I get your point, but with your example you are ignoring the fact that Final Fantasy is an RPG. Different genres require different strengths in games I ignore this fact because good gameplay and good story are not mutually exclusive -- see Portal -- and because genres are not set in stone -- see Gloom, Tremulous, Natural Selection.
imagine if Dance Dance Revolution had a story and cut scenes I see your point, but that's DDR in its current incarnation. It'd be naive to assume that a game, played with your feet, and to music, could never successfully have a plot. Playing through the original Doom, it'd be hard to imagine an FPS ever being better for having a plot, but many are.
I'm also not saying there's anything wrong with Final Fantasy.
They aren't confiscating anything Temporarily, then.
any adult caught using a PDA whilst at the Resort will be asked to report to one of five "PDA Drop Off Zones" where they can safely leave their PDA's for the day Is this "asked" as in "asked to leave"? Or is it actually asked, as in, I can say no?
If the former, you really don't have a point. If the latter, I apologize for not reading TFA.
This policy is not aimed at 19-year-old geeks who've turned up by themselves, it's aimed at parents. And yes it really will spoil your 10-year-old's day if you're playing Solitaire instead of joining them on the rides. And if you're that kind of parent, this policy isn't going to make you a better parent. It's probably going to result in you not going to the park at all.
I don't know, but since the eee laptops don't feature bluetooth and/or mobile internet, I keep wondering what they want to do with those things. Most places will have wifi, and they do have USB ports. Bluetooth dongles should be cheap enough, at the very least.
âoeI feel that people like Mario and people like Link and the other characters weâ(TM)ve created not for the characters themselves, but because the games they appear in are fun,â he said. âoeAnd because people enjoy playing those games first, they come to love the characters as well.â That sums it up perfectly. He's the polar opposite of games like Final Fantasy, where the characters and story are the most memorable parts, and gameplay supports them.
It fits in nicely with the reason the Wii works -- it's about gameplay, and everything else is secondary.
And it's not on every blank CD - it's on ones marked as for audio. Which means you can just buy stacks of "data" CDs and use them to your hearts content, levyless, to copy audio. Wait, what? Doesn't that kind of make the whole thing ineffectual?
How can our legal system be assuming you're guilty of violating a law when doing an act the same legal system explicitly permits? Fine, then, maybe "guilty" is the wrong word -- though it does not have to imply legal guilt. Could very well imply moral guilt.
How about this: Buying a music CD, no matter where the source comes from, is subsidizing record labels, right? What does it take to be recognized a record label, worthy of levy payments? Sounds like it is, at the very least, supporting a monopoly.
But let me take this to a ludicrous extreme -- would it be alright if murder was legal, so long as everyone was required to spend one year in prison?
The SDK will be released in much less than a month and, if you watched the keynote, you've seen how quickly programs can be written. Sorry, I don't buy that.
In "much less than a month" means how many days, exactly? And how many days past that are we expecting someone to release this app?
And then what? How long to get through Apple to the App Store? Will they even approve it if it maintains a persistent connection? (I know I'd want to pop between a running SSH and a browser, and I can't think of any other way to maintain state.)
Oh, and on top of that -- how much will it cost? Apple charges to be able to publish your app, even if said app is free, which seems designed to encourage people to develop apps that cost money, or that have embedded ads.
I've got no idea what's causing your problems, or if Dolphin would be any better.
I generally run installers from the commandline, but once installed, it even seems to keep track of things like WINEPREFIX -- and those "Start Menu" entries did work, last I tried.
You do realize that NVIDIA's Linux video drivers and Windows video drivers and Solaris video drivers and FreeBSD video drivers and Mac OSX video drivers are all the same, with a OS specific wrapper that allows it to talk to the hardware via the kernel. I do.
Do you realize that NVIDIA's Linux video drivers frequently crash? Anywhere from the X server segfaulting to the entire machine locking up? And when they don't crash, they occasionally freeze...
We have only their word that as much code is shared as they say it is. Even if that's true, there could still be something happening with the OS-specific wrapper. And if they can outright crash more on Linux than they do on Windows, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there might be a difference in performance.
Around here, high school is part of the real world, student social life takes place outside of high school. School is only a place to learn and study. I think it's a bit of both -- school forces all of these kids to come together in one place, so of course there's socializing there. It also means you have an excuse to run into people. But you can't have music and beer in high school, so students will socialize outside of school.
On top of all that, we've got legalized file sharing in the form of a cd levy! Offtopic, but I'm not sure that's a good thing. It means that your legal system is operating under the assumption that every CD bought will be used to pirate. I like "innocent until proven guilty" better.
What happens if a registrar just decides to "forget" about a domain? Or refuse to transfer it? Or something similar...
A whois record, at the very least, is proof that I own the domain. In fact, I believe certain obfuscation services, like GoDaddy's, may actually involve the registrar taking legal ownership of the domain on your behalf.
