One can only imagine what it would be like to speak with her -- her experiences would be fascinating to heard described, and for our curious questions to be answered. Great mods in the sky, please hear this AC's plea.
Cookie for you. That's the way I learned it in school too. (yes, only last year, you insensitive clods)
The first world is the capatalist countries, the second the communist countries, and the third the developing contries.
One reason for the whole anti-communism "red scare" era? The second world model looked pretty good to the third world -- the last czar, Nicholas, was murdered in 1918, and between then and, say, about 1955 is only 37 short years for a whole movement to go from nothing to a world power.
Compare that to the capitalist model, which took the US just under 200 years to come to superpower status.
I wonder which one the third-world countries thought was better?
This can be argued as a cause for Vietnam and other such atrocities (Sept. 11, 1973 -- Chile -- look it up) but regardless of your political stance and feelings toward the era, this, to me, is a fairly interesting arguement for the way history worked itself out.
True - terrorists would prefer to kill civilians for the shock value.
The problem I have with our current president and his policies is two-fold.
1) He feeds the cycle of hatred. Ok, sure - appeasement doesn't always work. The short decapitation campaign of Afghanistan, for instance, seemed somewhat justified. But by moving into countries that are minorly peripherally related, such as Iraq, what he is doing is creating a reason for other countries to hate us more.
Or to see the cycle: Israel unrest -> Terrorists attack -> Bush retaliation -> Terrorists attack..and so on. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
Yes, there is a time (under very limited circumstances) for military action, but there is also a time for diplomacy, which should be preffered. An appeaser doesn't understand the first, a war-monger doesn't understand the second. Consider that.
2) He is not being open with the public. 1984, etc. You know what I mean. I'm not one to follow blindly into whatever the president decides. Let's see the game plan, let's understand some of the machinations that go on up there. Let's also not have Rumsfeld come out every now and again and declare that "something bad's gonna happen" and that we should all be scared. The gov't is using terrorism as an excuse to inflict terror (the emotion, not the noun they've invented) on it's people. A man with a tinfoil hat would say, to keep us obident... a sentiment not without some truth, but maybe too severe. I'll leave off a SOVIET RUSSIA joke.
To conclude, I know I'm not voting for Bush in the next election (and, if he were to have done well, Clark would have been a decent president, IMO). I know you probably will vote for Bush. We're not going to change each other's opinion, so no hard feelings.
To the rest of the/. community -- you know how we feel. I think it's the best to believe what you feel -- all of you.
This is quite scary and fascinating at the same time.
First of all, this should very much be an example of the terrors, not of nuclear power per se, but of nuclear war.
With a war-happy president, this is all the more scary.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be terrible and exciting at the same time to ride through these places?
If I make enough money when I grow up (being barely of voting age) I might do that one day. Affermation of my anti-war beliefs, strange sci-fi fanboy fantasy, who knows...
Amazing.
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A quick Google says that it depends on the fish... generally sticking with Light wines is traditional, but some fish are met with fuller power with the Dark Side of the Wine.
Uhh.. me. But aside from that, I would suggest that all those with the option of spending Valentine's with their SO or with UT2K4 choose their SO (mostly, for their own well-being)
On a tangent, I would much rather have an SO than another FPS. Why?
The FPS genre is becoming saturated. UT2K4? Ho-hum, really. Just a few new ways to gib your buddies. I have not seen a lot of innovation in the FPS market... look at the glut of WW2 FPSes alone!
With an SO, one must ALWAYS be innovative. If you look at it like a game, you must always be on your toes. Can't respawn, must play smart, must always devise new tactics -- I can think of no game that requires as much out of the player.
If I remember correctly it's 1 arcminute, which is 1/60th of a degree if I remember right. This is at the center of your eye, where things are the most clear (and it degrades from there, toward your peripheral vision)
Whoever said "Think Angular" is right.
What this means is that it depends on distance. The farther you are for something, the less resolution it has. Try it -- have someone hold a ruler and walk away from it... pretty soon, you can't see the lines of demarcation. Yet up close, they are quite clear.
