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Ten Years of FFXIII?
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FF7 was only "great" to those that didn't play FF3(6). Even the nerfed American version of FF3 was better than FF7 in terms of everything other than the ability to play FMV.
I agree on everything except the part about X and XII. I haven't played those. VIII was better than most people give it credit for, though, so I'll use that as a stand-in comment.
"Unions" are for laborers. Factory workers, service-job workers (bus drivers, retail clerks, etc.) should be in unions. (Or not, depending on how they feel on that issue.)
"Guilds" are for artists and creators. Engineers, actors, painters, musicians, and even computer programmers should be in guilds, not unions. (Again, "or not" applies here.)
Unions got a bad name from the corrupt officials in their organizations (past, present, and probably future). Guilds don't have that problem.
Try some "St. Louis-style" pizza some time. You might like it. For more info, check Wikipedia (of course). There's a paragraph describing St. Louis-style pizza. And remember, when they say "thin crust", they mean 2mm or thinner. It's like a huge cracker with pizza toppings.
Energy exists. Space is the absence of energy. Time is a construct invented by our minds to describe eventless motion (more precisely, a "non-change" event).
The universe is a state machine. Which means that you're partially right. The material entities themselves don't matter. States matter. Interactions are simply another type of state. "Not interacting" is a state, and is equally meaningful in many cases.
Give it 3 or 4 revisions. By then Apple will have worked out a way to allow anyone to develop and install apps on the iPhone with a minimum of fuss, much as with the iPod's initial platform, software, and other feature limitations. The first Windows iPod was the 2G. The first one with iTunes for Windows was the 3G. It took until 5G to add color screens and 6G for video.
I'm betting that things will be added to the iPhone as time progresses. My predictions: - A Dashcode (widget development IDE) preset midway through the 1G lifespan. - An Xcode plugin set in time for the release of the 2G iPhone, and official blessing on iPhone apps.
When it was started, the average life expectancy was 62 and the benefit collection age was 65. This was by design.
Now, the average life expectance is 82. The benefit collection age needs to be raised, no exceptions, to 85. If you're 73 and collecting already, too bad. Get a job for another 12 years. If you're 64 and feeling entitled, get over it. Suck it up and keep working. Work is a contribution to society as well as a way to keep your mind active. Retirement is your final breath before you die. If you want to just roll over and die, do so. Otherwise, quit complaining. Once you've outlived the average, then we'll carry you along. Until then, you're just another one of us.
As for ID, well, SSN's should be public knowledge. No one should be relying on them for secure ID.
I don't see why SSN's shouldn't be public knowledge. They're not for use by private institutions. They're for use by the Social Security Administration. No one should be using your SSN for identification, period.
I'm not so hot for the "Feisty Fawn" name. I'm upgrading my 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) install and listening to "I Want A New Duck". Unfortunately, all I get is a skittish newt and, later, a hyperactive baby deer. I want a new duck, dammit!
The only positive feature for Vista, so far, is the built in chess game. For the price, you can get a better one on XP.
For the price, you could probably even get a better one on a Mac. Seriously, Vista Ultimate costs almost as much as a Mac Mini, and certainly as much as a used Mac Mini.
Wow. You should've ponied up the extra $50 for the 2550n. A quick visit to 192.168.x.x and you can see all the levels, counts, and everything. Oh, and there's no artificial limit on the fuser cart. It detects when there's damage/wear and tells you that it's gone tits-up. Mine's been going strong for 2 years now with no replacements of fuser or toner carts. Toner is limited to a calculated 4000 (5000 for black) prints at 5% coverage. I'm sure there's a simple accumulator that calculates for each page how much coverage there is and tallies it all up. When you reach that limit, it's fairly certain that you're out of toner (or nearly so).
The only driver problems I've had are when I reinstalled Windows once and couldn't find the CD (finding drivers on HP's site has become a crap-shoot, especially for the networked models). Linux and Mac OS X find the printer just fine and work with it equally fine.
First off, I don't think your post is flamebait. Screw the mods.
