Any researcher worth its salt will have to first and foremost look at EVE Online's economy. The game is driven by its economy, not the other way around.
They you can look at toys like WoW or Everquest, if you want a simpler model.
Corporate culture of the people who work there. I didn't work for either, but I'd expect a higher percentage of OSS fanatics at Google than at Microsoft, and working with people who constantly go "OMG OMG OMG F/OSS or die!!!" can be awkward if you don't think that way... it is almost a religion (and that can go both way, so don't take THAT as a OSS cheap shot).
The person may have been tired of hearing that open source was better, regardless of the actual software's quality, all the time, and thus jumped ship. I've seen it happen a lot in smaller companies too. (Of course, again, the other way around obviously happens a lot too)
Heh.
It's blatantly obvious that you've never seen Microsoft Evangelists.
If you are going to squeeze the picture down to a hundred kb, you are also using a lossy algorithm. Which means that your "high resolution" pictures are now completely useless for science purposes.
Plus, last I heard, one red, one green and one blue picture will form a complete color image. Incidently, that's precisely how color CCDs work. But, to do that, they'll decrease the effective resolution by a third. By using filters, you are able to retain the full resolutions, getting color anyway.
So, you want blurry color images? Nice one, idiot.
Are there any bank sites that don't work with Firefox on Linux these days? Even Natwest works now, and they are the most fussy about what browsers they allow. Hell yeah.
At least in Brazil, ABM AMRO (more specifically, Real) *requires* Windows.
To add insult to the injury, they require the installation of a "protection module". Which is a very intrusive and spyware-like dll called "G-Buster Browser Defense". It's installation under Windows Vista only works if you run the browser as *administrator* and add the banking site to the list of trusted sites.
You can call them to deactivate the "security measures" for your account and enable it to work on other operating systems, but then I suspect they are not going to be held accountable for unathorized accesses.
Would linux no longer be open source if you found out linus was using Word to edit his code?
It's free. Quit your fucking whining, you ungrateful little bitch. Idiotic comparison. If you needed Word just to compose the document, then it would be valid. As it is, you need Word to compose and view said document. A better one: suppose Linus used Microsoft's Visual Studio to compile, and required the VS runtimes to run. Would it still be free?
And no, the "free" tools don't cut it. As far as I know, the official viewers are for one platform only, and that's Windows.
Its not a native client. It uses a stripped-down version of the commercial fork of the now-obsolete xwine WineX. I didn't see anywhere as being a stripped-down version, but if it is, it is even better. They only need to include what EVE is using. Less code to support and distribute. Less code means less bugs.
Anyway, the point is that they didn't actually take the time to write a native client, its simply packaged with Cedega, so this isn't really anything to praise them for. I don't really thing the average Slashdot population is that dense, maybe it was the way the headline was worded, so let me explain:
They are not just "packaging" EVE with Cedega. The two companies have now a *partnership*, as in, Transgaming receiving money from CCP to support EVE. I don't know if they are using libwine, but that's beside the point. What prevents Wine from working out-of-the-box with all applications is the sheer work required to faithfully duplicate the Win32 API. That's why they only implement something when an application breaks.
Now, when you have a program officially supported under wine/cedega, you have the manpower to bring the API that the game uses up-to-date. And it means that the game will run flawlessly once the bugs are resolved. And, despite what people might say, there doesn't have to be a noticeable performance penalty. In fact, some operations under Wine are even faster than native Win32 ones.
Yeah, I would like to see a native client - I don't even know if it is not: mind you, a program linked with libwine *is* native - but this is enough. CCP only really needs to duplicate the testing effort, but maintaining essentially the same code base. Transgaming focus on making it run (now having direct financial incentive to do so) and users get a Linux client.
What do you suggest? Porting the DirectX Trinity engine to OpenGL? Even though I believe DirectX must die, I can't see how to justify such an investment to a company.
I travel to brazil pretty often because of all the family I have that lives there. The tarrifs on electronics and DVDs is a ridiculous amount like 50%. In fact, to make some cash, I know people who will come to the states and smuggle iPods back. If they get through customs, they can make a pretty penny selling them to people in Brazil. (Prices are about 2x of what they are in the states because of the import duties. Actually, it is 60%. Not only that, but you've got to pay an additional tax once you sell it (12% in my state). I remember when big stores began to sell the PS3 here (it is not officially available from Sony). R$ 7500. Do the math (rate is about 1.80 - 2.00 R$ for a USD). Not to mention for each R$100 an employee earns, the same amount is paid for the government. Plus a whole bunch of taxes I am not even aware of. Business (even small ones) have to keep full-time employees just to keep up with the paperwork required. Maybe CISCO was just careless (I've yet to read TFA).
