At times, during the heavy action motorcycle scenes, Cloud's hair definately looked terrible. When everything got crazy, it looked like gameplay and not a CG movie.
The fight scene with Tifa and Loz was by far the most incredible thing I have watched in ages, it definately rocked the Matrix.
I agree with most of these posts, FFVII was great, but I hope they don't run out of other great ideas to keep the franchise going. FF has always been something I know I would get my money out of and would have some decent replay value, I can't see myself wanting to replay a remake, though.
I honestly have liked the random battle system. It keeps it interesting. As long as they give me a flyable air-ship instead of the point and click system in FFX, I will be happy.
The random battles can add a lot of depth in the mini-games (such as the Monster Arena in FFX). Every change Square makes to the FF series is always met with hesitation, but they listen to their fans and if it sucks not having random battles, then it will be changed.
I'm looking forward to a new installment, random battles or no.
I will admit, I'm not a fan of Windows - so this might be biased.
I think we can all assume that the Ultimate Edition will be priced well above any of the others, but what are you actually getting for that extra 100 (throwing out anumber) dollars you might be willing to spend?
Media Player Free everywhere else.
Game Performance Tweaker Would you look to Microsoft to tell you how to tweak your games when you run into that FPS lag? The answer might be similar to: "Format and Re-install" unless you are in their...
Club Service Maybe they will send you a nifty wallet sized card with "Microsoft Preferred Member" on it...wouldn't that be special. Seriously, the most appealing thing in that package is "Services" and "Customer Care", something you would think you'd get for the ridiculous amount you would spend on any 1 of these flavors.
If you are already downloading movies and music, I doubt you are going to go to the Microsoft Approved list and you sure as hell aren't going to be downloading the same things you would from P2P or newsgroups. Half of the features listed in the article for Ultimate Edition are marked with 'may be cut from product', so who knows, you might get a game tweaker and a personal phone number to Microsoft's help desk.
I'm not flaming you but that isn't a step in the way of personalization, that is a step towards jacking the price up on a product that doesn't offer you any more than they want it to offer you -- which has been the motto of Microsoft since Windows 95 (I kind of liked 3.1 when it came out). Media Player + IE + E-mail + Hanging.
You don't have to pay for Cedega. You can get their CVS release for free, you just don't get the pretty GUI...but the GUI isn't what attracts most people to Linux, anyways.
The Caterpillar plant I work at was down for over 16 hours, I doubt they would consider it low impact in light of the profit lost, as a result. Maybe they will switch to Linux.
Then again, they don't hire people based on their qualifications, multiplying any estimated repair time by ~10 and you come close to the actual down-time time in our facility.
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First of all, that snippet was from man xine...
Secondly, if adding a -f option to the command is confusing, then BSD has to be more of a 'Let me hold your hand while we explore what we can do!' than Windows...and that scares me.
Hardly a troll, though. You jumped on the defense, I simply copied and pasted from 'man xine'.
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It is unusual to mention operating system documentation that comes with UNIX systems because such documentation tends to be as unreadable as it is intrinsically interesting and useful.
NAME
xine - a free video player
SYNOPSIS
xine [options] [MRL]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xine audio/video player.
...
-f, --fullscreen
Switch xine to fullscreen mode on start (just like pressing "F")
-g, --hide-gui
Hide all GUI windows (except the video window) on start. This is the same as pressing "G" within xine.
...
I guess if you want a fluffy story to cuddle up with at night, FreeBSD is for you. If you want to get a man-page that tells you what you want to know without complicated characters and a twisting plot...(L)Unix is the way to go. I can't imagine what I would want option parameters listed in the documentation for?
I'm not going to read the entire patent, but custom, in this case, seems to me like it could mean any 'emoticon' other than the simple colon + paranthesis. Technically, that is a custom image.
What would be an interesting question: if this patent was awarded, and AIM (Yahoo!, ICQ, etc) were all forced back into the dark ages of IMing in ASCII and such, would it be possible for them to impliment a rudimentary form of something like UUEncode (or yENC) in which you type::)
it converts that into the binary equivalence of your standard smiley, sends that string and the receipients client uses UUDecode to display it as an image? or would that be encompassed in the patent also? To me, it appears as if they want to patent:) -> Send -> Raster Image -> Receive -> Reconstruct.
I hate Microsoft just the same, in any case.
Television commercial's and programs alike have been blurring out (or black boxing) explicit nudity for ages without getting much attention in the sake of children, but nobody is throwing around lawsuits to stop them.
You put those blocks in to keep the content from being seen, if someone created a modification that allowed your TV to remove those blocks and blurs and fill in what was really there, would it be the fault of companies like Ventura for having that content in originally?
Instead of attacking the programmers or producers for, rightfully, removing or blurring the explicit content, why aren't Rockstar and Electronic Arts suing the people that made the patches? Why aren't people like Jack Thompson filing suit against them? After all, the material wasn't meant to be seen by the consumer.
Neither Rockstar nor EA deserve to get sued for filtering the content in question and not sufficiently protecting against malicious (not to mention perverted) modders from exposing the code for what it was. As far as I'm concerned, both the Sims and GTA were hacked, slandering the name of legitimate, trustworthy companies. GTA wasn't trying to sneak anything past ESRB against 'moms' will. EA wasn't trying to expose children to explicit nudity...as far as the allegations go: the labia was not visible.
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The links to the references to Eric Raymond's work, and it is true, he covers what this article addresses.
