The other problem is that the games generally rewarded you for spending a month in the field next to your hometown killing imps, then trucking through the game at level 1 zillion.
Final Fantasy 8 is probably my favorite in the series, as it was the first to *punish* you for doing this. The more you level up, the more the monsters around you level up. If you dawdled around killing imps for too long, it'd bite you in the ass when you run into a white dragon at the same level as you.
You were much better off to find the thingymajoo that makes you avoid monsters altogether, and proceed through the story.
There was nothing technical, no secrets, insight, or anything useful that a budding coder staying up all night with a case of Mountain Dew might put to use.
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>> rocks, diapers, tomatoes, sweet potato rejects from the farm down the road, 400 pounds of Oreo cookies, frozen pizza dough, even a dead bird.
Isn't that the secret sauce on a Big Mac?
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Well, then say it can destroy stone.
If it can destroy stone, then jelly fish is a given, is it not?
Hell, every jelly fish I seen came pre-pulverised.
How does it work on wet noodles or oatmeal?
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I'm sure this is cool, but that doesn't exactly fill my heart with fear.
Gates is supposed to have said, "640K should be enough for anyone." The remark became the industry's equivalent of "Let them eat cake" because it seemed to combine lordly condescension with a lack of interest in operational details. After all, today's ordinary home computers have one hundred times as much memory as the industry's leader was calling "enough."
It appears that it was Marie Thérèse, not Marie Antoinette, who greeted news that the people lacked bread with qu'ils mangent de la brioche. (The phrase was cited in Rousseau's Confessions, published when Marie Antoinette was thirteen years old and still living in Austria.) And it now appears that Bill Gates never said anything about getting along with 640K. One Sunday afternoon I asked a friend in Seattle who knows Gates whether the quote was accurate or apocryphal. Late that night, to my amazement, I found a long e-mail from Gates in my inbox, laying out painstakingly the reasons why he had always believed the opposite of what the notorious quote implied. His main point was that the 640K limit in early PCs was imposed by the design of processing chips, not Gates's software, and he'd been pushing to raise the limit as hard and as often as he could. Yet despite Gates's convincing denial, the quote is unlikely to die. It's too convenient an expression of the computer industry's sense that no one can be sure what will happen next.
The point the poster was making was "I have no use for a high-end CPU, therefore no one does". Which is doofy.
If all you do is email and run excel, then don't get a top of the line PC.
I have a very small lawn (and a son). But I don't go around moaning that they should stop making better lawnmowers.
But then, if I was the type to be jealous because someone else has a better lawnmower (or faster computer) than me, I'd probably get all upset and jump up and down that I cant afford to constantly have the latest model.
So we're running out of ways to pack more and more transistors into a device. There's still a ton of room to improve the layout of those transistors, the world is full of whines about x86 architecture.
This doesnt mean 'computers are as good as they're going to get', it just means the fabrication plants are as good as they're going to get.
I see the price getting higher and higher for less and less service.
Comcast used to offer 2M down, 768k up as its regular service. Now the regular service is 1.5/128, and the aforementioned is the 'Pro' service, at a lofty premium.
Bell Canada, IIRC, now has monthly bandwidth limits on their once 'unlimited' DSL services, and charge by the byte once they're reached.
After all the.com optimism faded away, companies sat around in the boardroom and realised that they'd not only have to *make* a profit, but do it without all the vaporware 'killer apps' that would make everyone and their uncle want their service.
It's all downhill from here on in.. Enjoy the ride.
They (Bell Canada) already have those little cubbie-holes with ethernet jacks at airports, etc, so execs can plug in and surf the net through a really limited proxy. It was like 20 bucks for a half hour last time I saw 'em at Pearson Airpot.
Thats off topic.. We're talking about microsoft here.
My Xbox came with a disc with demos of crappy games I dont like, an composite video cable I dont use (replaced it with the HD pack) and the standard controller that I dont like (replaced it with the controller-S).
It also came with these screws that just got in my way when I took it apart to solder in a modchip.
So when is I'm-just-a-whiney-ass-clown-and-if-i-dont-like-it- tough-shit day?
Popeye was originally an adult comic strip, published for sailors out at sea. It was in something like stars and stripes, or whatever.
Anyways, he was a charicature of 'a sailor man', and would go ashore, get drunk, pick up hookers, swear constantly, and fight anyone who crossed his path.
