If you have to have a battery attached to the paper, you might as well make it cylindrical, so you can roll the e-paper up. (Folding will probably not be so friendly to it.)
Band of Brothers (BoB) doesn't outnumber everyone else. BoB plus their allies are just about at parity with the resistance. But all of these folks won't vote monolithically for BoB's candidates.
No one lives on planets in Eve (yet). If you are really determined, even the most powerful alliance in 0.0 space can't keep you from conducting operations and having fun. At most, they can lock you out of a given region of 0.0 space.
I have been playing Eve for a year and a half. I operate mostly in 0.0. Flying PvP in small cruiser or interceptor gangs is a blast. (*)
The amount of effort put into game balance is impressive. The graphics aren't cutting edge, but the art direction is well done. But most of all, the consequences in Eve are harsh and quite real. (If your battleship is destroyed, you might have to go through a *lot* to get it back out to your base in 0.0 security space.) This is *Exactly* what makes it such a blast to play. The adrenaline you feel jumping into a hostile fleet is real because you know there are consequences. Defeat is more bitter, but success is oh so sweet.
And this is also why dev/GM cheating enrages the player base so much. CCP has an uphill battle to show the player community it means business with its internal affairs department. If they're not able to do this, then the gaming world has lost a truly great game.
(*) - Player Owned Station Sieging is way too drawn out, but nothing's perfect, eh?
"Any idiot can make friends -- but can you make some really serious enemies?"
Hmm, so does this imply that Trolls are intelligent? In my experience, some of them are intelligent. Others think they are smart, but really have infuriating cognitive blind spots.
However, it is good to remember Abbie Hoffman's old idea: "If someone ever gets your goat, they struck gold!"
What one does in that situation reveals one's character. Let trolls be trolls. Learn from it and get on with life.
They just went and put an indenter on the English Language!
Now someone needs to invent a variant of English that requires indentation as a part of the syntax. It would be the Python of natural languages. Pyglish?
I have a blast playing Eve, and I do not spend tons of time grinding.
Groups of inexpensive ships configured to implement good tactics flown by pilots who work well together trump anything in this game. (Use your brains, not your wallet!)
You're supposed to make money with your brain in Eve. If you have to grind, then make it for a specific goal that enables you to earn more money. It's quite possible for someone of modest intelligence to find some way to support a PvP habit.
I've been in the game approaching 2 years. I live in 0.0. Yet I still regularly fly ship types that I got into in the 1st month of the game. I have a blast, and all I do is kill a few NPC spawns when there's no one around to fight.
Join the right corp. Find some good people to fly with. It makes all the difference.
(And I know there was GM corruption -- first hand. I'm willing to give CCP another chance, see if they are tightening things up. It's still a great game.)
Other companies and organizations are going this way -- putting more and more things onsite because of traffic problems. The Houston IKEA has daycare and a cafe. Churches are getting exercise facilities and cafeterias.
There's also the Anime version of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which sometimes has "sound in space" but often just has fleets of 10,000's of ships with Wagner or Beethoven in the background -- which totally fits the operatic mood of the series.
GMs need checks and balances. I've heard multiple anecdotes of GM corruption. I've heard an anecdote of someone killing people at a defective jump-gate. (Usually, people in rage at a jump-gate just jump out to escape.) This is clearly an exploit, but the GM did nothing to an exploiter.
I know of instances where GMs will mess around with Player Owned Stations (POS) -- resetting POS shields or taking large numbers of POS offline. Resetting POS shields after an attack obliterates the efforts of dozens of players over several hours. This is clearly skewed in favor of the defender. Taking large numbers of POS offline is very significant, because it directly impacts which alliance has sovereignty over the system.
Are GM actions logged? If not, then why not? GM actions should be logged, and the logs subject to oversight. There have to be some sort of checks and balances, or there will be GM corruption!
Summarily "lock" forum threads they don't like. (Particularly ones mentioning corruption.)
Orders players to stop trying to escalate a petition
Threaten players trying to escalate a petition
Ignore attempts to escalate a petition
If the 1st GM is corrupt, and players cannot escalate, then what recourse is there? What checks and balances are there? None. So it should be no surprise that there is widespread corruption in Eve Online.
