Bethesda and Zenimax Online are both owned by the same company (Zenimax). You think said parent company is going to waste resources developing both a MMO and single-player game? Not gonna happen.
Once you leave the atmosphere of this blue planet, *everything* will kill you. No amount of engineering, terraforming, or any other science fiction magic will ever make any other body within human reach survivable for long, and certainly not without HEAVY and CONSTANT support from earth.
There is no earthly analogy. Even the most hostile environments on earth usually have at least SOME oxygen, water, soil, air pressure--*something* that could make it at least *somewhat* survivable. Leave earth, and finding even *one* of these conditions becomes very rare. Establishing even the smallest of colonies out there will take orders of magnitude more resources than it will take to solve even the worst problems here. Short of a planet-obliterating collision, we'll always have a better shot on earth. And even with such a collision, having a colony will only slightly delay the inevitable, since no colony out there could survive for long without constant support from earth.
No other body is survivable in our solar system. And with the next-closest solar system at over 100,000 years journey away in the fastest craft we can build, don't think of escaping to another solar system either.
We are stuck here. There is no escape. Dream all you want--write stories about it, make movies about it. But we ain't leaving.
My personal worry about it is that they'll stop making single-player TES games after going MMO.
Once you go MMO, you never go back. Right now Bethesda has gold fever. And that gold is WoW money. And like every other wannabe WoW, they're going to chase that dream with everything they have, even if it bankrupts them. And they will waste not a dime on another single-player franchise that isn't already in the pipe.
There will never be another single-player TES game again (not for the PC or console, anyway).
Passed by a Democratic Senate and House, signed by a Republican President, renewed by a Democrat controlled Senate and Republican controlled House, signed by a Democrat President. It's one of the few bi-partisan issues left.
Both sides can't agree on much of anything else, but they can both still agree to be evil. How touching.
I've lost count of how many "next generation" the Russians have announced as being "practically ready" or terms amounting to the same thing.
And that's different from NASA how, exactly? It would seem that both countries, for the last 3 decades, have been very big on promises, not so hot on delivery.
This is not a program, it's a proposal. Every year they trot out a couple of proposals (remember klipr?) and see if they can get interest and funding.
If not (and so far "not" has always been the case) then they go back to the drawing board and make another proposal in 8 or 12 months.
Over and over
Pretty much everything you just said could be said about NASA too. How many times have they promised return trips to the moon and men on Mars over the decades?
Just watch. This will go nowhere, and next year there will be a different plan for a different vehicle.
Countries like China, Iran, etc. may be leading the pack, but the trend for years now all over the world has been an increasingly locked-down internet.
And it's getting easier and easier for governments to do too. Just think of how different things are today vs. the mid-late 90's in the U.S. Back then in the dial-up days, you had all kinds of local ISP's available. It would have been almost impossible for the U.S. government to really control the internet. Today, virtually all broadband internet access is controlled by a handful of major corporate conglomerates (Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-mobile probably control 90+% of all internet access in the country). Blacklisting sites, monitoring individual users, shutting down access by geographical location--it's all very easy for the U.S. government to do now (hell, they probably have it all automated and ready to go already, under the guise of national security of course). All it would take are a few laws slipping through.
And, of course, those laws are already slipping through in plenty of non-oppressive democracies like Australia, Britain, etc.
What China is doing today, the democratic world will be doing tomorrow.
And if you *really* want to get creeped out, think about a possible time in the future when most consumer computers are locked down too (similar to iOS's "walled garden"), and only authorized software is allowed to be installed (and governments can make individual software applications disappear the same as they can websites).
300 different online video apps, no clue how to find the TV show or movie I want to watch. And when I do find it, no way to tell it to look for it free first (before amazon hits me up for $6 to rent it).
The fact is that they saw a niche in the charger market that wasn't being fulfilled (a mufti-purpose charger for Apple and Android devices). What they didn't know is that there was a REASON no one else had built said device (because Apple won't license it). I guess it pays to ask around a little before you start asking for funding. Sometimes you think to yourself "Why isn't anyone making this thing?" and find out the hard way that it's not just because they're short-sighted or hadn't thought of it too.
Our grandkids will still have shitty household robotics. They will have long ago given up on 3-D printers, since it will still only good for producing cheap plastic crap. And their mobile access will be better and faster, but not really any more useful. And they'll still be dreaming of the day man sets foot on Mars and of fusion power, both of which their government will be promising, as always, "In about 30 years"
The 2nd amendment was only for the purposes of the formation of a militia.
Actually, it's purpose, like the rest of the "Bill of Rights," was to get the Constitution ratified. The public wanted assurances that a new, stronger federal government wouldn't be able to reinstate the abuses of the British (who would do things like quarter troops in private residences and confiscate guns). There is also the implied, though not explicitly stated, implication that citizens would maintain the means to revolt again, should the government abuse its new power. Of course, that didn't help out the Whiskey Rebellion revolutionaries, but what do you expect from Pennsylvanians?
If you guys will float me $20,000 in costs, I'll launch an investigation at some point in the future. $1,000 donation gets you first dibs on the report I'll produce!
Well, considering that the fastest spacecraft we've ever built would take over 300,000 years to travel 12 light years, I'd say that at least the wait in line will be relatively short in comparison.
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Bethesda and Zenimax Online are both owned by the same company (Zenimax). You think said parent company is going to waste resources developing both a MMO and single-player game? Not gonna happen.
So was the buggy manufacturing industry at the turn of the 20th century.
Once you leave the atmosphere of this blue planet, *everything* will kill you. No amount of engineering, terraforming, or any other science fiction magic will ever make any other body within human reach survivable for long, and certainly not without HEAVY and CONSTANT support from earth.
