I've found people no longer trust short URLs. But give them a long, impressive authoritarian-sounding URL and they assume it must be part of some corporate datacenter they can feel safe doing business with. Right now there are a couple, like Johannes longurl. It works, but doesn't fill the URL with impressive sounding words. What we need is something tied to a thesaurus lookup with all manner of impressive sounding terms meant to subliminally make the person think they are safe. e.g., reallybigcorporationofamerica.com/htppsss/accounting/security/firewall/lockdown/secureurltoken.shtml&verifiedid=320498982342394ab098f&checksum=0342f&etcetcetc

No longer will you need a lousy LED flash on your phone camera. Just tap to brighten all lightbulbs in the area. Or if you're into being dark and mysterious, a constantly running app that dims all lights within 50' of your GPS location... people will know when you're coming...

oh, and re-enable linux on PS3. Hell, make an official distro.

I got my anti-piracy merit badge....

you think its only a game but you're really piloting their unmanned drones for them....

Damn you Lord Foul! Must you corrupt these beautiful creatures and turn them into servants of despite?

If you have U-verse you can get this xbox thing that basically turns it into a u-verse receiver/dvr (using the xbox hard drive). Sadly they charge $99 for this, versus a monthly fee of like $5 for another unit. I guess it would pay for itself eventually. Or if you somehow had a TV with only one input it could be worth it. They advertise not having to use the source select button on your tv remote as a feature. Its not a $99 feature. Also you can stream a lot of ESPN content via Xbox Live... not their top ticket items, but it is a good way to see some of the less in demand sporting events... e.g., CONCACAF soccer, NCAA women's basketball, etc. You can usually see one of their current sportscenter shows as well..

I always play humans in D&D. Why is there no human aroma available?

They had a big announcement then pushed its launch out to sometime this year, late summer maybe, nothing firm. Most of the palm fans were screaming about how can they wait that long apple is launching stuff now we have to get it out there and OMG the playbook is also launching way way ahead...

Now I think that was probably a better choice.

Cancel that retirement party

I think what they mean is they are employing natives in third world countries to write their HTML.

You do realize his great engineering solution you described consisted of destroying the Miracle Machine. This machine, which somehow was impervious to 30th century science, the combined might of Supeboy, Mon-El, Wildfire, Supergirl, Ultra Boy et al combined..... was destroyed when he had Matter-Eater Lad ate the bloody thing.

Just less of the technical sort, and more of the "how can we take your money" sort.

In the context of what came before, it was the first game I can recall where the ultimate victory was not based on killing a bad guy, but rather a personal quest. It was also the first time we got the world of Britania (Ultima ]I[ had been Sosaria, ][ was earth through time, and I... I dunno, something like Alkabeth I imagine, never played that one). It was the first time we got to journey with Iolo Fitzowen, Dupre, Shamino, et al.

Yes it was over the top in its morality, and Ultima V was directly a response to that. But the role of Ultima IV should not be ignored or minimized. It advanced the bar in terms of these games beyond anything else at that time.

(dusting off old sig)
Asgrim Dragon, UDIC

COMPression
HUMIdity
SACRilege
HONEy
SPIRals
VALOrem
HONOlulu
JUSTico (these days you could use JUSTintimberlake or JUSTinbieber... but I did not know who the former was back then and the latter did not exist back then).

(the Ultima IV language parser only read the first four letters of any word) you could pass all the challenges where they asked you questions about the virtues by answering with thse...)