Shohat - Slashdot User

Comment Re:No fun in europe (Score 1) 268

by Shohat on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @07:14PM (#31177940) Attached to: <em>StarCraft II</em> Closed Beta Begins

Hello
It is currently available in Europe. For at least one person in Spain, fore sure :)

Comment System Requirements, Screenshots, etc... (Score 3, Informative) 268

by Shohat on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:42PM (#31177420) Attached to: <em>StarCraft II</em> Closed Beta Begins

Howdy. Bit self-promotional... but.. Read my blog. It is the best StarCraft Blog on the web.
I am in the beta, all the info that was published this month (including the massive SC2 Beta FAQ) is there, system requirements, screenshots, and will soon be posting replays/videos. Currently 500 users online, so I can handle bit of slashdotting :)
Cheers.

Comment Re:Israeli Scientists (Score 2, Funny) 165

by Shohat on Saturday February 06, 2010 @10:36AM (#31045414) Attached to: Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It

Yeah, we don't appreciate Apple products over here.

Comment Re:The hard work is just around the corner... (Score 0, Offtopic) 453

by Shohat on Monday December 29, 2008 @08:07AM (#26256657) Attached to: Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought

Erm...
The ability to extract a certain set of characters from mangled patterns included in an image is not necessarily a task that humans should have an advantage in. I am pretty sure that it would take a human significantly more time to deny/allow a user access, based on biometric data such as fingerprints or a voice pattern.
A computer has to extract the data from a very limited (a small image) sample, and is 100% "sure" that all extracted data falls within a very limited predefined set of results - the alphabet.
A (very) well written algorithm can easily have an edge on most humans.

Submission + - Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy (harvard.edu)

Submitted by

StarCraft 2

on Thursday December 27, 2007 @08:36AM

StarCraft 2 writes: "This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found. In the image, it is clearly seen how the jet from the main galaxy on the lower left is striking its companion galaxy to the upper right. The jet impacts the companion galaxy at its edge and is then disrupted and deflected, much like how a stream of water from a hose will splay out after hitting a wall at an angle.
The composite image was made by combining data from Chandra, Hubble and several other systems."

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