And I think you've hit the nail on the head with the numbering comment... it shouldn't be 11, it should be "Online". Just as tactics and mystic quest were both full games and both bore the final fantasy title, they themselves were not a part of the actual series, they were in the "other" category. Like some kind of side-quest or something.
ps: enjoy 10, it's similar to 8 in look and feel of the world (just without the "I suck" quality of the characters), and a really cool storyline... just don't judge it by the voice acting in the first five minutes.
Are we going to have to pay someone to broadcast bleeped out music? I mean, if there's a heavy/death/black metal channel, there's going to be a whole lot of "bad words" floating around. I already cringe when I hear "bitch" or "asshole" phased out of a song. Why would I pay for that annoyance?
I'd be perfectly happy to pay for uncensored, ad-free heavy metal/alternative/whatever stations.
Primarily because even though nautilus tries to do everything like that (eating up ALL MY MEMORY in the process), I can simply go in and turn it off. And without nautilus gnome RUNS PERFECTLY FINE.
Try taking the "explorer" out of windows.
Really! Suddenly the name KPMG is firm in everybody's brain, and their pages are getting a ton of hits. Hell, people are even willingly subjecting themselves to the theme-song, all in the name of spiting them!
It's bad play to go and purchase into someone's mistake to take advantage of it. But nowadays, that's aparently the fairest game.
Morals are a weird thing because they don't carry between people well. For some people, this is probably morally terrible. For others, it's just the way the world works-- you see a prospect which doesn't physically hurt any given person, and take advantage of it to its fullest. Legality is a second-hand problem in these ongoings.
Now, since apple has come forth and made legality the forefront item, morality goes out the window, and the game becomes people trying to outwit each other to get what they want. In this case, because legal proceedings are so literal, it would appear that apple is in the wrong and just using strong-arm when they'd have been MUCH better off keeping this as quiet as possible.
It's just the way humans work, I suppose. It'll be that way forever.
And on a last note... laws were made to keep people happy. If the laws are to the point where they go entirely against the natural run of humans, then it isn't the people who are wrong.
It must be nice for everything to be so simple, morally. At least you always get to stand on the high-ground.
Also as far as your "correct" analogies...
Ask the people selling the CD if they knew the whole OS was there. They did?
Then it's NOT like a store giving you a twenty instead of a one, it's like the store saying "here's a twenty, because I don't like touching the ones, it's bad luck. But don't tell anyone, or we'll SUE"
The gold watch? It's finding it in your new car, then going back to the dealer saying "hey, there's a gold watch here," to which they respond, "yeah, we know. There's one in every car. Oh and if you tell anyone, we'll SUE."
Taking out the Demo and blowing on it? Then they need to blow into the box itself before putting the demo back in. Then ya gotta hold down the reset button and sorta *tap tap tap* on the game, and it'll come on if you've got the "touch".
They've got FUD buzzwords spread all about. Virally, restrictive, conform. Bad things. Agree with us!
People seem to have the wrong idea about MAPS sometimes. They see the effects, and they jump to conclusions about the reasoning.
I'm probably out on a horn here (what a stupid saying), but can't you get off of the MAPS list if you've proven you've closed your open relay?
And call me really crazy, but isn't the actual point to pressure the open relays to close themselves? This isn't just about finding a possible source of spam and black-hole-ing it forever and ever, it's about FIXING the problem. And unfortunately the only way to do that is to MAKE the mail admins pay attention to the problem, which this most certainly does.
Anti-spam blacklisting groups, such as MAPS and ORBs, put heavy pressure on ISPs to conform to a set of restrictive anti-spam policies and to virally pressure other ISPs to adopt the same policies.
Isn't ORBs defunct now?
Restrictive anti-spam policies? What, such as not providing an open relay for anybody in the world to send mass mailings off of? An unsecured open relay doesn't do anyone good, and the less there are the better off the end users are.
I will agree that the legislature is ridiculous, but I believe that MAPS, etc is the right way to solve this problem.
Changes that might make things a bit easier for everyone include a grace period (wherin a warning is sent to the admin say, 24 hours before black-hole-ing), and a quicker responce time on fix-calls (eg: it's fixed, let me send mail NOW). Also perhaps filtering shouldn't be simply black-holed, perhaps it should just throw some sort of error such that the sending side will try again after 24 hours.
