Only a small minority thinks it is fun to kill people in uncontrolled world PvP.
But why is that?
Because they implemented PvP wrong.
Being invaded and killed could have been a thrilling experience. What makes it utterly dull for most people is that your options seems to be: A) Respawn and die again. B) Log out.
Imagine a game where lowlevel players that are killed in their home areas would be conscripted as local militia and set to control siege-like defensive installations. Instead of being spawnraped, the lowlevels getting killed would be given immense power - but limited in time and only usable to fight off the invaders.
It's all about creating win/win situations. A lot of people dislike PvP because it turns into repetetive, frustrating gameplay.
Efficient is fragile. The unexpected is not factored in.
This also applies to information infrastructure - which is rapidly becoming more and more important.
Deep down, I'm worried about our civilization growing ever-more efficient and interconnected. There is not enough focus on robustness and self-sufficiency.
I predict that we are heading for a big (and utterly unexpected) event that will trigger a cascading collapse.
Great, what would the Pirate Party have to say about loose nukes or healthcare reform?
Nothing. It would not have to. Read the post you are replying to.
Long before a Pirate Party could get a majority, other parties would start to include their policies. That would probably accomplish their primary goal.
If all you have is imaginary intellectual property, the only way you can really protect it is by force. Well, and trade sanctions, but those won't mean much soon...
Too true, and too tragic considering the birth of the USA as a nation if they should dictate taxes for others to pay and force military action if they refuse.
Though I'm not sure how easy it is to be the #1 military power when more and more manufacturing capability is outsourced.
Either the parents are grossly incompetent and stupid, or they're incompetent and stupid AND they're trying to mollify their guilty conscience by putting some of the blame on a video game accessory that they should never have owned to begin with.
Or the stepfather 1) Encouraged the kid to play with a toy in the shape of a realistic gun. 2) Left a loaded gun in the place where the kid was used to find said game controller.
And you see nothing inherently wrong with the concept that you have to call Microsoft and essentially beg them to reactivate a product you already bought and paid for? If your Windows 7 can be deactivated and essentially blacklisted on Microsoft's whim, what exactly did you purchase? Do you actually own a copy or are you just renting it? Phone reactivation may not be a long drawn-out process, but I still oppose it on principle. It's not my problem that Microsoft is supposedly losing money on piracy, so why should I be inconvenienced in the slightest by it?
I bought a new laptop for my mother. Started with a reinstall for a clean system.
First thing after setup: "You copy of Windows might not be genuine."
I find this offensive. I paid for the software, stop bugging me.
I though the idea was to estimate in units after complexity. Units can be gummy bears or whatnot, but not bound to time in any way.
The reason being that it is much easier to relate to complexity than factor in everything to get a correct time estimate. Complexity can also be agreed upon by different people, even though the time required for them to complete an equally complex task can be very different for different developers, depending on skill or amount of disturbances from programming time.
Estimate a task in complexity. Multiply with a factor to get the time estimate. The factor depends on the developer, complexity depends on the task. Keep them separate.
That should read: "I just find it ridiculous to claim that the government isn't changing the market by measuring office suites by completely different metrics than the free market does."
And the alternative?
Assume a market in a near-monopoly situation. You seem to be arguing that the correct government action would be to assert the monopoly as "free market decision" and further cement the single company as the only alternative.
Instead of blaming groupthink, you should reconsider and re-analyze your line of argument here.
The big issue I have with "Verified by VISA" is that they are teaching users to enter bank passwords into pop-up / embedded windows.
Trust the pop-up, it's got a VISA logo! So just enter that bank password of yours.
Is there ANY possible way you could better train users to fall for phishing attacks? If the users trust a pop-up, they will enter anything - PIN codes, Social Security numbers, numbers from keychain password generators... anything.
Screw talking about some hypothetical gadget - what we should really be discussing is the huge number of people who are being forced to read and comment on articles they don't want to read. Why isn't the government doing something about this?!!
And you are complaining about being forced to read his comment you didn't want to read?
