Even though I very much like the d20 system/d&d 3e better than d&d 2e, I have to say that this is a bad move on their part as far as getting people to license the system.
If you do think about it though it's obvious that they're only trying to protect their own asses in case a lawsuit came up over the content of licensed games or something else like that. God knows people are trying hard enough with video games.
I've got a better idea. How about instead of going on about cold fusion, which has yet to yield any real results in 14 years, we concentrate on regular fusion.
Unlike cold fusion, normal fusion has the potential to be truly useful and it is just a matter of us developing better magnetic constriction metods, etc. before we can harness it completely.
Who knows, maybe if we got more people working on that we might actually be able to build some useful fusion power plants sometime in the near future.
Going by the bolded definition though, there are few countries that are not "imperialist", or at least trying to be. The fact is, the more influence you gain trough trade and diplomacy, the better deals you tend to get (or make for yourself). Who wouldn't want to do that?
Why would I want to buy the Traveler's Guide to Mars when I can get the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
I mean seriously, there are a lot more interesting places to visit in the galaxy than Mars. There's no reason why I should want a book telling me all about going there and paying to see the sights, when I can get a guide that tells me how to get around the whole galaxy for free!
Well, my reasoning for humans surviving is pretty simple. Red XIII is not human. Red XIII was on the airship. Red XIII cannot pilot the airship. So obviously, Cid or some of his crew survived (at the very least) and landed the airship--if they hadn't then Red XIII wouldn't have survived either. It's pretty simple logic.
Actually though one thing I've always wondered is how exactly some words are arbitrarily marked bad regardless of context and others are not. For example, shit is often used as a curseword, but it is still seen as bad when you simply use it when referring to actual feces. Also certain words are defined as bad, while others of the exact same meaning can be used in their place and not be bad.
A few examples of this would be ass/butt, shit/crap, and fuck/screw.
It simply makes no sense that these words have the exact same meaning, but some of them are arbitrarily marked as vulgar while others are not...
After the party escapes from the crater where they killed Sephiroth, you see that the Meteor he summoned is just about to hit Midgar.
Holy activates to stop it, but it looks like it's too late, as Meteor just keeps going. Then when it looks like you're screwed, the lifestream (aka all the souls of dead people, assumably being led by Aeris by the picture of her that flashes at the end) seeps out of every damn hole on the planet. The lifestream then helps Holy and obliterates Meteor.
Fast forward to the future, where the once dark, polluted Midgar is now a big happy jungle. (And you see Red XIII and his kid looking out over it, so obviously the party survived just fine) Whether the people that were in Midgar survived the whole thing, nobody knows, but hey, at least you saved the rest of the world.
If I'm not mistaken, a virus requires some sort of user intervention in order to activate or propogate, while a worm does not. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
Actually, the anti-virus industry could just start writing counter-virii themselves. They'd release them into the wild for free, then pull a SCO and charge everbody $$$ if their computer was fixed by it.
Your aluminum armor will keep you safe--that is, until our ferrivorous overlords discover the tasty iron-packed treat that is human blood... Which do you think they'll chose: sending humans to work in the iron mines, or just eating them outright?
Here's the real question: how many instances of the word are in the code/texts--and by extension, how many bytes will using the US spelling shave off the final size?
All but a very small portion of the cutscenes in FFX are rendered using the game engine, not CG.
Additionally, the only reason that there seem to be so many cutscenes in FFX is because of the voiceovers, etc., which cannot be accelerated. I would be willing to wager that if you compared the amount of pure story dialogue in FFX with that of previous FFs, it wouldn't be vastly different. It just seems that way since you can't skip through it as fast as you can read as in older FFs.
The only decent game put out for Xbox exclusively was Halo.
And they only have that because they assimilated Bungie during Halo's development--Halo was originally intended to be a PC game. And thanks to MS, they have yet to deliver that, even after all this time.
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...or when sounded like A as in neighbor and weigh.
Even though I very much like the d20 system/d&d 3e better than d&d 2e, I have to say that this is a bad move on their part as far as getting people to license the system.
If you do think about it though it's obvious that they're only trying to protect their own asses in case a lawsuit came up over the content of licensed games or something else like that. God knows people are trying hard enough with video games.
I've got a better idea. How about instead of going on about cold fusion, which has yet to yield any real results in 14 years, we concentrate on regular fusion.
Unlike cold fusion, normal fusion has the potential to be truly useful and it is just a matter of us developing better magnetic constriction metods, etc. before we can harness it completely.
