...But my triple monitor Eyefinity setup won't work when using HDMI.
So I'm assuming that over the next 5 years, while this is phased out, monitors will be replacing their VGA/DVI ports with DisplayPort ports, so I don't need a £30 adapter to convert a miniDP port to a DVI port... right?
Maybe I'm being somewhat pessimistic, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.
This is rather disappointing - I received a Galaxy Tab as a bonus from my job earlier in the year, and I was expecting it to receive the ICS update - the fact that it's not going to I find rather strange...
And say what you want about Windows: Windows interface is to this moment unsurpassed in it's functionality and simplicity (at leat the classical 95/2000 on which KDE is based).
What's so simple about having to reboot your computer every five minutes? You are talking about older versions of Windows, although you still need to reboot whenever you install or update anything whatever, unlike Linux.
With Windows 7 you very rarely need to reboot when updating things now. Hell I can now even update my Graphics drivers without requirig a reboot.
What's so simple about having to reopen all your programs and documents after a boot? KDE opens to the same state it was in when you closed it, all open docs and apps are reopened. You can, of course, change this to mimic Windows.
It's called Hibernation.
What's so simple about the double click? Those of you in their twenties don't remember learning how, so it just seems natural to you, but it isn't. Back in the nineties when PCs first got Windows, the double click was the hardest part of teaching someone how to use a computer, and it's completely unnecessary. Your mouse has two buttons. KDE needs no double click. Of course, you can make this like Windows, too.
Start->Control Panel->Folder Options. Change "Click items as follows" to "Single-click to open an item (point to select)" - then select the sub-option for that mode of your choice.
What's simple about Windows Registry? IMO they should have simply kept.ini files.
You've got me on this one.
Windows is NOT simpler than KDE, and it is NOT more "user friendly." KDE is more than user friendly, it's user obedient. It does things the way you want it to, Windows insists on you doing it the Windows way.
Sorry but if KDE was simpler than Windows then many more people would use it.
...I had the EU version of the Droid, the Motorola Milestone, over here in the UK. The most poorly supported phone I've ever had, and when they finally got around to releasing Android 2.2 for it, a full SEVEN MONTHS after the phone's identical American version, the Droid, got it, it made my phone so slow and unresponsive that I stopped using it... (and yes, this was even after a factory reset and formatting my SD card...)
In addition, 2.3 had been out for a number of months before this point too. The chart quite clearly shows that Motorola are consistently releasing these products but without the support required to keep their customer base happy into the second half of their phone contracts......
The problem is that in EVE, you need a new one every 30 days to keep your game time topped up, meaning that there is a constant stream of supply and demand.
In WoW, this is a one-use item - once you "use" it, it becomes bound to your character and from then on getting another one will have precisely no use/meaning at all, unless you want to give it to an alt character, so eventually the market will become saturated and they will lose their in-game value, and the RMT will just return. I suspect this will be an experiment of sorts by Blizzard, and that depending on how this one does they may well come up with a set of, say, 10 of these items.
...not until the second half of my final year there, which was the year 2000.
Consequently, there was no such thing as an "IT" course at my school. Which was a shame, because I wanted to be a programmer...
Fortunately I was able to get a Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Computing A-Level at college, though the Computing A-level again sucked - none of the teachers actually knew how to program, and the only resource I had was a book they told me to read - consequently I got a C, and that was the SECOND HIGHEST mark for my whole year in that course.
The entry requirements for CompSci at University here don't actually require any prior computing knowledge - it's all about the Maths skills, becuase they teach you to think about problem solving and the like, so I was able to then become a programmer:D...but my secondary school (and to a point my college) was most definitely not much of a help in this...
As such, he also has a habit of making sure that when he does go on holiday, it's normally to the middle of nowhere where he gets no mobile signal and especially no internet for a week so that he isn't bothered by work stuff.
On the other side of the coin, that same boss recently asked me to drop 9 days off that i had booked off down to 4 days, as we're nearing crunch time for a critical project that will set us up for much much more work in the future if we get it right - I'm not going to get those 5 days of holiday back, as i'll have no chance to use them for the rest of the year, but they are at least going to sort me out with an appropriate bonus of some sort, so I figured why not:)
Fortunately, I like my job, the people I work with and my boss so as I didn't really have any plans for my holiday time (they fell through) it was an easy decision for me...
...about this. They aren't particularly tech savvy people, but my brother didn't even know PSN was down as he hadn't turned his PS3 on for 2 weeks.
