This is what I was playing around with and I basically found it too frustrating to keep up with.  Too many scamcoins and sillynesses and I just didn't have the time or energy or interest to try to figure out what was what.  But for someone who's more connected to trends and keeps on top of that kinda stuff anyway it might indeed be a fun way to get started.

Well maybe that's actually a win.  I mean, if dude has essentially repented by deleting the spammy stuff and wants to try again with a clean slate then perhaps we should call that a good thing.

If you're talking about rainbot it's a script by the user hui which accepts donations and then gives them out according to an unreleased algorigthm.  There is some information about rainbot here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Primedice/comments/2li0fw/rainbot_faq/

EDIT: oh yah, I'd also like to know if there is a restriction on selling PD accounts.  Not that I want to buy or sell one (I agree, it's hard to imagine a real market for them), I'm just happy to know the rules.

wwwwin, I'm not suggesting that installing windows is beyond my abilities.  I am suggesting that in my own life, freeing my computer from proprietary control has enriched and improved my life and I'm not interesting in moving backwards on that point.  Consider what you're saying to me: you're suggesting that a guy like me who finds the mere idea of installing a virtual box of windows sorta disgusting that I should partition my harddrive and put it on my machine for real?  I hope you can see how that's a lot like suggesting "well, if the chlorine in this pool is making your eyes uncomfortable, you could always just swim in straight unadulterated bleach".  Sorry for the weird example but I'm just trying to point out that if I'm *considering* fucking around with a virtual box to play poker but haven't really found the motivation, it's pretty much nuts to expect that I'm going to partition my hard drive and install a windows there.

I'm glad that you like Win7 and Win8 and that you think they are secure and lightweight.  I believe that factually you are quite misguided in these points.  I think that if you consider Win7 or Win8 to be secure or lightweight then we must have extremely different views of the meaning of these words.  If you actually want to see lightweight, run debian testing with a fluxbox desktop on the same machine where you Win8 takes 1.5 minutes to boot up and you will be shocked at the true meaning lightweight.  Nevertheless, we digress here.


You have to imagine that I have other things going on in my life besides fucking around with the software on my computer.  Not that I don't enjoy fucking around with the software on my computer, but please.  While I'm sure you're correct that if I had dedicated the time between my last post here and this one to fucking around with windows and virtual machines and whatnot I might have found a working solution, I hope you can understand that work, family life and sleeping are also a reality for me.  In the days of yore, I was able to enjoy bitcoin poker on my bus ride to work, alas.  Perhaps the good days will come again.

I hope you can see that by living my life in the way that I choose, I am experiencing freedom and happiness and the fact that my choices aren't the same as yours doesn't mean that I'm "wasting my time".

As to whether complaining here is a waste of time, I refer you to Micon's post just below yours in which he says, Okay we've now started developing the android client.  We can't examine an alternate timeline, but in this timeline, many of us have complained and it seems quite possible that the SWC team is reacting to these complaints as it figures out what to prioritize.  From what I can tell, complaining in this thread is quite the opposite of a waste of time.


Funny how that exact line keeps cropping up in this thread.  How can we know anyone else's inner desires and compare them to others in terms of magnitude.  Presumably, Micon has some way to run .EXE files which he feels okay about so in terms of facts we can say that while Micon can play, others cannot.  Then again there's the fact that when more of us can play, Micon can make more money so I'm not doubting his motivation.


Keep in mind that waiting and doing other things is also an adaption.  Who knows, I might try the virtual box thingy with the trial ISO you linked us to at some point in the future.  However, I may not.  I really find proprietary OSs quite dangerous and I've been experiencing a real "win" in my life once I stopped associating with them.

Cheers!

Oh yah, this:
^^^plzzz

When I speak to other gamblers, I often hear that the real goal is to break even and have fun (not to make money).  Obviously we all want to make money but if we are realistic we can come to terms with the fact that gambling is fun and if you break even then you had fun for free.

I admit I haven't followed all the changing stipulations on which sections are paid and which aren't, but it's quite a surprise to me if you're correct that "gambling" wouldn't be paid.  Presumably, as a gambling site, dadice would value advertising in "gambling" quite highly.  I know that in the preview of Stunna's (not yet released) sig campaign with varying rates for different sections, gambling was in the highest paid class.  Why wouldn't dadice want to advertize in gambling?

Again, wearsmyliberty, I have to disagree.  Respectfully reminding of the problem is crucial so that the SWC folks have it in mind how many people care.  If no one was griping, how would they know if anyone cared?

Got it.  All good.  Thanks!

