Could this be giving birth to the beginnings of 3D halographic techonology? Granted, they're only using spheres now, and they have to hang it from wires, but it's a start. Can they make a few cameras project a image of a person, so I can talk to them "face to face"?
Maybe now I won't have to leave my house to go for an interview.
What does that mean? Does that mean that the amount of damage caused by the worm is a 2 out of 5? Or that the chance of infection is 40%? Or that the worm did very poorly in the olympics?
But isn't taste a little more complicated than that? When I eat a cookie, I might say it's delicious. But when you eat the cookie, you think it is dry and tasteless. Who is the ultimate authority on what an object "tastes like"?
Granted, it's easy enough for two people to agree that a lemon is sour instead of sweet, but where exactly is the line between the two? Will you and me (and our Robo-Taster 2000) agree every time that an object is sour instead of sweet? Maybe, if we give it a numerical value, but how would we assign numerical values to a taste? Can I say that my lemon has 63 sour units?
A computer may be able to analyze chemical make-up of an object, but the interpretation of those chemicals is the difficult part. If anyone has any insight into the subject, I'm all ears. (no pun intended)
Without meaning to sound like a fanboy defending his beloved idle game.. (Chrono Trigger is my favorite RPG of all time anyway)
To me, Sephiroth was the epithome of a bad guy. Chalk it up to the sprites, I guess, but I always thought Kefka looked like a fruit. Sephiroth carried a sword that was taller than him, cut down people like toys, and laughed afteward. (Think about the scene where Nibelheim is burning. Sephiroth burned the town down and then danced around in it because it was fun.)
As far as the story, I think it's confusing too. That's probably I still play it all over again once every year or so; because you pick up little details and intricacies that add to your previous understanding of the game, and every time it's like you're playing a whole new story again. If you've ever played FFVII more than once, I guarantee you've said outloud, "Ohhhhhhhhhhh, NOW I know why he said that." I haven't touched FF in over a year, and now I'm tempted to sit down and play again, just to remind myself who the hell Zack was and why I seem to think Cloud was grown in a test tube.
Amazing when a game that has 100+ hours of gameplay can make you want to play more than once.
I'd venture to say that it's in the eye of the beholder. I loved both FFVI and FFVII, and honestly I thought both stories were very intricate and well developed. FFVI was more complex, to be sure; there were over a dozen characters, each with a believable (for a fantasy game) back-story that tied in to at least one other character's back story.
But on the other hand, FFVII had more than just evil villains conquering the world by force; it had a hero battling with himself, discovering the truth about his path and his very existence, his identity. Think "Fight Club" and "Memento."
As far as gameplay, well, that's debatable on every level. Someone happens to get hooked on a certain battle system or control system, and sudddenly it's the best game ever in their eyes. I won't venture into that territory.
Regardless, I agree that FFVI was amazing, but I'd still put FFVII up there in the ranks with the best.
...playing the 13th version of the same system is just stupid, even if it's "speeded up" and has even more impressive cutscenes.
You're all stupid for playing this game!
I'm hoping that when the Wii dominates the PS3...
I'm a fanboy!
Oblivion should be the standard, not the exception.
Someone made a good game, so now we should all clone THAT game instead! Then, ten years from now, we'll bitch about Oblivion clones!
Now, for the record, I don't play video games much at all these days. When I do, it's usually sitting in my friend's living room. However, when I do play, I enjoy Halo 2 just as much as Warcraft III and just as much as any Final Fantasy. Are you telling me that I'm an idiot because I will enjoy playing FFXIII? Or better yet, are you telling Sony that they're stupid for making a 13th (14th) game whose predecessors have broken sales records?
I think you're an anti-Sony or anti-FF fanboy and you don't care what the game has, you just want to see it burn. Don't criticize a game before it's even released.
Sound is a disturbance, specifically it is a vibration at a particular frequency. It only exists insofar as there is a medium to travel through. As such, sound exists as it passes through its medium... whether that medium is air, water, metal, or anything else that sound can vibrate.
However, the resonance does not stay in one place. A vibration in one particular effects (NOT affects; effects) a vibration in the particulars around it. This in turn spreads to other particles and continues to expand outward. In other words, when you play a song, that song travels through every particle around it, spreading outward, until the resonance is dampened (by external forces) to the point of negligence. (Or in layman's terms, "out of earshot")
So, you now owe 99 cents for every paricle that was vibrated by your song playing. Better take out a loan.
Regarding the AC who replied to you: Your posting privileges have been revoked until you hit puberty. Thank you for playing, have a nice day.
Regarding your post: IANAL, but I know patents can be placed on ideas, regardless on whether or not the idea has been demonstrated. Whether the idea is proven effective or is just a theory, it can still be patented, because it's still YOUR idea.
