On the whole, MMO developers aren't generally interested in playing with economic theories.
I'd like to kindly say to this one line, "Bullshit!" I lurk around on the MUD-Dev mailing list and some days it seems that all they want to do is talk about economic theories and how to fix them in multiplayer games.
Of course, it seems to me that not a lot of those ideas were put into practice, and not all of them were feasable.
I had fled the workplace and went back to university because I could never find a job that wasn't, what I described at the time, "writing programs to look at web pages to make sure they are still working", or some other "webstore development", or some variation on sysadmin, or something.
All I was looking for was something interesting, something that not everyone with a computer was working on. We all drool over google but yahoo had a search engine a year ago. I know that search engines and web stores are important, but that's not what caught my interest in the field many years ago.
So I studied physics and now am writing computer programs for a bunch of oceanographers. The work (to me anyway) is much more interesting though I wish I were doing more science rather than "put pretty GUI on already written algorithms" but there are interesting, non-DBA, non-webapp, non-sysadmin jobs out there.
I know for a fact there are (intelligent) people that no matter HOW hard they try, they cannot program - it is just literally impossible for them, they just cannot grasp the concept.
I disagree with this. I've met a great many people who claim that they can't program. I ask if they can give directions. Tell me how to go somewhere. Do they understand the concept of "keep going until..."? Do they understand the concept of "if you're on xxx road, do this, if you're on yyy road, do that"? Most people can grasp these concepts, and they are the bare minimum for programming (that and variables, variables do seem tricky for most people, unless they've managed to get through an algebra class).
In the US, it usually means you aren't allowed to come to school for usually about a week. It's defined with a time frame, but it's not forever, it's usually just a week.
This may be off topic, but why does the average libertarian hold on to thier views to extreme poiints? I identify as libertarian to some degree, but I also will argue that private corporations taking my biometric data is wrong and bad. The logic that "there are alternatives" doesn't always hold well, particularly in many areas where there aren't a dozen theme parks at the end of the street.
Libertarianism has a good idea--but when taken to an extreme, the end results are horrid. I'd like to be able to identify with libertarian ideals, but if the foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian insists that it's the god given right for corps to fingerprint me every time I cross the privately-owned street to buy any one of my choosing of genetically-enhanced-milk-products available from the global monopolist, I sigh.
(yes I know I'm taking the philosophy to the extreme in the example, but that's what I'm ranting about--I think libertarianism has good ideas that should be applied in smaller and more thought-out methods rather than just "PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING AND MAKE EVERYTHING LEGAL!!")
Chris Crawford tried a social experiment, complete with something of a made up language (okay, an iconography, or whatever you want to call it), you can download his game Siboot II from this page.
There is also a game out there that's a Final-Fantasy-esque RPG--I really wish I could remember what it's called--where the idea was that it was meant to teach you Japanese. The story starts out in English, and in combat you have to correctly identify kanji, and as the game progresses it switches to Japanese.
Be careful telling the world! The comic book stores run out of comics, you know. If you tell everyone and they show up before me, I won't get any good comics!
or you could take this as a hint to show up early if you don't want the remainders (usually Archie, for some reason).
Initially, you'd be less productive (say one week, tops) and afterwards you'll probably be a lot more productive.
I'd say you're stretching it just a tad too much. I took me about a month to get used to OS X, and that's coming from a unix background. And I'm still learning lots of little things that make people frustrated because they automagically think they already know what they are doing.
Yes, productivity will go down, for a short while. It'll take about a week to get comfortable, a couple weeks to get where you already are, and then there will lots of little details that bug you because little things aren't the same.
That was not the EOS magazine I was thinking of. I clicked on that link and just got confused. Then I realized the EOS you linked to is a photographer magazine.
The one I'm thinking of is affiliated with the American Geophysical Union. I highly recommend it. Four pages an issue, and usually only one big article, but always a pleasure to read.
I listened to Six Easy Pieces on audio while driving. They were great.
I listened to Six Not So Easy Pieces on audio while driving. I found that I could not follow the physics and drive at the same time. I wouldn't recommend these for driving. For home they're great, though.
