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Yes, you read right.
The card game that's brought friends together and comically torn them apart is back, with a twist; Mattel's UNO card game will soon welcome DOS, its befitting sequel. Along the same lines as UNO, the forthcoming game allows players to make two piles of cards in addition to the ability to throw down two cards at a time rather than one.
The unexpected game comes as a result of Mattel attempting to give a positive surge to its business by updating some of its classics along with Hot Wheels and Barbie dolls. Mattel's revenue dropped 11% last year thanks to Toys "R" Us filing for bankruptcy and the attention of kids moving from card games to technology — although UNO served as its savior thanks to its sales increasing 12% in 2017.
Retailing for $5.99 USD, DOS will make its debut at Target this March with other stores to sell the game in August.


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I have been working on this jumper for ages!!!
I started it when I was pregnant with Shoshone, and just managed to finish it the weekend just gone... I must have known it would take this long as I decided to make it in the patterns largest size.
Other than a baby blanket I made, this must be my longest running (knitting) project... I'll blog about the blanket at some other point.
Actually come to mention it, I'm not 100% sure its complete... I planned to try a bit of embroidery on the chest, where the thicker yellow stripe is.
I might still do it...
Got the buttons from Dunelm Mill, they were to go allong with the embroidery, but think they look good on their own too.
In the pattern the jumper is supposed to be striped all over. I thought I'd run out of the white/speckled yarn and so decided to go for plain yellow sleeves... After knitting one of the sleeves I found another ball of the white yarn >:(
I couldn't be bothered to pull out the whole sleeve so the jumper now has yellow sleeves... Thought it might look weird, but quite like it now it's finished.
And here's Shoshone wearing it for the first time... Again, not a happy model :S
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Remembering Peter Day
Posted by jonathanfryer on Friday, 18th July, 2014
The publisher, editor and longtime English PEN activist Peter Day, who has died, could on occasions be extremely sharp-tongued, but at heart he was a man of immense human kindness. He particularly sprang into action whenever any of his friends was ill. When our mutual friend, the late novelist Francis King, was in deteriorating health, Peter virtually moved in to look after him. I first met Peter through English PEN, when we were both serving on that writers' body's executive committee, he ex officio as the editor of International PEN's newsletter. Later, he would edit the first paperback edition of my book on the relationship between Oscar Wilde and André Gide, André & Oscar; he was a joy to work with, meticulous but also deeply supportive and it helped that several of our working sessions were conducted over lunch at his flat up in the tower of a gothic block of flats in Shepherd's Bush. He loved to entertain, but was an eccentric host, especially at his dinner parties at the table in his kitchen. He insisted on washing up between each course, which was distinctly disconcerting, and in order to make sure that people didn't stay too long, Peter had his lights on automatic timers so that after 10pm they used to go off, one by one. Only the most thick-skinned guest failed to get the message. In his latter years, Peter moved into Charterhouse, the residential accommodation for distressed gentlefolk. The rule there was that everyone had a set place allocated at the communal dining tables, so one's neighbours at meal times were always the same until one died, yet to my surprise Peter adapted to this somewhat monastic lifestyle with remarkable good faith.


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Oyu Tolgoi invests in professional education
Under the common terms of the Investment Agreement, Oyu Tolgoi has made specific commitments to improve curriculum and course contents and up-grade teaching methodology and learning environments in mining related disciplines through a partnership with several professional education institutions in Mongolia. Thus, on June 14 we started summer intensive English language training for trades teachers of Erdenet Institute of Technology and DZ TVET School.
As part of this project, on June 10 Oyu Tolgoi LLC has made an investment in-kind of 30 computers and two printers to the TVET School in Dalanzadgad.
About Oyu Tolgoi LLC (www.ot.mn)
Oyu Tolgoi LLC, Mongolia's largest copper and gold mining company, is a strategic partnership between the Government of Mongolia, Turquoise Hill Resources and Rio Tinto. Located in the South Gobi, Oyu Tolgoi commenced shipment of product to customers in July 2013. Oyu Tolgoi is managed by Rio Tinto, which is investing global expertise and cutting-edge technology to help develop Mongolia's mining industry and ensure Oyu Tolgoi is one of the world's most advanced mines. For Oyu Tolgoi, nothing matters more than safety. The business operates under the principle that if a job cannot be done safely, it will not be done at all.
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Today was a beautiful sunny and warm day! I drove to Troy to take my daughter Heather out shopping for her birthday. We started out by going to Olive Garden for lunch, yum! I was so thrilled when she decided she did not want to go to the mall but just run into Old Navy. WOW!!! they have some AWESOME clothes right now, she went through that store like it was on fire and $185.00 later we where out the door! Of course there was a couple things in the sack for me! She was so afraid I was going to hit rush hour going home but I must have left just in the nick of time because I sailed right on down the highway and was home before I knew it.
Steve was outside hauling more wood to the wood burner, NO it is still not burning any wood yet but at least there is wood sitting by it. I think I heard it was suppose to get down in the low 30's next week so I better see smoke coming out of the chimney or he will see smoke coming out of mine! Well after I made him a pot of goulash I came into my stamp room and have been here ever since. I have some homework from Ronda that I've been working on and then I had to get those last minute orders in before the end of the month and so now I am going to make me a bowl of popcorn and go watch Grey's.
Here is one of the cards we are doing at my Mini Stamp Camp on Monday October 11
Cardstock: More Mustard, Riding hood Red, pumpkin pie and Autumn Spice Specialty Paper
Ink: Riding hood Red
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Shin Uchiha is able to perform a space–time ninjutsu using his Sharingan.[1]
This technique creates a spiralling void centred on the user's eye, drawing them and everything in their immediate surroundings inwards and transporting them to another location. The space affected by this technique warps anyone and anything within its confines, even affecting chakra-based substances. The technique activates fast enough that it can capture a target before they have time to react, and the size and shape of the spatial barrier can be manipulated to some extent to fit the situation.[2]
Shin is able to activate this technique using his right eye in order to transport himself to the locations of his spying creatures, emerging from a void created by their own Sharingan.[1] He can also channel this technique through the creatures themselves, allowing him and his clones to strategically retreat to their hideout at a moment's notice.[3]


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A journey to the Underworld and back again...
A visit from the Figura Ensemble
A new Danish opera based on the tragic fate of one of Greek mythology's most beloved couples.
