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Comment Does research need government? (Score 1) 306

by e2ka on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @07:21PM (#36817366) Attached to: Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity?

It has been claimed that it doesn't. The claim is: government funded research was, for all modern purposes, non-existent before 1920, and yet the pace of development and growth in science, technology and wealth remained constant into the modern day.

World of StarCraft Mod Gets C&D From Blizzard 227

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:42PM from the imitation-leads-to-litigation dept.

eldavojohn writes "If you've been following the team who created World of StarCraft (an amazing mod of StarCraft II to be more like World of Warcraft), their YouTube video of what they've done so far has already resulted in a cease and desist from Activision/Blizzard. Evidently when you are given tools to make custom mods to games you should be careful about making something too good. The author of the mod is hopeful that it's just a trademark problem with the name of his mod, but few reasons for the C&D were given." In other StarCraft news, reader glwtta recommends an article about how a Berkeley team won the world's first StarCraft AI competition with code that can beat even pro-level human players.

Comment Re:Clouds? (Score 4, Interesting) 221

by e2ka on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @08:08AM (#28526507) Attached to: Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle?

This should help our understanding.

Comment Re:If they want to remove CO2... (Score 1) 487

by e2ka on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @01:57PM (#25221973) Attached to: Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently

Goto where the farmers are burning down the rain forests

I did that, but I was in the middle of the carbon cycle, and now I have no idea where I am in this program's execution!

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