All that makes to much sense... So instead I'll tell you how I see it having worked for millenia...
Peopel try to live by example, but in the end they see the other guy beign able to have sex with his girlfriend without marriage and wish they could do that to... Or Wish tehy didn't have to be pacifists because those people just invaded the country and they arent' nice people... Or Having to respect your parents, who treated you like crap... Or any number of other things that they aren't supposed to do because of their religion, but they really really want to do!
So where does this jealousy and anger end up? In deciding that if you have to suffer, then by god so will everyone else!
Looking at history I see the same thing over and over and over... It's hardly funny by now and it's one of the reasons I've coem to hate any and all organized religions...
Um.. I don't know where you live, but around where I do... Most people are married by the time they are 23-24... Most already have at least one (& usually more) kids by 30... Finding a single woman my age (27) is fairly hard.. In fact I have beter luck finding divorced women who are 30-40 or finding younger women 18-22, then single women my age...
I really don't think people tend to care about such things...
Ok, well I'm 27 (yes not quite your 30, but a whole 3 years isn't a big diference) and I have to say I'd still take the sex... Then again I've never seen sex as 'something that can happen anytime', but hten I'm picky about who I'll have sex with... I guess if you don't really care who it's with, then things are different...
Ya know I've known alot of women (in a friendship capacity, I'm the type women love to be friends with, but never date) & I have to say to some degree what you've said is true.... But I've never had trouble understanding women. It's why I don't understand the whole 'guys and girls are vastly different' shtick. Most have very similiar desires to men when you get right down to it. The same emotions, instincts, and concepts drive both. Of course how they are raised also effects both, it colors the emotions, instincts, and concepts so they feel different.
On the gaming topic... I think for a typical 'not reall a gamer' woman, you got fairly lucky with your wife... I've seen far worse. In fact I've seen plenty of things that border on what the article is about... And for reasons I will never understand in such situations where I know both parts of those couples, they come to me for 'help'... What I tell them is really exceedingly easy: A gamer is always going to want to play games... It's why we call them 'gamers'. Trying to 'break them of the habit' is likely not going to work, in fact it's more likely to back fire on you. On the other hand as the 'gamer' half of the equation... You do still need to put something into a relationship, if your not then it won't work. If all you do is play games outside of work/school and the person your with doesn't... Well let's just say the results not going to be good for you...
I don't see what is so hard about understanding that either, but it always seems to take them by surprise...
You know all this talk about respect reminded me of a story about my now former job...
First a small explanation. I had to report to more than one manager for a variety of reasons (most of which are stupid), so I didn't exactly have one boss... I had three. One was my offical manager, but I couldn't ignore the other two.
Now for months one of the two managers who could give me orders, but wasn't my manager, would come to where I was and 'explain' some aspect of my job to me. Kinda funny since I've been doing said job for over five years with hardly any complaints (most of those complaints came from six month management attrition and replacement, new managers tend to be cranky). Then one day almost a month ago now he spends 90% of an entire day checking up on me and ordering me to do one thing after another that wasn't important and ignore things that were important that I'd been ordered to do by the other managers. I put up with it for six or so hours in fact, where I got nothing done because of him. Finally I got tired of it and told him to leave me alone, so I could actually do my job that I'd been quite capable of for the last five years.
What was his reply? "You are showing a lack of respect to me!" He didn't appreciate it when I told him that I'd show him respect when he showed me some.
He did leave me aloen for the last couple of hours at work, but the next day as I come in my actual manager calls me in and tells me he's had a formal complaint filed against me by the other manager. Becuase of that I would be put on a administrative leave until the issue was decided. Well when I finally got the chance to air my side of things it was on a form with a blank half-page to fill and I was told I could only fill that part with the specific conversation I had with him where I told him to leave me alone. I couldn't use any other paper, I couldn't explain the last several months, Heck I even had to write it in front of the managers I reported to (minus the one filing the complaint). I ended up looking like an ass and in the end HR got to decide things by firing me for 'Lack fo respect to my fellow employees'. Go figure...
