I love Fallout 4, and I've played all the Fallout games.
Same here.
I was a big fan of Oblivion and hated Skyrim, found it tedious, ruined the Elders Scrolls franchise for me. When I heard there would be a Fallout 4 I was afraid they would do the same kind of "reengineering" but I was immensely relieved to see that they kept the thing very close to the Fallout spirit.
There are a few annoying things (like those redundant settlement missions) but the improvements like point-and-loot or the possibility to setup a gun turret to protect my stash are terrific.
And to make sure you enjoy them, especially the rotating items on display during loading
You can move and rotate the items on the screen, so that's something to do while you wait for the next section to load:)
I don't know if it does that all the time, but twice I've moved that thing like crazy out of boredom and the whole game froze. I had to re-kill a friggin deathclaw.
Well, it is Fallout 4 Beta. Just like Windows 10 beta. It's the new way.
Always been like that with Fallout. New Vegas was particularly buggy on Xbox. But those games are awesome so you put up with it. I'd say that's the biggest difference with Windows 10...
But, seriously, get a SSD, makes load times much more bearable.
Can't do that in my Playstation 4 I think.
Nonetheless, it's a new bug. I played the game for a while, loading was ok. Then there was a patch, and now it's taking forever to load sometimes. I did zero investigation but my immediate suspicion is that they're "calling home" during load and their web server is slow to answer, I see no other obvious reason. Disk isn't spinning, nothing.
I'm sure someone with a better network setup will eventually catch them if they're doing that.
Stuff disappears from companions inventory, guns become transparent when you crouch, scorpions walk in the sky, raiders taunt you as they patrol from the bottom of the sea, severed limbs spin forever... Special effects are amazing in Fallout 4!
And to make sure you enjoy them, especially the rotating items on display during loading, the engineers brilliantly injected a random delay of up to 1 minute each time you enter a building or fast travel.
Of course you're not trying to prove anything, you don't provide facts because you don't know them. You're worst than a denier, you're a phony, all you do is try to belong to a group by bashing the apparent enemy, without making the effort of educating yourself.
Watch the documentary Cowspiracy. It's full of phonies too, you'll be in good company, and you may learn a thing or two.
Let's immediately call an emergency meeting of all architects and house builders in Nevada to let them know that some dude on Slashdot has found out how they have been wrong for decades.
Another example is people complaining about urban sprawling. What about a place like Arizona or Nevada where temperature stays in the oven spectrum half or more of the year? It gets exponentially more expensive (and resource-consuming) to cool down upper floors when you stack people on top of each other, that's why if you drive around Phoenix or even Las Vegas you won't see a lot of duplex or affordable condo towers.
I had to read your comment twice, but there is a solution. I's called an "Attic". You can also paint the roof white, or make the 'attic' out of PV solar panels.
I'll leave the numerous other errors go with just a head shake.
I don't know what "numerous other errors" you see but if you think painting a roof is a solution to cool down upper floors in Arizona there's probably no need to investigate your opinion further.
We know that buying gas-guzzling SUV is bad for the environment. Before you start blaming the government for imposing legislations, please consider that the problem has been known for a while, but people feel that a status symbol is more important that the sustainability of our planet. We only have ourselves to blame.
Yeah, it's a known fact that diesel or electric car batteries are much better solutions and by no way a status symbol.
Another example is people complaining about urban sprawling. What about a place like Arizona or Nevada where temperature stays in the oven spectrum half or more of the year? It gets exponentially more expensive (and resource-consuming) to cool down upper floors when you stack people on top of each other, that's why if you drive around Phoenix or even Las Vegas you won't see a lot of duplex or affordable condo towers.
Verify as much as you want. That's called science. But when the evidence points in a clear direction and your refuse the conclusion, that's called denial.
This is an empty statement, and that's the core of the problem. It's not enough to say "evidence points in a clear direction" because that's what BOTH sides are saying. Explain the data clearly instead of saying that data is on your side, or you're just more noise with zero signal.
+1. It doesn't take long to get beyond the shallow "science is right" arguments when you start digging. On either side of this argument.
If one was to draw a bell curve with one side being deniers and the other side non-deniers, you could bet that the bulk of that big bell would be made of faithful people who don't argue or think further about why they're on one side or the other, they just follow a dogma and consider the other side to be idiots.
Typically a Netflix documentary with charismatic interviewees will be enough to win them over.
"Billions who will suffer"? This sort of histrionic exaggeration is why no one takes you seriously.
