X3 (can get it from Steam) can be played without firing a shot. Although you have to ignore the plot.
It is a space based game (simulator like Star Wars which is really not much of a simulator but more of a fantasy) that you build an empire and cooperatively trade with the other races. It takes about 6 months to get really good at the game and have a massive empire built.
If you get bored with just empire building, you can shoot bad guys (AI alien ships and Insect like race ships, or pirates, or for the evil in you, other races).
There is also the Railroad Tycoon games that empire build that works well with working with others.
Think of the old police scanners that people used to use to monitor official business with. They needed an antenna that would be optimal at receiving a wide range of frequencies. If you could build a ground plane (omni-directional) that had a large numbers "stingers" that were optimal length, then you could have greater reception across a wide range of frequencies. In the example given above, you'd have one stinger at 1 measured distance for the high frequencies and half that frequency and 1/4 that frequency. Then, the second stinger at measured at the 1,4 measurement for another band of frequencies that has the 1, 1/2, 1/4 wavelengths. Then lastly, a third stinger that does the same for it's proper length. The triple stinger antenna could range 9 different bands optimally, and a 4 stinger antenna could range 12.
Personal Probability Paradox says that there is no one out there, anywhere.
99.9999999999% sure of it.
IF, there were other intelligent existences out there, then, I would have been there. The larger the population and age of other existences, then the more probable I would have wound up there. This is especially so, should there be places to have been that are especially old and/or long living.
So, since, I'm here, on Earth, then self-aware consciousness, must just be here. I'm almost absolutely sure of it.
It's either that, or I'm one of the very few most unlucky entities to ever be self-aware in all universes combined.
People seem to think too shallow in terms of using these things.
You don't need to have your house running on solar power at 100%. Even if you bought say 200 cells (that produce 1 watt of power each), you could charge nine 12 volt batteries and use the power from the batteries. For instance, most modern computer power supplies will operate off 108 volts of DC power directly. That would save you the energy from the grid to power your computer. Some savings are better than no savings. Other types of equipment can run directly off of DC power. Like some vacuum cleaners (the kind with brushed motors in them). Lights can also be used from DC. Along with some electric heaters. You don't have to power the whole house from solar. Maybe powering some things will be enough to get the world greener.
So, in a constantly branching parallel universes system, I am both dead and alive.
Which really translates to "I am always alive."
This is because if this version of me dies, I simply wake again in one of the other verses. I just won't have any memory of the mistake I made that killed me in this one.
Is that how you guys figure it?
Is a card that you purchase money on like Wal-Mart sells. You go down to you local Wal-Mart and buy the amount you are about to go online and shop for. If the card number gets stolen, then they can only get the petty change that remained from your online purchase. You could even keep the card for future purchases and only fill it a few minutes or hours before you use it again. This way the thieves can't make use of it most of the time. And if three unsuccessful attempts to remove money from it occur, you'd get a notice that you must get a new card when you try to fill it again. Take the pending card into Wal-Mart to transfer what little change you left on it to the new card, but must be done in person with the physical card.
Along with secure shopping, we need a way to send email encrypted.
When I click on the enable encryption under tools on my email program, it should tell me about generating a public key set. Then when I want to send an email to a friend, it would tell me about needing my friend's public key. The program should send off an email to that friend asking for his public key with my public key in-tow (or get it from a key server). Then the friend can click on a link that was in the email that I sent, and his key pair would be generated or simply send his public key to me if already generated. I get his public key and am notified that I may now send him encrypted messages.
Simple as can be, Why has it not been implemented yet Seamonkey or Thunderbird?
The best {long term} strategy would be one of investing into the software developement into whatever main software you're planning on using (databases, ERP, whatever), then save over the long run of not having to be forced into upgrading at ever release cycle. It just seems that open source solutions would fit that need better.
Personally, I don't think a hydrogen economy will ever come to be. Because there are so many hurdles to overcome to make it so. The only thing we need for an electically powered economy is better battery technology. To store the electrical energy directly and then used from longer lasting batteries. The CO2 and other pollution problems can then be worked out from the electricity providers.