It's another attempt to 'slim down america'. I swear a pair of khakis (my job requires khakis as a minimum) should not require mail order, yet it does mroe often than not. They figure if we can't find clothes to wear we can't work. If we can't work we can't buy food. If we can't buy food we will srhink down to the size they deem fit.
Darn it you made me think about what chocobo racing could be like on next gen! Chocobo racing was mostly a joke on PS1/PC, but it could be insane now-a-days... That said I did breed chocobo... Multiple times... Once you got used to it, then it was simple...
Personally I wouldn't mind a bit of a revamp of the Materia system... It had it's good ponts, but it had some downsides to... I'd be willing to say FF as a series has never had all that great a set of battle systems, with some fresh talent from the Enix side of things, I think they might be able to make a new materia system that would be much better...
A fansub is a series, OVA, or movie that is subtitled from a (normally) Japanese release. It's standard fare for aniem fans that don't want to wait for a hack job to be done on the latest anime before they get to see it...
Since the DVD raw was released the other day in Japanese the fansub groups have had their fun and subbed the DVD raw...
Though mostly because my copy of FF VII isn't playable anymore (it's the PC version which offered higher res graphics than the PS1 release which sold me on it). It never supported 3D graphics API's, just individual cards and so doesn't work anymore unless I can dig up (and get working on a fairly recent system) a 3DFX Vodoo 1/2 or Riva TNT 1 card... I know I sure don't own those anymore and my current rig uses PCI Express, so their is no way I could play it now...
I'd love a Xbox 360/PS3 version with rendering up near the level of the new Advent Children movie for cut scenes and modern RPG effects/graphics/concepts. Heck I might even manage to beat that evil underwater weapon this time...;)
Well I can't give you a list, but MS has provided some info to the people where I work that says Xbox games will be supported by a kind of 'game definition' file and it is currently supposed to ship with at least 10 and as many as 20 definitions with more to be released (and from what they say now released free of charge) after launch. How many depends on how much work that division can get done before launch. Since it's software emulation it's a tad problematic and unless they are tested to work correctly and at a speed at least equal to the native hardware they won't release a definition for it...
I hope that answers some questions on compatability with 1st gen xbox games...
Ever though about 'outsourcing' your tech needs to rural PA? I'm willing to work for $12-15 an hour, I coudl almost guarentee the state would help fund any development in my home town, and their are schools not 30 minutes away that special in teaching tech (programming, networkign, web design, etc). But absolutely no local market for those people... It's why I don't work in my field...
Anyone want to move some of those jobs my way? I'm quite willing to help any tech companies 'outsource' any of their tech jobs out this way... provided your willing to pay local help as well as moving current employees...
Actually a few years back a owned a little Nissan Sentra GXE and I had a woman driving a big SUV rear end me at a red light. It did quite literally try to drive over my car, the only thing to stop it was that it couldn't quite get the tires to jump the gap from the ground to the bumper, but I lost a bit mroe than half of my trunk...
I have to say that he was right in that historically 13-15 was seen as the same as 18-21 is now, as we've increased our lifespans we've also increased the length of our childhoods... But then historically speaking even in the 1800's this was the case and life itself tended to be difficult. Kids grew up faster due to the nature of the times.
How many kids these days have to kill their own food? Or live in a street gang because their parents died from X cause? Some yes, but not to the degree it has been in the past. Only the 'country' and 'inner city' kids still learn these types of lessons and really most still don't quite learn them as well as they used to...
This last century has seen the way we live change radically and with this change kids really don't face the brutal realities of life that force you to mature... We say we don't want them to. "Think of the Children!" we say. Why? Because the things that tend to force you to understand life in an adult way by those ages are fairly brutal and we want to be the mother hen. Heck this generation of parents often never learned these brutal lessons of reality and personally I think that is part of the reason they don't understand how to be parents.... Heck they often barely understand how to be adults...
Anyways I'll just say that you shouldn't judge what a 13 or 15 year old can do by anything in the last century when you look at things from history. Life is just radically different now than it was then...
Um you do realize already it's that way, the kids can't buy it. The parents have to. What more can they do?
