According to this interesting piece on the massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) market, Star Wars Galaxies will be trying hard to get more women than the 10-15 percent currently registered. How?

Of the 700 or so learnable skills available, only a third are combat-related, with a number designed to appeal to women — or at any rate to those less interested in a life of galactic swashbuckling. “I’m kind of embarrassed to mention this,” says LucasArts producer Haden Blackman, “but we have a hairdressing skill tree.”

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In the US, Time Warner is starting to warn its users against sharing their bandwidth using wireless LANs. Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, who brought this to my attention says, “I hope that 802.11a mesh-networks without any connection to an ISP (other than at a major network interchange like MAE West) take off soon, and put these fools out of commission.” But I can see the ISPs’ point – Every person who shares someone else’s connection free of charge is one fewer paying customer.

Now if wireless LAN users were charged by those that they shared from and some of that charge was funnelled back to the ISP providing the “backbone” – that might be sustainable. I suspect Sputnik and Boingo may employ this model.

The arguments arising are very similar in nature to those over sharing intellectual property. People are saying “I paid for this bandwidth I should be able to give it away to anyone I like”. But it’s important to realise that ISPs need to make money somehow or there won’t be any bandwidth around to share…

Someone put together a list of the top 30 UK weblogs and I found this weblog sitting there at #25… The other statistics available are a little more sobering – according to Alexa (used to do the ranking in the first place) this is (approximately) the 624,296th most popular site on the Internet, and my personal website is the 2,348,943th most popular. It could be worse – the website I created for my local urban regeneration group was too low to measure.

It has been suggested that the UK government needs to fund broadband content to get people to take it up. The e-Minister, Stephen Timms, said,

“For many, speed alone is not enough to justify upgrading to broadband. People need to be able to do more than play games and swap music files to convince them of the benefits of broadband.”

I am not so sure – while there is evidence that people enjoy the occaisional streaming video clip, research (like this recent US study) seems to suggest that most people get plenty of value out of broadband just by getting ordinary pages quickly without having to dial up or tie up a phone line to access them.payday 2000 loansloan payday 37 26 cashloan mortgage uk 2ndloans 401k faqloan credit bad 5 payday5 payday 20,7 loan cash online11 8 cash loan payday advancepayday fax cash loan advance noloan affiliate program15 10 loan black payday

Just to break the monotony of my text, here’s a fun image someone pointed me to – it came from here.

The BBC-backed bid that will offer 24 free-to-air channels and a set top box to receive them costing less than £100 has been chosen by the government. The previous attempt to use broadcast (“terrestrial”) digital TV to sell pay TV – ITV Digital – was a failure. Since this bid doesn’t have as many channels it should provide better reception and because it isn’t trying to sell customers a subscription it should be much more successful in winning viewers.

The BBC reports, “Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials…”

…”The law would also allow the record companies to place programs on the machines of peer-to-peer networks to let them trace who is pirating pop.”

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The well-respected New England Journal of Medicine has announced it will no longer exclude doctors from reviewing articles if they are also earning money from pharmaceutical companies – up to $10,000 a year from any one company. The editor-in-chief said,

“There are areas where we simply have not published anything because we didn’t think we could get a person who was good to write in an area that had absolutely no interaction with a commercial entity.”

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Yes, we all know that in many ways Hollywood’s grasp of science is weak – but it is still fun to read in some detail why some things that you see on screen make no sense. And the creator of this site does point out some things that I hadn’t thought of, like:

“A single inexpensive passive sensor can be used to detect the presence of human motion for an entire room. While multi-beamed laser security systems are not impossible, there’s usually no reason to use one…

…When a sniper looks through the telescopic sight on his rifle, he knows where the bullet is going to go relative to the crosshairs. Adding a laserbeam would do nothing except tip off the victim that he’s about to be shot and give him time to duck before the bullet arrived. It would also help reveal the sniper’s location.

Hitting a moving target using a laser sight would be extremely difficult. The sniper would have to lead the subject and so the red dot would be projected in front of the target where it could easily be lost in the background.”

… to say nothing of the fact that a laser won’t help you aim if there is any wind…

The writer also gives mini reviews of several popular movies discussing just how scientifically accurate they are (usual answer: not very)

Thanks again to Harald/chk for the link…

… on BBC Radio 4 and you can listen to it online if you miss it live (or don’t live here). It’s not really a proper quiz show – it’s just an excuse for comedians to read out funny clips from odd UK newspapers and make fun of what has happened in the news that week. It may be hard to follow if you aren’t in or from the UK, but it is certainly more savagely satirical and entertaining than its American equivalent, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.for loans 10000 credit badunion air credit federal academymill accreditation0 credit interest offers cardcredit credit accept card cardsadvancial union creditservices americredit financialincorrect payments americredit Map