I worked at a company that was shipping software on a CD also including 3rd-party demoware and free software. And AV programs would flag a component for >>>Linux Servers as having a windows virus. (It was the Linux version of an OODB, IIRC.)
There was no virus. It was just a false positive.
So no, Linux is not exempt from collateral damage. Potential customers may be needlessly scared away when the AV software scans your CD!
There is simply not any accountability for GMs! They can do what they want, and you can't even escalate when you suspect that there's corruption at work. An alliance mate of mine was once ordered to not escalate and was additionally ordered to tell the rest of the alliance not to petition -- as if my fellow pilot even had the authority to do that!
That's like having a judicial system with no appeals. Pure Gestapo!
The situation? After a node crash, the two hours of shield damage our fleet did to the enemy station's shields was magically undone. The enemy stole our floating drones and destroyed ships that reentered the game near the enemy base, which was only possible because of the node crash, but the GM did nothing about *that*. Our side was winning, and victory would've been inevitable but for the node crash. Very fishy!
So, were we allowed to appeal this? No. Were we even allowed to air our grievances in the forums? (Equivalent to the "Press") No.
You have to have some system of accountability for devs/GMs. Otherwise you will get corruption. From what I've seen, Eve doesn't have enough.
Sure, you can be independent in Eve and have lots of fun. You can't be an island. You still need to make friends and have contacts. But I know players who don't go into low-sec space, and have never left their noob corps, but have plenty of fun making money legitimately. (One was well on her way to having all ship blueprints for cruisers and smaller, and made money fast enough to buy a battleship every few days.)
For awhile I was also an independent player, having fun playing cat-and-mouse, making what was for me an adequate income, and avoiding getting killed. Then I joined an alliance. (And lots of fun, stirring victory, and crushing defeat ensued.)
If there is a will, there is at least a fighting chance in Eve -- unless it comes to GM corruption. Unfortunately, when I was an avid player, Eve didn't go far enough with GM accountability.
Human nature being what it is, someone has to watch the watchmen!
Algal biodiesel! This can be done with non-arable land using non-potable (even brackish) water with sewage as a feedstock. The article makes a compelling argument that the US could satisfy all of its vehicular needs domestically, provided we all switched to diesel.
|| Get the losses down where those Maxwell caps are and you lose 15 miles per day to losses.
| Since the power loss is not constant, which was the whole point, obviously this part has to be taken in the context of the next (fairly mangled) sentence and assume nightly recharging to 100% to enable the 500 mile advertised range. Which would be the logical course, so an unexpected trip could be undertaken without worrying about charging.
And I bet the power industry would just love to sell everybody the power to top these ultracaps off every night!
Evolution is very powerful, but it is not a perfect optimization process. And in any case how the heck do you define "perfect?"
The genetic algorithm is a "hill climbing" or "greedy algorithm." It can get caught in local maxima. (Sex acts to break us out of local maxima -- our children are likely to be some distance from us in genetic space because their genes are a mix of our genes and our mate's genes. But there's only so much that it can accomplish.)
There could be enormous advantages to putting our brain in our torso in terms of protection. But the distance in genetic space might be too large and the intervening configurations too awkward for our species' genes to get us there.
This article has serious logical errors. He's constantly using "bait and switch."
To refute the point that an underground lunar colony would be better protected, he states that a large enough meteorite would damage any lunar colony. Duh. What are the relative probabilities for the larger meteors? Much smaller for larger rocks. His argument here is vacuous.
To refute the point that the moon has gravity for the health of the astronauts, be points out that larger stations will be built to use centrifugal force. But isn't he advocating the completion of the ISS as one of his major points? My understanding is that this won't use rotation to provide artificial gravity.
They do. But unless you can actually benchmark, then you have no way of knowing how these affect overall performance. Like, what if you had tons of pipelines, but rather poor bandwidth to video RAM?
Also, how would you accurately predict what is "enough" in terms of performance for variious stats? How would you accurately calculate price/performance? And -- as demonstrated, if you read the fine article -- what's to keep manufacturers from lying/making honest mistakes? (Or marketing departments from inflating certain numbers for testosterone/marketing value even though the values are beyond what is useful anyways?)
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A lot of them never breed, and never move out of their parent's basement!
