but the player who actually created the PLEX where not compensated by CCP, they where compensated by an other player.
Everyone, even CCP are saying that PLEX is just and item in the game, but it isn't, it is the only item in the game that can control something in your account, namely add 30 days of subscription.
Fact of the matter is CCP sold a subscription in the form of a PLEX that is now gone. On average customers now have to rebuy those 47 subscriptions from CCP (more subscriptions sold) or don't play (less business costs for CCP).
Now, I am not saying this is a good or a bad thing for the game as a whole.
You could argue that a PLEX is also a gift card, which was bought by an ETC gift card.
A PLEX is destroyed and the services need never be rendered by CCP. I don't know about this gift card law, but I gather that even if you lose your gift card on the bus, or it is destroyed in a fire, Kohl still need to render the service to you.
The fact that a waring party or a griefer wants to make sure you loose your PLEX isn't a function of loot drop rate. However the motivation for a pirate to destroy your ship to take your PLEX is .
Therefor as a sum, a low PLEX drop rate lowers the chance of people destroying your ship because of the PLEX in your hold.
You see the same things with Orcas vs. Freighters, Orcas have a corp hanger to haul stuff in which don't drop loot. Pirates don't take down Orcas because there is nothing to gain. However in a war an Orca is still a sweet kill.
actually a good fitted frigate is a better option than something bigger. If you are fast they can never get a lock on you, if you are big it is only a matter of time until you are destroyed.
Unless of course you hit a gate in lowsec in your atron (one of the best cheap courier frigates) where a pirate disco battleship sits. I lost a large shipment of decryptors in this situation.
Except it is more like, you put three quarters in the arcade, getting three games. However when you start playing two of the games are in pac-man's pocket. Then a ghost eats the pac-man and the two games are destroyed with it. game over.
I don't think it is actually about upgrading the workstations to IE8, this is about all the internal websites that have been created to work with nothing but IE6.
There are many companies that have these problems, they have their intranet stuff like registration of hours, personnel phonebook, documentation server, etc. All of these intranet websites have been bought from different companies, and they haven't upgraded these sites and some of these companies no longer exist. All these websites don't work with IE8, or firefox, or any other browser except IE6.
And even worse, often, after upgrading these websites, they no longer work on IE6. So you have to upgrade everything in one go; all the websites and all the workstations.
Microsoft Security Essentials in pure virus scanner mode is no problem.
But when it is in active mode, scanning data from the network, etc. It does slow down your machine. I had it running when playing EVE Online, and every second the frame rate/update rate would drop a bit, it was very noticeable. When I turned of the active part, it ran smooth again.
64 bit address space means that mmap() works on large files, even if you have less than 4 GB available memory, this can be a large boost with a lot of programs that handles large files. This includes movie, audio and image editors. But also games that can map in the whole level.
Although theoretically you can do small mmap slices when using 32bit address space, programming it is more complicated and probably will introduce a performance penalty compared to just mapping the complete file.
To me the performance is not that you can address more physical memory, but that you can use the 64-bit address space for other things, including mmap().
The atheist option of choice is not to -believe- any of the hypothesis about what was before the universe or what started the universe to begin with. It allows us to think about many options about the start of the universe, without actually picking one to believe in.
Depending on how the universe works, we may never be able to know if there is something beyond this universe, that something inside the meta-universe created this one, and how it started. Or if in the meta universe there is a something that influences our universe. For all we know the whole universe including ourselves are a simulation that does not even physically exists in the meta universe. etc.
In any case there is no sense in believing one hypothesis about the start of our universe above another.
So, if I take a GPL-ed C-library and "call" functions from it from my proprietary C-program; I am fine as long as I run the whole thing in a C interpreter?
In fact, my co worker and I has been discussing this half a year ago, and I didn't know Sony or anyone else was thinking about this. Using both the shutter glasses and Polaroid glasses, idea, it should also work using anaglyph, or any other stereo imaging method. It could even work with WOW TV (lengtingular lenses).
Second part would be able to watch two different videos at the same time, maybe they can make special "couple movies"-dvd, with a romantic movie and an action movie in lock-step, so you can watch with your spouse.
My provider xs4all is very quick on the kill-the-client-button and rightfully so. I've been shut of twice, once for running an insecure dns server, and once for some infected windows host that ran of my unsecured (no longer) wifi.
However they make a transparent web proxy available, which shows you their web page explaining why you were shut off as soon as you try to get to some website. And if you configure their web proxy in your browser you can still web browse other pages, during the time you secure your network and email/phone them back that you have done so.
I am not entirely sure how they show that you have been shut off, if you were already using their proxy, I guess when you read your provider's email.
Which means, more a more apps will start to request all the permissions, because everyone was ignoring the install warning anyway. slippery slope and all that.
It would have been better if the phone scans the application for which library/system calls it makes during install and show a warning what it actually does (and make a permission list of that, so that programs that rewrite their code won't be able to get access anyway), instead of letting the developer decide the permission list himself.
Or do like apple and warn (the first time) when an application uses a functionality, and allow the user to allow and deny a certain functionality, while keeping the rest of the program functional without that feature. Or better, do both.
