Sorry, I played Furcadia. While (cartoonishly) Isometric and not 3D at all, it's just a bunch of peeps sitting around on poofy throw pillows talking about how much they like each other.
Never did see any Omaha: The Cat Dancer type activities...
"The Sims"?!?!? No, it isn't multi-player. No, it isn't 3D, no it isn't a shoot-em-up. No, it is neither FP nor S. No, it sorta has RTS-like features, but we don't describe them, only hint that those are the cool things about Sims that, I guess, would be neat in a FPS.
Ehhhh, that isn't the first FPS, or even the first wildly popular FPS. There's a little game called Wolf 3D, see? It wasn't some archaic thing, every nerd at that time got it and played it.
You need thousands of samples to even dream of creating a general solution to a problem with even 3 inputs. For something with a lot more inputs, you're in serious trouble.
Imagine how many "solutions" there would be to create a generalization rule for two points in 3D space. What is the liklihood the generated solution will bear any resemblence to the solution you desire? Not much.
Not only do you have that problem, but also the problem of the GA simply learning each different sample instance, and not generalizing meaningfully at all.
I recall a science fiction story where people who invented a machine that made other inventions went to court to make sure that anything their machine not only invented, but might invent, was theirs by way of the first patent.
Better yet, just run a quantum simulation of this guy's setup, complete with lab, thousands of "experts" to evaluate the output, etc.
Then patent everything they would before they do, and claim you're just really bright.
Better still, avoid the search and just run a quantum simulation of our world 20 years into the future, 100 years, etc. and look at all the cool devices that sold millions of copies, and "invent" them yourself. Max Headroom's error in visiting ST:TNG was that he went to a warship instead of just cloaking himself in earth orbit and connecting to their Ineternet and looking up old stuff. Get out of your advanced ship? Idiot.
If the computer program can invent it by gradient descent, then it all becomes a race to see who can execute the most stuff the fastest to get there first.
> If I was the head of a country that lost a war,
> and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was
> signing, I'd glance over the treaty and then
> suddenly act surprised. "Wait a minute! I thought
> we won!"
That'd be really funny to the families of the millions in your country who died, especially if you were the one who started the war in the first place.
As Sam Kinison used to say, "I love it when boxers thank God for the victory. What is the loser supposed to say? 'I was doing well in there UNTIL JESUS MADE ME LOSE!'?"
> When did we empower the government with this ability?
We never did. Most of the laws' authority derive from a Rube Goldergian argument based on regulating interstate trade (which purpose was to allow Congress to prevent states from passing laws to interfere with things passing through them to other states.)
Courts, wrongly and stupidly, accept these fantastic chains of reasoning that a kindergartener would be embarassed to call his own.
For example, the federal government passes laws that apply to (non-interstate) hotels because someone doing interstate business might stay there.
>> Allan Adler..."There is no device that can
>> distinguish between a fair use and a non-fair
>> use,"
>
> I beg to differ. I have the perfect device to
> distinguish fair use. It's called a brain.
This device is highly faulty. When used in the field, it turns out it has a >> 99.999% failure rate in distinguishing between fair and non-fair use.
> In the Spring of 1994, an 18-year-old Michael
> Fay, was caned in Singapore for spray painting
> cars. Many in the United States expressed
> outrage at the primitive brutality of the
> punishment
Although many in the United States expressed admiration. Someone just busted the windows out of a neighbor's car parked in the street. Three or four swats with the cane (import a Singaporian caner, please) would be the right thing to do, morally and ethically.
Since software moves so rapidly, if they have patents, I think maybe 5 years would be good rather than 23 years or whatever it is.
Given the typical software patents, it's obvious that there is not a whole lot of money poured into developing the patent. Things like "1-click buying" or "limiting # of 3D avatars viewable in the client based on distance to client's perspective" may be innovative, but once spelled out in a few words, any number of methods to implement them immediately and easily pop into the mind of a programmer.
Lucas did say that, but he did have a general outline for the entire 9-episode series.
Leia being Luke's sister was a new thought, though. In "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", the (then new concept) movie sequel via-book, Darth expresses his long-held love for Leia, something Lucas wouldn't have allowed had he had that in mind, even a year after the movie came out.
You may be stretching a bit saying TNG was better than TOS, and "First Contact", although better than Generations, was like saying ice cream with six pounds of salt in it was better than ice cream with seven pounds of salt in it.
