I'm eager to find out if FFXII will in fact be another MMORPG or single player. Does anyone have any official info? I'm not against Square making an MMORPG, but I really wish they had chose not to make it a numbered Final Fantasy. It defies tradition!
A meteorite of not much larger mass could have caused far more widespread destruction. I could be off on my facts here, but I remember reading about a similar event taking place in Russia, devastating several many acres of open forest. Should it have impacted a city, the city would have been leveled. Granted we're all familiar with the meteorite impact apocalypse prospect, all I'm saying is it could be worse. I wonder how many other life forms or even civilizations have evolved on other planets that were completely obliterated because of stellar impacts. Something to fear.
launched from Russia? So they couldn't/wouldn't do it on their own? Does launching a satellite into space with the aid of Russia really qualify as joining the space age?
If you had bothered to read anything I had said, you'd realize that I didn't learn japanese to play the real FF4, nor am I putting up with buying it a second time because I'm playing on a translated FF4j ROM. Oh, and before you go bitching about how that's illegal, it's not. I already bought FF4, and so did you, right? Therefore, downloading a translated FF4j is well within your legal right.
Oh, and consider getting your facts straight before you go spouting insults next time.
if you can get your or your pet's gene sequenced copyrighted. "Hey that guy cloned my prize-winning, one of a kind, best-in-show dog! I'm gonna sue!" I mean damn. If you can copyright one click shopping, shouldn't you be able to copyright gene sequences you own?
Insightful? More like funny! Whatever mod actually believs that we should evacuate America because it's not the continent our ancestors started on is crazy. By that logic, we shouldn't be in Europe or Asia either, seeing as how the human race evolved from Africa. Has anyone considered that maybe our desire to explore our planet is, in fact, natural?
I'd have to say Edward again. His sexual orientation is still a mystery.:)
You mean Gilbert? Silly Americans and their FF2 which happens to be a dumbed down version of the real FF4. And don't you go bitchin' about not being able to download a j2e translated ROM. They've been floatin' around for three years now. In fact, I recently started a new game in the real FF4 after having endured my SNES copy of the American FF2. It's nice to see Cain instead of Kain. Gilbert instead of Edward. And it's nice actually having the Dark Wave ability on Cecil along with several other things. Sometimes I love Square and sometimes I hate'm.
I wasn't gonna touch your little disgruntled rant with a ten foot poll, but having endured reading the whole thing I must point out where at one spot you're quite wrong.
but why the fuck would using GFs cause Squall to collapse and see life through the eyes of his father decades ago?
GFs don't cause that buddy. Ellone did. No wonder you didn't appeaciate the game. You couldn't even get basic plot elements down.
As far as the rest goes, no facts to dispute. Just your opinion. You should really be less critical.
Not sure whether or not you're joking, but the statistics put the majority of people playing (posting) at middle aged or older. The point being made is that that seems to dispell the rumor that video games (or in this case MMORPGs) are for just for kids.
Now, who wants to take a shot at the rumor of Trix being just for kids..?
Great post, AC no less. Piracy protection is not about perma protection, its about the here and now. As you said GC has been unpirated for how long now? Long enough. If it were pirated literally a week after release they wouldn't have made nearly as much money as they have. Despite the fact that GC isn't the most popular of the consoles, it's still made a crapload of money in retrospect.
Putting this in perspective, I'm an emu enthusiast and a rabid pirate. I would love to see a GC emulator along with a solid way to rip the disks so I can actually play the damn games =P
But alas, Touche Nintendo; you're anti piracy efforts are the most valiant of all console makers indeed.
Uh, where's the redundancy in that? What happens is your "all purpose storage bitch" goes down?
CDs =P
Keep in mind that my all purpose storage bitch is only 20gb of storage and the hard drive isnt even close to being full. As for the 40 gigger, all it is is open source stuff and my personal projects, which are all backed up on the webserver. The 8 gig Wintendo is also backed up on CD.
If I had more data I'd probably be RAIDing but at this point it'd be a frivolous use of my limited money.
In either case I still believe in physically separating drives for the sheer fact that I run two operating systems and I don't feel like playing around with separate partitions and filesystems on a single RAIDed or non-RAIDed drive.
Yeah I suspected that but I didn't want to go making grandiose claims without being sure. Personally, I'd leave them as separate drives and use them for different purposes and/or operating systems. That way if one fails, everything else is independent and you only have to worry about recovering THAT drive's data because it's been modularized.
