"sex" are English words that have no meaning in other languages
Sex = 6 in Swedish. I thought this was hilarious when I found out --- OTOH, I was a bit tipsy at the time.
To really make your day then...
SEX (uk) = 6 (swe, number -- as in... 4,5,6 ) = SEX (swe, same number as previous but now with letters, eqv of SIX (uk)) = SEX (swe, the act, same as the first in this line) = SEX (... as in gender (male/female) on ID cards, passports etc)
Same word, same spelling, same pronounciation, different meanings. Tricky langugage.
That is the thing, there are a lot of them out there - full or partial mods of various kind. Most of them are not that good thou. I can only think of a handful that are even worth the effort such as Orbis. That mod won't be converted at the click of some button since features it relies upon will be gone from the game. I can only gather that that will hold true for most large modifications of its kind.
So what you'll end up with is a bunch of various maps at best, maps that will most likely be included anyway in updated form such as the one of the earth and focus maps of the continents. Which leads me to belive this is such a non-feature I doubt it will really amount to much. Massive amounts of crap content gets converterd that more or less nobody will use anyway. Perhaps it will make some of the content conversions easier and faster but I wouldn't hold my breath.
With that in mind I can hardly see this as being a big selling point. It's not going to be the big content modifications that get converterd this way, those will be recreated later if at all. Just as all the good Civ3 once didn't make it to Civ4 but some where recreated later or evolved into new once.
"We're hoping that the first week Civ 5 is out, people will use that function and port all of the Civ 4 stuff over to Civ 5, so everything will be out there already"
WHAT? So they hope that the thing that attracts people to their NEW game is to play OLD stuff? They don't even think that the new and shiny features will be enough to hold the attention of its fans for a single week before resorting to falling back to CIV4 stuff?
That doesn't really fill me with confidence. I guess it's all part of the process that has been going on for a few games now where they tone and tune things down, streamlining it to become easier and easier.
That said, like a good little civaddict I'll get my copy.
"the simpler an interface looks, the faster it will seem"
Isn't this really the standard operating procedure? If you can't make it better/faster then atleast try and make it look good?
In general and not just applicable to some potential Firefox 4 design; A simple interface showing for what seems like forever will "seem" faster? I don't know, seems a bit far fetched. Say I saw an interface that appeared to be doing lots of things on the screen, be it little animated loading bars growing, zzz-clouds or whatever, then I might think that the system had a lot to do but it was working on and towards something. If I see a (near) blank screen doing nothing for more then a few seconds I'm inclined to think that something have crashed. I want (near) CONSTANT UPDATES!
With that in mind, I will prefer a simpler looking interface but I will not start to think time passes any faster or slower due to it.
Nude? Where? Looks to me like they are all wearing some kinda bikini. Some of them might be or are possibly topless but atleast one of them isn't. Is this what is concidered to be porn in Florida these days?
While it probably doesn't do you any harm it will probably not improve your IQ if that is the goal.
With that in mind, a large component of so called "iq tests" tend to be completing series, sequences or filling in blanks which this could quite possibly be training for. Possibly exception is that you are somewhat training or learning a specific method of solving problem thereby locking yourself into a specific mindset which might not apply itself very well to solving other type of problems.
Concidering we already have Star Wars - the Clone Wars do we really need another one? I doubt a "playful and irreverent tone" is what the fans want. I don't really want Yoda to start cracking wise about force.
As much as I think Seth is funny I do hope it won't be Robot Chicken - Star Wars episodes on steroids. Those little bits are very hit and miss and once a season is quite enough.
The Pirate Party does NOT (yet, elections this fall) have any seat in parliament (riksdagen) in Sweden. They did get seat(s) in the EU in the swedish election to the EU parliament but that is not the same election as for national parliament.
I think that was the first time I ever seen it refered to as the math equivalent of an Oscar. Feels very odd to compare the two since they are clearly very VERY far from eachother. Usually the Fields Medal if compared is compared to being the Nobel prize in math, cause for some odd reason there isn't one.
