I can't open the link at work, but rogues are definitely taken for instances.
With Improved Sap, they add to the crowd control, they do more damage than anything, and they unlock all of those nice chests that we usually run past.
In Molten Core, of the 40 people we had the top 4 damage dealers were our rogues. Our top rogue had almost 50% more damage than the next person on the list.
The tank thing is a very interesting concept in group PvP. In a game like EQ that had collision between characters, you could block your healers from getting mauled by the other melees. In most new games, characters run right through each other, so the other team can charge your healer, casters, and ranged classes to take them out.
It would be a lot more fun if you could set up your PvP group like a real life battle, keeping your archers, healers, mages, etc protected behind a line of grunts. Since taunt doesn't work in PvP, warriors are nothing more that DPS. Their huge hitpoints and AC serve nothing other than to let them live longer while everyone else dies.
I think that taunts should lock other characters onto the tank for a specified amount of time.
I played Neocron for about 2 months. It was kind of fun, but I was an APU, and never got to a high enough level where I could travel anywhere without getting ganked non-stop. Then I would lose the spell I just spent all of my money on and cry myself to sleep that night.
They had a decent idea, but the game was so buggy and there were so few players it wasn't much fun for me.
The main problem is in games that involve both PvP and PvE. I play PvE almost exclusively in any game that gives the choice. In WoW, both my Warlock and Mage are specced 100% for PvE. I really enjoy how they make each class useful in a group, and you benefit from each class in a different way.
When it comes to PvP that is terrible. In PvP, the healing classes are almost always terrible in every game. The alternative is that you get priests that are Shadow Specced (WoW) or Smite Priests (DAoC) and they are nearly useless when you need a healer on a raid.
For PvP only, every class has to be an even match. That means the developers can't give really good abilities to some classes that would greatly help against mobs. Look at how badly fear and seduction are nerfed in WoW. They were handy in PvE, were overpowered in PvP, they got nerfed for PvP, now they suck for PvE. That is the cycle that happens in every game as PvP begins to overshadow the PvE.
I would be for different rules on PvP vs. PvE servers. I hate when the population cries about an ability because they can't figure out how to beat it, and a class gets taken out in PvE over it.
Even better than that would be to virtually simulate quake or doom 3 entirely. Don't just limit to power ups, but throw demons in there too.
You could do different weapons and powerups in a lazer tag style with friends, but at the same time have to worry about the flying exploding skulls. Paintball and laser tag can suck if one team decides to play it safe and bunker down. If you have giant demons roaming around, you would need to move or fight them while you worry about getting ganked by the blue team.
That is an extremely serious flaw. The device sends its key to anyone claiming to forgot theirs? That is a great design. Why wouldn't it only resend the key if it recognized the ID as something it already paired with?
It's like your online bank site giving someone else your password, just because they said they forgot it.
While I doubt this is a widespread serious issue with the small number of bluetooth devices now, it could be an issue on something like a train, where there are a lot of business commuters with both bluetooth gadgets and laptops.
This alone will make their console better. Some of the old-school nintedo games are the best ones anyway. Imagine getting Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon series for free?
This also combats the fact that I run all of these emulators on my current xbox. They are effectively taking back their own games.
SCO is competeting directly against a free version of Unix that is better in almost every way, especially on price.
Unless they have some kind of ingenious plan (which I doubt considering they almost always get sued when they try something new), what do they have left to offer? I guess they have the "support" options for companies too nervous to dive into a Linux environment, but that support is only as good as the company you get it from anyway.
I got to install SCO on a PC back in about 1997. I loved it at the time, mostly because it converted my PC to Unix. Otherwise, I was much happier with either Solaris, AIX or HP-UX. SCO ranked pretty low on the list. Most versions of Linux rank right up near the top of the list now, and also run on a PC. I don't see why people would choose SCO.
They are writing a program to compute the results of manipulating genes. How does that relate to photoshop, other than there will probably be a picture you edit using your mouse. That is like saying Autocad and Photoshop are the same since you are creating pretty pictures in both.
If they pull this off, it has way more to do with biology and math than the interface they use. Not to mention that even if this application simulates gene manipulation, they will still have to do the same thing by hand to test it. It's not like it can remove the actual testing of the end result.
More than two-thirds of people surveyed also said they believed online travel sites are required by law to offer the lowest airline prices possible.
WTF? Why would online sites be required to offer lower prices than a normal travel agency? Why couldn't they make more profit if their demand was higher? Required by law to offer the lowest prices?
