most of those 'brilliant' code breaking events involved local japanese speakers and gaining access to encryption machines and keys. This is usually referred to as 'dumb luck'
Huh? Are we attacking saudi arabia? What the fuck are you talking about moron? The head of the iraqi bio-warfare labs was a woman. Iraq was the most secular nation in the whole region. Saddam styled himself after the soviet union and communism as much as possible and this involved free religious expression and equality for women.
If you haven't figured it out yet, these studies are commissioned as part of a propaganda war to brainwash fools like yourself into believing we're invading countries to bring equality to their women or democracy or to take down wmd's and now networking X( . Don't you realize there are a number of emotional issues that are used to justify this war? However, there is no sensible official explanation as to why we went there.
so it was said yesteryear, when each factory had their own energy production facilities, whether they were coal , gas or hydro power. Now everyone relies on centralized electricity. This time is coming faster than you think.
I think the point here is to reduce local admin to a skeleton staff. The US IT market is almost completely developed ane there is no need to spend 6 figure salaries that were required to build a rapidly growing infrastructure. Further development in the USA is cost prohibitive when you consider existing competition and the rewards aren't sufficient to attempt yet another venture. For example the next internet gimmick could be run on rented servers in foreign countries because of lower costs.
Capital, if it is to grow, has to keep moving to greener pastures. The ultimate point I think, is for such companies to gain experience and build their own local infrastructure in asia which will ultimately prove more successful. These new companies may end up swallowing the old american companies as far as congressional approvals will allow.(think big payouts for the execs) Everything new and interesting is eventually going to move to Asia because of the sheer population density while the US remains a relative backwater.
If you're smart you'll get into the weapons engineering market and get in on our chief export: security. These companies will stay Caucasian for as long as I care to prognosticate, so as far as I can tell it's the only remaining lifetime employment industry america has.
The resistance to cholera and malaria has served the asians positively as well. The lack of these genes prevented europe from decimating them as completely as people in the americas. And in the americas the lack of immunity to influenza and small pox destroyed the native americans far more effectively than any of the european killing sprees. evolution is all around us =)
What? Risk one's own career to save the proles? If I remember anything from my socialization only the financially successful are worthy of admiration. If you're leaking secrets after getting privileged access to the secrets of the wealthy, you deserve what you get. I hope they rape and acid wash all the leakers when they find them. It's not a question of if. People this stupid, those who would trade riches for praise from the proles will make mistakes and will be caught. Good riddens.
the original parent was a bit off the mark lumping the vocal retards as a representation of the majority view, but your ridiculously retarded retort isn't helping the situation any.
If you think Europe hasn't had its share of untouchables, namely the lowly polack migrants, the gypsies and various other subhuman castes of europeans then you are extremely misinformed. Every society has had, and still has a disdain of the working class, the poor, the weak and the sick; generally people who have through no fault of their own are destined to live in the rough, and cruel fringes of society, where human beings are still trafficked like livestock and life is worth very little. The ultra rich in america would never think of even passing through certain sections of america. These people were at a loss to explain why evacuation plans for katrina could not assume that everyone had a car and family scattered in suburbs all across america. These same rich people in america would NEVER think of visiting the land of starving african skeletors plagues by insect infestations, disease and malnutrition. In fact would you? The peacecorps is admirable in theory but a very large percentage of us would never raise a finger to help the horrible conditions in darfur or the various other deplorable regions of the world. Do you have any idea why we find paris hilton's antics on her show kind of strange? Today, right now there is a global underclass, a global batch of untouchables that only the most pious, principled individuals would go out of their way to aid (mother theresa comes to mind). In fact religious orders all over the world exist and have existed to keep this class sedated. The hindus had their religious order to spread their BS about karma and the christians had their BS about the elect, and divine right of kings for the dirty dirty serfs (let's not forget concubines, primanocte etc hmm? )
The original poster wasn't fair in lumping all slashdot americans into the same misinformed racist category that you inhabit, but you have not acquitted yourself any more admirably.
