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Comment 2. Duh. But... (Score 3, Interesting) 814

by slgrimes on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @01:24PM (#33139914) Attached to: Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2?

I always put 2 spaces at the end of a sentence. Oddly, though, I've noticed that when I type, if it's a space between words I use my right thumb. For the end of my sentence, I use my left one. Something I didn't even realize I did until about 6 months ago, and I've been doing this for about 20 years!

xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:39PM from the a-different-breed dept.

xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.

Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @11:50AM from the even-superer dept.

drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 14, 2009 @02:11PM from the up-to-the-minute dept.

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Comment Re:Crossloop is simple (Score 1) 454

by slgrimes on Sunday November 22, 2009 @09:43PM (#30198316) Attached to: Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control?

I agree with this one, it's what I use - that, or ShowMyPC.

Comment Re:Doomsday Machine (Score 1) 638

by slgrimes on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @05:48PM (#29509293) Attached to: Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive

Hmm, you seem to have left off 2 steps... - ????? - Profit!

Submission + - Bacon Salt

Submitted by

lathama

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:47PM

lathama writes: "From a recent review of the new wonder product Bacon Salt we learn that this Vegetarian and Kosher flavoring is turning heads and tweaking taste buds. This startup product from Seattle is is making meat meatier and vegetables tastier. With three flavors, Hickory, Peppered, and Original Bacon Salt can enhance any mass consumption session.

I am just a customer, that also thinks that this will save ramen noodles..."

Submission + - Has the internet killed game AI?

Submitted by

iansmith

on Friday July 27, 2007 @02:25PM

iansmith writes: "After the amazing AI and scripted plot of Half-Life my friends and I were looking forward to what would be next. It seemed that great things were on the way.

But what came next was, nothing. We have better graphics and more objects are physics enabled, but the AI is still in the stone age.

Next year Half-Life will be 10 years old. So the question is, why is the AI in FPS shooters so terrible? Why did it peak 9 years ago? I've been using the same trick of hide JUST behind a corner and shoot some poor grunts elbow until they die since Doom.

I understand AI is hard, I mean *REALLY* hard. Expecting fast improvement is not realistic, but I am not kidding when I say I don't think current AI is any better than it was 9 years ago, and thats just sad. A top of the line game machine today is a 3GHz dual-core machine with a powerful GPU vs the 233MHz machine I used with no hardware acceleration, so you can't tell me it's lack of processing power.

A possible answer is that with the rise of the internet, game developers got an out. Single player has become almost a second priority to multi-player deathmatch. Why bother creating good AI when you can just have people play against actual human opponents? There is just no incentive to spend time and money on improving the AI when you can just dodge the whole idea of it.

So can anyone point me to a ray of hope, or is the future just limited more of the same old FPS we all love and hate?"

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