Comment Re:Missing option (Score 1) 171
I think that falls under paper & pencil.
Unless it is in the bedroom.
Comment Re:Second person to vote for card games here (Score 1) 171
Card games sound the coolest, making you think of movies, smoke, poker, baccarat, Bond.
And my grand mother, and her friends in the card club, etc..
Comment Re:No, it's not even possible (Score 1) 181
Carewolf, your statements about chess engines are rubbish. As anyone with the slightest knowledge of them would immediately know.
So this doesn't exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and Deep Blue didn't have 60000 games by chess-masters it used?
Comment Re:Good grief. (Score 1) 135
Except for the bankers and child molestation murder cults among the elite. Nobody's watching them, apparently.
So the banker molestation murder cults get away with their crimes. Not sure if a good or bad thing.
Comment Re:No, it's not even possible (Score 1) 181
Often, so-called "AI" doesn't even require pattern recognition at all. For example, chess engines - which are now better than any human player - simply build a tree of all possible moves, replies, replies to the replies, etc. and then apply rules to evaluate the final positions.
Actually they mostly do what expert human chess players do: Know lots of plays and use the best known strategy. The difference is they can remember a lot more plays than humans can, the brute-force search is only used when a database lookup for the best known human response fails, which is rare.
Chess is a knowledge game.
Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies 461
JoeyRox writes: The publicized goal of Tesla's "gigafactory" is to make electric cars more affordable. However, that benefit may soon be eclipsed by the gigafactory's impact on roof-top solar power storage costs, putting the business model of utilities in peril. "The mortal threat that ever cheaper on-site renewables pose" comes from systems that include storage, said physicist Amory Lovins. "That is an unregulated product you can buy at Home Depot that leaves the old business model with no place to hide."
Comment Re:LOTRO clone, but with more bugs (Score 1) 91
It's interface is a mess on the PC with KB/mouse. It is visually good, but nothing groundbreaking. The game really feels like a LOTRO rip-off though, except with a lot more interface and design bugs. Best RPG in decades? It may not even be the best RPG out right now. It's certainly not the best Dragon Age. I like the game so far, but I am not in love with it, the design flaws make it hard to love.
It is not just the controls. The PC port is broken. Here is the official thread on their forum: http://forum.bioware.com/topic... acknowledging the issues (4000 comments!), and here is the unofficial thread collecting the bugs: http://forum.bioware.com/topic... (long list)
Though it is not just the PC port that is broken. For shit and gigles check the last-gen thread of issues: http://forum.bioware.com/topic...
Comment Re:Why tax profits, why not income? (Score 1) 602
Individuals aren't taxes based on their profit but income
Yes they are. You can (as an individual in the UK) offset most business expenses against tax. It's a tax on net income, not gross.
No you can't. In the UK like any other country you pay tax on income you spend. Often you in fact have the reverse structure from what corporation have, where you pay a lower tax on money you invest or pay onto others.
Comment Re:Not a bad place.... (Score 1) 409
Peace, quiet, natural... why not turn Prypiat into a retirement town with a minimum age of admission of 75?
Whether 60 Minutes is wrong or Ron Adams is wrong, it won't matter - the retirees will all be dead before any potential effects of mild radiation manifest themselves.
Yeah, but Chernobyl is also overrun by radioactive wolves, they might be a problem
How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything 216
mrspoonsi writes The global race is on to develop 5G, the fifth generation of mobile network. While 5G will follow in the footsteps of 4G and 3G, this time scientists are more excited. They say 5G will be different — very different. "5G will be a dramatic overhaul and harmonization of the radio spectrum," says Prof Rahim Tafazolli who is the lead at the UK's multimillion-pound government-funded 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. To pave the way for 5G the ITU is comprehensively restructuring the parts of the radio network used to transmit data, while allowing pre-existing communications, including 4G and 3G, to continue functioning. 5G will also run faster, a lot faster. Prof Tafazolli now believes it is possible to run a wireless data connection at an astounding 800Gbps — that's 100 times faster than current 5G testing. A speed of 800Gbps would equate to downloading 33 HD films — in a single second. Samsung hopes to launch a temporary trial 5G network in time for 2018's Winter Olympic Games.
Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? 720
shadeshope writes Having just gotten married, I find that for some inexplicable reason my wife doesn't like my huge, noisy, 'ugly' gaming PC being in the living room. I have tried hiding it in a TV cabinet: still too noisy. I have placed it in another room and run HDMI and USB cables, but the propagation delay caused horrible tearing and lag when playing games. Have any other slashdotters encountered this problem? I don't want to buy a console (Steam sales let me game so cheaply), or mess with water cooling. Ideally I would just hide it in the attic, is there some wireless technology that would be fast enough for gaming use? I have become quite attached to 'behemoth.' I have been upgrading him for years and he is the centre of my digital life. I run plex home theatre, media centre, steam, iTunes and air server. Will I have to do my gaming in the spare room? Once I have sorted this small problem going to try and make a case for the efficacy of a projector to replace the television..... it takes up less space, motorized screen could be hidden when not in use, etc.
Comment Re:Stop this stupid First past the Post system (Score 4, Informative) 413
first past the post isn't what's doing that, not having instant runoff style ballots is.
Yes it is. With proportional voting a minor party with 15% in every district would get one candidate in a state of 11 districts like this case. In a two party system, aka first past the post, they would get none.
Ubisoft Apologizes For Assassin's Creed 171
BarbaraHudson writes in with the latest in the Assassin's Creed Unity debacle. This time it's good news. "As an acknowledgment of the botched launch of Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has offered free additional content to everyone who purchased the title, cancelled the game's season pass and offered a free game to users who purchased the pass. The anticipation for Assassin's Creed Unity was such that the myriad of bugs and technical issues experienced at launch felt like an even greater slap in the face for gamers. In a blog posted yesterday, Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal & Toronto said: 'Unfortunately, at launch, the overall quality of the game was diminished by bugs and unexpected technical issues. I want to sincerely apologize on behalf of Ubisoft and the entire Assassin's Creed team. These problems took away from your enjoyment of the game, and kept many of you from experiencing the game at its fullest potential.'"
Comment Re:If your product is any good... (Score 0) 120
Then you don't need to hand people hundreds of dollars to take it off your hands.
-jcr
Yeah, but considering the product has been constantlly sold out and impossible to even get hands on, this really doesn't make any sense. Maybe they have ramped up production and the initial buyers are all done?
Comment Re:Um, what? (Score 0) 433
Leaderships skills are, apparently, no longer a qualification for President... Charisma and good talking points suffice.
But Fiorina has the charisma and easy charm of Mitt Romney with the competency and self awareness of Sarah Palin. An obvious Republican candidate but not really an obvious nomination.
