I wonder that sometimes too, but if I had to venture a guess why I'd say it's probably because anytime there is a severe weather emergency every local radio broadcaster will cut whatever they're doing and simulcast nonstop weather coverage from their flagship station on both the AM and FM bands. A nasty thunderstorm ripped through Omaha a couple weeks ago and you couldn't get anything on the radio that wasn't coverage of the storm... in a case like that a weather band is really redundant.
Yeah I probably would have gone the same route if I didn't know either... probably even if I did know, too. Seeing games like that for sale tend to make me lose touch with reality while the "OMG WANT" instinct takes over.:)
I'm up to a couple hundred kanji as of now, and I have a kanji dictionary for my DS to help move things along. My overall reading level just isn't high enough yet for RPGs, but for other stuff it's just fine.
Watching all the videos of Valkyrie on gametrailers.com pretty much sold me on it and the PS3. It looks like a lot of fun, that's for sure. Incidentally I think you may be right about the PSP vs. DS for tactics games. I'm playing FF Tactics A2 right now and it's ok, but I had way more fun playing Jeanne d'Arc.
Fun fact: I own a Super Famicon for my Japanese copies of Chrono Trigger and Mother 2 (Earthbound).
I went through two Super Famicoms and the A/V ports shit out both times. I could never figure out why they did that. I thought about rolling the dice and getting a third one, but instead I just took my SNES and carved out the notches inside the case which prevented you from being able to insert Japanese carts. Now my SNES plays US and Japanese games, and the benefit it has over the SFC is that the cart slot is big enough to fit both styles of carts without any further modification, so I can keep just one console on the shelf.
Might actually start getting some use out of my Final Fantasy V cart now that I'm beyond the beginner Japanese classes in school.
It's been asked 11 hojillion times before, and the answer's always the same: it's a title, nothing else. Heck out of the last 6-7 installments only one of them has even been fantasy, the rest are borderline science fiction.
I have three which are keeping me in the PS3 camp for now:
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still (supposedly) a PS3-exclusive
- Metal Gear Solid 4, as you mentioned
- Valkyrie Of the Battlefield is coming out later this year
Also I don't think Sony has had their chance to show off at E3 yet, so there may yet be more stuff along the way.
I think it has to do with the way programs save their last position at. I tend to let Firefox just sit maximized on the right (secondary) monitor, and the only way I was able to get it to open and close that way was if I first closed the program while it was on the right monitor and not maximized. Then I could open back up, maximize, and open and close all day long and it'll do exactly what I want for it to do.
What features are there for dual monitors that aren't built into Windows? I've been running dual monitors at work and at home for a couple years now and haven't found myself wanting anything more out of what's built in, but I don't know what the alternatives are capable of.
is to write programs under an open source license that do the same thing as the programs I was paid to write under a closed source license. Just a different way to solve a problem, and done a much better way than management wanted it done anyway.
How do you sustain something like that long-term? Bringing your work into your home, redoing what you just spent 8 hours working on and spitting your boss's name while you do it really doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I think I'd get burned out on programming and my job in short order if I did that.
Absolutely it does. The first impression is what counts most, if you put out an unfinished MMO the early subscribers will jump off quickly, go back to WOW, and tell all their guildmates that your game sucked. That's millions of customers who in turn won't even try your game, let alone subscribe to it long-term. And I'm not talking "unfinished" as in new patches come out once a month, I'm talking the kind of "unfinished" that takes entire locations and classes out of a game.
I dunno... the provider I bought my Motorola Razr phone from locked out the ability to load ringtones (or any other sound files) onto the phone through the microSD slot in their firmware, even though the phone is technically capable of that function. I can still use Motorola's software to copy the sound file directly to the phone's internal storage, which takes about as much work as the registry hack to restore the chipset's functionality detailed in the article. (That is, not much.)
In both cases, technically the features haven't been "disabled" as much as are "not enabled" in the provided software. If cell phone carriers can get away with it, why not Dell?