While an MP3 box like this does sound cool (especially the lack of moving parts, I hate disk whirrs), it's MP3. And I don't use MP3 anymore, I use OGG. How long before someone hacks an ogg update together for it? How about different file-serving technologies (eg: mount NFS and scan those for audio files)?
What I'm waiting for ideally is something sorta like this, except from the different direction: I want to push music at it, rather than have it pull music from a defined source. I'd love an ESD device that'd sit on ethernet and wait for me to throw sounds at it. That way it'd be format inspecific: wanna play OGG, MP3, RealAudio, WAV? Go for it!
Or alternately, give it the ability to subscribe to a shoutcast stream. I don't know much about streaming music in this manner (I've never set it up or actually used it before; never needed to, really), but it sounds like I'd just have to tell the device to subscribe to any given stream (even one not local to my private network, provided it can access the outside net).
This device is pretty neat, but with a few modifications to make it more versatile, it'd be too damn cool for words.
As with so many metaphores, this one is wrong too. The interactions between two single people cannot be used to portray the interractions between full-fledged factions. Your chief friend sounds pretty simple.
The interection in this charming meme isn't well related to what is going on now with the US. A closer allegory would involve not merely hitting back the single offendor, but to instead throw a grenade into park full of people, under the impression that the bastard who punched you is in there with everyone else.
The worries and objections coming from so many are not that a strike against the Taliban would just be adding more violence aimlessly. The worries from people like myself are that attacking all of Afghanistan (as SO MANY people seem to think of as such a perfect and logical reaction) would be pointless and harm helpless-- and frankly innocent-- people. So a group of crazed militarists who have taken over a country's power-seat harbor and possibly aide a terrorist whose attacks haved killed thousands of innocent americans, and we're suddenly justified in killing more innocents who might get in the way while we're bombing those responsible?
A direct and coordinated military attack is great, we DO need to show those who are actually responsible that they cannot do this without consequences. I don't believe that we can successfully remove them as a threat forever, that just doesn't work. If some ridiculous militarist starts hitting me, he's still a threat even if I hit him back.
Now what I see happening (here in reality) is not the bombing of all of Afghanistan. I see, thus far, an aimed and purposefull retaliation. And I am behind those actions, so long as they stay focused. But if we start listening to all the fanatical babblings of people hungry for blood and "vengance", then we're all quite frankly fucked. If every baboon screaming racial slurs had their say and way, we'd take the cowardly and reactionary route and destroy the entire country as precedense.
Just wanted to point out a couple of things, not necessarily in response to Lizard-King's post, but to the quote from it.
The PS2 controller has ten buttons, not counting the non-analog directional four on the left side, and not counting start and select. The two analog sticks can be depressed as a button each, separate to the actual movements of the analog stick (like the scroll-wheel on a mouse is also the middle button). The PS2 controller (or the dual-shock PS controller) is also probably one of the BEST controller designs ever given to players (in my humblest of opinions).
a single button or a few buttons could be used for all the functions, with each finger denoting a particular action.
That sounds fine, but that's only usefull if you're only pressing one button at a time. I haven't played a game (non RPG) in a very long time that you could work like that. Each button is marked for a single function, and often multiple functions have to occur at the same time For example; braking hard, skidding right, toggling weapons and firing a gas-tank (ala Twisted Metal Black) while laying out a spray of machine-gun fire on the off-chance you'd catch someone in it. If you had to combine multiple finger presses for any one of those actions, performing them all simultaneously would be... interesting to say the least.
Even with the original Nintendo you used more than one button at a time (sometimes even with the same finger). Running and jumping and throwing fireballs from midair at hapless goombas, for instance.
Just to be sure, this afternoon I went down to the store and bought a copy of FrontPage 2002 myself...
So that's their new revenue plan. Obscure and inflammatory EULA that have to be seen to be believed, and purchased to be seen.
Which must be taking the place of their older scheme which was to add such ridiculous easter-egg functions to random products that people would of course just HAVE to see
Bigger towers, stronger, monuments to the American ability to recover and cope. Knock us down and we come back stronger. Veritable monoliths which will stand as a heartstone to New York city.