Greek mythology tells the story of how the young nymph, Eurydice, dies on her wedding day after being bit by a serpent and has to journey alone to the underworld Hades. Her beloved Orpheus is devastated by grief, but decides to follow his love, hoping that his song will appease the gods and release Eurydice from the eternal darkness of the underworld.
In Downfall, the myth becomes a story of grief and parting leading up to the inevitable but also redeeming ending.
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Debt collectors beware: Judge's ruling could change the game
HAWTHORNE, N.J. (AP) -- A northern New Jersey man has won a court ruling that could help those who are unfairly targeted by debt collectors.
Steven Psaros sued a debt collector and its law firm last year after he was told he owed about $11,000 in homeowners' insurance as part of a foreclosure action on his home in Hawthorne.
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On Saturday, July 25, Appalachian Voices and several of our partner organizations facilitated the first statewide gathering of North Carolina communities impacted by coal ash. Residents from across the state, from towns like Goldsboro, Lumberton, and Belmont, and counties such as Lee and Chatham, gathered in Belews Creek. The area is home of one of the state's largest coal ash ponds as well as a local group fighting for justice in their community, Residents for Coal Ash Cleanup. Citizens told stories of contaminated well water and new ash landfills that threaten their communities. The solidarity and inspiration was felt strongly throughout the room as those most harmed by Duke Energy's coal ash discussed a set of unifying principles and formed a statewide alliance to better advocate to Duke Energy and the government for their communities' needs.
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So, I got this sweet little part time job...selling handbags, jewelry, beads, etc...beautiful products to beautiful people...I've learned and gathered some information while working at this boutique...Women love to be beautiful.
I watch as they hold a handbag in certain ways at the full-length mirror in the corner of the shop and I stop to wonder if we are all the same. The beauty of one woman saying to another, "That looks phenomenal on you!" or "Oh my, THAT is your color!" Those words...those powerful palabras speak life into the soul. Sometimes I am sad, though...when I see a woman who must depend on these items to fulfill the need she has in her quest to be with the trend...
I continue to pray for each of the genders to rise up to their full potential....where there is no more degradation of the female form...where men can be real men who appreciate ONE woman's appearance rather than adhering to the "Look but don't touch" motto....and where women can walk into a social setting without immediately comparing herself to the other women in the room: causing her to miss out on the most important thing in life: RELATIONSHIPS
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Wow...amazingly well put! You have this way of stepping outside of yourself and looking at the world in an beautiful, intricate way. I,too, think each woman loves to be beautiful...and know that if each one of us find out who we are in Christ, we will have that inner confidence that will radiate to the outside, and in turn, make us each more beautiful. Thanks for sharing your heart!
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2011: The Year in Review
Editorial - posted by DarkUnderlord on Tue 10 July 2012, 05:55:37Tags: Avadon: The Black Fortress; Deus Ex: Human Revolution; Dragon Age II; Dungeon Siege III; Dungeons of Dredmor; Fallout: New Vegas; Frayed Knights; Minecraft; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings; The Year in Review; Two Worlds II
Well, it's coming in a bit late this year but after upgrading the Codex and taking care of a few other things, we take a some-what belated look back on the world of computer-based role-playing games in 2011.
The RPGs of 2011
As is now tradition, we'll start the year in review with a list of what was released in 2011 that we might vaguely define as being a PC-based RPG.
Original Titles:
- Avadon: The Black Fortress; Spiderweb Software - 28 Feb, 2011
- Dungeons of Dredmor; Gaslamp Games - 13 Jul, 2011
- Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon; Rampant Games - 28 Sep 2011
- Minecraft; Mojang - 18 Nov 2011
- Two Worlds II; Reality Pump Studios - 25 Jan 2011
- Dragon Age II; BioWare Corporation - 8 Mar 2011
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings; CD Projekt - 17 May 2011
- Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale, Atari Interactive - 25 May 2011
- Dungeon Siege III; Obsidian Entertainment - 21 Jun 2011
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution; Eidos Montreal - 25 Aug 2011
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; Bethesda Softworks - 11 Nov 2011
Expansions, Add-ons and DLC:
- ArcaniA: Fall of Setarrif; Spellbound Entertainment - 24 Oct 2011
- Din's Curse: Demon War; Soldak Entertainment - 22 Feb 2011
- Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money; Obsidian Entertainment - 22 Feb 2011
- Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts; Obsidian Entertainment - 17 May 2011
- Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues; Obsidian Entertainment - 19 Jul 2011
- Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road; Obsidian Entertainment - 20 Sep 2011
- Fallout: New Vegas - Courier's Stash; Obsidian Entertainment - 27 Sep 2011
- Fallout: New Vegas - Gun Runners' Arsenal; Obsidian Entertainment - 27 Sep 2011
- Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress; Reality Pump Studios - 20 Sep 2011
- Realm of the Diggle Gods; Gaslamp Games - 15 Dec, 2011
But yes, it was once again a year of sequels, add-ons and expansions. It seems RPG developers are still in the cycle of "don't change much, increment the number on the end and release the next edition". Which is exactly what BioWare did with Dragon Age 2... Well, except for the changing part.
MOAR dragons
Continuing their Dragon saga into its second edition, BioWare took the some-what flawed formula of Dragon Age: Origins:
"Really it seems to boil down to this: Dragon Age has undeniable flaws, some glaring, some less-so. To some, the truly brilliant moments easily outshine those flaws. To others, the brilliant moments aren't brilliant enough, or don't happen often enough, so the flaws stand-out more and bring the entire experience down. I think both perspectives are perfectly legitimate, and, like so many other things, really boil down to personal preference. And really, the "undeniable flaws with brilliant moments/features/etc." describes pretty much every great RPG I've ever played."
... and fucked it up completely. You see, they "stripped some stuff out of DA because it was busted". But it seems what they actually stripped out was the stuff that worked and they replaced that with more busted stuff. Why did they do this?
Well, Dragon Age was originally announced at E3 in 2004 at which point BioWare began development. Three years later, BioWare were gobbled up by Electronic Arts - that Dark Destroyer of video game companies whose role is to buy highly successful niche studios, make them dump their successful niche and focus on action-arcady shit released as sequels under more prestigious names, subsequently lose their niche and then shut the stuido down because it's performing poorly. It's something they've been proudly doing since 1987 and it's a long and impressive list. Once great companies EA has sucessfully turned to shit include Origin Systems (Ultima, Wing Commander), Bullfrog Productions (Dungeon Keeper, Populous), Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer)... the list goes on.
