Is the one that uses the telephone book(yellow pages) to authenticate that you are actually standing in front of the machine. You see, this system would randomly pick a name out of the phone book (most common was John Smith) and you had to enter the correct telephone number to gain access to the system.
Fortunately the yellow pages would be next to the keyboard for easy reference. I just don't know why people couldn't put in the correct phone number. The failed access log would be full in a matter of minutes. We also lost a lot of telephone books too.
Sec DoD "Mr President, we have been using the Hubble Telescope pointed towards Earch, and we believe that we found Osama Bin Laden."
Pres "Yippy, show me the images!"
Sec DoD "Calm down Mr President" shows photos
Pres "So which one is him?"
Sec DoD "This streak here"
Pres "Fine send Special Forces."
12 hours later
Pres "How did that operation Kill Osama to improve my ratings go?"
Sec DoD "Well Mr President, we encountered a problem"
Pres "How serious?"
Sec DoD "It was a mis-calculation in the time and where the hubble was pointed at the time. To sum things down, the white/black streak was actually a island off of Hawaii, not sure which one, but once strategic forces determined where to drop the special forces team, no one realized until it was too late."
Pres "Too late for what?"
Sec DoD "Sharks sir."
Sec DoD "The hubble was never ment to be used pointed towards Earth, so we didn't really lose out... We just basically took some of our military budget and moved the money to NASAs budget. Either way, we are 5 special forces squads short now."
I mean, sure pirates have cool eye patches, and peg-legs, and shout 'Parlay' when in a bind, but what will the Pirates use to create Windows Install CDs with all the patches already.... oh wait.. slipstreamed... Nevermind... Pirates already solved this issue.
I don't want my video signal to be broadcasted... at most if EVER upto 3ft, is all I want my Video signal to ever reach.
As it is, I've been able to tap into(errr capture) the wireless signal used by a company I work with, that monitors the employee breakroom, front door, lobby, and conference room. By far, at least these locations are considered public access (except the break room), but its my opinion that a computer screen should never be wireless.
Its the paranoid in me that says, someone may capture my video signal and see everything I do.
Am I wrong to think this. At least add one or two levels of intrustion/capture prevention, and we are set. Even if its false sense of security, at least make it to the point someone HAS to be doing something illegal. We've been over this subject with wireless access points.
Thanks for clearing things up for me... I really (originally) didn't understand what all the fuss was about until now.
I've never used Spamhaus to help filter spam from my mail servers, so personally... 'bring it on spammers!'. With that said. Spamhaus needs to gather some balls, and start facing the facts. If they pissed on the judicial system, and hoped that it would work their way, and it didn't, then boo hoo for them.
Again, originally I was rooting for spamhaus to take e360 to the cleaners, but now that I see spamhaus is basically a bunch of underage wine babies, then they deserve to be kicked in the ass.
You are all wrong... The key to successful AI is the INTERNET!
Yes, when I ask my android where would I find the answer to 42... its response should be "The Internet! oh and porn! would you like to see another Hot Lezbo Teen flick?"
I'm looking to bake a cake? response "Fruit cakes are good, but why not buy one online... here is a nice one, Barry's Hot Fruit Cakes, it comes from Asylum Ridge... buy now?"
I have the correct solution... Jackie Chan has been wanting to make a firefighter movie for years... And now he has his chance. The plot would be, exactly this. Neds getting firefighters to a neighborhood only to throw stones at the poor firemen. Only this time... Its Jackie! and he's pissed! Chairs, doors, tables, TVs, refrigerators all on fire... but Jackie uses them all as prop weapons! I'm so submitting this one!
As the general consensus is saying, two monitors seem to be better than one.
Some have stated 3 or more is better. I agree, because my own setup is a 3 monitor setup with a laptop that uses Synergy to allow for my mouse/keyboard from the desktop to scale over to it.
I have a 19", 21", 19" setup. All are same brand(Samsung), and same goes from my laptop (Dell with Samsung 15" LCD). While work related attributes are productive in my point of view, gaming and watching movies, would be better suited on a single large 20+" screen. Since my third LCD is on a different video card, I have my HDTV turner card set to this monitor, so I can play games and watch TV at the same time. Sure my chair has been ass printed for my ass only, and I've gained an extra 20 or so pounds over the past year or so. But that doesn't account for productivity!
