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Check out http://guildhall.smu.edu and go to school to learn these skills! I got in to the first cohort of this school, it is going to be interesting.

There are programs at many universities that will help you get into the gaming industry. Guidehall is one of them. Check it out.

I nominate my two-wheel balancing robot, nBot which thanks to /. has recently become World Famous (especially in Sweden!)

If you're going to be there for 3 years...

The school runs for 18 months. Years have been 12 months long for quite some time.

I'd hope more is taught about being a developer and designer of games than level design, art design and FPS design.

Me too, if it were running three years. But it's not. Personally, I think 18 months of play-school game-hacking crunch time, combined with some expert tutelage, would be all that was needed to turn sharp CS skills into sharp CG developing skills.

Do it like this:

Think about what you could do if you didn't have to work for 18 months and spent that time pursuing your interests. Now think about what you could do with the same time, surrounded by people of like-mind and sharp skills. Now think about what you could do with that time if you also had expert guides. If your estimate hasn't reached "take over the world", then you're not as creative as you think you are.

Where are the classes on designing puzzles, creative writing, composing music, and everything else that goes into being a game designer and developer?

You don't teach creativity, you nurture it. You provide an environment that is conducive to its growth, like being surrounded by creative, talented peers with nothing to do but code and play video games. Computers get programmed - not people. People program themselves.

That's the two cents of someone who went through college "all wrong" and has a helluva lot to show for it.

Well to fill you in... I will introduce you to metric.

What is 1/4 of a centimeter?

Well, let's see, that would be .25 centimeters right. So, since the centimeter is divided into 10 ticks, then it would be right between 2 and 3 ticks. Since the ticks are so small, the error estimate is equivalent to the error estimate on an ordinary imperial rule.

Oh, you say it's 2500 micrometers?
Well, let's test this one out.

1 cm = 10 mm
1 mm = 1000 micrometers.

So, in our head we have.. .25cm = 2500 micrometers. So, yep you are correct.

And isn't a micrometer some sort of measuring instrument?

Yep, you use it for very exact measurements. Here's a site on it if you want. It allows for far more precise measurements of that .25 cm that you are looking for.

How fast can you multiply by 2?

faster then most people can multiply. But most people multiply faster by ten.. Ready let's test it. I'll do 10 and you do the by 2.

8463764534743657834658734534*2 = ???????
8463764534743657834658734534*10 = 84637645347436578346587345340

What about division by 2?
Let's try again..

2875483278578347684367834674/2 = ?????
2875483278578347684367834674/10 = 287548327857834768436783467.4

I think I beat you on both counts.

You simply say "32."

Actually no.. we can be more accurate too. ready...

It's "32.43" WHOA! that's amazing.

we ready for this one..
Then there's the fact that you can measure things in imperial measurements without need of a ruler.

Centimeter is the width of your pinky.
A meter is approximately one stride. (more accurate then the yard in most cases.) A kilometer is 1000 meters. Walk for 1000 strides and you'll have a kilometer + or - a natural error.

Wow, now is Metric really that hard? Or have the scientist confused you again?

The key idea is that the high-frequency components mostly come from the rate gyro, and the low-frequency components mostly come from the inclinometer. With the right filters, you get out a good "down vector". Unless, of course, you go around in a circle for a while, which gives you a consistent acceleration reading which isn't aligned with gravity. This, of course, is why running in a circle makes you dizzy.

OK, so you can figure out how much energy per kilometer, then per meter, and you can estimate the seismic energy released as it passes through your body -- perhaps 1/10th or 1/3rd of a meter.
50 kiloton / 12,756 km diameter = 3.9 Ton/km
3.9 Ton/km / 1,000 = 0.0039 Ton/m
0.0039 Ton/m * 2,000 pounds/Ton = 7.8 pounds/m
7.8 * 0.1 = 0.78 pounds of dynamite per 1/10th of a meter.
So if it hits only 1/10th of a meter of you, it's like three-quarters of a pound of dynamite.