There is no earthly analogy. Even the most hostile environments on earth usually have at least SOME oxygen, water, soil, air pressure--*something* that could make it at least *somewhat* survivable. Leave earth, and finding even *one* of these conditions becomes very rare. Establishing even the smallest of colonies out there will take orders of magnitude more resources than it will take to solve even the worst problems here. Short of a planet-obliterating collision, we'll always have a better shot on earth. And even with such a collision, having a colony will only slightly delay the inevitable, since no colony out there could survive for long without constant support from earth.
No other body is survivable in our solar system. And with the next-closest solar system at over 100,000 years journey away in the fastest craft we can build, don't think of escaping to another solar system either.
We are stuck here. There is no escape. Dream all you want--write stories about it, make movies about it. But we ain't leaving.
My personal worry about it is that they'll stop making single-player TES games after going MMO.
Once you go MMO, you never go back. Right now Bethesda has gold fever. And that gold is WoW money. And like every other wannabe WoW, they're going to chase that dream with everything they have, even if it bankrupts them. And they will waste not a dime on another single-player franchise that isn't already in the pipe.
There will never be another single-player TES game again (not for the PC or console, anyway).
Raiding is like a very hard job, but where your boss expects YOU to pay HIM.
PC gaming died just after the Year of the Linux Desktop
Passed by a Democratic Senate and House, signed by a Republican President, renewed by a Democrat controlled Senate and Republican controlled House, signed by a Democrat President. It's one of the few bi-partisan issues left.
Both sides can't agree on much of anything else, but they can both still agree to be evil. How touching.
These "wartime" acts will always be in place from now on, because the U.S. will never not be at war again.
Corrected link.
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Sure, I'll just go get the NSA to declassify it all and FedEx the info right to you.
After all, we all remember how open and cooperative AT&T was when it was accidentally exposed in their facilities.
It should be a crime for a blu-ray player to even HAVE a composite output.
I've lost count of how many "next generation" the Russians have announced as being "practically ready" or terms amounting to the same thing.
And that's different from NASA how, exactly? It would seem that both countries, for the last 3 decades, have been very big on promises, not so hot on delivery.
This is not a program, it's a proposal. Every year they trot out a couple of proposals (remember klipr?) and see if they can get interest and funding.
If not (and so far "not" has always been the case) then they go back to the drawing board and make another proposal in 8 or 12 months.
Over and over
Pretty much everything you just said could be said about NASA too. How many times have they promised return trips to the moon and men on Mars over the decades?
Just watch. This will go nowhere, and next year there will be a different plan for a different vehicle.
Again, ditto for NASA's moon and Mars programs.
Countries like China, Iran, etc. may be leading the pack, but the trend for years now all over the world has been an increasingly locked-down internet.
And it's getting easier and easier for governments to do too. Just think of how different things are today vs. the mid-late 90's in the U.S. Back then in the dial-up days, you had all kinds of local ISP's available. It would have been almost impossible for the U.S. government to really control the internet. Today, virtually all broadband internet access is controlled by a handful of major corporate conglomerates (Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-mobile probably control 90+% of all internet access in the country). Blacklisting sites, monitoring individual users, shutting down access by geographical location--it's all very easy for the U.S. government to do now (hell, they probably have it all automated and ready to go already, under the guise of national security of course). All it would take are a few laws slipping through.
And, of course, those laws are already slipping through in plenty of non-oppressive democracies like Australia, Britain, etc.
What China is doing today, the democratic world will be doing tomorrow.
And if you *really* want to get creeped out, think about a possible time in the future when most consumer computers are locked down too (similar to iOS's "walled garden"), and only authorized software is allowed to be installed (and governments can make individual software applications disappear the same as they can websites).
300 different online video apps, no clue how to find the TV show or movie I want to watch. And when I do find it, no way to tell it to look for it free first (before amazon hits me up for $6 to rent it).
It's a test on following orders and attention to detail. We don't need any of you rogue coders 'round here, see?
The fact is that they saw a niche in the charger market that wasn't being fulfilled (a mufti-purpose charger for Apple and Android devices). What they didn't know is that there was a REASON no one else had built said device (because Apple won't license it). I guess it pays to ask around a little before you start asking for funding. Sometimes you think to yourself "Why isn't anyone making this thing?" and find out the hard way that it's not just because they're short-sighted or hadn't thought of it too.
Our grandkids will still have shitty household robotics. They will have long ago given up on 3-D printers, since it will still only good for producing cheap plastic crap. And their mobile access will be better and faster, but not really any more useful. And they'll still be dreaming of the day man sets foot on Mars and of fusion power, both of which their government will be promising, as always, "In about 30 years"
My father was a pagan, you insensitive clod!
The 2nd amendment was only for the purposes of the formation of a militia.
Actually, it's purpose, like the rest of the "Bill of Rights," was to get the Constitution ratified. The public wanted assurances that a new, stronger federal government wouldn't be able to reinstate the abuses of the British (who would do things like quarter troops in private residences and confiscate guns). There is also the implied, though not explicitly stated, implication that citizens would maintain the means to revolt again, should the government abuse its new power. Of course, that didn't help out the Whiskey Rebellion revolutionaries, but what do you expect from Pennsylvanians?
For both linux gamers!
...Neither of whom can use Steam because their distros are incompatible.
If you guys will float me $20,000 in costs, I'll launch an investigation at some point in the future. $1,000 donation gets you first dibs on the report I'll produce!
Well, considering that the fastest spacecraft we've ever built would take over 300,000 years to travel 12 light years, I'd say that at least the wait in line will be relatively short in comparison.
It wouldn't be such a problem (in the U.S. anyway) if the government would at least restrict its loan guarantees to accredited colleges.
I hope MOOCs will kill off all these "colleges" that are more reliable producers of debt than education.
That describes pretty much *all* colleges/universities now.