It's no wonder then that Dragon Age 2 - which began development under BioWare's new EA masters - turned something with a lot of hope and potential into a game that "innovated, we took a lot of risk, we were pushing the envelope on how we told the story". Which must be code for "a pile of utter shite".
Dragon Age 2 is a mediocre and deeply flawed action RPG, rushed out to earn EA a quick buck and betting on Bioware's reputation to pull up the sales. Even though the setting and the events are interesting, and the various options show potential, the overwhelming focus on killing things keeps you from digging into the world and its characters in a satisfying manner, and cripple replayability. Unfortunately, the combat is too repetitive to carry the game on its own. It's bad enough that even the mainstream reporters have noticed, though they are generally quick to make excuses.
Some even suggested it signalled the end of RPGs. But of course, it sold millions. Around about 1.3 million to be precise. But how many of those were due to pre-orders (some figures suggest 400,000) or were built on the success of the original game alone? Time will tell as to whether Dragon Age 3 - the supposed final game in the trilogy - will do as well or whether it will be the death of BioWare. Already though, DA2 DA3 has been delayed. One would hope BioWare learned something from the rushed out the door effort of DA2 and are working more closely on the third... But then that would imply that game developers actually have brains and are in the position to use them. As opposed to being whipped into a coding frenzy by their EA money pushers. It's hard to deny the man who's paying the bills, after all.
The Twitcher 2: Kings of QTE - Jump and Flip Edition
Also on the 2nd sequel front (and involving Dragons to boot) is The Witcher. The original game was released to Codex love:
The Witcher has heart. It has soul. If The Witcher sang the Blues, you'd want to listen. This is a game made by people who genuinely loved what they were doing, and it's clear that rather than asking themselves "How can we best serve the market?", the developers instead asked "Wouldn't it be awesome if . . .?" It has all the enthusiasm and the quirkiness (for better and worse) of an indie game, but the production values that only a multi-million dollar budget will buy. It has flaws - plenty of them - but ultimately it's a great game.
The Witcher was a solid effort as a first RPG for CD Projekt Red. After encountering some financial hurdles, it remained to be seen whether they would be in a position to deliver a sequel at all. But, in true sequel tradition, they borrowed BioWare's idea and made a some-what more hard-core title a little more accessable. Borrowing from Game Banshee:
Considering where mainstream RPGs have been trending towards lately, the Witcher 2 is a great step in the right direction. I don't feel the combat segment of RPGs has to be action-based, quite the opposite, nor do I understand the need to add gimmicks like QTEs to the RPG genre. Yet, if someone wants to craft an "evolved" RPG with action-based combat, this is what it should be.
Yeap. Twitcher 2: Kings' Asses is a next-gen "evolved" RPG. It's evolved you see, because you click your mouse when the computer tells you to. Gone are the days when had to figure out pesky things like "when to click". Today, those "difficult" events are replaced by the computer telling you how you should use it. Press [enter] twice to begin new paragraph.
Hold [shift] to capitalise first letter and begin. This is how the game is able to deliver you those awesome cinematic moments in end boss fights. Rather than say, you deciding when to jump on the dragon's back and stab it death, all you have to do is click when it tells you to - the game will handle the rest. This is because we all know how much totally more fun it is watching cut-scenes than it is actually playing the game yourself (As a side note: Conveniently placed logs sure do come in handy. God forbid that log wasn't there, it probably would've been a much longer cut scene and who knows if they had the animation budget for that). Combat beyond that is much the same as in the original. Which is to say, you totally flip the fuck out, making inappropriate commando rolls as you jump about, killing people.
For more fun, CD Projekt RED even got sued by their publisher for removing DRM, not because CD Projekt RED are high and noble and understand how much of a dreaded path that is. No, it was because it seems they had another strategy in mind to combat piracy. After an estimated 4.5 million people tried the free version, they decided to send out some letters to those people asking for $1,230. When that generated untold amounts of butthurt, they "immediately ceased identifying and contacting pirates", even though all along they "can assure you that we only take legal actions against users who we are 100% sure have downloaded our game illegally".
Still, The Witcher 2 is a game worth playing. The story is actually pretty good and it's a solid follow-up effort... For an action-style game along the lines of Assassin's Creed that is. I'm not entirely sure about the RPG parts, but they at least made an effort... Sort of.
The game even won our user's poll for RPG of the year:
The RPGCodex User Vote of Top 5 cRPG's of the year 2011 is:
1. The Witcher 2
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
3. Skyrim
4. Drakensang: River of Time [Which we actually covered in 2010]
5. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues
1. The Witcher 2
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
3. Skyrim
4. Drakensang: River of Time [Which we actually covered in 2010]
5. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues
So much for being prestigious. It looks like we'll swallow any AAA rated shit just like everyone else.
Two Worlds II
While officially released in 2010, Two Worlds II's (say that one fast) North American release was delayed until January 2011 because "although we feel that the game is truly at "AAA" level, [...] we want Two Worlds II to be absolutely flawless when it launches in the North American market". As a result, it missed our 2010: Year in Review article. So, did the Europeans (who got the game in November 2010 after a huge surge in popularity delayed its initial release) get a flawed product?
Well, it sold a million copies but in typical Codex fashion, the list of positives out-weighs the negatives and it's best described as "roughly the same shit as Oblivion" which got incredibly boring, incredibly quickly. That didn't stop Reality Pump Studios from releasing an expansion for it though, called "Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress"...
It seems we've completely ignored it.
Also in the "it seems we've completely ignored it" category is Avadon (Am I the only one who alway reads that as "Have a dong"?), "the first chapter in a new, epic fantasy saga". Yes, Jeff Vogel is still making Jeff Vogel-style games, much to his fans joy although this time - he tried to make it a bit more casual. We found it a bit more boring. And the casual audience didn't like it at all.
Scared, Broken and Chaliced
Continuing on the sour front, there were a couple of bad news announcements this year... Assuming you consider cancelled vapourware from indie developers a bad thing. First off was Scars of War, an indie game under-development by Gareth (a guy who posts here on the Codex) which was put indefinitely on hold - so the developer could work on a short 6-month battle-card game instead. It's been over 6 months now and the game's website no longer works... (It's ok, I've been there myself, I know how he feels).
