What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is verifiability -- that it appeared in some other publication,
this is a very insightful comment. I love wikipedia, but the main weakness I see is this issue. If it is published, then it can be cited. However, the quality of the publication doesn't seem to come into play. I could be some random idiot, pay to publish my opinions in a book, and all of the sudden it becomes wikicannon and a citeable source.
I speculate that this is an attempt to mimic the way acadameia cites things: if it is published, then you are ok to use it as support for your arguments. However, this works in acadameia because many of the sources you would use for a serious paper have high standards for publication. Nature isn't going to publich an article about trends in Harry Potter fanfic unless it brings something substantial to the table. This starts to fall apart when you have wiki articles about anything under the sun, and start allowing any published material as sources.
So, jesting aside, how will this work with cosmetic surgery? Will celebrities getting cosmetic work abroad no longer be identified correctly? Will actual terrorists suddenly become interested in elective procedures just to fool the system? How will the system deal with the fact that people change as they age?
Interesting questions.
I wonder if this will become a legitimate tool for law enforcement, or if it will be yet another big brother tool.
Actually, I suspect the reason his videos aren't reported as much is that whenever Bin Laden shows his face, it energizes Americans and makes them more likely to vote Republican. The media is ridiculously pro-Obama this year and does not want a repeat of 2004 when Bin Laden released a video and threatened Americans a week before the election.
always tickled when people speak as if the media is actually a cohesive entity that can do anything in a unified way. It makes it sound somehow more sinister and exciting to describe the media this way.
Another take is that Bin Laden is boring at this point, and short of a capture story, nobody will buy a paper with yet another predictable and dull bin laden rant. Remember the media has to sell its product like any other company.
Its good for the game, and they end up attracting more people (more people = more fun) that way than if they were to give in to the raiding snobs and keep large portions of endgame inaccessable to anyone who hasn't been playing for more than a year.
...except that there is no point in wasting huge ammounts of time doing hard content when you can just wait until it is nerfed in a few months.
If everyone adopts that attitude, guild raiding falls apart. Why work hard to get to content and gear that will be easy to get later?
Whenever I am watching a politician on television, and they are appearing to be smart and articulate, I just turn the volume back up and that usually solves the problem.
How is raiding relevant in WoW anymore? You have a well established pattern now of basically 'giving away' all the end game loot and content via nerfs and such mid way through a release cycle.
Now, I am not complaining because I feel I have some sort of right to be part of an 'raiders only' exclusive club. But I can pretty much see all the game content now by subscribing for a month when the expansion comes out, and then for another two months 3/4ths of the way through a release cycle.
SSC and TK? Pretty much a massive waste of six months play time, with badge gear and PvP welfare epics.
I guess the problem with that is you lose all moral authority when you actually decide the game is worth playing but don't wish to pay.
I skipped buying spore because of the DRM. I have not pirated it either. I fail to see how I have anymore moral authority than NitroWolf in objecting to products being crippled by DRM. Neither of us gave the company money for the game, and both of us are willing to pay for it if they remove the DRM. Neither of us will give a company money for a crippled program, that is a principle. Principles do not have to be legal.
from dictionary.com: principle 1. an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct
The logic in the spec isn't 'like it (then) use it', and it makes no mention of leaving it alone in the case of not liking it, so your syntax is incorrect. Please re-read the spec.
Also, camel case is often favored by VB programmers. While it would be an assumption to call you a VB programmer, I will risk that rather than suffer a VB programmer to live. Please report to the nearest self-immolation center for immediate incineration. Thanks for your co-operation, and have nice day.
We haven't seen the last of him, not by a long shot.
...and strangely enough, this is actually a good thing. At this point, we actually want to see his antics, because he has been publicly discredited in a significant way. Anti-gaming groups will suffer his stigma by association.
If he wants to further his cause, he would just quietly retire. However, he will not do this. He will continue to thrash around helplessly for years damaging the reputation of the anti-gaming movement.
Thank you JT, you are doing far more to advance the cause of computer gaming than many of us could ever dream of.
parent is correct, and I will take it one GÃdelian step further and say that the more 'trusted' a site is the less I trust it.
(or, in non-fuzzy sets: I trust all the sites that are untrustworthy)
I don't think the answer is to change the scoring. The answer is to take a more holistic approach, and say: "Ok, he was maybe the second best at *gymnastics*. But he was the best at *getting points for gymnastics*!"
interestingly, that is the problem I have with olympic martial arts and these silly 'sport fighting' competitions. They aren't really determining who the best fighter is, since the only real rule of fighting is 'win'. They are determining who can score the most points.
It sounds like you never played the game, because if you did you would never say that Blizzard was lazy with WoW.
