AI is generally directly dependent on memory. More memory equals more stuff to cram into the AI model. So it is true that the AI can be better on the X360 than on the Wii. But the question is it, do I notice it? The closest I've come to some believable crowds is Fable 2. Now compare this to stuff like the original Sims, and ask yourself - what has changed?
But yes, the argument that the Wii is somehow crippled is rather silly. There are plenty of art styles that work really well on the Wii. You just have to relearn some old habits... and that might be more difficult than it sounds.
There's a simple solution to your problem: go travel. I've seen both Polaris and the Southern Cross, and it was awesome. I highly recommend seeing a new sky. It's like you're looking up at the sky for the first time again.
Careful. What sounds ridiculous to you and me sounds perfectly reasonable to an executive who's got more money than brains. I've been around a few of those types, and the way they measure their worth, their family's worth and their contributions to society is by how big their bank account is.
To them, first-sale doctrine is nothing but a hippy ideology that needs to be stamped out post-haste.
Or did someone in the entertainment industry worry that using Ethernet for connecting entertainment devices would make it too easy for those evil hacker types to connect a computer to the setup and break their DRM? Or maybe that if this gear was too easily networked, we might...GASP!...use it to send video from our Internet-connected computers out into the living rooms, undermining traditional TV?
I managed to pick up EGM only starting in 93, so I don't know about its glory days. What I do remember though was that it was all fluff and little substance. The rumors section was occasionally ok, but couldn't make up for the rest of the crappyness. The magazine of choice for me starting in 95 (I think - I don't have the first magazine in front of me) was Next Generation. It also completely died with its first relaunch, but it was the closest thing I could find to a serious gaming magazine.
Each year post invasion, the rate of unemployment went from 50-60% in 2003 to 23-38% in 2009.
Nice. I'm not sure Iraqis consider 23%-38% unemployment a success. As of now, it's a craptastic hellhole. It's an open question whether future efforts can stabilize the country, or whether it will be torn apart.
When dealing with tyranny and oppression, it's the only solution. Not simply A solution.
I see you completely missed the point in that statement. War does not exist outside the political sphere, outside the realm of human interaction. As for counter-examples, you can start with Hannibal's campaign against Rome. A spectacularly successful war, which still ended with Carthage ceasing to matter within Hannibal's lifetime.
Thankfully, we've got plenty of counter examples. Bush tried it in Iraq, Clinton tried it in Somalia and Bosnia, and the end-result is the same old cluster-fuck.
Warfare is not a solution. It's merely a different approach to resolving political differences.
Until you get that, your opinion on the matter matters not.
No one outside a doomsday cult says that "it is too late". If you read the studies, it's all the same stuff: if we keep doing this, that will happen. If we do something else, something different will happen. It's useful to understand the assumptions in the studies before bringing out the pitchforks. On a side note, what's with people jumping all over someone saying something that contradicts what someone else is saying? No one seriously thinks that all slashdotters think alike, but it seems that all climate scientists have to speak with one voice.
As for the study that advocates painting roofs white: I've got a better solution: put solar panels on all the roofs. Not only does the EM energy not get converted into heat (alright, not immediately, and not fully), but it also reduces our reliance on other energy sources. Yes, it's more expensive buying 1500 square feet of quality solar panels than it is to buy a bucket of white paint. But white paint won't power your Linux server.
Remember that recently potential terrorists have been broadened to include anyone who has voted third party, been pro-life or pro-guns, or disagrees with government policies.
Complete nonsense. I presume you're referring the recent report about where local terrorists could come from, and that generated a huge outcry because extreme right-wingers were included in the description. Yes, extreme right-wingers will kill. See the murders of doctors performing abortions. This is a far cry from calling people who vote third-party terrorists.
I don't like a number of decisions Obama has made, but this isn't one of them. If you start sounding like a crackpot in your pursuit of freedom, you lessen the impact of your legitimate arguments.
