I had visions of hitting a button on my thumb drive and getting a huge desktop folded out that I can rest things on. You know, my notebook, my feet, that 5th cup of coffee...
Of course older games had bugs. But how many of them under Crane had showstopping bugs like we see today? How many of them required patches?
Six weeks of development is a pretty short time... especially if you're going to DEBUG assembly. Perhaps if YOU were informed enough about the realities of development in any kind of assembly you'd know that. There takes a level of skill to make it work that's more than just nerd points.
Oh, but wait, this particular game was produced for a variety of platforms. It wasn't as easy as setting a platform target in a command line, no, but it got done. If they had Java available to them in the 1980's the requirements for the targets of this magically portable code would have been a joke. I therefore maintain that the development teams had a great deal of skill directly handling the metal, and absolutely a higher percentage of them then compared to today.
A good observer will also note that the power pulled out from a particular gaming platform increases throughout the life of the console as development teams get more and more comfortable with the technology behind the abstractions the dev kits give them. Do you still suggest that being insulated from the hardware is a bad thing for gaming?
And so, your comparison of Firefox to Ghostbusters is just plain stupid. Firefox is not a video game. Next you'll compare space shuttle navigation software to Pong. And waving that "IT'S NOT COMPUTER SCIENCE" banner like it's your status symbol is cute... because it helps expose stupidity. Abstraction isn't the only thing the field offers, nor is it the single key to quality computing.
But of course you don't know what you're talking about, Anonymous Coward.
Not all plastics cause the body to flip out as you describe it.
I'd be more concerned with where they go after the emergency is over. The spleen collects dead red blood cells... do the artifical ones "die"? What happens to the plastic then?
IANAD, so, can any harm happen with an excess of red blood cells? Maybe this will lead to a future where some could supercharge their blood to maximize oxygen carrying ability.
Six weeks, eh? I suppose this was back when games were simple enough where all developers had to be intimiately familiar with the hardware and code Just Worked(tm).
All the work done in code patterns and abstractions seem to have distanced developers from the metal. It's a necessary evil in some aspects (since the actual C64 hardware was always exactly the same so some safety stuff could be glossed over), but I've always wondered how some of the greats (like Crane) would have fared had they grown up 20 years after they did.
Back in the day of FFVII English and the International Edition, word was that the game was rushed for the Japanese audience and localization gave them extra time to further refine the game.
Western versions of FFVII had a slightly retooled enemy difficulty, the bosses as you mentioned (Ruby Weapon and Emerald Weapon), and a few extra cut-scenes to try and clarify the story a little more. International Edition re-release included little pictures of some "souvenier" items like maps, a matchbook from the Honeybee inn, Tifa's underwear, props from Golden Saucer, and other things.
I wonder if this rerelease of FFXII is evidence that it, too, was rushed.
But how would it be Microsoft's fault that people can't run applications intentionally written to be tied to their proprietary OS in an unsupported environment?
I'm not even saying the blame isn't misplaced on Ubuntu and WINE (it's still pre-version 1.0, after all). Maybe things would be better off actually educating on how to tweak it with some docs and offering it as an option than just striking it altogether.
And, when not hired for a job, do they EVER get told WHY exactly they weren't hired?
HR: "Sorry Mr. Jones, we didn't hire you because you murdered those children." Candidate: "Oh, that again. I was AQUITTED, you know. The real killer CONFESSED and is currently serving time." HR: *calls security*
No, they'd just get a happy little letter that they've declined to offer a job and will keep his information on file for x months blah blah blah.
It's all set to be the new discrimination. What used to be "we can't hire blacks, they'll steal from us!" now becomes "we can't hire people with any kind of bad press around them, they're obviously trouble!"
I wouldn't even be surprised if there were companies which specialize in revenge, where you can google bomb someone's name and associate it with something unpleasant for a fee.
In the US, bounty hunters have legal protection to do what they do. If a company puts up a juicy reward for finding a security hole, the person coming forward could easily get the shaft and then be prosecuted under DMCA.