I have played wow. I have multiple L70s, one of which is raiding in Black temple and equiped in tier 6 gear. Prior to the expansion, I was raiding MC, BWL and other end game content. I been a programmer and a hardcore gamer for 28 years, so I would like to think I know a bit about computer game design. Am I allowed to say that Blizzard is lazy now?
WoW is a distinctly mediocre game on the whole. WoW is just like most Blizzard games: they take a genre, borrow everything from other titles in the same genre, dumb it down two notches, and give it a visually stunning presentation. WoW is like a hollywood blockbuster: lots of eyecandy resting on tired cliches.
If you think you can create an MMO that will have people renewing their subscription WITHOUT grind, be my guest. It's not as easy as you think.
Actually, I am, and it is. The only thing that is actually hard to do is acquire the time and money to make it all happen.
You're basically saying that the "grind" should removed. If they grind is removed, people will have achieved their goals in a very short time, and then having nothing to do. They'll leave the game before you can get a second month's renewal of their subscription.
That assumes that you have to have repetative tasks to keep people busy...
Blizzard dosent have long faction grinds because they think that people will like them. They do it because they are friggin lazy, and they are easier than creating real content. WoW isn't a brilliant game design. It is a very average game that is quite popular because of it's low bar for entry and pretty graphics. Popular != quality
From my experience as a MMO designer, battling automated play is actually a huge design problem.
I am a professional programmer, and I would say that it is more than that. I would say that it is fundamentally impossible to prevent botting on remote clients without a client being completely locked down with DRM. And as Microsoft has already discovered, that is a hard sell.
You have the same fundamental problem that media creators do: You have to give people information, but prevent them from using it in ways you don't approve of. This problem will not go away any time soon.
The simpler problem of stopping WoW botting is easy. People bot in WoW because 'the grind' to level or gain faction rep is long and boring. Change the game so that people aren't rewarded for sinking so much time into the game. Problem solved.
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What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is verifiability -- that it appeared in some other publication,
this is a very insightful comment. I love wikipedia, but the main weakness I see is this issue. If it is published, then it can be cited. However, the quality of the publication doesn't seem to come into play. I could be some random idiot, pay to publish my opinions in a book, and all of the sudden it becomes wikicannon and a citeable source.
I speculate that this is an attempt to mimic the way acadameia cites things: if it is published, then you are ok to use it as support for your arguments. However, this works in acadameia because many of the sources you would use for a serious paper have high standards for publication. Nature isn't going to publich an article about trends in Harry Potter fanfic unless it brings something substantial to the table. This starts to fall apart when you have wiki articles about anything under the sun, and start allowing any published material as sources.
...I want to take his FACE OFF...
No more drugs for this man!
So, jesting aside, how will this work with cosmetic surgery? Will celebrities getting cosmetic work abroad no longer be identified correctly? Will actual terrorists suddenly become interested in elective procedures just to fool the system? How will the system deal with the fact that people change as they age? Interesting questions.
I wonder if this will become a legitimate tool for law enforcement, or if it will be yet another big brother tool.
Actually, I suspect the reason his videos aren't reported as much is that whenever Bin Laden shows his face, it energizes Americans and makes them more likely to vote Republican. The media is ridiculously pro-Obama this year and does not want a repeat of 2004 when Bin Laden released a video and threatened Americans a week before the election.
always tickled when people speak as if the media is actually a cohesive entity that can do anything in a unified way. It makes it sound somehow more sinister and exciting to describe the media this way.
Another take is that Bin Laden is boring at this point, and short of a capture story, nobody will buy a paper with yet another predictable and dull bin laden rant. Remember the media has to sell its product like any other company.
... but the biting irony of posting this on Slashdot as anything but an AC is just too delicious.
/. profile from a yahoo profile, really?
I mean, how much different is a
Its good for the game, and they end up attracting more people (more people = more fun) that way than if they were to give in to the raiding snobs and keep large portions of endgame inaccessable to anyone who hasn't been playing for more than a year.
...except that there is no point in wasting huge ammounts of time doing hard content when you can just wait until it is nerfed in a few months.
If everyone adopts that attitude, guild raiding falls apart. Why work hard to get to content and gear that will be easy to get later?
Whenever I am watching a politician on television, and they are appearing to be smart and articulate, I just turn the volume back up and that usually solves the problem.
To Jeffrey Kaplan:
How is raiding relevant in WoW anymore? You have a well established pattern now of basically 'giving away' all the end game loot and content via nerfs and such mid way through a release cycle.
Now, I am not complaining because I feel I have some sort of right to be part of an 'raiders only' exclusive club. But I can pretty much see all the game content now by subscribing for a month when the expansion comes out, and then for another two months 3/4ths of the way through a release cycle.
SSC and TK? Pretty much a massive waste of six months play time, with badge gear and PvP welfare epics.
I guess the problem with that is you lose all moral authority when you actually decide the game is worth playing but don't wish to pay.
