Comment Re:editing over ssh (Score 1) 412
I used to use this, but haven't for the last year or two because of sshfs, since sshfs lets you run arbitrary shell commands on the remote files as well.
Submission + - New Species of Bird Discovered in Brazil [pics!] (scienceblogs.com)
grrlscientist writes: "A lovely new species of antwren from Brazil has just been described in the literature, and the best part is that the majority of this bird's status as a new species was argued based on its distinct vocalizations.
From the article: "This is potentially another new species for Brazil. Once confirmed, it is vital that we assess its conservation status and any potential threats. It would be sadly ironic if, as soon as it was discovered, Sincorá Antwren became threatened with extinction," observed Stuart Butchart, who is the Global Species Program Coordinator for BirdLife."
From the article: "This is potentially another new species for Brazil. Once confirmed, it is vital that we assess its conservation status and any potential threats. It would be sadly ironic if, as soon as it was discovered, Sincorá Antwren became threatened with extinction," observed Stuart Butchart, who is the Global Species Program Coordinator for BirdLife."
Submission + - Immersive Media powers Google Maps Street View
PotatoPhysics writes: "Immersive Media is feeding data to Google for their Street View panoramic street view [requires Flash]. They collect the views as full motion video from a tricked out Volkswagon Beetle (of all things). You can see the extent of the complete Immersive Media collect at their website as well as see some of the original full motion panoramas [requires Shockwave]."
Submission + - reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
mcmillen writes: "Humans solve about 60 million CAPTCHAs a day. A new project called reCAPTCHA aims to put this human computing power to good use. reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by OCR software to the Web, in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. With reCAPTCHA, a pair of distorted English words is presented to a human. One word cannot be read correctly by OCR; the other word's answer is already known. The user is asked to transcribe both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the unknown one. reCAPTCHA was developed by Luis von Ahn, one of the original CAPTCHA inventors."
Submission + - reCAPTCHA - preventing spam and digitizing books.
mikecslashdot writes: "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have launched a free service that uses CAPTCHA's to prevent spam and digitize books. When OCR fails at reading words from old books, the words are placed in an image and used as a CAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA can protect your email address against abuse, and plugins are available for web applications to prevent edit and comment spam."
Submission + - Digitizing Books with CAPTCHAs
greatgregg writes: "The guy who invented the
ESP Game (now Google Image Labeler) has figured out a way to harness
the time spent solving CAPTCHAs
for something useful: digitizing books. Books digitization projects
use OCR to transform scanned books into ASCII text, but OCR is not
perfect. Now, every time you solve a reCAPTCHA
you will also be helping to digitize a word that cannot be read by OCR."
Submission + - Okami, Oblivion Lead GDC Awards Finalists
njkid1 writes: "Capcom might feel snubbed by AIAS, but its beautiful action/adventure title Okami is actually up for best game at the seventh annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Both Okami and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion received four nominations apiece. Full finalists list inside...
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1517 6&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000006"
Submission + - Playing Video Games Improves Vision
cmill-bigft14CM writes: "Researchers at the University of Rochester made subjects play games like Unreal Tournament for a few hours a day over the course of a month. Then something incredible happened:
Subjects "improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter — a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics."
Or to put it another way, playing Halo could improve your performance on a standard eye chart.
Interestingly, the effect only showed up in games like Unreal Tournament — not in games like Tetris."
Submission + - Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent
MITEgghead writes: Video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision. Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter — a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics...Students were then divided into two groups. The experimental group played Unreal Tournament, a first-person shoot-'em-up action game, for roughly an hour a day. The control group played Tetris, a game equally demanding in terms of motor control, but visually less complex. After about a month of near-daily gaming, the Tetris players showed no improvement on the test, but the Unreal Tournament players could tell which way the "T" was pointing much more easily than they had just a month earlier.
Submission + - Wii Sells 325,000 Across Europe
jtorry writes: "Nintendo has announced that over its launch weekend the Wii sold 325,000 units across Europe.
The Wii launched across Europe last Friday and as expected sold out in a matter of hours. Over the first two days the console sold a record breaking 325,000 units, making it the fastest selling home console in history.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has been the most popular game, with 240,000 copies sold — that's 74% of all Wii console purchases. Wii Play also proved a big success, with 50% of Wii buyers also snapping up the game and the bundled Wii Remote.
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/13-12-2006-4286.html"
The Wii launched across Europe last Friday and as expected sold out in a matter of hours. Over the first two days the console sold a record breaking 325,000 units, making it the fastest selling home console in history.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has been the most popular game, with 240,000 copies sold — that's 74% of all Wii console purchases. Wii Play also proved a big success, with 50% of Wii buyers also snapping up the game and the bundled Wii Remote.
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/13-12-2006-4286.html"
Submission + - Sony creates fake PSP fansite
Lisandro writes: "Joystiq is reporting that the PSP fansite alliwantforxmasisapsp.com is a fake, created by an advertising company called Zipatoni. The site mimicks a blog made by two kids trying to convince their parents to get them a PSP for Christmas, complete with fake l33t speak and a "homemade" rap video."
Submission + - Sony pays PR firm to lie about wanting a PSP
Wowzer writes: "Sony just sank to the lowest of the lowest level. Sony hired marketing company Zipatoni to set up a viral marketing scheme for the Sony PSP, that company did this by registering the domain alliwantforxmasisapsp. There's just one problem, there are no disclaimers to show it isn't real, but the website's whois points out it's setup by Zipatoni. From the article: "This website is set up as a PSP fansite where the [30-something] marketers with Sony's approval pretend to be kids that want a PSP and posted a rap video titled 'All I Want for X-mas Is A PSP'". Aside from their fake fansite and video, fake comments have been posted by the creators that point to a Youtube video that will make you cry."
