"Square should have known that they'd only attract fans of the FF series, who would immediately be disappointed that the movie had nothing to do with any of the games"
- Why would a Final Fantasy Movie have anything to do with any of the games? NONE of the FF games have anything to do with eachother? I thought the movie was like watching an FF game.
"they are getting lazy and making FF10 Part 2."
- FF-X2 isn't there latest game. If you take a look FFXI Online is there latest game which came out in Japan last year and they are starting on an expansion for that world as well. FF X2 is just a filler game (like "the bouncer" or "kingdom hearts") used to hold people interests until they can finish translating there current games. Keep in mind which Square soft games get popular here are last year news on the other side of the ocean.
"I'd rather see Enix on top, since their most recent games have not been as crappy as FF10 or Kingdom Hearts."
- Thats just a matter of opinion.
- On your comments about the PS2's and Nintendo, Xbox - etc... your missing somehting. Enix does most of there games for the Nintendo Platform which is HUGE in Japan where Squr. Sft. is HUGE in America the combined company now has 2 games series (FF + DQ/W) that don't really compete with eachother (different continents) Also this would give free reign for square to release FF games on the Gamecube and X-Box, since Sony's 18% share becomes less (Square shares translate to.81 share of Enix which is the surviving entitiy) And yes it would benifit them to release an american translation of FF Online for ALL CONSOLES.
With this merger you will have 1 game company that caters to at least 90% of all the RPG fans in both America (sqr. Sft.) and Japan (Enix). You also get a company that has great relations with both Sony (PS2 Sqr. Sft.) and Nintendo (GCube Enix). Not to mention this would weeken any hold/influence Sony has with the new company and might allow Enix-Square-Soft to even make games for the X-Box.
I just hope they don't get to cocky and start fucking people over. As well as I would be at a lost as to what to expect if they ever discontinued either series (FF or DQ/W) and created a new series Final Quest? Dragon Fantasy?
I think you are right as far as "how to avoid spam"
BUT no one should have to do all of the above just because they don't want unsolicited email. It would be nice if we could give our email address to our friends, use it to register with sites that we like, post it on our webpages so people could email us, and NOT have to worry about someone getting a hold of our email address and sending us "make 8 grand a minute now"
What if someone was to point an email harvester at these "make money from home" and "i'm a self made millionaire" sites and harvest there emails. filter them as best as possible to make a list of just the fools who runs the sites and then start sending them paypal bills for wasting my time?
I have an 8gig external SCSI drive which holds copies of all my "essential" stuff. Then I periodically spend a few hours writing these files onto cd's.
Of course if there was ever a fire which destroyed my apartment I guess these would be pretty moot
so 100 megs of some "select" files get put in a temp folde ron my website - whihc is hosted by some company somewhere out in space.
I am a little confused I couldn;t get the trailer to play on ifilms.com so I went to the apple.com and site watched the teaser trailer and the full trailer.
Is the ifilms.com trailer different? What is the spoiler?
BTW- if you post a reply and want to tell me the spoiler I don't mind - either way i'm going to see the movie
they can do one better, since they have the device that the Borg used they can just push a button and go back and forth - it just makes for a slightly turbulent ride - but only if your going back in time not forward.
I use a Mac at work (Graphic Design) with OS 9.2.1 all day long. I use Quark, Illustrator, and Photoshop mainly. These can only run on linux using Wine or something similar, although I don't believe Quark works and don't even get me started on Gimp because it isn't jack shit to Photoshop/Imageready 7 duo.
Then I go home to my Windows XP PC. I want to play NWN, GTA3, and WC3. Only one of these will eventually be able run on Linux natively and the others only half-ass on Wine.
Then I go to the Coffee shop with my latop. I want to sit down, have a cup of plain black coffee and write a short story, poem, thesis, maybe surf the internet or send some emails. I'm using Linux on a Thinkpad and it's great.
