What I'd be interested to see would be if each Jedi class player would be selected by a "Force Class GM" for their role playing ability. When somebody is selected, a fuller review (by 2 additional GMs) is performed before the player is selected to be eligible. The rest could then work as mentioned in the GP post. They are placed in the queue to become a Jedi/Sith when a slot becomes available, and they are notified that they are on the waiting list to become a Jedi or Sith, and how long they should expect to wait before they'll get their shot.
This should encourage behavior that would be conducive to having a fun SW MMO experience. Players on the waiting list would try to kill Jedi to open spots for themselves to move up the queue (such activity could be analyzed to verify the character doing the killing was acting in character, and the player be knocked down or off the list if it weren't.)
Likewise, Jedi/Sith characters that play out of character could have their characters revoked. That's not to say that a player shouldn't be able to wrestle with their conscience, but they shouldn't be allowed to do things clearly out of line of their character's basic ethos. So, if a Jedi starts to advance or use dark power skills, they should be watched and observed, maybe even questioned why by a Jedi GM.
This should raise the level of role playing in the game to improve immersion.
Note: I never played SWG, but I had a couple of friends that did.
You can debate the policies, principles and values of the candidate concerning science so you can tell which ones consider science important and those that don't.
That "free release" was paid for by a publication, which then gave it to subscribers. I suppose far less money changed hands than with traditional music distribution, but Prince probably got more for that one stunt then he ever made from retail CD sales when he was with a label.
You're not following through to the next step. Alternative energy sources seem cheaper in comparison. Currently, various technologies are less costly and pay for themselves once they've been installed for 8-20 years at current prices. If the cost difference between carbon and the alternatives doubles because of carbon taxes (say from 2 cents per KWh to 4 cents), then the time to recover the investment in cleaner alternatives drops to 4-10 years. End users will decide to switch. Large companies will decide to jump into the market, costs drop further with better economies of scale dropping the time to recover the investment to 1-3 years, then it's a slam dunk of a decision, and almost everybody switches. Will this put a hurt on the pocketbook? Sure, for a while. That's what it will take to force us out of complacency. Once the taxes are in place, we'll adjust and we'll work with the new rules.
Disclaimer: I'm not a 'human activity causes global warming' believer, but I think there are better ways of producing energy than putting carbon dioxide and other substances in the air. I also don't like how much I currently pay for power, and wouldn't like it when my bill goes up, but I would definitely try to do something to get alternative power (wind probably), which is what this is supposed to encourage.
I remember seeing a comment or article on Slashdot that said the spacesuits used on the moon became unusable within hours of use of being on the moon because of the damaging nature of moon dust. Because of the lack of wind and water, there is no erosion to soften the dust, and it acts like miniature spikes that damage everything we put up on the moon. Because of the damaging nature of moon dust, and the low gravity that allows a simple kick to send dust high enough to coat just about anything, the more contact the craft has with the surface, the more dust will be thrown up onto the surface of the pods, which will cause performance deterioration. Eventually, your hopping craft will stop hopping. A rocket lander could last weeks or months because the launching mechanism would be less prone to deterioration than a hopper.
Installing Debian from the MIT or Indiana mirrors, I peak about 20Mbps on my Cable line, and can get sustained of about 15Mbps. There are servers out there that can provide bandwidth. Also, when I hit my Morning Coffee button in Firefox, my 30 pages load in about 30 seconds. There are ways to benefit from higher caps.
Nah, the real question is if these are affected by the same patent as all the other drives that we won't be buying soon because of patent infringement.
They probably want to do it because of software piracy. I'm pretty sure their software is listed in a lot of the cheap software spams I used to see in my inbox years ago. Maybe by requiring a login to use the software you've paid for, they'll prevent people from pirating it. This would basically be doing the opposite of the music industry which has been making moves toward fewer restrictions (more DRM-less music sales) where the software industry is trying to move in the opposite direction, just years later than the music industry originally went down the same path.
If fewer people end up buying the software from it running slower, the only people that will be able to afford it and use it will be those that have a lot of money, or who are too comfortable to switch to an alternative. As they lose sales, their price will have to go up to compensate to maintain revenue. We've seen other companies go down this same path, such as AOL, Sun, and IBM. All of these companies have tried various things to change, IBM is the only one that has been halfway successful.
