Reading all the earlier comments, I see most slashdaughters thinking of games as the stuff they grew up with. No extrapolation whatsoever.
Board games aren't even dead. They are a solid profitable industry (as are mainframe computers).
There are many other ways 'games' are being built. Unity developers spend as much time building models for training as they do for actual gaming.
There is an excellent book called Reality Is Broken about how gaming can be applied to all sorts of real life situations.
I suspect Google has read that book and is operating from that paradigm, not from a console one.
The suppression of information is the antithesis of a free market.
That's _exactly_ how Monsanto is evil. Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) aren't necessarily more evil than generationally modified organisms (normally bred). They're probably going to grow more food for cheaper with the same problems as growing other foods.
Monsanto's evil lies in trying to lie about it. Monsanto wants to prevent people from knowing they are eating GMO foods or buying milk with growth hormones added. Monsanto says it's because people won't buy the new stuff.
Bullshit.
If Monsanto passes the cost savings to the consumers, folks will buy the new foods the same reason folks shop at Wal*Mart. Standard Adam Smith economics. Monsanto wants to force consumers to pass the cost savings back to the company. That is anti-Adam Smith economics.
...What, it's supposed to make the dead guy happier that the bullet was fire as a result of a trigger being pulled instead of a button being pressed?
Apparently that is our dividing line in Syria. If folks get killed by poison gas, then we'll interfere and send over troops without having any rational end game in mind. But as long as the folks are only getting killed by assault rifles, tanks, guided missiles and bombs, well everything is hunky-dory.
I know all kinds of people who make sweeping generalizations about USENET.
Hell, I'm one of them. I loved USENET. Unabashedly, unashamedly but not in an alt.love fashion (i.e.perversion).
The truth about management is this: Whatever you pay attention to seems important to the rest of the workers
Management decides what the company culture is.
If management decides IT could provide a competitive advantage, then it will.
If management decides IT is a cost center, then it will be.
The actual technology has nothing to do with how a company uses it.
Teach them that.
Fuck Battlestar Galactica. Just think about drones.
If I have a swarm of 100 drones, you cannot defend your battleship from me. You cannot defend your aircraft carrier from me.
Yet Congress continues to fund targets for the next war. It's like the Polish Cavalry buying bigger horses while the Germans build tanks.
uhhhhh, competing with a bunch of Civil War re-enactors for the eponym of 'cool' is the definition of dork;-)
OTOH, the coolest-looking folks on the modern battlefield are the US Marines with head gear that puts Google Glass to shame..
Combine the Glass with a gas mask and assault rifle and then it will sell;-)
I started carrying a purse 40 years ago in high school.Vice principals were not allowed to search girlz purses so they couldn't search mine either.
And I know of menstruating women who don't carry purses. Perhaps you've spent too much time putting your own Razor in and out of its own holster;-)
After the Boston Bombing, I wonder how much longer backpacks will be acceptable. Men used to wear hats all the time until JFK exited Air Force One one day without a cap and that was it for the American haberdashery biz.
With only 3344 total users I'd argue that they either need to advertise more or make a better game. Furthermore the gimmick in the pirated version may in fact drive up the piracy rate.
They _are_ advertising. The gimmick and release are part of the show.
Wisdom of crowds is about the same as the wisdom of committees.In fact, America is a Representative Democracy precisely in order to (intended to at least) avoid mob justice--aka direct democracy.
I'll go with ooBush's analysis over EO Wilson's. I have a degree in math. I have never understood why Calculus is mandatory (4 semesters) for most everyone but statistics is not. Calculus is overkill for most degrees. It should only be mandatory for engineers and math geeks. Statistics is what should be mandatory for everyone with a college degree.
There is far more to a useful general mathematics education than The Calculus
Any 4-year degree from the same college costs you the same amount of time and money whether it is a degree in Art History, English or Electrical Engineering.
The value of the degree in the marketplace tho is totally skewed towards mathematics. The more math you have to take to get your degree, the more money it is worth in the marketplace. Compare Computer Tech degree to Computer Science degree to Computer Engineering degree.
E.O. Wilson is perhaps technically correct about -needing- math early, but he is socially incorrect as far as how the populace in capitalistic countries values knowledge of mathematics. (And frankly, I think the capitalists are correct;-)
They have to. Because they cannot rule out that someone crazy/stupid enough to bring a bomb on a plane would not also be crazy/stupid enough to brag about it.
And it also serves to discourage such jokes that make the other passengers uncomfortable. Because you are, literally, joking about killing them.
Absolutely. A lot of burglars brag at barrooms where anyone can overhear. Most criminals and insanely angry people are dumb. Unaware.
What happened was that after Swartz committed suicide, they US got worried that maybe Google might do the same thing so they backed off.
Yeah, that's the ticket fer sure;-).
The real problem is that corporations have "no bodies to kick, no souls to damn" as someone eloquently said quite a long time ago.
The city of Chicago parks department is planting different trees now than they used to, saying the trees will live for 90 years so they'd best plant stuff that will thrive in a climate similar to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Totally right. The USA-UK-Canada-Australia alliance is the only superpower in the world.
That is absolutely true. Read China by Kissinger to find out how China became a regarded superpower. Very interesting.
As far as today, the USA White European alliance holds the same power over the entire world that the British Empire used to. (The key phrase is "used to.")
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Reading all the earlier comments, I see most slashdaughters thinking of games as the stuff they grew up with. No extrapolation whatsoever.
Board games aren't even dead. They are a solid profitable industry (as are mainframe computers).
There are many other ways 'games' are being built. Unity developers spend as much time building models for training as they do for actual gaming.
