What if the computer based game has a real life counterpart with beyond legendary status as is the case with a Vegas Casino?

Does the gaming experience of online casino games have the same allure for players? One thing comes to mind. While I have never been an ardent gambler and have always been well aware of the limitations of my own luck, I have always loved a little flutter on the two-penny falls, whenever I visited the fairground – something about the physical aspects of the win and the sounds of the coins falling into the pick-up tray, was the only hook I needed to run the risk of losing a few coppers. No amount of computer graphics or special virtual audio can recreate that for me… Maybe not ever!

Regardless, the online Vegas Casino industry is responsible for an annual fortune in revenue each year… so it offers something else! Simply based on my own experiences and the excitement with a fairground wager, I can only imagine Las Vegas in person (yet alone a local casino) must be over-whelming and the temptation to over-indulge must be daunting beyond belief… So is it possible that people feel safer playing the game-of-odds online and from the comfort of their own home? Could it be, that for so many people like myself the possibility of ever being able to visit Las Vegas, is just something way beyond what is ordinarily attainable and internet technology allows people a glimpse into that world of bright lights from the convenience of their home computer?

The dark side to the facebook success story, that’s been spreading across the blogosphere is the complex big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US DOD (Department of Defence).

Let’s be honest, Facebook is a great information gathering tool as data is voluntary (in some respects)  and as  superbly pointed out by Eoin at Bifsniff regarding Facebook’s policy document:

Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (eg. photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience. By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.

For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.  READMORE.

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Common belief is that he came up with the idea in a research paper on March 13, 1989. Sir Tim gave it to his boss at the CERN nuclear research centre, who called it “vague but exciting”. The first website was built at the lab in Switzerland and went online in 1991. There are now more than 80million worldwide. But rather than cashing in on his invention, Sir Tim, set up a foundation in 1994 to ensure the web was free for everyone to use.

I am just trying to picture the world today, without that moment in history!

“Google’s web-based e-mail service Gmail crashed earlier today, leaving millions of users around the world unable to send and receive messages.”

Imagine… and let’s face it… It has all the signature hallmarks of a block-buster, End-of-the-world Disaster movie.

The Plot: Gmail crashes permanently… leaving the world in chaos! Luckily, Will Smith turns up in time to save the day (and on the 4th of July no less) and restores global communication!

The Moral of the story: God forbid anyone ever put pen to paper anymore and wrote a letter to someone!

• You’ll need some technical skills, like knowing how to:

  • Burn an ISO file to make an install DVD (A good example of what we mean by “technical”)
  • Install Windows (of course)
  • Backup and restore your PC (There’s a chance of losing files, so it’s a good idea to do a backup of anything you want to save.)
  • Set up a network

  It can be glitchy—so don’t use a PC you need every day.

Source: Catchyoo [via] Gizmodo

Microsoft fired back saying that a deal between Yahoo and Google would make the market for Web search less competitive — turning the tables on Google, which has charged Microsoft with anti-competitive practices in the past.

Source: Reuters