I like your enthusiasm for Oblivion, its nice to hear someone 'bigging-it-up'.
I played Oblivion for a little while, and much like yourself I like the openendedness of it [although even that can be a little intimidating at times]...and the graphics are absolutely amazing. The best graphics, in anygame.. provided your system can cope!
But my two main gripes of the game are that it is REALLY easy to cheat [a failing of mine i'm afraid!]. I worked out the hex codes for giving a player xxxx gold in no time. Bethseda didn;t even TRY to make it confusing/difficult to work the console.
Also, on a general level, I have become seriously involved in MMORPGs these days. And now...playing single games like oblivion, I feel really 'lonely' and as if I am playing in and empty room! Its odd but I keep looking for the chat window in Oblivion!
NWN2 should be a good game aswell... and Dark Messiah...
CAN she sue AOL? The reason I ask that is because AOL only attached a random number to the list of search queries.
In the end it was the contents of the search queries themselves [which aol are not responsible for] that gave the womans identity away. Its an odd one.
However, I hate AOL with a passion, thusly I also agree that IF SHE CAN she should.
Eh?
No way...AOL will continue to datamine peoples searches. Of course they will...the information it provides is far too valuable to just 'get rid of it'.
If they aren't already; AOL will be selling that data to all sorts of government agencies, education houses [universities etc] everything.
You can still use cash for most transactions, and that does not yet get tracked.
Could you imagine if they put an RFID into us [like in "Demolition Man"], and then they put and rfid device into the money! in the coins! or in the paper!
won;t somebody please think of the children!
Citizens of earth...this will be your last chance to escape to a new world! a world of liberty! a world of peace.
I wish there were more 'guides' like this. Usually the corporations hide the true meaning of their T's & C's behind so much confusing babble that the end user usually has zero idea of what is actually going to happen to them in certain scenarios.
Its like contracts...I read them. Over and Over again...it doesn;t mean I understand what they mean. We all need pet solicitors.
The article didn;t make it very clear...but do you have to have part of the tooth left to stimulate it to grow? or will the tooth grow from nothing.
This is quite a differnt approach to the "growing teeth from stem cells" that I read about recently. Both seem quite viable, but growing teeth from stem cells might be a little more complecated prehaps?
Here is a big cheer for the fact that the object is re-usable. This is fast becoming one of the more considered aspects of shuttle design, and given taht there is a "The Carbon Trust" campaign going on in the uk [and the world!] a reuable shuttle is a big bonus.
Well...this is a good step forward for online protection, however...I notice this little paragraph in the text:
AOL, for instance, plans to check e-mail attachments that are already being scanned for viruses. If child porn is detected, AOL would refer the case to the missing-children's center for further investigation, as service providers are required to do under federal law.
Ahh..i see. So AOL will now be prying into my email attachments. Thats a nice violation of privacy isn;t it? how long before there are hash check techniques for all sorts of other kinds of files; or other kinds of content?
Well, I forget where, but i read a very interesting paper on how the adaptation of grammer, spelling and language use in the last 20 years.
Basically since some clever-dick invented computers, and our efforts to instil the 'three r's' in children went all to cock, we are paving the way for a unified language. An interesting thoery, that nearly exists now.
Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. First it killed the Romans, and now its killing me. English followed later, nations came undone...computers stepped up to the bench...010101
Its a bit of a viscious cirlce this idea though...
The reason Virii and Worms etc are good for the security of a network, is because they prompt us to tighten security for future attacks based on historic ones.
"Nessesscity is the mother of invention"
But the irony is...if the Virii/Worms didn't exist in the first place, then we wouldn't NEED to improve security against such attacks.
Given the discontent that is flying around the PS3 camp at the minute I can only see the 360 getting more and more reverent in its status.
Its not at the level to beat the Wiiiiiiiiiii love out there at the minute...but hell...its fast catching up and could over take the PS3.
I work in SEO and have to outsource a lot of content writing to another company because...well...because I'm too damn good to be a typing monkey.
It has been my holy grail to find a piece of software that will take a list of keyphrases and output a given amount of textual content.
This random paragraph generator is pretty close. Yes its gibberish, but the advantage is that it is grammatical gibberish...which makes all the difference. Tra la la.
Wow...getting a machine to write up your science experiments! Excellent...now all i need is to find one that can type my essays, and show its working in my maths, and I'm sorted! Is this the new era of generating scientists from everyone!
I need one to clean my clothes, sing to me in the bath, and make sure my house is warm when I come home! Hehhe! Who needs wives...we have UBER_MACHINE
According to the article the system will be launching with a price of 499EUROS/599EUROS and also 499USD/599USD. Err? excuse me? If i want a cheaper console, what's to stop me buying my console in America? Err...hello? there is almost a £100 price difference in the exchange rates between Euros and Dollars
And don't even get me started on that whole 'fewer features on the cheaper system' thing.
I would almost suggest that this is Sony herding people into buying the better verision of the package, but I can't be sure as it looks like 1up was slashdotted. HeeHee.
