Students At Indiana University Going On Raids For Grades
In a plea to make students more interested in learning an Indiana University Professor has taken grades to a new 'level', Students at several of Indiana University's game design courses begin their class with zero "experience points," which corresponds to an F grade. Instead of completing presentations, they'll perform "quests;" sitting exams becomes "fighting monsters;" and handing in assignments becomes "crafting." Students even team up into "guilds" to tackle group projects. Next the car industry will be referring to their products as "Epic Mounts"... Comments
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DLM: The Wave Of The Past
Gizmodo has a cool article up that talks about a predecessor to Random Access Memory (RAM), Delay Line Memory (DLM). Here is a simplified analogy of how it worked, If you had a hard time remembering things for very long, and happened to live in a cave, you could just shout out what you didn't want to forget, and a few seconds later you would hear an echo to remind you. Of course, the problem with this is that an echo doesn't stick around for long, so you would have to shout again every time that you heard the echo, so that you could remember again in a few seconds. Assuming you could keep this up, you would never forget your idea. looks more like something that should go boom. Comments
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Viacom Uploaded Some Of The Videos They're Suing Over
As some of you may have heard, Youtube is in a huge billion dollar lawsuit battle with media giant Viacom over their copyrighted content being uploaded to youtube without permission. Well YouTube(Google) decided to throw a huge wrench into Viacoms lawsuit and accused them of doing some of the uploading. Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users... In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself. These are some pretty hefty accusations, is this just conspiracy theory rhetoric or is there something to these claims? Neither would surprise me at this point. Comments
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N.C. Tech Firm Feeds Hoops Fans' Insatiable Appetite for Stats
You ever wonder how those personal stats are put on the screen almost immediately after a play? You can thank your friendly neighborhood SportsMedia nerd and geek at the scene. SportsMedia's software creates the raft of stats that is key to analyzing and appreciating the 64 tournament games. Its software has the intelligence to keep running totals of, say, shots attempted and made, as well as the ability to mine historical data to highlight trends, records and milestones.But it all starts with a spotter at center court and a technician in a van outside the arena _ both of whom are SportsMedia employees. Comments
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Facebook 'Agrees' To Include Panic Button On Its Site
Facebook has agreed in principle to install a direct link to Ceop to enhance the protection of children against predators in the UK. Talks are also scheduled in the US for next month. It will now allow users to report suspicious behaviour to the Child and Online Protection Agency (Ceop), including the grooming of children. However, Facebook says it won't be adding the button to users' profile pages. Comments
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YouTube Launches Partner Program for Indie Bands
YouTube is looking for a few good musicians, no not the Ravi Shankar sitar type band, but independent bands and labels looking to make the big breakout from being a garage band and paying money to boot. "Whether you make hip-hop, folk, noise-rock, jazz or a genre of your own invention, we are looking for all types of original music video content," wrote YouTube music manager Michele Flannery in a note to be posted at midnight PT on YouTube's blog. At the witching hour, any and all comers are invited to submit their videos to the new section of the Musicians Wanted site. Comments
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The Weird Week in Review
Thought you might like to share a few of the weird happenings in the past week from various sources. Steve caught one earlier this week, but it seems there is no shortage of idiocy, both on and off the Net. Comments
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Eight Very Rare (and very expensive) Video Games
If you are one of those people with a hoarding disorder, you may be sitting on a gold mine of valuable (and ancient) video games. Start looking through your stash (no not that stash) for the most wanted titles. It\\\'s that last, hard-to-find, incredibly rare, usually expensive piece that you have to have before you can officially say your collection is complete. If you\\\'re a collector of vintage home video game cartridges (or \\\"carts\\\"), sometimes that can mean paying a pretty penny for the pièce de résistance. Comments
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