We are just spectators when we read. We have no place in the book beyond the set of impulses traveling between our eyes and our brain. You are not living a book, just reading it at your own pace. I can't believe people still read books. Our society is either sick or stupid. Judging by the majority of people in college, I would say both.
On a serious unsarcastic note... the only negative thing about the Final Fantasy series (I have played them all), is the bad social skills you will gain from them. What I mean is this.. people are all sponges, we absorbe what we think life should be like judged by what we see other people doing. Back in the old days liteature and religion filled this gap, now TV shows like "Friends" do this. Me and my closest friends these days spent a lot of time playing Final Fantasy and games like it... Because of that we value certain things like honor, dignity, doing what is right, etc etc. Needless to say we don't fit in well with other people... This isn't really a bad thing, just that it is sad you pretty much have to have your life ran by TV in order to know how to act socially in certain situations. Heh. The last woman I married spent a lot of her time glued to TV shows like Ally McBeal. Gah, I will only marry women now who either read the bible or play Final Fantasy.:)
That would be ok except for the fact that "Final Fantasy" means absolutly nothing. None of the sequences have anything to do with each other, in fact they all pretty much have radically different combat systems.
Not to mention, that Square has always been the best at showing the visual quality of consoles. Final Fantasy VI blowed out of the water what people thought was possible with the SNES. I play Chrono Cross to this day and it is hard to believe it is for the Playstation One. Final Fantasy X is the de facto example of the graphical power of the Playstation Two. I can guarentee you things done in Final Fantasy X just could not of been done on the xbox. Look at any of the still screens from Final Fantasy X and they usually look blurry and like crap if something complicated is going on... But actually being animated on a 57" TV it is smooth as silk.
It makes sense really. In real life every "frame" your eye perceives is just a blur and it signifies to your brain how fast it is actually moving. It is hard to make action really smooth with the low refresh rate of NTSC televisions... but the 24fps on a DVD look extreamly smooth.
So ya, Square is defiently moving on. Just keep in mind that Final Fantasy==Square's latest showcase. Any other release they make is them just learning hardware better in order to make their next game.
Parasite eve was only made to develop the rendering engine for Final Fantasy VIII. (Of course Final Fantasy VIII was never finished and was released early thanks to the marketing depeartment.) Chrono Cross was released to make the rendering engine for Final Fantasy IX. Believe it or not, "The Bouncer" was released to develop the rendering engine for Final Fantasy X.
Hmm... that kind of gave me a crazy idea.. but I am sure a lot of these spammers are also into credit card fraud. A corporation like VISA could collect spam and use a dummy credit card number that would validate normally... except that instead of them getting a check with money at the end of the month... the companies ability to clear cards through visa would be revoked. Furthermore, if the government would just make spam a freaking crime... this would be a nice way to bust the people doing this stuff..
Because face it, most of these spammers are located in America even if they are going through Chinese relays and such.
I am sure someone will reply to this and give me 10 reasons why this will never work. But either way, its fun for discussion.:)
You are not insane. 40fps is nice when you are walking around, but when 50 guys walk in the room and fire rockets at you that 40fps takes a quick dive really fast. In fact, if the fps drops low enough your computer might even slow down also which would prevent you from dodging those rockets.
A good 100fps when walking around gives you a nice buffer so that when the action gets intense, your machine doesn't blink an eye.
There are private domains already..CX is for the country Christmas Island. They do not give out private info on anyone. Their privacy policy is pretty good and is here.
I love my.CX domains. To register one you go to www.netdns.cx and spend $37 for the first year. Then you spend $37 for every two years after that.
And yes, more website use.cx then that stupid goat guy. www.oralse.cx is one of the funniest sites around.
I haven't got any spam ever for the domains that I registered. This is better then the.COM proxy... because with the proxy ownership you don't really own the stinking domain! What happens if your site gets HUGE and they threaten you to start paying more or they take away your domain.:(
Ya well anyway. How about them Sooners?:) Last week's game was pretty cool. It was really boring because I would go to the bathroom and come back to see that OU scored twice in the 5 min I was gone. But we got to sit on the new upper deck.
So when the lightning started and they made us leave the stands.. I went out on the ramp to smoke a few cigarettes. All these girls with wet t-shirts were running down the ramp. It was cool.
And what is up with this whole Gaylord field thing? I mean... E.K. Gaylord gets a tax write off for donating the money to OU for the new upper decks... Yet the Gaylord family owns Flintco construction which is doing the construction. So the bastard makes a profit on this and gets stuff named after him... Ohh well, at least I may be able to get season tickets when this is all over.