This development is simply brilliant. It shows continued progress in the development of disability products.
I would have thought the main problem with such a device is balance. Bi pedal movements main hang up is balance, and as such, having such a top heavy unit must be a fairly difficlut task to combat.
Imagine it! the worlds buildings are just getting started in providing adequate service levels for wheelchair users, and the japanese bring out a unit that need no ramps!
If madonna wants to slap a huge ar$e price on her concert tickets...then i wait for the official concert dvd to come out and p2p that off here silly behind as well!
P2P upping the price of concert tickets indeed! What a pathetic excuse. Robbing, no good, concert managers *mumble*
The differences in laws that are applicable ONLINE and in RL are quite significant. I remember a time when if an online shop published the wrong price on thier ecommerce website that they were abound to honour orders placed for goods at that price.
That was changed.
Being that the online world is intensly different to RL, i would have suggested that certain aspects of everything should be governed differently on the net as in RL
Different countries have different laws...prephaps we should think of the net as a 'different country' in its own right, as opposed to an extension of the host country? And thusly, apply a separate set of laws.
I entirely agree with you.
I can see the inaccuracy in my post...
Like many things...ebooks, 3G Video Phones, et al...the time it takes for the 'new' technology to change into 'widely used, simple, swift efficient technology' is Huuuge, as there is the inevitable period inbetween when the technology itself is ironing out kinks, and societies infrastructure [phone lines, consumer acceptance etc] WON'T handle it.
Which gets us into a whole new debate about launching products/tech too soon. >_
I DO believe that the holy grail of media entertainment is an 'allinone' solution, that it WILL arrive. And that will spell the end of the telly that WE are used to. I think that is a 'given' acceptance eventually. The question is maybe..."how ready are consumers to put up with the rocky period inbetween it being new, and it being grrreat"
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I like your enthusiasm for Oblivion, its nice to hear someone 'bigging-it-up'.
I played Oblivion for a little while, and much like yourself I like the openendedness of it [although even that can be a little intimidating at times]...and the graphics are absolutely amazing. The best graphics, in anygame.. provided your system can cope!
But my two main gripes of the game are that it is REALLY easy to cheat [a failing of mine i'm afraid!]. I worked out the hex codes for giving a player xxxx gold in no time. Bethseda didn;t even TRY to make it confusing/difficult to work the console.
Also, on a general level, I have become seriously involved in MMORPGs these days. And now...playing single games like oblivion, I feel really 'lonely' and as if I am playing in and empty room! Its odd but I keep looking for the chat window in Oblivion!
NWN2 should be a good game aswell... and Dark Messiah...
Errr...what is a QWERTZ keyboard?
I've heard of DVORAK and QWERTY but never QWERTZ.
Gigaqwertz? Kraftqwertz? Ouch-that-qwertz?
who can tell.
I move to replace the CAPS LOCK key with a Delicate Blue velvet clad button, emblazoned with the pleasant calm round looking words:
"Don't Panic"
Pushing said button could be an automatic transfer to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ babel fish.
Or it could bring up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/ Wiki pedia ; the closest thing we have to the guide .
Is it me being pedantic and picky, but why does the root thread of this article show an american flag. Its a British story.
I love you, my supporting American cousins, but please...won't somebody think of the other countries.
I wonder if the bloke that originally posted this thread:
9 47243
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/29/1
Has read this! it might make him feel a little bit better!
Ha!
Hmm i wonder...
CAN she sue AOL? The reason I ask that is because AOL only attached a random number to the list of search queries.
In the end it was the contents of the search queries themselves [which aol are not responsible for] that gave the womans identity away. Its an odd one.
However, I hate AOL with a passion, thusly I also agree that IF SHE CAN she should.
Eh?
No way...AOL will continue to datamine peoples searches. Of course they will...the information it provides is far too valuable to just 'get rid of it'.
If they aren't already; AOL will be selling that data to all sorts of government agencies, education houses [universities etc] everything.
Could you imagine if they put an RFID into us [like in "Demolition Man"], and then they put and rfid device into the money! in the coins! or in the paper!
won;t somebody please think of the children!
Citizens of earth...this will be your last chance to escape to a new world! a world of liberty! a world of peace.
I wish there were more 'guides' like this. Usually the corporations hide the true meaning of their T's & C's behind so much confusing babble that the end user usually has zero idea of what is actually going to happen to them in certain scenarios.
Its like contracts...I read them. Over and Over again...it doesn;t mean I understand what they mean. We all need pet solicitors.
Shh! You insensitive clod! Some of us need that spam...how else are we supposed to maintain powerful erections with that "s3xy b@by"!
Deleted emails? It obviously didn't run linux...ah no wait, hang on.
When I was in Belize, not only were there Iguana running around peoples gardens like the common sparrow or blackbird but the mosquitoes were massive.
I mean i'm talking an inch and a half long, socking great legs...absolutely massive.
Not that it matters.
