Fingerprints seem only useful for identification in my mind, why do you find it ridiculous that the government wants them? Identification is very important and always has been. In this case the fingerprint also identifies a physical object you've touched or place you've been. The print itself has ZERO information about you. Nobody can tell anything about you from a print.. heck your first name reveals more about you than your print. Are you afraid of giving your name away?
oh, i know a fantastic example. Babies. When a baby is born it is immediately "footprinted" so that there can be no mistake who's baby it really is. Is that such a terrible thing?
Your truck/car is registered with a VIN/make/model/color and your name. There is a delicate chain of paperwork that connects you to your name and you should be glad those documents exist. Most States require an index or thumb print to get your drivers license now too. You may not be able to avoid staying unprinted for very long.
If you created your own music... sold it through the itunes store.. bought it from itunes then republished the downloaded song as a torrent i could see your point. This private info thing only affects songs you downloaded from itunes.
Something else to point out is this type of warning label wouldn't affect online sales. Physical retail stores will start looking like death dealers though. Parents will see the labels as proof that it causes violence and warm up parents to idea that banning games is good.
Newer Guy, you are dead wrong. The cockpit doors were a great upgrade but to say that Airport security does nothing is dead wrong. Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid_(shoe_bomber) for reasons why security should be tight. I agree that a lot of the security checks/requirements are rediculous but certainly improves airtravel security.
I have heard many people say what you're describing. That it takes years to get equal to players already in the game. I have two Characters that are several years old (one PVP+Capital, the other a Carebear), what you describe is exactly true. But i also think people are stuck in this mindset of "He's older so he's rich and stronger and i can never beat him." Which is very untrue. EVE is like rock-paper-scissors with spaceships on steroids. Get into a BlackBird (t1 cruiser) and your buddy in a Rupture (t1 cruiser) and you can take down more than you thought possible.
Anyways, I very much like the fact that someone can't max their PVP skills AND max their carebear skills... that adds so much to the game.. actual character Classes that aren't selected as much as created over time. Honestly, i PVP with my Carebear in a rupture far far more than with my PVP alt in his Battleship (lvl5) & T2 everything ships.
Soo, you're saying they aren't dumb at all then? and that they need to step up their QAQC (and red tape and bureaucracy). It always amazes me how one broken bolt could bring down something so monumental. Kind of silly that something so large and powerful needs to be pampered and babysat 24/7 or it'll blow up in everyone's face.
I know a lot of people never thought SpaceX would get this far. I watched the first three Falcon1's explode like everyone else before this last successful launch in Sept (even though it had no real payload). I'm hopeful their Falcon9 starts out successful.
Steam Fact #81 If you come home and discover your home has burned down to it's foundations while you were at work, you can still go nextdoor to your neighbors and play all your Steam games.
I think Gordon Freeman would come busting through a vent and crowbar down some rentacops (for their ammo).. push a few buttons and BAM, steam games saved..
So you're saying a windows OS compiled for use in 2001 runs better on a computer from the year 2001 than say Linux compiled in 2008 (with Desktop packages for 2008 boxen) on a box from 2001?
Pretty sure i had a sweet ass Enlightenment desktop on my RedHat box in 2001 man.
I do acknowledge "COnfiguring a Linux install, on the other hand, is a massive, time-costly research session" to a point.
You don't however mention that you Can't do much with that WinXP cd that "you just pop in the cd and check a few boxes". Don't forget all the drivers disks you need to install that WinXp too.
Eve is all about having friends you get along with, in my opinion.
For pvp i'd suggest joining a good empire based Merc corporation/alliance. Just alternate between learning and core pvp skills so you don't get bored with training. Fly a frigate with rat loot fitted in as many battles as you can. You'll quickly figure out what type of ship fits your game play style. A good corp will also practice with you and help you fit your ship.
For starting out as a carebear, i'd suggest joining a smallish 15-40 man empire based industrial Corporation. This way you get to know your corpies pretty well and still have enough man power to work on larger projects like T2 invention/production and capital ship production.
Eventually you might want to turn your attention to joining a 0.0 alliance (or push your corp to join.. politics can be fun too). But you should never accept a corporation that abuses it's members or uses it's members to make a few wealthy. There are hundreds of great groups out there, you'll find the one you fit in best, i'm sure.
I promise that if you had the best gun, extra med kit, drugs, and a grenade(or molotov, if that's your thing) that even with all that.. you couldn't run through any L4D level alone. Keeping your team alive is the key to survival in the game. If Normal difficulty is too easy for you, move up! I promise you can get more out of the game if you scale up the difficulty. Turn down the lights and play alone in the dark, that helps too. I personally dread Boomers.. there's nothing like getting puked on.. you can't see for one and you can hear the hoard of zombies coming for you. I try to hide in a corner and blast anything moving (it's hard to see with puke all over your face, btw) More often than not i end up incapacitated or dead if the team is busy fighting off a Hunter or something. It's easy to run out of ammo on the more difficult settings too.