Brainwashing is indeed a fantasy. There hasn't been a single psychological experiment that supports the notion that large-scale brainwashing is feasible. Since cults contain a minuscule set of Americans, it is not possible to extrapolate from cults to American society.
Quite frankly, every time I hear someone talk about brainwashed Americans, it is in the context of others not hating enough the communists, socialists, fascists, islamo-fascists and other boogiemen du jour. These people cannot fathom how someone could possibly not have a phobia of an intellectual concept or a group of people.
There's no need to refute them, they merely exhibit irrational paranoia.
Read up on the Tillman case. Skipped being a hero in a uniform for being a grunt in a uniform. Got killed by his own team for that effort.
I'm really not sure how you think that screaming a single english word in the middle of small-caliber arms fire, large-caliber arms fire, maybe some mortar shells is going to affect anyone who is more than 2 feet away.
Weird. The post asking for the parent to be modded up and merely elaborating on the parent's point gets modded up, while the parent sits at 1.
But yes. This is the #1 issue when you interfere in local affairs that go back 100s of years, and where you have no clue what's going on. That's why just storming a random place because bad stuff is going is a bad idea. You have no idea what you're doing, and what the end result will be.
I think you missed the point of the stories. It's about what happens to robots who are built with the best intentions. Science Fiction is speculative fiction - the proverbial "What if?" He didn't try to predict what was going to happen - he tried to figure out what would happen if certain things were in place.
Verhoven might have been the better prognosticator, but Asimov was the better guide.
Not to mention... some of the assumptions aren't great. As the article itself points out, it's been a long time since there was a civilian-free battlefield.
As for the direct example of the robot locating a sniper and being offered the choice of a grenade launcher and rifle - how does the robot know that the buildings surrounding it aren't military targets? How do they get classified? How does a hut differ from a mosque, and how does a hut differ from some elaborate sniper cover?
I don't think this is going to work out as planned.
Except that that study didn't have good data, and even the data that was in there contradicts your statement. Yes, I did read all 250-odd pages of it. You might want to do the same before you pull random statements out of thin air.
The long short and of it: 200000 miles in a H1 (diesel or otherwise) is far more energy intensive than 200000 miles in a Prius.
Not sure whether Fight Club is to be taken as an authoritative source for movie-making trivia, but according to Tyler Durden, those are marks that are supposed to indicate an upcoming scene change.
Can anyone who knows about movie editing confirm this? I was always curious about this.
Complete horseshit. I don't have the "study" (hitjob is more appropriate) handy anymore, but the numbers were completely off. They had to assume that people kept the hummer for over 200k, but traded in the Prius before they hit the 100k mark. That's just one of the issues. They also made several more idiotic assumptions that are completely ludicrous (like batteries that need be changed after 2-3 years, etc.).
While you're right that you shouldn't replace a 2008 car with a 2009 one, but sometimes, you really ought to replace an old stinker with something more modern.
I find this distinction between Cheney and Armitage to be spurious. The point is: whoever gave away the ID of an active duty CIA agent was never prosecuted. Libby was made the fall guy. That is what matters.
As for whether Armitage was operating independently of Cheney - I find that highly doubtful. There was a small clique of people who were responsible for overall strategy and "thought leadership" (ugly term, but kinda appropriate). Decisions and attitudes went from a small group of people outward. Cheney and Armitage were part of that small, core group.
He doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet, because it hasn't lined his pockets with extra millions. Worldwide communication, everything a publisher, that's all nonsense. All that matters to him is that he hasn't seen an entry in his account that says "+ X Millions, Internet".
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AI is generally directly dependent on memory. More memory equals more stuff to cram into the AI model. So it is true that the AI can be better on the X360 than on the Wii. But the question is it, do I notice it? The closest I've come to some believable crowds is Fable 2. Now compare this to stuff like the original Sims, and ask yourself - what has changed?
