That is not what I understood the argument to be. More like if you build A (a story) you can't get B (a game) from it. Instead if you build B you can turn that into A if you want.
For example, I love the storyline in the modern warfare series. I thought it was fantastic when they brought the fight to the American east coast. It was something totally new in FPS for me. I liked the story arcs with multiple characters over several games. Can I get better stories in a dime store? Sure. But just because the video game genre isn't great at writing beautiful stories yet doesn't mean they should just give up. We still watch stupid blockbuster movies despite there being better films out there, and for me it's the same thing with video games.
Yes, I agree great story, great cinimatics, but where was the game? Where was the challenge? What decisions did you need to make?
MW is the exact type of game that the article is referring to. I understand that people may like these types of games but I just find it insulting. The last scene in one of the games was really insulting: repeatedly press [button] to pull knife from chest and throw at bad guy. If a game is not going to engage my brain, I have a hard time thinking of it as a game, instead its more like an annoying movie
How did you come to that conclusion? Even allowing that you are correct as of now, religions death toll can only increase. Mao and Stalin can't kill anyone else.
Please. Society isnt deferring rights, it is protecting them. It is protecting the right of the copyright holder to own the intellectual property in the exact same way that society protects the right for man to have physical property.
Using your logic man only has any property because society grants it to him, and that -all- property is really "ours".
The reason that society protects copyright isnt because we think that we can get more out of the creators that way, it is because we recognize that the labors of the mind are no less real than those of the body.
The only reason that there are time limits on works is to protect the ability of future men to create.
Would you care to explain how you can have property if the society you live in decides not to grant it to you?
Actually i matured 5 years or so ago, after spending some 10 years in the delusion of thinking that the fields i was in were more 'elite' than the others
Commendable.
human resources......... they constitute a total fantasy land in themselves.
Oh, so there are still/some/ people who aren't quite as elite as us;)
He's working on it, but the HR people don't make it easy...
Apparently you never have taken statistics.
If the Mean average is about 8% and the standard deviation of grades is 1%
So the the people who got 8% will get a 2.0 the people who got 9% will get a 3.0 and the one who got 10%+ will get a 4.0
the poor slob who got 6% or lower would have failed.
Right so the 10% guy who clearly does not understand anything about the subject gets a pass. This works in reverse too, the guy who gets 90% but is the lowest in the class fails. Clearly the 90% guy is better than the 10% guy however the grades don't reflect this in any way.
Now this allow the professor to raise the bar up very high, and really see how much the students get out of the class. The students will work harder because low percentages do not feel good, and there is always that kid who will break the average that will make sure you are on your toes. I have never seen a class based on a curve that ever got away with lets all try to fail so we all can pass succeed.
Also this helps keep the professors material at the right level too. If the average is 10% for passing then he knows either he is not teaching the material or it is much too difficult. If students are getting high grades of 90% and 100% then he is making the class too easy. If he gets an average grade about 70-75% and a Standard deviation 15% then he is around on mark.
The professor can still run as many statistical tests on the data until the cows come home, but what has that got to do with the grades given out?
Consider that I could take a class twice, score exactly 75% each time (a firm grasp of the subject), however the first time I'm with geniuses and hence get graded as a fail as I'm in the lowest 1%. Next time the opposite and top the class with the same 75% and since I am now in the top 1% get the best marks. How can that be considered even remotely rational?
Have you looked in to how its actually used in practice. First the curve is computed, then it is distorted based on judgment calls and a host of other dodgy practices. Far better to set objectives at the beginning and then grade the students on how they individually performed, and ignore how the person sitting next to them performed, its irrelevant.
That means colleges can no longer grade their students the old way. By giving grades based on the statistics of the rest of the class.
What kind of idiotic approach to grading is that!
None of the morons in a given class gets over 10%. However the one in the corner that doesn't drool as much managed to get 8.5%, more than the rest so he nows passes the course with flying colours?
In some cases, you have to wait up to seven days to receive a transfer of your fiat currency after it has been cashed out of your account from Bitcoins. Whilst this is not a fault of the exchanges, it represents a very real impediment to Bitcoin acting in its nature and providing its complete value.
Yes, this is a serious problem limiting the use of bitcoins. I don't see how the situation can be improved without improving the ability to quickly and reliably transfer fiat currencies between accounts.
Regarding the main point, using bitcoins to facilitate currency transfers. It seems to be a pointless middleman, if an exchange can do USD -> BTC -> GBP, then surely it can just do USD -> GBP and skip the bitcoin part completely.
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Fine, but don't complain when you vote for someone who is campaining for stuff you don't like and them implements said policies once elected.
If a nikel was worth more that 5 cents, then it would quickly become a one use item.
King Diarmait disagrees with you.
If the story is 100% fixed, are you really controlling the character?
That is not what I understood the argument to be. More like if you build A (a story) you can't get B (a game) from it. Instead if you build B you can turn that into A if you want.
For example, I love the storyline in the modern warfare series. I thought it was fantastic when they brought the fight to the American east coast. It was something totally new in FPS for me. I liked the story arcs with multiple characters over several games. Can I get better stories in a dime store? Sure. But just because the video game genre isn't great at writing beautiful stories yet doesn't mean they should just give up. We still watch stupid blockbuster movies despite there being better films out there, and for me it's the same thing with video games.