He also said, "Who can afford to make porn for nothing? What adult film producer can put 3-man years into casting, filming the video, editing out the queefs and distribute for free?"
Clearly that evidence does not apply, as that is a CD being burned in that video and not a Blu-Ray disc. Maybe if you used the "potato" button you might get it down to 2-3 minutes though.;)
It's not as obvious as you're making it out to be. Bavaria is known to the Germans and a sizable number of other countries as Bayern... California is almost universally known as California.
I've had that happen to me as well at least once. People who have been on AOL for years can't separate AOL from the internet, instead operating under the assumption that their little walled garden is the internet. It's unfortunate, really.
Yes, the intentions were good, but flooding webservers with traffic was probably the wrong way to implement this. Personally, I noticed that this particular feature was slowing my browser down significantly - I ended up disabling the plugin in Firefox to fix the issue. This should be optional IMO, not installed by default.
Did you know that business meetings in France have to be in French ?
Either I missed a really obvious joke or I'm otherwise not understanding. French is the official language in France, is it not? Why would it be an issue that business meetings in France have to be conducted in French?
Not giving your password to your guildmates and not downloading keyloggers is also a no brainer too. I lost count how many "OMG I GOT HACKED" stories resulted from somebody clicking on sshot001.jpg.pif on the WOW forum or from somebody giving their account info to a guildmember they barely knew.
What stops you from shooting first is the fact that the risk/reward factor gets skewed. If you're just out to mug somebody, you might get $25 out of their wallet or you might get a little bit of jail time. Shoot them first and you gain nothing in exchange for an extended jail sentence, life in prison, or the death penalty... when all you really wanted was $25.
Yeah I don't get that either. It's like people who don't know who Richard Stallman is would look at him and not guess he's holding weekly D&D sessions in his mom's basement or something.
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I wonder that sometimes too, but if I had to venture a guess why I'd say it's probably because anytime there is a severe weather emergency every local radio broadcaster will cut whatever they're doing and simulcast nonstop weather coverage from their flagship station on both the AM and FM bands. A nasty thunderstorm ripped through Omaha a couple weeks ago and you couldn't get anything on the radio that wasn't coverage of the storm... in a case like that a weather band is really redundant.
Yeah I probably would have gone the same route if I didn't know either... probably even if I did know, too. Seeing games like that for sale tend to make me lose touch with reality while the "OMG WANT" instinct takes over. :)
I'm up to a couple hundred kanji as of now, and I have a kanji dictionary for my DS to help move things along. My overall reading level just isn't high enough yet for RPGs, but for other stuff it's just fine.
Watching all the videos of Valkyrie on gametrailers.com pretty much sold me on it and the PS3. It looks like a lot of fun, that's for sure. Incidentally I think you may be right about the PSP vs. DS for tactics games. I'm playing FF Tactics A2 right now and it's ok, but I had way more fun playing Jeanne d'Arc.
Fun fact: I own a Super Famicon for my Japanese copies of Chrono Trigger and Mother 2 (Earthbound).
I went through two Super Famicoms and the A/V ports shit out both times. I could never figure out why they did that. I thought about rolling the dice and getting a third one, but instead I just took my SNES and carved out the notches inside the case which prevented you from being able to insert Japanese carts. Now my SNES plays US and Japanese games, and the benefit it has over the SFC is that the cart slot is big enough to fit both styles of carts without any further modification, so I can keep just one console on the shelf.
Might actually start getting some use out of my Final Fantasy V cart now that I'm beyond the beginner Japanese classes in school.
It's been asked 11 hojillion times before, and the answer's always the same: it's a title, nothing else. Heck out of the last 6-7 installments only one of them has even been fantasy, the rest are borderline science fiction.
I have three which are keeping me in the PS3 camp for now:
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still (supposedly) a PS3-exclusive
- Metal Gear Solid 4, as you mentioned
- Valkyrie Of the Battlefield is coming out later this year
Also I don't think Sony has had their chance to show off at E3 yet, so there may yet be more stuff along the way.