It seems odd to me that anyone could believe that nobody would suffer if climate changes.
The fact that you jump from "billions" to "nobody" is, essentially, what "histrionic exaggeration" means. There's a huge fucking amount of numbers between 0 and >2,000,000,000.
Just pull out your calculator, for god's sake. There are 7 billions people on the planet at the moment. The odds that at least 25% of them will die (i.e. "billions") because of a projected global increase of 4 Celsius in temperature over a century would require a lot more explanation and hard data than what has been provided so far to be considered anything than ludicrous. Just look at a fucking map and see where the bulk of those 7 billions people live, how the fuck is such a slow change supposed to kill them all?
This is the kind of bullshit number that people make up as a scare tactic, like"1/3 of women will be raped in their lifetime". It doesn't help take the climate change proponents seriously, it actually make them look like liars to those who are not convinced that there's a problem.
This kind of tactic is harmful to the cause. The more you try to scare people with end of the world scenarios, the less they listen because this has been tried many times before (acid rains, ozone layer, GMO, etc.) and the world did not end. Only people who respond well to that FUD approach is people who are already convinced, which means it's totally useless.
Here's the solution: 1) rebuild the credibility of climate scientists by providing clear, simple data that isn't presented in an alarmist way 2) stop saying "ample evidence" or "the science is there" or other generic label that may look like you don't know the fuck what the numbers are, otherwise the other side uses the same and nobody knows what the fuck is going on 3) crunch numbers to show the economical impact of climate change, not just the "billions of death and mayhem and suffering and crying babies" to make the dialogue more inclusive 4) vote for people who have a balanced, pro-environment agenda, as opposed to shallow rockstars, right/left extremists or obvious frauds 5) vote with your dollars when it comes to heavy polluters (computers, cars, etc)
It's not sexy, not cool, not spectacular, it's just fucking common sense, and that's probably why it's not happening. People want drama, so that's what you get.
The VCs will actively pushback against product release, even against investing too much in building product over building hype to improve the value as an acquisition target.
that's the mistake TIBCO made. For a long time it was so obvious they wanted to be bought by IBM or Oracle it was pathetic. Minimal product evolution. Now it's left behind.
A big problem is that big app vendors (SAP, IBM, etc) require either Oracle or SQL Server for the database layer. Many large organizations go with Oracle because it runs on UNIX. There's just no way to walk away from that lock-in.
Of course there's always going to be some dude coming up and saying, we could rewrite SAP Financials using PHP and drupal modules (or RoR or whatever), but that's even scarier than being in bed with Oracle.
So far there is no clear success story of a public organization using Ubuntu. There's Munich but it's not a fairy tale, lots of problems. Biggest successful Linux deployments are all Red Hats (such as the US Army).
Just for fun call the US GAO and ask them to give you a ball park figure as to how much public money is wasted in the federal government. The answer is: they have no fucking idea how to even start figuring out an answer. The only true answer they can give is that there's 1/2 billion wasted each year in having a GAO.
Governments have the resources to adapt and adopt open source software rather than paying MS billions of dollars across the globe.
Are you kidding?
Government IT always follows the same: each department/agency/division has their own IT turf that they protect against other department/agency/division, until some starry-eyed moron convinces the big cheese that having a central IT group would lower cost and could even become a profit center. At which point the central IT group becomes a nest of corruption showered with gifts from vendors, and every department/agency/division is charged ridiculous amounts of money for inferior or irrelevant products and services. So each department/agency/division starts special projects and bundles IT services in those, slowly recreating individual turfs. Rinse and repeat.
Yeah, i would see 47% discount and immediately know that we weren't talking Oracle or Cisco.
Because you can put a figure or discount % on Oracle software?
Oracle pricing is an art, not a science, and has no basis in reality. The reps make up obscene numbers then jack up the extra cost of various mysterious options and terms until they reach the sweet spot, which is in that narrow window between the client starting to shit bricks and the client starting to shit razor blades.
If they had rented porn, they would have lasted longer. But no, instead they even refused to rent NC-17 movies; either they had the R version or they wouldn't have the movie at all.
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I love Fallout 4, and I've played all the Fallout games.
Same here.
I was a big fan of Oblivion and hated Skyrim, found it tedious, ruined the Elders Scrolls franchise for me. When I heard there would be a Fallout 4 I was afraid they would do the same kind of "reengineering" but I was immensely relieved to see that they kept the thing very close to the Fallout spirit.