There's a typo on that page, before the pictures, after the "4. Modify it.". An in-depth description of the book by author Tom Owad:
The aim of Apple I Relica Creation is to guide the reader in building, programming, and understanding the Apple I. The book begins with a history of the Apple I, but not the sort of corporate history you may be used to reading. This account is of the computer itself, the early peripherals and modifications, and the hobbyists and visionaries who bought and used the the Apple I.
As if nickels are raining from the CDs you buy in a store to the artists on a daily basis...
I thought Albini's article should be required reading for everyone--and it was written about ten years ago! The only ones who get nickels from the big labels the RIAA represents are the ones you see on MTV every day, not the ones who show up on "120 minutes" (or whatever the alterno-MTV thing is these days).
And many of them feel shafted by the music industry too. Look at Prince.
*sigh* [/end rant]
I do agree with other comments, the web page was crappy, javascript and frames and popups and crap, but not your comments. Also others did use them as advertisement for thier own trakers.
But, Suprnova required no logins, I almost never found passworded files, almost everything I found there worked without difficulties. Did I mention no logins? That's why I used them.
Combine that with them being one of the more popular sites, that meant they were more likely to have the wierd things to look for, and since more people downloaded from there, there was a less chance of files with no one to download from.
There are lots of reasons to have a firewall, even on OS X. One of my friends had someone break into his guest account and set up an IRC-tunnelling program. No root privelidges were compromised. Having a firewall set up would have put a stop to that quickly.
Blocking outgoing traffic from programs that you don't want talking to the internet (spyware would be a classic example, but so would programs that send back "anonymous usage information") are another application for firewalls.
Unfortunately it's a wimpy server and it's never up when I need to download it. Also, it's windows only--anyone know a good version of settlers that's more multiplatform?
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Unfortunately, enough that it paints the rest of them with a bad image.
I'd like to kindly say to this one line, "Bullshit!" I lurk around on the MUD-Dev mailing list and some days it seems that all they want to do is talk about economic theories and how to fix them in multiplayer games.
Of course, it seems to me that not a lot of those ideas were put into practice, and not all of them were feasable.
I had fled the workplace and went back to university because I could never find a job that wasn't, what I described at the time, "writing programs to look at web pages to make sure they are still working", or some other "webstore development", or some variation on sysadmin, or something.
All I was looking for was something interesting, something that not everyone with a computer was working on. We all drool over google but yahoo had a search engine a year ago. I know that search engines and web stores are important, but that's not what caught my interest in the field many years ago.
So I studied physics and now am writing computer programs for a bunch of oceanographers. The work (to me anyway) is much more interesting though I wish I were doing more science rather than "put pretty GUI on already written algorithms" but there are interesting, non-DBA, non-webapp, non-sysadmin jobs out there.
Wasn't it Einstein who said "You cannot prepare for peace and war simutaneously"?
I disagree with this. I've met a great many people who claim that they can't program. I ask if they can give directions. Tell me how to go somewhere. Do they understand the concept of "keep going until..."? Do they understand the concept of "if you're on xxx road, do this, if you're on yyy road, do that"? Most people can grasp these concepts, and they are the bare minimum for programming (that and variables, variables do seem tricky for most people, unless they've managed to get through an algebra class).
Personally, I think people are just lazy.
In the US, it usually means you aren't allowed to come to school for usually about a week. It's defined with a time frame, but it's not forever, it's usually just a week.
Still, the point that many others have made, it's cheaper to replace a satellite than to use the shuttle to fix it.
This may be off topic, but why does the average libertarian hold on to thier views to extreme poiints? I identify as libertarian to some degree, but I also will argue that private corporations taking my biometric data is wrong and bad. The logic that "there are alternatives" doesn't always hold well, particularly in many areas where there aren't a dozen theme parks at the end of the street.
Libertarianism has a good idea--but when taken to an extreme, the end results are horrid. I'd like to be able to identify with libertarian ideals, but if the foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian insists that it's the god given right for corps to fingerprint me every time I cross the privately-owned street to buy any one of my choosing of genetically-enhanced-milk-products available from the global monopolist, I sigh.
