Not only that, from what I understand, Metastatic cancer cells travel via blood. If this could grab those, that'd be awesome. So many cancer stories seem to involve killing the main site of the disease only to have it reoccur a few months or years later somewhere else, this time metastatic and basically incurable.
Start this treatment up right after diagnosis, and continue it through the normal cancer treatment. If this device could be used to detect metastatic cancer cells in the blood, even better (but maybe this is reaching - still, cool to consider).
There are a few interesting ways AI can be applied to the game of Magic the Gathering - this is one, and it's cool to see this guy's project, and the results.
I've done a little bit of thinking in this area, but more in the area of making an AI play with the goal of searching for new competitive deck lists.
Another interesting tack would be to see if you can write an agent to create single cards with mechanics that actually move second-tier decks into first-tier competitiveness, looking at the current metagame. WotC probably wouldn't take your advice on new cards, though, as they probably prefer to keep card design in-house.
Haven't had the time to actually try to implement something (too busy futzing with Minecraft modding), but maybe one of these days I'll make it happen.
In terms of organization, it's no better than the start menu. I wasn't very clear on that, I guess. However, it gives you an easy way to install and uninstall apps (drag in an app, trash an app, respectively).
I like Edwards over Obama. He seems like he's more willing to stand up and fight the corporate culture that has taken over DC, including the profit-over-people insurance industry. Obama keeps talking about wanting to "work with them," and "bring them to the table," etc., and that's the same garbage Democrats have been spewing for ages (including the current crop in congress - just look at what they have accomplished since being elected, very little).
You can't negotiate with jackals. They'll just try to take what they want and try to convince you it's negotiating (as shown in the current congress, all bills, "requiring 60 votes to pass" because the Republicans will filibuster -anything- they don't like, etc.).
Since switching to the Mac, I have been really happy with the OS X Dock. Everything I need is in one simple place, and I rarely visit the Applications folder. The Applications folder isn't really that much better than the Windows Start Menu, however.
Seven years ago, when I started grad school at UMass Amherst, they were talking about this stuff in the robotics lab. This is hardly new stuff.
One of the ideas I got out of their talk about their research was that babies start using their muscles gradually, with only a few degrees of motion to start, and moving up from there. For instance, you'll notice that when a baby starts using his hands, he just grabs things for a while. There is no fine grained control of the fingers, and even the control necessary to consciously release whatever he grabbed doesn't come until later.
I've heard the repetitive complaint a few places. Without it, however, the main purpose of the map annotation goes away.
I suppose they could have scrapped the map annotation, but I thought it was a clever usage. Using your own notes to improve your speed in the dungeon is an interesting and new challenge for the series.
"5) I know this will seem strange to men in the U.S., but women in Brazil generally like men and generally treat them well."
What is this crap? I'm sorry, but American women do just fine. Actually, I'd have to say American women are pretty damn great. Brazil might be wonderful, but it's pretty lame to go trashing the entire female population of a country just because you love yours.
Besides, that whole part in your post makes you come off like you're advertising for Brazilian mail-order brides. Kinda creepy.
This looks like obvious fun poking at Doom 2, at the end of which you got to kill the giant head of the creator. Didn't he also groan when you shot him (in a similar fashion to the groaning decribed in the summary)?
You were a great band, Journey! Who could have known that you would be mobbed and killed by thousands of rubber ducks!?!? What did you do to deserve this fate?!?
I have to agree with you. I just bought a Prius and have the same experience.
We were comparing the Prius to the Toyota Matrix / Pontiac Vibe (same car) and the Mazda 3, and at $2000 more we decided we would not only be getting a hybrid with great gas mileage, but an all-around better car.
It's a mid size car, not a dinky Geo metro (although I used to love my Geo metro for its gas mileage), and has lots of space. We wanted something bigger since we have a kid on the way, but we didn't want to go the SUV route that our parents were encouraging us to take. It helped that it got great reviews by Consumer Reports.
Plus, the ~ $750 tax credit at the end of the year effectively means it was $750 cheaper than what we actually paid.
