Couple of New articles from Switzerland and Norway!!!

Now all we need are translators


http://forbruker.no/digital/article1323580.ece

http://www.weltwoche.ch/artikel/?Ass...&CategoryID=82

Can't get the first one yet but this is the second one...

Entropia is registered on no map of the world, and the country more money than some African state gains nevertheless. Thus really, gibt's nevertheless not? Christof Moser pressed key F and researched in the virtual Gefilden after its in the light. Report of the scene of the non--happening. Announcement You have a sharp Avatar: Pixelchic in new Oxford, Calypso. Picture: www.entropiauniverse.com I have myself to just create, as a virtual nature, me a face formed, a body, hands, feet. My movements - going, hopping, dancing - and also the Mimik - astonishment, joy, mourning - do not require no more than a simple depressing the key. It is clock at noon Central European summer time, and I blinzle for the first time into the virtual morning sun. Birds twitter, a lighter wind goes. This history leads into a world, which consists of pixels, which is flat like a computer screen, but the evolution of the Homo continues to drive sapiens a piece, inside into the virtual area. The world as Game, the Game as world: But the virtual universe Entropia, a on-line Game with 300000 players stands world-wide, for an annual gross inland product of 165 million dollar and a sun, which never sink completely on the horizon. Downloading a free software is everything that one must do not to differentiate in order to arrive this way, and who once in it is, white soon no more between material and virtually - because there is not really this difference here any longer. Entropia, which is such a thing like present become future, frightening for the one, fascinatingly for others, but somehow disturbing for everything, also those, which along-play. Like a message seemed out furthermore to future, when some months ago the press reported, a British film producer on a virtual Asteoriden for 100000 dollar a entertainment complex bought and intends now to open there a Disco. Who is this man? What is for a world? Raus from the civilization The climate on the planet Calypso is more warmly than on earth, it prevails subtropical temperatures. The vegetation changes between open levels and more moderately to more closely Bewaldung. The sumptuous palm plants and the man-high reeds resemble the Gewucher on earth during the chalk time, forwards over one hundred million years. 15 million Eudoria, one of the two continents on Calypso is square kilometers large. Amethera is somewhat more largely, but less closely settled. Everything is in detail creates: The mountain Syran peak is with 3988 meters the largest collection on the planet. Three larger rivers schlaengeln by this world, the Orthos River flows itself into the Lake Ambrosia, which has a discharge with the Thetys River against the north and with the Nereus River against the south. Why from this lake two rivers rise, still inexplicably, an expedition is planned along the unexplored river bank however already. Players will have to leave for it the advantages of the virtual civilization behind itself, from the capital Hadesheim will out-dare themselves and centers of dense development such as Atlas Haven, haven Atlantis or twin peak will leave, in order to advance into new areas, which with the exception of the Game developers humans saw never before. "on each hill a geteerte road, each angle leads is investigated", says a Gamer from Lugano in Switzerland, which I meet after few steps in the new world. "here it is again possible to go on discovery journey." Only with it no misunderstanding develops: The man, a Banker, 33, means that serious. There is quite strong reasons, which drive players like him in the unterholz or to the muddy Gestade of waters, where dinosaur-like natures with their Kiefern must zubeissen not twice, in order to make for the virtual life from. Other bodenschaetze, over new hunting grounds around gold or, go and in the long run it concerns money. Genuine money. 900 million dollar, then estimate economists, in on-line plays with the trade by virtual properties and raw materials are annually converted. The analysts of Pricewaterhouse Coopers prognosticate on-line Gaming to 2009 growth rates of 60 per cent within the range - per year. Companies in cheap wage countries such as China or Russia, whose employee does nothing different one to play than all day long already, exist. The in such a way gained goods, virtual gold about, in addition, highly developed abilities or points of life of the play figures, are sold on Ebay or particularly for it furnished on-line stock exchanges to other players. The prices vary depending upon supply and demand. With credit card, the commodity is paid and handed over then a meeting place agreed upon from figure to figure, at in the virtual world. Entropia is not the largest, but the most consistent virtual restaurant simulation in the InterNet. While World OF Warcraft, with world-wide six million players the largest so-called Massively Multiplayer the on-line Role Playing Games, plays in a Fantasiewelt, in which it applies to defeat Daemonen, turns in Entropia of everything around what requires also the reality of us: work and money make. The play currency, the Project Entropia dollar, briefly PED, is in the relationship 10 to 1 with the US dollar linked and after computations of the California economist Edward Castronova already more strongly than the Japanese Yen. That sounds absurd, but only, because only comes now, which makes Entropia under the games of roles in the InterNet singular: The Game is not a closed and system completely uncoupled by the reality. Players, who live its virtual existence profitable, know their virtual earnings/services into genuine dollar exchanges. To request the operator company of the play, the Swedish software enterprise Mindark, transfers the erspielten amount for a material bank account. In the USA the money can be loaded without delay on the credit card. In the current year the value of all gained products and services in Entropia is 350 million dollar to reach. Thus the Game, based at the gross inland product, ranks on 77. Place of the community of states - it leaves some African countries far behind itself. Only Rumhaengen does not apply Right after the birth as Avatar, when GameFigur in the screen world leaves itself, the occupation, which one would like to exercise in the play, freely to select. Then it concerns above all to specialize. Who wants to take more approximately as hunters on the hunt for virtual natures, than he spends on the ammunition, to