Second of all, I like the look of Ubuntu's default Gnome environment almost as much as the Mac OS X 10.4 UI. But here are the differences I notice:
First of all, the bad: - Look at the buttons on the window title bars in Ubuntu. Especially that annoying catch-all menu on the left side. Notice how the space around the button is wider on the top and left than it is on the bottom. That just looks sloppy. Mac OS has never had this sort of problem in a final release. - Where is my quick-access-but-not-a-desktop-icon method of launching an app? Mac OS has had one for over a decade. There were pop-up folders (tabs), tabbed launch apps, and now there's the Dock (though I prefer the old categorized tabs, myself). Even Windows, that paragon of UI anti-design, has Quick Launch bars. I guess you could call the hierarchic menu a "fast launch" menu, since it's still faster than manually navigating to the folder and running the app or typing the path/app into a CLI. But I never considered that a quick-access method on Mac OS even when you could stick stuff into the Apple menu. Hierarchic menus are just too finicky... OH WAIT. There it is. Sorry, but there's a reason that the Mac mouse was one-button for all those years, even in the face of heavy criticism. Relying on a right-click for what should be basic system functions is just poor practice. I've been running Ubuntu for a while now, and this screenshot was the first I'd seen of the aforementioned feature. - A system-wide menubar is really a nice thing. You can't click another app's menus without switching to that app anyway, so why even give the option? Plus, it frees up screen real-estate for other things. You'd be amazed how much space is wasted by all those menubars, especially the ones that consist of just File, Edit, View. Move all that crap to one place. And yes, I do understand that it takes some getting-used-to and that people are resistant to change. Especially Linux geeks. Try it for a month and I'll guarantee you won't go back. It's the same challenge we all issue to Windows users, and what's good for the goose... - And one final note: thank goodness the Apple folks have finally realized that brushed metal looks like ass. Now if we could just get back to a standardized look and feel...
And the good: - As I mentioned before, a standard look and feel. Ubuntu has that. Given, it's baby-turd brown, but at least it's consistent. And I'm sure there are themes to change the colors (and given my first criticism above, hopefully the layout). Note that the "themes" issue is another failing of the Mac OS in its current incarnation. It's also quite a sore issue with Apple, I fear, so any official resolution is unlikely. - The shut-down button is awesome. On a Mac, you can just bonk the power button and invoke the "sleep, restart, shut down, or cancel?" dialog, but on generic PC hardware, you can't always do that. Often, the case's faceplate is gone, exposing little sharp plastic nubs instead of a nice power button. Sometimes the damn thing is under your desk and just out of reach. Sometimes it's in a server locker 1000 miles away. Being able to shut down the OS using an always-accessible power button icon is just really damned nice. - Multiple desktops. Windows doesn't have it. Mac OS doesn't have it. (Third-party add-ons don't count.) Nothing more needs to be said. And the UI to switch between them is pure gold.
And the Ugly? Just about everything Windows does. I would like to take this opportunity to beg the Linux/GNU/Gnome/KDE/whatever devs and contributors not to copy Windows. It's an ethical thing, really. Mistreatment of eyes is a horrible crime. Won't someone please think of MY EYES?!
Even without looking through the package repository, I'd probably open a terminal window and give it a shot:
apt get install dm-crypt nss-ldap pam-ldap samba
Failing that, I'd fire up package manager and actually check to see if those are valid package names. If they aren't, then I'd check to see if there was something else in the list that did what I needed. After that fails, it's time for a browser and some Google Wisdom.
Ubuntu is nice, even for newbs like me. (I'm mostly a Mac guy, but I have a self-built PC that I run Ubuntu on, starting about a month ago.) I would (and do) recommend it to anybody.
why was there a thing last week about "zomg Mac users can't have Vista in Parallels!"?
Because someone posted blogspam as "news". It happens. It was wrong then, too.
And why in Hell would anyone put Vista in a VM on top of Vista? Maybe an Ultimate in a VM of Basic or something, I guess, but that's not the same license.
