Eve is a game and if you view your game time as the act of playing i.e. What you do as opposed to what you have then this is all part of the rich experience.
I'm an alliance leader and CEO of a corporation and one of our war enemies was the controller of a corp thief who struck. As we were set up to effectivly handle losses from our general access low level modules and ammo hangers the impact wasn't so high and it invites the possibility of striking revenge against the enemy in question. Awesome way to spend you time eh?
If you like playing in a sandbox rather than being in a theme park with predefined activities Eve is for you.
That is the path you chose to go down, being a miner in high sec space. Here is someone who decided to be a pirate when he started you can read about it here:,url:http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a =topic&threadID=228135>. Not everyone is a pirate, I live in lawless space in an alliance and we actively hunt down and kill pirates, even going to war with oirate corporations. The game is what you make it and to be honest it is the only game that has grown the more I've played it, have been playing now for over a year.
Ship combat is very tactical rather than trying to aim your weopons, you're the captain and you tell your ship what to do, bit like real life to be honest. The fitout and player skill plays a huge part and not the in game skills you have unless there is a huge descrepancy, sure you get an edge if you invest the time to train the high levels (level being obtainable in a week, a maximum of 5 in a skill) however that won;t make up for having an unsuitable fit compared to your opponent.
The game is player verses player in that you might compete in industry as well as combat, the social interaction is vast and the loss penalty is what makes the game what it is as no game has given me the shakes as when I first went into PVP combat in this game. It's not a game if you're a carebear who likes to be safe all the time but if you wnat a game that grows with you and doesn't have an 'I Win' button then this is the game for you.
Makes me wonder if we've played the same game, I guess the mor you put into it (not necessarily time wise) the more you get out. I've seen lots of people do solo play and it amazes me as I've found that the true fun starts to come when you do things with all the other people around in the eve world.
How do you think Microsoft started? It was two guys writing BASIC for the Altair. If software patents had been in around then, the first person to patent a BASIC interpreter for ANY computer could have stopped anyone in thier tracks from writing an interpreter for that language. Thus there probably would have been no Microsoft.
Copyright is different from patents, the latter protects an idea the former an implimentation of that idea. Unfortunatly the broad nature of patenting ideas will lead to only those with lots of money (i.e. corporations) being able to reap the rewarsds of thier ideas. The barrier to entry will be too high.
You comparison with China is quite apt because instead of the government telling you what software you would be allowed to use it would be corporations.
So if you loose the service industries and have no manufacturing industries, where are people going to learn the experience in order to come up with all this market leading technology?
The V2 was ballistic and the V1 was a pulse jet powered cruise missile.
The V2 was guided until the engine exhausted it's fuel (~60 seconds) so it was not like MLRS (sp) which is unguided from start. The V1 had a gyro to keep straight and level and a prop spinner at the front that when it had turned a preset number of times would dellfect the elevetor causing the missile to dive at which point the fuel would cut off and not long after it would go boom.
Neither method was spectacularly accurate at the time but they were good enough to hit a city sized target.
When you have the case where for whatever reason the only way a plane can recover from something is t bank into a softwall and because of this overide it can't and crashes.
It was meant to be a little rant on how patents get awarded for something that differs by a piddling amount from something else, and the standard response from the USPTO is to say let the courts sort it out. Thus keeping food on lawyers tables etc.
The USPO become a US legal work creation scheme, there can be no benefit to mankind by granting some of these patents with obvios prior art unless of course the part of mankind you want to benfit happens to be called lawyers.
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Eve is a game and if you view your game time as the act of playing i.e. What you do as opposed to what you have then this is all part of the rich experience.
I'm an alliance leader and CEO of a corporation and one of our war enemies was the controller of a corp thief who struck. As we were set up to effectivly handle losses from our general access low level modules and ammo hangers the impact wasn't so high and it invites the possibility of striking revenge against the enemy in question. Awesome way to spend you time eh?
If you like playing in a sandbox rather than being in a theme park with predefined activities Eve is for you.
Sorry, messed up the url, it's http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topi c&threadID=228135.