I hereby make a formal complaint of being forced to read complaints about about being forced to read complaints about being forced to read stories.
If only someone could implement a web site where people could rate stories and comments so we were not forced to read all of them...
There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
A "brain virus" would of course not be inheritable. To inherit anything, the virus would have to exist in your ancestors genitalia.
If it is linked to mental disorders, it means the virus swapped out parts of human DNA related to the brain. This is completely unrelated to it being a "brain virus" or not.
Democrats are every bit as emotional and idiotic as Republicans.
Republicans remove social freedoms. Democrats remove economic freedoms.
When one gets too bad, switch to the other. Rinse, repeat.
The fear of "throwing away your vote" has created a two-party system where both parties are pretty similar. Nothing will change until it gets a lot worse, bad enough for a third party to swing enough votes to really matter.
I also live in a country where checks does not exist. At least I have never seen one. So the grandparent comment of "I guess it could be done, but it might take some creativity." is pretty much mindboggling.
Account number + amount, transfer money. Zero or low fees, depending on bank. Trust me, this is the future.
They still allow objects with more serious potential through. A laptop as a blunt force instrument? The potential energy stored in a laptop battery? The RF radiation created by handheld electronics?
Bah! When I travel by air, I usually bring half a gallon of highly flammable liquid and a set of glass knives.
Simply put, do what YOU love, fuck the rest of the world. Most people are idiots anyways.
No.
Do what will maximize your happiness throughout your life.
Plenty of WoW players have lived to change their mind and regret their priorities. Worst case: A few years of WoW, at the cost of girlfriend and education. 50 years left to regret the choice.
Of course, your brain will start making excuses and you might convince yourself it is actually all for the better and what you wanted all along. And you're happy. Such happiness is hollow and dry, deep down you know it is wrong.
A balanced life has value in our culture because it is the lifestyle that tend to give the most happiness in the long run.
"Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software.
Emphasis added.
Is that a written guarantee that no 7-year-old kid could possibly manage to destroy a game disk?
In a hierarchical organization, change happens by fiat from the top down. In an anarchic place like the internet, shutting down servers through legal attacks serves the same purpose. It sucks for the server operators, but it forces users to try out newer and different solutions, which are often designed to fix old flaws. If you like analogies, the RIAA is like a fire that cleans out the deadwood.
Grandparent is pessimistic because he thinks piracy can be stomped out.
I believe the opposite, but I am still a pessimist. I am pessimistic because I worry about what will happen when the pirating masses will go underground when they are labeled as criminals.
BitTorrent is elegant but not really trying that hard to hide what it is transferring. Consider it a solution when Napster failed: The centralized server was the weakest link, so the new protocol operated without a centralized server.
The attack now is on surveillance on peer transfers. There is a solution, there have just not been any need for it yet. Distributed hash tables, strong encryption, onion routing. (Outlaw encryption? Hello, Steganography.)
The pessimistic part: Treating masses like criminals accomplishes nothing except hiding the heavy criminals. The tools that will be created for safe piracy will likely also make it that much easier to transfer any other information, be it terrorist briefings or child porn.
Much like the prohibition era, trying to apply a law against the will of the masses will not accomplish much except benefiting criminals.
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Only a small minority thinks it is fun to kill people in uncontrolled world PvP.
But why is that?
Because they implemented PvP wrong.
Being invaded and killed could have been a thrilling experience. What makes it utterly dull for most people is that your options seems to be:
A) Respawn and die again.
B) Log out.
Imagine a game where lowlevel players that are killed in their home areas would be conscripted as local militia and set to control siege-like defensive installations. Instead of being spawnraped, the lowlevels getting killed would be given immense power - but limited in time and only usable to fight off the invaders.
It's all about creating win/win situations. A lot of people dislike PvP because it turns into repetetive, frustrating gameplay.
That is a design issue.
Efficient is fragile. The unexpected is not factored in.
This also applies to information infrastructure - which is rapidly becoming more and more important.
