You've gotta wonder if this has been really thought through properly.
If we drop the temperature of the earth short term by a single degree, it could continue to drop. It's not like polluting the atmosphere is a reversible thing. We may be forced underground to take advantage of the earth's warm core.
"[...] we do know it was us that scorched the sky. [...] It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."
The problem isn't that the AI players are better at the game.
The problem is that they do repetitive tasks for a long period of time to achieve something.
As a maths/IT double degree student, I was surprised to find that not only did my IT subjects teach me to program (the "code" part was left to us, we were taught the concepts), but also my maths units taught me a lot of programming.
Massive focus on large matrices and function approximation, but there was a lot of optimization, code complexity and general concepts about making efficient code that weren't covered in IT, but were covered in maths.
I think you missed the fact that you can treat a pre-installed machine very much like a clean system, overwrite it all with a quick format and it's gone in one foul swoop.
Perhaps you're not familiar with how this industry works. Allow me to help:
1) a way for the computer to count fast (barcode or some such) This is where juggling monkeys can be used with moon rock sculptures to quickly count the ballots.
2) a way for the voter to see what he's voted for (plain text on the same bar coded ballot) A web 2.0 interface to interpret the moon rock sculptures would give a clean user interface while still remaining functional.
3) a way to do a manual recount for verification (see "plain text" comment above All you need is a geologist to look at the moon rock sculptures and a manual recount would be easy.
You possibly also forgot: 4) a way of ensuring that the votes can't be intercepted and altered. Here comes the encryption..
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the cross section of MySpace users that would fall for a phishing scam would be a fairly accurate representative sample of all MySpace users.
Actually I think you'll find that the reason linux enthusiasts stick to windows for gaming is that the games simply don't run. I can't speak for the Mac using population, but I've had nothing but headaches trying to get games to run under linux. Transgaming's focus (from my perspective) is to "enable" the linux OS to be viable for gamers.
If nothing else, perhaps they just want the game producers to sit up and take notice of all that is *nix.
The tricky part about that is that you can't kill people from your own faction, and you can't communicate with the other faction to find out that they actually are gold farmers as opposed to normal players just killing things.
The "mature attitude" is hampered by game mechanics in this case, though it could be said that the majority player base of WoW wouldn't be mature enough anyway.
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In other news today, everybody with the family name Chin disappeared mysteriously today.
Authorities were quoted as saying, "there never was a Chin family name."
.. that didn't miss the most obvious comment.
Embrace. <-- You are here
Extend.
Extinguish.
Personally I'm looking forward to the remote throat punching device. I guess a mute button works as well.
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I'm just wondering how long that actually is.. The rate they're pushing OS releases back maybe we would be better with the current bureaucracy.
Quick, somebody get this person a fine!
That's copyrighted!
You've gotta wonder if this has been really thought through properly.
If we drop the temperature of the earth short term by a single degree, it could continue to drop. It's not like polluting the atmosphere is a reversible thing. We may be forced underground to take advantage of the earth's warm core.
"[...] we do know it was us that scorched the sky. [...] It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."
The problem isn't that the AI players are better at the game. The problem is that they do repetitive tasks for a long period of time to achieve something.
As a maths/IT double degree student, I was surprised to find that not only did my IT subjects teach me to program (the "code" part was left to us, we were taught the concepts), but also my maths units taught me a lot of programming. Massive focus on large matrices and function approximation, but there was a lot of optimization, code complexity and general concepts about making efficient code that weren't covered in IT, but were covered in maths.
Wait, I'm a slashdot reader.. What is this "bra strap" thing you speak of?
What's With All The Spam Articles?
> if you want to pay for it Aww... I was hoping it would be free..
I think you missed the fact that you can treat a pre-installed machine very much like a clean system, overwrite it all with a quick format and it's gone in one foul swoop.
Perhaps you're not familiar with how this industry works. Allow me to help:
1) a way for the computer to count fast (barcode or some such)
This is where juggling monkeys can be used with moon rock sculptures to quickly count the ballots.
2) a way for the voter to see what he's voted for (plain text on the same bar coded ballot)
A web 2.0 interface to interpret the moon rock sculptures would give a clean user interface while still remaining functional.
3) a way to do a manual recount for verification (see "plain text" comment above
All you need is a geologist to look at the moon rock sculptures and a manual recount would be easy.
You possibly also forgot:
4) a way of ensuring that the votes can't be intercepted and altered.
Here comes the encryption..
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the cross section of MySpace users that would fall for a phishing scam would be a fairly accurate representative sample of all MySpace users.
There's nothing suspicious about that codec. Just read the "Therms of use".
Why don't they just cut the crap and call it DirectX Forever
Actually I think you'll find that the reason linux enthusiasts stick to windows for gaming is that the games simply don't run. I can't speak for the Mac using population, but I've had nothing but headaches trying to get games to run under linux. Transgaming's focus (from my perspective) is to "enable" the linux OS to be viable for gamers.
If nothing else, perhaps they just want the game producers to sit up and take notice of all that is *nix.
The tricky part about that is that you can't kill people from your own faction, and you can't communicate with the other faction to find out that they actually are gold farmers as opposed to normal players just killing things. The "mature attitude" is hampered by game mechanics in this case, though it could be said that the majority player base of WoW wouldn't be mature enough anyway.