Have you seen Virtual Fighter 5? They were *idiots* to not try harder to get that available on launch. But I guess development on it was still too far behind. Gameplay-wise it seems more or less like the same old crap, but that's to be expected. Visually it's damn near a work of art. Definitely eye-popping.
Eh, multi-disc games have always been an annoyance to me, and have gotten more and more common in my genre of choice: console RPGs.
I thought dual layer DVD *would* solve this. But I already have a few games spread out over two of them. And with higher quality textures in PS3 games, on top of more complex animation (which does add up), that space is going to be necessary. I imagine a game FFXIII will easily fill up a Blue-ray disc.
Well, yes. I'm not saying that not being bilingual makes you ignorant. But dismissing the idea of learning a foreign language is certainly nearsighted, if nothing else. Also, you forgot an apostrophe.
You could always stop whining about it and learn Japanese. It's not *quite* as hard as everyone says =P
In all seriousness though, the text in Famitsu isn't all that worthwhile anyways. The main reason to pick up Famitsu is to ogle at exclusive pretty pictures from games that won't be out for a while yet. Which I think may also be the main point of this story.
Not necessarily. Both IE and Firefox (and Netscape) have their own little non-standard quirks that their Javascript may very well be using. For example, opera supports the CSS3.0 opacity descriptor (I dunno if FF does or not yet). But IE has filter:alpha and FF has I think 'mozilla-transparancy' or something like that; I've never used it.
So say for example they were using what works in IE and FF, but not what works in Opera, which also happens to be the standard. Whose fault is it now?
I'll probably get a Wii, followed by a PS3 after its first price drop, and hopefully a few firmware upgrades. I'll pass on the XBox thankyouverymuch. The only game for it that's piqued my interest *at all* is Gears of War, and even then I don't feel like there's much there that I can't get out of my PC. I can't stand playing FPSs without a mouse anyways, though the Wiimote presents a tempting alternative.
Now this is just utterly ridiculous, and I could go on and on in response to it. I would like to reply specifically to your apparent notion that nothing has ever existed outside what we perceive as the universe.
But instead I'll just save myself some time with this handy quote from Carl Sagan:
If the general picture, however, of a big bang, followed by an expanding universe is correct, what happened before that? Was the universe devoid of all matter, and then the matter suddenly, somehow created? How did that happen? In many cultures, the customary answer is that a god, or gods created the universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question: Where did god come from? If we decide that this is an unanswerable question, why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that god always existed, why not save a step, and conclude that the universe always existed? There's no need for a creation--it was always here. These are not easy questions. Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries--with questions that were treated only in religion and myth.
Science/evolution debates in your company's intranet forum? I don't think I could last too long if my company had something like that. It would inevitably escalate to fisticuffs, possibly with my bosses. Not a good thing for coworker harmony.
To be fair, the new version of the kernel in Vista has some interesting features and changes as well. I don't have time to enumerate them right now, but it's worth saying.
However you're certainly right that upgrading my Linux kernel is generally easy, and can be done without updating the entire OS. This is one of many things that makes Windows annoying >:(
That's more or less my feeling about it. The XBox (and the 360) is basically just a cheap, mediocre PC. I already have a pretty good PC that plays lots of good games. And doesn't make me pay to play online either (well, I don't pay MMORPGs at least). So what do I need an XBox for again?
Well, we shall see. The hardware actually seems like a nice little piece of tech, and the wifi functionality *can* be made quite useful. If some hackers can come up with nice, useful firmware for it it's a device I might consider. But then again maybe you're right--maybe the hackers are so disgusted by it that they don't *want* to give people a reason to buy it.
Let me remind you of a little thing called the "CD". You won't find any problem with its audio quality unless you're the snobbiest of audiophiles, which I somehow doubt. It doesn't cost too much more than downloading DRM-encumbered files, and it makes it easy to do damn near anything you want with the music. Plus *everything* is available on it. Just thought I'd let you know.
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Yeah, between you and the previous reply it seems that Ultraman was on TV in Canada. Didn't know that, but I find it sort of amusing. Somehow I doubt that you still see Ultraman merchandise around every damn corner in Canada anymore though, like you still do in Japan. I can fully understand the nostalgia factor, and I have some of it for things that I now consider silly (ie Transformers), but the Ultraman obsession in Japan seems to have almost risen to a religion.