(For those not in the know, E.K. Gaylord is the Bill Gates of Oklahoma. Though I wouldn't mind 5 min alone with him to beg for money. Hehe.)
We can't slack off where we work. But we do get lunch breaks... Furthermore, where I work we are given a choice..
A) No matter what you choose you can not use any warez or bring any porn.
1) Use the company computer and follow a very strict set of rules. Worst being that you can not install any software that the admin do not allow.
2) Bring your own computer and run whatever you want on it. Games, BSD, etc. The downside, is that if you bring a Windows or Mac machine you have to purchase a virus scanner, AND you have to have the origional packaging/licenses/receipts for every piece of software you run. FreeBSD/Linux machine do not have these restrictions.
I don't think I would want to work somewhere that wouldn't let me bring my own computer. After all, I am more productive using a machine that I setup.
I'm all for well-rounded.. I just fear giving win machines direct access to the internet.:) Happened around the time that search.msn.com started showing results of test webpages I had hosted on my FreeBSD box. You know... ones that I had never showed to anyone, and no web sites anywhere published links to them..
I have a win98 machine. I used it for seeing how my websites looked like in IE, but I also used it for Quake2. Gamespy apparently included some Aureate spyware that forwarded every URL I browsed to some search engine company that powered msn and a few other search sites. I browse from sometimes now but it at least goes through a proxy (junkbuster). With that you can at least forge your USER-AGENT and make it look like you are browsing with Cowboyneal Browser 1.0 and disguise the fact you are using IE.
You know what would be funny? If UT actually put some code in there to send statistics back to its HQ to see how many people actually ran a copy of it on Linux. And no... 50 people replying to this post saying they will does not count as part of statistics:P
Even more importantly, if those stats could be found from certain slashdot admin.:) I always thought it would be funny if slashdot put peoples USER-AGENT header next to their posts too...
Umm... there are valid complaints against Sony for using proprietary features. But... the I.link you are refering to is not one of them. It is only designed for connecting other PS2s to each other. It may be firewire but it will never be intended to be used for cameras and such.
The PS2 does have 2 standard USB ports that works with standard USB devices such as keyboards, mice, optical guns, etc.
The I.Link is no more proprietary then the controller ports or the magic gate memory card slots. Shrug.
Its not a standard RGB cable per se... if you read the article you wouldn't even have to "ask slashdot".
The vport is basically the same connection that is on the back of the x-box itself. So all the audio and COMPONENT video signals go through one cable. This will be higher quality than sending composet signals.
The _quality_ of the actual picture is no different than if you ordered the component out cable for the xbox and ran it to your TV. This also applies for the Playstation 2. I HIGHLY suggest doing this for the Playstation 2.. muhahahaha.. Final Fantasy X on a 57" Sony TV... yum
Having the self-disiplin to be able to drive hours at a time and not complain about it builds character. Something that will help you far more in life than a college degree. Unless you are running for president (for which character doesn't matter).
Ya, Origin must of been making games long before the hackers at Berkely and the gnu people started releasing software.
It wasn't like the days before Origin software you pretty much got all your software open source. Nothing like copying code from a magazine into your computer... wheee.
What a tangled web we weave when we speak of things that happened before we were born:)
I once knew a girl, who was later diagnosed as schitzo.. bad news is that i got her pregnent. Anyway, lots of things about her fascinated me. When I was first getting to know her she once described to me about this one time she was raped horribly by this one guy... but later on when i first had sex with her she was defiently a virgin. (bloody sheets to prove it.)
She had other problems too, things I am not even sure what they are.. some repressive thing also where you could have a conversation with her and walk into the next room in the middle of the conversation. A few minutes later she would not remember the conversation or how she got in the room.
The wierdest thing is how well she adapted to all her problems... nothing seemed strange or abnormal to her. She said some things were unsettling to her at times but she didn't concern herself about it.
Anyway, she did later get diagnosed but she has refused all forms of treatment. We can't get her commited because she has never caused harm to herself or anyone else. But she is in pretty messed up shape these days, I haven't talked to her in awhile.
The thing I am concerened about is my daughter, who is 3 now. I am told that schizophrenia skips generations so I don't have to be concerened about my daughter.... but how do I explain to her the risk of her having kids?
I defiently know it has failed. Money makes the world go round unfortuantly.:) But that does not mean it is not a good _IDEA_ and it apparently is working in the software world.
Owning property is easy.... step on my land and i'll shoot you!
I mean really, who owns a thought/program? How can you realistically say/write/think something and prevent anyone else from saying/writing/thinking the same thing? But we are starting to rehash tons of things said before and verge off-topic.
