I really wonder why you guys advertise this game so much.
Its certainly not one of the best MMORPG's out there... there
are a lot of much better games in different ways. I'm tired
of seeing WoW news on SLASHDOT. kthxbye
So by renaming it due to the technique used, does it mean
Opera did not have/does not have tabbed windows?
NO. It has tabbed windows, and they work really fast
due to the method they use.
geez, "tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated" that is beginning to sound like microsoft innovation. Long before firefox existed, I was using tabbed windows in opera. Give credit where it is due.
I only second that, which the author did not take into account.
MMO games will shift to player-run or free-run, or at least the players
will. Why? Because no one will chow down your cash anymore...
Overall my experience in free worlds cannot compare quality-wise with
commercial MMO's.
Somehow free worlds have more quality, and care about the creation
of their system, world mechanics and general functions. I know, this
is not a rule, however, if you like playing MMO's every so often...
My hint is: Find a free project! Either 100% free as in original client and
server, or emulated and changed.
I'm currently working on www.sundershard.com which is an emulated
server for "Ultima Online". It will be an enforced RP shard, where
it is required for you to be in-character at all time.
A more fun way to play the game, socially, without focusing too
much on grinding and mechanics.
PGing will be punished by the mechanics actually, since your gains will freeze.
All you have to do is play the game normally, without too much committment
to get fun out of it (except for us who run the game...)
For all you 3D maniacs, who will for sure say "Who wants to go back to
fake-topdown-3D", its actually better for you... Less tiring for your brain,
you can actually relax without worrying about so many dimensions, since
the game is predictable.
I played WoW, yes, got to level 60, quit. I still play Guild Wars, not very
often since I work and study, but whenever I feel like it.
If you like 3D games, THAT MUCH, actually I'd say go for guild wars
instead of WoW, for the simple reason that its a more relaxed game.
Not so much grinding, and easy ways of having real fun with it without
huge time committment. If you're the PvP guy, you can just make a PvP-only
character in seconds... if you're the PvE guy, takes about a week to go through
one of the game's plots at normal play time.
WoW is evil, WoW is actually... boring-- why?
In Ultima Online, at least on a good shard thats balanced... anything can
happen to you. You could be killed, your items lost, your items simply
stolen, like the real world... there's suspence! PERIL. In wow.. well nothing
really happens that affects you all that much, nor guild wars for that matter.
If you're the kind that wants to play a thief, and know what everyone is carrying
around in their packs, those games aren't for you, those games will bore you
to hell OR to get the same amount of fun you have to invest 2353245 hours!
I like the Ultima client because its so hackable, you can basically
create your own distint world with custom mechanics, skills, appearance,
graphics, everything. A basically new game out of an old game.
I don't really like how OSI runs the game, its way more corrupt than
the most corrupt free shard project... You can just pay them and buy
advances... so I'm telling you, explore the possibility of free gaming,
free MMO's that can be as fun, without costing you anything, and certainly
a LOT less time, and more fun!
Additionally there's games being developed like http://planeshift.it/ that have
original clients and are getting more and more interesting as time progresses.
Good luck getting out of Blizzard's crackhouse!:)
Its very hard to establish a causal relationship here.
Especially since you cannot test this in a laboratory
and pass an ethics commitee (given it is likely children will be harmed)
It would be very safe to say, as a precaution until we
have more evidence...
DO NOT let your toddlers watch tv, almost to none at all
until they are 5-6 or preferably OVER 12 years of age,
for more than one reasons.
Yes its an easy way to keep your kids "busy",
but would you really want the TV to raise your kids?
They implemented those ideas first...
Sure its kind of silly to go after Pentium III..
But for the 2 new CPU's its not a bad idea at all.
Oh and Transmeta is but dying out, only changing.
Drill deeper before drawing such conclusions.
Ya intel-lovers:P
I see a lot of comments of the type: It will limit you and its unavoidable.... laws would be passed for it... etc.
Well, how about, no? For as long as we still have some version of "democracy", the citizens can simply choose to do something else with their time than use a limiting/annoying product.
"It" has no power unless you hand yours over.
Stop talking about things in such a way as if they're not affected by us, the consumers/citizens
I for one welcome the online download service... finally one smart move against "internet piracy", providing the content quickly and on demand!
