They said this when adobe introduced hardware devices referred to as dongles which photoshop would actively check against on a regular basis (and thus photoshop would not function without it).
The result? Crackers removed the dongle code from photoshop. Somehow I think the same thing will happen here.
http://izlin.free.fr/eve/ships/sabre.jpg Sabre rattling you say:0) That's my favorite ship since it has the most firepower of a small ship, and can still launch powerful interdiction spheres, which can keep people in a small area from running away.
On topic -- "Eve War 1" has reached a pitched fever, and it seems that both sides of this metagame way too much. It's a great game, and there is a huge amount that you can do to increase your influence, one of wich seems to be to discourage others from playing through a smear campagin. I'm just glad I'm with the scrappy group that is in it for the spaceship pew-pew, and not in evewar politics:-)
I've played games with other companies, and was suprimely unsatisified with their philosophies and practices. Claims that they would do unscrupulous things to change the outcome of the game just seem silly to me given their approach t othe game. CCP is a solid company, who does interact with the playerbase to make the eve experience rich, and to add new features. There have been multiple examples like corporation shares, where the idea came from the players first, it was implmented with a trust-based system and then the developers later added a game mechanic to make new aspects of the game grow.
I'll be glad to see the end of eve war 1 and the end of silly metagaming from player groups like this.
The missing link is to the related eve video forums. There are many videos which highlight different aspects of the game along with video critque and style tips. Good fun.
I was a UO junkie, and I have to say that eve brought me back to MMORPGs. I also was actually able to enjoy the PVP (which is actually not all griefing, and griefers can be avoided) and loot/weath systems, and social aspects of the game.
The big selling point and reason that people don't like Eve is that there is a huge amount of depth and not a whole lot of direction after the "primer" tutorial missions. There are no "rails" or path and there is no "winning eve". That said, there are tycoons fixing markets, there are researchers, miners, industrialists, pirates, anti-pirates, and a myriad of social structures/events/operations(like the IPO of a space outpost) which expand outside of the game. This is to speak nothing of the gameplay or graphics, which are also pretty fun:-).
I have to say that I have played many sports but never enjoyed watching them. Eerily watching eve videos is absolutely fascinating, if not for their entertainment value, but to find what the true purpose of the video is ( i.e. fun, propaganda/promotion, smear, recruitment, ego, etc).
You can also pick up a few lessons from videos, and figure out how different setups work with or against another. And hey, there's always the ability to point at a video from a friendly or hostile source and saying "that's my corp mate!".
The great thing I've found about pvpers in eve can be just for the fun of it and both sides walk away having had a ton of fun and with greater respect for the other. Perhaps it's related to the style of gameplay, but I've found that the general eve population seems to be more mature and friendly.
This is one of the goonswarm videos showing how you can decimate the combined forces of some of the strongest alliances in the game through sheer numbers and teamwork. Quite a sight and very pretty footage coming from this engagment imho.
This is really exciting, and I can say that everyone in my alliance was paying attention to it. Eve video is huge for many reasons, because you can often watch people you don't like get blown up, learn your enemy's strategies and setups, and pick up a few pointers. They are also a tremendous tool for propaganda and promotion of one's organization -- which ends up being more important than any single battle.
If you want a small peek into the number of video work being done, check out eve videos or the related http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=chan nel&channelID=29045
The winners here get "geek cred" in the eve world. The next time you see one of them in game you might hesitate(thus giving them an edge) and you may even consider joining up with them(giving them superiority in numbers/skill, and an ability to take more territory). Organizations live and die based on the resolve of their people.
The eve social angle is enormous and honestly it brought me back to MMORPGs. I happen to like the gameplay, diversity, and open-endedness of the game, but the people keep me coming back every day.
Their exact process for doing so may be somewhat unique, but coffee beer has been around for a long time, the most popular type being the coffee porter
I would say something about them not being able to stand up in court, but the caffeine helps with that.
I think the guy is still hungover. There is something that really does look like a sniper rifle, and I think that's what they were _trying_ to talk about. There's that wierd looking thing, and the tripod'ed sniper rifle. The sniper rifle looking thing looked freakin cool, hopefully there will be a 'dupe' of the intended article.