I think it's supposed to handle people that install VM's to have a "clean" OS running a bunch of "dirty" OS'es. You can put any sort of crap into a sandbox and then throw it out later if it mucks things up. So you install Vista, then a VM product, then the same Vista license into the VM and install all the crapware you want. It can't hurt the host. Microsoft just wants to make it a licensing issue if you decide to re-use a cheap version of Vista in that manner. But they allow it on the expensive versions, so long as you only do it with one VM guest at a time.
If your host OS isn't Vista, they have no basis for complaint. You paid, you get to use it and increase their marketshare numbers, regardless of the actual "device" it's running on.
Citizens should never have to pay federal taxes, period. The federal government has exactly 50 citizens that should be responsible for paying taxes. Each state should be collecting from it's sub-units (counties, parrishes, municipalities, et al) or citizens. But that will never happen, unfortunately. It would require the feds to give up control that they've already usurped.
In the game Deus Ex, there was a group called the "NSF" or Northwest Secessionist Forces, where several northwestern states, Montana included, tried to remove themselves from a tyrannical US federal government. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
That game was eerily on-target about "terrorists" and the rhetoric thrown about in the world political climate since 9/11. I'd also like to point out that Deus Ex was voted "Game of the Year" by several gaming magazines for the year 2000. Kudos to Warren Spector and his team.
"You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system." (emphasis mine) So you can't use the license twice - once for the real hardware and once for the VM.
And from the Ultimate version: "You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device." (emphasis mine) So you can use the license twice, once for the host and again for the guest.
If the VM is the licensed device, then MS has no legal leg to stand on if they tell you that you can't run Vista Home Edition in a VM.
You don't need the expensive versions of Vista to run it in a VM. You only need those if you want to run it as the host of the VM as well as the guest in the VM with the same license key.
Linux as a host will work just fine with the "cheap" versions of Vista.
you are a human being with rights, responsibilities and legal standing
One of those responsibilities being to set up the configuration of your wireless router to automate your authorization of any computers trying to connect to it. Your router is merely an extension of your legal rights in this instance, much in the way the door on your house is. If your door is locked, you must explicitly grant permission for someone to enter by unlocking it. If it's not locked, they can enter without your permission. Now if you put a sign up next to the door that says "unlocked, come on in!", you'd have something akin to the 802.11 protocol on an unsecured router.
By not turning on encryption, you (the human) are allowing people to access your network. The router is merely an automated representative agent.
I'm pretty sure that buying (or even renting, but only for a short period of time) the disk means that playback ability is a permission directly given (by implication) from the copyright holder, and that any means necessary to carry out that action is 100% legal, and is intended use, or at the very least would fall under "fair use". And I'm also pretty sure that you could get just about any judge and/or jury to go along with that line of reasoning if the studio pressed their luck in court.
This is not an example of "giving the customer what they want".
No, it's an example of you're not the customer. You haven't purchased a computer from them, so you're not a customer. Period. Whine and gripe about it all you want, but if you want Mac OS X, you must become Apple's customer, and that pretty much requires a hardware purchase.
Try thinking of it like this: Apple sells computers. Mac OS X is a pack-in (and really, it's optional, you can install Linux or Windows if you want). You don't get the "free" copy of Mac OS X and a fully supported installation without buying hardware. You could just buy the boxed version of Mac OS X (well, once 10.5 is out, anyway) and install it on your existing hardware, but it's unsupported. And don't bother with the tired "it's not allowed by the EULA" argument, since that hasn't ever stopped anyone before and it probably isn't even legally enforceable, much less enforceable in a practical sense.
So don't use Apple computers. It is, as you stated, your choice. But know that by not using them, you aren't a customer, and aren't entitled to be treated like one.
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FF7 was only "great" to those that didn't play FF3(6). Even the nerfed American version of FF3 was better than FF7 in terms of everything other than the ability to play FMV.
I agree on everything except the part about X and XII. I haven't played those. VIII was better than most people give it credit for, though, so I'll use that as a stand-in comment.
Too bad they're thoroughly incompentent in everything they do.