I'm not objecting to your comment, but I would say, times are changing.
As with the basis of this slashdot poll, I think the problem with most is this statistic, that this bases everything on a broad range of games. While the slashdot community assumes they are talking about actual gamers. ie: men vs women, with high-end gaming rigs playing MMOs, FPS, or RTS. Not box puzzle, like games. The problem here is we consider 'gamer' to be on the level of owning a gaming rig, and competing in MMOs, FPS, etc...
As your comment goes, times are changing. The last office I worked at, we had 4 female programmers, and 2 male programmers. Still the ratio was more men, because of everyone in the office, we also had 5 more male IT staff members(non-programmers). 7/4 males are still dominating. But this company was a upstart software company. Who knows how many more upstarts, or existing companies have more female IT employees than male. With the short time with this upstart company, I encountered two female IT business owners.
Times ARE changing... what are we MEN supposed to do when we are dominated by our puzzle playing overlords?
I've always been one looking up into the stars, but never have I heard or seen anything as awesome as this youtube clip. What I don't understand is... our universe is 250 billion lightyears in size? I thought we couldn't measure our universe? I mean I know our galaxy is... huge! and our solar system is roughly... less huge (HAHAHAH big numbers!)
Have we been able to size our Universe? because if that has happened WTF has happened to all the news about it. "Tonight at 11! The universe gets a size, and it larger than XXXXXXL" "back to you Diane, and your small tits!"
You know... I know that would catch alot of false positives... so how about an additional rule
Rule 1. Its always false
Rule 2. If thinks its true refer to rule #1.
(at least with this rule set, you verify all the false positives) (I loved my teachers that had this banner on the door Rule #1, teacher is always right, if teacher is wrong, refer to Rule #1)
Because before, I never took my watch off... I have always been afraid of the watch gnomes. Those little bastards get everything I take off my body. Last time I took off my sunglasses... shit I had to buy another pair the next day. and WTF, they appear right after I buy a new pair. But this time, they were right on top of my head when I found them AFTER buying the new pair. Now don't even say it was the sales person's fault for not telling me, that they were there just so they could sell me another pair.
Joking aside... I personally, take everything off my body when I goto bed, shower, swim (well swim I sometimes keep the watch on, (timeing my breath holding skills)), mud wrestling, etc.
I think as the comments go on, Incentives are required for people to do what should be normally done. With my 'late' ipod, I used to charge it every night because I would place it in the docking cradle and it would play on my surround sound system. As for my phone(s), I charged them every other day, because sooner or later I'd get that one phone call that would kill the battery (thank gawd for travel/car chargers). Bluetooth devices are the same, PDAs, Cameras, lappytops, etc. We all have something that reminds us to take it off and recharge it. Whats another watch with bluetooth gonna need from us? take it off at night and charge it.
Your kidding me... I've encountered software on Ver 10.98 to be horribly buggy. The company I worked for purchased a Point of Sales software package (NEW) and they sent us 10.98, I figured, heck it works, right! Well after 3 to 4 weeks of tinkering, and trying to get the damn thing to work correctly (Database syntax issues), finally after multiple calls to tech support, I find out our version 10.98 was WAY old. (3 months old), and they had a patch to ver 11.045.
I'm not going to name names... but rpe SUCKS. (until ver 11.045) but even still... there are probably a million more syntax issues between database, and cc transaction software that it's supposed to support.
HAHAHAHAH I had a similar conversations... but instead I went through the entire 'unsupported' list.
I called to subscribe to Cable internet. (I recently moved, on a risk, that bombed)
me : "Hi I want high-speed.... blah blah blah" info given cs : "Ok, I need to know kind of computer you are going to connect to the modem, desktop or laptop?" me : "both" cs : "ok, umm which one, desktop or laptop?" me : "desktop AND a laptop through a router" cs : "ok, what OS are you running on your desktop?" me : "Linux Red Hat.." cs : "I'm sorry, but we don't support Linux. any other OS?" me : "Yeah, Unix..." cs : "ummmmm.... (long pause), We don't support Unix either" me : "Apple G4, OSX 10.4.." cs : "Do you have Windows?" me : "Yeah I'm looking out of one right now... oh... you mean Microsoft... yes I have one of those, WindowsXP SP2." cs : "yes, great we can help you, I can schedule a installer for you for this we..." me : "so the point of me telling you I'm connecting a router ment absolutely nothing to you?" cs : "What kind of router?" me : "Linksys" cs : "which model?" me : "DD-WRT v23 SP2" cs : long pause.... *I hear alot of typing in the background* "I don't see us being able to support that kind of router" me : "you don't support it at all, I do... why would you support........