Anyhow, I get the feeling it's just not a matter of collecting the money. If it was just about that then why don't just deposit it in his bank account (I assume he has or had one since he got a salary previously for his university work and I doubt they paid in cash) and be done with the whole mess? Or they could just send him a cashiers check cause last I checked there was a postal system in Russia to. Concidering they apparently know where he lives they could come to him to. But for some reason it seems important that he comes to them and collects. So I think they want something else, or more. There are probably strings attached like giving speeches or lectures and possibly other things. Something that he clearly doesn't want for some reason, I think he stated that he already presented his solution and if someone was interested in it they could just download it and read it.
There is a cure for AIDS? Really? Putting on a condom isn't a cure, it's at best a preventative action, if you already have AIDS putting one on won't cure it. You might as well just come out and say that you think we should euthanize all the "sick" or infected people, that way we won't have to wait generations for the disease to be wiped out, aka "the cure".
Why not? Perhaps you should. You think they only contain secrets relevant to the UK? How can you be sure.
If a spy agency, any, loose data/intel it is probably a concern to more then the people in the country where the agency belongs since spying is a global business.
While it might get slightly better results then just showing ye old wacky error message I predict you'll get the "the what now icon in the corner? I didn't see any icon in the corner" respons. If you can implement something like this to alter the error messages why not just have it send the error message directly to the helpdesk "[user] has experienced the following error.. blahblah" and a full (or as full as you wish) report enclosed. Problem is helpdesk might get utterly flooded and stop reading the error messages or just pipe them all of to dev/nul.
Science report wise it seems to be a bit of a tossup between "totally safe" and "guarantee of cancer and death" so I don't think you'll find great comfort in reading any of it, unless you think one report is better then the others.
It might be harmless and safe for "normal" exposure, whatever that is. But concidering you are going to live there, spending "lots" of time there everyday for possibly years and years to come. I think I'd pass if I was in the situation, don't think the killer appartment will be worth the potential hassle and constant thinking about the risks it would bring.
I guess if you are inclined and really want the place you could turn the entire apartment into a giant Faraday Cage totally shielding it from any type of radiation. Naturally this will probably also totally kill your cellphone reception, wifi connections and whatnot, unless you put in booster antennas for that, which sort of defeats its purpose.
Will the giant forest of antennas bring down the price? It might be worth buying then and starting to campaing against having the antennas moved, become one of those people that go down to City Hall and protest once a week and send in letters all the time.
Possibly there might be some kinda device you could aquire that will knockout the antennas, this will or might possibly be illegal, that you can turn on and off as you see fit. Eventually they might get tired of the interruptions to service and move them.
Initially I wasn't a big fan of Civ4 compared to Civ3 (which I at the time thought was the pinnacle of Civ games). But I guess Civ4 eventually grew on you. That said tho there are quite a few areas I would love for them to improve.
The Trade/Diplomacy is still kinda crummy. The moronic threats and how tech "value" etc are calculated is just bonkers. They are all very binary and everyone thinks and acts the same way, not to mention the computers massive amount of AI sharing and cheating is just annoying.
I miss the Diplomat unit, even tho it was massivly overpowered with it's BUY BUY BUY ability. Bring back the Terrorist actions!
I think most of all I miss the old Artillery, Civ4 artillery just sucked ass "Yes I want to sacrifice my artillery to do some dmg". Also not being able to conquer cannons etc, like as if they were workers, anymore was a real suckfest to. I do admit that the stack -o-artillery-doom of Civ3 was a bit much tho but this was just such a massive shift and change it wasn't even funny.
I would like to see more "choices" that actually effect the game play. The Civics are not really much of a choice, you pretty much use the same once all the time and others you NEVER use. When playing SMAC this was more evident that these things could be combined into something, in CIV4 it was just "race to the tech and get the one you want". X (around 3-5) turns of anarchy every time you make a switch is also retarded, even tho free durring golden ages. Perhaps more politics.
