I did some searching around, and it looks like he is (or at least was) a professor at some point at VT. Check this out:

(first paragraph)
http://www.unirel.vt.edu/presreports/pres9495/year9495.html

Apparently he knows his amphibians well ...

In the frog eyes artical....a professor "Carl Pfeiffer" is mentioned......i am a student at VT.......and according to the "people finder" here......there is no professor by that name.

Nit picking.....yes........but it makes one wonder...

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1. blouse

Thank you

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hmm, mine didn't
Athlon 1.4, 512 2100, geforce3, winXP

it installed director player 8.0.1, restarted the browser and it was all set.

My system, which BSOD'd on this game, is remarkably similar to #15's:

Athlon XP 1800+, Epox 8KHA+, 512MB PC2100, GeForce3 Ti200, Windows XP

It's more like a DirectX demo, it's difficult as hell to even play. Still, it's annoying fun and a good way to kill lunch at the office.

What's this? You want me to pay for it? Erm, if playing it wasn't so much an excercise in pain, maybe. But as it stands now (unpolished tech demo), no thanks.


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Todd, why don't you read up on Darwin before you start spouting this stuff, 'k? You seem to be lost on the subtleties (and no so subtleties) of natural selection.

Actually my science class just covered this, I'm not spouting. This was a critical part of the theory.

His theory was of natural selection. When he wrote about evolution there was little known about genes then. HIs theory was all about survival of the fittest, such as Hairy Animals would survive better in the cold then non hairy ones, and therefor the non hairy animals would die off, while the hairy ones flurished. I do agree with you though, that in order for the thumbs to mutate the gameboy generation would have to pass on its mutation to its offspring, and I highly doubt that this thumb mutation is a mutation at all.

Thats right, that is another important part of the theory. According to what my science class just covered, the two key things are natural selection which is what you pointed out, and random mutations which is what I initally mentioned.

I didn't see "Beautiful Mind" or "Trianing Day", so I can't speak for the quality of the films, BUT... if a director wins as Best Director, and the movie itself wins as Best Movie, then shouldn't it follow that the main actor who is the focus of the whole movie would be Best Actor?? If not, what made the movie 'the best' over Training Day?
(I still think LOTR should've won. Literary masterpiece finally brought to life in a fantastic form)

I dig this game, a more active version than lunar lander, from -back in tha day-.

It's tastefully done, the physics are strong and it's easy to master.

Kudos to the design team

Worked great for me! PIII 500, 128MB, Geforce 2 MX 64 MB(with the latest drivers installed).

*Ahem* from Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes, Fifth Edition by Hartl and Jones:

Mutation - A heritable alteration in a gene or chromosome; also, the process by which such an alteration happens. Used incorrectly, but with increasing frequency, as a synonym for mutant, even in some excellent textbooks.

Mutant - Any heritable biological entity that differs from wild type, such as a mutant DNA molecule, mutant allele, mutant gene, mutant chromosome, mutant cell, mutant organism, or mutant heritable phenotype; also, a cell or organism in which a mutant allele is expressed.

From me:

Note that the word heritable is in there twice, even. Natural selection can't work its magic on a non-heritable trait. There's no "memory" in the sperm or egg for learned behavior - only for genetic alterations. Now, if these kids stand too close to the microwave, they might pick up a germ-line mutation for ambidextrous opposable thumbs or something, and that would be heritable, but I highly doubt that's happened.

Bottom line: the article screwed up, and genetics is cool.

well it didnt lock up mine, but i only got sound from it and no graphics..

The game also locked up my system pretty hard when I tried to play it this morning.

Athlon XP 1800+, Asus A7M266, 512 megs RAM, GeForce3, WinXP would be the relevant bits of info.

His theory was of natural selection. When he wrote about evolution there was little known about genes then. HIs theory was all about survival of the fittest, such as Hairy Animals would survive better in the cold then non hairy ones, and therefor the non hairy animals would die off, while the hairy ones flurished. I do agree with you though, that in order for the thumbs to mutate the gameboy generation would have to pass on its mutation to its offspring, and I highly doubt that this thumb mutation is a mutation at all.

Todd, why don't you read up on Darwin before you start spouting this stuff, 'k? You seem to be lost on the subtleties (and no so subtleties) of natural selection.

"The use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands, according to a British Sunday newspaper."

physical mutation != genetic mutation

I agree that it's misleading (and misused) language, though.

Also according to Darwin (should you choose to believe him or not), mutations are caused randomly, not through extended use of something. So if our younger generation did indeed mutate this dextrous thumbs, then according to Darwin's theory it has nothing to do with the gameboy's and such and it simply occured by chance.

What card and OS are you running? I use a P4 1.3, 384 RAM, GeForce2 Ultra and WinXP Prof. and I've never had any issues with the drivers.

"The use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands, according to a British Sunday newspaper."

physical mutation != genetic mutation

I agree that it's misleading (and misused) language, though.

That Balls Up game took [relatively] forever to download, and once I finally got it going it froze at the Loading screen and then I got a BSOD in nv4_disp!!! "The display driver was unable to complete a drawing operation." Stupid little Flash games should not be able to cause BSODs.

And why can't NVIDIA do something about stability in their myriad driver releases instead of another 50 points in 3DMark 2001?

Argh!