At least on the black market, you know, honor among thieves.
'Digital Consumer Enablement would more efficiently confuse consumers "to prevent the use of content in ways they haven't before," such as enjoying TV shows time shifted to when they want and movies on portable video players like iPods where they can see them more than once. "I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter, "even my Grandma knows by now that DRM is bad, so obviously we have to change the name of it."'
Oh man, my stomach just went on preemptive strike on that.
The only cool thing about it was two separate bags of cereal in the box. I remember being a kid and convincing my parents to buy it for me. "It's one box but TWO BAGS. That means that when the cereal is halfway finished you can open the second bag and you have fresher tasting cereal instead of the same old stale thing."
Meanwhile I ended up just opening both and mixing the two in the bowl. Heh heh heh.
Interesting point. IANAP (I Am Not A Psychologist), so, who (or which organization) dictates that it's unethical to expose people to pornography ala. actual scientific research?
I figure the best way to keep things from getting settled is to tie the hands of researchers.
There's one example of real world evidence I know of: Japan.
Pornography in Japan really doesn't have many limits except simply the censoring of genetalia. While fringe, there is easily available and obtained media of simulated rape, public exposure & sexual activity, sexualized streaking. In the fiction world there are lots of animated and printed works that very obviously depict additional rape, child sex (consentual and non), incest, disfiguring and nonconsentual S&M and human bondage. Hell, just look through Somethingawful's articles on hentai games and you'll see japanese interactive games that let you live out fantasies of banging your younger underage sister. And another one where you literally stalk and rape victims from a train.
And yet, Japan enjoys the lowest rates of sex crimes of all 1st world countries. I'd say the ability for an individual to safely vicariously explore deeper and more sinister fictional sexual practices (as defined by society-at-large) definitely prevents a significant number of real crimes with real victims.
I don't know anyone sexually abused as a child, but I'd be willing to wager that if the abuse could have been prevented by the perp getting his jollies off with a few drawn pictures of his fantasy instead, they'd definitely go for it.
Absolutely. Of course, I'm sure Keith skipping the country to Canada didn't do anything to help the process of trial and appeals that could get the issue heard in federal court -- where most certainly they would have had that state statute struck down and the precidence made.
Seems to me, though, that it's one of those laws that aren't really enforced except when local authorities are pressured. The linked interview also suggests there's some collusion between the local government and Scientology... claims of a falsified "Failure to Appear" warrant dated from 2000, illegally storing documents not entered in the dockets.
If word gets out that people have conditioned themselves to ignore your obtrusive and annoying advertising, and that your multi-million dollar setup in Times Square isn't making people buy any more than otherwise as evidenced by how little people are actually looking at compared to what you expect, your business model will crumble.
Not that some of you guys don't deserve unemployment.
And they both represent states outside of the contiguous 48.
I guess the majestic beauty of Alaska and the lovely Pacific Ocean surfing holidays really helps out people's perspectives. I recommend both to everyone. B)
There's a private company (Lifelock is the one I hear on the radio all the time) that also has the ability to lock down your credit. No new legislation required, it would seem. Of course, that costs money so maybe this legislation just enables individuals to lock their credit at the taxpayer's expense.
This is also supposed to stop those pre-approvals that constantly clog up your mailbox... (well, mine at least.)
"Just curious, but what do you expect them to port an 18-year old game to, that despite all efforts is going to be a very retro experience."
PSP ([another] FF1 remake is headed there)? Virtual Console (cheap and easy way to sell it: just translate it and don't bother adding anything new)? Cell Phones (no comment on that FFVII spinoff)?
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Until that's made illegal too.
Yeah, I thought life imprisonment and civil forfeiture for an attempted crime was impossible, too. Stupid me.
According to a writeup on HardOCP back in September, the new design features the ability to pretty much halt cores on-die and save power. (hit next a few times, I wish I could get my hands on the actual Powerpoint)
Home Alone and its various sequels suggest the hilarity is quite limited.
