I can't speak about hymned songs, but I'll tell you all one thing: I upgrade to itunes 4.6 and as soon as I rebooted, all of the songs that I downloaded (illegally) recently have been DELETED from my hard drive. They still show up in the itunes playlists, but when I try to play them a message comes up that the original file can't be found. Sure enough, they are completely gone. Which solves the mystery of why I had more hard disk space after my software update. I'm actually really shocked, and I haven't found anything about this on the apple forums. Let me repeat: itunes went in and erased about three dozen songs from my computer. "Minor enhancements" my ass.
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Sending our beer cans to the sun might eventually lead to a shortage of aluminum, but it seems like the best possibly long term solution to nuclear waste storage.
When I was nine or ten we played a version of Gamma World (a post-apocalyptic D&D variant) without paper, stats, rulebooks, dice, etc. Just me and my friend talking, player and GM. Whatever wacky action I came up with, the GM would have an answer for it and the story would go from there. Because he hadn't spent days planning "dungeons", drawing maps, creating NPCs, etc. there was no need to keep the player on-topic. The GM simply improvised everything.
If a game is going to allow a player a much larger set of options than currently available in single-player games, you're going to need an AI that can write scenarios from scratch. The player needs to get off the island but he's destroyed the boat? Okay, so now it's a game about being on the island.
AI is nowhere near that kind of creativity. Asking a computer to have a logical and entertaining response to anything is like asking it to pass a turing test. You might as well ask an AI to write the next Harry Potter book.
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I can't speak about hymned songs, but I'll tell you all one thing: I upgrade to itunes 4.6 and as soon as I rebooted, all of the songs that I downloaded (illegally) recently have been DELETED from my hard drive. They still show up in the itunes playlists, but when I try to play them a message comes up that the original file can't be found. Sure enough, they are completely gone. Which solves the mystery of why I had more hard disk space after my software update. I'm actually really shocked, and I haven't found anything about this on the apple forums. Let me repeat: itunes went in and erased about three dozen songs from my computer. "Minor enhancements" my ass.
Sending our beer cans to the sun might eventually lead to a shortage of aluminum, but it seems like the best possibly long term solution to nuclear waste storage.
When I was nine or ten we played a version of Gamma World (a post-apocalyptic D&D variant) without paper, stats, rulebooks, dice, etc. Just me and my friend talking, player and GM. Whatever wacky action I came up with, the GM would have an answer for it and the story would go from there. Because he hadn't spent days planning "dungeons", drawing maps, creating NPCs, etc. there was no need to keep the player on-topic. The GM simply improvised everything. If a game is going to allow a player a much larger set of options than currently available in single-player games, you're going to need an AI that can write scenarios from scratch. The player needs to get off the island but he's destroyed the boat? Okay, so now it's a game about being on the island. AI is nowhere near that kind of creativity. Asking a computer to have a logical and entertaining response to anything is like asking it to pass a turing test. You might as well ask an AI to write the next Harry Potter book.