The article didn;t make it very clear...but do you have to have part of the tooth left to stimulate it to grow? or will the tooth grow from nothing.
This is quite a differnt approach to the "growing teeth from stem cells" that I read about recently. Both seem quite viable, but growing teeth from stem cells might be a little more complecated prehaps?
Here is a big cheer for the fact that the object is re-usable. This is fast becoming one of the more considered aspects of shuttle design, and given taht there is a "The Carbon Trust" campaign going on in the uk [and the world!] a reuable shuttle is a big bonus.
Well...this is a good step forward for online protection, however...I notice this little paragraph in the text:
AOL, for instance, plans to check e-mail attachments that are already being scanned for viruses. If child porn is detected, AOL would refer the case to the missing-children's center for further investigation, as service providers are required to do under federal law.
Ahh..i see. So AOL will now be prying into my email attachments. Thats a nice violation of privacy isn;t it? how long before there are hash check techniques for all sorts of other kinds of files; or other kinds of content?
Well, I forget where, but i read a very interesting paper on how the adaptation of grammer, spelling and language use in the last 20 years.
Basically since some clever-dick invented computers, and our efforts to instil the 'three r's' in children went all to cock, we are paving the way for a unified language. An interesting thoery, that nearly exists now.
Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. First it killed the Romans, and now its killing me. English followed later, nations came undone...computers stepped up to the bench...010101
Its a bit of a viscious cirlce this idea though...
The reason Virii and Worms etc are good for the security of a network, is because they prompt us to tighten security for future attacks based on historic ones.
"Nessesscity is the mother of invention" But the irony is...if the Virii/Worms didn't exist in the first place, then we wouldn't NEED to improve security against such attacks.
Oh the confusion.
Given the discontent that is flying around the PS3 camp at the minute I can only see the 360 getting more and more reverent in its status. Its not at the level to beat the Wiiiiiiiiiii love out there at the minute...but hell...its fast catching up and could over take the PS3.
I work in SEO and have to outsource a lot of content writing to another company because...well...because I'm too damn good to be a typing monkey.
It has been my holy grail to find a piece of software that will take a list of keyphrases and output a given amount of textual content.
This random paragraph generator is pretty close. Yes its gibberish, but the advantage is that it is grammatical gibberish...which makes all the difference. Tra la la.
Wow...getting a machine to write up your science experiments! Excellent...now all i need is to find one that can type my essays, and show its working in my maths, and I'm sorted! Is this the new era of generating scientists from everyone!
I need one to clean my clothes, sing to me in the bath, and make sure my house is warm when I come home! Hehhe! Who needs wives...we have UBER_MACHINE
HAHA! Mike, thats classic. Thwii! Brilliant!
Look i really need someone to help me out here.
According to the article the system will be launching with a price of 499EUROS/599EUROS and also 499USD/599USD.
Err? excuse me? If i want a cheaper console, what's to stop me buying my console in America? Err...hello? there is almost a £100 price difference in the exchange rates between Euros and Dollars
And don't even get me started on that whole 'fewer features on the cheaper system' thing.
I would almost suggest that this is Sony herding people into buying the better verision of the package, but I can't be sure as it looks like 1up was slashdotted. HeeHee.
This development is simply brilliant. It shows continued progress in the development of disability products.
I would have thought the main problem with such a device is balance. Bi pedal movements main hang up is balance, and as such, having such a top heavy unit must be a fairly difficlut task to combat.
Imagine it! the worlds buildings are just getting started in providing adequate service levels for wheelchair users, and the japanese bring out a unit that need no ramps!
D'Oh!
Fine!
If madonna wants to slap a huge ar$e price on her concert tickets...then i wait for the official concert dvd to come out and p2p that off here silly behind as well!
P2P upping the price of concert tickets indeed! What a pathetic excuse. Robbing, no good, concert managers *mumble*
The differences in laws that are applicable ONLINE and in RL are quite significant. I remember a time when if an online shop published the wrong price on thier ecommerce website that they were abound to honour orders placed for goods at that price.
That was changed.
Being that the online world is intensly different to RL, i would have suggested that certain aspects of everything should be governed differently on the net as in RL
Different countries have different laws...prephaps we should think of the net as a 'different country' in its own right, as opposed to an extension of the host country? And thusly, apply a separate set of laws.
I entirely agree with you. I can see the inaccuracy in my post... Like many things...ebooks, 3G Video Phones, et al...the time it takes for the 'new' technology to change into 'widely used, simple, swift efficient technology' is Huuuge, as there is the inevitable period inbetween when the technology itself is ironing out kinks, and societies infrastructure [phone lines, consumer acceptance etc] WON'T handle it. Which gets us into a whole new debate about launching products/tech too soon. >_ I DO believe that the holy grail of media entertainment is an 'allinone' solution, that it WILL arrive. And that will spell the end of the telly that WE are used to. I think that is a 'given' acceptance eventually. The question is maybe..."how ready are consumers to put up with the rocky period inbetween it being new, and it being grrreat"