However, I visited both sites... only Cinema Now offers the service right now, at least for Canada. And the speeds on the website are just terrible... To make sure this thing works they have to invest some in BANDWIDTH.
Its a great idea nevertheless... I was thinking of doing this if I had the funds:/
ALSO:
You must use Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher on a PC running Windows 2000 or later in order to use the CinemaNow service.
Click here to download Internet Explorer
They are doomed unless they fix their service up a little... perhaps there's still space for competition.
I don't see how this plug in will improve the quality of people's comments. Now instead of thinking about it for 10 seconds, they'll only think about it for 2. Talking about the average of course... and yes there are a lot of off-topic/pointless posts everywhere;)
They should make the extension SLOW them down and think twice...
Why all the panic really? Can't a decent firewall stop the "injection" of this virus through a service/hole? Its a worm we're talking about after all... Just watch what you download/run keep the shields up and you should be fine. I've never been affected by any worms, but always had a properly configured firewall.
You guys are taking this [title]. I don't see why...
Isn't anyone thankful that finally someone is forcing MICROSOFT to open up?
I was cheering when I first read the news... and here all I see is "oh no, this after all is our doom...". OMG
The Point of view of an Opera user, yes broadband matters.
Though Opera speeds up browsing a lot (single pages), it does
miracles in multiple-page browsing, I'm talking 10+ websites
loading at once.
I don't know if any of you use the internet to do intensive
research, but if you do, and do it without Opera, you're
at a disantvantage. Since not only can you navigate so
many pages fast, but take notes in a flash (CTRL+SHIFT+C)
Now, with a broadband connection, those 10 pages will load
a helluva lot faster. For relaxed 'home'-browsing however,
a slower connection would do just fine...
But when you're loading a ton of them simultaneously
and searching through windows at the same time,
speed matters. And all the seconds can add up to hours in a
search.
I have downloaded millions of mp3's, and tons of movies.
But you know what? Most of it gets deleted.
The good bands/artists/movies I find get bought, and only those.
I hate buying stuff and then realising that.. ah well there is
only ONE good song in the whole album. Or.. this very well
advertised film is actually crap.
Or that game (ex AOE3, so well advertised) is actually CRAP.
Thank gods I didn't buy this game, and its almost 60 bucks.
But I bought AOE and AOE II with all the expansions, still
play them as a matter of fact.
The fact is, the times have changed, people don't like to buy
"sacked pigs" anymore, but like to have a look at them first.
Just as your "demo-locked" program doesn't do it for you...
commercials don't do it for me.
One example, I used Opera (which allowed you to use the real
thing with just a banner) and ended up buying it, because I
liked the REAL thing...
The MEDIA industry has to really go digital... even if they have
to make up their own formats and players to go with them.
But if I could sample and buy movies/music online easily I would.
(The latter is already possible, but for some reason I still
go for the CD's once I've sampled them...;)
Thats my five cents, and yeah I still DOWNLOAD ill333g4l files, heh.
PS:Back in the day of no P2P people made cd copies, and before
that, tape copies... why is it such a huge issue now?
I find it amazing what a human infant can learn in just 8 years of life. There is no need for the parents to dumb down their children, just guide them and see how far they are willing to go.
I really hope though that this kid was not pressed by his parents to sit home and study instead of playing. The activity of playing is essential to a child's mental and bodily growth. Whilst playing they realize how the world works and build layers and layers of fundamental knowledge about it. It would be sad if this kid has just missed out on all those, and is pressed to experience the world through theory until he graduates and is left to relax... What if he's pressed by his society to start working right after?
For the parents I would have to say, be careful what you wish for
And for the kiddo I'd have to say, live a little boy, life is not what you read from books alone!
I was roaming around with that thing and zooming in on countries.
Somehow I ended up in the middle east and roamed near israel.
Looked around for Palestine... THERE is not such thing!
According to NASA's map whatever is called Palestine just
belongs to Jordan, the rest to israel:P
What does that tell you?
Given that you read through some of them you will find out that,
hey RP is cool, and, hey maybe I didn't bother to check the game genre:P
There are many games that claim to be RPG's. And each game can be
more or less RPish than another. Depending on the level of RP then
the game will have stricter rules as to the character creation than others.
Working on a free roleplaying game myself ( www.etheria.org for those interested),
I really gate it when I see people trying to use a name such as "L33tm0f0/ McDonalds / Cm3rd / XnyxNick and finally (:P) CmdrTaco"!
