That's just the point, isn't it? Competitive gameplay usually means that someone wins and they get rewarded for it. In WoW, anyone can "win" regardless of how good they are, which can make the game less appealing for competitive people. How appealing would football or basketball be to play or to watch if, at the end, everyone was declared a winner and they hugged it out?
I'm not saying one or the other is better, just that some people will prefer a game that's more accessible to everyone and some people will prefer a more competitive atmosphere.
Huh... that statement sounds uncannily like the logic of the No Child Left Behind Act. But yet, we support that. Off topic, I know, but if we support behavior like that in one system (ie, everyday life), why should any of the snotlings (er, sorry, younger kids and/or teens) expect any less elsewhere? Go figure..
It's kind of funny, and somewhat scary, but does anyone else think of Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains? Hmm... smart homes and the as-of-yet unfolding neo arms race between the west and the east.
I was also there this year; both papers presented were very interesting. I have the feeling I will be chewing over the printed Proceedings book here for a while.
My personal experience is that it's usually the suits upstairs cringing about that keyword "free." To them it dosen't matter that you have qualified sysadmins that can handle most anything short of catastrophic, or whatnot. In their eyes, free equates something of low quality and no quick guarantee that things will be back to normal in 20 minutes.
I'd have to say that one of the cooler one's I've seen is the integral of sec^3() d. Not only would you need to do a trig substitution, but it ends up being (what I think of as) one of those cyclical type problems.
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Sometimes it's Pepper II/Ms. Pacman/Galaga via M.A.M.E, other days it's Dungeon (Zork), other days it's firing up WinUAE and playing Mind Walker.
That's just the point, isn't it? Competitive gameplay usually means that someone wins and they get rewarded for it. In WoW, anyone can "win" regardless of how good they are, which can make the game less appealing for competitive people. How appealing would football or basketball be to play or to watch if, at the end, everyone was declared a winner and they hugged it out? I'm not saying one or the other is better, just that some people will prefer a game that's more accessible to everyone and some people will prefer a more competitive atmosphere.
Huh... that statement sounds uncannily like the logic of the No Child Left Behind Act. But yet, we support that. Off topic, I know, but if we support behavior like that in one system (ie, everyday life), why should any of the snotlings (er, sorry, younger kids and/or teens) expect any less elsewhere? Go figure..
It's bnetd all over again. \o/
It's kind of funny, and somewhat scary, but does anyone else think of Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains ? Hmm... smart homes and the as-of-yet unfolding neo arms race between the west and the east.
AIX 5.3 also behaves in this fashion
I was also there this year; both papers presented were very interesting. I have the feeling I will be chewing over the printed Proceedings book here for a while.
My personal experience is that it's usually the suits upstairs cringing about that keyword "free." To them it dosen't matter that you have qualified sysadmins that can handle most anything short of catastrophic, or whatnot. In their eyes, free equates something of low quality and no quick guarantee that things will be back to normal in 20 minutes.
hmm, it would appear that the theta isn't appearing.. Sorry, it's supposed to be sec^3(theta) d(theta)
I'd have to say that one of the cooler one's I've seen is the integral of sec^3() d. Not only would you need to do a trig substitution, but it ends up being (what I think of as) one of those cyclical type problems.