I'm also using a 1084S - picked it up for $5 at the local junk store, when it'd have been worth ten times that. Serves triple duty as an in-house head for game systems, occasional in-car use, and the odd spot of being connected to my computer's TV-Out and used as a monitor.
Had FF3 seen a US ported release, it likely would have been with Front Mission, Makaitoushi SaGa, or Romancing SaGa - unfortunately, the Japanese WonderSwan Color port of FF3 was canned, so yeah, it's exceedingly unlikely for now.
E911 here wasn't implemented until recently - instead, the front of the phone book listed Fire, Police, and Ambulance numbers for each town, and each of those organizations also distributed stickers designed to be placed on phones of the same numbers.
Now you just need to fix the commenting in Firebird - no cursor's displayed in the name box nor is it accessible by mouse, and the mail/webpage boxes aren't even tabbable to. And the comment-box doesn't focus unless clicked twice.
I'm reasonably sure the entire Cho Aniki series, titles included, is a joke item.
As for the other things mentioned... really, the only awkward phrase in that DDR title, besides, well, DDR, is "Append". And as for phrases like DDR, games are rarely renamed for US release anymore, as the Japanese version has typically already attracted a fan base.
A party's typically supposed to be able to handle four encounters at their level before resting or heading back to town. A party's supposed to level after 12 or so such encounters. So depending on your players and your DM, the typical party will level once every month to three months. This is more than consistent with the stance that leveling has to be rare to be enjoyable. On the other hand, because that wait is broken up into 3 or 4 hour sessions weekly usually, waiting doesn't become dull.
The problem with MMORPGs is that they have to balance between many different types of players. Someone who plays every night may be happy with a 10-hour-per-level scale, depending on level rewards; someone who plays one night a week probably won't.
In addition, normal D&D encounters take anyhwere between an hour and the whole session, for something on your level - the fight may only take half a minute of game time, but give yourself your 6-player party, a minute or so per round per player for tactical thinking and dice-rolling, and the occasional 5-minute break when someone takes a spell lookup as an excuse to go buy more soda, and even subduing a few guards takes an hour or so in reality; whereas in an MMORPG (or even a real-time CRPG; NWN had to cut experience gains to 1/10 what would normally be given, and still levels extremely fast) this probably wouldn't take much over a minute. So, assuming a 3e-D&D-accurate ruleset in a hack-and-slash MMORPG, players would be hitting epic levels in their first night of play - not good for balance.
I don't think any MMORPG will avoid the level treadmill without taking a few steps that will majorly turn off subscribers - Permadeath in a PvP-only, heavily social game is about all I can think of, and few people would pay their $10 monthly for that.
Actually, there are Japanese GC variants that play CDs and DVDs. There's no official US release, but the number of imports will likely be quite high once the copied-game protection on the GC is broken, and that may induce the manufacturer (Panasonic, I think?) to begin marketing here, if that's allowed by their contract with Nintendo.
No, the one who said there was no compatibility beyond logic was right.
Or is PCI backwards-compatible with ISA, by virtue of the dual PCI/ISA slot common on most mid-90s boards? (This was accomplished due to the facts that, in a standard tower configuration, ISA boards mounted components and the faceplate above the board, whereas PCI mounted them below. Hence, there was a single mount point in the case that could be used for either an ISA or PCI card, and coincidentally allowed manufacturers to claim more slots than could actually be used simultaneously.)
On a side note, the much smaller and further-back connector seems like a bit of a bad idea - one falling heatsink's likely to crack these boards right in half or rip out the connector, as opposed to current PCI and AGP where there's a lot more reinforcement and space for the force to be spread out over.
Actually, the opposing verdicts in the criminal and civil OJ trials are a good thing.
In criminal cases, one must be proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. This reduces the number of wrongfully convicted.
In civil cases, where penalties can typically only come in the form of fines and injunctions, the burden of proof is reduced, and the side with the most convincing case wins.
So, from these, rather than drawing the conclusion that there's some kind of conflict of logic, one can simply see that, in the eyes of the judicial apparatus, OJ was more than 50%, but less than 100%, likely to be guilty.