Using your example they can't stop you from getting cigarettes if your parent buys them for you (if your under age), same goes for games rated M or above... I seriously don't know one game or electronics store that wants to sell M rated titles to minors....
I've discovered over and over and over again parents just tend not to give a damn about their kids unless and until it costs them to much money... The only solution to this is to price games at like $150+ so that a parent would have to shell out to much money to be disconnected from what they are buying their kids... The donside? It would pretty well kill the fastest growth segment in gaming (the 18+ group)... I don't think anyone wants to do that...
A game on the same lines was made not to long ago that was just like an updated X-com... I own it, but it had a number of bugs and I eventually stopped playing because of them (the biggest one caused your teams to stop developing further skills forcing you to cheat them up enough to be effective)... However it's been a bit to long since I last played to remember it's name now...
Ya know over the last five years I've seen both netscape included on PC's and WordPerfect Suite included on PC's by Hp/Compaq (I've seen both included twice, once before and once after the merger). But really the average consumer these days won't take another alternative (to MS Office), even if they don't want top pay for it... Heck where I work I've offered people the chance to use Open Office instead fo MS office since they didn't want to spend huge amounts of money on MS Office and in almost all cases they wouldn't take any alternative regardless of price... Theyed rather try to pirate MS Office instead then try out soemthign that wasn't the 'real' thing...
You (& hopefully your nephew) do realize SOny has no plans to launch the PS3 stateside til (at earliest) next fall right? As in a year + a month or two from now... I hope he doens't midn waiting a year for a PS3, now that hsi PS2 is gone...
Um you do realize that they launch at different times in different markets right? Because currently Xbox 360 launches in the US this fall and then launches in spring next year in Japan. Why do I mention that? Well because Sony launches PS3 in spring next year in Japan and Europe fall next year (with no announcement yet about a US launch at all).
That means for the US at least MS could be all alone in the Next-Gen market for a year (or more since Sony has been silent on a US launch). In Japan though they will see a nearly identical launch date making 'first to market' in Japan a draw between the two.
Um you do realize that the HD-DVD bit we've all no heard repeated here was taken completely out of context and the actual quote was more like "If their is a need for HD-DVD we will release an updated Xbox 360 with that feature".
I'm completely serious, go back and read the comments from the first slashdot article that started this annoying idiocy and look for a (Score:5, Insightful) comment saying exactly what I am with the links to back it up...
Really some of you will do anything to beat on MS...
I hoep you live in Japan as the launch should be sometime in spring for Japan only... Nintendo talked abotu Europe in the fall fo next year and said nothing about a US launch... Maybe they've finally decided to leave the US amrket?
Just to correct you, I can assure you (since I work for one) that Circuit City carried the Apple IPod's before we ever carried HP's IPod's. In fact as soon as Apple came out with PC compatable versiosn we've carried them.
Wal-mart and Radio Shack (as mentioned in anotehr reply) were ones that didn't carry Apple til more recently.
Err Sony's PS3 isn't due til Fall 2006 (at least in the US) just like the Nintendo 'Revolution'. The only console coming soon is the Xbox 360 this fall.
I'll also note that Sony is targeting a very different audience with it's PSP than the GBA or DS target. On that note sales of PSP's aren't really growing atm with a lack of new titles causing a loss of interest... At least as a gaming system, as a portable media device it's not doing to bad...
When all you have are 1 Hip-hop station, 4 classic rock stations, 1 country music station, and 1 christian music station... Where do I go to listen to stuff for the market I fall into? No where, that was my point.
Um dude, find me such a station where I live that isn't country music or christian! Every local station minus a single christian station and a single country music station are owned by 1 company! They kill the last station playing 'different' music which was a alternative station some four years ago and made it our fifth 'classic rock' station for this area... That's why when XM radio came out I bought it up faster than you could blink...
Oh and good luck getting a classic rock station to play "Good Luck" by the Basement Jaxx or something else outside their 'target market'...
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All that makes to much sense... So instead I'll tell you how I see it having worked for millenia...