I had visions of hitting a button on my thumb drive and getting a huge desktop folded out that I can rest things on. You know, my notebook, my feet, that 5th cup of coffee...
Of course older games had bugs. But how many of them under Crane had showstopping bugs like we see today? How many of them required patches?
Six weeks of development is a pretty short time... especially if you're going to DEBUG assembly. Perhaps if YOU were informed enough about the realities of development in any kind of assembly you'd know that. There takes a level of skill to make it work that's more than just nerd points.
Oh, but wait, this particular game was produced for a variety of platforms. It wasn't as easy as setting a platform target in a command line, no, but it got done. If they had Java available to them in the 1980's the requirements for the targets of this magically portable code would have been a joke. I therefore maintain that the development teams had a great deal of skill directly handling the metal, and absolutely a higher percentage of them then compared to today.
A good observer will also note that the power pulled out from a particular gaming platform increases throughout the life of the console as development teams get more and more comfortable with the technology behind the abstractions the dev kits give them. Do you still suggest that being insulated from the hardware is a bad thing for gaming?
And so, your comparison of Firefox to Ghostbusters is just plain stupid. Firefox is not a video game. Next you'll compare space shuttle navigation software to Pong. And waving that "IT'S NOT COMPUTER SCIENCE" banner like it's your status symbol is cute... because it helps expose stupidity. Abstraction isn't the only thing the field offers, nor is it the single key to quality computing.
But of course you don't know what you're talking about, Anonymous Coward.
"The Legislative branch doesn't have the authority to take Executive powers away whenever it wants to."
Not by themselves, but certainly they can get the ball rolling by suggesting a Constitutional Amendment. See Article 5.
Not all plastics cause the body to flip out as you describe it.
I'd be more concerned with where they go after the emergency is over. The spleen collects dead red blood cells... do the artifical ones "die"? What happens to the plastic then?
IANAD, so, can any harm happen with an excess of red blood cells? Maybe this will lead to a future where some could supercharge their blood to maximize oxygen carrying ability.
Clearly El Niño the mexican wrestler.
Six weeks, eh? I suppose this was back when games were simple enough where all developers had to be intimiately familiar with the hardware and code Just Worked(tm).
All the work done in code patterns and abstractions seem to have distanced developers from the metal. It's a necessary evil in some aspects (since the actual C64 hardware was always exactly the same so some safety stuff could be glossed over), but I've always wondered how some of the greats (like Crane) would have fared had they grown up 20 years after they did.
Back in the day of FFVII English and the International Edition, word was that the game was rushed for the Japanese audience and localization gave them extra time to further refine the game.
Western versions of FFVII had a slightly retooled enemy difficulty, the bosses as you mentioned (Ruby Weapon and Emerald Weapon), and a few extra cut-scenes to try and clarify the story a little more. International Edition re-release included little pictures of some "souvenier" items like maps, a matchbook from the Honeybee inn, Tifa's underwear, props from Golden Saucer, and other things.
I wonder if this rerelease of FFXII is evidence that it, too, was rushed.
I don't disagree with your overall point.
But how would it be Microsoft's fault that people can't run applications intentionally written to be tied to their proprietary OS in an unsupported environment?
I'm not even saying the blame isn't misplaced on Ubuntu and WINE (it's still pre-version 1.0, after all). Maybe things would be better off actually educating on how to tweak it with some docs and offering it as an option than just striking it altogether.
Hear hear.
And, when not hired for a job, do they EVER get told WHY exactly they weren't hired?
HR: "Sorry Mr. Jones, we didn't hire you because you murdered those children."
Candidate: "Oh, that again. I was AQUITTED, you know. The real killer CONFESSED and is currently serving time."
HR: *calls security*
No, they'd just get a happy little letter that they've declined to offer a job and will keep his information on file for x months blah blah blah.
It's all set to be the new discrimination. What used to be "we can't hire blacks, they'll steal from us!" now becomes "we can't hire people with any kind of bad press around them, they're obviously trouble!"
I wouldn't even be surprised if there were companies which specialize in revenge, where you can google bomb someone's name and associate it with something unpleasant for a fee.
