The question is why this material was left in the game in the first place... Was there any possibility that R* was planning on "leaking" a method to access this?
Computer game projects are notorious for their lack of proper software engineering, especially ones that are targetted for consoles (because those games physically can't be patched once they've been released, so maintainability doesn't make any difference after they go gold). Old code is often left in place and disabled because it's faster and cheaper than properly removing it.
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Diamonds & the RIAA
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Diamonds are a rotten analogy because it suggests that, up to now and the magic golden age of P2P, the publishing industry posessed all of the real music.
Actually, the analogy works if instead of equating diamonds to music, you equate gemstones in general to music. Then you have industry music as the equivalent of diamonds, and independent music as the equivalent of non-diamond gemstones.
According to Webster's: "minority:...the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole."
Yet, the US News & World Report ranking of colleges shows statistics in which "minorities" comprise more than 50% of the student population.
It seems to me, a group is not a "minority" if it constitutes 98-99% of the population at an institution (especially in the case of the historically black colleges).
The minority being referred to in those articles would be the portion of the US population as a whole (which was 75.1% white in 2000 according to the US Census Bureau). So an institution with 99% minorities would mean 99% of the students belong to the "not white" ethnic group, which is a country-wide minority.
Of course, that link also shows the US as 50.9% female, leaving/. with, more than likely, a heavily minority membership!
Why was the owner suprised the men weren't taking the quarters? Aren't those quarter's the arcade owner's? It's his arcade, he bought the machine, why would men in black suits come and take his money?
And, in addition, why would an arcade owner let men in black suits "collect data" from inside a machine that he owns? Is it common practice to let people you don't know rummage around in your arcade games?
What will be the next challenge? Where is there a game that requires the uniqueness of human thought over the pure power of computer calculations?
My first thought would be Diplomacy, since success in that game is based on communication, deal-making and -breaking, and manipulating others for personal gain.
There is currently a Diplomacy AI project based on negotiation-free (nopress) play, but even that is far more difficult than chess since you have six other players and all seven players move simultaneously. As well, since there are six other players, often times it will be in a player's best interest to forgo an opportunity to better one's own position in favor of an ally. When those times are, how you can tell who your allies are (and decide who they should be), and how to use those to decide on a "best" set of moves from a set much larger than the set of legal chess moves appears to be quite a challenge.
A note to all the people writing code to solve this, the key to this problem is that Monty intentionally chooses a door that has no prize behind it.
Interestingly enough, if Monty suddenly forgets which door has the prize and just chooses a door at random, it still results in a 2/3 chance of winning (assuming him opening the door with the prize is a win by default).
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The question is why this material was left in the game in the first place... Was there any possibility that R* was planning on "leaking" a method to access this?
Computer game projects are notorious for their lack of proper software engineering, especially ones that are targetted for consoles (because those games physically can't be patched once they've been released, so maintainability doesn't make any difference after they go gold). Old code is often left in place and disabled because it's faster and cheaper than properly removing it.
Diamonds are a rotten analogy because it suggests that, up to now and the magic golden age of P2P, the publishing industry posessed all of the real music.
Actually, the analogy works if instead of equating diamonds to music, you equate gemstones in general to music. Then you have industry music as the equivalent of diamonds, and independent music as the equivalent of non-diamond gemstones.
According to Webster's: "minority: ...the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole."
/. with, more than likely, a heavily minority membership!
Yet, the US News & World Report ranking of colleges shows statistics in which "minorities" comprise more than 50% of the student population.
It seems to me, a group is not a "minority" if it constitutes 98-99% of the population at an institution (especially in the case of the historically black colleges).
The minority being referred to in those articles would be the portion of the US population as a whole (which was 75.1% white in 2000 according to the US Census Bureau). So an institution with 99% minorities would mean 99% of the students belong to the "not white" ethnic group, which is a country-wide minority.
Of course, that link also shows the US as 50.9% female, leaving
Why was the owner suprised the men weren't taking the quarters? Aren't those quarter's the arcade owner's? It's his arcade, he bought the machine, why would men in black suits come and take his money?
And, in addition, why would an arcade owner let men in black suits "collect data" from inside a machine that he owns? Is it common practice to let people you don't know rummage around in your arcade games?
What will be the next challenge? Where is there a game that requires the uniqueness of human thought over the pure power of computer calculations?
My first thought would be Diplomacy, since success in that game is based on communication, deal-making and -breaking, and manipulating others for personal gain.
There is currently a Diplomacy AI project based on negotiation-free (nopress) play, but even that is far more difficult than chess since you have six other players and all seven players move simultaneously. As well, since there are six other players, often times it will be in a player's best interest to forgo an opportunity to better one's own position in favor of an ally. When those times are, how you can tell who your allies are (and decide who they should be), and how to use those to decide on a "best" set of moves from a set much larger than the set of legal chess moves appears to be quite a challenge.
A note to all the people writing code to solve this, the key to this problem is that Monty intentionally chooses a door that has no prize behind it.
Interestingly enough, if Monty suddenly forgets which door has the prize and just chooses a door at random, it still results in a 2/3 chance of winning (assuming him opening the door with the prize is a win by default).