OK I'm bored of typing again... but you get the point, I'm an asshole, and I could have played stupid and answered with the correct answers to make that long 25 minute call into a 3 or 4 minute call. Either way, its fun to through detailed answers based on open ended questions. (or at a inexperienced cs.)
While I am not a fan of Fantasy MMOs, it is mainly because of the monthly dues. Plus my personality really isn't into Fantasy, its with Sci-Fi space sims.
Lately I have been playing Darkstar One, which to me is a re-incarnation of WC: Privateer, but with a better looking ship, and weapons. I have been into this game the moment I found the demo, and have been playing non-stop even though at this point all I am doing in the game is playing the randomly generated 'quickie cash' missions. (I'm improving my Saitek X45 flyin g skills)
I've gotten into EVE, and I really love the vast universe it brings to me. I could get lost into such a vast sci-fi mmo, but one things holds me back from getting into the 'monthly pay for' phase of game play. Its the interaction with my piloting of my space(craft)ship.
Sci-Fi MMOs have to abide by higher gameplay standards than that of Fantasy MMOs. Fantasy has to create scenic worlds, on a planet. While Sci-Fi, needs to create planets, within galaxies, to which even our own knowledge of the universe is incomplete so everything must be created theroy. While I will settle for EVE mixed with Freelance, and Privateer qualities, physics and game play are very hard to incorporate into a MMO. How about the alien races. I'm pretty sure, that a Sci-Fi MMO could just involve humans the way EVE has done. The storyline is impresive, create 6 human races with entirely different cultures. Attempt to create a universe with peace. Give the player a ship, and tell him to survive in space. DONE.
Just make the space physics, economy, social interaction (go ahead and create space stations with NPCs, hell make planets with NPCs too... Go as far as allowing people to goto 10 or more places on one planet) But as long as I can combat like a pilot against uneven odds of space pirates/bounty hunters/alien races, then fly home on the last leg of my spaceship to the nearest solar system to fix my ship, and fix my next job, then... and ONLY THEN will I be happy.
Here is what I would want in a Sci-Fi MMO;
1. Vast Universe... (EVE's universe is huge... I know it would take me years to goto each solar system, only to go back to one, and its been changed entirely. Thats how reality works too)
2. Human/Alien Races... (I have no problem dealing with some foreign alien, Rule #1 if it shoots at me, I shoot back. nuff said)
3. Economy... (EVE, excells, heck I could possibly find enough friends to help me manage a vast company in EVE, but hell, I need better friends to help me manage my OWN finances. Make the economy complex, but also allow for some form of automation, that will pay the ingame bills, every time you goto a planet/space station)
4. Gameplay Interaction... (This one is what EVE lacks. Put in some flight controls, and first person POV so I can duke it out with space pirates. If my ship exploids then... shits, I'm a bad pilot. Restart at the nearist planet/spacestation, and lose the mission.)
5. Gameplay cont... (As with Dying, respawning is not a bad idea for Sci-Fi.. heck we don't explain WHY when I die in Guild Wars, I end up alive at the nearest gateway, why not in a sci-fi sim as well) With Darkstar One, when I die at the lasers of a pirate, I just reload my most recently autosaved game, and retry.
6. graphics... (Things can't get worse from todays standards of MMO graphics, so at this point it can only get more detailed, or stay the same. EVE has done well with the online MMO for Sci-fi graphics)
7. Customizability of... (Characters, Ok, so Fantasy allows you to customize how your character looks, Sci-Fi can do the same thing with characters. You start off as a person/alien anyways, so let us customize five or more races of human or alien.)
