The scene where Kirk is facing off against Spock's unbeatable scenario and shuts down the servers temporarily, disabling the shields all of Spock's ships, before blowing them up.
The supply [of science students] has actually remained steady over the past 30 years, the researchers conclude from an analysis of six longitudinal surveys conducted by the U.S. government from 1972 to 2005. However, the highest-performing students in the pipeline are opting out of science and engineering in greater numbers than in the past, suggesting that the threat to American economic competitiveness comes not from inadequate science training in school and college but from a lack incentives that would make science and technology careers attractive.
From the Associated Press:
Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $429, to $7,020 this fall as schools apologetically passed on much of their own financial problems, according to an annual report from the College Board, released Tuesday. At private colleges, tuition rose 4.4 percent, or $1,096, to $26,273.
So we have the costs of already outstanding tuition fees rising in a faltering and near collapsed economy. Many top positions in fields of science require Masters or Doctoral level education. A Master or Doctoral level of education also demands a Master or Doctoral level of tuition. In an uncertain environment for employment, the risk of entering the field of science, can be high.
Instead of going into science or mathematics you see the smarted minds who are more money minded going into the financial fields. They are intelligent but because of the upbringing in a capitalist society desire money more than anything. So they become investors, stockbrokers, and deal with money all day and night.
What we need is to recruit the best of the best, have private industries, and government, pay for the tuition of these individuals or offer them guaranteed job positions. Does a promising young high school student enter undergraduate school looking for a degree in bio-medicine? Have a major cancer research outfit pay for his tuition. Or have a medical technology firm cover his tuition. Or have him pay for his own tuition but make it known publicly that anyone with a degree in 'science' who applies to 'x job' will have his college tuition fees and loans paid for in full by the company if he works x number of years.
Maybe we need to lower the tuition for higher science. If you want a degree in particle physics, wave physics, astro-biology, or whatever, then you tuition is significantly lower than your peers. My graduate work was in television broadcasting, if my peers studying medicine and high level math had lower tuition fees than myself, I would not have batted an eyelash.
If you cover the tuition fees of our smartest students, and they go on to become the people who provide us with life changing nanotechnology, or cure HIV-AIDS, that money will pay off 100 if not 1,000,000,000 times more down the road.
We need to invest in our future by investing in our brightest minds and steering them towards occupations where they can make a lasting difference in the world.
Imagine if the God of War team could instantly recreate entire cities like this. Or the Fallout 3 team could snap a few thousand photos of Las Vegas and then digitize an entire city within a day and then work out the kinks. Or the Grand Theft Auto developers could recreate New Yo...ahem, Liberty City and then build a perfect 3D model and just slap textures on the buildings.
Sure it's not a perfect system but this has so much potential to help recreate cities or terrain within video games.
One of the best scene in the film 'The Thing' (1982) was when the scientist realizes that they are dealing with an alien foe who can replicate and imitate other species. He rapidly writes a computer program and creates his own equations within it to accurately calculate, based his cellular observations of the alien organism, the best projection of how quickly the alien could take over earth's population should it reach mainland (they are stranded on an arctic base with the alien creature).
Below is the IMDB link to the movie (and as a/. user if you haven't seen The Thing yet please deactivate your account and hand in your geek card) and the exact start of the scene in question courtesy of YouTube.
...someone gives you a calfskin wallet. You've got a little boy, he shows you his butterfly collection, plus the killing jar. You're watching television...suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
We are getting closer to Eldon Tyrell's replicants...and I for one welcome our mircochip brained overlords.
Let's see if any of these guys have a go...
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TAS = Tool Assisted Speed Runs. Basically you program controller inputs (at very slow speeds) and then play them back at 1:1 speeds and you watch a pre-programmed controller run through an entire game as quickly as possible. There are runs for basically most of the more popular NES and SNES games as well as other games. Pretty interesting stuff and usually a daunting task is creating a TAS of a game.
"Playing with games in this way is not a game -- it is criminal," said Robert Schoch, special agent in charge of the ICE investigations office in Los Angeles. "Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers," he said.
Emphasis mine. What health risks are there? Pac Man fever?