There was an error in my payment.  Off by a decimal place, I was payed 0.0132 instead of 0.132.

https://blockchain.info/address/13tcm29K3N39uSsiDRLN9aQwLdvA9zFWJv

I'd like avoid sending back the 0.0132 so perhaps just play me the difference (0.1188).

Cheers!

Thanks for the links, maybe I'll give this a shot (but I dunno, it seems very onerous to me to install all this broken software on my computer just to play poker---maybe it's better just to wait until something nonbroken comes along).

The only thing I really have to push back on is that in fact, my mind was being wasted when I used to used windows about 8 years ago.  I could only use my computer in the way that MSCORP says I can.  I have no choice about when to install updates from MSCORP no matter whether they are broken or not.  When I switched to GNU/Linux my mind began to be educated because I suddenly had control of my own CPU.  I had a helpful community to help me understand how computers work and how software works.  I became master of my own destiny and experienced freedom.

So, what I read you saying is: look man, you can take your clean house, dig a hole in the floor, drop a bunch of rat shit in the middle of your living room and wade around it in and then play bitcoin poker for fun.  You might be right about that, but I'd hardly call playing around in ratshit a useful exercise for my mind.

And, FWIW, I run a really efficient linux distro on a low-memory portable computer so it's just not clear to me that I'll have enough memory to do the virtual box thing.  Anyway, I may try.  I especially appreciate the link to the trial-iso.

I just wanted to post back here that I got a PM which let me know that my discarded posts were because they were in threads that don't count (I played a game in games and round and I posted a few times in here).  Thanks y'all.  See you next week!

I don't think this is true.  A lot of the interface is simply pictures with single word descriptors.  You could probably translate the whole site in less than an hour.  The only exception would be some of the docs like the api description, but even in English these are only partially complete so you could reasonably leave these as English only.  In my opinion, offering ru.primedice.com (etc) alongside en.primedice.com would be really cool.

Actually, at some point, some anti-bitcoiner or another was leading a campaign to send as many coins as he could to the eater address.  There's a thread about it here somewhere.  I recall others saying: well, since bitcoins are finite, the more you destroy, the more value is in the ones I don't destroy so "thanks".  I'm sure you can turn that thread up if you search around.  Pretty interesting.

EDIT: haha, I just realized the link in (more info) was the exact thread I was talking about.  Silly me.

Well I'm in the same boat as sed (and maybe the same boat as you) and I have to disagree on one point.  Griping here may indeed change something because registering the gripes gives Micon and his team an idea of what's important to their customers (or potential customers).  If we stay silent and say nothing then swc team may simply not realize how many folks will rejoin when they fix their platform issues.

Looks like I got credited for 88 out of 102 posts.  I'd love to know if my 14 uncounted posts were considered "unconstructive" for some reason or if they were simply in unpaid sections or something.  I guess I'm asking in this moment because it seems like counting is going on currently so whoever counted mine may be online at the moment and have the answer in their head without having to go back and check again or whatever (which is obviously too much work).

Wow, you guys are ahead of what I expected again.    I guess I should think of this as cutoff on Monday night in my TZ.

Looks like I got a B+, as far as I can tell, that seems to be waaaay above the average.  I don't know how I can compete with Shorena and quickseller with their A+s but given how many Ds and Fs you gave out, I'm reasonably satisfied.

Cheers.  Looking forward to watching that spreadsheet action and apparantely payday is one day ahead of my expectations.

Of course you're right that this is indeed beyond the scope of most signature ad campaigns but in fact we might have the technology to do this, given the work.  Imagine you train a classifier on the posts of a thread and then measure the perplexity of a given post with respect to that thread, I wonder if you could find the right set of features such that this sort of framework could be a proxy for "constructiveness". 

I agree wholeheartedly about the ridiculous name of "bits" however, in fact, everyone with a secondary education can also be expected to know what SI prefixes are because they aren't ridiculous and are quite standardized across the globe.  milli means 10^-3 micro means 10^-6 and the standard abbreviations for these of m and u (actually, a lowercase mu but people use 'u' in ascii).  These are not ridiculous at all and if I speak of KBTC (thousands of btc) or mBTC (thousandths of a btc) I expect anyone with basic education to understand or to take it upon themselves to understand.

Thank you very much for the free bet.  I have one question, is it okay if I wait a week before using it?  I would like to bet on a match which happens not this weekend but next weekend but I don't want my free bet to expire

Really just searching back through the forums should turn up quite a few of these instances.  I also can't remember most of the names at the moment but what I recall happening quite often was that a campaign ran smoothly for a month or so and then the campaign manager disappeared.  UP/DOWN did this even though they had paid very good money to be a high class memeber of the bitcoin foundation.  Everyone here was saying why would he pay so much to bitcoin foundation just to ruin his reputation here over a few measely BTC.