If you can't understand that and are too lazy to go over the term on most sites on that google page... let me just tell you this.
In any Roleplaying game you create a character, that character is NOT you, it is a character you create to play. You're the one pulling the strings behind the character, play his role, thus roleplay. Now when you go and tack your nickname on there, not only do you break the rule of the X Game's acceptable (possible) character names, but you're basically trying to play yourself in a game. Now don't get me wrong, even the best Roleplayers add some parts of themselves to the characters they create, but they understand that you and your character as different entities. There are other MMO games that do not require anything RPish, however you are still RPing in a sense since you are playing a CHARACTER that is not you. But I guess that concept is too hard for some to get;) Otherwise if you were completely unaware of RP, well then you've been missing out on the best part of the game - Human creativity and interaction. I do encourage you or anyone to get into it, its a game that is above all creative, and once you are in it, will never be bored of it (The act of Roleplaying;).
Thus I find it really FUNNY that they would let you play that long without catching your name. Thats means they're WAY understaffed, or their current staff are RP-dumb.
Oh and some h8: WoW sucks a few times over, it wants to call itself a MMORPG however
in some areas of the game its just a MMO. The combat system though rules;)
I really don't understand how in a country where
you claim you have freedom of speech, not just in
public but anywhere. Someone can for WHATEVER reason
listen in, record and then use that against you.
That seriously sounds pretty extreme to me.
Criticizing and or using your private conversations
goes way against freedom and freedom of speech.
I could never allow for such a thing whatever the
reason. What happened to privacy?
I don't care if you claim its for "my security",
I am actually more secure when my line is;)
But I am generally saying, ALLOWING for this to happen
will also allow for it to be abused. And LEGALLY abused,
that almost sounds ironic.
Wellp, you just contradicted yourself buddy.
If you didn't care that FF lost the race, you wouldn't
be going on about FF being "the same", its not the
same, like no two oranges picked up in the wild are.
I am not saying you should not use FF or anything else.
But I was simply writing a long reply to all those
short scorns about Opera, simply to its recognition.
I've been using the thing since 95, every year more
than before, until it completely replaced my need
for a second browser.
I still use FF where its available, for example
Linux, or my university. And its fine, I'm happy
I don't have to deal with a crappy browser;)
Oh and about those onyl IEable sites, yeah I hope
they become extinct in the next few years, and move
on to using actual standards.
Isn't that what we're all fighting for?
(Regardless of browser approach...)
For those who go on about Opera being first, I don't care what was first and what wasn't, I care about what's good now. And using both, I can say, for myself, that FF with extensions does all but the voice support as well as Opera for me, Deer Park having the same speed on the back button as Opera (one of the biggest changes). With FF Firetuned, 1.0.7 runs as fast as Opera (I have compared them side by side rendering pages). And FF's Tab Mix Plus gives it the better tab support, I think. Also, I like the way pages are rendered by Gecko over Presto.
But staring a simulation to see how the character
you created will play for you, in the house you designed
for him, within the limited options of the game, and
with no obvious objectives/victory conditions, does
not sound productive or fun at all.
Say you play a RTS game, waste a good 1 hour
developing your bases and armies in an online play,
you win/lose get an allied victory/ or whatever.
The objectives are obvious, and fun.
However with this "game", rather simulation,
its like looking at a bunch of rats you PROGRAMMED
to behave a certain way, and basically see how
far the dev team's creativity goes...
Instead REAL games allow the player to
make up his own strategy, and thus
creativity.
I've watched someone play this "game", tried
it myself for the hell of it.
The result was to simply get bored after a while,
since I don't have any fake consumeristic
tensions (that is seeing my character earn more and
get more STUFF)
Instead I went off to continue on with
reading a book that inspires me in creating my own
world.
Unlike this "game" and most games, Etheria,
my dream world, is about the players and not
so much the designers.
Thats what "I" always wanted to do in a game,
that is my own thing, not blantantly, but within
the laws and concept of the game, but without
any fake limitations.
I know what you'll say, it can't be perfect,
a game run by the players, where the only thing
staff does is run a plot to mark them their own towns/cities/empires.
But at least, if nothing else, instead of wasting my time
looking at a sim, I play MYSELF, muhahaha, -creating
another world for people to lose themselves in.