Of course the sound card isn't supported in Mandrake 8.2, and I had to switch from my 3com 10/100 card to an intel 10mb card for it to be able to hook up on my network at the house. Not to mention I had to play around with Hard Drake and Several Alsa Drivers to find out that the specific sound card in the thinkpad 1400i is TOTALLY NOT COMPATIBLE and will never play sound for me.
But thats ok I can listen to cd's when I reboot in XP and it recognizes everything just fine.
Toms Hardware guide and thats why I can point out the fact that ALL the benchmarks show the P4 3.60ghz FASTER than the HT P4 3.06ghz. This isn't to say that a P4 HT 3.6ghz version wouldn't be faster. I'm just saying that there current chip (the 3.06) is NOT the fastest YET.
will this really make much of a difference for playing War Craft 3 any better than my P4 1.6ghz? for $637 (per chip per the article) I think not.
Although for webservers, and airport systems, movie makers, and all "high-end" power needed customers I am sure this is definately a great thing. But I don't see the average "Joe Customer" needing/careing much since all the latest games/appz run BETER THAN PERFECT on there 2ghz , 128meg gforce 4, 768meg ram machines.
Hell even 3D Studio Max runs fucking awesome on my 1.6ghz, 64meg gforce 2, 768meg ram, machine so this is NOT THAT BIG A DEAL. Unless of course the PC people just want to start saying "look were super faster than apple now - NAR"
I'm all for that thing - Actually I think EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD should have a monorail and then we should have monorails connected by super fast trains - then I won;t have to fly anymore. I HATE flying, not because of terrorists - I just don't have wings and don;t like being flung around in a giant metal bird.
I run in my system an Maxtor 24.7gig, IBM 16.8gig, a Seagate 8.4gig scsi
I've never had any problem with any of these drives - the SCSi drive I took from my old job's system (kinkos) where it was used as a backup drive of internal progs for them. It's about 4 years old currently. This is the drive where I keep all my portfolio type stuff.
IBM drive I have had for 4 years as well and had no problems. This drive is used as my dump drive and gets a lot of download/upload usage all day long.
The Maxtor drive I have had now for 2 years and have had no problems with it. This is my "C" drive where all my games are played off of.
Now about the failures.... My friend has had a Western Digital drive which has died on him twice now over the last 2 years - he loves WD anyway since there warranty replacement system is kickass. (whatever)
My Guardians son has a packbell system with a Fujitsu drive in it that recently konk out after 2 years of use. By konked out I mean everything from bad sectors to everytime you ran a full scandisk there was less and less GOOD space.
With all this said I think my next drive purchase will be either another scsi Seagate drive or another ATA/100 Maxtor drive. With all the bad stuff I here about the latest IBM drives, Fujitsu drives, and Western Digital why would anyone buy anything else.
What the fuck is wrong with you?! Why not start posting home and gardening tips. I think the new advances in rake technology will vastly improve the rate at which leaves are piled.
Not to point out the obvious but....
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Between Batman, Spiderman, and Superman - Superman is the only one with SUPER POWERS. Granted spider man is strong/flexible/and has an almost useless "spidy sense", but he is no where near as strong as Spiderman and he can't fly, so if his webbing ran out he'd be stuck. Batman doesn't have ANY super powers. He just has really cool toys - like inspector gadget but in black/blue (depending on when you read your comics).
Of course as long as either one had cryptonite they could win - but if they didn't theres just no chance.
Anyway a better fight would be between Rogue and Superman since both are strong/flexible and can fly - the true test would be if rogue could suck up all his power vs. getting her face jabbed in.
God this is so pathetic I can't believe I actually just wrote all this.
is it too hard to use the use of both your hands to enter in a few extra tags so that the Internet is "accessible to all!"
not that I have anything against those with problems, i'm just a lazy bastard. i always think "hey maybe i should use the ALT tag for my images" then i think "no i'd rather cut out early and play sonic" - i think it's alwso why i am too lazy to use the shift key when i type, and don't bother to check for spelling or punctuation.
