Sorry... let me clarify that last part. Her friends (or maybe just other people she doesn't know) can't call her by the name her parents wanted her to be called, but family can. Meaning shes using it more as a code name than anything. Changing your name legally but still going by your old name kind of defeats the purpose of changing it in the first place.
Why not just name yourself James Bond, Max Power, Harry Phetus.
This reminds me of all the people I've known who changed their names. One kid was named Jordon (X). He idolized (if you can say that, which he never watched basketball more than once a month) Michael Jordan. So he changed only his first name to Michael and left his last name the same. Thinking that people would think of him as Michael Jordan (spelled with an A).
Or about all those other people who spell their names incorrectly, then tell you you're pronouncing it incorrectly. If you want it pronounced like SHAWN then spell it SHAWN not Shean.
Ok... that's slightly funny... but more scary thinking who the hell would do that to any animal. Oh, and not very cute. This seems more along the lines of strapping a cute child with a sharp knife.
Your system is only really successful if all humans agree on the "correct" answer -- which basically rules out things like "most attractive human".
Personal reminder: implement an idea completely before even attempting to make a suggestion/example on slashdot.
So pick something else, it was just an example... I think we can come to agree on the oldest looking human? Greasiest looking human? No.. no... bad thoughts...
Asirra asks users to correctly classify images of either cats or dogs using a database of three million images provided by animal-rescue organizations.
Only cats and dogs. Like I said earlier, don't limit it to just a few species. Pick one at random.
Example: You are shown 20 pictures, all of random animals, it asks which one is the cutest aardvark, then which is the happiest turtle. Continuing random traits with random animals. Their flaw was limiting it to just dogs and cats.
Or to take it to a different level. Most attractive/sexy/cute/old/etc. female(or male). Computers cannot tell what is the "most" prevalent "society" based trait of a picture. Yes, there's programs that make peoples photos "more attractive" but that tends to fail half the time, not to mention, it doesn't compare 12 other people.
The TFA program only knows, "given x what is a y". And that had a 50% chance to guess between cat/dog. Not: given a-x, rank y in order from best to worse.
All you need is a society created element (attractiveness, cuteness, is this a lot/or is this a little?)
Something like KittenAuth has been recommended, and still seems to be the best answer in my opinion.
This can be taken to randomly selected animals, not just cats. If someone develops an AI that can determine what type of an animal each is, then GOOD, we are one step closer to AI. Next would be cuteness/hairy looking/ugly/happy looking/etc. for each random animal. Just keep going a step further.
Any words or phrases with questions can eventually and easily be broken (hell, write your script to google search for the answer to the captchas)
in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this year, Nvidia admitted 'there can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products.'"
At least they are being honest? It's not like they are denying claims and trying to hide it (not that ATI does, but you have to respect honest companies).
Anyone know if physics processing is now being done on ATI cards, or is it Nvidia only?
I believe the editors already answered this one:
from the foot-in-door dept.
You've got your foot in the door as QA, you should be able to move around in the company now.
Blizzard's been providing online play AND a continued stream of patches and updates, completely free of charge. Even if you paid full price for each piece back when they launched (let's say $50 each), I think you've gotten your money's worth out of the game over the past decade.
Patches are EXPECTED to be continually released after a game (look at almost any game you like, find the web site and there will be a patch).
Now take a look at it's other games: Diablo 1, lost ALL support/patches after Diablo 2 came out, hacks are beyond abundant there. Once Starcraft 2 comes out, expect the same lack of support for Starcraft. To say you are getting your money's worth because they host (4?) servers that allow you to chat and find others (the servers don't really host the games) is a far stretch.
often going through bouts where my girlfriend, later wife, and I would play every weekend for 8-10 weeks in a row
Sounds like you have more of a nostalgia attachment... you know the one... where everyone's (well most) childhood was the best time of their life. How will you feel when you find out all you bought for the "expansions" was a map pack that any map creator could make (and already has). If I recall, the "official" maps in Starcraft/Broodwar sucked. It was all about the user created maps, because of the freedom of the map editor tool. It was revolutionary compared to the other ones at the time (being Age of Empires)
Because she got a response out of you (hell 1/3 of an article!) and a whole discussion. I would say she successfully trolled the slashdot mailbag... mission accomplished!
