The system is currently a prototype that occupies an entire lab bench. But in the future, they hope to simplify and miniaturize it for integration into portable devices like a smartphone. So one day you might be able to flip the pages of a book in front of your iPhone and get a digitized version in seconds.
Oh, my, isn't this going to be a huge copyright scandal in a few years? I could walk into Borders, scan a few books onto my iPhone, and walk right out without paying.
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Unless the game is totally on rails, a fair bit of the voice acting will basically consist of delivering lines used to fill out obscure corners of some dialog tree, or to be shouted pseudo-randomly by NPCs of various flavors. Cartoon voice acting may well, particularly in lower budget stuff, be done on the cheap; but it is much more likely that the voice actor(s) will have access to something resembling a script, which will allow them to inject some degree of plausibility into what they are doing.
That's why Final Fantasy X had decent voice acting. It was, perhaps, the most linear of all the modern Final Fantasy games.
I can buy Duracell, Energiser, Panasonic, Phillips, el cheapo AA, AAA etc. batteries and they'll all work in my camera or TV remote. I have Energiser and Sony rechargeables. You can buy replacement laptop batteries. Why the heck would it be difficult to do the same for electric vehicles?
Maybe because the battery packs on electric vehicles weigh in excess of 500 lbs?
...Today, there are practically no more cars with turbos (except for a few exceptions). I paid to fix the problems, not Nissan.
Are you kidding me? Let me try to list a few of the many cars that now come with turbos: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Subaru WRX, Dodge Caliber SRT4, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Mini Cooper S, BMW 135i (and all other -35i cars), Mercedes Kompressor models, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Nissan GT-R, Ford Taurus SHO, Mazdaspeed 3, Volkswagen/Audi GTI and TDI models, Bugatti Veyron, and pretty much any diesel vehicle out there.
Turbochargers have become very popular since they allow a smaller engine to achieve higher power ratings under heavy load but still get good fuel economy under lighter loads.
This is a terrific idea. Finally, exotic dancers will be able to aspire to Olympic greatness.
But this brings me to my question of how, exactly, this event would be judged. I submit that instead of being judged on a 5- or 10-point scale, the contestants should have dollar bills thrown at them. Whoever earns the most wins the gold.
I work near Washington, DC, and I know of several people that commute all the way to Central Pennsylvania or even New Jersey every weekend. Sure, it's not quite 1,000 miles, but it's a pretty far "commute" nonetheless.
Personally, I'd hate being away from my family for that long, but I suppose you have to do what you have to do.
The inability to use online multiplayer unless you are the original purchaser is pretty ludicrous. Video game companies claim that they lose money by consumers purchasing used games. This may be true to some extent, but those used games had to be purchased new at some point. And what about games that have been out of print for long periods of time? Why should I be penalized for that?
To be fair to Mass Effect 2, however, the "Cerberus Network" registration code that you receive with an original game copy only gives you three free DLC packs; it does not break half the game as Sony does in TFA. You can still play ME2 without registering the game; you simply do not have access to DLC (most of which has sucked thus far). It remains to be seen if purchasing DLC requires registration.
100 Mbps? Does the FCC not realize that 99% of all residences only have copper cabling to them (either twisted pair or coax)? It is impossible to get 100 Mbps out of such a transmission medium over any meaningful distance. The only solution to this would be to overbuild the entire telecommunications infrastructure with fiber optic cable. Phone and Cable companies aren't going to like that--they already have billions of dollars invested in the current copper plant out there.
Is 100 Mbps feasible? Yes. Is it feasible by 2020? Yes, but certainly not to everyone.
There were a lot Of issues on the PS3 version, though. Two of the DLCs (Point Lookout and Broken Steel) were so buggy on my system that they were essentially broken. I had to hard reset the game over 10 times just to get through the last mission of Broken Steel, and I flat-out could not play Point Lookout--the framerate would continuously drop to below 1 FPS, VATS would cause the game to freeze, and going into some areas would simply give you a black screen. It's a good thing I saved before embarking on that DLC.
That being said, Fallout 3 was a very fun game. If this new one actually works, I just might buy it.
...have successfully communicated with 4 out of 23 patients previously thought to be in a coma.
So let me get this straight. They're asking the patient to "think" a certain way for yes and a different way for no. They have achieved success with 4/23 patients, for a rate of 17.3%. In other words, their "system" is not only worse than a coin toss (50% success rate), it is less than half as successful as a coin toss.
He's not cancelling 'the return to the moon,' he's cancelling Project Constellation. No return to the moon is just one side effect... Constellation was everything. With the Space Shuttles on the verge of retirement, Constellation was NASA's future manned space flight program. This isn't just the moon. And don't think this will be a small delay either. If this goes ahead, and the knowledge and experience is lost, it will take years to recover from. So unless Congress steps in (which isn't unlikely), Obama will be the President that ended America as a space-faring nation.
Ironic, given how much commentators liked to compare him to JFK back in the campaign. Kennedy had foresight.
Apparently, giving people money to scrap perfectly good cars is a better use of the taxpayers' money.
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RTFA. It specifically says "iPhone."
The system is currently a prototype that occupies an entire lab bench. But in the future, they hope to simplify and miniaturize it for integration into portable devices like a smartphone. So one day you might be able to flip the pages of a book in front of your iPhone and get a digitized version in seconds.
Oh, my, isn't this going to be a huge copyright scandal in a few years? I could walk into Borders, scan a few books onto my iPhone, and walk right out without paying.
Flying is just falling and forgetting to hit the ground.