Didn't you know libraries were replaced by the internet, since everything on the internet is readily available and true. - j/k
Actually my advice would be to just buy a small flatbed scanner (i think epson has a model that fits into to a backback nicely) and use that. Also the ones that work for the PC's if they are USB you may want to do a google search for osX drivers. It may see it as a totally different scanner and not have all the functions, but at least it would work.
I'm 23 (almost 24) didn't go to college (but gots the certs) I rarely use my credit cards so I have no real debt (unless you count the $130 bill on my amex for dsl) I also own my car (no loans to pay off on it) granted it's not a porshe 911, but my 4 door chevy gets me from work and back just fine. I also have a job as a graphic designer for a real estate company, for which I was hired in april 2001 (right after the people I filled in for got layed off)
Where am I going with this?
People make good and bad decisions, I didn't have a "good" paying job until just last year and being that I am debt free - my chances of saving money and planning for the future is pretty good. I also plan on buying a house by early next year.
All in all it depends on the person on whether or not they will suceed or not. I hate to sound corny but it's true - "when given lemons make lemonaid"
I hope we (america) gets there hands slapped for this. Even though this is a technology issue - it's still a perfect example of how we push "our" views onto other countries.
I'm almost tempted to go off here about several topics, but I don't want to be a flamebaiter, so i'll end it this way.
Kazza doesn't physically exist in the US. It wasn't made in the US. If the US didn't want it being used they would block it similar to how China blocks some foreign sites. There is no good reason trying to hold a foreign countries product against our own copyright law.
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"Square should have known that they'd only attract fans of the FF series, who would immediately be disappointed that the movie had nothing to do with any of the games"
.81 share of Enix which is the surviving entitiy) And yes it would benifit them to release an american translation of FF Online for ALL CONSOLES.
- Why would a Final Fantasy Movie have anything to do with any of the games? NONE of the FF games have anything to do with eachother? I thought the movie was like watching an FF game.
"they are getting lazy and making FF10 Part 2."
- FF-X2 isn't there latest game. If you take a look FFXI Online is there latest game which came out in Japan last year and they are starting on an expansion for that world as well. FF X2 is just a filler game (like "the bouncer" or "kingdom hearts") used to hold people interests until they can finish translating there current games. Keep in mind which Square soft games get popular here are last year news on the other side of the ocean.
"I'd rather see Enix on top, since their most recent games have not been as crappy as FF10 or Kingdom Hearts."
- Thats just a matter of opinion.
- On your comments about the PS2's and Nintendo, Xbox - etc... your missing somehting. Enix does most of there games for the Nintendo Platform which is HUGE in Japan where Squr. Sft. is HUGE in America the combined company now has 2 games series (FF + DQ/W) that don't really compete with eachother (different continents) Also this would give free reign for square to release FF games on the Gamecube and X-Box, since Sony's 18% share becomes less (Square shares translate to
With this merger you will have 1 game company that caters to at least 90% of all the RPG fans in both America (sqr. Sft.) and Japan (Enix). You also get a company that has great relations with both Sony (PS2 Sqr. Sft.) and Nintendo (GCube Enix). Not to mention this would weeken any hold/influence Sony has with the new company and might allow Enix-Square-Soft to even make games for the X-Box.
I just hope they don't get to cocky and start fucking people over. As well as I would be at a lost as to what to expect if they ever discontinued either series (FF or DQ/W) and created a new series Final Quest? Dragon Fantasy?
I think you are right as far as "how to avoid spam"
BUT no one should have to do all of the above just because they don't want unsolicited email. It would be nice if we could give our email address to our friends, use it to register with sites that we like, post it on our webpages so people could email us, and NOT have to worry about someone getting a hold of our email address and sending us "make 8 grand a minute now"
What if someone was to point an email harvester at these "make money from home" and "i'm a self made millionaire" sites and harvest there emails. filter them as best as possible to make a list of just the fools who runs the sites and then start sending them paypal bills for wasting my time?
he'll be slashed through the face with my "red lightsabre of wrath +2"
of course i only say that because i have a lot of hatred built up for that character - in real life I'm probably not even going to play the game....
waiting and hoping for FFXI Online with a brief romp of FFX-2 to tide me over after I get bored of GTA3VC you know....