Religion / Corporations is really just fluff, nice fluff but it doesn't really add that much to the game. Religion more important then the Corporations.
Don't really care about the "modability", Civ3 wasn't exactlly built for modding but it was tweaked massivly eventually and it was fun. The only one I care about in Civ4 is "Rhye's and Fall of Civilization". The others I could miss out on really. Civ3 had a bunch of really nice fantasy once like the (unofficial) Warhammer mods.
From what I recall some of them already check for things like hardware changes and if you have certain software packages installed or running such as various disassemblers and virual cd/dvd programs. So perhaps this was just the next logical step.
Hardware DRM? Helllo DONGLE! Welcome back... not that it ever really went away.
Not to be an arse but I think you give Average Joe to much credit. I think they won't even call support. I think they are just going to shake (make a few rude gestures and say a few choice words) and wonder why their *cool_new_game_tm* ain't working, then tell all their friends about it and eventually thru the six-degrees-of-software-piracy (probably way to many degrees) find a friend that will give them a "working" version.
If this actually works like networking connecting dropping for a single second == you get booted this really can't stand, after all that happens all the time, we just don't notice really. They are more or less requiring a constant stream of data to the server just to check that you are still online? Sounds very iffy and stupid to say the least, hell even streaming music and movies cache a bit of data ahead of time so you won't notice when it happens (most of the time). I don't think my ISP (or any) promises 100% uptime on their connections.
None of us are, except to friends, family and ourselves (and sometimes not even that or to them). But in this case you are interesting, to the company and their advertisers that is. Otherwise they wouldn't bother logging your viewing habbits. I doubt there is that much you can do about it except to feed a lot of extra info into the system to obscure your real viewing preferences. So just leave the telly on 24/7 and randomly pick programs to show when you are not watching something yourself. The drawback is that you'll probably get some pretty weird ads showing up when you are actually watching. That plus the extra power consumption = electricity bill so it might not be worth it.
I'll just quote myself from two weeks ago... Guess it took less then a month for the idea to go from "surveilance" to "armed reponsons". I do wonder what the next step will be; perhaps a little printer so it can give you a ticket right then and there.
"Since most police officers in the UK dont carry firearms this would or could be a faster response then sending out the Armed response vehicles. So I do wonder how long it will take them to arm the drones, after all what harm could that possibly do... That way you can stop all them tractor thieves and cashpoint burglers dead in the their tracks."
Could be tasers. Why stop there, let us go for missiles (to much collateral damage tho) and chainguns (not sure it could take one of those - probably to large and shakes to much etc) while we are at it. BRING IT ON!
I seriously wonder if this is going to be more then a minor hickup at worst even if it goes thru. Can't they just get one of the "friendly" EU members to make them a copy as the info comes across the wire and pipe it over to them. Shouldn't be rocket science. I'm sure one of them nice countries that lent the CIA a few prison blocks to store them undesirable terrorists for "harsh questioning" etc wouldn't mind offering this service to.
They don't share US data with EU members. Question remains; is that something we really want? I'm not exactlly in fear of some US born or based terrorists coming over to Europe to end life as we know it. Seems fairly unlikely. Even if they where coming I'm not sure swapping banking data would stop them or really help track them down. So it seems to me that US banking transaction data would be a fairly useless request or demand. If we should trade for it, atleast trade it for something useful.
So it's not like they are not going to get their hands on it in the end if they really want to. This just seems like politico theater at its finest, each blaming the other and pretending to be the stand up guys.
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But ... but .. we killed the Lich King this week already ... Has the world already reset?!
To really make your day then ...