8. Customizability of... (Spaceships, well for sci-fi why not customize your spaceship. Give users 10 or more types of spaceships they can start from, and then allow us to customize the wings, engines, shields, paint jobs, computers, etc. I know we'll upgrad
This is a virus created for Windows users, and it is based on the honor system.
Please forward this email and its trojan/virus written attachment to all your
Microsoft based users, and let them know how much you care!
Lets take a look at population... China has a much larger population than the US. China also has a higher unemployment/poverty level than the USA does.
I see the assembly line being filed with workers being paid low wages is better than 1/16th that because a assembly machine could replace all those jobs. Then that would increase the poverty/unemployment levels all over China. We have to realize in the US, we take automated systems for granted, we expect our 'stuff' to be made faster, cheaper, and more reliable. We pay more for equipment to perform those repetitive tasks so that we don't have to have people doing those tasks, and end up creating duds. However, thanks to automation, we lose jobs.
Again, China may have a 'militant' working conditions, low pay, and poor living conditions. But if China was to go completely automated, then what will their population do? The USA can get away with this because we have employment programs, and social networking for skilled people. People in the US have no problem in getting work (we tend to be lazy about it though) But China doesn't. People who live in poverty will always live in poverty, unless someone within the family breaks themselves in order to raise themselves up a notch in the social level.
DISCLAIMER(All of this is my point of view of how the world works... none of this is actual investigation. I know plenty of people in China through ICQ, or IRC, and most of my experiences are 1st/2nd hand stories.)/DISCLAIMER
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Is the one that uses the telephone book(yellow pages) to authenticate that you are actually standing in front of the machine. You see, this system would randomly pick a name out of the phone book (most common was John Smith) and you had to enter the correct telephone number to gain access to the system.
Fortunately the yellow pages would be next to the keyboard for easy reference. I just don't know why people couldn't put in the correct phone number. The failed access log would be full in a matter of minutes. We also lost a lot of telephone books too.
Pres "Where is this Earch?"
Sec DoD "not sure sir, but we have lost three hundred men due to it... We should Declair War on Earch!"
Pres "Done, this will get the press off my back about Iraq"
Sec DoD "Mr President, we have been using the Hubble Telescope pointed towards Earch, and we believe that we found Osama Bin Laden."
Pres "Yippy, show me the images!"
Sec DoD "Calm down Mr President" shows photos
Pres "So which one is him?"
Sec DoD "This streak here"
Pres "Fine send Special Forces."
12 hours later
Pres "How did that operation Kill Osama to improve my ratings go?"
Sec DoD "Well Mr President, we encountered a problem"
Pres "How serious?"
Sec DoD "It was a mis-calculation in the time and where the hubble was pointed at the time. To sum things down, the white/black streak was actually a island off of Hawaii, not sure which one, but once strategic forces determined where to drop the special forces team, no one realized until it was too late."
Pres "Too late for what?"
Sec DoD "Sharks sir."
Sec DoD "The hubble was never ment to be used pointed towards Earth, so we didn't really lose out... We just basically took some of our military budget and moved the money to NASAs budget. Either way, we are 5 special forces squads short now."
I mean, sure pirates have cool eye patches, and peg-legs, and shout 'Parlay' when in a bind, but what will the Pirates use to create Windows Install CDs with all the patches already.... oh wait.. slipstreamed... Nevermind... Pirates already solved this issue.
Its the legimate users that are getting screwed.
You insensitive clod...
I'm a clod!
Yeah... I modded this overrated... but where is the retract mod to make funny button?
I don't want my video signal to be broadcasted... at most if EVER upto 3ft, is all I want my Video signal to ever reach.
As it is, I've been able to tap into(errr capture) the wireless signal used by a company I work with, that monitors the employee breakroom, front door, lobby, and conference room. By far, at least these locations are considered public access (except the break room), but its my opinion that a computer screen should never be wireless.
Its the paranoid in me that says, someone may capture my video signal and see everything I do.
Am I wrong to think this. At least add one or two levels of intrustion/capture prevention, and we are set. Even if its false sense of security, at least make it to the point someone HAS to be doing something illegal. We've been over this subject with wireless access points.
Thanks for clearing things up for me... I really (originally) didn't understand what all the fuss was about until now.
