Noonian Soong - Slashdot User

Comment Re:concentration vs relaxation (Score 1) 119

by Noonian Soong on Thursday October 09, 2008 @09:12AM (#25312431) Attached to: Brainwave Controlled Game From Square Enix

Sounds to me like not everyone is identical... Wow, imagine that!

Sure. But since this thing only measures an increase or decrease in brainwave activity, it cannot be explained by a simple "We are all different.". That's why the fact caught my interest in the first place.

Submission + - Homework!?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: With all the talk about Blizzard lately, I was asked a question about Guild Wars and World of Warcraft. While both games address different aspects, how would you get Blizzard to drop the monthly fee for WoW without trying to generate a force needed to compensate for the entropy of the players' need to play the game? After all, the no monthly free works for Guild Wars, so the model itself is fine. Or perhaps the question should be stated, how would you get this model to be the accepted form for all MMORPGs? Also, assume that the person asking me will not accept impossible for an answer. I would like to know your thoughts.

Submission + - Wikipedia Blocked by Schools

Submitted by

Malkara

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:43PM

Malkara writes: "Apparently my school system, in Central Florida, has blocked Wikipedia access on all school computers. I had known wikipedia was blocked for the last week, but I was just recently informed that it had indeed been a conscious decision. Apparently they're worried about people quoting directly from Wikipedia, and decided to take the easy way out by simply completely blocking the website in all schools from Elementary to High School."

Submission + - Wikipedia founder Q & A

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:06AM

MattSparkes writes: "Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, answered readers questions in this New Scientist interview.

Q: 'Wikipedia is such a huge source of information and many articles are open to vandalism and abuse, therefore they can display people's racial or cultural beliefs. Is it hard to keep this offensive material under control?'

A: 'No, it is pretty easy.'"

Submission + - LSU Professor Resolves Einstein's Twin Paradox

Submitted by

justelite

on Friday February 16, 2007 @08:58PM

justelite writes: "Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics. In more recent times, the paradox has been described using the analogy of twins. If one twin is placed on a space shuttle and travels near the speed of light while the remaining twin remains earthbound, the unmoved twin would have aged dramatically compared to his interstellar sibling, according to the paradox."

Submission + - DD-WRT now running on X86

Submitted by

JimBowen

on Friday February 16, 2007 @08:08PM

JimBowen writes: "The popular linux-based router firmware project, DD-WRT, based on the free OpenWRT, has recently been made to run on an ordinary PC. This allows a significant increase in performance by the use of much faster hardware, with more memory, enabling advanced SPI firewalls even in the presence of high load P2P software. Various community extensions provide support for extra features like NAS. With the combination of large, desktop-sized storage, this makes for an extremely powerful, yet manageable and easily deployable home server. There is a tutorial on how to set it up over at graynetwork.org."

Submission + - Why Geeks Make Good Lovers

Submitted by

stego

on Friday February 16, 2007 @06:18PM

stego writes: "Justin at Awkward Things I Say To Girls provides good evidence in Why Geeks Make Good Lovers that "that geeks, along with nerds and other peoples who overinvest in intelligence but boast underdeveloped social skills, make the best lovers""

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