Probably because they ported it to the playstation. It is on one of the Final Fantasy compilation cds they put out (which just recently we re-released as greatest hits). One of then has Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 4 on it (I think).
I believe they also spiffed up the graphics a little as well. They probably have some agreement with Sony as to not port it to any other systems.
I'm actually thinking this will be okay. Spielberg, because he no longer has to listen to what other producers in hollywood say about his projects, is very similar to an independent film producer. He has the freedom to do things the way he sees it, without it being muddled with other people's input. Whether that agrees with how you see it is another thing, but one can hope that he'll do things well, because he has a long track record of doing *great* films
Except Spielberg has lost his way. He no longer makes the classics he usually does, in fact his gotten the Lucas diseased and is hacking up his old movies. Look at the utter ridiculous censoring of E.T. That was a fine quality work, and he went and took out the guns and "penis breath". Great... He is kuwtowing to people now. He is no longer a great film maker.
Look at A.I. That was a mess. Too many, "oooh celebrity cameo!" and then the horrible ending that instead of being tragic turns out to be just silly.
Spielberg has lost it. Just look at his past couple of films. He's no longer the same director he once was.
Hate to burst your anti-Peoplesoft rant, but you should shift the blame to your school's Peoplesoft admins. Peoplesoft's interface is incredibly customizable. They can control and change the "shotty html output" all they want. They can change it work fine in Mozilla, Opera, and IE.
It's just bad implimentation on your schools part. They should get a competent web designer and a peoplesoft admin together and craft a better interface. Peoplesoft can look and function well when set up properly.
People are always asking me, "Bill, are you proud to be an American? Proud to be an American? Like I had a choice, proud to be an American, well my parents fucked there. I was a disembodied soul floating around going , "fuck in paris! fuck in paris!", but they fucked here. Ok I'm proud. Why don't they put that on the flag? It's hard to get some boot stomping rallying around a picture of your dad spanking your mom's 4 by 4 ass."
That was from memory, apologies if I got it wrong.
As you said, it's cheaper to do it right the first time, design good comprehensive security in from the ground up.
Now, I'll tell you how it works in the real world. Most of these social network sites are designed small. Some odd project that happens to catch on and spiral out from there. Most sites start out small and then explode. This isn't giant corporations with lots of employees. Hell, most of them aren't even start ups. They are guys in basements who had an idea for a site, it took off. Through donations and subscriptions they gains size and scaled their programs up. Now they need to worry about things like SSL and site performance, and it's too late.
It should have been done from the ground up, but it wasn't. Things like SSL and good tight security don't get built in when you never intend for projects to get as big as it does.
Look at a site like Livejournal. It started small, and now it's taken off to being incredibly popular. They had a small team working on the site who had to decide what stuff needed to be done. Once the site got large, you have to go, "well, the site is running slow as it is, do we set up some more databases, work on memcache, or impliment SSL which will bog down performance even more." Obviously in order to stay in business they had to improve the site performance and struggle to keep good service up. It's easy to let security go slack.
It's even easier to sit back and scoff, "you should have done it in the beginning".
The iTunes service was acknowledged as their biggest gainer.
Is clearly false. From the article:
In Apple's annual analyst conference call, Jobs admitted that iTMS was a loss leader for them. Apple's goal in getting into the music business is to sell more iPods.
Apple only offers the iTMS to sell iPods, the number 1 selling mp3 player. Apple takes a loss on the service to make up the money on the iPods. Also the iPod is Apple's venture into the consumer electronics market (different from the computer market). Apple already said they wont be doing flat screen TVs or cell phones, but other consumer electronics are on the way.
So, keep in mind, Apple is losing money with the iTMS, but making it up on the iPod. Now, if Apple is losing money on iTMS, I wonder how Walmart and Napster are fairing.
Samething happened when I saw the trailer. It was just tacked in with the other trailers so i thought, "oh, funny, a trailer to look like an ad, cute", and then at the very end they had, "three rules safe" and I said, "oooh, I see what you're doing there, very tricksy".
But, it looks like it'll be a mess. It'll turn into a Will Smith and CG robot cheesefest.
