Comment Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. (Score 1) 506
It runs awesome in DOSBOX.
Comment Re:xVM/VB is NOT giving VMWare a run for its money (Score 1) 374
VB isn't something Sun made themselves anyway, they bought it.
Comment Amazing. (Score 1) 413
Here at work we have Sprint T1s, and sure enough, http://www.cogentco.com/ (among other things) isn't working. [Traceroute to the IP shows that it gets to the first Sprint router and then dies.]
SSH into my home box and try there (I have Comcast), and it works fine.
We'll have to look at our SLA to find out what we can do (this is UNACCEPTABLE. Period.)
Submission + - Ray tracing for gaming explored (pcper.com) 3
Vigile writes: "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."
Submission + - Students 'should use Wikipedia' (bbc.co.uk) 3
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has an article on these disturbing quotes from Jimmy Wales.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse students access to the site are "bad educators". Speaking at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia, he dismissed the long-running controversy over the site's authority. He said he now thinks that students should be able to cite the online encyclopaedia in their work.
Submission + - Anonymity of Netflix Prize dataset broken (arxivblog.com)
KentuckyFC writes: "The anonymity of the Netflix Prize dataset has been broken by a pair of computer scientists from the University of Texas, according to a report from the physics arXivblog. It turns out that an individual's set of ratings and the dates on which they were made are pretty unique, particularly if the ratings involve films outside the most popular 100 movies. So it's straightforward to find a match by comparing the anonymized data against publicly available ratings on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) (abstract on the physics arxiv). The researchers used this method to find how individuals on the IMDb privately rated films on Netflix, in the process working out their political affiliation, sexual preferences and a number of other personal details"
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