If I recall correctly from reading a message board thread with a DAoC dev a while ago, he claimed that DAoC had a huge rate of boxes sold that never made accounts, accounts that played once and then stopped, often without ever cancelling their subscription, and other such oddities.
OK, so let me get this straight. Bruce reads a bunch of investor reports and press releases, plots the data on a graph, and updates it, and every time he makes the front page of Slashdot?
I cleaned out my dryer lint today! Why can't I be on the frontpage?
In other news, DC Comics has realized that it should stop publishing Superman and Batman titles in favor of new characters that nobody has any investment in.
Microsoft has realized that it should discontinue the Office brand in favor of new software that will be more "innovative" than simple word processing.
And McDonalds has decided to discontinue all of its hamburgers, fearing that they haven't created any innovative cuisine in the last 20 years, instead becoming a steakhouse.
SirBruce is a fairly longstanding Internet user with a trail of flamewars and bannings a mile long. I'm not going to go into them, except to note that some of them are pretty high profile. (Banned from Lum the Mad back in the day... arguably caused the downfall of FurryMUCK once)
But I would like to just ask Bruce one simple question. Because, well, Bruce... you're a fucking millionaire. You are a major investor in World War II Online. You have lots and lots of money, to the point where you do not work a job.
Do you really have to rely on reader donations to get a new fucking webhost?
What is an acceptable way for companies to deal with piracy then? I mean, come on. We really damage our credibility if we bitch at every attempt to curb piracy. But we complain about Microsoft barring modded XBoxes from their servers, about copy protection like this, we complain when companies sue file sharers...
Are people really arguing that there should be no way to prevent piracy? Because based on the aggregate outrage of the/. populace, that's increasingly what we're looking like. And down that road lies us no longer being considered worth pandering to.
Personally, I think that good old-fashioned copy protection is by far the best method of preventing piracy. Nobody gets sued. Nobody gets hurt.
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. It does model all of these things.
My point was that the prisoner's dillemma model is, I think, far more interesting when it doesn't model those things, and when it instead models a sort of pure state of social interaction.
No, no, I understand completely. But even in the case of an iterated prisoner's dillemma, the relevent prior knowledge is the question of opponent actions - not opponent identity. That is to say, what it's testing is still behavior as shaped by other people's behavior. The handshake, though possible under this model, still fundamentally changes what the game is modeling because it introduces the variable of knowing who you're dealing with. This is still a substantive change.
I think you miss the point of my claim about social consequences. The issue prior moves is a social consequence WITHIN THE GAME.
What I mean is that, if you screw someone over, a Mafia hitman is not going to murder your family. That is to say, I'm referring to social consequences that come from situating the game in some kind of social context.
This seems to me to be an unfair way to "win." The point of the PD simulation is to talk about whether, in the absence of any social consequences, it is better to screw someone over for money or to work cooperatively with them. It's not a perfect model for that question, but that is still the question that makes us care about the PD in the first place.
All this has done is make a meta-PD game in which the two programs create a meta-game in which they agree to cooperate. That is to say, this is a solution to the PD problem that relies on the cooperation of a cohort (Someone to keep choosing loyalty while you defect and get all the money). Which is exactly not the point of PD.
So the real headline, I think, is "Trivial flaw found in definition of Prisoner's Dillema problem. University of Southhampton wastes money demonstrating flaw instead of writing a goddamn paper like a normal person would."
OK, so why would you slim down your console in such a way that it requires a base on the bottom that gives it the exact same footprint as the original version?
I mean, what's the point of a miniaturized version of something that's exactly the same size as the big one?
What's funny is that by the time you'd posted that, the cabal section was taken out and replaced with a more general section about criticisms of how Wikipedia functions and is run that were not directed towards any of the procedures in place to change that.
Jeez, I remember when you trolls were at least fast, if not intelligent.
Cycling has one of the most aggressive drug testing programs in all of professional sports, with riders being randomlly tested and surprise tested even during the off season. Lance Armstrong has remarked that he's the most tested athlete in professional sports. Yes, there are still people dumb enough to try doping. But, unlike most sports, it doesn't really work here. You get caught.
I wonder why they'd melt the beads when you can get a smoother image through bead weaving (Since you don't get those holes on the top of the bead that interrupt the color flow?) Plenty of programs to convert pictures to bead patterns, too, so this seems like it would be the easier way to do it...
I find it a little bit surprising just how little stock Apple has to ship right now. The high end of the G5 line isn't ready yet, the iMac is off the market, and they have no displays shipping yet beyond their basic studio display. I was planning only a few months ago to upgrade to Macs over the summer, but the combination of rebates on the 23" cinema displays and the upgrades to the laptops made me move sooner. Thank God I did, because apparently I couldn't have bought half the stuff I wanted to buy during the summer.
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Well, that and, you know, it's a 12" laptop that weighs less than five pounds.
Which is a pretty damn big advantage when you get right down to it.
If I recall correctly from reading a message board thread with a DAoC dev a while ago, he claimed that DAoC had a huge rate of boxes sold that never made accounts, accounts that played once and then stopped, often without ever cancelling their subscription, and other such oddities.
OK, so let me get this straight. Bruce reads a bunch of investor reports and press releases, plots the data on a graph, and updates it, and every time he makes the front page of Slashdot?
I cleaned out my dryer lint today! Why can't I be on the frontpage?