Other suggested works of Political Commentary out this year would be "Kingdom Of Fear" by Hunter S. Thompson. While resting a little on his laurels and retaling some tales, Thompson weaves together a series of stories which highlight the current politcal madness. He paints the current political situation as a "Kingdom of Fear". the book also continues thompson chronicle of the death of the american dream. Interesting read with you are an HST fan.
as for dissappoint books, "Diary", by Chuck Palahinuk was a dissappointment. His last book "Lullaby" was brilliant, it was one of the best stories I've read in awhile. "Diary" was just dreck. The "Chuckism" in the book (Greek Chorus like repetition of lines) seemed force. The plot of utterly predictable, andnot very engaging. Only a few parts really worked. It is very disappointing, and is a pale shadow of his other great works, such as Lullabye, Choke, Survivor, and Fight Club.
umm, actually yeah.
If you've actually read The Hobbit, the Dwarves are basically all about comic relief. Everything from their names alll being similar to each other, to the silly songs they sing. They are rather comical. I always assumed that Peter Jackson used The Hobbit as a reference to flesh out Gimili's character for the movies.
you have to admit, in The Hobbit the dwarves are definitely silly.
Not to be rude, but I think this reply is more of, "I can't use the feature right now, so I'm going to piss and moan about other problems being more important"
Number portability is great, and needed. It's not a gimick. Here at the office, it is most welcomed. We recently reviewed our cellphone planes. Cingular was just bending s over a sink. We wanted out. We shopped around, looked at different carriers, and picked the one that best suited us (Sprint).
Of course, this was several months ago. After switching carriers, we had to distribute all new phones, everyone had to learn new phone numbers, we needed to update business cards, and then try and update all our contacts.
What if someone we met at a conference six months ago though, hey, you know so-so's product would work for us real well here, I think I even have his card. He calls a sales reps phone... nope no answer. He can fall back and call the main office number, but thats not good. It gives the appearance of being unprofessional.
If we had number portability, the transition would be seamless for the users.
Bitching about 2 year deals is dumb. You can find PLENTY of one year plans. Also, there are TONS and TONS of per-use plans for people who don't like long term plans. You can go to Best Buy and pick up a Virgin mobile phone that is pay as you go.
Your complaining seems like sour grapes to me. Looks like you chose a bad plan and carrier and now are completely upset with the cellphone world.
That isn't true. If you ever saw the episode, "Isle of the Giant Pokemon", Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander and the gang are serperates from Ash and friends. The pokemon meet up with the Team Rocket Pokemon as well. The interesting thing about this episode is the Pokemon are subtitled. Yes, thats right, subtitled. So Pikachu would say, "pika-pika-pikachu!", it wuld translate it to, "Ash wouldn't leave us behind, he loves us".
I believe the language of each pokemon is basically built on tone and infliction of the name. Meowof managed to learn to speak english though.
The subtitling of the Pokemon is what makes "The Isle of the Giant Pokemon" the best pokemon episode ever.
squirtle, squirtle!
Of course everyone should sacrifice... yeah right.
The Red Cross needs good management and a good CEO. Take a look at the amount of money the company handles, and the stuff they do around the world. They are equal to a multinational corporation. Now, they need people with the ability to lead a company that size. In order to attract these people, they have to offer a salary. Now in order to get the people needed into these positions, they need to pay a competitive salary. Some guy off the street being the CEO of the Red Cross for 50K a year might look good, but unless he's independently wealthy and doing it as a humanitarian effort, he's not going to do the job well.
CEOs actually do alot for companies, it may look like a cushy job, but there is alot of work going on there.
I mean, compare it with software development. If you have a project going on, you want a good software dev team to work on it. Sure, you are going to "piss away cash" to pay their salaries, but you could always just farm out the job overseas. Anyone here will tell you, the farmed out code is going to be subpar. If you farm out the CEO of the Red Cross, the result is going to be subpar.
It is the samething with teachers. Everyone will complain that teachers are underpaid. Yet, I don't see anyone ponying up more tax dollars to pay for them.
I don't think Political Correctness won out at all. From his description, the story was going to be a heartbreaking and bittersweet story of a couple who desperately wanted to have a child, but couldn't.
Now imagine being a teenage girl, who screwed up and is now pregnant. Now the circumstances in the situation result in the best option be to not have the child. That is a tough choice to made, and is damn hard thing to do. The woman has to look at her life and make the best choice.
