Eve is very unusual for a computer game; firstly it has an extremely steep learning curve and like chess can take years to master. It offer players a huge range of gaming options, PvE both blitzing and exploration/discovery, RP gaming, business strategy game play. You can play a deep strategic game, including meta gaming, propaganda and spying, some alliances actually have spys, spy masters, and counter intelligence divisions and all legitimate within the EULA.
It's economy and crafting system is light years ahead of anything else out there. You can be a pirate, a solider, bounty hunter all requiring different approaches to PvP. You can be a miner harvesting resources and evading pirates a scientist developing blueprint for ships, modules and weapons, or an industrialist building the ships. You could be roaming trader hauling that production to distance regions, or a market maker at Jita (Eve's equivalent of Wall Street meets K-Mart/Tesco). You can join an existing corporation (clan/guild) or you can run your own businesses. There are secondary markets and venture capitalists for investment. Scamming is within the EULA and raised to the level of one Ponzi Scheme that earned ISK, the in-game currency, that would have taken tens of thousands of pounds/dollars/euro to buy.
The scope of Eve are just not available in any other game I've ever played. Eve is chess to WoW as draughts. It has the most elaborate economy of any game. CCP have an Economist on staff to design/develop those parts of the games. They also have an Astrophysist who has just reworking all the planets to make the solar systems realistic for the up coming Tyrannis expansion. They run Events with Devs as player character that you an PK and PC's do.
That's not all. In the summer CCP are launching Dust 514, a FPS entirely within existing game. When you invade a planet the boots you put on the ground will be real gamers fighting each other. Next year they are planning Incarna, the ability to Walk in stations and explore, think second life in space with full motion captured avatars.
This stealthy downloading & installation is becoming very common even by well known companies, Safari constantly attempts a stealthy install of iTunes.
I used to work for Kingston Interactive Television and we where one of the first in the world to deliver a working IPTV, EPG & VOD system consumers as a commercial product. We did this in 1999, we won awards, including an EMMA and BAFTA nomination. Kingston had been researching streaming video over the local loop for at least 10 years prior to that, even testing a narrow-band television system. It was xDSL that made it possible. See KITV in action on YouTube.
I designed the VOD & Content management system and we implemented our own solution because nobody offered what we needed as a software product. Executives from every major Television Broadcast, IT and telecom corporation visited, including Microsoft, to see KITV. It wasn't patented then because it was obvious, it wasn't novel enough then, it certainly isn't novel today. It was a well established idea in the 1990's that was waiting for the networking & server technology to match the requirements regarding latency, packet loss & QOS.
I cannot put into words how galling it is to find somebody has patented something you've already done before and done better, both cases should fail because of prior art and have their patents struck out.
It's not an issue of one device, the mobile phone, making all the others obsolete, it's digital convergence. All mobile electronic devices are converging. Palm started off with PDAs, Apple started off as MP3 players, others as GPS. However, of those [i]devices[/i] some won't be eliminated the wrist watch as jewellery, the hardline. The phone box is the same, a convergence of emergency phone, broadband hard line, WiFi access point.
The same thing is happening in the home, the VCR, CD player, DVD player, DVB-T terrestrial receiver, DVB-S satellite receiver, the PVR, web-on-TV, internet television, streaming media. All separates a couple of years ago, increasing evidence of digital convergence.
One day a man finds a cocoon for a butterfly with a small opening, he sits and watches the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared stuck.
The man decided to help the butterfly and with a pair of scissors he cut open the cocoon. The butterfly emerges easily, but something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shrivelled wings. The man watched the butterfly expecting it to take on its correct proportions. But nothing changed.
The butterfly stayed the same. It was never able to fly. In his kindness and haste the man did not realise that the butterfly's struggle to get through the small opening of the cocoon is nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight.
Like the sapling which grows strong from being buffeted by the wind, in life we all need to struggle sometimes to make us strong.
When we coach others it is helpful to recognize when people need to do things for themselves.
"Sticks and stones make break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" is absolutely false.
Bullying causes long term physiological and psychological harm to the victim including Post traumatic stress disorder. Physical Bullying is illegal, we call it assault. It is immaterial to the victim if the bullying was conducted first hand or remotely, it is wrong and should be punished.
"Sticks and stones make break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" is false, bullying causes long term physiological and psychological harm including Post traumatic stress disorder.
