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Researchers use Half Life to simulate fire evacuations

People normally associate Half Life with running around after aliens or terrorists, a Glock in one hand and a grenade in the other; all in first-person shooter form. The Half Life engine has enabled hundreds if not thousands of people to develop into and around it, providing...

Tags: Half Life, Computer Science, Half Life Engine, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Researchers use Half Life to simulate fire evacuations

Durham University researchers use the Half Life engine to simulate evacuations from burning buildings by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Half Life, Researcher, Zack Whittaker, iGeneration, Fire, Evacuation, Research, University

Image galleries 2009-02-06

CrosuS 1.2 (Windows)

CrosuS is a mod delivery platform for downloading, managing, and playing games, mods and maps. It can automatically download, install, and update mods and maps for a wide range of games. CrosuS features hundreds of quality games, mods and maps for Half Life, Half Life 2, Counterstrike: Source, C&C Generals:...

Tags: Half Life, Microsoft Windows, Isotx, CrosuS, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-12-14

Half Life 2 mod - Iron Grip: The Oppression 1.7 (Windows)

Iron Grip is a total conversion mod for Half Life 2 that includes both real time strategy and first person shooter elements. The game takes place after a series of assassinations, betrayals and wars that leaves the once strong and fair nation, Kathos, divided into two factions, the Rahmos empire...

Tags: Half Life, Half Life 2, Isotx, Microsoft Windows, Games, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2007-03-12

Half Life 2 (Windows)

This program determines half life of radio active elements by using graphs. Half life is defined and the graphs are used to measure the half life of standard samples. Unknown radio active samples are provided. The student can then apply the same technique to these samples and determine their half...

Tags: Half Life, Half Life 2, Radio, Haggerty, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-02

Half Life 2 Buggy Supertrack map 2.0 (Windows)

Based on the first buggy supertrack, this map includes 17+ ramps, jeeps with special "abilities," various gaps to clear, and several unlockables and secrets some of which may never be discovered. Use the ramps to the best of your abilities; experiment with the throttle in air; try to unlock the...

Tags: Half Life, Half Life 2, Map, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-12-01

Half life of a PC: 12 minutes?

Half life of a PC: 12 minutes?If you're stupid, yesIf you are brain dead and do absolutely nothing to protect a PC running Windows XP and other OS hanging naked on the Internet, yes it will become infected.With personal home routers going for $20 which offer firewall protection for...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, computer, PC, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Half Life

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Half life of a PC: 12 minutes?

I've been suffering contradictory impulses today. First I've been catching up on reading - but things like the error ridden "Enterprise Computing" insert in last week's Economist are outrageous - in the literal sense that this kind of incompetence should leave you feeling outraged. At the same I...

Tags: 12-minute, PC

Blog posts 2005-07-21

Valve bans 'Half Life 2' players

Valve bans 'Half Life 2' playersthe thing i hate about the Steam thingIs when i try to play the game, i click on the Half-Life 2 icon, it brings up this steam thing asking me which game i want to play. I don't have any other valve games, but...

Tags: Games, Half Life, Half Life 2, game, Half-Life 2

Discussion threads 2004-11-23

The Sims 2 Valve mod pack 0.5 beta (Windows)

This mod pack for Sims 2 adds content from the game Half Life 2, such as music, a movie for the Sims' TV, and a Gordon Freeman skin.

Tags: Half Life, Half Life 2, Beta, Samtron Tech, Microsoft Windows, Games, TVs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2004-09-29

Half Life update 1.1.0.8 (Windows)

Half-Life combines great storytelling in the tradition of Stephen King with intense action and advanced technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players need to think smart to survive. Half-Life has won more than 50 Game of the Year awards from publications around the world, and was named 'Best...

Tags: Half Life, Valve Software, Microsoft Windows, Half-Life, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-05-22

Additional Resources

Bleak Xmas Ahead â€" Where’s the innovation I need to fill the stockings?

I know this is the July Fourth holiday and I’m half a year away from gift giving. But, when I looked through the Sunday supplements in today’s newspaper, I couldn’t find anything to buy. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Squat. ….. Yes, I scanned the Best Buy, Office...

Tags: Innovation, Incrementalism, Recipe, Herewith, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-05

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?Ready to sell them short?Dennis: Sure, Oracle's past performance as a company is no prologue to the future. Seeing as you see the future as distinctly different for Oracle than its history from here on in, I assume you'll be devoting half your...

Tags: Strategy, ORCL, Oracle Corp., Dennis

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers

Mozilla's browser broke Microsoft IE's lock on the market. But the new Firefox 3.5 faces other serious alternative-browser ontenders. A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser's success opened the door for a host of its...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Firefox 3.5, Performance Improvement, Jetpack, Snowl, Web Browsers, Internet, Firefox, Mozilla, browsers, Chrome, Safari, IE, Stephen Shankland, CNET News, Stephen Shankland, CNET News

News items 2009-06-30

Robo-furniture eats household pests

Robotic furniture that eat vermin, like mice and flies, are a part of a design project at the Royal College of Art, London. Designer James Auger is exploring a new breed of domestic robots that he says can sit comfortably at an intersection of products and...

Tags: Robo-furniture, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-27

Parents bought me an Apple fruit, not Apple computer: FML

After the news this week, I think the vast majority of us could do with a cheer-me-up post. The FML craze has been spreading like wildfire since the start of this year: the website, Twitter and Facebook especially. "FML", stands for "f*ck my life", has its own dedicated website which...

Tags: Phone, Apple Inc., Boyfriend, Computer, FML, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-26

(Getting screamed at, Air Force initiation style)

(Getting screamed at, Air Force initiation style)They should have had a conversation with grandparentslike me. I was in the AF, this is something they will endure all through training. A lot of their parents were not in the service, so many will not really have any idea of why...

Tags: Workforce management, Air Force, initiation

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Windows 7 upgrade pricing is too expensive

Windows 7 upgrade pricing is too expensiveAdrian, you just shot down your entire argument[i]If free really dominated people's thinking, Linux would commad a massive market share by now.[/i]If Windows was really too expensive (and Windows 7 is around the same price as Vista and XP were) and OS X was...

Tags: Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, amazon, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 upgrade pricing, Windows 7 Upgrade, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, massive market share, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malwareMore details about severity of attack[i]On Windows machines, a user falling for the bait gets to a series of Web pages featuring pornographic content and, at the end, a prompt to update a video codec. That fake codec is...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, malware, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Guy Kawasaki, attack, user interaction, disk image, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

New HP mini 5101 netbook adds aluminum chassis; chiclet keyboard

HP on Wednesday unveiled what the company is calling its "top-of-the-line" Mini PC, a netbook intended for mobile use by business professionals. Just by the looks of it, the company appears to have succeeded: the HP Mini 5101 features an anodized aluminum display...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Engineering, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-24