Now, someone who isn't in her shoes, and will not suffer the consquences of the situation comes along and throws this story in her face. The story will only make her choice tougher and harder. It will only mess up a tough, situation and make it even worse.
Neil didn't want to be involved in that. He saw his story and decided that he didn't want to be responsible for something like that. I applaud him for having the courage to take responsibility for his work. So often we see people yelling that artists and writers should take responsibility for their work and how their work will effect the audience. Here someone does just that and you have someone immediately call the PC-police on the issue.
Neil knew his work would be used in a way he would not want. So instead of comprosing the work to make it PC for everyone, he decided not to tell that story.
The re-released it for the playstation. It's on a disc with another final fantasy game. It is called Final Fantasy Anthology, or something like that. Final Fantasy Orgins was a playstation release of FF1 and FF2.
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Let's see, Transmetropolitan is not included.
1.) The Authority
2.) Planetary
3.) Global Frequency
4.) Orbiter
5.) Strange Kisses, Stranger Kisses, Strange Killings (let's lump those together)
6.) Dark Blue
7.) Atmospherics
8.) Scars
9.) Mek
10.) Reload
They did do a "reboot" soo to speak of spider-man with the Ultimate line, but the movie is not based on these books.
In these books, he still does not have organic web shooters. In the Ultimate books he completes work that his father was orginally doing before he died. Thus he's a smart kid to be able to figure out the piece of the puzzle his dad was already working on.
It's already out there. Check out Hiptop Nation. It's a blogging from camera phones site. It's for use with the T Mobile Sidekick but looks prety interesting.
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Probably because they ported it to the playstation. It is on one of the Final Fantasy compilation cds they put out (which just recently we re-released as greatest hits). One of then has Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 4 on it (I think). I believe they also spiffed up the graphics a little as well. They probably have some agreement with Sony as to not port it to any other systems.
I'm actually thinking this will be okay. Spielberg, because he no longer has to listen to what other producers in hollywood say about his projects, is very similar to an independent film producer. He has the freedom to do things the way he sees it, without it being muddled with other people's input. Whether that agrees with how you see it is another thing, but one can hope that he'll do things well, because he has a long track record of doing *great* films Except Spielberg has lost his way. He no longer makes the classics he usually does, in fact his gotten the Lucas diseased and is hacking up his old movies. Look at the utter ridiculous censoring of E.T. That was a fine quality work, and he went and took out the guns and "penis breath". Great... He is kuwtowing to people now. He is no longer a great film maker. Look at A.I. That was a mess. Too many, "oooh celebrity cameo!" and then the horrible ending that instead of being tragic turns out to be just silly. Spielberg has lost it. Just look at his past couple of films. He's no longer the same director he once was.
Hate to burst your anti-Peoplesoft rant, but you should shift the blame to your school's Peoplesoft admins. Peoplesoft's interface is incredibly customizable. They can control and change the "shotty html output" all they want. They can change it work fine in Mozilla, Opera, and IE. It's just bad implimentation on your schools part. They should get a competent web designer and a peoplesoft admin together and craft a better interface. Peoplesoft can look and function well when set up properly.
To Quote the mighty Bill Hicks:
People are always asking me, "Bill, are you proud to be an American? Proud to be an American? Like I had a choice, proud to be an American, well my parents fucked there. I was a disembodied soul floating around going , "fuck in paris! fuck in paris!", but they fucked here. Ok I'm proud. Why don't they put that on the flag? It's hard to get some boot stomping rallying around a picture of your dad spanking your mom's 4 by 4 ass."
That was from memory, apologies if I got it wrong.
Contrux were amazing!
I made a robocop powersuit out of them. I even made a gun and a power knife.
You could also make some fantastic ninja throwing stars out of them.
As you said, it's cheaper to do it right the first time, design good comprehensive security in from the ground up.
Now, I'll tell you how it works in the real world. Most of these social network sites are designed small. Some odd project that happens to catch on and spiral out from there. Most sites start out small and then explode. This isn't giant corporations with lots of employees. Hell, most of them aren't even start ups. They are guys in basements who had an idea for a site, it took off. Through donations and subscriptions they gains size and scaled their programs up. Now they need to worry about things like SSL and site performance, and it's too late.