Anyway, got off the phone with another friend and 5 mins later he got this email:
Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.
Sincerely, Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Teams
Sony Network Entertainment Europe Limited (formerly known as PlayStation Network Europe Limited) is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited the data controller for PlayStation Network/Qriocity personal data
I did Maths and Further Maths A-levels 10 years ago (...DAMN I'M GETTING OLD). I was not allowed to use the calculator in exams, and was discouraged from using it in lessons because I would not be able to use it in exams.
A simple £10 scientific calculator still had all the functionality I needed and I was allowed to use that in my exams...
At university, despite me already owning the specific model of "receommended" calculator that the university said we could use in exams, I still had to spend money buying one of the calculators that they supplied with their own logo sparypainted on the back because "I might have tampered with my current calculator". What was to stop me buying this calculator with the logo and "tampering" with that?
These calculators are pointless because you cannot use them in the very environment(s) in which they are most useful. Not because they lack funcitonality in any specific area.
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
Whereas for me personally DS9 is the one I enjoyed the most.
And trust me, I've seen them all.
Yea that's the reason why we in the UK cannot have the iPlayer on Xbox Live either - Microsoft only want to offer it to Gold members, but due to the way the BBC is funded over here (the TV licence, there are no ads on the Beeb due to this) if people are paying their TV licence they should not then be forced to pay any other costs to then access the service.
Due to this "standoff" between Microsoft and the BBC we're kinda stuck in the middle:(
This doesn't surprise me. They have over-saturated the market in a massive way and most of the GH games came with 90% crappy songs that no-one had ever heard of or even wanted to play... but you had to play them to unlock the decent songs.
I played GH2 and GH3 to death, after that I got Rock Band and it was a much more polished experience with many more songs that I had actually heard of - never bought a GH game myself again but played a few at friends' places - after GH3 they all just seemed to be "song packs" as opposed to new games.
...who started putting those crappy 1366x768 screens in all laptops as standard - just 2-3 years ago the standard resolution you would get on most laptops I looked at was 1680x1050, with upgrades to 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 not far off... nowadays to get anything more than 768 vertically on a laptop I need to fork out 200-300 GBP extra. As a programmer who values lots of vertical space for the IDEs that I use and all the little extra output windows and suchlike, it really is a pain.
I have to say I didn't like it. Even the lowest setting that the rear part of the mouse could be set to was too high, and a few other people who tried it felt the same way. I'll stick with my ROCCAT Kone:)
It would appear that Slashdot hates paragraphs. Otherwise the above would be WAY better formatted. It even had newlines and everything! Apologies for offending any potential readers with such a wall of text...
So here goes:
From various resellers you can purchase what is known as a GTC (game time code) - this is a code much like a CD-key that you can apply to your account to give you 60 days of playtime. This code costs 35USD.
In addition to the above option of converting it [i]STRAIGHT INTO GAME TIME[/i], you can also decide, if you so wish, to redeem the code in-game, using up the code and turning into two in-game items known as PLEX. (short for Pilot's Licence EXtension). Each of these in-game items can be redeemed by you or [i]any other player[/i] to add 30 days of real world play time to your account. You would do this in situations where either:
-You have 2 or more accounts and wanted to split the 60 days between them. You can trade the PLEX directly from one account to the other and redeem one per account, giving 30 extra days to each account, or
-You wish to trade them in-game so that you can make some ISK (in-game currency). While not a HUGE amount of ISK, it is certainly a substantial amount. However, it is one of the quirks of EVE that these items, as well as pretty much anything else, is sold by players to other players - that is, the price of said items is set based on a real economy, from human to human.
Once the item is in-game, as above, then as long as the game mechanics are not exploited in any way or a bug is not exploited in any way, they are free game for anyone to take, were they presented with the opportunity to do so. Until a few weeks ago, this would not have been possible as there was a special condition on these items that meant that once you turned the GTC into a PLEX, you were unable to take them away from the station that the item was redeemed at. Now, bearing in mind that in space, in EVE, anyone could decide to shoot you at any time, though based n the particular system in question there may well be repercussions from local police forces that would come and blow your own ship up, this particular situation was fair game.
There were no hacks. There were no exploits. The system in question has over time developed to be the main trade hub in-game - most trading is done here. If you want something, you will find it on sale here.
