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pupkick writes "Wired news has a story about a government supercomputer running Linux that 'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'"
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error: oxymoron overload!!!
"This technology has not really been used for immediate battle planning before," said Bob Lucas, a division director at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, or ISI, which helped port the Urban Resolve software to the Linux supercomputers. "The vast majority of people are computer-generated. Some are very complicated and consume a whole Pentium by themselves. Some are so simple, you can run a few hundred on a computer."
... ?
I wonder who they chose to model for the simple simulated persons
I guess it's part of the job...
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How about a nice game of chess?
Is Ash from "Army of Darkness" "This is my...... BOOOOOMSTICK!!!!"
President Bush Supporter
I've heard of that. Isn't it called War Operating Planned Response, or WOPR for short?
I think there was a movie about it a while back.
Please select a game
simulate fighting republicans and democrats after their voting- supercomputer goes tits up on election day?
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
"Wicked sick!"
counter-terrorists win!
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when i moo u moo - just like that
Between this, Tux Racer and xbill, Linux now has three games!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Why, you both fall down of course!
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
But it got a FIVE when it was posted for the prior writeup for this story.
At least be consistent mods!
'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'
So I imagine one groups of soldiers is led by Capt Harris and the other team is led by Lassard and that zany Police Academy squad (minus Mahoney of course).
..please report to the disintegration chamber. Your former city has been destroyed.
sigs, as if you care.
What kind of movies the guys from Red vs Blue could do with this system!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The current attack on Fallujah is being coordinated by a 6 year old kid who thinks he's just playing a video game.
It's a pity that in a battlefield simulation all that processing power would be wasted as I'd just be an immediate civilian casualty, but with luck I might manage to drop my old Laserjet 5M out the window on one of the combatants first.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
f those airstrikes involve nuclear weapons, then yes because all the insurgents and terrorists will be vaporized along with everything else.
;)
True enough.
So the most effective way to deal with domestic crime is the nuclear annihilation of cities where criminals are. Glad we cleared that up
be careful, you might find yourself electred supreme dictator of the united states... then I'd have to kill you for tryng to usurp my position.
'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'
Sounds like Washington, D.C. around election time...