It should have been done from the ground up, but it wasn't. Things like SSL and good tight security don't get built in when you never intend for projects to get as big as it does.
Look at a site like Livejournal. It started small, and now it's taken off to being incredibly popular. They had a small team working on the site who had to decide what stuff needed to be done. Once the site got large, you have to go, "well, the site is running slow as it is, do we set up some more databases, work on memcache, or impliment SSL which will bog down performance even more." Obviously in order to stay in business they had to improve the site performance and struggle to keep good service up. It's easy to let security go slack.
It's even easier to sit back and scoff, "you should have done it in the beginning".
Maybe it is my fault for reading the article but:
The iTunes service was acknowledged as their biggest gainer.
Is clearly false. From the article:
In Apple's annual analyst conference call, Jobs admitted that iTMS was a loss leader for them. Apple's goal in getting into the music business is to sell more iPods.
Apple only offers the iTMS to sell iPods, the number 1 selling mp3 player. Apple takes a loss on the service to make up the money on the iPods. Also the iPod is Apple's venture into the consumer electronics market (different from the computer market). Apple already said they wont be doing flat screen TVs or cell phones, but other consumer electronics are on the way.
So, keep in mind, Apple is losing money with the iTMS, but making it up on the iPod. Now, if Apple is losing money on iTMS, I wonder how Walmart and Napster are fairing.
Samething happened when I saw the trailer. It was just tacked in with the other trailers so i thought, "oh, funny, a trailer to look like an ad, cute", and then at the very end they had, "three rules safe" and I said, "oooh, I see what you're doing there, very tricksy".
But, it looks like it'll be a mess. It'll turn into a Will Smith and CG robot cheesefest.
Other suggested works of Political Commentary out this year would be "Kingdom Of Fear" by Hunter S. Thompson. While resting a little on his laurels and retaling some tales, Thompson weaves together a series of stories which highlight the current politcal madness. He paints the current political situation as a "Kingdom of Fear". the book also continues thompson chronicle of the death of the american dream. Interesting read with you are an HST fan.
as for dissappoint books, "Diary", by Chuck Palahinuk was a dissappointment. His last book "Lullaby" was brilliant, it was one of the best stories I've read in awhile. "Diary" was just dreck. The "Chuckism" in the book (Greek Chorus like repetition of lines) seemed force. The plot of utterly predictable, andnot very engaging. Only a few parts really worked. It is very disappointing, and is a pale shadow of his other great works, such as Lullabye, Choke, Survivor, and Fight Club.
umm, actually yeah.
If you've actually read The Hobbit, the Dwarves are basically all about comic relief. Everything from their names alll being similar to each other, to the silly songs they sing. They are rather comical. I always assumed that Peter Jackson used The Hobbit as a reference to flesh out Gimili's character for the movies.
you have to admit, in The Hobbit the dwarves are definitely silly.
Not to be rude, but I think this reply is more of, "I can't use the feature right now, so I'm going to piss and moan about other problems being more important"
Number portability is great, and needed. It's not a gimick. Here at the office, it is most welcomed. We recently reviewed our cellphone planes. Cingular was just bending s over a sink. We wanted out. We shopped around, looked at different carriers, and picked the one that best suited us (Sprint).
Of course, this was several months ago. After switching carriers, we had to distribute all new phones, everyone had to learn new phone numbers, we needed to update business cards, and then try and update all our contacts.
What if someone we met at a conference six months ago though, hey, you know so-so's product would work for us real well here, I think I even have his card. He calls a sales reps phone... nope no answer. He can fall back and call the main office number, but thats not good. It gives the appearance of being unprofessional.
If we had number portability, the transition would be seamless for the users.
Bitching about 2 year deals is dumb. You can find PLENTY of one year plans. Also, there are TONS and TONS of per-use plans for people who don't like long term plans. You can go to Best Buy and pick up a Virgin mobile phone that is pay as you go.
Your complaining seems like sour grapes to me. Looks like you chose a bad plan and carrier and now are completely upset with the cellphone world.
That isn't true. If you ever saw the episode, "Isle of the Giant Pokemon", Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander and the gang are serperates from Ash and friends. The pokemon meet up with the Team Rocket Pokemon as well. The interesting thing about this episode is the Pokemon are subtitled. Yes, thats right, subtitled. So Pikachu would say, "pika-pika-pikachu!", it wuld translate it to, "Ash wouldn't leave us behind, he loves us".