Yeah, I would let my 5-year-old niece play this game too. I'd also play it with her, or even myself. Just because a game features Disney characters, don't automatically assume it holds no other intrinsic value. Statements like, "A little kid would like this game, so I shouldn't" only make yourself out to be an asshat.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the liklihood of someone cracking that method is very unlikely.
As you said, physical access is required. (which makes things MUCH more difficult) However, even if physical access WASN'T required, I don't think some hacker would suddenly say to himself, "AH HA! I bet this user is combining the serial number of his roller-chair and product number of his processor to create his password! Let me just try these numbers..."
There is a VERY large combination of passwords available from product/serial/model numbers on various items that reside in a typical office. Even if a hacker somehow broke into Joe Blow's apartment and spent twenty minutes writing down all of Joe's stapler model numbers, he likely wouldn't get them all, and definitely wouldn't need to run a program (remotely) to try all the possible combinations. (Especially given that the password might consist of half a dozen different product numbers!)
All in all, the odds of someone breaking this password aren't likely. If someone was determined enough to go through all afore-mentioned garbage at all, whatever he's getting at must be pretty valuable... and would probably be better protected than just by an arbitrary password.
Seriously, who cares? If any other company in the world missed their quarterly projection, it wouldn't be worth the lint in my pocket to know about it. Microsoft comes up short by less than a percent, and it's worthy of/.
Though his choice of words were a little extreme, I agree with what he's saying. Has anyone else noticed the recent increase of articlesthat are one step away from being paid advertisements?
I think he's making a good point. I don't want to see/. turn into a subliminal messaging system.
What I find interesting is that the U.S. Government is constantly at battle with hordes of "mischievious school kids," and actually has a big PROBLEM with it.
Explain to me, again, how school children can pose a serious threat to the United States government, and we still have the balls to declare war on a country in the middle east?
Slashdot Mirror
yes thats almost twice slower than dial up!
When you say it like that, it almost sounds like it's faster.
Could this be giving birth to the beginnings of 3D halographic techonology? Granted, they're only using spheres now, and they have to hang it from wires, but it's a start. Can they make a few cameras project a image of a person, so I can talk to them "face to face"? Maybe now I won't have to leave my house to go for an interview.
What does that mean? Does that mean that the amount of damage caused by the worm is a 2 out of 5? Or that the chance of infection is 40%? Or that the worm did very poorly in the olympics?
A little more description is needed here.
But isn't taste a little more complicated than that? When I eat a cookie, I might say it's delicious. But when you eat the cookie, you think it is dry and tasteless. Who is the ultimate authority on what an object "tastes like"?
Granted, it's easy enough for two people to agree that a lemon is sour instead of sweet, but where exactly is the line between the two? Will you and me (and our Robo-Taster 2000) agree every time that an object is sour instead of sweet? Maybe, if we give it a numerical value, but how would we assign numerical values to a taste? Can I say that my lemon has 63 sour units?
A computer may be able to analyze chemical make-up of an object, but the interpretation of those chemicals is the difficult part. If anyone has any insight into the subject, I'm all ears. (no pun intended)
Without meaning to sound like a fanboy defending his beloved idle game.. (Chrono Trigger is my favorite RPG of all time anyway)
To me, Sephiroth was the epithome of a bad guy. Chalk it up to the sprites, I guess, but I always thought Kefka looked like a fruit. Sephiroth carried a sword that was taller than him, cut down people like toys, and laughed afteward. (Think about the scene where Nibelheim is burning. Sephiroth burned the town down and then danced around in it because it was fun.)
As far as the story, I think it's confusing too. That's probably I still play it all over again once every year or so; because you pick up little details and intricacies that add to your previous understanding of the game, and every time it's like you're playing a whole new story again. If you've ever played FFVII more than once, I guarantee you've said outloud, "Ohhhhhhhhhhh, NOW I know why he said that." I haven't touched FF in over a year, and now I'm tempted to sit down and play again, just to remind myself who the hell Zack was and why I seem to think Cloud was grown in a test tube.
Amazing when a game that has 100+ hours of gameplay can make you want to play more than once.
I'd venture to say that it's in the eye of the beholder. I loved both FFVI and FFVII, and honestly I thought both stories were very intricate and well developed. FFVI was more complex, to be sure; there were over a dozen characters, each with a believable (for a fantasy game) back-story that tied in to at least one other character's back story.
But on the other hand, FFVII had more than just evil villains conquering the world by force; it had a hero battling with himself, discovering the truth about his path and his very existence, his identity. Think "Fight Club" and "Memento."
As far as gameplay, well, that's debatable on every level. Someone happens to get hooked on a certain battle system or control system, and sudddenly it's the best game ever in their eyes. I won't venture into that territory.
Regardless, I agree that FFVI was amazing, but I'd still put FFVII up there in the ranks with the best.
