No offence, but unless you happen to be Kasparov, I'd suggest you should look for a better chess program before denoucing AI systems in general as being poor at chess.
Chess is a game very well suited to computers, and thus one that AI systems have rapidly become good at. If you want to see something AI really struggles with, take a look at the game of Go - as yet noone's come close to creating a Deep Blue of Go, as it's far more abstract and 'human' in it's mechanics than chess.
As always, the real risk is that we'll contaminate Europe with microbes.
Would that be Europe the tenuously collected group of countries who can't agree on anything without a good ol' punchup, or Europe who were responsible for the "classic" "hit" "song" The Final Countdown?
Personally I'm in favour of infecting either with microbes. Preferably of the flesh eating variety
*Disclaimer. I live in Europe, so it's okay for me to say these things:P
just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the "army", but a more alarmist name would be -- "The Killbot Factory."
All these worlds are yours...
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(Could be an urban legend - too lazy to check Snopes and similar.. it's a good yarn, at any rate, but the guy does seem rather eager to piggyback on the fame his story has brought him, true or not)
Fifty Ninth grade is plenty long enough to have gullibility pummeled into you by the edumacashun system. Chances are that a group of 3th graders would've been a bit more canny....
It's just one of those daft things that's sprung up from 'net culture, like smileys, TLAs*, ETLAs**, and l33t 5p34k. A while back the term "Grilfiend" was in popular use for "girlfriend", and "the" is often deliberately misspelt as "teh". At least some of these things drop out of use from time to time - it's been a while since I saw "K-rad" or "Dewd". Now if we could only rid ourselves of "boi" the world would be a marginally better place.
I suppose it's possible some people say pr0n instead of porn to try and circumvent their company's internet filters, but unlikely.
*TLA - Three Letter Acronym **ETLA - Extended Three Letter Acronym (Any acronym with more than three letters)
... would be if this was real. Even just a cursory glance at the site reveals it as a hoax - aside from the obvious (but still quite well done) CG "photos", the stuff this guy is claiming to have achieved on his own is way OTT.
Look at the time and resources poured into Sony and Honda's bipedal robot projects - this guy is claiming, singlehandedly, to have gone way above and beyond both of those.
I think most likely this is a rather elaborate advert for mini. Shame. But hey, it's still a cool idea, and maybe someday something like this will be done for real.
What do you mean exactly by "Full advantage of my SB Live"?
MODs (by which I mean the whole spectrum of MOD, XM, S3M, MKM, IT MT2, etc, etc) aren't like GM MIDI files - the playback quality isn't particularly dependant on your hardware. MODs are more akin to MP3, in that it's playing back samples. The difference is that while an MP3 is just one great big long sample, a MOD is a collection of sample "instruments" along with instructions on how to play them back.
Anyways, assuming you're running Windows, XM Play is by far the best MOD player. It's free, and WAY surpasses Winamp's lousy MOD support. Plus you can get plugins to play just about anything in XMPlay, from zipped wavs to NES or C=64 musicdata rips
The Adventure is Dead, Long Live The Adventure!
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The graphical adventure on the PC isn't quite dead... not yet. Perhaps commercially it is - but look how long the text adventure has been dead, and that's got a thriving fan/development community producing some outstanding stuff.. (To learn more about that google around for "Interactive Fiction", "Inform" or "TADS")
And as for graphical adventures - there's some really neat free graphical adventure development systems (SLUDGEAdventure Game Studio) - and of course, if you just want to play the games, there's plenty of those two, including some very polished efforts, such as Out of Order
In short, don't wait for Lucasarts to make the next great adventure - get stuck in and do it yourself!:)
Excuse me, you appear to have mistaken "Good" for "So damnably godawful I'd rather sit through all 28 hours of 'Goatse: The Musical' while having my pubic hairs plucked one by one than ever watch even a minute of that film again"
It's an easy mistake to make though, so you're forgiven:)
Don't forget your mobile - though I could probably live without Sumomo's wake up call..:)
Okay, so Persocons* aren't likely to happen for some time, but I was thinking, theoretically, these ghosts could be given a kind of real presence..
If the ghost's host/server contained a map of the area the ghost inhabits (haunts?), and users were to wear some kind of semitransparent display glasses (VR style, but seethrough) onto which the ghost could be superimposed.. and the user's display reported it's location/heading/etc back to the host.. well, then, you could effectively have these ghosts wandering around in a real location.
I know, the tech's not there yet, and everyone else seems to have lost interest in the idea of wearable stereo displays.. but I still think they're a neat idea, damnit
(*) For anyone who's wondering WTF Persocons are, it's from a manga/anime called Chobits. It's from the "supernatural girlfriend" school of Manga, and is really very good if you like that sort of thing, which I do. Lots of fan service, too, and quite 'ecchi' in places:)
A few AI glitches A few? Oh, come on! I love that game, and have spent absurd amounts of time rampaging around bouncing people off my bumpers [fenders], but be serious. GTA:VC's AI makes yer average brick look like Einstein.
