Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 172
Because we do not seem to be the only life form with a poor sense of the Integers, my guess is that they are not mans best invention. But if i am wrong, shouldn't they be at the top of this list?
Comment Re:"Aliens" are already here! (Score 1) 186
Why wouldn't they leave this anemic light cone as soon as they possibly could ?
Submission + - Steam On Linux Has More Than One Thousand Games (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This week the Steam Linux client has crossed the threshold of having more than 1,000 native Linux games available while Steam in total has just under 5,000 games. This news comes while the reported Steam Linux market-share is just about 1.0% but Valve continues brewing big plans for Linux gaming. Is 2015 the year of the Linux gaming system?
Comment Re:Upside Down? (Score 1) 142
"What's more, their algorithm is significantly better at spotting faces when upside down, something other approaches haven't perfected."
Add this step: Rotate the image and run the algorithm each x degrees. What am I missing?
That this is also true for all of us humans when we exit the womb?
Comment Re:Thought that was obvious... ? (Score 1) 141
All federal and state senators and congress persons should have to wear clown shoes when they are at the podium.
Comment Re:is it me or is it 30 years too late? (Score 1) 144
If you take "there is nothing new under the sun", to be true, you would have a simpler explanation of why history is doomed to repeat itself. Forgetting the past would only decrease the time it would take to due so.
Comment Re: Why would it be infeasable? (Score 1) 374
Build the elevator first and the reasons will land on our door step. We are explorers of worlds not bean counters.
Comment time? (Score 1) 530
time is number gone / to Hell and all of nature / its flesh in ruin.
Comment Re:This wouldn't be a problem (Score 1) 166
Thats what they seem to say about prime numbers.
Comment Why? (Score 1) 210
Because they wan't to make it feel like pornography.
Submission + - xkcd's long-running "Time" comic: Work of art or nerd sniping?
Fortran IV writes: Randall Munroe's xkcd webcomic has done some odd things before, but #1190, "Time," is something special. It's a time-lapse movie of two people building a sandcastle that's been updating just once an hour (twice an hour in the beginning) for well over a month (since March 25th), and after over a thousand frames shows no sign of ending; in a few days the number of frames will surpass the total number of xkcd comics. It's been mentioned in The Economist. Some of its readers have called it the One True Comic; others have called it a MMONS (Massively Multiplayer Online Nerd Sniping). It's sparked its own wiki, its own jargon (Timewaiters, newpix, Blitzgirling), and a thread on the xkcd user forum that runs to over 20,000 posts from 1100 distinct posters. Is "Time" a fascinating work of art, a deep sociological experiment—or the longest-running shaggy-dog joke in history? Randall Munroe's not saying.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What's your company's marketing-to-engineering ratio?
An anonymous reader writes: I just learned that the company I work for annually budgets ~$17,000 for non-labor engineering expenses, but budgets ~$250,000 for non-labor marketing and sales expenses. Am I just being cynical when I say that my company spends almost 15 times as much trying to convince the outside world that we make a good product, than it spends on actually making a good product? What's the marketing-to-engineering ratio at your company?
Submission + - Living in the Matrix Requires Less Brain Power (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: If you were a rat living in a completely virtual world like in the movie The Matrix, could you tell? Maybe not, but scientists studying your brain might be able to. Today, researchers report that certain cells in rat brains work differently when the animals are in virtual reality than when they are in the real world. In the experiment, rats anchored to the top of a ball ran in place as movielike images around them changed, creating the impression that they were running along a track. Their sense of place relied on visual cues from the projections and their self-motion cues, but they had to do without proximal cues like sound and smell. The rodents used half as many neurons to navigage the virtual world as they did the real one.
Comment what do you think? (Score 1) 194
"Time is a number
gone to HELL,
and all of nature
its flesh in ruins."
Submission + - Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday (go.com) 1
JimboFBX writes: Interesting piece of baseball history happened on Friday. Jean Segura of the Milwaukee Brewers stole second, tried to steal third too early, but made it back to second before being tagged. The problem was that teammate Ryan Braun already made it to second on the steal attempt. After tags were applied to both baserunners, Segura started trotting to the dug out before realizing that he wasn't out, Braun was, and his only option was to make it back to first. He then of course proceeded to try to steal second base again. The software for keeping the box score? Doesn't (yet) support someone running backwards on the bases. Looks like that will have to change.
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