Nope it's just you. The original Final Fantasy was made when Square was a failing company (look at their pre-FF stuff) and it was the last game they were going to release before going under. After that, the branding of FF was too strong to ignore, so they kept the name. Besides, each FF is in a different world, so you can consider each FF to be the Final Fantasy for that world (especially since many of them deal with the depletion of magic or destruction of the world).
Plus most people don't get hung up on game names, especially since a lot of them are really stupid. The name doesn't really affect gameplay anyway.
I suppose you won't buy any book with a crappy looking cover either.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The space is an anti-lamer measure. Slashdot will put spaces in ANY long text string to break it up. Back when Slashdot was still new some lamers discovered that they could make a string 10000 characters long and force the "width" of the Slashdot window out forever. It was extremly annoying because you had to constanty scroll left and right to read the real posts in the article. These days you can't do that anymore, but you have to deal with spaces in links if the poster doesn't know how to make them real links (Hint, look up the Anchor tag, particularly the HREF option).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
This looks like a great place to stick toolbars from the gimp, blender, etc... It would be great for getting the clutter off of your main screen and let you fill most of your screen with the actual image. Of course at $250 a pop, you might just want to invest in a bigger monitor.
This could be used for all sorts of things though. You might even program your windowmanager to stick your root menu on the thing so you don't have to find an open spot on your desktop (or have to reach for the F12 key).
Strangely they are marketing this towards games where speed is of the essence. I don't know about you, but averting my eyes from the screen to press a touchpad with no tactile feedback doesn't seem like the way to speed up my game. How long does it take for your finger to learn the position of the "build peon" key anyway?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I remember the first time I hit a java page. It was back in the early Netscape 2 beta period or late 1.x series IIRC. I remember my computer ran out of memory trying to initalize the jvm and crashed. They say the first impression is the most important, maybe that's why I harbor a lingering distrust for java...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Holographic storage has been a "couple of years" away for about 10 years now. So far I've only seen a whole lot of vapor from the holographic storage folks.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
4) I want some dumb people to crew a ship, not just the super-geniuses that Trek staffs Federation ships with.
Have you seen any of the Voyager episodes? The crew is chock full of nimrods. Besides, the writers have a tough enough time as it is writing "smart" characters. If they try to actively make someone dumb they would create the equivelent of a tetatronic-subspace-neutrino brain drainer. At least with the "smart" characters you don't allow the writers to completely forgo logic when writing for the character (although that doesn't stop them from trying).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Apparently the moderator was one of the students you talk about. Your troll got modded insightful!
Math has changed tremendously in the past 100 years (although very basic math remains mostly unchanged). English is a constantly evolving language (read something from the turn of the century if you don't think so), HOW many "major events" did we have in the last 100 years? Are you sure you really want kids using 100 year old textbooks?
I do love the use of random quotes, the unattributed sources (a poll even!), and the call back to the "good old days." What a masterful troll, I salute you.
Pbthhhhhhhht!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Did anyone else notice how the actors in the original miniseries seemed to think they were in some sort of play? Listen to the way the enunciate their lines and completely stilt the dialog. Watch the poses the strike when the bad guys say something evil (right before they cackle evily). Watch the lighting change colors and shift based on the mood of the moment. This is the sort of mellodrama that really hurt the miniseries for me.
Just my 2 grams of spice.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Anyway, if you have some Public Domain OS in mind, I'd love to hear about it. The BSD license is just about as close to Public Domain as you can get, with the only major restriction being that you can't simply grab the code and claim you wrote it (under the assumption that the other party has never heard of the code before).