I mean, in Japan it's *still* ridiculously huge. You see Ultraman everywhere, and Japanese geeks love collecting Ultraman crap. But I'm not even aware of an Ultraman fandom in the US, and I'm generally up on those sorts of things... Am I the only one who feels this way, or are there American Ultraman fans? I mean, I know we got Power Rangers, but by the time that came out I was too old and too jaded to care (rather, I was like 11 or 12).
Exactly. While my university's library does not have a random ID check policy, I can certainly see it now. Sitting in the library late at night struggling to finish an important paper--definitely scruffy, bearded, and belligerant. Some idiot cop who could not possibly comprehend the gravity and brilliance of my work (I'm being facetious here, nor am I anti-police in general; this is just what I might think to myself in such a frustrating situation) comes along and interrupts my train of thought and tells me I have to pack up and leave immediately.
No way in hell I'd move. I'd at least stay around to finish up that last thought, if possible, and then I'd leave. Which is apparently more or less how it happened. They told him to leave, but he did not right away. By the time they came back to haul him off, he had already finished packing his stuff and was on his way out when they stopped him. At such I point, I would no longer be in the mood to fuck around. I think maybe screaming about it was uncalled for, and he might have been able to handle it better. But if the whole thing went down anything like I described, and it seems likely, I can certainly relate to his plight.
You're absolutely right, and you should be telling that primarily to Mehlman's gay-hating colleagues.
As for his job performance, you may have noticed that Republicans just lost pretty badly in the midterm elections. As chair of the RNC, it was his job to prevent that from happening. He's one of the many people who are taking a fall as a result of this.
It's not so much that they're gay. Many people who run the Democratic party are gay too, and nobody cares. In the case of Republicans it's just worth pointing out considering the overall anti-gay stance of the party as a whole. I don't think there should be a witch-hunt--they have their right to to their privacy. But the incredible hypocrisy and self-hatred of it should be pointed out for the sake of those who have, in the past, voted Republican against their economic self-interest just because they hate gays. Or think they do anyways.
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Have you seen Virtual Fighter 5? They were *idiots* to not try harder to get that available on launch. But I guess development on it was still too far behind.
Gameplay-wise it seems more or less like the same old crap, but that's to be expected. Visually it's damn near a work of art. Definitely eye-popping.
Eh, multi-disc games have always been an annoyance to me, and have gotten more and more common in my genre of choice: console RPGs.
I thought dual layer DVD *would* solve this. But I already have a few games spread out over two of them. And with higher quality textures in PS3 games, on top of more complex animation (which does add up), that space is going to be necessary. I imagine a game FFXIII will easily fill up a Blue-ray disc.
Well, yes. I'm not saying that not being bilingual makes you ignorant. But dismissing the idea of learning a foreign language is certainly nearsighted, if nothing else. Also, you forgot an apostrophe.
I hope you're not just joking, because this post would be funnier if you weren't.
You could always stop whining about it and learn Japanese. It's not *quite* as hard as everyone says =P
In all seriousness though, the text in Famitsu isn't all that worthwhile anyways. The main reason to pick up Famitsu is to ogle at exclusive pretty pictures from games that won't be out for a while yet. Which I think may also be the main point of this story.
If it were designed properly in the first place, it wouldn't have to cater to *any* browser that supports the standards.
Every website I've worked on has worked fine out of the box in FF and Opera. It's only IE I ever have to tweak for.
Not necessarily. Both IE and Firefox (and Netscape) have their own little non-standard quirks that their Javascript may very well be using. For example, opera supports the CSS3.0 opacity descriptor (I dunno if FF does or not yet). But IE has filter:alpha and FF has I think 'mozilla-transparancy' or something like that; I've never used it.
So say for example they were using what works in IE and FF, but not what works in Opera, which also happens to be the standard. Whose fault is it now?
I'll probably get a Wii, followed by a PS3 after its first price drop, and hopefully a few firmware upgrades. I'll pass on the XBox thankyouverymuch. The only game for it that's piqued my interest *at all* is Gears of War, and even then I don't feel like there's much there that I can't get out of my PC. I can't stand playing FPSs without a mouse anyways, though the Wiimote presents a tempting alternative.
So, what was your e-mail address again? I'm sure we can rectify this situation.