True, it can't be perfect, because game mechanics
will never be perfect, however why should that stop
us or our creativity? Whatever mechanics can't
make up or, RP can!
Within the contexts of the world though, since
in the "real" world sadly you can't fly
around on a dragon, thus wouldn't
want to see anyone thinking that'd be possible in
my world either!:P
You can have fun with real variables, true!
Hence, the sims, but-- only if you could actually
really take over that character, and break
the limitations.
-First to have true tab support, reaaally fast
tabs not chunky pieces of flab.
Hit Ctrl+N one minute, you end up with a bazillion tabs.
Yeah you can fill all those up and use them.
Try clicking (shift+clicking) to open new links everywhere..
And then use the smart Ctrl+Tab to browse the last viewed
pages, or all of them easily. You can easily figure
out which page is what (from the titles) in a list of 500.
How more pages would you want to fit in a browser??
Aside for that, really cool cascading or even tiling (right click
on the tab for more options)
-Actually, if you're new and learning right click everywhere and
pay close attention to the options revealed.
The true power of the Opera is under the hood.
And that is the OPTIONS everywhere.
The older Opera versions had the options more out front,
but that seemed to scare a lot of "lazy/zombie" users away,
thus the new slick interface with more options as you go
was created.
-Just think about this, compare the flab of FF
or anything else to the slickness and tightness of
Opera. So tiny, yet so many features well integrated.
Thats one thing that adds to security, WITHOUT limiting
any plugin possibilities.
The set features are good, they have a reason of
existance. If you need anything extra, all you
have to do is know java, and you can stick
it right in the interface WHEREVER you want it.
For example, I have a bunch of applets here
and there, one as a dictionary to pick up
German words and give me English/Greek equivs.
You could make anything, its up to you.
-If you're more of a seeker, once examining
of all the interfaced options, go ahead
and dig in the O dir, view all the ini
files and see what you can do there.
Opera's options are everywhere, left and
right. But the idiot, even if he stared,
would see nothing but pixels.
-I read a lot of silly comments like,
oh, why can't opera have X behavior,
X keys, X mouse gestures X whatever...
Geez folks, are you that dumb?
I was expecting to find nerds
on here, not a bunch of hillbillies:P
All the above and a lot more can
be changed and defined in the said
options/prefences, just look around!
Getting to know Opera will only benefit you,
your surfing speed, and yields from the web.
-E-mail, and irc client also included.
The e-mail client is more than I could ask
for as far as e-mail goes.
I read something about Active-X,
and was like WTF???
E-mail was supposed to be, and SHOULD be text,
and just text, no stupid html, with active x and
active S and whatever else could bloat it more
and make it a whole lot buggier.
Opera's mail client is really powerful, smart
and above all tiny and integrated.
All in one sort of thing.
The irc client is basic, but what else
do you expect from a browser?
Opera is basically your working swiss army
knife, but don't expect a generous spoon
for irc, why bload the code?
Its pretty good for when you
only have 5 mins, and want to use e-mail,
irc and browse on someone else's comp.
-As mentioned somewhere above, opera can still run on my
old crappy 333 laptop, FAST and efficiently.
I barely notice the difference between my
AMD 64 3400 and that piece of shit.
(Except for screen size, and well,
you can't overtab it.)
-But thats not all, I have
been following and watching the behavior
of those behind opera.
And their stance on things.
For example, the whole of Opera
as a team are strong believers
that all the options/prefences should
be in the hands of the users.
After reading the really dumb comments
above, I must say,
that if you don't like that overmentioned
placed google search box.
GO AHEAD AND REMOVE IT.
I don't see why you would, since
it IS USEFUL, but if you
really want to...
You have to dissasemble Opera,
then find string x.... NO
All you have to effing do is right
click on the said box, and do..
remove from toolbar. TADA.
Now you can go ahead and replace that
with Yahoo, Xoo, Kaboo, kazavooo
Whatever the heck you use.
(I personally use fravia's set)
Sometimes slashdot is funny,
but sometimes it is truly
I don't think you would be able to "convert" a normal gas car into a hydrogen based or hydrogen supported car. You would have to take out both
the engine and luggage area.
On the other hand, the hydrogen car
not only is possible, but absolutely
viable, environment friendly, and
depending on the fuel price (hydrogen)
also a lot more economical.
