how about top score in a flash game of some sort

Hey ghandi, remember me, the crazy guy with the crazy idea? I switched majors to biology but I keep on keeping on with the dreaming. Chemistry is a lot more interesting than a state university's current idea of computer science. My wait-and-see attitude, coupled with my tendency to only do things i enjoy, lets me stick to projects where I can make personally satisfactory progress. Other people will have to complete the LDP as I sort of always knew.

Check these out regarding logical discourse:

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http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/203221/Ask-Slashdot-Going-Beyond-Comment-Threads

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United States Patent 7,805,291 Berkowitz Appl. No.: 11/137,594
Filed: May 25, 2005
September 28, 2010

Method of identifying topic of text using nouns


Abstract
A method of identifying a topic of a text. Text is received. Then, the nouns in the text are identified. The singular form of each identified noun is determined. Combinations are created of the singular form of the identified nouns, where the number of singular forms of the nouns in the combinations is user-definable. The frequency of occurrence in the text of each noun that corresponds to its singular form is determined. Each frequency of occurrence is assigned as a score to its corresponding singular form noun. Each combination of singular form nouns is assigned a score that is equal to the sum of the scores of its constituent singular form nouns. The user-definable number of top scoring singular form nouns and combinations of singular form nouns are selected as the topic of the text.

Inventors: Berkowitz; Sidney (Baltimore, MD)
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Director National Security Agency (Washington, DC)
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This paper was coming out about the time I started to get interested in the possibility of analyzing for semantics and stuff. Good thing someone smarter figured it out.

Modeling public mood and emotion: Twitter sentiment and socio-economic phenomena
Authors: Johan Bollen, Alberto Pepe, Huina Mao
(Submitted on 9 Nov 2009)

Abstract: Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A variegated mosaic of microblogging uses has emerged since the launch of Twitter in 2006: daily chatter, conversation, information sharing, and news commentary, among others. Regardless of their content and intended use, tweets often convey pertinent information about their author's mood status. As such, tweets can be regarded as temporally-authentic microscopic instantiations of public mood state. In this article, we perform a sentiment analysis of all public tweets broadcasted by Twitter users between August 1 and December 20, 2008. For every day in the timeline, we extract six dimensions of mood (tension, depression, anger, vigor, fatigue, confusion) using an extended version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS), a well-established psychometric instrument. We compare our results to fluctuations recorded by stock market and crude oil price indices and major events in media and popular culture, such as the U.S. Presidential Election of November 4, 2008 and Thanksgiving Day. We find that events in the social, political, cultural and economic sphere do have a significant, immediate and highly specific effect on the various dimensions of public mood. We speculate that large scale analyses of mood can provide a solid platform to model collective emotive trends in terms of their predictive value with regards to existing social as well as economic indicators.


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Cheers,

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So impressed with how the Egyptian Military are handling this. Even the way they physically handle the protesters is in a most professional manner, firm but not overpowering. They are protecting the people, both the protesters, and the police, which is what a nations armed force is for. Top score

That game maddened me for weeks until I decided that I just wasn't willing to invest the additional time to get a top score. I think my best was in the 7400s -- at least I managed to survive the Hard level (barely) so I don't feel too disgraced.

Way to go Lucky for kickin' it hard!

ahhh ahhh ahhh CHOOWWWW, "oh man i had the top score as well"

Thanks, I was happy to hit that score last night

That's quite the score and maze from Gorillaman. Now I'll have to work on my 'normal' scores for a bit

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
And so you've topped my score... Well done, sir. Congratulations.

I don't know how he did it, but gorillaman pm'd me with his new top score (but he didn't add it to the videosift scoreboard, thank goodness ):
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ViewMap.asp?scoreid=6192361

He somehow scored 9282 on Hard.

Now I have 2 very difficult scores to top and I shudder at the idea I might not be able to...

And so you've topped my score... Well done, sir. Congratulations.

I don't know how he did it, but gorillaman pm'd me with his new top score (but he didn't add it to the videosift scoreboard, thank goodness ):
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ViewMap.asp?scoreid=6192361

He somehow scored 9282 on Hard.

Now I have 2 very difficult scores to top and I shudder at the idea I might not be able to...

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
hehe, I've been working on it, I wondered if you noticed

I wasn't going to say anything until I managed to beat your top score on hard (if I did that is)

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Hehehe... A mere 50 points away from matching my top record on Hard. I'm enjoying watching you chip away at my beautiful collection of top scores. Finally some real competition.

Now that I've regained #1 and #2 on Normal, I'll see if I can top my best Hard score to keep you at bay. Good luck.

hehe, I've been working on it, I wondered if you noticed

I wasn't going to say anything until I managed to beat your top score on hard (if I did that is)

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Hehehe... A mere 50 points away from matching my top record on Hard. I'm enjoying watching you chip away at my beautiful collection of top scores. Finally some real competition.

Now that I've regained #1 and #2 on Normal, I'll see if I can top my best Hard score to keep you at bay. Good luck.

Hehehe... A mere 50 points away from matching my top record on Hard. I'm enjoying watching you chip away at my beautiful collection of top scores. Finally some real competition.

Now that I've regained #1 and #2 on Normal, I'll see if I can top my best Hard score to keep you at bay. Good luck.

No upvote but only due to the ad at the beginning. But check it- the video that they show clips from is on Youtube- I'm sift it up!

Check it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Electronic-Tattoo-Ambient-Music-Cyberpunk-Top-Score

Finland, which was ranked nr. 1 on the list of the international test overall scores, use the monopoly system much like Russian model mentioned by Yaroslavvb. Sweden, ranked nr. 13, also has a state run school system. Most other top scoring countries seem to follow similar teaching doctrines aswell. This, to me, says the argument used in the video isn't entirely true.
It seems wrong to put all the blame on teachers. Surely there has to be more factors to take into consideration. This documentary comes off as quite biased in that right from the start to the finish, all blame is put on the educators.

EDIT: His saying that teachers get it easy with just a 6 hour working day makes me mad. This because the interviewer assumes that teachers in general (I'm not sure about how they work in the US) don't have atleast as much work out of school as they have in it. As a teacher with, say five to six different classes each semester and with roughly thirty students in each class, how long do you think it would take to correct and grade all the essays, exams and homework you get? I can tell you it takes a heck of a lot more than the six hours a teacher is scheduled to stay in school each day.
Granted, some teachers are bound to be bad at what they do, but this god-awful piece of propaganda directed against public school teachers is quite frankly appaling.

Just to clear this up

ok there are many elements to wow that will make it fun for various types of gamer

you have the gamers that are social - wow provides that with multiplayer connectivity

you have hard core games who play for stats and score - and wow provides that with level systems ect

you have the explorer gamer type - and wow provides that with large and nicely varied environments

and last of all you have the role player- and wow provides that with a traditional fantasy setting

wow is designed so that the way to progress ore to gain points and stats is to play more the more time spent in the game the more points you will have. this will not affect allot of game players however hard core gamers whose objective is to complete the game and achieve the best score will become heavily addicted as there is no way to complete wow and the only way to achieve the top score is to put more hours into the game.

Obviously there are many other elements to the game that will appeal to people but what I am trying to do is out line the thing that makes wow addictive for various people and also what makes many people have a hatred for wow. Blizzard knows that they can make a lot of money out of the hard core gamer group by implementing the game in this way.

I wish people wouldn’t take such linear views about things especially complex things