Reading toward the end of that article made me think;
Perhaps the US of A is shifting from being a democracy to some other form of government?
Perhaps 'litigracy'?
I'd always thought it was turning into a 'mediacracy' (after all, if media companies can (via advertising) convince people to spend *money* in certain ways, its clear they can convince them to spend their *vote* in certain ways...)
Maybe the industry collusion that has seen Microsoft producing more and more bloated OS's in order to help Intel & AMD sell more chips is breaking down?
I'd suspect that the monopoly rulings against MS and the rise of Linux has something to do with this.
I'll never forget reading that 'leaked' Intel internal memo "We can expect to sell more high-end CPUs since windows 2000 requires another 250MHz to deliver equivalent performance to the desktop".
Microsoft simply failed to deliver with XP; its a lot less CPU hungry than Intel would have liked...
(This industry is so corrupt it makes politics & law look like positively honorable professions)
Unfortunately the guys at white wolf know next to nothing about combinatorics; the AD&D system had some *serious* mathematical research behind it.
The WW dice-pool system is a badly broken design; just try running it by a discrete math prof sometime and watch them wince...
I once plotted out the probabilities for dice pools at varying difficulties and different sizes of dice pool. It had some strange and disturbingly counterintuitive results.
Slashdot Mirror
Reading toward the end of that article made me think; Perhaps the US of A is shifting from being a democracy to some other form of government? Perhaps 'litigracy'? I'd always thought it was turning into a 'mediacracy' (after all, if media companies can (via advertising) convince people to spend *money* in certain ways, its clear they can convince them to spend their *vote* in certain ways...)
Maybe the industry collusion that has seen Microsoft producing more and more bloated OS's in order to help Intel & AMD sell more chips is breaking down? I'd suspect that the monopoly rulings against MS and the rise of Linux has something to do with this. I'll never forget reading that 'leaked' Intel internal memo "We can expect to sell more high-end CPUs since windows 2000 requires another 250MHz to deliver equivalent performance to the desktop". Microsoft simply failed to deliver with XP; its a lot less CPU hungry than Intel would have liked... (This industry is so corrupt it makes politics & law look like positively honorable professions)
Unfortunately the guys at white wolf know next to nothing about combinatorics; the AD&D system had some *serious* mathematical research behind it. The WW dice-pool system is a badly broken design; just try running it by a discrete math prof sometime and watch them wince... I once plotted out the probabilities for dice pools at varying difficulties and different sizes of dice pool. It had some strange and disturbingly counterintuitive results.