Or just press Ctrl-Shift-B.

Which happens to be my all time favourite game! No game has stolen more of my time than TTD. It's too bad Locomotion, even though it's a good game, failed to capture me in the same way.

Another game that utterly destroyed my spare time was Master of Magic, and I just got hooked on a Stardock developed MoM and Civ inspired game, Elemental - War of Magic. Anyone who loves turnbased strategy, the fantasy setting and/or the MoM or Civ gameplay should check it out. It had a horrible launch but the latest patch to 1.06 fixed most of its troubles.

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Syndicate Wars is the less well received sequel, the predecessor was simply called Syndicate. Z on the other isn't a jump&run, but a strategy game where two teams of robots battle it out.

I played the hell out of Theme Hospital and tried my best at Syndicate but often failed miserably, mostly because I was both quite young and didn't understand much english (quite necessary to understand the mission objectives.. ). I remember trying the Z demo, but I recall it being incredibly difficult. I probably didn't understand half of the game concepts. Good times!

A random guess would be 50% correct because the only two options are yes or no.

Consider a sample of 100 articles, of which only 10 hit the front page. Guessing randomly I will have predicted a correct "yes" on about 5 of them, and a wrong "no" on the other 5. Of the 90 discarded articles I will have predicted a wrong "yes" on 45 items and a correct "no" on the other 45. Thus I have 45+5=50 correct predictions and 45+5=50 wrong predictions out of 100.

If there are 3 options a random guess is just over 33% correct, so an algorithm showing a 50% success rate would in that case be a significant improvement.

I quite often find myself trying several slightly different search terms when I'm looking for something very specific. The video in TFA is just a proof-of-concept, a more practical use would be switching out/adding/removing a search term or two to get different results. All this without hitting the enter key every time (and maybe accidentally deleting the whole query because the textbox.text gets selected). It's a convenience thing.

If we're talking about large amounts of data (I imagine we are) it's actually significant, law of great numbers and such. Considering a random guess leaves you at 50%, it proves his algorithm actually does something.

I agree, but any chain is as strong as the weakest link. The safest OS in the world can't handle sheer stupidity or ignorance, or if it does it's basically useless for anything.

Disclaimer: rant based solely on the summary and a bit of pure speculation. I, of course, didn't read TFA.

The operating system really isn't the issue here, failure to isolate the system is. I've set up several windows systems inside a double firewall which in turn are set up with a VPN to whatever the systems needed to communicate with, and nothing else. Those did exactly what they needed to do because nothing else would get in or out. That a mission critical system gets infected at all points to a serious flaw somewhere, a goddamned alarm system shouldn't need any active usb-ports nor any access to the internet besides an encrypted line to whoever is supposed to receive the alarm and respond. I hope this is viewed as a criminal case, someone did an absolutely horrendous job or didn't do it at all and 154 people lost their lives because of it.

Photographer uses Photoshop to touch up photo, developer uses Visual Studio to create a program, $professional uses $tool for $purpose. How is this news?