I've never used Spamhaus to help filter spam from my mail servers, so personally... 'bring it on spammers!'. With that said. Spamhaus needs to gather some balls, and start facing the facts. If they pissed on the judicial system, and hoped that it would work their way, and it didn't, then boo hoo for them.
Again, originally I was rooting for spamhaus to take e360 to the cleaners, but now that I see spamhaus is basically a bunch of underage wine babies, then they deserve to be kicked in the ass.
You are all wrong... The key to successful AI is the INTERNET!
Yes, when I ask my android where would I find the answer to 42... its response should be "The Internet! oh and porn! would you like to see another Hot Lezbo Teen flick?"
I'm looking to bake a cake? response "Fruit cakes are good, but why not buy one online... here is a nice one, Barry's Hot Fruit Cakes, it comes from Asylum Ridge... buy now?"
I have the correct solution... Jackie Chan has been wanting to make a firefighter movie for years... And now he has his chance. The plot would be, exactly this. Neds getting firefighters to a neighborhood only to throw stones at the poor firemen. Only this time... Its Jackie! and he's pissed! Chairs, doors, tables, TVs, refrigerators all on fire... but Jackie uses them all as prop weapons! I'm so submitting this one!
(my ref. http://imdb.com/name/nm0000329/bio)
The obviously you haven't been on the internet long.
"Women are Men, Men are Men, and Children are FBI Agents.... which are also men!"
Where is it absolutely pointless to search for men on the internet?
oh and I'm a 13yr old girl!
As the general consensus is saying, two monitors seem to be better than one.
Some have stated 3 or more is better. I agree, because my own setup is a 3 monitor setup with a laptop that uses Synergy to allow for my mouse/keyboard from the desktop to scale over to it.
I have a 19", 21", 19" setup. All are same brand(Samsung), and same goes from my laptop (Dell with Samsung 15" LCD). While work related attributes are productive in my point of view, gaming and watching movies, would be better suited on a single large 20+" screen. Since my third LCD is on a different video card, I have my HDTV turner card set to this monitor, so I can play games and watch TV at the same time. Sure my chair has been ass printed for my ass only, and I've gained an extra 20 or so pounds over the past year or so. But that doesn't account for productivity!
I devote my life... $#@$@Y HEART ATTACK $@#$^B
So my question... can I use my gravity gun to hurtle the star so the black hole follows the star?
but wait... there is no gravity gun... WTF are we to do now? Call Dr Freeman!
I'm not objecting to your comment, but I would say, times are changing.
As with the basis of this slashdot poll, I think the problem with most is this statistic, that this bases everything on a broad range of games. While the slashdot community assumes they are talking about actual gamers. ie: men vs women, with high-end gaming rigs playing MMOs, FPS, or RTS. Not box puzzle, like games. The problem here is we consider 'gamer' to be on the level of owning a gaming rig, and competing in MMOs, FPS, etc...
As your comment goes, times are changing. The last office I worked at, we had 4 female programmers, and 2 male programmers. Still the ratio was more men, because of everyone in the office, we also had 5 more male IT staff members(non-programmers). 7/4 males are still dominating. But this company was a upstart software company. Who knows how many more upstarts, or existing companies have more female IT employees than male. With the short time with this upstart company, I encountered two female IT business owners.
Times ARE changing... what are we MEN supposed to do when we are dominated by our puzzle playing overlords?
But after spending that much! How many had to move back into their parents basement? Huh? "Bring it Nerd Boy!"
Star Wars Sucks! (comical fun, please don't consider this a flame, or some effort to actually piss off nerds.)
I've always been one looking up into the stars, but never have I heard or seen anything as awesome as this youtube clip. What I don't understand is... our universe is 250 billion lightyears in size? I thought we couldn't measure our universe? I mean I know our galaxy is... huge! and our solar system is roughly... less huge (HAHAHAH big numbers!)
Have we been able to size our Universe? because if that has happened WTF has happened to all the news about it. "Tonight at 11! The universe gets a size, and it larger than XXXXXXL" "back to you Diane, and your small tits!"
You know... I know that would catch alot of false positives... so how about an additional rule
Rule 1. Its always false
Rule 2. If thinks its true refer to rule #1.