In April of this year, the NYPD accused hackers in China, and some in the government and media even accused the Chinese government of being involved, in the hacking and disruption of the NYPD computer system. However many posters in the/. comment sections of the posted story theorized that the hacking was not originating from China but rather from a hacking group operating out of New York but fooling the NYPD using 'bot herding'.
I'm not familiar with how to operate and disguise a botnet to look like your hacking from IPs from another country, I would guess that you just infect a group of computer abroad, and run a botnet from there. Here's the original post on/. with comments modified to 4. Just scroll down and you can find posters discussing how the NYPD and U.S. government had misidentified who the hackers probably were.
Here's the comment that I remembered the most where the user specifically wrote that the hackers were operating most likely within the U.S. and not in China.
Maybe we can employ the same logic for speeding tickets. $1.9 million because I may be able to go 105 in a 35 despite the fact that I was going 40. Downloading 24 songs is not worth destroying someone's life over. Look at the penalties for vehicular homicide and tell me the fine fits the crime.
Ok...I did look at a recent high profile case, a case as media newsworthy as the $1.92 million RIAA case, about vehicular manslaughter, where an NFL player killed someone while he was driving drunk. Do you think this penalty fits the crime? Or is our justice system truly fucked at all ends?
NFL receiver Donte' Stallworth, a former University of Tennessee star, began serving a jail sentence Tuesday for hitting and killing Miami resident Mario Reyes on March 14th while driving drunk. He had apparently spent the night celebrating a $4.5 million dollar roster bonus he received the day before at a luxury hotel bar.
His blood alcohol level at the time of the incident was a reported.126, well above Florida's legal limit of.08.
Mr. Stallworth not only chose to not check into a room to sleep it off, he proceeded to drive his vehicle while seriously impaired, at an estimated 50 mph in a 40 mph zone when he struck the 59-year-old father of one as he rushed to catch a bus after his shift for a construction company ended that fateful day.
Was he sentenced to multiple years in prison? Were there throngs of protesters lining the streets and sidewalks at his trial? Will he be vilified and his livelihood taken away?
The answer to all of the above is no. Stallworth pled guilty to DUI manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. 30 DAYS! He will serve only 24 because he gets credit for one day served and will get five days credit for each month served, according to Florida law.
If you drunk dive and kill someone with your car you should get 24 days in jail. But download 24 songs and expect nearly $2 million in fines. We need to start reexamining our courtrooms.
If you want a challenge then pick up Starcraft II (when it comes out) or Virua Fighter 5. Learning to be competitive in either of those games will require hundreds of hours of practicing the games, reading about games, watching tournaments and taking notes, or learning maps or matches. Of course the video game 'journalists' are not willing to learn how to get good at RTS or FGs so they instead complain about a game of low difficulty (like Mario Brothers) being made easier. If you want to play games to be challenged try getting good at Starcraft or Virtua Fighter.
This new Mario Brothers with its auto-level completion (tm) or whatever is not a hardcore game and it's not even a hardcore genre. If you want more difficult platforming try Ratchet & Clank, God of War, or perhaps even Nintendo's own Mario Galaxy. But don't say it's the end of the world for hard games. I doubt those 'journalists' who complain about games not being hard enough for them haven't touched competitive Starcraft or Virtua Fighter or Counter Strike.
Hm, lets see... perhaps because Facebook and Amazon are niche markets?
Niche market? Considering over 100 million people are logging into Facebook every day and Amazon is massive online retail entity I would hardly call them niche.
Some info on Facebook: - More than 200 million active users - More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
For starters...How old are you? Where do you live? What do you do for a living?
For instance, I'm in my late 20s, work at a giant news organization's HQ, and I live in Queens but work in Manhattan. So getting into a social scene in a place like NYC was extremely easy for me because all I had to do was go out with some people from work a few times and branch off from there.
If you are 45, live in a rural area, and work out of your house...then we have a different problem.
I purchased the full albums (and a few singles) of the songs that she downloaded and put them on eBay in one single auction. I put the listing at $1.92 million for the starting bid. However, eBay took my listing down, thinking it was a fraudulent listing. I tried explaining to them on the phone that these 19 CDs worth of music were worth $1.92 million, I even linked them THREE DOZEN news articles reporting the value.