At times, during the heavy action motorcycle scenes, Cloud's hair definately looked terrible. When everything got crazy, it looked like gameplay and not a CG movie.
The fight scene with Tifa and Loz was by far the most incredible thing I have watched in ages, it definately rocked the Matrix.
I agree with most of these posts, FFVII was great, but I hope they don't run out of other great ideas to keep the franchise going. FF has always been something I know I would get my money out of and would have some decent replay value, I can't see myself wanting to replay a remake, though.
That is the price of better items, also the point of the No Encounter ability.
I honestly have liked the random battle system. It keeps it interesting. As long as they give me a flyable air-ship instead of the point and click system in FFX, I will be happy.
The random battles can add a lot of depth in the mini-games (such as the Monster Arena in FFX). Every change Square makes to the FF series is always met with hesitation, but they listen to their fans and if it sucks not having random battles, then it will be changed.
I'm looking forward to a new installment, random battles or no.
I will admit, I'm not a fan of Windows - so this might be biased.
I think we can all assume that the Ultimate Edition will be priced well above any of the others, but what are you actually getting for that extra 100 (throwing out anumber) dollars you might be willing to spend?
Media Player
Free everywhere else.
Game Performance Tweaker
Would you look to Microsoft to tell you how to tweak your games when you run into that FPS lag? The answer might be similar to: "Format and Re-install" unless you are in their...
Club Service
Maybe they will send you a nifty wallet sized card with "Microsoft Preferred Member" on it...wouldn't that be special. Seriously, the most appealing thing in that package is "Services" and "Customer Care", something you would think you'd get for the ridiculous amount you would spend on any 1 of these flavors.
If you are already downloading movies and music, I doubt you are going to go to the Microsoft Approved list and you sure as hell aren't going to be downloading the same things you would from P2P or newsgroups. Half of the features listed in the article for Ultimate Edition are marked with 'may be cut from product', so who knows, you might get a game tweaker and a personal phone number to Microsoft's help desk.
I'm not flaming you but that isn't a step in the way of personalization, that is a step towards jacking the price up on a product that doesn't offer you any more than they want it to offer you -- which has been the motto of Microsoft since Windows 95 (I kind of liked 3.1 when it came out). Media Player + IE + E-mail + Hanging.
You don't have to pay for Cedega. You can get their CVS release for free, you just don't get the pretty GUI...but the GUI isn't what attracts most people to Linux, anyways.
The Caterpillar plant I work at was down for over 16 hours, I doubt they would consider it low impact in light of the profit lost, as a result. Maybe they will switch to Linux.
Then again, they don't hire people based on their qualifications, multiplying any estimated repair time by ~10 and you come close to the actual down-time time in our facility.
First of all, that snippet was from man xine...
Secondly, if adding a -f option to the command is confusing, then BSD has to be more of a 'Let me hold your hand while we explore what we can do!' than Windows...and that scares me.
Hardly a troll, though. You jumped on the defense, I simply copied and pasted from 'man xine'.
It is unusual to mention operating system documentation that comes with UNIX systems because such documentation tends to be as unreadable as it is intrinsically interesting and useful.
...
...
NAME
xine - a free video player
SYNOPSIS
xine [options] [MRL]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xine audio/video player.
-f, --fullscreen
Switch xine to fullscreen mode on start (just like pressing "F")
-g, --hide-gui
Hide all GUI windows (except the video window) on start. This is the same as pressing "G" within xine.
...
I guess if you want a fluffy story to cuddle up with at night, FreeBSD is for you. If you want to get a man-page that tells you what you want to know without complicated characters and a twisting plot...(L)Unix is the way to go. I can't imagine what I would want option parameters listed in the documentation for?
I'm not going to read the entire patent, but custom, in this case, seems to me like it could mean any 'emoticon' other than the simple colon + paranthesis. Technically, that is a custom image. What would be an interesting question: if this patent was awarded, and AIM (Yahoo!, ICQ, etc) were all forced back into the dark ages of IMing in ASCII and such, would it be possible for them to impliment a rudimentary form of something like UUEncode (or yENC) in which you type: :)
it converts that into the binary equivalence of your standard smiley, sends that string and the receipients client uses UUDecode to display it as an image? or would that be encompassed in the patent also? To me, it appears as if they want to patent :) -> Send -> Raster Image -> Receive -> Reconstruct.
I hate Microsoft just the same, in any case.
Television commercial's and programs alike have been blurring out (or black boxing) explicit nudity for ages without getting much attention in the sake of children, but nobody is throwing around lawsuits to stop them.
You put those blocks in to keep the content from being seen, if someone created a modification that allowed your TV to remove those blocks and blurs and fill in what was really there, would it be the fault of companies like Ventura for having that content in originally?
Instead of attacking the programmers or producers for, rightfully, removing or blurring the explicit content, why aren't Rockstar and Electronic Arts suing the people that made the patches? Why aren't people like Jack Thompson filing suit against them? After all, the material wasn't meant to be seen by the consumer.
Neither Rockstar nor EA deserve to get sued for filtering the content in question and not sufficiently protecting against malicious (not to mention perverted) modders from exposing the code for what it was . As far as I'm concerned, both the Sims and GTA were hacked, slandering the name of legitimate, trustworthy companies. GTA wasn't trying to sneak anything past ESRB against 'moms' will. EA wasn't trying to expose children to explicit nudity...as far as the allegations go: the labia was not visible.