This is actually pretty amazingly terrific tech and I can see the potential uses for profiling network efficiency and for maintenance. Of course, despite this are the obviously horrible things ISPs are going to do with this sort of software (barring unforeseen radical change in government, industry, and/or user mentality).
That sounds totally AWESOME, whatever the genre. This could be achieved now, but not solely with AI: it could probably start out with about 20 human played "NPC"s that are employed by the people who run the game/servers and be scaled up according to game popularity.
Take, for example, the head of one of your military factions. A live human, or humans spread across different time zones for more "uptime," could control that character according to plot points agreed upon before the game starts (and updated according to emerging situations in the RPG). Then, you could have lower ranking NPCs, e.g. the shuttle captains and crew, controlled by AI as they would be simpler characters and less important to the plot.
This could supplement the idea of even more powerful GMs who could take over any NPC character, etc., as necessary. I know I would probably take a job as one for say $30k a year. That would be great: game 8 hours a day and interact with people (like Odin always disguising himself as a random wanderer).
I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting OOXML to go away.
I know government is dog-ass slow, so I am not terribly up in arms, but agreeing to some open standard for government documents (not controlled by MS, but not necessarily ODF) is obviously the best choice for archival storage, transparency, and maintainability.
Watch your fucking children. Get rid of the fucking television if you have to. YOU are the problem, my friend, not anyone who curses in the presence of YOUR child. YOU need to keep YOUR CHILD out of those situations.
I've been hearing 'nucka' used around here, Missouri, a lot. I started hearing it in Famlee-Tree's albums (Kansas City) a few years ago but it has gone more mainstream now, mo' nucka.
I can't wait until all printed books have been scanned into public sites. I'm really into arcane mythology and religion and it is very hard to find original sources, and when you do you can't even check them out because they are so old!
Thats a neat concept at least. I don't see exactly why you would need Nielsen ratings for games... they aren't loaded with ads yet.
I've always wanted to get paid for my television watching habits (come on Nielsen, what about the demographic of people who watches less than 5 minutes of TV a day?!), but been turned off by having to keep a paper account of those... it would be neat if it was automated.
Woe is the girl/guy with no authority brought in to get the project back on track.
Hey, at least I get good salary and benefits! Coding a huge web application by myself for 7 months wasn't so bad: I like coding and money. Now I just hope they find something else for me to do... I hate being underworked.
Of course every game on the Wii is not going to be easy.
For example: I've been playing Gradius III (SNES) very casually lately: about 7-15 minutes every few days. It's hard as hell, so I die within that time period and look forward to the next time I play when my skills will hopefully be a little better.
Even if all the Wii games are "casual" games, they won't necessarily be easy.
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This is actually pretty amazingly terrific tech and I can see the potential uses for profiling network efficiency and for maintenance. Of course, despite this are the obviously horrible things ISPs are going to do with this sort of software (barring unforeseen radical change in government, industry, and/or user mentality).
Fuck yeah. Every new generation all the games for my favorite consoles get that much cheaper. Recently I bought 6 good SNES games for under $20.
I am reimplementing Unix in Brainfuck, you insensitive clod!
That sounds totally AWESOME, whatever the genre. This could be achieved now, but not solely with AI: it could probably start out with about 20 human played "NPC"s that are employed by the people who run the game/servers and be scaled up according to game popularity.
Take, for example, the head of one of your military factions. A live human, or humans spread across different time zones for more "uptime," could control that character according to plot points agreed upon before the game starts (and updated according to emerging situations in the RPG). Then, you could have lower ranking NPCs, e.g. the shuttle captains and crew, controlled by AI as they would be simpler characters and less important to the plot.
This could supplement the idea of even more powerful GMs who could take over any NPC character, etc., as necessary. I know I would probably take a job as one for say $30k a year. That would be great: game 8 hours a day and interact with people (like Odin always disguising himself as a random wanderer).
Bush's presidency is a prime example that what people vote for is not always what is best.
Plus, there's James Bond Die Another Day (2002).
I really enjoyed the story in the Marathon series. The game is spooky to begin with and the story drew me in even more.
lol
I do appreciate them fucking up the corporate status quo. This debacle is getting very interesting.
OLPC has so much potential for communication and education; I can't wait till this project really gets off the ground.
Hell yeah!
I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting OOXML to go away.
I know government is dog-ass slow, so I am not terribly up in arms, but agreeing to some open standard for government documents (not controlled by MS, but not necessarily ODF) is obviously the best choice for archival storage, transparency, and maintainability.
... Long live email.
P.S. I wish face-to-face speech would die. I hate my coworkers.
Watch your fucking children. Get rid of the fucking television if you have to. YOU are the problem, my friend, not anyone who curses in the presence of YOUR child. YOU need to keep YOUR CHILD out of those situations.
I've been hearing 'nucka' used around here, Missouri, a lot. I started hearing it in Famlee-Tree's albums (Kansas City) a few years ago but it has gone more mainstream now, mo' nucka.
The more, the merrier!
I can't wait until all printed books have been scanned into public sites. I'm really into arcane mythology and religion and it is very hard to find original sources, and when you do you can't even check them out because they are so old!
The security guy didn't strike me as professional or incredibly competent.
"Hmm... here's this 19 year old kid who made a laughable 'virus.' I need to track him down and email local authorities!!!111!!!!!11!"
It's like some lame episode of Scooby Doo or something.
I'm sure the hackers in us all are VERY curious as to how this encoding works... no?
Hahaha. I can imagine a nationwide campaign to fuck up ratings. THAT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN.
Thats a neat concept at least. I don't see exactly why you would need Nielsen ratings for games... they aren't loaded with ads yet.
I've always wanted to get paid for my television watching habits (come on Nielsen, what about the demographic of people who watches less than 5 minutes of TV a day?!), but been turned off by having to keep a paper account of those... it would be neat if it was automated.
Woe is the girl/guy with no authority brought in to get the project back on track.
Hey, at least I get good salary and benefits! Coding a huge web application by myself for 7 months wasn't so bad: I like coding and money. Now I just hope they find something else for me to do... I hate being underworked.
Do you really mean to say that an end to all war is "crap?" WTF?
You see this cat is a bad mother...
(SHUT YO MOUTH)
But I'm talkin' about N680SLI-DQ6
(Then we can dig it)
Lol... gradius3 :D
It's an awesome game and an awesome name (gave me a laugh today anyway).
Of course every game on the Wii is not going to be easy.
For example: I've been playing Gradius III (SNES) very casually lately: about 7-15 minutes every few days. It's hard as hell, so I die within that time period and look forward to the next time I play when my skills will hopefully be a little better.
Even if all the Wii games are "casual" games, they won't necessarily be easy.
AT&T also said an open-access network would deprive taxpayers of billions of dollars, and inhibit the growth of wireless broadband in the country.
Isn't it good to know AT&T is looking out for us?