This was already tested on humans too. Except they did it in a really bad way. They took a straight guy, and any time he was near another guy, they triggered the pleasure center. Anytime he was near a girl, they didn't bother.
Eventually the guy turned gay, and after the experiment, he was rumored to be working the streets as a gay prostitute... Experiment FAILED?
It's really a catch 22. All that can be done is to accept cheating and hacking are going to happen some extent, and there is nothing we can do about it.
No... it isn't. Any multiplayer game worthy of its popularity KNOWS that server side checking is a MUST. All multiplayer games that use client side checking (in this case, shooting through mountains), to combat such trivial things as latency issues, are doomed to failure.
They try to alleviate burdens of latency times by doing such stupid tricks as client side checking (I shot you on my screen, but you weren't moving cause I have 5 second ping, who do you think SHOULD get the kill?).
Latency should affect the single player with the issue, not the other players who have near instant pings.
Other issues such as aimbots/radars should be a non-issue again with correct collision detection algorithms. If a player is CONSTANTLY aiming 100% at the head on client side, then it should be easy to detect. Even the server could verify this after figuring in ping times. The radar issue is caused by the server sending player location too early in the game (if your 500 meters away, AND behind a wall, you shouldn't even be sent the location of the player) once again this is collision detection, and server side math only.
I've played many FPS games, and most tend to get the majority of these right, but not all of them at once.
are you crazy... idle is crap, rid us of this abomination now
So is that why you came here and posted? Hmm, next you should try going to a microsoft forum and saying windows is crap. Then another forum you hate, and post your views there as well as if the people who enjoy it, need your opinion.
But, on the downside, it seems to prevent apps on the other desktop from responding to each other. Some reason I can't get Firefox running on another "desktop".
"Firefox is already running but not responding... " etc.
Which is now making me wonder what is and isn't really running. Hopefully (and I assume) it's just an issue with threads not being able to talk to existing threads...
Games in general do NOT help with driving. Some games may help with reaction, but only give you a twitch reflex in certain situations.
"Agility" skills are only improved by playing certain racing car games. That's right, driving simulation games help you with driving, no other type of game. Because I played quite a few racing games, I learned how to slow down well enough to take turns gracefully. Although it does not teach you how to speed up gracefully. From personal experience, they only help so little, but still help none the less...
From my understanding smell is like taste. They say that by holding your nose, you couldn't tell the difference between an onion and an apple (besides the textures) although I have not tested this, I just remember learning it in school.
Curious question: do you have a sense of taste too? Do people say you have an "odd" sense of taste?
Although there are times where something smells bad but tastes good... and obviously vice versa, but most the time it seems to be: smells good, tastes good. But I believe that's an acquired feeling, since I remember things smelling bad until I taste them, then somehow appreciating the smell and enjoying it.
MMOs are the money makers in today's gaming industry.
Who is to blame? Perhaps ourselves for saying "programming as a 'service', not as a product" so they decide to host games for a decent cost.
It is still a maturing market, and most MMOs customer support SUCKS, meaning the service itself isn't service. It's more like, programming for a server.
I remember downloading a program and having it get sweeped off my computer. Apparently they saw the word "Game" in app name and assumed I downloaded a game. When in reality it was a "game" hack type of program that allowed you to look into the contents of all the ram and search for values, since the environment we were working with didn't give excellent debugging, and I just wanted something quick that I knew worked.
The best part was... they left all MS games and there was this 1 person who played Solitaire EVERY day during her lunch hour.
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Don't look at me... I voted for Kudos.
Sorry... let me clarify that last part. Her friends (or maybe just other people she doesn't know) can't call her by the name her parents wanted her to be called, but family can. Meaning shes using it more as a code name than anything. Changing your name legally but still going by your old name kind of defeats the purpose of changing it in the first place.
Why not just name yourself James Bond, Max Power, Harry Phetus.