Deep down, I'm worried about our civilization growing ever-more efficient and interconnected. There is not enough focus on robustness and self-sufficiency.
I predict that we are heading for a big (and utterly unexpected) event that will trigger a cascading collapse.
Just makes me a bit worried from time to time...
Great, what would the Pirate Party have to say about loose nukes or healthcare reform?
Nothing. It would not have to. Read the post you are replying to.
Long before a Pirate Party could get a majority, other parties would start to include their policies. That would probably accomplish their primary goal.
Don't forget the military!
If all you have is imaginary intellectual property, the only way you can really protect it is by force. Well, and trade sanctions, but those won't mean much soon...
Too true, and too tragic considering the birth of the USA as a nation if they should dictate taxes for others to pay and force military action if they refuse.
Though I'm not sure how easy it is to be the #1 military power when more and more manufacturing capability is outsourced.
Either the parents are grossly incompetent and stupid, or they're incompetent and stupid AND they're trying to mollify their guilty conscience by putting some of the blame on a video game accessory that they should never have owned to begin with.
Or the stepfather
1) Encouraged the kid to play with a toy in the shape of a realistic gun.
2) Left a loaded gun in the place where the kid was used to find said game controller.
Accident?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/1614227/Online-Vigilantes-Or-Crowdsourced-Justice
And you see nothing inherently wrong with the concept that you have to call Microsoft and essentially beg them to reactivate a product you already bought and paid for? If your Windows 7 can be deactivated and essentially blacklisted on Microsoft's whim, what exactly did you purchase? Do you actually own a copy or are you just renting it? Phone reactivation may not be a long drawn-out process, but I still oppose it on principle. It's not my problem that Microsoft is supposedly losing money on piracy, so why should I be inconvenienced in the slightest by it?
I bought a new laptop for my mother. Started with a reinstall for a clean system.
First thing after setup:
"You copy of Windows might not be genuine."
I find this offensive. I paid for the software, stop bugging me.
I though the idea was to estimate in units after complexity. Units can be gummy bears or whatnot, but not bound to time in any way.
The reason being that it is much easier to relate to complexity than factor in everything to get a correct time estimate. Complexity can also be agreed upon by different people, even though the time required for them to complete an equally complex task can be very different for different developers, depending on skill or amount of disturbances from programming time.
Estimate a task in complexity. Multiply with a factor to get the time estimate. The factor depends on the developer, complexity depends on the task. Keep them separate.
That should read: "I just find it ridiculous to claim that the government isn't changing the market by measuring office suites by completely different metrics than the free market does."
And the alternative?
Assume a market in a near-monopoly situation. You seem to be arguing that the correct government action would be to assert the monopoly as "free market decision" and further cement the single company as the only alternative.
Instead of blaming groupthink, you should reconsider and re-analyze your line of argument here.
The big issue I have with "Verified by VISA" is that they are teaching users to enter bank passwords into pop-up / embedded windows.
Trust the pop-up, it's got a VISA logo! So just enter that bank password of yours.
Is there ANY possible way you could better train users to fall for phishing attacks? If the users trust a pop-up, they will enter anything - PIN codes, Social Security numbers, numbers from keychain password generators... anything.
Screw talking about some hypothetical gadget - what we should really be discussing is the huge number of people who are being forced to read and comment on articles they don't want to read. Why isn't the government doing something about this?!!
And you are complaining about being forced to read his comment you didn't want to read?
I hereby make a formal complaint of being forced to read complaints about about being forced to read complaints about being forced to read stories.
If only someone could implement a web site where people could rate stories and comments so we were not forced to read all of them...
PS: I loved reading your comments. Both of them.
I don't see the problem here.
Q: What is the strongest pasword in the world?
A: "Chuck Norris"
Not at all. This is untrue. And my brain does not hurt at all.
I am working for the government to infiltrate and stop conspiracies in online groups, so I should know what I am talking about.
There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
A "brain virus" would of course not be inheritable. To inherit anything, the virus would have to exist in your ancestors genitalia.