I'd recommend you check out BMW's
research so far, they've been on it
since the 80's.
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I really wonder why you guys advertise this game so much. Its certainly not one of the best MMORPG's out there... there are a lot of much better games in different ways. I'm tired of seeing WoW news on SLASHDOT. kthxbye
So by renaming it due to the technique used, does it mean Opera did not have/does not have tabbed windows? NO. It has tabbed windows, and they work really fast due to the method they use.
I only second that, which the author did not take into account.
MMO games will shift to player-run or free-run, or at least the players will. Why? Because no one will chow down your cash anymore... Overall my experience in free worlds cannot compare quality-wise with commercial MMO's. Somehow free worlds have more quality, and care about the creation of their system, world mechanics and general functions. I know, this is not a rule, however, if you like playing MMO's every so often... My hint is: Find a free project! Either 100% free as in original client and server, or emulated and changed. I'm currently working on www.sundershard.com which is an emulated server for "Ultima Online". It will be an enforced RP shard, where it is required for you to be in-character at all time. A more fun way to play the game, socially, without focusing too much on grinding and mechanics. PGing will be punished by the mechanics actually, since your gains will freeze. All you have to do is play the game normally, without too much committment to get fun out of it (except for us who run the game...) For all you 3D maniacs, who will for sure say "Who wants to go back to fake-topdown-3D", its actually better for you... Less tiring for your brain, you can actually relax without worrying about so many dimensions, since the game is predictable. I played WoW, yes, got to level 60, quit. I still play Guild Wars, not very often since I work and study, but whenever I feel like it. If you like 3D games, THAT MUCH, actually I'd say go for guild wars instead of WoW, for the simple reason that its a more relaxed game. Not so much grinding, and easy ways of having real fun with it without huge time committment. If you're the PvP guy, you can just make a PvP-only character in seconds... if you're the PvE guy, takes about a week to go through one of the game's plots at normal play time. WoW is evil, WoW is actually... boring-- why? In Ultima Online, at least on a good shard thats balanced... anything can happen to you. You could be killed, your items lost, your items simply stolen, like the real world... there's suspence! PERIL. In wow.. well nothing really happens that affects you all that much, nor guild wars for that matter. If you're the kind that wants to play a thief, and know what everyone is carrying around in their packs, those games aren't for you, those games will bore you to hell OR to get the same amount of fun you have to invest 2353245 hours! I like the Ultima client because its so hackable, you can basically create your own distint world with custom mechanics, skills, appearance, graphics, everything. A basically new game out of an old game. I don't really like how OSI runs the game, its way more corrupt than the most corrupt free shard project... You can just pay them and buy advances... so I'm telling you, explore the possibility of free gaming, free MMO's that can be as fun, without costing you anything, and certainly a LOT less time, and more fun! Additionally there's games being developed like http://planeshift.it/ that have original clients and are getting more and more interesting as time progresses. Good luck getting out of Blizzard's crackhouse! :)
Its very hard to establish a causal relationship here. Especially since you cannot test this in a laboratory and pass an ethics commitee (given it is likely children will be harmed) It would be very safe to say, as a precaution until we have more evidence... DO NOT let your toddlers watch tv, almost to none at all until they are 5-6 or preferably OVER 12 years of age, for more than one reasons. Yes its an easy way to keep your kids "busy", but would you really want the TV to raise your kids?
They implemented those ideas first... Sure its kind of silly to go after Pentium III.. But for the 2 new CPU's its not a bad idea at all. Oh and Transmeta is but dying out, only changing. Drill deeper before drawing such conclusions. Ya intel-lovers :P
..money I wonder what kind of computer I would get... $6000 for a CASE is ridiculous comparing to the value of the parts inside.
I see a lot of comments of the type: It will limit you and its unavoidable.... laws would be passed for it... etc.
Well, how about, no? For as long as we still have some version of "democracy", the citizens can simply choose to do something else with their time than use a limiting/annoying product.
"It" has no power unless you hand yours over.
Stop talking about things in such a way as if they're not affected by us, the consumers/citizens
Why are all these comments off topic again?
They're barreling of to the wrong direction!
I for one welcome the online download service... finally one smart move against "internet piracy", providing the content quickly and on demand!