(at least with this rule set, you verify all the false positives)
(I loved my teachers that had this banner on the door Rule #1, teacher is always right, if teacher is wrong, refer to Rule #1)
Because before, I never took my watch off... I have always been afraid of the watch gnomes. Those little bastards get everything I take off my body. Last time I took off my sunglasses... shit I had to buy another pair the next day. and WTF, they appear right after I buy a new pair. But this time, they were right on top of my head when I found them AFTER buying the new pair. Now don't even say it was the sales person's fault for not telling me, that they were there just so they could sell me another pair.
Joking aside... I personally, take everything off my body when I goto bed, shower, swim (well swim I sometimes keep the watch on, (timeing my breath holding skills)), mud wrestling, etc.
I think as the comments go on, Incentives are required for people to do what should be normally done. With my 'late' ipod, I used to charge it every night because I would place it in the docking cradle and it would play on my surround sound system. As for my phone(s), I charged them every other day, because sooner or later I'd get that one phone call that would kill the battery (thank gawd for travel/car chargers). Bluetooth devices are the same, PDAs, Cameras, lappytops, etc. We all have something that reminds us to take it off and recharge it. Whats another watch with bluetooth gonna need from us? take it off at night and charge it.
Well... I don't see you with a Fungineer degree!
Yeah, I had mine set to 10 bytes... so everyone's comments are truncated LIKE THI
Your kidding me... I've encountered software on Ver 10.98 to be horribly buggy. The company I worked for purchased a Point of Sales software package (NEW) and they sent us 10.98, I figured, heck it works, right! Well after 3 to 4 weeks of tinkering, and trying to get the damn thing to work correctly (Database syntax issues), finally after multiple calls to tech support, I find out our version 10.98 was WAY old. (3 months old), and they had a patch to ver 11.045.
I'm not going to name names... but rpe SUCKS. (until ver 11.045) but even still... there are probably a million more syntax issues between database, and cc transaction software that it's supposed to support.
(my 2 cents)
HAHAHAHAH I had a similar conversations... but instead I went through the entire 'unsupported' list.
I called to subscribe to Cable internet. (I recently moved, on a risk, that bombed)
me : "Hi I want high-speed.... blah blah blah"
info given
cs : "Ok, I need to know kind of computer you are going to connect to the modem, desktop or laptop?"
me : "both"
cs : "ok, umm which one, desktop or laptop?"
me : "desktop AND a laptop through a router"
cs : "ok, what OS are you running on your desktop?"
me : "Linux Red Hat.."
cs : "I'm sorry, but we don't support Linux. any other OS?"
me : "Yeah, Unix..."
cs : "ummmmm.... (long pause), We don't support Unix either"
me : "Apple G4, OSX 10.4.."
cs : "Do you have Windows?"
me : "Yeah I'm looking out of one right now... oh... you mean Microsoft... yes I have one of those, WindowsXP SP2."
cs : "yes, great we can help you, I can schedule a installer for you for this we..."
me : "so the point of me telling you I'm connecting a router ment absolutely nothing to you?"
cs : "What kind of router?"
me : "Linksys"
cs : "which model?"
me : "DD-WRT v23 SP2"
cs : long pause.... *I hear alot of typing in the background* "I don't see us being able to support that kind of router"
me : "you don't support it at all, I do... why would you support........
OK I'm bored of typing again... but you get the point, I'm an asshole, and I could have played stupid and answered with the correct answers to make that long 25 minute call into a 3 or 4 minute call. Either way, its fun to through detailed answers based on open ended questions. (or at a inexperienced cs.)
While I am not a fan of Fantasy MMOs, it is mainly because of the monthly dues. Plus my personality really isn't into Fantasy, its with Sci-Fi space sims.
Lately I have been playing Darkstar One, which to me is a re-incarnation of WC: Privateer, but with a better looking ship, and weapons. I have been into this game the moment I found the demo, and have been playing non-stop even though at this point all I am doing in the game is playing the randomly generated 'quickie cash' missions. (I'm improving my Saitek X45 flyin g skills)
I've gotten into EVE, and I really love the vast universe it brings to me. I could get lost into such a vast sci-fi mmo, but one things holds me back from getting into the 'monthly pay for' phase of game play. Its the interaction with my piloting of my space(craft)ship.