I was amazed at how simple electric powered golf cars (carts) are built. 6 batteries last about 6 hours on the course. They only need to be recharged over about 3 to 6 hours (depending on the charger) to go another 6 hours. This is the type of technology we need to get around town.
Someone needs to manufacture *cheap* battery powered cars for the masses to just get around town. Something to haul the groceries back and take the kids to school. Something to get me to work and back. It doesn't have to have a range of 100 miles. 20 miles for one day will be fine. I'll keep my petrolium powered car for the longer and other trips when needed.
The car needs to have a retail price of less than $10,000 too. It doesn't have to have the luxuries of a full car. Just street legal, and keep the weather off me. Simple as that.
One major use of such a chip would be implanting it just under the skin on the back of your hand.
Then you just swipe your hand over a reader to buy things.
Since it has lots of memory, you could put all medical data and other "official" information on it to be at the ready.
You could even use it at your employment establishment to get paid.
I'd think that the government would want such a society of highly tracked and managed citizens. It would make it hard to buy drugs or support other terrorist activites without it knowing about them.
I think it was even predicted to happen in the Holy Bible.
Well I was wondering what the next PR stunt from MindArk was going to be.
They seem to come up with about two per year.
If you're thinking about getting involved in this "Virtual Universe", you should know that there are many times more losers than winners. And to make a withdrawel to your bank account is a minimum of $10 US. And it can take up to 90 business days to happen. Not 90 days but 90 days that the banks are open.
Anyone interested should do a lot of research first.
Now, let's not get caught up in a "My OS is better than your OS" war over viruses and other malware.
We all know Windows beats all competitors in quantity of malware supported. But, if malware were produced with Unix ware in mind, Linux would run the viruses/malware most beautifully and most efficient on it. I am sure of it.
Gambling should be looked at through the same glasses as you see drug users.
Plain and simple. It is an addiction to a high that occurs during the win.
Personally, I wonder how this will affect the MMORPG called Project Entropia. This "game" or "virtual universe" isn't marketed as an online casino. Yet that is exactly what it turned out to be. Many people are pulled in to the online gaming aspect of it. But turn out to be trapped trying to get their money back after they discover, they're in a gambling environment.
I'd personally like to see some regulation thrown their way. If anyone needs it, they do.
I'm drooling at the mouth now!
But as I understand it, the movie isn't finished yet. But from the screen shots and trailers, it looks to be quite entertaining.
First Post?
Well, these download and play systems are getting more popular and are actually quite useful.
One popular game that uses a nice technique is the game GuildWars. My initial (and longest so far) download only took about 5 minutes to complete, and I'm playing. New areas download as you need them. It seems that some downloading is also taking place while you play.
I'd also say that Project Entropia has got this problem solved. They HAD to solve this problem because it's played with REAL money. Their target audience is not the Uber gamer but the people like me that have to work all day and don't have time to develope the ultimate character. The people that would come home and play a few hours and PAY their way to play an adventure game. That is their customer.
That being said, they must absolutely protect that type customer. So they made zones that when you walk into, your are at risk of getting killed by another player. And the loot-player zone has to have a one-time antidote to stay alive while in the zone. No antidote, you die in 5 seconds, no other player can loot you.
This way the player-vs-player is opt-in for those that enjoy killing each other. And those that do not, don't have to be bothered with them.
As a matter of fact. I quit playing Diablo II online exactly because of the ridiculus PvP player behaviour.
These companies that want to have paying customers are going to eventually be forced (or go out of business) to play the way the paying customer wants to play.
>> Linux software vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, well below the industry average for commercial enterprise software.
Will they be sending in the bug reports so that it may get fixed?
And how do they know they are bugs? Maybe some of those were meant be as such and not a bug at all.
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So, let's send the attacks back to them. If they want to play that game, let's crash their communications/economy/country/way-of-life.
X3 (can get it from Steam) can be played without firing a shot. Although you have to ignore the plot.
It is a space based game (simulator like Star Wars which is really not much of a simulator but more of a fantasy) that you build an empire and cooperatively trade with the other races. It takes about 6 months to get really good at the game and have a massive empire built.