This reminds me of all the people I've known who changed their names. One kid was named Jordon (X). He idolized (if you can say that, which he never watched basketball more than once a month) Michael Jordan. So he changed only his first name to Michael and left his last name the same. Thinking that people would think of him as Michael Jordan (spelled with an A).
Or about all those other people who spell their names incorrectly, then tell you you're pronouncing it incorrectly. If you want it pronounced like SHAWN then spell it SHAWN not Shean.
"She helped create a policy at her high school that allows students who object to dissections to complete an alternative assignment."
Good for her, but does she stop it where the problem is?
"Despite her legally changing the name, she said most of her family members still call her Jennifer."
Nope.. her parents can't call her by the name they gave her, and now she's trying to push her own adolescent agenda.
Ok... that's slightly funny... but more scary thinking who the hell would do that to any animal. Oh, and not very cute. This seems more along the lines of strapping a cute child with a sharp knife.
Your system is only really successful if all humans agree on the "correct" answer -- which basically rules out things like "most attractive human".
Personal reminder: implement an idea completely before even attempting to make a suggestion/example on slashdot.
So pick something else, it was just an example... I think we can come to agree on the oldest looking human? Greasiest looking human? No.. no... bad thoughts...
Asirra asks users to correctly classify images of either cats or dogs using a database of three million images provided by animal-rescue organizations.
Only cats and dogs. Like I said earlier, don't limit it to just a few species. Pick one at random.
Example: You are shown 20 pictures, all of random animals, it asks which one is the cutest aardvark, then which is the happiest turtle. Continuing random traits with random animals. Their flaw was limiting it to just dogs and cats.
Or to take it to a different level. Most attractive/sexy/cute/old/etc. female(or male). Computers cannot tell what is the "most" prevalent "society" based trait of a picture. Yes, there's programs that make peoples photos "more attractive" but that tends to fail half the time, not to mention, it doesn't compare 12 other people.
The TFA program only knows, "given x what is a y". And that had a 50% chance to guess between cat/dog. Not: given a-x, rank y in order from best to worse.
All you need is a society created element (attractiveness, cuteness, is this a lot/or is this a little?)
Something like KittenAuth has been recommended, and still seems to be the best answer in my opinion.
This can be taken to randomly selected animals, not just cats. If someone develops an AI that can determine what type of an animal each is, then GOOD, we are one step closer to AI. Next would be cuteness/hairy looking/ugly/happy looking/etc. for each random animal. Just keep going a step further.
Any words or phrases with questions can eventually and easily be broken (hell, write your script to google search for the answer to the captchas)
in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this year, Nvidia admitted 'there can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products.'"
At least they are being honest? It's not like they are denying claims and trying to hide it (not that ATI does, but you have to respect honest companies).
Anyone know if physics processing is now being done on ATI cards, or is it Nvidia only?
I believe the editors already answered this one:
from the foot-in-door dept.
You've got your foot in the door as QA, you should be able to move around in the company now.
I would prefer to own virtual property. So when I get a real life divorce, I lose half my virtual stuff.
1. Marry into virtual wealth
2. Divorce
3. ?
4. Virtual profit!
Blizzard's been providing online play AND a continued stream of patches and updates, completely free of charge. Even if you paid full price for each piece back when they launched (let's say $50 each), I think you've gotten your money's worth out of the game over the past decade.
Patches are EXPECTED to be continually released after a game (look at almost any game you like, find the web site and there will be a patch).
Now take a look at it's other games: Diablo 1, lost ALL support/patches after Diablo 2 came out, hacks are beyond abundant there. Once Starcraft 2 comes out, expect the same lack of support for Starcraft. To say you are getting your money's worth because they host (4?) servers that allow you to chat and find others (the servers don't really host the games) is a far stretch.
often going through bouts where my girlfriend, later wife, and I would play every weekend for 8-10 weeks in a row
Sounds like you have more of a nostalgia attachment... you know the one... where everyone's (well most) childhood was the best time of their life. How will you feel when you find out all you bought for the "expansions" was a map pack that any map creator could make (and already has). If I recall, the "official" maps in Starcraft/Broodwar sucked. It was all about the user created maps, because of the freedom of the map editor tool. It was revolutionary compared to the other ones at the time (being Age of Empires)
Because she got a response out of you (hell 1/3 of an article!) and a whole discussion. I would say she successfully trolled the slashdot mailbag... mission accomplished!