(yes I know I'm taking the philosophy to the extreme in the example, but that's what I'm ranting about--I think libertarianism has good ideas that should be applied in smaller and more thought-out methods rather than just "PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING AND MAKE EVERYTHING LEGAL!!")
There is also a game out there that's a Final-Fantasy-esque RPG--I really wish I could remember what it's called--where the idea was that it was meant to teach you Japanese. The story starts out in English, and in combat you have to correctly identify kanji, and as the game progresses it switches to Japanese.
Be careful telling the world! The comic book stores run out of comics, you know. If you tell everyone and they show up before me, I won't get any good comics!
or you could take this as a hint to show up early if you don't want the remainders (usually Archie, for some reason).
I'd say you're stretching it just a tad too much. I took me about a month to get used to OS X, and that's coming from a unix background. And I'm still learning lots of little things that make people frustrated because they automagically think they already know what they are doing.
Yes, productivity will go down, for a short while. It'll take about a week to get comfortable, a couple weeks to get where you already are, and then there will lots of little details that bug you because little things aren't the same.
The one I'm thinking of is affiliated with the American Geophysical Union. I highly recommend it. Four pages an issue, and usually only one big article, but always a pleasure to read.
No, no president.
Just a prime minister and an emperor.
Hey! How come my country doesn't have an emperor! It could use one!
I listened to Six Easy Pieces on audio while driving. They were great.
I listened to Six Not So Easy Pieces on audio while driving. I found that I could not follow the physics and drive at the same time. I wouldn't recommend these for driving. For home they're great, though.
Does it run MATLab?
An in-depth description of the book by author Tom Owad:
The aim of Apple I Relica Creation is to guide the reader in building, programming, and understanding the Apple I. The book begins with a history of the Apple I, but not the sort of corporate history you may be used to reading. This account is of the computer itself, the early peripherals and modifications, and the hobbyists and visionaries who bought and used the the Apple I.
You misspelled "Replica"?
I thought Albini's article should be required reading for everyone--and it was written about ten years ago! The only ones who get nickels from the big labels the RIAA represents are the ones you see on MTV every day, not the ones who show up on "120 minutes" (or whatever the alterno-MTV thing is these days).
And many of them feel shafted by the music industry too. Look at Prince. *sigh* [/end rant]
I respectfully disagree.
I do agree with other comments, the web page was crappy, javascript and frames and popups and crap, but not your comments. Also others did use them as advertisement for thier own trakers.
But, Suprnova required no logins, I almost never found passworded files, almost everything I found there worked without difficulties. Did I mention no logins? That's why I used them.
Combine that with them being one of the more popular sites, that meant they were more likely to have the wierd things to look for, and since more people downloaded from there, there was a less chance of files with no one to download from.
What plagues my answering machine are messages that start out with "Please hold for a very important message".
It's gotten so bad that we literally don't answer the phone any more.
There are lots of reasons to have a firewall, even on OS X. One of my friends had someone break into his guest account and set up an IRC-tunnelling program. No root privelidges were compromised. Having a firewall set up would have put a stop to that quickly.
Blocking outgoing traffic from programs that you don't want talking to the internet (spyware would be a classic example, but so would programs that send back "anonymous usage information") are another application for firewalls.
The list could go on.
http://wishbone.is-root.com/
Unfortunately it's a wimpy server and it's never up when I need to download it. Also, it's windows only--anyone know a good version of settlers that's more multiplatform?
Are there devices out there which are not operated by a hammer?
No wonder your girlfriend is broken.
I couldn't remember, exactly. I do remember being told a dozen times in my modern physics class, just not exactly which element it was though.
Thought it was a small element, though. Where's my book?
<I>All scientists agree that splitting the atom will produce energy.</I>
Only atoms larger than Helium.
I have a poster of Einstein on my wall, with a quote:
"Do not worry about your troubles in mathematics. I assure you, mine are much greater."
I might not have that exactly right, but as I understand it he was struggling with the math too.