I believe the language of each pokemon is basically built on tone and infliction of the name. Meowof managed to learn to speak english though.
The subtitling of the Pokemon is what makes "The Isle of the Giant Pokemon" the best pokemon episode ever.
squirtle, squirtle!
Of course everyone should sacrifice... yeah right.
The Red Cross needs good management and a good CEO. Take a look at the amount of money the company handles, and the stuff they do around the world. They are equal to a multinational corporation. Now, they need people with the ability to lead a company that size. In order to attract these people, they have to offer a salary. Now in order to get the people needed into these positions, they need to pay a competitive salary. Some guy off the street being the CEO of the Red Cross for 50K a year might look good, but unless he's independently wealthy and doing it as a humanitarian effort, he's not going to do the job well.
CEOs actually do alot for companies, it may look like a cushy job, but there is alot of work going on there.
I mean, compare it with software development. If you have a project going on, you want a good software dev team to work on it. Sure, you are going to "piss away cash" to pay their salaries, but you could always just farm out the job overseas. Anyone here will tell you, the farmed out code is going to be subpar. If you farm out the CEO of the Red Cross, the result is going to be subpar.
It is the samething with teachers. Everyone will complain that teachers are underpaid. Yet, I don't see anyone ponying up more tax dollars to pay for them.
I don't think Political Correctness won out at all. From his description, the story was going to be a heartbreaking and bittersweet story of a couple who desperately wanted to have a child, but couldn't.
Now imagine being a teenage girl, who screwed up and is now pregnant. Now the circumstances in the situation result in the best option be to not have the child. That is a tough choice to made, and is damn hard thing to do. The woman has to look at her life and make the best choice.
Now, someone who isn't in her shoes, and will not suffer the consquences of the situation comes along and throws this story in her face. The story will only make her choice tougher and harder. It will only mess up a tough, situation and make it even worse.
Neil didn't want to be involved in that. He saw his story and decided that he didn't want to be responsible for something like that. I applaud him for having the courage to take responsibility for his work. So often we see people yelling that artists and writers should take responsibility for their work and how their work will effect the audience. Here someone does just that and you have someone immediately call the PC-police on the issue.
Neil knew his work would be used in a way he would not want. So instead of comprosing the work to make it PC for everyone, he decided not to tell that story.
In this case, you would probably have to call it "Cock Code".
*Golf Club swing* Thanks I'll be here all week.
The re-released it for the playstation. It's on a disc with another final fantasy game. It is called Final Fantasy Anthology, or something like that. Final Fantasy Orgins was a playstation release of FF1 and FF2.
Let's see, Transmetropolitan is not included.
1.) The Authority
2.) Planetary
3.) Global Frequency
4.) Orbiter
5.) Strange Kisses, Stranger Kisses, Strange Killings (let's lump those together)
6.) Dark Blue
7.) Atmospherics
8.) Scars
9.) Mek
10.) Reload
Thats 10 others. Would you like some more?
They did do a "reboot" soo to speak of spider-man with the Ultimate line, but the movie is not based on these books. In these books, he still does not have organic web shooters. In the Ultimate books he completes work that his father was orginally doing before he died. Thus he's a smart kid to be able to figure out the piece of the puzzle his dad was already working on.
Hmm, maybe it wasn't the pyro after all, maybe Great White just set-up some IBM monitors in the back...
Other good ammo is taking a bunch of D batteries and duct taping them together. They are excellent for taking out street lights.
Exactly.
Their reviews are now almost as bad as their site layout.
Hello AICN? 1994 called and they want their site design back.
In Soviet Russia beowulf clusters shoot M$ on the BSD is dead spot!
99.99% of Slashdot comments make me want to fall on a knife.
most likely you would change the font so that all "S"'s are $, that way it would make bashing M$ all the easier.
/. right?
I mean, this is
When does Micro$oft plan to drop the $ from their name?
oh wait...
It's already out there. Check out Hiptop Nation. It's a blogging from camera phones site. It's for use with the T Mobile Sidekick but looks prety interesting.
Could be pretty cool.