However, I visited both sites... only Cinema Now offers the service right now, at least for Canada. And the speeds on the website are just terrible... To make sure this thing works they have to invest some in BANDWIDTH.
Its a great idea nevertheless... I was thinking of doing this if I had the funds :/
ALSO: You must use Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher on a PC running Windows 2000 or later in order to use the CinemaNow service. Click here to download Internet Explorer
They are doomed unless they fix their service up a little... perhaps there's still space for competition.I don't see how this plug in will improve the quality of people's comments. Now instead of thinking about it for 10 seconds, they'll only think about it for 2. Talking about the average of course... and yes there are a lot of off-topic/pointless posts everywhere ;)
They should make the extension SLOW them down and think twice...
Why all the panic really? Can't a decent firewall stop the "injection" of this virus through a service/hole? Its a worm we're talking about after all... Just watch what you download/run keep the shields up and you should be fine. I've never been affected by any worms, but always had a properly configured firewall.
You guys are taking this [title]. I don't see why... Isn't anyone thankful that finally someone is forcing MICROSOFT to open up? I was cheering when I first read the news... and here all I see is "oh no, this after all is our doom...". OMG
That was a very cool movie indeed... Especially for a Gentile like me (non-Christian, of Ethnical way of thinking).
Since when is the DVD dead? I can tell BY FAR its not dead. As mentioned above, not even VHS is dead... why the rush to kill it? More profiteering?
The Point of view of an Opera user, yes broadband matters. Though Opera speeds up browsing a lot (single pages), it does miracles in multiple-page browsing, I'm talking 10+ websites loading at once.
I don't know if any of you use the internet to do intensive research, but if you do, and do it without Opera, you're at a disantvantage. Since not only can you navigate so many pages fast, but take notes in a flash (CTRL+SHIFT+C)
Now, with a broadband connection, those 10 pages will load a helluva lot faster. For relaxed 'home'-browsing however, a slower connection would do just fine... But when you're loading a ton of them simultaneously and searching through windows at the same time, speed matters. And all the seconds can add up to hours in a search.
I have downloaded millions of mp3's, and tons of movies. But you know what? Most of it gets deleted. The good bands/artists/movies I find get bought, and only those. I hate buying stuff and then realising that.. ah well there is only ONE good song in the whole album. Or.. this very well advertised film is actually crap. Or that game (ex AOE3, so well advertised) is actually CRAP. Thank gods I didn't buy this game, and its almost 60 bucks. But I bought AOE and AOE II with all the expansions, still play them as a matter of fact. The fact is, the times have changed, people don't like to buy "sacked pigs" anymore, but like to have a look at them first. Just as your "demo-locked" program doesn't do it for you... commercials don't do it for me. One example, I used Opera (which allowed you to use the real thing with just a banner) and ended up buying it, because I liked the REAL thing... The MEDIA industry has to really go digital... even if they have to make up their own formats and players to go with them. But if I could sample and buy movies/music online easily I would. (The latter is already possible, but for some reason I still go for the CD's once I've sampled them...;) Thats my five cents, and yeah I still DOWNLOAD ill333g4l files, heh. PS:Back in the day of no P2P people made cd copies, and before that, tape copies... why is it such a huge issue now?
I find it amazing what a human infant can learn in just 8 years of life. There is no need for the parents to dumb down their children, just guide them and see how far they are willing to go.
I really hope though that this kid was not pressed by his parents to sit home and study instead of playing. The activity of playing is essential to a child's mental and bodily growth. Whilst playing they realize how the world works and build layers and layers of fundamental knowledge about it. It would be sad if this kid has just missed out on all those, and is pressed to experience the world through theory until he graduates and is left to relax... What if he's pressed by his society to start working right after?
For the parents I would have to say, be careful what you wish for
And for the kiddo I'd have to say, live a little boy, life is not what you read from books alone!
I was roaming around with that thing and zooming in on countries. Somehow I ended up in the middle east and roamed near israel. Looked around for Palestine... THERE is not such thing! According to NASA's map whatever is called Palestine just belongs to Jordan, the rest to israel :P
What does that tell you?
A MMORPG is a Massively Multiplayer Online ROLE-PLAYING GAME. And I stress the last ones because that is the Genre it represents.
