Hydrogenoid - Slashdot User

Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next 193

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 07, 2009 @07:06PM from the fattening-up-on-brains dept.

ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."

Comment Re:Some, not all... (Score 1) 731

by Hydrogenoid on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:34PM (#27779329) Attached to: Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss

That would be merge sort, not quicksort.
Quicksort is (basically) :
- choose a pivot value
- quicksort the list of elements with a value lower than the pivot value (list 1)
- quicksort the list of elements with a value higher than the pivot value (list 2)
- add the pivot and list 2 to list 1

Max Payne 3 Announced For Next Winter 73

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @01:26AM from the back-to-the-max dept.

tordavis writes with news that Rockstar Games has announced Max Payne 3 is in the works for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. It's currently planned for this coming winter. Quoting the news release: "'We're starting a new chapter of Max's life with this game,' said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. 'This is Max as we've never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation.' Since leaving the NYPD and New York itself behind, Max has drifted from bad to worse. Double-crossed and a long way from home, Max is now trapped in a city full of violence and bloodshed, using his weapons and instincts in a desperate search for the truth and a way out."

Submission + - Guitar Hero's Publishers Got Sued By A Rock Band (xuecast.com)

Submitted by

XueCast

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @08:55PM

XueCast writes: "The Romantics, a classic rock band from the United States has just filed a lawsuit against the popular Guitar Hero's developer and publishers, which are : Harmonix Music Systems, Activision and RedOctane. In Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s game title, Harmonix used sound-alike musicians in recording a song from the Romantics rock band in order to reduce cost, but according to the members of the rock band, the sound-alike musicians sound too much like them."

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