I hate this. One political party takes my freedom to protect me from inequality while the other sells it to mega-corporations for votes. Why couldn't there be a political party that cares about liberty and isn't a bunch of nut-jobs?
There's no rule that says a big company has to have big company issues. The problem is that almost every big company (or at least the ones I've seen) is structured for the same top-down management system that pervades corporate culture. The more important a decision the more layers of management it has to travel through. There is almost total disconnect between the top of the pyramid and 99% of what a company does, with the CEO only making broad policy decisions, etc.
If google really wants to have small company feel they need to learn how to make management work in support of engineers and innovators, not the other way around. Saying something is impossible because its different then what you currently have is foolish. But I do doubt that Page really has a vision for how a company that size could become agile. Much more likely he is just your traditional CEO who gives an abstract goal like this and hopes other people will figure it all out.
EVE has, for a long time, had a dilemma regarding RMT, Bots (macros or injection based programs to automate activity), and their relationship to making isk the old fashioned way. The core of the problem is that, while sandbox poliltics and war are engaging social games, the process of making isk is an extremely tedious and largely solo activity. The end result is that making enough ISK to actually play the game is really not fun.
Further compounding the demand for easy money solutions is that EVE itself is not designed for the risk-averse. When you lose a ship in EVE it is gone. You may get a token insurance payment, but most of the wealth and effort you had tied up in that ship is lost to you. It is only natural that people who play such a game are more willing then normal to take additional risks to better themselves in EVE, fueling a higher normal amount of cheating. So right away CCP is at a disadvantage compared to other MMOs.
CCP in recent years has demonstrated significant effort in combating external RMT, with the most notable effort being the introduction of the PLEX (an in game item that when redeemed adds 30 days to your subscription). So to combat RMT eve has set a sort of standard RMT model whereby players can buy ISK. The catch to CCPs model is that the value of ISK is tied directly to the number of people who want free gametime.
Now, here's the catch. Thousands upon thousands of PLEX are paid for every month by people running bots (click macro or injection software to automate the game). Botting is the staple of RMT. So long as it is easy for people to bot it will be easy to set up shop in RMT. If ccp really wants to go after RMT they would need to address the botting epidemic in their game, which will absolutely kill the demand for PLEX. This system ensures that forum whiners will always have a reason to call the game unfair, and ccp developers will never be viewed as competent.
The author seems to operate with the assumption that the only motive for one person to do so much "work" is profit. My observation is that a lot of torrents are put up by old piracy groups (games are cracked and distributed by RAZOR, as one example). Shows are often put up by similar groups with their own communities. These groups tend to have a small number of members who are responsible for uploading the content. They are just one part of a much larger content distribution machine.
>But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins
You seem to have missed the part about how our current level of technology is the result of 60 years and 4 trillion dollars of rocket technology innovation. Of course other ideas are a long way off, but before WW2 our current technology was just as intimidating.
Think of all the money we could save in the long run if instead of paying firefighters or police we just researched how to make everything fireproof and crimeproof.
A friend of my became quite adept training himself to control his mouse with his foot. Just turn the sensitivity way down and take advantage of the grater range of movement and you can get quite a lot of precision. Plus you don't have to move your arms around to switch between UI control and typing.
Why is it so hard for industry (default configurations) to move from open or WEP to WPA? Sure, WPA isn't perfect, but it does represent a significant increase in difficulty for hackers.
So in addition to the three light emitting colors that come standard, their LCDs contain a new, light capturing color. This isn't news, squant has been known for years.
First let me preface this by saying that I am a pretty dedicated ISK seller in EVE Online. My name here on slashdot is not linked to my EVE operation in any way, so I'm not shy about owning up to my actions.
I make about $300 a week selling ISK. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Now that I've got everything worked out my time investment for that $300/wk extra income is less then an hour per week. Nobody in their right mind would seriously sell currency in any MMO that they earned "honestly", since you'd be making pennies per hour.
The workhorses of the RMT (real money trade) industry are botters like me. I run 10 accounts all hours of the day that do nothing but earn money. This is the "honest" way to run a RMT business.