If you have to have a battery attached to the paper, you might as well make it cylindrical, so you can roll the e-paper up. (Folding will probably not be so friendly to it.)
The return of the scroll!
Band of Brothers (BoB) doesn't outnumber everyone else. BoB plus their allies are just about at parity with the resistance. But all of these folks won't vote monolithically for BoB's candidates.
No one lives on planets in Eve (yet). If you are really determined, even the most powerful alliance in 0.0 space can't keep you from conducting operations and having fun. At most, they can lock you out of a given region of 0.0 space.
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I have been playing Eve for a year and a half. I operate mostly in 0.0. Flying PvP in small cruiser or interceptor gangs is a blast. (*)
The amount of effort put into game balance is impressive. The graphics aren't cutting edge, but the art direction is well done. But most of all, the consequences in Eve are harsh and quite real. (If your battleship is destroyed, you might have to go through a *lot* to get it back out to your base in 0.0 security space.) This is *Exactly* what makes it such a blast to play. The adrenaline you feel jumping into a hostile fleet is real because you know there are consequences. Defeat is more bitter, but success is oh so sweet.
And this is also why dev/GM cheating enrages the player base so much. CCP has an uphill battle to show the player community it means business with its internal affairs department. If they're not able to do this, then the gaming world has lost a truly great game.
(*) - Player Owned Station Sieging is way too drawn out, but nothing's perfect, eh?
"Any idiot can make friends -- but can you make some really serious enemies?"
Hmm, so does this imply that Trolls are intelligent? In my experience, some of them are intelligent. Others think they are smart, but really have infuriating cognitive blind spots.
However, it is good to remember Abbie Hoffman's old idea: "If someone ever gets your goat, they struck gold!"
What one does in that situation reveals one's character. Let trolls be trolls. Learn from it and get on with life.
What about Tipping Points?
Things might really suck for us!
They just went and put an indenter on the English Language!
Now someone needs to invent a variant of English that requires indentation as a part of the syntax. It would be the Python of natural languages. Pyglish?
There is a real penalty for dying in Eve, and good teamwork can trump even the most expensive faction setup.
PvP is the point, and flying together with pilots you respect and can count on is the real heart of this game.
I have a blast playing Eve, and I do not spend tons of time grinding.
Groups of inexpensive ships configured to implement good tactics flown by pilots who work well together trump anything in this game. (Use your brains, not your wallet!)
You're supposed to make money with your brain in Eve. If you have to grind, then make it for a specific goal that enables you to earn more money. It's quite possible for someone of modest intelligence to find some way to support a PvP habit.
I've been in the game approaching 2 years. I live in 0.0. Yet I still regularly fly ship types that I got into in the 1st month of the game. I have a blast, and all I do is kill a few NPC spawns when there's no one around to fight.
Join the right corp. Find some good people to fly with. It makes all the difference.
(And I know there was GM corruption -- first hand. I'm willing to give CCP another chance, see if they are tightening things up. It's still a great game.)
Cheesy Blaxploitation + the grandaddy videogame = great parody.
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Googarcology?
Arcology As in the Niven/Pournelle novel Oath of Fealty.
Other companies and organizations are going this way -- putting more and more things onsite because of traffic problems. The Houston IKEA has daycare and a cafe. Churches are getting exercise facilities and cafeterias.
How about an IKEA Arcology? IKEAcology?
There's also the Anime version of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which sometimes has "sound in space" but often just has fleets of 10,000's of ships with Wagner or Beethoven in the background -- which totally fits the operatic mood of the series.
Really, is there anyone who has used Office on the Mac and knows anything about Micro$haft who hasn't thought this?
GMs need checks and balances. I've heard multiple anecdotes of GM corruption. I've heard an anecdote of someone killing people at a defective jump-gate. (Usually, people in rage at a jump-gate just jump out to escape.) This is clearly an exploit, but the GM did nothing to an exploiter.
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I know of instances where GMs will mess around with Player Owned Stations (POS) -- resetting POS shields or taking large numbers of POS offline. Resetting POS shields after an attack obliterates the efforts of dozens of players over several hours. This is clearly skewed in favor of the defender. Taking large numbers of POS offline is very significant, because it directly impacts which alliance has sovereignty over the system.
http://vnboards.ign.com/eve_general_board/b22281/
Are GM actions logged? If not, then why not? GM actions should be logged, and the logs subject to oversight. There have to be some sort of checks and balances, or there will be GM corruption!