As someone who works in the ABC/ESPN hierarchy, and is also a big nerd, I was blown away when rumor was that ESPN was bringing back the BattleBots brand to television. Eventually it was official that ESPN was looking to display a robot fighting competition on ESPNU (the College brand for ESPN) and see how much interest there was in it. The competition was between College teams and wasn't nearly the production level of the BattleBots show that was on Comedy Central years before.
And unfortunately that all fell through...nothing ever came out of it. ESPN didn't show any robot competition on any of its branded stations (or even on the web at ESPN360).
BattleBots on Comedy Central was amazing back in the day. High end production values, commentary and color analysis, and of course machines killing each other. Live crowd reactions, story lines, personalities (of the drivers)....I can't believe ESPN missed this opportunity.
I guess CBS Sports Online is going to put up footage eventually of the competition.
Either way I remember rooting for Bio-Hazard vs Vlad the Impaler as much as I root for Sox vs Yankees.
I wish stuff like this would make a comeback. Especially because it's a nice way to generate interest in science, robotics, mechanics, engineering, math, and critical thinking skills for children as well as highly entertaining.
Lastly YouTube proving it's worth for me once again:
Slashdot Mirror
The scene where Kirk is facing off against Spock's unbeatable scenario and shuts down the servers temporarily, disabling the shields all of Spock's ships, before blowing them up.
I'm using my I-Phone right now to ma
Not another balloon hoax!
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF134-Game_System.gif
From the article:
The supply [of science students] has actually remained steady over the past 30 years, the researchers conclude from an analysis of six longitudinal surveys conducted by the U.S. government from 1972 to 2005. However, the highest-performing students in the pipeline are opting out of science and engineering in greater numbers than in the past, suggesting that the threat to American economic competitiveness comes not from inadequate science training in school and college but from a lack incentives that would make science and technology careers attractive.
From the Associated Press:
Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $429, to $7,020 this fall as schools apologetically passed on much of their own financial problems, according to an annual report from the College Board, released Tuesday. At private colleges, tuition rose 4.4 percent, or $1,096, to $26,273.
So we have the costs of already outstanding tuition fees rising in a faltering and near collapsed economy. Many top positions in fields of science require Masters or Doctoral level education. A Master or Doctoral level of education also demands a Master or Doctoral level of tuition. In an uncertain environment for employment, the risk of entering the field of science, can be high.
Instead of going into science or mathematics you see the smarted minds who are more money minded going into the financial fields. They are intelligent but because of the upbringing in a capitalist society desire money more than anything. So they become investors, stockbrokers, and deal with money all day and night.
What we need is to recruit the best of the best, have private industries, and government, pay for the tuition of these individuals or offer them guaranteed job positions. Does a promising young high school student enter undergraduate school looking for a degree in bio-medicine? Have a major cancer research outfit pay for his tuition. Or have a medical technology firm cover his tuition. Or have him pay for his own tuition but make it known publicly that anyone with a degree in 'science' who applies to 'x job' will have his college tuition fees and loans paid for in full by the company if he works x number of years.
Maybe we need to lower the tuition for higher science. If you want a degree in particle physics, wave physics, astro-biology, or whatever, then you tuition is significantly lower than your peers. My graduate work was in television broadcasting, if my peers studying medicine and high level math had lower tuition fees than myself, I would not have batted an eyelash.
If you cover the tuition fees of our smartest students, and they go on to become the people who provide us with life changing nanotechnology, or cure HIV-AIDS, that money will pay off 100 if not 1,000,000,000 times more down the road.
We need to invest in our future by investing in our brightest minds and steering them towards occupations where they can make a lasting difference in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman_incident
http://baseball.wikia.com/wiki/Steve_Bartman
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=bartman
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cubfan1.html
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/article998054.ece
Osama Bin Laden is safer walking down the streets of New York City than Steve Bartman is walking down the streets of Chicago.
I beat Metal Gear Solid 4 by using nothing but a leaf blower and a rake.
They should have just left negative feedback. Isn't that the policy for a bad transaction on eBay anyways?
