I was looking eastward when I saw one of these fireballs fall from the sky. It was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star. Albin described it as leaving a greenish streak behind it that glowed for some seconds. Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles. It seemed to him that it fell to earth about one hundred miles east of him.
But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between Horsell, Ottershaw, and Woking, rose early with the idea of finding it. Find it he did, soon after dawn, and not far from the sand pits. An enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.
The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent. The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation. It had a diameter of about thirty yards. He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites are rounded more or less completely. It was, however, still so hot from its flight through the air as to forbid his near approach. A stirring noise within its cylinder he ascribed to the unequal cooling of its surface; for at that time it had not occurred to him that it might be hollow.
I'll try to write more tomorrow when I've had a chance to consult with several authorities.
There are no AK-47s in the game you noob! Just Colt M16A's...and the rhubarb isn't in the forest. LOL, right right, the rhubarb is in the forest....it's in the fricken meadows.
And everyone knows a level 13 unicorn can't take on a White Wizard...you need a group for that!
I thought the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was...but honestly I think this is just a "happy" coincidence for Sony. Not only are they screwing over a customer but now a major competitor in the MMORPG world.
So what you're saying is, no matter what, "Blizzard good! Blizzard good!" Great. Thanks for that. Why don't you keep your blunt wit to yourself or actually contribute to the conversation like the parent poster. Wanker.
No, didn't say anything about that. Nor did I hide behind an anonymous coward post. I was referring to the mentality here at Slashdot that no matter how intelligent or insightful the parent poster tried to explain things, there would always be idiots like yourself that won't be swayed in their crowd-mentality.
No problem, make sure it's good and bug-free.
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Elder Scrolls IV Delayed
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But of course, I'm sure people will come out of the woodwork with the "They lied to us! I'll never trust them again!" rant they always do when a game is delayed. Why? I have no idea. I feel sorry for game companies because they're screwed no matter what. If they release a game on time and if there wasn't enough time to totally squash the bugs, people will totally complain about it and cry and bitch and moan about how blah-blah sucks and how dare they release a game that's buggy and we would have waited for them to fix it. Now, that they're taking time to fix it and make it right I'm wondering how many people will cry and bitch and moan about THAT?
They were even damned on some message boards for announcing this title! "Should fix Elder Scrolls 3 before you start another one!" some of the posts said. I swear to god, there's no pleasing anyone in the game community.
Don't you know that this is Slashdot, everyone has to go off half-cocked and just condemn Blizzard for trying to stop anything like cheating.
Next you'll hear that some of the authors of the cheat codes put the code into open-source, so that Slashdot will have a headline "Blizzard against open source!"
This is Slashdot dude...don't try to explain things to these idiots because they've already made up their mind and their minds say "Blizzard Bad! Bad Blizzard!".
After reading your post again, I figured out that you were joking...sorry, a little slow on the uptake this morning/week/year. I apologize for my indignation.
Not sure if you're kidding or not so I'll go on the assumption that you're not kidding.
Where does it say that having sex with more than one person isn't fine? It's sex. There shouldn't be any morality on a biological need or against something that feels good like sex does.
And also, where does it say that a kid deserves exactly one father and one mother living in the same house? Read any statistics lately about how many single parents are in the world right now doing just fine? I think perhaps you've been watching too much Ozzie and Harriet as the concept of the "nuclear family" is a mid 20th century invention.
Keep your morals to yourself. You may say that promiscuous sex spreads disease and will hurt or kill many people...then what are the morality police going to do about the bigger causes of death and wreaked lives in this country? When are we going to ban automobiles as so many lives and families are shattered each year from car accidents. Remove them and this will fix that problem! We don't NEED cars do we? Also, how many deaths occur each year from people falling in the bathtub or on icy sidewalks? How about making everyone wear a helmet 24/7 to prevent this? Why not? It's the moral thing to do.
Or, you could try this, stay out of other peoples bedrooms and let them fuck who they want to.
On second thought, your post has to be a joke as I can't seeing someone with enough intelligence to form words and type them on a computer actually thinking these things.
I guess you think that the original LOTR books should all be taken out and burned, so that only Peter Jackson's Masterpiece should be available for the masses.
No, actually I don't. I think both things...the movies and the books...can exist in the world. I mean, let's boil it all down shall we? It's a fricken movie and book! As I said on another post WHO CARES when you get right down to it? They're both entertainment. If they were both wiped out of existence tomorrow life would go on. Getting pissed over one or the other is really kind of silly when you get right down to it. Enjoy both if you wish or neither. Does it really matter?