Anyhow, kids would get ahold of the comic and start reading it. And, much like today (GTA3, etc) parents and do-gooders protested and whined. "Please think of the children".
So as a gag, EC Segar decided to mock all the whiners and put a 'kid friendly' message into one of the strips - he ate his spinach and then kicked everyones ass. It stuck.
It was a running gag to mock whiners. Eventually it became nothing more than a kids cartoon, but the spinach thing was already there.
Besides, he doesnt suck it through a pipe.
BTW, the "mexican loco weed" thing is an urban legend. It never happened.
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>> About all tape has going for it over disk, are physical robustness issues
Which lower the cost in the long run.
If you have to replace the drives 3-fold every year or so, how long until you piss more away on your IDE backup system than you would have on the tapes?
I still say the guy learn how to make incremental backups, and analyse exactly what *needs* to be backed up. Just because you have 220gigs of HDD space, doesn't mean you have 220gigs of data to back up every day.
Dopey admins just don't like to think past the 'backup everything' button.
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They aren't sequels, each has its own unique storyline, with its own unique characters, in its own unique universe.
The next one, though, will be a true sequel of FFX. Apparently they feel they need to franchise the characters.. The wind must be out of the sails.
But to more directly answer your question:
Neverending Story: Part II
The other problem is that the games generally rewarded you for spending a month in the field next to your hometown killing imps, then trucking through the game at level 1 zillion.
Final Fantasy 8 is probably my favorite in the series, as it was the first to *punish* you for doing this. The more you level up, the more the monsters around you level up. If you dawdled around killing imps for too long, it'd bite you in the ass when you run into a white dragon at the same level as you.
You were much better off to find the thingymajoo that makes you avoid monsters altogether, and proceed through the story.
I agree..
There was nothing technical, no secrets, insight, or anything useful that a budding coder staying up all night with a case of Mountain Dew might put to use.
>> rocks, diapers, tomatoes, sweet potato rejects from the farm down the road, 400 pounds of Oreo cookies, frozen pizza dough, even a dead bird.
Isn't that the secret sauce on a Big Mac?
Well, then say it can destroy stone.
If it can destroy stone, then jelly fish is a given, is it not?
Hell, every jelly fish I seen came pre-pulverised.
How does it work on wet noodles or oatmeal?
I'm sure this is cool, but that doesn't exactly fill my heart with fear.
Urban Legend
Gates is supposed to have said, "640K should be enough for anyone." The remark became the industry's equivalent of "Let them eat cake" because it seemed to combine lordly condescension with a lack of interest in operational details. After all, today's ordinary home computers have one hundred times as much memory as the industry's leader was calling "enough."
It appears that it was Marie Thérèse, not Marie Antoinette, who greeted news that the people lacked bread with qu'ils mangent de la brioche. (The phrase was cited in Rousseau's Confessions, published when Marie Antoinette was thirteen years old and still living in Austria.) And it now appears that Bill Gates never said anything about getting along with 640K. One Sunday afternoon I asked a friend in Seattle who knows Gates whether the quote was accurate or apocryphal. Late that night, to my amazement, I found a long e-mail from Gates in my inbox, laying out painstakingly the reasons why he had always believed the opposite of what the notorious quote implied. His main point was that the 640K limit in early PCs was imposed by the design of processing chips, not Gates's software, and he'd been pushing to raise the limit as hard and as often as he could. Yet despite Gates's convincing denial, the quote is unlikely to die. It's too convenient an expression of the computer industry's sense that no one can be sure what will happen next.
>> I thought the Moors law had something to do with invading Spain, and then sticking around until they got kicked out in 1492...
Nope, sorry. That was the MOOPs
Linux will drive Windows out of existence!
Some Doofus, All the time, slashdot troll
The point the poster was making was "I have no use for a high-end CPU, therefore no one does". Which is doofy.
If all you do is email and run excel, then don't get a top of the line PC.
I have a very small lawn (and a son). But I don't go around moaning that they should stop making better lawnmowers.
But then, if I was the type to be jealous because someone else has a better lawnmower (or faster computer) than me, I'd probably get all upset and jump up and down that I cant afford to constantly have the latest model.
or am I wrong?
So we're running out of ways to pack more and more transistors into a device. There's still a ton of room to improve the layout of those transistors, the world is full of whines about x86 architecture.