Quite simply the person undocked, carrying 74 of these items, 2 of which equate to 35USD were you to buy them from scratch, and because of the mechanics of the game, he was [i]fair game[/i] for anyone that decided they wanted to shoot him. In the system in question, the aggressor would have had his/her ship blown up, but to cause such damage, that is quite frankly a small price to pay.
Now you could go "this person has just lost $1200 of money, he should sue!" But you must remember that this situation came about through one of two scenarios:
1) The player or he and his friends/corpmates paid RL monies for a number of GTC's, but instead of converting said codes straight into game time, elected to try and make an in-game profit by selling these codes as in-game items, where said monies could be used to fund anything their alliance wished.
2) The player or he and his friends/corpmates paid in-game monies for a large number of PLEXes, and then decided that they could resell them in a different area in-game thereby making them a large in-game profit.
In BOTH scenarios, the player is made fully aware that by playing the game and just by not being in a station they are potentially vulnerable to attack. The stupidity is made more apparent by the fact that the corp/alliance that the victim was in was at war with another corporation, (essentially the aggressors pay the police to look the other way for a week at a time so that they can attack in "secure" areas without having their own ships blown up by the authorities), and he was going into space in the [i]busiest system in-game[/i].
Because you at no point [i]had to[/i] convert the GTC's into in-game items, as well as at no point ever having to [i]put yourself in a situation where you could be at risk[/i] before you could convert said codes/items into real game time, there is no case to answer.
Something that I have also n
Blizzard just lost my subscription.
I WAS going to re-activate my WoW account and purchase Cataclysm when it came out. Unless these changes are reversed, I'm not going to do that.
I do NOT want my real name associated and easily searchable by my in-game actions. I might as well name all my in-game characters as my real name and be done with it, because that is what will happen anyway.
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...But my triple monitor Eyefinity setup won't work when using HDMI.
So I'm assuming that over the next 5 years, while this is phased out, monitors will be replacing their VGA/DVI ports with DisplayPort ports, so I don't need a £30 adapter to convert a miniDP port to a DVI port... right?
Maybe I'm being somewhat pessimistic, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.
This is rather disappointing - I received a Galaxy Tab as a bonus from my job earlier in the year, and I was expecting it to receive the ICS update - the fact that it's not going to I find rather strange...
...I mean seriously! The actors even look the same and they are using some of the same stuff!
(http://i.imgur.com/e9WwU.jpg)
And say what you want about Windows: Windows interface is to this moment unsurpassed in it's functionality and simplicity (at leat the classical 95/2000 on which KDE is based).
What's so simple about having to reboot your computer every five minutes? You are talking about older versions of Windows, although you still need to reboot whenever you install or update anything whatever, unlike Linux.
With Windows 7 you very rarely need to reboot when updating things now. Hell I can now even update my Graphics drivers without requirig a reboot.
What's so simple about having to reopen all your programs and documents after a boot? KDE opens to the same state it was in when you closed it, all open docs and apps are reopened. You can, of course, change this to mimic Windows.
It's called Hibernation.
What's so simple about the double click? Those of you in their twenties don't remember learning how, so it just seems natural to you, but it isn't. Back in the nineties when PCs first got Windows, the double click was the hardest part of teaching someone how to use a computer, and it's completely unnecessary. Your mouse has two buttons. KDE needs no double click. Of course, you can make this like Windows, too.
Start->Control Panel->Folder Options. Change "Click items as follows" to "Single-click to open an item (point to select)" - then select the sub-option for that mode of your choice.
What's simple about Windows Registry? IMO they should have simply kept .ini files.
You've got me on this one.
Windows is NOT simpler than KDE, and it is NOT more "user friendly." KDE is more than user friendly, it's user obedient. It does things the way you want it to, Windows insists on you doing it the Windows way.
Sorry but if KDE was simpler than Windows then many more people would use it.
But then who will error correct and checksum the error correction and checksum of the error correction and checksum of the original data?
...I had the EU version of the Droid, the Motorola Milestone, over here in the UK. The most poorly supported phone I've ever had, and when they finally got around to releasing Android 2.2 for it, a full SEVEN MONTHS after the phone's identical American version, the Droid, got it, it made my phone so slow and unresponsive that I stopped using it... (and yes, this was even after a factory reset and formatting my SD card...)
In addition, 2.3 had been out for a number of months before this point too. The chart quite clearly shows that Motorola are consistently releasing these products but without the support required to keep their customer base happy into the second half of their phone contracts......