While it sounds, at first glance, illogical, it's no different from an auto accident in which one's cleared of any charge of reckless driving but still is considered responsible for repairs - the differing burdens of proof in civil and criminal trials allow minor issues and financial damages to be worked out on a fair basis, while still maintaining the philosophy that it's better to let a guilty man free than jail an innocent.
> Please tell me of a respectable english language etymologist with the same stubborn view.
From the AP stylebook: "hacker: A highly skilled computer enthusiast. In common usage, the term has evolved to mean one who uses those computer skills to unlawfully penetrate proprietary computer systems." While common usage is by no means completely deprecated, the fact that the accurate definition continues to be mentioned means that those who insist on redefining 'hacker' to mean the malicious only are, roughly speaking, in the same boat as those who refer to any device designed to load multiple rounds into a gun as a 'clip'.
That's funny, I don't recall doujinshi (fan-published works, many of which use copyrighted/trademarked characters and situations without permission) having much of a negative impact on the Japanese comic market...
Walmart also keeps your credit card number stored in a central database demi-permanently, using the barcode at the bottom of receipts as the key for the record. They claim to do this to hasten refunds, but refuse to remove it.
Don't believe me? Try buying an item with CC and then returning it.
(Yes, that WB pic is a horridly fake-looking mockup, but it's the best I can do without going 2 hours from here, digging through old NPs, and scanning the -official- fake-looking mockup.)
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Genesis gaming-on-demand over cable was tried in the mid-90s. It bombed.
I'm also using a 1084S - picked it up for $5 at the local junk store, when it'd have been worth ten times that. Serves triple duty as an in-house head for game systems, occasional in-car use, and the odd spot of being connected to my computer's TV-Out and used as a monitor.
Minor nitpick - the emperor at that time was named Hirohito; it was the period of his reign that was referred to as the Showa era.
Had FF3 seen a US ported release, it likely would have been with Front Mission, Makaitoushi SaGa, or Romancing SaGa - unfortunately, the Japanese WonderSwan Color port of FF3 was canned, so yeah, it's exceedingly unlikely for now.
And movies are the same.
Marble Madness had a Genesis release.
E911 here wasn't implemented until recently - instead, the front of the phone book listed Fire, Police, and Ambulance numbers for each town, and each of those organizations also distributed stickers designed to be placed on phones of the same numbers.
Yeah, but 512-byte sectors mean that the 1024-byte kilobyte is more logical than a 1000-byte kilobyte, for obvious reasons.
Wrong. Dead wrong. Discs are addressed in a mumber of 512-byte sectors.
Now you just need to fix the commenting in Firebird - no cursor's displayed in the name box nor is it accessible by mouse, and the mail/webpage boxes aren't even tabbable to. And the comment-box doesn't focus unless clicked twice.
... And Slashdot ate the Japanese text "seiken densetsu" in there. Ah well.
the penultimate Square game series, Seiken Densetsu (which means "Legend of Saints and Sages")
No it doesn't. comes out as "Legend of the Holy Sword", which makes quite a bit of sense considering the significance of the Mana Sword in each.
I'm reasonably sure the entire Cho Aniki series, titles included, is a joke item.
As for the other things mentioned... really, the only awkward phrase in that DDR title, besides, well, DDR, is "Append".
And as for phrases like DDR, games are rarely renamed for US release anymore, as the Japanese version has typically already attracted a fan base.
And Ian's derived from John in much the same manned.
Also, it's "i*n".
D&D leveling's fun mainly because of the context.
A party's typically supposed to be able to handle four encounters at their level before resting or heading back to town. A party's supposed to level after 12 or so such encounters.
So depending on your players and your DM, the typical party will level once every month to three months. This is more than consistent with the stance that leveling has to be rare to be enjoyable.
On the other hand, because that wait is broken up into 3 or 4 hour sessions weekly usually, waiting doesn't become dull.
The problem with MMORPGs is that they have to balance between many different types of players. Someone who plays every night may be happy with a 10-hour-per-level scale, depending on level rewards; someone who plays one night a week probably won't.
