Wow.. You slashdot people sure a bunch of ignorant fools. First off it should be made clear that anyone who has played the game is certain those people are arabs. Look at them, you'll lose your doubt quickly.
Secondly, You are all arguing that it's realistic, or that we really are facing a problem with arabs, or that there really are arabs in the desert. Whether these things are true or not you are missing the point entirely.
I thought you slashdot people would be smarter than that. The issues isn't reality. It's about a racial bias that has been building up in the United states today. This is a real problem that exists now. A lot of arabs are being treated unfairly and being considered dangerous or evil by millions of americans. Many of the targeted arabs are also americans with that ancestory. I know I've seen a lot of bias and people being treated horribly in the real world. Maybe some of you people need to get out more often and see what really goes on. I've also seen people making a lot of racist comments on the servers.
This brings us back to the real point. What we are really talking about has nothing to do with reality. This is a recruited tool and it is very targeted at children. We are living in a time where many arabs are currently being treated unfairly by people here in America where many of us are living right now. Then this game comes along and reinforces the stereotype. It throws some arabs terrorists at us and gives us a mission that involves killing them. Sure, there are worse things in the world, but is this really necessary. Remember, this is targeted at children. All I'm saying is that when they made a decision to include those arabs on those levels they were being sort of irresponsible. The are reinforicing a dangerous stereotype that has been harming many people in there day to day lives.
I hope that there are at least a few people out there on slashdot that leave there houses and have seen that racism is a real thing.
Nobody else seems to have commented on this, so I will. Has anyone noticed that on one of the desert missions you play the American's and of course you must fight the "terrorists" who are obviously arab. It's pretty sick that our tax payer dollars are being used to promote these racist ideals. They encourage children to play these games, and we all know that a lot of the people playing are very young. Does anyone else see something wrong with calling arabs terrorists and letting you be an American that kills them in a tax payer funded game. What are we teaching our children here?
I wrote a letter complaining a while back but received no response. I hope that others out there will complain to the dev team and have the racism removed from the game.
Anyone remember the rainbow books? The DOD and NCSA had all their standards for computer security. It was all found in a huge multivolume set of books that presented the most rediculous guidelines on security. When using bureaucratic guidelines for computer security it seems most people miss the point. You can't secure a server by following a bunch of formal and abstract rules. If you want to secure a system you need to use a person that understands how the system works and where the vulnerable points would be. Setting a bunch of standards just gives a false sense of security. I enjoyed the rainbow books because their highest classifications of security can still allow for simple services/daemons that could have holes and be running as a root user. This becomes very evident when you look realize military systems usually have terrible security. You find unpatched daemons, unpassworded accounts, etc. It's too bad that most people out there can't understand what is wrong with the bureaucratic method.
Bigger media doesn't mean less piracy at all. You could lower the quality when you rip it. Meaning, someone could easily take an HD-DVD 90 minute movie and make it a lower (about VHS) quality movie that takes up between 500 and 700 megs. Most DVD rips on the P2P networks are not even close to DVD quality.
The advantage of course of having much higher quality media on the originals than the bootlegs is that some people are going to want the much better quality and will pay for it. But of course, as storage gets better people won't mind having a 2gig divx file that seems to be about DVD quality.
The movie companies will not be able to eliminate this piracy, just like the music companies will not be able to eliminate their piracy . They will have to learn to live with it. The piracy doesn't have to cut into their profits. If they make buying the real thing more worthwhile (perhaps by including extras), and more affordable then they will keep doing fine.
They could keep attempting to attack the P2P, and even be successful. The gnutella protocol has many flaws. But if they are successful someone will take the time to design a better protocol that fixes the flaws and probably will make pirating the software even easier. It could be slowed down for now, but definitely not for any noteworthy amount of time.