If you get bored with just empire building, you can shoot bad guys (AI alien ships and Insect like race ships, or pirates, or for the evil in you, other races).
There is also the Railroad Tycoon games that empire build that works well with working with others.
Think of the old police scanners that people used to use to monitor official business with. They needed an antenna that would be optimal at receiving a wide range of frequencies. If you could build a ground plane (omni-directional) that had a large numbers "stingers" that were optimal length, then you could have greater reception across a wide range of frequencies. In the example given above, you'd have one stinger at 1 measured distance for the high frequencies and half that frequency and 1/4 that frequency. Then, the second stinger at measured at the 1,4 measurement for another band of frequencies that has the 1, 1/2, 1/4 wavelengths. Then lastly, a third stinger that does the same for it's proper length. The triple stinger antenna could range 9 different bands optimally, and a 4 stinger antenna could range 12.
And here is a video of these helicopters flying... http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video.php?videoRef=LS_080902_copter
Personal Probability Paradox says that there is no one out there, anywhere.
99.9999999999% sure of it.
IF, there were other intelligent existences out there, then, I would have been there. The larger the population and age of other existences, then the more probable I would have wound up there. This is especially so, should there be places to have been that are especially old and/or long living.
So, since, I'm here, on Earth, then self-aware consciousness, must just be here. I'm almost absolutely sure of it.
It's either that, or I'm one of the very few most unlucky entities to ever be self-aware in all universes combined.
People seem to think too shallow in terms of using these things.
You don't need to have your house running on solar power at 100%. Even if you bought say 200 cells (that produce 1 watt of power each), you could charge nine 12 volt batteries and use the power from the batteries. For instance, most modern computer power supplies will operate off 108 volts of DC power directly. That would save you the energy from the grid to power your computer. Some savings are better than no savings. Other types of equipment can run directly off of DC power. Like some vacuum cleaners (the kind with brushed motors in them). Lights can also be used from DC. Along with some electric heaters. You don't have to power the whole house from solar. Maybe powering some things will be enough to get the world greener.
If time turns out to be a non-constant, so goes everything we know about anything.
I thought every group of people were subjected to a 100 percent death rate!
So, fat people are living forever now?
So, in a constantly branching parallel universes system, I am both dead and alive. Which really translates to "I am always alive." This is because if this version of me dies, I simply wake again in one of the other verses. I just won't have any memory of the mistake I made that killed me in this one. Is that how you guys figure it?
Why not just use a Sterling Engine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_engine
They convert heat to motion/torque directly.
Is the people need to stop electing idiots.
Is a card that you purchase money on like Wal-Mart sells. You go down to you local Wal-Mart and buy the amount you are about to go online and shop for. If the card number gets stolen, then they can only get the petty change that remained from your online purchase. You could even keep the card for future purchases and only fill it a few minutes or hours before you use it again. This way the thieves can't make use of it most of the time. And if three unsuccessful attempts to remove money from it occur, you'd get a notice that you must get a new card when you try to fill it again. Take the pending card into Wal-Mart to transfer what little change you left on it to the new card, but must be done in person with the physical card.
Along with secure shopping, we need a way to send email encrypted. When I click on the enable encryption under tools on my email program, it should tell me about generating a public key set. Then when I want to send an email to a friend, it would tell me about needing my friend's public key. The program should send off an email to that friend asking for his public key with my public key in-tow (or get it from a key server). Then the friend can click on a link that was in the email that I sent, and his key pair would be generated or simply send his public key to me if already generated. I get his public key and am notified that I may now send him encrypted messages. Simple as can be, Why has it not been implemented yet Seamonkey or Thunderbird?
The best {long term} strategy would be one of investing into the software developement into whatever main software you're planning on using (databases, ERP, whatever), then save over the long run of not having to be forced into upgrading at ever release cycle. It just seems that open source solutions would fit that need better.
Personally, I don't think a hydrogen economy will ever come to be. Because there are so many hurdles to overcome to make it so. The only thing we need for an electically powered economy is better battery technology. To store the electrical energy directly and then used from longer lasting batteries. The CO2 and other pollution problems can then be worked out from the electricity providers.