You'll ask yourselves, what is roleplaying? And google will tell you this: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q =roleplaying&sourceid=opera&num=100&ie=utf-8&oe=ut f-8
Given that you read through some of them you will find out that, hey RP is cool, and, hey maybe I didn't bother to check the game genre :P
There are many games that claim to be RPG's. And each game can be more or less RPish than another. Depending on the level of RP then the game will have stricter rules as to the character creation than others.
Working on a free roleplaying game myself ( www.etheria.org for those interested), I really gate it when I see people trying to use a name such as "L33tm0f0/ McDonalds / Cm3rd / XnyxNick and finally (:P) CmdrTaco"!
If you can't understand that and are too lazy to go over the term on most sites on that google page... let me just tell you this.In any Roleplaying game you create a character, that character is NOT you, it is a character you create to play. You're the one pulling the strings behind the character, play his role, thus roleplay. Now when you go and tack your nickname on there, not only do you break the rule of the X Game's acceptable (possible) character names, but you're basically trying to play yourself in a game. Now don't get me wrong, even the best Roleplayers add some parts of themselves to the characters they create, but they understand that you and your character as different entities. There are other MMO games that do not require anything RPish, however you are still RPing in a sense since you are playing a CHARACTER that is not you. But I guess that concept is too hard for some to get ;) Otherwise if you were completely unaware of RP, well then you've been missing out on the best part of the game - Human creativity and interaction. I do encourage you or anyone to get into it, its a game that is above all creative, and once you are in it, will never be bored of it (The act of Roleplaying;).
Thus I find it really FUNNY that they would let you play that long without catching your name. Thats means they're WAY understaffed, or their current staff are RP-dumb. Oh and some h8: WoW sucks a few times over, it wants to call itself a MMORPG however in some areas of the game its just a MMO. The combat system though rules ;)
I really don't understand how in a country where you claim you have freedom of speech, not just in public but anywhere. Someone can for WHATEVER reason listen in, record and then use that against you. That seriously sounds pretty extreme to me. Criticizing and or using your private conversations goes way against freedom and freedom of speech. I could never allow for such a thing whatever the reason. What happened to privacy? I don't care if you claim its for "my security", I am actually more secure when my line is;) But I am generally saying, ALLOWING for this to happen will also allow for it to be abused. And LEGALLY abused, that almost sounds ironic.
Wellp, you just contradicted yourself buddy. If you didn't care that FF lost the race, you wouldn't be going on about FF being "the same", its not the same, like no two oranges picked up in the wild are. I am not saying you should not use FF or anything else. But I was simply writing a long reply to all those short scorns about Opera, simply to its recognition. I've been using the thing since 95, every year more than before, until it completely replaced my need for a second browser. I still use FF where its available, for example Linux, or my university. And its fine, I'm happy I don't have to deal with a crappy browser ;)
Oh and about those onyl IEable sites, yeah I hope
they become extinct in the next few years, and move
on to using actual standards.
Isn't that what we're all fighting for?
(Regardless of browser approach...)
Very nice, didn't know there was an actual benchmarking site ;)
Yup, looks like Opera even beats lynx in some :P
But staring a simulation to see how the character you created will play for you, in the house you designed for him, within the limited options of the game, and with no obvious objectives/victory conditions, does not sound productive or fun at all.
Say you play a RTS game, waste a good 1 hour developing your bases and armies in an online play, you win/lose get an allied victory/ or whatever. The objectives are obvious, and fun.
However with this "game", rather simulation, its like looking at a bunch of rats you PROGRAMMED to behave a certain way, and basically see how far the dev team's creativity goes...
Instead REAL games allow the player to make up his own strategy, and thus creativity.
I've watched someone play this "game", tried it myself for the hell of it.
The result was to simply get bored after a while, since I don't have any fake consumeristic tensions (that is seeing my character earn more and get more STUFF)
Instead I went off to continue on with reading a book that inspires me in creating my own world.
Unlike this "game" and most games, Etheria, my dream world, is about the players and not so much the designers.
Thats what "I" always wanted to do in a game, that is my own thing, not blantantly, but within the laws and concept of the game, but without any fake limitations.
I know what you'll say, it can't be perfect, a game run by the players, where the only thing staff does is run a plot to mark them their own towns/cities/empires.
But at least, if nothing else, instead of wasting my time looking at a sim, I play MYSELF, muhahaha, -creating another world for people to lose themselves in.