Clearly, to Tyreth et. al. it's nothing but turtles allllll the way down ~_^
But instead I'll just save myself some time with this handy quote from Carl Sagan:
Science/evolution debates in your company's intranet forum? I don't think I could last too long if my company had something like that. It would inevitably escalate to fisticuffs, possibly with my bosses. Not a good thing for coworker harmony.
To be fair, the new version of the kernel in Vista has some interesting features and changes as well. I don't have time to enumerate them right now, but it's worth saying.
However you're certainly right that upgrading my Linux kernel is generally easy, and can be done without updating the entire OS. This is one of many things that makes Windows annoying >:(
Well, I'm pretty sure flOw came first, actually.
But if you RTFA it turns out the creator of flOw is now actually on the Spore team. I'm shocked.
I just wonder if he was hired before or after they had already created the underwater stage of Spore. I would guess after, but it's still amusing.
That's more or less my feeling about it. The XBox (and the 360) is basically just a cheap, mediocre PC. I already have a pretty good PC that plays lots of good games. And doesn't make me pay to play online either (well, I don't pay MMORPGs at least). So what do I need an XBox for again?
What are you talking about exactly? The transistors used in modern CPUs *are* nanometers in size.
Well, we shall see. The hardware actually seems like a nice little piece of tech, and the wifi functionality *can* be made quite useful. If some hackers can come up with nice, useful firmware for it it's a device I might consider.
But then again maybe you're right--maybe the hackers are so disgusted by it that they don't *want* to give people a reason to buy it.
Let me remind you of a little thing called the "CD". You won't find any problem with its audio quality unless you're the snobbiest of audiophiles, which I somehow doubt. It doesn't cost too much more than downloading DRM-encumbered files, and it makes it easy to do damn near anything you want with the music. Plus *everything* is available on it. Just thought I'd let you know.
Yeah, between you and the previous reply it seems that Ultraman was on TV in Canada. Didn't know that, but I find it sort of amusing. Somehow I doubt that you still see Ultraman merchandise around every damn corner in Canada anymore though, like you still do in Japan.
I can fully understand the nostalgia factor, and I have some of it for things that I now consider silly (ie Transformers), but the Ultraman obsession in Japan seems to have almost risen to a religion.
I mean, in Japan it's *still* ridiculously huge. You see Ultraman everywhere, and Japanese geeks love collecting Ultraman crap. But I'm not even aware of an Ultraman fandom in the US, and I'm generally up on those sorts of things... Am I the only one who feels this way, or are there American Ultraman fans? I mean, I know we got Power Rangers, but by the time that came out I was too old and too jaded to care (rather, I was like 11 or 12).
Exactly. While my university's library does not have a random ID check policy, I can certainly see it now. Sitting in the library late at night struggling to finish an important paper--definitely scruffy, bearded, and belligerant. Some idiot cop who could not possibly comprehend the gravity and brilliance of my work (I'm being facetious here, nor am I anti-police in general; this is just what I might think to myself in such a frustrating situation) comes along and interrupts my train of thought and tells me I have to pack up and leave immediately.
No way in hell I'd move. I'd at least stay around to finish up that last thought, if possible, and then I'd leave. Which is apparently more or less how it happened. They told him to leave, but he did not right away. By the time they came back to haul him off, he had already finished packing his stuff and was on his way out when they stopped him. At such I point, I would no longer be in the mood to fuck around. I think maybe screaming about it was uncalled for, and he might have been able to handle it better. But if the whole thing went down anything like I described, and it seems likely, I can certainly relate to his plight.
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You're absolutely right, and you should be telling that primarily to Mehlman's gay-hating colleagues.
As for his job performance, you may have noticed that Republicans just lost pretty badly in the midterm elections. As chair of the RNC, it was his job to prevent that from happening. He's one of the many people who are taking a fall as a result of this.
I'd direct it towards CNN for censoring themselves in the first place.
It's not so much that they're gay. Many people who run the Democratic party are gay too, and nobody cares. In the case of Republicans it's just worth pointing out considering the overall anti-gay stance of the party as a whole. I don't think there should be a witch-hunt--they have their right to to their privacy. But the incredible hypocrisy and self-hatred of it should be pointed out for the sake of those who have, in the past, voted Republican against their economic self-interest just because they hate gays. Or think they do anyways.