The judge didn't directly apply the gag order to the parliamentary question tabled by Paul Farrelly (which didn't exist at the time), and by all accounts the gag order did not cover parliamentary proceedings in any case because of qualified privilege. The only reason it became an issue was because the Guardian received a specific legal threat from law firm Carter-Ruck
Therefore the Guardian lied when it said :
The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented - for the first time in memory - from reporting parliament.
So why should we believe the original Guardian allegations ? After all it is well know that journalists sex up stories, even outright lie; and the Guardian is one of the worst offenders, for example repeated republishing the fabricated Poppy Project report, which as been complete debunked.
It's questionable to call it a success, with out stating the criteria used to measure it.
It was supposed to be the fount of all knowledge for complex IT issues. However it's rapidly devolved into the fount of home work answers. It is experiencing a dumbing down and race to the bottom. It's riddled with fan boys and script kiddies with limited knowledge and no depth of experience. So it suffers a massive problem with group think. This is probably why they are trying to leverage it into other subject domains. As a platform for community content creation it will probably succeed. As an authoritative source of technical/developer advice it's failing.
Most of the ideas are worthy, but I don't think any of them are truly inspired, you would think that with 150,000 people to choose from there would be 16 inspired & original ideas, but apparently not, unless the judges deliberately choose the least inspired.
As it happened I submitted an idea, which I though was cheap and potentially useful, though it never appeared it is at least original, simple and potential useful. When ever there are natural or man-made disasters you get notice boards where people post pictures of lost or found family members. It doesn't matter if the place was New Orleans or Mogadishu. Survivors trek around multiple random locations searching for family and friends. A simple Wiki like platform pre-installed, some ruggedised laptops with integral camera and satellite link up for use by aid workers during disaster relief operations. A few preprepared templates, lost person, found person, supplies needed, supplies available, mashed up with Google Maps. Search features.
I agree; most most of the ideas are worthy with some clearly appearing to be from existing lobbies. c.f. tax agenda.
In most cases the worthy causes have existing lobbies promoting them.
What we don't see is any body promoting a positive depiction and promotion of engineering and science, if anything what we see is a trend for dumbing down across society as a whole.
If most of the ideas are coming from existing lobbies with their own agenda perhaps the slashdot community should support our own agenda.
Basically if I understand it correctly the vectored thrust allowed them to turn, but they would lose airspeed and altitude in the process. As the fighter types say - speed is life - and once it happened they were apparently easy pickings.
That's one fighter doctrine, in the Falkland war the British sub-sonic Harriers shot down 21 Argentine aircraft without loss, largely because of superior training. All Argentine aircraft where faster Entards, Daggers & Sky Hawks. There has not yet been a conflict which pitched first rate air forces which adopt differing doctrine against each other. However British RAF/RN pilots fair well in NATO fighter competitions.
However global temperatures are still rising while sunspot activity is decreasing that only gives us breathing space. When sun spot activity increases again and global temperatures increase driven upwards by both solar and man made factors.
A 2% reduction in revenue doesn't reduce profits by 2% when it leads to 30% reduction of the system resources costs.
The exploiters have cost Eve a lot of players over the years. I played Eve for 3 years and had 4 accounts and along with half a dozen rl mates all with multiple accounts quit because we got fed up with exploiters, gold miners and their ilk.
Why should a corrupt military industrial complex in a fictional universe not make the same mistakes as a corrupt military industrial complex in the real world. c.f. SA-80 Assault Rifle, Aluminium super-structure & Nylon Uniforms on warships, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Patriot Missiles.
Dialup is guaranteed by the regulator through a Universal Service Obligation. However pressure by BT, the dominant ISP in the UK, on the regulator prevented the universal service obligation including broadband.
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By stifling a creative and enterprising endeavour the UCL brings it's self into disrepute.
Some demo videos on where Eve online is going.
DUST 514 - A FPS within the Eve sandbox.
Incarna graphics engine demo - Perambulation/walking in stations (must watch in HD).
There has been a huge page banner to vote on the home page for a couple of months.
It's been on the in-game browser Home/News page for the same amount of time.
There is a section on the forum called Council of Stellar Management.
Some candidates have made campaign videos on YouTube.
Where have you been hiding, under Chribba's pile of Veldspar or something ?
