Unless the patch fixed the bug where the launcher would uncheck mods, you may want to have a look at Fallout Mod Manager which is a community made mod manager. If you want to check out the community-created mods, you could also check out Fallout 3 nexus.
Actually, the 1st didn't allow you to keep playing after finishing the main quest... or, well, if you were quick on the trigger, you might be able to play on for a 1/2 minute.
No, It's a XBox game ported to the PC and PS3. If you look at the User Interface that should be pretty obvious. But you are right in one point: PS3 is getting screwed. XBox users get extra downloadable content, PC users get a SDK (aptly named G.E.C.K.) and access to the downloadable content... PS3 users get neither.
Why is this, you may ask. Microsoft paid Bethesda (the developer) a hefty sum to get an exclusive for MS (XBox and PC), which would make XBox more attractive that PS3. This is a move by MS to push Sony and PS out of the console market, giving MS yet another monopoly.
Seriously, if what you said about the launcher-vs-installer is true, someone at Bethesda's not being silly, they're being brilliant.
It is true. My legally purchased game runs fine from fallout3.exe without the DVD in the drive. Personally, I expect that some of the more clever people at Bethesda planned it like that. Why? SecuROM is pretty twitchy, and if someone has a bad experience, they will blame Bethesda. This gives these people a simple way of getting on with the game. As you said, it is brilliant.
"The Washington Post - isn't that the same newspaper that supported the Iraq war, which has killed and displaced tens of thousand of real children, and is still forcing young girls to sell their bodies so their families can eat?"
Ah yes, but those are brown children and not part of the dominion.
That and they are not shown on big posters in the metro.
Even when you look at Google Chrome, [snip] the fact that you can't control scripts that are allowed to run, limits the user and make the user bound to the control of the webmaster, who typically controlled by a business or corporation that is only in it for the money and will infringe on rights of users without any form of conscience or compassion.
Is it surprising that a company that makes it's money from advertising would want to make it difficult for users to block adverts? I think not.
Science only deals with the natural, which doesn't mean that the supernatural cannot exist.
If the supernatural exists, it is a part of nature, and, thus, natural. This means that it can be measured and described. So, if the god(s) of some religion exists, it should be possible to test their existence. Many religions (inlcuding Christianity), however, has the rule that their god frowns upon any attempt at proving their existence. Pretty convinient, huh?
I find that most people who are offended by religion in general (as opposed to being offended by some specific aspect of a particular religion) completely misunderstand what religion is.
Most notably that religion is very, *very* much about feelings. Which is why many atheists end up being percieved like elephants moving around in a house of glass.
I just tried to access ancestor.com. With NoScript active, the page were ready in about a second. When I allowed JS to run, the page rendered in ~25 seconds. And I didn't even clear my cache first...
But it is a serious problem in the Web Development industry. I used to work as a web developer, and the graphics designers said that if a page were less than 1 MB, it would be reasonably quick.
There really are only two solutions: prepare to collect resources from off-planat or decrease the population to the level that is "sustainable" by natual processes. This is probably less than 200 million people.
And where do you get that exact number? And how does it relate to living standards, technological development, cultural habits and so on? Not to mention that it implies that you (or whoever came up with the number) has a total understanding of how the ecosystem of planet Earth works.
And no, genocide is not a solution. Even from an extreme Environmentalist point of view, the Environmental costs of a new World War would be astronomical. The human costs would be terrible as well.
Most industrialized countries have seen declines in the number of births pr. woman. Where I live, each woman bears approximately 1.7 babies (2.1 is needed for reproduction of the population).
It will make some addons stop functioning. In my addon list, FireBug doesn't work anymore. But that is, hopefully, just a question of time...
AdBlock Plus and NoScript work just fine, though you may have to get the latest version.
I only saw the final episodes of 3rd season a few weeks ago - and I know many who's only seen it halfway through the 2nd season. So it would have been nice having spoiler warnings.
And while Firefox does happen to have a double-digit market share, barely, IE 7 is a better browser IMO. It's faster, more secure (on Vista, where it runs in a sandbox, I can't speak for XP), uses less memory, and has the same tabbed interface. Both FF and IE crash about the same amount of the time, but IE handles abusive CPU-sucking JS and Flash much better. And IE has the other 85% of the market. While I do agree that IE uses much less memory and has a slightly better performance, it's not my experience that IE handles Javascript better. On the contrary, I've seen javascript seriously impair IE while FF handled it much faster.
Now let's just be glad that *they* paid for the war and not us. If we buy their products (and I suspect most here do), we are the ones paying... where else would they get the money for the war?
From an environmental point of view, using corn to produce alcohol has the same basic problem that other biofuels have, ie. that production and transportation emits CO2. The reason the corn alcohol is promoted (if I'm not very much mistaken) is that a group of large American farming corporations smell large profits!
As you said, for biofuels to be interesting, we would have to set up a sustainable infrastructure. This infrastructure, however, isn't there, so for biofuels to become interesting this would have to be set up. This requires sizable investments (as well as technological development), which cut into profits - at least on the short term. And this is (in my humble opinion) the main reason that development of alternative energy sources is so slow.