But yes, the argument that the Wii is somehow crippled is rather silly. There are plenty of art styles that work really well on the Wii. You just have to relearn some old habits... and that might be more difficult than it sounds.
The most interesting part I find is that a lot of the anti-internet-gaming people are either directly linked to or funded by traditional casinos....
Or like Enron?
There's a simple solution to your problem: go travel. I've seen both Polaris and the Southern Cross, and it was awesome. I highly recommend seeing a new sky. It's like you're looking up at the sky for the first time again.
Careful. What sounds ridiculous to you and me sounds perfectly reasonable to an executive who's got more money than brains. I've been around a few of those types, and the way they measure their worth, their family's worth and their contributions to society is by how big their bank account is.
To them, first-sale doctrine is nothing but a hippy ideology that needs to be stamped out post-haste.
They redacted the image of the birth certificate, not the birth certificate itself. You people are truly mesmerized by your ignorance.
Or did someone in the entertainment industry worry that using Ethernet for connecting entertainment devices would make it too easy for those evil hacker types to connect a computer to the setup and break their DRM? Or maybe that if this gear was too easily networked, we might...GASP!...use it to send video from our Internet-connected computers out into the living rooms, undermining traditional TV?
Bingo. HDMI is a giant sham.
I managed to pick up EGM only starting in 93, so I don't know about its glory days. What I do remember though was that it was all fluff and little substance. The rumors section was occasionally ok, but couldn't make up for the rest of the crappyness. The magazine of choice for me starting in 95 (I think - I don't have the first magazine in front of me) was Next Generation. It also completely died with its first relaunch, but it was the closest thing I could find to a serious gaming magazine.
Each year post invasion, the rate of unemployment went from 50-60% in 2003 to 23-38% in 2009.
Nice. I'm not sure Iraqis consider 23%-38% unemployment a success. As of now, it's a craptastic hellhole. It's an open question whether future efforts can stabilize the country, or whether it will be torn apart.
When dealing with tyranny and oppression, it's the only solution. Not simply A solution.
I see you completely missed the point in that statement. War does not exist outside the political sphere, outside the realm of human interaction. As for counter-examples, you can start with Hannibal's campaign against Rome. A spectacularly successful war, which still ended with Carthage ceasing to matter within Hannibal's lifetime.
I take it you haven't heard of mathematical conjectures, have you?
Thankfully, we've got plenty of counter examples. Bush tried it in Iraq, Clinton tried it in Somalia and Bosnia, and the end-result is the same old cluster-fuck.
Warfare is not a solution. It's merely a different approach to resolving political differences.
Until you get that, your opinion on the matter matters not.
No one outside a doomsday cult says that "it is too late". If you read the studies, it's all the same stuff: if we keep doing this, that will happen. If we do something else, something different will happen. It's useful to understand the assumptions in the studies before bringing out the pitchforks. On a side note, what's with people jumping all over someone saying something that contradicts what someone else is saying? No one seriously thinks that all slashdotters think alike, but it seems that all climate scientists have to speak with one voice.
As for the study that advocates painting roofs white: I've got a better solution: put solar panels on all the roofs. Not only does the EM energy not get converted into heat (alright, not immediately, and not fully), but it also reduces our reliance on other energy sources. Yes, it's more expensive buying 1500 square feet of quality solar panels than it is to buy a bucket of white paint. But white paint won't power your Linux server.
Remember that recently potential terrorists have been broadened to include anyone who has voted third party, been pro-life or pro-guns, or disagrees with government policies.
Complete nonsense. I presume you're referring the recent report about where local terrorists could come from, and that generated a huge outcry because extreme right-wingers were included in the description. Yes, extreme right-wingers will kill. See the murders of doctors performing abortions. This is a far cry from calling people who vote third-party terrorists.
I don't like a number of decisions Obama has made, but this isn't one of them. If you start sounding like a crackpot in your pursuit of freedom, you lessen the impact of your legitimate arguments.