if you liked descent make sure you aren't missing out on the freespace 2 source code project. It's free and people keep making excellent new mods. There's a great babylon project mod but there's an even better battle star galactica mod in the works =)
When I play games to relax I've always rather enjoyed predictability of replaying an old mission. It's a great feeling to zip around thinking 'foolish AI! trix are for kids':D I guess it's different for different people
I know you don't want to hear this, but there's nothing wrong with game AI. Game AI always has to be a tease for the user, just a little hard to stress test some new skill the character needs, but never impossible. Obviously this is a contrivance, game AI's are nothing more than a little resistance to make everyone feel that they earned their way into the next step of the story. It's a little like the hazing one undergoes to join a club and this plot device is very effective in all the conflict category of games. The real fun of these games is to play multiplayer after you have acheived a reasonable level of proficiency with weapons, strategy and techniques. Ultimately, the point of conquering a foe in a conflict game is to show complete mastery over it, and for the majority of us there's no thrill to be had in mastering a game console with a limited storyline. Heck i could just chuck the console out the window if I really wanted to beat the reptilian invaders from gonzor:D.
When people whine about not having good opponents they're really whining about not having the ability to show off their talents in mastering something worthwhile; something difficult that would thrust them into the rarefied world of mythic heroes. This is why tetris, space invaders and games of that ilk were successes. The game would keep getting harder and faster and your talent was showcased by the point score you could attain and the initials you could leave at the arcade. The real competition has always been between people, either indirectly in the case of arcade games like space invaders or directly in the modern multiplayer arena. With franchises like the CPL rewarding this type of skill there is now a reason to hone one's skill in this arena well past your teens.(this holds true for professional sports as well) The point is people don't really want amazingly hard advanced AI they just want something all of their loser friends can't beat but they handily can. This is also why people cry foul at gold farming and ebaying in rpg's. There's no point in striving to get a lvl 5000 sword of the beyondness if any shmuck can just buy it. The whole point is to lord it around the water cooler like a new BMW or new shoes. It's fairly immature high school stuff but that's really the key point in this issue. People are looking to become elites by their proficiency at mass market games. It's idiotic but that's the way the market goes.
The point is AI in these games are just fine. All you need to do is create standard levels with more and more obstacles, that filter the giants from the peons. We need levels that allow people to say 'HEY, I beat the crazy level with a troop disparity of a 1000:1 and there was a great ending but I can't tell you just how awesome it was.' Now this annoys the low-end gamer who seems to think he paid to play the complete story so he gets turned off games and that's another sale that won't happen for the next iteration of the game. So the important aspect of this model is balance. The GTA franchise did this pretty handily with the side missions idea. You can play the main thread of the story easily but you'll never get a 100% completion rate without doing the side missions which in the end makes no difference to the ending but you miss other cut scenes the hardcore elite player would see, and miss out on bonus powerups and the sheer elitism factor of finding all the hidden packages.... WHEEEEEEEE.
The point is to find a method to create elites in games who will crow about their abilities and actively get involved in selling more games than just your advertising alone can. It works out for them because it reinforces their elite status by increasing the morass of worthless average players and it also improves your bottom line by making more sales. Remember the point isn't the AI, the point is to play human psychology for all the ka-ching it's worth.
Fact:The US controls all traffic around each tap point in iraq. One general referred to it as the steel ring. Unauthorized foreign access is always met with overwhelming force. At least one article mentions an iraqi vessel being sunk when it trespassed the area of control.
Fact:There are several stories about missing/unaccounted reconstruction money that the US govt sent to companies in iraq to rehabilitate the region. This sum numbers in the billions.
Fact:There are several cnn reports that state that there is a lot of oil being somehow looted and there's no way to track it because it isn't metered.
Fact:There are several stories about US contractors being caught bribing officials.
Now let's be intellectually honest. How do you know you're missing oil if it's not metered? How does one loot oil from a pipeline? These pipes are over 9ft in diameter are made of steel and are 5-6 inches thick. and are designed to move oil at a rate of 1000gals/sec. One can't just punch a little hole in it and tap out some oil. It's not a wee little coconut that you can stick a straw in and sip a little juice from.
Fact: oil companies are rolling in profits we're paying higher gas prices at our pumps but only because the oil companies have to pay higher prices to Middle East oil barons and they've had losses in refiner productivity due to katrina. That is supposedly they're only passing on an increase in costs to us the consumer.
Now either we're in some kind of crazy voodoo capitalism that allows american oil companies to increase gas prices to match costs and somehow come out with huge profits OR they're selling black market oil along with the real stuff. On paper there's no justification for prosecuting them but I doubt their accounting for gallons of oil purchased, refined and sold will tally properly.