I played around with these numbers with a friend of mine for a whole class period once. It worked fairly well. Best way to re-figure these numbers is to assume a straight line out of the eye of length "l", and some height, "h", where the angle inside the eye from the top to bottom of H (along the triangle is 1/2 an arcminute (1/120 degree). So, therefore...
tan (1/120 degrees) = h/l (and l is given, find h) h = l * tan(1/120)
2h = one dot. 1/(2h) = dots per unit of h. proper unit conversions then apply.
so, at 1 foot (12 inches)
h = 12 in. * tan(1/120) h = 0.00175 2h = 0.0035 1/2h = 286
thus, at 1 foot, the eye has (at it's center) close to 286 DPI.
More than you cared to know, I'm sure. Interesting nonetheless.
(Sorry about the English units. I guess I'm just being an insensitive clod.)
50 is not a BAD sample size. It's just not the right size for the population (some millions or so)... however, if the RIAA keeps doing it, 500 or 1000 is a little sketchy but half-decent.... (also remember that the t-test sampling distribution, near 50, really starts to model the normal....)
To me, it's staggering that Avril Lavigne holds the highest positions.... *shudder* Avril == Bad, to my tastes.
My middle school sister, on the other hand has basically every Avril MP3 she can find... thank goodness her speakers are crap. I moved her little collection out of the line of fire remotely... yeah, she'll whine, but better to do that than get clobbered
Never mind my sister couldn't really stand up against lawsuits.
If you want a 'pattern' it's this: Anything popular (ie, Top 40, Marvin Gaye (seeing as it was in I Spy), any other pop-culture here) -- you know, the stuff geeks rarely listen to -- needs to be hidden from your P2P... meanwhile, my little collection of Bach and Les Miserables can be safely shared.
$0.02, on the dime
(and anyone who's whining about.xls... works fine in OpenOffice for me...)
I don't really ever take notes, so speed isn't an issue.
And no, I know of no one who does math homework on the computer. But it'd be interesting to find a way to do it neatly.
(Actually, I just took AP Calculus BC online - the software they had for the lectures was at least a little logical - you could actually put equations in at a decent clip - but entirely not useful for typing up the homework, which was to be mailed in)
I'll count that as funny -- I really do know what you mean, referring to the... shall we say, "acceptable" level of intellegence given to your average high school graduate. (Subtitle: "high school students suxx0r";) )
In truth, I am a high school student (Senior next year) with a sizable vocabulary and decent grammatical skills. Same with the rest of my Honors English class. Our teachers have done well. Whether you believe me or not, thanks for the compliment of "You must be a college student."
Do I still get a cookie? (Subtitle: "cookiez roxx0r! lololol!!!111")
Does "in-class essay" mean anything anymore? There's no way to use a computer on those things.
And then the AP tests -- those HAVE to be handwritten.
In AP US we were reading Xeroxes of past year's essays -- the ones that were harder to read were the ones in cursive, simply because of the damn loops.
I've noticed the loss of cursive, however. In taking the SAT some months ago, when asked to copy the honor phrase ("I certify that this is my test" stuff), with the explicit order "DO NOT PRINT" in the box, the whole room broke out in a self-concious laughter, as we had to think carefully on how to write in cursive, as opposed to printing.
And, because I hate to do it on the computer, all my MATH homework is done by hand. (equations are still icky to set up. Much nicer just to draw the damn integral)
The upshoot of it all?
Handwriting is a huge facet in the lives of high school students. It will stay that way.
Do I bemoan the loss of cursive? No. Do I fear a loss of handwriting? No. Is there a problem here? No.
Case closed.
(and who in the world liked that D'Nealian or whatever that my grade school taught before cursive? *shudder*)
ESRhole - one who takes command of something, proclaiming himself God and is no longer subject to criticism....or something like that.
