Comment Re:First questions first (Score 1) 474
Says the person posting xkcd comics, which have outworn their welcome even faster.
Comment Re:Games are Solid Art. (Score 1) 214
But you're confusing the issue. All of those things are art in games. The game itself isn't art because it contains art.
I'm firmly in the games-as-art camp, but this is not the correct way to argue that games are art.
I'm firmly in the games-as-art camp, but this is not the correct way to argue that games are art.
Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 1) 115
Or do you browse with AdBlock?
I honestly had forgotten the big, ugly ads /. has, because I've had them blocked for so long.
Comment Re:sample top sekret mySQL code from the project (Score 1) 91
My guess is he got a < or > swallowed.
Comment Re:They got a refund (Score 1) 1002
I have this great product to sell you, friend! It's elephant repellent made from the oil of the Kumba-Kimba bird of the deep forests of Africa! Why, ever since I imported this oil into the United States, not a single one of my customers has had an elephant stampede through his or her living room!
Comment Re:Hold the phones! (Score 2, Informative) 141
Well, for individual albums, you can always check RIAA Radar, which will tell you if an album is put out on an RIAA label or not.
Comment Re:Uhm (Score 1) 155
I was wondering why that joke didn't make any sense.
Spore Expansion Announced, Another Coming In 2009 105
EA announced this week what many suspected for a while, now: Spore expansions are on their way. The first, due out in November, will be an addition to the creature creator, offering more parts for players to use. The next, due in Spring 2009, will provide new gameplay:
"The expansion will give space-faring species the ability to beam down from their ships to explore other worlds and complete missions. And along with this, the expansion will include an Adventure creator, in which players can build — and then share — their own customized missions."
Submission + - Automating the war on terrorism (computerworld.com)
jcatcw writes: The Department of Homeland Security is bankrolling futuristic profiling technologies to nab terrorists before they strike. Project Hostile Intent is an initiative to build systems that automatically identify and analyze behavioral and physiological cues associated with deception. Current research focuses on microfacial expressions, variations in speech, and physiological characteristics such as blood pressure. An initial demo is scheduled for early this year, followed by test deployments in 2010. By 2012, if all goes well, the agency hopes to begin deploying automated test systems at airports, border checkpoints and other points of entry. It's just one of several programs that the DHS's human factors division is pursuing. Others include violent-intent modeling, biometrics, high-resolution X-rays, the puffer machine, and whole-body imaging, which is already in use in Phoenix and coming to LAX and JFK soon.
