Most major roadways (at least in my moderately sized city of around 4 million) have traffic cameras all up and down them that are freely accessible. I'm guessing this would be a valid strategy - run image analysis on all of the traffic cams you can get your hands on for red balloons.
Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the purpose of the contest is - to get someone to develop this software for them.
This sounds like a great approach. If you read my post below, many of the teams start at what you have called the Conscious Individual. If they finish that with enough time, I've seen them move on to the Squad and Command levels also. The main difference though is that since our game state has traditionally been pretty simple, there hasn't been a need to compose a simpler model of the state for the upper levels.
The multi-tiered AI approach does seem very useful and intuitive though.
The ACM Chapter that I preside over at Missouri S&T (Formerly the University of Missouri - Rolla) has been writing simple RTS games with AI APIs for the last two semesters. We're currently working on a third game to add to our repertoire.
We host a tournament at the end of each semester and invite anyone that will come - the main site is at http://acm.mst.edu/~mstai. The API is easy enough to get a handle on that a C++ novice could pick it up and do something with it within a few hours.
Competitors are given 24 hours to write their AI, then we pit them against each other. Generally speaking, for the RTS style games we have written, AIs that act on an individual unit level only perform the best (both in execution time and scoring). This is probably due to the 24 hour time limit imposed, but it does show that even simple/greedy algorithms can perform well in game AI situations.
I believe the winning team of our first tournament had an algorithm that went like this:
for each unit:
doBestActionForUnit(unit)
I was going to buy RA3 - I rarely buy games, but I loved the RA / C&C series. Now that I know that it's coming out with such a "screw the consumer" attitude attached to it, I will definitely not be purchasing it.
I will be getting the game before it is available in retail now, I'm sure. For free, without restrictions or phoning home. Props to all of the groups out there that make this possible - without you, PC gaming would be dieing much faster at the hands of companies like EA.
I'm seriously at the point where if I could find the contact information of individual artists (in the case of music) or developers, I'd gladly send "donations" along their way for their hard work so I could still contribute to the creators without supporting the RIAA/EA/etc
Solution for facebook:
Just make it so no one can see your stuff unless they're your friend. That should frustrate most HR people enough to not dig any further.
PC police, coming in!
In Spanish, every word has a masculine and feminine form. When there is a mix of males and females, the masculine form is used. When it's ambiguous, the masculine form is used.
Replacing pronouns with he/she, him/her, etc is simply redundant. You're not accomplishing anything with it other than pacifying some overzealous feminazis.
Wouldn't this be dangerous in an airplane? 2 seconds is a pretty big window of time between when a pilot might decide to do something and when he actually does it. During those two seconds, a lot could happen - unexpected turbulence, new weather data, a gust of wind on the runway, etc. If the computer acts on the command two seconds before the pilot intends for it to happen, bad things could happen.
I just read the description to where it says "programmer is caught up in a coding session, and would much rather not break their creative flow by searching Web sites for the needed information, or stepping away from their computer to hunt for a reference book." I'm sorry, but if you rely on this 'creative flow' to program, your programs probably aren't that great. Good programs aren't the result of quickly written code - they are the result of thought, design, and effort. The mysql site has great documentation. Google will fill in the gaps if you're in need. The creative portion of the programming process should be well done before the code starts hitting the screen.
The original poster should release his modified client. Even better: the client should be modified to visit popular torrent sites and acquire several.torrent files. It would then connect to the respective tracker and do it's thing.
There would be so many false positives, the Media companies would have to have another way of finding offenders. They can't upload the files to you - that would imply them giving you permission to download the files. I'm not familiar with the specifics of the protocol, but this seems like a good way to create a pretty large smoke screen that would dilute the efforts of the major media companies.
Yep - you can do it all online or download an app that does the same thing. It just generates card numbers with your name, address, etc. And it's free. For Visa or Mastercard or whatever else Citi issues.
I read most of the comments above me, but I didn't see any mention of this. Nullity is a term used in linear algebra to describe the dimension of the null space of a vector space. It isn't as widely used as rank is; however, it still exists.
Would privacy laws somehow play into this? Do the baseball players have a reasonable expectation to privacy if they are surrounded by tens of thousands of fans, each of whom may have a device that is capable of recording the players?
I do not think so. If someone takes a picture of me at a busy street corner, there is little I can do about it - I don't have a reasonable expectation to privacy there. Anyone can write about what I did at that street corner whether I like it or not as long as it is truthful.
If this is decided on the side of the players, then will cameras that record me on public streets need to be removed? I would have the same expectation to privacy that the baseball players would, and the cameras would be (basically) collecting statistical information on me (where I go, what I'm doing, etc.). Would I hold the copyright to every frame that the camera captures with me on it? I would hardly think so.
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I don't know about you guys but I don't need nano parts for my geek "gear";).
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Most major roadways (at least in my moderately sized city of around 4 million) have traffic cameras all up and down them that are freely accessible. I'm guessing this would be a valid strategy - run image analysis on all of the traffic cams you can get your hands on for red balloons.
Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the purpose of the contest is - to get someone to develop this software for them.
This sounds like a great approach. If you read my post below, many of the teams start at what you have called the Conscious Individual. If they finish that with enough time, I've seen them move on to the Squad and Command levels also. The main difference though is that since our game state has traditionally been pretty simple, there hasn't been a need to compose a simpler model of the state for the upper levels.