None of their damned business, first of all. That's between him and his family.
And second, being callable doesn't mean you'll necessarily take a call. My phone is always on, and always on me, short of airplane travel -- but I'm only rarely called.
Well, I can think of a few people who would actually enforce a policy that stupid, but...
First question: Are they confiscating all cell phones, or only smartphones?
If it's only smartphones, it's a liveable policy -- provided you can buy everyone a non-smartphone. It's still moronic that they're trying to enforce fun -- it's not like it spoils anyone else's fun if you want to spoil your trip by playing Solitaire on your smartphone the whole time.
If it's all phones, well, you've just eliminated a useful tool for finding lost kids, or for preventing kids from getting lost. It's all well and good to say "We'll meet here at 5:30," but it's nice to be able to call if they don't make it.
I don't know what smartphones will let you plug one in, but you're going to at least want a laptop-sized keyboard.
I actually like typing with this keyboard (wired version), and it's small enough to fit comfortably in a backpack, pretty much no weight to it at all. The wireless version could probably fit in a briefcase, and it speaks bluetooth, so I'm sure there's a phone out there that will work with it.
The other possibility is to ask why you want a smartphone, and not a real laptop -- not like it costs more than the iPhone anyway.
The iPhone is nice, but you can't beat a real keyboard, no matter what you're typing on.
Shell use is not the same as general text entry and the URL keyboard is a good example of how the keyboard can be adapted better for SPECIFIC (same word you used) tasks. Such as ssh. And, thanks to Apple being even more proprietary with their shit than Microsoft is, I can't do anything about that. There's no SSH keyboard today, and I can't build one.
It's not some far off "one day". It's a MONTH. Ok, what happens in a month? Has someone specifically announced an iPod SSH client, complete with decent text entry, which will ship in a month?
Don't be so dismissive until you see what terminal possibilities might arrive with the SDK. Actually, I'm going to do exactly that. Why should I spend $400 now for something which someone else might program, someday? Because there's no way in hell I'm spending another $100 for the right to program my own phone.
The intent is to use a less restrictive license than GPL, perhaps Apache or Mozilla. This is to allow commercial developers to incorporate Etch into products without licensing issues. Which also makes it incompatible with the GPL, I think.
I figure, if you're going less restrictive than GPL, do it with a license that's compatible with the GPL. Otherwise, GPL or LGPL will allow open source developers to integrate it into (GPL'd) products without licensing issues.
Pimp your ride, geek your system. Weird. I figured "Pimp your system" works just as well.
Being dumb on the internet is looked down upon. Unfortunately, a troll still thinks he's cool, and there are too many trolls still out there. And on the Internet, no matter how "cool" you get, you're still going to have many loud, vocal enemies.
But, you know, I think some of this is fair. Merely owning a personal computer, back in the day, would make you a geek, because you wouldn't own it if you didn't know how to use it, and when the UI is a programming language (BASIC), knowing how to use it makes you a geek already.
The real tragedy, I think, is the loss of "hacker" in its original sense.
I actually prefer "Geek".
A nerd is interested in almost everything and is able to grasp many different subjects on a high level. That just seems like an "intelligent person". To me, a nerd is a person who is interested in the most esoteric, obscure, technically challenging aspects of every field -- that is, if a nerd plays videogames, they never touch Counter-Strike, they play Core Wars instead. They don't just watch Star Trek, they know Klingon. They don't just play D&D, they're invariably rules lawyers.
They also have high-pitched whiny voices, wear pocket protectors and thick glasses, are either impossibly skinny or impossibly fat, and have no social skills.
Geeks on the other hand are just simpletons parading around with a little amount of extra knowledge as coloured feathers in a birds ass. They do know more about a subject than the people in their environment and they want the others to know that. However, often enough they are not able to grasp the subject fully. I would say that yes, they do have extra knowledge about a given subject, but I see no reason they can't grasp that subject fully.
Actually, I see two important parts of the 'geek' definition -- first, they're interested in things which aren't necessarily what society as a whole is interested in. It's impossible to be a fashion geek, or a sex geek.
Second, they're not just casually interested -- it's not just "I like computers, because The Matrix was faar out!" No, these are the people who code open source software and build robots in their spare time. Or they're a sound geek, so they have a custom built audiophile-friendly setup (but not on an audiophile budget; no amount of money makes cable "danceable"), and have probably made a few techno remixes of their own.
I think the difference I see is that "nerd" is a snotty, elitist attitude towards life -- which you kind of prove with your "simpleton" comment. "Geek" is an interest or a fascination, but it's only part of what makes up a person. Vin Diesel is a D&D geek, but you can't define him by his geekiness.
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I'm also not saying there's anything wrong with Final Fantasy.
My understanding was, the point of this is to force the parents to spend quality time with the children...
Keep in mind, also, that this doesn't have to make sense to you. It only has to make sense to the kid.
If the former, you really don't have a point. If the latter, I apologize for not reading TFA.