The other side of RMT are the people that run keyloggers and are looking to steal accounts. These people are almost exclusively part of the chinese RMT machine, which dominates the industry in any game. They will take your money and send you stolen goods, and couldn't care less when you get banned for your account being linked with the hackers that stole the money in the first place. Also there are numerous stories of these RMT shops offering up keyloggers to their own customers to steal back what they just sold further down the line.
If you're interested in buying currency, but don't want to support the hacker/stolen side of RMT, take a few minutes and search out one of the American RMT shops. They generally don't spam/advertise in the games, so you have to go looking for them. This won't eliminate any possibility that what your buying isn't stolen, but it certainly does reduce it. As an added bonus you're supporting about the only remaining industry that specifically employs young game addict geeks.
This is exactly why real money trade is so prevalent in MMORPGs. Typically the end-game material is the most enjoyable part of these games, where teamwork and friendship are really necessary to succeed and the multiplayer aspect really shines. However, getting to the endgame (really fun) part of these games takes more time then adults can generally commit. For the amount of money you earn in an hour or two at work you can buy the product of a day of labor in the game.
What is it with you people chalking everything up to Obama? He neither created this disaster nor solved it. And unless I'm mistaken, he has yet to propose banning all offshore drilling. If you don't like the president and feel the need to tell everyone so, then find a meaningful on-topic way to criticize him for something he has actually done. This would be far more effective then spamming the internet with poorly drawn straw-man arguments.
Mining asteroids in EVE is one of the lowest paying professions one can engage in. Perhaps NASA would be better served to focus on killing the spaceships that they encounter around the asteroids for bounties.
Have you seen the outside in most rural American towns, in which people are forced to a cable provider for internet access (fios is never going to come to my small town)? Going outside is a great way to escape the internet and TV for all of about 5 minutes.
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After all, the last three letters spell the word "Doo".
*mental note* Register the domain WirePoo.com
This marks a sad, sad day in the lives of sex offenders everywhere.
I hate this. One political party takes my freedom to protect me from inequality while the other sells it to mega-corporations for votes. Why couldn't there be a political party that cares about liberty and isn't a bunch of nut-jobs?
There's no rule that says a big company has to have big company issues. The problem is that almost every big company (or at least the ones I've seen) is structured for the same top-down management system that pervades corporate culture. The more important a decision the more layers of management it has to travel through. There is almost total disconnect between the top of the pyramid and 99% of what a company does, with the CEO only making broad policy decisions, etc.
If google really wants to have small company feel they need to learn how to make management work in support of engineers and innovators, not the other way around. Saying something is impossible because its different then what you currently have is foolish. But I do doubt that Page really has a vision for how a company that size could become agile. Much more likely he is just your traditional CEO who gives an abstract goal like this and hopes other people will figure it all out.
Because I always know about all of my bugs and keep track of them while I'm programming. In fact I sometimes even plan them ahead of time.
Further compounding the demand for easy money solutions is that EVE itself is not designed for the risk-averse. When you lose a ship in EVE it is gone. You may get a token insurance payment, but most of the wealth and effort you had tied up in that ship is lost to you. It is only natural that people who play such a game are more willing then normal to take additional risks to better themselves in EVE, fueling a higher normal amount of cheating. So right away CCP is at a disadvantage compared to other MMOs.
CCP in recent years has demonstrated significant effort in combating external RMT, with the most notable effort being the introduction of the PLEX (an in game item that when redeemed adds 30 days to your subscription). So to combat RMT eve has set a sort of standard RMT model whereby players can buy ISK. The catch to CCPs model is that the value of ISK is tied directly to the number of people who want free gametime.
Now, here's the catch. Thousands upon thousands of PLEX are paid for every month by people running bots (click macro or injection software to automate the game). Botting is the staple of RMT. So long as it is easy for people to bot it will be easy to set up shop in RMT. If ccp really wants to go after RMT they would need to address the botting epidemic in their game, which will absolutely kill the demand for PLEX. This system ensures that forum whiners will always have a reason to call the game unfair, and ccp developers will never be viewed as competent.
Good luck CCP.
