Maybe it is different in the US than here, but I'm not sure why you expect rights like format-shifting and time-shifting - who granted those rights to you?
I'm in the US and I can tell you EXACTLY who recognized the existence of those rights: The Supreme Court of the United States
just because you can calculate average damage numbers doesn't mean that PVP doesn't require tactics. Yes PvE with the vs the old AI mobs in Eve is pretty much "do atleast this damage, permatank atleast this much"
but against other players and against the new Sleepers AI you need more than that, you need tactics.
DPS is a number expressing your AVERAGE damage per second - that factors in probability to hit, hit range, etc.
just because something can be expressed as a simple number doesn't mean it's simple.
DPS = Hit prob * average damage per hit * attacks per second
in some games it's more complex than that.
in eve online that's fine for your "baseline DPS" now to figure out your actually DPS vs a target you have to express this
DPS = Sum[EM, Thermal, Kinetic, Explosive]
Where each damage type DPS is = Your hit probability * your average damage of that type * attacks per second * ( 1 - enemies resistance to that damage type)
[warning: approximated numbers ahead] Say I'm flying an Amarr Ship with Laser weapons and doing.. 60% EM 40% Thermal approximately and my enemy has 90% thermal resistance and 80% EM resistance.. i'm not scratching him for crap
300 base DPS [well equipped well skilled player] in that setup is 180 EM DPS, 120 Thermal DPS. Apply enemy resistances that's 18 EM and 24 Thermal for a total of 42 DPS
no way in heck im breaking that enemies tank if it's another player or one of the better NPCs
heh you make that sound like the suprisees are somehow tipped off to the bigger iron.. they're not. the big iron doesn't make a difference in jump time until there are a LOT of people in the system.
but a system with 800 people in multiple fleets all duking it out and it doesn't sneeze while the total active connections gamewide is 48000+... that's well designed
actually the law in most states is "go with the flow of traffic"
my father actually got out of a ticket for doing 80 in a 55 once (before the 55-limit-laws were repealed) - because every other driver on the road [all 20 of them] were doing it to.. of course it was 3 am and they were the only traffic on the road and the pod-dunk suburb served by 3 officers didnt' want to go up against 20-heavy machinery dealing-with guys:D
a lot of people, including those of us who are software engineers, prefer hard physical books. im not going to shell out for a kindle, books are portable easy on the eyes and shelves full of books in your house makes you look SMRT:D
oh and some things i will NEVER, EVER switch to electronic media for no matter how much money I have. My field survival guides, edible plant guides, maps, etc that I take with me into the back country.
Comparing WORM is cheaper than WR. Comparing WR to WR is not a valid analogy for comparing WORM to WORM. Stamped DVDs are cheaper that DVD-Rs for a reason, and they're both cheaper than DVD-RWs. The same has been true for a lot of other mediums.
Game cartridges can be WORM with a small WR save storage.
motion controllers not registering your moves?? ooooh that is so annoying
the one time i've played a Wii we were playing that bowling/boxing/whatever cluster-of-games (is that WiiFit?) anyway in the boxing one the game would throw one punch for every 5-10 I threw.. it just wasn't fast enough to keep up with me... or if it was it simply refused to.
ah, we're not likely to run into each other in game then.
FA is ally to CVA et. al. and operates out of Providence, Tash-Murkon and Domain regions
I'm still relatively new to the game (started in november, took a two month break, just came back two weeks ago).. I need to find some good money making.
I got really lucky first week of january (I was jobless at the time - between my graduating from school and getting a job) and in my first week in 0.0 space made 500 million dollars shooting down Interstellar Exodus raiders in Providence.. but other than that I've been kinda screwed on money.... though that did get me a lot of nice ships - a Hulk with Cargo rigs for my alt account, three rigged Harbis (0.0 ratter, level 3 missioner, W-space explorer) an Omen Navi (missions), etc.
A) I have no problem with socialism if it ends up in better prosperity for the people. I don't have an phobia of government providing services to its citizens, though I think our government could do so much more efficiently.
