How much did WalMart come into the design of [...] Oblivion? [...] Peripherally, if at all. I'm not an expert in RPGs outside The Elder Scrolls series, but try conducting an audit of sexual content in Oblivion and Morrowind. The conduct the same excercise for Daggerfall and Arena.
It's very interesting how extremely prudish these games have become, and quite sad really. You have to mod them to get them back to reality.
I purchased Oblivion a couple of days ago (and before that, a shiny new GeForce 6800OLE to run the darn thing on;-). While performance and stability are irritating issues, that's pretty standard for BethSoft games. I agree that the AI and guards are much less annoying now, and I particularly like the way it zooms in close to people's faces who you're talking to - looks much more cinematic and cool. Also the dialogue is simplified, which I personally think is a plus - Morrowind involved far too much trawling through people's babble and messing around with stupid religious stuff, and unpronouncable names.
Glad I bought it so far. Shame I didn't get to be til 1am last night.;-)
Cool. That's the biggie that I hated about Morrowind and frankly that stopped me playing it qutie quickly - the pathetic AI (by Bethsoft's standards).
So you say Oblivion has largely addressed that problem - what about the whole reputation thing? If you hit some NPC with your sword, do you still get chased to the death in every town on the map until you pay a fixed penalty or go to jail, or is it a little more mature than that?
The other problem with Morrowind, for me, was bugginess. You may not have had that with Morrowind, but just out of interest, are either of the 2 buggy for you? Morrowind crashed too often for me.
That's nice, but the vast majority of crap will install itself in some standard startup places, and can be caught doing so by StartupMonitor. Thanks for the link, though.
I suspect the rationale was something like, "if we vote against this again, the government will ram it through with the Parliament Act; at least if we accept this, we get a tiny concession."
The Parliament Act is an evil piece of legislation, enacted about 100 years ago. It allows the house of commons for force through legislation that the lords, usually sensibly, tell them to drop. Why did the lords allow this Act itself to get through? Because the assholish king at the time, George V, threatened to replace them with Liberal (Parliament Act-supporting) peers if they didn't.
I believe it should be abolished, the government believe the house of lords should be abolished.
but we did vote for it. Really irritating use of the word 'we'. About 9.5 million people voted Labour in the 2005 general election. That's about 16% of the population. 16%. That means 84% didn't vote for them.
I'm sorry, but speak for yourself. I never have voted for nor ever forsee myself voting for the Labour scumbags.
You want it to be hard to filter. I understand your reasoning. But you are suffering from a serious delusion: The internet is your hammer and everything you see is a nail.
I'm sorry, but you are suffering from the serious delusion that people will get off their asses and vote for a certain government because of their INTERNET policies. This is utter nonsense, and you can't rely on it. It seems a technical solution is the best chance we have of keeping the net as Free as possible.
That sounds like quite a bad example. 'Giving thieves free TVs' is basically social security. Give poor people some money (OK maybe not free TVs) so that they don't become thieves and cause society to generally break down.
Then be consistent. If you defend this, you must defend the separation of all violence-related content onto a.kill domain, all drug-related content onto.drug, all communist-related content onto.commie, etc. Oh, and anything else some people consider harmful to some group of people. So that group can conveniently filter it out.
I wouldn't rely on your constitution stopping crap legislation if I were you. It didn't seem to be working too well when I last checked. Do you feel secure in your houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures? If so, you must not travel much or live in an urban area.
And I believe that the owner of gemsgames.com (an asswipe cybersquatter) should be forced to hand it over to somebody who has an even slightly novel use for it, like... me. But the idea of enforced arbitration gets some 'internet freedom' people riled up, so I don't think you're gonna force anyone off a domain until there's significant support for it.
PRIVATE American citizens donated almost 15 times more to the developing world than their European counterparts, research reveals this weekend ahead of the G8 summit. Well that's nice, but how much less did they give via taxes used for foreign aid?
tarpit of failed deregulation Ah. How can you actually get successful deregulation, when it comes to telephony? I've never understood this. In the UK we have relatively (not absolutely) good broadband access, 99% because of OFTEL/OFCOM, who forced the national telephony operator to open up their (publically funded) network, quite rightly.
If this were deregulated, well; they wouldn't have to. So you'd have a monopoly, and things would be shit for customers. Please tell me how deregulation is a good idea here, or could ever 'not fail'.
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I would like for my spam filter to get a break from processing Chinese mail.
Than block Chinese IPs at your firewall.
And a London mayor that knowingly trivializes it.
No, I didn't vote for him.
How much did WalMart come into the design of [...] Oblivion? [...] Peripherally, if at all.
I'm not an expert in RPGs outside The Elder Scrolls series, but try conducting an audit of sexual content in Oblivion and Morrowind. The conduct the same excercise for Daggerfall and Arena.
It's very interesting how extremely prudish these games have become, and quite sad really. You have to mod them to get them back to reality.
I recieve a good steak from my butcher not from the goodness of his heart
Owch. If that's the case, he's a rather nasty human being.
Is this really the attitude one has to assume when evaluating capitalism? Other factors surely apply.
And...
FileZilla.