It fits in nicely with the reason the Wii works -- it's about gameplay, and everything else is secondary.
How about this: Buying a music CD, no matter where the source comes from, is subsidizing record labels, right? What does it take to be recognized a record label, worthy of levy payments? Sounds like it is, at the very least, supporting a monopoly.
But let me take this to a ludicrous extreme -- would it be alright if murder was legal, so long as everyone was required to spend one year in prison?
In "much less than a month" means how many days, exactly? And how many days past that are we expecting someone to release this app?
And then what? How long to get through Apple to the App Store? Will they even approve it if it maintains a persistent connection? (I know I'd want to pop between a running SSH and a browser, and I can't think of any other way to maintain state.)
Oh, and on top of that -- how much will it cost? Apple charges to be able to publish your app, even if said app is free, which seems designed to encourage people to develop apps that cost money, or that have embedded ads.
I've got no idea what's causing your problems, or if Dolphin would be any better.
I generally run installers from the commandline, but once installed, it even seems to keep track of things like WINEPREFIX -- and those "Start Menu" entries did work, last I tried.
Do you realize that NVIDIA's Linux video drivers frequently crash? Anywhere from the X server segfaulting to the entire machine locking up? And when they don't crash, they occasionally freeze...
We have only their word that as much code is shared as they say it is. Even if that's true, there could still be something happening with the OS-specific wrapper. And if they can outright crash more on Linux than they do on Windows, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there might be a difference in performance.
What happens if a registrar just decides to "forget" about a domain? Or refuse to transfer it? Or something similar...
A whois record, at the very least, is proof that I own the domain. In fact, I believe certain obfuscation services, like GoDaddy's, may actually involve the registrar taking legal ownership of the domain on your behalf.
Then what's the point? Or is the headline completely wrong?
There's a whole world between 911 and, say, checking with your parents if they actually know this person they just sent you to pick you up.
None of their damned business, first of all. That's between him and his family.
And second, being callable doesn't mean you'll necessarily take a call. My phone is always on, and always on me, short of airplane travel -- but I'm only rarely called.
Well, I can think of a few people who would actually enforce a policy that stupid, but...
First question: Are they confiscating all cell phones, or only smartphones?
If it's only smartphones, it's a liveable policy -- provided you can buy everyone a non-smartphone. It's still moronic that they're trying to enforce fun -- it's not like it spoils anyone else's fun if you want to spoil your trip by playing Solitaire on your smartphone the whole time.
If it's all phones, well, you've just eliminated a useful tool for finding lost kids, or for preventing kids from getting lost. It's all well and good to say "We'll meet here at 5:30," but it's nice to be able to call if they don't make it.
I don't know what smartphones will let you plug one in, but you're going to at least want a laptop-sized keyboard.
I actually like typing with this keyboard (wired version), and it's small enough to fit comfortably in a backpack, pretty much no weight to it at all. The wireless version could probably fit in a briefcase, and it speaks bluetooth, so I'm sure there's a phone out there that will work with it.
The other possibility is to ask why you want a smartphone, and not a real laptop -- not like it costs more than the iPhone anyway.
The iPhone is nice, but you can't beat a real keyboard, no matter what you're typing on.
I figure, if you're going less restrictive than GPL, do it with a license that's compatible with the GPL. Otherwise, GPL or LGPL will allow open source developers to integrate it into (GPL'd) products without licensing issues.
But, you know, I think some of this is fair. Merely owning a personal computer, back in the day, would make you a geek, because you wouldn't own it if you didn't know how to use it, and when the UI is a programming language (BASIC), knowing how to use it makes you a geek already.
The real tragedy, I think, is the loss of "hacker" in its original sense.
They also have high-pitched whiny voices, wear pocket protectors and thick glasses, are either impossibly skinny or impossibly fat, and have no social skills. Geeks on the other hand are just simpletons parading around with a little amount of extra knowledge as coloured feathers in a birds ass. They do know more about a subject than the people in their environment and they want the others to know that. However, often enough they are not able to grasp the subject fully. I would say that yes, they do have extra knowledge about a given subject, but I see no reason they can't grasp that subject fully.
Actually, I see two important parts of the 'geek' definition -- first, they're interested in things which aren't necessarily what society as a whole is interested in. It's impossible to be a fashion geek, or a sex geek.
Second, they're not just casually interested -- it's not just "I like computers, because The Matrix was faar out!" No, these are the people who code open source software and build robots in their spare time. Or they're a sound geek, so they have a custom built audiophile-friendly setup (but not on an audiophile budget; no amount of money makes cable "danceable"), and have probably made a few techno remixes of their own.
I think the difference I see is that "nerd" is a snotty, elitist attitude towards life -- which you kind of prove with your "simpleton" comment. "Geek" is an interest or a fascination, but it's only part of what makes up a person. Vin Diesel is a D&D geek, but you can't define him by his geekiness.