Sci-Fi MMOs have to abide by higher gameplay standards than that of Fantasy MMOs. Fantasy has to create scenic worlds, on a planet. While Sci-Fi, needs to create planets, within galaxies, to which even our own knowledge of the universe is incomplete so everything must be created theroy. While I will settle for EVE mixed with Freelance, and Privateer qualities, physics and game play are very hard to incorporate into a MMO. How about the alien races. I'm pretty sure, that a Sci-Fi MMO could just involve humans the way EVE has done. The storyline is impresive, create 6 human races with entirely different cultures. Attempt to create a universe with peace. Give the player a ship, and tell him to survive in space. DONE.
Just make the space physics, economy, social interaction (go ahead and create space stations with NPCs, hell make planets with NPCs too... Go as far as allowing people to goto 10 or more places on one planet) But as long as I can combat like a pilot against uneven odds of space pirates/bounty hunters/alien races, then fly home on the last leg of my spaceship to the nearest solar system to fix my ship, and fix my next job, then... and ONLY THEN will I be happy.
Here is what I would want in a Sci-Fi MMO;
1. Vast Universe... (EVE's universe is huge... I know it would take me years to goto each solar system, only to go back to one, and its been changed entirely. Thats how reality works too)
2. Human/Alien Races... (I have no problem dealing with some foreign alien, Rule #1 if it shoots at me, I shoot back. nuff said)
3. Economy... (EVE, excells, heck I could possibly find enough friends to help me manage a vast company in EVE, but hell, I need better friends to help me manage my OWN finances. Make the economy complex, but also allow for some form of automation, that will pay the ingame bills, every time you goto a planet/space station)
4. Gameplay Interaction... (This one is what EVE lacks. Put in some flight controls, and first person POV so I can duke it out with space pirates. If my ship exploids then... shits, I'm a bad pilot. Restart at the nearist planet/spacestation, and lose the mission.)
5. Gameplay cont... (As with Dying, respawning is not a bad idea for Sci-Fi.. heck we don't explain WHY when I die in Guild Wars, I end up alive at the nearest gateway, why not in a sci-fi sim as well) With Darkstar One, when I die at the lasers of a pirate, I just reload my most recently autosaved game, and retry.
6. graphics... (Things can't get worse from todays standards of MMO graphics, so at this point it can only get more detailed, or stay the same. EVE has done well with the online MMO for Sci-fi graphics)
7. Customizability of... (Characters, Ok, so Fantasy allows you to customize how your character looks, Sci-Fi can do the same thing with characters. You start off as a person/alien anyways, so let us customize five or more races of human or alien.)
8. Customizability of... (Spaceships, well for sci-fi why not customize your spaceship. Give users 10 or more types of spaceships they can start from, and then allow us to customize the wings, engines, shields, paint jobs, computers, etc. I know we'll upgrad
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Please forward this email and its trojan/virus written attachment to all your
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Another Linux User Friend
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Lets take a look at population... China has a much larger population than the US. China also has a higher unemployment/poverty level than the USA does.
I see the assembly line being filed with workers being paid low wages is better than 1/16th that because a assembly machine could replace all those jobs. Then that would increase the poverty/unemployment levels all over China. We have to realize in the US, we take automated systems for granted, we expect our 'stuff' to be made faster, cheaper, and more reliable. We pay more for equipment to perform those repetitive tasks so that we don't have to have people doing those tasks, and end up creating duds. However, thanks to automation, we lose jobs.
Again, China may have a 'militant' working conditions, low pay, and poor living conditions. But if China was to go completely automated, then what will their population do? The USA can get away with this because we have employment programs, and social networking for skilled people. People in the US have no problem in getting work (we tend to be lazy about it though) But China doesn't. People who live in poverty will always live in poverty, unless someone within the family breaks themselves in order to raise themselves up a notch in the social level.
DISCLAIMER(All of this is my point of view of how the world works... none of this is actual investigation. I know plenty of people in China through ICQ, or IRC, and most of my experiences are 1st/2nd hand stories.)/DISCLAIMER