Maybe a single tower, a glory of steel and glass like a cry raised to heaven, spiking into the sky.
And yet, this lot come along with something else that lets you see alternatives when you browse a web page and suddenly it's OK. Rejoice,/.ers, for extra information as you surf is a Good Thing!
I just read through around 40 comments all totally against it as obnoxious and evil... where in the heck do you get off saying "and suddenly it's OK"? Are you even reading the reader responses? Everything so far has been either a circumvention idea, a proclamation of outright hatred, or at least mild annoyed amusement at the lengths advertisers will go to be advertisers.
Slashdot had sets of people on either side of the smart-tags argument (all of Slashdot-dom wasn't against smart-tags, some realized that it was controlled locally and saw that there was interesting potential there), and there's probably people on either side of the Gator argument. Maybe some people like the idea of meta-advertising (though I doubt there's going to be an abundance of them, given past feelings for Gator in general and their evil "uninstall" practices)
Processor power is up, and cheap. Architecture isn't standard. Write a VM once for an architecture, then you can run all your pretty PDA Java applications irregardless of what you're running them on. You're suggesting that every portable-item have all of its applications coded specifically for it. Even if the only games in the world were solitaire and nibbles, that's a lot of applications to re-write everytime a new device comes out with a slightly different architecture/instruction-set/whatever.
Oh yeah, and Java is a buzz-word. Makes people happy when they have a buzzword-compliant item. The toys just seem so much COOLER then.
Slashdot Mirror
Same way jabber does, by indicating the server / service of the other person as a part of that person's ID (eg: foo@jabber.foo.com )
So if there's a "kradkkool" on aim, and a "kradkkool" on msn, they'd appear externally as "kradkkool@aim" and "kradkkool@msn", respectively.
Isn't the actual trademark for "Microsoft Windows"?
Wouldn't that indicate that they'd have to name it "Licrosoft Lindows" before anyone could sue?
Did it make it into anybody's mirror? Their site off of sourceforge gives a 404 from the download page here.
You forgot "Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest"!
And I think you've hit the nail on the head with the numbering comment... it shouldn't be 11, it should be "Online". Just as tactics and mystic quest were both full games and both bore the final fantasy title, they themselves were not a part of the actual series, they were in the "other" category. Like some kind of side-quest or something.
ps: enjoy 10, it's similar to 8 in look and feel of the world (just without the "I suck" quality of the characters), and a really cool storyline... just don't judge it by the voice acting in the first five minutes.
The whole metal-gear getting into the shop thing was by far the most amusing read I've come across all week.
It's been a slow week.
Excellent point!
Are we going to have to pay someone to broadcast bleeped out music? I mean, if there's a heavy/death/black metal channel, there's going to be a whole lot of "bad words" floating around. I already cringe when I hear "bitch" or "asshole" phased out of a song. Why would I pay for that annoyance?
I'd be perfectly happy to pay for uncensored, ad-free heavy metal/alternative/whatever stations.
Primarily because even though nautilus tries to do everything like that (eating up ALL MY MEMORY in the process), I can simply go in and turn it off. And without nautilus gnome RUNS PERFECTLY FINE. Try taking the "explorer" out of windows.
scratch that, maybe there *is* such a thing as bad publicity.
Really! Suddenly the name KPMG is firm in everybody's brain, and their pages are getting a ton of hits. Hell, people are even willingly subjecting themselves to the theme-song, all in the name of spiting them!
No such thing as bad press. What a PR move!
It pretty much comes down to bad taste.
It's bad play to go and purchase into someone's mistake to take advantage of it. But nowadays, that's aparently the fairest game.
Morals are a weird thing because they don't carry between people well. For some people, this is probably morally terrible. For others, it's just the way the world works-- you see a prospect which doesn't physically hurt any given person, and take advantage of it to its fullest. Legality is a second-hand problem in these ongoings.
Now, since apple has come forth and made legality the forefront item, morality goes out the window, and the game becomes people trying to outwit each other to get what they want. In this case, because legal proceedings are so literal, it would appear that apple is in the wrong and just using strong-arm when they'd have been MUCH better off keeping this as quiet as possible.
It's just the way humans work, I suppose. It'll be that way forever.