I think it has to do with the way programs save their last position at. I tend to let Firefox just sit maximized on the right (secondary) monitor, and the only way I was able to get it to open and close that way was if I first closed the program while it was on the right monitor and not maximized. Then I could open back up, maximize, and open and close all day long and it'll do exactly what I want for it to do.
Other programs seem to be hit or miss though.
What features are there for dual monitors that aren't built into Windows? I've been running dual monitors at work and at home for a couple years now and haven't found myself wanting anything more out of what's built in, but I don't know what the alternatives are capable of.
is to write programs under an open source license that do the same thing as the programs I was paid to write under a closed source license. Just a different way to solve a problem, and done a much better way than management wanted it done anyway.
How do you sustain something like that long-term? Bringing your work into your home, redoing what you just spent 8 hours working on and spitting your boss's name while you do it really doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I think I'd get burned out on programming and my job in short order if I did that.
Absolutely it does. The first impression is what counts most, if you put out an unfinished MMO the early subscribers will jump off quickly, go back to WOW, and tell all their guildmates that your game sucked. That's millions of customers who in turn won't even try your game, let alone subscribe to it long-term. And I'm not talking "unfinished" as in new patches come out once a month, I'm talking the kind of "unfinished" that takes entire locations and classes out of a game.
There are plenty of internet rules. Don't post goatse/tubgirl pictures, don't say "first post" on a thread, don't badmouth Ron Paul, etc etc etc
I dunno... the provider I bought my Motorola Razr phone from locked out the ability to load ringtones (or any other sound files) onto the phone through the microSD slot in their firmware, even though the phone is technically capable of that function. I can still use Motorola's software to copy the sound file directly to the phone's internal storage, which takes about as much work as the registry hack to restore the chipset's functionality detailed in the article. (That is, not much.)
In both cases, technically the features haven't been "disabled" as much as are "not enabled" in the provided software. If cell phone carriers can get away with it, why not Dell?
He also said, "Who can afford to make porn for nothing? What adult film producer can put 3-man years into casting, filming the video, editing out the queefs and distribute for free?"
Clearly that evidence does not apply, as that is a CD being burned in that video and not a Blu-Ray disc. Maybe if you used the "potato" button you might get it down to 2-3 minutes though. ;)
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It's not as obvious as you're making it out to be. Bavaria is known to the Germans and a sizable number of other countries as Bayern... California is almost universally known as California.
I've had that happen to me as well at least once. People who have been on AOL for years can't separate AOL from the internet, instead operating under the assumption that their little walled garden is the internet. It's unfortunate, really.
That is, with 238% more lolcats, buttsecks, and social networking sites
Yes, the intentions were good, but flooding webservers with traffic was probably the wrong way to implement this. Personally, I noticed that this particular feature was slowing my browser down significantly - I ended up disabling the plugin in Firefox to fix the issue. This should be optional IMO, not installed by default.
Ok, I see what you mean now. Thanks for the clarification.
Did you know that business meetings in France have to be in French ?
Either I missed a really obvious joke or I'm otherwise not understanding. French is the official language in France, is it not? Why would it be an issue that business meetings in France have to be conducted in French?
Not giving your password to your guildmates and not downloading keyloggers is also a no brainer too. I lost count how many "OMG I GOT HACKED" stories resulted from somebody clicking on sshot001.jpg.pif on the WOW forum or from somebody giving their account info to a guildmember they barely knew.
What stops you from shooting first is the fact that the risk/reward factor gets skewed. If you're just out to mug somebody, you might get $25 out of their wallet or you might get a little bit of jail time. Shoot them first and you gain nothing in exchange for an extended jail sentence, life in prison, or the death penalty... when all you really wanted was $25.
Sure doesn't sound like he's denying he wrote it...
Yeah I don't get that either. It's like people who don't know who Richard Stallman is would look at him and not guess he's holding weekly D&D sessions in his mom's basement or something.