According to Forbes, Apple has \”poached\” Richard Teversham. Teversham was the Senior director for insights & strategy for Microsoft\’s Xbox division (Asian).
What does this mean? Well, hopefully it means that Apple has decided to become more aggressive regarding gaming…. Time will tell…
(See the Rest of the Story at Apple\’s Interest In Gaming Isn\’t Casual – Forbes.com.)
A primer on Probability
Monty Hall and Interpretations of Probability : EvolutionBlog: \”If I say that X has probability p, what does that mean? What sort of thing is X, and what does the number p represent?
Philosophers have spilled a lot of ink on this question, with no clear answer emerging. Instead there are a handful of major schools of thought on the issue. Each school captures an important aspect of what we mean when we talk about probability, but none seems to provide a comprehensive account.
One possibility is the so-called classical interpretation. It is classical because it shows up in the earliest formal treatments of probability, for example in the work of Pascal. Laplace was probably the most famous adherent of this view.\”
(See the Rest of the Story – Monty Hall and Interpretations of Probability.)
Are you seeing dialogs from \”PubSub Agent\”, asking for access to the keychain, when you login?
That\’s perfectly normal. The PubSub Agent, is used by MobileMe / DotMac, to synchronize the computer\’s bookmarks with MobileMe. It is safe to click \”Always Allow\” for the PubSub Agent.
Dan Baigent is senior director of corporate development with Sun Microsystems. He\’s also one of the most candid inside observers on the failures that brought Sun to the point that it had to be bailed out by Oracle in a $7.4 billion acquisition, down from Sun\’s bubble-era peak of a $200 billion-plus valuation.
In a series of blog posts, Baigent starts to identify Sun\’s top 10 failures, and their consequences, as he seeks to describe how Sun got to this point.
Actually, he only managed to get his first three reasons posted before the posts were pulled down. However, Google cached them and you can find below.\”
IO9 has some information on a new technology for seeding bone growth. It might not make you like Wolverine, but it\’s very similar to what is suppose to have been done to Wolvy…
(View the rest of the article – Inject New Bones Into Your Body, Just Like Wolverine [Mad Science])
Destroy Everything with Indestructo Tank: \”
For most of us by the time Friday rolls around there is plenty of stress and aggression to get out. Today we will take a look at Indestructo Tank an arcade type flash game that allows you to destroy everything in site on the battlefield.
The premise is simple, you are driving and indestructible tank that gets points by getting bombed then knocking choppers out of the sky. Before playing they make you go through a quick \’how to play\’ tutorial but it\’s very easy.
(View the rest of the article at Friday Fun: Destroy Everything with Indestructo Tank)
God, I\’d love to try this. I have a mild case of \”fear of heights\”, so I think this would be interesting & nerve racking at the same time…
Augmented Fear of Heights « Games Alfresco: \”Those crazy kids at Georgia Tech. In the last couple of days, we have seen augmented reality used to make you laugh, amazed and uncomfortable, so naturally someone, somehow had to make you scared. That’s where Georgia Tech comes into the picture -\”
(View the rest of the article atGames alfresco – Augmented Fear of Heights)
Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC: \”At an earnings conference on Wednesday, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable provider will begin using the newer, multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard to provide Internet and data access to homes and businesses this summer, although it will be limited to New York City only. Time Warner Cable is currently testing DOCSIS 3.0 in NYC, Hobbs says. Testing has netted 138Mbps download spee..
(See the Rest of the Story at MacNN – Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC.)