FF not for me? You might think that, but you would be wrong. FFIX is the first one I've put any significant amount of time into but did not finish. I had heard word of FF3 (from the NES) getting released on the DS. That has me excited: it's a game I haven't played before. FFVII with non-sucky graphics? Not so much. I wasn't that enamoured of the game on the first pass.
Second, if it takes you 200 hours to get through FFVII, you are doing it wrong.
FWIW, I'd be much more interested in a proper rework of FFVI than of FFVII. FFVII is much overrated (an excellent game, but still overrated). Sure, the graphics are seriously dated, but that's not anything new.
You know, if you're holding a shindig to announce a bunch new, new stuff and the thing "that has everyone excited" is a (possible) remake of a previous game, you just might be doing something wrong.
I mean, I really like Squeenix and all, but I only bought FFX now that it's in the $20 bin, and then only on the strong recommendation of a friend. I really like the way FFXII looks (or has looked so far, since I can't see TFA from here), but I had exactly the same impression of FFIX, which I never did finish. I can only play the same damn game so many times, guys.
Look, the UN is the bureaucracy's bureaucracy, and has serious corruption problems besides. Given their track record on everything else, you just know that China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia would be given prominent positions on some sort of Internet monitoring council. And you're worried about privacy now?
There's a huge hurdle in terms of infrastructure there. You don't just slap a bullet train onto existing freight lines and let 'er go.
You'd need to lay all-new rail lines, with banked curves and so forth, and they'd be different, all the way around, from the rail used elsewhere in US. Since, AFAIK, the Amtrak lines closest to profitability are actually the shorter ones up in the northeast (connecting, say, DC, Boston, and NYC), it's not particularly effective to put in a bullet train there, where you'll get more traffic, but not gain anything much in speed (despite incurring huge cost to do it).
Yes, it's been happening for a while. Or did you miss those (civil) lawsuits when the gun companies lost them? Colt, last I heard, no longer manufactures firearms for the cunsumer market for exactly this reason. ISTR that one or more companies have gone out of business or left the US for this sort of reason.
Your company can get 90%+ of the value it needs out of a prepackaged IT solution and a handful of on-site customer-service monkeys. Techs can be brought in as-needed when something breaks.
Your company doesn't need to host and manage its own email, web or even database servers, and may not even have much advantage in managing its own file servers. Once the infrastructure's in, there's not much need for guys to run cables (and if they've moved to a wireless network, there's even less need, although that opens up an entirely different class of problems). There's an excellent chance that your company does not need its own development group. Outsourcing these functions saves the cost of employing a bunch of IT monkeys, maintaining a certain amount of infrastructure, software maintenance, and a load of other costs. Granted, you're paying someone else to do it for you, but someone else should be able to gain some advantage from economies of scale. If they're worth bothering with, the security, bandwdith, and many of the compliance issues become their problem.
In the end, the major things many companies need on-site IT folks for are IS functions. They'll need folks to setup and support desktop and laptop computers and userspace software and the like. Welcome to the brave new world. I hope your school loans aren't too big.
who the fuck cares if you are unhappy about these films or the direction that Lucas is taking the franchise? Just because you don't get it doesn't mean that you get to trash it.
Actually, it does. But maybe you're unfamiliar with opinions, or discussion on the Internet.
In the meantime, popularity, as profitability, has never been equivalent to quality. Many great things never gain popularity, while many things which are complete garbage sell like hotcakes. This is a fact of life. That many people still like Star Wars does not invalidate criticism of same.
Indeed. It worked very well for the Soviets. People were extremely interested in things that mattered: starvation, oppression, etc.
And, of course, none of those great scientific figures of ages past have ever been even remotely religious. Like, say, Isaac Newton. Or Galileo Galilei.
to put 40 hours into a videogame while you're trying to carry on any sort of semblance of a normal adult life. Hell, by the time I account for my commute, my lunch, and my eight hours work in a given day, I've lost at least nine, if not ten, hours of my day to my job.
Never mind time spent in the moring before leaving to work (roughly a half hour) or time spent in the evening in various hygiene relate activities (at least a half hour). I'm a painfully single guy, so I really can spend Friday evening and all of Saturday playing games, but I have to do laundry sometime, there's still some TV I do watch, and I have a variety of other errands that have to be run in a given week, not to mention any other entertainment that I might engage in. I'm lucky right now if I get three hours of gaming in during a given week. There's just too much other stuff to do.