Allow me to translate for you:
...playing the 13th version of the same system is just stupid, even if it's "speeded up" and has even more impressive cutscenes.
You're all stupid for playing this game!
I'm hoping that when the Wii dominates the PS3...
I'm a fanboy!
Oblivion should be the standard, not the exception.
Someone made a good game, so now we should all clone THAT game instead! Then, ten years from now, we'll bitch about Oblivion clones!
Now, for the record, I don't play video games much at all these days. When I do, it's usually sitting in my friend's living room. However, when I do play, I enjoy Halo 2 just as much as Warcraft III and just as much as any Final Fantasy. Are you telling me that I'm an idiot because I will enjoy playing FFXIII? Or better yet, are you telling Sony that they're stupid for making a 13th (14th) game whose predecessors have broken sales records?
I think you're an anti-Sony or anti-FF fanboy and you don't care what the game has, you just want to see it burn. Don't criticize a game before it's even released.
Change over time? Forget change... there wouldn't be time at all. At least you know you'd never die.
I just can't wait until mixes this up with String theory. "11-dimensional cells grown!"
Well, if you want to get technical...
Sound is a disturbance, specifically it is a vibration at a particular frequency. It only exists insofar as there is a medium to travel through. As such, sound exists as it passes through its medium... whether that medium is air, water, metal, or anything else that sound can vibrate.
However, the resonance does not stay in one place. A vibration in one particular effects (NOT affects; effects) a vibration in the particulars around it. This in turn spreads to other particles and continues to expand outward. In other words, when you play a song, that song travels through every particle around it, spreading outward, until the resonance is dampened (by external forces) to the point of negligence. (Or in layman's terms, "out of earshot")
So, you now owe 99 cents for every paricle that was vibrated by your song playing. Better take out a loan.
Regarding the AC who replied to you:
Your posting privileges have been revoked until you hit puberty. Thank you for playing, have a nice day.
Regarding your post:
IANAL, but I know patents can be placed on ideas, regardless on whether or not the idea has been demonstrated. Whether the idea is proven effective or is just a theory, it can still be patented, because it's still YOUR idea.
If you're THAT paranoid, you just walk.
What if someone steals your legs? Did you think of that?
Always be prepared, my friend.
Yeah, I would let my 5-year-old niece play this game too. I'd also play it with her, or even myself. Just because a game features Disney characters, don't automatically assume it holds no other intrinsic value. Statements like, "A little kid would like this game, so I shouldn't" only make yourself out to be an asshat.
Hmmm... do I wan the first post on slashdot? Maybe I'll sleep on it..
It's the era where I don't fail Calculus IV because I never went to math in 8th grade.
...+5 Ignorant!
No shit.
That would have cost them money.
Streaming a video, on the other hand, only costs them about $50 in bandwidth.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the liklihood of someone cracking that method is very unlikely.
As you said, physical access is required. (which makes things MUCH more difficult) However, even if physical access WASN'T required, I don't think some hacker would suddenly say to himself, "AH HA! I bet this user is combining the serial number of his roller-chair and product number of his processor to create his password! Let me just try these numbers..."
There is a VERY large combination of passwords available from product/serial/model numbers on various items that reside in a typical office. Even if a hacker somehow broke into Joe Blow's apartment and spent twenty minutes writing down all of Joe's stapler model numbers, he likely wouldn't get them all, and definitely wouldn't need to run a program (remotely) to try all the possible combinations. (Especially given that the password might consist of half a dozen different product numbers!)
All in all, the odds of someone breaking this password aren't likely. If someone was determined enough to go through all afore-mentioned garbage at all, whatever he's getting at must be pretty valuable... and would probably be better protected than just by an arbitrary password.
There's a difference?! Let me guess, it's divisible by liters by a factor of ten?
Microsoft wrong: World is stunned!
/.
Seriously, who cares? If any other company in the world missed their quarterly projection, it wouldn't be worth the lint in my pocket to know about it. Microsoft comes up short by less than a percent, and it's worthy of
Though his choice of words were a little extreme, I agree with what he's saying. Has anyone else noticed the recent increase of articlesthat are one step away from being paid advertisements? I think he's making a good point. I don't want to see /. turn into a subliminal messaging system.
How long until some eccentric billionaire pays Rice to wire his entire house with that stuff?
"My house is iced out with quantam wiring, biatch. Or something. Bling bling."
What I find interesting is that the U.S. Government is constantly at battle with hordes of "mischievious school kids," and actually has a big PROBLEM with it.
Explain to me, again, how school children can pose a serious threat to the United States government, and we still have the balls to declare war on a country in the middle east?
I sympathize with you. I hold the opinion that references to porn will ALWAYS be funny, no matter how "+1 Redundant" they are.
Now we don't have to wait around for our porn!