I know this is severely outdated, but once, when I needed to reinstall '98, I didn't install my sound driver, and I was getting a incredibly fast boot, something like 20 seconds on a 650 MHz system. When I later installed the driver, my boot time went up 50 seconds to around 70. I know that in the last 8 years, a lot of time has been spent reducing the amount of time it takes to boot Windows, but I'd be interested to see what happens if people disabled some of the non-critical hardware on their machines to see what it does do to their boot times.
Online Brad Paisley (video starring Jason Alexander, Estelle Harris (George and Estelle Constansa of Seinfeld) and William Shatner)
I work down at the Pizza Pit And I drive an old Hyundai I still live with my mom and dad I'm 5 foot 3 and overweight I'm a scifi fanatic A mild asthmatic And I've never been to second base But there's whole 'nother me That you need to see Go checkout MySpace
'Cause online I'm out in Hollywood I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good I drive a Maserati I'm a black-belt in karate And I love a good glass of wine It turns girls on that I'm mysterious I tell them I don't want nothing serious 'Cause even on a slow day I could have a three way Chat with two women at one time I'm so much cooler online So much cooler online
When I get home I kiss my mom And she fixes me a snack And I head down to my basement bedroom And fire up my Mac In real life the only time I've ever even been to L.A Is when I got the chance with the marching band To play tuba in the Rose Parade
Online I live in Malibu I pose for Calvin Klein, I've been in GQ I'm single and I'm rich And I've got a set of six pack abs that would blow your mind It turns girls on that I'm mysterious I tell them I don't want nothing serious 'Cause even on a slow day I could have a three way Chat with two women at one time I'm so much cooler online So much cooler online
When you got my kind of stats It's hard to get a date Let alone a real girlfriend But I grow another foot and I lose a bunch of weight Every time I login
Online I'm out in Hollywood I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good Even on a slow day I could have a three way Chat with two women at one time I'm so much cooler online Yeah, I'm cooler online I'm so much cooler online Yeah, I'm cooler online
One reason Nintendo's sales might be low right now, entirely speculating, perhaps Nintendo might be holding back a few units to have a bit more on the shelves during the Christmas shopping season?
Because a patent is a limited legal monopoly. Their tech is not the only way of getting things done. If their price is too high, competitors will either pay the asking price or go with a cheaper alternative. This encourages the inventor to set a lower price to stay competitive with alternative inventions. So even in presence of the monopoly granted by the patent, capitalism provides a way to bring down the price to a reasonable level.
Went back and did my math again. It looks like I was wrong. If the chip capacity doubles every year as it has, it will be 256*8 GB in 8 years, and these drives have 8 chips in them. That is, we should have SD cards that can hold 2TB for about the same as our current cost, and a 16TB flash drive for under a thousand.
Of course, we should hit a physical limit at some point, in which case the cost of flash memory will eventually drop to the price dollars per chip at whatever the maximum size per chip ends up being, and we'd be looking at $20 for half a GB to many TB depending on when that limit arrives.
If the price continues at its current 50% drop per year, we'll be looking at 2TB drives below $200 in 8 years or so. You might be able to get a 5-8TB magnetic drive for the same money in that time frame.
Right now, few people will be able to afford this, but there do exist people with too much money who will over spend for the slightest gain in performance, namely battery life, now. For business travelers, some companies might see it as justified for their employee to be able to work on his laptop on the plane for an extra hour or two before he runs out of power. If they rate the extra time that the laptop is functional against the extra work the user will be able to do while using the laptop (figured as the hourly wage of the user), the hard drive would pay for itself once it had extended the battery operation of the device by 30 hours. That is, $900/$30/hr since a business machine only one of these drives (we just got brand new XP computers with 80GB hard drives, and even that is overkill for business use). So, while it is still years from being a good buy for home use, they should be ready for the rest of us in 8-10, unless flash cost hits a tipping point sooner that causes the prices to drop even faster.