Anyways.. my wishlist for the next installment of GTA -
Proper vehicle damage, ala Viper Racing (remember that?) or better yet, Carmageddon 2 (Remember THAT!)
Guardian-reader-horrifying dismemberment - think Soldier of Fortune 2.. Yes, I am still 13 at heart..
Much expanded property buying - imagine some kind of RTS like element, where gangs can own parts of the city, and there's an ongoing battle of trying to take over the most turf... Now turn that into an online mode!
Ability to use weapons other than the machinegun from cars/bikes. Chainsaw driveby at 120 Mph.. Wheee:)
Oh, yeah, and AI that doesn't suck, please.. but really, I'm not -that- fussed about that one. It's kinda fun mowing down dumb tards en masse.
What a shame that a thread on a great scientific achievement of interest and benefit to the whole world has to turn into Yet Another Nationalistic Thread. That's Slashdot for you these days though.
Anyways..
will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them
That's quite a dramatic claim you're making there, especially considering there hasn't been a "9/11" since.. well.. 9/11, as it happens. Now would that be due to extreme dilligence on the part of the security forces (remember to watch out for those almanac toting terrorists), or for some other reason..?
Unfortunately our world of seperate church & state can't comprehend the world they live in. Church is everything there.
Okay, this is not a troll.. honestly.. I promise. I'll try to be as gentle as possible here. America is not the greatest country to hold up as being an example of church and state seperation. Sure. On the books it's all seperate, but you just ask Roy "Roy's Rock" Moore, or any of the similarly fanatical, or indeed George "Atheists are not American citizens" Bush. Or indeed anyone who has to take the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag.
It's a PROVEN FACT Iraq was pursuing these weapons.
I can go one better than that. It's a SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN FACT that writing things in caps doesn't necessarily make them true. Perhaps you could cite some sources for these facts? Because all I seem to see is a big absence of any WMD's, very little in the way of potential development platforms for WMD programs, and what was found was insubstantial to the point of being inconsequential. As for scientists - which scientists have you been listening to? because everything I've heard from them has been stating that there were no WMD programs.
It's incredibly easy to denounce this guy as an obvious idiot - indeed, his stupidity seems absolutely breathtaking, and therefore he deserves all the flak he gets....
Or maybe not. It's always so easy to denounce things from the other side, for example, lack certain beliefs that some other people hold (I'm staying nonspecific here so's not to get into an argument about religion, or whatever).. to me, it seems absolutely staggering that anyone could possibly believe some of the things I don't - but it's never that simple.
This guy is not of the internet generation - he's older. In my experience to many older people the internet is some "magical computery thing" that can do anything. I know people of that kind of age who are every bit as shrewd, bright, and worldly-wise as their years should suggest, but you tell them you can download money from the internet, and they'll believe you.
Secondly, his wife is partially disabled. That's likely to put financial strain on him and his household. Strain = stress, and stress generates emotional rather than rational thinking.
Thirdly, it's often difficult for people to admit they've been taken for a ride - even very smart people. Put yourself in this situation:
You've been offered a bargain.. it all looks legit, and it's something you really don't want to pass up.. A really nice PC/Mac for $100, mebbe. So, you send off your $100, and after a while you're informed that due to some oversight, the cost is actually going to be $105.
At this point, you grumble.. but what do you do? Risk throwing in the extra $5 for the machine you really, really want, and prove to yourself that you aren't stupid... or prove that you ARE a complete idiot for falling for it in the first place by trying to get your money back?
It's a pretty devious trap. A lot of people would rather spend a little more to get a "good" result.. and will repeat ad infinitum. A little more.. just a little more.. one more bit.. etc. It's an age old con trick, but it's survived this long with good reason.
Anyways, this has turned into something of a long winded rant.. by basic point is - don't be too quick to judge.
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No offence, but unless you happen to be Kasparov, I'd suggest you should look for a better chess program before denoucing AI systems in general as being poor at chess.
Chess is a game very well suited to computers, and thus one that AI systems have rapidly become good at. If you want to see something AI really struggles with, take a look at the game of Go - as yet noone's come close to creating a Deep Blue of Go, as it's far more abstract and 'human' in it's mechanics than chess.
Who cares if it's advertising? What I want to know is simpl: Is it real?
:)
No.
How's that for a simple answer?
And the Department of Redundancy Department strikes again!
"ATM Machine".
But of course...
Where else would you use your PIN Number...
As always, the real risk is that we'll contaminate Europe with microbes.
