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Army Discusses MMO Troop Training Sim

An anonymous reader writes "Over at GameSpot, there's an interview with Dr. Michael Macedonia of the U.S. Army about the AWE training sim, a 'massively multiplayer simulation [based on the There 'virtual world' game engine] that will be used by military personnel to train troops in urban situations before they are airlifted to a battle zone.' Macedonia says 'We built downtown Baghdad in this environment', and also says 'we call our games tactical decision aids. Our thing is not making people shoot better; it's making people think better.'" We previously featured an initial announcement of this project in January.

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  1. Just reading this story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Makes me wonder why the hell I should care.

  2. hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi

  3. vicky by earthstar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    any one tried the www.warioware.biz games? they are small but how do u access those games in that site!

  4. FOSS is good, even if it kills people... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OS X is closed source. This means that it is the work of the devil - its purpose is to make the end users eat babies.

    Linux is the only free OS. Yes the BSD lincenses may appear more free, but as they have no restrictions, they are actually less free than the GPL. You see, restricting the end user more actually makes them more free than not putting restrictions on them. You must be a dumb luser for not understanding this.

    And you obviously dont have a real job. A real job involves being a student or professional academic. You see, academics are the ones who know all about productivity - if you work for a commercial organisation you obviously do not know anything about computers. Usability is stupid. Whats wrong with the command line? If you cant use the command line then you shouldnt be using a computer. vi should be the standard word processor - you are such a luser if you want to use Word. Installing software should have to involve recompiling the kernel of the OS. If you dont know how to do this, you are a stupid luser who should RTFM. Or go to a Linux irc channel or newsgroup. After all, they are soooo friendly. If you dont know how the latest 2.6 kernel scheduling algorithm works then they will tell you to stop wasting their time, but they really are quite supportive.

    Oh, and M$ is just as evil as Apple. Take LookOUT for instance. You could just as easily use Eudora. Who needs groupware anyway, a simple email client should be all we use (thats all we use as academics, why cant businesses be any different).

    And trend setters - Linux is the trend setter. It may appear KDE is a ripoff from XP, but thats because M$ stole the KDE code. We all know they have GPL'ed code hidden in there somewhere (but not the things that dont work, only the things that work could possibly have GPL'ed code in it).

    And Apple is the suxor because they charge people for their product. We all know that its a much better business model to give all your products away for free. If you charge for anything, then you are allied with M$ and will burn in hell.

  5. "Dr. Michael Macedonia"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why do I get the strange feeling that he slips into something a little less comfortable at night and becomes Captain America or something?

  6. The funniest cartoon ever thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My vote is for this one from choppingblock

    What's everyone elses? and no FUCKING userfriendly, which became very unfunny about 25 years ago.

  7. cant say? by earthstar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hey guys! cant we comment anything against the moderators? will it be removed/. .... any way who are these mods giving scores to the posts?

  8. Civilian casualties by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FACT:
    The Americans have killed more civilians in one month in Falluja than all the terrorist bombings of the past year, yesterday's included.