Peopel try to live by example, but in the end they see the other guy beign able to have sex with his girlfriend without marriage and wish they could do that to... Or Wish tehy didn't have to be pacifists because those people just invaded the country and they arent' nice people... Or Having to respect your parents, who treated you like crap... Or any number of other things that they aren't supposed to do because of their religion, but they really really want to do!
So where does this jealousy and anger end up? In deciding that if you have to suffer, then by god so will everyone else!
Looking at history I see the same thing over and over and over... It's hardly funny by now and it's one of the reasons I've coem to hate any and all organized religions...
Um.. I don't know where you live, but around where I do... Most people are married by the time they are 23-24... Most already have at least one (& usually more) kids by 30... Finding a single woman my age (27) is fairly hard.. In fact I have beter luck finding divorced women who are 30-40 or finding younger women 18-22, then single women my age...
I really don't think people tend to care about such things...
Ok, well I'm 27 (yes not quite your 30, but a whole 3 years isn't a big diference) and I have to say I'd still take the sex... Then again I've never seen sex as 'something that can happen anytime', but hten I'm picky about who I'll have sex with... I guess if you don't really care who it's with, then things are different...
Ya know I've known alot of women (in a friendship capacity, I'm the type women love to be friends with, but never date) & I have to say to some degree what you've said is true.... But I've never had trouble understanding women. It's why I don't understand the whole 'guys and girls are vastly different' shtick. Most have very similiar desires to men when you get right down to it. The same emotions, instincts, and concepts drive both. Of course how they are raised also effects both, it colors the emotions, instincts, and concepts so they feel different.
On the gaming topic... I think for a typical 'not reall a gamer' woman, you got fairly lucky with your wife... I've seen far worse. In fact I've seen plenty of things that border on what the article is about... And for reasons I will never understand in such situations where I know both parts of those couples, they come to me for 'help'... What I tell them is really exceedingly easy: A gamer is always going to want to play games... It's why we call them 'gamers'. Trying to 'break them of the habit' is likely not going to work, in fact it's more likely to back fire on you. On the other hand as the 'gamer' half of the equation... You do still need to put something into a relationship, if your not then it won't work. If all you do is play games outside of work/school and the person your with doesn't... Well let's just say the results not going to be good for you...
I don't see what is so hard about understanding that either, but it always seems to take them by surprise...
You know all this talk about respect reminded me of a story about my now former job...
First a small explanation. I had to report to more than one manager for a variety of reasons (most of which are stupid), so I didn't exactly have one boss... I had three. One was my offical manager, but I couldn't ignore the other two.
Now for months one of the two managers who could give me orders, but wasn't my manager, would come to where I was and 'explain' some aspect of my job to me. Kinda funny since I've been doing said job for over five years with hardly any complaints (most of those complaints came from six month management attrition and replacement, new managers tend to be cranky). Then one day almost a month ago now he spends 90% of an entire day checking up on me and ordering me to do one thing after another that wasn't important and ignore things that were important that I'd been ordered to do by the other managers. I put up with it for six or so hours in fact, where I got nothing done because of him. Finally I got tired of it and told him to leave me alone, so I could actually do my job that I'd been quite capable of for the last five years.
What was his reply? "You are showing a lack of respect to me!" He didn't appreciate it when I told him that I'd show him respect when he showed me some.
He did leave me aloen for the last couple of hours at work, but the next day as I come in my actual manager calls me in and tells me he's had a formal complaint filed against me by the other manager. Becuase of that I would be put on a administrative leave until the issue was decided. Well when I finally got the chance to air my side of things it was on a form with a blank half-page to fill and I was told I could only fill that part with the specific conversation I had with him where I told him to leave me alone. I couldn't use any other paper, I couldn't explain the last several months, Heck I even had to write it in front of the managers I reported to (minus the one filing the complaint). I ended up looking like an ass and in the end HR got to decide things by firing me for 'Lack fo respect to my fellow employees'. Go figure...
I'm almost glad to be gone...
