Comment Re:Level 80 is not the endgame (Score 1) 386

by gshakhn on Sunday November 16, 2008 @03:33PM (#25779207) Attached to: Second <em>World of Warcraft</em> Expansion Launched, Conquered

Not to be outdone, a guild named "TwentyFifthNovember" managed to get at least 25 raiders to 80 and then cleared all of the current expansion raid content less than three days after the launch.

This is Slsshdot, but I expect people to at least read the summary...

Submission + - Visual Studio and Eclipse compared and contrasted

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02, 2007 @10:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: Getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Without being too philosophic about IDE design, this article presents the main differences between Visual Studio and the Eclipse IDE.

Submission + - Procedural Programming: The Secret behind Spore (bonafidereviews.com) 1

Submitted by

imashoe

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @05:08PM

imashoe writes: "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming. Read on to learn what exactly it is and how it differs from the traditional way games are made."

Feed New Scientist: Computer model may explain toddlers' chattering (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:52PM

The way children rapidly learn a vocabulary may be down to the structure of language - but critics say the theory can't explain adults' slower progress

Journal Journal: Pay to the order of...: $e^(i*pi) +1 5

Journal by Otter on Friday July 27, 2007 @01:30PM

One of the Subversion heads received a bill from the Mathematical Association of America for $0.00. Naturally, he took the opportunity to send them a check for e^(i*pi)+1, which went tragically uncashed. Adding to the fun, it was check number 1729! (I'd provide clarification, but if you don't laugh at this as written, an explanation won't help...)

Submission + - Senators call for universal internet filtering (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @04:56PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited. Senators call for universal Internet filtering Senators call for universal Internet filtering"

Journal Journal: What's Wrong with Microsofts XBOX 360?

Journal by thepopehatesrap on Monday July 23, 2007 @09:02PM

There are seven stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, bargaining depression, testing and acceptance. But with the Xbox 360, which has been giving a significant number of its owners grief, Microsoft last week moved directly from the first stages to the last -- from denying any problems with it to admitting a US$1 billion problem that potentially affects all 11.6 million consoles sold so far. Full Entry:

High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage 269

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 22, 2007 @07:37PM from the the-weekly-world-news dept.

Pcol writes "In the July 20 issue of the Washington Post, columnist Al Kamen reports that the BBC has translated a story headlined 'spying squirrels,' published in the Iranian newspaper Resalat on the use of trained animals to conduct espionage against their country: 'A few weeks ago, 14 squirrels equipped with espionage systems of foreign intelligence services were captured by [Iranian] intelligence forces along the country's borders. These trained squirrels, each of which weighed just over 700 grams, were released on the borders of the country for intelligence and espionage purposes.' According the story the squirrels had 'GPS devices, bugging instruments and advanced cameras' in their bodies. 'Given the fast speed and the special physical features of these animals, they provide special capabilities for spying operations. Once the animals return to their place of origin, the intelligence gathered by them is then offloaded. . . .' Iranian police officials captured the squirrels before they could carry out their assignments."