I have no problem with Square trying different things. I bought Vagrant Story when it came out precisely because it wasn't an FF game (if I played any of them I'd want to start at number 1, even though yes I know the stories usually aren't related). Also the battle system in it was more interesting to me than the FF one.
My point is that if they are going to try something different, they should do it under another name than FF, rather than destroy their "brand" or people's enjoyment of the series. If their idea works, they can implement it into FF in future.
you have to look at it (and everything actually) for what it is and not what you want it to be.
I've never played any FF games and don't have any intention of trying them anytime soon - but after a 12 part series, you're going to be buying the next release for more-of-the-same, not for some art-house experience. You would expect some additions and changes, but if it's enough to turn the majority of the fan base off (as your comment seems to suggest), what's the point?
Not exactly a thing of the past, but it's not new either. I don't think saying "it's teh economiez!" works with a sudden 95% drop in the last quarter alone. That sounds to me more like people found a better game, or for example some people simply got bored of Farmville, which led to it being less fun for their friends, which led to it being less fun for their friends, and their friends, etc, until everyone lost. Maybe it had something to do with Google+ too, though I'm not convinced of that unless G+ has lots of games already.
PS no, I never read the papers, nor do I watch TV or listen to the radio. I used to just never read any news ever (I really don't want to think about rape and murder every single day of my life), but I found that Slashdot often has stuff that interests me.
Yeah.. I haven't actually noticed any change at all in my own life.. though I don't make much use of credit, and the only debt I'm in right now is my student loan, so I guess I'm not in a position for it to affect me much.
I think a lot of the whining is just a self fulfilling prophecy though. How do you expect to "increase consumer confidence" when you do nothing but spout doom and gloom all over the place? Sensationalist media really don't help when it comes to this kind of situation.
Uh.. the whole economy crashing thing was years ago now. I doubt this is related. It does sound more like people just finally got bored and moved on to something else. I'm not sure what, but I'm glad there won't be so many of those stupid predictions about how gaming inside your web browser is "teh futurez!". It has its place, but that place isn't replacing consoles any more than the Wii's motion controls got rid of game pads.
There's a big difference between "infinitescimal growth" and "95% decrease" btw.
It means what it says. It doesn't mean it's untrue. It's more likely that whoever wrote the article sees admitting you're a hacker as tantamount to breaking the law, or something stupid like that.
Is Oracle really required to move MySQL forward? If not, then why the complaints - and if so, then does the fact that it is GPLed really mean anything at all?
It means that anyone can fork it and continue to move it forward.
Anyone who has any interest but hasn't already looked into it themselves, is not going to be interested in getting up at 4am. Nor do I think it would do much use. Why, if you can watch the video?
Personally I wouldn't even bother with the videos, just read the book.. I might dig it out and see if it has any Lambda Calculus stuff - I'm about to go through Norvig's book on AI/Common Lisp.. and my memory of LC is really rusty.
That's not what he said, but your counter argument to what you think he said isn't very convincing. Let me try.. cats do certainly NOT usually have four legs.
It's an emulation of an emacs feature - bash works with a few emacs bindings, but that one is the handiest. Ctrl-s to search forwards if you overshoot, ctrl-g to cancel:)
In your terminal window, you could use control-r to search through your history of commands (start typing part of the command and the terminal will find it for you - keep pressing control-r to go back through more results). I find this a lot more convenient than pressing up repeatedly or typing out the same commands all the time:)
That looks pretty amazing, I was thinking about setting up my own VM for my webserver soon, and that sounds like it has some really cool infrastructure for management/backups - thanks!
How often do you replace the computers, software, and do training? At 200 USd per hour you'd pay for the computer, software and power for the whole year in a few days.
FTFY. If anything, success enables risk taking by giving you some funds to work with. Not everyone will take risks just because they have money, but it will make them feel more comfortable about doing so.
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I have no problem with Square trying different things. I bought Vagrant Story when it came out precisely because it wasn't an FF game (if I played any of them I'd want to start at number 1, even though yes I know the stories usually aren't related). Also the battle system in it was more interesting to me than the FF one.
