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$8 an hour to play EvE :(

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#21 - 2015-02-24 16:35:37 UTC
On a cruise ship, internet costs $0.50 a minute. But that does not mean it costs $30/hour to play eve, as they block access to such services, believing them to be bandwidth hogs. But you can troll the forums, if you feel it's worth $30 an hour to do so.

So I just bring a long range wifi antenna, point it at shore and look for networks I can leech off of. It works at about a third of the ports. Even then I don't get much play time. The ship sets sail fairly soon after you get back from your shore excursion.

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Solairen
Matsuko Holding
#22 - 2015-02-24 18:09:11 UTC
Tenchi Sal wrote:
J'Poll wrote:
And that's why in 1st world countries, the electricity runs through underground wires.

Then only digging sites can mess up your power supply


In Florida, power runs above ground.


That's why she said "..in 1st world countries.."
Colonel Selene
Kesukka
#23 - 2015-02-24 18:19:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Colonel Selene
Are the power lines underground in rural areas of Europe too?


Florida has a lot of lightning and floods in the summer. I can't imagine they would want to dig up that **** to repair it all the time. We do have underground power in some of the neighborhoods that have houses really close together but its still mostly overhead for most places.

EDIT: I probably have no idea what I'm talking about either. Can we get an expert in here? I have just heard people say the lightning can wreck havoc on underground lines. No idea if that is true to not.

Grrr.
Solairen
Matsuko Holding
#24 - 2015-02-24 18:48:14 UTC
My limited understanding is suspended lines are cheaper both to install and maintain. In addition the gauge of the wire can be smaller to carry the same load, something about insulation/interference in the air vs the ground.

In the US I generally assume most places have lines above the ground do so because it hasn't become financially beneficial for the utility to put them underground. Anything that generally has a justifiable reason elsewhere in the world in my experience (more than 1/2 my adult life is expat), is generally ignored in the same situation in the US, for the justifiable cause of monetary gain. I.e. doesn't matter if it's more in the long run, or your customers hate it, or its less effective, as long as it's cheaper and give you more net profit - you're good.

The rest was just an excuse for me to tease/joke about Florida. Should check out Fark.com, enough stupid things happen in Florida it has it's own tag.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#25 - 2015-02-24 19:00:17 UTC
Belt Scout wrote:
That's how much propane my genny uses to power the house up after a dump truck full of sand slid down my hilly street this morning and tore down a few power poles. Cry

.


Turn off everything not essential to support life, tv screens, pomps, lights, alarms, and leave just your hardware with dimmed screen and don't run anything in background like antiviruses or audio players.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#26 - 2015-02-24 20:48:01 UTC
Aursentris wrote:
Novah Soul wrote:
Lan Wang wrote:
have you tried rl things? i heard cycling is suppose to be pretty cool


Tried real life, the graphics are OK but the gameplay is horrible. Ugh


Just ok? Graphics are great! Over 9000k!
Have you tried the physic engine? They have done a great job there. Amazing ****.


I also heard that NPCs have very lifely chats.

And that it's true HARDCORE MODE, so you only get 1 live and no medical clone.

Personal channel: Crazy Dutch Guy

Help channel: Help chat - Reloaded

Public roams channels: RvB Ganked / Redemption Road / Spectre Fleet / Bombers bar / The Content Club
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#27 - 2015-02-24 20:54:15 UTC
Colonel Selene wrote:
Are the power lines underground in rural areas of Europe too?


Here in Holland only High-Voltage (so 10+k V) is transported above ground (cause, you don't want to put your shovel through one of those by accident).

Normal grid (230V - 380V) goes underground.
Near where I live (semi-rural - first city of importance is 1h drive which is a lot for Dutchies) there are actually also a couple of 5 kV wires going from the powerplant to industrial sites (used to work for a company that did maintenance to utility lines (water and power - which genius ever thought of putting those 2 next to each other in the groundWhat?)

Personal channel: Crazy Dutch Guy

Help channel: Help chat - Reloaded

Public roams channels: RvB Ganked / Redemption Road / Spectre Fleet / Bombers bar / The Content Club
Bak
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2015-02-24 21:00:26 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
have you tried rl things? i heard cycling is suppose to be pretty cool


I love rolling my car window down and letting my dog scare the crap out them
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#29 - 2015-02-24 21:00:56 UTC
I'm still disappointed at the bait topic. I thought OP had landed the job of our dreams

Help, I can't download EVE

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PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#30 - 2015-02-24 22:12:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Nerath Naaris
Rain6637 wrote:
I'm still disappointed at the bait topic. I thought OP had landed the job of our dreams


That reminds me, isn´t that a thing in those chinese reeducation camps? The inmates having to play EvE (and other MMORGS) to grind ingame currency for their reeducators?
Just imagine, whenever The CODE. ganks a miner there is a possibility that some poor believer in free speech gets punished for it...

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Je suis Berlin // Fort Lauderdale // London // St. Petersburg // Stockholm

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Colonel Selene
Kesukka
#31 - 2015-02-25 00:19:38 UTC
J'Poll wrote:
Colonel Selene wrote:
Are the power lines underground in rural areas of Europe too?