True, it can't be perfect, because game mechanics will never be perfect, however why should that stop us or our creativity? Whatever mechanics can't make up or, RP can!
Within the contexts of the world though, since in the "real" world sadly you can't fly around on a dragon, thus wouldn't want to see anyone thinking that'd be possible in my world either! :P
You can have fun with real variables, true! Hence, the sims, but-- only if you could actually really take over that character, and break the limitations.
..start??
-First to have true tab support, reaaally fast tabs not chunky pieces of flab. Hit Ctrl+N one minute, you end up with a bazillion tabs. Yeah you can fill all those up and use them. Try clicking (shift+clicking) to open new links everywhere.. And then use the smart Ctrl+Tab to browse the last viewed pages, or all of them easily. You can easily figure out which page is what (from the titles) in a list of 500. How more pages would you want to fit in a browser?? Aside for that, really cool cascading or even tiling (right click on the tab for more options)
-Actually, if you're new and learning right click everywhere and pay close attention to the options revealed. The true power of the Opera is under the hood. And that is the OPTIONS everywhere. The older Opera versions had the options more out front, but that seemed to scare a lot of "lazy/zombie" users away, thus the new slick interface with more options as you go was created.
-Just think about this, compare the flab of FF or anything else to the slickness and tightness of Opera. So tiny, yet so many features well integrated. Thats one thing that adds to security, WITHOUT limiting any plugin possibilities. The set features are good, they have a reason of existance. If you need anything extra, all you have to do is know java, and you can stick it right in the interface WHEREVER you want it. For example, I have a bunch of applets here and there, one as a dictionary to pick up German words and give me English/Greek equivs. You could make anything, its up to you.
-If you're more of a seeker, once examining of all the interfaced options, go ahead and dig in the O dir, view all the ini files and see what you can do there. Opera's options are everywhere, left and right. But the idiot, even if he stared, would see nothing but pixels.
-I read a lot of silly comments like, oh, why can't opera have X behavior, X keys, X mouse gestures X whatever... Geez folks, are you that dumb? I was expecting to find nerds on here, not a bunch of hillbillies :P
All the above and a lot more can
be changed and defined in the said
options/prefences, just look around!
Getting to know Opera will only benefit you,
your surfing speed, and yields from the web.
-E-mail, and irc client also included. The e-mail client is more than I could ask for as far as e-mail goes. I read something about Active-X, and was like WTF??? E-mail was supposed to be, and SHOULD be text, and just text, no stupid html, with active x and active S and whatever else could bloat it more and make it a whole lot buggier. Opera's mail client is really powerful, smart and above all tiny and integrated. All in one sort of thing. The irc client is basic, but what else do you expect from a browser? Opera is basically your working swiss army knife, but don't expect a generous spoon for irc, why bload the code? Its pretty good for when you only have 5 mins, and want to use e-mail, irc and browse on someone else's comp.
-As mentioned somewhere above, opera can still run on my old crappy 333 laptop, FAST and efficiently. I barely notice the difference between my AMD 64 3400 and that piece of shit. (Except for screen size, and well, you can't overtab it.)
-But thats not all, I have been following and watching the behavior of those behind opera. And their stance on things. For example, the whole of Opera as a team are strong believers that all the options/prefences should be in the hands of the users. After reading the really dumb comments above, I must say, that if you don't like that overmentioned placed google search box. GO AHEAD AND REMOVE IT. I don't see why you would, since it IS USEFUL, but if you really want to... You have to dissasemble Opera, then find string x.... NO All you have to effing do is right click on the said box, and do.. remove from toolbar. TADA. Now you can go ahead and replace that with Yahoo, Xoo, Kaboo, kazavooo Whatever the heck you use. (I personally use fravia's set)
Sometimes slashdot is funny, but sometimes it is truly
I don't think you would be able to "convert" a normal gas car into a hydrogen based or hydrogen supported car. You would have to take out both the engine and luggage area.
On the other hand, the hydrogen car not only is possible, but absolutely viable, environment friendly, and depending on the fuel price (hydrogen) also a lot more economical.
I'd recommend you check out BMW's research so far, they've been on it since the 80's.
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/index_highend.html?prm_c ontent=../../com/en/insights/technology/cleanenerg y/_highend/xml/overview.xml