Eco may refer to:
Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology, geography and Earth science. Ecology includes the study of interactions organisms have with each other, other organisms, and with abiotic components of their environment. Topics of interest to ecologists include the diversity, distribution, amount (biomass), and number (population) of particular organisms, as well as cooperation and competition between organisms, both within and among ecosystems. Ecosystems are composed of dynamically interacting parts including organisms, the communities they make up, and the non-living components of their environment. Ecosystem processes, such as primary production, pedogenesis, nutrient cycling, and various niche construction activities, regulate the flux of energy and matter through an environment. These processes are sustained by organisms with specific life history traits, and the variety of organisms is called biodiversity. Biodiversity, which refers to the varieties of species, genes, and ecosystems, enhances certain ecosystem services.
Eco is a wire-frame 3D evolution life simulation game developed by Denton Designs for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was released in 1988 and published by Ocean Software.
The player initially uses mouse or joystick to control an insect, which must avoid predators, find some food, and then find another insect of the same species and mate with it. The player can then unlock one of several "genes", altering the value of which changes their creature. Some changes are only cosmetic and leave the creature in the same species; others can, for instance, make the initial insect a new species with wings and capable of flight. After unlocking multiple genes the player can become a fast dog-like quadruped, a bird, a scorpion or a humanoid. The game does not end until the player starves, is killed by another creature, or deliberately "evolves" into a plant.
NIE or Nie or Nieh (before pinyin) may mean:
Nie (simplified Chinese: 聂; traditional Chinese: 聶; pinyin: Niè) is a Chinese surname. Nie is the 126th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames. It is spelled Nip in Cantonese.
NIE (Polish for "No") is a Polish weekly magazine published in Warsaw.
The magazine was first published in October 1990.Jerzy Urban is both the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine.
Its political line is left. The magazine is very critical of right wing political vies and religion, especially Catholicism. In the 1990s it supported the leader of the Democratic Left Alliance, Aleksander Kwasniewski. It publishes lot of satirical texts with cartoons and pictures.
NIE has a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1991. In 1995 its circulation was over 700,000 copies.
In 1990 when Solidarity and the church were planning to push a strict new anti-abortion law through parliament, the magazine published a quarter-page, full-color photograph of a nude couple about to make love to warn its readers that "they risked going to jail or being forced into unwanted marriages if they did what the couple in the picture was about to do." The church leaders and President Lech Walesa harshly criticized it and in March 1991 the prosecutor's office charged Urban with "publishing an image of pornographic character."
Du kannst mir's glaub'n
Was I woll'n hab
Hab I letztenendes immer g'schafft
Und wenn mei Welt in Trümmern g'legen is'
Hab i's immer wieder g'habt die Kraft
I hab ma's lang g'nug überlegt
Und I weiss jetzt I will nur di
Weil warten kann I nimmer länger
Es muss jetzt sein, jetzt oder nie.
Jetzt oder nie
Von jetzt an gibt's kann Weg zurück
Jetzt oder nie
Komm' I dir näher Stück für Stück
Jetzt oder nie
Stell' ma die Weich'n für die Zukunft
Und vielleicht zum grossen Glück
I hab's zwar oft im Ansatz gespürt
Doch es war mir nie so recht bewusst
Das du in mir a G'fühl erzeugst
Des Anders ist
Doch plötzlich hab I's g'wusst
Ka andere kann I jemals a nur annähernd
So lieb hab'n wie di
Und I will di halt'n und I will di spür'n
Und es muss jetzt sein, jetzt oder nie