This is really interesting, but it definitely does raise a few additional questions. In each of your examples, the 'God' has the ability to manipulate the world in any way he chooses, but in each case, 'God' is strictly bound by physical limits in its own world as well. Of course, having complete control over a 'universe' would make this little problem entirely undetectable to your 'subjects' (even if you can't type fast enough to make changes instantaneously, you can just turn back time, right?) but it does imply that the 'God' has to exist in some other universe, possibly with very different rules from our own. Sounds to me like this could be turtles all the way down...
How is open sourcing this software bad for Blizzard? Sure, it might lead to a rise in the amount of people attempting to use it in the short term, but last time I played WoW I wasn't aware that a huge percentage of the players were botting anyway.
In the long term, I would think that having the source code for glider would better enable Blizzard to provide a technical solution, as opposed to a legal solution, to their little problem. Beyond that, perhaps they could take some initiative and analyze how glider does what it does in order to improve their NPC movement/AI or something. I'm sure it must have some nice path finding algorithms designed to work specifically with WoW.
I wondered about this when reading the article too. I think the difference might be more attributable to the fact that, due to differing interests, more boys are taking the SAT with the intention of entering a math or math-related program. This makes it obvious that boys would score better on the math portion of the test (and most people in a math/engineering program have probably noticed there are lot more men than women) and girls would likely score better than boys on the other portions, no?
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This is really interesting, but it definitely does raise a few additional questions. In each of your examples, the 'God' has the ability to manipulate the world in any way he chooses, but in each case, 'God' is strictly bound by physical limits in its own world as well. Of course, having complete control over a 'universe' would make this little problem entirely undetectable to your 'subjects' (even if you can't type fast enough to make changes instantaneously, you can just turn back time, right?) but it does imply that the 'God' has to exist in some other universe, possibly with very different rules from our own. Sounds to me like this could be turtles all the way down...
How is open sourcing this software bad for Blizzard? Sure, it might lead to a rise in the amount of people attempting to use it in the short term, but last time I played WoW I wasn't aware that a huge percentage of the players were botting anyway. In the long term, I would think that having the source code for glider would better enable Blizzard to provide a technical solution, as opposed to a legal solution, to their little problem. Beyond that, perhaps they could take some initiative and analyze how glider does what it does in order to improve their NPC movement/AI or something. I'm sure it must have some nice path finding algorithms designed to work specifically with WoW.
Coming close to latex eh? I always found it much more satisfying to do everything freehand...
I wondered about this when reading the article too. I think the difference might be more attributable to the fact that, due to differing interests, more boys are taking the SAT with the intention of entering a math or math-related program. This makes it obvious that boys would score better on the math portion of the test (and most people in a math/engineering program have probably noticed there are lot more men than women) and girls would likely score better than boys on the other portions, no?
There's a similar robot in my area, although I guess the cardboard isn't as nice as the shiny blue paint. http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/236315