But that is seismic energy, the energy of movement. That will tell you the effect of the shock wave due to moving faster than the speed of sound in your bag of dirty water, and a little of that will be a push against you. Although a shock wave inside you is interesting, if you look at the research report, you see that seismic energy is perhaps 0.01 of the energy released (maybe a larger fraction) -- the rest is heat. You might get burned rather than just shaken, as the heat energy will be more than that 0.78 pound of seismic energy.

>> -They should have a general idea of how Bill Gates purchased MS-DOS from DEC and how Seymour Cray was out flying his airplane when the IBM sales people came to visit him, virtually guarenteeing that they would choose Microsoft

Of course, it was Gary Kildall that legend has it was flying when IBM came to call. However, there are multiple accounts of what happened at that time. Here's a short selection:

"Gary Kildall was not flying his plane" ... http://www.fool.com/Fribble/1996/Fribble961121.htm

"... the point person for IBM, has sworn that he never met Kildall that day. Kildall swore that not only did he meet with [IBM], but ..." ... http://lists.essential.org/am-info/msg04566.html

and the rather more sombre "What a tragedy. He was brilliant." (see "Subject: Kildall and DRI and IBM") ... http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/4004.html

I did not see any "believed" Earthquakes with 26 and 19 second differences (respectively) listed on either day at the National Earthquake Information Center. I'm sure it's possible they weren't recorded by NEIC, although I suspect it would/should be. From reading the Professor's web page, it appears the data would have been taken from the source above, yet I didn't see it there. (Who know's, maybe I just missed it)

The story still seems suspect to me although Dr. Eugene Harris does appear to be focused on exactly this type of research.

I think more details are necessary to please the /. crowd.

Snowdog

This was my final year project thesis. Just remember the golden rule unstructured 2 structured == convert 2 XML I wrote a [very bad] program in C++/Perl/tcsh IPC=pipes to add XML tags to English, and then index them into a search engine which would use the lingual data stored in the XML tags to help the search.

NIST does a MASSIVE competition on this annually. I don't want to be an XML-buzzword whore <Arnold Schwarzenegger accent> (XML commando eats Green berets, C++, Java, Perl, COBOL for breakfast)</Arnold Schwarzenegger accent> but you can't beat XML for easily converting anything that you can make sense out of into computer readable format. Real h3cKoRs use SGML, but us underlings have to stick with things we can understand like XML. As for expandability, if we want to encode something else into the document, then just tag-it-and-go

It took me 200 hours to fish out all these links (before the Google days), I don't want anyone to have to waste as much time as I did feeding the search engines exotic foods. It's a year old so pardon me for the odd broken link, armed with these you could probably turn jello into XML ;-)

My favourite bookmarx
PROJect[21 links]
Beginners' Guide[13 links]
Berkeley Linguistics Dept. Course Summaries, general stuffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzCryptic IR Vocabulary defined
Explanations of weird words like hypernym zzzzzzzzzzzzzzHow do we produce and understand speech
How Inverted Files are Created - Univeristy of Berkeley zzzzzzzzzzzzzzNLP Univ. of Indiana, very good basics e.g. word sense d
Simple langauge - useful.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWhat is Natural Language Processing, links
What is POS tagging........ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWord Sense Disambiguation defined
Word Sense Disambiguation in detail, scroll down far zzzzzzzzzzzzzzWord Sense Disambiguator - LOLITA (tested at MUC-7 and SENSEVAL competition as best)
XML for the absolute beginner

HTML, XML stuff + parsers[19 links]
Apache plug-in that uhhh does stuff with XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzConvert COM to XML
convert XML, HTML to Unix pipeable formats zzzzzzzzzzzzzzconverters to and from HTML
expat XML parser zzzzzzzzzzzzzzHTML Tidy - converts HTML 2 XML + source code!!
Parse DB (RDBMS, whatever) to XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPerl-XML Module List
PHP Manual XML parser functions - what the hell are they talking about, PHP Virtual M... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPublic SGML-XML Software
Pyxie - XML Processor for Python, Perl, etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSGML+XML tools.org
The XML Resource Centre - massive number of links zzzzzzzzzzzzzzW4F wrapper - wrapper converts XML to HTML
XFlat - convert flat file into XML zzzzzzzzzzzzzzXML Parsers and other XML stuff
XML.com - Parsers, etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzXML-Data Catalog System - uhhhh looks close
XTAL's general converter - convert anything 2 XML