As for applicable fixes, wget yourself a mirror of v4.2 here
I know, it's still got a bit of ESR in there, but it's free from the latest bugs, and so therefore more easily cleaned.....which I hope somebody will do:
Fork it! *kerrack* Fork it good!
With the slightly older version, all one needs to do is set up a new tribunal or something to clean it, repost it, and then add to it as a team. Split the power three or five ways-- hold monthly or bimonthly meetings to discuss submissions, and Make It So.
Mmm... it's been alluded to, but not said flat out, by others.
It's the 5th incarnation of the city, with the 6th "One" In the beginning, there wouldn't be a Zion, but there would be the first "One", who, through the whole process, would create the first Zion. He'd die of age, and this Zion would survive until the 2nd "One"... so on, so forth. Neo is the 6th "One", coming from the 5th Zion -- if he were to go through the other door, he would create the 6th Zion.
Some here understand this progression. Some don't. Hope this helps
My school uses floppies extensively. I'd wager that most others do too. They still issue 3.5" disks at the start of Freshman computers at my school.
When you have a small computer lab, you can't really save stuff to the hard drive (lest you share it) and then, you REALLY can't carry it anywhere. That, and many schools protect against hard drive access (for 'security' reasons).
So what common standard......is portable,...takes nothing to install and maintain (thereby easing admministrative headaches),...is reliable,...is removable,...is CHEAP,...and allows students the ability to take files back and forth from home?
Our friend, the good old 3.5" floppy disk.
On a related note, a friend and coworker of mine still doesn't have ANY Internet access at home. His main recourse for file transfer to and from school, and even work? The good old floppy.
True, he's a little envious that I upload/download/network around all my files (of very large sizes), or if I need to, throw them on my PDA or MP3 player.
But damn if I don't love the simplicity of good old floppies.
See, my school got out at 11:45, a minimum day, on Thursday, because the Seniors had their Senior Projects to present.
Besides that, I was taking an AP test. So I didn't see school that day (but I wasn't marked truant!)
In conclusion, the AP test got out in unison with the school, and my friends and I legally skipped down to the brand-new-just-opened-on-Thursday-coincedentally theater, and got our tickets without waiting in line, and sat in a clean, stadium seating, Dolby 5.1 theater to see Star Wars. Mmmmm... quite a reward for a hard day's testing.
We really need some way to find our coordinates 5th dimensionally... Take, for instance, the base of The Statue of Liberty at 0:00 today (GMT) as point (0,0,0,0,0) (W-E, Up-Down, N-S, Time of day, Universe Deviation) Climb the statue of Liberty, which takes you 30 minutes, you might be at some point like (0,1,0,.5,0) Or, if you were to fly to LA, which takes about 8 hours (coming from the statue), perhaps you'd be at point (-200,0,100,8,0) when you touch down in LA.
Now, if someone were to change the past, and return to The Statue of Liberty at 0:00 GMT today, he'd be at (0,0,0,0,x), where abs(x) gets larger the worse he changed history.
Problem is, we have no idea as to that fifth plane of reality. If it were measurable, then, THEN, time travel would be feasible (ie, you could return to THIS universe at 0:00 GMT today)
If you ask me, I like realistic games in non-realistic settings.
Lemme rephrase that. I like games that, for all intents and purposes LOOK, SOUND, and FEEL real, but are in a universe completely different from my own.
One example is Everquest. Though I don't own an account, I've had ample time to play at it (or rather, watch a friend of mine play at it). What makes it fun, in some reguards, is that you have REAL people in semi-REAListic 3D environments in a completely FANTASY world.
Or, my personal favorite example is the Final Fantasy series. For years, Square has been pushing towards making the most realistic feeling game that they can, facial animations and all. I don't care what you think of the latest installment, Final Fantasy X, all you need to notice is that they're TRYING to make things look real with facial animations, rendering hairs, etc.
Does that mean that it's realistic to cast Ultima or to summon Bahamut? Not in the least. But I'll be darned if it doesn't feel like you're actually witnessing it, as though it WERE real. In a few years, I would love to see what spell casting and summoning will look like.
