Comment Re:Learning Without a Negative Response? (Score 3, Funny) 329
Sounds like you could find the tomb of Genghis Khan by following the bloody trail cut by the funeral procession and looking near the pile of slave bones.
Comment Re:Exhaustive testing? (Score 1) 125
Steve Jobs has plenty of testees, did you see his "Don't hold it that way" response? Testes of steel.
Comment Re:Criminal (Score 3, Insightful) 966
They hate us because we are free.
What is wrong with the people who keep saying this? Why would anyone hate someone else for being 'free'? What does that even mean? I thought people only ever said that to be ironic these days.
The Afghans hate you because you have systematically interfered with their lives for the past 50 years at least.
Comment Re:Just Use Samples (Score 2, Insightful) 54
Samples are terrible. It's like saying "Just use rectangles" to display objects in the game.
In old video games where the graphics and physics were also the equivalent of samples, it was okay to have sampled sound, but so much work has been poured into graphics and physics these days and everyone has ignored sound. I'm sure a lot of the work that went into making more realistic physics can be used in making better sounds, since material properties, velocities and angle of impact are important to both sound and physics.
It's a terrible immersion-breaker when you hear the same sample every time you hit something in game, regardless of whether it should have sounded like that.
Comment Re:And (Score 1) 262
You know what it reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat, Neo?
Comment Re:Good Riddance (Score 1) 796
FYI, almost everyone in Canada uses interac. I haven't even seen a cheque in a retail situation in ten years.
94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences 52
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences traversed four continents and two oceans to uncover 94 new species in 2009, proving that while sometimes in this digital age the world can feel like a small place, much of it has yet to be explored. Among the 94 discoveries were 65 arthropods, 14 plants, 8 fishes, 5 sea slugs, one coral, and one fossil mammal. Why does it matter? As Dr. David Mindell, Dean of Science and Research Collections at the Academy, explained, 'Humans rely on healthy ecosystems, made up of organisms and their environments. Creating a comprehensive inventory of life on our planet is critical for understanding and managing resources. Yet a great many life-forms remain to be discovered and described.'"
Comment Re:Obvious (?) question (Score 1) 425
Pah! Those "Belgium" cows are as much a hoax as Belgium itself.
Let me ask you: why name a real cow after a nonexistent country?
New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances 342
ajs writes "World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion was staggered into 4 phases. The fourth and final phase, patch 3.3, was released on Tuesday. This patch is significant in that it will be the first introduction of one of the most anticipated new features in the game since PvP arenas: the cross-realm random dungeon, as well as the release of new end-game dungeons for 5, 10 and 25-player groups. The patch notes have been posted, and so has a trailer. The ultimate fight against the expansion's antagonist, the Lich King a.k.a. Arthas, will be gated as each of the four wings of the final dungeon are opened in turn — a process that may take several months. The next major patch after 3.3 (presumably 4.0) will be the release of Cataclysm, the next expansion."
Comment Re:Why 3n? (Score 1) 221
4n+1 doesn't work because 4n gives an even number, then adding 1 makes it odd. I assume this holds for any even integer.
Comment Re:Niven (Score 1) 375
Or A World out of Time. In that one the state decided that property willed by frozen people to themselves was forfeit, and thawed people had no rights under the law, being legally dead still.
Comment Re:Go! (Score 1, Funny) 512
Burma Shave
Comment Re:Bluetooth Improvement (Score 1) 152
Tangential thought here
Is there a chip that can do both wifi and bluetooth? They seem fairly similar, would it not be just a bit of firmware hocus pocus, and maybe two different antennae, to make either one work? RF communication is RF communication, right?
Comment Re:Graphics and quality are largely unrelated. (Score 1) 216
Bach's work was great, but think of what he could have done if he had access to the high quality instruments of our time. Better instruments makes music more enjoyable to listen to, just as better graphics make games better to play.
Instrument quality is not the most important aspect of music, just as graphics aren't the most important part of games, but they add to the experience.
Comment Re:Classic case of idiotus not understandus (Score 1) 287
If the dark matter keeps going independently of the baryonic matter, why is dark matter still associated in any way with regular matter in the universe? That is to say, why is it still hanging around in galaxies and not off on its own.
If dark matter can't be stopped by regular interactions, should there not be galaxies bereft of dark matter after collisions, which now conform to our non-dark-matter theories?