It's another attempt to 'slim down america'. I swear a pair of khakis (my job requires khakis as a minimum) should not require mail order, yet it does mroe often than not. They figure if we can't find clothes to wear we can't work. If we can't work we can't buy food. If we can't buy food we will srhink down to the size they deem fit.
Or at elast that's my take on things...
Darn it you made me think about what chocobo racing could be like on next gen! Chocobo racing was mostly a joke on PS1/PC, but it could be insane now-a-days... That said I did breed chocobo... Multiple times... Once you got used to it, then it was simple...
Personally I wouldn't mind a bit of a revamp of the Materia system... It had it's good ponts, but it had some downsides to... I'd be willing to say FF as a series has never had all that great a set of battle systems, with some fresh talent from the Enix side of things, I think they might be able to make a new materia system that would be much better...
A fansub is a series, OVA, or movie that is subtitled from a (normally) Japanese release. It's standard fare for aniem fans that don't want to wait for a hack job to be done on the latest anime before they get to see it...
Since the DVD raw was released the other day in Japanese the fansub groups have had their fun and subbed the DVD raw...
Yes...
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Though mostly because my copy of FF VII isn't playable anymore (it's the PC version which offered higher res graphics than the PS1 release which sold me on it). It never supported 3D graphics API's, just individual cards and so doesn't work anymore unless I can dig up (and get working on a fairly recent system) a 3DFX Vodoo 1/2 or Riva TNT 1 card... I know I sure don't own those anymore and my current rig uses PCI Express, so their is no way I could play it now...
I'd love a Xbox 360/PS3 version with rendering up near the level of the new Advent Children movie for cut scenes and modern RPG effects/graphics/concepts. Heck I might even manage to beat that evil underwater weapon this time...
Well I can't give you a list, but MS has provided some info to the people where I work that says Xbox games will be supported by a kind of 'game definition' file and it is currently supposed to ship with at least 10 and as many as 20 definitions with more to be released (and from what they say now released free of charge) after launch. How many depends on how much work that division can get done before launch. Since it's software emulation it's a tad problematic and unless they are tested to work correctly and at a speed at least equal to the native hardware they won't release a definition for it...
I hope that answers some questions on compatability with 1st gen xbox games...
Ever though about 'outsourcing' your tech needs to rural PA? I'm willing to work for $12-15 an hour, I coudl almost guarentee the state would help fund any development in my home town, and their are schools not 30 minutes away that special in teaching tech (programming, networkign, web design, etc). But absolutely no local market for those people... It's why I don't work in my field...
Anyone want to move some of those jobs my way? I'm quite willing to help any tech companies 'outsource' any of their tech jobs out this way... provided your willing to pay local help as well as moving current employees...
Actually a few years back a owned a little Nissan Sentra GXE and I had a woman driving a big SUV rear end me at a red light. It did quite literally try to drive over my car, the only thing to stop it was that it couldn't quite get the tires to jump the gap from the ground to the bumper, but I lost a bit mroe than half of my trunk...
I have to say that he was right in that historically 13-15 was seen as the same as 18-21 is now, as we've increased our lifespans we've also increased the length of our childhoods... But then historically speaking even in the 1800's this was the case and life itself tended to be difficult. Kids grew up faster due to the nature of the times.
How many kids these days have to kill their own food? Or live in a street gang because their parents died from X cause? Some yes, but not to the degree it has been in the past. Only the 'country' and 'inner city' kids still learn these types of lessons and really most still don't quite learn them as well as they used to...
This last century has seen the way we live change radically and with this change kids really don't face the brutal realities of life that force you to mature... We say we don't want them to. "Think of the Children!" we say. Why? Because the things that tend to force you to understand life in an adult way by those ages are fairly brutal and we want to be the mother hen. Heck this generation of parents often never learned these brutal lessons of reality and personally I think that is part of the reason they don't understand how to be parents.... Heck they often barely understand how to be adults...
Anyways I'll just say that you shouldn't judge what a 13 or 15 year old can do by anything in the last century when you look at things from history. Life is just radically different now than it was then...
Um you do realize already it's that way, the kids can't buy it. The parents have to. What more can they do?