Meanwhile, the Broken Hourglass - an upcoming story-driven CRPG - was to remain forever broken, as the developer Jason Compton "concluded that it is infeasible for PWG to deliver the game promised, and unacceptable to try to market a product that would not meet expectations." You should read that as: Bitch took all mah money. Their website is still online.
And in probably the shittiest news, Knights of the Chalice 2 - the sequel to a much loved turn-based dungeon crawler with the weird, nauseating perspective - was put on hold in favour of an... RTS:
Pierre Begue, designer and programmer for Knights of the Chalice, has informed me that he is currently working on an undisclosed RTS game. Both the RTS and FWE are still in the early stages of development. For the time being FWE has been put on hold while he completes the RTS game. Currently there is no deadline for either game.
The silver lining to this is that some of the code for the RTS game will be compatible with FWE. Also it doesn't sound like it will take that long to complete this game. He mentioned that it's easier for him to work on a game that will take a matter of months vs one that will take years.
The silver lining to this is that some of the code for the RTS game will be compatible with FWE. Also it doesn't sound like it will take that long to complete this game. He mentioned that it's easier for him to work on a game that will take a matter of months vs one that will take years.
It's been a matter of months now... With the latest official announcement on the game's website in April 2012 confirming it's still under-development.
Diggle up Your Caddishness as you get a Little bit Frayed
If you've ever played Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect or in fact, any BioWare game, you'd realise their intent is to annoy you with silly romances and other annoying tribbles from the NPC's that join your party. Well, imagine taking that concept, dialling it up to 11 and reversing the polarity and you'd have Frayed Knights. After reaching Beta mid-year, it was eventually released 3 months later. Sporting turn-based combat "just like mother used to make", the premise of the game was built more around your interactions with your party than the actual game itself. It was an indie RPG designed in that old-school style (the monsters sat there and stared at you in fake [although this time it's real] 3D-o-vision while you whacked them, as opposed to flipping about and running around and such).
It also took a light-hearted approach to the genre - the title itself for instance, "The Skull of S'makh-Daon" is pronounced "The Skull of Smackdown". Now I personally didn't enjoy the demo (you can take your old-school and you can shove it and any game that makes NPC interaction a core component without having "drown", "murder" and "rape" "kill" NPC options is unforgivable) but the general Codex consensus is "not too bad". If you're into that sort of thing that is, or are looking for something different. It also had an interesting "Drama Stars" system, designed to prevent save-scumming (stars earned were lost if you didn't reload exactly where you left off before). Although I'm not sure if it worked.
... but it wasn't the only game to take that sort of light-hearted humourous approach in 2011. Also from an indie developer was Dungeons of Dredmor. It's a roguelike with skills such as Caddishness, Sagacity and Savvy - MisterStone gave it a whirl:
To wrap up, as someone who has invested far more time than I care to contemplate into playing traditional roguelikes, I really enjoy this game. [...] The game is certainly not easy, especially if you play it with permadeath on the highest difficulty level. It offers great replay value due to the massive number of skill trees, and presents a wide variety of tactics through the many character abilities and crafting options. At its heart it is really about dungeon crawling, grabbing loot and chopping up monsters, which of course means that it is true to its predecessors in all the ways that matter.
According to interviews and blog posts, the game will cost "less than ten dollars", which seems like a fair price for a shiny, new, finished (imagine that) and presumably bug-free roguelike. Right now the game is in the beta testing stage, with bug squashing and balance tweaking moving apace, so keep an eye out for a release this summer!
According to interviews and blog posts, the game will cost "less than ten dollars", which seems like a fair price for a shiny, new, finished (imagine that) and presumably bug-free roguelike. Right now the game is in the beta testing stage, with bug squashing and balance tweaking moving apace, so keep an eye out for a release this summer!
When it came out, it needed a bit more bug-squashing before it was really ready but it seems it was enjoyed by those who played it. Until they got bored of the massive dungeons that is. Still, if roomfuls of masturbating multi-coloured monsters* is your thing, it's probably worth checking out. Especially when it's just $5. It even had an expansion released in the same year if you're looking for more.
*It's no wonder Jaesun likes it.
I never asked for this
Now, Deus Ex: Human Revolution isn't technically an RPG but it's based on a classic game, and was covered by the Codex. In case you weren't aware, it's a moden prequel to the classic Deus Ex, a first-person shooter thing with RPG-type elements. It's much loved here at the Codex as one of those classic games where they tried something different and did quite well. Based on the history of modern games though, the new version was expected to suck. It didn't.
Well, not much anyway but it was markably better than most of the other contempary bullshit developers shovel out the door these days. With multiple options to sneak or fight your way through a mission, it's real downside was that the developers out-sourced the boss fights. Yeap, they paid someone else to make their game for them. And then wondered why those parts seemed so out of place. Actually fair chunks of the game seemed out of place given their lack of connection to the original but meh. That's what we expect these days, right?
Fallout: Honest Hearts with a Gun Runners' Arsenal find a Courier's Stash of Dead Money on a Lonesome Road, while singing the Old World Blues
Obsidian Entertainment continued their career path as everyone else's bitch by releasing DLC and a sequel in 2011. Their masterful work with Fallout: New Vegas was followed up with a bunch of DLCs, which actually weren't half-bad. Old World Blues was probably the best. The game still suffers from the horribly shitty implementation of the SPECIAL system that Bethesduh lumped it with but there's plenty of Dialogue, skill-checks and other stuff to keep you entertained. It also makes you wonder what Obsidian would truly be capable of if they ever got their chance to make a game of their own...
... a chance they didn't get when it came to Dungeon Siege III. Yes, the screensaver of the A-RPG world came back with a third instalment in the franchise. Made by our dear friends at Obsidian, the game sucks. Quite horribly in fact:
We are stuck with the stupid controls and the sub-par camera, and it is not even romance-able. [...] Overall, barely a mediocre game, saved by its shortness and by its looks. As tradition, I will not give a numerical score to the game, but can only find a few, sparse categories of people whom the game might be appealing to: hardcore fan of the series, hardcore fans of the genre, or extremely bored people. To anyone who expects a pleasant, entertaining, fun gaming experience, let alone something close to an RPG, I would strongly recommend to stay off this game.