If you want to look back in time, there were books. Books. They pushed the envelope for realism for some time. Writers wrote in characters and events that were close to real. And your mind acted as the GPU in this case. Does this mean that these characters existed or that these events happened? No; that's what makes it fun.
So you can't say that realism is a detriment to gameplay. Just remember that gameplay is determined by what HAPPENS in it. How it looks only adds to the fun; the more realistic, the better.
Would this hack work if used under an "old mac" emulator such as Basilisk II? A cow-orker of mine wants me to try OSX, but I have no Mac, and I don't plan to buy one ever.. Thought that this hack might do the trick
In a time like this, I'm trying to look at what my grandfather did on Dec. 7, 1942. He was actually in the air force at the time... although in Virginia.
Perhaps in our personal histories we can find some link...
And as such, I will have to bear the brunt of this decision. And I believe my children will. And theirs.
It's not easy being a teen geek these days. There are times when I fear for my health.
The big question comes with: Where does it end? If the government keeps taking away freedoms, how will it stop? (An object in motion, stays in motion)
Considering how much faith I have for this country, it won't stop.
I love what Peacefire is doing. They're helping enlighten minors as to what the real story is. But, it can only help so much. There will still be those uppity religionites that are breeding their next generation as we speak.
This is going to get worse people. Keep thinking freely, and you'll find yourself deported in a couple years. I hear Canada is beautiful in the wintertime.
Slashdot Mirror
42!
0 00)
What else is there to know?
I doubt I'm the only one who read that as 42-factorial...
(BTW: 42! = 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000
One can only imagine what it would be like to speak with her -- her experiences would be fascinating to heard described, and for our curious questions to be answered. Great mods in the sky, please hear this AC's plea.
Cookie for you. That's the way I learned it in school too. (yes, only last year, you insensitive clods)
The first world is the capatalist countries, the second the communist countries, and the third the developing contries.
One reason for the whole anti-communism "red scare" era? The second world model looked pretty good to the third world -- the last czar, Nicholas, was murdered in 1918, and between then and, say, about 1955 is only 37 short years for a whole movement to go from nothing to a world power.
Compare that to the capitalist model, which took the US just under 200 years to come to superpower status.
I wonder which one the third-world countries thought was better?
This can be argued as a cause for Vietnam and other such atrocities (Sept. 11, 1973 -- Chile -- look it up) but regardless of your political stance and feelings toward the era, this, to me, is a fairly interesting arguement for the way history worked itself out.
"Can't we all just get along?"
..and so on. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
/. community -- you know how we feel. I think it's the best to believe what you feel -- all of you.
If you want my opinion, it is this:
True - terrorists would prefer to kill civilians for the shock value.
The problem I have with our current president and his policies is two-fold.
1) He feeds the cycle of hatred. Ok, sure - appeasement doesn't always work. The short decapitation campaign of Afghanistan, for instance, seemed somewhat justified. But by moving into countries that are minorly peripherally related, such as Iraq, what he is doing is creating a reason for other countries to hate us more.
Or to see the cycle:
Israel unrest -> Terrorists attack -> Bush retaliation -> Terrorists attack
Yes, there is a time (under very limited circumstances) for military action, but there is also a time for diplomacy, which should be preffered. An appeaser doesn't understand the first, a war-monger doesn't understand the second. Consider that.
2) He is not being open with the public. 1984, etc. You know what I mean. I'm not one to follow blindly into whatever the president decides. Let's see the game plan, let's understand some of the machinations that go on up there. Let's also not have Rumsfeld come out every now and again and declare that "something bad's gonna happen" and that we should all be scared.
The gov't is using terrorism as an excuse to inflict terror (the emotion, not the noun they've invented) on it's people. A man with a tinfoil hat would say, to keep us obident... a sentiment not without some truth, but maybe too severe. I'll leave off a SOVIET RUSSIA joke.
