Read your critique of the new Enterprise and think you should stop wishing for things you're never going to get because the writers are either still living in the 30's where sexual suggestions were taboo and aliens were the guys with green facepaint (that didn't even show up in B&W).
Instead, just check out Farscape (SCIFI Channel). It's got everything you've just asked for (except minor plot characters since there are only a hand full of people on the boat and a few thousand mini-machines. And DRDs don't inspire much in the way of juicy plot lines.
I think it's pretty obvious why they want to stop NAT; they can charge more people. You'll remember that these companies are often the same people who supply cable to your home, and there are regulations (which everyone ignores) that stipulate you can only have one TV hooked up to your cable box. Splitters permit may people to illegally hook up many TVs in their home. Even the telephone agency (Ma-Bell) tried to charge per phone instead of per phone-number. This is all pretty typical stuff. We've had the same argument with software licensing for ages (one use, or one install?).
The difference, of course, being that it's easier to pick out the NATs. But what really stops people from networking their neighborhood, or at least their neighbor. I know in my apartment building I could easily drop a line down to the floor below and give them access to my IPMasq box.
The Korean pro-NAT people make a strange, and ultimately undefendable argument, that the people should do what they can to save money. When, in reality, the comsumer saving money will mean the company losing money. And we all know what happens next: higher prices.
Then again who really believes that Bill Gates would lower the price of his OS to $5 if China decided to actually pay for all of its copies of the OS.
Check out geekcorps.org. It's basically the peace corps but instead of agriculture they focus on starting 3rd world computer industries. The great part about the company is that it's still small and any contribution is bound to make a big impact.
What Sony/Verant doesn't understand is that Time is Time and is perfectly transferable across the virtual gap. People spend time in RL making money. They want to spend less time in VR making money. So they trade with people who are spending time in VR making money all the money they made in RL. (are you with me?). The true currency of economy in the information age is time. But then again it's difficult to maintain game balance when there is a 1st lvl dwarf walking around in full plate, weilding a flaming avenger, wagging his butt at dragons and calling out, "/ooc you know, all this freedom is really brought to you by one company, that started with nothing but (my mom's 1.4mil) a dream to make computers better . . . and now the DoJ is on my . .." a General Protection Fault hits YOU for 666 points of damage. -theLunchLady
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You think this will work on my girlfriend?
Not that spam is meat, but anyone notice the appropriateness of the name Carnivore?
Good to see the Ueber Geek ride in on his pure white packets, in a shiney Firewall and lay it down before us all.
hope your marrage has an infinite uptime.
NTBugTrack -- `nuff said.
Read your critique of the new Enterprise and think you should stop wishing for things you're never going to get because the writers are either still living in the 30's where sexual suggestions were taboo and aliens were the guys with green facepaint (that didn't even show up in B&W).
Instead, just check out Farscape (SCIFI Channel). It's got everything you've just asked for (except minor plot characters since there are only a hand full of people on the boat and a few thousand mini-machines. And DRDs don't inspire much in the way of juicy plot lines.
-ll
Can't wait to see what smart tags do to SlashDot.
The difference, of course, being that it's easier to pick out the NATs. But what really stops people from networking their neighborhood, or at least their neighbor. I know in my apartment building I could easily drop a line down to the floor below and give them access to my IPMasq box.
The Korean pro-NAT people make a strange, and ultimately undefendable argument, that the people should do what they can to save money. When, in reality, the comsumer saving money will mean the company losing money. And we all know what happens next: higher prices.
Then again who really believes that Bill Gates would lower the price of his OS to $5 if China decided to actually pay for all of its copies of the OS.
-theLunchLady
Check out geekcorps.org. It's basically the peace corps but instead of agriculture they focus on starting 3rd world computer industries. The great part about the company is that it's still small and any contribution is bound to make a big impact.
www.geekcorps.org
I'm volunteering to work in Ghana for 3 months for them.
-j
What Sony/Verant doesn't understand is that Time is Time and is perfectly transferable across the virtual gap. People spend time in RL making money. They want to spend less time in VR making money. So they trade with people who are spending time in VR making money all the money they made in RL. (are you with me?). The true currency of economy in the information age is time. ."
But then again it's difficult to maintain game balance when there is a 1st lvl dwarf walking around in full plate, weilding a flaming avenger, wagging his butt at dragons and calling out, "/ooc you know, all this freedom is really brought to you by one company, that started with nothing but (my mom's 1.4mil) a dream to make computers better . . . and now the DoJ is on my . .
a General Protection Fault hits YOU for 666 points of damage.
-theLunchLady