Brainwashing is indeed a fantasy. There hasn't been a single psychological experiment that supports the notion that large-scale brainwashing is feasible. Since cults contain a minuscule set of Americans, it is not possible to extrapolate from cults to American society.
Quite frankly, every time I hear someone talk about brainwashed Americans, it is in the context of others not hating enough the communists, socialists, fascists, islamo-fascists and other boogiemen du jour. These people cannot fathom how someone could possibly not have a phobia of an intellectual concept or a group of people.
There's no need to refute them, they merely exhibit irrational paranoia.
If the egg cannot move, it will be crushed. The crumple zones are there to create a deceleration that is less than infinite, which tends to be deadly.
Read up on the Tillman case. Skipped being a hero in a uniform for being a grunt in a uniform. Got killed by his own team for that effort.
I'm really not sure how you think that screaming a single english word in the middle of small-caliber arms fire, large-caliber arms fire, maybe some mortar shells is going to affect anyone who is more than 2 feet away.
Weird. The post asking for the parent to be modded up and merely elaborating on the parent's point gets modded up, while the parent sits at 1.
But yes. This is the #1 issue when you interfere in local affairs that go back 100s of years, and where you have no clue what's going on. That's why just storming a random place because bad stuff is going is a bad idea. You have no idea what you're doing, and what the end result will be.
I think you missed the point of the stories. It's about what happens to robots who are built with the best intentions. Science Fiction is speculative fiction - the proverbial "What if?" He didn't try to predict what was going to happen - he tried to figure out what would happen if certain things were in place.
Verhoven might have been the better prognosticator, but Asimov was the better guide.
Not to mention... some of the assumptions aren't great. As the article itself points out, it's been a long time since there was a civilian-free battlefield.
As for the direct example of the robot locating a sniper and being offered the choice of a grenade launcher and rifle - how does the robot know that the buildings surrounding it aren't military targets? How do they get classified? How does a hut differ from a mosque, and how does a hut differ from some elaborate sniper cover?
I don't think this is going to work out as planned.
Except that that study didn't have good data, and even the data that was in there contradicts your statement. Yes, I did read all 250-odd pages of it. You might want to do the same before you pull random statements out of thin air.
The long short and of it: 200000 miles in a H1 (diesel or otherwise) is far more energy intensive than 200000 miles in a Prius.
Not sure whether Fight Club is to be taken as an authoritative source for movie-making trivia, but according to Tyler Durden, those are marks that are supposed to indicate an upcoming scene change.
Can anyone who knows about movie editing confirm this? I was always curious about this.
Complete horseshit. I don't have the "study" (hitjob is more appropriate) handy anymore, but the numbers were completely off. They had to assume that people kept the hummer for over 200k, but traded in the Prius before they hit the 100k mark. That's just one of the issues. They also made several more idiotic assumptions that are completely ludicrous (like batteries that need be changed after 2-3 years, etc.).
While you're right that you shouldn't replace a 2008 car with a 2009 one, but sometimes, you really ought to replace an old stinker with something more modern.
I find this distinction between Cheney and Armitage to be spurious. The point is: whoever gave away the ID of an active duty CIA agent was never prosecuted. Libby was made the fall guy. That is what matters.
As for whether Armitage was operating independently of Cheney - I find that highly doubtful. There was a small clique of people who were responsible for overall strategy and "thought leadership" (ugly term, but kinda appropriate). Decisions and attitudes went from a small group of people outward. Cheney and Armitage were part of that small, core group.
He doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet, because it hasn't lined his pockets with extra millions. Worldwide communication, everything a publisher, that's all nonsense. All that matters to him is that he hasn't seen an entry in his account that says "+ X Millions, Internet".
I expect a fully qualified, objective discussion to follow presenting both sides in a fair and factually-based light.
Yet here you are, muddying the fully qualified, objective discussion with sarcasm and pure noise.
Instead of bitching, contribute.