Comment Re:But why? (Score 4, Informative) 20
Because TypeScript is just JavaScript once the types are stripped out... and JavaScript has the superpower of running on the largest platform in the world: the web browser.
WebAssembly cannot directly access the browser DOM, cannot directly handle network requests, and requires JavaScript to act as a bridge for almost all web interactions
Comment Re:Yes, but... (Score 2) 340
So in an actual game, the expert human player will outperform the computer because the other humans in the game are exploitable.
No, it won't. Read the article. The game they solved is heads-up limit hold 'em.
There will never be other humans in the game. That's not what they solved.
Comment Re:Clearly... (Score 4, Interesting) 367
Indeed, 1/3rd of Belizeans live in the USA, because the economic opportunities are lacking in their country, in no small part due to corruption of local politicians.
There also are incentives to move to Belize, allowing you to move your household possessions, cars, etc. down there tax-free. Just pay the government a small fee.
I've spent time down there, it's a beautiful country, but with an odd mix of enclaves of super-expensive housing developments for expats, and shanty towns for locals.
Comment Re:Worked at a Symbian-using Japanese Company (Score 1) 246
As an side, my supervisor there was a intelligent lady who was chosen out of 400 applicants. Her response when I told her about the iPhone 2g? "Why would anyone use that? Won't it get finger prints all over it?"
...but cell phones in Japan are so advanced, they are 5 years ahead of the iPhone, it'll never sell there.
Oh wait...
Comment Re: any new news about Munich? (Score 1) 442
Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website 323
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."
Comment Re:Haha (Score 1) 624
I am becoming increasingly jaded at the USian right wing and their Obamapanic
Really guys, your president is Center-Right from the perspective of the rest of the world, and it is just sad to see him try to meet the right wing halfway in all of his policies, only to be branded a "dirty commie" over and over again...
The USA needs Democrats with balls to propose truly liberal policy, not watered down compromises, imho
Yeah, those damn leftist Russians and Eastern Europeans and Middle Easterners. And let's not forget the socially liberal Chinese, they are commies in name only, so they are leftists.
Oh right, what I meant to say is that Europe is not "the rest of the world." Despite how much as some would like to think so.
Comment Re:dont get caught (Score 1) 774
In most states, you'll be a registered sex offender for taking a leak in public -- i.e. down a dark alley after a few too many pints. Should it be illegal? Yeah probably. Should it be ambiguous whether you raped a kid or couldn't hold your bladder? I dunno, I don't write laws so I shouldn't have an opinion. Maybe the slashlawer can opine on why these are similar things.
Name the states. Because what you're stating is misinformed urban legend.
New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time 100
wooferhound writes "Like proud parents savoring their baby's very first steps, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time. Engineers and technicians wore bunny suits while guiding Curiosity through its first steps, or more precisely, its first roll on the clean room floor. The rover moved forward and backward about 1 meter (3.3 feet). Mars Science Laboratory (aka Curiosity) is scheduled to launch in fall 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012. Curiosity is the largest rover ever sent to Mars. It will carry 10 instruments that will help search an intriguing region of the Red Planet for two things: environments where life might have existed, and the capacity of those environments to preserve evidence of past life."
Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
The Science of Caddyshack 55
astroengine writes "Thirty years after the release of the cult classic comedy Caddyshack, Discovery News has geeked out and gone on the hunt for any trace amount of science they can find in the movie (video). From gopher territoriality to seismic deformation, from pool poop bacteria to the color of lightning, it turns out there's quite a lot of science to talk about..."
Comment Underachievers don't like luxury goods? (Score 1) 780
My guess is that a study asking these "independent geek" underachievers about nice cars or fine wine or other luxury goods would find them similarly critical. But I suppose the study is correct that for many there is pressure to conform to your social group by proving your non-conformity by disdaining the iPad.
re "scored terribly in the areas of altruism" from OP: The study may have found that we iPad owners scored low in altruism. Whether that is terrible or good is a subjective judgement and in no way addressed in the study. Besides, Internet posters tend to use the word altruism only when they want to hijack the discussion to be about a certain dead philosopher.
BioWare On Why Making a Blockbuster Game Is a Poor Goal 192
BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk spoke at the 2010 Develop Conference about the current focus within the video game industry on making huge, blockbuster titles, and why that is the wrong approach. Quoting Gamasutra's coverage:
"'While blockbuster game creation is everything that most game developers working today growing up wanted to do, it's precisely the wrong thing to chase in gaming's contemporary landscape.' Risk-taking from publishers and investors has dramatically declined in recent times, the Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio-runner noted: 'As a result, innovation and creativity [are] being squeezed. Where the bottom of the market had dropped out at one point, now it’s the middle of the market has dropped out. Unless you can be in the top ten releases at one given time, it's unlikely that a triple-A game is going to make money.'"
Zeschuk also commented that consoles aren't necessarily the future of game platforms, and that BioWare is experimenting with smaller scale MMO development in addition to working on their much larger upcoming Star Wars title.
Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal 182
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.