I just bought a new Prius with most of the luxury features for $21,470 straight from the Toyota dealer. The package I got included:
Smart Key system Auto climate control 7-speaker system with CD player and aux in jack
(package 2 I believe) - basically all of the good stuff and none of the waste (in my opinion)
When I fold down the seats I have tons of room - transported a new crib this last week.
And this doesn't even take into account that I got an extra $400 paid for by Toyota (college student financing) to finance the $5000 I didn't pay in cash (but will pay off next month), as well as the ~ $750 tax credit I'm going to be able to claim at the end of the year.
I have averaged 50 mpg since I got it, so I feel like I got a darn good deal.
I'd have to go with Myth 2 over Starcraft of Warcraft. More combat strategy and tactics, better terrain, physics, better mods because of all this, and no having to worry about the boring duties of gathering resources and building units/buildings.
I can't say I read that much of his work, but he's one of those authors on my to-read list. However, I really enjoyed his essay on vulgarity in writing, and the embedded story (The Big Space Fuck). It simultaneously appealed to my juvenile sense of humor, made an impression on me about the impact of words and what true vulgarity is, and made me seriously think about how to make my characters talk like real people.
The first hour is a bit slow, sort of tutorial-ish, but then the pace picks up quite a bit.
It is indeed more linear than Morrowind, but it's a different kind of game. *shrug* It's got a good story, and it's engaging, and it's not so linear that you feel like you're on rails.
I've enjoyed Elebits, and I've heard good things about Trauma Center. Some people seem to like Excite Truck, but some others don't think there's enough to it (I haven't played it yet). Super Paper Mario is coming out soon, and that should be a good title as well.
Also, if you don't have them already, look into some of the Gamecube games that have been out for a while. You should be able to get them for pretty cheap.
I actually had a reason to do all of those things, with the exception #of 5 (but it might be do-able, don't know off the top of my head) with ancient Java 1.4 a few years back. You can find that Java's Reflection API will handle most of the stuff you're talking about, while its JNI API will let you call separate methods for object allocation and constructor initialization. It's also possible that you might be able to do it all with the Reflection API, without having to resort to JNI - I just came across the allocation functionality while I was creating some Java-C++ bridge code.
That said, I'm looking to getting my hands dirty with some Objective-C code in the near future.
Myth 2! Great story, interesting fantasy setting, and great multiplayer real-time strategy (minus the unit building that I find boring in other RTS games). It's almost 10 years old, but I still play it online with friends about once or twice a month. It helps that there's still a good community around it, making new content and updating the game engine.
Huh. I like it. It shows me that someone's -actually editing- the posted stories now, instead of the crap that was going on before. Plus, by posting the identification of the editor, there's some accountability! I see it as a quality improvement - a higher chance to get intelligible article posts, and a higher chance that dupes don't get posted. This benefit cascades into less complaining about spelling, grammar, and duping of Slashdot article posts. Look at those benefits!
But then again, now we have people complaining about "advertisements." I guess you can't win them all.
What are you talking about? I live in Massachusetts, -his- home state, and we sure didn't get many visits. Everything I saw about the political scene was all about "battleground states." And I'd disagree about his "preaching to the choir." He didn't stand for gay marriage, and he was pretty soft on the Iraq war. That doesn't sound like "preaching to the choir" to me.
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Not only that, from what I understand, Metastatic cancer cells travel via blood. If this could grab those, that'd be awesome. So many cancer stories seem to involve killing the main site of the disease only to have it reoccur a few months or years later somewhere else, this time metastatic and basically incurable.
Start this treatment up right after diagnosis, and continue it through the normal cancer treatment. If this device could be used to detect metastatic cancer cells in the blood, even better (but maybe this is reaching - still, cool to consider).
There are a few interesting ways AI can be applied to the game of Magic the Gathering - this is one, and it's cool to see this guy's project, and the results.
I've done a little bit of thinking in this area, but more in the area of making an AI play with the goal of searching for new competitive deck lists.