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Sony, Macrovision, and the MPAA are a little vaklempt. Discuss amongst yourselves.
"Unions" are for laborers. Factory workers, service-job workers (bus drivers, retail clerks, etc.) should be in unions. (Or not, depending on how they feel on that issue.)
"Guilds" are for artists and creators. Engineers, actors, painters, musicians, and even computer programmers should be in guilds, not unions. (Again, "or not" applies here.)
Unions got a bad name from the corrupt officials in their organizations (past, present, and probably future). Guilds don't have that problem.
Funny, I much prefer a Missouri wine. The main difference? Missouri wine tastes good, while California wine has a pretty label. YMMV, of course.
Try some "St. Louis-style" pizza some time. You might like it. For more info, check Wikipedia (of course). There's a paragraph describing St. Louis-style pizza. And remember, when they say "thin crust", they mean 2mm or thinner. It's like a huge cracker with pizza toppings.
Energy exists. Space is the absence of energy. Time is a construct invented by our minds to describe eventless motion (more precisely, a "non-change" event).
The universe is a state machine. Which means that you're partially right. The material entities themselves don't matter. States matter. Interactions are simply another type of state. "Not interacting" is a state, and is equally meaningful in many cases.
Give it 3 or 4 revisions. By then Apple will have worked out a way to allow anyone to develop and install apps on the iPhone with a minimum of fuss, much as with the iPod's initial platform, software, and other feature limitations. The first Windows iPod was the 2G. The first one with iTunes for Windows was the 3G. It took until 5G to add color screens and 6G for video.
I'm betting that things will be added to the iPhone as time progresses. My predictions:
- A Dashcode (widget development IDE) preset midway through the 1G lifespan.
- An Xcode plugin set in time for the release of the 2G iPhone, and official blessing on iPhone apps.
Social Security is broken and needs repair.
When it was started, the average life expectancy was 62 and the benefit collection age was 65. This was by design.
Now, the average life expectance is 82. The benefit collection age needs to be raised, no exceptions, to 85. If you're 73 and collecting already, too bad. Get a job for another 12 years. If you're 64 and feeling entitled, get over it. Suck it up and keep working. Work is a contribution to society as well as a way to keep your mind active. Retirement is your final breath before you die. If you want to just roll over and die, do so. Otherwise, quit complaining. Once you've outlived the average, then we'll carry you along. Until then, you're just another one of us.
As for ID, well, SSN's should be public knowledge. No one should be relying on them for secure ID.
I don't see why SSN's shouldn't be public knowledge. They're not for use by private institutions. They're for use by the Social Security Administration. No one should be using your SSN for identification, period.
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TOASTY!!!
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I always loved that one... I could do it every time, too. All the way up the ladder, "TOASTY!!!"... "TOASTY!!!"... "TOASTY!!!"... Ahhh, good times.
I'm not so hot for the "Feisty Fawn" name. I'm upgrading my 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) install and listening to "I Want A New Duck". Unfortunately, all I get is a skittish newt and, later, a hyperactive baby deer. I want a new duck, dammit!
The only positive feature for Vista, so far, is the built in chess game. For the price, you can get a better one on XP.
For the price, you could probably even get a better one on a Mac. Seriously, Vista Ultimate costs almost as much as a Mac Mini, and certainly as much as a used Mac Mini.
Wow. You should've ponied up the extra $50 for the 2550n. A quick visit to 192.168.x.x and you can see all the levels, counts, and everything. Oh, and there's no artificial limit on the fuser cart. It detects when there's damage/wear and tells you that it's gone tits-up. Mine's been going strong for 2 years now with no replacements of fuser or toner carts. Toner is limited to a calculated 4000 (5000 for black) prints at 5% coverage. I'm sure there's a simple accumulator that calculates for each page how much coverage there is and tallies it all up. When you reach that limit, it's fairly certain that you're out of toner (or nearly so).