I have an 8gig external SCSI drive which holds copies of all my "essential" stuff. Then I periodically spend a few hours writing these files onto cd's.
Of course if there was ever a fire which destroyed my apartment I guess these would be pretty moot
so 100 megs of some "select" files get put in a temp folde ron my website - whihc is hosted by some company somewhere out in space.
I am a little confused I couldn;t get the trailer to play on ifilms.com so I went to the apple.com and site watched the teaser trailer and the full trailer.
Is the ifilms.com trailer different? What is the spoiler?
BTW- if you post a reply and want to tell me the spoiler I don't mind - either way i'm going to see the movie
we could create life from nothing, could we consider ourselves equal with god...
except for his childish qualities of course....
"sling-shot around the sun"
they can do one better, since they have the device that the Borg used they can just push a button and go back and forth - it just makes for a slightly turbulent ride - but only if your going back in time not forward.
I use a Mac at work (Graphic Design) with OS 9.2.1 all day long. I use Quark, Illustrator, and Photoshop mainly. These can only run on linux using Wine or something similar, although I don't believe Quark works and don't even get me started on Gimp because it isn't jack shit to Photoshop/Imageready 7 duo.
Then I go home to my Windows XP PC. I want to play NWN, GTA3, and WC3. Only one of these will eventually be able run on Linux natively and the others only half-ass on Wine.
Then I go to the Coffee shop with my latop. I want to sit down, have a cup of plain black coffee and write a short story, poem, thesis, maybe surf the internet or send some emails. I'm using Linux on a Thinkpad and it's great.
Of course the sound card isn't supported in Mandrake 8.2, and I had to switch from my 3com 10/100 card to an intel 10mb card for it to be able to hook up on my network at the house. Not to mention I had to play around with Hard Drake and Several Alsa Drivers to find out that the specific sound card in the thinkpad 1400i is TOTALLY NOT COMPATIBLE and will never play sound for me.
But thats ok I can listen to cd's when I reboot in XP and it recognizes everything just fine.
Toms Hardware guide and thats why I can point out the fact that ALL the benchmarks show the P4 3.60ghz FASTER than the HT P4 3.06ghz. This isn't to say that a P4 HT 3.6ghz version wouldn't be faster. I'm just saying that there current chip (the 3.06) is NOT the fastest YET.
will this really make much of a difference for playing War Craft 3 any better than my P4 1.6ghz? for $637 (per chip per the article) I think not.
Although for webservers, and airport systems, movie makers, and all "high-end" power needed customers I am sure this is definately a great thing. But I don't see the average "Joe Customer" needing/careing much since all the latest games/appz run BETER THAN PERFECT on there 2ghz , 128meg gforce 4, 768meg ram machines.
Hell even 3D Studio Max runs fucking awesome on my 1.6ghz, 64meg gforce 2, 768meg ram, machine so this is NOT THAT BIG A DEAL. Unless of course the PC people just want to start saying "look were super faster than apple now - NAR"
I'm all for that thing - Actually I think EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD should have a monorail and then we should have monorails connected by super fast trains - then I won;t have to fly anymore. I HATE flying, not because of terrorists - I just don't have wings and don;t like being flung around in a giant metal bird.
I run in my system an Maxtor 24.7gig, IBM 16.8gig, a Seagate 8.4gig scsi
I've never had any problem with any of these drives - the SCSi drive I took from my old job's system (kinkos) where it was used as a backup drive of internal progs for them. It's about 4 years old currently. This is the drive where I keep all my portfolio type stuff.
IBM drive I have had for 4 years as well and had no problems. This drive is used as my dump drive and gets a lot of download/upload usage all day long.
