User: BirdTracker

Re:4-bit representation of checkerboard texture

On: First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code

This is even better:

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Half the size and you just have to add a shift operation.

Re:How is this impressive?

On: CMU First To Qualify For DARPA Grand Challenge

They are going to be traveling through a dynamic landscape, they aren't just driving over sand dunes or across open desert. They are given waypoints, but the waypoints are each a mile or two apart which leaves plenty of room for pathfinding in the middle.

If the military invades with these, they aren't just going to tell it to go somewhere and kill someone, they are going to give the machines very specific directions. If they dont have a map...they could probably get one in a few hours anyway, so I don't think that will be a big issue.

Re:Why the memory generation won't work

On: Real Pain Dulled In Virtual Worlds

Since the technology is still fairly new, I believe that they will only be able to use it for a fairly narrow spectrum of problems.

As the article said, they are attempting to make it customizable in some respects. So if you are a schizophrenic, you may end up in a VR room with distorted paintings of your grandma telling you to kill everyone around you.

Re:Press button to kill 10,000 people [ok][cancel]

On: Army to use MMOG for Simulation Training

Plus the fact that the way the current military is moving is to less destructive weapons so that we do not have to kill the families. The US military could have flattened Bahgdad and any other force that resisted us without as much danger to the troops, but that is not the point anymore.

That's why you don't hear about carpet bombing anymore unless you are watching the history channel (Which is one of the best stations IMO).

Drink up(NASA)!!!

On: Spirit Rover Lands Successfully

You deserve it.