In the US, bounty hunters have legal protection to do what they do. If a company puts up a juicy reward for finding a security hole, the person coming forward could easily get the shaft and then be prosecuted under DMCA.
At least on the black market, you know, honor among thieves.
'Digital Consumer Enablement would more efficiently confuse consumers "to prevent the use of content in ways they haven't before," such as enjoying TV shows time shifted to when they want and movies on portable video players like iPods where they can see them more than once. "I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter, "even my Grandma knows by now that DRM is bad, so obviously we have to change the name of it."'
Oh man, my stomach just went on preemptive strike on that.
The only cool thing about it was two separate bags of cereal in the box. I remember being a kid and convincing my parents to buy it for me. "It's one box but TWO BAGS. That means that when the cereal is halfway finished you can open the second bag and you have fresher tasting cereal instead of the same old stale thing."
Meanwhile I ended up just opening both and mixing the two in the bowl. Heh heh heh.
My first glance at it: "Microsoft is Screwing Up Life with Vista" ;)
Interesting point. IANAP (I Am Not A Psychologist), so, who (or which organization) dictates that it's unethical to expose people to pornography ala. actual scientific research?
I figure the best way to keep things from getting settled is to tie the hands of researchers.
There's one example of real world evidence I know of: Japan.
Pornography in Japan really doesn't have many limits except simply the censoring of genetalia. While fringe, there is easily available and obtained media of simulated rape, public exposure & sexual activity, sexualized streaking. In the fiction world there are lots of animated and printed works that very obviously depict additional rape, child sex (consentual and non), incest, disfiguring and nonconsentual S&M and human bondage. Hell, just look through Somethingawful's articles on hentai games and you'll see japanese interactive games that let you live out fantasies of banging your younger underage sister. And another one where you literally stalk and rape victims from a train.
And yet, Japan enjoys the lowest rates of sex crimes of all 1st world countries. I'd say the ability for an individual to safely vicariously explore deeper and more sinister fictional sexual practices (as defined by society-at-large) definitely prevents a significant number of real crimes with real victims.
I don't know anyone sexually abused as a child, but I'd be willing to wager that if the abuse could have been prevented by the perp getting his jollies off with a few drawn pictures of his fantasy instead, they'd definitely go for it.
Absolutely. Of course, I'm sure Keith skipping the country to Canada didn't do anything to help the process of trial and appeals that could get the issue heard in federal court -- where most certainly they would have had that state statute struck down and the precidence made.
(also, IANAL)
It's a California law.
Seems to me, though, that it's one of those laws that aren't really enforced except when local authorities are pressured. The linked interview also suggests there's some collusion between the local government and Scientology... claims of a falsified "Failure to Appear" warrant dated from 2000, illegally storing documents not entered in the dockets.
If word gets out that people have conditioned themselves to ignore your obtrusive and annoying advertising, and that your multi-million dollar setup in Times Square isn't making people buy any more than otherwise as evidenced by how little people are actually looking at compared to what you expect, your business model will crumble.
Not that some of you guys don't deserve unemployment.
And they both represent states outside of the contiguous 48.
I guess the majestic beauty of Alaska and the lovely Pacific Ocean surfing holidays really helps out people's perspectives. I recommend both to everyone. B)
There's a private company (Lifelock is the one I hear on the radio all the time) that also has the ability to lock down your credit. No new legislation required, it would seem. Of course, that costs money so maybe this legislation just enables individuals to lock their credit at the taxpayer's expense.
This is also supposed to stop those pre-approvals that constantly clog up your mailbox... (well, mine at least.)
"from the no-red-rings-please dept. "
;)
Yes, it is Slashdot.
"Just curious, but what do you expect them to port an 18-year old game to, that despite all efforts is going to be a very retro experience."
PSP ([another] FF1 remake is headed there)? Virtual Console (cheap and easy way to sell it: just translate it and don't bother adding anything new)? Cell Phones (no comment on that FFVII spinoff)?