This is what happens when illiterate boobs with no understanding of history are allowed to vote. They have no idea society has already struggled through all of these crises and realized working together is the better option. Privatized security whether from criminal action or from disease is not workable in the long run. If you want to see what privatized security looks like take a look at africa, without the concept of a nation state all you have are a series of private security/gangs running around looking out solely for themselves and only leads to the overall degradation of the standard of living in the majority of the african continent. This is why all successful countries have national militaries. A patient should be allowed to die if he/she so choses but there should never be a revocation of the social contract that we all stand together through thick and thin because we are americans. The biggest problem I think is that american public schools never teach simple morality tales to kids. Something as simple as aesop's fables would do. I remember a simple lesson I learned as a kid
United we stand, divided we fall.
It was simply taught, the teacher asked us to break some sticks individually then she tied another bundle together and asked us to take a shot.
Heck why stop there? why pay taxes? Let's privatize security, national defense, municipal services etc. I think there was a word for such a society. It was called hmmm F-E-U-D-A-L-I-S-M. Do you remember what that is moron?
guess what genius? The software is designed to be packaged by your local package maintainer, the designer has left the design open and created a generic configuration system that can be used by a maintainer for fine grained control. If you're compiling from source then you're expected to spend a little extra time upfront to save trouble later and you're doing it either because you love it or someone is paying you to do it.
The problem with MS software is that they optimize too far ahead of time, trusting their own capabilities at predicting every possible usage and failure mode at their company instead of trusting the software user to know what he's doing. For those that can't handle the responsibility, either hire or use the services of your distro maintainer.
Gentlemen this really is the problem with freedom, the sheeple don't know how to handle it.
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most of those 'brilliant' code breaking events involved local japanese speakers and gaining access to encryption machines and keys. This is usually referred to as 'dumb luck'
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Huh? Are we attacking saudi arabia? What the fuck are you talking about moron? The head of the iraqi bio-warfare labs was a woman. Iraq was the most secular nation in the whole region. Saddam styled himself after the soviet union and communism as much as possible and this involved free religious expression and equality for women.
If you haven't figured it out yet, these studies are commissioned as part of a propaganda war to brainwash fools like yourself into believing we're invading countries to bring equality to their women or democracy or to take down wmd's and now networking X( . Don't you realize there are a number of emotional issues that are used to justify this war? However, there is no sensible official explanation as to why we went there.
lol, a masterful troll or you're an idiot.
the key word being 'backup' wiseass.
OHHH SNAAAP the moron got hit with the clue train.
i thought that was the conservative mantra.
Regardless, I agree with your basic premise. Stupid people should shut up. The problem is that they're too stupid to know they're stupid.
so it was said yesteryear, when each factory had their own energy production facilities, whether they were coal , gas or hydro power. Now everyone relies on centralized electricity. This time is coming faster than you think.
damn you Guns Germs Steel you lied to me! =)
I think the point here is to reduce local admin to a skeleton staff. The US IT market is almost completely developed ane there is no need to spend 6 figure salaries that were required to build a rapidly growing infrastructure. Further development in the USA is cost prohibitive when you consider existing competition and the rewards aren't sufficient to attempt yet another venture. For example the next internet gimmick could be run on rented servers in foreign countries because of lower costs.
Capital, if it is to grow, has to keep moving to greener pastures. The ultimate point I think, is for such companies to gain experience and build their own local infrastructure in asia which will ultimately prove more successful. These new companies may end up swallowing the old american companies as far as congressional approvals will allow.(think big payouts for the execs) Everything new and interesting is eventually going to move to Asia because of the sheer population density while the US remains a relative backwater.
If you're smart you'll get into the weapons engineering market and get in on our chief export: security. These companies will stay Caucasian for as long as I care to prognosticate, so as far as I can tell it's the only remaining lifetime employment industry america has.
The resistance to cholera and malaria has served the asians positively as well. The lack of these genes prevented europe from decimating them as completely as people in the americas. And in the americas the lack of immunity to influenza and small pox destroyed the native americans far more effectively than any of the european killing sprees. evolution is all around us =)
Send the IT director on a one way trip to Basra
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taste: a property of a creative endeavor that allows it to provoke good thought for eventual commoditization as prolefeed.
