h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"...why don't you get all the world's top programmers who have some free time..." Because that sentence cuts the list down to no programmers at all already.

"...teach it all the very basic stuff, then let it teach itself..." Unfortunately that uses two different structures; you can't do both with the same brain, and you can't translate the information from one structure to use it in another. Pity - it would be a good idea otherwise.

The possible solution I want to try is to develop a different type of hardware, so that neural network simulations can run fast enough to be really effective, instead of just half-effective.
Haven't figured it out completely yet though; I'm hoping that making the robot's brain will help me work out exactly what the hardware would need.

ooh... a good price?
i dont know. what do they usually go for nowadays?

not sure, tell you what I'll give you some of my oxymorons for some of your points

deal!
so how many points to a oxymoron? are they the same? or are oxymorons worth more becuse they seem to be more rare....

well I don't know
I got 100 in 1 go which may have devalued them, sort of flooded the market
shall we say 1 for 1, how many would you like

can i trade you 50 for 50?

sure

ooh! thanks BC!!

maybe i should keep a running tally of how many i have...

common, hand over the points
I hope you have them on you

*raises her hands*
take 'em all mister! just dont kill me!!!!!

ah mercy mercy
all right hers your oxymorons

oooh... thanks!


no hard feelings for the?

of course not

Well oxymorons should be expensively cheap.

So either worthless or priceless then?

Going back to the original topic you guys seem to be trying so hard to avoid... I've found a guy who wants to write a graphics engine for me! His conditions for making is that it has to have X Y and Z features, which are exactly the features I was going to say it had to have anyway!

Now I need to sit down and plan the whole thing, to figure out /exactly/ what the engine would need to do... which could take a while. But it'll be fun.

what use is the graphics engine to be put to?

I know in gaming adding a 3rd axis and making the game truly 3-D makes the graphics much more complicated and hence much more expensive

For the RPG game I was talking about.

You're absolutely right. 2D I can do without a problem. 3D is just a whole can of worms I don't want to get into, which is why it's the part of the game I /really/ don't want to do.
Most of the yuckiness of it is due to the fact that everything to do with rotation - including camera movement, collision detection, parallax perspective, etc... - is done in vectors, and vectors means calculating dot products of matrices, in an algrebraic way. Which I hate.

These days there are some interesting hardware ways of making this easier and faster, but not enough to help me. Also there are some interesting engines already created, which it would be tempting to use, but it would be faster to use one which is purpose-built. And games like this really need to be as fast as possible in order to sell well. Which is why I really needed someone else to do one for me.

well thats exhausted my technical knowledge