I also understand the alternative to the government becoming investors in some of these companies: even worse economic conditions that would be the result of those economic institutions collapsing. (the Big 3... that's another story)
B) "Strong armed"? haardly... that's blown massively out of proportion. They had a choice: renegotiate their debt with Chrysler and get at least some of it back, refuse to go to the table and let Chrysler go chapter 11 and get none of it back.
No government "strong arming" needed, just not having a head up your posterior. Only an idiot (and lately the financial system has been FULL of those) would risk the second scenario.
Furthermore this entire situation is the result of government inaction - "companies to big to fail" don't exist in Capitalism, they only exist in Laissez Faire, Corporatism and similiar systems. Companies "too big to fail" are the result of 8 years of the (Bush admin) government refusing to enforce the Sherman Act! Combined with Raygun, Slick Willy and Schrubya and their congresses stripping the post-depression banking regulations that kept investment banks and comercial banks separate among a buttload of other regulations.
Yes there is a failure of government involved in this economic crisis - but it's not "failing by being involved" its failure by inaction. Capitalism is not ruled by an invisible hand, Capitalism only exists so long as the government makes sure one player cannot screw every other player over: failure to enforce this results in Laissez-faire, which inevitable results in economic collapses as too much wealth and power gets concentrated into too few hands. Without expendable income in the pockets of the prime consumers you have a drop in consumption, which leads to a rise in inventory, which leads to a reduction in workers, which leads to a reduction in consumption.. you get where this self-reinforcement cycle is going.
It took us the Great Depression to learn 1) You don't let major banks collapse into nothing [getting taken over by the fed = utter failure these days, without ruining the consumers who used that bank] 2) You don't let Commercial Banks and Investment Banks be the same thing 3) When consumption is down you MUST STIMULATE CONSUMPTION, it's the only way to get things moving again - you must spend money, even if it's deficit spending, it will pay off.
and that's just a few of the lessons.
it's pathetic that we refuse to learn from the past
HA! You truly must be ignorant if you think I watch Faux News OR CNBC... that network can rot in whatever hell their creators believe in. And saying that I "Don't think for myself" is simply laughable, and almost certainly ironic.
I'm going to respond to the impressions I get from your post, if I'm off base please be more specific in what your criticism is so that I can respond to it more specifically instead of making educated conjectures based on the general demographics of people who make comments like yours
Main Street would be EVEN MORE farked up if we let them fail, don't think I'm happy that we couldn't let them fail - they certainly deserved it - but saving their arses helps mitigate the damage to Main Street. Don't assume that because someone supports something you don't means they're ignorant, they might actually have a better understanding of economics than you.
And as for your "all Hail the free market" - if by the "free market" you mean "laissez-faire" then you really reveal a problem with your economic understanding: this crash is the result of laissez-faire. Firms large enough that their failure would cause as widespread harm as AIGs and the big banks are only possible in laissez-faire - not capitalism. Companies of that size are indicative of the failure to enforce antitrust and banking regulations.
Laissez-faire is not Capitalism, Capitalism is not a diety, any pure economic system [pure communism, pure socialism, pure laissez-faire, pure capitalism] is also inadvisable. If you actually look at the planet the most stable and economically prosperous system has been a Socio-Capitalistic system not a Laissez-Faire to Capitalist spectrum system.
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it is, they're called subchannels.
X.1 can be the digital subchannel broadcasting 1080p
X.2 can be the digital subchannel broadcasting 480i
of course the problem is that's all packaged onto one carrier since ATSC is a MORONIC STANDARD compared to DVB-T
Maybe it is different in the US than here, but I'm not sure why you expect rights like format-shifting and time-shifting - who granted those rights to you?
I'm in the US and I can tell you EXACTLY who recognized the existence of those rights: The Supreme Court of the United States
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
just because you can calculate average damage numbers doesn't mean that PVP doesn't require tactics. Yes PvE with the vs the old AI mobs in Eve is pretty much "do atleast this damage, permatank atleast this much"
but against other players and against the new Sleepers AI you need more than that, you need tactics.
you should never make assumptions about someone's age or how well read they are.
literature snobbitry about how everything is just a rewrite of everything else is fairly irrelevant.
we don't CARE that it's the same old story being told in a different arrangement. we care about the arrangement.
