Easy. Any Vista CD bundled with a new computer, and containing a bunch of proprietary malware crap to allow the company behind the computer to make more monies.
By 'Final Fantasy', do you mean the entire series, or specific games in the series? Because I'd say that games like FF4, FF6 and FF9 remove a lot of grinding and replaces it with story, but that may just be my opinion.
As has been stated elsewhere, this is about profiling. Anne Murphy boarded the plane. Security was looking for Muslim extremists. Security would have waved Anne on and congratulated her on her pregnancy.
To expand on that idea, the shuttle should have a time set when it launches; sync it with the control station (is it still in Houston?) so they're always in agreement on what time it is. Then circle the Earth as many times as you want, the shuttle clock shouldn't care. It's us as humans that realize that we're passing through time zones, not our watches.
Then when you pass the New Year... Gasp. Shock. Computers have been doing that for 30+ years already! Seriously, if the shuttle computer will CRASH when the year changes, it's time to de-commission it and build a new one.
The computer, that is. The shuttle is probably fine.
Then on January 3rd it lands, and the clock gets re-synced to Houston, allowing a fun little experiment with time dilation while we're at it.;)
TV and fiction writers are on the cutting edge; the job of a sci-fi writer, for instance, is to think up plausible science and inventions that we do not have yet. For instance, I read somewhere that cell phones were originally inspired by the communication devices used in Star Trek. Or, perhaps, something I've seen on TV long before it was invented: A cell phone sending a video feed of whoever you were talking to. We have that now. I saw it in an animated series in the early 90s.
Yes, fiction writers are at the cutting edge. Inventors get inspired by them.
While the fond memories of the game itself may be gone, the fond memories of the good times spent as a family are not, obviously, and in the end that is what matters.
Personally, my fondest gaming memory is my mom waking me up in the middle of the night having found the path to the next dungeon in the very first Zelda game. I was nine. It was 3 am. We went to bed around 7 am.
It rocked, and while replaying Zelda now is boring and tedious, those memories stay with me, and they are the most important part of playing a computer game together with someone else.
They DID release the original Mario Bros. 2, just not on it's own, it was part of the Super Mario All-Stars compilation for the SNES, then dubbed The Lost Levels. So the article is kinda wrong, it did get released outside of Japan - eventually. It is, however, more of the same old as the first game, only harder.
I'll admit to not remembering the cost of a tape back then, but do the math on what it costs to have computer, net connection, etc. compared to the tapes. I'm sure you'll find that at least a couple of thousand tapes have been paid for then.
It opens a connection to connected. sonymusic. com (IIRC), and apparently transmits the ID of the CD. Sony claimed this didn't happen, but a simple packet sniffer is all it takes - the connection opens the instant you tell the player to start.
Re: 2; digital clock. I had an old Olivetti machine, a DX-4 100mhz. Yeah, ancient now. That came with a digital clock and a standby button that turned everything off, fans, drives, everything. The machine looked almost like a video when in standby. I miss that, and hope someone's gonna build a new line like it.
I'm in Denmark, we have 3 dead and about 200 missing, with the latter number quickly falling as people get to phones. The news here has extra airings, at least half the time of the normal airings are about this disaster, and the national newspapers have a 16-page special on it.
IMHO, the SNES had much better games than Turbo ever did, and the emulators out there work like a charm on 99% of all games.
Oh, and my first first post. Whee.
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Easy. Any Vista CD bundled with a new computer, and containing a bunch of proprietary malware crap to allow the company behind the computer to make more monies.
Actually, the word is 'heil', as in English 'hail'. So yeah, a hailstorm on Bush, please.
By 'Final Fantasy', do you mean the entire series, or specific games in the series? Because I'd say that games like FF4, FF6 and FF9 remove a lot of grinding and replaces it with story, but that may just be my opinion.
As has been stated elsewhere, this is about profiling. Anne Murphy boarded the plane. Security was looking for Muslim extremists. Security would have waved Anne on and congratulated her on her pregnancy.
I see I'm not the only one who thinks that EVERYTHING is 'nano-this' or 'nano-that' these days.
Then when you pass the New Year ... Gasp. Shock. Computers have been doing that for 30+ years already! Seriously, if the shuttle computer will CRASH when the year changes, it's time to de-commission it and build a new one.
The computer, that is. The shuttle is probably fine.
Then on January 3rd it lands, and the clock gets re-synced to Houston, allowing a fun little experiment with time dilation while we're at it. ;)
I hope they wait until SCO is dead and buried; that way we'll be entertained longer.
TV and fiction writers are on the cutting edge; the job of a sci-fi writer, for instance, is to think up plausible science and inventions that we do not have yet. For instance, I read somewhere that cell phones were originally inspired by the communication devices used in Star Trek. Or, perhaps, something I've seen on TV long before it was invented: A cell phone sending a video feed of whoever you were talking to. We have that now. I saw it in an animated series in the early 90s. Yes, fiction writers are at the cutting edge. Inventors get inspired by them.
Collectively termed the Microsoft Software Protection Platform (except by SlashDotters, who'll always call it the MS pee-pee) ...
While the fond memories of the game itself may be gone, the fond memories of the good times spent as a family are not, obviously, and in the end that is what matters.
Personally, my fondest gaming memory is my mom waking me up in the middle of the night having found the path to the next dungeon in the very first Zelda game. I was nine. It was 3 am. We went to bed around 7 am.
It rocked, and while replaying Zelda now is boring and tedious, those memories stay with me, and they are the most important part of playing a computer game together with someone else.
They DID release the original Mario Bros. 2, just not on it's own, it was part of the Super Mario All-Stars compilation for the SNES, then dubbed The Lost Levels. So the article is kinda wrong, it did get released outside of Japan - eventually. It is, however, more of the same old as the first game, only harder.
I'll admit to not remembering the cost of a tape back then, but do the math on what it costs to have computer, net connection, etc. compared to the tapes. I'm sure you'll find that at least a couple of thousand tapes have been paid for then.
It does phone home.
It opens a connection to connected. sonymusic. com (IIRC), and apparently transmits the ID of the CD. Sony claimed this didn't happen, but a simple packet sniffer is all it takes - the connection opens the instant you tell the player to start.
How on earth did you rhyme 'gay' with 'hell'? Back to Writing Poetry 101 for you.
Netcraft confirms it, FireFox is ... umm ... wait, this can't be right, Netcraft confirms something is thriving?
4:20, the very common codeword for pot smokers.
Re: 2; digital clock. I had an old Olivetti machine, a DX-4 100mhz. Yeah, ancient now. That came with a digital clock and a standby button that turned everything off, fans, drives, everything. The machine looked almost like a video when in standby. I miss that, and hope someone's gonna build a new line like it.
No no no. Get it right.
Always attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to Microsoft.
No no, it should go 'In Soviet Russia, LiveJournal writes about you!', indicating that everything you put there is reported to the government.
That's bullshit.
I'm in Denmark, we have 3 dead and about 200 missing, with the latter number quickly falling as people get to phones. The news here has extra airings, at least half the time of the normal airings are about this disaster, and the national newspapers have a 16-page special on it.
We care.
Only reason a Windows user wouldn't have time to talk about space is because he's constantly rebooting.
You get 20% real mail in your box? What's your secret?
$167,456?
Don't you mean $699.00?
IMHO, the SNES had much better games than Turbo ever did, and the emulators out there work like a charm on 99% of all games. Oh, and my first first post. Whee.
Shoot'em'ups are old school, VERY old school, and using Space Invader sprites does not conceal that fact, it's mocking it.