I posted on my blog about my approach a while back: Getting Your Computer to Make an Awesome New Magic the Gathering Deck
Another interesting tack would be to see if you can write an agent to create single cards with mechanics that actually move second-tier decks into first-tier competitiveness, looking at the current metagame. WotC probably wouldn't take your advice on new cards, though, as they probably prefer to keep card design in-house.
Haven't had the time to actually try to implement something (too busy futzing with Minecraft modding), but maybe one of these days I'll make it happen.
What about the order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility over the next year?
What about his executive order disallowing any interrogation techniques not defined in the Army Field Manual (i.e. no waterboarding, no torture)?
What about telling the EPA to look into letting California define their own, stricter auto emissions standards (instead of locking them to the federal standards like Bush did)?
What about signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act just yesterday?
What about striking down Bush's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information? You could make an argument about abortion here, depending on which side of the issue you stand, but this money is also used for other medical procedures performed by these organizations.
He's done more good in one week than GWB did in 8 long years.
In terms of organization, it's no better than the start menu. I wasn't very clear on that, I guess. However, it gives you an easy way to install and uninstall apps (drag in an app, trash an app, respectively).
I like Edwards over Obama. He seems like he's more willing to stand up and fight the corporate culture that has taken over DC, including the profit-over-people insurance industry. Obama keeps talking about wanting to "work with them," and "bring them to the table," etc., and that's the same garbage Democrats have been spewing for ages (including the current crop in congress - just look at what they have accomplished since being elected, very little).
You can't negotiate with jackals. They'll just try to take what they want and try to convince you it's negotiating (as shown in the current congress, all bills, "requiring 60 votes to pass" because the Republicans will filibuster -anything- they don't like, etc.).
Since switching to the Mac, I have been really happy with the OS X Dock. Everything I need is in one simple place, and I rarely visit the Applications folder. The Applications folder isn't really that much better than the Windows Start Menu, however.
Seven years ago, when I started grad school at UMass Amherst, they were talking about this stuff in the robotics lab. This is hardly new stuff.
One of the ideas I got out of their talk about their research was that babies start using their muscles gradually, with only a few degrees of motion to start, and moving up from there. For instance, you'll notice that when a baby starts using his hands, he just grabs things for a while. There is no fine grained control of the fingers, and even the control necessary to consciously release whatever he grabbed doesn't come until later.
I've heard the repetitive complaint a few places. Without it, however, the main purpose of the map annotation goes away.
I suppose they could have scrapped the map annotation, but I thought it was a clever usage. Using your own notes to improve your speed in the dungeon is an interesting and new challenge for the series.
Good response! I'd mod you up, but I don't have points at the current time.
"5) I know this will seem strange to men in the U.S., but women in Brazil generally like men and generally treat them well."
What is this crap? I'm sorry, but American women do just fine. Actually, I'd have to say American women are pretty damn great. Brazil might be wonderful, but it's pretty lame to go trashing the entire female population of a country just because you love yours.
Besides, that whole part in your post makes you come off like you're advertising for Brazilian mail-order brides. Kinda creepy.
I disagree with the "million times better" remark.
There are lots of games available for the Wii that I find compelling:
- Zelda
- Wii Sports
- MP3
- Elebits
- Resident Evil 4
- Super Paper Mario
- Rayman Raving Rabbids
- Trauma Center
The line that "The Wii has no good games," is just silly.
This looks like obvious fun poking at Doom 2, at the end of which you got to kill the giant head of the creator. Didn't he also groan when you shot him (in a similar fashion to the groaning decribed in the summary)?
You were a great band, Journey! Who could have known that you would be mobbed and killed by thousands of rubber ducks!?!? What did you do to deserve this fate?!?
I have to agree with you. I just bought a Prius and have the same experience.
We were comparing the Prius to the Toyota Matrix / Pontiac Vibe (same car) and the Mazda 3, and at $2000 more we decided we would not only be getting a hybrid with great gas mileage, but an all-around better car.