In any case, living is like working for the Mafia.
The thing is that you are looking at the compiled data. Ordinary players have no way to gather all that information by themselves. Now that the graphs are published, most conclusions are obvious indeed.
As for the rest, the players will have to figure out for themselves.
Even if it did, XP (the primary OS this would be desired for tbh) doesn't have the necessary resource management necessary to fuel the power needed for the graphics processing that DX10 takes advantage of. Sure, you might get it working, but it would be slow as heck
"Fuel the Power" "Resource management"
What a load of crap. Kid, this is a technology site. Go spew your pseudo-technobabble elsewhere, maybe you'll find people that will believe you.
This is not entirely accurate. A player owned station can be placed in high security space, but the corporation placing it must have a particular standing with the faction that owns the system they wish to place it in. It is most definitely inaccurate to say they can only be placed in 0.0 space. Wrong.
You are talking about POS (Player-Owned structures). They are very small, shield-protected, fuel-consuming structures that serve very specific purposes, be it refining, research, manufacturing, storage, moon-mining or simply sovereignty (see: Death-Star POS). You can't dock in a POS, nor repair your ship, or install clones, or basically use station services.
The parent was talking about Outposts. Those require sovereignty (given by POSes) and as such *must* be constructed in 0.0 space by definition. While a small POS control tower might set you back by 100 million ISK(and more for the specific modules you want), I've heard about 60 billion ISK costs for outposts.
Outposts are, for all intents and purposes, smaller NPC stations. There are some limitations, such as number of offices, research and manufacturing ability, but they are stations. They do not require any fuel, but the POSes providing sovereignty (and because of that, invulnerability) do.
I believe EVE Online is best experienced fullscreen. However, I miss being able to control the MP3 player (given the ingame jukebox cannot accept external files) and instant messaging. So, to scratch that particular itch, I've decided to create tools to fill the gaps.
Reverse-engineering is forbidden by the EULA, and there are no APIs, but I still needed some way to control the applications from inside EVE. Then I figured the ingame browser would be perfect for the task.
The Winamp controller worked beautifully. There are still some playlist management issues to be solved before I release the tool to the public. However, I couldn't find a way for the IM application (originally intended as a Gaim plugin) to work. The ingame browser lacks the features I require (actually, something as simple as a meta-refresh tag would be enough).
Question:
Are there plans to provide APIs, or to enhance the ingame browser to allow for such third-party integration?
Disclaimer:
I don't want to make life easier for macro writers, it's not the purpose.
They are reading the BIOS and sending it to Skype's servers.
Isn't that a violation of the BIOS manufaturer's rights? I don't think it is legal if I read my BIOS and dumped it on the net without their written consent. Why would this be any different?
You can install standalone versions of any IE you want, from 3 to 7. I don't get what the fuss is about. Installing a virtual machine just to run IE? pfff!
A person with that profile can't expect to challenge an expert in the field. However, so-called "experts" can be just as a "retarded shit" as everyone else, completely oblivious and unable to even pinpoint problems that are outside their field of knowledge.
Taking your medicine example, that's what General Practitioners exist. They are supposed to have a broad field of knowledge, to correctly diagnose diseases and bodly malfunctions. *THEN*, if the problem is serious, the patient gets referred to an specialist.
What's the equivalent computer scientist? There's none. Remember the saying, when you've got a hammer on your hand, everything look like a nail. If you're implying that people like that do not always have the necessary humility to ask others for help, than I couldn't agree more.
The problem is that this is not marketable. I could probably do most of that, and more. As could many slashdotters, no doubt.
Now, try to write a résumé, including everything you've already had experience with, or that were interesting enough for you to learn, if you are that talented. Recruiters are either going to think you are crazy, lying, or something in-between. If not, there's always the argument that "you're a jack of all trades but master in none". Which might, or might not be the case. People tend to assume the former.
Besides, most people I know aren't in computer science for fun. They're doing what they do because it's a profitable market. Why spend your nights studying when you can focus on Java/.NET + a couple of frameworks and make just as much money?
Businesses need to change. They are the ones going down the drain.
Yes. But I dare say most homes in Brazil (except for the very poor) now run on fluorescent light.
