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Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy 94

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:06PM from the it's-fast-enough-for-you-old-man dept.

Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a production crew from Little Mountain Productions, a 9-year-old is getting the best fort ever. The crew is making him a Star Wars-themed fort with a gigantic Millennium Falcon with solar-powered LED interior and exterior lighting to sit on top. No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run, but lets hope the kid gets a long trip.

Comment Re:I do. (Score 3, Funny) 371

by swuppet on Sunday March 21, 2010 @05:43PM (#31560494) Attached to: If ET Calls, Who Speaks For Humanity?

I suggest we let ELIZA do the talking.

Comment Re:people still play that shit? (Score 1) 207

by swuppet on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @10:04AM (#31258692) Attached to: <em>Second Life</em> Tries To Backpedal On the GPL

Yeah, but the sad thing is 90% of all SL players are now in that "ghetto" and the rest of SL is sort of a very ugly depopulated nuclear wasteland.

Average Budget For Major, Multi-Platform Games Is $18-28 Million 157

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @07:26AM from the large-potatoes dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Develop: "The average development budget for a multiplatform next-gen game is $18-$28 million, according to new data. A study by entertainment analyst group M2 Research also puts development costs for single-platform projects at an average of $10 million. The figures themselves may not be too surprising, with high-profile games often breaking the $40 million barrier. Polyphony's Gran Turismo 5 budget is said to be hovering around the $60 million mark, while Modern Warfare 2's budget was said to be as high as $50 million."

Whatever Happened To Second Life? 209

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @07:30AM from the i-blame-ralph dept.

Barence writes "It's desolate, dirty, and sex is outcast to a separate island. In this article, PC Pro's Barry Collins returns to Second Life to find out what went wrong, and why it's raking in more cash than ever before. It's a follow-up to a feature written three years ago, in which Collins spent a week living inside Second Life to see what the huge fuss at the time was all about. The difference three years can make is eye-opening."

Journal Journal: Today..

Journal by swuppet on Monday December 07, 2009 @05:36AM

I discovered I have a journal on Slashdot!

Comment Re:Why the need to supress debate? (Score 1) 736

by swuppet on Saturday December 05, 2009 @03:16PM (#30337296) Attached to: Scientific Journal <em>Nature</em> Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak

I think you're making up the issue of one side telling the other side to shut up with respect to scientific debate.

The points you raise about the gulf stream or other models are valid points of debate but they don't refute the sign of the vector they're haggling over the scalar and veracity of models. As an example Copernicus' model was shown to be wrong by Newtons model which in turn was shown to be wrong. The fact that they were fundamentally wrong didn't change that fact that their predictive abilities were *mostly* right. The error was in parts per 100, 1000 or million.

Many of the other points are pseudo math/science or ad hominem and serve no purpose, still saying "You're wrong" is not the same as saying "shut up".

So because Newton's model was mostly right, this model is also partly right? The error marge is a lot bigger in this case. Also, the ad hominem pseudo blabla works both ways..people being accused of being on the oil industry's payroll etcetera.

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