The author seems to operate with the assumption that the only motive for one person to do so much "work" is profit. My observation is that a lot of torrents are put up by old piracy groups (games are cracked and distributed by RAZOR, as one example). Shows are often put up by similar groups with their own communities. These groups tend to have a small number of members who are responsible for uploading the content. They are just one part of a much larger content distribution machine.
>But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. Richard Dawkins
why don't we hire them to do a climate change model?
Because the last thing we need is a prediction that the cowboys will win their battle against the climate by 7.
$5 on economics
You seem to have missed the part about how our current level of technology is the result of 60 years and 4 trillion dollars of rocket technology innovation. Of course other ideas are a long way off, but before WW2 our current technology was just as intimidating.
Think of all the money we could save in the long run if instead of paying firefighters or police we just researched how to make everything fireproof and crimeproof.
Seriously, This will in no way impact their freedom of state endorsed speech.
But these sets don't have to completely intersect for the browser to get used. For example, my wife is going to love this.
A friend of my became quite adept training himself to control his mouse with his foot. Just turn the sensitivity way down and take advantage of the grater range of movement and you can get quite a lot of precision. Plus you don't have to move your arms around to switch between UI control and typing.
I have eleven fingers. I hold up both hands and count down- ten, nine, eight, seven, six. Plus five on the other hand equals eleven. So 10 = 11.
Why is it so hard for industry (default configurations) to move from open or WEP to WPA? Sure, WPA isn't perfect, but it does represent a significant increase in difficulty for hackers.
So in addition to the three light emitting colors that come standard, their LCDs contain a new, light capturing color. This isn't news, squant has been known for years.
Better would be to say drivers duke nukem when they don't finish a race.
First let me preface this by saying that I am a pretty dedicated ISK seller in EVE Online. My name here on slashdot is not linked to my EVE operation in any way, so I'm not shy about owning up to my actions.
I make about $300 a week selling ISK. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Now that I've got everything worked out my time investment for that $300/wk extra income is less then an hour per week. Nobody in their right mind would seriously sell currency in any MMO that they earned "honestly", since you'd be making pennies per hour. The workhorses of the RMT (real money trade) industry are botters like me. I run 10 accounts all hours of the day that do nothing but earn money. This is the "honest" way to run a RMT business.
The other side of RMT are the people that run keyloggers and are looking to steal accounts. These people are almost exclusively part of the chinese RMT machine, which dominates the industry in any game. They will take your money and send you stolen goods, and couldn't care less when you get banned for your account being linked with the hackers that stole the money in the first place. Also there are numerous stories of these RMT shops offering up keyloggers to their own customers to steal back what they just sold further down the line.
If you're interested in buying currency, but don't want to support the hacker/stolen side of RMT, take a few minutes and search out one of the American RMT shops. They generally don't spam/advertise in the games, so you have to go looking for them. This won't eliminate any possibility that what your buying isn't stolen, but it certainly does reduce it. As an added bonus you're supporting about the only remaining industry that specifically employs young game addict geeks.
This is exactly why real money trade is so prevalent in MMORPGs. Typically the end-game material is the most enjoyable part of these games, where teamwork and friendship are really necessary to succeed and the multiplayer aspect really shines. However, getting to the endgame (really fun) part of these games takes more time then adults can generally commit. For the amount of money you earn in an hour or two at work you can buy the product of a day of labor in the game.
What is it with you people chalking everything up to Obama? He neither created this disaster nor solved it. And unless I'm mistaken, he has yet to propose banning all offshore drilling. If you don't like the president and feel the need to tell everyone so, then find a meaningful on-topic way to criticize him for something he has actually done. This would be far more effective then spamming the internet with poorly drawn straw-man arguments.
Mining asteroids in EVE is one of the lowest paying professions one can engage in. Perhaps NASA would be better served to focus on killing the spaceships that they encounter around the asteroids for bounties.
Have you seen the outside in most rural American towns, in which people are forced to a cable provider for internet access (fios is never going to come to my small town)? Going outside is a great way to escape the internet and TV for all of about 5 minutes.
Here is an alternative hypothesis that I find very informative on this issue. See link: