Comment Respawn Location? (Score 1) 102
So do 77000 year old africans still respawn there?
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 387
If theyre teaching concepcts that can be googled, then there are some bigger problems than cheating..
Comment Re:Digital Product (Score 1) 463
This is essentially the last word on the copyright dilemma at this time. It will occur with every digital item, times every downloader, forever until we get Non-Purchase methods of giving value back to the producers.
What you mean like directly donating to the artists of a product without going through the corporate execs who suck 90% of the profits away? Could that actually be done? Going up to a person and paying them? I think it's a bit farfetched to think us mortals could just pay artists/developers/actors/etc.
Comment Re:Their data should be used to make an expert AI! (Score 1) 60
While I'm probably out of my depth here, surely in SC2 an AIs performance could be measured in some fashion. I don't know if theres such a concept as a score in SC2, but an evolutionary algorithm pitted against humans, with the aforementioned score as a health function may breed an ai algorithm which is almost ideal. Could the SC2 playing residents here shed some insight into this?
Comment Re:Before you get too excited... (Score 2) 94
So - Android would clearly be the superior platform for development.
FTFY
Comment Re:Not a big loss (Score 1) 112
But if they do pay, they may go into security door construction called: "RAMUS"
Comment Re:A great anti-piracy strategy (Score 1) 247
Except almost all scene releases are flagged malware by virusscanners, so pirates are extremely desensitized to this.
Submission + - Samsung Galaxy S3, Announcement of phones to come, (android-releases.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A slide from a private Samsung presentation was leaked and sent to the team over at Phandroid that shows what the future specs of the Samsung Galaxy S3 might be holding and a release year. The specs of the phone are a 12MP rear facing camera along with 1.8Ghz Dual Core(Exynos 4212), 2GB RAM memory,
Submission + - Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
theodp writes: Yo' software is so fat, it makes Free Willy look like a goldfish. James Hague has compiled a short list of things that the circa-1986 Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS is smaller than (chart). For starters, at 39,731 bytes, the entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable (compiler and IDE) makes it less than 1/4th the size of the image of the white iPhone 4S at apple.com (190,157 bytes), and less than 1/5th the size of the yahoo.com home page (219,583 bytes). Speaking of slim-and-trim software, Visicalc, the granddaddy of all spreadsheet software which celebrated its 32nd birthday this year, weighed in at a mere 29K.
Submission + - Tilburg professor faked data in at least 30 academ (dutchnews.nl)
Attila Dimedici writes: "A professor at Tilburg has been caught using fake data in over 30 scientific papers. His latest paper claimed that eating meat made people anto-social and selfish. Other academics were skeptical of his findings and raised doubts about his research. Upon investigation it was discovered that he had invented the data he used in many of his papers and there is question as to whether or not he used faked data in all of his papers. This is why so many people have trouble taking social and behavioral sciences seriously as science"
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Learning Dart Development (dartlang.org)
gmikeska07 writes: Sisters and Brothers of Slashdot,
I have no computer science degree, but I took a Java class in college and greatly enjoyed it. I have some experience with Javascript and have done some perl programming as well. I would like to learn Google's forthcoming Dart language. My question is multipart:
A) Is there any chance that if I self-teach Dart, I can get a job in development without a CS degree once companies begin using the language?
B) Is it really worth installing Virtual Studio as per the dartlang docs, or should I wait for a dedicated IDE like the rumored "Brightly"? Alternatively, are there any solid open development environments that are adding support?
C) Do you know of any books that are out or on the way that I could buy? What programming series do you guys recommend?
Hopefully I can learn in my spare time, and if I can't get a job in development I can at least have fun with it, and maybe make a few libraries for the Dart community! :-D
Thanks so much!
I have no computer science degree, but I took a Java class in college and greatly enjoyed it. I have some experience with Javascript and have done some perl programming as well. I would like to learn Google's forthcoming Dart language. My question is multipart:
A) Is there any chance that if I self-teach Dart, I can get a job in development without a CS degree once companies begin using the language?
B) Is it really worth installing Virtual Studio as per the dartlang docs, or should I wait for a dedicated IDE like the rumored "Brightly"? Alternatively, are there any solid open development environments that are adding support?
C) Do you know of any books that are out or on the way that I could buy? What programming series do you guys recommend?
Hopefully I can learn in my spare time, and if I can't get a job in development I can at least have fun with it, and maybe make a few libraries for the Dart community!
Thanks so much!
Submission + - CodeNow White House Approved (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: CodeNow is a new initiative to teach foundational computer science skills to under-privileged young people. It has received privileged publicity by being featured on the White House blog.
The real question is what about the average-privileged? Programming has too long been the forgotten skill.
The real question is what about the average-privileged? Programming has too long been the forgotten skill.
Submission + - Learning Japanese 3
my_paradox writes: "I'm sure there are more than a few out there who, in consideration of the growing popularity played by anime, manga and robotics, have a strong desire to learn Japanese. Of course, if you are one of those who have tried, you'll know it's no easy task: so I decided it was high time I posed the question. Have you mastered the Japanese language and if so, how did you do it — what resources would you recommend for those of us still flailing to master Hirigana and Katakana?"
Comment Re:Its not about the sound! (Score 1) 176
A very similiar resonance happens in almost everyone, albeit at different frequencies. That trembling spreads around me too, and I almost always want to see if it would happen again. Likewise, if my teeth collide, it doesn't hurt per se, it's just unpleasant, but I keep wanting to try again.
Comment Does siri translate this? (Score 1) 148
"(...) a certain eminent iPhone hacker has let us know that the has already been jailbroken with a jailbreak for iPad 2 in the works."