There are a few annoying things (like those redundant settlement missions) but the improvements like point-and-loot or the possibility to setup a gun turret to protect my stash are terrific.
And to make sure you enjoy them, especially the rotating items on display during loading
You can move and rotate the items on the screen, so that's something to do while you wait for the next section to load :)
I don't know if it does that all the time, but twice I've moved that thing like crazy out of boredom and the whole game froze. I had to re-kill a friggin deathclaw.
Well, it is Fallout 4 Beta. Just like Windows 10 beta. It's the new way.
Always been like that with Fallout. New Vegas was particularly buggy on Xbox. But those games are awesome so you put up with it. I'd say that's the biggest difference with Windows 10...
But, seriously, get a SSD, makes load times much more bearable.
Can't do that in my Playstation 4 I think.
Nonetheless, it's a new bug. I played the game for a while, loading was ok. Then there was a patch, and now it's taking forever to load sometimes. I did zero investigation but my immediate suspicion is that they're "calling home" during load and their web server is slow to answer, I see no other obvious reason. Disk isn't spinning, nothing.
I'm sure someone with a better network setup will eventually catch them if they're doing that.
Stuff disappears from companions inventory, guns become transparent when you crouch, scorpions walk in the sky, raiders taunt you as they patrol from the bottom of the sea, severed limbs spin forever... Special effects are amazing in Fallout 4!
And to make sure you enjoy them, especially the rotating items on display during loading, the engineers brilliantly injected a random delay of up to 1 minute each time you enter a building or fast travel.
Of course you're not trying to prove anything, you don't provide facts because you don't know them. You're worst than a denier, you're a phony, all you do is try to belong to a group by bashing the apparent enemy, without making the effort of educating yourself.
Watch the documentary Cowspiracy. It's full of phonies too, you'll be in good company, and you may learn a thing or two.
Let's immediately call an emergency meeting of all architects and house builders in Nevada to let them know that some dude on Slashdot has found out how they have been wrong for decades.
Both sides are saying it, but one side is lying their pants off. And anyone who pays attention knows that it's the AGW deniers.
Amazingly convincing
True that.
Another example is people complaining about urban sprawling. What about a place like Arizona or Nevada where temperature stays in the oven spectrum half or more of the year? It gets exponentially more expensive (and resource-consuming) to cool down upper floors when you stack people on top of each other, that's why if you drive around Phoenix or even Las Vegas you won't see a lot of duplex or affordable condo towers.
I had to read your comment twice, but there is a solution. I's called an "Attic". You can also paint the roof white, or make the 'attic' out of PV solar panels.
I'll leave the numerous other errors go with just a head shake.
I don't know what "numerous other errors" you see but if you think painting a roof is a solution to cool down upper floors in Arizona there's probably no need to investigate your opinion further.
We know that buying gas-guzzling SUV is bad for the environment. Before you start blaming the government for imposing legislations, please consider that the problem has been known for a while, but people feel that a status symbol is more important that the sustainability of our planet. We only have ourselves to blame.
Yeah, it's a known fact that diesel or electric car batteries are much better solutions and by no way a status symbol.
True that.
Another example is people complaining about urban sprawling. What about a place like Arizona or Nevada where temperature stays in the oven spectrum half or more of the year? It gets exponentially more expensive (and resource-consuming) to cool down upper floors when you stack people on top of each other, that's why if you drive around Phoenix or even Las Vegas you won't see a lot of duplex or affordable condo towers.
Verify as much as you want. That's called science. But when the evidence points in a clear direction and your refuse the conclusion, that's called denial.
This is an empty statement, and that's the core of the problem. It's not enough to say "evidence points in a clear direction" because that's what BOTH sides are saying. Explain the data clearly instead of saying that data is on your side, or you're just more noise with zero signal.
+1. It doesn't take long to get beyond the shallow "science is right" arguments when you start digging. On either side of this argument.
If one was to draw a bell curve with one side being deniers and the other side non-deniers, you could bet that the bulk of that big bell would be made of faithful people who don't argue or think further about why they're on one side or the other, they just follow a dogma and consider the other side to be idiots.
Typically a Netflix documentary with charismatic interviewees will be enough to win them over.
"Billions who will suffer"? This sort of histrionic exaggeration is why no one takes you seriously.
It seems odd to me that anyone could believe that nobody would suffer if climate changes.
The fact that you jump from "billions" to "nobody" is, essentially, what "histrionic exaggeration" means. There's a huge fucking amount of numbers between 0 and >2,000,000,000.
