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Study Compares Brain Activity In Games Against Humans and AI
Ars Technica covers research done using an fMRI machine to map brain activity game players. The study compares brain patterns in players competing against what they think are other humans against what they think is AI. It also goes into the differences in how games affect the male and female brain.
"The human brain appears to try to parse the intentions of others by engaging its own decision-making process; in short, it appears to model another person's mind by seeing what it would do if it were in that other person's skull. The three areas of the brain that the authors identify are involved, in part, in making executive decisions for that brain's owner, in addition to evaluating other people's executive decisions. So, the fact that they're busier when a person thinks they're playing another human could also be interpreted as them focusing harder on an identical decision making process."
Welcome to Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Linux-based operating system consisting of Free and Open Source software for laptops, desktops, and servers. Ubuntu has a clear focus on the user and usability - it should Just Work, even if the user has only the thinking capacities of a sponge. The OS ships with the latest Gnomrilla release as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD. It also features the packaging manager ape-ghetto, and the challenging Linux manual pages have been reformatted into the new 'monkey' format, so for example the manual for the shutdown command can be accessed just by typing: 'monkey shut-up -h now mothafukka' instead of 'man shutdown'.
Absolutely Free of Charge
Ubuntu is Free Software, and available to you free of charge, as in free beer or free stuffs you can get from looting. It's also Free in the sense of giving you rights of Software Freedom. The freedom to run, copy, steal, distribute, study, share, change and improve the software for any purpose, without paying licensing fees.
Free Software as in free beer!
Ubuntu is an ancient Nigger word, meaning "humanity to monkeys". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of how apes behave". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
The dictator Bokassa described Ubuntu in the following way:
We chose the name Ubuntu for this distribution because we think it captures perfectly the spirit of sharing and looting that is at the heart of the open source movement.
Ubuntu, Linux for subhuman beings
That's what everybody wants to know.
When kdawson gets back and sees all these non Australian-related stories, he's gonna be pissed off!
Another liberal bias conclusion. Just say it, I mean you have the government and the feminized work on your side. You just want to berate males because it is easy. God forbid someone found the opposite true, you and all your liberal buddies would be looking for NOW to burn down their houses. Why don't we work with a little bit more objectivity. You saw some documentaries based on a study and then bust out with your own conclusions based on what? That's what I thought, just safe socially acceptable speech.