Amazingly well-written OSS app that supports secure FTP via SSH2, which is actually pretty rare yet very useful. Go grab it.
(yes, I know it works on other platforms, but it works very nicely on Windows)
Can anyone tell me why on earth they include some piece of shit like FreeDOS instead of one of the large plethora of much, much more useful GPL OSes?
I purchased Oblivion a couple of days ago (and before that, a shiny new GeForce 6800OLE to run the darn thing on ;-). While performance and stability are irritating issues, that's pretty standard for BethSoft games. I agree that the AI and guards are much less annoying now, and I particularly like the way it zooms in close to people's faces who you're talking to - looks much more cinematic and cool. Also the dialogue is simplified, which I personally think is a plus - Morrowind involved far too much trawling through people's babble and messing around with stupid religious stuff, and unpronouncable names.
;-)
Glad I bought it so far. Shame I didn't get to be til 1am last night.
Is there anything that America doesn't "wage war" against?
Plutocracies.
D'oh. I had bits of that storyline, until I couldn't be arsed to keep playing. And I read tons of the books, each one more boring than the last.
I hope they made the reliance on reading books MUCH less in Oblivion. If I'd wanted to read, I'd have bought a novel, not a computer game.
Cool. That's the biggie that I hated about Morrowind and frankly that stopped me playing it qutie quickly - the pathetic AI (by Bethsoft's standards).
So you say Oblivion has largely addressed that problem - what about the whole reputation thing? If you hit some NPC with your sword, do you still get chased to the death in every town on the map until you pay a fixed penalty or go to jail, or is it a little more mature than that?
The other problem with Morrowind, for me, was bugginess. You may not have had that with Morrowind, but just out of interest, are either of the 2 buggy for you? Morrowind crashed too often for me.
That's nice, but the vast majority of crap will install itself in some standard startup places, and can be caught doing so by StartupMonitor. Thanks for the link, though.
Does Microsoft face that big of a risk?
:-(
Not as long as most people are poor and stupid!
And unable to write proper grammar.
1. The US is a bit worse than the UK.
2. The UK is a perfectly safe, free, great place to live.
Excercise:
Link 1 to 2 via a causal relationship.
I suspect the rationale was something like, "if we vote against this again, the government will ram it through with the Parliament Act; at least if we accept this, we get a tiny concession."
The Parliament Act is an evil piece of legislation, enacted about 100 years ago. It allows the house of commons for force through legislation that the lords, usually sensibly, tell them to drop. Why did the lords allow this Act itself to get through? Because the assholish king at the time, George V, threatened to replace them with Liberal (Parliament Act-supporting) peers if they didn't.
I believe it should be abolished, the government believe the house of lords should be abolished.
but we did vote for it.
Really irritating use of the word 'we'. About 9.5 million people voted Labour in the 2005 general election. That's about 16% of the population. 16%. That means 84% didn't vote for them.
I'm sorry, but speak for yourself. I never have voted for nor ever forsee myself voting for the Labour scumbags.
Even repressive regimes like Syria allow folks to worship Jesus
But do they allow them not to worship anyone?
(And, I mean, not in private but actually proclaim this fact)
I didn't think MS's products were technically accurate?
You want it to be hard to filter. I understand your reasoning. But you are suffering from a serious delusion: The internet is your hammer and everything you see is a nail.
I'm sorry, but you are suffering from the serious delusion that people will get off their asses and vote for a certain government because of their INTERNET policies. This is utter nonsense, and you can't rely on it. It seems a technical solution is the best chance we have of keeping the net as Free as possible.
That sounds like quite a bad example. 'Giving thieves free TVs' is basically social security. Give poor people some money (OK maybe not free TVs) so that they don't become thieves and cause society to generally break down.
Then be consistent. If you defend this, you must defend the separation of all violence-related content onto a .kill domain, all drug-related content onto .drug, all communist-related content onto .commie, etc. Oh, and anything else some people consider harmful to some group of people. So that group can conveniently filter it out.
I wouldn't rely on your constitution stopping crap legislation if I were you. It didn't seem to be working too well when I last checked. Do you feel secure in your houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures? If so, you must not travel much or live in an urban area.
And I believe that the owner of gemsgames.com (an asswipe cybersquatter) should be forced to hand it over to somebody who has an even slightly novel use for it, like... me. But the idea of enforced arbitration gets some 'internet freedom' people riled up, so I don't think you're gonna force anyone off a domain until there's significant support for it.
Out of interest - does anyone know what OS these things are running? I take it they're not Windows. And what architecture do they use?
PRIVATE American citizens donated almost 15 times more to the developing world than their European counterparts, research reveals this weekend ahead of the G8 summit.
Well that's nice, but how much less did they give via taxes used for foreign aid?
tarpit of failed deregulation
Ah. How can you actually get successful deregulation, when it comes to telephony? I've never understood this. In the UK we have relatively (not absolutely) good broadband access, 99% because of OFTEL/OFCOM, who forced the national telephony operator to open up their (publically funded) network, quite rightly.
If this were deregulated, well; they wouldn't have to. So you'd have a monopoly, and things would be shit for customers. Please tell me how deregulation is a good idea here, or could ever 'not fail'.