As for III's, I agree. Any III with special guest star, Richard Pryor, is a bomb to be missed.
DS9 had its moments, although most of them were the two different Jadzia and Ezri Dax/evil Kira lesbian saliva kisses.
Keep in mind also that, as hideously silly the obvious puppets-on-sticks of Jabba's palace, and the lame, true, muppet-walk of Yoda was, it's debatable that the newer, director's cuts with additions, or Phantom, are better with their CG monsters and Jar-Jars, none of which know what mass or real physics are to save their lives. See, a muscle isn't infinitely powerful, there's an accelleration curve on the arm as it begins to move, see? When Jar-Jar leaps into the water, he must follow the ballistic laws of gravity, see? He can't rotate part of his body without the other part rotating in the other direction, see?
I've got news for Lucas and his CG experts. None of you would be a problem for a Jedi using that old Jedi mind trick...
What's up with the boner games and movies have for katanas? The well-armored guy with a large, 2-handed sword was the ultimate on the battlefield (sorry, EverQuest, 2 1-handers = dirt nap, and fast.)
At least, until the Great Equalizer. You know what that is? That's the thing you shoot at a dog-sized monster and hit it with a dozen times before it dies. sigh
Sad, but mothball it for the greater good
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> "The idea that the vice president had was
> philosophical. He wanted schoolchildren to look at
> our planet and appreciate our environment," said
> Francisco P. J. Valero, the mission's principal
> scientist.
It should never been allowed to be a vehicle for a vice president's promotion. His wholescale destruction of the economy in order to gain a few brownie vote points with environmentalists wouldn't hurt the Nasa scientists, who are fed cash taken by threat of jail from the general population anyway.
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I don't believe they will offer FP, even as an option, will they, even though the game is completely 3D.
It would be nice to FP a character. Yes, I know people control groups, but people could each do 1 char and go FP.
> What I'd really like to see is a goal-free 3D
Sorry, I played Furcadia. While (cartoonishly) Isometric and not 3D at all, it's just a bunch of peeps sitting around on poofy throw pillows talking about how much they like each other.
Never did see any Omaha: The Cat Dancer type activities...
"The Sims"?!?!? No, it isn't multi-player. No, it isn't 3D, no it isn't a shoot-em-up. No, it is neither FP nor S. No, it sorta has RTS-like features, but we don't describe them, only hint that those are the cool things about Sims that, I guess, would be neat in a FPS.
Short shrift to CTF as an example of team-based online games, for when deathmatch gets boring after 30 minutes?
Add-ons becoming a big feature of Quake 2 rather than Quake ("a room for spectators"?!?!?)
Doom, the beginning?
Ehhhh, that isn't the first FPS, or even the first wildly popular FPS. There's a little game called Wolf 3D, see? It wasn't some archaic thing, every nerd at that time got it and played it.
It's called the "Tyranny of Dimensions".
You need thousands of samples to even dream of creating a general solution to a problem with even 3 inputs. For something with a lot more inputs, you're in serious trouble.
Imagine how many "solutions" there would be to create a generalization rule for two points in 3D space. What is the liklihood the generated solution will bear any resemblence to the solution you desire? Not much.
Not only do you have that problem, but also the problem of the GA simply learning each different sample instance, and not generalizing meaningfully at all.
I recall a science fiction story where people who invented a machine that made other inventions went to court to make sure that anything their machine not only invented, but might invent, was theirs by way of the first patent.
Better yet, just run a quantum simulation of this guy's setup, complete with lab, thousands of "experts" to evaluate the output, etc.
Then patent everything they would before they do, and claim you're just really bright.
Better still, avoid the search and just run a quantum simulation of our world 20 years into the future, 100 years, etc. and look at all the cool devices that sold millions of copies, and "invent" them yourself. Max Headroom's error in visiting ST:TNG was that he went to a warship instead of just cloaking himself in earth orbit and connecting to their Ineternet and looking up old stuff. Get out of your advanced ship? Idiot.
If the computer program can invent it by gradient descent, then it all becomes a race to see who can execute the most stuff the fastest to get there first.
> you're waiting between crashes watching cars
That's why God made the Max X TV show, so you don't have to sit thru all the boring rest of the race.
> If I was the head of a country that lost a war,
> and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was
> signing, I'd glance over the treaty and then
> suddenly act surprised. "Wait a minute! I thought
> we won!"
That'd be really funny to the families of the millions in your country who died, especially if you were the one who started the war in the first place.