Just because I have no proof that I can give to you that you must, or even can, accept as conclusive does not mean that I have not had experiences that can only be explained by either the existence of God or my own mental stability. Since I seem to be sane, the only conclusion I can come to is that God exists. To deny it would to make an insane choice, deny God and accept that the impossible is possible.
One reason is that all 11 of his closest companions abandoned him on the eve of his execution, but 10 of the 11 were executed instead of abandoning their conviction that he had risen from the dead. Surely if these men knew that he had risen from the dead or not. If he had not, then they were dieing for a lie, and these were convicted cowards.
And that would still be a decrease from the first year by 9% (1*.7=.7;.7*1.3=.91). A 40% increase would get back to 98%, and would sound even more sensationalistic.
Most people on a jury don't probably don't know that Chewie doesn't live on Endor, they are just accepting the lawyer's word that he does. So the lawyer has basically made a case on a lie that the jury didn't know or understand, thus raising reasonable doubt as to the guilt of his client.
The nice thing is you can pay nothing, download the music and see if you like it, if you're like me and don't know Radiohead from the Black Eyed Peas or Coldplay (I've heard of all of them, but never listened to any of their music). Then, if you like it, go back and buy it again with the price you consider fair, or go to a concert.
Hopefully this works for them so other bands will give it a try.
The only point would be collaboration or having the documents automatically saved somewhere other than your own hard drive, for folks that don't want to go to the minimal effort of backing up their computers themselves.
How is it freeloading? Don't women's groups like to calculate the value of being a stay at home mom? I don't agree with the numbers the come up with and publish, but they have a point, what a woman does at home has real value, even economic value even if it isn't counted as part of the GNP. Are we just living to work? Does life have no value without a paycheck? Are we going to start preventing people from retiring because they are "freeloading"?
If a woman wants to choose to live at home and can afford it, why should you consider it offensive? The two most precious things we as people have are our time and our relationships. If a woman chooses to invest her time in relationships instead of having a career, and all the stress and anguish that comes with having to go to work to bring home a paycheck, and can stay home to develop better relationships with her children, the value is far above what she'd make at her work. I get all kinds of value from my wife staying home. She'll call me at work to tell me what cute things my daughter is doing today, that and the piece of mind of knowing my daughter is in better care than we can afford otherwise, makes me feel a whole lot better about going to work.
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What I'd be interested to see would be if each Jedi class player would be selected by a "Force Class GM" for their role playing ability. When somebody is selected, a fuller review (by 2 additional GMs) is performed before the player is selected to be eligible. The rest could then work as mentioned in the GP post. They are placed in the queue to become a Jedi/Sith when a slot becomes available, and they are notified that they are on the waiting list to become a Jedi or Sith, and how long they should expect to wait before they'll get their shot.
This should encourage behavior that would be conducive to having a fun SW MMO experience. Players on the waiting list would try to kill Jedi to open spots for themselves to move up the queue (such activity could be analyzed to verify the character doing the killing was acting in character, and the player be knocked down or off the list if it weren't.)
Likewise, Jedi/Sith characters that play out of character could have their characters revoked. That's not to say that a player shouldn't be able to wrestle with their conscience, but they shouldn't be allowed to do things clearly out of line of their character's basic ethos. So, if a Jedi starts to advance or use dark power skills, they should be watched and observed, maybe even questioned why by a Jedi GM.
This should raise the level of role playing in the game to improve immersion.
Note: I never played SWG, but I had a couple of friends that did.
You can debate the policies, principles and values of the candidate concerning science so you can tell which ones consider science important and those that don't.
That "free release" was paid for by a publication, which then gave it to subscribers. I suppose far less money changed hands than with traditional music distribution, but Prince probably got more for that one stunt then he ever made from retail CD sales when he was with a label.
Rob sold long ago.
Newsweek did an online article on this just last week, although their explanation was job fulfillment instead of internet usage.
You're not following through to the next step. Alternative energy sources seem cheaper in comparison. Currently, various technologies are less costly and pay for themselves once they've been installed for 8-20 years at current prices. If the cost difference between carbon and the alternatives doubles because of carbon taxes (say from 2 cents per KWh to 4 cents), then the time to recover the investment in cleaner alternatives drops to 4-10 years. End users will decide to switch. Large companies will decide to jump into the market, costs drop further with better economies of scale dropping the time to recover the investment to 1-3 years, then it's a slam dunk of a decision, and almost everybody switches. Will this put a hurt on the pocketbook? Sure, for a while. That's what it will take to force us out of complacency. Once the taxes are in place, we'll adjust and we'll work with the new rules.