SEX (uk) = 6 (swe, number -- as in ... 4,5,6 ) = SEX (swe, same number as previous but now with letters, eqv of SIX (uk)) = SEX (swe, the act, same as the first in this line) = SEX (... as in gender (male/female) on ID cards, passports etc)
Same word, same spelling, same pronounciation, different meanings. Tricky langugage.
That is the thing, there are a lot of them out there - full or partial mods of various kind. Most of them are not that good thou. I can only think of a handful that are even worth the effort such as Orbis. That mod won't be converted at the click of some button since features it relies upon will be gone from the game. I can only gather that that will hold true for most large modifications of its kind.
So what you'll end up with is a bunch of various maps at best, maps that will most likely be included anyway in updated form such as the one of the earth and focus maps of the continents. Which leads me to belive this is such a non-feature I doubt it will really amount to much. Massive amounts of crap content gets converterd that more or less nobody will use anyway. Perhaps it will make some of the content conversions easier and faster but I wouldn't hold my breath.
With that in mind I can hardly see this as being a big selling point. It's not going to be the big content modifications that get converterd this way, those will be recreated later if at all. Just as all the good Civ3 once didn't make it to Civ4 but some where recreated later or evolved into new once.
"We're hoping that the first week Civ 5 is out, people will use that function and port all of the Civ 4 stuff over to Civ 5, so everything will be out there already"
WHAT? So they hope that the thing that attracts people to their NEW game is to play OLD stuff? They don't even think that the new and shiny features will be enough to hold the attention of its fans for a single week before resorting to falling back to CIV4 stuff?
That doesn't really fill me with confidence. I guess it's all part of the process that has been going on for a few games now where they tone and tune things down, streamlining it to become easier and easier.
That said, like a good little civaddict I'll get my copy.
... not to mention trolls. Those guys are everywhere.
"the simpler an interface looks, the faster it will seem"
Isn't this really the standard operating procedure? If you can't make it better/faster then atleast try and make it look good?
In general and not just applicable to some potential Firefox 4 design; A simple interface showing for what seems like forever will "seem" faster? I don't know, seems a bit far fetched. Say I saw an interface that appeared to be doing lots of things on the screen, be it little animated loading bars growing, zzz-clouds or whatever, then I might think that the system had a lot to do but it was working on and towards something. If I see a (near) blank screen doing nothing for more then a few seconds I'm inclined to think that something have crashed. I want (near) CONSTANT UPDATES!
With that in mind, I will prefer a simpler looking interface but I will not start to think time passes any faster or slower due to it.
Nude? Where? Looks to me like they are all wearing some kinda bikini. Some of them might be or are possibly topless but atleast one of them isn't. Is this what is concidered to be porn in Florida these days?
While it probably doesn't do you any harm it will probably not improve your IQ if that is the goal.
With that in mind, a large component of so called "iq tests" tend to be completing series, sequences or filling in blanks which this could quite possibly be training for. Possibly exception is that you are somewhat training or learning a specific method of solving problem thereby locking yourself into a specific mindset which might not apply itself very well to solving other type of problems.
... To explore strange new worlds; To seek out new life, and new civilizations; To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Concidering we already have Star Wars - the Clone Wars do we really need another one? I doubt a "playful and irreverent tone" is what the fans want. I don't really want Yoda to start cracking wise about force.
As much as I think Seth is funny I do hope it won't be Robot Chicken - Star Wars episodes on steroids. Those little bits are very hit and miss and once a season is quite enough.
The Pirate Party does NOT (yet, elections this fall) have any seat in parliament (riksdagen) in Sweden. They did get seat(s) in the EU in the swedish election to the EU parliament but that is not the same election as for national parliament.
I think that was the first time I ever seen it refered to as the math equivalent of an Oscar. Feels very odd to compare the two since they are clearly very VERY far from eachother. Usually the Fields Medal if compared is compared to being the Nobel prize in math, cause for some odd reason there isn't one.