improve and the efficiency must invest hundreds of hours into the profit zone increase in order to develop its abilities. The costs of the ammunition, some cents per shot, depending upon weapon, flow to the operator company of the Games. The raw materials, which are won from the hunted animals and whose value does not vary between nothing at all and some cents, can at the play-internal stock exchange other players are sold, who manufacture from it furniture or dresses - and their goods then again on the market offer. According to the same principle the search for bodenschaetzen functions. But the mine specialists hunt some cents expensive shock wave bombs into the pixel soil and hope to find with the radar device minerals which are more worth, than the search cost. In the long run on it the coincidence decides, but players with the better know-how, the better devices obtain also better results. Whom the complex specialization is too laborious, money can load so-called Skills, from other players buy into the Game and abilities, to hunt around then animals or gold to schuerfen with the credit card. Thus it is clear why for these virtual play goods occasionally high amounts of dollar are paid: Behind it is hard work. Particularly efficient weapons change the owner therefore already times for 5000 dollar. The best hunters erjagen thereby in the animated fauna per month to the 2000 dollar. New Oxford, Amethera. The newest city on the planet Calypso. Here I meet Jon Jacobs, meant film producer, who provided with the purchase of the Asteroiden messuage for attention. Visitor magnet of the place, which is because of a idyllischen lake, is sketched beside the museum OF Fine kind an art gallery building in shape of a moose head, by a Swedish architect. The columns in the enormous showrooms are verziert with mosaics. On the walls pictures, we hang visit a Vernissage. Jacobs, which calls itself as play figure Neverdie, carries sun glasses, a hat, a pinkfarbenen umhang, and it is not only its shrills clothes because of in this parallel universe in such a way admits like a multicolored dog. Art and artificial works Neverdie is the "100000-Dollar-Mann". The owner of "club Neverdie", "the roofridge virtual dance club into the university verses". And it is a virtual nature with a long history. 2003 he already roamed across the at that time still young Game world, into whose development the company Mindark to today 15 million dollar was. The world was still wild and empty. When ever more player began to populate the planet, also Jon Jacobs ' ex friend Tina Wiseman a virtual identity created itself. Together with it, which called itself in the Game Iceland Girl and attained under the artist name Tina Leiu with softpornografischen film productions also in the reality a certain celebrity, it produced 2004 the Song "Gamer Chick". The video tie-clip in addition consisted of Game scenes, which were player municipality enthusiastically. After Tina Wiseman at the beginning of of 2005 at a fever illness died, he established it on an island in the southwest Eudorias in honours a shrine. Until today there players go past, lay down flowers, sit down into the grass and listen, as Neverdie in the song its Iceland Girl besingt: "I met ago on-line, ago avatar looked fine". "Tina was an artist, her wants not to be forgotten", does not say Neverdie, when we go into new Oxford through the showrooms. Go is called in this case: Gropes F press. To the hundred guests from all world, those are in the meantime present Vernissage are well visited. The pictures, usually abstract art in the kind, how the Americans love them, in addition, can be acquired here for 1000 to 5000 PED as virtual object, can as material works be ordered. During I set myself and with an artist over the play-internal Chatsystem maintenance - he comes from Budapest, and Entropia is in the meantime its most important paragraph channel -, buy Neverdie short hand for 40000 PED, 4000 material dollar thus, virtual pixel art, which he wants to hang into the VIP Lounge of his club. Jacobs sees as Investment. As the other virtual articles can be acted also the pictures at the produce exchange. If the demand for an artist rises, it was worthwhile itself to belong to its first collecting tanks in the virtual reality. At all Jacobs can afford such Eskapaden. With its Asteroiden Resort he earns in the meantime 12000 dollar per month and belongs thereby to an increasing number of Entropia players, who cannot only finance their virtual life with their Game profits, but also their life in the reality. If Jacobs plays, he works. Five hours daily. The only rules in this world are those of capitalism. No State of, an authority does not control here the run of the things. The participants are modern luck knights, who conquer like Jacobs the virtual area like once the discoverers America their new territory. "we create our own world of the adventures", say a Gamer from Great Britain, which I likewise meet to the Vernissage. "did the reality become not long boring?" More than 300 different Multiplayer Games are today in the InterNet, a good dozen of it also over 10o000 registered Usern. In South Korea young people already spend more time in computer worlds than before the television. Game experts already compare the rapidly growing popularity of the on-line plays with the triumphant advance of the E-Mail before 15 years. Warning voices go down regarding this to boom-end parallel economy. What, if all want to take their money off at the same time from the virtual accounts? If the operators bankruptcy make? The company Mindark gained with 25 coworkers an annual conversion of 25 million, settled in Goeteborg, euro and stands under supervision of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. The legal situation in the virtual economic system is nevertheless more than uncertain. Who enters Entropia, it must take to the knowledge that in the play only luck and ability decide whether one belongs to the winners. "it is in the reality different?", Neverdie asks. After the end of the InterNet Hypes it lost the confidence into the material economy. "and in a few years also in the reality nobody will protect, says us more against the mechanisms of the market" it. We leave the Vernissage and walk to the lake along, the sun stand already deeply. After short time Neverdies next Investment already emerges behind the reed plant on the bank. Because new Oxford is the most announced place at present within the play, he bought here 14 dwellings. For 12000 PED the piece. Like a broker it leads me by some apartments into white circular buildings, shows me the prospect from the window and explains that it