I skipped buying spore because of the DRM. I have not pirated it either. I fail to see how I have anymore moral authority than NitroWolf in objecting to products being crippled by DRM. Neither of us gave the company money for the game, and both of us are willing to pay for it if they remove the DRM. Neither of us will give a company money for a crippled program, that is a principle. Principles do not have to be legal.
from dictionary.com: principle 1. an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct
The logic in the spec isn't 'like it (then) use it', and it makes no mention of leaving it alone in the case of not liking it, so your syntax is incorrect. Please re-read the spec.
Also, camel case is often favored by VB programmers. While it would be an assumption to call you a VB programmer, I will risk that rather than suffer a VB programmer to live. Please report to the nearest self-immolation center for immediate incineration. Thanks for your co-operation, and have nice day.
like ? leave_alone : ;
There, fixed it for you.
We haven't seen the last of him, not by a long shot.
...and strangely enough, this is actually a good thing. At this point, we actually want to see his antics, because he has been publicly discredited in a significant way. Anti-gaming groups will suffer his stigma by association.
If he wants to further his cause, he would just quietly retire. However, he will not do this. He will continue to thrash around helplessly for years damaging the reputation of the anti-gaming movement.
Thank you JT, you are doing far more to advance the cause of computer gaming than many of us could ever dream of.
VRML enabled sites have been around for years. It might be a more complex impimentation of a VRML plugin, but it hardly seems noteworthy.
parent is correct, and I will take it one GÃdelian step further and say that the more 'trusted' a site is the less I trust it. (or, in non-fuzzy sets: I trust all the sites that are untrustworthy)
And the logic of posting photos of yourself in compromising situations online: There is none.
You are quite right. If the compromising photos are interesting enough, other people will post them for you...
Implausable to crack != Impossible to crack.
moreover...
MadTigger's 1st law Law of Cryptography: The harder you claim it is to crack, the more people will work to crack it.
...but i bet that my spyware will run lightining-fast now with all those extra threads to utilize!
Women aren't happy unless you are miserable.
Oppsie, typo. Fixed it for you
I don't think the answer is to change the scoring. The answer is to take a more holistic approach, and say: "Ok, he was maybe the second best at *gymnastics*. But he was the best at *getting points for gymnastics*!"
interestingly, that is the problem I have with olympic martial arts and these silly 'sport fighting' competitions. They aren't really determining who the best fighter is, since the only real rule of fighting is 'win'. They are determining who can score the most points.
Get a boat out to that vent, stat. You could fish up pre-boiled lobster there!
It sounds like you never played the game, because if you did you would never say that Blizzard was lazy with WoW.
I have played wow. I have multiple L70s, one of which is raiding in Black temple and equiped in tier 6 gear. Prior to the expansion, I was raiding MC, BWL and other end game content. I been a programmer and a hardcore gamer for 28 years, so I would like to think I know a bit about computer game design. Am I allowed to say that Blizzard is lazy now?
WoW is a distinctly mediocre game on the whole. WoW is just like most Blizzard games: they take a genre, borrow everything from other titles in the same genre, dumb it down two notches, and give it a visually stunning presentation. WoW is like a hollywood blockbuster: lots of eyecandy resting on tired cliches.
If you think you can create an MMO that will have people renewing their subscription WITHOUT grind, be my guest. It's not as easy as you think.
Actually, I am, and it is. The only thing that is actually hard to do is acquire the time and money to make it all happen.
After all, any country is safer if nobody wants to go and visit it anymore.
This is true, but practical along the same lines as, "If we kill everyone in the whole world, there will be no crime or terrorisim."
You're basically saying that the "grind" should removed. If they grind is removed, people will have achieved their goals in a very short time, and then having nothing to do. They'll leave the game before you can get a second month's renewal of their subscription.
That assumes that you have to have repetative tasks to keep people busy... Blizzard dosent have long faction grinds because they think that people will like them. They do it because they are friggin lazy, and they are easier than creating real content. WoW isn't a brilliant game design. It is a very average game that is quite popular because of it's low bar for entry and pretty graphics. Popular != quality
From my experience as a MMO designer, battling automated play is actually a huge design problem.
I am a professional programmer, and I would say that it is more than that. I would say that it is fundamentally impossible to prevent botting on remote clients without a client being completely locked down with DRM. And as Microsoft has already discovered, that is a hard sell.
You have the same fundamental problem that media creators do: You have to give people information, but prevent them from using it in ways you don't approve of. This problem will not go away any time soon.
The simpler problem of stopping WoW botting is easy. People bot in WoW because 'the grind' to level or gain faction rep is long and boring. Change the game so that people aren't rewarded for sinking so much time into the game. Problem solved.
Why shouldn't someone be able to patent a gene they made that lets you grow five noses?
Because the practice just stinks. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA*gasp*AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA....
...I want to read your play now...