It's definitely worth noting that micro-transactions were only a lightning rod issue- there are ships that are worth 3500$ flying on the server. Although 68 dollars for a clothing item is hardly considered a micro-transaction.
The missing spin-ship 'feature' was noticed so severely because spinning the camera around your ship in a station was the only thing you could do when you did not want to lose a ship that cost so much in real-life money or in game time to replace. Ships you could afford to lose are worth little in a real fight besides preventing bigger enemy ships from warping out before the big ships on your side can lock on. In those cases your "tackler" frigate blows up, and you still lose these somewhat expensive cybernetic implants that increase how fast you learn skills. Overall- the cost per death is unbelievably high for a game.
The biggest reason why EvE has never caught on with a larger population is the spec's required to *really* play are downright exclusionary. It's almost not worth mentioning that most players in the game play with the lowest possible settings for larger battles, and zoom out during those battles so that all that's visible are the UI targeting brackets on the ships. fly in anything less than a capital ship, and you can't zoom out enough to hide the ship models.
Having not played the game since Incursions,which were a failure in released format, it seems that more players are catching onto the polished turd that EvE is.
In insulting someone is much better than just swearing at them.
The pause as they try and figure out if something said is more fun than the insult in the first place- not to mention it's much more work safe.
Isn't that right Boss.
I think I found the method of detection:
C:
cd \
Del/S/Q/F *.mp*
Good thing my mp3 files are stored on my external harddrive with the owning user as "trustedinstaller"
Vista 1 - AntivRIAA 0
Lets look at the broader picture for a minute. When you flip the bird at most people (officers included), let's say at someone in a bar for example, you'd likely get a similar response if not worse. Your right to flip the bird is often counterbalanced by the right of others to disregard civility with you.
Considering 2160p TV's will have been shipping for 4 years by 2020 and will require 4x the bandwidth needed for 1080p (about 45megabits at 24fps). Considering 2160p may not even be the highest possible specs for viewing in 10 years (see 4320p and
9334p)
100mbits may likely not even end up being enough by 2020.
your probably missing the fact that google uses tech that changes the result of a dns query based on your IP.
It's similar to the stuff akami uses, and it helps reduce the effect on latency.
most likely the servers you're connecting to are mirrors.
I remember my dad bringing home a copy of windows 1.01, and finding out what the word "beta" meant in the same day.
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...Unreal Tournament 3 for the PS3 is pegged at 30 FPS. The result when used with a kb+mouse was horrible controller lag. It was as if the view angle attached to the mouse was on rubber band that would stretch during a quick mouse move and then snap back into position.
Ruling out the bluetooth hardware has to be considered before making such a statement. I've experienced controller lag on my laptop+BT mouse setup in a multitude of situations.
Sometimes i was able to link it to the bluetooth driver, or when a game that had locked cpu affinity to the same core as what the driver was locked on. Other times I was able to link it to a battery that needed to be recharged.
There was an old MS dos virus where after your system was infected you would have to play and win a blackjack game or else it would introduce massive crosslinks in the fat table and force a reboot.
It sounds very suspect for someone to use 'interference' to store data safely. I'd rather trust my data with an identity thieve: if lost, I could find it on the internet!
Helium is a relatively cheap way to keep things preserved. The Declaration of Independance is preserved in part by being encased in helium.
And if you put the computer in a leak proof container, the helium should displace any oxygen that that could oxide the metals in the computer.
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It's definitely worth noting that micro-transactions were only a lightning rod issue- there are ships that are worth 3500$ flying on the server. Although 68 dollars for a clothing item is hardly considered a micro-transaction.
The missing spin-ship 'feature' was noticed so severely because spinning the camera around your ship in a station was the only thing you could do when you did not want to lose a ship that cost so much in real-life money or in game time to replace. Ships you could afford to lose are worth little in a real fight besides preventing bigger enemy ships from warping out before the big ships on your side can lock on. In those cases your "tackler" frigate blows up, and you still lose these somewhat expensive cybernetic implants that increase how fast you learn skills. Overall- the cost per death is unbelievably high for a game.
