Comment Bandwidth (Score 2, Funny) 228
Looks like their server has Lo-Fi bandwidth....
Comment Advertising (Score 1) 118
This just in: The best way to advertise your university is to offer some batshit-ridiculous course. *sigh*
Comment Re:Tag article WHOCARES (Score 2, Informative) 77
Man tweets his heart attack: Fair 'nuff.
Now when someone updates their status in the womb or from beyond the grave: then I'll be interested!
Submission + - HTML5 'Experience' by Google and Arcade Fire (wired.com)
DIplomatic writes: If music videos were invented for the web, rather than for television, they might look something like this. The project uses the web browser itself as an artistic medium, showing off the HTML5’s potential for interaction and multi-paned viewing rather than just using the browser as a frame for a plain, television-style video.
“One of the biggest struggles for a director is to successfully create a sense of empathy with their characters and settings. Using Google Maps and Street View we’re able to tailor the experience to each person. This effect is a totally different kind of emotional engagement that is both narrative and personally driven.”
This experience is really neat, as mentioned, but the deeper angle here is HTML5’s viability as an interactive platform for next-generation media experiences — a standard that Google and others seek to back as a response to Apple’s closed-down, curated iOS app platform.
“One of the biggest struggles for a director is to successfully create a sense of empathy with their characters and settings. Using Google Maps and Street View we’re able to tailor the experience to each person. This effect is a totally different kind of emotional engagement that is both narrative and personally driven.”
This experience is really neat, as mentioned, but the deeper angle here is HTML5’s viability as an interactive platform for next-generation media experiences — a standard that Google and others seek to back as a response to Apple’s closed-down, curated iOS app platform.
Comment Re:How about good subject lines? (Score 4, Insightful) 242
I appreciate that Google is trying to idiot-proof email but it'd probably be a simpler task to train people...
Are you serious? I'd take a complex sort algorithm over trusting the people who email me in a heartbeat! I've been begging a client of mine to stop marking his emails urgent for half a decade. Give it up man! Flagging your emails and using a lot of exclamation marks does not make you important!
Comment Great Bear (Score 4, Informative) 150
Very similar to "The Great Bear" by Simon Patterson
Comment Re:So then what's with the wait? (Score 4, Insightful) 220
From the summary
On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second
If they get attacked that often, it shouldn't take long for them to find and confirm security holes in Windows. Yet they have been noticeably slow in patching some of those holes; why don't they respond quicker?
In what possible way does an attack across the internet at Microsoft.com translate to exposing a flaw in the Windows operating system? That's like saying submitting an angry letter to the editor of your newspaper exposes the fact that one of the side windows on your house doesn't close properly.
Comment Scooby Doo (Score 2, Funny) 227
So Facebook has become a Scooby Doo villain? How many stories have we seen recently that go "Plan X worked perfectly until someone bragged about it / posted pics on Facebook."?
Comment Re:conservatives (Score 4, Insightful) 759
Protip: It is near impossible to change people's political ideologies, and it is completely impossible to change the ideology of people when you insult them.
But I don't want to step over your point, which is accurate. The conservative's main voter base (blue-collar, working class, middle-americans) are the ones hurt the most by Republican policy. And yet they vote for the same policies time after time out of a belief that liberal politicians are immoral, or anti-jesus, or hate families or something.
Comment Bleh! (Score 0) 461
Wow. I'm used to article summaries that have opinion or conjecture thrown in, but the only "information" in the summary here is the friggin title! Cmdr Taco I am disappointed.
Comment Re:Running out? (Score 2, Insightful) 475
Doesn't most of it just get released back into the atmosphere? Sure, it's not contained underground or anything, but it's not REALLY "disappearing", exactly.
That's the problem. Helium collects in underground deposits and we drill down and collect it as it escapes. When helium dissipates into the atmosphere it is essentially gone to us.
Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction 258
dotarray writes "Hope may be at hand for the poor souls addicted to video games. Recent research from South Korea has shown that a common anti-depressant, Bupropion (sold as Welbutrin, Zyban and Voxra) can 'decrease craving for Internet game play' as well as the brain activity triggered by video game cues. This is a drug often used to help quit smoking, to lose weight or to recover from drug addiction, in addition to typical anti-depressant and anti-anxiety uses. And, with Korean scientists already on-board, how better to test this theory than to gather up a bunch of StarCraft players?"
Submission + - Warren Spector Wants to Make Duck Tails Game (kotaku.com)
DIplomatic writes: From Deus Ex to Mickey Mouse to...Duck Tales? It may seem an unlikely career path, but it's the dream for Deus Ex creator Warren Spector.
Asked by IndustryGamers whether his upcoming Epic Mickey could pave the way for more Disney titles, Spector is unashamedly enthusiastic, saying "A day does not go by where I don't tell somebody at Disney: "Gimme the ducks. Gimme the ducks!"
Asked by IndustryGamers whether his upcoming Epic Mickey could pave the way for more Disney titles, Spector is unashamedly enthusiastic, saying "A day does not go by where I don't tell somebody at Disney: "Gimme the ducks. Gimme the ducks!"
Journal Journal: 3 Reasons the "Ground Zero Mosque" Debate Makes No Sense
I don’t usually write about politics. It’s important, but something I want no part of – kind of like a raw sewage treatment facility. But frankly, I haven’t been this upset in a long time. And it’s due to the logic-hating, herd-mentality rhetoric that some have been flinging in opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” For the uninitiated, there are plans to construct an Islamic Community center in lower Manhattan. And, of course, lower Manhat
Comment Simplified (Score 1) 1
The thing is "Natural Language" commands aren't really necessary. Let's use search engines as an example. Remember Ask Jeeves? You could type in "What date does Easter fall on for 2011?", but people had no problem going to Google or Yahoo and searching "easter 2011".
IMHO the command line is all about speed and simplicity. "Please" and "But also" just seems silly.