Actually Italy already has a history of suing scientist who predicted an earth quake which didn't happen (well not on that day, it happened a few days later). In any case, I predict there won't be any geologist in Italy in the near future.
Someone probably slashed their finger open on the inside of a computer case, dropping blood on the motherboard. So in all likelihood blood has been spilled by the ground crew.
Lets hope that all the theaters are going to the same direction of polarization. Or for that matter the same technology, I would think your polarization would interfere with the polarization of LCD shutter glasses.
I real conspiracy theorist would say that the reason the US didn't invade right then was because they were exposed by slashdot and others and therefore aborted the invasion. In fact all those theories that didn't actually come true was all because of the theorists, so be happy that they exist.
The level imbalance is a problem with the game, it indeed breaks the social interaction.
I started my MMO life with EVE Online, and as a low level character (even first day in on a trial account) you can be useful along side individuals that have played for years. I have seen this in many parts of the game: - If you mine astroids you still add profit to the group, or you make yourself more useful by finding good spots to mine. - If you are in a high level mission you can kill the frigates which are extremely difficult to kill with the battleships the high levelers are fielding. - If you do PvP you will be a tackler, scout or use ECM, or shoot the drones, which need the fast and accurate ships that the low level characters use. And you will be hard to kill by those veterans flying big ships, as long as you followed some combat lessons from the veteran players.
All these things makes a young player feel like he contributing together with the veterans. And it is more than just a feel, the old players really want these young players to do these tasks. This interaction makes EVE very sociable. Goonswarm was running a recruiting campaign that really illustrates this (I was never a member of goonswarm):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thaadd/3085332145/
I didn't know this before I joined Star Trek online, where the imbalance is extreme, where you can realistically not form up when you are distanced by a whole rank (although they are trying to fix this by changing the levels of the characters that team up, I tried this yesterday but it didn't work well yet because the gear doesn't scale). I heard from other players that most MMOs are like this, where the interaction between different leveled player does not really work.
No they wouldn't in 1990 everyone that was actually buying machines like the Cray had knowledge of More's law.
In fact articles from that time where talking about how to use More's law together with an estimation of how long a calculation would need to run, to decide when to buy the computer to finish said calculation quickest (provided that you couldn't or wouldn't upgrade the computer while the calculation was running).
This included economic calculations about the price of hardware, inflation and interest rates.
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but the player who actually created the PLEX where not compensated by CCP, they where compensated by an other player.
Everyone, even CCP are saying that PLEX is just and item in the game, but it isn't, it is the only item in the game that can control something in your account, namely add 30 days of subscription.
Fact of the matter is CCP sold a subscription in the form of a PLEX that is now gone. On average customers now have to rebuy those 47 subscriptions from CCP (more subscriptions sold) or don't play (less business costs for CCP).
Now, I am not saying this is a good or a bad thing for the game as a whole.
You could argue that a PLEX is also a gift card, which was bought by an ETC gift card.
A PLEX is destroyed and the services need never be rendered by CCP.
I don't know about this gift card law, but I gather that even if you lose your gift card on the bus, or it is destroyed in a fire, Kohl still need to render the service to you.
Neither can you take cash back out of a gift card.
Someone already payed taxes to buy the PLEX in the first place.
The fact that a waring party or a griefer wants to make sure you loose your PLEX isn't a function of loot drop rate. However the motivation for a pirate to destroy your ship to take your PLEX is .
Therefor as a sum, a low PLEX drop rate lowers the chance of people destroying your ship because of the PLEX in your hold.
You see the same things with Orcas vs. Freighters, Orcas have a corp hanger to haul stuff in which don't drop loot. Pirates don't take down Orcas because there is nothing to gain. However in a war an Orca is still a sweet kill.
actually a good fitted frigate is a better option than something bigger. If you are fast they can never get a lock on you, if you are big it is only a matter of time until you are destroyed.
Unless of course you hit a gate in lowsec in your atron (one of the best cheap courier frigates) where a pirate disco battleship sits. I lost a large shipment of decryptors in this situation.
Except it is more like, you put three quarters in the arcade, getting three games. However when you start playing two of the games are in pac-man's pocket. Then a ghost eats the pac-man and the two games are destroyed with it. game over.
I don't think it is actually about upgrading the workstations to IE8, this is about all the internal websites that have been created to work with nothing but IE6.
There are many companies that have these problems, they have their intranet stuff like registration of hours, personnel phonebook, documentation server, etc. All of these intranet websites have been bought from different companies, and they haven't upgraded these sites and some of these companies no longer exist. All these websites don't work with IE8, or firefox, or any other browser except IE6.
And even worse, often, after upgrading these websites, they no longer work on IE6. So you have to upgrade everything in one go; all the websites and all the workstations.
Microsoft Security Essentials in pure virus scanner mode is no problem.
But when it is in active mode, scanning data from the network, etc. It does slow down your machine. I had it running when playing EVE Online, and every second the frame rate/update rate would drop a bit, it was very noticeable. When I turned of the active part, it ran smooth again.