wants the dwellings soon at fellow player letting. So heavily it me falls to understand what Gamer of dwellings are to have, which can furnish them with approximately 200 different articles, to be in demand them a roof over the head will however never really offer - at least as commodity dwelling seems: The real estate prices in Entropia doubled themselves in the last months. Miami Beach, Florida. I meet Jon Jacobs a second time, this time as material humans. The man, who expects me at the airport, with blondierten hair, sounded eyeglasses and a Shirt, on which "Sex" stands written, was located somewhere of the New York Times as "between aging skirt star and prominent hairdresser". Jacobs, 39, born in the British Derbyshire, the father a drunkard and a player, the nut/mother 1962 "Beauty Queen United Kingdom", wanted already as a child only one: become famous. With ten years it leaves the regular education system, in order to visit a film school in London. With 24, now in Los Angeles resident, he publishes his first film, over which a critic meant: "Incredibly bizarre, funny, by verses and more than A would suffer absurdly." As more idea-rich, but film producer without means discovers Jacobs four years later, 1994, Everquest, one of the first games of roles in the InterNet. The interlaced Gamewelt fascinates it, and if he had on his play account again more moneys than in the bank, he wished himself, its virtual wealth would be material. Phone bills over 1200 dollar braked then both its dreams and the next film project. Speculators are everywhere Scarcely ten years and a half dozen of 10000-Dollar-Filme later, all together Independent works with him in the main role, but hardly kinobesuchern ever paying, he discovers Entropia. And although "Hey DJ", its last film, in which Elvis fan Jacobs transplants itself as King OF skirt ' n ' roll into the Technoclubs of the nineties, broader interest, is it encountered hardly exaggerated, if he says: "the virtual club becomes my largest hit." And: "You know, A hit is more bigger than you." After the death of its Partnerin Tina it considered itself to buy a larger house. Jacobs tells, when I sit with him, his friend Cheri, 26, and its son, 6, in its living room before the television. "American Idol" runs, the US variant from "musi star". The advertising tracing are long enough, over too plaudern. Also in Entropia, Jacobs continues, stood at that time an island to the sales. It decided to invest into the virtual world sold its possession in the Game - know-how, weapons, small properties -, gained up to then, and scratched so 25000 dollar for the island together. "I thought, he spinnt", remember Cheri, ex-Model and today singer with ambitions. "a piece country, which really does not exist, for so much money?" The purchase burst: Jacobs was over-bid by 1500 dollar. Last December is sold in Entropia a straight space Resort for 100000 dollar in the offer, Jacobs its house in Miami, pulls with its son into a smaller - and slams shut. The Asteroiden complex with 1000 dwellings, 60 Shops and 20 of bio cathedral belongs to it and is, then it believes, "surely at least tenfold worth". What did you do? The screen becomes black, the space flier starts, the din is enormous. We rush rocket-powered by the dark universe Jacobs want to me its virtual real estate to show. I sit with him before the computer in its office. Only the modem small lamps shine. While one can beamen oneself on the planet Calypso by 32 Teleportern free of charge from place to place, one reaches the Asteroiden only with one of the six spaceships, which can start from twenty hangars on the planet. There is players, who navigate the transporters as pilots, per flight and passenger requires it 20 PED, 2 dollar thus. , our pilot tells, transports 150 passengers he on average daily on the Asteroiden and again back. After one minute flying time we dock on. We are on floor one in the Resort. Neverdie leads by the Shops. Furniture, dresses and rare artifacts, animal heads for example, all stands here to the sales. A chair is converted for 300 PED, 30 dollar to have 174 PED costs a Ninja Hood Jacket, who wants it as "material world item", pays 175 dollar. The shops are operated by fellow players, by each sold object flow five per cent of value added tax at Jacobs. In the second floor is the control room, from which from Neverdie bio cathedral steers: glass-considered resounding, in which fellow players on the otherwise inhospitable rock block in the universe can hunt against fee. In a separate area DNA particles, which must buy Neverdie at the play stock exchange, and animal dung are converted into biomass. Thus it can breed into bio cathedral virtual natures, which are to be hunted depending upon their size for fellow players differently with difficulty. Its newest breed is the Atrox, a small, but speedy raubtier on two legs. Floor three: , here directly under the enormous glass dome of the complex with view into the virtual starlit sky, is "club Neverdie". On the tanzflaeche some Gamer divert themselves. The music plays Jacobs at present still of its iTunes, soon however is here "the largest DJs of the world to present". They will feed their music by Livestream and will bring the Avatars to dancing. "Where the party more never this", already now recruits Jacobs on advertising screens, which hang everywhere in Entropia and are operated of Mindark. Straight one evenly locked a US advertising company a Millionendeal with Mindark, in order to be able to switch to it also advertisement from the material world. And who sings the line in the Neverdie Spot? Cheri naturally. "It's A Business", says it in the meantime about Jons Investments into the Virtualitaet, "that's it." Also it has itself a Avatar to create. He against it says: "sometimes I wake up at night and think: Which you did?" He will leave once a virtual real estate to his son - "it that's amazing, isn't?" Jon Jacobs switches the computer off. "Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself" stands on a booklet, which lies before him. Into it it leads bookkeeping. It is day 122 since the purchase of the virtual complex, and it has today 5013 PED earned, rather exactly 500 dollar. Why didn't he buy simply a club in Miami? "there are one hundred clubs here, and none would have been interested in my hundredth", says it. The most important is that one believes always in the fact that Entropia is material. "it is a play only if also the life a play is." Only sometimes, Jacobs says, turns out for reality and Virtualitaet together: "if Cheri again once ausflippt, because I spend more moneys on the dresses of its Avatars than on her in the reality."

