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You know you’re a nerd if:
You get Best Buy gift cards from friends and family.
You’ve hacked your gaming station.
You carry a thumb drive on your key chain.
You can press ‘3’ twice to get an ‘e’ without looking at your phone.
You chuckle at the definition “Recursive (adj): See recursive.”
Of course F is a number and G isn’t. Duh.
You know that DDR isn’t just Dance Dance Revolution.
You know that “42” is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
You’ve been on a geocache treasure hunt.
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A forecast of the future in genetics, solar technology, and engineering, asserting that these three technologies will create a more even distribution of the world’s wealth. Discusses the ethical uses of science with conviction, a challenge to use new technologies to close the gap between the rich and the poor. Softcover. DLC: Mathematical physics. Amazon.com Review
One fashionable school of thought holds that scientific revolutions are spurred primarily by shifts in the basic concepts that science understands the world with, and that those shifts are largely the outcome of struggles in the social and political realms. Freeman Dyson, however, is having none of it. For him, scientific breakthrough… More >>
The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution
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Posted 12 Sep 2009
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17 year old Alex Detail has been kidnapped and sent off to fight in a hopeless war against The Harvesters, an alien force that is trying to extinguish Earth’s Sun. Unfortunately for Alex’s kidnappers (and the world) he has lost the mega IQ that allowed him to win the last war with The Harvesters ten years ago when he was just 7 years old. But now the House of Nations is out of options. The end of life is imminent. Alex must save his ship, fight his evil clone and survive the war long enough to make it to Pluto, where, underneath the planets frozen surface lies the only force in the solar system that can stop The Harvesters. “With Alex Detail, Darren Campo has created the rare hero that stands alongs… More >>
Alex Detail’s Revolution
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Lead your business into the future using “on-demand” computer platforms The business world is abuzz with the revolutionary new technology of cloud computing. But that’s all it’s been—a buzz—until now. Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution provides the practical information you need to position your company for the future. Using the game-changing technology of cloud computing, employees of any rank can provision themselves with only the computing power they need. What used to be an enormous investment and take up IT departments’ precious time will now be accomplished with the swipe of a credit card. Arming you with the critical understanding of how the cloud i… More >>
Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution: How Cloud Computing Is Transforming Business and Why You Can’t Afford to Be Left Behind
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Home computers were a class of personal computers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as accessible personal computers, more capable than video game consoles. These computers typically cost much less than business, scientific or engineering-oriented desktop personal computers of the time, and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability. However, a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporary business personal computers. Usually they were purchased for education, game play, and personal productivity use such as word processing. Advertisements for early home computers were rife with possibiliti… More >>
Home Computer: Personal Computer, Video Game Console, Word Processor, Home Automation, Computer Programming, Microcomputer Revolution, List of Computer … of Computing Hardware
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Posted 04 Jun 2009
Category Sci-Fi
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Robots in one form or another have engaged the popular imagination for centuries. Now, on the cusp of the 21st century, they are poised to saturate every aspect of our culture, from medicine, science, and industry to artworks, toys, and household appliances. Whether playing prominent roles in movies like I, Robot or helping mankind explore the surface of Mars, robots seem to be taking over the world. Robots is the first visual survey to focus on this increasingly important, always newsworthy scientific development and its effects on society.
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Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a “dance platform” or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues. Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score. Dance Dance Revolution has been given much critical acclaim for… More >>
Dance Dance Revolution: Music video game, Konami, List of Bemani series, Arrow Cross, Arcade game, Video game console, Music licensing, Video game clone, Game
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America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A federal program—on the scale of the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Program—to stimulate innovation in energy policy seems essential. In Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian make the case for just such a program. Their proposal backs measures to stimulate private investment in new technology, including a cap-and-trade system or carbon tax, but augments these with a revamped energy innovation system. It would encourage a broad range of innovations that would give policymakers a variety of technological options over the long implementation period and at the huge scale … More >>
Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
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Gamers Unite!: The Video Game Revolution
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The enormous popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller games like Bejeweled or Zuma has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or to devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.
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A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
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