In precisely the same way that PLEX work in EVE Online (see http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/30_days_Concord_Pilot_License_Extension), this item will eventually stabilise at a certain price on every realm, based on the in-game market. That price point will be zero, however.
The problem is that in EVE, you need a new one every 30 days to keep your game time topped up, meaning that there is a constant stream of supply and demand.
In WoW, this is a one-use item - once you "use" it, it becomes bound to your character and from then on getting another one will have precisely no use/meaning at all, unless you want to give it to an alt character, so eventually the market will become saturated and they will lose their in-game value, and the RMT will just return. I suspect this will be an experiment of sorts by Blizzard, and that depending on how this one does they may well come up with a set of, say, 10 of these items.
...not until the second half of my final year there, which was the year 2000.
Consequently, there was no such thing as an "IT" course at my school. Which was a shame, because I wanted to be a programmer...
Fortunately I was able to get a Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Computing A-Level at college, though the Computing A-level again sucked - none of the teachers actually knew how to program, and the only resource I had was a book they told me to read - consequently I got a C, and that was the SECOND HIGHEST mark for my whole year in that course.
The entry requirements for CompSci at University here don't actually require any prior computing knowledge - it's all about the Maths skills, becuase they teach you to think about problem solving and the like, so I was able to then become a programmer :D ...but my secondary school (and to a point my college) was most definitely not much of a help in this...
In a conversation, be that a voice conversation, or even an email, what would you prefer?
"If you take a look at revision 322a8b034003c0d46d39af85bf24fee27b902f48 of the code..."
OR
"If you take a look at revision 16421 of the code..."
I know which I prefer, and it's why I stay well away from git as much as possible.
As such, he also has a habit of making sure that when he does go on holiday, it's normally to the middle of nowhere where he gets no mobile signal and especially no internet for a week so that he isn't bothered by work stuff.
On the other side of the coin, that same boss recently asked me to drop 9 days off that i had booked off down to 4 days, as we're nearing crunch time for a critical project that will set us up for much much more work in the future if we get it right - I'm not going to get those 5 days of holiday back, as i'll have no chance to use them for the rest of the year, but they are at least going to sort me out with an appropriate bonus of some sort, so I figured why not :)
Fortunately, I like my job, the people I work with and my boss so as I didn't really have any plans for my holiday time (they fell through) it was an easy decision for me...
And you have no idea what you are talking about.
...about this. They aren't particularly tech savvy people, but my brother didn't even know PSN was down as he hadn't turned his PS3 on for 2 weeks.
Anyway, got off the phone with another friend and 5 mins later he got this email:
Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Teams
Sony Network Entertainment Europe Limited (formerly known as PlayStation Network Europe Limited) is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited the data controller for PlayStation Network/Qriocity personal data
...And I've not seen one mention of the Novint Falcon: http://novint.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39&Itemid=54
:)
I own one, and it is an awesome little device
I did Maths and Further Maths A-levels 10 years ago (...DAMN I'M GETTING OLD). I was not allowed to use the calculator in exams, and was discouraged from using it in lessons because I would not be able to use it in exams.
A simple £10 scientific calculator still had all the functionality I needed and I was allowed to use that in my exams...
At university, despite me already owning the specific model of "receommended" calculator that the university said we could use in exams, I still had to spend money buying one of the calculators that they supplied with their own logo sparypainted on the back because "I might have tampered with my current calculator". What was to stop me buying this calculator with the logo and "tampering" with that?
These calculators are pointless because you cannot use them in the very environment(s) in which they are most useful. Not because they lack funcitonality in any specific area.
Awesome!!
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
Whereas for me personally DS9 is the one I enjoyed the most. And trust me, I've seen them all.
Yea that's the reason why we in the UK cannot have the iPlayer on Xbox Live either - Microsoft only want to offer it to Gold members, but due to the way the BBC is funded over here (the TV licence, there are no ads on the Beeb due to this) if people are paying their TV licence they should not then be forced to pay any other costs to then access the service.
:(
Due to this "standoff" between Microsoft and the BBC we're kinda stuck in the middle
...against the San Andreas Fault Line!
We must destroy this threat to the stability of California with all available military power!
yes.
This doesn't surprise me. They have over-saturated the market in a massive way and most of the GH games came with 90% crappy songs that no-one had ever heard of or even wanted to play... but you had to play them to unlock the decent songs. I played GH2 and GH3 to death, after that I got Rock Band and it was a much more polished experience with many more songs that I had actually heard of - never bought a GH game myself again but played a few at friends' places - after GH3 they all just seemed to be "song packs" as opposed to new games.