Thanks much for the translation Odd. Here's a few of my favorite sentences:

"Thus really, gibt's nevertheless not?"

"It is clock at noon Central European summer time, and I blinzle for the first time into the virtual morning sun. "

"Neverdie, carries sun glasses, a hat, a pinkfarbenen umhang, and it is not only its shrills clothes because of in this parallel universe in such a way admits like a multicolored dog"

Yeah well, can't be perfect now can we

Originally Posted by Epictetus

Thanks much for the translation Odd. Here's a few of my favorite sentences:

"Thus really, gibt's nevertheless not?"

"It is clock at noon Central European summer time, and I blinzle for the first time into the virtual morning sun. "

"Neverdie, carries sun glasses, a hat, a pinkfarbenen umhang, and it is not only its shrills clothes because of in this parallel universe in such a way admits like a multicolored dog"

lmao



The norwegian article tells Jon was "The Curly man" at E3 too

"Where the party more never this"

cool

Also just realised that if you go to a website that is in a foreign language to your own (especially if you want it into english :P ) if you have google toolbars you can right click a web page and select translate webpage :P gives you a pigeon english version of the webpage (very usefull tool)

if you havent got this go to ---- http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en

and you can translate a webpage from there.. not all of the languages are working yet but i think theyre adding more and more all the time :P

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