Comment Re:China's thuggery won't stop the determined. (Score 0) 213
Am I the only one who read "China's buggery"?
Comment Hmm... (Score -1, Redundant) 104
WOOOOOOSH..... ?
Comment Overdue Darwin Award? (Score 0) 393
I mean... Jeez! I am at a loss to conjure up the words that will allow me to voice how stupid this whole situation is, and how mind numbingly retard this guy's single neuron must have been years ago, before it died an agonizing death!
Comment What about oil eating bacteria? (Score 0) 565
Hmm... weren't there some news, years back, concerning some sort of bacteria that ate oil, consuming it?
Would the resulting products be also quite nasty, or was it all an hoax?
Would the resulting products be also quite nasty, or was it all an hoax?
Comment Re:Let me see if I understand (Score 0) 106
Travian?
UUuuhh... another shiny browser based game... The cheer quantity of web based games with similar rules/mechanisms is just mind bogging.
For over a decade now there have been such games. Calling it Ultima doesn't make it better than all the other crapfest around.
They are defecating on the memories of those that were fond of the ultima franchise, and hoping to gain frm it, too.
UUuuhh... another shiny browser based game... The cheer quantity of web based games with similar rules/mechanisms is just mind bogging.
For over a decade now there have been such games. Calling it Ultima doesn't make it better than all the other crapfest around.
They are defecating on the memories of those that were fond of the ultima franchise, and hoping to gain frm it, too.
Code Review of Doom For the iPhone 161
Developer Fabien Sanglard has written a code review for id Software's iPhone port of Doom. It's an interesting look into how the original 1993 game (which he also reviewed to understand its rendering process) was adapted to a modern platform.
"Just like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom was rendering a screenframe pixel per pixel. The only way to do this on iPhone with an acceptable framerate would be to use CoreSurface/CoreSurface.h framework. But it is unfortunately restricted and using it would prevent distribution on the AppStore. The only solution is to use OpenGL, but this comes with a few challenges: Doom was faking 3D with a 2D map. OpenGL needs real 3D vertices. More than 3D vertices, OpenGL needs data to be sent as triangles (among other things because they are easy to rasterize). But Doom sectors were made of arbitrary forms. Doom 1993's perspective was also faked, it was actually closer to an orthogonal projection than a perspective projection. Doom was using VGA palette indexing to perform special effect (red for damage, silver for invulnerable...)."
Comment Re:Management Types... (Score 0) 323
Are you on some bad crack or just living in your own little version of reality?
To me, what GP seems to be saying is that CBS is a corporation that exists for the sole purpose of making money. Let us suppose, even if for a moment, that whatever media CBS owns is seen as something to make money with, which is CBS's main goal.
If some dudes make a copy of their media and delivers it to the general public, CBS won't be getting as much money as they might otherwise.
We live amidst cut-throat capitalism. What matters most to a stockholder in this tanking economy? A cultural icon, or some money to fill his pockets with?
Because of course, a corporation's objective will be to deprive it's stockholders from some immediate financial gain, just to preserve a cultural icon.
To me, what GP seems to be saying is that CBS is a corporation that exists for the sole purpose of making money. Let us suppose, even if for a moment, that whatever media CBS owns is seen as something to make money with, which is CBS's main goal.
If some dudes make a copy of their media and delivers it to the general public, CBS won't be getting as much money as they might otherwise.
We live amidst cut-throat capitalism. What matters most to a stockholder in this tanking economy? A cultural icon, or some money to fill his pockets with?
Because of course, a corporation's objective will be to deprive it's stockholders from some immediate financial gain, just to preserve a cultural icon.
iPhone-Controlled Helicopter With AR Games 51
andylim writes "Parrot has unveiled a remote-controlled helicopter that boasts augmented reality games. The helicopter is controlled using an iPhone or iPod Touch's accelerometer and touchscreen. There's a camera on the front of the helicopter, which you can use to navigate and to play augmented reality games, including a game that involves fighting a gigantic robot."
US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses 173
drroman22 writes "Schools are working to put real-world relevance into computer science education by integrating video game development into traditional CS courses. Quoting: 'Many CS educators recognized and took advantage of younger generations' familiarity and interests for computer video games and integrate related contents into their introductory programming courses. Because these are the first courses students encounter, they build excitement and enthusiasm for our discipline. ... Much of this work reported resounding successes with drastically increased enrollments and student successes. Based on these results, it is well recognized that integrating computer gaming into CS1 and CS2 (CS1/2) courses, the first programming courses students encounter, is a promising strategy for recruiting and retaining potential students."
While a focus on games may help stir interest, it seems as though game development studios are as yet unimpressed by most game-related college courses. To those who have taken such courses or considered hiring those who have: what has your experience been?
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm 181
theodp writes "A Bloomberg report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs proposed a possibly illegal truce with Palm against poaching their respective employees is sure to pique the interest of the US Department of Justice, which already is investigating whether Google, Yahoo, Apple, Genentech and other tech companies conspired to keep others from stealing their top talent. 'Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal,' former Palm CEO Ed Colligan reportedly told Jobs in August 2007." The article notes that Apple was probably reacting to Palm's hiring of Jon Rubenstein, who had been instrumental in developing the iPod and went on to spearhead the Pre for Palm (and has now become Palm's chairman and CEO). "It's the story about the importance of charismatic engineers," said veteran Silicon Valley forecaster Paul Saffo. "People don't work for Palm. They work for Jon Rubinstein. One has to wonder how Steve Jobs ever let Jon Rubinstein leave."
Comment Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. (Score 0) 506
Ah, here is someone who never played DOOM for the first time in his room at night, with no other light source than the CRT and with headphones making sure the first cacodemon that ever jumped him gave him a bloody fright.
Comment Re:Summary useless (Score 0) 146
Indeed.
My comment was focusing only on the novelty of the technique per se, as applied to games.
It does not mean it cannot be applied in an innovative way to the RTS genre (unfortunately, if I may add: not to take away credits from the original poster, but there are so many things like this that could be used to make games a lot better, and they seem to miss mainstream. perhaps his will be the one).
My comment was focusing only on the novelty of the technique per se, as applied to games.
It does not mean it cannot be applied in an innovative way to the RTS genre (unfortunately, if I may add: not to take away credits from the original poster, but there are so many things like this that could be used to make games a lot better, and they seem to miss mainstream. perhaps his will be the one).
Comment Re:Summary useless (Score 2, Insightful) 146
The notion of intelligent agents has been around for quite a few years.
Even I, 12 years ago at the University, had to implement a miserable little game where the A.I. was at a lower level than an all seeing, all knowing AI that makes decisions, each agent with it's set of "intelligent", adaptive rules.
So... how is this concept new (or NEWSworthy, for that matter)?
Even I, 12 years ago at the University, had to implement a miserable little game where the A.I. was at a lower level than an all seeing, all knowing AI that makes decisions, each agent with it's set of "intelligent", adaptive rules.
So... how is this concept new (or NEWSworthy, for that matter)?
