Heh, I wondered that too, until I read the FSCKING article!
J/K.
Actually, the title IS kind of misleading... It's only one atom that does the switching-- but there are still a bunch of other atoms that control it. The single atom switches energy levels, so technically it's only one atom doing the switching.
It's still a huge quantum leap ahead of everything, though. I can't wait for these guys, assuming they're not vapor, which would be surprising.
It was a system a few years ago, sold by I forgot who. But it looked a lot like this thing, and it had some similar features- it could connect to the internet and such. I wonder if...
now, if only they didn't look like those $5.00 tiger LCD games from back in the day, I'd be happy.
Also excited about the first new Metroid game in a LONG time... not counting Samus being in Super Smash Bros. Say... Portable SSB... could we be that lucky? Hmm.
Ohyea, be sure to watch those Japanese commercials about halfway down the page. LOL
Most likely they would just remove the reproductive gene altogether. As for how would they get more, they would probably make two kinds of "Supergerm". Think Mules, which are Donkey+Horse and cannot reproduce.
Don't believe everything you see in X-Men, mutations (under normal circumstances) don't happen in living organisms. The bug's offspring may be affected, but it could simply be "programmed" not to reproduce.
(This is for the babel fish puzzle, a puzzle so hard they used to sell T-Shirts that proclaimed "I got the babel fish!")
How to get the babel fish (stop reading if you don't want to know!)
Make sure that when you get to the Vogon hold, you have the towel, your gown, and the pile of junk mail.
Wait for Ford Prefect to go to sleep.
Pick up Ford's satchel and put it in front of the panel.
Take off your gown and put it on the hook.
Put your towel on the drain.
Put the junk mail on top of the satchel.
Press the dispenser button.
At this point you'd get the fish- and this was all accesible through in-game commands. Ohyeah, I don't know if I said this, but the game was one of those old Text-Parser things.
One of the best games I've ever played was a game from Infocom that I'm sure most of you have played, the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. It was incredibly hard, but I managed to beat it- it had a built in hints system, which told you how to solve nearly every puzzle. IIRC, you got less points if you used the hints system, but it was very thorough, and if you wanted too you could just play through again and beat it without cheating. I never would have figured out the fluff puzzle without it... those of you who've played the game know what I'm talking about.
And MP3 players, I suppose... but even those don't use floppies. Mine (a Memorex MPD8505CP) uses CDRs, which hold a hella lot of MP3s, they're reasonably safe, and they're pretty darn cheap. Also, everyone has a CD-ROM drive anymore. As soon as (decent) burners break the $100 mark, I bet that they'll overtake floppies in popularity. Of course, then we'll be whining about "Only 640 megs! That's not NEARLY enough for a fully immersive tetraquadro-reality mindscape!"
I was thinking about this earlier today. Rather than using removable storage, which is generally expensive, delicate, slow, and incompatible (I will bet you that these disks will be completly incomprehensible to anything except that drive, which will most likely be prohibitavly expensive), why can't companies work on bringing high-speed internet to more people? even the slowest DSL is just as fast as a floppy drive, and probably faster than this thing. And you can have infinite space for free by getting a bunch of tripod accounts- at 50 megs per account, with each account costing exactly $0.00, that's a MUCH better deal than this crap. Yet we're still getting little 'USBKeys' and Superfloppies and such.
As far as I'm concerned, portable media is only good for installing fresh to a new computer and digital cameras.
Ok, so if Sega really is having so much financial trouble, why are they going to make a new version of the Dreamcast? It seems like that money might be better used developing new tech for the current one (which is still awfully new in my book) rather than designing a NEW one.
Of course, this might just be a ploy to keep their investers on board.
On an unrelated note, is it just me or do there seem to be an awful lot of vaporware consoles lately? The X-Box (which might not actually be vapor), the nintendo thing, the PS 3, —whatever happened to traditional "wait until it's ready to be released until you promote it all over the place" marketing?