Disclaimer: I'm not a 'human activity causes global warming' believer, but I think there are better ways of producing energy than putting carbon dioxide and other substances in the air. I also don't like how much I currently pay for power, and wouldn't like it when my bill goes up, but I would definitely try to do something to get alternative power (wind probably), which is what this is supposed to encourage.
I remember seeing a comment or article on Slashdot that said the spacesuits used on the moon became unusable within hours of use of being on the moon because of the damaging nature of moon dust. Because of the lack of wind and water, there is no erosion to soften the dust, and it acts like miniature spikes that damage everything we put up on the moon. Because of the damaging nature of moon dust, and the low gravity that allows a simple kick to send dust high enough to coat just about anything, the more contact the craft has with the surface, the more dust will be thrown up onto the surface of the pods, which will cause performance deterioration. Eventually, your hopping craft will stop hopping. A rocket lander could last weeks or months because the launching mechanism would be less prone to deterioration than a hopper.
Opening bid at $699? Do I have $699?
sudo make me a sandwich
Installing Debian from the MIT or Indiana mirrors, I peak about 20Mbps on my Cable line, and can get sustained of about 15Mbps. There are servers out there that can provide bandwidth. Also, when I hit my Morning Coffee button in Firefox, my 30 pages load in about 30 seconds. There are ways to benefit from higher caps.
Nah, the real question is if these are affected by the same patent as all the other drives that we won't be buying soon because of patent infringement.
They probably want to do it because of software piracy. I'm pretty sure their software is listed in a lot of the cheap software spams I used to see in my inbox years ago. Maybe by requiring a login to use the software you've paid for, they'll prevent people from pirating it. This would basically be doing the opposite of the music industry which has been making moves toward fewer restrictions (more DRM-less music sales) where the software industry is trying to move in the opposite direction, just years later than the music industry originally went down the same path.
If fewer people end up buying the software from it running slower, the only people that will be able to afford it and use it will be those that have a lot of money, or who are too comfortable to switch to an alternative. As they lose sales, their price will have to go up to compensate to maintain revenue. We've seen other companies go down this same path, such as AOL, Sun, and IBM. All of these companies have tried various things to change, IBM is the only one that has been halfway successful.
I know this is severely outdated, but once, when I needed to reinstall '98, I didn't install my sound driver, and I was getting a incredibly fast boot, something like 20 seconds on a 650 MHz system. When I later installed the driver, my boot time went up 50 seconds to around 70. I know that in the last 8 years, a lot of time has been spent reducing the amount of time it takes to boot Windows, but I'd be interested to see what happens if people disabled some of the non-critical hardware on their machines to see what it does do to their boot times.
Online
Brad Paisley (video starring Jason Alexander, Estelle Harris (George and Estelle Constansa of Seinfeld) and William Shatner)
I work down at the Pizza Pit
And I drive an old Hyundai
I still live with my mom and dad
I'm 5 foot 3 and overweight
I'm a scifi fanatic
A mild asthmatic
And I've never been to second base
But there's whole 'nother me
That you need to see
Go checkout MySpace
'Cause online I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good
I drive a Maserati
I'm a black-belt in karate
And I love a good glass of wine
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell them I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
So much cooler online
When I get home I kiss my mom
And she fixes me a snack
And I head down to my basement bedroom
And fire up my Mac
In real life the only time I've ever even been to L.A
Is when I got the chance with the marching band
To play tuba in the Rose Parade
Online I live in Malibu
I pose for Calvin Klein, I've been in GQ
I'm single and I'm rich
And I've got a set of six pack abs that would blow your mind
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell them I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
So much cooler online
When you got my kind of stats
It's hard to get a date
Let alone a real girlfriend
But I grow another foot and I lose a bunch of weight
Every time I login
Online
I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good
Even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
Yeah, I'll see ya online
One reason Nintendo's sales might be low right now, entirely speculating, perhaps Nintendo might be holding back a few units to have a bit more on the shelves during the Christmas shopping season?