And on a last note... laws were made to keep people happy. If the laws are to the point where they go entirely against the natural run of humans, then it isn't the people who are wrong.
It must be nice for everything to be so simple, morally. At least you always get to stand on the high-ground.
Also as far as your "correct" analogies...
Ask the people selling the CD if they knew the whole OS was there. They did?
Then it's NOT like a store giving you a twenty instead of a one, it's like the store saying "here's a twenty, because I don't like touching the ones, it's bad luck. But don't tell anyone, or we'll SUE"
The gold watch? It's finding it in your new car, then going back to the dealer saying "hey, there's a gold watch here," to which they respond, "yeah, we know. There's one in every car. Oh and if you tell anyone, we'll SUE."
- GameCube
- XBox
- PS2
- Dreamcast
- N64
- SNES
- NES
- VCR
- DVD Player
to the same television without having to chain anything together. Bonus if it has more than one output and a remote control!Taking out the Demo and blowing on it? Then they need to blow into the box itself before putting the demo back in. Then ya gotta hold down the reset button and sorta *tap tap tap* on the game, and it'll come on if you've got the "touch".
oh, wait. What? Oh, XBox. Right.
They've got FUD buzzwords spread all about. Virally, restrictive, conform. Bad things. Agree with us!
People seem to have the wrong idea about MAPS sometimes. They see the effects, and they jump to conclusions about the reasoning.
I'm probably out on a horn here (what a stupid saying), but can't you get off of the MAPS list if you've proven you've closed your open relay? And call me really crazy, but isn't the actual point to pressure the open relays to close themselves? This isn't just about finding a possible source of spam and black-hole-ing it forever and ever, it's about FIXING the problem. And unfortunately the only way to do that is to MAKE the mail admins pay attention to the problem, which this most certainly does.
Anti-spam blacklisting groups, such as MAPS and ORBs, put heavy pressure on ISPs to conform to a set of restrictive anti-spam policies and to virally pressure other ISPs to adopt the same policies.
Isn't ORBs defunct now?
Restrictive anti-spam policies? What, such as not providing an open relay for anybody in the world to send mass mailings off of? An unsecured open relay doesn't do anyone good, and the less there are the better off the end users are.
I will agree that the legislature is ridiculous, but I believe that MAPS, etc is the right way to solve this problem.
Changes that might make things a bit easier for everyone include a grace period (wherin a warning is sent to the admin say, 24 hours before black-hole-ing), and a quicker responce time on fix-calls (eg: it's fixed, let me send mail NOW). Also perhaps filtering shouldn't be simply black-holed, perhaps it should just throw some sort of error such that the sending side will try again after 24 hours.
-siege
While an MP3 box like this does sound cool (especially the lack of moving parts, I hate disk whirrs), it's MP3. And I don't use MP3 anymore, I use OGG. How long before someone hacks an ogg update together for it? How about different file-serving technologies (eg: mount NFS and scan those for audio files)?
What I'm waiting for ideally is something sorta like this, except from the different direction: I want to push music at it, rather than have it pull music from a defined source. I'd love an ESD device that'd sit on ethernet and wait for me to throw sounds at it. That way it'd be format inspecific: wanna play OGG, MP3, RealAudio, WAV? Go for it!
Or alternately, give it the ability to subscribe to a shoutcast stream. I don't know much about streaming music in this manner (I've never set it up or actually used it before; never needed to, really), but it sounds like I'd just have to tell the device to subscribe to any given stream (even one not local to my private network, provided it can access the outside net).
This device is pretty neat, but with a few modifications to make it more versatile, it'd be too damn cool for words.
As with so many metaphores, this one is wrong too. The interactions between two single people cannot be used to portray the interractions between full-fledged factions. Your chief friend sounds pretty simple.
The interection in this charming meme isn't well related to what is going on now with the US. A closer allegory would involve not merely hitting back the single offendor, but to instead throw a grenade into park full of people, under the impression that the bastard who punched you is in there with everyone else.
The worries and objections coming from so many are not that a strike against the Taliban would just be adding more violence aimlessly. The worries from people like myself are that attacking all of Afghanistan (as SO MANY people seem to think of as such a perfect and logical reaction) would be pointless and harm helpless-- and frankly innocent-- people. So a group of crazed militarists who have taken over a country's power-seat harbor and possibly aide a terrorist whose attacks haved killed thousands of innocent americans, and we're suddenly justified in killing more innocents who might get in the way while we're bombing those responsible?