Anyhow, I get the feeling it's just not a matter of collecting the money. If it was just about that then why don't just deposit it in his bank account (I assume he has or had one since he got a salary previously for his university work and I doubt they paid in cash) and be done with the whole mess? Or they could just send him a cashiers check cause last I checked there was a postal system in Russia to. Concidering they apparently know where he lives they could come to him to. But for some reason it seems important that he comes to them and collects. So I think they want something else, or more. There are probably strings attached like giving speeches or lectures and possibly other things. Something that he clearly doesn't want for some reason, I think he stated that he already presented his solution and if someone was interested in it they could just download it and read it.
There is a cure for AIDS? Really? Putting on a condom isn't a cure, it's at best a preventative action, if you already have AIDS putting one on won't cure it. You might as well just come out and say that you think we should euthanize all the "sick" or infected people, that way we won't have to wait generations for the disease to be wiped out, aka "the cure".
Ahh you can never have to many Judge Dredd comments :)
Why not? Perhaps you should. You think they only contain secrets relevant to the UK? How can you be sure.
If a spy agency, any, loose data/intel it is probably a concern to more then the people in the country where the agency belongs since spying is a global business.
While it might get slightly better results then just showing ye old wacky error message I predict you'll get the "the what now icon in the corner? I didn't see any icon in the corner" respons. If you can implement something like this to alter the error messages why not just have it send the error message directly to the helpdesk "[user] has experienced the following error .. blahblah" and a full (or as full as you wish) report enclosed. Problem is helpdesk might get utterly flooded and stop reading the error messages or just pipe them all of to dev/nul.
Science report wise it seems to be a bit of a tossup between "totally safe" and "guarantee of cancer and death" so I don't think you'll find great comfort in reading any of it, unless you think one report is better then the others.
It might be harmless and safe for "normal" exposure, whatever that is. But concidering you are going to live there, spending "lots" of time there everyday for possibly years and years to come. I think I'd pass if I was in the situation, don't think the killer appartment will be worth the potential hassle and constant thinking about the risks it would bring.
I guess if you are inclined and really want the place you could turn the entire apartment into a giant Faraday Cage totally shielding it from any type of radiation. Naturally this will probably also totally kill your cellphone reception, wifi connections and whatnot, unless you put in booster antennas for that, which sort of defeats its purpose.
Will the giant forest of antennas bring down the price? It might be worth buying then and starting to campaing against having the antennas moved, become one of those people that go down to City Hall and protest once a week and send in letters all the time.
Possibly there might be some kinda device you could aquire that will knockout the antennas, this will or might possibly be illegal, that you can turn on and off as you see fit. Eventually they might get tired of the interruptions to service and move them.
Perhaps they are werewolf aliens that need to howl at the moon?
Initially I wasn't a big fan of Civ4 compared to Civ3 (which I at the time thought was the pinnacle of Civ games). But I guess Civ4 eventually grew on you. That said tho there are quite a few areas I would love for them to improve.
The Trade/Diplomacy is still kinda crummy. The moronic threats and how tech "value" etc are calculated is just bonkers. They are all very binary and everyone thinks and acts the same way, not to mention the computers massive amount of AI sharing and cheating is just annoying.
I miss the Diplomat unit, even tho it was massivly overpowered with it's BUY BUY BUY ability. Bring back the Terrorist actions!
I think most of all I miss the old Artillery, Civ4 artillery just sucked ass "Yes I want to sacrifice my artillery to do some dmg". Also not being able to conquer cannons etc, like as if they were workers, anymore was a real suckfest to. I do admit that the stack -o-artillery-doom of Civ3 was a bit much tho but this was just such a massive shift and change it wasn't even funny.
I would like to see more "choices" that actually effect the game play. The Civics are not really much of a choice, you pretty much use the same once all the time and others you NEVER use. When playing SMAC this was more evident that these things could be combined into something, in CIV4 it was just "race to the tech and get the one you want". X (around 3-5) turns of anarchy every time you make a switch is also retarded, even tho free durring golden ages. Perhaps more politics.
