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Comment Re:GTC are cheaper (Score 1) 208

60 days costs 34.99 EUR, or 30.0986 GBP.

30 day PLEX costs 310,000,000 ISK
30.0986 GBP gets you 620,000,000 ISK
1 GBP = 20,598,964.73 ISK
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Some ISK-selling sites:
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1,551.50 GBP buys you 40,000,000,000 ISK
1 GBP gets you 25,781,501.77 ISK
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928.14 GBP buys you 19,500,000,000 ISK
1 GBP gets you 21,009,761.45
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471.65 GBP buys you 10,000,000,000 ISK
1 GBP gets you 21,202,162.62 ISK
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Hardly twice as much. And that is when buying in massive bulk - buy in smaller packages and you can reduce the ISK figures above by 1/3. Not to mention this ISK can come from hacked accounts and lead to bans.

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Synthetic Biology, a relatively new field, is seeking to find out what happened to a bunch of chemicals to make them capable of supporting a metabolism, replicating, and evolution. A Florida lab is showing some of the most promising advancements in this direction with their AEGIS (Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System) experiment. "AEGIS is not self-sustaining, at least not yet, and with 12 DNA building blocks -- as opposed to the usual four -- there's little chance it will be confused with natural life. Still, Benner is encouraged by the results. 'It's evolving. It's doing what we designed it to do,' said Benner, a biochemist with the Gainesville, Fla.-based Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. In addition to providing an example of how alien life might be cobbled together, synthetic biology has a broad array of uses on the home front."

Comment Re:no (Score 1) 531

This won't work, because the only this fails to send the only message they understand: we don't want to buy this game with this DRM.

Think about it. The only reason they put DRM on the game is to increase sales by making pirating/copying the game for a friend more difficult. If you buy the game anyway, you send the message that you will still pay for the product. A pirated copy represents a missed sale.

Affecting their bottom line is the only way to send a message to the people who make the decision to include DRM.

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