OTOH, fanatics would find it too troublesome to fake an interest in subjects other than their favorite and their karma would suffer from that.
Wikipedia already has a sort of informal reputation system where moderators and select users form groups to keep control of articles and squash dissent.
I'm trying to make a social networking site in my spare time and the idea of community reputation is a lot harder than it seems. If we use reddit as an example it's had a problem for awhile now where a core group of very vocal users organize to have any anti-bush/republican links modded up to the front page no matter how crackpot crazy they are. Redditors are generally pretty left wing so you get stuck in this situation of apathy where the average user doesn't disagree enough to mod it down.
Fanatics are a willing to put a lot more time and effort into gaming a system than your average user. I haven't yet seen a reputation system that solves this problem well.
The ID guys were pretty into D&D games in the past so maybe we could see some rpg elements. ID has given us a lot over the years. Growing up reading Carmack inspired a lot of us to strive to become better programmers.
Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie; it's expected to be there, but it's not that important. - John Carmack
I'm hoping it's something completely different like an rpg or just a good old frag fest. I think a lot of us were a little let down with DOOM 3.
I drink or eat anything I want to, and none if it ever gives me headaches or causes any other physical problems.
I once worked with a guy who would say the exact same thing about his cigarrettes. Noone wanted to partner with him because he just couldn't keep up physically but if you ever questioned him about his health he'd give you a lecture on the BS scientists come up with just to make themselves money.
Smart people can believe stupid things when the alternative means giving up what they enjoy.
I think people are really confused about this. He isn't in trouble for the creation of the hacking tool, he's in trouble for providing services and profiting by helping gain access to others systems. The term "spyware" was used to mean a tool to spy on others here, it's not the normal semi-legal type spyware like gator. Just poor choice of words by a few different people. So all comparisons to companies like gator or operating systems being hacker's tools don't fit. He was never in trouble for creating the tool, our rights aren't threatened, nothing to see here.
"Open Sauce" is a pun on "Open Source". The inquirer does that with almost everything. The Inquirer is generally pretty pro linux and linus but i'm sure they'll be slammed into the ground for daring to question linux/linus this one time. Seriously if Linus' plan is to show that companies acknowledge his trademark why not just ask for $1 each off them.
What's so amazing about how eyes evoloved? Any organism that out of freak chance develops even the most primitive of eyes still has an advantage over no eye, and then the next generation develops a slightly better eye and so on.
If a blind man fights a man with really bad eyesight it's pretty obvious who will win... unless one's a ninja, then all bets are off
Any company that will take a fresh graduate with no real world experience for a senior position is not a company you want to work for.
What's far more important than how much they pay you is the environment. Find somewhere with incredibly smart, motivated people and you'll find that your work doesn't seem so much like work. Look for something that you find interesting that makes money as a side effect, not the other way around.
That's amazing... absolutely amazing. I can't believe that you believe your own bs, and by the +5 Interesting obviously others do aswell. It's when people say things like "1% of the human race has a mental defect that amounts to having no conscience" that I think our society must be completely screwed to have people believing such crap. You're like that truck driver who escaped from iraqi terrorists and said how he knew he couldn't show fear to them, because that's what terrorists live for, they'd have killed him if he did. You see everyone against you as mindless psychopaths who's only wish is to ruin your life.
Settle down their buddy. It's true the parent did come off as an arrogant ass, but his point echoes what a lot of others think. For many years now developers have been waiting for basic to die, even though it "supports good programming practices" it certainly doesn't encourage them. With the introduction of C# most of us thought visualbasic was on it's way out and we'd finally be free of basic family languages.
I have no doubt the realsoftware people are extremely talented but i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one who just wishes they'd let basic die already.
It's a non-issue really. I mean you can say that whoever is willing to exert the most force will conquer it like nations on earth, but the fact is the moon is pretty darn big. If Russia wants to set up a moon base and America already has one setup, it's far more likely that they're just going to say "oh well we'll take some other part of uninhabited rock". If we ever did get to the stage where colonies are at such a gargantuan size that there's no room for more, they'd probably declare themselves nations and the whole point becomes irrelavent.
Ofcourse this is all presuming they don't discover spice on the moon and WW3 breaks out for rights on who gets to mine the spice, but even then we'd all get cool blue eyes:P
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I bet this is when they announce the FSF's merge with Microsoft and the new "all your base are belong to us" clause of the GPL.
These people would have past for neighbours where I grew up. We lived in the middle of the city, not a single block more than a quarter acre. Over the course of 6 years our neighbour had in her backyard: 4 dogs, 38 cats, 6 geese, 10 chickens, a pig! and a horse!...
Then if our luck wasn't bad enough they moved out and an alcoholic who gave people he met at the pub board in return for fixing his house moved in. At night I got to hear them, completely shitfaced on alcohol, talking about how you can still have a perfectly good conversation with someone who wasn't university educated. Almost put me off education for life.
I would have killed to live next to tin foil house people:P
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Wikipedia already has a sort of informal reputation system where moderators and select users form groups to keep control of articles and squash dissent.