Pretty sure horses still need to be shod and wooden fences built and gates fixed and bricks laid and mail delivered and snow shoveled and old ladies helped up the stairs (not exactly a job) and trash removed and books sorted and heavy things carried around. Not all jobs are "technical".
In the case of steam though, a VAC ban and you lost the game.. forever. The only cases where a person can escape a VAC ban and not lose their account is with internet cafes. But i know some places automatically kick all SteamIDs in the internetcafe band of ids. Voogru made a mod that specifically does this.
Something else Valve does to complicate matters is once your hack is detected.. they don't do anything for days or weeks. They randomly wait and pretend it didn't happen. Then bam, VACbanned. So someone researching vulnerabilities won't know which one was detected, or which game, or when.
Is it worth cheating if you get VAC banned and have to rebuy the game? That arms race sounds very expensive..
I think the whole college book thing is a scam. Other than law and tax books, there isn't a need for a new edition every year that is a compulsory upgrade.
The campus bookstore makes a killing from students then rebuys the book for 1/2 the sell price (if the edition is still new). Then they mark it up close to the original sell price and resell it. After a semester or two most students discover half.com or ebay to get their books. But now you are running into things like Professors announcing which required books you need for the next semester. It takes a week or two minimum to get your book online. arg, so painful : /
Anyways, i don't think a lot of school book publishers will support the ebook thing because they can't buy it back and resell it. Not only that, but once it's electronic the ability to copy and redistribute is much easier. Arguably, the college student demographic does a lot of pirating.
I think he meant putting FF3 in the stable branch. I haven't synced for a while but if you did a normal "emerge mozilla-firefox" you'd get FF2. You have to explicitly say you want FF3 to get it. Then if you did an "emerge -vu world" it would of course, replace FF3 with FF2.
Most of my programming references are online. I guess i could get hardcopies of most of it instead? But damn, sometimes i need a break from programming and being able to fire up some HL2 mod or EVE-online is nice. But you're right, something should have been specifically set up to prevent this source theft.
I think you're seeing this from the wrong angle. The trash is "fuel" for the turbine. Think along the lines of coal burning power plants. The coal isn't free, it's a resource that is used to create electricity. I don't see how burning trash would be that different?
The article is offline right now.. so i'm really just guessing here. But the purpose of the plant isn't just another powerplant, it's a trash removal plant as well.
I second the Half-Life1 AI being good. Many games today still don't measure up to it.. that was 1998! It was mostly the squad behavior that made it so good.. though i've read that wasn't programmed in. Each entity acted on it's own.. any appearance of teamwork was emergent behavior.
Your skills are NOT useless, why would they become useless? The fact that you can fit & use T2 large blasters is fantastic. Do you understand why people are saying blasters will become uselsess? It doesn't have much to do with blasters.. it's the weakened webifier and MWD stuff. Blaster Megathrons won't be able to zoom up tackle and kill any ship in the game anymore. You certainly will be able to refit an Afterburner instead of MicroWarpDrive and focus your attacks on other Battleships and slow vessels. This is good news for the rest of EVE, frigates will become very useful again.
Gallente have been THE pvp race for a while, it was Amarr once and Amarr are pretty balanced now. It looks like Minmatar will be a much better option after this next patch. Caldari are still pretty much the same since the birth of eve. The changes that you are worried about will affect everyone in EVE, not just Gallente.
You should really look at that bottom graph. It looks like some users dropped right around the time ghost training was nerfed. Other than that, i see a gradual and steady growth in the userbase from 2005-present date.
Don't be so down about it. This nerf is light (yes i said light) compared to nerfs of the past. Remember Warp to zero? Nos nerf, ECM nerf, the first nano nerf(remember the NanoTyphoon?), Torp range nerf, WarpCoreStabilizer nerf, modifying ships like Drake, Myrmidon, and others. Not all changes are bad either. I remember when they literally doubled the hull/armor/shield points of every ship in EVE, that was crazy. But all these changes keep the game fun and on a level playing field. Small ships will be a viable option in fleets again.