I was amazed at how simple electric powered golf cars (carts) are built. 6 batteries last about 6 hours on the course. They only need to be recharged over about 3 to 6 hours (depending on the charger) to go another 6 hours. This is the type of technology we need to get around town.
Someone needs to manufacture *cheap* battery powered cars for the masses to just get around town. Something to haul the groceries back and take the kids to school. Something to get me to work and back. It doesn't have to have a range of 100 miles. 20 miles for one day will be fine. I'll keep my petrolium powered car for the longer and other trips when needed.
The car needs to have a retail price of less than $10,000 too. It doesn't have to have the luxuries of a full car. Just street legal, and keep the weather off me. Simple as that.
One major use of such a chip would be implanting it just under the skin on the back of your hand.
Then you just swipe your hand over a reader to buy things.
Since it has lots of memory, you could put all medical data and other "official" information on it to be at the ready.
You could even use it at your employment establishment to get paid.
I'd think that the government would want such a society of highly tracked and managed citizens. It would make it hard to buy drugs or support other terrorist activites without it knowing about them.
I think it was even predicted to happen in the Holy Bible.
Just another fine example of why logging your customer activity can be a bad thing.
Well I was wondering what the next PR stunt from MindArk was going to be.
They seem to come up with about two per year.
If you're thinking about getting involved in this "Virtual Universe", you should know that there are many times more losers than winners. And to make a withdrawel to your bank account is a minimum of $10 US. And it can take up to 90 business days to happen. Not 90 days but 90 days that the banks are open.
Anyone interested should do a lot of research first.
Now, let's not get caught up in a "My OS is better than your OS" war over viruses and other malware. We all know Windows beats all competitors in quantity of malware supported. But, if malware were produced with Unix ware in mind, Linux would run the viruses/malware most beautifully and most efficient on it. I am sure of it.
...that linux was patched so that the virus would now function as expected? I'd hate to think we left any program behind.
Gambling should be looked at through the same glasses as you see drug users. Plain and simple. It is an addiction to a high that occurs during the win. Personally, I wonder how this will affect the MMORPG called Project Entropia. This "game" or "virtual universe" isn't marketed as an online casino. Yet that is exactly what it turned out to be. Many people are pulled in to the online gaming aspect of it. But turn out to be trapped trying to get their money back after they discover, they're in a gambling environment. I'd personally like to see some regulation thrown their way. If anyone needs it, they do.
I'm drooling at the mouth now! But as I understand it, the movie isn't finished yet. But from the screen shots and trailers, it looks to be quite entertaining. First Post?
Well, these download and play systems are getting more popular and are actually quite useful.
One popular game that uses a nice technique is the game GuildWars. My initial (and longest so far) download only took about 5 minutes to complete, and I'm playing. New areas download as you need them. It seems that some downloading is also taking place while you play.
Having no disc to keep up with, is kind of nice.
I'd say you're mostly correct in those aspects.
I'd also say that Project Entropia has got this problem solved. They HAD to solve this problem because it's played with REAL money. Their target audience is not the Uber gamer but the people like me that have to work all day and don't have time to develope the ultimate character. The people that would come home and play a few hours and PAY their way to play an adventure game. That is their customer.
That being said, they must absolutely protect that type customer. So they made zones that when you walk into, your are at risk of getting killed by another player. And the loot-player zone has to have a one-time antidote to stay alive while in the zone. No antidote, you die in 5 seconds, no other player can loot you.
This way the player-vs-player is opt-in for those that enjoy killing each other. And those that do not, don't have to be bothered with them.
As a matter of fact. I quit playing Diablo II online exactly because of the ridiculus PvP player behaviour.
These companies that want to have paying customers are going to eventually be forced (or go out of business) to play the way the paying customer wants to play.
>> Linux software vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, well below the industry average for commercial enterprise software. Will they be sending in the bug reports so that it may get fixed? And how do they know they are bugs? Maybe some of those were meant be as such and not a bug at all.