xarius76 - Slashdot User

Comment Education for the future (Score 1) 474

by xarius76 on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @01:59AM (#26220191) Attached to: ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core

With our economic resources, our country should be producing the most brilliant children on the planet. More core fundamentals in the k-6 with focus on higher learning onward. There is absolutely no reason why we should be as far behind as we are. Bring on the CS, Sciences and Mathematics.

Comment Re:37 degrees? (Score 1) 501

by xarius76 on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @07:54PM (#25968505) Attached to: Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation"

"But we live on 21 percent oxygen, just as we live at 37 degrees."

Im pretty sure the average comfort zone of humans is between 15 and 25 degrees. I find it odd that they picked such a high number. Are they trying to set the upper bound of human tolerance or something?

37 degrees Celsius = 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit

US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development 68

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 24, 2008 @08:20AM from the games-are-serious-business dept.

$50 million in funding has been approved for the Army to establish a unit that will develop games. The purpose of the games will be to train soldiers for various tasks, and they say there is no intent to compete with commercial games. We've previously discussed other efforts by the Army to integrate games into their training programs. "Col. Mark McManigal, the capabilities manger for gaming under the Training and Doctrine Command, said the selected game must provide low-cost training and must not require large number of technicians to run. It must also have a play-back function for after-action reviews, he said. 'One of the major events for training is to be able to capture all these events, good or bad, throughout the entire scenario,' he said. Trainers must be able to edit the game during play to change the difficulty level or add complexity to an exercise. For example, they must also be able to edit terrain to replicate training areas or combat zones, he said."

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