The bottom line is that any service can charge basically whatever they think someone will pay. As long as there aren't fradulent claims (such as a "guarantee" that their price is the lowest", they can charge double the value if they think it will sell.
Normal stores off incentives to returning customers. I get money back at Macy's when I shop there. That is the same as Amazon offering me a better price on a DVD because I am a frequent customer. People get all riled up over things on the Internet that happen every day anyway. Same thing with credit cards online. People are terrified of typing in their credit card number over HTTPS, but will hand their credit card to a random 16 year old kid standing behind a counter.
Next time I need some sporting equipment and go to Dicks.com I won't be unpleasantly surprised.
Adding the.xxx might help normal domains register what they want. There are so many porn sites, there is a chance that your domain might be taken and filled with horse on midget porn. It might be a bad decision to use BiteMyNipples.com for a business anyway, but as long as you stay away from the.xxx your customers might not get tricked.
This only matters if porn decides to use the.xxx anyway though, and there really isn't any reason for them to start. Old sites probably won't convert. New sites might choose either or both. I guess it is just one more chance for a site to get the URL they want.
You certanly didn't give a very technical explanation other then to assert (yes I'm right). how exactly would one teach a Neural Network language
The concept is called priming. The neural network starts making weighted links between words. When it sees one word, it then follows the strongest link to the next word. If you feed it enought patterns like the article suggested, it starts to assign probabilities that one word = another word based on the number of times the 2 words apprear in similar locations. The network can learn a strong link between the same word in different languages. With human guidance, you can verify and adjust the links. It can even learn to associate one word in one language with a small phrase in another. Obviously this takes a long time to learn, and would need tons of human correction at first. The longer the network is running, the more likely it would be to correctly link words. In effect, it can teach itself after it learns enough.
That is exactly how humans work. For example, there is no translation in the mind of bilingual people. Because of priming, the instant someone hears a word in English, they automatically think of the Spanish word, rather than perform a lookup. That has been proven with response tests. There was no delay at all in bilinguals fluent in both languages. The stonger the bond, the less the delay.
I just went to Comp USA and they smashed all of their CRTs with baseball bats. There was a sign on the door that said, "From now on, only LCD monitors will be sold".
To make things worse, on the way home the Public Emergency Broadcast System sounded, and the recording mentioned that if we didn't all buy LCD monitors, they would send signals through our power grids to fry our CRTs.
That would probably also mean that they understand a lot less of engineering, child care, hospitals, other cultures and other questions that are important for politicians to understand.
True, but now try this. Pick any one of those things in the list. Now you have an expert at one sliver of what matters, and they don't know the other things. You make it sound like an elected engineer would know how to fix health care.
Nobody will ever know everything they need to know. Good representatives will consult with the people they need to in order to figure out the issue. Bad representatives make uninformed decisions, or ones that they think will further their own career. Really bad representatives are bought out by lobbiests and screw their constituancy. None of that has anything to do with whether or not the elected official was a lawyer or nurse.
Let's talk about clue. You've confused host and network security several times now. They're quite different. Wireless internet connections don't compromise hosts any more than wired internet connections compromise hosts.
My thoughts on this are that the general person would put their machine out there with no security. I agree that this has more to do with host security in this case. The average "dumb user" will just connect to the network with their file sharing on, a machine with no password, and probably have a file on their desktop with their bank accounts or something. The savior for some of these people is that they have a router at home that automatically protects them with NAT. That gets them network security and allows them to still share their files locally.
If someone were to use the municiple network without creating their own sub-network, they might have security issues. I know that wireless is exactly the same as a wired connection, but since most people with wired connections have other security measures (routers) that helps them without them even knowing it.
If someone does have a wireless connection at home, most of the time they don't encrypt it, but at least they have the option. People on their own encrypted wireless network or secured land network can pass their data back and forth without fear that it might be intercepted. If someone uses a wireless lan as their primary network, they might be sending all kinds of stuff around the internet totally open to hackers.
My main point is that a wireless network might compromise a lot of people, since they don't understand them.
That just goes to show you when lawyer's get involved, the shit is going to hit the fan, mostly because in the end it's not about their clients, but their own pocketbook that will benefit. See any class action lawsuit where they get the bulk of the money to "distribute" the winnings of the case.
Incidently, I heard over 95% of congress being laywers.....
Imagine if the original LineTo algorithm got patented or if id software patented everything they did, we'd still be darkages in terms of graphics.