DPS is a number expressing your AVERAGE damage per second - that factors in probability to hit, hit range, etc.
just because something can be expressed as a simple number doesn't mean it's simple.
DPS = Hit prob * average damage per hit * attacks per second
in some games it's more complex than that.
in eve online that's fine for your "baseline DPS" now to figure out your actually DPS vs a target you have to express this
DPS = Sum[EM, Thermal, Kinetic, Explosive]
Where each damage type DPS is = Your hit probability * your average damage of that type * attacks per second * ( 1 - enemies resistance to that damage type)
[warning: approximated numbers ahead]
Say I'm flying an Amarr Ship with Laser weapons and doing.. 60% EM 40% Thermal approximately and my enemy has 90% thermal resistance and 80% EM resistance.. i'm not scratching him for crap
300 base DPS [well equipped well skilled player] in that setup is 180 EM DPS, 120 Thermal DPS. Apply enemy resistances that's 18 EM and 24 Thermal for a total of 42 DPS
no way in heck im breaking that enemies tank if it's another player or one of the better NPCs
heh you make that sound like the suprisees are somehow tipped off to the bigger iron.. they're not. the big iron doesn't make a difference in jump time until there are a LOT of people in the system.
but a system with 800 people in multiple fleets all duking it out and it doesn't sneeze while the total active connections gamewide is 48000+ ... that's well designed
Caveat:
Denidil[XSCX]
yes they respected seniority.. that isn't unique to unions.
they did have written-in-stone minimum standards to let a pilot fly.
that one that crashed in buffalo in january would never have been allowed in the sky by the pilots union
you can thank all the shitty pilots in the US airways on the breaking of the pilots union.
that union had some STANDARDS for who they would let fly.
my wife and i quite regularly use our local library
all that "UB" means is that the standard doesn't care. and it always describes something that you're not supposed to do.
No problem with predictability there.
actually the law in most states is "go with the flow of traffic"
my father actually got out of a ticket for doing 80 in a 55 once (before the 55-limit-laws were repealed) - because every other driver on the road [all 20 of them] were doing it to.. of course it was 3 am and they were the only traffic on the road and the pod-dunk suburb served by 3 officers didnt' want to go up against 20-heavy machinery dealing-with guys :D
did you just attempt to claim c++ isn't predictable?
and then expect us to listen to you on anything else?
they're choosing java because it's the current "enterprisey" "solution"
a lot of people, including those of us who are software engineers, prefer hard physical books. im not going to shell out for a kindle, books are portable easy on the eyes and shelves full of books in your house makes you look SMRT :D
oh and some things i will NEVER, EVER switch to electronic media for no matter how much money I have. My field survival guides, edible plant guides, maps, etc that I take with me into the back country.
that unfortunately is harder information to find.
you missed the entire point of my post.
Comparing WORM is cheaper than WR. Comparing WR to WR is not a valid analogy for comparing WORM to WORM. Stamped DVDs are cheaper that DVD-Rs for a reason, and they're both cheaper than DVD-RWs. The same has been true for a lot of other mediums.
Game cartridges can be WORM with a small WR save storage.
Solid state WORM is assuredly cheaper than solid state WMRM
$15 for an 8GB SDHC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000068&Description=8gb&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE
$9 for micro 4GB SDHC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000068&Description=4gb&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE
i would wager most PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii games could fit on a 4GB or smaller.
motion controllers not registering your moves?? ooooh that is so annoying
the one time i've played a Wii we were playing that bowling/boxing/whatever cluster-of-games (is that WiiFit?) anyway in the boxing one the game would throw one punch for every 5-10 I threw.. it just wasn't fast enough to keep up with me... or if it was it simply refused to.
ah, we're not likely to run into each other in game then.
FA is ally to CVA et. al. and operates out of Providence, Tash-Murkon and Domain regions
I'm still relatively new to the game (started in november, took a two month break, just came back two weeks ago).. I need to find some good money making.
I got really lucky first week of january (I was jobless at the time - between my graduating from school and getting a job) and in my first week in 0.0 space made 500 million dollars shooting down Interstellar Exodus raiders in Providence.. but other than that I've been kinda screwed on money.... though that did get me a lot of nice ships - a Hulk with Cargo rigs for my alt account, three rigged Harbis (0.0 ratter, level 3 missioner, W-space explorer) an Omen Navi (missions), etc.