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Unless the patch fixed the bug where the launcher would uncheck mods, you may want to have a look at Fallout Mod Manager which is a community made mod manager. If you want to check out the community-created mods, you could also check out Fallout 3 nexus.
Actually, the 1st didn't allow you to keep playing after finishing the main quest ... or, well, if you were quick on the trigger, you might be able to play on for a 1/2 minute.
Fallout 3 is a PC game ported to PS3
No, It's a XBox game ported to the PC and PS3. If you look at the User Interface that should be pretty obvious. But you are right in one point: PS3 is getting screwed. XBox users get extra downloadable content, PC users get a SDK (aptly named G.E.C.K.) and access to the downloadable content ... PS3 users get neither.
Why is this, you may ask. Microsoft paid Bethesda (the developer) a hefty sum to get an exclusive for MS (XBox and PC), which would make XBox more attractive that PS3. This is a move by MS to push Sony and PS out of the console market, giving MS yet another monopoly.
Want to browse without getting registered by google analytics? Simple:
1) Install Firefox
2) Get the NoScript plugin
3) Browse to site using google analytics
4) Choose Forbid google-analytics.com
5) ???
6) Profits!!!
Only one problem: Many (most?) people can't be bothered and may not even care at all.
Seriously, if what you said about the launcher-vs-installer is true, someone at Bethesda's not being silly, they're being brilliant.
It is true. My legally purchased game runs fine from fallout3.exe without the DVD in the drive. Personally, I expect that some of the more clever people at Bethesda planned it like that. Why? SecuROM is pretty twitchy, and if someone has a bad experience, they will blame Bethesda. This gives these people a simple way of getting on with the game. As you said, it is brilliant.
"The Washington Post - isn't that the same newspaper that supported the Iraq war, which has killed and displaced tens of thousand of real children, and is still forcing young girls to sell their bodies so their families can eat?"
Ah yes, but those are brown children and not part of the dominion.
That and they are not shown on big posters in the metro.
Even when you look at Google Chrome, [snip] the fact that you can't control scripts that are allowed to run, limits the user and make the user bound to the control of the webmaster, who typically controlled by a business or corporation that is only in it for the money and will infringe on rights of users without any form of conscience or compassion.
Is it surprising that a company that makes it's money from advertising would want to make it difficult for users to block adverts? I think not.
Science only deals with the natural, which doesn't mean that the supernatural cannot exist.
If the supernatural exists, it is a part of nature, and, thus, natural. This means that it can be measured and described. So, if the god(s) of some religion exists, it should be possible to test their existence. Many religions (inlcuding Christianity), however, has the rule that their god frowns upon any attempt at proving their existence. Pretty convinient, huh?
I find that most people who are offended by religion in general (as opposed to being offended by some specific aspect of a particular religion) completely misunderstand what religion is.
Most notably that religion is very, *very* much about feelings. Which is why many atheists end up being percieved like elephants moving around in a house of glass.
I just tried to access ancestor.com. With NoScript active, the page were ready in about a second. When I allowed JS to run, the page rendered in ~25 seconds. And I didn't even clear my cache first... But it is a serious problem in the Web Development industry. I used to work as a web developer, and the graphics designers said that if a page were less than 1 MB, it would be reasonably quick.
There really are only two solutions: prepare to collect resources from off-planat or decrease the population to the level that is "sustainable" by natual processes. This is probably less than 200 million people.
And where do you get that exact number? And how does it relate to living standards, technological development, cultural habits and so on? Not to mention that it implies that you (or whoever came up with the number) has a total understanding of how the ecosystem of planet Earth works.
And no, genocide is not a solution. Even from an extreme Environmentalist point of view, the Environmental costs of a new World War would be astronomical. The human costs would be terrible as well.
Most industrialized countries have seen declines in the number of births pr. woman. Where I live, each woman bears approximately 1.7 babies (2.1 is needed for reproduction of the population).
It will make some addons stop functioning. In my addon list, FireBug doesn't work anymore. But that is, hopefully, just a question of time ...
AdBlock Plus and NoScript work just fine, though you may have to get the latest version.
I only saw the final episodes of 3rd season a few weeks ago - and I know many who's only seen it halfway through the 2nd season. So it would have been nice having spoiler warnings.
From an environmental point of view, using corn to produce alcohol has the same basic problem that other biofuels have, ie. that production and transportation emits CO2. The reason the corn alcohol is promoted (if I'm not very much mistaken) is that a group of large American farming corporations smell large profits! As you said, for biofuels to be interesting, we would have to set up a sustainable infrastructure. This infrastructure, however, isn't there, so for biofuels to become interesting this would have to be set up. This requires sizable investments (as well as technological development), which cut into profits - at least on the short term. And this is (in my humble opinion) the main reason that development of alternative energy sources is so slow.
Uhmmm, *producing* and *transporting* biofuel emits CO2, so it's not really viable as a non-CO2 emitting technology.