If you read that "apology", I think you'll find that all they're apologising for is not selling enough different types of monocles, or having the gym, hot tub and Cyber-Skank Singles Bar areas ready for Arcana.
I think EVE's crowning achievement is that it introduced pay-to-win in such an obfuscated jargon laden way that to this day, players still won't admit even to themselves that there are super-capitals out there that were flat out bought with credit cards.
Yes, yes, $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED) is a proud, noble dog. Alert, intelligent, sociable, $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED) is a loyal companion if correctly raised. Behavioural problems with $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED) are inevitably the fault of the owner.
Save it for Wikipedia, where thanks to gushing starry eyed defensive owners, every other breed page reads exactly like $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED)'s page.
Yup, agreed. Oh, and did you spot the significant line: "Once Incarna hits its stride, EVE will be more personal, and thus more accessible to general audiences. Visual self-expression in a virtual setting is a core psychological component of gaming; most people need to see their avatars, or something vaguely humanoid, or else they donâ(TM)t connect with the game."
See, that's why EVE is and always has been failing and so unpopular - no monocles . He's clearly still obsessed with going after the Sims in Space mass audience. Nullsec, more ships, you know space things are just tossed out as incidental issues. It'll be hot tubs and gyms first, mark my words.
Still saying that the reason people got into EVE - spaceships and stuff - is all wrong, and what you all really want to play is The Sims In Space.
Note those words, little else in his mea culpa is particularly significant. It's not "Arcana was a bad concept" it's "Arcana just didn't go far enough." Get your monocle polish ready.
"Open source"? Funny that you should say that. Stallman promotes "free" software, not "open source".
Why's it funny, and what's the difference, I hear you ask? Well GNU/Linux (and Hurd, har har) is "free", aka viral. BDS is "open source", and that's exactly why Apple was able to bag it, build a wall around it, and make their own secret proprietary version without giving anything back to the community that built it.
Did you miss the part where everybody is a criminal? More surveillance just means more crimes detected. You may be assuming that law enforcement will then focus on serious crimes and serious criminals rather than going after the low hanging fruit: basically honest people committing misdemeanors who will confess and pay fixed fines in order to avoid court. I can assure you that's exactly how it works in the surveillance capital of the world, the UK, where "fixed penalty notices" are essentially the new form of taxation.
Indeed, for all his speechification, his actions show that he's happy eating the lotus inside the prettiest of the walled gardens. I like the chap, he's decent enough and seems erudite, but talk is cheap.
They'll pass the price on to their locked-in customers, outsource another few divisions to Elbonia, or just find more ways to avoid paying corporate tax. Either way, it won't change their behaviour one whit: it's just the cost of doing business.
Reply to my reply: Aaaaaaaaaaahahahahahah. Is this for real?
It reads like an Al Gore infomercial, not a patent. More space is given to banging on about saving the planet than about the actual claims.
Ah, here's the snake oil: "said high temperature generates internuclear percussions which are made stronger by the catalytic action of optional elements [...] for a proper operation, the hydrogen injection must be carried out under a variable pressure".
Obvious troll is obvious. You can't replicate this? Oh, you don't have the right "optional elements" (kryptonite?) or you're not "varying" your pressure correctly.
Even if his magic boxes do anything, they'll just be operating as regular hydrogen fuel cells. Oh, right, the hydrogen? Minor detail, he can just crack it indefinitely using the excess power from the magic box, right? <wink>
Most of the world operates on first-to-file, not first-to-invent. If you had a working "secret sauce", how insane would you have to be to not file a zillion patents on it? Protecting such inventions is exactly what the patent system is actually for.
Fail. You shouldn't need a password, any more than you should need to live in a vault in order to stop the police kicking down your door and turning over your home without a warrant simply because they happen to deem it a "reasonable" (pronounced the same as "convenient") search.
This is just yet another swill trough project to keep worthless unelected bean counters in paid lunches for two years, plus the half decade that it'll take to draw up the Directive that will inevitably just mandate whatever Germany plans to do anyway.
So take your little spy boxes and hand them out to Frankfurters. They'll happily plug them in, they love obeying orders.
He was a sociopath and a parasite who got rich and famous off of other people's ideas and hard work. The man didn't make one invention of his own - his only function was to pick winners and losers from his stable of actual inventors.
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Must be a Friday, when all the non-stories get dumped. Is it even worth challenging the "science" in this claim? I'm just so tired of it.
And if he had mentioned it, a million slashtards would have screamed "SHILL!" There's no winning this one.
If you read that "apology", I think you'll find that all they're apologising for is not selling enough different types of monocles, or having the gym, hot tub and Cyber-Skank Singles Bar areas ready for Arcana.
I think EVE's crowning achievement is that it introduced pay-to-win in such an obfuscated jargon laden way that to this day, players still won't admit even to themselves that there are super-capitals out there that were flat out bought with credit cards.