Religion / Corporations is really just fluff, nice fluff but it doesn't really add that much to the game. Religion more important then the Corporations.
Don't really care about the "modability", Civ3 wasn't exactlly built for modding but it was tweaked massivly eventually and it was fun. The only one I care about in Civ4 is "Rhye's and Fall of Civilization". The others I could miss out on really. Civ3 had a bunch of really nice fantasy once like the (unofficial) Warhammer mods.
They didn't forget, the got swallowed, stripped and closed down by the big fish. Just take the once you mentioned ...
Microprose -> Infogrames -> Atari Interactive
Sierra On-Line -> Vivendi -> Activision/Blizzard
SSI -> Mindscape - Mattel -> Ubisoft
From what I recall some of them already check for things like hardware changes and if you have certain software packages installed or running such as various disassemblers and virual cd/dvd programs. So perhaps this was just the next logical step.
Hardware DRM? Helllo DONGLE! Welcome back ... not that it ever really went away.
Not to be an arse but I think you give Average Joe to much credit. I think they won't even call support. I think they are just going to shake (make a few rude gestures and say a few choice words) and wonder why their *cool_new_game_tm* ain't working, then tell all their friends about it and eventually thru the six-degrees-of-software-piracy (probably way to many degrees) find a friend that will give them a "working" version.
If this actually works like networking connecting dropping for a single second == you get booted this really can't stand, after all that happens all the time, we just don't notice really. They are more or less requiring a constant stream of data to the server just to check that you are still online? Sounds very iffy and stupid to say the least, hell even streaming music and movies cache a bit of data ahead of time so you won't notice when it happens (most of the time). I don't think my ISP (or any) promises 100% uptime on their connections.
"I know I'm not that interesting to anyone ..."
None of us are, except to friends, family and ourselves (and sometimes not even that or to them). But in this case you are interesting, to the company and their advertisers that is. Otherwise they wouldn't bother logging your viewing habbits. I doubt there is that much you can do about it except to feed a lot of extra info into the system to obscure your real viewing preferences. So just leave the telly on 24/7 and randomly pick programs to show when you are not watching something yourself. The drawback is that you'll probably get some pretty weird ads showing up when you are actually watching. That plus the extra power consumption = electricity bill so it might not be worth it.
I'll just quote myself from two weeks ago ... Guess it took less then a month for the idea to go from "surveilance" to "armed reponsons". I do wonder what the next step will be; perhaps a little printer so it can give you a ticket right then and there.
"Since most police officers in the UK dont carry firearms this would or could be a faster response then sending out the Armed response vehicles. So I do wonder how long it will take them to arm the drones, after all what harm could that possibly do ... That way you can stop all them tractor thieves and cashpoint burglers dead in the their tracks."
Could be tasers. Why stop there, let us go for missiles (to much collateral damage tho) and chainguns (not sure it could take one of those - probably to large and shakes to much etc) while we are at it. BRING IT ON!
I seriously wonder if this is going to be more then a minor hickup at worst even if it goes thru. Can't they just get one of the "friendly" EU members to make them a copy as the info comes across the wire and pipe it over to them. Shouldn't be rocket science. I'm sure one of them nice countries that lent the CIA a few prison blocks to store them undesirable terrorists for "harsh questioning" etc wouldn't mind offering this service to.
They don't share US data with EU members. Question remains; is that something we really want? I'm not exactlly in fear of some US born or based terrorists coming over to Europe to end life as we know it. Seems fairly unlikely. Even if they where coming I'm not sure swapping banking data would stop them or really help track them down. So it seems to me that US banking transaction data would be a fairly useless request or demand. If we should trade for it, atleast trade it for something useful.
So it's not like they are not going to get their hands on it in the end if they really want to. This just seems like politico theater at its finest, each blaming the other and pretending to be the stand up guys.