Comment Re:Just like Europe (Score 2, Funny) 330
I don't know about you but I'd take some Vermont on my pancakes any day...
Comment Re:Exactly (Score 0, Offtopic) 371
mod parent up, I almost pee'd myself.
Submission + - Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content (ucf.edu)
Ken Stanley writes: "Just as interest in user-generated content in video games is heating up, a team of researchers at the University of Central Florida has released an experimental multiplayer game in which content items compete with each other in an evolutionary arms race to satisfy the players. As a result, particle system-based weapons, which are the evolving class of content, continually invent their own new behaviors based on what users liked in the past. Does the resulting experience in this game, called Galactic Arms Race, suggest that evolutionary algorithms may be the key to automated content generation in future multiplayer gaming and MMOs?"
Comment This Google thing will never catch on... (Score 1) 165
This Google thing will never catch on...
Comment Re:Kind of reminds me... (Score 1) 557
You call it swine flu. I call it weaponized bacon.
I almost peed myself upon reading this post...
Comment Sequel time (Score 1) 505
Perfect back story for a Cool Runnings 2...?
Comment Re:Obama's not playing by the rules... (Score 2, Insightful) 649
Obviously you missed the entire point of the post you replied to...
Comment Re:Useful! (Score 1) 250
Use your cat as a surge protector?
Comment Re:Useful! (Score 1) 250
Why stop there? Why not have a machine that you plug into that extracts calories from your body at night? You could effectively just sleep away your weight. Why not trickle this energy you are generating into battery cells that work to power your home in tangent with a solar panel array? hmmm...
Comment Re:Cue the following: (Score 1) 1306
Using this logic, couldn't you then concede that both the theory of evolution and ID are not necessarily mutually exclusive? Evolution can explain how life forms that already exist are changing overtime into new classifications, and ID can explain how those original life forms came into existence.
Biblical scholars have been debating the actual timeline of the genesis creation as described in the Bible for many years (uncited due to work firewall). Given that the Bible is a collection of stories and teachings that were written and told for the audience of the day, it isn't a far fetch possibility that the actual timeline was masked due to the inability of the target audience to grasp the complexities of the actual creation.
Just some food for thought, can't we all just get along?
Comment Re:You know whats ironic? (Score 1) 345
exactly
Comment Re:Ordinary (Score 1) 123
Short answer: No, neither of those is correct.
Long and poorly thought out answer: A typical full moon occurs once a month. When the moon is full, it is in a position that places the Earth between itself and the sun. The Earth is not directly between the Moon and Sun during a full moon obviously, because that would cause the Earth Eclipse of the Sun that we see in the video. But instead, it's orbit is offset by a given amount so that light travels past the Earth.
Kinda hard to explain without a diagram, but if you could follow that then you'd see why the Earth's Eclipse of the Moon is not extremely common.
Comment Re:Hoax? (Score 1) 123
It's a space station!
First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon 123
dazza101 writes "For the first time ever, we have witnessed a solar eclipse from the moon. On 10 February 2009 Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter captured the sight of the Earth eclipsing the sun. The spacecraft also recorded this video showing the Earth surrounded by a glowing ring and briefly forming the classic diamond ring that often occurs during a solar eclipse, as seen from down here on Earth."
The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming 231
Glyn Moody writes "The February 2009 Netcraft survey is not the usual 'Apache continues to trounce Microsoft IIS' story: there's a new entrant — from China. 'This majority of this month's growth is down to the appearance of 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.' What exactly is this QZHTTP, and what does it all mean for the world of Web servers?"