Imagine if the God of War team could instantly recreate entire cities like this. Or the Fallout 3 team could snap a few thousand photos of Las Vegas and then digitize an entire city within a day and then work out the kinks. Or the Grand Theft Auto developers could recreate New Yo...ahem, Liberty City and then build a perfect 3D model and just slap textures on the buildings.
Sure it's not a perfect system but this has so much potential to help recreate cities or terrain within video games.
One of the best scene in the film 'The Thing' (1982) was when the scientist realizes that they are dealing with an alien foe who can replicate and imitate other species. He rapidly writes a computer program and creates his own equations within it to accurately calculate, based his cellular observations of the alien organism, the best projection of how quickly the alien could take over earth's population should it reach mainland (they are stranded on an arctic base with the alien creature).
Below is the IMDB link to the movie (and as a /. user if you haven't seen The Thing yet please deactivate your account and hand in your geek card) and the exact start of the scene in question courtesy of YouTube.
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=the+thing&x=0&y=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUxPer4lmGo&feature=related
...someone gives you a calfskin wallet. You've got a little boy, he shows you his butterfly collection, plus the killing jar. You're watching television...suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
We are getting closer to Eldon Tyrell's replicants...and I for one welcome our mircochip brained overlords.
http://tasvideos.org/
TAS = Tool Assisted Speed Runs. Basically you program controller inputs (at very slow speeds) and then play them back at 1:1 speeds and you watch a pre-programmed controller run through an entire game as quickly as possible. There are runs for basically most of the more popular NES and SNES games as well as other games. Pretty interesting stuff and usually a daunting task is creating a TAS of a game.
From the article:
"Playing with games in this way is not a game -- it is criminal," said Robert Schoch, special agent in charge of the ICE investigations office in Los Angeles. "Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers," he said.
Emphasis mine. What health risks are there? Pac Man fever?
Obviously the executives didn't take the Torgo's Executive Powder jokes all that well...
In April of this year, the NYPD accused hackers in China, and some in the government and media even accused the Chinese government of being involved, in the hacking and disruption of the NYPD computer system. However many posters in the /. comment sections of the posted story theorized that the hacking was not originating from China but rather from a hacking group operating out of New York but fooling the NYPD using 'bot herding'.
I'm not familiar with how to operate and disguise a botnet to look like your hacking from IPs from another country, I would guess that you just infect a group of computer abroad, and run a botnet from there. Here's the original post on /. with comments modified to 4. Just scroll down and you can find posters discussing how the NYPD and U.S. government had misidentified who the hackers probably were.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=4&mode=flat&commentsort=0&op=Change&sid=1209793
Here's the comment that I remembered the most where the user specifically wrote that the hackers were operating most likely within the U.S. and not in China.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1209793&cid=27694281
I guess until governments learn how to trace hackers properly we are going to be seeing more and more of these stories.
Maybe we can employ the same logic for speeding tickets. $1.9 million because I may be able to go 105 in a 35 despite the fact that I was going 40. Downloading 24 songs is not worth destroying someone's life over. Look at the penalties for vehicular homicide and tell me the fine fits the crime.
Ok...I did look at a recent high profile case, a case as media newsworthy as the $1.92 million RIAA case, about vehicular manslaughter, where an NFL player killed someone while he was driving drunk. Do you think this penalty fits the crime? Or is our justice system truly fucked at all ends?
NFL receiver Donte' Stallworth, a former University of Tennessee star, began serving a jail sentence Tuesday for hitting and killing Miami resident Mario Reyes on March 14th while driving drunk. He had apparently spent the night celebrating a $4.5 million dollar roster bonus he received the day before at a luxury hotel bar.
His blood alcohol level at the time of the incident was a reported .126, well above Florida's legal limit of .08.
Mr. Stallworth not only chose to not check into a room to sleep it off, he proceeded to drive his vehicle while seriously impaired, at an estimated 50 mph in a 40 mph zone when he struck the 59-year-old father of one as he rushed to catch a bus after his shift for a construction company ended that fateful day.
Was he sentenced to multiple years in prison? Were there throngs of protesters lining the streets and sidewalks at his trial? Will he be vilified and his livelihood taken away?
