If Ayn Rand was right, engineers would make more money than CEOs.
Engineers would make more money than the incompetent CEOs who grind companies into the ground.
As I understand it, part of a CEO's job is to allocate resources between different parts of a company. If that allocation is less critical to a company's success than the quality of engineering that goes into The Product, then yes, engineers would be paid more than CEOs. If the reverse is true, CEOs whould be paid more.
Every game will be playable for as short as the company feels like supporting it.
Fixed^W emphasis-shifted that for you.
I don't want my games to fail when everybody else stops paying the guys who sold it to me. I want them to be playable forever.
Starcraft is still big in Korea. I recently watched Bisu v. Best and Bisu v. Jaedong; Blizzard probably isn't making money off of monthly Starcraft subscriptions since those don't exist, yet some companies find it worth their money to sponsor big Starcraft events (thanks, SK Telekom T1, but I can't really use the Korean telephone system in Denmark; sorry).
Who knew back in the nineties that it would be this big, and stay this big? And apparently, Bisu and Jaedong don't have compatibility problems.
Confirmation bias is what happens when you foul-play the relative weighting of evidence that you know of for vs. against your conjecture.
Selective Reporting is having the evidentiary weighting foul-played for you by the media (for present purposes this includes/.) by only letting you know about some of the evidence (giving the rest an effective weight of 0).
Okay, so once you know about Selective Reporting, you can try to give the untold stories a non-zero weight, but it's hard and you're reduced to guess. With confirmation bias, you're not reduced to guessing, so they are different.
As an example of confirmation bias is my thinking regarding the evolution vs. creationism debate: I tend to believe scientific over religious evidence without verifying that the science is Good Science (tm).
If I had verified the science, and it was good, I would only have been "guilty" of believing in A Good Argument. What's that, Reality Bias?;)
Selective Reporting is when Fox News only reports about the good things McCain have done and the bad things Obama have done.
Lilo did not support filesystem, so there was a tool that you needed to run each time you changed the kernel. That tool built a list of blocks, so that Lilo could load the kernel (from those blocks) without really understanding the filesystem.
As far as I understand, grub does a similar thing: it knows a list of blocks where its understanding of file systems is stored. It then uses that understanding of file systems to read its configuration file and act on menu selections by loading a kernel and initrd.
That leaves the question: what happens if the grub blocks move? Does grub tell the file system to park the blocks in a safe place? ISTR ReiserFS reserving a bunch of space for the boot loader such that it could have a set of non-moving blocks. Is that common practice?
(politician mode) I'm committed to fighting a war against anyone who would seek to molest and most gruesomely harm the body and mind of young... vector gra... pixe...? Why wrote this fuck*ng speech?
All right, but apart from the Pretty Pictures, Light-Emitting Diodes, Infrared Ear Thermometers, [...] and Food Safety Systems, what have we ever gotten from NASA?
The article itself is a perfect example of what can go wrong when you use javascript, etc., inappropriately. They make you look at the article through a keyhole, and you can't make the keyhole bigger.
Judging from a few paragraphs, the text is more readable if you look at line-wrapped HTML source.
You'll find that the vast majority of school-shooters play first-person shooters. [...] You'll even find that the vast majority of young males eat bread. What exactly does this tell us?
A minor correction to your title.
The problem isn't that the data is correlative.
The problem is that the implied implication arrow is pointing in the wrong direction; or rather that it's the wrong conditional probability that's being observed ("gamer given violent").
Consider what this would tell us:
Most bread-eaters are young males. Most young males play FPSes. Most FPS players are murderous loonies.
How safe would you feel around people who eat bread? Around young males? Around FPS players?
I predict that politicians who want to censor violent games won't be telling us how many FPS players are actually murderous loonies, because the truth would be devastating to their case;)
It isn't just art, but basically non-programming [...] So not only does the artwork tend to be lacking, but sound, music, level design and so on.
I want to clarify what I meant, in case you meant to expand on it.
By "art" and "artwork", I mean something fairly close to the wikipedia definition: "Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions."
That covers at least
visual art: terrain tiles, units, UI widgets
audio art: music and sound effects (including choosing when to be silent)
narrative art: telling a good story and telling it well
I'm as of yet undecided whether I want to call level design an art; the things I evaluate tbs/rts/fps maps by are not aesthetic in nature---yeah it's cute that the terrain of Python (an iCCup starcraft map) looks like a snake, but more importantly than that is that the map makes for fair and fun play time.
Maybe that's the emotional appeal; I don't know. The other three points are much closer to broadly accepted art forms, FWIW.
You make an interesting point about quality of tools. I don't know much about that, but you've earned your plus-mods.
I suspect that this is only "news" because of the game's license and not because the game is even remotely good.
It's news because it's something a substantial chunk of slashdotters are likely to be interested in reading about.
Ontopic: All open source games suck. I have played many of them and they are all horrible.
That's a personal judgment of likes and dislikes. It might be the case that most people will agree, but I conjecture that there's very little you can say which is objective (rather than merely consensual) and supports a claim that a game sucks.
