With a slight chance of sounding on the offside here, I'd like to point out the fact that Bethesda did a good job with Oblivion if the user mods made the game more enjoyable. I am one of them who enjoyed Oblivion with user mods a lot more than the vanilla game myself, and I thought it was great after you got some modifications to the various game systems!
When you consider how many people play games now compared to how many people played games in the time of old Daggerfall, it sort of makes sense that user modifications of the games are very important to the game developers now. A game that is developed with options for advanced user modding will necessarily have a larger audience than the ones without user modding. Some people even buy games just because they are moddable - ie. they find the art of modding the games more fun than playing the game itself.
So - I'd say Oblivion was not at all the great disappointment many people try to point it out as.:-)
I have found that http://gentoo-wiki.com/ is a great resource for knowledge about the basesystem itself of Linux. I do love my Gentoo of course, but you'll find resources on said wiki for Linux in general - and quite a few of them - and I've seen people from both the Debian and Ubuntu community also look to this Wiki from time to time.
Well.. I can imagine the catch-all idea would definitely not be a good idea if you have an isp that enforces some kind of bandwidth limit to your account.. I guess it would depend on the domain name though.. But you could easily get a few MB of traffic per day wasted, just because you got a lot of spam..
It seems that the virus companies are more intent on issuing warnings about many viruses (the logical assumption to this is: to sell more of their products), than to issuing warnings about only the very dangerous viruses.
Another point to consider - are all of these 232 viruses that have been issued alerts about actually viruses we should consider "very dangerous"? IMHO, I'd say that a good few of them are nothing but very annoying - but I wouldn't say very annoying is the same as very dangerous... I'm more than open for different opinions on this one though.
Might be a tad off topic of course, but still something to take into consideration regarding the medical companies:
If you also take into consideration the heavy changes those very antidepressants make to the neural system in a persons body, you can actually discover that their primary and sole concern is not people's health, but rather their wallets (and preferably that other people spend their cash on the oh-so-needed medication they so desperately need).
My father, which is currently studying the human neutral system, has referred me to the plasticity that the human neural system is capable of. The brain is capable of adapting to an impressively high number of various known (and certainly unknown) conditions - and when the brain adapts to something, via the neural system, this is what is referred to as plasticity. I quote : "It represents an intrinsic property of the human nervous system that persists throughout the human lifespan. The nervous system is constantly reorganizing in response to changes in the afferent input of any particular neural system or changes in the targets of its efferent connections." (Quoted Document Link)
It is quite easy to imagine the immense possibilities for plasticity in the case of anti depressants - and/or particularly in the case of SSRI antidepressants, due to their very nature of altering how the neural system works. Especially dangerous business is giving this type of medications to younger people, for instance teens, as they are still in the process of growing up.
Hmm.. Is Europe really that ahead of the US when it comes to cell phone usage and tech? I mean, I wouldn't want to have a cell phone if I had to pay for incoming calls - that sounds really really dangerous when I think of the bills...
Why doesn't the consumers (that would be you americans) question these policys? IMHO, it should be free to receive a call - that's sorta the idea with the cell phone tech, isn't it? To be "available for anyone at any time" ?
Free incoming minutes? Not sure I understand what you mean here...
Here in little viking land, with our near 5 million citizens, we have to pay a lot more for cell phone calling than for landline based calls... This of course goes both for calling to a cellphone, and calling from a cellphone - the prices aren't really that different. But it's free to -receive- a call... Is that what you mean by incoming minutes? (For comparison and just for the fun of it.. 1 US$ = 8 NOK. To call a cell phone costs approx. 0.80 NOK per minute. To call a landline costs approx 0.09 NOK per minute.)
I don't get it.. Why does the big companies care so much whether or not people make modding chips for the consoles, as long as the modding chips enhance the consoles so the owners can use them for additional fun? I mean, what they should care about is whether or not they get good sales for their product - whether those products are bought from Europe, US, Asia, whatever - they still get the royalties don't they?
Heck, zone 1 dvd's are way more expensive here in Norway than zone 2 dvd's anyways... After all, they're imported wares and such.. Same should go for these wares, shouldn't it?
