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Don't think that's a fair statement because there's a problem on one platform - this was originally written for Linux/Raspbian but by it's open source nature has been compiled for other platforms. The original programmer doesn't actually maintain the Windows version himself. Plus there are known problems with the Windows versions which are well documented. Glad you've found a solution, but not fair to take a pop at FOSS because you've had to write a 6 line script to make it work... I'd be more understanding if you were paying for it! EDIT: and in that vain, it is open source so feel free to fix it EDIT2: sorry if that came off a bit aggressive, I just think people fail to appreciate the amount of work that goes in to FOSS projects some times

There are also incredibly powerful ATK weapons with NO materia slots for most characters... have never brought myself to actually use them though...

I've gone 'will see how it goes' in the poll as this will be my main course of action, however I have a laptop I use for dev work that I'll upgrade straight away. The rest of my machines will wait a few months until the inevitable early bugs and security holes are fixed

I love the materia system! As @ICTDirect_Dave says, it really becomes a balancing act later on in the game. For added fun, you have special materia like 'added effect', which when paired with an elemental materia (such as fire), adds that element to your weapon or armour. When added to a weapon, you do normal damage + x% elemental damage - this can greatly increase the power or massively decrease it, depending on the enemy's weakness/immunity to the element. Added to armour, it increases your strength to that element and when fully levelled, makes you absorb health from that element. A neat loop hole here is if you have a very strong elemental weapon plus fully levelled armour of that element, you can attack yourself to gain HP for free It does start out very simple, "add materia gain $spell" but it soon gets more complicated. EDIT: oh yeah and one thing I really like is that it's the materia that levels up rather than the character, so you can switch it around your party when you need to. Limited slots on your weapons/armour mean you can't just make one character have every spell going, you have to plan. In contrast, FFIX's spells are linked to the armour/weapon and the character learns the spell after wearing that armour/using that weapon long enough. I didn't really like that, as it meant you could just swap stuff around until your whole party knew ALL THE SPELLS [it's not quite that simple, but close] Fair waning: I'm a bit of an FFVII fanboi...

I wouldn't have thought you'd be getting the night vision goggles with it for £40... "Limited Edition" is a bit of a push, I've never struggled to buy one I've wanted, certainly don't seem too limited... Not sure what your question is to be honest? You don't have to buy them if you don't want to, some people will if it's a game they love with some nice collectible extras.

Pick one and stick to it. There's nothing wrong with PHP, it's still a very popular language for the web and under continuous development. So if you already know some of that, there's no reason you have to change. C# I think is a great language, but you're limited to Windows servers which are often more expensive than their Linux counterparts (web parts of .NET have recently been open sourced, but it's going to be a while before the OS version is as robust as the Windows equivalent) Ruby on Rails is gaining popularity with many users citing it's simplicity to get things done as a reason for using it, no experience with it myself though. There's no right or wrong language*, just use what you're comfortable with. Better to write working PHP code in several scripts than one broken page in C# * within reason; you probably don't want to write a website in PASCAL! (although technically, you could!)

Will this do you? (Opened in LibreOffice, images were weird sizes so resized as best I could, then exported PDF) Health & Safety - The Great Victoria Hotel.pdf

Little one got me Arkham Knight for father's day, picking it up on Tuesday and have a weekend home alone in a couple of weeks so I'll probably finish it then

If that was on your first play through, I imagine you were pretty p'd at how that turned out!

Really?! That could be a seriously stupid decision - I've been going off the assumption that both Hololens and Morpheus would have to be under £200 to compete with Oculus. Problem is, Oculus will be on PC, so most games* will be compatible with it. Hololens is Microsoft, so aside from working with XB1 is likely to work with Windows too, plus it's a different take on the idea so I could actually see people buying both a VR device and Hololens. Morpheus will very likely be PS4 only, if it's the most expensive of the bunch too, I just can't see it succeeding. Yeah there'll be console only PS4 gamers who will buy them, but surely most people these days play a mixture of console and PC - why would you buy a Morpheus that will only work on PS4 games that happen to support it in that case? * what I mean is, most games supporting VR will get a PC release and will therefore almost certainly work with Oculus

John Carmack. I heard he just stared at it until it stopped.