In addition, normal D&D encounters take anyhwere between an hour and the whole session, for something on your level - the fight may only take half a minute of game time, but give yourself your 6-player party, a minute or so per round per player for tactical thinking and dice-rolling, and the occasional 5-minute break when someone takes a spell lookup as an excuse to go buy more soda, and even subduing a few guards takes an hour or so in reality; whereas in an MMORPG (or even a real-time CRPG; NWN had to cut experience gains to 1/10 what would normally be given, and still levels extremely fast) this probably wouldn't take much over a minute. So, assuming a 3e-D&D-accurate ruleset in a hack-and-slash MMORPG, players would be hitting epic levels in their first night of play - not good for balance.
I don't think any MMORPG will avoid the level treadmill without taking a few steps that will majorly turn off subscribers - Permadeath in a PvP-only, heavily social game is about all I can think of, and few people would pay their $10 monthly for that.
Warhammer's the game. "Game$ Work$hop", as would be used here, is the producing company.
And, yeah, I'll back up his point... everybody at uni complained about the prices -except- for those who played.
Actually, there are Japanese GC variants that play CDs and DVDs. There's no official US release, but the number of imports will likely be quite high once the copied-game protection on the GC is broken, and that may induce the manufacturer (Panasonic, I think?) to begin marketing here, if that's allowed by their contract with Nintendo.
No, the one who said there was no compatibility beyond logic was right.
Or is PCI backwards-compatible with ISA, by virtue of the dual PCI/ISA slot common on most mid-90s boards?
(This was accomplished due to the facts that, in a standard tower configuration, ISA boards mounted components and the faceplate above the board, whereas PCI mounted them below. Hence, there was a single mount point in the case that could be used for either an ISA or PCI card, and coincidentally allowed manufacturers to claim more slots than could actually be used simultaneously.)
On a side note, the much smaller and further-back connector seems like a bit of a bad idea - one falling heatsink's likely to crack these boards right in half or rip out the connector, as opposed to current PCI and AGP where there's a lot more reinforcement and space for the force to be spread out over.
The Wonderswan Color has had a Mr. Driller cart out for quite a while. Good luck finding it, though. =P
(not lawyer)
Actually, the opposing verdicts in the criminal and civil OJ trials are a good thing.
In criminal cases, one must be proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. This reduces the number of wrongfully convicted.
In civil cases, where penalties can typically only come in the form of fines and injunctions, the burden of proof is reduced, and the side with the most convincing case wins.
So, from these, rather than drawing the conclusion that there's some kind of conflict of logic, one can simply see that, in the eyes of the judicial apparatus, OJ was more than 50%, but less than 100%, likely to be guilty.
While it sounds, at first glance, illogical, it's no different from an auto accident in which one's cleared of any charge of reckless driving but still is considered responsible for repairs - the differing burdens of proof in civil and criminal trials allow minor issues and financial damages to be worked out on a fair basis, while still maintaining the philosophy that it's better to let a guilty man free than jail an innocent.
> Please tell me of a respectable english language etymologist with the same stubborn view.
From the AP stylebook:
"hacker: A highly skilled computer enthusiast. In common usage, the term has evolved to mean one who uses those computer skills to unlawfully penetrate proprietary computer systems."
While common usage is by no means completely deprecated, the fact that the accurate definition continues to be mentioned means that those who insist on redefining 'hacker' to mean the malicious only are, roughly speaking, in the same boat as those who refer to any device designed to load multiple rounds into a gun as a 'clip'.
That's funny, I don't recall doujinshi (fan-published works, many of which use copyrighted/trademarked characters and situations without permission) having much of a negative impact on the Japanese comic market...
Walmart also keeps your credit card number stored in a central database demi-permanently, using the barcode at the bottom of receipts as the key for the record. They claim to do this to hasten refunds, but refuse to remove it.
Don't believe me? Try buying an item with CC and then returning it.
PDA (click bottom link, they check referrers)-like utilities and audio players have existed for years. This isn't exactly killer app territory.
(Yes, that WB pic is a horridly fake-looking mockup, but it's the best I can do without going 2 hours from here, digging through old NPs, and scanning the -official- fake-looking mockup.)
... So now I can download that huge pr0n MPEG, and then be automatically fapped for 8 hours? Where do I sign up? =D