To conclude, I know I'm not voting for Bush in the next election (and, if he were to have done well, Clark would have been a decent president, IMO). I know you probably will vote for Bush. We're not going to change each other's opinion, so no hard feelings.
To the rest of the
Thank you -- I shall indeed look into that.
This is quite scary and fascinating at the same time.
First of all, this should very much be an example of the terrors, not of nuclear power per se, but of nuclear war.
With a war-happy president, this is all the more scary.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be terrible and exciting at the same time to ride through these places?
If I make enough money when I grow up (being barely of voting age) I might do that one day. Affermation of my anti-war beliefs, strange sci-fi fanboy fantasy, who knows...
Amazing.
A quick Google says that it depends on the fish... generally sticking with Light wines is traditional, but some fish are met with fuller power with the Dark Side of the Wine.
from the who-needs-a-valentine? dept.
Uhh.. me. But aside from that, I would suggest that all those with the option of spending Valentine's with their SO or with UT2K4 choose their SO (mostly, for their own well-being)
On a tangent, I would much rather have an SO than another FPS. Why?
The FPS genre is becoming saturated. UT2K4? Ho-hum, really. Just a few new ways to gib your buddies. I have not seen a lot of innovation in the FPS market... look at the glut of WW2 FPSes alone!
With an SO, one must ALWAYS be innovative. If you look at it like a game, you must always be on your toes. Can't respawn, must play smart, must always devise new tactics -- I can think of no game that requires as much out of the player.
Ah, well
If I remember correctly it's 1 arcminute, which is 1/60th of a degree if I remember right. This is at the center of your eye, where things are the most clear (and it degrades from there, toward your peripheral vision)
Whoever said "Think Angular" is right.
What this means is that it depends on distance. The farther you are for something, the less resolution it has. Try it -- have someone hold a ruler and walk away from it... pretty soon, you can't see the lines of demarcation. Yet up close, they are quite clear.
I played around with these numbers with a friend of mine for a whole class period once. It worked fairly well. Best way to re-figure these numbers is to assume a straight line out of the eye of length "l", and some height, "h", where the angle inside the eye from the top to bottom of H (along the triangle is 1/2 an arcminute (1/120 degree). So, therefore...
tan (1/120 degrees) = h/l (and l is given, find h)
h = l * tan(1/120)
2h = one dot. 1/(2h) = dots per unit of h. proper unit conversions then apply.
so, at 1 foot (12 inches)
h = 12 in. * tan(1/120)
h = 0.00175
2h = 0.0035
1/2h = 286
thus, at 1 foot, the eye has (at it's center) close to 286 DPI.
More than you cared to know, I'm sure. Interesting nonetheless.
(Sorry about the English units. I guess I'm just being an insensitive clod.)
Barak Michener
Are there public WASTE networks out there? Seeing the P2P app with the coolest name go under for lack of public support would be a downer.
It would be... umm... a WASTE.
50 is not a BAD sample size. It's just not the right size for the population (some millions or so)... however, if the RIAA keeps doing it, 500 or 1000 is a little sketchy but half-decent.... (also remember that the t-test sampling distribution, near 50, really starts to model the normal....)
.xls... works fine in OpenOffice for me...)
To me, it's staggering that Avril Lavigne holds the highest positions.... *shudder* Avril == Bad, to my tastes.
My middle school sister, on the other hand has basically every Avril MP3 she can find... thank goodness her speakers are crap. I moved her little collection out of the line of fire remotely... yeah, she'll whine, but better to do that than get clobbered
Never mind my sister couldn't really stand up against lawsuits.
If you want a 'pattern' it's this: Anything popular (ie, Top 40, Marvin Gaye (seeing as it was in I Spy), any other pop-culture here) -- you know, the stuff geeks rarely listen to -- needs to be hidden from your P2P... meanwhile, my little collection of Bach and Les Miserables can be safely shared.
$0.02, on the dime
(and anyone who's whining about
Expensive.... the laptop, that is.