Personally I'm not a RAID fan. I operate with three hard drives. One 40gb drive, one 20gb drive, and one 8gb drive. Yeah/. crowd I know that's pretty old school, but I don't need a lot of storage. What I do need is physical separation of data. One drive is my Wintendo (8gb), another is Gentoo (40gb), and another is my all purpose storage bitch (20gb). By separating the purpose of each drive you ensure that it if one goes down, the rest remain stable. Maybe this guy should have tried that? But then again, he may have been in it for bragging rights;)
if you use firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive, doesn't that essentially make 6 hard drives pretend to be one? (AKA the OS doesn't realize it's many) And if just ONE of those drives failed, aren't you shit out of luck with your data?
Again, forgive my hardware ignorance if I'm way off.
Response: [A]ssuming the fact that older women playing Bridge online... can be generalized into broad statements about the general appeal of games lacks a sense of perspective[.]
I know for a fact that a ton of old people play video games. (Consider the fact that an old person from my perspective is anyone age 30 or higher.) When I used to play UO, I posted on the Stratics messageboards which has hundreds of thousands of posters. Age polls were taken every once in a while and the average age seemed to hover close to middle aged. There seemed to be an equal number of elderly people and minors playing. This puts the number of minors playing (or at least posting in the forum) into quite a large minority. (And keep in mind that Stratics has been made the official forums for UO. This is no backwoods niche community. [anymore...])
It was my understanding that OSX was Unix based and that Linux programs ran under it seamlessly. This being the case, WINE is a Linux program so it is logical to assume that it runs under OSX. Forgive me oh elitist Slashdot posters and moderators for making this oh so unholy assumption. Consider the fact that because I don't buy PPC architecture hardware that I don't run OSX and I can't test it myself
But at least I know what I'm talking about with Linux. It can be WINE'd. And the instructions are on kazaalite.tk. Goto the download section and select English. At the bottom there's a Kazaa Lite under WINE in Linux tutorial.
Holy shit dude. Paragraphing is a virtue. I don't think I've ever seen a more ugly blob of text. (although part of the end result effect is my fault, due to the fact that I'm the one who ignorantly clicked the "read the rest of this comment" button.)
Uh retarded ass underscores is stupid in any file manager with a GUI. The only applicable use it has is to make give people with a console fettish an easier time typing in filenames. But don't think I'm defending you, mister anonymous coward. (Well, I guess I am... but!) Artist - Song Name is not enough! I use nothing less than Artist - Album - Track - Song Name. THEN I order all of my mp3s into an identical directory listing (Music/Artist/Album) to double the redundancy.
Redundancy is important. Especially if your MP3 hard drive is cross-operating system. Some OSs rely on folder structure more than file names and some rely on file names more than folder structure. Windows Explorer likes the filenames, but Mac OSX likes the folders.
All of this, of course, is subject to opinion. But the point is, redundancy in filenames/folder structure never hurts. The more information the better. So long as it's well organized and constant throughout your organizational system.
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I've always been interested in X(HT)ML, but I've never wanted to sit down and convert every single page by hand. This tool might be just what I need.
I'm eager to find out if FFXII will in fact be another MMORPG or single player. Does anyone have any official info? I'm not against Square making an MMORPG, but I really wish they had chose not to make it a numbered Final Fantasy. It defies tradition!
Yeah yeah, grammar pwns me. Slashcode needs an edit feature. But no! that would be too much like joining the 21st century, wouldn't it.
A meteorite of not much larger mass could have caused far more widespread destruction. I could be off on my facts here, but I remember reading about a similar event taking place in Russia, devastating several many acres of open forest. Should it have impacted a city, the city would have been leveled. Granted we're all familiar with the meteorite impact apocalypse prospect, all I'm saying is it could be worse. I wonder how many other life forms or even civilizations have evolved on other planets that were completely obliterated because of stellar impacts. Something to fear.
launched from Russia? So they couldn't/wouldn't do it on their own? Does launching a satellite into space with the aid of Russia really qualify as joining the space age?
Well, at least one of them got modded funny. ;)
If you had bothered to read anything I had said, you'd realize that I didn't learn japanese to play the real FF4, nor am I putting up with buying it a second time because I'm playing on a translated FF4j ROM. Oh, and before you go bitching about how that's illegal, it's not. I already bought FF4, and so did you, right? Therefore, downloading a translated FF4j is well within your legal right.