It's fun to bash lawyers and all, but you are misguided. Lawyers don't make any money on patents. They get a filing fee for the patent, but that's not very much. When it comes to a patent law suit, that is mostly handled by the in-house lawyers for a company. Those guys are salary, and that has nothing to do with a class action.
Some lawyers are shady, but most of them are the ones making things run smoothly. Don't consider crimial lawyers when you are talking about corporate or civil issues. The problem lies with the patent office, not the lawyers. If they let someone patent an idea that is too general, it is their fault. Patents actually allow corporations to be more innovative. What company would spend all of their money on research and design if another company could copy it for free?
A large percentage of politians and executives are lawyers. The reason is that a law degree enables them to understand the intricacies of businesses and government. Don't you think it is appropriate that the people creating laws be lawyers? I know you were trying to say that Lawyers = Congressmen = Ass holes, but that's a false correlation. The real equation is Ass Hole = Ass Hole, regardless of the profession or degree.
You can't patent general ideas. Someone might be able to patent a specific implementation of a fighting game, or the software to render the fighters quickly. They couldn't patent 2 guys fighting in a game.
As far as team games, we're getting close to being screwed already. I think EA has exclusive rights to the NFL next year. That means if you want to play as the World Champion New England Patriots, you will only be doing it in an NFL game. That is terrible since ESPN NFL2K5 was better than Madden to me. Now we will have ESPN Football2K6 with fake teams. Half of the fun is being your team with your players.
Do you know anything about machine learning? It doesn't sound like a neural network at all. NNs are good a simple function guessing from a fixed number of inputs, but wouldn't work with arbitrary input spaces like text.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't.
As a matter of fact, I have a minor in artificial intelligence and another in cognitive psychology. That means I understand neural nets pretty well. In fact, I know you can teach one language. It can learn language with pattern recognition also. You need to help it during the learning process, but as it learns more, it also starts adjusting itself.
Humans learn language with neural nets, so machines should be able to also.
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Ahem,AFAIK, mages didn't prove very successful in actual battle in real life. That's why we see so few of them in battle nowadays...
Don't count on it. This mage is very effective. (Except for the friendly fire)
I can't open the link at work, but rogues are definitely taken for instances.
With Improved Sap, they add to the crowd control, they do more damage than anything, and they unlock all of those nice chests that we usually run past.
In Molten Core, of the 40 people we had the top 4 damage dealers were our rogues. Our top rogue had almost 50% more damage than the next person on the list.
Anyone that passes over a rogue is missing out.
The tank thing is a very interesting concept in group PvP. In a game like EQ that had collision between characters, you could block your healers from getting mauled by the other melees. In most new games, characters run right through each other, so the other team can charge your healer, casters, and ranged classes to take them out.
It would be a lot more fun if you could set up your PvP group like a real life battle, keeping your archers, healers, mages, etc protected behind a line of grunts. Since taunt doesn't work in PvP, warriors are nothing more that DPS. Their huge hitpoints and AC serve nothing other than to let them live longer while everyone else dies.
I think that taunts should lock other characters onto the tank for a specified amount of time.
I played Neocron for about 2 months. It was kind of fun, but I was an APU, and never got to a high enough level where I could travel anywhere without getting ganked non-stop. Then I would lose the spell I just spent all of my money on and cry myself to sleep that night.
They had a decent idea, but the game was so buggy and there were so few players it wasn't much fun for me.
The main problem is in games that involve both PvP and PvE. I play PvE almost exclusively in any game that gives the choice. In WoW, both my Warlock and Mage are specced 100% for PvE. I really enjoy how they make each class useful in a group, and you benefit from each class in a different way.
When it comes to PvP that is terrible. In PvP, the healing classes are almost always terrible in every game. The alternative is that you get priests that are Shadow Specced (WoW) or Smite Priests (DAoC) and they are nearly useless when you need a healer on a raid.
For PvP only, every class has to be an even match. That means the developers can't give really good abilities to some classes that would greatly help against mobs. Look at how badly fear and seduction are nerfed in WoW. They were handy in PvE, were overpowered in PvP, they got nerfed for PvP, now they suck for PvE. That is the cycle that happens in every game as PvP begins to overshadow the PvE.
I would be for different rules on PvP vs. PvE servers. I hate when the population cries about an ability because they can't figure out how to beat it, and a class gets taken out in PvE over it.
So that means it will be about 2 days before someone cracks it and has it running on a PC?
"But your honor, my client simply ate a power pellet and mistook the defendent as Pinky."