So you have to give credit to the people who wrote the code (and not even in your advertising, just in the code itself). What more do you want?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Yeah that Dell is great, especially if you love paying 2 to 3 times as much for the laptop and you can't seem to drain batteries fast enough, and you have a weird fetish where you love to burn your legs to crispy little cinders with that 1Ghz processor. Even my 500Mhz Dell Latitude (work machine) gets uncomfortably hot amazingly fast.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Oh yeah, this is at home. At work in the lab I make a slight modification:
(int the.zshrc) HOSTTYPE=`uname`
prompt="%(!.%B#%b.)<%m/$HOSTTYPE/%l> %(?.%{%}.%B%?%b )(%h %B%(4c,.../%3c,%~)%b)%
B:%b "
I did this because I was constantly forgetting what type of machine I was on, especially with the dual booters and the machines that changed OS all the time. Unfortunatly it make the prompt string a little longer than I normally like, but at least I didn't run killall on the Suns.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I use zsh, and I rather like having all of the information I need right on the command prompt. Many things only appear if they are needed (return values from programs for instance) and the prompt string avoids getting too long to leave me room to
work my magic:
%(!.%B#%b.)<%m/%l> %(?.%{%}.%B%?%b )(%h %B%(4c,.../%3c,%~)%b)%B:%b
An average prompt looks like: <escaflowne/p7> (128 ~):
A more interesting one: #<escaflowne/p7> 5 (2.../X11R6/share/xmame):
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Ah yes, that addicive like heroin game was ported to Free Unixes not once but twice (at least):
xpuyo, although the author is ashamed of the quality of this version.
and xpuyopuyo, which is quite nice. This one even has some AIs that will occasionally give beginners some challenge. Actually some of the AIs in here are annoyingly hard. The internet play on this one is quite good to boot.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Yay data loss! I just wish tape drive manufacturers would get their heads (and prices) out of the clouds so I could get a cost effective backup solution.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
If you read all the way to the bottom, he talks about removing the "good status" messages as well. This means if a driver loads fine it won't show up in the boot sequence. Some people were expressing concern that they might leave old cruft in their kernel (drivers for hardware they don't have, and pseudodrivers that aren't useful anymore) and not notice it. Some drivers report if they can't find the piece of hardware they're looking for, but I belive some are silent other than the informational messages (version foo copyright so and so messages).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
FreeBSD has an option (although it is disabled by default.) to display a boot screen (similar to windows). IIRC, the boot screen can be dumped for the regular boot message by a flag to the loader, or by simply pressing escape during the boot (unless your error is: atkbd0: Error failed to initalize keyboard...
Really, what Linus seems to be annoyed at here are the excessivly verbose messages that some drivers like to print out (like I need to see the algorigthm benchmark each time I boot) that might drown out an important message by scrolling it off of the screen before you see it (although it should still be available through dmesg, just like the FreeBSD boot messages are still are even when you have the "graphical" boot.). The Linux boot sequence is getting a bit heavy on the pointless informational messages these days, so a bit of a pruning won't hurt too much.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I like how you assume the windows client is 'good'. IMHO GAIM far surpasses the windows client in being friendly to your OS and in only doing what it needs to do and leaving all of the other stuff to other small applications that do a better job. I know several users who really hate the AIM client under windows and bemoan the lack of a viable alternative.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Heh, We've got one down here that won't trigger on my truck. I remember I was wanting to make a right turn, and for some reason the intersection has a no turn on red sign (for no reason that I can see either, you can see about a mile down the road in every direction from the intersection, and the speed limit is only 35). Anyway, I ended up waiting through 3 cycles of the light before finally running right on the red. It's doubly frustrating that the police station is about half a block from that light.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Nice try troll, you need to learn a thing called "subtilty" if you want to catch this crowd. RIAA keeps the price down by forcing out competitors with its monopoly? You'd have to get up early to catch even Slashdottors with that one.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
You'd be surprised how many people still use Fortran. Many Engineering programs still teach it as the primary languange, mostly because it fits their problems quite well. Also, Fortran has not been stagnant over the years, Fortran95 is actually a fairly modern language that loses most of the big limitations of earlier Fortrans (no recursion, thread-unsafe, column alignment, etc...)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The only danger from teaching wierd languages is people claiming: I'm never going to use this and dropping the class on the spot. You'd be surprised how often this happens with people who are focused on Resume building, especially in college. Most of those people went on to take the business school's COBAL class, so you can't say they are better off.
Plus there is the cool factor that comes from knowing the language you are learning is the same one your Operating system (and most of the applications you run) is written in. Beginning CS student's generally aren't concerned with the fundimentals, primarily because they don't know they are supposed to be concerned with them, so the choice of language makes a big impression on them. A teachers job is to reach beyond that, teach the students what they need and other things that they won't realize are valuble until later when they want to do real programming.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope it's just you. The original Final Fantasy was made when Square was a failing company (look at their pre-FF stuff) and it was the last game they were going to release before going under. After that, the branding of FF was too strong to ignore, so they kept the name. Besides, each FF is in a different world, so you can consider each FF to be the Final Fantasy for that world (especially since many of them deal with the depletion of magic or destruction of the world).
