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Yeah, this has me depressed. I would think that AI that didn't move ranged units towards melee units would be fairly easy to implement.
If you gave a decent programmer who understood how to make a chess AI a year to work on Civ 5 combat, I bet they could make it really fiendishly smart.
It seems likely that it will have some form of safe-search.
But then again, if they just made it so you can't turn it off, it would happen to everyone, so nobody would be getting embarrassed by it happening.
This would have the side benefit of giving you the "Google MADE me do it" excuse if you were ever caught browsing things you shouldn't have been at work. Just make sure they don't see you have 5 other tabs with equally suspicious titles.
# Processor: Dual Core CPU
# Memory: 2GB RAM
# Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Free
# DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation
# Video: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
Seriously? That's too much for you? I'm sorry that you haven't bought (or upgraded) a computer in 4 years, but I don't see why developers should have to cater to you by making their products worse for the rest of us. A system meeting these requirements wouldn't cost more than MAYBE $200 used.
They need better hardware to make the AI smarter, not just for better graphics.
When someone sells you a movie they have created, they can sell it to you with any encryption and any restrictions that they damn well please. That is their right as the creator of the work. If you don't agree with their terms, then you have the right to not purchase it. In no way do you ever get the right to demand that an artist or distributor give you their work in a certain way.
That would clearly be a violation of their right to do what they want with their own work. You also do not gain the authority to distribute or modify their work when you purchase it, except as authorized by law (aka fair use). Or of course, unless they specifically grant you the rights to their work. Even then, they do not have to enable or aid you in the use of their work, you just have the right to use it.
What if it was the authorities who were doing the coercing?
Well then you're boned. If the powers at be are trying to influence votes through coercion then it doesn't really matter where you're voting from. It's time to grab your pitchfork and torch and start rabble-rousing.
The Salem hypothesis is just ridiculous. Of course someone with a B.S. degree who also believes in creationism is more likely to be an engineer than a physicist or biologist.
That's like saying someone who claims to have medical training but doesn't know how to properly set a fractured bone is more likely to be a dentist then a doctor.
Or that someone with a B.S. degree who believes electrons move at the speed of light through wires is more likely to be a biology major than an EE or physicist.
There's bound to be very few biologists who believe in creationism because they've spent a good portion of their life attending classes that taught them otherwise. On the other hand, very few engineering programs require the engineer to take college-level biology.
I really don't see this as being an issue... You'd have to go through so much effort to have any visible effect on the vote that it just wouldn't be worth it. Not to mention if you coerced enough people to actually have an influence on the vote, I really doubt you could keep it from leaking to the authorities. Somebody would talk.
I don't get it. Why don't we all just get a public rsa type key when we register, then use our private key to submit our votes, at either a public terminal or via the Internet from home?
I played the DOS version personally... I think it had higher resolution.
I remember the last level being fiendeshly hard... It was an attack on some crazy island fortress guarded with tons of dudes with rocket launchers. One mistake and your whole party was wiped out.
Civilization and Syndicate will always be the two best games I've ever played. I mean hell, I swear I learned how to read and quite a bit of history browsing the Civilopedia as a kid.
Really? I've never noticed that. Interesting. Honestly, they both make sense, since it's a single entity, but by definition is composed of lots of people. Do the Brits do this with all collective entities?
On second thought, American English makes no sense; sports teams are plural, corporations are singular, and the "United States of America" is singular.
Just a question... why do you use Google as a plural noun? I thought corporations were always referred to as singular nouns i.e. "Microsoft is the devil" or "Rolex makes watches", not "Microsoft are the devil" and "Rolex make watches".
Textbook publisher have got to be salivating over the way this opens the door
Yeah, but that brings up an interesting point... If we can't sell old textbooks what are we supposed to do with them? Hold on to them forever? I'm sorry, but I just don't have enough room for that. So basically they're telling us we need to throw away the product, or better yet, give it back to them when we're done using it?
Ah, but you see, efficiency isn't the only goal of engineering. Yes, you could make cooking, sex, architecture, design, and just about anything else merely efficient. But where's the fun in that? Efficiency may have its own stark, utilitarian beauty, but to think it's the only outcome of proper engineering seems rather short-sighted.
I agree completely. Besides, it's just a good practice to assume that anything you do involving the interwebz is tracked and stored. If I'm up to shenanigans, or I need my activities to be secure, I make sure they're anonymous/secure to the best of my abilities. The Internet is a public arena, I find the claim that you should be anonymous all the time dubious at best. Besides, from my experience, anonymity tends to bring out the worst in people.