The only driver problems I've had are when I reinstalled Windows once and couldn't find the CD (finding drivers on HP's site has become a crap-shoot, especially for the networked models). Linux and Mac OS X find the printer just fine and work with it equally fine.
First off, I don't think your post is flamebait. Screw the mods.
Second of all, I like the look of Ubuntu's default Gnome environment almost as much as the Mac OS X 10.4 UI. But here are the differences I notice:
First of all, the bad:
- Look at the buttons on the window title bars in Ubuntu. Especially that annoying catch-all menu on the left side. Notice how the space around the button is wider on the top and left than it is on the bottom. That just looks sloppy. Mac OS has never had this sort of problem in a final release.
- Where is my quick-access-but-not-a-desktop-icon method of launching an app? Mac OS has had one for over a decade. There were pop-up folders (tabs), tabbed launch apps, and now there's the Dock (though I prefer the old categorized tabs, myself). Even Windows, that paragon of UI anti-design, has Quick Launch bars. I guess you could call the hierarchic menu a "fast launch" menu, since it's still faster than manually navigating to the folder and running the app or typing the path/app into a CLI. But I never considered that a quick-access method on Mac OS even when you could stick stuff into the Apple menu. Hierarchic menus are just too finicky... OH WAIT. There it is. Sorry, but there's a reason that the Mac mouse was one-button for all those years, even in the face of heavy criticism. Relying on a right-click for what should be basic system functions is just poor practice. I've been running Ubuntu for a while now, and this screenshot was the first I'd seen of the aforementioned feature.
- A system-wide menubar is really a nice thing. You can't click another app's menus without switching to that app anyway, so why even give the option? Plus, it frees up screen real-estate for other things. You'd be amazed how much space is wasted by all those menubars, especially the ones that consist of just File, Edit, View. Move all that crap to one place. And yes, I do understand that it takes some getting-used-to and that people are resistant to change. Especially Linux geeks. Try it for a month and I'll guarantee you won't go back. It's the same challenge we all issue to Windows users, and what's good for the goose...
- And one final note: thank goodness the Apple folks have finally realized that brushed metal looks like ass. Now if we could just get back to a standardized look and feel...
And the good:
- As I mentioned before, a standard look and feel. Ubuntu has that. Given, it's baby-turd brown, but at least it's consistent. And I'm sure there are themes to change the colors (and given my first criticism above, hopefully the layout). Note that the "themes" issue is another failing of the Mac OS in its current incarnation. It's also quite a sore issue with Apple, I fear, so any official resolution is unlikely.
- The shut-down button is awesome. On a Mac, you can just bonk the power button and invoke the "sleep, restart, shut down, or cancel?" dialog, but on generic PC hardware, you can't always do that. Often, the case's faceplate is gone, exposing little sharp plastic nubs instead of a nice power button. Sometimes the damn thing is under your desk and just out of reach. Sometimes it's in a server locker 1000 miles away. Being able to shut down the OS using an always-accessible power button icon is just really damned nice.
- Multiple desktops. Windows doesn't have it. Mac OS doesn't have it. (Third-party add-ons don't count.) Nothing more needs to be said. And the UI to switch between them is pure gold.
And the Ugly? Just about everything Windows does. I would like to take this opportunity to beg the Linux/GNU/Gnome/KDE/whatever devs and contributors not to copy Windows. It's an ethical thing, really. Mistreatment of eyes is a horrible crime. Won't someone please think of MY EYES?!
Ah, how I long for the days of Asshole Aardvark. Damn nostalgia.
Even without looking through the package repository, I'd probably open a terminal window and give it a shot:
apt get install dm-crypt nss-ldap pam-ldap samba
Failing that, I'd fire up package manager and actually check to see if those are valid package names. If they aren't, then I'd check to see if there was something else in the list that did what I needed. After that fails, it's time for a browser and some Google Wisdom.
Ubuntu is nice, even for newbs like me. (I'm mostly a Mac guy, but I have a self-built PC that I run Ubuntu on, starting about a month ago.) I would (and do) recommend it to anybody.
why was there a thing last week about "zomg Mac users can't have Vista in Parallels!"?