Ya, someone at work told me the way KDE groups similar processes together in the taskbar was just like Windows XP.:)
And then someone at work also told me that the name of x-windows was a direct ripoff of microsoft windows.
But even funnier, I was using Mozilla and some guy was like.. wow, they ripped off Netscape!
I eventually quit that job, and went to work another place that was all bsd/linux/mac.. but my boss calls me bugs me on Sundays... gah, can't have it all.
But joking aside, Redhat rocks. They have innovated a lot of things for linux that is necessary for it to become wider spread. I don't even think we should be spending time with articles like this. Support everyTHING OPENsource despite where it comes from. I hate to say this, but everyone who deals in free software really needs to read the Communist Manifesto. (NO, I am not trying to spread communism here, nor do I support them.) Think of software being personal property and redhat trying to be the state that runs it all. It is cool because everyone benefits yet no one really owns anything.
Unfortuantly money talks and makes the world go around. Which is why capitalism (Microsoft) is a nearly impossible foe to deal with. Redhat is trying to make money though, but you have to admit it is very difficult for them to do.
I guess my point is...
It doesn't matter if you LIKE redhat or not, support them damnit. People like them are the few that might accomplish the goals we all really want. Hell... type emacs on a command prompt, and hit Ctrl-H then Ctrl-P
Information wants to be free, you can't stop it once it is out. The whole point of the Internet is to distribute information. There is nothing hanging in the balance here. Even if AOL dominated and got their way you forget that America is a small part of the global landscape.
I am an American, so I am not some elitist European either. I just wish that more people would look at the big picture. Furthermore, I would rather have 56k dialup before I would accept restrictive broadband access. Fortuantly my current DSL ISP gives me raw bridged ethernet access instead of restrictive PPPoE AND I can do whatever I want with it as long as the FBI doesn't come knocking on their door.:)
Slashdot Mirror
How is this any worse than reading a book?
:)
We are just spectators when we read. We have no place in the book beyond the set of impulses traveling between our eyes and our brain. You are not living a book, just reading it at your own pace. I can't believe people still read books. Our society is either sick or stupid. Judging by the majority of people in college, I would say both.
On a serious unsarcastic note... the only negative thing about the Final Fantasy series (I have played them all), is the bad social skills you will gain from them. What I mean is this.. people are all sponges, we absorbe what we think life should be like judged by what we see other people doing. Back in the old days liteature and religion filled this gap, now TV shows like "Friends" do this. Me and my closest friends these days spent a lot of time playing Final Fantasy and games like it... Because of that we value certain things like honor, dignity, doing what is right, etc etc. Needless to say we don't fit in well with other people... This isn't really a bad thing, just that it is sad you pretty much have to have your life ran by TV in order to know how to act socially in certain situations. Heh. The last woman I married spent a lot of her time glued to TV shows like Ally McBeal. Gah, I will only marry women now who either read the bible or play Final Fantasy.
That would be ok except for the fact that "Final Fantasy" means absolutly nothing. None of the sequences have anything to do with each other, in fact they all pretty much have radically different combat systems.
Not to mention, that Square has always been the best at showing the visual quality of consoles. Final Fantasy VI blowed out of the water what people thought was possible with the SNES. I play Chrono Cross to this day and it is hard to believe it is for the Playstation One. Final Fantasy X is the de facto example of the graphical power of the Playstation Two. I can guarentee you things done in Final Fantasy X just could not of been done on the xbox. Look at any of the still screens from Final Fantasy X and they usually look blurry and like crap if something complicated is going on... But actually being animated on a 57" TV it is smooth as silk.
It makes sense really. In real life every "frame" your eye perceives is just a blur and it signifies to your brain how fast it is actually moving. It is hard to make action really smooth with the low refresh rate of NTSC televisions... but the 24fps on a DVD look extreamly smooth.
So ya, Square is defiently moving on. Just keep in mind that Final Fantasy==Square's latest showcase. Any other release they make is them just learning hardware better in order to make their next game.
Parasite eve was only made to develop the rendering engine for Final Fantasy VIII. (Of course Final Fantasy VIII was never finished and was released early thanks to the marketing depeartment.) Chrono Cross was released to make the rendering engine for Final Fantasy IX. Believe it or not, "The Bouncer" was released to develop the rendering engine for Final Fantasy X.
I use KOrganizer with KPilot to keep my Palm Pilot and my desktop in sync. ;)
I'm also a huge fan of KOffice.
