." Super Mario Kart is an SNES game, the characters in the old NES Golf game look suspicious, Super Mario RPG is another SNES game and Mario's Tennis was a pack-in with my Virtual Boy.
"You are required to move it so it gives correct time for 6 months out of the year."
No, it always gives correct time for the time zone it's specified. You don't change the time, you change time zones; where I sit, when Daylight Saving Time starts I go from Eastern Standard Time to Eastern Daylight Time. Eastern Standard Time doesn't change, it keeps on ticking along at UTC-0500.
Hardly. When we say "cold fusion," we mean "cold as compared to how fusion normally is," like "colder than the surface of the sun" or "colder than an exploding hydrogen bomb." By those standards you could stick your head in an oven and still be "cold."
Yeah, because there's nothing more the DoD wants to spend money on than training a whole bunch of n00bs, especially those hostile to the idea. Why would they want to spend it instead on medical benefits and retaining those folks that know what they're doing?
The idea is to have good games that happen to be portable, not just good portable games. If your portable gaming is your gaming choice of last resort, why bother with anything more complicated than an old Game & Watch?
In other words, if you wouldn't want to play the game on a TV, why would you want to play it at all?
"There really isn't any reason to splurge on an expensive device when a twist of the dial can tune in just about any type of music that an individual would be interested in."
That's just it, though: you need to hit the turner and hope you'll find something you want to listen to. If nothing else, satellite radios will tell you when something you want to listen to is coming on and let you tune in automatically. And you also don't have to hit the dial to avoid commercials.
When was the last time you actually sat down and listened to your radio, as opposed to using it as a noise-maker while focusing on something else?
He was the funniest guy to watch in the cabinet! Who else is going to cause so much controversy by saying something like "old Europe?"
Anyway, for you conspiracy theorists out there, maybe Ridge left because he wanted to get higher up in the order of succession (you can't get much lower than the last cabinet position created)...
"that doesn't give a Flying...ya know... about U.S. laws"
Don't forget that, while, US laws favor businesses when it comes to copyright laws, in the US they can't get away with taking a contract out on copyright violators. SeaLand is all well and good until the ad gets printed in the next issue of Soldier of Fortune.
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From what I can tell it seems Squaresoft was by far first among equals in that merger. Final Fantasy this, Final Fantasy that, and yet very little seems to be on the horizon in the world of Dragon Quest/Warrior. The old FF games have been ported seventeen different ways to Sunday but we still haven't seen ports of DQ 5 or 6 in English. Going to the Square-Enix homepage, I don't see anything that looks like something that would have come from Enix, and you really have to dig before you see the phrase "Dragon Warrior." You give us an update to Seiken Densetsu 1 for the GBA SP that manages to break the beauty of the ring menu system but you can't be bothered to finally bring Terranigma to North America? It's not like you even have to translate it...
Squaresoft is alive and well, it's Enix that seems to be floating belly-up. Where's Soul Blazer IV? Can we at least get a Chrono III?
I'm not sure you would need as much graphical processing power that 2D renditions of 3D scenes. A lot of the math involved is for the "camera" and answering the question "What would element X look like when viewed from angle Y?" If you're dealing with holograms, there is no "camera" angle to worry about, since that's determined by where your eyes are in The Real World.
I'm sure the nice, friendly Sandmen will help him see the wisdom of Renewal.
"He is the FORMER director of the CIA,
That's what they want you to think, man!
"After all, the "real" time is determined by when exactly the sun is at the apex of its arc in the sky, which we call "high noon.""
Then you're screwed, since the length of time between two consecutive solar noons varies throughout the year, with the sun drifting by as much as 15 minutes from mean noon (i. e. where the sun would be if all solar cycles were the same length). Mean noon and apparent noon coincide only four times a year. Blame Kepler.
This is why everybody has switched to mechanical clocks to begin with; they're actually far more consistent timekeepers than the sun and don't require a degree in astronomy to figure out. "Real time" is determine by 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium-133 atom.
"the sundial is right:"
Your basic sundial is only right four times a year. If you know what day of the year it is you can figure out the correction factor between local apparent time and local mean time, and many of the more detailed "analog" sundials have analemmas instead of a straight noon line so that you don't have to do any math, but I really don't see how you could work that into a digital sundial like this (especially since you'd need an analemma for each and every point marked on the sundial to get local mean time at any point other than noon).