Oh, and consider getting your facts straight before you go spouting insults next time.
if you can get your or your pet's gene sequenced copyrighted. "Hey that guy cloned my prize-winning, one of a kind, best-in-show dog! I'm gonna sue!" I mean damn. If you can copyright one click shopping, shouldn't you be able to copyright gene sequences you own?
Insightful? More like funny! Whatever mod actually believs that we should evacuate America because it's not the continent our ancestors started on is crazy. By that logic, we shouldn't be in Europe or Asia either, seeing as how the human race evolved from Africa. Has anyone considered that maybe our desire to explore our planet is, in fact, natural?
That's all fine and dandy if you like paying for it twice, then ending up with the crappy laggy slow PSX version of FF4.
As far as the rest goes, no facts to dispute. Just your opinion. You should really be less critical.
Not sure whether or not you're joking, but the statistics put the majority of people playing (posting) at middle aged or older. The point being made is that that seems to dispell the rumor that video games (or in this case MMORPGs) are for just for kids.
Now, who wants to take a shot at the rumor of Trix being just for kids..?
Great post, AC no less. Piracy protection is not about perma protection, its about the here and now. As you said GC has been unpirated for how long now? Long enough. If it were pirated literally a week after release they wouldn't have made nearly as much money as they have. Despite the fact that GC isn't the most popular of the consoles, it's still made a crapload of money in retrospect.
Putting this in perspective, I'm an emu enthusiast and a rabid pirate. I would love to see a GC emulator along with a solid way to rip the disks so I can actually play the damn games =P
But alas, Touche Nintendo; you're anti piracy efforts are the most valiant of all console makers indeed.
Keep in mind that my all purpose storage bitch is only 20gb of storage and the hard drive isnt even close to being full. As for the 40 gigger, all it is is open source stuff and my personal projects, which are all backed up on the webserver. The 8 gig Wintendo is also backed up on CD.
If I had more data I'd probably be RAIDing but at this point it'd be a frivolous use of my limited money. In either case I still believe in physically separating drives for the sheer fact that I run two operating systems and I don't feel like playing around with separate partitions and filesystems on a single RAIDed or non-RAIDed drive.
Yeah I suspected that but I didn't want to go making grandiose claims without being sure. Personally, I'd leave them as separate drives and use them for different purposes and/or operating systems. That way if one fails, everything else is independent and you only have to worry about recovering THAT drive's data because it's been modularized.
/. crowd I know that's pretty old school, but I don't need a lot of storage. What I do need is physical separation of data. One drive is my Wintendo (8gb), another is Gentoo (40gb), and another is my all purpose storage bitch (20gb). By separating the purpose of each drive you ensure that it if one goes down, the rest remain stable. Maybe this guy should have tried that? But then again, he may have been in it for bragging rights ;)
Personally I'm not a RAID fan. I operate with three hard drives. One 40gb drive, one 20gb drive, and one 8gb drive. Yeah
if you use firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive, doesn't that essentially make 6 hard drives pretend to be one? (AKA the OS doesn't realize it's many) And if just ONE of those drives failed, aren't you shit out of luck with your data?
Again, forgive my hardware ignorance if I'm way off.
It was my understanding that OSX was Unix based and that Linux programs ran under it seamlessly. This being the case, WINE is a Linux program so it is logical to assume that it runs under OSX. Forgive me oh elitist Slashdot posters and moderators for making this oh so unholy assumption. Consider the fact that because I don't buy PPC architecture hardware that I don't run OSX and I can't test it myself
But at least I know what I'm talking about with Linux. It can be WINE'd. And the instructions are on kazaalite.tk. Goto the download section and select English. At the bottom there's a Kazaa Lite under WINE in Linux tutorial.
Sheesh.
Uh retarded ass underscores is stupid in any file manager with a GUI. The only applicable use it has is to make give people with a console fettish an easier time typing in filenames. But don't think I'm defending you, mister anonymous coward. (Well, I guess I am... but!) Artist - Song Name is not enough! I use nothing less than Artist - Album - Track - Song Name. THEN I order all of my mp3s into an identical directory listing (Music/Artist/Album) to double the redundancy.
Redundancy is important. Especially if your MP3 hard drive is cross-operating system. Some OSs rely on folder structure more than file names and some rely on file names more than folder structure. Windows Explorer likes the filenames, but Mac OSX likes the folders.
All of this, of course, is subject to opinion. But the point is, redundancy in filenames/folder structure never hurts. The more information the better. So long as it's well organized and constant throughout your organizational system.
Kazaa can be ran in Linux or MacOSX using WINE too, you know. There's a tutorial on kazaalite.tk