Shorter games that can be picked up for brief periods are a lot more attractive, since I've got to squeeze them in around the rest of schedule.
I love the Model M. It's big, heavy, solid. It's loud, granted, but that's nice, too. I know when the key got pressed. (So does the guy in the next room.) I got mine secondhand, filthy, dirty, and well-used. The keys were all readable, and the only damage done was the odd scrap, a missing key cap or two, and dirt. Work like a charm.
My only complaint? I've got three of these (obtained for less than $10 per), and I have exactly one full set of key caps.... I wish I knew where to buy replacements caps.
Didn't the PS2 and Xbox both debut at a price point a hundred dollars higher than the previous gen consoles back in 2000/2001? Are we surprised that the latest batch will be more expensive yet?
I'm tired of being unable to have a career because there are 8 million idiots with a pile of certifications and a bunch of bad ideas clogging up the job mills.
I'm not an economist, but I'd guess that business increases overall to some degree. Even supermarkets carry a fair number of luxury items these days, unless you really think that chai, deli cheeses and low-carb frozen dinners are staples:)
Advertising generally pays for itself, or it wouldn't be worth the bother. The increased business brought in by advertising should more than make up for the cost of sending out a few pages of ads every week.
They can take a great flying leap, as far as I'm concerned. The last thing I need is China and Saudi Arabia given any sort of input on the sort of content I'm able to see.
What you're describing are more along the lines of a vocational or an MIS-type of curriculum. Heavy on specific technologies, light on the theoretical underpinnings of same. If you're serious about CS, go somewhere with a good theoretical focus. You may want to find somewhere that strikes some balance with practical application (see also: software engineering), especially if you want to, say, work for a living, instead of do graduate studies, but you do need a theoretical basis for that. It makes a big difference to have some understanding of the whys behind the whats of doing your job.
Whether or not that's inextricably bound up with a degree from someplace that doesn't call itself a community college, I don't know. I'd bet you'll have better luck with a satellite school of a larger state university than with a community college.
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FF not for me? You might think that, but you would be wrong. FFIX is the first one I've put any significant amount of time into but did not finish. I had heard word of FF3 (from the NES) getting released on the DS. That has me excited: it's a game I haven't played before. FFVII with non-sucky graphics? Not so much. I wasn't that enamoured of the game on the first pass.
Second, if it takes you 200 hours to get through FFVII, you are doing it wrong.
FWIW, I'd be much more interested in a proper rework of FFVI than of FFVII. FFVII is much overrated (an excellent game, but still overrated). Sure, the graphics are seriously dated, but that's not anything new.
You know, if you're holding a shindig to announce a bunch new, new stuff and the thing "that has everyone excited" is a (possible) remake of a previous game, you just might be doing something wrong.
I mean, I really like Squeenix and all, but I only bought FFX now that it's in the $20 bin, and then only on the strong recommendation of a friend. I really like the way FFXII looks (or has looked so far, since I can't see TFA from here), but I had exactly the same impression of FFIX, which I never did finish. I can only play the same damn game so many times, guys.
Tax on domain names? Are you kidding me?
Look, the UN is the bureaucracy's bureaucracy, and has serious corruption problems besides. Given their track record on everything else, you just know that China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia would be given prominent positions on some sort of Internet monitoring council. And you're worried about privacy now?
Some people do math. Me, I let my computer do math. Given that, it makes a lot of sense not to buy a $400 console when I already have a $1500 PC.
There's a huge hurdle in terms of infrastructure there. You don't just slap a bullet train onto existing freight lines and let 'er go.
You'd need to lay all-new rail lines, with banked curves and so forth, and they'd be different, all the way around, from the rail used elsewhere in US. Since, AFAIK, the Amtrak lines closest to profitability are actually the shorter ones up in the northeast (connecting, say, DC, Boston, and NYC), it's not particularly effective to put in a bullet train there, where you'll get more traffic, but not gain anything much in speed (despite incurring huge cost to do it).
Yes, it's been happening for a while. Or did you miss those (civil) lawsuits when the gun companies lost them? Colt, last I heard, no longer manufactures firearms for the cunsumer market for exactly this reason. ISTR that one or more companies have gone out of business or left the US for this sort of reason.
Your company can get 90%+ of the value it needs out of a prepackaged IT solution and a handful of on-site customer-service monkeys. Techs can be brought in as-needed when something breaks.