Hmm... that kind of gave me a crazy idea.. but I am sure a lot of these spammers are also into credit card fraud. A corporation like VISA could collect spam and use a dummy credit card number that would validate normally... except that instead of them getting a check with money at the end of the month... the companies ability to clear cards through visa would be revoked. Furthermore, if the government would just make spam a freaking crime... this would be a nice way to bust the people doing this stuff..
:)
Because face it, most of these spammers are located in America even if they are going through Chinese relays and such.
I am sure someone will reply to this and give me 10 reasons why this will never work. But either way, its fun for discussion.
You are not insane. 40fps is nice when you are walking around, but when 50 guys walk in the room and fire rockets at you that 40fps takes a quick dive really fast. In fact, if the fps drops low enough your computer might even slow down also which would prevent you from dodging those rockets.
A good 100fps when walking around gives you a nice buffer so that when the action gets intense, your machine doesn't blink an eye.
There are private domains already. .CX is for the country Christmas Island. They do not give out private info on anyone. Their privacy policy is pretty good and is here.
.CX domains. To register one you go to www.netdns.cx and spend $37 for the first year. Then you spend $37 for every two years after that.
.cx then that stupid goat guy. www.oralse.cx is one of the funniest sites around.
.COM proxy... because with the proxy ownership you don't really own the stinking domain! What happens if your site gets HUGE and they threaten you to start paying more or they take away your domain. :(
I love my
And yes, more website use
I haven't got any spam ever for the domains that I registered. This is better then the
Ya well anyway. How about them Sooners? :) Last week's game was pretty cool. It was really boring because I would go to the bathroom and come back to see that OU scored twice in the 5 min I was gone. But we got to sit on the new upper deck.
So when the lightning started and they made us leave the stands.. I went out on the ramp to smoke a few cigarettes. All these girls with wet t-shirts were running down the ramp. It was cool.
And what is up with this whole Gaylord field thing? I mean... E.K. Gaylord gets a tax write off for donating the money to OU for the new upper decks... Yet the Gaylord family owns Flintco construction which is doing the construction. So the bastard makes a profit on this and gets stuff named after him... Ohh well, at least I may be able to get season tickets when this is all over.
(For those not in the know, E.K. Gaylord is the Bill Gates of Oklahoma. Though I wouldn't mind 5 min alone with him to beg for money. Hehe.)
Plus, it would be a funny to see what people forge their USER-AGENT as. :)
Re:User-Agent
by CowboyNeal (browsing with: KY Jelly) on Saturday September 21, @ 3:58PM (Score:2)
No please! Don't let people see how I browse!
We can't slack off where we work. But we do get lunch breaks... Furthermore, where I work we are given a choice..
A) No matter what you choose you can not use any warez or bring any porn.
1) Use the company computer and follow a very strict set of rules. Worst being that you can not install any software that the admin do not allow.
2) Bring your own computer and run whatever you want on it. Games, BSD, etc. The downside, is that if you bring a Windows or Mac machine you have to purchase a virus scanner, AND you have to have the origional packaging/licenses/receipts for every piece of software you run. FreeBSD/Linux machine do not have these restrictions.
I don't think I would want to work somewhere that wouldn't let me bring my own computer. After all, I am more productive using a machine that I setup.
I'm all for well-rounded.. I just fear giving win machines direct access to the internet. :) Happened around the time that search.msn.com started showing results of test webpages I had hosted on my FreeBSD box. You know... ones that I had never showed to anyone, and no web sites anywhere published links to them..
I have a win98 machine. I used it for seeing how my websites looked like in IE, but I also used it for Quake2. Gamespy apparently included some Aureate spyware that forwarded every URL I browsed to some search engine company that powered msn and a few other search sites. I browse from sometimes now but it at least goes through a proxy (junkbuster). With that you can at least forge your USER-AGENT and make it look like you are browsing with Cowboyneal Browser 1.0 and disguise the fact you are using IE.
You know what would be funny? If UT actually put some code in there to send statistics back to its HQ to see how many people actually ran a copy of it on Linux. And no... 50 people replying to this post saying they will does not count as part of statistics :P
:) I always thought it would be funny if slashdot put peoples USER-AGENT header next to their posts too...
Even more importantly, if those stats could be found from certain slashdot admin.
Umm... there are valid complaints against Sony for using proprietary features. But... the I.link you are refering to is not one of them. It is only designed for connecting other PS2s to each other. It may be firewire but it will never be intended to be used for cameras and such.
The PS2 does have 2 standard USB ports that works with standard USB devices such as keyboards, mice, optical guns, etc.
The I.Link is no more proprietary then the controller ports or the magic gate memory card slots. Shrug.
