Zxeses - Slashdot User

Comment Start with policy (Score 1) 208

by Zxeses on Thursday February 23, 2012 @11:17AM (#39137179) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Maintaining IT Policy In K-12 Public Education?

You handle these things by superintendent and board policies, and then use disciplinary actions against employees who violate the policy.

You do have a long battle to get around a poorly educated "educator" like your Vice Super. A high level director is the hardest person in the world to change.

Comment Ender's Game (Score 3, Informative) 647

by Zxeses on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @11:19PM (#38444380) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read?

Since Ender's Game didnt come up in a quick search.. well there ya go, Ender's game is perhaps the best fiction you can read.

Comment Kill them now or later? (Score 1) 441

by Zxeses on Monday December 12, 2011 @11:31PM (#38351958) Attached to: North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights

Since its clear they want to create a state of War with just about everyone who disagrees with them, can we take a few measures to stop them before they Pearl-Harbor us?

Comment SkyNet (Score 1) 370

by Zxeses on Friday October 07, 2011 @03:38PM (#37643374) Attached to: US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus

Yes, its the rise of the machines fellow resistance fighters!

Comment And they said religion has no part in science (Score 0, Troll) 114

by Zxeses on Sunday January 10, 2010 @11:07PM (#30719764) Attached to: How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death

Wow, thank you for that faith inspiring rhetoric; I can't think of how I could further prove that modern day theory is not much better then religion for the people who can't yet invent a new "God" or Genesis story.

I could come up with a much better theory, about how the sun's rotation speed caused all the slower particles to form planets much faster as a result of the suns unequal gravitational balance, however I fear that would be lost in the argument about why such circumstance would come to be when no evidence of such things suggest a theory even close to mine, much less this one...

The next time I pick a random thought out of my head, I'll be sure to post it on slashdot however... oh wait..

Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes 362

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 18, 2009 @07:20AM from the or-druid-as-the-case-may-be dept.

A feature at Gamasutra examines one of the foundations of many MMORPGs — the idea that class roles within such a game fall into three basic categories: tank, healer, and damage dealer. The article evaluates the pros and cons of such an arrangement and takes a look at some alternatives. "Eliminating specialized roles means that we do away with boxing a class into a single role. Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat. Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate. This design isn't just about having each class able to fill any trinity role. MMO combat would feel more dynamic in this system. Every player would have to react to combat events and defend against attacks."

Submission + - For moray eels, two jaws better than one (mercurynews.com)

Submitted by

mikesd81

on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @11:18PM

mikesd81 writes: "Mercury News reports that scientists at UC Davis have discovered that some eels have an extra set of jaws deep in their throats that launch forward into their mouths to help pull prey in. "It looks like a funny pair of forceps with curved sharp teeth," said evolutionary biologist Rita Mehta, lead author of the research, which appears Thursday in Nature. Before the discovery, scientists thought that all aquatic predators swallowed their prey using suction. By dropping the lower jaw and creating a flow of water into their mouths, they draw in the prey. The two species of moray eels studied by Mehta and Wainwright are the first examples of an alternative feeding method. Instead of sucking, one of these eels bites its prey with its primary set of teeth. It then draws the second set of teeth into its mouth by contracting long muscles. The secondary jaws clamp down on the prey, allowing the eel to move its primary jaws forward in a gulping motion to take in more of the prey. The two sets of jaws take turns until the whole animal has been swallowed. Mehta thinks the eels' extra jaws may have evolved to help the eels catch animals in small cracks and crevices in the coral they inhabit. While suction requires expansion of the mouth, the eel's double-jaw trick allows it to remain long and skinny, and may have helped them earn their place as top predator on the coral reef. Here is a video of an eel eating. If you look closely right around 34 seconds you can see what looks like the other set of jaws chewing."

Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America 898

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @11:01PM from the you-can't-fight-in-here-this-is-the-war-room dept.

kernel panic attack writes "Surely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one. Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell."

Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid 175

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @09:34PM from the it's-the-big-one dept.

eldavojohn writes "Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system. From the article, "A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon.""

iPhone Gets Better Battery, Scratch Resistant Glass 527

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 18, 2007 @10:40AM from the clean-off-your-pants dept.

Dekortage writes "Prior to its much-hyped launch on June 29, Apple has announced upgrades to its battery life (almost 40% more than originally announced) and scratch resistance (using "optical quality glass" rather than plastics). The announcement also includes a comparison chart pitting the iPhone against smartphones from Nokia, Samsung, Palm, and Blackberry."

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