I wonder if this will have any impact on MS plans for making the next generation of Office. AFAIK, they're planning to make all the applications work together through XML... Then again, it is "only" a newline character...:P
We have this discussion in one of the major norwegian newspapers regarding the security of using Outlook as an email client, where the commenter from MS in Norway actually admits to one of the big problems that has existed in Outlook was 'bad design by default'-additions to the program. I suspect that this heavily goes into other MS applications as well. Link to Norwegian Article[Dagbladet.no].
The other thing that I feel is a little interesting is how all these reporters manage to "overlook" the fact that what they describe as 'Linux' is what Linux-users would call a 'Linux Distribution' or 'Linux Platform'. (How many security errors have we seen posted for the Linux kernel the last year?)
But - as previously stated in the article, and actually also by the commenter from MS in the article I refer to earlier, and I quote the MS commenter: "Security is something you achieve by a combination of technology, good routines, and knowledge. (As in good administrators) It is misleading to tell someone that they can just change their OS Platform, or technology, and then they're safe". Quite good comment, for someone from MS;)
It looks very nice, but I don't see the practical uses of it. First of all, if I wanted to watercool my system, I would try a Peltier element to reduce the temperatures to as low as possible. I do of course have a low cpu speed myself, but 34 degrees celcius is my system temperature for an Athlon T-Bird 1.33Ghz system which is only aircooled - and the AMD CPU's are infamous for their heat generation. Also in this machine is a GeForce 4 TI4600 display adapter, which generates a whole lot of heat just by itself as well.
In my eyes, the system is only for eyecandy - as it is surely a beautiful sight for the eye - but it doesn't have much practical use. It is expensive, and I don't believe the system gains any much stability from it, as the Intel CPU's are already made for stability @ factory. If they were able to add a Peltier, perhaps display adapter cooling, and hd cooling - in that small case - then it would be a convenient solution. But as it is now - just eyecandy, imho of course.:)
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With a slight chance of sounding on the offside here, I'd like to point out the fact that Bethesda did a good job with Oblivion if the user mods made the game more enjoyable. I am one of them who enjoyed Oblivion with user mods a lot more than the vanilla game myself, and I thought it was great after you got some modifications to the various game systems!
:-)
When you consider how many people play games now compared to how many people played games in the time of old Daggerfall, it sort of makes sense that user modifications of the games are very important to the game developers now. A game that is developed with options for advanced user modding will necessarily have a larger audience than the ones without user modding. Some people even buy games just because they are moddable - ie. they find the art of modding the games more fun than playing the game itself.
So - I'd say Oblivion was not at all the great disappointment many people try to point it out as.
I have found that http://gentoo-wiki.com/ is a great resource for knowledge about the basesystem itself of Linux. I do love my Gentoo of course, but you'll find resources on said wiki for Linux in general - and quite a few of them - and I've seen people from both the Debian and Ubuntu community also look to this Wiki from time to time.
Unless you are being ironic (which I most sincerely hope you are), I believe I have to reevaluate my opinion of what an "addict" is...
Well.. I can imagine the catch-all idea would definitely not be a good idea if you have an isp that enforces some kind of bandwidth limit to your account.. I guess it would depend on the domain name though.. But you could easily get a few MB of traffic per day wasted, just because you got a lot of spam..
My thought too.
It seems that the virus companies are more intent on issuing warnings about many viruses (the logical assumption to this is: to sell more of their products), than to issuing warnings about only the very dangerous viruses.
Another point to consider - are all of these 232 viruses that have been issued alerts about actually viruses we should consider "very dangerous"? IMHO, I'd say that a good few of them are nothing but very annoying - but I wouldn't say very annoying is the same as very dangerous... I'm more than open for different opinions on this one though.
Might be a tad off topic of course, but still something to take into consideration regarding the medical companies :
:/
If you also take into consideration the heavy changes those very antidepressants make to the neural system in a persons body, you can actually discover that their primary and sole concern is not people's health, but rather their wallets (and preferably that other people spend their cash on the oh-so-needed medication they so desperately need).