Because a patent is a limited legal monopoly. Their tech is not the only way of getting things done. If their price is too high, competitors will either pay the asking price or go with a cheaper alternative. This encourages the inventor to set a lower price to stay competitive with alternative inventions. So even in presence of the monopoly granted by the patent, capitalism provides a way to bring down the price to a reasonable level.
Went back and did my math again. It looks like I was wrong. If the chip capacity doubles every year as it has, it will be 256*8 GB in 8 years, and these drives have 8 chips in them. That is, we should have SD cards that can hold 2TB for about the same as our current cost, and a 16TB flash drive for under a thousand.
Of course, we should hit a physical limit at some point, in which case the cost of flash memory will eventually drop to the price dollars per chip at whatever the maximum size per chip ends up being, and we'd be looking at $20 for half a GB to many TB depending on when that limit arrives.
If the price continues at its current 50% drop per year, we'll be looking at 2TB drives below $200 in 8 years or so. You might be able to get a 5-8TB magnetic drive for the same money in that time frame.
Right now, few people will be able to afford this, but there do exist people with too much money who will over spend for the slightest gain in performance, namely battery life, now. For business travelers, some companies might see it as justified for their employee to be able to work on his laptop on the plane for an extra hour or two before he runs out of power. If they rate the extra time that the laptop is functional against the extra work the user will be able to do while using the laptop (figured as the hourly wage of the user), the hard drive would pay for itself once it had extended the battery operation of the device by 30 hours. That is, $900/$30/hr since a business machine only one of these drives (we just got brand new XP computers with 80GB hard drives, and even that is overkill for business use). So, while it is still years from being a good buy for home use, they should be ready for the rest of us in 8-10, unless flash cost hits a tipping point sooner that causes the prices to drop even faster.
Just because I have no proof that I can give to you that you must, or even can, accept as conclusive does not mean that I have not had experiences that can only be explained by either the existence of God or my own mental stability. Since I seem to be sane, the only conclusion I can come to is that God exists. To deny it would to make an insane choice, deny God and accept that the impossible is possible.
One reason is that all 11 of his closest companions abandoned him on the eve of his execution, but 10 of the 11 were executed instead of abandoning their conviction that he had risen from the dead. Surely if these men knew that he had risen from the dead or not. If he had not, then they were dieing for a lie, and these were convicted cowards.
And that would still be a decrease from the first year by 9% (1*.7=.7; .7*1.3=.91). A 40% increase would get back to 98%, and would sound even more sensationalistic.
Most people on a jury don't probably don't know that Chewie doesn't live on Endor, they are just accepting the lawyer's word that he does. So the lawyer has basically made a case on a lie that the jury didn't know or understand, thus raising reasonable doubt as to the guilt of his client.
The nice thing is you can pay nothing, download the music and see if you like it, if you're like me and don't know Radiohead from the Black Eyed Peas or Coldplay (I've heard of all of them, but never listened to any of their music). Then, if you like it, go back and buy it again with the price you consider fair, or go to a concert. Hopefully this works for them so other bands will give it a try.
The only point would be collaboration or having the documents automatically saved somewhere other than your own hard drive, for folks that don't want to go to the minimal effort of backing up their computers themselves.
How is it freeloading? Don't women's groups like to calculate the value of being a stay at home mom? I don't agree with the numbers the come up with and publish, but they have a point, what a woman does at home has real value, even economic value even if it isn't counted as part of the GNP. Are we just living to work? Does life have no value without a paycheck? Are we going to start preventing people from retiring because they are "freeloading"? If a woman wants to choose to live at home and can afford it, why should you consider it offensive? The two most precious things we as people have are our time and our relationships. If a woman chooses to invest her time in relationships instead of having a career, and all the stress and anguish that comes with having to go to work to bring home a paycheck, and can stay home to develop better relationships with her children, the value is far above what she'd make at her work. I get all kinds of value from my wife staying home. She'll call me at work to tell me what cute things my daughter is doing today, that and the piece of mind of knowing my daughter is in better care than we can afford otherwise, makes me feel a whole lot better about going to work.