FF6 did not have materia. It had espers. FF6's characters, like the character classes in FF7, FF8, FF9, and FF10 are defined by character-specific abilities. In this regard, I found FF8 by far the worst, because the characters felt *completely* interchangeable, their differences being mostly cosmetic. To get the same sort of feeling from FF6, I spent 80+ hours leveling up.
Also, you should try FF5, where your characters *are* completely interchangeable, given time.
Congratulations! You're a newb of poor taste! Although FF7 is undoubtedly one of the best of the games in the series, it is certainly not *the* best, and it signals the entry of many of the later games' problems. You should really give FF6 a good look, and FF4 is, well, available now. (Personally, I think that FF6 > FF7 > FF4, but opinions vary.)
I've been having this same problem for a while now. I actually got all the way to the end in FF8 and FF9, and couldn't be bothered to spend a week grinding just to beat the end boss. (An especial shame in FF9, where the end boss seemed terribly out of proportion to the lead up thereto, and marred a game I thoroughly enjoyed otherwise.)
In fact, I think the last RPG I played all the way through was FF1&2, and I'm not sure I completed all of that. That was over a year ago, and I've played at least two RPGs since, and been unable to train my attention on them long enough to complete either one.
I took a canoe trip up to the BSA high adventure base on the northern tier several years back as part of a group from the local BSA council. Neat trip on the whole, but I got bit by a mosquito *through* my sleeping bag the first night. Holy hell.
The twenty year olds become the future by becoming thirty (and forty, and fifty, and etc) year olds, and, one hopes, gaining some grasp of the knowledge upon which their reason is based in the process.
The '[R]oman... or [G]reek' to whom you refer was Plato (he was Greek--Athenian, in fact). Undoubtedly, there was also some young twit in that day who thought that Plato was hopelessly behind the times. The twit might have been Aristotle, but I very much doubt it.
From somebody who just did this dance, those rates are for pretty low-end services, and aren't available everywhere. The lowest rate SBC offers locally was, IIRC about $20/month for 256kbps download.
Depending on how you count, I have three-to-five years of experience, mostly in SQL Server and Crystal Reports.
I've gotten a couple of interviews in the last two months, and more than one contact. ALL of it with recruiters/consulting/temporary employment type companies looking to fill a job. Always with somebody looking to hire me for the Crystal Reports experience, which any idiot can nearly equal in a matter of weeks. Plus, I *hate* Crystal Reports.
The only job interview I got that I *wanted* I got because I knew a guy who knew there was an opening. And I haven't heard anything back on it yet.
The content of a screenplay is the screenplay. A screenplay contains much information that is not in a book, even obliquely. That is why books are adapted to the screen.
'M$' is an asinine and derogatory term for the company, whatever your feelings. Using it automatically lowers the level of the conversation, and makes the person using it look foolish and unprofessional. It persuades no one, describes nothing not already known to all involved, and mostly just makes you look like a twit: "From my parents' basement in" and etc, etc.
Clearly the Megalixir will be a two-liter of the same stuff.
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Good comments ought use good English. Punctuation, like apostrophes, and proper capitalization increases readability. Even if your spelling is impeccable, other grammatical niceties should be observed as well.
Even so, 'good code' is a combination of commenting and coding style. Probably, neither is sufficient alone. Even the most readable code will sometimes do things which are non-obvious or unintuitive, and comments, by themselves, cannot do near so much good as clearly, concisely, and well-styled code.
I already did pay ~$4/episode for "something like Firefly". The DVD box set was $40 for eleven episodes.
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And what you've just said is: Trademarks, copyrights, and patents are the sorts of things designated by the general classification of intellectual property--but intellectual property doesn't exist!
When people talk about intellectual property, they are talking about trademarks, copyrights, patents, or the ideas or information covered by same (books, inventions, company and product names and logos). Inasmuch as a piece of intellectual property does not exist, neither does any idea or piece of information. Nonetheless, ideas and information remain useful and valuable, even in themselves. So, even though intellectual property is not real (i.e. physical) property, its value remains real. Thus, it remains useful to be able to protect and assign ownership to the value so derived.
As for the term being usable in an intelligent fashion, well, RMS is hardly final arbiter of intelligence, language, or reality. It seems likely that he rejects the idea of ownership of such things. He's certainly got the right, but it doesn't make him correct.
That's hardly fair. The cow kicks like a mule when you do that, and there's a lot of skin and hair in the way. And you wouldn't believe what they lay in. Yuck. No, give me a nice, clean cut of meat that's been properly (i.e. lightly) cooked.
You really don't know a good steak if it isn't medium-rare. Anything more is a waste of a good hunk of meat.
(Although rare's nice, too, raw's a bit far for my taste or comfort.)
Of course it is! The question isn't "will militarising space create an arms race?" but "would we rather be the ones starting the race, or the ones struggling to catch up?"
Perhaps the most succinct way to put the question is "would you trust the US or the (Red Chinese|North Koreans|Iranians) more with a space-based weapons system?" I'll accept that you might not particularly trust the US with such a system. I'm going to be severely troubled if you really think that the PRC, DPRK, or Iranian government is more trustworthy in that position, though. Of these, the PRC is very close to being, if they aren't already, to putting such a device in orbit.
Besides, how can you not like the idea of giant laser cannons? I mean, come on: LASER CANNONS. Are you some sort of wuss?
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FF6 did not have materia. It had espers. FF6's characters, like the character classes in FF7, FF8, FF9, and FF10 are defined by character-specific abilities. In this regard, I found FF8 by far the worst, because the characters felt *completely* interchangeable, their differences being mostly cosmetic. To get the same sort of feeling from FF6, I spent 80+ hours leveling up.