Plus most people don't get hung up on game names, especially since a lot of them are really stupid. The name doesn't really affect gameplay anyway.
I suppose you won't buy any book with a crappy looking cover either.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The space is an anti-lamer measure. Slashdot will put spaces in ANY long text string to break it up. Back when Slashdot was still new some lamers discovered that they could make a string 10000 characters long and force the "width" of the Slashdot window out forever. It was extremly annoying because you had to constanty scroll left and right to read the real posts in the article. These days you can't do that anymore, but you have to deal with spaces in links if the poster doesn't know how to make them real links (Hint, look up the Anchor tag, particularly the HREF option).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
This looks like a great place to stick toolbars from the gimp, blender, etc... It would be great for getting the clutter off of your main screen and let you fill most of your screen with the actual image. Of course at $250 a pop, you might just want to invest in a bigger monitor.
This could be used for all sorts of things though. You might even program your windowmanager to stick your root menu on the thing so you don't have to find an open spot on your desktop (or have to reach for the F12 key).
Strangely they are marketing this towards games where speed is of the essence. I don't know about you, but averting my eyes from the screen to press a touchpad with no tactile feedback doesn't seem like the way to speed up my game. How long does it take for your finger to learn the position of the "build peon" key anyway?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I remember the first time I hit a java page. It was back in the early Netscape 2 beta period or late 1.x series IIRC. I remember my computer ran out of memory trying to initalize the jvm and crashed. They say the first impression is the most important, maybe that's why I harbor a lingering distrust for java...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Yes, he was arrested for both the software and the presentation according to the article.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Holographic storage has been a "couple of years" away for about 10 years now. So far I've only seen a whole lot of vapor from the holographic storage folks.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
4) I want some dumb people to crew a ship, not just the super-geniuses that Trek staffs Federation ships with.
Have you seen any of the Voyager episodes? The crew is chock full of nimrods. Besides, the writers have a tough enough time as it is writing "smart" characters. If they try to actively make someone dumb they would create the equivelent of a tetatronic-subspace-neutrino brain drainer. At least with the "smart" characters you don't allow the writers to completely forgo logic when writing for the character (although that doesn't stop them from trying).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Captain! The webserver, she can'na take the load!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Apparently the moderator was one of the students you talk about. Your troll got modded insightful!
Math has changed tremendously in the past 100 years (although very basic math remains mostly unchanged). English is a constantly evolving language (read something from the turn of the century if you don't think so), HOW many "major events" did we have in the last 100 years? Are you sure you really want kids using 100 year old textbooks?
I do love the use of random quotes, the unattributed sources (a poll even!), and the call back to the "good old days." What a masterful troll, I salute you.
Pbthhhhhhhht!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Did anyone else notice how the actors in the original miniseries seemed to think they were in some sort of play? Listen to the way the enunciate their lines and completely stilt the dialog. Watch the poses the strike when the bad guys say something evil (right before they cackle evily). Watch the lighting change colors and shift based on the mood of the moment. This is the sort of mellodrama that really hurt the miniseries for me.
Just my 2 grams of spice.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Arrr! I've been trolled!
Anyway, if you have some Public Domain OS in mind, I'd love to hear about it. The BSD license is just about as close to Public Domain as you can get, with the only major restriction being that you can't simply grab the code and claim you wrote it (under the assumption that the other party has never heard of the code before).