The Maxtor drive I have had now for 2 years and have had no problems with it. This is my "C" drive where all my games are played off of.
Now about the failures.... My friend has had a Western Digital drive which has died on him twice now over the last 2 years - he loves WD anyway since there warranty replacement system is kickass. (whatever)
My Guardians son has a packbell system with a Fujitsu drive in it that recently konk out after 2 years of use. By konked out I mean everything from bad sectors to everytime you ran a full scandisk there was less and less GOOD space.
With all this said I think my next drive purchase will be either another scsi Seagate drive or another ATA/100 Maxtor drive. With all the bad stuff I here about the latest IBM drives, Fujitsu drives, and Western Digital why would anyone buy anything else.
Yeah the IBM drives greater than 40gigs are terrible - thats why IBM got rid of there hard drive division to hitachi this year.
What the fuck is wrong with you?! Why not start posting home and gardening tips. I think the new advances in rake technology will vastly improve the rate at which leaves are piled.
Between Batman, Spiderman, and Superman - Superman is the only one with SUPER POWERS. Granted spider man is strong/flexible/and has an almost useless "spidy sense", but he is no where near as strong as Spiderman and he can't fly, so if his webbing ran out he'd be stuck. Batman doesn't have ANY super powers. He just has really cool toys - like inspector gadget but in black/blue (depending on when you read your comics).
Of course as long as either one had cryptonite they could win - but if they didn't theres just no chance.
Anyway a better fight would be between Rogue and Superman since both are strong/flexible and can fly - the true test would be if rogue could suck up all his power vs. getting her face jabbed in.
God this is so pathetic I can't believe I actually just wrote all this.
Do a little dance - make a little love.... Finally a judge with some common sense.
The idea is hilarious, I just wish the article listed there website or an address where I could send them my cd's.
In fact their idea gives me the idea of mailing out my creative endevours to all the junk mail offices that send me stuff.
Damnit I posted to the wrong article comments - WTF?!
The idea is hilarious, I just wish the article listed there website or an address where I could send them my cd's.
In fact their idea gives me the idea of mailing out my creative endevours to all the junk mail offices that send me stuff.
not that I have anything against those with problems, i'm just a lazy bastard. i always think "hey maybe i should use the ALT tag for my images" then i think "no i'd rather cut out early and play sonic" - i think it's alwso why i am too lazy to use the shift key when i type, and don't bother to check for spelling or punctuation.
Didn't you know libraries were replaced by the internet, since everything on the internet is readily available and true. - j/k
Actually my advice would be to just buy a small flatbed scanner (i think epson has a model that fits into to a backback nicely) and use that. Also the ones that work for the PC's if they are USB you may want to do a google search for osX drivers. It may see it as a totally different scanner and not have all the functions, but at least it would work.
I'm 23 (almost 24) didn't go to college (but gots the certs) I rarely use my credit cards so I have no real debt (unless you count the $130 bill on my amex for dsl) I also own my car (no loans to pay off on it) granted it's not a porshe 911, but my 4 door chevy gets me from work and back just fine. I also have a job as a graphic designer for a real estate company, for which I was hired in april 2001 (right after the people I filled in for got layed off)
Where am I going with this?
People make good and bad decisions, I didn't have a "good" paying job until just last year and being that I am debt free - my chances of saving money and planning for the future is pretty good. I also plan on buying a house by early next year.
All in all it depends on the person on whether or not they will suceed or not. I hate to sound corny but it's true - "when given lemons make lemonaid"
I hope we (america) gets there hands slapped for this. Even though this is a technology issue - it's still a perfect example of how we push "our" views onto other countries.
I'm almost tempted to go off here about several topics, but I don't want to be a flamebaiter, so i'll end it this way.
Kazza doesn't physically exist in the US. It wasn't made in the US. If the US didn't want it being used they would block it similar to how China blocks some foreign sites. There is no good reason trying to hold a foreign countries product against our own copyright law.