Even better than that would be to virtually simulate quake or doom 3 entirely. Don't just limit to power ups, but throw demons in there too.
You could do different weapons and powerups in a lazer tag style with friends, but at the same time have to worry about the flying exploding skulls. Paintball and laser tag can suck if one team decides to play it safe and bunker down. If you have giant demons roaming around, you would need to move or fight them while you worry about getting ganked by the blue team.
Thanks guys. The serious flaw was with my reading comprehension. I must have missed the spoofing part somehow.
It still isn't good, but at least it's not as bad as I thought.
That is an extremely serious flaw. The device sends its key to anyone claiming to forgot theirs? That is a great design. Why wouldn't it only resend the key if it recognized the ID as something it already paired with?
It's like your online bank site giving someone else your password, just because they said they forgot it.
While I doubt this is a widespread serious issue with the small number of bluetooth devices now, it could be an issue on something like a train, where there are a lot of business commuters with both bluetooth gadgets and laptops.
This alone will make their console better. Some of the old-school nintedo games are the best ones anyway. Imagine getting Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon series for free?
This also combats the fact that I run all of these emulators on my current xbox. They are effectively taking back their own games.
SCO is competeting directly against a free version of Unix that is better in almost every way, especially on price.
Unless they have some kind of ingenious plan (which I doubt considering they almost always get sued when they try something new), what do they have left to offer? I guess they have the "support" options for companies too nervous to dive into a Linux environment, but that support is only as good as the company you get it from anyway.
I got to install SCO on a PC back in about 1997. I loved it at the time, mostly because it converted my PC to Unix. Otherwise, I was much happier with either Solaris, AIX or HP-UX. SCO ranked pretty low on the list. Most versions of Linux rank right up near the top of the list now, and also run on a PC. I don't see why people would choose SCO.
They are writing a program to compute the results of manipulating genes. How does that relate to photoshop, other than there will probably be a picture you edit using your mouse. That is like saying Autocad and Photoshop are the same since you are creating pretty pictures in both.
If they pull this off, it has way more to do with biology and math than the interface they use. Not to mention that even if this application simulates gene manipulation, they will still have to do the same thing by hand to test it. It's not like it can remove the actual testing of the end result.
No. In that case, they photoshoped a picture on him and added a knife to his hand.
The bottom line is that any service can charge basically whatever they think someone will pay. As long as there aren't fradulent claims (such as a "guarantee" that their price is the lowest", they can charge double the value if they think it will sell.
Normal stores off incentives to returning customers. I get money back at Macy's when I shop there. That is the same as Amazon offering me a better price on a DVD because I am a frequent customer. People get all riled up over things on the Internet that happen every day anyway. Same thing with credit cards online. People are terrified of typing in their credit card number over HTTPS, but will hand their credit card to a random 16 year old kid standing behind a counter.
Next time I need some sporting equipment and go to Dicks.com I won't be unpleasantly surprised.
.xxx might help normal domains register what they want. There are so many porn sites, there is a chance that your domain might be taken and filled with horse on midget porn. It might be a bad decision to use BiteMyNipples.com for a business anyway, but as long as you stay away from the .xxx your customers might not get tricked.
.xxx anyway though, and there really isn't any reason for them to start. Old sites probably won't convert. New sites might choose either or both. I guess it is just one more chance for a site to get the URL they want.
Adding the
This only matters if porn decides to use the
You certanly didn't give a very technical explanation other then to assert (yes I'm right). how exactly would one teach a Neural Network language
The concept is called priming. The neural network starts making weighted links between words. When it sees one word, it then follows the strongest link to the next word. If you feed it enought patterns like the article suggested, it starts to assign probabilities that one word = another word based on the number of times the 2 words apprear in similar locations. The network can learn a strong link between the same word in different languages. With human guidance, you can verify and adjust the links. It can even learn to associate one word in one language with a small phrase in another. Obviously this takes a long time to learn, and would need tons of human correction at first. The longer the network is running, the more likely it would be to correctly link words. In effect, it can teach itself after it learns enough.
That is exactly how humans work. For example, there is no translation in the mind of bilingual people. Because of priming, the instant someone hears a word in English, they automatically think of the Spanish word, rather than perform a lookup. That has been proven with response tests. There was no delay at all in bilinguals fluent in both languages. The stonger the bond, the less the delay.
Hah, I could see that. Game companies build a way to import team rosters via XML, and XML feeds of current teams just happen to be on the internet.
