Global Thermonuclear Stress Test sounds like potentially a lot of fun. A very strange game though, the only winning move is to play very very carefully.
I don't like it.
- you can't save your progress
- there's no way to restart the game
- there's no replayability value whatsoever
- it may prevent your system from running any other game if you lose
"In nature, we know that ants defend against threats very successfully," Fulp said.
Yeah, I'd say lions defend against threats even better. Why not model our security software to mimic lion behavior?
First it would conceal among other packets until the virus gets distracted. Then it will run at it in an angle so that the virus will run straight into an ambush mounted by other lions. Then they will bite the virus neck until it dies. Done! No more virus!
You may be vulnerable while your security software is napping though...
How useful is the internet without its content? If they're making their own internet, then we're talking more than just blocking content, the only content available will be hosted in Iran so basically it will be useless until they develop all the content.
Hell, they're probably working on the Iranian Slashdot right now!
Could you use a more sensationalist headline please? A worldwide outrage? Surely it must be worse than that if some users are experiencing connection issues. Put rebellion and pillages in there too... why not? And "crashes and burns"? That sounds like an accident, change that to "Microsoft murders, mutilates and disposes of Skype"!
Even though it's an interesting study, I have some problems with the way it applies to the real world.
1.
Energy expenditure was 21 kcal/h higher during video game play than during the resting condition.
The fact that there's an increase was expected, in the real world though, kids are rarely "resting". The comparison should be between playing video games and playing basketball, or any other activity young adults may be doing while the stereotypical obese video game player would be playing a video game.
However, subjects ate 80 more kilocalories after playing the video games than they did after the control period.
So 59 over what they needed, but would a subject playing basketball eat 60 over what they needed?
2. Another problem I have with this is that this study would only support that, under these specific habits, subjects will get fat. Are these habits natural though? Since they were imposed by the experiment, they may not be representative. The most addicting games I played made me eat less during the day than in days where I haven't played since the reward of playing overwhelmed the potential reward of satisfying my need for food. The hunger can come and go as the body enters in a catabolic state to get the resources it needs to keep going and this resulted in many chunks of 6 hours without eating, only to eat something fast to get back into playing.
This is anecdotal evidence but I believe this is the norm when talking about highly addictive games if conditions aren't imposed artificially by the experiment (or the parents). I don't think the study supports that choice with hard data.
Slashdot Mirror
What kind of news would you want if you wanted to get rid of internet anonymity?
Probably this kind and the kind we've been reading for the last months.
I don't see the lulz in this.
This guy seriously needs to get laid. Seriously.
Good for him. I wouldn't want anyone else using godly powers if I came up with them. They better grant the patent too or they might get smitted!
I'm patenting satanic powers right now!
Global Thermonuclear Stress Test sounds like potentially a lot of fun. A very strange game though, the only winning move is to play very very carefully.
I don't like it.
Sounds like malware to me... I'll pass.
"In nature, we know that ants defend against threats very successfully," Fulp said.
Yeah, I'd say lions defend against threats even better. Why not model our security software to mimic lion behavior?
First it would conceal among other packets until the virus gets distracted. Then it will run at it in an angle so that the virus will run straight into an ambush mounted by other lions. Then they will bite the virus neck until it dies. Done! No more virus!
You may be vulnerable while your security software is napping though...
How useful is the internet without its content? If they're making their own internet, then we're talking more than just blocking content, the only content available will be hosted in Iran so basically it will be useless until they develop all the content. Hell, they're probably working on the Iranian Slashdot right now!
Could you use a more sensationalist headline please? A worldwide outrage? Surely it must be worse than that if some users are experiencing connection issues. Put rebellion and pillages in there too... why not? And "crashes and burns"? That sounds like an accident, change that to "Microsoft murders, mutilates and disposes of Skype"!
Exactly my thought when reading the headline. What sense does it make to talk about the shape of a point?
What? The Chinese made a virtual combat simulation? I guess this means war!
1.
Energy expenditure was 21 kcal/h higher during video game play than during the resting condition.
The fact that there's an increase was expected, in the real world though, kids are rarely "resting". The comparison should be between playing video games and playing basketball, or any other activity young adults may be doing while the stereotypical obese video game player would be playing a video game.
However, subjects ate 80 more kilocalories after playing the video games than they did after the control period.
So 59 over what they needed, but would a subject playing basketball eat 60 over what they needed?
2. Another problem I have with this is that this study would only support that, under these specific habits, subjects will get fat. Are these habits natural though? Since they were imposed by the experiment, they may not be representative. The most addicting games I played made me eat less during the day than in days where I haven't played since the reward of playing overwhelmed the potential reward of satisfying my need for food. The hunger can come and go as the body enters in a catabolic state to get the resources it needs to keep going and this resulted in many chunks of 6 hours without eating, only to eat something fast to get back into playing.
This is anecdotal evidence but I believe this is the norm when talking about highly addictive games if conditions aren't imposed artificially by the experiment (or the parents). I don't think the study supports that choice with hard data.
It's still an important piece of data though.