You pretty much summed it up. Eve is just too much work, and pretty much the only fun is griefing other players, be it through piracy, ganking or just plain scamming and sabotage. I disagree with your last sentiment though; no one has to work in Eve. Which is why I quit for more fun games, and left working in the real world.
Next time you go see a movie in theaters, sit through all the credits... Try to count the names.
I'm always amused by the hordes of seemingly useless people that participate in the production of a movie. Perhaps all the people are needed in some way, but the titles in the credits always scream 'bloat' to me...
Many think China's one child policy has been crucial in bringing about their escape from the "Malthusian trap".
What I find odd with this theory on the industrial revolution is this:
It is puzzling that the Industrial Revolution did not occur first in the much larger populations of China or Japan. Dr. Clark has found data showing that their richer classes, the Samurai in Japan and the Qing dynasty in China, were surprisingly unfertile and so would have failed to generate the downward social mobility that spread production-oriented values in England.
If this is the case, then how did Japan and now China eventually industrialize? I doubt the Meiji restoration somehow magically made the upper class in Japan grow exponentially. If capitalistic values really are hereditary, then no amount of societal change would have suddenly given the Japanese the prerequisite genes that allowed them to industrialize.
If weapons stop crime, how come the USA, one of the most tooled up countries in the world, has so much crime and so many people die from gun injuries?
This argument always pops up when the topic is guns. And I always counter by asking why Finland, which is in the top five when it comes to guns per capita, has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
The roots of the American crime problem lies somewhere else than guns. Try income inequality and poverty if you really want some kind of beginnings of an real answer, instead of reinforcement to preexisting memes.
Actually it sounds like the Death Knight will be an entirely separate character, you won't switch to it from your old character. Instead the ability to choose the DK class at character creation is unlocked. This avoids the problems that would be caused with different classes switching to a DK, as it would only interest warriors/paladins otherwise (who would want to trade their warlock for a plate-wearing warriorish class?). There would likely also be a separate starting area for them, probably a neutral area where alliance and horde DKs do the same quests.
And after that, you go to a zone with less than 0.5 security, lose your ship, and end up mining for another 10 hours just to get back to the point where you lost the ship. No thanks. I'd rather work in RL and/or start a real company than sit in some virtual world working my ass off trying to become one of the "haves".
Sure. Could you tell me their expected profit with a low enough margin of error? Because that would be valuable info, and is something many others would like to know as well. Consensus estimates are not to be relied on, as an average of guesses is still a guess.
There are so many factors at play that it isn't possible to infer if this raid has any effect on their bottom line.
In case you aren't (hey, this is the internets after all:), inflation decreases the purchasing power of money. That means that a dollar today is worth less than a dollar yesterday; in this case $2500 year 1999 dollars equals $3006 year 2006 dollars.
Indeed. Why waste time on guessing someones Vista password, when you could just boot up a linux live-cd and directly access the users data...
Windows user accounts are mostly meant for home users who share the computer between family members. This way you get a semblance of privacy and can keep open applications separate.
I don't really see the problem. Most of the straight people on tv are also caricatures and not very realistic. That's just the way television is, if you want realism turn off the tube.
It's the same kind of brain damage that makes analysts cheer over revenue growth, when it's the profits that matter. While market share and revenue might lead to increased profits, it isn't a very good metric to base your investments on. But most analysts push their own agenda, which is usually to generate demand for shares their employers own/sell, so it isn't too surprising that their recommendations aren't based on economic fundamentals.
And yet instead of a one followed by 24 naughts being 1000 sextillion, it is all of a sudden a septillion, even though it has nothing whatsoever to do with the number seven.
number = 1000^(x+1)
x is the beginning part of the word, e.g. septillion = 1000^(7+1)
Slashdot Mirror
I doubt it would be any worse than the bacteria that are evolving in response to our antibiotic usage.
You pretty much summed it up. Eve is just too much work, and pretty much the only fun is griefing other players, be it through piracy, ganking or just plain scamming and sabotage. I disagree with your last sentiment though; no one has to work in Eve. Which is why I quit for more fun games, and left working in the real world.
Are you sure he didn't say "I know how to stop Google!"?
Lucky for us, the universe isn't a democracy.
I'm always amused by the hordes of seemingly useless people that participate in the production of a movie. Perhaps all the people are needed in some way, but the titles in the credits always scream 'bloat' to me...
There is a memory leak in your code. Or maybe it's a feature?
What I find odd with this theory on the industrial revolution is this:
If this is the case, then how did Japan and now China eventually industrialize? I doubt the Meiji restoration somehow magically made the upper class in Japan grow exponentially. If capitalistic values really are hereditary, then no amount of societal change would have suddenly given the Japanese the prerequisite genes that allowed them to industrialize.
Contrary to popular belief, the world does in fact not revolve around money.
That is all.
This argument always pops up when the topic is guns. And I always counter by asking why Finland, which is in the top five when it comes to guns per capita, has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
The roots of the American crime problem lies somewhere else than guns. Try income inequality and poverty if you really want some kind of beginnings of an real answer, instead of reinforcement to preexisting memes.
I think the author meant infinite crates.
Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1996.
;)
I guess you meant Duke Nukem Forever.
Actually it sounds like the Death Knight will be an entirely separate character, you won't switch to it from your old character. Instead the ability to choose the DK class at character creation is unlocked. This avoids the problems that would be caused with different classes switching to a DK, as it would only interest warriors/paladins otherwise (who would want to trade their warlock for a plate-wearing warriorish class?). There would likely also be a separate starting area for them, probably a neutral area where alliance and horde DKs do the same quests.
And after that, you go to a zone with less than 0.5 security, lose your ship, and end up mining for another 10 hours just to get back to the point where you lost the ship. No thanks. I'd rather work in RL and/or start a real company than sit in some virtual world working my ass off trying to become one of the "haves".
IIRC, it's "pick two".
Problem is, a big chunk of that is deficits. Debt, which will eventually have to be payed back...
He didn't, but the reason DNF is taking forever is because 3drealms is compiling it on Babbage's computer.
Yes, for Microsoft and the legitimacy of their anti-piracy efforts. ;)
Sure. Could you tell me their expected profit with a low enough margin of error? Because that would be valuable info, and is something many others would like to know as well. Consensus estimates are not to be relied on, as an average of guesses is still a guess.
There are so many factors at play that it isn't possible to infer if this raid has any effect on their bottom line.
I believe the price drops have more to do with AMD becoming competitive than with computers being fast enough.
Are you joking?
:), inflation decreases the purchasing power of money. That means that a dollar today is worth less than a dollar yesterday; in this case $2500 year 1999 dollars equals $3006 year 2006 dollars.
In case you aren't (hey, this is the internets after all
Indeed. Why waste time on guessing someones Vista password, when you could just boot up a linux live-cd and directly access the users data...
Windows user accounts are mostly meant for home users who share the computer between family members. This way you get a semblance of privacy and can keep open applications separate.
I don't really see the problem. Most of the straight people on tv are also caricatures and not very realistic. That's just the way television is, if you want realism turn off the tube.
It's the same kind of brain damage that makes analysts cheer over revenue growth, when it's the profits that matter. While market share and revenue might lead to increased profits, it isn't a very good metric to base your investments on. But most analysts push their own agenda, which is usually to generate demand for shares their employers own/sell, so it isn't too surprising that their recommendations aren't based on economic fundamentals.
x is the beginning part of the word, e.g. septillion = 1000^(7+1)