There is an excellent book called Reality Is Broken about how gaming can be applied to all sorts of real life situations.
I suspect Google has read that book and is operating from that paradigm, not from a console one.
The suppression of information is the antithesis of a free market.
That's _exactly_ how Monsanto is evil. Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) aren't necessarily more evil than generationally modified organisms (normally bred). They're probably going to grow more food for cheaper with the same problems as growing other foods.
Monsanto's evil lies in trying to lie about it. Monsanto wants to prevent people from knowing they are eating GMO foods or buying milk with growth hormones added. Monsanto says it's because people won't buy the new stuff.
Bullshit.
If Monsanto passes the cost savings to the consumers, folks will buy the new foods the same reason folks shop at Wal*Mart. Standard Adam Smith economics. Monsanto wants to force consumers to pass the cost savings back to the company. That is anti-Adam Smith economics.
...What, it's supposed to make the dead guy happier that the bullet was fire as a result of a trigger being pulled instead of a button being pressed?
Apparently that is our dividing line in Syria. If folks get killed by poison gas, then we'll interfere and send over troops without having any rational end game in mind. But as long as the folks are only getting killed by assault rifles, tanks, guided missiles and bombs, well everything is hunky-dory.
I know all kinds of people who make sweeping generalizations about USENET.
Hell, I'm one of them. I loved USENET. Unabashedly, unashamedly but not in an alt.love fashion (i.e.perversion).
The truth about management is this: Whatever you pay attention to seems important to the rest of the workers
Management decides what the company culture is.
If management decides IT could provide a competitive advantage, then it will.
If management decides IT is a cost center, then it will be.
The actual technology has nothing to do with how a company uses it.
Teach them that.
Fuck Battlestar Galactica. Just think about drones.
If I have a swarm of 100 drones, you cannot defend your battleship from me. You cannot defend your aircraft carrier from me.
Yet Congress continues to fund targets for the next war. It's like the Polish Cavalry buying bigger horses while the Germans build tanks.
Motorcycles aren't even a replacement for cars. They are a second vehicle at best
uhhhhh, competing with a bunch of Civil War re-enactors for the eponym of 'cool' is the definition of dork ;-) ;-)
OTOH, the coolest-looking folks on the modern battlefield are the US Marines with head gear that puts Google Glass to shame..
Combine the Glass with a gas mask and assault rifle and then it will sell
I started carrying a purse 40 years ago in high school.Vice principals were not allowed to search girlz purses so they couldn't search mine either. ;-)
And I know of menstruating women who don't carry purses. Perhaps you've spent too much time putting your own Razor in and out of its own holster
After the Boston Bombing, I wonder how much longer backpacks will be acceptable. Men used to wear hats all the time until JFK exited Air Force One one day without a cap and that was it for the American haberdashery biz.
Yup. Think beehive hairdos.
The article itself made a distinction between nerd and dork. RTFA.
With only 3344 total users I'd argue that they either need to advertise more or make a better game. Furthermore the gimmick in the pirated version may in fact drive up the piracy rate.
They _are_ advertising. The gimmick and release are part of the show.
Wisdom of crowds is about the same as the wisdom of committees.In fact, America is a Representative Democracy precisely in order to (intended to at least) avoid mob justice--aka direct democracy.
I'll go with ooBush's analysis over EO Wilson's. I have a degree in math. I have never understood why Calculus is mandatory (4 semesters) for most everyone but statistics is not. Calculus is overkill for most degrees. It should only be mandatory for engineers and math geeks. Statistics is what should be mandatory for everyone with a college degree.
There is far more to a useful general mathematics education than The Calculus
Any 4-year degree from the same college costs you the same amount of time and money whether it is a degree in Art History, English or Electrical Engineering.
;-)
The value of the degree in the marketplace tho is totally skewed towards mathematics. The more math you have to take to get your degree, the more money it is worth in the marketplace. Compare Computer Tech degree to Computer Science degree to Computer Engineering degree.
E.O. Wilson is perhaps technically correct about -needing- math early, but he is socially incorrect as far as how the populace in capitalistic countries values knowledge of mathematics. (And frankly, I think the capitalists are correct
Bullshit yourself. Correlation is not causation, but it is still correlation. Whether you believe it or not is independent of its truth.
If plants are taking in these POPs, then pretty soon Monsanto will take care of the problem by suing to stop basic biology from happening.
They have to. Because they cannot rule out that someone crazy/stupid enough to bring a bomb on a plane would not also be crazy/stupid enough to brag about it.
And it also serves to discourage such jokes that make the other passengers uncomfortable. Because you are, literally, joking about killing them.
Absolutely. A lot of burglars brag at barrooms where anyone can overhear. Most criminals and insanely angry people are dumb. Unaware.
Reminds me of short Wired article a long time ago about watching porn on 300dpi PDAs.
Title: If You Do This, You Really Will Go Blind
I disagree with the full original premise.
They are not getting worse slowly; they are getting worse quickly.
What happened was that after Swartz committed suicide, they US got worried that maybe Google might do the same thing so they backed off. ;-).
Yeah, that's the ticket fer sure
The real problem is that corporations have "no bodies to kick, no souls to damn" as someone eloquently said quite a long time ago.
The city of Chicago parks department is planting different trees now than they used to, saying the trees will live for 90 years so they'd best plant stuff that will thrive in a climate similar to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Totally right. The USA-UK-Canada-Australia alliance is the only superpower in the world.
That is absolutely true. Read China by Kissinger to find out how China became a regarded superpower. Very interesting.
As far as today, the USA White European alliance holds the same power over the entire world that the British Empire used to. (The key phrase is "used to.")
Dick Cheney and George W. Bush both said government deficits don't matter.