But the fact of the matter is...who cares? It's a fricken movie...AND it's a fricken book! If both were erased from existence tomorrow the Earth would still spin on its axis and life would continue on. Getting upset about this crap is kind of silly.
Jackson doesn't get that badge...but he DOES get the badge for that particular vision of LOTR. It was HIS images and look and feel EA was using. If they didn't want his input, they should have brought in their own art directors and designers. It's not something he could have just taken his name off of when the entire thing looks like his movies.
That's funny stuff there tough-guy. But hey, you're entitled to your opinion. But I suppose, and this is only a guess, that you're one of those people that feels that everything in the books should have been put down on film including the Scouring of the Shire and such? Am I right about that? Oh, and the Elves at Helms Deep probably really sticks in your gums too doesn't it? Did you get up and walk out when that happened like I've heard others write?
Just wondering...guess this also can be thrown into all the Star Wars fans that hate Lucas for destroying their memories or something...
Yeah, no kidding. I clicked on the article thinking it would be a whole story about this, but come on...it's mentioned in a few times in an article that has nothing to do with this issue.
The summary that the main poster made was ALL of the EA stuff mentioned in the article!
Nope, not allowed to. In my case, I can't apply for citizenship until after the next round of rigged elections.
Wow, not even a citizen yet and already disillusioned with the country. I have to ask though, if you're complaining about this stuff, how bad was it in the country you were coming from that you had to come here? Or is this country the lesser of two evils?
I thought The White House and the President...whoever this may be...is all public domain stuff. Granted, I didn't read the article in a rush to post this uninformed rambling.
But from what I remember, when the movie Contact used President Clintons image and voice they too were in the clear even when Clinton complained. They said hey, you're in the public domain pal.
Thought that the Presidential Seal was also in the public domain.
Depends on what studies you read. It's about for every study against, there's another one that says there's no impact.
But please...videogames are now the target that everyone can point to. There's a long history of these targets that everyone points and say they're corrupting our youth.
Rock n Roll Comics books Television Movies Rap Music
And now videogames. Yes, it's a never ending cycle. Soon this will all blow over and something new will come along that people can point to and blame all of societies ills on.
Where in the links of the story are you getting ANY of this crap you're throwing out?
100 player instances? Hord and alliance cooperating? Where are you getting this from? Level 75? Where are you getting that they're opening Northrend and the Emerald Dream? Also, where the FUCK are you getting from the links above anything about a new class?
You call bullshit on the story? I call bullshit on the Meth you've been snorting.
Or is it what goes around comes around, I can never remember.
But anyway, there hasn't been a more deserving guy than this. The guy obviously has mental problems..and I'm not saying this to say "man, dude is CRAZY". I mean mental problems as in "we the jury find Jack Thompson...".
I take it from your sig you're not a fan of the ACLU. So I have to ask, if there was no ACLU would it really make our country better? If so, explain how. (not expecting an answer really...)
Also, if writing about rape fantasy and pedophilia becomes illegal, what is next? Writing about murder? So does this also mean that writers like Stephen King would be outlawed and most of his books pulled from the shelves? What about the Judy Blume novels...since some deal with teenagers and sex would they too be outlawed then since these teenagers are underage.
Or is this the same argument that gun lobbyists tell all the time that if you outlaw one type of gun soon all guns will be outlawed? It's interesting that the stereotype pro-gun person is also anti-ACLU! (not saying you're pro-gun, just making a generalization).
To tell the truth, never went to the site...no really. Check the logs!
But still, and read this carefully: THEY ARE JUST WORDS ON A SCREEN. No matter WHAT they wrote, it's just words.
Yes, it's hard to defend stories about infants being raped and the like. But I find it hard to believe that a computer with words on it...not images, words...is "illegal". I'm not a liberal or a conservative or anything for that matter. Not wearing a tin-foil hat thinking "they're out to get us". My mind boggles to the notion that writing fantasy stories (depraved, sick, twisted though they are) is illegal. I DO believe in the Constitution. I've read it a few times and didn't say anything about you can't write certain things. Maybe I missed that amendment.
Lol, like the NYTimes the BBC has been accused of being both too liberal and too conservative. I like that actually, when no one can agree as to what they lean toward it tells me they tend to report facts more than just an agenda.
Slashdot Mirror
I was looking eastward when I saw one of these fireballs fall from the sky. It was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star. Albin described it as leaving a greenish streak behind it that glowed for some seconds. Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles. It seemed to him that it fell to earth about one hundred miles east of him.