I'm trying to make a social networking site in my spare time and the idea of community reputation is a lot harder than it seems. If we use reddit as an example it's had a problem for awhile now where a core group of very vocal users organize to have any anti-bush/republican links modded up to the front page no matter how crackpot crazy they are. Redditors are generally pretty left wing so you get stuck in this situation of apathy where the average user doesn't disagree enough to mod it down.
Fanatics are a willing to put a lot more time and effort into gaming a system than your average user. I haven't yet seen a reputation system that solves this problem well.
The ID guys were pretty into D&D games in the past so maybe we could see some rpg elements. ID has given us a lot over the years. Growing up reading Carmack inspired a lot of us to strive to become better programmers.
Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie; it's expected to be there, but it's not that important. - John CarmackI'm hoping it's something completely different like an rpg or just a good old frag fest. I think a lot of us were a little let down with DOOM 3.
I once worked with a guy who would say the exact same thing about his cigarrettes. Noone wanted to partner with him because he just couldn't keep up physically but if you ever questioned him about his health he'd give you a lecture on the BS scientists come up with just to make themselves money.
Smart people can believe stupid things when the alternative means giving up what they enjoy.
I think people are really confused about this. He isn't in trouble for the creation of the hacking tool, he's in trouble for providing services and profiting by helping gain access to others systems. The term "spyware" was used to mean a tool to spy on others here, it's not the normal semi-legal type spyware like gator. Just poor choice of words by a few different people. So all comparisons to companies like gator or operating systems being hacker's tools don't fit. He was never in trouble for creating the tool, our rights aren't threatened, nothing to see here.
"Open Sauce" is a pun on "Open Source". The inquirer does that with almost everything. The Inquirer is generally pretty pro linux and linus but i'm sure they'll be slammed into the ground for daring to question linux/linus this one time. Seriously if Linus' plan is to show that companies acknowledge his trademark why not just ask for $1 each off them.
OMG Perfect Dark Zero is finally here. I bought an original xbox years ago when they were promising it would come out any month now.
Now I can finally play... oh wait.
Yeah screw you MS, this time I'll see what you actually deliver instead of what you promise.
What's so amazing about how eyes evoloved? Any organism that out of freak chance develops even the most primitive of eyes still has an advantage over no eye, and then the next generation develops a slightly better eye and so on.
If a blind man fights a man with really bad eyesight it's pretty obvious who will win... unless one's a ninja, then all bets are off
Oh yeah, everyone drinks beer for the taste... just like I read playboy for the interesting views on philosophy.
CNN is great, my favourite is there comment about the terrorists having "veteran suicide bombers".
If you're a suicide bomber long enough to become a veteran I think there's a good chance you're doing something wrong.
Any company that will take a fresh graduate with no real world experience for a senior position is not a company you want to work for.
What's far more important than how much they pay you is the environment. Find somewhere with incredibly smart, motivated people and you'll find that your work doesn't seem so much like work. Look for something that you find interesting that makes money as a side effect, not the other way around.
That's amazing... absolutely amazing. I can't believe that you believe your own bs, and by the +5 Interesting obviously others do aswell. It's when people say things like "1% of the human race has a mental defect that amounts to having no conscience" that I think our society must be completely screwed to have people believing such crap. You're like that truck driver who escaped from iraqi terrorists and said how he knew he couldn't show fear to them, because that's what terrorists live for, they'd have killed him if he did. You see everyone against you as mindless psychopaths who's only wish is to ruin your life.
Settle down their buddy. It's true the parent did come off as an arrogant ass, but his point echoes what a lot of others think. For many years now developers have been waiting for basic to die, even though it "supports good programming practices" it certainly doesn't encourage them. With the introduction of C# most of us thought visualbasic was on it's way out and we'd finally be free of basic family languages.
I have no doubt the realsoftware people are extremely talented but i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one who just wishes they'd let basic die already.
You won't be cynical when we're all walking round with our triple breasted alien girlfriends damn it.
It's a non-issue really. I mean you can say that whoever is willing to exert the most force will conquer it like nations on earth, but the fact is the moon is pretty darn big. If Russia wants to set up a moon base and America already has one setup, it's far more likely that they're just going to say "oh well we'll take some other part of uninhabited rock". If we ever did get to the stage where colonies are at such a gargantuan size that there's no room for more, they'd probably declare themselves nations and the whole point becomes irrelavent.
:P
Ofcourse this is all presuming they don't discover spice on the moon and WW3 breaks out for rights on who gets to mine the spice, but even then we'd all get cool blue eyes
I bet this is when they announce the FSF's merge with Microsoft and the new "all your base are belong to us" clause of the GPL.
These people would have past for neighbours where I grew up. We lived in the middle of the city, not a single block more than a quarter acre. Over the course of 6 years our neighbour had in her backyard: 4 dogs, 38 cats, 6 geese, 10 chickens, a pig! and a horse!... Then if our luck wasn't bad enough they moved out and an alcoholic who gave people he met at the pub board in return for fixing his house moved in. At night I got to hear them, completely shitfaced on alcohol, talking about how you can still have a perfectly good conversation with someone who wasn't university educated. Almost put me off education for life. I would have killed to live next to tin foil house people :P