This is probably a rounding thing - since its a UK company they probably said 5p (its a round, small cost that goes with this obviously back-of-the-envelope calculation) and this has been translated along the way into cents for USians.
Of course Pioneer should have a map on it. How else are we going to get our 'ball' back when it lands in our neighbours garden? Lets just hope they have better map reading skills than some people I know, or there will be a bunch of really disappointed aliens turning up on the third planet of some other star.
Of course, real railguns wouldn't be any good, as magnetically accellerating something this big up to mach 5+ is going to need a really _long_ rail. Shall we get back to Q2 jokes then?
I don't doubt its a good game while working ok; most of the magazine reviews I read said how its a great game fatally flawed by the bugs.
The problem seems to lie in the huge development time; if you had a 3dfx-based card then you might be fine, but by the time of release NVidia were in the ascendant, and no way near enough testing was done to the DirectX engine. It seems like the beta team said 'well, it works ok on this PC' without giving it a proper go on any of the other popular hardware configurations.
Once again another argument for consoles, where you are writing for a standard hardware platform. Unfortunately, U9 requires copious hard-drive space to work in, so a console version would have been a squeeze.
Given that its travelling at over a mile a _second_ I'll not be volunteering for being hit by the pointy end even if it doesn't have a warhead attached! Simply crashing one of these into the building of your choice is going to disperse a pretty large quantity of kinetic energy into it with no muss, fuss or radiation to worry about.
Its not 0 to Mach 5 in 10 seconds; they are launching it up to some significant speed already on a booster.
From the article: "A booster rocket will ignite to accelerate the X-43A to its test speed and altitude of about 100,000 feet"
Since its a scramjet, that starting speed has got to be above mach 1 (the point of a scramjet is that the fuel is injected into the airflow at supersonic speed). It says 10 seconds and 17 miles at the start of the article, which is a mean speed of 6120 miles per hour. As it also says speeds up to 7200 miles per hour thats a first approximation of a roughly 5000 mph start speed (yes, I know that a linear velocity increase is a massive approximation, but it'll do for now.)
As another post has already mentioned, this thing is going up to 100 000 feet, speeding up to mach x (where x is large) and then freefalling down into the ocean. What exactly are you planning on salvaging?
1) We've speculated wildly that since the European shipments are unlikely to make the deadline this will extend to the rest of the world. Of course, we are ignoring the fact that the chips are in manufacturing, samples have been given to the developers, and the GeForce 3 chip that was finished up only after NVidia was done on their XBox commitments will start appearing on AGP cards in the next few months.
After saying all this, however
2) Microsoft have denied the rumour as the bunch of factless speculation it is.
but
3) Another console company has a long history of missing shipping dates to release stable and good quality product!
therefore
4) We don't trust Microsofts denial, and our speculation must be true!
True, but just a cursory examination of ebay will show people paying over retail for all sorts of things that are available in shops. I could pop into town at lunchtime, and I wouldn't find a single shop that has sold out of PS2s in the UK.
The machine has sold very well, mainly on hype. Right now, there isn't a single game I consider worth buying for it; certainly nothing to distract me from playing Soul Calibur or Mario64 - launch titles on the last two consoles I bought.
ok, so my other post was a bit hard; just because there is one detail (the exact timing of the placement of 'A New Hope' onto the print) doesn't mean there are some important pieces of info.
Although, these changes are as nothing compared to the hack job that makes up the Special Editions - thank heavens for laserdisc!
err, thats where you're wrong. Only just however; let me explain.
1977: Star Wars released. As suggested, no sign of 'A New Hope'.
1978: Work starts on Empire and to some extent Jedi, thanks to the amazing success of the film.
1979: Star Wars re-released to cinemas, with 'A New Hope' added to the title scroll, in anticipation of...
1980: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back hits the cinemas.
So while its true that 'A New Hope' was only added once Empire was a definite go, the release was out there before we actually got to see the film. I don't doubt that there are plenty who didn't see the re-release, since they had already seen the film, however.
"It's not processor arbitrated and does not require and active computer to be useful."
So what you're saying is that performance is less CPU dependant on Firewire. This is good when you're Intel how? Good old Intel, always to be relied on to require you to buy their new chips.
There is no mention of dropping drivers for the current version of USB (1.0 or 1.1, can't remember which); its just the new USB 2.0 that is a high-bandwidth kludge invented to try to compete with firewire. Anything that wants the extra speed 2.0 gives you over your normal USB should be using firewire instead, as Adaptec have only just released their first USB 2.0 cards, while firewire is available to buy everywhere.
Lets just hope that when people do have to write their own USB 2.0 drivers we don't end up in the situation where they only drive the bit of USB necessary for the product they are designed for; I can just imagine the trouble coming because one driver works with my mouse and a different one with my webcam.
While we are getting changes, I want to see rain! Any game can be made immeasurably better by having 3d rain particles falling down.