But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between Horsell, Ottershaw, and Woking, rose early with the idea of finding it. Find it he did, soon after dawn, and not far from the sand pits. An enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction
over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.
The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent. The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a
thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation. It had a diameter of about thirty yards. He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites are rounded more or less completely. It was, however, still so hot from its flight through the air as to forbid his near approach. A stirring noise within its cylinder he ascribed to the unequal cooling of its surface; for at that time it had not occurred to him that it might be hollow.
I'll try to write more tomorrow when I've had a chance to consult with several authorities.
I don't know, I think Fargo at GameSpy is pretty funny. I really like his game previews which really turn out to be nothing of the kind.
You should check him out. Otherwise you're right....
Two wrongs don't make a right...but three rights make a left!
Think about it....
You've obviously never played World of Warcraft.
There are no AK-47s in the game you noob! Just Colt M16A's...and the rhubarb isn't in the forest. LOL, right right, the rhubarb is in the forest....it's in the fricken meadows.
And everyone knows a level 13 unicorn can't take on a White Wizard...you need a group for that!
Sheesh...
I thought the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was...but honestly I think this is just a "happy" coincidence for Sony. Not only are they screwing over a customer but now a major competitor in the MMORPG world.
But again, it's probably just a coincidence
So what you're saying is, no matter what, "Blizzard good! Blizzard good!" Great. Thanks for that. Why don't you keep your blunt wit to yourself or actually contribute to the conversation like the parent poster. Wanker.
No, didn't say anything about that. Nor did I hide behind an anonymous coward post. I was referring to the mentality here at Slashdot that no matter how intelligent or insightful the parent poster tried to explain things, there would always be idiots like yourself that won't be swayed in their crowd-mentality.
But of course, I'm sure people will come out of the woodwork with the "They lied to us! I'll never trust them again!" rant they always do when a game is delayed. Why? I have no idea. I feel sorry for game companies because they're screwed no matter what. If they release a game on time and if there wasn't enough time to totally squash the bugs, people will totally complain about it and cry and bitch and moan about how blah-blah sucks and how dare they release a game that's buggy and we would have waited for them to fix it. Now, that they're taking time to fix it and make it right I'm wondering how many people will cry and bitch and moan about THAT?
They were even damned on some message boards for announcing this title! "Should fix Elder Scrolls 3 before you start another one!" some of the posts said. I swear to god, there's no pleasing anyone in the game community.
Your logic and insight are not welcome here!
Don't you know that this is Slashdot, everyone has to go off half-cocked and just condemn Blizzard for trying to stop anything like cheating.
Next you'll hear that some of the authors of the cheat codes put the code into open-source, so that Slashdot will have a headline "Blizzard against open source!"
This is Slashdot dude...don't try to explain things to these idiots because they've already made up their mind and their minds say "Blizzard Bad! Bad Blizzard!".
After reading your post again, I figured out that you were joking...sorry, a little slow on the uptake this morning/week/year. I apologize for my indignation.
Not sure if you're kidding or not so I'll go on the assumption that you're not kidding.
Where does it say that having sex with more than one person isn't fine? It's sex. There shouldn't be any morality on a biological need or against something that feels good like sex does.
And also, where does it say that a kid deserves exactly one father and one mother living in the same house? Read any statistics lately about how many single parents are in the world right now doing just fine? I think perhaps you've been watching too much Ozzie and Harriet as the concept of the "nuclear family" is a mid 20th century invention.
Keep your morals to yourself. You may say that promiscuous sex spreads disease and will hurt or kill many people...then what are the morality police going to do about the bigger causes of death and wreaked lives in this country? When are we going to ban automobiles as so many lives and families are shattered each year from car accidents. Remove them and this will fix that problem! We don't NEED cars do we? Also, how many deaths occur each year from people falling in the bathtub or on icy sidewalks? How about making everyone wear a helmet 24/7 to prevent this? Why not? It's the moral thing to do.
Or, you could try this, stay out of other peoples bedrooms and let them fuck who they want to.
On second thought, your post has to be a joke as I can't seeing someone with enough intelligence to form words and type them on a computer actually thinking these things.
When this was announced, world chess champion Gary Kasparov said "ok, no way am I playing this fricken thing"
I guess you think that the original LOTR books should all be taken out and burned, so that only Peter Jackson's Masterpiece should be available for the masses.
No, actually I don't. I think both things...the movies and the books...can exist in the world. I mean, let's boil it all down shall we? It's a fricken movie and book! As I said on another post WHO CARES when you get right down to it? They're both entertainment. If they were both wiped out of existence tomorrow life would go on. Getting pissed over one or the other is really kind of silly when you get right down to it. Enjoy both if you wish or neither. Does it really matter?
