In terms of customer enjoyment and desire? Point & Click adventure games have never really been dead. In terms of Media Coverage and Industry Production? Yeah, it's been flopping on the ground gasping for air.

With one exception. Tell Tale Games has made some amazing Point & Click Adventure Games, re-launching the much loved Sam & Max and Monkey Island series. I have played all of their Sam & Max games and they are pretty excellent, even if they did start to focus too much on making them console accessible :P

Older games have been enjoying a comeback via Steam and mobile ports. I know the old Monkey Island games are available for iOS. Space Quest and King's Quest available on Steam, as well as the classic Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis. The classic Leisure Suit Larry games are out there on the nets somewhere (no clue if anyone is actually repackaging them for sale)... The new Leisure Suit Larry "reboot" games are just better off avoided at all costs. They're beyond awful and make the originals look incredibly classy, subtle, and tasteful (which says a lot IMHO).

The genre is enjoying a lot of renewed interest, but not enough (apparently) to justify major developers doing anything other than yet another clone of DDR, Guitar Hero, or Call of Duty. Maybe the Double Fine Kickstarter will wake the Industry and Media up. I haven't seen one word about either of these efforts on Wired.com and they tend to jump on these sorts of things in the way that a kitten jumps on a toy full of catnip.

His days shall be an hundred and twenty years. - "His days" are the days of man, not the individual, but the race, with whom the Lord still strives. Hence, they refer to the duration, not of the life of an individual, but of the existence of the race. From this we learn that the narrative here reverts to a point of time before the birth of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in the close of the preceding passage as there were only a hundred years from their birth to the deluge. This is according to the now well-known method of Scripture, when it has two lines of events to carry on. The former narrative refers to the godly portion of mankind; this to the ungodly remnant.

Not forever will the Lord strive with man; but his longsuffering will still continue for one hundred and twenty years. Meanwhile he does not leave himself or his clemency without a witness. He sent Noah with the message of warning, who preached by his voice, by his walking with God, and also by his long labor and perseverance in the building of the ark. The doomed race, however, filled up the measure of their iniquity, and when the set number of years was accomplished, the overwhelming flood came.

Taken in context of Genesis (as a whole) it would seem that "yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years" means something quite different.
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If they win (which they probably won't) it would set a dangerous precedent that would effectively kill all future MMO's from ever existing...

Imagine this:

Blizzard, 3-4 years from now, decides it's time to finally shutdown World of Warcraft... It's remaining 6 Million users plus a couple Million former users decide to sue for damages for lost time and money from subscription fees and game time. The amount would be somewhere in the ridiculous amount of a couple hundred Billion dollars. "I lost my job to get my toon to level 150 first! Now they just want to take that achievement away from me?!? All those thousands of days of game-time... No, I will be compensated for lost time and money (from not going to work like boring people)."

It's bound to happen eventually...


(Disclaimer: I play WoW)

You should read Apple's spec for Bonjour, their implementation of Zero Configuration Networking.

I'm curious how this really made it to "Ask Slashdot" when a quick Google Search shows that this kind of tech has been around for some time (though not always setup or implemented well).

They never touched, but they did stay intact under stress that would have shattered conventional metal wings.
Old wired article about the test

If you knew anything about either plane, you would know that they have absolutely nothing in common. The A380 can carry nearly twice as many passengers, so if you're going to compare it to a Boeing plane it should be the 747.

Agreed, but it is firmly entrenched as "THE" tool of choice for most schools. Yes, I know that makes no sense, but they probably marketed heavily to School District Superintendents and University Presidents/Chancellors. They're the ones who ultimately make the decisions.

Stanford throwing their name behind the startup and making use of it will actually make a good selling point. "Hey, Stanford's doing this? It must be awesome!" Not a great selling point from a technical perspective, but good technical selling points rarely make good marketing selling points when you're dealing with most high-level upper managers.

I live in SoCal... We don't have tradtional seasons...
We have:

• Rainy/Mudslide season (roughly late-November through early-March)
• Fantastic frikken weather season part 1 (early-mid-March through late-May or early-June)
• "Oh god it burns!" Fire season (early-mid-June through late-August or early September
• Fantastic frikken weather season part 2 (early-September through mid-November)

There's a lot of bleed through between seasons, so sometimes they overlap.

That was my thought too. I recognized the name, but the closest I can find to anything related to this topic is Acacia Social Fraternity. Maybe I'm just ignorant or missing something, but I fail to see why/how they would *have* patents relating to this; much less be able to defend such patents.

Based on what I can tell, KnowLabs is very much played-down on the ai-class.com website and Stanford's role is played up. It looks like the start-up is looking to act as a contractor to Universities to help them setup, run, and possibly maintain better, more useable, more scalable online education services. Keep in mind that the free AI Class gives you no real credit, it's just there if you're interested in the subject and want to learn a bit more before taking the plunge (back) into academia.

Personally, I applaud what they're doing. Maybe they can help unseat Blackboard and other god-awful "Online Education Tools".

To nay-sayers who think this kind free offering dilutes the "value" of their education when they pay for an equivalent class... You get degree and/or continuing education credits, the people taking a free class like this one do not. They get nothing but some extra knowledge. For someone like me, who is considering a Masters in CS, these classes are a great way to get my feet wet and figure out what I want to focus on.