A direct and coordinated military attack is great, we DO need to show those who are actually responsible that they cannot do this without consequences. I don't believe that we can successfully remove them as a threat forever, that just doesn't work. If some ridiculous militarist starts hitting me, he's still a threat even if I hit him back.
Now what I see happening (here in reality) is not the bombing of all of Afghanistan. I see, thus far, an aimed and purposefull retaliation. And I am behind those actions, so long as they stay focused. But if we start listening to all the fanatical babblings of people hungry for blood and "vengance", then we're all quite frankly fucked. If every baboon screaming racial slurs had their say and way, we'd take the cowardly and reactionary route and destroy the entire country as precedense.
And THAT is what I'm against.
Just wanted to point out a couple of things, not necessarily in response to Lizard-King's post, but to the quote from it.
The PS2 controller has ten buttons, not counting the non-analog directional four on the left side, and not counting start and select. The two analog sticks can be depressed as a button each, separate to the actual movements of the analog stick (like the scroll-wheel on a mouse is also the middle button). The PS2 controller (or the dual-shock PS controller) is also probably one of the BEST controller designs ever given to players (in my humblest of opinions).
a single button or a few buttons could be used for all the functions, with each finger denoting a particular action.
That sounds fine, but that's only usefull if you're only pressing one button at a time. I haven't played a game (non RPG) in a very long time that you could work like that. Each button is marked for a single function, and often multiple functions have to occur at the same time For example; braking hard, skidding right, toggling weapons and firing a gas-tank (ala Twisted Metal Black) while laying out a spray of machine-gun fire on the off-chance you'd catch someone in it. If you had to combine multiple finger presses for any one of those actions, performing them all simultaneously would be... interesting to say the least.
Even with the original Nintendo you used more than one button at a time (sometimes even with the same finger). Running and jumping and throwing fireballs from midair at hapless goombas, for instance.
Public safety? Are you kidding? Do you know how many automotive accidents that would cause?
Just to be sure, this afternoon I went down to the store and bought a copy of FrontPage 2002 myself...
So that's their new revenue plan. Obscure and inflammatory EULA that have to be seen to be believed, and purchased to be seen.
Which must be taking the place of their older scheme which was to add such ridiculous easter-egg functions to random products that people would of course just HAVE to see
Bigger towers, stronger, monuments to the American ability to recover and cope. Knock us down and we come back stronger. Veritable monoliths which will stand as a heartstone to New York city. Maybe a single tower, a glory of steel and glass like a cry raised to heaven, spiking into the sky.
Not like there's any good restaurants on mars anyway.
And yet, this lot come along with something else that lets you see alternatives when you browse a web page and suddenly it's OK. Rejoice,
I just read through around 40 comments all totally against it as obnoxious and evil... where in the heck do you get off saying "and suddenly it's OK"? Are you even reading the reader responses? Everything so far has been either a circumvention idea, a proclamation of outright hatred, or at least mild annoyed amusement at the lengths advertisers will go to be advertisers.
Slashdot had sets of people on either side of the smart-tags argument (all of Slashdot-dom wasn't against smart-tags, some realized that it was controlled locally and saw that there was interesting potential there), and there's probably people on either side of the Gator argument. Maybe some people like the idea of meta-advertising (though I doubt there's going to be an abundance of them, given past feelings for Gator in general and their evil "uninstall" practices)
Surprising as this may sound, there's more to the world than kernels and first-person-shooters.
Processor power is up, and cheap. Architecture isn't standard. Write a VM once for an architecture, then you can run all your pretty PDA Java applications irregardless of what you're running them on. You're suggesting that every portable-item have all of its applications coded specifically for it. Even if the only games in the world were solitaire and nibbles, that's a lot of applications to re-write everytime a new device comes out with a slightly different architecture/instruction-set/whatever.
Oh yeah, and Java is a buzz-word. Makes people happy when they have a buzzword-compliant item. The toys just seem so much COOLER then.
The closest thing that's currently even feasible is JOS (http://www.jos.org/)