And really, if you can't get a simple point-and-click-and-stuff-dies game right (Protip: Focus on pretty graphics and loot drops) than one has to wonder what you're really capable of. It seems Obsidian are excellent story-tellers (although Dungeon Siege 3 is best ignored here) who just can't figure out how to best bring those stories into the real world from a technical point of view.
One wonders if they wouldn't be better teaming up with Jeff Vogel. At least then their shit would work.
I used to write for the Codex, but then I took an arrow to the knee
And where would we be without mentioning Skyrim? A happy place, that's where. It sold absolute buckets - or at least, they shipped ten million copies so one might assume a fair chunk of those copies sold. Speaking of buckets, it's interesting how a bug can become a feature (Side note: Although I stand guilty as charged on this one. After all, isn't doing silly shit like putting buckets on people's heads what a Bethesda RPG is all about?).
The game's popularity also saw it spawn countless memes which in the modern era, is the height of success. Still, Bethesda did manage to put together a fun game of the "wander around the pretty landscape while you aimlessly kill shit" variety. We might even review it one day. In lieu of that, here's why Skyrim is a good guide on how not to make a PC game.
Rip-roaring ginormous success that you know is going to lead to further decline aside, that didn't stop Bethesda from suing the Minecraft guy in 2011. Apparently his next game is one called "Scrolls" and, well, "Scrolls" is so much like "Elder Scrolls" that Bethesda's lawyers didn't really have a choice, did they?
Psst... Bethesda, guess what this is called:
Better send your lawyers. Quick, before it gets eaten.
Minecraft and the Rise of the Indie
Speaking of Minecraft, that saw its official release after many years in development. And it too, has sold MILLIONS. About five millions to be precise (current count is 6.5). At $20 a pop, that makes Notch (the game's creator), a very wealthy man. A game he made, pretty much entirely by himself, sold almost as many copies as a AAA main-stream title. And in fact, sold a lot more than every other game in our list (apart from of course, the aformentioned Skyrim).
For those who don't know, Minecraft is a very simple game. You smash blocks and then build whatever you want in the sandbox world with them. It's spawned some pretty epic shit from your regular castle to full-scale replicas of the Enterprise, to a complete replica of Middle Earth. As in like, all of it.
We've not been quite as ambitious yet but - with many thanks to Muty - we have been running our own Codex Minecraft server for a couple of years now. Rail projects aside, we did manage to build a few houses, castles and other things.
With the huge piles of cash, Minecraft is still being worked on by a small handful of people, kind of like when games were made back in the good old days. Do you remember those days? When a handful of guys got together and made the game they wanted to, rather than the game they thought would sell. And have you noticed this year how:
Small handful of developers + not much money at all = unique and interesting game with novel features that takes the world by storm.
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Large team of developers + big bags of money = shitty, unoriginal and cliched game that bores everyone to death.
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Large team of developers + big bags of money = shitty, unoriginal and cliched game that bores everyone to death.
Funny, that. But with their success and after events that are happening this year, I can't help but wonder whether this is the start of something else. You don't need big developers and multi-million dollar budgets to make fun and interesting games. In 2010 a small team of two people brought out Mount & Blade which put the combat in every game I've ever played to shame. In 2011, it was Minecraft. Will 2012 see the continued rise of small teams building ambitious projects and actually succeeding?
In 2012, Brian Fargo certainly hoped so with his Wasteland 2 KickStarter:
"This is the beginning of a new era in gaming where the developer gets to work directly with the fans to build the type of product that the fans want."
In all honesty, I would prefer that the developers made the games that they, as developers, want to make. Don't get carried away trying to add in every feature you can think of that fans want. Make the game that you want to make, the one that you'll be happy with. The kind of game you can look back proudly on in years to come and say "I made that". Because while producing what "the fans want" might seem like a noble ideal, what happens when your fans are completely nuts?
A Moment of Codexian Self-Reflection
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Codex. Founded in 2002 (with our first official news post on July 28, 2002), 2012 marks ten whole years of the Codex. And it's fitting that some of the things that have happened in 2011 have made me realise that you're all fucking retarded. Completely. Fucking. Retarded.
Take prosper for instance (now known as crojipjip). The guy clearly has mental issues. And I don't mean that in a facetious internet trololololol way. He has a mental issue. Probably a number of them. And he keeps posting. We kept him in the moderation queue for a long time and would just delete his stuff but we'd literally get 10 or more posts a day that we had to deal with. In the end we enabled him with an entire forum that he can post in to his hearts content.
Do you know the really sad thing though? He isn't alone. There's another user called Andhaira (currently Mother Russia), who also seems to be off the deep end. He too kept posting for a long, long time before he eventually realised he wasn't getting through our moderation queue. To this day (yesterday as I write this in fact), he e-mails me asking if he's going to get unbanned any time soon. No.
Then there's FretRider. This guy hates jews and liberals and black people and pretty much everything. Oh and he'll tell you about it. In every thread he posts in. He'd be right at home on Stormfront but no, he choose to make his home here instead.
Now, I'm a big believer in freedom of speech - which sadly means that even the idiots and morons get the right to talk - and I treat the Codex in the same way. I disgaree with half of what gets posted here but hey, it's an internet forum. If you all want to talk bullshit about some bullshit then who cares, right? It's only talk, right? None of this shit harms anyone, right? Besides, if this is what half of you really think, then better it's talked about. And maybe one day your own mind might open up to the possibility that perhaps, just maybe, you can't really blame everything on liberals or jews or black people or whatever or you'll realise you have a mental issue and you'll get that addressed or something.
But then Black Cat happened. Now, truth be told, I don't bother keeping track of everyone who posts here and very few of you are actually memorable to me. Usually those I remember are the ones I've just banned or are about to ban or nuke. But Black Cat is one of those names I vaguely remember encountering once or twice - enough for me to put in the category of "Regular poster. Not a bad one either, seems all right". I never interacted with her personally but I knew she existed.
Well anyway, it turns out that (some time ago) she was gang-raped and left in a coma for a month. I know, that's a pretty serious thing to lay out right there - but how do I know this? It came up in the forum. Now I personally dismiss a lot of psycho-babble nonsense as philosophical wankery. People who try to group a number of things under one label and call that a human being and therefore define you. My experience of human beings tells me that never works and we'd be better off if people stopped trying to do it.
