This video may only be funny to StarCraft players… so for those, without further ado, check this epic SCV-rush.
For those who really don’t understand what is going on here: When the game starts you get “workers”. This player has selected ‘terran’ as race so his workers are called SCVs. The workers need to mine minerals and when you’ve got enough minerals you can create more workers but also buildings. The buildings can create other stuff for instance marines, tanks etc.
So that is how you are supposed to create an army. The workers can construct but also destruct so can be used as ‘soldiers’. Instead of building an army this player decides to recruit its workers and send them out to attack the enemy. The enemy… totally stupified by this unexpected attack doesn’t know how to defend its base against this surprise attack.
I actually tried this once -out of stupidity, didn’t know what to do- with one SCV. I attacked an enemy base of another player who also was a n00b at that time. However my worker got killed.
Another one bites the dust… the old generation is dying. Yesterday singer/songwriter Bobby Hebb passed away at the age of 72. You may know Bobby Hebb from his excellent song “Sunny” or one of the bazillion covers of that song. Ofcourse he wrote many good songs but people tend to remember the one big hit.
I looked out the window by coincidence and saw this beautiful sunset occur in the east. The sun sets in the west and painted the clouds with beautiful yellow, orange, red and purple. What a sight to see. Sometimes you can get a sudden rush of happiness and enjoyment. I rushed to the balcony and shot some pictures before the sun set and left the same hub of clouds in their normal shades of white.
Oops, if this is true this may be a killing blow to all of you MicroSoft fanboys out there. According to Computer World a tech-worker on the oilrig crashing windows systems may be part of the problem that eventually let to the spilling of oil. And we’re not talking a little Dr.Watson, an occasional “general exception”… we’re talking about a full-blown BSOD (blue screen of death). Well maybe we learn a little lesson here. Never use a computer system for critical mission computing that can’t even keep itself alive for longer than half an hour… If this doesn’t teach us then maybe this will… one day…
Ever since Oralce acquired Sun Microsystems people were worried over the future of Java. Well we didn’t have to panic since Sun pretty much made the JDK (Java Development Kit) open source already. However Sun was actively developing and improving Java. People were not so sure that Oralce would have the same intentions. This morning I got another Java Developer Newsletter and was immediately comforted that Java is in the reliable, capable and caring hands of Oralce. Long live Oralce! Horalce! Horalce!
The good thing about multiple choice is that you always stand a chance even when you didn’t prepare for your exam. Random answers will give a good chance to pass anyway. If going random is too tiresome you can always fill it out like this:
Today there is a thread on Slashdot regarding Donald Knuths “Earthshaking announcement” that he will issue on the TUG 2010 (TeX Users Groups) today. It will be on the 32th birthday of TeX (the superior typesetting software written by Knuth).
Update: Knuths’ announcement was a joke. The new version of TeX will be called iTex and it will include 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound, and arbitrarily large or small units & irrational numbers.
The commenters are speculating on what the announcement could be. Some believe Knuth may have proven P != NP. One commenter claims that it is not very likely given the age of Knuth and the fact that many great minds peak at their early twenties. Check these two comments… I had a laugh.
Hahahaha… here’s another funny comment (at another forum) heckling the impatient people…
A very happy birthday to PacMan… the friendly yellow gobbler. I love PacMan. Today –to commemorate the 30th birthday of PacMan– Google put a playable PacMan logo/game online. Sooo cool…. You can play it on the google website. Here’s a screenshot. When you leave PacMan in the shown position the ghost will never catch him… small bug?
I already mentioned the upcoming birthday of PacMan before. Click on the screenshot below to play Google PacMan.
Another rock legend bites the dust… On the 16th of May Ronnie James Dio passed away at the age of 67. Rest in peace. His wife Wendy Galaxiola posted following notice on the website of Ronnie James Dio
Whahahaha.. brilliant. Rop Gonggrijp is at it again. Together with some researchers he like totally p0wnez Indian voting machines. Rop already demonstrated that dutch voting machines are inherently unsafe. Check the site “Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet” (English). That is the reason why we (again) vote with red pencil and paper in the Netherlands. Now in India they will probably do the same thing. Looking for a career change? How about manufacturing red pencils… India will need a couple anytime soon. Here’s a cool video that can also be found on Rop’s site.
Oh this is good news for those who embrace web standards: the usage of Internet Explorer is on its decline. Sure the current marketshare –at just below 60%– is still way too large but at least it is on its decline. Surprisingly (at least to me) is that Google’s Chrome is the big winner and not Mozilla’s Firefox. Anyway… less IE means better future for web developers who are getting really fed up with the lack of conformity in IE. Maybe the decline will force for Microsoft to actually support standards instead of setting their own standards?
This is Google’s motto “Don’t be evil” however more and more it seems to be applicable to you and not to Google. The latest news is that the Street-view vehicles are also registering WLAN’s and MAC addresses while mapping your neighbourhood. Big issue in Germany (here’s a German article from newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’) where this was discovered.
Now the most appalling and worrying is that Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn’t worry about privacy unless they have something to hide. Right. “Don’t be evil” also includes to not collect data that could facilitate any evil.
Whahahaha… it had to happen one day. A problem with an anti-virus update marks a false positive and puts the file in quarantine. The OS can’t load the file anymore and… oops… reboots… and…. reboots…. and… reboots… This is actually a great feature. Rebooting windows is like 80% of normal usage and it is now fully automated.
Fixing it can be a bit hard… since the computer is rebooting all the time. McAfee could create a bootable windows CD that restores the missing file from the system but.. hey wait.. no they can’t do that. You can’t distribute a proprietary OS like windows for free… Maybe they can create a Linux boot CD to restore the windows file… Something to contemplate: using Linux to revive a windows machine.
