From: owner-acka-research-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-research-digest) To: acka-research-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-research-digest V3 #189 Reply-To: acka-research@muppetlabs.com Sender: owner-acka-research-digest@muppetlabs.com Errors-To: owner-acka-research-digest@muppetlabs.com Precedence: bulk acka-research-digest Wednesday, August 12 1998 Volume 03 : Number 189 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:18:16 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3417 > Proposal 3417 > YAEF (Yet another Eleusis Fix) > JT (JT Traub) > {{[If there is no game of Eleusis currently in existance known as game 1 > that has as it's players exactly the entities known as (or formerly known > as) Mr. Tambourine Man, /dev/joe, 867-5309 and else...if, then this game > now exists with the state of the game being that declared by the referee, > the position of which is filled by JT]}} Was this supposed to be in square brackets? - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Firesign Theatre:Everything You Know Is Wrong Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:Shadow's End Don't be too open-minded, your brains may slide out. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:18:19 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Another idea > >This could be really hard to calculate unless someone wants to run all of > >the proposals to date through a word counting program? > I'm hopeing there either is a program that can do this, or that > someone could throw it together. It doesn't seem too complicated. It could probably done by a two-line Perl program. :-) - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Royal Canadian Air Farce:Farce On A Stick Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:Shadow's End A cat will blink when struck with a hammer. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:28:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: Another idea On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote: > > >This could be really hard to calculate unless someone wants to run all of > > >the proposals to date through a word counting program? > > I'm hopeing there either is a program that can do this, or that > > someone could throw it together. It doesn't seem too complicated. > > It could probably done by a two-line Perl program. :-) > HERESY! 1 line. IB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:49:00 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Another idea > > > >This could be really hard to calculate unless someone wants to run all of > > > >the proposals to date through a word counting program? > > > I'm hopeing there either is a program that can do this, or that > > > someone could throw it together. It doesn't seem too complicated. > > It could probably done by a two-line Perl program. :-) > HERESY! 1 line. Yes, okay. _I'd_ probably do it on two lines for clarity. :-) - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Tom Cochrane:Ragged Ass Road Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:Shadow's End Career--to hurtle uncontrollably in an unknown direction, often downhill. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:19:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Another idea >So far as this word buying idea is concerned, I'm begining to think it >isn't so great of an idea. I still think its interesting, but the work >involved would probably outweigh the fun. Outweigh it by a lot... You'd >need someonme to track the new currency, track word purchases and sales, >etc. And someone to run a check on any word someone was thinking about >buying, to see how much it would cost. And as Slakko (or somebody) >pointed out, you could always get around paying through the use of >some creative wording. The new currency isn't such a big idea. We could use Acka cents to make the scaling work. Words would just be normal tradeable objects, and the owner would be responsible for tracking usage. I don't think this would be any more work for the financier than any other tradeable object. K2 or anyone else who's been financier, am I right? As for checking words, I was envisioning a simple cgi script on the website where you type a word into a form, click a button, and it says how many times the word is used. This is not a difficult program. breadbox, would you object to putting such a program on your website to keep it together with the proposal archives? In response to what Slakko said, it could just be changed so that you pay whenever a proposal creates a rule containing the word. - -- - -Henry Towsner Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:06:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3415 > Proposal 3415 > > If Player (C) has Thrall Attribute which is the name of Player (D), then > Player (C) may be referred to as Player (D)'s Overlord. Isn't this backwards? /dev/joe ------------------------------ End of acka-research-digest V3 #189 ***********************************