What? Risk one's own career to save the proles? If I remember anything from my socialization only the financially successful are worthy of admiration. If you're leaking secrets after getting privileged access to the secrets of the wealthy, you deserve what you get. I hope they rape and acid wash all the leakers when they find them. It's not a question of if. People this stupid, those who would trade riches for praise from the proles will make mistakes and will be caught. Good riddens.
-Staunch Neo-Conservative
Fukov you are wrong as usual!
I know.
the original parent was a bit off the mark lumping the vocal retards as a representation of the majority view, but your ridiculously retarded retort isn't helping the situation any.
If you think Europe hasn't had its share of untouchables, namely the lowly polack migrants, the gypsies and various other subhuman castes of europeans then you are extremely misinformed. Every society has had, and still has a disdain of the working class, the poor, the weak and the sick; generally people who have through no fault of their own are destined to live in the rough, and cruel fringes of society, where human beings are still trafficked like livestock and life is worth very little. The ultra rich in america would never think of even passing through certain sections of america. These people were at a loss to explain why evacuation plans for katrina could not assume that everyone had a car and family scattered in suburbs all across america. These same rich people in america would NEVER think of visiting the land of starving african skeletors plagues by insect infestations, disease and malnutrition. In fact would you? The peacecorps is admirable in theory but a very large percentage of us would never raise a finger to help the horrible conditions in darfur or the various other deplorable regions of the world. Do you have any idea why we find paris hilton's antics on her show kind of strange? Today, right now there is a global underclass, a global batch of untouchables that only the most pious, principled individuals would go out of their way to aid (mother theresa comes to mind). In fact religious orders all over the world exist and have existed to keep this class sedated. The hindus had their religious order to spread their BS about karma and the christians had their BS about the elect, and divine right of kings for the dirty dirty serfs (let's not forget concubines, primanocte etc hmm? )
The original poster wasn't fair in lumping all slashdot americans into the same misinformed racist category that you inhabit, but you have not acquitted yourself any more admirably.
Good day sir.
if you liked descent make sure you aren't missing out on the freespace 2 source code project. It's free and people keep making excellent new mods. There's a great babylon project mod but there's an even better battle star galactica mod in the works =)
When I play games to relax I've always rather enjoyed predictability of replaying an old mission. It's a great feeling to zip around thinking 'foolish AI! trix are for kids' :D I guess it's different for different people
maybe they're trying to teach you something. There's nothing fun about shooting an RPG at someone? o_O
I know you don't want to hear this, but there's nothing wrong with game AI. Game AI always has to be a tease for the user, just a little hard to stress test some new skill the character needs, but never impossible. Obviously this is a contrivance, game AI's are nothing more than a little resistance to make everyone feel that they earned their way into the next step of the story. It's a little like the hazing one undergoes to join a club and this plot device is very effective in all the conflict category of games. The real fun of these games is to play multiplayer after you have acheived a reasonable level of proficiency with weapons, strategy and techniques. Ultimately, the point of conquering a foe in a conflict game is to show complete mastery over it, and for the majority of us there's no thrill to be had in mastering a game console with a limited storyline. Heck i could just chuck the console out the window if I really wanted to beat the reptilian invaders from gonzor :D.
When people whine about not having good opponents they're really whining about not having the ability to show off their talents in mastering something worthwhile; something difficult that would thrust them into the rarefied world of mythic heroes. This is why tetris, space invaders and games of that ilk were successes. The game would keep getting harder and faster and your talent was showcased by the point score you could attain and the initials you could leave at the arcade. The real competition has always been between people, either indirectly in the case of arcade games like space invaders or directly in the modern multiplayer arena. With franchises like the CPL rewarding this type of skill there is now a reason to hone one's skill in this arena well past your teens.(this holds true for professional sports as well)
The point is people don't really want amazingly hard advanced AI they just want something all of their loser friends can't beat but they handily can. This is also why people cry foul at gold farming and ebaying in rpg's. There's no point in striving to get a lvl 5000 sword of the beyondness if any shmuck can just buy it. The whole point is to lord it around the water cooler like a new BMW or new shoes. It's fairly immature high school stuff but that's really the key point in this issue. People are looking to become elites by their proficiency at mass market games. It's idiotic but that's the way the market goes.