Also, if we are letting Link sneak around, lets have a big 1-shot kill sniper rifle that can take all the monsters out from halfway across the kingdom, that makes games more fun, of course it does.
aaah. Thanks for that; it makes a bit more sense now. I just had visions of Dr. Evil making quote marks with his fingers on the orange words the first time.
"If this Zelda stuff would be released under a BSD-style licence, we would have a great time. If GPL will be the choice, well, tough luck. I certainly won't play it anyway!"
Assuming for one minute that this person isn't a trolling hypocrite, their hatred of the GPL presumably extends as far as not running Linux, so if this hypothetical version is released they indeed "certainly won't play it anyway!"
I love the fact that the download is a patch to the rom cart, not the whole thing, so that should at least delay the lawyer onslaught. Nintendo's lawyers are known for being amongst the most ruthless at taking out rom posters, and I wouldn't want to see stuff like this killed.
This new tech sounds fun and all, but I'm not sure I want someone to be able to download all my medical information because the palm doing the requesting claims to be owned by a relative...
And can you imagine the fun to be had with a html tag that alters the volume of peoples stereos? Lets just hope that as well as "shut everything up and listen to my advert" there is a tag for "wake up the sucker's neighbours!"
While I agree with USians here that China's demands for an apology because their fast manouverable fighter plane couldn't avoid a slow, cumbersome big plane seem slightly unfair, I strongly suspect this is as much about Bush Jr's continued statements about how much a threat he considers China to be, and how we must arm Taiwan to the hilt with missile defence units as anything.
As with Kyoto, Bush Jr. calls it like he sees it; many Americans admire that in him, but it doesn't stop him having as much diplomacy as a bulldozer to the rest of the world.
yes, I'm serious about the Motorola thing - its a Motorola mr602, with the same spring-loaded customization job they did to the Nokias. Did you know that it was actually The Matrix that invented that springing thing? Nokia liked it so much they only afterwards launched the 7110 model that is based on the customised 6210 that Neo has.
And yes, I do have an unusual habit of noticing which mobile phones actors use. Call me sad, but there you go.
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This is probably a rounding thing - since its a UK company they probably said 5p (its a round, small cost that goes with this obviously back-of-the-envelope calculation) and this has been translated along the way into cents for USians.
Of course Pioneer should have a map on it. How else are we going to get our 'ball' back when it lands in our neighbours garden? Lets just hope they have better map reading skills than some people I know, or there will be a bunch of really disappointed aliens turning up on the third planet of some other star.
high framerate good, low ping better.
Of course, real railguns wouldn't be any good, as magnetically accellerating something this big up to mach 5+ is going to need a really _long_ rail. Shall we get back to Q2 jokes then?
True that their X is for 10, but the article says they are heading for 6+ (its not very precise), so I just wanted to say that its going to be fast
I don't doubt its a good game while working ok; most of the magazine reviews I read said how its a great game fatally flawed by the bugs.
The problem seems to lie in the huge development time; if you had a 3dfx-based card then you might be fine, but by the time of release NVidia were in the ascendant, and no way near enough testing was done to the DirectX engine. It seems like the beta team said 'well, it works ok on this PC' without giving it a proper go on any of the other popular hardware configurations.
Once again another argument for consoles, where you are writing for a standard hardware platform. Unfortunately, U9 requires copious hard-drive space to work in, so a console version would have been a squeeze.
Given that its travelling at over a mile a _second_ I'll not be volunteering for being hit by the pointy end even if it doesn't have a warhead attached! Simply crashing one of these into the building of your choice is going to disperse a pretty large quantity of kinetic energy into it with no muss, fuss or radiation to worry about.
Its not 0 to Mach 5 in 10 seconds; they are launching it up to some significant speed already on a booster.
From the article: "A booster rocket will ignite to accelerate the X-43A to its test speed and altitude of about 100,000 feet"
Since its a scramjet, that starting speed has got to be above mach 1 (the point of a scramjet is that the fuel is injected into the airflow at supersonic speed). It says 10 seconds and 17 miles at the start of the article, which is a mean speed of 6120 miles per hour. As it also says speeds up to 7200 miles per hour thats a first approximation of a roughly 5000 mph start speed (yes, I know that a linear velocity increase is a massive approximation, but it'll do for now.)
As another post has already mentioned, this thing is going up to 100 000 feet, speeding up to mach x (where x is large) and then freefalling down into the ocean. What exactly are you planning on salvaging?
It's not just you. What they are saying here is:
1) We've speculated wildly that since the European shipments are unlikely to make the deadline this will extend to the rest of the world. Of course, we are ignoring the fact that the chips are in manufacturing, samples have been given to the developers, and the GeForce 3 chip that was finished up only after NVidia was done on their XBox commitments will start appearing on AGP cards in the next few months.
After saying all this, however
2) Microsoft have denied the rumour as the bunch of factless speculation it is.
but
3) Another console company has a long history of missing shipping dates to release stable and good quality product!
therefore
4) We don't trust Microsofts denial, and our speculation must be true!
