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  1. Re:More then AI on MIT-Designed Game Used To Train an AI System · · Score: 1

    If they are trying to simulate people then the results will not be much better even if they get it 100% accurate. ;)
    Watching untrained people fish about has been TV fodder for years. If they recreate that, then it will just be know computer "A".

  2. Re:And the result was? on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    for about a week. then you'll want to play an old game. Just cos you can't...

  3. Re:I'm not happy on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I like the no-bullshit answer. I can't do anything with soothing words. Everyone has been evacuated to 60miles away. So I hope that will be enough. The Tsunami took out their farm; but I can still see their house on google maps. It may be a wreak though. I'm wondering how much of a write off the surround area (1km) will be in the months/years to come. I do not think eating crops or drinking local water would be a good idea.

  4. Re:Last post! on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1

    Last post +1

  5. I'm not happy on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My wife is Japanese and most of her family lived in that area, some only 1km away from the Fukushima power plant.
    I've been so upset by the event and livid with the BBC and I'll not even talk about other news sources in the UK. I want a law to block the sensationalism I've been seeing. Keep that for guff filler shite celeb stories and film releases.

    It is harrowing and needs no build up. I can't watch another presenter, first being told by some expert that there is no threat, to only then ask the question "What about the worst case?". You’ve just asked him, you had your answer about the now and the future, and now you want guy to make up an answer? Well fuck you BBC. For balance, what is the best case? If this works, how soon can people return? Will the farms in the area be safe?

    The expert may be proved wrong tomorrow, but he gave his opinion about today. Why do you have the need to constantly push for the worst case?
    How is that the news? I can't read another statement about radiation going up 4 times and how awful that is, only to find out that the level is less than a scan at a hospital? Do these people have any journalistic pride any more? I've seen so many stories and write-ups pro and con that I now have no idea who to trust or what is really going on.
    So whilst the nuclear pro and con here spout the next 10 pages of stuff, I’ll be still no better off from their posts. ... ... And lots of other stuff too!!! / rant and vent over.

  6. Re:rock band 3 already has this on Ubisoft Announces Music Game For Real Guitars · · Score: 0

    ^ This +1 mod of here here.

  7. More then AI on MIT-Designed Game Used To Train an AI System · · Score: 2

    I always thought the hard part about game AI was making an NPC work with the right level of crap.
    A bot can shoot and hit its mark 99.999999% of the time. They know all the coordinates and states of the game and a programmer can add in some very standard code to win each time.

    If we can just get over an NPC not getting stuck in wall and going mental when it gets stuck in a door then we will be happier.

  8. Re:Whats up with the timing? on MIT-Designed Game Used To Train an AI System · · Score: 1

    It's when they get time out. Those disposal units don't run night and day you know?!?!

  9. Re:On the positive side... on Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis · · Score: 1

    /collective shoulders dropping in realisation *sigh* ...

  10. other similar new technology? on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    So if you come up with a way which is not similar or have a tech which isn't new, it's ok? FairyNuff.

  11. Re:Bleh on Encrypted VoIP Meets Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    This should have got at least one +funny.

  12. Re:Bleh on Encrypted VoIP Meets Traffic Analysis · · Score: 4, Funny

    The pitch is the main thing in the art form.
    A low German voice - "ooohhh yaaaaa", over and over. then you have the high pitched Japanese squeak sound - "ii, ii, ii, kimochi". Which really gets annoying these days. It took a few years; but it IS annoying.

  13. Re:good for them on Electricity Rationing Starting Monday In Tokyo · · Score: 1

    even, now that you are here.


    / no reason to jump in to this at all.

  14. Re:This is gonna be very rant like on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    I'm not willing to work 5 day a week, "with cheerful readiness" comes no where near it.

  15. Re:This is gonna be very rant like on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    ARe yous prooof reding the internet agin?

  16. argh! on Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid · · Score: 1

    argh argh! argh!. +1 insightful.

  17. Re:where are the comments? on Timezone Maintainer Retiring · · Score: 0

    If you tell me where a pertinent question is I'll go and ask it.

  18. Re:better get walmart to make you a new one on Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure · · Score: 1

    Best thing is they'll make your design and around the back they'll knock about 10 more rip off versions for a tenth of the price for the home market.

  19. Re:Fix to overcome problem next time... on Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Absolutely no idea why NASA didn't hire me, what with all my lack of qualifications and everything. I have loads of useful ideas ;)

    Don't put yourself down Senator.

  20. Re:$4 for every US Household on Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure · · Score: 0

    I'd rather eat two lunches.

  21. Re:Tumbling? on Discovery's Last Go Round, As Seen From the Ground · · Score: 1

    It begged for it. Listen......There.....Shhhh.....There again...... Such a slut question.

  22. Re:Velvet on Researchers Turn To Silk For Flexible E-Devices · · Score: 2

    Velvet Hmmm - I want to dress up like a techno fop too. I'd be a digital dandy in the latest High tech hosiery. I be the talk of the town and all of the there Lundon will adore me.

  23. The don't already?!?!? on Beijing To Track Citizen's Cell Phones · · Score: 0

    You could moan about this; but when they caught the guys in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal they stuck a bullet in their heads. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal You can't like the régime; but they do tend to win me back from time to time. Of course I don't condone the death sentence; but now that I have a child I'm very irrational about these things. Also being in the UK, I'm so tracked when I walk around YET STILL THERE BE CRIME It doesn't bother me. My lord I'm off topic!

  24. Re:Middle Eastern? on A Look Inside the Bustling Cybercrime Marketplace · · Score: 1

    *unwraps towel from a fez and looks at feet. sorry.

  25. Re:Replace SiO4 with ZnSe? on New Optical Fiber Replaces Glass With Semiconductive Core · · Score: 1

    OK. I like this idea. a few % will be worth it.