On the map of Cyrodiil, there’s a scale of 250 miles, and it shows that Cyrodiil is about 1,000 miles wide! In game, however, it’s about 10 to 20 miles wide. The city itself, by the scale of the map, should be about 100 miles wide, and Lake Rumare should be 60 miles wide in some parts. Heck, the bay region near Bravil and Leyawin is some 200 miles wide! Bravil itself, which is supposed to be something less than a mile wide, ends up looking like it’s 50 miles wide on the map!

For it to be accurate, a grand portion of traveling would be through forests and over impossible mountain passes, and swimming in rivers through a heavy current. For the gameplay to really be involved, all of Tamriel would have to have an accurate scale. To do this, there would be more villages in between towns, and towns in between cities. But it would be so vast that these places would be far and in-between. The game would rely on a lot of exploration, but it’d still have to have a good fast-travel system.

Places such as High Rock, Hammerfell, Skyrim, Morrowind, Black Marsh (Argonia), Elsweyr, Valenwood, along with Cyrodiil, and the Summerset Isles would need to be present and in accurate scale. The possibility of having Solsteim, north of Morrowind in the Sea of Ghosts, would be a good one. An extension of this would be to have several of the smaller islands surrounding Tamriel involved in the next game, along with (hypothetically), Akavir and/or Atmora + Aldmeris, and any other southern hemisphere continents there may be besides Aldmeris. It’d be that kind of game that would be released in expansion packs for each area. Custom quest-lines could be created, along with the NPCs and goals, rules, and rewards to be involved. There’d be so many quests to begin with that custom quest-lines may not be needed, one would think. Well, I think if an Elder Scrolls V was released and it wasn’t so much an MMO as just a Single-Player – slash – multiplayer option game, that it’d become very popular. But only the MMOs make it because they get the money from their users while their users keep playing. That money is used to release more expansions to get even more people into it. Face it – MMO may be the only way to expand Tamriel and its surrounding lands into an accurate scope and have awesome game play.

The internet needs to stop being so much of an emphasis when it comes to operating systems. What operating systems need is an emphasis on making hard drive and memory operations FAR more efficient. If this is not done, then an operating system is not worth one-tenth what went into it, let alone one-tenth of what the price of it is per single license.

IE9, CSS3, and HTML5 are all new things that should be considered apart from Operating Systems. Of course OS should support the browsers, and the browsers should support the standards, but there’s nothing more important than having an efficient operating system behind it all, operating the hardware in a reliable manner. I mean, when the freaking defrag NTFS turns on lickity-split, right when I get into a game, that’s just bullcrap! That is completely unacceptable, to be running an intensive process over top something like Oblivion. And no matter how you schedule the damned things, the processes will always manage to run when you don’t want them to. On the other hand, I can keep a computer running on idle for 10 hours and those same processes never run then! On the Task Scheduler, it says to put those processes on ONLY if the computer is IDLE, not when it’s running with 50% memory usage, at 110 MB/s HDD speed, and running a graphics-intensive game!!!

So much emphasis on the internet has blinded the programmers of recent software – blinded them from the hardware that runs it. When a hard drive that is supposed to be efficient crashes for what seems like no reason, yet the OS is acting like an idiot, there’s obviously a big correlation. Even Windows 7 has its problems in those areas, and the automatic control of an OS should not be so automatic when it comes to power users like me. I want my computer running as I want it – not as some programmer or designers 3,000 miles away wants it. Task Scheduling is for those who easily forget, which is most people (this is not a demerit, though). Task Scheduling for intensive processes should have a little better customization. Instead, I need to use regedit for everything, then it works. Just seems there should be an easier way don’t it?

In coming years, this generation may very well be known as the generation that dies before the previous generation. Aging, weight, interpersonal relationships – all this is affected negatively, and to a catastrophic extent. So many people spend too much time online, and it is part of what has destroyed the natural ability of people to reason, use logic, and succeed in their jobs and relationships. It is part of the reason that this nation (USA) went from a reasonable and survivable capitalism to one that is a “dog eats dog” sort of capitalism where everyone is just a number, and not a name. Although to some extent society has been like this in the past, the internet fuels the continuation of this ancient cycle, and is another of those things like religious wars that set us all back, and prevent us from seeing the world clearly.

Webkit (Chrome and Safari) support 3D animations through the transform properties, but Firefox doesn’t support this.

CSS3 is a good ways from being fully-complete. Of some 50 specs on CSS3, only a few are at last call right now. If CSS3 does become fully-implemented on Firefox, let alone IE9, it will take a long time. Don’t expect that much good from IE9. IEX will probably be the browser to look to for a lot of CSS3 features.

IE9 will however support CSS3 selectors, in full. It will support border-radius and perhaps background-resize, along with multi-colored borders and may even support the division of paragraphs into columns, with vertical rules in between. It will support everything we want Firefox to support. But Firefox will already have supported those features long before IE does.