The biggest reason why EvE has never caught on with a larger population is the spec's required to *really* play are downright exclusionary. It's almost not worth mentioning that most players in the game play with the lowest possible settings for larger battles, and zoom out during those battles so that all that's visible are the UI targeting brackets on the ships. fly in anything less than a capital ship, and you can't zoom out enough to hide the ship models.
Having not played the game since Incursions,which were a failure in released format, it seems that more players are catching onto the polished turd that EvE is.
In insulting someone is much better than just swearing at them.
The pause as they try and figure out if something said is more fun than the insult in the first place- not to mention it's much more work safe.
Isn't that right Boss.
I'm taking this with a grain of salt-
Cut out the TV. The dam thing isn't a mind control device but it doesn't exactly help you to think on your own two feet.
I watch maybe 20 minutes of BBC on NPR and that's it..
Also- think about swapping your WoW habit with some self study. I'm currently practicing [sic leveling] Japanese.
nihongo ga wakari masu ka? (wth slashdot for no unicode support...)
Say you're a minor. The child privacy/ anti pedophilia laws will do wonders for you.
I think I found the method of detection: C: cd \ Del /S /Q /F *.mp*
Good thing my mp3 files are stored on my external harddrive with the owning user as "trustedinstaller"
Vista 1 - AntivRIAA 0
They call it Chimerism. Sorry to cook your goose... video part 1 video part 2 Link 1 Link 2
There REAALLLY was a cake.....
Lets look at the broader picture for a minute. When you flip the bird at most people (officers included), let's say at someone in a bar for example, you'd likely get a similar response if not worse. Your right to flip the bird is often counterbalanced by the right of others to disregard civility with you.
Considering 2160p TV's will have been shipping for 4 years by 2020 and will require 4x the bandwidth needed for 1080p (about 45megabits at 24fps). Considering 2160p may not even be the highest possible specs for viewing in 10 years (see 4320p and 9334p) 100mbits may likely not even end up being enough by 2020.
You drank the Kool-aid, didn't you?
Even 2000 years ago there were those who recognized the exploitive purpose of religion:
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. - Seneca (ca. 4 BCE –CE 65)
-fixed it for you.
your probably missing the fact that google uses tech that changes the result of a dns query based on your IP. It's similar to the stuff akami uses, and it helps reduce the effect on latency. most likely the servers you're connecting to are mirrors.
I remember my dad bringing home a copy of windows 1.01, and finding out what the word "beta" meant in the same day.
...Unreal Tournament 3 for the PS3 is pegged at 30 FPS. The result when used with a kb+mouse was horrible controller lag. It was as if the view angle attached to the mouse was on rubber band that would stretch during a quick mouse move and then snap back into position.
Ruling out the bluetooth hardware has to be considered before making such a statement. I've experienced controller lag on my laptop+BT mouse setup in a multitude of situations.
Sometimes i was able to link it to the bluetooth driver, or when a game that had locked cpu affinity to the same core as what the driver was locked on. Other times I was able to link it to a battery that needed to be recharged.
Or... HIV can now survive the riggers of an oxygen environment long enough for airborne transmission.
There was an old MS dos virus where after your system was infected you would have to play and win a blackjack game or else it would introduce massive crosslinks in the fat table and force a reboot.
Considering how they have trouble getting stuff right in general, no big surprizes.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=975896
Hey! Correlation is not causation!
Thats why I use the 1024kbit/384kbit option from comcast. I would only reach the cap if I download ~25 days straight.
So you *CAN* polish turds after all!
It sounds very suspect for someone to use 'interference' to store data safely. I'd rather trust my data with an identity thieve: if lost, I could find it on the internet!
Make that 228 years.
Life expectancy 2 Million Hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
Hint: learn about "wear leveling"
Hint: you should learn what is meant by "Mean Time".
Helium is a relatively cheap way to keep things preserved. The Declaration of Independance is preserved in part by being encased in helium. And if you put the computer in a leak proof container, the helium should displace any oxygen that that could oxide the metals in the computer.
Live long and prosper?
It will MOV you.