Again, this sounds like no fun at all, but EVE has been running for over 4 years I think it's been around close to 5 or 6 years now...
I wouldn't say that EVE is mainly a market/economics simulator, as players can really do whatever they want and use the market as little (or as much) as they feel comfortable with. For example, players might only buy ammo or ships from the market and others might play the market and make millions (or billions...)
However, the game mechanics are quite deep and it gives players a multitude of options that I feel are otherwise not present in other MMORPG's.
Yeah, that is a bit of a "dangerous" way to go about rating the content, however I think it could be a step in the right direction. If this can be improved, perhaps the site will gain a better reputation in the eyes of professors.
Now, I don't doubt that there is a lot of misinformation on the site (intentional or otherwise); however, a good deal of the information I have used for research papers or to quickly check something seems to be confirmed elsewhere (texts, journals, etc).
Yep, they've been doing this for 60-odd years now. Granted WWII kinda got in the way of diesel-electric adoption by most of the US railroads...
Biggest problem with adoption for smaller vehicles has been the monstrous size of the prime movers. Locomotive prime movers are something like 25+ feet long, about 4400 HP, generally have 12, 14, or 16 cylinders and can empty a 5000 gallon fuel tank in a few hundred miles. I wouldn't exactly call them "green". Granted the new GE Evolution hybrids are something like 15% more fuel efficient (or so they claim).
Regardless of how they want to do things, packet shapers are pretty useless. About three days after the one that was installed at the university I attend was installed, it was circumvented by one of my friends and myself.
All we needed to do was turn on the port randomization and "encryption" in the torrent client, and there was nothing the shaper could do about the packets (AFAIK they look like SSH packets).
TW is about 6 months behind the curve... the client I'm using is about that old and it still had the necessary features (if you want to call them that) to circumvent packet shaping...
"More importantly, if you gave the robots a whole bunch of pieces (basically, the equivalent of Lego blocks) they could perhaps replicate and reproduce into shapes that best suit their environment - they're modular and expandable, which might have important applications (e.g., rescue, exploration, etc)."
Isn't this a similar thought for nanites that could be injected into humans to 'maintain' our health? I seem to remember an article about this in Discover magazine last year.
If i remember correctly, the idea is the person be injected with a number of the robots, some of which would be outfitted to take minerals in out bodies (calcium, iron, etc) and build new robots to aid in the healing of the body.
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While true... I think that was the secret to holding one's breath for ten minutes
Yeah, that is a bit of a "dangerous" way to go about rating the content, however I think it could be a step in the right direction. If this can be improved, perhaps the site will gain a better reputation in the eyes of professors. Now, I don't doubt that there is a lot of misinformation on the site (intentional or otherwise); however, a good deal of the information I have used for research papers or to quickly check something seems to be confirmed elsewhere (texts, journals, etc).
Yep, they've been doing this for 60-odd years now. Granted WWII kinda got in the way of diesel-electric adoption by most of the US railroads... Biggest problem with adoption for smaller vehicles has been the monstrous size of the prime movers. Locomotive prime movers are something like 25+ feet long, about 4400 HP, generally have 12, 14, or 16 cylinders and can empty a 5000 gallon fuel tank in a few hundred miles. I wouldn't exactly call them "green". Granted the new GE Evolution hybrids are something like 15% more fuel efficient (or so they claim).
Regardless of how they want to do things, packet shapers are pretty useless. About three days after the one that was installed at the university I attend was installed, it was circumvented by one of my friends and myself. All we needed to do was turn on the port randomization and "encryption" in the torrent client, and there was nothing the shaper could do about the packets (AFAIK they look like SSH packets). TW is about 6 months behind the curve... the client I'm using is about that old and it still had the necessary features (if you want to call them that) to circumvent packet shaping...
fool! your Jedi mind tricks will not work on... who are you? who am I? what just happened?
"More importantly, if you gave the robots a whole bunch of pieces (basically, the equivalent of Lego blocks) they could perhaps replicate and reproduce into shapes that best suit their environment - they're modular and expandable, which might have important applications (e.g., rescue, exploration, etc)." Isn't this a similar thought for nanites that could be injected into humans to 'maintain' our health? I seem to remember an article about this in Discover magazine last year. If i remember correctly, the idea is the person be injected with a number of the robots, some of which would be outfitted to take minerals in out bodies (calcium, iron, etc) and build new robots to aid in the healing of the body.