Now don't get me wrong, I can appreciate labels and it - counter-intuitively to what I just said - is an important process to go through (as a general rule we have to categorise things in order to function. EG: "This is a chair". Thus defined, I now know how to interact with it, ie: Sit on it - and we try to do much the same with people). But trying to assume all of one person fits under one category and one category alone; and more to the point, having a philosophical wankery discussion about it - usually leads to bad results. And that's pretty much what happened here...
Here's how the thread goes:
1. Innocuous discussion is started about which of the 7 deadly sins is the worst.
2. Vaarna_Aarne and Black Cat (who goes by the name Kimagure Majo Yousei - Black Cat is her old account but in true Codexian tradition, we still refer to her as Black Cat) begin side discussion about lust and wrath and some such nonsense.
3. Side discussion turns into some crap about the "left-hand" vs the "right-hand" path which is something to do with magic. Yes, magic.
4. It's clear the two have a deep philosophical difference.
5. A really deep philosophical difference.
6. The discussion turns sour.
7. A well-meaning friend of Black Cat's appears out of nowhere to tell us all just why exactly Black Cat feels the way she does. "Surely your e-penis feels bigger now that you played the psychoanalist with a seventeen years old girl who was gang raped and beaten into a month and a half long coma". Well-meaning friend adds, "There's no way I'm going to let her come back after what you just did to her." and, "But if you as much as send her an email I will find you and kill you, myself."
2. Vaarna_Aarne and Black Cat (who goes by the name Kimagure Majo Yousei - Black Cat is her old account but in true Codexian tradition, we still refer to her as Black Cat) begin side discussion about lust and wrath and some such nonsense.
3. Side discussion turns into some crap about the "left-hand" vs the "right-hand" path which is something to do with magic. Yes, magic.
4. It's clear the two have a deep philosophical difference.
5. A really deep philosophical difference.
6. The discussion turns sour.
7. A well-meaning friend of Black Cat's appears out of nowhere to tell us all just why exactly Black Cat feels the way she does. "Surely your e-penis feels bigger now that you played the psychoanalist with a seventeen years old girl who was gang raped and beaten into a month and a half long coma". Well-meaning friend adds, "There's no way I'm going to let her come back after what you just did to her." and, "But if you as much as send her an email I will find you and kill you, myself."
Oh, and by the way, Vaarna_Aarne himself apparently has aspergers and is seeing a therapist.
So allow me now a moment to assess the situation: One individual with a mental issue has a discussion with another individual who is also going through mental issues. Chaos ensues. A final individual who - given they're making death threats over the internet - probably also has mental issues of their own, joins in and posts a SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK bomb out of nowhere (No really, I've read the thread and as heated as it becomes, I really don't think that was called for). As a result, a member who was much loved by many never comes back.
But the WHAT THE FUCK of it all doesn't end there. Oh no, here at the Codex we have relationship advice threads that end in tears when real names get out. We have people who literally think the world is going to end and they're building concrete bunkers under their homes so that they can survive the coming holocaust. And then there are the incessant jokes about rape, jews and whatever. And I haven't even mentioned the tran-sexuals.
All of this has lead me to a simple conclusion: There's something about role-playing games that attracts a certain type of persona. Bluntly, the people who play these games ARE NOT SANE HEALTHY PEOPLE. Maybe they're all looking for something they don't have, escapism, whatever but something needs to be said to the RPG developers of this world: You are making games for the menatlly ill. You are writing games for people who have deep psychological problems. We're talking lala-land here. Loony bin territory. If you met these people in the street you would wonder who let them out of the asylum. If you were a mental health professional, you would LOCK THESE PEOPLE UP.
RPG fans are mentally ill individuals. All of you. Every. Single. Fucking. One of you. YOU'RE. ALL. FUCKING. INSANE.
Game Developers Beware: Your target audience is not mentally stable.
And now... I believe in magic. Not the bubble, bubble, toil and trouble - throw in some eye of cat and paw of dog and mix yourself up a love potion sense. I mean in the sense that you say a few words - you cast a spell so to speak - and something happens. Someone falls in love, someone gets hurt, someone leaves forever. Clearly those words have to be said to the person in question (I don't think a whimsical ditty said alone with some candles is going to do shit) but words are powerful things. In fact, words are power themselves. Vaarna_Aarne said a few words to Black Cat and now Black Cat is gone. Hurt irrevocably, never to appear again. Once upon a time, a few Codexers said a few words to a guy called Qwinn once and he left. We had a guy called Drog here who also said words, had words thrown back at him and he went off the deep end too.
Of course all of this has made me question whether our "freedom of speech" policy is really such a good thing after all. Under normal circumstances, I'd say "of course it is!" but that relies on a simple caveat: That we are sane, stable individuals who are able to logically assess each other's position and accept or dismiss words as necessary. But what happens if we're not? Is it really healthy to let a bunch of mentally unstable people talk to another group of mentally unstable people? How can that end in anything but disaster? In fact, should I be allowing any of you to actually have a discussion here at all? Maybe we need some sort of test before you get entry to the Codex? Maybe we need to see a certificate of sanity before you're allowed to post here.
So it's been a fun few years in charge of the asylum. Happy tenth anniversary.
I'm just not sure I should even allow knives so that we can cut the cake because one of you is probably going to stab someone with it.