Yes, I agree great story, great cinimatics, but where was the game? Where was the challenge? What decisions did you need to make?
MW is the exact type of game that the article is referring to. I understand that people may like these types of games but I just find it insulting. The last scene in one of the games was really insulting: repeatedly press [button] to pull knife from chest and throw at bad guy. If a game is not going to engage my brain, I have a hard time thinking of it as a game, instead its more like an annoying movie
Its been done before: SWOTL. (And should be done again).
I was a happy slashdot ad viewer until they started showing me adds for asian brides.
That sounds like sedition to me. Please report to your local authorities for the appropriate punishment.
I appreciate the effort you have gone to, but you are just treating the symptoms.
How did you come to that conclusion? Even allowing that you are correct as of now, religions death toll can only increase. Mao and Stalin can't kill anyone else.
Please. Society isnt deferring rights, it is protecting them. It is protecting the right of the copyright holder to own the intellectual property in the exact same way that society protects the right for man to have physical property.
Using your logic man only has any property because society grants it to him, and that -all- property is really "ours".
The reason that society protects copyright isnt because we think that we can get more out of the creators that way, it is because we recognize that the labors of the mind are no less real than those of the body.
The only reason that there are time limits on works is to protect the ability of future men to create.
Would you care to explain how you can have property if the society you live in decides not to grant it to you?
"obeying the law" and "evil" are orthogonal, always have been. More people need to realise this.
(and accept that the infrastructure for someone like valve to deliver 2 or 3 million copies of skyrim all at once can be astronomical).
It doesn't have to be. The piratebay manage to do much more with much less..
Actually i matured 5 years or so ago, after spending some 10 years in the delusion of thinking that the fields i was in were more 'elite' than the others
Commendable.
human resources ......... they constitute a total fantasy land in themselves.
Oh, so there are still /some/ people who aren't quite as elite as us ;)
He's working on it, but the HR people don't make it easy...
All java developers should read your post. Too many are unable to think outside the box of orthodoxy.
Fine, you can have your single-digit year, but I get to choose the base.
Apparently you never have taken statistics. If the Mean average is about 8% and the standard deviation of grades is 1% So the the people who got 8% will get a 2.0 the people who got 9% will get a 3.0 and the one who got 10%+ will get a 4.0 the poor slob who got 6% or lower would have failed.
Right so the 10% guy who clearly does not understand anything about the subject gets a pass. This works in reverse too, the guy who gets 90% but is the lowest in the class fails. Clearly the 90% guy is better than the 10% guy however the grades don't reflect this in any way.
Now this allow the professor to raise the bar up very high, and really see how much the students get out of the class. The students will work harder because low percentages do not feel good, and there is always that kid who will break the average that will make sure you are on your toes. I have never seen a class based on a curve that ever got away with lets all try to fail so we all can pass succeed. Also this helps keep the professors material at the right level too. If the average is 10% for passing then he knows either he is not teaching the material or it is much too difficult. If students are getting high grades of 90% and 100% then he is making the class too easy. If he gets an average grade about 70-75% and a Standard deviation 15% then he is around on mark.
The professor can still run as many statistical tests on the data until the cows come home, but what has that got to do with the grades given out?
Consider that I could take a class twice, score exactly 75% each time (a firm grasp of the subject), however the first time I'm with geniuses and hence get graded as a fail as I'm in the lowest 1%. Next time the opposite and top the class with the same 75% and since I am now in the top 1% get the best marks. How can that be considered even remotely rational?
Have you looked in to how its actually used in practice. First the curve is computed, then it is distorted based on judgment calls and a host of other dodgy practices. Far better to set objectives at the beginning and then grade the students on how they individually performed, and ignore how the person sitting next to them performed, its irrelevant.
As a programmer I ignore trivial problems that the tools I use catch for me.
Hawkings is (a) god, or at the very least a demi god.
Science goes forward even if there are funding problems, albeit slower.
The librarians at Alexandria might disagree with you on that point.
That means colleges can no longer grade their students the old way. By giving grades based on the statistics of the rest of the class.
What kind of idiotic approach to grading is that!
None of the morons in a given class gets over 10%. However the one in the corner that doesn't drool as much managed to get 8.5%, more than the rest so he nows passes the course with flying colours?
I find it quicker to just skip the article and go strait to the highest rated comments...
In some cases, you have to wait up to seven days to receive a transfer of your fiat currency after it has been cashed out of your account from Bitcoins. Whilst this is not a fault of the exchanges, it represents a very real impediment to Bitcoin acting in its nature and providing its complete value.
Yes, this is a serious problem limiting the use of bitcoins. I don't see how the situation can be improved without improving the ability to quickly and reliably transfer fiat currencies between accounts.
Regarding the main point, using bitcoins to facilitate currency transfers. It seems to be a pointless middleman, if an exchange can do USD -> BTC -> GBP, then surely it can just do USD -> GBP and skip the bitcoin part completely.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
You seem to have that quote wrong, its more like this: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again.