The answer to all of the above is no. Stallworth pled guilty to DUI manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. 30 DAYS! He will serve only 24 because he gets credit for one day served and will get five days credit for each month served, according to Florida law.
http://www.t-g.com/story/1548024.html
If you drunk dive and kill someone with your car you should get 24 days in jail. But download 24 songs and expect nearly $2 million in fines. We need to start reexamining our courtrooms.
What if you buy a smiley face mask and wear it on your face in front of the 'smile detection camera' or whatever it is?
"Sugoi! Score 100. Your smile makes train customers very very happy!"
Yeah, the wheelchair can read minds, but can it flash a light to indicate "yes" or "no"?
From what I've learned of the future(ama) I think you mean "yes" and "yes, yes".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_bi_ge/us_climate_q_a
I couldn't get the link to work in the main story so here it is via Yahoo!.
If you want a challenge then pick up Starcraft II (when it comes out) or Virua Fighter 5. Learning to be competitive in either of those games will require hundreds of hours of practicing the games, reading about games, watching tournaments and taking notes, or learning maps or matches. Of course the video game 'journalists' are not willing to learn how to get good at RTS or FGs so they instead complain about a game of low difficulty (like Mario Brothers) being made easier. If you want to play games to be challenged try getting good at Starcraft or Virtua Fighter.
This new Mario Brothers with its auto-level completion (tm) or whatever is not a hardcore game and it's not even a hardcore genre. If you want more difficult platforming try Ratchet & Clank, God of War, or perhaps even Nintendo's own Mario Galaxy. But don't say it's the end of the world for hard games. I doubt those 'journalists' who complain about games not being hard enough for them haven't touched competitive Starcraft or Virtua Fighter or Counter Strike.
Hm, lets see... perhaps because Facebook and Amazon are niche markets?
Niche market? Considering over 100 million people are logging into Facebook every day and Amazon is massive online retail entity I would hardly call them niche.
Some info on Facebook:
- More than 200 million active users
- More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
Facebook is the fourth most popular website according to Alexa and Amazon is at 34. Niche? Really?
...this time all sales of CDs will go towards the 8-track tape industry and sales of DVDs and BDs will go to VHS and Laser Disc companies.
For starters...How old are you? Where do you live? What do you do for a living?
For instance, I'm in my late 20s, work at a giant news organization's HQ, and I live in Queens but work in Manhattan. So getting into a social scene in a place like NYC was extremely easy for me because all I had to do was go out with some people from work a few times and branch off from there.
If you are 45, live in a rural area, and work out of your house...then we have a different problem.
I purchased the full albums (and a few singles) of the songs that she downloaded and put them on eBay in one single auction. I put the listing at $1.92 million for the starting bid. However, eBay took my listing down, thinking it was a fraudulent listing. I tried explaining to them on the phone that these 19 CDs worth of music were worth $1.92 million, I even linked them THREE DOZEN news articles reporting the value.
Here's a list of the songs she downloaded.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23534
As someone who works in the ABC/ESPN hierarchy, and is also a big nerd, I was blown away when rumor was that ESPN was bringing back the BattleBots brand to television. Eventually it was official that ESPN was looking to display a robot fighting competition on ESPNU (the College brand for ESPN) and see how much interest there was in it. The competition was between College teams and wasn't nearly the production level of the BattleBots show that was on Comedy Central years before.
And unfortunately that all fell through...nothing ever came out of it. ESPN didn't show any robot competition on any of its branded stations (or even on the web at ESPN360).
BattleBots on Comedy Central was amazing back in the day. High end production values, commentary and color analysis, and of course machines killing each other. Live crowd reactions, story lines, personalities (of the drivers)....I can't believe ESPN missed this opportunity.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/03/11/064233/BattleBots-amp-ESPN-Strike-TV-Deal
http://www.battlebots.com/BattleBots.com/Events.html
I guess CBS Sports Online is going to put up footage eventually of the competition.
Either way I remember rooting for Bio-Hazard vs Vlad the Impaler as much as I root for Sox vs Yankees.
I wish stuff like this would make a comeback. Especially because it's a nice way to generate interest in science, robotics, mechanics, engineering, math, and critical thinking skills for children as well as highly entertaining.
Lastly YouTube proving it's worth for me once again:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Battlebotvideos
I think you can figure out what kind of videos are on that channel...