Journalism at its finest once again.
True, but just a cursory examination of ebay will show people paying over retail for all sorts of things that are available in shops. I could pop into town at lunchtime, and I wouldn't find a single shop that has sold out of PS2s in the UK.
The machine has sold very well, mainly on hype. Right now, there isn't a single game I consider worth buying for it; certainly nothing to distract me from playing Soul Calibur or Mario64 - launch titles on the last two consoles I bought.
ok, so my other post was a bit hard; just because there is one detail (the exact timing of the placement of 'A New Hope' onto the print) doesn't mean there are some important pieces of info.
Although, these changes are as nothing compared to the hack job that makes up the Special Editions - thank heavens for laserdisc!
err, thats where you're wrong. Only just however; let me explain.
1977: Star Wars released. As suggested, no sign of 'A New Hope'.
1978: Work starts on Empire and to some extent Jedi, thanks to the amazing success of the film.
1979: Star Wars re-released to cinemas, with 'A New Hope' added to the title scroll, in anticipation of...
1980: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back hits the cinemas.
So while its true that 'A New Hope' was only added once Empire was a definite go, the release was out there before we actually got to see the film. I don't doubt that there are plenty who didn't see the re-release, since they had already seen the film, however.
"It's not processor arbitrated and does not require and active computer to be useful."
So what you're saying is that performance is less CPU dependant on Firewire. This is good when you're Intel how? Good old Intel, always to be relied on to require you to buy their new chips.
There is no mention of dropping drivers for the current version of USB (1.0 or 1.1, can't remember which); its just the new USB 2.0 that is a high-bandwidth kludge invented to try to compete with firewire. Anything that wants the extra speed 2.0 gives you over your normal USB should be using firewire instead, as Adaptec have only just released their first USB 2.0 cards, while firewire is available to buy everywhere.
Lets just hope that when people do have to write their own USB 2.0 drivers we don't end up in the situation where they only drive the bit of USB necessary for the product they are designed for; I can just imagine the trouble coming because one driver works with my mouse and a different one with my webcam.
"Wow. You're a moron."
Says the AC that doesn't get the joke.
While we are getting changes, I want to see rain! Any game can be made immeasurably better by having 3d rain particles falling down.
Also, if we are letting Link sneak around, lets have a big 1-shot kill sniper rifle that can take all the monsters out from halfway across the kingdom, that makes games more fun, of course it does.
aaah. Thanks for that; it makes a bit more sense now. I just had visions of Dr. Evil making quote marks with his fingers on the orange words the first time.
This gets (+1, Insightful)? Oh well.
Anyway, to bite the troll that feeds me:
"If this Zelda stuff would be released under a BSD-style licence, we would have a great time. If GPL will be the choice, well, tough luck. I certainly won't play it anyway!"
Assuming for one minute that this person isn't a trolling hypocrite, their hatred of the GPL presumably extends as far as not running Linux, so if this hypothetical version is released they indeed "certainly won't play it anyway!"
QED.
I love the fact that the download is a patch to the rom cart, not the whole thing, so that should at least delay the lawyer onslaught. Nintendo's lawyers are known for being amongst the most ruthless at taking out rom posters, and I wouldn't want to see stuff like this killed.
Nice post; it should cause a few headaches for the mods though, as it wouldn't be quite so (+1, funny) if it weren't so (+1, insightful)...
The article has some interesting points to make, but it does look as if someone has played buzzword bingo with a highlighter pen on it.
This new tech sounds fun and all, but I'm not sure I want someone to be able to download all my medical information because the palm doing the requesting claims to be owned by a relative...
And can you imagine the fun to be had with a html tag that alters the volume of peoples stereos? Lets just hope that as well as "shut everything up and listen to my advert" there is a tag for "wake up the sucker's neighbours!"
While I agree with USians here that China's demands for an apology because their fast manouverable fighter plane couldn't avoid a slow, cumbersome big plane seem slightly unfair, I strongly suspect this is as much about Bush Jr's continued statements about how much a threat he considers China to be, and how we must arm Taiwan to the hilt with missile defence units as anything.
As with Kyoto, Bush Jr. calls it like he sees it; many Americans admire that in him, but it doesn't stop him having as much diplomacy as a bulldozer to the rest of the world.
Doh! I mean Neo has a Nokia 6650, not 6210; that is an entirely different model.
yes, I'm serious about the Motorola thing - its a Motorola mr602, with the same spring-loaded customization job they did to the Nokias. Did you know that it was actually The Matrix that invented that springing thing? Nokia liked it so much they only afterwards launched the 7110 model that is based on the customised 6210 that Neo has.
And yes, I do have an unusual habit of noticing which mobile phones actors use. Call me sad, but there you go.
"Since copyrights were for the life of the owner plus 50 years, the automatic protection of copyright for god would be in place"
But you're forgetting, its been more than 50 years since Nitzeche (sp, surely?) declared God dead. Case dismissed.