This does make me a little nervous... Time to change a few passwords methinks.
...who started putting those crappy 1366x768 screens in all laptops as standard - just 2-3 years ago the standard resolution you would get on most laptops I looked at was 1680x1050, with upgrades to 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 not far off... nowadays to get anything more than 768 vertically on a laptop I need to fork out 200-300 GBP extra. As a programmer who values lots of vertical space for the IDEs that I use and all the little extra output windows and suchlike, it really is a pain.
... at the i-series LAN events in the UK.
:)
I have to say I didn't like it. Even the lowest setting that the rear part of the mouse could be set to was too high, and a few other people who tried it felt the same way. I'll stick with my ROCCAT Kone
It would appear that Slashdot hates paragraphs. Otherwise the above would be WAY better formatted. It even had newlines and everything! Apologies for offending any potential readers with such a wall of text...
So here goes: From various resellers you can purchase what is known as a GTC (game time code) - this is a code much like a CD-key that you can apply to your account to give you 60 days of playtime. This code costs 35USD. In addition to the above option of converting it [i]STRAIGHT INTO GAME TIME[/i], you can also decide, if you so wish, to redeem the code in-game, using up the code and turning into two in-game items known as PLEX. (short for Pilot's Licence EXtension). Each of these in-game items can be redeemed by you or [i]any other player[/i] to add 30 days of real world play time to your account. You would do this in situations where either: -You have 2 or more accounts and wanted to split the 60 days between them. You can trade the PLEX directly from one account to the other and redeem one per account, giving 30 extra days to each account, or -You wish to trade them in-game so that you can make some ISK (in-game currency). While not a HUGE amount of ISK, it is certainly a substantial amount. However, it is one of the quirks of EVE that these items, as well as pretty much anything else, is sold by players to other players - that is, the price of said items is set based on a real economy, from human to human. Once the item is in-game, as above, then as long as the game mechanics are not exploited in any way or a bug is not exploited in any way, they are free game for anyone to take, were they presented with the opportunity to do so. Until a few weeks ago, this would not have been possible as there was a special condition on these items that meant that once you turned the GTC into a PLEX, you were unable to take them away from the station that the item was redeemed at. Now, bearing in mind that in space, in EVE, anyone could decide to shoot you at any time, though based n the particular system in question there may well be repercussions from local police forces that would come and blow your own ship up, this particular situation was fair game. There were no hacks. There were no exploits. The system in question has over time developed to be the main trade hub in-game - most trading is done here. If you want something, you will find it on sale here. Quite simply the person undocked, carrying 74 of these items, 2 of which equate to 35USD were you to buy them from scratch, and because of the mechanics of the game, he was [i]fair game[/i] for anyone that decided they wanted to shoot him. In the system in question, the aggressor would have had his/her ship blown up, but to cause such damage, that is quite frankly a small price to pay. Now you could go "this person has just lost $1200 of money, he should sue!" But you must remember that this situation came about through one of two scenarios: 1) The player or he and his friends/corpmates paid RL monies for a number of GTC's, but instead of converting said codes straight into game time, elected to try and make an in-game profit by selling these codes as in-game items, where said monies could be used to fund anything their alliance wished. 2) The player or he and his friends/corpmates paid in-game monies for a large number of PLEXes, and then decided that they could resell them in a different area in-game thereby making them a large in-game profit. In BOTH scenarios, the player is made fully aware that by playing the game and just by not being in a station they are potentially vulnerable to attack. The stupidity is made more apparent by the fact that the corp/alliance that the victim was in was at war with another corporation, (essentially the aggressors pay the police to look the other way for a week at a time so that they can attack in "secure" areas without having their own ships blown up by the authorities), and he was going into space in the [i]busiest system in-game[/i]. Because you at no point [i]had to[/i] convert the GTC's into in-game items, as well as at no point ever having to [i]put yourself in a situation where you could be at risk[/i] before you could convert said codes/items into real game time, there is no case to answer. Something that I have also n
Blizzard just lost my subscription. I WAS going to re-activate my WoW account and purchase Cataclysm when it came out. Unless these changes are reversed, I'm not going to do that. I do NOT want my real name associated and easily searchable by my in-game actions. I might as well name all my in-game characters as my real name and be done with it, because that is what will happen anyway.