Agreed, the author clearly "knew" there was one winner, Nintendo. Personally, both the MS and Sony info was far more compelling. Having the article be 80% "boo-yah! Nintendo" and 20% "oh yeah, there were some other companies there too" makes a complete lie out of both the headline and the summary...
Interestingly, it achieved about 97% mass to energy conversion - impressive.
If a nuclear weapon of Tsar bomba's size achieved that it would be a hell of a lot stronger than 50 megaton.
A hell of a lot more- the thing massed 27 tons, so assuming metric tons, 97% conversion would yield equivalent to 560 Gigatons, just a little more than the 50 Megatons it actually produced.
I agree- I was all ready to pony up some dough for this, but came to a screeching halt at the app store when I saw the price.
With a lot of useful and fun apps going for $0 to $1.99, $4.99 really seems steep for this. Maybe $5 for W3D, Doom, and Doom II, that I'd go for, but I can't help but think that they'd sell far, far more copies if they went for a lower price- much like the Steam 75% off sales that generate 36,000% more sales.
I think it's an astonishing thing that it's anywhere near 50-50. It should be 14-1 against this sort of nonsense. The mere fact that young earth creationists have sparked enough debate to cause this much uncertainty in the minds of those in charge of the curriculum (or teaching resources) is a sad, sad thing...
Well, said bat (or it's corpse) would have to survive about a year of alternating freezing and cooking on route to Mars, all the while still clinging tenaciously on through maneuvers and avoiding incineration during reentry, then having bacteria find Mars a hospitable environment. Not impossible for some small bacteria, but for something as big as a bat? Unlikely, I'd say.
Plus I'm more than willing to bet that the guys who assess the dangers of "Bat on a tank" actually considered the dangers before giving the go ahead for launch- in fact, the quote above:
"The bat eventually became 'Interim Problem Report 119V-0080' after the [Final Inspection Team] finished their walkdown," the memo said. "Systems Engineering and Integration performed a debris analysis on him and ultimately a Launch Commit Criteria waiver to ICE-01 was written to accept the stowaway."
pretty much IS the report showing they assessed the likelihood of danger from a bat on the tank.
Remember that debris and other dangers to the shuttle are very dependent on where they are- if Challenger's blow-through on the SRB were rotated 90 degrees, the thing would have survived intact, as several other launches did. If Columbia's foam loss had been on another part of the external tank, it could have fallen harmlessly away and not struck the orbiter at all.
People with money who are interesting to advertisers who are the actual customers of television (you are the product) tend to have PVRs so they can watch a show if they miss it. People like you who miss a show and then don't follow it are clearly not the advertisers' bitch, thus not worth wasting advertising dollars on, thus not worth pleasing. The mass media industry does not give one fuck about you and will not miss you if you go away.
Uhhh, except that people with PVRs are more likely to just fast-forward through those precious commercials, which is something advertisers are not so fond of. If you want me to see the commercials, it has to be on live TV so I can't fast-forward, and it has to be in a consistent timeslot so I can put it on my calendar and arrange my schedule around it.
Actually, as an early-adopter of the PVR world, my behavior in regards to ads surprised me- I found that in general, I would watch almost every ad once. It turned out that when hitting the "skip 30s" button, I'd usually end up catching just enough of the ad to know which one it was, and if it were clever or relevant, I would even back up to show the ad to visiting friends/family.
So while I don't disagree with your general point, I think that the effect of PVR's on ad revenue is not quite so clear cut as PVR's -> no ads watched -> the death of tv.
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Agreed, the author clearly "knew" there was one winner, Nintendo. Personally, both the MS and Sony info was far more compelling. Having the article be 80% "boo-yah! Nintendo" and 20% "oh yeah, there were some other companies there too" makes a complete lie out of both the headline and the summary...
If a nuclear weapon of Tsar bomba's size achieved that it would be a hell of a lot stronger than 50 megaton.
A hell of a lot more- the thing massed 27 tons, so assuming metric tons, 97% conversion would yield equivalent to 560 Gigatons, just a little more than the 50 Megatons it actually produced.
I agree- I was all ready to pony up some dough for this, but came to a screeching halt at the app store when I saw the price. With a lot of useful and fun apps going for $0 to $1.99, $4.99 really seems steep for this. Maybe $5 for W3D, Doom, and Doom II, that I'd go for, but I can't help but think that they'd sell far, far more copies if they went for a lower price- much like the Steam 75% off sales that generate 36,000% more sales.
I think it's an astonishing thing that it's anywhere near 50-50. It should be 14-1 against this sort of nonsense. The mere fact that young earth creationists have sparked enough debate to cause this much uncertainty in the minds of those in charge of the curriculum (or teaching resources) is a sad, sad thing...
"The bat eventually became 'Interim Problem Report 119V-0080' after the [Final Inspection Team] finished their walkdown," the memo said. "Systems Engineering and Integration performed a debris analysis on him and ultimately a Launch Commit Criteria waiver to ICE-01 was written to accept the stowaway."
pretty much IS the report showing they assessed the likelihood of danger from a bat on the tank. Remember that debris and other dangers to the shuttle are very dependent on where they are- if Challenger's blow-through on the SRB were rotated 90 degrees, the thing would have survived intact, as several other launches did. If Columbia's foam loss had been on another part of the external tank, it could have fallen harmlessly away and not struck the orbiter at all.
People with money who are interesting to advertisers who are the actual customers of television (you are the product) tend to have PVRs so they can watch a show if they miss it. People like you who miss a show and then don't follow it are clearly not the advertisers' bitch, thus not worth wasting advertising dollars on, thus not worth pleasing. The mass media industry does not give one fuck about you and will not miss you if you go away.
Uhhh, except that people with PVRs are more likely to just fast-forward through those precious commercials, which is something advertisers are not so fond of. If you want me to see the commercials, it has to be on live TV so I can't fast-forward, and it has to be in a consistent timeslot so I can put it on my calendar and arrange my schedule around it.
Actually, as an early-adopter of the PVR world, my behavior in regards to ads surprised me- I found that in general, I would watch almost every ad once. It turned out that when hitting the "skip 30s" button, I'd usually end up catching just enough of the ad to know which one it was, and if it were clever or relevant, I would even back up to show the ad to visiting friends/family. So while I don't disagree with your general point, I think that the effect of PVR's on ad revenue is not quite so clear cut as PVR's -> no ads watched -> the death of tv.
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