There are no innocent people in legal demonstrations. As other posters have pointed out, and as I have found out secondhand from a friend, one can be arrested for bogus charges such as 'impeding justice'(or some similiarly named nonsense) -- which has been broadly defined to include all people in a demonstration. The gov't is tired of having scenes like Seattle and having problems at every [Republican,Democratic] convention, so now all of those people demonstrating are essentially handled as terrorists. We're just giving police more leeway to do whatever they want, that much is very clear.
An 'ear' is shorthand for an earful. It is a rather subjective form of measurement. In other words, they are saying that scientists will bore more than a few people to death before the meteor drifts off. This phenomena is similar to what happened over hale-bop, where those scientists bored that entire cult to death!
Even if you can only download a chapter at a time, you can _gather_ the entire book. Once you have the book, you can modify the phone-home code(tricky, but nothing compared to what has been done before). Another alternative would be to simply set up your host file to point to a different server to provide the pieces of the game on demand. The community of gamers usually responds pretty clearly to these types of restrictions.
I come from a business oriented family. I've worked in corperate environments, medium and small businesses. If you're in a bad place, a businessperson will see this as an indication that you have no clue. You can either work with this and express to the nth degree how technically adept you areand how socially inept you are (whether you are or are not, this is the easiest way to communicate the idea) or you start asking people if they want fries with that. If you're a professional, and you're not watching your resume -- you're in serious trouble. Period.
Perhaps one person will read this, but hey whatever.
I am only responding to your post because I believe it to be intellegent. I would suggest that you read up on Warren Buffet. One of his investment theories is called something along the lines of "bottom feeding". It is a pessimistic investment strategy that appears to embody this company perfectly. You buy companies at dirt cheap prices and don't expect them to rise for a long time. To a non-techie businessman, SCO looks like a great candidate.
I apologize for not writing as an intellegent response, but I feel it is something that you, and perhaps the rest of the slashdot community should be aware of. Not to repeat something that is overly obvious, but longshots make people rich.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but people who thought there was a "National Security Agency" because of some evidence before 1996 were often put in this pile. Still today you get the same reaction when you mention the formerly-called echelon program, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence and documentation. Our government doesn't _need_ to hide stuff, we're too skeptical to believe anything IMO. Eh, I could be wrong, but just because you're not paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not after you;-)
I'm repeating my reply to another thread. The NET act specifically makes it a criminal offense to download copyrighted material. The reason downloaders are probably in a 'grey zone' is simply because the (1998?) NET act is so young, and they don't want it challenged(unless it already was, and struck down... I haven't read about it, so I assume that it still stands). As a result If they charged in against a whole bunch of downloaders, someone would more than likely challenge this... as it is a stupid law(how can you tell it's copyrighted if you don't have it? Names mean jack)
That's probably because only sharers are breaking the law. Downloaders are not. Copyright law is about distribution rights. While there has been intelligent responses on the basis of strict copyright law, one thing I did not notice was any mention of the (1998?)NET act, making it specifically illegal to download and upload copyrighted material, in addition to making it a criminal offense. Nobody's response got modded up to this erronious statement:-(
(Lawyers, please, not the zillions of IANALs that inhabit these parts.) .... if you were really interested, you would have read some of the _lawyer_ accounts of this case -- I wouldn't think that they have time to post 3x every day for each SCO story. Heck, I ran into at least 2 lawyer accounts, and they were both +5...
Yet again, your sig is simply another message to me saying "I really care about karma". All these sigs about karma are really annoying. If you want to take karma so seriously, convert to Hinduism.
To repeat what you said, when you can post your thoughts without considering how it will affect your karma score you will become a benefit to the Slashdot community.
yes, a lot of people who use bots like it. That's 2 people/game. Most populated games have an average of 4 people during busy times(8 for cow games, 1 for those hoping to get rushed through act 2). This is very rough, but 2 people/game is way off. Another explanation for the 40,000 games is that people are using bots rampantly, inflating the user number and signfigantly decreasing player/game ratio. This has been obvious ever since mephbot became popular.
Not to say that a lot of people don't like it, but certainly not as many as are advertized. And I hate to back up a point I am arguing against, but there are many realms, and I'm not sure if that number takes that into account. Then there are the bnetd realms, which are starting to gain popularity in a big way.
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They said this when adobe introduced hardware devices referred to as dongles which photoshop would actively check against on a regular basis (and thus photoshop would not function without it).
