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 Aug 11 2007, 02:02 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,032 Joined: 6-August 04 Member No.: 6,543  |
Why is Bioware at least look at the rules SOTA over cyberware? Even if you buy the bullet about it should be..When will Nanoware replace bioware as the SOTA?
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Aug 11 2007, 02:06 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
When you hit Diamond Age.
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Aug 11 2007, 02:40 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
Speaking as someone who types with wretched grammar, your post just bitchslapped me into illiteracy. I have no idea what you just said, Cynic. Could you rephrase it maybe?
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Aug 11 2007, 02:45 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 92 Joined: 15-July 07 Member No.: 12,262 |
Its bad grammar? I thought it was a reference that I had no clue about what so ever, and like some many complicated dissertations on abstract theory, I figured it was just beyond my understanding
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Aug 11 2007, 02:46 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629 |
He's asking why Bioware is seen as State of teh Art instead of Nanoware.
Sort of like how Bio pased Cyber. Cyber --> Bio --> Nano |
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Aug 11 2007, 02:50 AM
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Slacker Extraordinaire Group: Retired Admins Posts: 337 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Ashburn, VA Member No.: 997 |
I believe the question is: Why is Bioware the current state of the art? When will nanoware be the current state of the art?
I'll counter that with: Nanoware, and now Genetech, are state of the art as far as I can tell. Once upon a time you had to wait for bioware until after you generated you character, or at least until the bioware book was released. Now bioware is in the core rules, while these "newer" technologies are in the advanced book and (in at least one case) are specifically called out as being so new that characters should not be allowed to acquire them during character generation. Did I get it right, or did I misunderstand? |
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Aug 11 2007, 07:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 165 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,002 |
Speaking of SOTA, are rules similiar to those in 3rd ed being thought about or being intended for 4th ed.
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Aug 11 2007, 08:30 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Christ, I hope not. |
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Aug 11 2007, 09:43 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
No. We do not intend to reintroduce SOTA at this point. |
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Aug 11 2007, 09:47 AM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
..the 'at this point' part scares me.
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Aug 11 2007, 12:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
SOTA rules make baby Jesus cry.
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Aug 11 2007, 05:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,032 Joined: 6-August 04 Member No.: 6,543 |
Mainly I am sick of well wet-ware being better. I honestly think that even if for whatever reason you can make bio-logical implants that are more cutting edge than machinal devices...I fail to see how it would keep up.
We understand machines, and machines are easy to adapt,and change.. Look at the speed of change and develuments in say call phones in the real world..Or just the way things change in shadowrun's computing power... But Cyberware...Nah that largely has to stay the same? |
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Aug 11 2007, 06:03 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 6-August 07 Member No.: 12,530 |
Biology shows us that the clumps of molecular machines we call cells are much more efficient then any metal machine built to date- take the efficiency of human glucose to ATP conversion process if you want an example:IIRC it's around the 40% mark, when cars are somewhere in the teens at best and the maximum theoretically possible is 54%.Yes, machines are able to do things meat currently can't do like communicate over radio frequencies or get direct input from radar, but when you check it meat is actually more efficient in about anything both do.I think it's due at least in part to the fact meat had several hundred million years more of time to sophisticate itself.
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Aug 11 2007, 07:00 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,032 Joined: 6-August 04 Member No.: 6,543 |
Yes but things like transmitting data is better with machines...The human brain is really slow compared to modern computers. Unless you can honestly say that you can send signil along your normal nervus system close to the speed of light..You can along machines.
Things both machines and meat does...machines do better or at least faster. |
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Aug 11 2007, 08:39 PM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
Machines are quicker at specific things, biological computers (yes brains) are vastly more complex than any computer that exists, I seem to remember a quotation that the number of connections the brain can produce rivals the number of atoms in the universe.
Also nerves do work by electricity, fairly quick close to light speed. Synapses slow it down a bit. Bioware is subtle and hard to detect (guess what, it looks like the rest of you) cyber is easy to spot. Which one is better for a professional criminal? Cyber can do things like exceed to bodies capabilities (see cyberlimbs in Aug) but for enhancing things bodies do already a biological solution will be better. |
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Aug 11 2007, 08:44 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
That's a paradoxon. |
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Aug 11 2007, 08:56 PM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
Fair enough, can't remember the source for that. My point was that the neural networks of our brains are vastly more complex than any computer.
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Aug 11 2007, 11:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 341 Joined: 3-October 05 Member No.: 7,802 |
Well given that they are I believe working on biological computers, since they can show unusual efficiency in some regards...
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Aug 11 2007, 11:21 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,246 Joined: 8-June 07 Member No.: 11,869 |
For now... But I'm working on that. :) |
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Aug 12 2007, 02:25 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 162 Joined: 27-January 06 From: Norfolk, Ma Member No.: 8,202 |
Machines can do specific behaviors faster (calculate numbers, sort discreet bits of data, etc.). However, there is one thing that the human mind has over machines in spades. That is the ability to make coorelations between different things. For example, if I mention a glass of juice and a cell phone, all of us could think of a vast number of things they have in common. Computers are limited by the foresight of their programming. Mark (See there IS a use for a Doctorate in Psychology after all...) EDIT: I'm sure someone will want to point out that, at some point, the programming will be perfected. The problem is, our minds constantly evolve with new bits of information and new relationships built every second. Until we make a learning computer that doesn't rely on additional programming, it will never be as good. |
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Aug 12 2007, 06:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: 19-May 03 From: In your base eating your food. Member No.: 4,607 |
Ghost in the Shell the manga has networked pigs as a bio computer. In our SR game we've encountered cat nodes. They're good for storage and processing but they're uber creepy. I don't want my commlink staring at me. |
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Aug 12 2007, 02:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,219 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lofwyr's stomach. Member No.: 1,320 |
Heh. I had a datasteal once where the data was stored in headware memory inside a cat. The entire mission turned into trying to find a stray.
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Aug 12 2007, 02:51 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Headware memory in a cat ..... does that make it a Blackberry Cat?
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Aug 12 2007, 03:38 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,650 Joined: 21-July 07 Member No.: 12,328 |
Actually computers can be really good at this as well. For example if you have titanic datasets, and you want to find all the relationships between two people, this is quite possible and quite effective (Like, they lived at the same house 2 years ago, went to the same school during these periods etc.) Edit: I actually imagine that these technologies would be the bane of shadowrunners - say you have these two descriptions, the security types will find that they match these SINs (even if they are fake) and those two people went to this restaurant and ordered food at that table. The other 3 people at that table where etc, etc, etc. However, that basically comes back to what computers are good at: Performing operations on large functional datasets. What they are bad at is dealing with ambiguity or large search spaces. (Note: The search space of all commercial transactions in LA at which perp 1 was present in the last week is probably very small compared to the number of movies in a chess game) This is why computers are great at checkers, good at chess and really terrible at Go. |
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Aug 12 2007, 05:27 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,069 Joined: 19-July 07 From: Oakland CA Member No.: 12,309 |
GO++ now barely playing at a pro level. FYI
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