64 bit address space means that mmap() works on large files, even if you have less than 4 GB available memory, this can be a large boost with a lot of programs that handles large files. This includes movie, audio and image editors. But also games that can map in the whole level.
Although theoretically you can do small mmap slices when using 32bit address space, programming it is more complicated and probably will introduce a performance penalty compared to just mapping the complete file.
To me the performance is not that you can address more physical memory, but that you can use the 64-bit address space for other things, including mmap().
They are purple we are green.
The atheist option of choice is not to -believe- any of the hypothesis about what was before the universe or what started the universe to begin with. It allows us to think about many options about the start of the universe, without actually picking one to believe in.
Depending on how the universe works, we may never be able to know if there is something beyond this universe, that something inside the meta-universe created this one, and how it started. Or if in the meta universe there is a something that influences our universe. For all we know the whole universe including ourselves are a simulation that does not even physically exists in the meta universe. etc.
In any case there is no sense in believing one hypothesis about the start of our universe above another.
So, if I take a GPL-ed C-library and "call" functions from it from my proprietary C-program; I am fine as long as I run the whole thing in a C interpreter?
In fact, my co worker and I has been discussing this half a year ago, and I didn't know Sony or anyone else was thinking about this.
Using both the shutter glasses and Polaroid glasses, idea, it should also work using anaglyph, or any other stereo imaging method. It could even work with WOW TV (lengtingular lenses).
Second part would be able to watch two different videos at the same time, maybe they can make special "couple movies"-dvd, with a romantic movie and an action movie in lock-step, so you can watch with your spouse.
There was an article a year ago, saying that interplanetary communication (i.e. Mars) was much cheaper than texting.
My provider xs4all is very quick on the kill-the-client-button and rightfully so. I've been shut of twice, once for running an insecure dns server, and once for some infected windows host that ran of my unsecured (no longer) wifi.
However they make a transparent web proxy available, which shows you their web page explaining why you were shut off as soon as you try to get to some website. And if you configure their web proxy in your browser you can still web browse other pages, during the time you secure your network and email/phone them back that you have done so.
I am not entirely sure how they show that you have been shut off, if you were already using their proxy, I guess when you read your provider's email.
Which means, more a more apps will start to request all the permissions, because everyone was ignoring the install warning anyway. slippery slope and all that.
It would have been better if the phone scans the application for which library/system calls it makes during install and show a warning what it actually does (and make a permission list of that, so that programs that rewrite their code won't be able to get access anyway), instead of letting the developer decide the permission list himself.
Or do like apple and warn (the first time) when an application uses a functionality, and allow the user to allow and deny a certain functionality, while keeping the rest of the program functional without that feature. Or better, do both.
Actually Italy already has a history of suing scientist who predicted an earth quake which didn't happen (well not on that day, it happened a few days later).
In any case, I predict there won't be any geologist in Italy in the near future.
Someone probably slashed their finger open on the inside of a computer case, dropping blood on the motherboard. So in all likelihood blood has been spilled by the ground crew.
Lets hope that all the theaters are going to the same direction of polarization. Or for that matter the same technology, I would think your polarization would interfere with the polarization of LCD shutter glasses.
But maybe I should actually read the article instead of just the pictures.
From the pictures it seems the car is going against the wind.
I real conspiracy theorist would say that the reason the US didn't invade right then was because they were exposed by slashdot and others and therefore aborted the invasion. In fact all those theories that didn't actually come true was all because of the theorists, so be happy that they exist.
The level imbalance is a problem with the game, it indeed breaks the social interaction.
I started my MMO life with EVE Online, and as a low level character (even first day in on a trial account) you can be useful along side individuals that have played for years. I have seen this in many parts of the game:
- If you mine astroids you still add profit to the group, or you make yourself more useful by finding good spots to mine.
- If you are in a high level mission you can kill the frigates which are extremely difficult to kill with the battleships the high levelers are fielding.
- If you do PvP you will be a tackler, scout or use ECM, or shoot the drones, which need the fast and accurate ships that the low level characters use. And you will be hard to kill by those veterans flying big ships, as long as you followed some combat lessons from the veteran players.
All these things makes a young player feel like he contributing together with the veterans. And it is more than just a feel, the old players really want these young players to do these tasks. This interaction makes EVE very sociable. Goonswarm was running a recruiting campaign that really illustrates this (I was never a member of goonswarm):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thaadd/3085332145/
I didn't know this before I joined Star Trek online, where the imbalance is extreme, where you can realistically not form up when you are distanced by a whole rank (although they are trying to fix this by changing the levels of the characters that team up, I tried this yesterday but it didn't work well yet because the gear doesn't scale). I heard from other players that most MMOs are like this, where the interaction between different leveled player does not really work.
No they wouldn't in 1990 everyone that was actually buying machines like the Cray had knowledge of More's law.
In fact articles from that time where talking about how to use More's law together with an estimation of how long a calculation would need to run, to decide when to buy the computer to finish said calculation quickest (provided that you couldn't or wouldn't upgrade the computer while the calculation was running).
This included economic calculations about the price of hardware, inflation and interest rates.