Let me be the first to say that I for one welcome our weak, slow or dim goblin overlords.
It's interesting that you can log in to the official multiplayer server with your forum credentials. A future possibility might be a ranking system, and approximately even matches; that's one feature of Warcraft III that I like quite a bit.
We always say that the one thing holding back Open Source games is the lack of man-hours devoted to all the artwork. Let me quote http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.6/ a little:
Many mainline campaigns have improved storyline prose and new cutscenes or epilogs.
More campaigns now include references to events in the overall history, adding depth and richness to the narration.
Our composers have added five new original background tracks: [...]
The game graphics have been improved with a whole new range of unit portraits. Many more units have full animations and team coloring.
Forests get more variety with graphics for spring/summer, fall and winter deciduous forest terrains.
How impressive that really is... well, I guess the proof is in the pudding. But wesnoth has people working on things other than code.
I'm looking forward to playing this when I have the time:)
Parents think the government is controlled by media? Or does the government this media is controlled by parents? Or does the media think that parents are controlled by the government?
I think it's great I can communicate with my friends even in extremely noisy places.
I think it's great I can take pictures of hot chicks when I'm out on the town.
I think it'd be cool to always have some game on me if I ever get bored.
I think it'd be cool to always have all my music at hand.
I think it'd be really cool to always have all my music and video at hand.
I think it's useful to always have an address book, calendar, clock and alarm clock at hand.
Am I going to carry a phone, a texting device, a camera, a PSP or DS, an ipod, a clock, a calendar, a personal phone book and an alarm clock? Hell no. I want to have a general-purpose pocket computer device.
I vehemently disagree with "do one thing".
What I think is going on is that you're getting "several things, none done well" and you prefer "done well" over "several things", at least in the specific instances you have tried. If you had several things, all done well, would you really want to carry multiple gadgets around all the time?
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If Ayn Rand was right, engineers would make more money than CEOs.
Engineers would make more money than the incompetent CEOs who grind companies into the ground.
As I understand it, part of a CEO's job is to allocate resources between different parts of a company. If that allocation is less critical to a company's success than the quality of engineering that goes into The Product, then yes, engineers would be paid more than CEOs. If the reverse is true, CEOs whould be paid more.
What the actual case is, I don't know.
Surely they can harness some new synergistic paradigm
Don't forget the turn-key social on-demand leverage.
XFCE [] less is more
Why do you run such bloatware when you can have RatPoison? ;-)
Every game will be playable for as short as the company feels like supporting it.
Fixed^W emphasis-shifted that for you.
I don't want my games to fail when everybody else stops paying the guys who sold it to me. I want them to be playable forever.
Starcraft is still big in Korea. I recently watched Bisu v. Best and Bisu v. Jaedong; Blizzard probably isn't making money off of monthly Starcraft subscriptions since those don't exist, yet some companies find it worth their money to sponsor big Starcraft events (thanks, SK Telekom T1, but I can't really use the Korean telephone system in Denmark; sorry).
Who knew back in the nineties that it would be this big, and stay this big? And apparently, Bisu and Jaedong don't have compatibility problems.
I vote for control.
We only ever hear
Ah, so it's not
Confirmation bias.
but Selective Reporting.
Confirmation bias is what happens when you foul-play the relative weighting of evidence that you know of for vs. against your conjecture.
Selective Reporting is having the evidentiary weighting foul-played for you by the media (for present purposes this includes /.) by only letting you know about some of the evidence (giving the rest an effective weight of 0).
Okay, so once you know about Selective Reporting, you can try to give the untold stories a non-zero weight, but it's hard and you're reduced to guess. With confirmation bias, you're not reduced to guessing, so they are different.
As an example of confirmation bias is my thinking regarding the evolution vs. creationism debate: I tend to believe scientific over religious evidence without verifying that the science is Good Science (tm).
If I had verified the science, and it was good, I would only have been "guilty" of believing in A Good Argument. What's that, Reality Bias? ;)
Selective Reporting is when Fox News only reports about the good things McCain have done and the bad things Obama have done.
This is the keystone grammar police. dont do that again, or well come after you and you're family.
Lilo did not support filesystem, so there was a tool that you needed to run each time you changed the kernel. That tool built a list of blocks, so that Lilo could load the kernel (from those blocks) without really understanding the filesystem.
As far as I understand, grub does a similar thing: it knows a list of blocks where its understanding of file systems is stored. It then uses that understanding of file systems to read its configuration file and act on menu selections by loading a kernel and initrd.
That leaves the question: what happens if the grub blocks move? Does grub tell the file system to park the blocks in a safe place? ISTR ReiserFS reserving a bunch of space for the boot loader such that it could have a set of non-moving blocks. Is that common practice?
At least it's not done by the block faerie :)
(politician mode) I'm committed to fighting a war against anyone who would seek to molest and most gruesomely harm the body and mind of young... vector gra... pixe...? Why wrote this fuck*ng speech?
All right, but apart from the Pretty Pictures, Light-Emitting Diodes, Infrared Ear Thermometers, [...] and Food Safety Systems, what have we ever gotten from NASA?