Dude, I totes just heard that UPS doesn't even make all the things that it delivers! What a bunch of scammers!
Which is handy, because they'd have been really screwed if A Wizard Did It.
*cough* Dracorex hogwartsia *cough*
Yes, yes, $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED) is a proud, noble dog. Alert, intelligent, sociable, $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED) is a loyal companion if correctly raised. Behavioural problems with $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED) are inevitably the fault of the owner.
Save it for Wikipedia, where thanks to gushing starry eyed defensive owners, every other breed page reads exactly like $(YOUR_FAVOURITE_BREED)'s page.
Slashduh ate my tags around the "failing and so unpopular" line above, in case it wasn't obvious. :imagine eye roll emoticon here:
Yup, agreed. Oh, and did you spot the significant line: "Once Incarna hits its stride, EVE will be more personal, and thus more accessible to general audiences. Visual self-expression in a virtual setting is a core psychological component of gaming; most people need to see their avatars, or something vaguely humanoid, or else they donâ(TM)t connect with the game."
See, that's why EVE is and always has been failing and so unpopular - no monocles . He's clearly still obsessed with going after the Sims in Space mass audience. Nullsec, more ships, you know space things are just tossed out as incidental issues. It'll be hot tubs and gyms first, mark my words.
Still saying that the reason people got into EVE - spaceships and stuff - is all wrong, and what you all really want to play is The Sims In Space.
Note those words, little else in his mea culpa is particularly significant. It's not "Arcana was a bad concept" it's "Arcana just didn't go far enough." Get your monocle polish ready.
The cop unions bought him the job, he's staying bought, fair and square. You don't see that kinds of loyalty much any more.
"Open source"? Funny that you should say that. Stallman promotes "free" software, not "open source".
Why's it funny, and what's the difference, I hear you ask? Well GNU/Linux (and Hurd, har har) is "free", aka viral. BDS is "open source", and that's exactly why Apple was able to bag it, build a wall around it, and make their own secret proprietary version without giving anything back to the community that built it.
It's unwise to upset the natural order of things. Nerds, get to the back of the bus where you belong.
Did you miss the part where everybody is a criminal? More surveillance just means more crimes detected. You may be assuming that law enforcement will then focus on serious crimes and serious criminals rather than going after the low hanging fruit: basically honest people committing misdemeanors who will confess and pay fixed fines in order to avoid court. I can assure you that's exactly how it works in the surveillance capital of the world, the UK, where "fixed penalty notices" are essentially the new form of taxation.
Indeed, for all his speechification, his actions show that he's happy eating the lotus inside the prettiest of the walled gardens. I like the chap, he's decent enough and seems erudite, but talk is cheap.
They'll pass the price on to their locked-in customers, outsource another few divisions to Elbonia, or just find more ways to avoid paying corporate tax. Either way, it won't change their behaviour one whit: it's just the cost of doing business.
I'm happy to keep pointing out the ludicrous nature of the exo-word as long as marketeers keep using it.
Reply to my reply: Aaaaaaaaaaahahahahahah. Is this for real?
It reads like an Al Gore infomercial, not a patent. More space is given to banging on about saving the planet than about the actual claims.
Ah, here's the snake oil: "said high temperature generates internuclear percussions which are made stronger by the catalytic action of optional elements [...] for a proper operation, the hydrogen injection must be carried out under a variable pressure".
Obvious troll is obvious. You can't replicate this? Oh, you don't have the right "optional elements" (kryptonite?) or you're not "varying" your pressure correctly.
Even if his magic boxes do anything, they'll just be operating as regular hydrogen fuel cells. Oh, right, the hydrogen? Minor detail, he can just crack it indefinitely using the excess power from the magic box, right? <wink>
Oh, here we go. Well, now we know. Have fun!
Most of the world operates on first-to-file, not first-to-invent. If you had a working "secret sauce", how insane would you have to be to not file a zillion patents on it? Protecting such inventions is exactly what the patent system is actually for.
Fail. You shouldn't need a password, any more than you should need to live in a vault in order to stop the police kicking down your door and turning over your home without a warrant simply because they happen to deem it a "reasonable" (pronounced the same as "convenient") search.
You know, up to 300Mbs?
Wake me up when they offer binding contracts to provide minimum speeds. Until then, it's just marketwank.
This is just yet another swill trough project to keep worthless unelected bean counters in paid lunches for two years, plus the half decade that it'll take to draw up the Directive that will inevitably just mandate whatever Germany plans to do anyway.
So take your little spy boxes and hand them out to Frankfurters. They'll happily plug them in, they love obeying orders.
He was a sociopath and a parasite who got rich and famous off of other people's ideas and hard work. The man didn't make one invention of his own - his only function was to pick winners and losers from his stable of actual inventors.