If the 1st GM is corrupt, and players cannot escalate, then what recourse is there? What checks and balances are there? None. So it should be no surprise that there is widespread corruption in Eve Online.
I worked at a company that was shipping software on a CD also including 3rd-party demoware and free software. And AV programs would flag a component for >>>Linux Servers as having a windows virus. (It was the Linux version of an OODB, IIRC.)
There was no virus. It was just a false positive.
So no, Linux is not exempt from collateral damage. Potential customers may be needlessly scared away when the AV software scans your CD!
Right on.
There is simply not any accountability for GMs! They can do what they want, and you can't even escalate when you suspect that there's corruption at work. An alliance mate of mine was once ordered to not escalate and was additionally ordered to tell the rest of the alliance not to petition -- as if my fellow pilot even had the authority to do that!
That's like having a judicial system with no appeals. Pure Gestapo!
The situation? After a node crash, the two hours of shield damage our fleet did to the enemy station's shields was magically undone. The enemy stole our floating drones and destroyed ships that reentered the game near the enemy base, which was only possible because of the node crash, but the GM did nothing about *that*. Our side was winning, and victory would've been inevitable but for the node crash. Very fishy!
So, were we allowed to appeal this? No. Were we even allowed to air our grievances in the forums? (Equivalent to the "Press") No.
You have to have some system of accountability for devs/GMs. Otherwise you will get corruption. From what I've seen, Eve doesn't have enough.
Sure, you can be independent in Eve and have lots of fun. You can't be an island. You still need to make friends and have contacts. But I know players who don't go into low-sec space, and have never left their noob corps, but have plenty of fun making money legitimately. (One was well on her way to having all ship blueprints for cruisers and smaller, and made money fast enough to buy a battleship every few days.)
For awhile I was also an independent player, having fun playing cat-and-mouse, making what was for me an adequate income, and avoiding getting killed. Then I joined an alliance. (And lots of fun, stirring victory, and crushing defeat ensued.)
If there is a will, there is at least a fighting chance in Eve -- unless it comes to GM corruption. Unfortunately, when I was an avid player, Eve didn't go far enough with GM accountability.
Human nature being what it is, someone has to watch the watchmen!
Algal biodiesel! This can be done with non-arable land using non-potable (even brackish) water with sewage as a feedstock. The article makes a compelling argument that the US could satisfy all of its vehicular needs domestically, provided we all switched to diesel.
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
|| Get the losses down where those Maxwell caps are and you lose 15 miles per day to losses.
| Since the power loss is not constant, which was the whole point, obviously this part has to be taken in the context of the next (fairly mangled) sentence and assume nightly recharging to 100% to enable the 500 mile advertised range. Which would be the logical course, so an unexpected trip could be undertaken without worrying about charging.
And I bet the power industry would just love to sell everybody the power to top these ultracaps off every night!
Evolution is very powerful, but it is not a perfect optimization process. And in any case how the heck do you define "perfect?"
The genetic algorithm is a "hill climbing" or "greedy algorithm." It can get caught in local maxima. (Sex acts to break us out of local maxima -- our children are likely to be some distance from us in genetic space because their genes are a mix of our genes and our mate's genes. But there's only so much that it can accomplish.)
There could be enormous advantages to putting our brain in our torso in terms of protection. But the distance in genetic space might be too large and the intervening configurations too awkward for our species' genes to get us there.
Yes, but on the surface of the moon, lunar regolith is readily available to shield the inhabitants.
However, I agree with Robert Zubrin: the moon is another boondoggle. We should go direct to Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
They do. But unless you can actually benchmark, then you have no way of knowing how these affect overall performance. Like, what if you had tons of pipelines, but rather poor bandwidth to video RAM?
Also, how would you accurately predict what is "enough" in terms of performance for variious stats? How would you accurately calculate price/performance? And -- as demonstrated, if you read the fine article -- what's to keep manufacturers from lying/making honest mistakes? (Or marketing departments from inflating certain numbers for testosterone/marketing value even though the values are beyond what is useful anyways?)
Sorry, try again?