The result? Crackers removed the dongle code from photoshop. Somehow I think the same thing will happen here.
http://izlin.free.fr/eve/ships/sabre.jpg Sabre rattling you say :0) That's my favorite ship since it has the most firepower of a small ship, and can still launch powerful interdiction spheres, which can keep people in a small area from running away.
:-)
On topic -- "Eve War 1" has reached a pitched fever, and it seems that both sides of this metagame way too much. It's a great game, and there is a huge amount that you can do to increase your influence, one of wich seems to be to discourage others from playing through a smear campagin. I'm just glad I'm with the scrappy group that is in it for the spaceship pew-pew, and not in evewar politics
I've played games with other companies, and was suprimely unsatisified with their philosophies and practices. Claims that they would do unscrupulous things to change the outcome of the game just seem silly to me given their approach t othe game. CCP is a solid company, who does interact with the playerbase to make the eve experience rich, and to add new features. There have been multiple examples like corporation shares, where the idea came from the players first, it was implmented with a trust-based system and then the developers later added a game mechanic to make new aspects of the game grow.
I'll be glad to see the end of eve war 1 and the end of silly metagaming from player groups like this.
The missing link is to the related eve video forums. There are many videos which highlight different aspects of the game along with video critque and style tips. Good fun.
I was a UO junkie, and I have to say that eve brought me back to MMORPGs. I also was actually able to enjoy the PVP (which is actually not all griefing, and griefers can be avoided) and loot/weath systems, and social aspects of the game.
:-).
The big selling point and reason that people don't like Eve is that there is a huge amount of depth and not a whole lot of direction after the "primer" tutorial missions. There are no "rails" or path and there is no "winning eve". That said, there are tycoons fixing markets, there are researchers, miners, industrialists, pirates, anti-pirates, and a myriad of social structures/events/operations(like the IPO of a space outpost) which expand outside of the game. This is to speak nothing of the gameplay or graphics, which are also pretty fun
I have to say that I have played many sports but never enjoyed watching them. Eerily watching eve videos is absolutely fascinating, if not for their entertainment value, but to find what the true purpose of the video is ( i.e. fun, propaganda/promotion, smear, recruitment, ego, etc).
You can also pick up a few lessons from videos, and figure out how different setups work with or against another. And hey, there's always the ability to point at a video from a friendly or hostile source and saying "that's my corp mate!".
The great thing I've found about pvpers in eve can be just for the fun of it and both sides walk away having had a ton of fun and with greater respect for the other. Perhaps it's related to the style of gameplay, but I've found that the general eve population seems to be more mature and friendly.
This is one of the goonswarm videos showing how you can decimate the combined forces of some of the strongest alliances in the game through sheer numbers and teamwork. Quite a sight and very pretty footage coming from this engagment imho.
This is really exciting, and I can say that everyone in my alliance was paying attention to it. Eve video is huge for many reasons, because you can often watch people you don't like get blown up, learn your enemy's strategies and setups, and pick up a few pointers. They are also a tremendous tool for propaganda and promotion of one's organization -- which ends up being more important than any single battle.
n nel&channelID=29045
;-)
If you want a small peek into the number of video work being done, check out eve videos or the related http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=cha
The winners here get "geek cred" in the eve world. The next time you see one of them in game you might hesitate(thus giving them an edge) and you may even consider joining up with them(giving them superiority in numbers/skill, and an ability to take more territory). Organizations live and die based on the resolve of their people.
The eve social angle is enormous and honestly it brought me back to MMORPGs. I happen to like the gameplay, diversity, and open-endedness of the game, but the people keep me coming back every day.
BTW, Join VSP Corp.
I do. This isn't microsoft's first try at this. I expect similar results
I always felt that Miscrosoft released Scrummy software.
Their exact process for doing so may be somewhat unique, but coffee beer has been around for a long time, the most popular type being the coffee porter
I would say something about them not being able to stand up in court, but the caffeine helps with that.
I think the guy is still hungover. There is something that really does look like a sniper rifle, and I think that's what they were _trying_ to talk about. There's that wierd looking thing, and the tripod'ed sniper rifle. The sniper rifle looking thing looked freakin cool, hopefully there will be a 'dupe' of the intended article.
Mine is longer than yours.
Yes, I am actually going again this year, so this is a joke.(or so you think....)