Its not a standard RGB cable per se... if you read the article you wouldn't even have to "ask slashdot".
The vport is basically the same connection that is on the back of the x-box itself. So all the audio and COMPONENT video signals go through one cable. This will be higher quality than sending composet signals.
The _quality_ of the actual picture is no different than if you ordered the component out cable for the xbox and ran it to your TV. This also applies for the Playstation 2. I HIGHLY suggest doing this for the Playstation 2.. muhahahaha.. Final Fantasy X on a 57" Sony TV... yum
Having the self-disiplin to be able to drive hours at a time and not complain about it builds character. Something that will help you far more in life than a college degree. Unless you are running for president (for which character doesn't matter).
No way! The bottles are too small! Give me a liter of jap beer in a can any day!
They cost $2.10 at my local liqor store and drinking a can of Sapporo is more alcohol than a 6 pack of domestic 3-point(damn oklahoma) beer.
On the movies page there is a movie of the Chandra nebula. I guess that is where Gary stashed the body. Cool.
Ya, Origin must of been making games long before the hackers at Berkely and the gnu people started releasing software.
:)
It wasn't like the days before Origin software you pretty much got all your software open source. Nothing like copying code from a magazine into your computer... wheee.
What a tangled web we weave when we speak of things that happened before we were born
I once knew a girl, who was later diagnosed as schitzo.. bad news is that i got her pregnent. Anyway, lots of things about her fascinated me. When I was first getting to know her she once described to me about this one time she was raped horribly by this one guy... but later on when i first had sex with her she was defiently a virgin. (bloody sheets to prove it.)
She had other problems too, things I am not even sure what they are.. some repressive thing also where you could have a conversation with her and walk into the next room in the middle of the conversation. A few minutes later she would not remember the conversation or how she got in the room.
The wierdest thing is how well she adapted to all her problems... nothing seemed strange or abnormal to her. She said some things were unsettling to her at times but she didn't concern herself about it.
Anyway, she did later get diagnosed but she has refused all forms of treatment. We can't get her commited because she has never caused harm to herself or anyone else. But she is in pretty messed up shape these days, I haven't talked to her in awhile.
The thing I am concerened about is my daughter, who is 3 now. I am told that schizophrenia skips generations so I don't have to be concerened about my daughter.... but how do I explain to her the risk of her having kids?
Oh well
I defiently know it has failed. Money makes the world go round unfortuantly. :) But that does not mean it is not a good _IDEA_ and it apparently is working in the software world.
Owning property is easy.... step on my land and i'll shoot you!
I mean really, who owns a thought/program? How can you realistically say/write/think something and prevent anyone else from saying/writing/thinking the same thing? But we are starting to rehash tons of things said before and verge off-topic.
Ya, someone at work told me the way KDE groups similar processes together in the taskbar was just like Windows XP. :)
And then someone at work also told me that the name of x-windows was a direct ripoff of microsoft windows.
But even funnier, I was using Mozilla and some guy was like.. wow, they ripped off Netscape!
I eventually quit that job, and went to work another place that was all bsd/linux/mac.. but my boss calls me bugs me on Sundays... gah, can't have it all.
But joking aside, Redhat rocks. They have innovated a lot of things for linux that is necessary for it to become wider spread. I don't even think we should be spending time with articles like this. Support everyTHING OPENsource despite where it comes from. I hate to say this, but everyone who deals in free software really needs to read the Communist Manifesto. (NO, I am not trying to spread communism here, nor do I support them.) Think of software being personal property and redhat trying to be the state that runs it all. It is cool because everyone benefits yet no one really owns anything.
Unfortuantly money talks and makes the world go around. Which is why capitalism (Microsoft) is a nearly impossible foe to deal with. Redhat is trying to make money though, but you have to admit it is very difficult for them to do.
I guess my point is...
It doesn't matter if you LIKE redhat or not, support them damnit. People like them are the few that might accomplish the goals we all really want. Hell... type emacs on a command prompt, and hit Ctrl-H then Ctrl-P
Information wants to be free, you can't stop it once it is out. The whole point of the Internet is to distribute information. There is nothing hanging in the balance here. Even if AOL dominated and got their way you forget that America is a small part of the global landscape.
:)
I am an American, so I am not some elitist European either. I just wish that more people would look at the big picture. Furthermore, I would rather have 56k dialup before I would accept restrictive broadband access. Fortuantly my current DSL ISP gives me raw bridged ethernet access instead of restrictive PPPoE AND I can do whatever I want with it as long as the FBI doesn't come knocking on their door.