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Guinness has certified the project as the world’s most powerful distributed computing system. Folding@home topped 1 petaflop last month. By comparison, the well-known SETI@home project has topped out at 265 teraflops.
Folding@Home, thanks to the playstation, is now at 1 Petaflops
As a person enters and exits these zones, an author using Wherigo Builder can create rules that generate media events on the device. The author can also create virtual objects and characters that “live” within the zone for the person to interact with.
For example, 1 stunt I used frequently involved setting up a portal somewhere high above me on a wall. Then I’d jump off a cliff, start falling — and then open a portal precisely at the spot where I was due to hit the ground. My momentum would blast me out the portal high above the ground, shooting me like a bullet through the air to a far-off ledge I couldn’t otherwise reach. The game constantly challenges you to invent ever more paradoxical feats of self-propulsion. I used the same momentum-gathering technique to bounce myself vertically upward out of a hole in the ground, and then, while flying through the air, shoot another portal in a nearby piece of ground.
about time that games seriously explore alternate realities with alternate physics
Androgen receptor is out of control, causing a cancerous tumor! You have to design another protein to block it and stop the cancer. Your protein needs to fit tightly up against androgen receptor. Find the side chain that plugs the hole!
5 minutes after the gates come down, all the residents of Second Life will have been made the slaves of powerful Warcraft clans. Peace-loving cyber-utopias will see their unnatural resources strip-mined by invading tribes.
empty church tries halo to lure reluctant youth for their pitch
Ubisoft have a series of games about to come out for girls. Entitled “Imagine”, there’s a spark of hope .. but it turns out that the series is going to primarily consist of shopping, fashion, animals and babies. Oh yes. But the worst bit about this is, not really the fact that there are going to be shopping games – WoW is at least 40% shopping, frankly – or fashion games (ditto), but that Ubisoft seem to think that this is only what girls like
shaping up the next generation suburban breeders
We are reinventing virtual worlds that stop working like AOL, and start working the way the Web does. You can build a massive multiplayer game in minutes there are style sheets to make building easier.
The game of checkers has 5×10^20 possible positions. This paper announces that checkers is now solved. Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw.
policy by simulation / gaming. nice thinking on their part. you’d hope that mouthbreathers could learn advanced strategies and concepts through gaming, since traditional schooling has failed them.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 