Most of these studies are silly. You must realize that people who play video games more than 2 hours a day have a tendency to have other things in common besides just playing video games. While it may be true that the prefrontal lobe has less activity (and even that is questionable and what that means is questionable), even if that is the case blaming video games may be invalid. It could be many other things besides the video games.
For example a study a few years back demonstrated that short men are less likely to have children, and concluded that the men must be less fertile, not taking into account the ways of our society and that women are supposed to be attracted to tall men.
Another study showed that women who regularly have unprotected sex are much less likely to suffer from depression. The conclusion was that something in the semen was being absorbed through the skin and having a chemical reaction. This of course is probably rediculous because one should know that women that are willing to regularly have unprotected sex tend to have different personalities then women who have no sex, or who have protected sex. Of course, it would be nice to be able to tell women that your semen is more effective than prozac.
The point to be made is that people always are able to prove what they want to prove. These weak inductive proofs found in these studies are quite rediculous and should be ignored. What should not be ignorded is the studies themselves. While the conclusions may be rediculous, quite often the data in the study can be worth looking at.
That's a more clear story as to what really happened, but as always the media's ignorance and bad choices of words distort everything.
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click here
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately most people can't comprehend the idea of AI's having any sort of rights. Of course not because they are just programs or robots, and anyway we made them. I doubt humans will be able to discover that some of these robots will probably end up being less robotic than most humans.
It's certain that we will learn the hard way but here in the US we'll probably have a ton of laws regulating AI.
I often wonder how long it will be til we have true strong AI. It probably won't be something that develops over a very long period of time. Much more likely a few things will happen surprisingly and overnight and then develop more into the mainstream over several years.
Even this way someone still needs to do that. A library gives a common interface and can support multiple chipsets and be upgraded to support newer chipsets. If they made a library people could implement it in their already existing programs and keep their styles of programming similiar in their newer works. I'd be curious to see some code from cg. I'm just worried that the language and compiler may have limitations.
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Wow.. You slashdot people sure a bunch of ignorant fools. First off it should be made clear that anyone who has played the game is certain those people are arabs. Look at them, you'll lose your doubt quickly.
Secondly, You are all arguing that it's realistic, or that we really are facing a problem with arabs, or that there really are arabs in the desert. Whether these things are true or not you are missing the point entirely.
I thought you slashdot people would be smarter than that. The issues isn't reality. It's about a racial bias that has been building up in the United states today. This is a real problem that exists now. A lot of arabs are being treated unfairly and being considered dangerous or evil by millions of americans. Many of the targeted arabs are also americans with that ancestory. I know I've seen a lot of bias and people being treated horribly in the real world. Maybe some of you people need to get out more often and see what really goes on. I've also seen people making a lot of racist comments on the servers.
This brings us back to the real point. What we are really talking about has nothing to do with reality. This is a recruited tool and it is very targeted at children. We are living in a time where many arabs are currently being treated unfairly by people here in America where many of us are living right now. Then this game comes along and reinforces the stereotype. It throws some arabs terrorists at us and gives us a mission that involves killing them. Sure, there are worse things in the world, but is this really necessary. Remember, this is targeted at children. All I'm saying is that when they made a decision to include those arabs on those levels they were being sort of irresponsible. The are reinforicing a dangerous stereotype that has been harming many people in there day to day lives.
I hope that there are at least a few people out there on slashdot that leave there houses and have seen that racism is a real thing.
Nobody else seems to have commented on this, so I will. Has anyone noticed that on one of the desert missions you play the American's and of course you must fight the "terrorists" who are obviously arab. It's pretty sick that our tax payer dollars are being used to promote these racist ideals. They encourage children to play these games, and we all know that a lot of the people playing are very young. Does anyone else see something wrong with calling arabs terrorists and letting you be an American that kills them in a tax payer funded game. What are we teaching our children here? I wrote a letter complaining a while back but received no response. I hope that others out there will complain to the dev team and have the racism removed from the game.