It's a mid size car, not a dinky Geo metro (although I used to love my Geo metro for its gas mileage), and has lots of space. We wanted something bigger since we have a kid on the way, but we didn't want to go the SUV route that our parents were encouraging us to take. It helped that it got great reviews by Consumer Reports.
Plus, the ~ $750 tax credit at the end of the year effectively means it was $750 cheaper than what we actually paid.
Really?
I just bought a new Prius with most of the luxury features for $21,470 straight from the Toyota dealer. The package I got included:
Smart Key system
Auto climate control
7-speaker system with CD player and aux in jack
(package 2 I believe) - basically all of the good stuff and none of the waste (in my opinion)
When I fold down the seats I have tons of room - transported a new crib this last week.
And this doesn't even take into account that I got an extra $400 paid for by Toyota (college student financing) to finance the $5000 I didn't pay in cash (but will pay off next month), as well as the ~ $750 tax credit I'm going to be able to claim at the end of the year.
I have averaged 50 mpg since I got it, so I feel like I got a darn good deal.
I'd have to go with Myth 2 over Starcraft of Warcraft. More combat strategy and tactics, better terrain, physics, better mods because of all this, and no having to worry about the boring duties of gathering resources and building units/buildings.
Ah, a sad day.
I can't say I read that much of his work, but he's one of those authors on my to-read list. However, I really enjoyed his essay on vulgarity in writing, and the embedded story (The Big Space Fuck). It simultaneously appealed to my juvenile sense of humor, made an impression on me about the impact of words and what true vulgarity is, and made me seriously think about how to make my characters talk like real people.
I don't know about this "Smart Ship" OS you're talking about.
However, the next generation of US Navy ships will be based on the technology in the DDG 1000 ship (Zumwalt), which runs on Linux on IBM hardware.
I know. I work on the DDG 1000 project.
The first hour is a bit slow, sort of tutorial-ish, but then the pace picks up quite a bit.
It is indeed more linear than Morrowind, but it's a different kind of game. *shrug* It's got a good story, and it's engaging, and it's not so linear that you feel like you're on rails.
I think there are plenty who like it. The ones who don't are just way more vocal. Or Gamecube haters. :)
I've enjoyed Elebits, and I've heard good things about Trauma Center. Some people seem to like Excite Truck, but some others don't think there's enough to it (I haven't played it yet). Super Paper Mario is coming out soon, and that should be a good title as well.
Also, if you don't have them already, look into some of the Gamecube games that have been out for a while. You should be able to get them for pretty cheap.
I actually had a reason to do all of those things, with the exception #of 5 (but it might be do-able, don't know off the top of my head) with ancient Java 1.4 a few years back. You can find that Java's Reflection API will handle most of the stuff you're talking about, while its JNI API will let you call separate methods for object allocation and constructor initialization. It's also possible that you might be able to do it all with the Reflection API, without having to resort to JNI - I just came across the allocation functionality while I was creating some Java-C++ bridge code.
That said, I'm looking to getting my hands dirty with some Objective-C code in the near future.
Myth 2! Great story, interesting fantasy setting, and great multiplayer real-time strategy (minus the unit building that I find boring in other RTS games). It's almost 10 years old, but I still play it online with friends about once or twice a month. It helps that there's still a good community around it, making new content and updating the game engine.
Huh. I like it. It shows me that someone's -actually editing- the posted stories now, instead of the crap that was going on before. Plus, by posting the identification of the editor, there's some accountability! I see it as a quality improvement - a higher chance to get intelligible article posts, and a higher chance that dupes don't get posted. This benefit cascades into less complaining about spelling, grammar, and duping of Slashdot article posts. Look at those benefits!
But then again, now we have people complaining about "advertisements." I guess you can't win them all.
What are you talking about? I live in Massachusetts, -his- home state, and we sure didn't get many visits. Everything I saw about the political scene was all about "battleground states." And I'd disagree about his "preaching to the choir." He didn't stand for gay marriage, and he was pretty soft on the Iraq war. That doesn't sound like "preaching to the choir" to me.