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No. It would be a lot more fun if you could though. You're pretty much limited to removing doors and such for your psychotic fun.
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It's part of the silver atom well.
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One atom switches, the silver atom is just a cap. Misleading title, yes; out&out lie, no.
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J/K.
Actually, the title IS kind of misleading... It's only one atom that does the switching-- but there are still a bunch of other atoms that control it. The single atom switches energy levels, so technically it's only one atom doing the switching.
It's still a huge quantum leap ahead of everything, though. I can't wait for these guys, assuming they're not vapor, which would be surprising.
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TIGER! Thank you. I wanted one so much... sigh. I just remember it had Duke Nukem 3D on it, that would have been so cool.
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nah.
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now, if only they didn't look like those $5.00 tiger LCD games from back in the day, I'd be happy.
Also excited about the first new Metroid game in a LONG time... not counting Samus being in Super Smash Bros. Say... Portable SSB... could we be that lucky? Hmm.
Ohyea, be sure to watch those Japanese commercials about halfway down the page. LOL
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Oh, good, dozens of other people did the same thing. (-1, redundant) here I come!
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Think about how many retards would just post goatse.cx/hello.jpg.
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Ahem.
VAPOR!
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Most likely they would just remove the reproductive gene altogether. As for how would they get more, they would probably make two kinds of "Supergerm". Think Mules, which are Donkey+Horse and cannot reproduce.
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Does this mean I can post stories?
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Don't believe everything you see in X-Men, mutations (under normal circumstances) don't happen in living organisms. The bug's offspring may be affected, but it could simply be "programmed" not to reproduce.
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You have:
Tea
No tea
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(This is for the babel fish puzzle, a puzzle so hard they used to sell T-Shirts that proclaimed "I got the babel fish!")
- How to get the babel fish (stop reading if you don't want to know!)
- Make sure that when you get to the Vogon hold, you have the towel, your gown, and the pile of junk mail.
- Wait for Ford Prefect to go to sleep.
- Pick up Ford's satchel and put it in front of the panel.
- Take off your gown and put it on the hook.
- Put your towel on the drain.
- Put the junk mail on top of the satchel.
- Press the dispenser button.
At this point you'd get the fish- and this was all accesible through in-game commands. Ohyeah, I don't know if I said this, but the game was one of those old Text-Parser things.-------
One of the best games I've ever played was a game from Infocom that I'm sure most of you have played, the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. It was incredibly hard, but I managed to beat it- it had a built in hints system, which told you how to solve nearly every puzzle. IIRC, you got less points if you used the hints system, but it was very thorough, and if you wanted too you could just play through again and beat it without cheating. I never would have figured out the fluff puzzle without it... those of you who've played the game know what I'm talking about.
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This was a serious thought, and I get marked FUNNY ?
The moderation system here is worse than I thought!
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There was a spring of some sort in the top of the flag so it wouldn't hang limp in the vacuum. Springs often bounce.
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To fake a moon landing and cover it up for 30+ years, or
To actually land on the moon.
Any thoughts?
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And MP3 players, I suppose... but even those don't use floppies. Mine (a Memorex MPD8505CP) uses CDRs, which hold a hella lot of MP3s, they're reasonably safe, and they're pretty darn cheap. Also, everyone has a CD-ROM drive anymore. As soon as (decent) burners break the $100 mark, I bet that they'll overtake floppies in popularity. Of course, then we'll be whining about "Only 640 megs! That's not NEARLY enough for a fully immersive tetraquadro-reality mindscape!"
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As far as I'm concerned, portable media is only good for installing fresh to a new computer and digital cameras.
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Of course, this might just be a ploy to keep their investers on board.
On an unrelated note, is it just me or do there seem to be an awful lot of vaporware consoles lately? The X-Box (which might not actually be vapor), the nintendo thing, the PS 3, —whatever happened to traditional "wait until it's ready to be released until you promote it all over the place" marketing?
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Sorry, it was just a joke, I wasn't going for realism. ;)
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