Quantum3D/NVIDIA technology: Military Applications
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Hemos
on from the battle-of-the-video dept.
rask22 writes "FiringSquad has a interesting new article up discussing the changes at Quantum3D since the demise of 3dfx along with the current military applications of NVidia chipsets. Interesting to see how the US Gov is using all this technology coming out of the gaming sector."
Wired ran a similar story in 97
by
Anonymous Coward
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Wired : Doom Goes To War
They were training marines with Doom of all things....
Real marines can look up/down AND jump! heh...;)
-=CHUD
You want evidence?
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neksys
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Please see Men Against Fire (1946, 1978), by Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, which I have open right in front of me. Based on his post-combat interviews, Marshall concluded in his book Men Against Fire (1946, 1978) that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen in World War II fired their own weapons at an exposed enemy soldier. In 1946, the US Army had accepted Marshall's conclusions, and the Human Resources Research Office of the US Army subsequently pioneered a revolution in combat training, which eventually replaced firing at targets with deeply ingrained conditioning, using realistic, man-shaped pop-up targets that fall when hit. Psychologists assert that this kind of powerful operant conditioning is the only technique that will reliably influence the primitive, midbrain processing of a frightened human being. This application and perfection of basic conditioning techniques increased the rate of fire to approximately 55 percent in Korea and around 95 percent in Vietnam (Grossman, 1995).
Equally high rates of fire resulting from modern conditioning techniques can be seen in Richard Holmes' (Soldiers, 1985) observation of British firing rates in the Falklands and FBI data on law enforcement firing rates since the nationwide introduction of modern conditioning techniques in the late 1960s.
For additional info and further statistics please consider the following selections:
Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1963 John Keegan, The Face of Battle, 1976 Jim Goodwin, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Handbook for Clinicians, 1988 Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, 8th ed., 1996
Re:WTF is the "ebonics" comment about?
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Mandelbrute
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WTF is the "ebonics" comment about?
A very senior US military spokesman blamed a maverick missile attack on some british tanks behind the lines on a variety of factors - including bad weather conditions (the reality was that it was a warm sunny day with zero humidity and very good visability), and "the extreme differences in the languges of the forces". The reality about the language would be that anyone that is flying an A10 for the USA would be a fluent english speaker - so the "Ebonics?" comment could be better phrased as "who do you think you're fooling by talking about language differences - it's not as if they are going to be talking in ebonics". The A10 pilots screwed up, but their bosses really screwed up, and showed what they personally thought of their military allies.
But do us all a favor and keep the racist crap on your side of the Atlantic.
Maybe I've missed something here, but from where I am I've heard ebonics is some sort of pigin spanish/english mix that was proposed to be taught in schools in parts of California. What has racism got to do with it? If the schools haven't got their shit together enough to teach the kids english in an english speaking country then those kids are going to be screwed when they start looking for work.
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Wired : Doom Goes To War ;)
They were training marines with Doom of all things....
Real marines can look up/down AND jump!
heh...
-=CHUD
Please see Men Against Fire (1946, 1978), by Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, which I have open right in front of me. Based on his post-combat interviews, Marshall concluded in his book Men Against Fire (1946, 1978) that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen in World War II fired their own weapons at an exposed enemy soldier. In 1946, the US Army had accepted Marshall's conclusions, and the Human Resources Research Office of the US Army subsequently pioneered a revolution in combat training, which eventually replaced firing at targets with deeply ingrained conditioning, using realistic, man-shaped pop-up targets that fall when hit. Psychologists assert that this kind of powerful operant conditioning is the only technique that will reliably influence the primitive, midbrain processing of a frightened human being. This application and perfection of basic conditioning techniques increased the rate of fire to approximately 55 percent in Korea and around 95 percent in Vietnam (Grossman, 1995).
Equally high rates of fire resulting from modern conditioning techniques can be seen in Richard Holmes' (Soldiers, 1985) observation of British firing rates in the Falklands and FBI data on law enforcement firing rates since the nationwide introduction of modern conditioning techniques in the late 1960s.
For additional info and further statistics please consider the following selections:
Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1963
John Keegan, The Face of Battle, 1976
Jim Goodwin, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Handbook for Clinicians, 1988
Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, 8th ed., 1996