Anyone remember the rainbow books? The DOD and NCSA had all their standards for computer security. It was all found in a huge multivolume set of books that presented the most rediculous guidelines on security. When using bureaucratic guidelines for computer security it seems most people miss the point. You can't secure a server by following a bunch of formal and abstract rules. If you want to secure a system you need to use a person that understands how the system works and where the vulnerable points would be. Setting a bunch of standards just gives a false sense of security. I enjoyed the rainbow books because their highest classifications of security can still allow for simple services/daemons that could have holes and be running as a root user. This becomes very evident when you look realize military systems usually have terrible security. You find unpatched daemons, unpassworded accounts, etc. It's too bad that most people out there can't understand what is wrong with the bureaucratic method.
Bigger media doesn't mean less piracy at all. You could lower the quality when you rip it. Meaning, someone could easily take an HD-DVD 90 minute movie and make it a lower (about VHS) quality movie that takes up between 500 and 700 megs. Most DVD rips on the P2P networks are not even close to DVD quality.
The advantage of course of having much higher quality media on the originals than the bootlegs is that some people are going to want the much better quality and will pay for it. But of course, as storage gets better people won't mind having a 2gig divx file that seems to be about DVD quality.
The movie companies will not be able to eliminate this piracy, just like the music companies will not be able to eliminate their piracy . They will have to learn to live with it. The piracy doesn't have to cut into their profits. If they make buying the real thing more worthwhile (perhaps by including extras), and more affordable then they will keep doing fine.
They could keep attempting to attack the P2P, and even be successful. The gnutella protocol has many flaws. But if they are successful someone will take the time to design a better protocol that fixes the flaws and probably will make pirating the software even easier. It could be slowed down for now, but definitely not for any noteworthy amount of time.
This guy was selling a line of 413 pirated games and didn't know what he was doing was illegal? It sounds like he deserves what he got.
Most of these studies are silly. You must realize that people who play video games more than 2 hours a day have a tendency to have other things in common besides just playing video games. While it may be true that the prefrontal lobe has less activity (and even that is questionable and what that means is questionable), even if that is the case blaming video games may be invalid. It could be many other things besides the video games. For example a study a few years back demonstrated that short men are less likely to have children, and concluded that the men must be less fertile, not taking into account the ways of our society and that women are supposed to be attracted to tall men. Another study showed that women who regularly have unprotected sex are much less likely to suffer from depression. The conclusion was that something in the semen was being absorbed through the skin and having a chemical reaction. This of course is probably rediculous because one should know that women that are willing to regularly have unprotected sex tend to have different personalities then women who have no sex, or who have protected sex. Of course, it would be nice to be able to tell women that your semen is more effective than prozac. The point to be made is that people always are able to prove what they want to prove. These weak inductive proofs found in these studies are quite rediculous and should be ignored. What should not be ignorded is the studies themselves. While the conclusions may be rediculous, quite often the data in the study can be worth looking at.
That's a more clear story as to what really happened, but as always the media's ignorance and bad choices of words distort everything. To make the link work remove the space or click here
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately most people can't comprehend the idea of AI's having any sort of rights. Of course not because they are just programs or robots, and anyway we made them. I doubt humans will be able to discover that some of these robots will probably end up being less robotic than most humans.
It's certain that we will learn the hard way but here in the US we'll probably have a ton of laws regulating AI.
I often wonder how long it will be til we have true strong AI. It probably won't be something that develops over a very long period of time. Much more likely a few things will happen surprisingly and overnight and then develop more into the mainstream over several years.
I guess my worrying isn't that off
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Even this way someone still needs to do that. A library gives a common interface and can support multiple chipsets and be upgraded to support newer chipsets. If they made a library people could implement it in their already existing programs and keep their styles of programming similiar in their newer works. I'd be curious to see some code from cg. I'm just worried that the language and compiler may have limitations.
Why make a new language with it's own compiler for this? Wouldn't it make much more sense to make some libraries?