Matter of opinion. Sure, FFXII's story was a bit light, but the combat system was the best ever seen of any jRPG. You could do everything manually or litterally program the AI of the party members with the gambit system.
I for one loved it, and most reviewers did too. SE's not about to "kill" FF any time soon, as you may think. It's their franchise, it's their cash-cow.
"Linux has far better hardware support than any other OS out there. "
bullshit, and you know it. wireless drivers, onboard drivers, 3d accerleration. they all SUCK to install on linux. not to mention specialised stuff like hdtv tuners.
I challenge you to wipe your Windows HD, re-install everything from just a windows CD and see how much of that hardware works.
In my experience, out-of-the-box clean installs are generally easier and more complete in Linux.
I worked a a university and every presentation I've ever seen made me cringe. They pretty well went this way:
First silde:
--- A Methodology for making french fries ---
o Variety of potato(e)s
o Knives and their uses
o Cutting boards
o Knife handling
o Potato handling
o Peeling efficiently
o Cutting motions...
And while this slide is up, the speaker goes on like this:
"Hello!... um... Today I'm going to present a methodology for making french fries. Um... I'll address the varieties of potato(e)s... um... that you can get. Um... Then I'll talk about knives and their uses, um... cutting boards, knife handling, potato handling, peeling efficiently, oh darn, this isn't the last version of this presentation, it's supposed to have a header for peelers, anyway, um... um... and I'll finish with cutting motions."
"Any questions?"
And then the next slide comes on and I feign a terrible bout of diarrhea so I can leave the room.
I sat next to a guy playing his DS on the subway yesterday. I was playing Ratchet & Clank on my PSP. He stopped playing to look at my screen, with obvious envy. I listen to my MP3s (screen off, locked in my pocket, long battery life), I watch movies and anime, I read E-books, do a bit of web-surfing, and play a few games, so I'm really happy with the PSP.
I've had every type of gameboys and have always been frustrated by the displays. To me, the DS was a huge mistake. Instead of giving us two crappy small displays, they should have made it with one large one.
Actually, they started the project way back in 1976, and time-travalled to our time to get PS3s to start working early, as you can see in http://folding.stanford.edu/abeta-PS3.jpg.
Visualizing these largish molecules is going to be interesting.
A couple of years ago I worked in a University department and we acquired an EMC Celerra NAS server (NS600) which promised to serve files to both our Unix and Windows clients (about 200) using NFS and CIFS (SMB) from the same volume sets.
Long story short: There were so many problems (not the least security-wise) on the CIFS part of it that we ended up putting a Samba server in front of it for our windows clients. Samba simplified operations, was very simple, efficient, and secure. It integrated in our Domain almost transparently.
$200,000 server needed a cheap PC running Linux in front of it. You do the math.
If I had had any guts, I'd have imposed my views and never let the department spend that money on the EMC box and would have gotten Intel server(s) instead, for one tenth the price. >
You do realize Pounds are the monetary unit in the UK right? If they wanted the unit of measuremeant in weight they would have used kilograms. Actually, kilograms are a measure of mass, not weight. A six kilograms of matter is still six kilos on the moon, whereas a six pound one is only one pound on the moon.
I suggest you try the Logitech wireless mice, as they draw a lot less current. My Radio Shack NiMH batteries last about 2 months at work, and I'm using the mouse a lot.
The day they take linux/X/fvwm/gnu away from me, they'll have to pry them from my cold dead fingers.
Sure, having your desktop run remotely from a web serve means your desktop follows you everywhere you go, but that also means you have to trust another party with your data.
Dude, you forgot a *SPOILER* warning. Thanks for ruining it for me.
Thank god for games, at least no protagonist ever dies in them. Did I mention I'm playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time? Wow, Aeris really rocks, best character _evar_!:-)
More FUD from the Sony bashers. PS3 does 1080p just fine. What it doesn't do is upscale 720p content up to 1080i if the TV only doesn't do 1080p. So what it does is feed the 720p content directly to the TV to do what it can with it, provided it supports 720p. If it doesn't, the PS3 downscales the content to 480p.
So in order to suffer the downscaling, you need a really crappy HDTV which doesn't support 1080p AND 720p.
Personally, I'd be more frustrated at a lack of HDMI on my HD content player as any moderately decent HDTV support either of those two modes fine.
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I for one welcome our new sexy female robot overlords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHtEt_x6FI. (Safe for work, cousin video of topic)
Matter of opinion. Sure, FFXII's story was a bit light, but the combat system was the best ever seen of any jRPG. You could do everything manually or litterally program the AI of the party members with the gambit system.
I for one loved it, and most reviewers did too. SE's not about to "kill" FF any time soon, as you may think. It's their franchise, it's their cash-cow.
"Linux has far better hardware support than any other OS out there. "
bullshit, and you know it. wireless drivers, onboard drivers, 3d accerleration. they all SUCK to install on linux. not to mention specialised stuff like hdtv tuners.
I challenge you to wipe your Windows HD, re-install everything from just a windows CD and see how much of that hardware works.
In my experience, out-of-the-box clean installs are generally easier and more complete in Linux.
Because a population of mostly fowl mouthed racist sexist kids would make an excellent and unbiased jury.
In my mind, you had feathers coming out of your mouth. (Not a flame, I agree with you) (^,^)
That's cool.
That's cool. [...] like conferences and stuff like that?
Did they have like a sketch of the way it would look on the screen or did you just interpret it yourself?
