Yup, and what *I* said was that they could shape everyone the same. That is, if YouTube gets shit bandwidth then Fox News gets shit bandwidth. Neutral doesn't have to mean good.
There goes that virtue. Free trials are "please dis me to everyone who will listen so you don't have to pay even though you really want to" invitations. Personally, I think this phenomena is proof that MMORPGs are not addictive. After all, you never hear people saying "don't try crack, it sucks, I tried it once and wasn't that great. Seriously, crack sucks and I don't know why people take it." Unless, ya know, they mean it.
You're absolutely right. Quite apart from the fact that this is a game, and therefore obviously a real economy is not going to work. Why? Because real economies are based on work and who wants to do work in a game. The purpose of economics in a MMORPG is to balance everyone's ability to have fun whilst maintaining some level of challenge. I wish that real economies were interested in those goals.
Anyway, I mirror an article by Gil Breau called Online World Economy which you might find remotely interesting, if you're into these sorts of things.
There's only one thing that the courts universally agree is not able to be copyrighted: recipes.
And yeah, only for food. Recipes for drugs or paint, you can copyright those.
The copyright system is not about reason. You can't logically define what is and isn't possible under copyright law. It all depends on who has the most expensive lawyer on the day.
[Insert rant here about the importance of identity in role play games]
I guess around the 4th of never someone will finally make a space sim that has realistic physics, and lets you float around your ship, board space stations and other spinning bodies, go down to planets, etc. Oh, and try to make it fun.
Which is not to say that there's anything wrong with Eve Online.. at least they have enough sense not to offer a free trial.
Sigh. Generally, if you have to use a really big number to describe something, you're not using the right units. In this case, Voyager I is approximately 104.28 astronomical units from the Sun. In comparison, Pluto is about 39.5 to 49.3 AU from the Sun. Light takes about 14 days to get from Earth to the spacecraft. One day we might go out to the Solar Foci (around 550 AU) to use the Sun as a gravitational lens to image distant galaxies or the surface of exo-solar planets.
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Cool. How do you get data from the SCADA system to the back office? Say, to import into Excel and do some performance analysis or something?
Removable media and sneaker net?
I bet I could make a virus that could hop that.
So it must be secure.
I think I hear the Secret Service calling you...
If you're supposed to look at it 7km away then all you need is 1 pixel per screen.
Then we'll talk.
Of course its close to being a free speech issue, copyright is the enemy of free speech.
You should probably go back on the lithium.
Either that, or buy yourself 20 cats and start throwing them at people who walk by.
Heh, next you'll be wanting some kind of quality of service guarantee. Why not just demand fiber to the home for $30/month.
Yup, and what *I* said was that they could shape everyone the same. That is, if YouTube gets shit bandwidth then Fox News gets shit bandwidth. Neutral doesn't have to mean good.
Australia has been the US's bitch for much longer than any of those three.
By, say, shaping every connection equally?
Umm.. what does anything you're talking about have to do with net neutrality?
for your edification.
You mean because we're the unofficial 51st state of the US?
Or were you just after first post?
There goes that virtue. Free trials are "please dis me to everyone who will listen so you don't have to pay even though you really want to" invitations. Personally, I think this phenomena is proof that MMORPGs are not addictive. After all, you never hear people saying "don't try crack, it sucks, I tried it once and wasn't that great. Seriously, crack sucks and I don't know why people take it." Unless, ya know, they mean it.
You're absolutely right. Quite apart from the fact that this is a game, and therefore obviously a real economy is not going to work. Why? Because real economies are based on work and who wants to do work in a game. The purpose of economics in a MMORPG is to balance everyone's ability to have fun whilst maintaining some level of challenge. I wish that real economies were interested in those goals.
Anyway, I mirror an article by Gil Breau called Online World Economy which you might find remotely interesting, if you're into these sorts of things.
Uhhh, since it has a design on it.
There's only one thing that the courts universally agree is not able to be copyrighted: recipes.
And yeah, only for food. Recipes for drugs or paint, you can copyright those.
The copyright system is not about reason. You can't logically define what is and isn't possible under copyright law. It all depends on who has the most expensive lawyer on the day.
[Insert rant here about the importance of identity in role play games]
I guess around the 4th of never someone will finally make a space sim that has realistic physics, and lets you float around your ship, board space stations and other spinning bodies, go down to planets, etc. Oh, and try to make it fun.
Which is not to say that there's anything wrong with Eve Online.. at least they have enough sense not to offer a free trial.
If the license on the work says that you can only print it once and you print it twice then, yes, it is copyright infringement.
If you then go telling the world that you did this then, yeah, expect the copyright holder to use the power the law has given him.
I don't know why you're trying to make an incredulous argument.. copyright is by nature nonsensical.
Yes, indeed, sorry!
Sigh. Generally, if you have to use a really big number to describe something, you're not using the right units. In this case, Voyager I is approximately 104.28 astronomical units from the Sun. In comparison, Pluto is about 39.5 to 49.3 AU from the Sun. Light takes about 14 days to get from Earth to the spacecraft. One day we might go out to the Solar Foci (around 550 AU) to use the Sun as a gravitational lens to image distant galaxies or the surface of exo-solar planets.
In this case, it is Microsoft who isn't security-savvy, and they're asking people to trust them with logins.
heh. I suppose. Let's say "housemate" instead.
Lawyers get confused by copyright. period.
Copyright is intentionally designed that way.