there are plenty of games that you can't win or lose if you look at indy game sites you come across them every now and then. there are also plenty of ways to win at art, competitions etc. This man is an idiot, his reasons are arbitrary, why are we even discussing this?
Two things to say about that. First we need burger flippers, if we didn't need them we wouldn't have them, but people need to eat. That being said anyone capable of a different lie of work would probably chose it. I don't know about you but I know I would rather do what I do than flip burgers (thought I wouldn't mind pumping gas for a living.
I think you just agreed with me there, i would definitely have a crack at flipping burgers rather than my current programming job if the money was the same, and i can think of a lot of other less stressful jobs that would make my quality of life better if i didn't need to pay off a mortgage
People will still want faster computers, and faster cars, and bigger this and smaller that. The fact that we wouldn't need to exchange money for these resources does not make them any less valuable.
How do you decide who gets bigger this or that? If it's just those with better jobs isn't that just less defined version of money?
I'll give you Cuba:)
Trust me, what I am suggesting, and has been suggested by others before me, has never been tried. It hasn't been tried because it confuses most people, but that doesn't make it any less viable
To be honest i'm not really sure what it is that you're suggesting, sure we don't need money but it's a good enough carrot. You've suggested a stick might work instead but tbh i don't think you can get that far punishing people for not being good enough people.
Yeah, this kind of thinking is just plain dumb. If sony chooses to lose money on every console that's their bad luck. This is why we have to deal with printer cartridges that cost more than the printers they go in and if i could organise to go back in time to assassinate the guy who came up with "Give away the razors then sell the hell out of the blades" quote, i'd probably just get them to rough him up a bit since that's just a bit extremist.
your solution only works for people at each end of the scale, people who have a job flipping burgers have no incentive to move up to a better paid (but just as thankless) job doing something more productive to society. No-one has any incentive to do anything other than the bare minimum to not get marooned, and greed is currently the only really feasible leverage to get the 95% of the population not directly motivated by altruism to do there part for society. I would recommend you look at the history of countries like Cuba etc who have tried this kind of thing and failed before you suggest we tear down capitalism ( even though America could do with a little less extremist capitalism at the moment )
This is absolutely true, as long as the economy is good enough to get a new job of course. Also I've never met a potential employer who gives a crap about job hopping as long as you do it every couple of years rather than every 6 months.
old cars eventually die, who cares if they stay in circulation a couple more years if the next car they buy is 25% less pollution than it would have been?
i would assume that simple physics would tell you that slowing a car weighing half the weight of a regular car down to zero in a crash situation would actually be easier
the difference being you need physical access to cut a wire (which almost ever happens), where as you can hack a wireless network from next door (which happens... a lot).
Or they could just use the operating system's decoder. This is purely Mozilla trying to influence a market to choose the harder option when the market really doesn't give 2 shits about it.
I'm not sure if this is allowed but it has largely the same syntax as python plus the JIT compiler of mono/.net which i assume adds a fair chunk of speed. they can take the knowledge of python and do real things with it after the contest too
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there are plenty of games that you can't win or lose if you look at indy game sites you come across them every now and then. there are also plenty of ways to win at art, competitions etc. This man is an idiot, his reasons are arbitrary, why are we even discussing this?
Two things to say about that. First we need burger flippers, if we didn't need them we wouldn't have them, but people need to eat. That being said anyone capable of a different lie of work would probably chose it. I don't know about you but I know I would rather do what I do than flip burgers (thought I wouldn't mind pumping gas for a living.
I think you just agreed with me there, i would definitely have a crack at flipping burgers rather than my current programming job if the money was the same, and i can think of a lot of other less stressful jobs that would make my quality of life better if i didn't need to pay off a mortgage
People will still want faster computers, and faster cars, and bigger this and smaller that. The fact that we wouldn't need to exchange money for these resources does not make them any less valuable.
How do you decide who gets bigger this or that? If it's just those with better jobs isn't that just less defined version of money?
:)
I'll give you Cuba
Trust me, what I am suggesting, and has been suggested by others before me, has never been tried. It hasn't been tried because it confuses most people, but that doesn't make it any less viable
To be honest i'm not really sure what it is that you're suggesting, sure we don't need money but it's a good enough carrot. You've suggested a stick might work instead but tbh i don't think you can get that far punishing people for not being good enough people.
Yeah, this kind of thinking is just plain dumb. If sony chooses to lose money on every console that's their bad luck. This is why we have to deal with printer cartridges that cost more than the printers they go in and if i could organise to go back in time to assassinate the guy who came up with "Give away the razors then sell the hell out of the blades" quote, i'd probably just get them to rough him up a bit since that's just a bit extremist.
your solution only works for people at each end of the scale, people who have a job flipping burgers have no incentive to move up to a better paid (but just as thankless) job doing something more productive to society. No-one has any incentive to do anything other than the bare minimum to not get marooned, and greed is currently the only really feasible leverage to get the 95% of the population not directly motivated by altruism to do there part for society. I would recommend you look at the history of countries like Cuba etc who have tried this kind of thing and failed before you suggest we tear down capitalism ( even though America could do with a little less extremist capitalism at the moment )
what, they're building their bases in the hopes that real zerg will return?
It must suck to be a part of the subset of those who care enough about not caring to make sure everyone knows how much they don't care.
don't think so, back in the day i'd actually heard of michael jordan, that is the first time i've ever heard of lebron. Not that i follow basketball.
it was supposed to be humorous, but whatevs
This is absolutely true, as long as the economy is good enough to get a new job of course. Also I've never met a potential employer who gives a crap about job hopping as long as you do it every couple of years rather than every 6 months.
not going crazy in a box in space for x months is prolly key training
the problem is the DRM will still be active in the bargain bin. do not want
all public transport should be free
heh, i find your faith disturbing
so you're saying we should go with fuel economy standards then?
old cars eventually die, who cares if they stay in circulation a couple more years if the next car they buy is 25% less pollution than it would have been?
yeah, you can spout all the formulas you want, but the truthyness of it is, bigger is better
i would assume that simple physics would tell you that slowing a car weighing half the weight of a regular car down to zero in a crash situation would actually be easier
wuss
the difference being you need physical access to cut a wire (which almost ever happens), where as you can hack a wireless network from next door (which happens... a lot).
What devices does the iPad replace? as far as i can see it's a brand new device, so it's neither converging or diverging.
Or they could just use the operating system's decoder. This is purely Mozilla trying to influence a market to choose the harder option when the market really doesn't give 2 shits about it.
I'm not sure if this is allowed but it has largely the same syntax as python plus the JIT compiler of mono/.net which i assume adds a fair chunk of speed. they can take the knowledge of python and do real things with it after the contest too
the regular stuff only to Chinese people?
microsoft will prolly just come out with a cheaper tablet version of windows 7 and throw money at the manufacturers till they bundle it instead
yeah, this is pretty much exactly what i want too, will prolly get some cheapy linux tablet that hopefully works tho.