That's where I stopped reading.
I worked a a university and every presentation I've ever seen made me cringe. They pretty well went this way:
...
... um... Today I'm going to present a methodology for making french fries. Um... I'll address the varieties of potato(e)s... um... that you can get. Um... Then I'll talk about knives and their uses, um... cutting boards, knife handling, potato handling, peeling efficiently, oh darn, this isn't the last version of this presentation, it's supposed to have a header for peelers, anyway, um... um... and I'll finish with cutting motions."
First silde:
--- A Methodology for making french fries ---
o Variety of potato(e)s
o Knives and their uses
o Cutting boards
o Knife handling
o Potato handling
o Peeling efficiently
o Cutting motions
And while this slide is up, the speaker goes on like this:
"Hello!
"Any questions?"
And then the next slide comes on and I feign a terrible bout of diarrhea so I can leave the room.
Thanks, I can read fine by myself. (><)
Just dump the pages as large JPG, view in the photo viewer, which does a mighty fine job of zooming in&out, rotating, etc...
I sat next to a guy playing his DS on the subway yesterday. I was playing Ratchet & Clank on my PSP. He stopped playing to look at my screen, with obvious envy. I listen to my MP3s (screen off, locked in my pocket, long battery life), I watch movies and anime, I read E-books, do a bit of web-surfing, and play a few games, so I'm really happy with the PSP.
I've had every type of gameboys and have always been frustrated by the displays. To me, the DS was a huge mistake. Instead of giving us two crappy small displays, they should have made it with one large one.
... Start updating his resume. The higher-ups at Sony don't like any kind of criticism.
Shinra Electric Power Company hasn't had a very good track record.
Actually, they started the project way back in 1976, and time-travalled to our time to get PS3s to start working early, as you can see in http://folding.stanford.edu/abeta-PS3.jpg.
Visualizing these largish molecules is going to be interesting.
I was just pointing out that cooperative games inside of the Playstation Home umbrella will be fun, as the editor video shows.
I dunno. Sony's preparing a decent online service and everyone's complaining. I smell fanboyism.
Why poo-poo something that's going to be free and optional? Don't like it? Don't have to use it.
Heck, item creation http://youtube.com/watch?v=a91ZzOMEwYY looks like it's going to be easy and fun. Here's another video in real-time: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nuoOosTdFiY
A couple of years ago I worked in a University department and we acquired an EMC Celerra NAS server (NS600) which promised to serve files to both our Unix and Windows clients (about 200) using NFS and CIFS (SMB) from the same volume sets.
Long story short: There were so many problems (not the least security-wise) on the CIFS part of it that we ended up putting a Samba server in front of it for our windows clients. Samba simplified operations, was very simple, efficient, and secure. It integrated in our Domain almost transparently.
$200,000 server needed a cheap PC running Linux in front of it. You do the math.
If I had had any guts, I'd have imposed my views and never let the department spend that money on the EMC box and would have gotten Intel server(s) instead, for one tenth the price. >
Yeah, the article about FF is a terrible fluff piece. What do you expect from IGN?
9 91/final-fantasy-xii-20061027031035821-000.jpg which makes me chuckle every time I see it. Someone's about to bite it hard.
Although it contains this image on page 3: http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/741/741
I suggest you try the Logitech wireless mice, as they draw a lot less current. My Radio Shack NiMH batteries last about 2 months at work, and I'm using the mouse a lot.
From TFA: ...and in the middle of it all I spotted a Sony PlayStation retail rep frantically cleaning off the very same kiosk...
You think that a Sony Representative is going to go to your local EB store and vacuum your local kiosk? Don't make me laugh!
This is rabid fanboyism, and a further proof of Slashdot's slant.
News for nerds? BS too. This is news reporting on par with Fox's.
The day they take linux/X/fvwm/gnu away from me, they'll have to pry them from my cold dead fingers.
Sure, having your desktop run remotely from a web serve means your desktop follows you everywhere you go, but that also means you have to trust another party with your data.
And that ain't happening, not with me.
Maybe you cried when ET died.
:-)
Dude, you forgot a *SPOILER* warning. Thanks for ruining it for me.
Thank god for games, at least no protagonist ever dies in them. Did I mention I'm playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time? Wow, Aeris really rocks, best character _evar_!
Geez, Yahoo! must really be in a perilous state if they let themselves be run by a CEO who sounds like a 12 year old boy on a sugar rush.
He seriously needs better English writing skills.
More FUD from the Sony bashers. PS3 does 1080p just fine. What it doesn't do is upscale 720p content up to 1080i if the TV only doesn't do 1080p. So what it does is feed the 720p content directly to the TV to do what it can with it, provided it supports 720p. If it doesn't, the PS3 downscales the content to 480p.
So in order to suffer the downscaling, you need a really crappy HDTV which doesn't support 1080p AND 720p.
Personally, I'd be more frustrated at a lack of HDMI on my HD content player as any moderately decent HDTV support either of those two modes fine.
Final Fantasy
:)
You have to embrace a little bit of suspension of disbelief, ya know?
Nice tag there, Slashdot. Your sarcasm skills are impressive.
Ok, so Gamstop over-sells pre-orders and somehow that's Sony's fault, right?
Congratulations, Sony. Nicely done.
Ok, so Sony makes a product, a lot of people want it, some resort to unscrupulous tactics to get them, and somehow that's Sony's fault?
All this Sony bashing is getting ri-goddamned-diculous.