text: Zika virus Defense Department Puts A Rush On Zika Vaccine Testing In San Antonio By Bonnie Petrie • Jun 18, 2019 The Department of Defense is funding research in San Antonio to see if a new vaccine can prevent birth defects in babies of women exposed to the Zika virus during pregnancy. Listen Listening... / Zika threat in Texas appears to be waning By Jonathan Baker • Jun 12, 2017 LM Otero / Houston Chronicle Health officials announced last week that the threat from the Zika virus in Texas is much lower than it was last year. As The Houston Chronicle reports, the mosquito-borne disease has ebbed in Central and South America, and the risk of mosquitos carrying the virus across the Texas border has lessened. Likewise, the number of international travelers carrying the disease into the United States is expected to wane this year. But, not all medical professionals are expressing optimism. In Texas, "knowledge gap" makes fighting Zika even harder By Jonathan Baker • May 18, 2017 Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon / KUT The threat of the Zika virus is likely to return to Texas this summer, and, as KUT reports, one of the biggest difficulties health experts are coming up against is a gap in knowledge among citizens. A recent study conducted by the University of Texas's Medical Branch has found that many vulnerable Texas women aren't aware of their risk for infection. Virus more common than Zika can cause birth defects, yet most pregnant women are unaware By Angie Haflich • Feb 6, 2017 Yale Rosen A virus more common than Zika can cause deafness, blindness, cognitive delays, and even death in babies, but an alarmingly small number of women know about it. Despite threat downgrade, Zika remains a risk in Texas By Jonathan Baker • Jan 9, 2017 Jentavery / Creative Commons Back in November, the World Health Organization announced that the Zika virus was no longer designated a public health emergency. But that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet. As The Huffington Post reports, health officials are working to prevent a resurgence of the disease. And then there's the matter of the thousands of children who have been born with birth defects, due to Zika. These children will need expensive, intensive therapy and care. Texas reports its first locally-transmitted Zika virus case By Angie Haflich • Nov 30, 2016 CNN The Lone Star State reported its first mosquito-transmitted Zika virus case Monday, making it only the second state other than Florida in which the virus has been spread from mosquitoes to humans, FiveThirtyEight reports. Kansas Taps Federal Funds to Fight Zika Threat By Jonathan Baker • Aug 31, 2016 AP photo Kansas now has 11 reported cases of Zika, reports The Wichita Eagle. In response to the threat, the state has been drawing upon federal dollars to aid in the battle against the virus. To date, Kansas has received about $1.2 million to fight the virus, which can cause birth defects when it infects pregnant women. Traveler Carries Zika From Florida to Texas By Jonathan Baker • Aug 17, 2016 Novartis AG / Flickr Creative Commons This week, a Texas resident caught Zika in Florida and brought it home, according to health officials in Texas. This means Zika's now spreading from state to state, reports NBC News. This is just more evidence that, once the disease infects people in an area, it can easily spread. The traveler picked up the disease in Miami, where 30 cases have been reported. However, there's no evidence the virus is spreading in Florida like it has across Latin America. Mosquitoes Connected to Zika Virus Discovered in Southwest Oklahoma By Jonathan Baker • Aug 1, 2016 KFOR.com The insect that transmits the Zika virus is known as the Aedes aegypti mosquito. And now that particular breed of mosquito has been discovered in southwest Oklahoma, reports KFOR. The insect was found after the Oklahoma State Department of Health began a collaborative mosquito surveillance project with Oklahoma State University. Entomologists detected the mosquitoes in six different Oklahoma communities. Mosquitoes Connected to Zika Virus Discovered in Southwest Oklahoma By Jonathan Baker • Aug 1, 2016 KFOR.com The insect that transmits the Zika virus is known as the Aedes aegypti mosquito. And now that particular breed of mosquito has been discovered in southwest Oklahoma, reports KFOR. The insect was found after the Oklahoma State Department of Health began a collaborative mosquito surveillance project with Oklahoma State University. 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Officials insist there is no risk to the public, as neither the mother nor the baby are infectious. Agencies, Universities Study Ways To Keep Zika Out Of Kansas By Cindee Talley • Jul 6, 2016 With the Zika virus now in the Sunflower State, state agencies and university laboratories are searching for methods to keep the number of cases at a minimum. KMUW's Abigail Wilson has the story. Amarillo Launches "Mission Mosquito" to Fight Spread of Zika and West Nile By Jonathan Baker • Jul 4, 2016 Creative Commons As summer descends, concerns continue to mount that the Zika virus will spread in Texas over the coming months. In response, the City of Amarillo's Public Health and Environmental Health departments have launched campaign called Mission Mosquito. The goal is to educate the public on how to prevent mosquito bites and reduce breeding areas in the city, reports MyHighPlains.com. Mounting Concerns Over Zika After Texas Cuts Women's Health Services By Jonathan Baker • Jun 17, 2016 Daily Beast Mosquitos carrying the Zika virus are expected to arrive in the United States as early as this summer, notes The Daily Beast. The disease is known to cause birth defects when contracted by pregnant women. Texas is expected to be among the states most affected by the virus. Texas Hopes to Keep Zika From Spreading to Mosquitos By Jonathan Baker • Jun 13, 2016 Center for Disease Control Public Health Image Library It's a tiny virus, visible only with an electron microscope, but it could wreak major havoc this summer if it's not contained. As the weather warms and mosquitos arrive, the Zika virus could spread further through Texas, The Houston Chronicle reports. Texas Health Officials Prepare for the "Virus from Hell" By Jonathan Baker • May 19, 2016 Ralph Barrera / Austin American-Statesman Texas health officials have deemed Zika "the virus from Hell." As summer approaches, efforts are underway to combat the virus, reports The Austin American Statesman. The state's undertaking is focused on controlling the mosquito population. First Case of Zika Virus Discovered in Kansas By Jonathan Baker • Mar 22, 2016 LM Otero / AP photo State health officials have confirmed the first case of the Zika virus in the state of Kansas. The patient is an adult in southwest Kansas, reports The Topeka Capital-Journal. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the case involves a person who had traveled to a country with "local Zika virus transmission." The patent's diagnosis was then confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Zika Poses a Major Threat to Texas By Jonathan Baker • Feb 3, 2016 Tom Dart / The Guardian The World Health Organization recently warned that the Zika virus is spreading "explosively" through the Americas. 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Jurgen Klopp's predecessor at Mainz admits Manchester United was the manager's dream destination at one point.
Eckhard Krautzun coached Klopp during his time at the Bundesliga club until he left in 2001, when he was then replaced by the German.
English football was seemingly a passion of the Liverpool boss a long time before his move to England, although a job at Anfield hasn't always been on the cards.
"It would be his dream to go to England one day and his favourite club would be [Manchester] United. That's what he said," Krautzun told The Set Pieces in an excellent interview with Archie Rhind-Tutt.
Reflecting on a conversation he had with Sir Alex Ferguson, he added: "I said, 'Jürgen Klopp, if he goes abroad, if he goes to England, his love would be Manchester United.'"
'It's definitely a fact…' – Emre Can takes swipe at Liverpool defence
"After three or four months not working, I knew that he wanted to be in action again…when the offer came from Liverpool [that October], I knew he would not hesitate because he wanted to get into a top club in England."