Your skills aren't worthless, wtf were you training? This was not directed at you, this is a blanket nerf to all of EVE. So refit your ship, get creative, and most of all; undock and kill some bastards
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Fingerprints seem only useful for identification in my mind, why do you find it ridiculous that the government wants them? Identification is very important and always has been. In this case the fingerprint also identifies a physical object you've touched or place you've been. The print itself has ZERO information about you. Nobody can tell anything about you from a print.. heck your first name reveals more about you than your print. Are you afraid of giving your name away?
oh, i know a fantastic example. Babies. When a baby is born it is immediately "footprinted" so that there can be no mistake who's baby it really is. Is that such a terrible thing?
Your truck/car is registered with a VIN/make/model/color and your name. There is a delicate chain of paperwork that connects you to your name and you should be glad those documents exist. Most States require an index or thumb print to get your drivers license now too. You may not be able to avoid staying unprinted for very long.
If you created your own music... sold it through the itunes store.. bought it from itunes then republished the downloaded song as a torrent i could see your point. This private info thing only affects songs you downloaded from itunes.
Something else to point out is this type of warning label wouldn't affect online sales. Physical retail stores will start looking like death dealers though. Parents will see the labels as proof that it causes violence and warm up parents to idea that banning games is good.
That's puppeteer talk right there
Newer Guy, you are dead wrong. The cockpit doors were a great upgrade but to say that Airport security does nothing is dead wrong. Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid_(shoe_bomber) for reasons why security should be tight. I agree that a lot of the security checks/requirements are rediculous but certainly improves airtravel security.
I have heard many people say what you're describing. That it takes years to get equal to players already in the game. I have two Characters that are several years old (one PVP+Capital, the other a Carebear), what you describe is exactly true. But i also think people are stuck in this mindset of "He's older so he's rich and stronger and i can never beat him." Which is very untrue. EVE is like rock-paper-scissors with spaceships on steroids. Get into a BlackBird (t1 cruiser) and your buddy in a Rupture (t1 cruiser) and you can take down more than you thought possible.
Anyways, I very much like the fact that someone can't max their PVP skills AND max their carebear skills... that adds so much to the game.. actual character Classes that aren't selected as much as created over time. Honestly, i PVP with my Carebear in a rupture far far more than with my PVP alt in his Battleship (lvl5) & T2 everything ships.
Soo, you're saying they aren't dumb at all then? and that they need to step up their QAQC (and red tape and bureaucracy). It always amazes me how one broken bolt could bring down something so monumental. Kind of silly that something so large and powerful needs to be pampered and babysat 24/7 or it'll blow up in everyone's face.
The offical site and news: http://www.spacex.com/updates.php It says exactly what the article links to, just a bit more offical ;)
I know a lot of people never thought SpaceX would get this far. I watched the first three Falcon1's explode like everyone else before this last successful launch in Sept (even though it had no real payload). I'm hopeful their Falcon9 starts out successful.
Steam Fact #81
If you come home and discover your home has burned down to it's foundations while you were at work, you can still go nextdoor to your neighbors and play all your Steam games.
I think Gordon Freeman would come busting through a vent and crowbar down some rentacops (for their ammo).. push a few buttons and BAM, steam games saved..
So you're saying a windows OS compiled for use in 2001 runs better on a computer from the year 2001 than say Linux compiled in 2008 (with Desktop packages for 2008 boxen) on a box from 2001?
Pretty sure i had a sweet ass Enlightenment desktop on my RedHat box in 2001 man.
I do acknowledge "COnfiguring a Linux install, on the other hand, is a massive, time-costly research session" to a point.
You don't however mention that you Can't do much with that WinXP cd that "you just pop in the cd and check a few boxes". Don't forget all the drivers disks you need to install that WinXp too.
Eve is all about having friends you get along with, in my opinion.
For pvp i'd suggest joining a good empire based Merc corporation/alliance. Just alternate between learning and core pvp skills so you don't get bored with training. Fly a frigate with rat loot fitted in as many battles as you can. You'll quickly figure out what type of ship fits your game play style. A good corp will also practice with you and help you fit your ship.
For starting out as a carebear, i'd suggest joining a smallish 15-40 man empire based industrial Corporation. This way you get to know your corpies pretty well and still have enough man power to work on larger projects like T2 invention/production and capital ship production.
Eventually you might want to turn your attention to joining a 0.0 alliance (or push your corp to join.. politics can be fun too). But you should never accept a corporation that abuses it's members or uses it's members to make a few wealthy. There are hundreds of great groups out there, you'll find the one you fit in best, i'm sure.
In the MMO i play you get to destroy other people's wheels, i love my EVE :)
I promise that if you had the best gun, extra med kit, drugs, and a grenade(or molotov, if that's your thing) that even with all that.. you couldn't run through any L4D level alone. Keeping your team alive is the key to survival in the game. If Normal difficulty is too easy for you, move up! I promise you can get more out of the game if you scale up the difficulty. Turn down the lights and play alone in the dark, that helps too. I personally dread Boomers.. there's nothing like getting puked on.. you can't see for one and you can hear the hoard of zombies coming for you. I try to hide in a corner and blast anything moving (it's hard to see with puke all over your face, btw) More often than not i end up incapacitated or dead if the team is busy fighting off a Hunter or something. It's easy to run out of ammo on the more difficult settings too.