We're forced, a couple of years ago by the government, to reduce our energy consumption as the demand was getting higher than the generator's power output (AKA. poor planning + corruption).
LCDs are still to expensive around here, too. But you can bet there'll be a mass replacement of CRTs once the prices drop.
Me, I'm looking forward to that. 3 computers monitors + 3 TVs draw quite some power.
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Wouldn't making your plane or missile shiny / reflective defeat these things pretty easily?
... one cannot have 100% EM and thermal resists.
Any researcher worth its salt will have to first and foremost look at EVE Online's economy. The game is driven by its economy, not the other way around.
They you can look at toys like WoW or Everquest, if you want a simpler model.
I've just installed OpenSolaris because of DTrace.
Find me a similarly powerful tool under Linux.
For the foreseeable future, DTrace will remain a bonus for Mac and Solaris users.
Corporate culture of the people who work there. I didn't work for either, but I'd expect a higher percentage of OSS fanatics at Google than at Microsoft, and working with people who constantly go "OMG OMG OMG F/OSS or die!!!" can be awkward if you don't think that way... it is almost a religion (and that can go both way, so don't take THAT as a OSS cheap shot).
The person may have been tired of hearing that open source was better, regardless of the actual software's quality, all the time, and thus jumped ship. I've seen it happen a lot in smaller companies too. (Of course, again, the other way around obviously happens a lot too)
Heh.
It's blatantly obvious that you've never seen Microsoft Evangelists.
You sir, are an imbecile.
If you are going to squeeze the picture down to a hundred kb, you are also using a lossy algorithm. Which means that your "high resolution" pictures are now completely useless for science purposes.
Plus, last I heard, one red, one green and one blue picture will form a complete color image. Incidently, that's precisely how color CCDs work. But, to do that, they'll decrease the effective resolution by a third. By using filters, you are able to retain the full resolutions, getting color anyway.
So, you want blurry color images? Nice one, idiot.
At least in Brazil, ABM AMRO (more specifically, Real) *requires* Windows.
To add insult to the injury, they require the installation of a "protection module". Which is a very intrusive and spyware-like dll called "G-Buster Browser Defense". It's installation under Windows Vista only works if you run the browser as *administrator* and add the banking site to the list of trusted sites.
You can call them to deactivate the "security measures" for your account and enable it to work on other operating systems, but then I suspect they are not going to be held accountable for unathorized accesses.
ATI drivers don't even install without serious acrobatics. Therefore, the OS cannot report them as crashing, they never worked to begin with!
Would linux no longer be open source if you found out linus was using Word to edit his code?
It's free. Quit your fucking whining, you ungrateful little bitch. Idiotic comparison. If you needed Word just to compose the document, then it would be valid. As it is, you need Word to compose and view said document. A better one: suppose Linus used Microsoft's Visual Studio to compile, and required the VS runtimes to run. Would it still be free?
And no, the "free" tools don't cut it. As far as I know, the official viewers are for one platform only, and that's Windows.
They are not just "packaging" EVE with Cedega. The two companies have now a *partnership*, as in, Transgaming receiving money from CCP to support EVE. I don't know if they are using libwine, but that's beside the point. What prevents Wine from working out-of-the-box with all applications is the sheer work required to faithfully duplicate the Win32 API. That's why they only implement something when an application breaks.
Now, when you have a program officially supported under wine/cedega, you have the manpower to bring the API that the game uses up-to-date. And it means that the game will run flawlessly once the bugs are resolved. And, despite what people might say, there doesn't have to be a noticeable performance penalty. In fact, some operations under Wine are even faster than native Win32 ones.
Yeah, I would like to see a native client - I don't even know if it is not: mind you, a program linked with libwine *is* native - but this is enough. CCP only really needs to duplicate the testing effort, but maintaining essentially the same code base. Transgaming focus on making it run (now having direct financial incentive to do so) and users get a Linux client.
What do you suggest? Porting the DirectX Trinity engine to OpenGL? Even though I believe DirectX must die, I can't see how to justify such an investment to a company.
Not to mention for each R$100 an employee earns, the same amount is paid for the government. Plus a whole bunch of taxes I am not even aware of. Business (even small ones) have to keep full-time employees just to keep up with the paperwork required. Maybe CISCO was just careless (I've yet to read TFA).
In any case, living is like working for the Mafia.
The thing is that you are looking at the compiled data. Ordinary players have no way to gather all that information by themselves. Now that the graphs are published, most conclusions are obvious indeed.