Lol.
But the fact of the matter is...who cares? It's a fricken movie...AND it's a fricken book! If both were erased from existence tomorrow the Earth would still spin on its axis and life would continue on. Getting upset about this crap is kind of silly.
Jackson doesn't get that badge...but he DOES get the badge for that particular vision of LOTR. It was HIS images and look and feel EA was using. If they didn't want his input, they should have brought in their own art directors and designers. It's not something he could have just taken his name off of when the entire thing looks like his movies.
Something to think about perhaps?
Lol..."chopped the LOTR".
That's funny stuff there tough-guy. But hey, you're entitled to your opinion. But I suppose, and this is only a guess, that you're one of those people that feels that everything in the books should have been put down on film including the Scouring of the Shire and such? Am I right about that? Oh, and the Elves at Helms Deep probably really sticks in your gums too doesn't it? Did you get up and walk out when that happened like I've heard others write?
Just wondering...guess this also can be thrown into all the Star Wars fans that hate Lucas for destroying their memories or something...
Yeah, no kidding. I clicked on the article thinking it would be a whole story about this, but come on...it's mentioned in a few times in an article that has nothing to do with this issue.
The summary that the main poster made was ALL of the EA stuff mentioned in the article!
Nope, not allowed to. In my case, I can't apply for citizenship until after the next round of rigged elections.
Wow, not even a citizen yet and already disillusioned with the country. I have to ask though, if you're complaining about this stuff, how bad was it in the country you were coming from that you had to come here? Or is this country the lesser of two evils?
I thought The White House and the President...whoever this may be...is all public domain stuff. Granted, I didn't read the article in a rush to post this uninformed rambling.
But from what I remember, when the movie Contact used President Clintons image and voice they too were in the clear even when Clinton complained. They said hey, you're in the public domain pal.
Thought that the Presidential Seal was also in the public domain.
Depends on what studies you read. It's about for every study against, there's another one that says there's no impact.
But please...videogames are now the target that everyone can point to. There's a long history of these targets that everyone points and say they're corrupting our youth.
Rock n Roll
Comics books
Television
Movies
Rap Music
And now videogames. Yes, it's a never ending cycle. Soon this will all blow over and something new will come along that people can point to and blame all of societies ills on.
Where in the links of the story are you getting ANY of this crap you're throwing out?
100 player instances? Hord and alliance cooperating? Where are you getting this from? Level 75? Where are you getting that they're opening Northrend and the Emerald Dream? Also, where the FUCK are you getting from the links above anything about a new class?
You call bullshit on the story? I call bullshit on the Meth you've been snorting.
Or is it what goes around comes around, I can never remember.
But anyway, there hasn't been a more deserving guy than this. The guy obviously has mental problems..and I'm not saying this to say "man, dude is CRAZY". I mean mental problems as in "we the jury find Jack Thompson...".
Maybe he'll seek some help now.
I take it from your sig you're not a fan of the ACLU. So I have to ask, if there was no ACLU would it really make our country better? If so, explain how. (not expecting an answer really...)
Also, if writing about rape fantasy and pedophilia becomes illegal, what is next? Writing about murder? So does this also mean that writers like Stephen King would be outlawed and most of his books pulled from the shelves? What about the Judy Blume novels...since some deal with teenagers and sex would they too be outlawed then since these teenagers are underage.
Or is this the same argument that gun lobbyists tell all the time that if you outlaw one type of gun soon all guns will be outlawed? It's interesting that the stereotype pro-gun person is also anti-ACLU! (not saying you're pro-gun, just making a generalization).
Thanks! I'm reading them now.
Always good to know where stuff is coming from.
To tell the truth, never went to the site...no really. Check the logs!
But still, and read this carefully: THEY ARE JUST WORDS ON A SCREEN. No matter WHAT they wrote, it's just words.
Yes, it's hard to defend stories about infants being raped and the like. But I find it hard to believe that a computer with words on it...not images, words...is "illegal". I'm not a liberal or a conservative or anything for that matter. Not wearing a tin-foil hat thinking "they're out to get us". My mind boggles to the notion that writing fantasy stories (depraved, sick, twisted though they are) is illegal. I DO believe in the Constitution. I've read it a few times and didn't say anything about you can't write certain things. Maybe I missed that amendment.
Lol, like the NYTimes the BBC has been accused of being both too liberal and too conservative. I like that actually, when no one can agree as to what they lean toward it tells me they tend to report facts more than just an agenda.