other Background[8 links]
Is Linux ready for the Enterprise, scalable... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzLinux reliability
Linux Versus Windows NT, Mark(sysinternals bloke) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzPC reliability (pcworld)
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSystems benchmarks
TPC - Transaction Processing Performance Council zzzzzzzzzzzzzzUnix Beats Back NT In EDA Workstation Arena
Proper TREC(-8) QA systems[2 links]

pg. 387 LIMSI-CNRS pretty deep parsing[2 links]
More links....
NLP, IR links - lots to corpii, etc.

pg. 575 U. of Ottawa and NRL (shit system, got 0%)[1 links]
LAKE Lab
pg. 607! University of Sheffield (crap system, but OPEN SOURCE!)[2 links]
GATE - FREE IE app w`source code
LaSIE - ER, coreference, template (cv)

pg. 617 Univ of Surrey (inconclusive matches)[2 links]
System Quirk - Or is this their search system..... Hmmmmmm
Univ of Surrey - pointers (hopefully this is their WILDER search system...)

SMU - Pg. 65[1 links]
Natural Language Processing Laboratory at SMU

Textract[2 links]
Cymfony - Technology
Textract - State of the Art Information Extraction

Xerox uhhhhh maybe[1 links]
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
(OVERVIEW) 1999 TREC-8 Q&A Track Home Page
NLP bloke, Univ Sussex


Tcl-Tk[4 links] Tcl tutorial
Tcl-Tk Contributed Programs Index
Tcl-Tk Resources, sources
TclXML - manipulating XML using Tcl-Tk
Artificial Natural Language - Is this what I'm trying to parse into...
Comparison of Indexers - Prise vs. Inquery vs. MG, etc.
Eagles - Language Engineering Standards
Language Technology Group - lots of modules!
LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, lots of corpora
Lexical Resources
Links 2 resources, indexers.....
Lots of IR stuff, University of uhhh
Managing Gigabytes Indexer
Managing Gigabytes Manuals and stuff
Htdig search system
NLP & IR (NLPIR, NIST) Group
OVERVIEW OF MUC-7-MET-2
Perl XML Indexing - XML search engine type thing
Phrasys Language Processing Software Components (money)
QA HCI bullshit
SIGIR - TREC-type thing, resources
SMART indexer system documentation
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Home Page
The Natural Language Software Registry
Thunderstone IE and IR products
WordNet - FREE DOWNLOADABLE lexical English database

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Is that like the Chevy Nova, the car they couldn't sell in Mexico (No == No && Va == Go) The Chevy NoGo

Four people are credited with designing the 4004: Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor, Federico Faggin and Masatoshi Shima.

There are evidently bad feelings between Faggin and Hoff because Faggin feels he did all of the real work, and Hoff got much of the credit. Many accounts do not give Shima any credit, only giving credit to the three Intel engineers (Shima was an engineer at Busicom, a Japanese calculator company at the time, and later became an Intel engineer).

Interview with Shima (extremely interesting and detailed)

Another interview with Shima

Interview with Hoff

An e-mail from Mazor, and nice pictures of the 4004

A really nice picture of the 4004

A picture of three of the engineers (no Shima) years later

A picture of all four engineers

Federico Faggin's initials on the 4004 -- the only initials on the chip

One of the many rather informative site on camputer history can be found here, complete with pictures, and something of a context of the start of the industry. I'm sure that a search using your favorite search engine will pop up more.

Comes from the classic cowism

"HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shui is bad."

Check out one source for others.

Hmmm ... what's with all this Linux-related bovine jokes anyway, CultoftheDeadCow, freshmeat, etc ... I don't have any beef with it but its behoofs me to point out that it could easily lead to the horn of a dilema if people stretch it too far.

Arrrgghhh ... shooting myself
LL

http://vcserv.seas.smu.edu /tastour/fauna/tiger-text.html
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/ttiger.htm

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