Using your example they can't stop you from getting cigarettes if your parent buys them for you (if your under age), same goes for games rated M or above... I seriously don't know one game or electronics store that wants to sell M rated titles to minors....
I've discovered over and over and over again parents just tend not to give a damn about their kids unless and until it costs them to much money... The only solution to this is to price games at like $150+ so that a parent would have to shell out to much money to be disconnected from what they are buying their kids... The donside? It would pretty well kill the fastest growth segment in gaming (the 18+ group)... I don't think anyone wants to do that...
A game on the same lines was made not to long ago that was just like an updated X-com... I own it, but it had a number of bugs and I eventually stopped playing because of them (the biggest one caused your teams to stop developing further skills forcing you to cheat them up enough to be effective)... However it's been a bit to long since I last played to remember it's name now...
Ya know over the last five years I've seen both netscape included on PC's and WordPerfect Suite included on PC's by Hp/Compaq (I've seen both included twice, once before and once after the merger). But really the average consumer these days won't take another alternative (to MS Office), even if they don't want top pay for it... Heck where I work I've offered people the chance to use Open Office instead fo MS office since they didn't want to spend huge amounts of money on MS Office and in almost all cases they wouldn't take any alternative regardless of price... Theyed rather try to pirate MS Office instead then try out soemthign that wasn't the 'real' thing...
You (& hopefully your nephew) do realize SOny has no plans to launch the PS3 stateside til (at earliest) next fall right? As in a year + a month or two from now... I hope he doens't midn waiting a year for a PS3, now that hsi PS2 is gone...
Um you do realize that they launch at different times in different markets right? Because currently Xbox 360 launches in the US this fall and then launches in spring next year in Japan. Why do I mention that? Well because Sony launches PS3 in spring next year in Japan and Europe fall next year (with no announcement yet about a US launch at all).
That means for the US at least MS could be all alone in the Next-Gen market for a year (or more since Sony has been silent on a US launch). In Japan though they will see a nearly identical launch date making 'first to market' in Japan a draw between the two.
Well then their is the possibility of SquareEnix porting Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy to both MS and Sony platforms... See here:
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Um you do realize that the HD-DVD bit we've all no heard repeated here was taken completely out of context and the actual quote was more like "If their is a need for HD-DVD we will release an updated Xbox 360 with that feature".
I'm completely serious, go back and read the comments from the first slashdot article that started this annoying idiocy and look for a (Score:5, Insightful) comment saying exactly what I am with the links to back it up...
Really some of you will do anything to beat on MS...
I hoep you live in Japan as the launch should be sometime in spring for Japan only... Nintendo talked abotu Europe in the fall fo next year and said nothing about a US launch... Maybe they've finally decided to leave the US amrket?
I for oen wouldn't mind at all if they did...
Just to correct you, I can assure you (since I work for one) that Circuit City carried the Apple IPod's before we ever carried HP's IPod's. In fact as soon as Apple came out with PC compatable versiosn we've carried them.
Wal-mart and Radio Shack (as mentioned in anotehr reply) were ones that didn't carry Apple til more recently.
Err Sony's PS3 isn't due til Fall 2006 (at least in the US) just like the Nintendo 'Revolution'. The only console coming soon is the Xbox 360 this fall.
I'll also note that Sony is targeting a very different audience with it's PSP than the GBA or DS target. On that note sales of PSP's aren't really growing atm with a lack of new titles causing a loss of interest... At least as a gaming system, as a portable media device it's not doing to bad...
When all you have are 1 Hip-hop station, 4 classic rock stations, 1 country music station, and 1 christian music station... Where do I go to listen to stuff for the market I fall into? No where, that was my point.
Um dude, find me such a station where I live that isn't country music or christian! Every local station minus a single christian station and a single country music station are owned by 1 company! They kill the last station playing 'different' music which was a alternative station some four years ago and made it our fifth 'classic rock' station for this area... That's why when XM radio came out I bought it up faster than you could blink...
Oh and good luck getting a classic rock station to play "Good Luck" by the Basement Jaxx or something else outside their 'target market'...