I don't really ever take notes, so speed isn't an issue.
And no, I know of no one who does math homework on the computer. But it'd be interesting to find a way to do it neatly.
(Actually, I just took AP Calculus BC online - the software they had for the lectures was at least a little logical - you could actually put equations in at a decent clip - but entirely not useful for typing up the homework, which was to be mailed in)
I'll count that as funny -- I really do know what you mean, referring to the... shall we say, "acceptable" level of intellegence given to your average high school graduate. (Subtitle: "high school students suxx0r" ;) )
In truth, I am a high school student (Senior next year) with a sizable vocabulary and decent grammatical skills. Same with the rest of my Honors English class. Our teachers have done well. Whether you believe me or not, thanks for the compliment of "You must be a college student."
Do I still get a cookie? (Subtitle: "cookiez roxx0r! lololol!!!111")
Does "in-class essay" mean anything anymore?
There's no way to use a computer on those things.
And then the AP tests -- those HAVE to be handwritten.
In AP US we were reading Xeroxes of past year's essays -- the ones that were harder to read were the ones in cursive, simply because of the damn loops.
I've noticed the loss of cursive, however. In taking the SAT some months ago, when asked to copy the honor phrase ("I certify that this is my test" stuff), with the explicit order "DO NOT PRINT" in the box, the whole room broke out in a self-concious laughter, as we had to think carefully on how to write in cursive, as opposed to printing.
And, because I hate to do it on the computer, all my MATH homework is done by hand. (equations are still icky to set up. Much nicer just to draw the damn integral)
The upshoot of it all?
Handwriting is a huge facet in the lives of high school students. It will stay that way.
Do I bemoan the loss of cursive? No.
Do I fear a loss of handwriting? No.
Is there a problem here? No.
Case closed.
(and who in the world liked that D'Nealian or whatever that my grade school taught before cursive? *shudder*)
Here's a new word for you --- "ESRhole"
...or something like that.
..which I hope somebody will do:
ESRhole - one who takes command of something, proclaiming himself God and is no longer subject to criticism.
As for applicable fixes, wget yourself a mirror of v4.2 here
I know, it's still got a bit of ESR in there, but it's free from the latest bugs, and so therefore more easily cleaned...
Fork it! *kerrack* Fork it good!
With the slightly older version, all one needs to do is set up a new tribunal or something to clean it, repost it, and then add to it as a team. Split the power three or five ways-- hold monthly or bimonthly meetings to discuss submissions, and Make It So.
THAT would be a Good Thing.
Barak Michener
Mmm... it's been alluded to, but not said flat out, by others.
It's the 5th incarnation of the city, with the 6th "One"
In the beginning, there wouldn't be a Zion, but there would be the first "One", who, through the whole process, would create the first Zion. He'd die of age, and this Zion would survive until the 2nd "One"... so on, so forth.
Neo is the 6th "One", coming from the 5th Zion -- if he were to go through the other door, he would create the 6th Zion.
Some here understand this progression. Some don't. Hope this helps
My school uses floppies extensively. I'd wager that most others do too. They still issue 3.5" disks at the start of Freshman computers at my school.
...is portable, ...takes nothing to install and maintain (thereby easing admministrative headaches), ...is reliable, ...is removable, ...is CHEAP, ...and allows students the ability to take files back and forth from home?
When you have a small computer lab, you can't really save stuff to the hard drive (lest you share it) and then, you REALLY can't carry it anywhere. That, and many schools protect against hard drive access (for 'security' reasons).
So what common standard...
Our friend, the good old 3.5" floppy disk.
On a related note, a friend and coworker of mine still doesn't have ANY Internet access at home. His main recourse for file transfer to and from school, and even work? The good old floppy.
True, he's a little envious that I upload/download/network around all my files (of very large sizes), or if I need to, throw them on my PDA or MP3 player.
But damn if I don't love the simplicity of good old floppies.