There are no innocent people in legal demonstrations. As other posters have pointed out, and as I have found out secondhand from a friend, one can be arrested for bogus charges such as 'impeding justice'(or some similiarly named nonsense) -- which has been broadly defined to include all people in a demonstration. The gov't is tired of having scenes like Seattle and having problems at every [Republican,Democratic] convention, so now all of those people demonstrating are essentially handled as terrorists. We're just giving police more leeway to do whatever they want, that much is very clear.
An 'ear' is shorthand for an earful. It is a rather subjective form of measurement. In other words, they are saying that scientists will bore more than a few people to death before the meteor drifts off. This phenomena is similar to what happened over hale-bop, where those scientists bored that entire cult to death!
I only have two, so I can only help so much.
Even if you can only download a chapter at a time, you can _gather_ the entire book. Once you have the book, you can modify the phone-home code(tricky, but nothing compared to what has been done before). Another alternative would be to simply set up your host file to point to a different server to provide the pieces of the game on demand. The community of gamers usually responds pretty clearly to these types of restrictions.
I come from a business oriented family. I've worked in corperate environments, medium and small businesses. If you're in a bad place, a businessperson will see this as an indication that you have no clue. You can either work with this and express to the nth degree how technically adept you areand how socially inept you are (whether you are or are not, this is the easiest way to communicate the idea) or you start asking people if they want fries with that. If you're a professional, and you're not watching your resume -- you're in serious trouble. Period.
Perhaps one person will read this, but hey whatever.
I am only responding to your post because I believe it to be intellegent. I would suggest that you read up on Warren Buffet. One of his investment theories is called something along the lines of "bottom feeding". It is a pessimistic investment strategy that appears to embody this company perfectly. You buy companies at dirt cheap prices and don't expect them to rise for a long time. To a non-techie businessman, SCO looks like a great candidate.
I apologize for not writing as an intellegent response, but I feel it is something that you, and perhaps the rest of the slashdot community should be aware of. Not to repeat something that is overly obvious, but longshots make people rich.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but people who thought there was a "National Security Agency" because of some evidence before 1996 were often put in this pile. Still today you get the same reaction when you mention the formerly-called echelon program, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence and documentation. Our government doesn't _need_ to hide stuff, we're too skeptical to believe anything IMO. Eh, I could be wrong, but just because you're not paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not after you ;-)
standard oil did better business-wise after it was broken up...
I'm repeating my reply to another thread. The NET act specifically makes it a criminal offense to download copyrighted material. The reason downloaders are probably in a 'grey zone' is simply because the (1998?) NET act is so young, and they don't want it challenged(unless it already was, and struck down... I haven't read about it, so I assume that it still stands). As a result If they charged in against a whole bunch of downloaders, someone would more than likely challenge this... as it is a stupid law(how can you tell it's copyrighted if you don't have it? Names mean jack)
They're only suing SHARERS, not downloaders.
:-(
That's probably because only sharers are breaking the law. Downloaders are not. Copyright law is about distribution rights.
While there has been intelligent responses on the basis of strict copyright law, one thing I did not notice was any mention of the (1998?)NET act, making it specifically illegal to download and upload copyrighted material, in addition to making it a criminal offense. Nobody's response got modded up to this erronious statement
(Lawyers, please, not the zillions of IANALs that inhabit these parts.)
.... if you were really interested, you would have read some of the _lawyer_ accounts of this case -- I wouldn't think that they have time to post 3x every day for each SCO story. Heck, I ran into at least 2 lawyer accounts, and they were both +5...
Yet again, your sig is simply another message to me saying "I really care about karma". All these sigs about karma are really annoying. If you want to take karma so seriously, convert to Hinduism.
To repeat what you said, when you can post your thoughts without considering how it will affect your karma score you will become a benefit to the Slashdot community.
yes, a lot of people who use bots like it. That's 2 people/game. Most populated games have an average of 4 people during busy times(8 for cow games, 1 for those hoping to get rushed through act 2). This is very rough, but 2 people/game is way off. Another explanation for the 40,000 games is that people are using bots rampantly, inflating the user number and signfigantly decreasing player/game ratio. This has been obvious ever since mephbot became popular.
Not to say that a lot of people don't like it, but certainly not as many as are advertized. And I hate to back up a point I am arguing against, but there are many realms, and I'm not sure if that number takes that into account. Then there are the bnetd realms, which are starting to gain popularity in a big way.