My point is that if they are going to try something different, they should do it under another name than FF, rather than destroy their "brand" or people's enjoyment of the series. If their idea works, they can implement it into FF in future.
you have to look at it (and everything actually) for what it is and not what you want it to be.
I've never played any FF games and don't have any intention of trying them anytime soon - but after a 12 part series, you're going to be buying the next release for more-of-the-same, not for some art-house experience. You would expect some additions and changes, but if it's enough to turn the majority of the fan base off (as your comment seems to suggest), what's the point?
Not exactly a thing of the past, but it's not new either. I don't think saying "it's teh economiez!" works with a sudden 95% drop in the last quarter alone. That sounds to me more like people found a better game, or for example some people simply got bored of Farmville, which led to it being less fun for their friends, which led to it being less fun for their friends, and their friends, etc, until everyone lost. Maybe it had something to do with Google+ too, though I'm not convinced of that unless G+ has lots of games already.
PS no, I never read the papers, nor do I watch TV or listen to the radio. I used to just never read any news ever (I really don't want to think about rape and murder every single day of my life), but I found that Slashdot often has stuff that interests me.
Yeah.. I haven't actually noticed any change at all in my own life.. though I don't make much use of credit, and the only debt I'm in right now is my student loan, so I guess I'm not in a position for it to affect me much.
I think a lot of the whining is just a self fulfilling prophecy though. How do you expect to "increase consumer confidence" when you do nothing but spout doom and gloom all over the place? Sensationalist media really don't help when it comes to this kind of situation.
Uh.. the whole economy crashing thing was years ago now. I doubt this is related. It does sound more like people just finally got bored and moved on to something else. I'm not sure what, but I'm glad there won't be so many of those stupid predictions about how gaming inside your web browser is "teh futurez!". It has its place, but that place isn't replacing consoles any more than the Wii's motion controls got rid of game pads.
There's a big difference between "infinitescimal growth" and "95% decrease" btw.
The pirate bay doesn't do live streaming to mobile devices though, does it?
(btw, I pay for Spotify, and I already had a FB account, so I don't give a f*ck here).
It means what it says. It doesn't mean it's untrue. It's more likely that whoever wrote the article sees admitting you're a hacker as tantamount to breaking the law, or something stupid like that.
Tinyshark is still up there, and even if it weren't, you realize that you're not limited to the official market, right? It's not like on iOS.
What about Grooveshark?
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What? Oracle accused Google of not obeying the license.
according to the license terms and YOUR logic, Oracle never filed suite against Google
What the hell are you talking about?
Troll harder. Free software still has licenses. I think Google is actually obeying the license terms, but Oracle are trying to prove that they aren't.
Is Oracle really required to move MySQL forward? If not, then why the complaints - and if so, then does the fact that it is GPLed really mean anything at all?
It means that anyone can fork it and continue to move it forward.
Anyone who has any interest but hasn't already looked into it themselves, is not going to be interested in getting up at 4am. Nor do I think it would do much use. Why, if you can watch the video?
Personally I wouldn't even bother with the videos, just read the book.. I might dig it out and see if it has any Lambda Calculus stuff - I'm about to go through Norvig's book on AI/Common Lisp.. and my memory of LC is really rusty.
Good job on reading the entire summary!
Amen.
Uh. Don't feed the trolls. This guy is one of the more obvious ones.
That's not what he said, but your counter argument to what you think he said isn't very convincing. Let me try.. cats do certainly NOT usually have four legs.
It's an emulation of an emacs feature - bash works with a few emacs bindings, but that one is the handiest. Ctrl-s to search forwards if you overshoot, ctrl-g to cancel :)
In your terminal window, you could use control-r to search through your history of commands (start typing part of the command and the terminal will find it for you - keep pressing control-r to go back through more results). I find this a lot more convenient than pressing up repeatedly or typing out the same commands all the time :)
That looks pretty amazing, I was thinking about setting up my own VM for my webserver soon, and that sounds like it has some really cool infrastructure for management/backups - thanks!
How often do you replace the computers, software, and do training? At 200 USd per hour you'd pay for the computer, software and power for the whole year in a few days.
Greed tempers risk taking
FTFY. If anything, success enables risk taking by giving you some funds to work with. Not everyone will take risks just because they have money, but it will make them feel more comfortable about doing so.