Eve is very unusual for a computer game; firstly it has an extremely steep learning curve and like chess can take years to master. It offer players a huge range of gaming options, PvE both blitzing and exploration/discovery, RP gaming, business strategy game play. You can play a deep strategic game, including meta gaming, propaganda and spying, some alliances actually have spys, spy masters, and counter intelligence divisions and all legitimate within the EULA.
It's economy and crafting system is light years ahead of anything else out there. You can be a pirate, a solider, bounty hunter all requiring different approaches to PvP. You can be a miner harvesting resources and evading pirates a scientist developing blueprint for ships, modules and weapons, or an industrialist building the ships. You could be roaming trader hauling that production to distance regions, or a market maker at Jita (Eve's equivalent of Wall Street meets K-Mart/Tesco). You can join an existing corporation (clan/guild) or you can run your own businesses. There are secondary markets and venture capitalists for investment. Scamming is within the EULA and raised to the level of one Ponzi Scheme that earned ISK, the in-game currency, that would have taken tens of thousands of pounds/dollars/euro to buy.
The scope of Eve are just not available in any other game I've ever played. Eve is chess to WoW as draughts. It has the most elaborate economy of any game. CCP have an Economist on staff to design/develop those parts of the games. They also have an Astrophysist who has just reworking all the planets to make the solar systems realistic for the up coming Tyrannis expansion. They run Events with Devs as player character that you an PK and PC's do.
That's not all. In the summer CCP are launching Dust 514, a FPS entirely within existing game. When you invade a planet the boots you put on the ground will be real gamers fighting each other. Next year they are planning Incarna, the ability to Walk in stations and explore, think second life in space with full motion captured avatars.
Uluru is the aboriginal name for Ayers Rock.
A Paddock is a fenced enclosure for animals usually Horses, what yanks call a corral.
This stealthy downloading & installation is becoming very common even by well known companies, Safari constantly attempts a stealthy install of iTunes.
I used to work for Kingston Interactive Television and we where one of the first in the world to deliver a working IPTV, EPG & VOD system consumers as a commercial product. We did this in 1999, we won awards, including an EMMA and BAFTA nomination. Kingston had been researching streaming video over the local loop for at least 10 years prior to that, even testing a narrow-band television system. It was xDSL that made it possible. See KITV in action on YouTube.
I designed the VOD & Content management system and we implemented our own solution because nobody offered what we needed as a software product. Executives from every major Television Broadcast, IT and telecom corporation visited, including Microsoft, to see KITV. It wasn't patented then because it was obvious, it wasn't novel enough then, it certainly isn't novel today. It was a well established idea in the 1990's that was waiting for the networking & server technology to match the requirements regarding latency, packet loss & QOS.
I cannot put into words how galling it is to find somebody has patented something you've already done before and done better, both cases should fail because of prior art and have their patents struck out.
Ginormous IS a word. It's just a relatively new word.
That would make it a neologism, a newly invented word, which is also a neologism.
It's not an issue of one device, the mobile phone, making all the others obsolete, it's digital convergence. All mobile electronic devices are converging. Palm started off with PDAs, Apple started off as MP3 players, others as GPS. However, of those [i]devices[/i] some won't be eliminated the wrist watch as jewellery, the hardline. The phone box is the same, a convergence of emergency phone, broadband hard line, WiFi access point.
The same thing is happening in the home, the VCR, CD player, DVD player, DVB-T terrestrial receiver, DVB-S satellite receiver, the PVR, web-on-TV, internet television, streaming media. All separates a couple of years ago, increasing evidence of digital convergence.
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One day a man finds a cocoon for a butterfly with a small opening, he sits and watches the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared stuck.
The man decided to help the butterfly and with a pair of scissors he cut open the cocoon. The butterfly emerges easily, but something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shrivelled wings. The man watched the butterfly expecting it to take on its correct proportions. But nothing changed.
The butterfly stayed the same. It was never able to fly. In his kindness and haste the man did not realise that the butterfly's struggle to get through the small opening of the cocoon is nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight.
Like the sapling which grows strong from being buffeted by the wind, in life we all need to struggle sometimes to make us strong.
When we coach others it is helpful to recognize when people need to do things for themselves.
The airburst would unleash about 130 tons on TNT, about 10 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
"Sticks and stones make break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" is absolutely false.
Bullying causes long term physiological and psychological harm to the victim including Post traumatic stress disorder. Physical Bullying is illegal, we call it assault. It is immaterial to the victim if the bullying was conducted first hand or remotely, it is wrong and should be punished.