Let EA spend millions of dollars for the same information people can screen scrape right on ESPN.com.
I just went to Comp USA and they smashed all of their CRTs with baseball bats. There was a sign on the door that said, "From now on, only LCD monitors will be sold".
To make things worse, on the way home the Public Emergency Broadcast System sounded, and the recording mentioned that if we didn't all buy LCD monitors, they would send signals through our power grids to fry our CRTs.
That would probably also mean that they understand a lot less of engineering, child care, hospitals, other cultures and other questions that are important for politicians to understand.
True, but now try this. Pick any one of those things in the list. Now you have an expert at one sliver of what matters, and they don't know the other things. You make it sound like an elected engineer would know how to fix health care.
Nobody will ever know everything they need to know. Good representatives will consult with the people they need to in order to figure out the issue. Bad representatives make uninformed decisions, or ones that they think will further their own career. Really bad representatives are bought out by lobbiests and screw their constituancy. None of that has anything to do with whether or not the elected official was a lawyer or nurse.
Let's talk about clue. You've confused host and network security several times now. They're quite different. Wireless internet connections don't compromise hosts any more than wired internet connections compromise hosts.
My thoughts on this are that the general person would put their machine out there with no security. I agree that this has more to do with host security in this case. The average "dumb user" will just connect to the network with their file sharing on, a machine with no password, and probably have a file on their desktop with their bank accounts or something. The savior for some of these people is that they have a router at home that automatically protects them with NAT. That gets them network security and allows them to still share their files locally.
If someone were to use the municiple network without creating their own sub-network, they might have security issues. I know that wireless is exactly the same as a wired connection, but since most people with wired connections have other security measures (routers) that helps them without them even knowing it.
If someone does have a wireless connection at home, most of the time they don't encrypt it, but at least they have the option. People on their own encrypted wireless network or secured land network can pass their data back and forth without fear that it might be intercepted. If someone uses a wireless lan as their primary network, they might be sending all kinds of stuff around the internet totally open to hackers.
My main point is that a wireless network might compromise a lot of people, since they don't understand them.
That just goes to show you when lawyer's get involved, the shit is going to hit the fan, mostly because in the end it's not about their clients, but their own pocketbook that will benefit. See any class action lawsuit where they get the bulk of the money to "distribute" the winnings of the case.
Incidently, I heard over 95% of congress being laywers.....
Imagine if the original LineTo algorithm got patented or if id software patented everything they did, we'd still be darkages in terms of graphics.
It's fun to bash lawyers and all, but you are misguided. Lawyers don't make any money on patents. They get a filing fee for the patent, but that's not very much. When it comes to a patent law suit, that is mostly handled by the in-house lawyers for a company. Those guys are salary, and that has nothing to do with a class action.
Some lawyers are shady, but most of them are the ones making things run smoothly. Don't consider crimial lawyers when you are talking about corporate or civil issues. The problem lies with the patent office, not the lawyers. If they let someone patent an idea that is too general, it is their fault. Patents actually allow corporations to be more innovative. What company would spend all of their money on research and design if another company could copy it for free?
A large percentage of politians and executives are lawyers. The reason is that a law degree enables them to understand the intricacies of businesses and government. Don't you think it is appropriate that the people creating laws be lawyers? I know you were trying to say that Lawyers = Congressmen = Ass holes, but that's a false correlation. The real equation is Ass Hole = Ass Hole, regardless of the profession or degree.
You can't patent general ideas. Someone might be able to patent a specific implementation of a fighting game, or the software to render the fighters quickly. They couldn't patent 2 guys fighting in a game.
As far as team games, we're getting close to being screwed already. I think EA has exclusive rights to the NFL next year. That means if you want to play as the World Champion New England Patriots, you will only be doing it in an NFL game. That is terrible since ESPN NFL2K5 was better than Madden to me. Now we will have ESPN Football2K6 with fake teams. Half of the fun is being your team with your players.
I am going to go out and get a patent for plumbers jumping on mushroom people. That would be the best idea ever.
Do you know anything about machine learning? It doesn't sound like a neural network at all. NNs are good a simple function guessing from a fixed number of inputs, but wouldn't work with arbitrary input spaces like text.
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't.
As a matter of fact, I have a minor in artificial intelligence and another in cognitive psychology. That means I understand neural nets pretty well. In fact, I know you can teach one language. It can learn language with pattern recognition also. You need to help it during the learning process, but as it learns more, it also starts adjusting itself.
Humans learn language with neural nets, so machines should be able to also.