misuba

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by misuba 18y ago
People are asking to give him money in a way that makes him emotionally uncomfortable, so he's turning their money down. Yep, he's professional alright.
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by misuba 18y ago
The streaming music companies will indeed lose money until they are willing to charge the consumer. Several of these companies provide easily as much value as satellite radio and could charge equivalent fees.
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by misuba 18y ago
Yes! The original WarCraft board game is way underrated - mostly because you have to download a patch (yes, for a board game) and because it doesn't come with fancy molded plastic pieces. It's much more for the hardcore tabletop gamer, thou
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by misuba 18y ago
That said, though, I wonder why there aren't more "hot seat" style mobile games, designed to be played on one handset that gets passed around. Or on many handsets that share game info wirelessly but depend somehow on co-presence in the real
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by misuba 18y ago
Variance is a great concept, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
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by misuba 18y ago
...except that many non-gamers are really flummoxed by the way Fluxx's changing goals keep putting different demands on them. They feel like the rug's been pulled out from under them, when really all that's happening is they're playing a ga
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by misuba 18y ago
Flattening the bell curve can help a good deal, but the only way to guarantee that you get a resource each turn is to redraw until you hit a match with one of your settlements... unless I'm misunderstanding you. edit: NM, I misread your las
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by misuba 18y ago
Yeah, my statement's only true in certain senses. It might be more accurate, with tabletop games at least, to say that games are a UI to the other players - that is, they channel social interactions in certain ways.
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by misuba 18y ago
C&K basically gives players more ways to affect the game's outcome through actual decisions (more of which are sorely needed). I haven't played it myself so I can't say how effective they are, but it's a step.
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by misuba 18y ago
Why is there still no usable way for me to add my collection of games to BoardGameGeek? I've got to load the page for each game I own and click "I own this" separately. Even for a modest-sized collection like mine, this is enough to stop me
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by misuba 18y ago
Of course! Games are essentially just user interface - imagine if your software product didn't _have_ an underlying set of tasks that had to be accomplished, or even a mental model on the user's part of what was being done. How much more im
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by misuba 18y ago
I agree with a lot of other commenters here that Catan is luck-driven and essentially over (except for a lot of tedious listening to people tell you _again_ that they don't have the resource cards you want) after you make your initial place
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by misuba 18y ago
[citation needed]
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by misuba 18y ago
which, to be fair, isn't supported on any other iPhone-caliber device either.
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by misuba 18y ago
I kind of love this, despite having little or no interest in Erlang. It's like that sequence from _The Wiz_ where Richard Pryor keeps declaring different colors to be in style and everyone shows up wearing them. pg should come along every s
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by misuba 18y ago
If the author wants to put public pressure on Apple he'll develop an Android version of the app, and a Symbian version, and a Palm Pre version, and whatever else. Until then, he's all mouth and trousers.
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by misuba 18y ago
I could too, but I think I've just been exposed to this trick too often.
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by misuba 18y ago
Yes! The article makes me wonder why Google isn't funding research into this, frankly.
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by misuba 18y ago
As far as your chording concerns, the Ubiquity-inspired linguistic CLI approach has a shot at having all the transparency of emacs commands, without all that wrist damage. I do hope they integrate it with Ubiquity as a whole, though.
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by misuba 18y ago
My guess is that they aren't, by and large. This is a recession-insurance round, to make sure they have all the runway they need even if things get so fucked that their first shots at revenue generation don't take.
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by misuba 18y ago
No, he's tilting at interfaces. Just because it's possible doesn't make it part of the culture.
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by misuba 18y ago
The bulk of the work on Ubiquity 0.2 has been to address these sorts of problems.
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by misuba 18y ago
Quick Search's launching capacity is getting there, but the real place to be if you want maximum flexibility is the open-source version of Enso (the original linguistic-CLI project from the people behind Ubiquity). It's all in Python, so it
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by misuba 18y ago
Ubiquity 0.2 or 0.3 will add "overlord commands" which, while I'm still not sure why they're called that, will allow many commands to start with the same word. This capacity is just one reason why a linguistic CLI, such as Ubiquity and the
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by misuba 18y ago
Yes.
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by misuba 18y ago
Strictly speaking, AppJet already supports Comet, but the full support that's used in EtherPad is part of the next major version of the AppJet platform. From the sound of the ITConversations interview linked above, the new platform won't be
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by misuba 18y ago
We could, of course, start accounting for the fact that communication skills are as important as engineering skills when it comes to making a successful business... thereby taking responsibility for our own perceived problems and eliminatin
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by misuba 18y ago
They haven't lost the social fight; it hasn't even started. The average person has yet to even think to question bog-standard intellectual property practices; that Overton window has a long ways to move yet. I'm not hopeful. Lessig, for one
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by misuba 18y ago
As drawn as I am to #2, I think you just answered your own question. #1 is where the juice is for you. The value will come. Do it.
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by misuba 18y ago
Right, because hippies totally invented consumerism.

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