:P
Would that be Europe the tenuously collected group of countries who can't agree on anything without a good ol' punchup, or Europe who were responsible for the "classic" "hit" "song" The Final Countdown?
Personally I'm in favour of infecting either with microbes. Preferably of the flesh eating variety
*Disclaimer. I live in Europe, so it's okay for me to say these things
Oh, wait. We're still here.
Heh. Sucker.
That's just what they want you to think.
I bet you don't even have a foil hat. Poor fool.
just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the "army", but a more alarmist name would be -- "The Killbot Factory."
Except Europa.
Attempt no landings there.
Not to mention that I regularly get a fake check in the mail that looks very much like my real one.
Well, you COULD always try cashing it...
(Could be an urban legend - too lazy to check Snopes and similar.. it's a good yarn, at any rate, but the guy does seem rather eager to piggyback on the fame his story has brought him, true or not)
Put any car on a racetrack filled with pot-holes and the car won't be able to get anywhere very quickly, will it?
Not a fan of the World Rally Championship, then?
Its like walking up to someone and saying "Whats the Diffrence Between an orange?"
One of it's segments is both the same.
Neeeeext.
Fifty Ninth grade is plenty long enough to have gullibility pummeled into you by the edumacashun system. Chances are that a group of 3th graders would've been a bit more canny....
They put that lethal stuff in BOTTLED WATER?!
Fortunately for me I have a ready supply of pure dehydrated water
Eh?
*looks in dictionary*
Nah, here it is, see?
And y'know, no matter how many times I say it, or how fast, I just can't figure how "banana" sounds like "gulliable"...
It's just one of those daft things that's sprung up from 'net culture, like smileys, TLAs*, ETLAs**, and l33t 5p34k. A while back the term "Grilfiend" was in popular use for "girlfriend", and "the" is often deliberately misspelt as "teh". At least some of these things drop out of use from time to time - it's been a while since I saw "K-rad" or "Dewd". Now if we could only rid ourselves of "boi" the world would be a marginally better place.
I suppose it's possible some people say pr0n instead of porn to try and circumvent their company's internet filters, but unlikely.
*TLA - Three Letter Acronym
**ETLA - Extended Three Letter Acronym (Any acronym with more than three letters)
That wasn't a dream. It was a most splendid meal, you you really didn't embarrass yourself much at all considering how much you drank..
... would be if this was real.
Even just a cursory glance at the site reveals it as a hoax - aside from the obvious (but still quite well done) CG "photos", the stuff this guy is claiming to have achieved on his own is way OTT.
Look at the time and resources poured into Sony and Honda's bipedal robot projects - this guy is claiming, singlehandedly, to have gone way above and beyond both of those.
I think most likely this is a rather elaborate advert for mini. Shame. But hey, it's still a cool idea, and maybe someday something like this will be done for real.
What do you mean exactly by "Full advantage of my SB Live"?
MODs (by which I mean the whole spectrum of MOD, XM, S3M, MKM, IT MT2, etc, etc) aren't like GM MIDI files - the playback quality isn't particularly dependant on your hardware. MODs are more akin to MP3, in that it's playing back samples. The difference is that while an MP3 is just one great big long sample, a MOD is a collection of sample "instruments" along with instructions on how to play them back.
Anyways, assuming you're running Windows, XM Play is by far the best MOD player. It's free, and WAY surpasses Winamp's lousy MOD support. Plus you can get plugins to play just about anything in XMPlay, from zipped wavs to NES or C=64 musicdata rips
The graphical adventure on the PC isn't quite dead... not yet.
:)
Perhaps commercially it is - but look how long the text adventure has been dead, and that's got a thriving fan/development community producing some outstanding stuff.. (To learn more about that google around for "Interactive Fiction", "Inform" or "TADS")
And as for graphical adventures - there's some really neat free graphical adventure development systems (SLUDGE Adventure Game Studio) - and of course, if you just want to play the games, there's plenty of those two, including some very polished efforts, such as Out of Order
In short, don't wait for Lucasarts to make the next great adventure - get stuck in and do it yourself!
Excuse me, you appear to have mistaken "Good" for "So damnably godawful I'd rather sit through all 28 hours of 'Goatse: The Musical' while having my pubic hairs plucked one by one than ever watch even a minute of that film again"
:)
It's an easy mistake to make though, so you're forgiven
*points at the wall* Hideki!
:)
:)
Don't forget your mobile - though I could probably live without Sumomo's wake up call..
Okay, so Persocons* aren't likely to happen for some time, but I was thinking, theoretically, these ghosts could be given a kind of real presence..