Oh I'm with you now! Yeah it's a real PITA. I get why the EU are enforcing leadless solder (it's extremely hazardous and is polluting our water streams), but it's a major problem for electronics. Wish somebody could figure out a way to make leadless solder that didn't disintegrate after a couple of years! I did think about having this sent off for a reflow, but TBH I have no interest in Macs. I was excited when it was handed to me because I'm sure I'd have enjoyed learning the ins and outs of it, but I'm not prepared to spend ~£100 getting it working.

Final before it finishes

Final before it finishes

I don't think anyone stated they wouldn't be able to access your site, just that it'd be unpleasant to use. You'll be hard pushed to find anyone worth their salt telling you not to make a responsive website, and if you do I'd seriously question their reasoning. EDIT: also, if you're using Chrome, tap F12 then click the device icon and you can emulate lots of popular devices

Jewel Staite as Aerith

It suggests an action RPG style combat system to me. That might be the wrong terminology, but I mean similar to FFXII: I really hate that...

This worries me... I like turn based combat, it's one of the first things I look for in a JRPG. Well, only time will tell I suppose.

In the interests of completeness, I wrote a couple of functions that enable you to count cells based on their colour a while back (though I advise you avoid using macros whenever possible; the methods above are a better fit in your case): Public Function cell_colour(Cell_Check As Range) As Long cell_colour = Cell_Check.Interior.Color End Function Public Function count_colour(Count_Range As Range, Colour As Long) As Long Dim x As Range count_colour = 0 For Each x In Count_Range If x.Interior.Color = Colour Then count_colour = count_colour + 1 End If Next x End Function Usage: pick a cell that is the same colour as that which you wish to count (I usually put a key somewhere to help here). Say that cell's address is 'Sheet2!A1' and the range you want to count is 'Sheet1!A2:A100', the formula you would use on your sheet would be: =COUNT_COLOUR(Sheet1!A2:A100, CELL_COLOUR(Sheet2!A1))

Someone my OH works with was complaining that you didn't actually see it - I find that deeply disturbing; the noise was almost too much for me!

Haha yes, this! We're moving at the moment so my gaming time is just the odd hour here and there. Add to this the fact my memory is awful (as I said earlier, despite having played through FFVII about 10 times, I still forget bits between play thoughs; keeps it fun at least!) and I find myself lost on the world map a lot. The great thing about FFVII is that no matter where you turn up, there's almost always something to do. There are whole story lines you can completely bypass, either on purpose or just by missing them. It's probably why it was such a huge deal at the time; it's certainly the first game I ever remember playing that felt like I was truly in an open world.

It's worth looking at old manual lenses on eBay, you can get mount adapters for most (i.e. if you have a canon, you can get M42 -> EF adapters so the lens will fit your camera) Downside is it'll be manual focus, so not a lot of good for fast moving subjects (unless you set to infinity focus) but it's a good way to get some good quality glass for cheap and would be fine for shooting perched birds if you're patient Depending on your camera, a lot of modern ones (particularly CSCs) have manual focus helpers; this shows in-focus areas highlighted in red on the back screen. Very handy for using manual lenses! My favourite lens for portraits is an old Zuiko 1.4f 50mm - takes stunning photos and only cost me £40

It's worth a try - there have been various issues reported on the GitHub site about running on Windows 7, many of which are caused by scsynth not exiting properly, and this "fix" has worked for many. I'm a cynic - I never believe a thing my users tell me until I've seen it with my own two eyes!

With sonic-pi closed, check task manager for scsynth.exe - if it's there, kill it and try opening sonic-pi again. If that works, it might be worth creating a simple script to do this that the teacher can run if they hit problems.