"Sticks and stones make break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" is false, bullying causes long term physiological and psychological harm including Post traumatic stress disorder.
The judge didn't directly apply the gag order to the parliamentary question tabled by Paul Farrelly (which didn't exist at the time), and by all accounts the gag order did not cover parliamentary proceedings in any case because of qualified privilege. The only reason it became an issue was because the Guardian received a specific legal threat from law firm Carter-Ruck
Therefore the Guardian lied when it said :
The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented - for the first time in memory - from reporting parliament.
So why should we believe the original Guardian allegations ? After all it is well know that journalists sex up stories, even outright lie; and the Guardian is one of the worst offenders, for example repeated republishing the fabricated Poppy Project report, which as been complete debunked.
It's questionable to call it a success, with out stating the criteria used to measure it.
It was supposed to be the fount of all knowledge for complex IT issues. However it's rapidly devolved into the fount of home work answers. It is experiencing a dumbing down and race to the bottom. It's riddled with fan boys and script kiddies with limited knowledge and no depth of experience. So it suffers a massive problem with group think. This is probably why they are trying to leverage it into other subject domains. As a platform for community content creation it will probably succeed. As an authoritative source of technical/developer advice it's failing.
Most of the ideas are worthy, but I don't think any of them are truly inspired, you would think that with 150,000 people to choose from there would be 16 inspired & original ideas, but apparently not, unless the judges deliberately choose the least inspired.
As it happened I submitted an idea, which I though was cheap and potentially useful, though it never appeared it is at least original, simple and potential useful. When ever there are natural or man-made disasters you get notice boards where people post pictures of lost or found family members. It doesn't matter if the place was New Orleans or Mogadishu. Survivors trek around multiple random locations searching for family and friends. A simple Wiki like platform pre-installed, some ruggedised laptops with integral camera and satellite link up for use by aid workers during disaster relief operations. A few preprepared templates, lost person, found person, supplies needed, supplies available, mashed up with Google Maps. Search features.
I agree; most most of the ideas are worthy with some clearly appearing to be from existing lobbies. c.f. tax agenda.
In most cases the worthy causes have existing lobbies promoting them.
What we don't see is any body promoting a positive depiction and promotion of engineering and science, if anything what we see is a trend for dumbing down across society as a whole.
If most of the ideas are coming from existing lobbies with their own agenda perhaps the slashdot community should support our own agenda.
What you're saying is the Duct-Tape project give the appearance of success but was in reality a failure.
The reality is that Duct-Tape projects allways need to be re-engineered from scratch using a proper engineering approach.
In the old days we used to call them prototypes or proofs of concept.
The results would change if the subject knew the result would be shared with the attractive woman ?
The flip side of this research is how many women recognise that the smooth talking player doesn't really fancy them.
Basically if I understand it correctly the vectored thrust allowed them to turn, but they would lose airspeed and altitude in the process. As the fighter types say - speed is life - and once it happened they were apparently easy pickings.
That's one fighter doctrine, in the Falkland war the British sub-sonic Harriers shot down 21 Argentine aircraft without loss, largely because of superior training. All Argentine aircraft where faster Entards, Daggers & Sky Hawks. There has not yet been a conflict which pitched first rate air forces which adopt differing doctrine against each other. However British RAF/RN pilots fair well in NATO fighter competitions.
However global temperatures are still rising while sunspot activity is decreasing that only gives us breathing space. When sun spot activity increases again and global temperatures increase driven upwards by both solar and man made factors.
A 2% reduction in revenue doesn't reduce profits by 2% when it leads to 30% reduction of the system resources costs.
The exploiters have cost Eve a lot of players over the years. I played Eve for 3 years and had 4 accounts and along with half a dozen rl mates all with multiple accounts quit because we got fed up with exploiters, gold miners and their ilk.
Storm trooper armour
Why should a corrupt military industrial complex in a fictional universe not make the same mistakes as a corrupt military industrial complex in the real world. c.f. SA-80 Assault Rifle, Aluminium super-structure & Nylon Uniforms on warships, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Patriot Missiles.
Have them arrested,
Sue them,
Profit.
Dialup is guaranteed by the regulator through a Universal Service Obligation. However pressure by BT, the dominant ISP in the UK, on the regulator prevented the universal service obligation including broadband.