That is the path you chose to go down, being a miner in high sec space. Here is someone who decided to be a pirate when he started you can read about it here: ,url:http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a =topic&threadID=228135>. Not everyone is a pirate, I live in lawless space in an alliance and we actively hunt down and kill pirates, even going to war with oirate corporations. The game is what you make it and to be honest it is the only game that has grown the more I've played it, have been playing now for over a year.
Ship combat is very tactical rather than trying to aim your weopons, you're the captain and you tell your ship what to do, bit like real life to be honest. The fitout and player skill plays a huge part and not the in game skills you have unless there is a huge descrepancy, sure you get an edge if you invest the time to train the high levels (level being obtainable in a week, a maximum of 5 in a skill) however that won;t make up for having an unsuitable fit compared to your opponent.
The game is player verses player in that you might compete in industry as well as combat, the social interaction is vast and the loss penalty is what makes the game what it is as no game has given me the shakes as when I first went into PVP combat in this game. It's not a game if you're a carebear who likes to be safe all the time but if you wnat a game that grows with you and doesn't have an 'I Win' button then this is the game for you.
Simple as that, I enjoy the mental challenge and the thought of doing something to just sitting down and passivly watching TV.
So he discloses a vulnerability in a product and faces legal action? What kind of reaction is this?
Hey you must have the same T shirt too.
I thought I was watching an Amiga demo.
You're not looking at the bigger picture. With all a countries manufacturing and service industries outsourced, who will be the consumers?
Thankfully most chicks think the same way you do.
Makes me wonder if we've played the same game, I guess the mor you put into it (not necessarily time wise) the more you get out. I've seen lots of people do solo play and it amazes me as I've found that the true fun starts to come when you do things with all the other people around in the eve world.
It easy and safe to clean a cat in the shower provided you have:
A glass helmet.
1/4" thick steel vest.
Rhino hide gloves.
How do you think Microsoft started? It was two guys writing BASIC for the Altair. If software patents had been in around then, the first person to patent a BASIC interpreter for ANY computer could have stopped anyone in thier tracks from writing an interpreter for that language. Thus there probably would have been no Microsoft.
Copyright is different from patents, the latter protects an idea the former an implimentation of that idea. Unfortunatly the broad nature of patenting ideas will lead to only those with lots of money (i.e. corporations) being able to reap the rewarsds of thier ideas. The barrier to entry will be too high.
You comparison with China is quite apt because instead of the government telling you what software you would be allowed to use it would be corporations.
Sorry but the lifting bodies series of aircraft are not the same as space ship one at all. None of the vehicles made it out of the atmosphere either.
So if you loose the service industries and have no manufacturing industries, where are people going to learn the experience in order to come up with all this market leading technology?
The V2 was ballistic and the V1 was a pulse jet powered cruise missile.
The V2 was guided until the engine exhausted it's fuel (~60 seconds) so it was not like MLRS (sp) which is unguided from start. The V1 had a gyro to keep straight and level and a prop spinner at the front that when it had turned a preset number of times would dellfect the elevetor causing the missile to dive at which point the fuel would cut off and not long after it would go boom.
Neither method was spectacularly accurate at the time but they were good enough to hit a city sized target.
I like it.
:)
Basically I am collecting my non deliverable messages so I can email the user at the other end to let them know they have been trojan'd.
This is nice too though.
And to be honest, what Jury is going to convict you?
And I just missed those days.
OMG when I was reading that sentence I thought "So they changed thier procedures then." :)
When you have the case where for whatever reason the only way a plane can recover from something is t bank into a softwall and because of this overide it can't and crashes.
Don't even mention bugs!
When these are known as Internet worms and not Microsoft worms........
The legal landscape in the US is very favourable to pushing tech industry with less costly labour and probably more importantly IP laws, overseas.
It was meant to be a little rant on how patents get awarded for something that differs by a piddling amount from something else, and the standard response from the USPTO is to say let the courts sort it out. Thus keeping food on lawyers tables etc.
Maybe some idiot that made a typo and does not live in the US, but does have the courage to not post as AC.
Lighten up Captain Pedant.
Maybe the USPTO. DOH!
The USPO become a US legal work creation scheme, there can be no benefit to mankind by granting some of these patents with obvios prior art unless of course the part of mankind you want to benfit happens to be called lawyers.