Because someone posted blogspam as "news". It happens. It was wrong then, too.
And why in Hell would anyone put Vista in a VM on top of Vista? Maybe an Ultimate in a VM of Basic or something, I guess, but that's not the same license.
I think it's supposed to handle people that install VM's to have a "clean" OS running a bunch of "dirty" OS'es. You can put any sort of crap into a sandbox and then throw it out later if it mucks things up. So you install Vista, then a VM product, then the same Vista license into the VM and install all the crapware you want. It can't hurt the host. Microsoft just wants to make it a licensing issue if you decide to re-use a cheap version of Vista in that manner. But they allow it on the expensive versions, so long as you only do it with one VM guest at a time.
If your host OS isn't Vista, they have no basis for complaint. You paid, you get to use it and increase their marketshare numbers, regardless of the actual "device" it's running on.
Citizens should never have to pay federal taxes, period. The federal government has exactly 50 citizens that should be responsible for paying taxes. Each state should be collecting from it's sub-units (counties, parrishes, municipalities, et al) or citizens. But that will never happen, unfortunately. It would require the feds to give up control that they've already usurped.
Good luck on the unicorn.
In the game Deus Ex, there was a group called the "NSF" or Northwest Secessionist Forces, where several northwestern states, Montana included, tried to remove themselves from a tyrannical US federal government. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
That game was eerily on-target about "terrorists" and the rhetoric thrown about in the world political climate since 9/11. I'd also like to point out that Deus Ex was voted "Game of the Year" by several gaming magazines for the year 2000. Kudos to Warren Spector and his team.
Wrong.
Wrong.
"You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system." (emphasis mine) So you can't use the license twice - once for the real hardware and once for the VM.
And from the Ultimate version: "You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device." (emphasis mine) So you can use the license twice, once for the host and again for the guest.
If the VM is the licensed device, then MS has no legal leg to stand on if they tell you that you can't run Vista Home Edition in a VM.
You don't need the expensive versions of Vista to run it in a VM. You only need those if you want to run it as the host of the VM as well as the guest in the VM with the same license key.
Linux as a host will work just fine with the "cheap" versions of Vista.
you are a human being with rights, responsibilities and legal standing
One of those responsibilities being to set up the configuration of your wireless router to automate your authorization of any computers trying to connect to it. Your router is merely an extension of your legal rights in this instance, much in the way the door on your house is. If your door is locked, you must explicitly grant permission for someone to enter by unlocking it. If it's not locked, they can enter without your permission. Now if you put a sign up next to the door that says "unlocked, come on in!", you'd have something akin to the 802.11 protocol on an unsecured router.
By not turning on encryption, you (the human) are allowing people to access your network. The router is merely an automated representative agent.
I'm pretty sure that buying (or even renting, but only for a short period of time) the disk means that playback ability is a permission directly given (by implication) from the copyright holder, and that any means necessary to carry out that action is 100% legal, and is intended use, or at the very least would fall under "fair use". And I'm also pretty sure that you could get just about any judge and/or jury to go along with that line of reasoning if the studio pressed their luck in court.
This is not an example of "giving the customer what they want".
No, it's an example of you're not the customer. You haven't purchased a computer from them, so you're not a customer. Period. Whine and gripe about it all you want, but if you want Mac OS X, you must become Apple's customer, and that pretty much requires a hardware purchase.
Try thinking of it like this: Apple sells computers. Mac OS X is a pack-in (and really, it's optional, you can install Linux or Windows if you want). You don't get the "free" copy of Mac OS X and a fully supported installation without buying hardware. You could just buy the boxed version of Mac OS X (well, once 10.5 is out, anyway) and install it on your existing hardware, but it's unsupported. And don't bother with the tired "it's not allowed by the EULA" argument, since that hasn't ever stopped anyone before and it probably isn't even legally enforceable, much less enforceable in a practical sense.
So don't use Apple computers. It is, as you stated, your choice. But know that by not using them, you aren't a customer, and aren't entitled to be treated like one.