"See? I can be a smartass too!"
That's nice, except that wasn't my point. I was trying to make the point that this wasn't anything new by any account, and for the parent to say that it's all we've been seeing "lately" is disingenuous.
How about this: changing your clocks for Daylight Saving Time is just like changing your watch after you cross a time zone boundary. The only difference is that you changed time zones without moving. The clock you don't change is still right for the time zone you used to be in (Standard Time), but you're now in a different time zone than it (Daylight Time) for the next few months.
Standard Time doesn't change. Daylight Time doesn't change. The only thing that changes is you when you decide to stop living in one and start living in another.
"The default themes have both been updated with new and improved artwork as well."
As opposed to updating the themese with old and broken artwork?
"Lately they've put out a cart racing game, a golf game, an RPG and a tennis game."
I see "lately" for you means "ten years ago." Super Mario Kart is an SNES game, the characters in the old NES Golf game look suspicious, Super Mario RPG is another SNES game and Mario's Tennis was a pack-in with my Virtual Boy.
"You are required to move it so it gives correct time for 6 months out of the year."
No, it always gives correct time for the time zone it's specified. You don't change the time, you change time zones; where I sit, when Daylight Saving Time starts I go from Eastern Standard Time to Eastern Daylight Time. Eastern Standard Time doesn't change, it keeps on ticking along at UTC-0500.
Ah yes, the mythical Infinite Monkeys Emulator...
"Of course the beers would be completely frozen,"
Hardly. When we say "cold fusion," we mean "cold as compared to how fusion normally is," like "colder than the surface of the sun" or "colder than an exploding hydrogen bomb." By those standards you could stick your head in an oven and still be "cold."
"Because when government spies on innocent people,"
Discharging a firearm within city limits? That severely tests the definition of "innocent," since that in and of itself is a crime.
This can't really be compared to a surveylance system because by definition it doesn't survey, it takes snapshots when triggered.
"And I'm sure teenagers are just itching to walk around in public with a portable game system making stupid mouth noises"
Hey, they drive around in public with a car that makes stupid muffler noises, so why not?
Yeah, because there's nothing more the DoD wants to spend money on than training a whole bunch of n00bs, especially those hostile to the idea. Why would they want to spend it instead on medical benefits and retaining those folks that know what they're doing?
"What part of portable don't you understand?"
The idea is to have good games that happen to be portable, not just good portable games. If your portable gaming is your gaming choice of last resort, why bother with anything more complicated than an old Game & Watch?
In other words, if you wouldn't want to play the game on a TV, why would you want to play it at all?
"I love this new GBA version. It makes the daily commute more interesting."
I'm sure it makes it more interesting for the other drivers around you as well.
"You know you want to listen to music and effects of Duck Hunt"
I just want the sound effects of shooting the damned dog!!!
At any rate, you sound like someone who hasn't heard Final Fantasy III or Mother yet.
"There really isn't any reason to splurge on an expensive device when a twist of the dial can tune in just about any type of music that an individual would be interested in."
That's just it, though: you need to hit the turner and hope you'll find something you want to listen to. If nothing else, satellite radios will tell you when something you want to listen to is coming on and let you tune in automatically. And you also don't have to hit the dial to avoid commercials.
When was the last time you actually sat down and listened to your radio, as opposed to using it as a noise-maker while focusing on something else?
Bah, after Jennings gets Brood War he can sweep the overlords out of the sky with valkyries.
"He actually *explained* the whole "1337" thing, and *he was serious*."
I believe the term is "script kiddie."
He was the funniest guy to watch in the cabinet! Who else is going to cause so much controversy by saying something like "old Europe?"
Anyway, for you conspiracy theorists out there, maybe Ridge left because he wanted to get higher up in the order of succession (you can't get much lower than the last cabinet position created)...
"collect personally identifiable information on all college students, including name, address, birth date, gender, race, and SSN."
What about a "appeared recently in 'Gilrs Gone Wild?'" flag?
In Korea, only old people still used the "in Soviet Russia" joke apparently.
"that doesn't give a Flying...ya know... about U.S. laws"
Don't forget that, while, US laws favor businesses when it comes to copyright laws, in the US they can't get away with taking a contract out on copyright violators. SeaLand is all well and good until the ad gets printed in the next issue of Soldier of Fortune.