As Sam Kinison used to say, "I love it when boxers thank God for the victory. What is the loser supposed to say? 'I was doing well in there UNTIL JESUS MADE ME LOSE!'?"
I am refusing to upgrade until the next Duke Nukem comes out.
> When did we empower the government with this ability?
We never did. Most of the laws' authority derive from a Rube Goldergian argument based on regulating interstate trade (which purpose was to allow Congress to prevent states from passing laws to interfere with things passing through them to other states.)
Courts, wrongly and stupidly, accept these fantastic chains of reasoning that a kindergartener would be embarassed to call his own.
For example, the federal government passes laws that apply to (non-interstate) hotels because someone doing interstate business might stay there.
>> Allan Adler..."There is no device that can
>> distinguish between a fair use and a non-fair
>> use,"
>
> I beg to differ. I have the perfect device to
> distinguish fair use. It's called a brain.
This device is highly faulty. When used in the field, it turns out it has a >> 99.999% failure rate in distinguishing between fair and non-fair use.
> In the Spring of 1994, an 18-year-old Michael
> Fay, was caned in Singapore for spray painting
> cars. Many in the United States expressed
> outrage at the primitive brutality of the
> punishment
Although many in the United States expressed admiration. Someone just busted the windows out of a neighbor's car parked in the street. Three or four swats with the cane (import a Singaporian caner, please) would be the right thing to do, morally and ethically.
Well, if the hackers would stop helping the FBI crack stuff...
It was my understanding jury nullification was the jury deciding (as representatives of "The People") to not apply the law to that particular case.
> Quake, I need new algorithms to make Quake look
> like natural motion at 30 fps.
80 fps! 80 fps!
30 fps is jerky, somewhere between 60-80 fps it becomes smooth, like looking through a window.
The old software renderer, on 320x200, played on a good machine (as of 2 years ago) looks eerie, even with pixels the size of Hillary's ego.
Since software moves so rapidly, if they have patents, I think maybe 5 years would be good rather than 23 years or whatever it is.
Given the typical software patents, it's obvious that there is not a whole lot of money poured into developing the patent. Things like "1-click buying" or "limiting # of 3D avatars viewable in the client based on distance to client's perspective" may be innovative, but once spelled out in a few words, any number of methods to implement them immediately and easily pop into the mind of a programmer.
Lucas did say that, but he did have a general outline for the entire 9-episode series.
Leia being Luke's sister was a new thought, though. In "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", the (then new concept) movie sequel via-book, Darth expresses his long-held love for Leia, something Lucas wouldn't have allowed had he had that in mind, even a year after the movie came out.
You may be stretching a bit saying TNG was better than TOS, and "First Contact", although better than Generations, was like saying ice cream with six pounds of salt in it was better than ice cream with seven pounds of salt in it.
As for III's, I agree. Any III with special guest star, Richard Pryor, is a bomb to be missed.
DS9 had its moments, although most of them were the two different Jadzia and Ezri Dax/evil Kira lesbian saliva kisses.
Keep in mind also that, as hideously silly the obvious puppets-on-sticks of Jabba's palace, and the lame, true, muppet-walk of Yoda was, it's debatable that the newer, director's cuts with additions, or Phantom, are better with their CG monsters and Jar-Jars, none of which know what mass or real physics are to save their lives. See, a muscle isn't infinitely powerful, there's an accelleration curve on the arm as it begins to move, see? When Jar-Jar leaps into the water, he must follow the ballistic laws of gravity, see? He can't rotate part of his body without the other part rotating in the other direction, see?
I've got news for Lucas and his CG experts. None of you would be a problem for a Jedi using that old Jedi mind trick...
What's up with the boner games and movies have for katanas? The well-armored guy with a large, 2-handed sword was the ultimate on the battlefield (sorry, EverQuest, 2 1-handers = dirt nap, and fast.)
At least, until the Great Equalizer. You know what that is? That's the thing you shoot at a dog-sized monster and hit it with a dozen times before it dies. sigh
> "The idea that the vice president had was
> philosophical. He wanted schoolchildren to look at
> our planet and appreciate our environment," said
> Francisco P. J. Valero, the mission's principal
> scientist.
It should never been allowed to be a vehicle for a vice president's promotion. His wholescale destruction of the economy in order to gain a few brownie vote points with environmentalists wouldn't hurt the Nasa scientists, who are fed cash taken by threat of jail from the general population anyway.