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If it got older that implies it might die, and that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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So the definitive answer is: yes, maybe.
But I suppose you're right, it's more of a national wonder than a great one, since everybody can build their own.
If you gave a decent programmer who understood how to make a chess AI a year to work on Civ 5 combat, I bet they could make it really fiendishly smart.
But then again, if they just made it so you can't turn it off, it would happen to everyone, so nobody would be getting embarrassed by it happening.
This would have the side benefit of giving you the "Google MADE me do it" excuse if you were ever caught browsing things you shouldn't have been at work. Just make sure they don't see you have 5 other tabs with equally suspicious titles.
May your +100% happiness not expire with the discovery of toddlerhood, or worse yet, teenagery.
Seriously? That's too much for you? I'm sorry that you haven't bought (or upgraded) a computer in 4 years, but I don't see why developers should have to cater to you by making their products worse for the rest of us. A system meeting these requirements wouldn't cost more than MAYBE $200 used.
They need better hardware to make the AI smarter, not just for better graphics.
woh you have a keyboard where "=" doesn't require a shift key?
Actually, on second thought you have the right to demand whatever you want from them, they just also have the right to not comply.
That would clearly be a violation of their right to do what they want with their own work. You also do not gain the authority to distribute or modify their work when you purchase it, except as authorized by law (aka fair use). Or of course, unless they specifically grant you the rights to their work. Even then, they do not have to enable or aid you in the use of their work, you just have the right to use it.
I think that's going to require one extra beefy t-shirt
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
What if it was the authorities who were doing the coercing?
Well then you're boned. If the powers at be are trying to influence votes through coercion then it doesn't really matter where you're voting from. It's time to grab your pitchfork and torch and start rabble-rousing.
That's like saying someone who claims to have medical training but doesn't know how to properly set a fractured bone is more likely to be a dentist then a doctor.
Or that someone with a B.S. degree who believes electrons move at the speed of light through wires is more likely to be a biology major than an EE or physicist.
There's bound to be very few biologists who believe in creationism because they've spent a good portion of their life attending classes that taught them otherwise. On the other hand, very few engineering programs require the engineer to take college-level biology.
That's the one! I'm really excited for the remake... I just hope they don't screw it up.
I really don't see this as being an issue... You'd have to go through so much effort to have any visible effect on the vote that it just wouldn't be worth it. Not to mention if you coerced enough people to actually have an influence on the vote, I really doubt you could keep it from leaking to the authorities. Somebody would talk.
I don't get it. Why don't we all just get a public rsa type key when we register, then use our private key to submit our votes, at either a public terminal or via the Internet from home?
I remember the last level being fiendeshly hard... It was an attack on some crazy island fortress guarded with tons of dudes with rocket launchers. One mistake and your whole party was wiped out.
Civilization and Syndicate will always be the two best games I've ever played. I mean hell, I swear I learned how to read and quite a bit of history browsing the Civilopedia as a kid.
On second thought, American English makes no sense; sports teams are plural, corporations are singular, and the "United States of America" is singular.
Ok, so I looked it up, there's a nice history of the whole thing here: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1907/
I'm beginning to realize that not only was that game amazaballs, it was also prophetic
Google already have a shitload of money.
Google are like Chuck Norris.
Just a question... why do you use Google as a plural noun? I thought corporations were always referred to as singular nouns i.e. "Microsoft is the devil" or "Rolex makes watches", not "Microsoft are the devil" and "Rolex make watches".
If you know enough about cryptography to make a good implementation, then your job does not involve writing web applications.
Very true, but there's no point in feeding trolls, they never get full.
Textbook publisher have got to be salivating over the way this opens the door
Yeah, but that brings up an interesting point... If we can't sell old textbooks what are we supposed to do with them? Hold on to them forever? I'm sorry, but I just don't have enough room for that. So basically they're telling us we need to throw away the product, or better yet, give it back to them when we're done using it?
Ah, but you see, efficiency isn't the only goal of engineering. Yes, you could make cooking, sex, architecture, design, and just about anything else merely efficient. But where's the fun in that? Efficiency may have its own stark, utilitarian beauty, but to think it's the only outcome of proper engineering seems rather short-sighted.
I agree completely. Besides, it's just a good practice to assume that anything you do involving the interwebz is tracked and stored. If I'm up to shenanigans, or I need my activities to be secure, I make sure they're anonymous/secure to the best of my abilities. The Internet is a public arena, I find the claim that you should be anonymous all the time dubious at best. Besides, from my experience, anonymity tends to bring out the worst in people.