The beautiful thing about the EVE skill system is that you continue to train skills while not in game. Since all skill training is in real time, there is no possibility of power leveling, and even being given loads of money and equipment is useless if you don't have the skills to use them. That being said, with minimal skills and enough monetary support, you can buy the much more expensive "named" equipment to compete with the much less expensive T2 gear, which requires more skill levels to utilize. The player base is growing all the time, and they have made major improvements to the new player tutorials. When I first started about 4 years ago, the initial tutorial covered the basics of space flight and that was about it. Even a couple hours a night to play can easily earn you enough money to buy skill books to train up while you are at work/school/wherever, and if you get on the recruitment channels you can usually find a representative of a corporation that caters to new players and give them training to succeed, and a suportive environment. Many even have ship replacement programs available.
CONCORD is the npc police force of EVE, and each empire has their own Navy, but they only patrol in 0.5 or higher (Empire) space. All pilots have a security status ranging from 10.0 to -10.0, which increases for destroying pirate npcs, and decreases from destroying player ships, and decreases even more if you "pod" them. If your security status is below -5.0, you are kill on sight by all police forces in Empire space. And CONCORD has near limitless resources with a fast response time. Then there is the addition of bounties that can be placed on pilots which, for some of the more notorious pirates, reach into the tens, or even hundreds, of billions of ISK, adding incentive for player bounty hunters to track them down and kill them.
No, you cant. It would violate relativity and causality.
These quantum communication systems require a classical communication channel, which is restricted to the speed of light.
Actually, you are wrong, since the communication occurs along the entaglement linkage, which is in a higher order dimension than space-time, which dimension it is all depends on which version of M-theory you currently ascibe to.
With quantum communications using entagled photons there are no possibilities for any form of eavesdropping, since the photons are bonded pairs. You can't entagle photons that are separated, they must be, in essence, created as a pair, then distributed as endpoints of communication. This technology will eventually lead to the capabilities of having one centralized quantum computer that any number of users with an entaglement link to it can utilize, the power of all the worlds supercomputers accesssed in real time from your smartphone.
Someone needs to slip a satellite based internet uplink in with their media gear. Even an old school MoDem hooked to a sat-phone would be sufficient if enough are used in parallel, then share the internet connection through a distributed wireless network to anyone nearby. Let the Chinese people get a taste of the other 98% of the internet they are missing out on.
I would recommend trying out MultiSim, it is an electronic circuit simulator with a large database of predefined parts, and the ability to add your own. You can download an evaluation version, good for a 30 day trial I think. This lets you play around with designing circuits, use virtual instruments to "measure" different parts of your circuit, and all without the risk of destroying your parts or starting a fire.
As an accompanyment to this software, I second/third/whatever the suggestion of the Forrest Mims "Getting Started in Electronics" book, I still have my 20+ year old copy of the big green book, and it is one of the primary motivators that got me interested in the electronics that became my career.
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The beautiful thing about the EVE skill system is that you continue to train skills while not in game. Since all skill training is in real time, there is no possibility of power leveling, and even being given loads of money and equipment is useless if you don't have the skills to use them. That being said, with minimal skills and enough monetary support, you can buy the much more expensive "named" equipment to compete with the much less expensive T2 gear, which requires more skill levels to utilize. The player base is growing all the time, and they have made major improvements to the new player tutorials. When I first started about 4 years ago, the initial tutorial covered the basics of space flight and that was about it. Even a couple hours a night to play can easily earn you enough money to buy skill books to train up while you are at work/school/wherever, and if you get on the recruitment channels you can usually find a representative of a corporation that caters to new players and give them training to succeed, and a suportive environment. Many even have ship replacement programs available.
CONCORD is the npc police force of EVE, and each empire has their own Navy, but they only patrol in 0.5 or higher (Empire) space. All pilots have a security status ranging from 10.0 to -10.0, which increases for destroying pirate npcs, and decreases from destroying player ships, and decreases even more if you "pod" them. If your security status is below -5.0, you are kill on sight by all police forces in Empire space. And CONCORD has near limitless resources with a fast response time. Then there is the addition of bounties that can be placed on pilots which, for some of the more notorious pirates, reach into the tens, or even hundreds, of billions of ISK, adding incentive for player bounty hunters to track them down and kill them.
No, you cant. It would violate relativity and causality. These quantum communication systems require a classical communication channel, which is restricted to the speed of light.
Actually, you are wrong, since the communication occurs along the entaglement linkage, which is in a higher order dimension than space-time, which dimension it is all depends on which version of M-theory you currently ascibe to.
With quantum communications using entagled photons there are no possibilities for any form of eavesdropping, since the photons are bonded pairs. You can't entagle photons that are separated, they must be, in essence, created as a pair, then distributed as endpoints of communication. This technology will eventually lead to the capabilities of having one centralized quantum computer that any number of users with an entaglement link to it can utilize, the power of all the worlds supercomputers accesssed in real time from your smartphone.
Someone needs to slip a satellite based internet uplink in with their media gear. Even an old school MoDem hooked to a sat-phone would be sufficient if enough are used in parallel, then share the internet connection through a distributed wireless network to anyone nearby. Let the Chinese people get a taste of the other 98% of the internet they are missing out on.
I would recommend trying out MultiSim, it is an electronic circuit simulator with a large database of predefined parts, and the ability to add your own. You can download an evaluation version, good for a 30 day trial I think. This lets you play around with designing circuits, use virtual instruments to "measure" different parts of your circuit, and all without the risk of destroying your parts or starting a fire. As an accompanyment to this software, I second/third/whatever the suggestion of the Forrest Mims "Getting Started in Electronics" book, I still have my 20+ year old copy of the big green book, and it is one of the primary motivators that got me interested in the electronics that became my career.