The Aqueduct?
so they can show lots of marketing gumph, which I studiously ignored.
What? There was gumph? Apparently I'm banner blind...
The article itself is a perfect example of what can go wrong when you use javascript, etc., inappropriately. They make you look at the article through a keyhole, and you can't make the keyhole bigger.
Judging from a few paragraphs, the text is more readable if you look at line-wrapped HTML source.
That is fail :(
But then again, the cake is a lie, and math is either inconsistent or, translating poorly from a danish hash collision, unhealthy.
Apparently, even attorneys hesitate to deal with folks who might actually make them look silly.
That hasn't deterred Jack Thompson or the RIAA :)
Scientists never [...] deride the work of their colleagues without merit.
I thought science was exactly about deriding the work of your merit-less colleagues :)
what about, oh, say, myspace? no affect?
People probably can get emotional about myspace---isn't it the big emo hangout?
You probably meant to say effect :)
You'll find that the vast majority of school-shooters play first-person shooters. [...] You'll even find that the vast majority of young males eat bread. What exactly does this tell us?
A minor correction to your title.
The problem isn't that the data is correlative.
The problem is that the implied implication arrow is pointing in the wrong direction; or rather that it's the wrong conditional probability that's being observed ("gamer given violent").
Consider what this would tell us:
Most bread-eaters are young males.
Most young males play FPSes.
Most FPS players are murderous loonies.
How safe would you feel around people who eat bread? Around young males? Around FPS players?
I predict that politicians who want to censor violent games won't be telling us how many FPS players are actually murderous loonies, because the truth would be devastating to their case ;)
It isn't just art, but basically non-programming [...] So not only does the artwork tend to be lacking, but sound, music, level design and so on.
I want to clarify what I meant, in case you meant to expand on it.
By "art" and "artwork", I mean something fairly close to the wikipedia definition: "Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions."
That covers at least
I'm as of yet undecided whether I want to call level design an art; the things I evaluate tbs/rts/fps maps by are not aesthetic in nature---yeah it's cute that the terrain of Python (an iCCup starcraft map) looks like a snake, but more importantly than that is that the map makes for fair and fun play time.
Maybe that's the emotional appeal; I don't know. The other three points are much closer to broadly accepted art forms, FWIW.
You make an interesting point about quality of tools. I don't know much about that, but you've earned your plus-mods.
does the 1.6 multiplayer server require an actual login?
No, it doesn't.
(There was this link in my post, you see... :p)
I suspect that this is only "news" because of the game's license and not because the game is even remotely good.
It's news because it's something a substantial chunk of slashdotters are likely to be interested in reading about.
Ontopic: All open source games suck. I have played many of them and they are all horrible.
That's a personal judgment of likes and dislikes. It might be the case that most people will agree, but I conjecture that there's very little you can say which is objective (rather than merely consensual) and supports a claim that a game sucks.
Let me be the first to say that I for one welcome our weak, slow or dim goblin overlords.
It's interesting that you can log in to the official multiplayer server with your forum credentials. A future possibility might be a ranking system, and approximately even matches; that's one feature of Warcraft III that I like quite a bit.
We always say that the one thing holding back Open Source games is the lack of man-hours devoted to all the artwork. Let me quote http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.6/ a little:
How impressive that really is... well, I guess the proof is in the pudding. But wesnoth has people working on things other than code.
I'm looking forward to playing this when I have the time :)
Parents think the government is controlled by media? Or does the government this media is controlled by parents? Or does the media think that parents are controlled by the government?
:P
Whatever happened to "Do one job and do it well".
People's needs and wants, that's what happened.
I think it's great I can communicate with my friends even in extremely noisy places.
I think it's great I can take pictures of hot chicks when I'm out on the town.
I think it'd be cool to always have some game on me if I ever get bored.
I think it'd be cool to always have all my music at hand.
I think it'd be really cool to always have all my music and video at hand.
I think it's useful to always have an address book, calendar, clock and alarm clock at hand.
Am I going to carry a phone, a texting device, a camera, a PSP or DS, an ipod, a clock, a calendar, a personal phone book and an alarm clock? Hell no. I want to have a general-purpose pocket computer device.
I vehemently disagree with "do one thing".
What I think is going on is that you're getting "several things, none done well" and you prefer "done well" over "several things", at least in the specific instances you have tried. If you had several things, all done well, would you really want to carry multiple gadgets around all the time?
Always mount a scratch monkey!
cute girls with eyebrow piercings.
As we all learned in Pulp Fiction, piercings are for better sex. If you care about the girl having a pierced eyebrow, you're doing it wrong!
Considering the countries actively censoring or monitoring I'm aware of are: [...] I'm sure there also many more.
I'm sad to say that my country, Denmark, also belongs on that list.
Wikileaks has a list of 253 names^W^W 3863 sites (http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list%2C_Feb_2008), though I've successfully accessed some of those sites (just to test the censorship, mind you).
Also, an ISP has been ordered by the supreme court to not allow access to the pirate bay.
I'm not happy about that. At all :(