So you have to give credit to the people who wrote the code (and not even in your advertising, just in the code itself). What more do you want?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Yeah that Dell is great, especially if you love paying 2 to 3 times as much for the laptop and you can't seem to drain batteries fast enough, and you have a weird fetish where you love to burn your legs to crispy little cinders with that 1Ghz processor. Even my 500Mhz Dell Latitude (work machine) gets uncomfortably hot amazingly fast.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Oh yeah, this is at home. At work in the lab I make a slight modification: .zshrc)
(int the
HOSTTYPE=`uname`
prompt="%(!.%B#%b.)<%m/$HOSTTYPE/%l> %(?.%{%}.%B%?%b )(%h %B%(4c,.../%3c,%~)%b)% B:%b "
I did this because I was constantly forgetting what type of machine I was on, especially with the dual booters and the machines that changed OS all the time. Unfortunatly it make the prompt string a little longer than I normally like, but at least I didn't run killall on the Suns.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I use zsh, and I rather like having all of the information I need right on the command prompt. Many things only appear if they are needed (return values from programs for instance) and the prompt string avoids getting too long to leave me room to work my magic:
.../X11R6/share/xmame):
%(!.%B#%b.)<%m/%l> %(?.%{%}.%B%?%b )(%h %B%(4c,.../%3c,%~)%b)%B:%b
An average prompt looks like:
<escaflowne/p7> (128 ~):
A more interesting one:
#<escaflowne/p7> 5 (2
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Ah yes, that addicive like heroin game was ported to Free Unixes not once but twice (at least):
xpuyo, although the author is ashamed of the quality of this version.
and
xpuyopuyo, which is quite nice. This one even has some AIs that will occasionally give beginners some challenge. Actually some of the AIs in here are annoyingly hard. The internet play on this one is quite good to boot.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
And double the failure rate!
Yay data loss! I just wish tape drive manufacturers would get their heads (and prices) out of the clouds so I could get a cost effective backup solution.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
If you read all the way to the bottom, he talks about removing the "good status" messages as well. This means if a driver loads fine it won't show up in the boot sequence. Some people were expressing concern that they might leave old cruft in their kernel (drivers for hardware they don't have, and pseudodrivers that aren't useful anymore) and not notice it. Some drivers report if they can't find the piece of hardware they're looking for, but I belive some are silent other than the informational messages (version foo copyright so and so messages).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
FreeBSD has an option (although it is disabled by default.) to display a boot screen (similar to windows). IIRC, the boot screen can be dumped for the regular boot message by a flag to the loader, or by simply pressing escape during the boot (unless your error is: atkbd0: Error failed to initalize keyboard...
Really, what Linus seems to be annoyed at here are the excessivly verbose messages that some drivers like to print out (like I need to see the algorigthm benchmark each time I boot) that might drown out an important message by scrolling it off of the screen before you see it (although it should still be available through dmesg, just like the FreeBSD boot messages are still are even when you have the "graphical" boot.). The Linux boot sequence is getting a bit heavy on the pointless informational messages these days, so a bit of a pruning won't hurt too much.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I like how you assume the windows client is 'good'. IMHO GAIM far surpasses the windows client in being friendly to your OS and in only doing what it needs to do and leaving all of the other stuff to other small applications that do a better job. I know several users who really hate the AIM client under windows and bemoan the lack of a viable alternative.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Heh, We've got one down here that won't trigger on my truck. I remember I was wanting to make a right turn, and for some reason the intersection has a no turn on red sign (for no reason that I can see either, you can see about a mile down the road in every direction from the intersection, and the speed limit is only 35). Anyway, I ended up waiting through 3 cycles of the light before finally running right on the red. It's doubly frustrating that the police station is about half a block from that light.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Hmm, 67 months with timeframes like that you are never going to get it. Maybe the acronym should be NOPE.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Nice try troll, you need to learn a thing called "subtilty" if you want to catch this crowd. RIAA keeps the price down by forcing out competitors with its monopoly? You'd have to get up early to catch even Slashdottors with that one.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Douglas Adams didn't have live insurance?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
You'd be surprised how many people still use Fortran. Many Engineering programs still teach it as the primary languange, mostly because it fits their problems quite well. Also, Fortran has not been stagnant over the years, Fortran95 is actually a fairly modern language that loses most of the big limitations of earlier Fortrans (no recursion, thread-unsafe, column alignment, etc...)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The only danger from teaching wierd languages is people claiming: I'm never going to use this and dropping the class on the spot. You'd be surprised how often this happens with people who are focused on Resume building, especially in college. Most of those people went on to take the business school's COBAL class, so you can't say they are better off.
Plus there is the cool factor that comes from knowing the language you are learning is the same one your Operating system (and most of the applications you run) is written in. Beginning CS student's generally aren't concerned with the fundimentals, primarily because they don't know they are supposed to be concerned with them, so the choice of language makes a big impression on them. A teachers job is to reach beyond that, teach the students what they need and other things that they won't realize are valuble until later when they want to do real programming.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.