My father, which is currently studying the human neutral system, has referred me to the plasticity that the human neural system is capable of. The brain is capable of adapting to an impressively high number of various known (and certainly unknown) conditions - and when the brain adapts to something, via the neural system, this is what is referred to as plasticity. I quote : "It represents an intrinsic property of the human nervous system that persists throughout the human lifespan. The nervous system is constantly reorganizing in response to changes in the afferent input of any particular neural system or changes in the targets of its efferent connections." (Quoted Document Link)
It is quite easy to imagine the immense possibilities for plasticity in the case of anti depressants - and/or particularly in the case of SSRI antidepressants, due to their very nature of altering how the neural system works. Especially dangerous business is giving this type of medications to younger people, for instance teens, as they are still in the process of growing up.
Ir scares the heck outta me at least...
So THIS is what they did when they produced the Ancient Times music for that game! I knew Sid Meier was a genius...
Hmm.. Is Europe really that ahead of the US when it comes to cell phone usage and tech? I mean, I wouldn't want to have a cell phone if I had to pay for incoming calls - that sounds really really dangerous when I think of the bills...
Why doesn't the consumers (that would be you americans) question these policys? IMHO, it should be free to receive a call - that's sorta the idea with the cell phone tech, isn't it? To be "available for anyone at any time" ?
Free incoming minutes? Not sure I understand what you mean here...
Here in little viking land, with our near 5 million citizens, we have to pay a lot more for cell phone calling than for landline based calls... This of course goes both for calling to a cellphone, and calling from a cellphone - the prices aren't really that different. But it's free to -receive- a call... Is that what you mean by incoming minutes? (For comparison and just for the fun of it.. 1 US$ = 8 NOK. To call a cell phone costs approx. 0.80 NOK per minute. To call a landline costs approx 0.09 NOK per minute.)
... now I can get legal spam instead of just the regular... :D
[Error: No such error] is also a classic one I believe.. :P
I don't get it.. Why does the big companies care so much whether or not people make modding chips for the consoles, as long as the modding chips enhance the consoles so the owners can use them for additional fun? I mean, what they should care about is whether or not they get good sales for their product - whether those products are bought from Europe, US, Asia, whatever - they still get the royalties don't they?
Heck, zone 1 dvd's are way more expensive here in Norway than zone 2 dvd's anyways... After all, they're imported wares and such.. Same should go for these wares, shouldn't it?
I wonder if this will have any impact on MS plans for making the next generation of Office. AFAIK, they're planning to make all the applications work together through XML... Then again, it is "only" a newline character... :P
You do of course mean time = 10^-*42* seconds? ;)))
We have this discussion in one of the major norwegian newspapers regarding the security of using Outlook as an email client, where the commenter from MS in Norway actually admits to one of the big problems that has existed in Outlook was 'bad design by default'-additions to the program. I suspect that this heavily goes into other MS applications as well. Link to Norwegian Article[Dagbladet.no].
;)
The other thing that I feel is a little interesting is how all these reporters manage to "overlook" the fact that what they describe as 'Linux' is what Linux-users would call a 'Linux Distribution' or 'Linux Platform'. (How many security errors have we seen posted for the Linux kernel the last year?)
But - as previously stated in the article, and actually also by the commenter from MS in the article I refer to earlier, and I quote the MS commenter: "Security is something you achieve by a combination of technology, good routines, and knowledge. (As in good administrators) It is misleading to tell someone that they can just change their OS Platform, or technology, and then they're safe". Quite good comment, for someone from MS
It looks very nice, but I don't see the practical uses of it. First of all, if I wanted to watercool my system, I would try a Peltier element to reduce the temperatures to as low as possible. I do of course have a low cpu speed myself, but 34 degrees celcius is my system temperature for an Athlon T-Bird 1.33Ghz system which is only aircooled - and the AMD CPU's are infamous for their heat generation. Also in this machine is a GeForce 4 TI4600 display adapter, which generates a whole lot of heat just by itself as well.
:)
In my eyes, the system is only for eyecandy - as it is surely a beautiful sight for the eye - but it doesn't have much practical use. It is expensive, and I don't believe the system gains any much stability from it, as the Intel CPU's are already made for stability @ factory. If they were able to add a Peltier, perhaps display adapter cooling, and hd cooling - in that small case - then it would be a convenient solution. But as it is now - just eyecandy, imho of course.