You need to play it before you form opinions. The training system in Eve is what keeps it a grind-free experience, where it's up to the player to decide how well he'll do in pvp. It has very little to do with player age.
In WoW you grind mobs and quests, in Eve asteroids and missions. When will someone come up with something new?
Interestingly enough, a big part of the animations in GTA4 are procedurally generated. If game "actors" start demanding more money then voices will start to be procedurally generated sooner rather than later.
There are two big differences between WoW and Eve. Firstly, Eve is much more PVP oriented. If you're the kind of guy who frowns upon ganking low level players in WoW, then stay far away from Eve. You need to be ruthless to get ahead in Eve and I suspect most of the top players would sell their own mothers for a few ISK.
Secondly, Eve is not for solo gaming (ok this is pretty much point 1 rehashed, so sue me). The only things that are feasible alone are mining shitty ore in empire space and doing crappy low-level missions. Both are akin to staying in uncontested territories in WoW and mining copper. Except you don't need full epics and 50 level 70 guildmates to cover your ass if you want to go to STV and mine some iron.
In conclusion, WoW is to Eve as swimming in a pool is to bungee jumping with a broken bungee cord and your hands tied behind your back naked into an acid-filled pool with piranhas and sharks with laser beams on their heads.
ARM, for example, has an SIMD extension called Neon, which makes audio decoding possible at something like 15 MHz.
What, a specialized processor is able to do a task in less cycles than a more general processor? You must be joking!
The instruction set doesn't dictate how the hardware is built. I could design an ARM processor completely unsuitable for audio decoding which needs 1 Ghz to do it in real time. Does that mean the ARM instruction set sucks? No, it just means that my glorious processor is not designed for that purpose.
How easy is it to create a competition to, say, gcc?
1. Download GCC source. 2. Make changes 3. Release under a new name with source code
Now if you meant to say "how easy is it to create a commercial, closed-source competitor to gcc", then you're missing one of the points of open-source. One problem with your comparison of open source to collective labor in USSR is the same as the comparison of copyright infringement to theft: software can be reproduced infinitely (with an infinite supply of memory and energy). The correct analogy would be that someone builds a house and from that point onward, everyone on our planet has an unlimited supply of houses.
We should not keep reinventing the wheel, we should instead concentrate on improving the wheel and inventing new things.
I was thinking along the lines of a genetically engineered pink unicorn wearing active camouflage. Then the unicorn would be invisible, even though the unicorn itself would not be invisible. I guess it depends on the definition of a pink, invisible unicorn.
Invisible pink unicorns are actually one of those things that will be possible in the not too distant future through genetic engineering and metamaterials.
Therefore I could be off watching tv all day and the world/society would be no worse off.
But your son would be worse off. And as he is part of the world/society, society would be worse off. Doing anything is infinitely better than doing nothing.
No, professionalfurryele is correct, no one has the right to "profit from their labors". The whole premise of technological progress is to automate away human labor, if everyone had the right to profit then you'd not be sitting there reading this post.
Hmm, I guess my definition of charity was incorrect after all. Somehow it's always felt like it should be given to the needy and so forth, but the museum example does clinch it.
Now just to be consistent, I'm sure you consider the money Iran gives to Hezbollah charity as well?
Usually when people speak of charity they mean giving to those of us who are less well off. I don't really think giving weapons to the military of a rich, industrialized country can be called charity.
I guess a good analogy would be that you give food coupons to your wealthy friend and claim that you have now helped the poor.
I assumed that the GPP meant that the bacteria could mutate in a way that makes it better able to survive outside of a laboratory. If he meant it in a "fuel problem solved, I'll grow these in a pool of slime in my yard" or in a "oh shit we're all gonna DIE!" kind of way, I do not know.
And evolution will make sure that the mutations that survive are the ones we want the least, i.e. those unable to produce biofuels. Thus rendering them useless.
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No, he gave them notice that he intends to quit. He is still employed by them until the time runs out.