"The emotions in the stadium in Liverpool and the enthusiasm of the fans, the temperament there – that fits Klopp. I was not surprised that the spectators liked him right away."
"His emotions, the way he coaches the team, the way he jumps around, the way he shows his desire to win, that fits the club."
"The fans are little more different to Man U. Man U is more quiet, the fans love their team too but there is more emotion and more passion I think in Liverpool. And Kloppo I think is a passionate, very temperamental man. That club fits him."
Rarely has a group of supporters taken to a manager as quickly and as naturally as Liverpool fans did with Klopp upon his arrival.
His connection with the tradition, the pride, the passion and the history was there from day one and persists to present him as the man to take his club forward.
Things haven't progressed as smoothly as the German or fans will have liked and maybe expected, but it always promised to be a long-term project filled with special moments and days to forget- much like his seven-year spells with both Mainz and Borussia Dortmund.
Klopp has waited years for a job like this and Liverpool have waited years for a manager like him. You have to believe it will come together at some stage.


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It may do because backwardation* usually encourages the
holders of surplus (unsold) stocks to supply them to the spot or
cash market. Holders in producing countries looking to
benefit from higher spot or nearby prices abroad will obviously try
to sell/ship as quickly as possible. This will increase demand for
trucking and shipping space and, in extreme cases, may cause
bottlenecks. *Backwardation: a market condition in which futures
prices are lower in the distant delivery months than in the near or
nearby delivery months.
To expand on this the following…
Exporters holding stocks will of course try to benefit from the
higher nearby price(s). And, if the roasters refuse to follow the
backwardation trend, meaning there is no demand for physicals at
these prices, then the futures market in fact becomes the best
buyer… Exporters will therefore try to sell for quick shipment that
will enable coffee to be tendered against the higher priced nearby
futures position(s). In this connection see also topics 08.09.04
and 08.09.05 in the Guide itself.
This pressure may result in a lack of shipping space: shipping
lines cannot suddenly provide more vessels because of a
temporary spike in demand. It can be very frustrating for
exporters that they cannot actually get the goods to a suitable
delivery point from where these could be tendered against the
futures market. Alternatively, if the backwardation is caused by
unusually high roaster demand for nearby delivery, the same problem
may arise. Now exporters can easily get the physical business but,
again, they may not be able to get the shipping space (or even
empty containers) because all has been taken already, particularly
in smaller (feeder) ports. And sales for later shipment will of
course have to be priced against more distant and therefore lower
priced futures positions… Please see section 09.02 that discusses
selling physicals against futures positions for more on this.
Modern shipping schedules are increasingly like train
timetables: routes and port calling dates are set months in advance
and cannot be altered at whim. In any case there are no 'spare'
container vessels making it difficult to introduce 'one off'
changes. So yes, backwardation as currently the case in the robusta
market (early August 2006) can impact on logistics…
Another potential consequence is that growers/traders rushing to
'catch' the higher price for earlier delivery sometimes supply
lower quality. This can result in logistical problems of a
different kind for an exporter, for example when the moisture
content is too high and coffee has to undergo final drying before
it can be exported.
Posted 08 August 2006


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A multi-experience development platform (MXDP) is a development platform that is used for developing not just mobile and web applications, but also chat, voice, augmented reality and wearable experiences.
Low-code development platforms provide a visual, drag and drop development environment for building mobile and web applications.
DXPs can best be described as development platforms that are a collection of a suite of products intended to help businesses with their digital transformation efforts.
Open banking is the concept of leveraging open APIs to enhance existing digital offerings as well as bringing new digital offerings to market.
Mobile software development kits (SDK) serve as the foundation for the many varied and popular apps used by mobile phone and tablet users. Apps are used for a variety of reasons, ranging from personal to business use. While many enjoy the ease of use, efficiency, and enhanced productivity that apps provide, many more enjoy the opportunity to create apps of their own. Many companies are now providing customers the opportunity to use mobile software development kits (SDK) to build their own app in minutes.
"App" is a term that has become popularized in the last few years, especially among mobile phone users. App is short for application, and the business of app development has grown to impressive heights over a relatively short period of time. Apps, as we know them from a few years ago, were originally developed in order to be used for small, handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs). That has changed somewhat, as smartphones have mostly replaced PDAs. Additionally, tablets have become a popular alternative to traditional computing, leading to an even more accelerated development of apps.
Mobile banking applications are becoming a vital component of ordinary banking around the world. While just a few short years ago, banking customers were required to travel to their bank in order to process most of their transactions, today's customers are becoming ever more tech-savvy and concerned with their online banking security. With this new demand for convenience, security, and ever-faster transactions, these mobile applications are being put to the test.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is also known as "Bring Your Own Technology" (BYOT) and "Bring Your Own Phone" (BYOP). BYOD refers to the increasing trend among employees to bring their own mobile devices, including smartphones, laptops, and tablets, into the workplace to access and use company data and applications. Many believe that BYOD increases productivity because it is more convenient and allows employees to feel secure in the devices that they use at work. In addition, many also view BYOD as making a company more attractive for job seekers.
Bring Your Own Phone (BYOP) is also known as "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) and "Bring Your Own Technology" (BYOT). All three of these terms refer to the rising use of personal mobile devices in both the workplace and often in educational settings as well. In the workplace, personal mobile devices are rapidly replacing uniform company desktop computers as the main device that employees use for computing at work. BYOP specifically refers to the use of mobile phones in the workplace.


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The Danish version contains an overview of library services and resources that support research. The topics covered in this guide include:
While we are working on expanding the English version - please contact us via e-mail to get help with your specific questions.
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Please contact us via our shared e-mail email@example.com - and we will do our best to reply fast.
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The purpose of these classes is to present you with tools that support your research with regard to academic literature search, the acquisition of materials, search methods and strategies.
You will get to know bib.kadk.dk and other resources available at the KADK library - both databases with academic literature and image databases. In addition, we will introduce you to resources and services available at other libraries in Denmark.
The classes will also contain an introduction to research registration with Pure. Other topics that are covered include academic publishing and publishing strategies, peer review, open access, impact and Den Bibliometriske Forskningsindikator - BFI, ORCID as well as the dissemination of research in general.