... Unless the game is totally on rails, a fair bit of the voice acting will basically consist of delivering lines used to fill out obscure corners of some dialog tree, or to be shouted pseudo-randomly by NPCs of various flavors. Cartoon voice acting may well, particularly in lower budget stuff, be done on the cheap; but it is much more likely that the voice actor(s) will have access to something resembling a script, which will allow them to inject some degree of plausibility into what they are doing.
That's why Final Fantasy X had decent voice acting. It was, perhaps, the most linear of all the modern Final Fantasy games.
You're thinking of the Cobalt and Mini. They were both converted to turbochargers several years ago.
And the vehicle's receptacle looks like...never mind.
I can buy Duracell, Energiser, Panasonic, Phillips, el cheapo AA, AAA etc. batteries and they'll all work in my camera or TV remote. I have Energiser and Sony rechargeables. You can buy replacement laptop batteries. Why the heck would it be difficult to do the same for electric vehicles?
Maybe because the battery packs on electric vehicles weigh in excess of 500 lbs?
...Today, there are practically no more cars with turbos (except for a few exceptions). I paid to fix the problems, not Nissan.
Are you kidding me? Let me try to list a few of the many cars that now come with turbos: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Subaru WRX, Dodge Caliber SRT4, Chevrolet Cobalt SS, Mini Cooper S, BMW 135i (and all other -35i cars), Mercedes Kompressor models, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Nissan GT-R, Ford Taurus SHO, Mazdaspeed 3, Volkswagen/Audi GTI and TDI models, Bugatti Veyron, and pretty much any diesel vehicle out there.
Turbochargers have become very popular since they allow a smaller engine to achieve higher power ratings under heavy load but still get good fuel economy under lighter loads.
That's precisely why it's funny. Of course no one there takes his religion seriously, but our culture forces them to act as though they do.
You mean like Scientology?
In the telecomm industry, we have an acronym: PFM. It stands for "Pure Fucking Magic."
Who knew the iPad utilized PFM?
This is a terrific idea. Finally, exotic dancers will be able to aspire to Olympic greatness.
But this brings me to my question of how, exactly, this event would be judged. I submit that instead of being judged on a 5- or 10-point scale, the contestants should have dollar bills thrown at them. Whoever earns the most wins the gold.
Maybe that 100 million figure includes things such as multimedia, navigation, etc. Even then, it seems large to me.
I work near Washington, DC, and I know of several people that commute all the way to Central Pennsylvania or even New Jersey every weekend. Sure, it's not quite 1,000 miles, but it's a pretty far "commute" nonetheless.
Personally, I'd hate being away from my family for that long, but I suppose you have to do what you have to do.
The inability to use online multiplayer unless you are the original purchaser is pretty ludicrous. Video game companies claim that they lose money by consumers purchasing used games. This may be true to some extent, but those used games had to be purchased new at some point. And what about games that have been out of print for long periods of time? Why should I be penalized for that?
To be fair to Mass Effect 2, however, the "Cerberus Network" registration code that you receive with an original game copy only gives you three free DLC packs; it does not break half the game as Sony does in TFA. You can still play ME2 without registering the game; you simply do not have access to DLC (most of which has sucked thus far). It remains to be seen if purchasing DLC requires registration.
100 Mbps? Does the FCC not realize that 99% of all residences only have copper cabling to them (either twisted pair or coax)? It is impossible to get 100 Mbps out of such a transmission medium over any meaningful distance. The only solution to this would be to overbuild the entire telecommunications infrastructure with fiber optic cable. Phone and Cable companies aren't going to like that--they already have billions of dollars invested in the current copper plant out there.
Is 100 Mbps feasible? Yes. Is it feasible by 2020? Yes, but certainly not to everyone.
There were a lot Of issues on the PS3 version, though. Two of the DLCs (Point Lookout and Broken Steel) were so buggy on my system that they were essentially broken. I had to hard reset the game over 10 times just to get through the last mission of Broken Steel, and I flat-out could not play Point Lookout--the framerate would continuously drop to below 1 FPS, VATS would cause the game to freeze, and going into some areas would simply give you a black screen. It's a good thing I saved before embarking on that DLC.
That being said, Fallout 3 was a very fun game. If this new one actually works, I just might buy it.
...have successfully communicated with 4 out of 23 patients previously thought to be in a coma.
So let me get this straight. They're asking the patient to "think" a certain way for yes and a different way for no. They have achieved success with 4/23 patients, for a rate of 17.3%. In other words, their "system" is not only worse than a coin toss (50% success rate), it is less than half as successful as a coin toss.
Am I missing something here?
That moss has taken a lichen to that space station!
More importantly, which ones should I stay away from to keep from pissing off the Geth?
It will cause a Standalone Complex!
Obviously, the only use of Bit Torrent is illegal file sharing. /SARCASM
He's not cancelling 'the return to the moon,' he's cancelling Project Constellation. No return to the moon is just one side effect... Constellation was everything. With the Space Shuttles on the verge of retirement, Constellation was NASA's future manned space flight program. This isn't just the moon. And don't think this will be a small delay either. If this goes ahead, and the knowledge and experience is lost, it will take years to recover from. So unless Congress steps in (which isn't unlikely), Obama will be the President that ended America as a space-faring nation.
Ironic, given how much commentators liked to compare him to JFK back in the campaign. Kennedy had foresight.
Apparently, giving people money to scrap perfectly good cars is a better use of the taxpayers' money.
We just need to explore Mars first and find the Prothean ruins there.
Still publisher Terry Jimenez is unapologetic.
I submit that publisher Terry Jimenez has less business saavy than a 10-pound bag of fertilizer.
Didn't Apple already try this? Wasn't it called the "Newton"?