Also, you should try FF5, where your characters *are* completely interchangeable, given time.
You haven't lived until you've played Quake intravenously.
Congratulations! You're a newb of poor taste! Although FF7 is undoubtedly one of the best of the games in the series, it is certainly not *the* best, and it signals the entry of many of the later games' problems. You should really give FF6 a good look, and FF4 is, well, available now. (Personally, I think that FF6 > FF7 > FF4, but opinions vary.)
It's that, every so often, you guys make me feel like less of a dork, if only by comparison.
I've been having this same problem for a while now. I actually got all the way to the end in FF8 and FF9, and couldn't be bothered to spend a week grinding just to beat the end boss. (An especial shame in FF9, where the end boss seemed terribly out of proportion to the lead up thereto, and marred a game I thoroughly enjoyed otherwise.)
In fact, I think the last RPG I played all the way through was FF1&2, and I'm not sure I completed all of that. That was over a year ago, and I've played at least two RPGs since, and been unable to train my attention on them long enough to complete either one.
Hey. *You* think I'm *kidding*.
Yead, no kidding.
I took a canoe trip up to the BSA high adventure base on the northern tier several years back as part of a group from the local BSA council. Neat trip on the whole, but I got bit by a mosquito *through* my sleeping bag the first night. Holy hell.
The twenty year olds become the future by becoming thirty (and forty, and fifty, and etc) year olds, and, one hopes, gaining some grasp of the knowledge upon which their reason is based in the process.
... or [G]reek' to whom you refer was Plato (he was Greek--Athenian, in fact). Undoubtedly, there was also some young twit in that day who thought that Plato was hopelessly behind the times. The twit might have been Aristotle, but I very much doubt it.
The '[R]oman
I'm not sure if it's the area or just the house, but Verizon does not offer service here.
Or, as the man says, "[p]rofanity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker."
From somebody who just did this dance, those rates are for pretty low-end services, and aren't available everywhere. The lowest rate SBC offers locally was, IIRC about $20/month for 256kbps download.
Depending on how you count, I have three-to-five years of experience, mostly in SQL Server and Crystal Reports.
I've gotten a couple of interviews in the last two months, and more than one contact. ALL of it with recruiters/consulting/temporary employment type companies looking to fill a job. Always with somebody looking to hire me for the Crystal Reports experience, which any idiot can nearly equal in a matter of weeks. Plus, I *hate* Crystal Reports.
The only job interview I got that I *wanted* I got because I knew a guy who knew there was an opening. And I haven't heard anything back on it yet.
What? You don't believe in the Twinkie-based economy?
Actually, it's not so bad. I switch back and forth from QWERTY to Dvorak on a regular basis. Like, whenever I come home from the office.
The content of a screenplay is the screenplay. A screenplay contains much information that is not in a book, even obliquely. That is why books are adapted to the screen.
'M$' is an asinine and derogatory term for the company, whatever your feelings. Using it automatically lowers the level of the conversation, and makes the person using it look foolish and unprofessional. It persuades no one, describes nothing not already known to all involved, and mostly just makes you look like a twit: "From my parents' basement in" and etc, etc.
Clearly the Megalixir will be a two-liter of the same stuff.
Good comments ought use good English. Punctuation, like apostrophes, and proper capitalization increases readability. Even if your spelling is impeccable, other grammatical niceties should be observed as well.
Even so, 'good code' is a combination of commenting and coding style. Probably, neither is sufficient alone. Even the most readable code will sometimes do things which are non-obvious or unintuitive, and comments, by themselves, cannot do near so much good as clearly, concisely, and well-styled code.
How insightful. That's exactly the sort of advice "TFHD" gives. Bravo.
As long as we're being pedantic, the problem is that I (apparently) can't do arithmetic or count. I can usually spell just fine.
I already did pay ~$4/episode for "something like Firefly". The DVD box set was $40 for eleven episodes.
And what you've just said is:
Trademarks, copyrights, and patents are the sorts of things designated by the general classification of intellectual property--but intellectual property doesn't exist!
When people talk about intellectual property, they are talking about trademarks, copyrights, patents, or the ideas or information covered by same (books, inventions, company and product names and logos). Inasmuch as a piece of intellectual property does not exist, neither does any idea or piece of information. Nonetheless, ideas and information remain useful and valuable, even in themselves. So, even though intellectual property is not real (i.e. physical) property, its value remains real. Thus, it remains useful to be able to protect and assign ownership to the value so derived.
As for the term being usable in an intelligent fashion, well, RMS is hardly final arbiter of intelligence, language, or reality. It seems likely that he rejects the idea of ownership of such things. He's certainly got the right, but it doesn't make him correct.
It'll be the tackiest thing yet!
Ugh.
That's hardly fair. The cow kicks like a mule when you do that, and there's a lot of skin and hair in the way. And you wouldn't believe what they lay in. Yuck. No, give me a nice, clean cut of meat that's been properly (i.e. lightly) cooked.
You really don't know a good steak if it isn't medium-rare. Anything more is a waste of a good hunk of meat.
(Although rare's nice, too, raw's a bit far for my taste or comfort.)
Of course it is! The question isn't "will militarising space create an arms race?" but "would we rather be the ones starting the race, or the ones struggling to catch up?"
Perhaps the most succinct way to put the question is "would you trust the US or the (Red Chinese|North Koreans|Iranians) more with a space-based weapons system?" I'll accept that you might not particularly trust the US with such a system. I'm going to be severely troubled if you really think that the PRC, DPRK, or Iranian government is more trustworthy in that position, though. Of these, the PRC is very close to being, if they aren't already, to putting such a device in orbit.
Besides, how can you not like the idea of giant laser cannons? I mean, come on: LASER CANNONS. Are you some sort of wuss?