Just pull out your calculator, for god's sake. There are 7 billions people on the planet at the moment. The odds that at least 25% of them will die (i.e. "billions") because of a projected global increase of 4 Celsius in temperature over a century would require a lot more explanation and hard data than what has been provided so far to be considered anything than ludicrous. Just look at a fucking map and see where the bulk of those 7 billions people live, how the fuck is such a slow change supposed to kill them all?
This is the kind of bullshit number that people make up as a scare tactic, like"1/3 of women will be raped in their lifetime". It doesn't help take the climate change proponents seriously, it actually make them look like liars to those who are not convinced that there's a problem.
This kind of tactic is harmful to the cause. The more you try to scare people with end of the world scenarios, the less they listen because this has been tried many times before (acid rains, ozone layer, GMO, etc.) and the world did not end. Only people who respond well to that FUD approach is people who are already convinced, which means it's totally useless.
Here's the solution:
1) rebuild the credibility of climate scientists by providing clear, simple data that isn't presented in an alarmist way
2) stop saying "ample evidence" or "the science is there" or other generic label that may look like you don't know the fuck what the numbers are, otherwise the other side uses the same and nobody knows what the fuck is going on
3) crunch numbers to show the economical impact of climate change, not just the "billions of death and mayhem and suffering and crying babies" to make the dialogue more inclusive
4) vote for people who have a balanced, pro-environment agenda, as opposed to shallow rockstars, right/left extremists or obvious frauds
5) vote with your dollars when it comes to heavy polluters (computers, cars, etc)
It's not sexy, not cool, not spectacular, it's just fucking common sense, and that's probably why it's not happening. People want drama, so that's what you get.
The problem is really that theres no money going around. [...] Better to be patient and not focussed on money at all I think, until the right time
That's the perfect way to solve it. People shouldn't invest money until "other" people invest money.
The VCs will actively pushback against product release, even against investing too much in building product over building hype to improve the value as an acquisition target.
that's the mistake TIBCO made. For a long time it was so obvious they wanted to be bought by IBM or Oracle it was pathetic. Minimal product evolution. Now it's left behind.
One of my clients still require support for the old XLS format. That's a lot worse.
public data cannot be subjected to vendor lock-in
A big problem is that big app vendors (SAP, IBM, etc) require either Oracle or SQL Server for the database layer. Many large organizations go with Oracle because it runs on UNIX. There's just no way to walk away from that lock-in.
Of course there's always going to be some dude coming up and saying, we could rewrite SAP Financials using PHP and drupal modules (or RoR or whatever), but that's even scarier than being in bed with Oracle.
I got three nights in Vegas since the department of education I worked for was considering SharePoint. It almost killed me, but it was great fun.
Pace yourself, and always have ice in your drinks (helps with dehydration), and you'll last a whole week before almost dying in Vegas.
So far there is no clear success story of a public organization using Ubuntu. There's Munich but it's not a fairy tale, lots of problems. Biggest successful Linux deployments are all Red Hats (such as the US Army).
Just for fun call the US GAO and ask them to give you a ball park figure as to how much public money is wasted in the federal government. The answer is: they have no fucking idea how to even start figuring out an answer. The only true answer they can give is that there's 1/2 billion wasted each year in having a GAO.
Governments have the resources to adapt and adopt open source software rather than paying MS billions of dollars across the globe.
Are you kidding?
Government IT always follows the same: each department/agency/division has their own IT turf that they protect against other department/agency/division, until some starry-eyed moron convinces the big cheese that having a central IT group would lower cost and could even become a profit center. At which point the central IT group becomes a nest of corruption showered with gifts from vendors, and every department/agency/division is charged ridiculous amounts of money for inferior or irrelevant products and services. So each department/agency/division starts special projects and bundles IT services in those, slowly recreating individual turfs. Rinse and repeat.
There are many excellent examples of open source software that are superior to what MS offers. Like Firefox!
+1 Funny
Yeah, i would see 47% discount and immediately know that we weren't talking Oracle or Cisco.
Because you can put a figure or discount % on Oracle software?
Oracle pricing is an art, not a science, and has no basis in reality. The reps make up obscene numbers then jack up the extra cost of various mysterious options and terms until they reach the sweet spot, which is in that narrow window between the client starting to shit bricks and the client starting to shit razor blades.
If they had rented porn, they would have lasted longer. But no, instead they even refused to rent NC-17 movies; either they had the R version or they wouldn't have the movie at all.