Your company doesn't need to host and manage its own email, web or even database servers, and may not even have much advantage in managing its own file servers. Once the infrastructure's in, there's not much need for guys to run cables (and if they've moved to a wireless network, there's even less need, although that opens up an entirely different class of problems). There's an excellent chance that your company does not need its own development group. Outsourcing these functions saves the cost of employing a bunch of IT monkeys, maintaining a certain amount of infrastructure, software maintenance, and a load of other costs. Granted, you're paying someone else to do it for you, but someone else should be able to gain some advantage from economies of scale. If they're worth bothering with, the security, bandwdith, and many of the compliance issues become their problem.
In the end, the major things many companies need on-site IT folks for are IS functions. They'll need folks to setup and support desktop and laptop computers and userspace software and the like. Welcome to the brave new world. I hope your school loans aren't too big.
In the meantime, popularity, as profitability, has never been equivalent to quality. Many great things never gain popularity, while many things which are complete garbage sell like hotcakes. This is a fact of life. That many people still like Star Wars does not invalidate criticism of same.
Indeed. It worked very well for the Soviets. People were extremely interested in things that mattered: starvation, oppression, etc.
And, of course, none of those great scientific figures of ages past have ever been even remotely religious. Like, say, Isaac Newton. Or Galileo Galilei.
I drive to work. I could take a bus, but I would probably lose additional hours to the bus ride. Thanks, but no.
And my lunch break is short enough that I usually spend it eating. At my desk.
to put 40 hours into a videogame while you're trying to carry on any sort of semblance of a normal adult life. Hell, by the time I account for my commute, my lunch, and my eight hours work in a given day, I've lost at least nine, if not ten, hours of my day to my job.
Never mind time spent in the moring before leaving to work (roughly a half hour) or time spent in the evening in various hygiene relate activities (at least a half hour). I'm a painfully single guy, so I really can spend Friday evening and all of Saturday playing games, but I have to do laundry sometime, there's still some TV I do watch, and I have a variety of other errands that have to be run in a given week, not to mention any other entertainment that I might engage in. I'm lucky right now if I get three hours of gaming in during a given week. There's just too much other stuff to do.
Shorter games that can be picked up for brief periods are a lot more attractive, since I've got to squeeze them in around the rest of schedule.
Never use that word again. Some neologisms man simply was not meant to know.
Sir, I salute and thank you!
I love the Model M. It's big, heavy, solid. It's loud, granted, but that's nice, too. I know when the key got pressed. (So does the guy in the next room.) I got mine secondhand, filthy, dirty, and well-used. The keys were all readable, and the only damage done was the odd scrap, a missing key cap or two, and dirt. Work like a charm.
... I wish I knew where to buy replacements caps.
My only complaint? I've got three of these (obtained for less than $10 per), and I have exactly one full set of key caps.
Ah. Never mind me, then. Thanks for the correction.
Didn't the PS2 and Xbox both debut at a price point a hundred dollars higher than the previous gen consoles back in 2000/2001? Are we surprised that the latest batch will be more expensive yet?
implications. Unless you really think that's a new phenomenon.
I'm tired of being unable to have a career because there are 8 million idiots with a pile of certifications and a bunch of bad ideas clogging up the job mills.
We have exactly such a term. Many of them, in fact, but the one which leaps to mind first is 'assholes'.
"Star Wars goes to Hell"?
Didn't that happen six years ago?
I'm not an economist, but I'd guess that business increases overall to some degree. Even supermarkets carry a fair number of luxury items these days, unless you really think that chai, deli cheeses and low-carb frozen dinners are staples :)
Advertising generally pays for itself, or it wouldn't be worth the bother. The increased business brought in by advertising should more than make up for the cost of sending out a few pages of ads every week.
They can take a great flying leap, as far as I'm concerned. The last thing I need is China and Saudi Arabia given any sort of input on the sort of content I'm able to see.
What you're describing are more along the lines of a vocational or an MIS-type of curriculum. Heavy on specific technologies, light on the theoretical underpinnings of same. If you're serious about CS, go somewhere with a good theoretical focus. You may want to find somewhere that strikes some balance with practical application (see also: software engineering), especially if you want to, say, work for a living, instead of do graduate studies, but you do need a theoretical basis for that. It makes a big difference to have some understanding of the whys behind the whats of doing your job.
Whether or not that's inextricably bound up with a degree from someplace that doesn't call itself a community college, I don't know. I'd bet you'll have better luck with a satellite school of a larger state university than with a community college.