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Tablizer writes:
Science News describes a youtube sensation whereby Mobius transformations can be described simply as a linear projection through a sphere to a plane. The coolest transformation is the inversion, in which a rectangular image can be turned inside out. I'd like to see this transformation on actual images (but not goatse, please).
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a.d.venturer writes:
Elite, the Metroid series, Dungeon Siege, God of War I and II, Half-Life (but not Half-Life 2), Shadow of the Colossus, the Grand Theft Auto series; some of the best games ever (and Dungeon Siege) have done away with the level mechanic and created uninterrupted game spaces devoid of loading screens and artificial breaks between periods of play. Much like cut scenes, level loads are anathema to enjoyment of game play, and a throwback to the era of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 when games were stored on cassette tapes, and memory was measured in kilobytes. So in this era of multi-megabyte and gigabyte memory and fast access storage devices why do we continue to have games that are dominated by the level structure, be they commercial (Portal, Team Fortress 2), independent (Darwinia) and amateur (Nethack, Angband)? Why do games still have levels?
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myside writes:
According to a write-up in the US Senate committee environment and public works blog, a re-vamped survey of published climate research papers reveals changing viewpoints over the past decade insofar as man-made climate change. 48% of papers examined refused to accept or reject the hypothesis that man is a cause of global warming. While 45% of the papers still explicitly or implicitly accept the hypothesis, the number of scientist who endorse the "consensus" view is dropping.