Pretty sure horses still need to be shod and wooden fences built and gates fixed and bricks laid and mail delivered and snow shoveled and old ladies helped up the stairs (not exactly a job) and trash removed and books sorted and heavy things carried around. Not all jobs are "technical".
In the case of steam though, a VAC ban and you lost the game.. forever. The only cases where a person can escape a VAC ban and not lose their account is with internet cafes. But i know some places automatically kick all SteamIDs in the internetcafe band of ids. Voogru made a mod that specifically does this.
Something else Valve does to complicate matters is once your hack is detected.. they don't do anything for days or weeks. They randomly wait and pretend it didn't happen. Then bam, VACbanned. So someone researching vulnerabilities won't know which one was detected, or which game, or when.
Is it worth cheating if you get VAC banned and have to rebuy the game? That arms race sounds very expensive..
You loonie, that's Robert A. Heinlein's book :)
I think the whole college book thing is a scam. Other than law and tax books, there isn't a need for a new edition every year that is a compulsory upgrade.
The campus bookstore makes a killing from students then rebuys the book for 1/2 the sell price (if the edition is still new). Then they mark it up close to the original sell price and resell it. After a semester or two most students discover half.com or ebay to get their books. But now you are running into things like Professors announcing which required books you need for the next semester. It takes a week or two minimum to get your book online. arg, so painful : /
Anyways, i don't think a lot of school book publishers will support the ebook thing because they can't buy it back and resell it. Not only that, but once it's electronic the ability to copy and redistribute is much easier. Arguably, the college student demographic does a lot of pirating.
I think he meant putting FF3 in the stable branch. I haven't synced for a while but if you did a normal "emerge mozilla-firefox" you'd get FF2. You have to explicitly say you want FF3 to get it. Then if you did an "emerge -vu world" it would of course, replace FF3 with FF2.
BTW, that's a shit tonne of compiling : /
Most of my programming references are online. I guess i could get hardcopies of most of it instead? But damn, sometimes i need a break from programming and being able to fire up some HL2 mod or EVE-online is nice. But you're right, something should have been specifically set up to prevent this source theft.
I think you're seeing this from the wrong angle. The trash is "fuel" for the turbine. Think along the lines of coal burning power plants. The coal isn't free, it's a resource that is used to create electricity. I don't see how burning trash would be that different?
The article is offline right now.. so i'm really just guessing here. But the purpose of the plant isn't just another powerplant, it's a trash removal plant as well.
I second the Half-Life1 AI being good. Many games today still don't measure up to it.. that was 1998! It was mostly the squad behavior that made it so good.. though i've read that wasn't programmed in. Each entity acted on it's own.. any appearance of teamwork was emergent behavior.
Your skills are NOT useless, why would they become useless? The fact that you can fit & use T2 large blasters is fantastic. Do you understand why people are saying blasters will become uselsess? It doesn't have much to do with blasters.. it's the weakened webifier and MWD stuff. Blaster Megathrons won't be able to zoom up tackle and kill any ship in the game anymore. You certainly will be able to refit an Afterburner instead of MicroWarpDrive and focus your attacks on other Battleships and slow vessels. This is good news for the rest of EVE, frigates will become very useful again.
Gallente have been THE pvp race for a while, it was Amarr once and Amarr are pretty balanced now. It looks like Minmatar will be a much better option after this next patch. Caldari are still pretty much the same since the birth of eve. The changes that you are worried about will affect everyone in EVE, not just Gallente.
You should really look at that bottom graph. It looks like some users dropped right around the time ghost training was nerfed. Other than that, i see a gradual and steady growth in the userbase from 2005-present date.
Don't be so down about it. This nerf is light (yes i said light) compared to nerfs of the past. Remember Warp to zero? Nos nerf, ECM nerf, the first nano nerf(remember the NanoTyphoon?), Torp range nerf, WarpCoreStabilizer nerf, modifying ships like Drake, Myrmidon, and others. Not all changes are bad either. I remember when they literally doubled the hull/armor/shield points of every ship in EVE, that was crazy. But all these changes keep the game fun and on a level playing field. Small ships will be a viable option in fleets again.
Your skills aren't worthless, wtf were you training? This was not directed at you, this is a blanket nerf to all of EVE. So refit your ship, get creative, and most of all; undock and kill some bastards
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