Who knows, maybe if we got more people working on that we might actually be able to build some useful fusion power plants sometime in the near future.
"Oh, I'm out there, Jerry! And I'm lovin' every minute of it!"
Going by the bolded definition though, there are few countries that are not "imperialist", or at least trying to be. The fact is, the more influence you gain trough trade and diplomacy, the better deals you tend to get (or make for yourself). Who wouldn't want to do that?
Why would I want to buy the Traveler's Guide to Mars when I can get the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
I mean seriously, there are a lot more interesting places to visit in the galaxy than Mars. There's no reason why I should want a book telling me all about going there and paying to see the sights, when I can get a guide that tells me how to get around the whole galaxy for free!
Well, my reasoning for humans surviving is pretty simple. Red XIII is not human. Red XIII was on the airship. Red XIII cannot pilot the airship. So obviously, Cid or some of his crew survived (at the very least) and landed the airship--if they hadn't then Red XIII wouldn't have survived either. It's pretty simple logic.
Yes this is offtopic, who gives a shit :P
Actually though one thing I've always wondered is how exactly some words are arbitrarily marked bad regardless of context and others are not. For example, shit is often used as a curseword, but it is still seen as bad when you simply use it when referring to actual feces. Also certain words are defined as bad, while others of the exact same meaning can be used in their place and not be bad.
A few examples of this would be ass/butt, shit/crap, and fuck/screw.
It simply makes no sense that these words have the exact same meaning, but some of them are arbitrarily marked as vulgar while others are not...
Broken down:
After the party escapes from the crater where they killed Sephiroth, you see that the Meteor he summoned is just about to hit Midgar.
Holy activates to stop it, but it looks like it's too late, as Meteor just keeps going. Then when it looks like you're screwed, the lifestream (aka all the souls of dead people, assumably being led by Aeris by the picture of her that flashes at the end) seeps out of every damn hole on the planet. The lifestream then helps Holy and obliterates Meteor.
Fast forward to the future, where the once dark, polluted Midgar is now a big happy jungle. (And you see Red XIII and his kid looking out over it, so obviously the party survived just fine) Whether the people that were in Midgar survived the whole thing, nobody knows, but hey, at least you saved the rest of the world.
The end.
Additionally, eyewitnesses reported that the flames were bright red... that's definately not something you would see from a hydrogen fire.
If I'm not mistaken, a virus requires some sort of user intervention in order to activate or propogate, while a worm does not. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
Actually, the anti-virus industry could just start writing counter-virii themselves. They'd release them into the wild for free, then pull a SCO and charge everbody $$$ if their computer was fixed by it.
And every alternate-history european, upon hearing that demons and magic had been released upon the world, said:
"I, for one, welcome our Inquisitor overlords!"
Nothing like licking a radar dome to give you that warm, fuzzy, freshly microwaved feeling.
Your aluminum armor will keep you safe--that is, until our ferrivorous overlords discover the tasty iron-packed treat that is human blood... Which do you think they'll chose: sending humans to work in the iron mines, or just eating them outright?
He probably just figured that if it worked for most slashdotters, it could work for a sweeper... I guess he was wrong though.
The simplest solution is the best. Unfortunately, The RoboSweep is all simple and no solution.
Here's the real question: how many instances of the word are in the code/texts--and by extension, how many bytes will using the US spelling shave off the final size?
Backing up is like voting--most people don't do it but they still think they have the right to complain about the results of their laziness.
Both are methods of propogating stupidity via electromagnetic radiation.
Logistics are no problem! The UAC is in the process of building a matter transporter system, and we've got marines to make sure nothing goes wrong!
All but a very small portion of the cutscenes in FFX are rendered using the game engine, not CG.
Additionally, the only reason that there seem to be so many cutscenes in FFX is because of the voiceovers, etc., which cannot be accelerated. I would be willing to wager that if you compared the amount of pure story dialogue in FFX with that of previous FFs, it wouldn't be vastly different. It just seems that way since you can't skip through it as fast as you can read as in older FFs.
The only decent game put out for Xbox exclusively was Halo.
And they only have that because they assimilated Bungie during Halo's development--Halo was originally intended to be a PC game. And thanks to MS, they have yet to deliver that, even after all this time.
Apparently Microsoft does, else they wouldn't bother prosecuting modchippers. Whether it actually will have any effect is something else entirely.
Unfortunately for the Iranians, the missiles will have used up all their propellant getting there...