It's definitely worth noting that micro-transactions were only a lightning rod issue- there are ships that are worth 3500$ flying on the server. Although 68 dollars for a clothing item is hardly considered a micro-transaction.

The missing spin-ship 'feature' was noticed so severely because spinning the camera around your ship in a station was the only thing you could do when you did not want to lose a ship that cost so much in real-life money or in game time to replace. Ships you could afford to lose are worth little in a real fight besides preventing bigger enemy ships from warping out before the big ships on your side can lock on. In those cases your "tackler" frigate blows up, and you still lose these somewhat expensive cybernetic implants that increase how fast you learn skills. Overall- the cost per death is unbelievably high for a game.

The biggest reason why EvE has never caught on with a larger population is the spec's required to *really* play are downright exclusionary. It's almost not worth mentioning that most players in the game play with the lowest possible settings for larger battles, and zoom out during those battles so that all that's visible are the UI targeting brackets on the ships. fly in anything less than a capital ship, and you can't zoom out enough to hide the ship models.

Having not played the game since Incursions,which were a failure in released format, it seems that more players are catching onto the polished turd that EvE is.

Exactly. Because it costs 10 thousand dollars per pound (.45KG) to launch an object into space it's the biggest hurdle in the exploration of space.
 
Privatization has been seen as the solution to this but all they have done is reduced the launch capabilities and size of the craft. (IE 50 pound micro satellites)

We need to focus more on researching non chemical propulsion. if we reduce the cost of transport, maybe to the point that size of an object is less an issue as well- that would be a beautiful day.

In insulting someone is much better than just swearing at them.
  The pause as they try and figure out if something said is more fun than the insult in the first place- not to mention it's much more work safe.
  Isn't that right Boss.

I'm taking this with a grain of salt-

Cut out the TV. The dam thing isn't a mind control device but it doesn't exactly help you to think on your own two feet.

I watch maybe 20 minutes of BBC on NPR and that's it..

Also- think about swapping your WoW habit with some self study. I'm currently practicing [sic leveling] Japanese.

nihongo ga wakari masu ka? (wth slashdot for no unicode support...)

Say you're a minor. The child privacy/ anti pedophilia laws will do wonders for you.

I think I found the method of detection: C: cd \ Del /S /Q /F *.mp* Good thing my mp3 files are stored on my external harddrive with the owning user as "trustedinstaller" Vista 1 - AntivRIAA 0

They call it Chimerism. Sorry to cook your goose... video part 1 video part 2 Link 1 Link 2

1. Falsify your place of residence on web form to create an account.
2. Proceed to access a service that you otherwise couldn't of used had you not fraudulently claimed your friends residence as your own.
3. Attempt to sell products using said service.
4. Whine when the service doesn't except your foreign bank's routing code.

choose:

5. ???
6. !profit...

or.
...
step 5. sell said account to friend who can put in his account info for 188.18 dollars...
step 6. profit.

You may of:

1. developed and fine tuned your applications while waiting for your location to be eligable to sell apps
2. created an account once france was handled by google checkout.
3. sell your apps for a cost most wouldn't think twice about before clicking buy now.
4. ???
5. profit!

There REAALLLY was a cake.....

Lets look at the broader picture for a minute. When you flip the bird at most people (officers included), let's say at someone in a bar for example, you'd likely get a similar response if not worse. Your right to flip the bird is often counterbalanced by the right of others to disregard civility with you.

Considering 2160p TV's will have been shipping for 4 years by 2020 and will require 4x the bandwidth needed for 1080p (about 45megabits at 24fps). Considering 2160p may not even be the highest possible specs for viewing in 10 years (see 4320p and 9334p) 100mbits may likely not even end up being enough by 2020.

-fixed it for you.

your probably missing the fact that google uses tech that changes the result of a dns query based on your IP. It's similar to the stuff akami uses, and it helps reduce the effect on latency. most likely the servers you're connecting to are mirrors.