I think the challenge is the part where the public tries to guess how long the CPU will survive.
No. Start reading from the beginning to get the context.
In short,
paid AV software = waste of money
free AV software = waste of money, except if your time is worth nothing
Interestingly enough, a big part of the animations in GTA4 are procedurally generated. If game "actors" start demanding more money then voices will start to be procedurally generated sooner rather than later.
Again with the imperial measurements! Just switch to metric already!
Even though Avast costs nothing, the GPP still had to spend time on installing and configuring it.
There are two big differences between WoW and Eve. Firstly, Eve is much more PVP oriented. If you're the kind of guy who frowns upon ganking low level players in WoW, then stay far away from Eve. You need to be ruthless to get ahead in Eve and I suspect most of the top players would sell their own mothers for a few ISK.
Secondly, Eve is not for solo gaming (ok this is pretty much point 1 rehashed, so sue me). The only things that are feasible alone are mining shitty ore in empire space and doing crappy low-level missions. Both are akin to staying in uncontested territories in WoW and mining copper. Except you don't need full epics and 50 level 70 guildmates to cover your ass if you want to go to STV and mine some iron.
In conclusion, WoW is to Eve as swimming in a pool is to bungee jumping with a broken bungee cord and your hands tied behind your back naked into an acid-filled pool with piranhas and sharks with laser beams on their heads.
Perhaps its growth is exponential.
I think you have it backwards. Why use archaic DVRs to record television broadcasts when you can grab tv series from piratebay at your leisure?
Legality is a poor answer. After all, the end result of a torrent and good DVR are the same: a video file with the ads removed.
The instruction set doesn't dictate how the hardware is built. I could design an ARM processor completely unsuitable for audio decoding which needs 1 Ghz to do it in real time. Does that mean the ARM instruction set sucks? No, it just means that my glorious processor is not designed for that purpose.
2. Make changes
3. Release under a new name with source code
Now if you meant to say "how easy is it to create a commercial, closed-source competitor to gcc", then you're missing one of the points of open-source. One problem with your comparison of open source to collective labor in USSR is the same as the comparison of copyright infringement to theft: software can be reproduced infinitely (with an infinite supply of memory and energy). The correct analogy would be that someone builds a house and from that point onward, everyone on our planet has an unlimited supply of houses.
We should not keep reinventing the wheel, we should instead concentrate on improving the wheel and inventing new things.
That's how it's supposed to work, with the nation representing the population. But I agree, nationalism is old hat.
True. :)
I was thinking along the lines of a genetically engineered pink unicorn wearing active camouflage. Then the unicorn would be invisible, even though the unicorn itself would not be invisible. I guess it depends on the definition of a pink, invisible unicorn.
Invisible pink unicorns are actually one of those things that will be possible in the not too distant future through genetic engineering and metamaterials.
No, professionalfurryele is correct, no one has the right to "profit from their labors". The whole premise of technological progress is to automate away human labor, if everyone had the right to profit then you'd not be sitting there reading this post.
Hmm, I guess my definition of charity was incorrect after all. Somehow it's always felt like it should be given to the needy and so forth, but the museum example does clinch it.
Now just to be consistent, I'm sure you consider the money Iran gives to Hezbollah charity as well?
Usually when people speak of charity they mean giving to those of us who are less well off. I don't really think giving weapons to the military of a rich, industrialized country can be called charity.
I guess a good analogy would be that you give food coupons to your wealthy friend and claim that you have now helped the poor.
I assumed that the GPP meant that the bacteria could mutate in a way that makes it better able to survive outside of a laboratory. If he meant it in a "fuel problem solved, I'll grow these in a pool of slime in my yard" or in a "oh shit we're all gonna DIE!" kind of way, I do not know.
And evolution will make sure that the mutations that survive are the ones we want the least, i.e. those unable to produce biofuels. Thus rendering them useless.
Sorry, BoP.
Noob.