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Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack
chromatic writes "Howard Wen has written two pieces on Falcon's Eye (an alternate interface for Nethack). The first is a description of Falcon's Eye and its features. The second is an interview with Jaakko Peltonen, the project's creator."
JISH SUCKS
Oh, and first post. Have a nice day!
The mass media owns jews.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Kids entice Pete Townsend into the back of a van with candy.
posters who make lame "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" jokes are sent to
*bam!* *bam!*
AC: Where are you taking me???
KGB goon: For a little talk, comrade.
But that doesn't diminish the fact that this is one of the lamest "stories" EVER on slashdot. An *article* about an amateur mod for a game that's a zillion years old. yay. how interesting.
This is unfair - An average American IT worker competiting against some of the smartest guys
... the smartest, most successful, most influential Indians who've migrated to the US seem to share a common credential: They're graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology , better known as IIT. Made up of seven campuses throughout India, IIT may be the most important university you've never heard of ... This is IIT Bombay. Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together, and you begin to get an idea of the status of this school in India ... With a population of over a billion people in India, competition to get into the IIT is ferocious. Last year, 178,000 high school seniors took the entrance exam called the JEE. Just over 3,500 were accepted or less than 2 percent. Compare that with Harvard, say, which accepts about 10 percent of its applicants ... impact of IIT graduates has been on the American technology revolution ... "I can't imagine a major area where Indian IIT engineers haven't played a leading role "... It isn't just high tech ... Fortune 500 headhunters are always on the lookout for that IIT degree ... And the American companies love the kids from IIT ... Nehru, India's first prime minister, created IIT 50 years ago just after independence to train the scientists and engineers he knew the nation would need to move from medieval to modern. He never imagined India would be supplying brainpower to the whole world ...
... my son ... wanted to do computer science at IIT. To do computer science at IIT, you have to be in the top 200 and he couldn't do that, so he went to Cornell instead.
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... Nehru wanted all these young men and women to contribute to the success of India, and they are contributing to the success of India ... Some of these people who have reached the higher echelons in the corporate world in the US, you know, they have persuaded their corporations to start operations in India, whether it's Texas Instruments, whether it's General Electric, whether it's Citibank.
... How many jobs have entrepreneurs -- Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley created over the last 15, 20 years? Hundreds of thousands, I would guess ... For this society, here in America.
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(Excerpts from program transcript - Complete transcript available from CBS News)
CBS News 60 Minutes - Imported from India (January 12, 2003)
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Infosys Technologies Ltd.(NASDAQ: INFY) CHAIRMAN MURTHY:
STAHL: Think about that for a minute. A kid from India using an Ivy League university as a safety school. That's how smart these guys are
MURTHY:
KHOSLA: I have no question that India now is benefiting significantly from the cycling of knowledge, the back and forth, no question about it
Says Lesley Stahl (CBS News) - "... I remember telling you in November that I had just returned from Bombay, India. So this story has taken two months. It's about a university that may be the hardest school in the world to get into . It's called IIT- Indian Institute of Technology. A stunning percentage of CEOs and innovators in the American high tech industry were graduated from IIT. The government of India highly subsidizes the school and the students who go there - it costs a kid just $700 a year. But - and here's the rub - a full two-thirds of the students leave India for jobs (many of the best come here) and never return. I think you'll find the story fascinating..."
Good news - IITs only churn out about 3000-4000 grads a year so only a few of H1-B are those BUT many other universities are good too... I saw these on
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Has anyone else noticed that if you have a +1 karma bonus, that the comment score in the history section of the user page shows the comment's score as one point lower than in the discussion? I'd like to get some confirmation that I'm not the only one experiencing this before abusing CmdrTaco, and hopefully before getting moderated into oblivion for offtopic posting. Oh well, I can spare the karma.
Net hacks you!
News for nerds? Stuff that matters? This is just lame.