Disclaimer:
I don't play EVE-O.
I'd like to, it looks good; leveling up looks better than other MMORPGs.
I'm not even that interested in the RPG part... I've been having fun with capitol ship fighting in megamek recently (and I dug out Homeworld to play again a couple of weeks ago).

I've read here about one needing to be logged in when a skill update happens or it's wasted,,,
This is wrong... If it's progressed, you should get it.

My idea for EVE-off-line would include some kind of tamogatchi-type thingamajigger... something you synched up via USB with a few simple games on it to play, that would then be authenticated and uploaded, helping you when online.

The problem is some people really believe that if you take in certain pieces of information, you WILL act on it
You have no choice, it's not a question of self-control; sooner or later, you will do something.
(Strangely enough, these kind of people usually talk big about "personal responsibility"... although it's usually in terms of punishment, rarely in terms of prevention.)
The fact that you deny it will happen is proof that you've been corrupted, your conscience seared, and reinforces their belief in their own rightness.
That consuming that information might actually prevent someone from going out and committing the act depicted/described, is something entirely alien, and will cause them to redouble their belief against it.

Whether it's porn of any type, birth control, evolution, video games, political theories,,, hell, damned near anything, someone with this mode of thought will crusade against it. And again, trying to cure them of it only makes them dig in deeper.

Of course, the inquisitors, err... special investigators, are somehow immune to this effect, and are there to save you from your sins.

DON'T!!!

I've done some tech support for people in my mother's building (and since then, re-affirmed my oath to NOT FUCKING do that ever again!),
You may as well surf all the virus/trojan loaded sites before you give it to them and save them the trouble.
And save yourself the trouble of having to explain why all their pictures are gone, or why they're victims of ID theft and not able to do anything about it.

Many people are going to shout "UBUNTU!!! They can just do the updates themselves."
Yeah, and then you're gonna be over there figuring out what happened when they do a version upgrade and it not just breaks, but shatters to pieces.

I got my mom a mini-mac. The only issues I've had to fix are getting an old version of photoshop running on it, and telling her that "no, you don't have to pay for Open Office, that's a donation button, like on PBS."

Disclaimers: I use ubuntu on my systems; no problems, I like it. I am not a mac fanboi. I know not every senior is technically inept; I've seen plenty who do amazing things on their systems, I've also seen some who shouldn't be allowed to own a toaster.

My place has been testing older servers we've had sitting around for power usage, computation power, throughput...
What fits the curves stays, what doesn't gets nuke-wiped and sold off.
Seriously... MRI machines are fun.
Clears up storage and re-purposes still viable servers, usually with vmware.

So now we have Franken-rack, Bride of Franken-rack (thin cabinet, no side space), and Son of Franken-rack (half-height cabinet).

Command and conquer: Get off my damned lawn edition
Red alert: Yuri remembers the great war... over and over and over agian
and a Vega strike mod: Are those my pills?

I keep series grouped together.
Sometimes that also means by author, but not always.

Then as they're read, they get moved from the left bookcase to the right one.
When the right bookcase fills up, probably 95% go into storage, the others go to the back of the queue in the left bookcase.

Does it go around saying "pan-tsu. pan-tsu. pan-tsu." ?

Hope he moved the power switch.

Not everyone north of I-80 likes him either.
I've always referred to him as governor "blow-me-you-bitch".

Now, work on getting double-precision.

Is this a holiday or a linux distribution?