The multi-tiered AI approach does seem very useful and intuitive though.
The ACM Chapter that I preside over at Missouri S&T (Formerly the University of Missouri - Rolla) has been writing simple RTS games with AI APIs for the last two semesters. We're currently working on a third game to add to our repertoire. We host a tournament at the end of each semester and invite anyone that will come - the main site is at http://acm.mst.edu/~mstai. The API is easy enough to get a handle on that a C++ novice could pick it up and do something with it within a few hours. Competitors are given 24 hours to write their AI, then we pit them against each other. Generally speaking, for the RTS style games we have written, AIs that act on an individual unit level only perform the best (both in execution time and scoring). This is probably due to the 24 hour time limit imposed, but it does show that even simple/greedy algorithms can perform well in game AI situations. I believe the winning team of our first tournament had an algorithm that went like this: for each unit: doBestActionForUnit(unit)
I was going to buy RA3 - I rarely buy games, but I loved the RA / C&C series. Now that I know that it's coming out with such a "screw the consumer" attitude attached to it, I will definitely not be purchasing it. I will be getting the game before it is available in retail now, I'm sure. For free, without restrictions or phoning home. Props to all of the groups out there that make this possible - without you, PC gaming would be dieing much faster at the hands of companies like EA. I'm seriously at the point where if I could find the contact information of individual artists (in the case of music) or developers, I'd gladly send "donations" along their way for their hard work so I could still contribute to the creators without supporting the RIAA/EA/etc
Solution for facebook: Just make it so no one can see your stuff unless they're your friend. That should frustrate most HR people enough to not dig any further.
No point in beating a dead horse.
PC police, coming in! In Spanish, every word has a masculine and feminine form. When there is a mix of males and females, the masculine form is used. When it's ambiguous, the masculine form is used. Replacing pronouns with he/she, him/her, etc is simply redundant. You're not accomplishing anything with it other than pacifying some overzealous feminazis.
Wouldn't this be dangerous in an airplane? 2 seconds is a pretty big window of time between when a pilot might decide to do something and when he actually does it. During those two seconds, a lot could happen - unexpected turbulence, new weather data, a gust of wind on the runway, etc. If the computer acts on the command two seconds before the pilot intends for it to happen, bad things could happen.
"Once installed and set up, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive offers up an actual formatted capacity of about 935GB"
I'm sorry I can't pull a specific link for you, but if you go look at the reviews of 500gb drives on Newegg or Outpost or other online sites...
You'll find reviews that say "Only got 450 gigs on my 500 gig drive but it's close enough, I give it 3 stars!"
This is true; I guess I really meant that it's easy to find function names and parameter lists (since that's what these cards are designed for.)
I just read the description to where it says "programmer is caught up in a coding session, and would much rather not break their creative flow by searching Web sites for the needed information, or stepping away from their computer to hunt for a reference book." I'm sorry, but if you rely on this 'creative flow' to program, your programs probably aren't that great. Good programs aren't the result of quickly written code - they are the result of thought, design, and effort. The mysql site has great documentation. Google will fill in the gaps if you're in need. The creative portion of the programming process should be well done before the code starts hitting the screen.
Speed and size to name a few... it's also easily integrable into C/C++ programs. The second link actually has a long list of Lua benefits.
Anyone computer illiterate whose default homepage is MSN...
The original poster should release his modified client. Even better: the client should be modified to visit popular torrent sites and acquire several .torrent files. It would then connect to the respective tracker and do it's thing.
There would be so many false positives, the Media companies would have to have another way of finding offenders. They can't upload the files to you - that would imply them giving you permission to download the files. I'm not familiar with the specifics of the protocol, but this seems like a good way to create a pretty large smoke screen that would dilute the efforts of the major media companies.
Yep - you can do it all online or download an app that does the same thing. It just generates card numbers with your name, address, etc. And it's free. For Visa or Mastercard or whatever else Citi issues.
I read most of the comments above me, but I didn't see any mention of this. Nullity is a term used in linear algebra to describe the dimension of the null space of a vector space. It isn't as widely used as rank is; however, it still exists.
Or is it?
I'm in my freshman year of college and I've already learned OOP... some places must really be backwards.
Would privacy laws somehow play into this? Do the baseball players have a reasonable expectation to privacy if they are surrounded by tens of thousands of fans, each of whom may have a device that is capable of recording the players?
I do not think so. If someone takes a picture of me at a busy street corner, there is little I can do about it - I don't have a reasonable expectation to privacy there. Anyone can write about what I did at that street corner whether I like it or not as long as it is truthful.
If this is decided on the side of the players, then will cameras that record me on public streets need to be removed? I would have the same expectation to privacy that the baseball players would, and the cameras would be (basically) collecting statistical information on me (where I go, what I'm doing, etc.). Would I hold the copyright to every frame that the camera captures with me on it? I would hardly think so.
talks about current research and when we can expect nano-parts for our geek gear I don't know about you guys but I don't need nano parts for my geek "gear" ;).
-1000 redundand. Sorry I didn't read everything before I posted the links.
Patent #5,594,289 and Patent #4,751,486 Both for Magnetic Rotating Apparatus.