The point is AI in these games are just fine. All you need to do is create standard levels with more and more obstacles, that filter the giants from the peons. We need levels that allow people to say 'HEY, I beat the crazy level with a troop disparity of a 1000:1 and there was a great ending but I can't tell you just how awesome it was.' Now this annoys the low-end gamer who seems to think he paid to play the complete story so he gets turned off games and that's another sale that won't happen for the next iteration of the game. So the important aspect of this model is balance. The GTA franchise did this pretty handily with the side missions idea. You can play the main thread of the story easily but you'll never get a 100% completion rate without doing the side missions which in the end makes no difference to the ending but you miss other cut scenes the hardcore elite player would see, and miss out on bonus powerups and the sheer elitism factor of finding all the hidden packages.... WHEEEEEEEE.
The point is to find a method to create elites in games who will crow about their abilities and actively get involved in selling more games than just your advertising alone can. It works out for them because it reinforces their elite status by increasing the morass of worthless average players and it also improves your bottom line by making more sales. Remember the point isn't the AI, the point is to play human psychology for all the ka-ching it's worth.
Amen
Fact:The US controls all traffic around each tap point in iraq. One general referred to it as the steel ring. Unauthorized foreign access is always met with overwhelming force. At least one article mentions an iraqi vessel being sunk when it trespassed the area of control.
Fact:There are several stories about missing/unaccounted reconstruction money that the US govt sent to companies in iraq to rehabilitate the region. This sum numbers in the billions.
Fact:There are several cnn reports that state that there is a lot of oil being somehow looted and there's no way to track it because it isn't metered.
Fact:There are several stories about US contractors being caught bribing officials.
Now let's be intellectually honest. How do you know you're missing oil if it's not metered? How does one loot oil from a pipeline? These pipes are over 9ft in diameter are made of steel and are 5-6 inches thick. and are designed to move oil at a rate of 1000gals/sec. One can't just punch a little hole in it and tap out some oil. It's not a wee little coconut that you can stick a straw in and sip a little juice from.
Fact: oil companies are rolling in profits we're paying higher gas prices at our pumps but only because the oil companies have to pay higher prices to Middle East oil barons and they've had losses in refiner productivity due to katrina. That is supposedly they're only passing on an increase in costs to us the consumer.
Now either we're in some kind of crazy voodoo capitalism that allows american oil companies to increase gas prices to match costs and somehow come out with huge profits OR they're selling black market oil along with the real stuff. On paper there's no justification for prosecuting them but I doubt their accounting for gallons of oil purchased, refined and sold will tally properly.
This is what happens when illiterate boobs with no understanding of history are allowed to vote. They have no idea society has already struggled through all of these crises and realized working together is the better option. Privatized security whether from criminal action or from disease is not workable in the long run. If you want to see what privatized security looks like take a look at africa, without the concept of a nation state all you have are a series of private security/gangs running around looking out solely for themselves and only leads to the overall degradation of the standard of living in the majority of the african continent. This is why all successful countries have national militaries. A patient should be allowed to die if he/she so choses but there should never be a revocation of the social contract that we all stand together through thick and thin because we are americans. The biggest problem I think is that american public schools never teach simple morality tales to kids. Something as simple as aesop's fables would do. I remember a simple lesson I learned as a kid
United we stand, divided we fall.
It was simply taught, the teacher asked us to break some sticks individually then she tied another bundle together and asked us to take a shot.
Heck why stop there? why pay taxes? Let's privatize security, national defense, municipal services etc. I think there was a word for such a society. It was called hmmm F-E-U-D-A-L-I-S-M. Do you remember what that is moron?
guess what genius? The software is designed to be packaged by your local package maintainer, the designer has left the design open and created a generic configuration system that can be used by a maintainer for fine grained control. If you're compiling from source then you're expected to spend a little extra time upfront to save trouble later and you're doing it either because you love it or someone is paying you to do it.
The problem with MS software is that they optimize too far ahead of time, trusting their own capabilities at predicting every possible usage and failure mode at their company instead of trusting the software user to know what he's doing. For those that can't handle the responsibility, either hire or use the services of your distro maintainer.
Gentlemen this really is the problem with freedom, the sheeple don't know how to handle it.