This doesnt mean 'computers are as good as they're going to get', it just means the fabrication plants are as good as they're going to get.
>> BTW do most of the users really need fast machines?
Yes. Better, faster, cheaper.
>> can do all my work without any problems on my 333Mhz PII
And you could probably ride a horse to work, too. So what?
And the little pig with the straw house probably swore up and down it was better than brick.
A 10,000$ reel-to-reel or LP system produces better sound than a 50$ bookshelf stereo. No shit.
But would they compare a 10,000$ digital system to a 10,000$ analog system? Of course not.
Cognative dissonance.
>> Cleaning the LP before you played it
Thats a paddlin
>> Spending $300 (so years ago) on a direct drive turntable+needle
Thats a paddlin
>> Hanging the turntable from the ceiling from chains and springs
Thats a paddlin
>> stick a CD into a $50 player sitting on the table
You better believe thats a paddlin
Thats what people thought *before* the .com bust.
.com optimism faded away, companies sat around in the boardroom and realised that they'd not only have to *make* a profit, but do it without all the vaporware 'killer apps' that would make everyone and their uncle want their service.
I see the price getting higher and higher for less and less service.
Comcast used to offer 2M down, 768k up as its regular service. Now the regular service is 1.5/128, and the aforementioned is the 'Pro' service, at a lofty premium.
Bell Canada, IIRC, now has monthly bandwidth limits on their once 'unlimited' DSL services, and charge by the byte once they're reached.
After all the
It's all downhill from here on in.. Enjoy the ride.
2 is charge out the ass to use them
They (Bell Canada) already have those little cubbie-holes with ethernet jacks at airports, etc, so execs can plug in and surf the net through a really limited proxy. It was like 20 bucks for a half hour last time I saw 'em at Pearson Airpot.
Y'all keep dreaming of your free broadband.
Thats off topic.. We're talking about microsoft here.
- tough-shit day?
My Xbox came with a disc with demos of crappy games I dont like, an composite video cable I dont use (replaced it with the HD pack) and the standard controller that I dont like (replaced it with the controller-S).
It also came with these screws that just got in my way when I took it apart to solder in a modchip.
So when is I'm-just-a-whiney-ass-clown-and-if-i-dont-like-it
Here's how I understand the spinach thing:
Popeye was originally an adult comic strip, published for sailors out at sea. It was in something like stars and stripes, or whatever.
Anyways, he was a charicature of 'a sailor man', and would go ashore, get drunk, pick up hookers, swear constantly, and fight anyone who crossed his path.
Anyhow, kids would get ahold of the comic and start reading it. And, much like today (GTA3, etc) parents and do-gooders protested and whined. "Please think of the children".
So as a gag, EC Segar decided to mock all the whiners and put a 'kid friendly' message into one of the strips - he ate his spinach and then kicked everyones ass. It stuck.
It was a running gag to mock whiners. Eventually it became nothing more than a kids cartoon, but the spinach thing was already there.
Besides, he doesnt suck it through a pipe.
BTW, the "mexican loco weed" thing is an urban legend. It never happened.
Spongebob?! No work ethic?!
You haven't seen the show.
He lives for his fry cook work at the Krusty Krab, even willing to accept a pair of squeaky boots in lieu of payment.
Anti-spongebob troll. The worst of the worst.
Well not really.
But it is for linux.
GO LINUX! You're almost there, little buddy!
>> I think a new version of the Turing test should be whether a computer can tell the difference between a Human and a Computer.
That's exactly how it works in SOVIET RUSSIA!
>> You have a point, though. Data can read, unlike 23% of the American population
He also got laid, unlike 97% of the slashdot population.
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>> 600mb on one cd with a blue laser
Really? I get 700MB (capital letters - MegaBytes, not microbits) on one cd with the regular old laser.
Anyhow, Hollywood isnt blocking shit. Hollywood is small potatoes compared to the tech industry. The shit simply doesn't exist outside of labs.
>> About all tape has going for it over disk, are physical robustness issues
Which lower the cost in the long run.
If you have to replace the drives 3-fold every year or so, how long until you piss more away on your IDE backup system than you would have on the tapes?
I still say the guy learn how to make incremental backups, and analyse exactly what *needs* to be backed up. Just because you have 220gigs of HDD space, doesn't mean you have 220gigs of data to back up every day.
Dopey admins just don't like to think past the 'backup everything' button.