If the ghost's host/server contained a map of the area the ghost inhabits (haunts?), and users were to wear some kind of semitransparent display glasses (VR style, but seethrough) onto which the ghost could be superimposed.. and the user's display reported it's location/heading/etc back to the host.. well, then, you could effectively have these ghosts wandering around in a real location.
I know, the tech's not there yet, and everyone else seems to have lost interest in the idea of wearable stereo displays.. but I still think they're a neat idea, damnit
(*) For anyone who's wondering WTF Persocons are, it's from a manga/anime called Chobits. It's from the "supernatural girlfriend" school of Manga, and is really very good if you like that sort of thing, which I do. Lots of fan service, too, and quite 'ecchi' in places
A few AI glitches
:)
A few? Oh, come on! I love that game, and have spent absurd amounts of time rampaging around bouncing people off my bumpers [fenders], but be serious. GTA:VC's AI makes yer average brick look like Einstein.
Anyways.. my wishlist for the next installment of GTA -
Proper vehicle damage, ala Viper Racing (remember that?) or better yet, Carmageddon 2 (Remember THAT!)
Guardian-reader-horrifying dismemberment - think Soldier of Fortune 2.. Yes, I am still 13 at heart..
Much expanded property buying - imagine some kind of RTS like element, where gangs can own parts of the city, and there's an ongoing battle of trying to take over the most turf... Now turn that into an online mode!
Ability to use weapons other than the machinegun from cars/bikes. Chainsaw driveby at 120 Mph.. Wheee
Oh, yeah, and AI that doesn't suck, please.. but really, I'm not -that- fussed about that one. It's kinda fun mowing down dumb tards en masse.
Nah. At this rate, I think old age will've had him long before that
What a shame that a thread on a great scientific achievement of interest and benefit to the whole world has to turn into Yet Another Nationalistic Thread. That's Slashdot for you these days though.
Anyways..
will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them
That's quite a dramatic claim you're making there, especially considering there hasn't been a "9/11" since.. well.. 9/11, as it happens. Now would that be due to extreme dilligence on the part of the security forces (remember to watch out for those almanac toting terrorists), or for some other reason..?
Unfortunately our world of seperate church & state can't comprehend the world they live in. Church is everything there.
Okay, this is not a troll.. honestly.. I promise. I'll try to be as gentle as possible here. America is not the greatest country to hold up as being an example of church and state seperation. Sure. On the books it's all seperate, but you just ask Roy "Roy's Rock" Moore, or any of the similarly fanatical, or indeed George "Atheists are not American citizens" Bush. Or indeed anyone who has to take the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag.
It's a PROVEN FACT Iraq was pursuing these weapons.
I can go one better than that. It's a SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN FACT that writing things in caps doesn't necessarily make them true.
Perhaps you could cite some sources for these facts? Because all I seem to see is a big absence of any WMD's, very little in the way of potential development platforms for WMD programs, and what was found was insubstantial to the point of being inconsequential. As for scientists - which scientists have you been listening to? because everything I've heard from them has been stating that there were no WMD programs.
It's incredibly easy to denounce this guy as an obvious idiot - indeed, his stupidity seems absolutely breathtaking, and therefore he deserves all the flak he gets....
Or maybe not.
It's always so easy to denounce things from the other side, for example, lack certain beliefs that some other people hold (I'm staying nonspecific here so's not to get into an argument about religion, or whatever).. to me, it seems absolutely staggering that anyone could possibly believe some of the things I don't - but it's never that simple.
This guy is not of the internet generation - he's older. In my experience to many older people the internet is some "magical computery thing" that can do anything. I know people of that kind of age who are every bit as shrewd, bright, and worldly-wise as their years should suggest, but you tell them you can download money from the internet, and they'll believe you.
Secondly, his wife is partially disabled. That's likely to put financial strain on him and his household. Strain = stress, and stress generates emotional rather than rational thinking.
Thirdly, it's often difficult for people to admit they've been taken for a ride - even very smart people. Put yourself in this situation:
You've been offered a bargain.. it all looks legit, and it's something you really don't want to pass up.. A really nice PC/Mac for $100, mebbe.
So, you send off your $100, and after a while you're informed that due to some oversight, the cost is actually going to be $105.
At this point, you grumble.. but what do you do? Risk throwing in the extra $5 for the machine you really, really want, and prove to yourself that you aren't stupid... or prove that you ARE a complete idiot for falling for it in the first place by trying to get your money back?
It's a pretty devious trap. A lot of people would rather spend a little more to get a "good" result.. and will repeat ad infinitum. A little more.. just a little more.. one more bit.. etc. It's an age old con trick, but it's survived this long with good reason.
Anyways, this has turned into something of a long winded rant.. by basic point is - don't be too quick to judge.
trying to stop movies from reaching the internet is like trying to put a baby back into a woman..
Yesss.. and the difficulty is..?