As for the rest, the players will have to figure out for themselves.
"Fuel the Power"
"Resource management"
What a load of crap. Kid, this is a technology site. Go spew your pseudo-technobabble elsewhere, maybe you'll find people that will believe you.
The ignorance is strong with this one.
In other words, you are only allowed to repeat the Watchtower's lies.
Ever seen the Blair Witch Project?
You are talking about POS (Player-Owned structures). They are very small, shield-protected, fuel-consuming structures that serve very specific purposes, be it refining, research, manufacturing, storage, moon-mining or simply sovereignty (see: Death-Star POS). You can't dock in a POS, nor repair your ship, or install clones, or basically use station services.
The parent was talking about Outposts. Those require sovereignty (given by POSes) and as such *must* be constructed in 0.0 space by definition. While a small POS control tower might set you back by 100 million ISK(and more for the specific modules you want), I've heard about 60 billion ISK costs for outposts.
Outposts are, for all intents and purposes, smaller NPC stations. There are some limitations, such as number of offices, research and manufacturing ability, but they are stations. They do not require any fuel, but the POSes providing sovereignty (and because of that, invulnerability) do.
Background:
I believe EVE Online is best experienced fullscreen. However, I miss being able to control the MP3 player (given the ingame jukebox cannot accept external files) and instant messaging. So, to scratch that particular itch, I've decided to create tools to fill the gaps.
Reverse-engineering is forbidden by the EULA, and there are no APIs, but I still needed some way to control the applications from inside EVE. Then I figured the ingame browser would be perfect for the task.
The Winamp controller worked beautifully. There are still some playlist management issues to be solved before I release the tool to the public. However, I couldn't find a way for the IM application (originally intended as a Gaim plugin) to work. The ingame browser lacks the features I require (actually, something as simple as a meta-refresh tag would be enough).
Question:
Are there plans to provide APIs, or to enhance the ingame browser to allow for such third-party integration?
Disclaimer:
I don't want to make life easier for macro writers, it's not the purpose.
They are reading the BIOS and sending it to Skype's servers.
Isn't that a violation of the BIOS manufaturer's rights? I don't think it is legal if I read my BIOS and dumped it on the net without their written consent. Why would this be any different?
Guys,
You can install standalone versions of any IE you want, from 3 to 7. I don't get what the fuss is about. Installing a virtual machine just to run IE? pfff!
Try this and be happy:
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
Seriously, what sort of geeks are you?
This integration is nothing new. "Cyrix did it!"
First, processors now have integrated memory controllers. Now this.
Seems like Cyrix was way ahead of its time.
A person with that profile can't expect to challenge an expert in the field. However, so-called "experts" can be just as a "retarded shit" as everyone else, completely oblivious and unable to even pinpoint problems that are outside their field of knowledge.
Taking your medicine example, that's what General Practitioners exist. They are supposed to have a broad field of knowledge, to correctly diagnose diseases and bodly malfunctions. *THEN*, if the problem is serious, the patient gets referred to an specialist.
What's the equivalent computer scientist? There's none. Remember the saying, when you've got a hammer on your hand, everything look like a nail. If you're implying that people like that do not always have the necessary humility to ask others for help, than I couldn't agree more.
Knowledge is never wasted.
Amen!
The problem is that this is not marketable. I could probably do most of that, and more. As could many slashdotters, no doubt.
Now, try to write a résumé, including everything you've already had experience with, or that were interesting enough for you to learn, if you are that talented. Recruiters are either going to think you are crazy, lying, or something in-between. If not, there's always the argument that "you're a jack of all trades but master in none". Which might, or might not be the case. People tend to assume the former.
Besides, most people I know aren't in computer science for fun. They're doing what they do because it's a profitable market. Why spend your nights studying when you can focus on Java/.NET + a couple of frameworks and make just as much money?
Businesses need to change. They are the ones going down the drain.
Specialization is for ants.
Like, those Zerg?
"Spawn more overlords..."
Yes. But I dare say most homes in Brazil (except for the very poor) now run on fluorescent light.
We're forced, a couple of years ago by the government, to reduce our energy consumption as the demand was getting higher than the generator's power output (AKA. poor planning + corruption).
LCDs are still to expensive around here, too. But you can bet there'll be a mass replacement of CRTs once the prices drop.
Me, I'm looking forward to that. 3 computers monitors + 3 TVs draw quite some power.