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Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage
hotsauce writes "The BBC has a piece about how Australia is using software to gain an advantage in the World Cup. The Socceroos are running software that looks for patterns in attacks of the opposing team. It also shows the effectiveness of different response strategies by recording where attacks fail when countered. This is the first time Australia has reached the World Cup in 30 years, but a real test of the technology will come today when Australia must take on five-time and current world champions Brasil. The Socceroos talk about specific strategies for that game, also."
So much for software. Must be using Windows. Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll!!!!!
Reminder: Apple owns 1/255th of the internet.
Placing 5000$ (AUS) on Brasil to win would be a good start.
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
Strategy:
"Sorry lads, a few more bugs to work out! Lads? Nooooooo..."
Italy doesn't have this software.
Woh woh woh, wait a minute. Whats this coding analogy? Who understands that?
Give me a car analogy, so I can really understand what your talking about!
Yeah, the human component of it.
I have pictures o' your momma and sista naked
We're about 12 hrs behind Australia time, the game hasn't even been aired here yet!
THANKS A HEAP
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
In time for next years Ashes, their cricket team is going to have a computer that advises their skipper not to take suicidal runs to substitute fielders.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Looks like anti-cheat has once again beat the hackers.
Oh yeah, well the US team is gonna use technology also. We will use Predator drones to shoot the enemy team, and then turtore the survivors with electricity while blindfolded in a black hood. Our Soccer team won't ever be booed again on the world domin.....uh...stage again!
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Table-ized A.I.
Go watch some Aussie Rules Football and you'll realize they're actually being quite restrained. ;-)
"The Philosophers' Football Match was a comedy sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
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The sketch depicted a football match between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles. This left Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch (and a "surprise inclusion" in the German team, according to the commentary), more than a little confused. Confucius was the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine were the linesmen."
I forget who finally "gets it" and does a goal rush. Very funny sketch, what with the announcer enthusiastically describing what is basically nothing happening.
See also http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/internat
Yeah, what a bunch of crap. No matter how much hard work and ingenuity the developed nations of the world put into winning, an unearned genetic endowment is still enough to beat them. Thankfully, this imbalance will be righted soon, as the singularity is nigh.
really great, but did not work today against Brasil. 8-) BRASIL!!!
God you're a wanker...
"Yeah? They just lost to Brazil, 2 - 0. The software must be faulty somewhere..."
Not really, but Australia were using version 1.4, whereas Brazil had managed to get access to an early beta of 2.0.
There isn't any technology yet that can keep someone from mentally choking.
If there was, I'm sure Phil Mickelson would have bought it. Clearly he did not.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Sounds like someone simulated a FIFA 2006 game on PS2, CPU vs CPU.
Is this the first time such an indepth discussion about a sporting event has taken place on slashdot?
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A) Pick the ball up and run with it.
B) Change the shape of the ball to oval.
C) Start a fight.
I guess "all three of the above" is an option too. Do you think it would catch on?
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.