Content management makes beauty even easier to achieve for the uninitiated user, because all you have to do is plug a different stylesheet into the page and zing zang it's lovely.
You're thinking of this stuff as being way more powerful than it is.
Really, the best mass use of RFID is in a direct replacement of barcodes- RFID with a range of just a couple of feet extra beats the hell out of a barcode (think of trying to scan a barcode on a big case of soda... is it on this side? no! flip it over! oof. Is it on that side? no! Flip it sideways!)
I like RFID in the same way I like barcodes. Both are amazing for certain applications (RFID kinda beats the pants off barcodes for most things, though it needs to be backed up by a barcode and a human readable identifier...)
Their usefulness, however, in my mind, does not preclude discussion of their drawbacks. Sure, there are people who are screaming BAN RFID OMG WTF but they're already the fringe and are being officially and unofficially ignored. Just because some fringies are mewling does not make the entire line of inquiry invalid.
I think it is a reasonable point to make in general with technology that once we feel that our assumptions in terms of civil life are being changed, we have to step up and say something.
The omerta insists that someone up the scale is going to be better off if you sacrifice yourself. The implication is that someday it might be you up there, and that you have to rely on the lower folks burning themselves to better your chances.
The omerta, or code of silence, is the ideal that the mob works toward when caught. If you get caught, you simply clam up and take whatever's thrown at you as a point of honor. It is instructive, however, that this of course does not apply universally (everyone knows that the mob is rife with snitches.)
China has usually been cultured but not powerful. Chinese history is a long sequence of conquests by powerful outsiders (Manchurians, Mongols, Europeans.)
Yes, it's not stable at all. I don't see that this strategy would expand beyond people emulating the masters if they ever figured out the code. No one wants to willingly be the late entrants in a pyramid scheme.
I don't see how this is really against the rules, but it also doesn't give a very interesting solution that tells us anything more than we already knew.
I'd say that a real test would involve players vs. 10 times as many tit for tats as there are entrants.
But the proper test is really whether the master half of these programs can do better than tit for tat on a large scale basis. I suspect that the S/M program will still do less simply because it plays a pattern during the interaction phase which is likely to result in tit for tat still coming out ahead- if there is one tit for tat, it won't do so well since the costs of being tit for tat are relevant if you don't know the master sign and most of those you interact with are expecting to hear it. But that's already well known. If tit for tat's numbers start growing, it does better. You see, tit for tat has an identification mechanism too, which is simply that it always starts out nice and immediately gets nasty if it gets fucked. If the number of tit for tats increases to a reasonable critical mass, they can have enough positive reactions to do very well. In fact, they'd become a secret society within the S/Ms!
In short, if tit for tat is isolated, it won't do so well since everyone is fucking with it. If there are just a few tit for tats out there, their power increases significantly with each one added.
In other words, an in-group can work vs. tit for tat if it outnumbers it. I'd like to see a trial with a slow trickle of immigration of tit for tats into a large population of S/M programs. That might be illuminating. I suspect the outcome would be that tit for tat still does well.
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What he's saying is that perhaps there ought to be a 64 bit only Athlon64.
This question answers itself, though. Who remembers the 80376?
I won this debate nearly six years ago, and we're not having it again. So go home.
Content management makes beauty even easier to achieve for the uninitiated user, because all you have to do is plug a different stylesheet into the page and zing zang it's lovely.
Now I can field an army of autonomous spybots to stalk celebrities without having to refuel them.
You're thinking of this stuff as being way more powerful than it is.
Really, the best mass use of RFID is in a direct replacement of barcodes- RFID with a range of just a couple of feet extra beats the hell out of a barcode (think of trying to scan a barcode on a big case of soda... is it on this side? no! flip it over! oof. Is it on that side? no! Flip it sideways!)
I like RFID in the same way I like barcodes. Both are amazing for certain applications (RFID kinda beats the pants off barcodes for most things, though it needs to be backed up by a barcode and a human readable identifier...)
Their usefulness, however, in my mind, does not preclude discussion of their drawbacks. Sure, there are people who are screaming BAN RFID OMG WTF but they're already the fringe and are being officially and unofficially ignored. Just because some fringies are mewling does not make the entire line of inquiry invalid.
I think it is a reasonable point to make in general with technology that once we feel that our assumptions in terms of civil life are being changed, we have to step up and say something.
this is the weakest conversation ever had upon this fair globe
The album should be called "A Christmas In Computer Hell" or maybe "Heilige Fucked Up Buzz Box Nacht"
"i call it aohell because i'm a cocksucker"
god
well, god fucking forbid they prosper.
THEY MIGHT GET UPPITY WTF.
Those guys didn't even seem to realize how much Jon Stewart was playing them for the straight man. Oh my.
The omerta insists that someone up the scale is going to be better off if you sacrifice yourself. The implication is that someday it might be you up there, and that you have to rely on the lower folks burning themselves to better your chances.
omg vampires
wow
The omerta, or code of silence, is the ideal that the mob works toward when caught. If you get caught, you simply clam up and take whatever's thrown at you as a point of honor. It is instructive, however, that this of course does not apply universally (everyone knows that the mob is rife with snitches.)
Tit for tat has a secret handshake too, but it's a code of ethics. It is robust in any iterated situation. That's what makes it neat.
China has usually been cultured but not powerful. Chinese history is a long sequence of conquests by powerful outsiders (Manchurians, Mongols, Europeans.)
Yes, it's not stable at all. I don't see that this strategy would expand beyond people emulating the masters if they ever figured out the code. No one wants to willingly be the late entrants in a pyramid scheme.
fhqwhgads
S/M or slave/master is the Southampton set of programs.
I don't see how this is really against the rules, but it also doesn't give a very interesting solution that tells us anything more than we already knew.
I'd say that a real test would involve players vs. 10 times as many tit for tats as there are entrants.
But the proper test is really whether the master half of these programs can do better than tit for tat on a large scale basis. I suspect that the S/M program will still do less simply because it plays a pattern during the interaction phase which is likely to result in tit for tat still coming out ahead- if there is one tit for tat, it won't do so well since the costs of being tit for tat are relevant if you don't know the master sign and most of those you interact with are expecting to hear it. But that's already well known. If tit for tat's numbers start growing, it does better. You see, tit for tat has an identification mechanism too, which is simply that it always starts out nice and immediately gets nasty if it gets fucked. If the number of tit for tats increases to a reasonable critical mass, they can have enough positive reactions to do very well. In fact, they'd become a secret society within the S/Ms!
In short, if tit for tat is isolated, it won't do so well since everyone is fucking with it. If there are just a few tit for tats out there, their power increases significantly with each one added.
I generally hope that knowledge of the prisoner's dilemma will never become a practical factor in my life.
In other words, an in-group can work vs. tit for tat if it outnumbers it. I'd like to see a trial with a slow trickle of immigration of tit for tats into a large population of S/M programs. That might be illuminating. I suspect the outcome would be that tit for tat still does well.
I am of the opinion that you cannot really convince anyone in this regard- we shall have to wait until we are all under pressure domes.
We really need to get into space.
My home machine is a 400mhz pentium 2 with 128mb of memory, and Firefox runs wonderfully.
I've set several people up who are running machines even more ancient than that (oldest being a 200mhz with 32mb) and Firefox works great.
Your score:
Not with me. You're missing out! Get with the program! Get on the bandwagon! Taste the rainbow! Rock the casbah! Paint the melon! Oversee the expedition! Break the mold! Eat the menu!