Barak Michener
See, my school got out at 11:45, a minimum day, on Thursday, because the Seniors had their Senior Projects to present.
Besides that, I was taking an AP test. So I didn't see school that day (but I wasn't marked truant!)
In conclusion, the AP test got out in unison with the school, and my friends and I legally skipped down to the brand-new-just-opened-on-Thursday-coincedentally theater, and got our tickets without waiting in line, and sat in a clean, stadium seating, Dolby 5.1 theater to see Star Wars. Mmmmm... quite a reward for a hard day's testing.
We really need some way to find our coordinates 5th dimensionally...
Take, for instance, the base of The Statue of Liberty at 0:00 today (GMT) as point (0,0,0,0,0) (W-E, Up-Down, N-S, Time of day, Universe Deviation)
Climb the statue of Liberty, which takes you 30 minutes, you might be at some point like (0,1,0,.5,0)
Or, if you were to fly to LA, which takes about 8 hours (coming from the statue), perhaps you'd be at point (-200,0,100,8,0) when you touch down in LA.
Now, if someone were to change the past, and return to The Statue of Liberty at 0:00 GMT today, he'd be at (0,0,0,0,x), where abs(x) gets larger the worse he changed history.
Problem is, we have no idea as to that fifth plane of reality. If it were measurable, then, THEN, time travel would be feasible (ie, you could return to THIS universe at 0:00 GMT today)
Otherwise, you're stuck.
If you ask me, I like realistic games in non-realistic settings.
Lemme rephrase that. I like games that, for all intents and purposes LOOK, SOUND, and FEEL real, but are in a universe completely different from my own.
One example is Everquest. Though I don't own an account, I've had ample time to play at it (or rather, watch a friend of mine play at it). What makes it fun, in some reguards, is that you have REAL people in semi-REAListic 3D environments in a completely FANTASY world.
Or, my personal favorite example is the Final Fantasy series. For years, Square has been pushing towards making the most realistic feeling game that they can, facial animations and all. I don't care what you think of the latest installment, Final Fantasy X, all you need to notice is that they're TRYING to make things look real with facial animations, rendering hairs, etc.
Does that mean that it's realistic to cast Ultima or to summon Bahamut? Not in the least. But I'll be darned if it doesn't feel like you're actually witnessing it, as though it WERE real. In a few years, I would love to see what spell casting and summoning will look like.
If you want to look back in time, there were books. Books. They pushed the envelope for realism for some time. Writers wrote in characters and events that were close to real. And your mind acted as the GPU in this case. Does this mean that these characters existed or that these events happened? No; that's what makes it fun.
So you can't say that realism is a detriment to gameplay. Just remember that gameplay is determined by what HAPPENS in it. How it looks only adds to the fun; the more realistic, the better.
*BarakMich is a member of the DNRC
It's a Scott Adams-ism. In-duh-viduals, cow-orkers, etc.
Would this hack work if used under an "old mac" emulator such as Basilisk II? A cow-orker of mine wants me to try OSX, but I have no Mac, and I don't plan to buy one ever.. Thought that this hack might do the trick
In a time like this, I'm trying to look at what my grandfather did on Dec. 7, 1942. He was actually in the air force at the time... although in Virginia.
Perhaps in our personal histories we can find some link...
And to think I've been hacking my school's system..... Disturbing.
I am a high-school freshman.
I am a vindictive left-winger.
And as such, I will have to bear the brunt of this decision. And I believe my children will. And theirs.
It's not easy being a teen geek these days. There are times when I fear for my health.
The big question comes with: Where does it end? If the government keeps taking away freedoms, how will it stop? (An object in motion, stays in motion)
Considering how much faith I have for this country, it won't stop.
I love what Peacefire is doing. They're helping enlighten minors as to what the real story is. But, it can only help so much. There will still be those uppity religionites that are breeding their next generation as we speak.
This is going to get worse people. Keep thinking freely, and you'll find yourself deported in a couple years. I hear Canada is beautiful in the wintertime.
Barak Michener