Once the personal computer came in at #3, the list was pretty much over for me.
Cell phones are more important than the personal computer?
At that point, I half expect the Clapper to be #1.
In other news, DC Comics has realized that it should stop publishing Superman and Batman titles in favor of new characters that nobody has any investment in.
Microsoft has realized that it should discontinue the Office brand in favor of new software that will be more "innovative" than simple word processing.
And McDonalds has decided to discontinue all of its hamburgers, fearing that they haven't created any innovative cuisine in the last 20 years, instead becoming a steakhouse.
I never new press releases and earnings reports cost so much money to acquire, Bruce.
SirBruce is a fairly longstanding Internet user with a trail of flamewars and bannings a mile long. I'm not going to go into them, except to note that some of them are pretty high profile. (Banned from Lum the Mad back in the day... arguably caused the downfall of FurryMUCK once)
But I would like to just ask Bruce one simple question. Because, well, Bruce... you're a fucking millionaire. You are a major investor in World War II Online. You have lots and lots of money, to the point where you do not work a job.
Do you really have to rely on reader donations to get a new fucking webhost?
My Lord, Nintendo is censoring games? Removing sex and violence? How horrible! How awful!
Oh, wait, what's this? A telephone message from 1994? You say they want their fucking news back?
What is an acceptable way for companies to deal with piracy then? I mean, come on. We really damage our credibility if we bitch at every attempt to curb piracy. But we complain about Microsoft barring modded XBoxes from their servers, about copy protection like this, we complain when companies sue file sharers...
/. populace, that's increasingly what we're looking like. And down that road lies us no longer being considered worth pandering to.
Are people really arguing that there should be no way to prevent piracy? Because based on the aggregate outrage of the
Personally, I think that good old-fashioned copy protection is by far the best method of preventing piracy. Nobody gets sued. Nobody gets hurt.
I tend to think kin selection was deliberately, rather than accidentally, excluded from the model.
"Fair" also has nothing to do with this, which is a mathematical simulation, not a sports competition.
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. It does model all of these things.
My point was that the prisoner's dillemma model is, I think, far more interesting when it doesn't model those things, and when it instead models a sort of pure state of social interaction.
No, no, I understand completely. But even in the case of an iterated prisoner's dillemma, the relevent prior knowledge is the question of opponent actions - not opponent identity. That is to say, what it's testing is still behavior as shaped by other people's behavior. The handshake, though possible under this model, still fundamentally changes what the game is modeling because it introduces the variable of knowing who you're dealing with. This is still a substantive change.
I think you miss the point of my claim about social consequences. The issue prior moves is a social consequence WITHIN THE GAME.
What I mean is that, if you screw someone over, a Mafia hitman is not going to murder your family. That is to say, I'm referring to social consequences that come from situating the game in some kind of social context.
This seems to me to be an unfair way to "win." The point of the PD simulation is to talk about whether, in the absence of any social consequences, it is better to screw someone over for money or to work cooperatively with them. It's not a perfect model for that question, but that is still the question that makes us care about the PD in the first place.
All this has done is make a meta-PD game in which the two programs create a meta-game in which they agree to cooperate. That is to say, this is a solution to the PD problem that relies on the cooperation of a cohort (Someone to keep choosing loyalty while you defect and get all the money). Which is exactly not the point of PD.
So the real headline, I think, is "Trivial flaw found in definition of Prisoner's Dillema problem. University of Southhampton wastes money demonstrating flaw instead of writing a goddamn paper like a normal person would."
OK, so why would you slim down your console in such a way that it requires a base on the bottom that gives it the exact same footprint as the original version?
I mean, what's the point of a miniaturized version of something that's exactly the same size as the big one?
The invariant sections aren't actually a big deal, as the terms of submission to Wikipedia specify that you may not add invariant sections.
What's funny is that by the time you'd posted that, the cabal section was taken out and replaced with a more general section about criticisms of how Wikipedia functions and is run that were not directed towards any of the procedures in place to change that.
Jeez, I remember when you trolls were at least fast, if not intelligent.
Cycling has one of the most aggressive drug testing programs in all of professional sports, with riders being randomlly tested and surprise tested even during the off season. Lance Armstrong has remarked that he's the most tested athlete in professional sports. Yes, there are still people dumb enough to try doping. But, unlike most sports, it doesn't really work here. You get caught.
I suspect the problem is that the boss is an idiot, unfortunately, and that he will not grasp the subtlty of this argument.
I wonder why they'd melt the beads when you can get a smoother image through bead weaving (Since you don't get those holes on the top of the bead that interrupt the color flow?) Plenty of programs to convert pictures to bead patterns, too, so this seems like it would be the easier way to do it...
Yes, but that still has very little to do with Ultima X, which was what we were talking about.
I find it a little bit surprising just how little stock Apple has to ship right now. The high end of the G5 line isn't ready yet, the iMac is off the market, and they have no displays shipping yet beyond their basic studio display. I was planning only a few months ago to upgrade to Macs over the summer, but the combination of rebates on the 23" cinema displays and the upgrades to the laptops made me move sooner. Thank God I did, because apparently I couldn't have bought half the stuff I wanted to buy during the summer.
What does Lord British have to do with anything? He works for NCSoft now.
I think this makes Ultima Online 2 the only game in history to be cancelled twice, no?