If it is linked to mental disorders, it means the virus swapped out parts of human DNA related to the brain. This is completely unrelated to it being a "brain virus" or not.
Democrats are every bit as emotional and idiotic as Republicans.
Republicans remove social freedoms.
Democrats remove economic freedoms.
When one gets too bad, switch to the other. Rinse, repeat.
The fear of "throwing away your vote" has created a two-party system where both parties are pretty similar. Nothing will change until it gets a lot worse, bad enough for a third party to swing enough votes to really matter.
I also live in a country where checks does not exist. At least I have never seen one. So the grandparent comment of "I guess it could be done, but it might take some creativity." is pretty much mindboggling.
Account number + amount, transfer money. Zero or low fees, depending on bank. Trust me, this is the future.
They still allow objects with more serious potential through. A laptop as a blunt force instrument? The potential energy stored in a laptop battery? The RF radiation created by handheld electronics?
Bah! When I travel by air, I usually bring half a gallon of highly flammable liquid and a set of glass knives.
Just like everyone else.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41292000/jpg/_41292052_bottle203.jpg
Simply put, do what YOU love, fuck the rest of the world. Most people are idiots anyways.
No.
Do what will maximize your happiness throughout your life.
Plenty of WoW players have lived to change their mind and regret their priorities. Worst case: A few years of WoW, at the cost of girlfriend and education. 50 years left to regret the choice.
Of course, your brain will start making excuses and you might convince yourself it is actually all for the better and what you wanted all along. And you're happy. Such happiness is hollow and dry, deep down you know it is wrong.
A balanced life has value in our culture because it is the lifestyle that tend to give the most happiness in the long run.
"Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software.
Emphasis added.
Is that a written guarantee that no 7-year-old kid could possibly manage to destroy a game disk?
It's the second law of thermodynamics.
Re-read original post.
The energy enters the system in form of nutrition for the cells. The suggestion was to reclaim a part of this energy, not to generate the nutrition.
No perpetual motion. No violation.
In a hierarchical organization, change happens by fiat from the top down. In an anarchic place like the internet, shutting down servers through legal attacks serves the same purpose. It sucks for the server operators, but it forces users to try out newer and different solutions, which are often designed to fix old flaws. If you like analogies, the RIAA is like a fire that cleans out the deadwood.
Grandparent is pessimistic because he thinks piracy can be stomped out.
I believe the opposite, but I am still a pessimist. I am pessimistic because I worry about what will happen when the pirating masses will go underground when they are labeled as criminals.
BitTorrent is elegant but not really trying that hard to hide what it is transferring. Consider it a solution when Napster failed: The centralized server was the weakest link, so the new protocol operated without a centralized server.
The attack now is on surveillance on peer transfers. There is a solution, there have just not been any need for it yet. Distributed hash tables, strong encryption, onion routing. (Outlaw encryption? Hello, Steganography.)
The pessimistic part:
Treating masses like criminals accomplishes nothing except hiding the heavy criminals. The tools that will be created for safe piracy will likely also make it that much easier to transfer any other information, be it terrorist briefings or child porn.
Much like the prohibition era, trying to apply a law against the will of the masses will not accomplish much except benefiting criminals.
You don't see anyone wearing contact sunglasses, now do you? Not even the ones that darken in sunlight and lighten indoors.
No, it's because seeing people with solid black eyes would creep people right the hell out. Didn't you see Event Horizon?
My major complaint about contacts for blocking sun is far to difficult to find the "mirrored shades" variant.
Solid mirror eyes. Heck, you wouldn't need no flying car to know you're living in the future then.
Just back from a weekend trip (European) in London myself.
Google maps on my phone was extremely convenient. Lots of open wifi around so you should be able to use it without data also roaming costs.
Two words: Rainbow tables.
One word: Salt
And NASA can say "What do you think all that stuff was for? It worked, didn't it?"
Even better: We could hire Bruce Willis and make an action movie about how they prevented the end of the world and cash in afterward as well!