What's your pilot name?
I'm Denidil from Shadowed Command [XSCX], executor corp of Fatal Ascension [FA]
it shouldn't be too surprising... he actively refused donations from lobbyists (snopes confirms)
Its exactly like why felons do not need to register their guns with the government
Because THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE THEM, They're not registering it because IT'S ILLEGAL FOR THEM TO POSSESS IT
Hence, criminals get more protection than law-abiding citizens.
That's a really retarded conclusion based on a really retarded analysis from a really retarded person.
gawd you're the very embodiment of a gun-nutter
why is it the people i trust with guns the least are the ones that want them the most.....
A) I have no problem with socialism if it ends up in better prosperity for the people. I don't have an phobia of government providing services to its citizens, though I think our government could do so much more efficiently.
I also understand the alternative to the government becoming investors in some of these companies: even worse economic conditions that would be the result of those economic institutions collapsing. (the Big 3... that's another story)
B) "Strong armed"? haardly... that's blown massively out of proportion. They had a choice: renegotiate their debt with Chrysler and get at least some of it back, refuse to go to the table and let Chrysler go chapter 11 and get none of it back.
No government "strong arming" needed, just not having a head up your posterior. Only an idiot (and lately the financial system has been FULL of those) would risk the second scenario.
Furthermore this entire situation is the result of government inaction - "companies to big to fail" don't exist in Capitalism, they only exist in Laissez Faire, Corporatism and similiar systems. Companies "too big to fail" are the result of 8 years of the (Bush admin) government refusing to enforce the Sherman Act! Combined with Raygun, Slick Willy and Schrubya and their congresses stripping the post-depression banking regulations that kept investment banks and comercial banks separate among a buttload of other regulations.
Yes there is a failure of government involved in this economic crisis - but it's not "failing by being involved" its failure by inaction. Capitalism is not ruled by an invisible hand, Capitalism only exists so long as the government makes sure one player cannot screw every other player over: failure to enforce this results in Laissez-faire, which inevitable results in economic collapses as too much wealth and power gets concentrated into too few hands. Without expendable income in the pockets of the prime consumers you have a drop in consumption, which leads to a rise in inventory, which leads to a reduction in workers, which leads to a reduction in consumption.. you get where this self-reinforcement cycle is going.
It took us the Great Depression to learn
1) You don't let major banks collapse into nothing [getting taken over by the fed = utter failure these days, without ruining the consumers who used that bank]
2) You don't let Commercial Banks and Investment Banks be the same thing
3) When consumption is down you MUST STIMULATE CONSUMPTION, it's the only way to get things moving again - you must spend money, even if it's deficit spending, it will pay off.
and that's just a few of the lessons.
it's pathetic that we refuse to learn from the past
HA! You truly must be ignorant if you think I watch Faux News OR CNBC... that network can rot in whatever hell their creators believe in. And saying that I "Don't think for myself" is simply laughable, and almost certainly ironic.
I'm going to respond to the impressions I get from your post, if I'm off base please be more specific in what your criticism is so that I can respond to it more specifically instead of making educated conjectures based on the general demographics of people who make comments like yours
Main Street would be EVEN MORE farked up if we let them fail, don't think I'm happy that we couldn't let them fail - they certainly deserved it - but saving their arses helps mitigate the damage to Main Street. Don't assume that because someone supports something you don't means they're ignorant, they might actually have a better understanding of economics than you.
And as for your "all Hail the free market" - if by the "free market" you mean "laissez-faire" then you really reveal a problem with your economic understanding: this crash is the result of laissez-faire. Firms large enough that their failure would cause as widespread harm as AIGs and the big banks are only possible in laissez-faire - not capitalism. Companies of that size are indicative of the failure to enforce antitrust and banking regulations.
Laissez-faire is not Capitalism, Capitalism is not a diety, any pure economic system [pure communism, pure socialism, pure laissez-faire, pure capitalism] is also inadvisable. If you actually look at the planet the most stable and economically prosperous system has been a Socio-Capitalistic system not a Laissez-Faire to Capitalist spectrum system.