Here in Holland only High-Voltage (so 10+k V) is transported above ground (cause, you don't want to put your shovel through one of those by accident).

Normal grid (230V - 380V) goes underground.
Near where I live (semi-rural - first city of importance is 1h drive which is a lot for Dutchies) there are actually also a couple of 5 kV wires going from the powerplant to industrial sites (used to work for a company that did maintenance to utility lines (water and power - which genius ever thought of putting those 2 next to each other in the groundWhat?)


Oh thanks for that.

Grrr.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#32 - 2015-02-25 14:32:32 UTC
Colonel Selene wrote:
Are the power lines underground in rural areas of Europe too?


Florida has a lot of lightning and floods in the summer. I can't imagine they would want to dig up that **** to repair it all the time. We do have underground power in some of the neighborhoods that have houses really close together but its still mostly overhead for most places.

EDIT: I probably have no idea what I'm talking about either. Can we get an expert in here? I have just heard people say the lightning can wreck havoc on underground lines. No idea if that is true to not.

Hi there. I actually know a bit about this as it's an area of research I created, just by having some fun.

I decided I wanted a fugerite. A fugerite is a glassy object created when lightning passes through sand. I figured I could get one by:

1) Buy one
2) Find one
3) Make one

I went for option 3. (This was a long time ago, pre e-bay.)
If you launch a small rocket that is pulling up a wire from the ground, you can trigger a lightning strike. I did this, and had the wire's bottom end sitting on top of a bucket of sand. I did get strikes and did make fulgerites. I did this at Langmuir lab in New Mexico. The professor there said no one had ever thought of using triggered lightning to study how lightning moves through the ground. I even got my name on a paper as a result.
Now they bury cables under the launch areas for the rockets, and dig up the results. It turns out lightning will travel through 6 feet of dirt, hit an armored power line and burn a hole in it.

Know a Frozen fan? Check this out

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Colonel Selene
Kesukka
#33 - 2015-02-25 14:40:26 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:
Colonel Selene wrote:
Are the power lines underground in rural areas of Europe too?


Florida has a lot of lightning and floods in the summer. I can't imagine they would want to dig up that **** to repair it all the time. We do have underground power in some of the neighborhoods that have houses really close together but its still mostly overhead for most places.

EDIT: I probably have no idea what I'm talking about either. Can we get an expert in here? I have just heard people say the lightning can wreck havoc on underground lines. No idea if that is true to not.

Hi there. I actually know a bit about this as it's an area of research I created, just by having some fun.

I decided I wanted a fugerite. A fugerite is a glassy object created when lightning passes through sand. I figured I could get one by:

1) Buy one
2) Find one
3) Make one

I went for option 3. (This was a long time ago, pre e-bay.)
If you launch a small rocket that is pulling up a wire from the ground, you can trigger a lightning strike. I did this, and had the wire's bottom end sitting on top of a bucket of sand. I did get strikes and did make fulgerites. I did this at Langmuir lab in New Mexico. The professor there said no one had ever thought of using triggered lightning to study how lightning moves through the ground. I even got my name on a paper as a result.
Now they bury cables under the launch areas for the rockets, and dig up the results. It turns out lightning will travel through 6 feet of dirt, hit an armored power line and burn a hole in it.


Oh wow that's pretty interesting, was not expecting a response like that. Sounds like what I was told was spot on.

Grrr.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#34 - 2015-02-26 03:07:20 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:
Colonel Selene wrote:
Are the power lines underground in rural areas of Europe too?


Florida has a lot of lightning and floods in the summer. I can't imagine they would want to dig up that **** to repair it all the time. We do have underground power in some of the neighborhoods that have houses really close together but its still mostly overhead for most places.

EDIT: I probably have no idea what I'm talking about either. Can we get an expert in here? I have just heard people say the lightning can wreck havoc on underground lines. No idea if that is true to not.

Hi there. I actually know a bit about this as it's an area of research I created, just by having some fun.

I decided I wanted a fugerite. A fugerite is a glassy object created when lightning passes through sand. I figured I could get one by:

1) Buy one
2) Find one
3) Make one

I went for option 3. (This was a long time ago, pre e-bay.)
If you launch a small rocket that is pulling up a wire from the ground, you can trigger a lightning strike. I did this, and had the wire's bottom end sitting on top of a bucket of sand. I did get strikes and did make fulgerites. I did this at Langmuir lab in New Mexico. The professor there said no one had ever thought of using triggered lightning to study how lightning moves through the ground. I even got my name on a paper as a result.
Now they bury cables under the launch areas for the rockets, and dig up the results. It turns out lightning will travel through 6 feet of dirt, hit an armored power line and burn a hole in it.

Oh yeah. The naturally occurring ones found in deserts are highly collectible. Some people make a living making them, using rockets like you did. They're more impressive than the ancient busted up ones from the desert. I've heard they do it mostly in Florida, because of a better chances of a lightning hit there.
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