This was already tested on humans too. Except they did it in a really bad way. They took a straight guy, and any time he was near another guy, they triggered the pleasure center. Anytime he was near a girl, they didn't bother.
Eventually the guy turned gay, and after the experiment, he was rumored to be working the streets as a gay prostitute... Experiment FAILED?
It's really a catch 22. All that can be done is to accept cheating and hacking are going to happen some extent, and there is nothing we can do about it.
No... it isn't. Any multiplayer game worthy of its popularity KNOWS that server side checking is a MUST. All multiplayer games that use client side checking (in this case, shooting through mountains), to combat such trivial things as latency issues, are doomed to failure.
They try to alleviate burdens of latency times by doing such stupid tricks as client side checking (I shot you on my screen, but you weren't moving cause I have 5 second ping, who do you think SHOULD get the kill?).
Latency should affect the single player with the issue, not the other players who have near instant pings.
Other issues such as aimbots/radars should be a non-issue again with correct collision detection algorithms. If a player is CONSTANTLY aiming 100% at the head on client side, then it should be easy to detect. Even the server could verify this after figuring in ping times. The radar issue is caused by the server sending player location too early in the game (if your 500 meters away, AND behind a wall, you shouldn't even be sent the location of the player) once again this is collision detection, and server side math only.
I've played many FPS games, and most tend to get the majority of these right, but not all of them at once.
So.. a vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for putting Jesus Christ in office?
Your ideas intrigue me. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
are you crazy... idle is crap, rid us of this abomination now
So is that why you came here and posted? Hmm, next you should try going to a microsoft forum and saying windows is crap. Then another forum you hate, and post your views there as well as if the people who enjoy it, need your opinion.
And in one of their conferences...
"We decided to not spend this on the budget, because VeNoM0619 says it sounds stupid, and is full of cooties."
"Firefox is already running but not responding... " etc.
Which is now making me wonder what is and isn't really running. Hopefully (and I assume) it's just an issue with threads not being able to talk to existing threads...
Games in general do NOT help with driving. Some games may help with reaction, but only give you a twitch reflex in certain situations.
"Agility" skills are only improved by playing certain racing car games. That's right, driving simulation games help you with driving, no other type of game. Because I played quite a few racing games, I learned how to slow down well enough to take turns gracefully. Although it does not teach you how to speed up gracefully. From personal experience, they only help so little, but still help none the less...
From my understanding smell is like taste. They say that by holding your nose, you couldn't tell the difference between an onion and an apple (besides the textures) although I have not tested this, I just remember learning it in school.
Curious question: do you have a sense of taste too? Do people say you have an "odd" sense of taste?
Although there are times where something smells bad but tastes good... and obviously vice versa, but most the time it seems to be: smells good, tastes good. But I believe that's an acquired feeling, since I remember things smelling bad until I taste them, then somehow appreciating the smell and enjoying it.
MMOs are the money makers in today's gaming industry.
Who is to blame? Perhaps ourselves for saying "programming as a 'service', not as a product" so they decide to host games for a decent cost.
It is still a maturing market, and most MMOs customer support SUCKS, meaning the service itself isn't service. It's more like, programming for a server.
One case history example is that GaÃtan Dugas claimed to have had 2500 sexual encounters in his life.
Every day for 6.8 years? Oh wait.. "encounters" can mean anything.... for a minute... I was envious.
I remember downloading a program and having it get sweeped off my computer. Apparently they saw the word "Game" in app name and assumed I downloaded a game. When in reality it was a "game" hack type of program that allowed you to look into the contents of all the ram and search for values, since the environment we were working with didn't give excellent debugging, and I just wanted something quick that I knew worked.
The best part was... they left all MS games and there was this 1 person who played Solitaire EVERY day during her lunch hour.
As much as I would love to tree-hug, I'm also hugging a different kind of tree to better the environment by running Boinc (rosetta@home/foldit@home).
So, by leaving my computer on, I am helping.