From the article:
"April 2010 may have been a disappointing month for video game industry numbers, but new top 20 U.S. console retail game from the NPD Group reveals that 14 titles sold more than 100,000 units -- above analyst expectations, and more than the 9 that were sold in April of last year."
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28566/NPD_Top_20_Reveals_Aprils_Hits_FFXIIIs_Chart_Miss.php
If you use more water, or more electricity, you're consuming finite resources that wouldn't be used otherwise. The same isn't true of bandwidth--the ISP is paying for a certain amount on their outgoing connections, regardless of whether or not uses are actively using it.
You need electricity to use bandwidth...
Even so, water and electricity are not finite.
If you line your clothes with something conductive, would it disperse the waves before reaching skin? What about your house? What about tinfoil?
I know little about this stuff, but I'm genuinely concerned about being groped internally. Talk about spooky action from a distance.
I have been forwarding the link to everyone that I know, I recommend that everyone else who cares about transparency in the legal process to do the same.
-Steve
This is super important, thanks for posting. I have also begun sending it to everyone I know.
Can we get this as an update to the main article, please?
IAAGD
As a game wraps up, the order of operations is generally thus:
1. Packaging / manual designs sent to printer
2. Code freeze on current build (content creation continues)
3. Q&A
4. Gold Master
5. Duplication
6. Package assembled and shipped
In an ideal world, this process is only a few months. This allows plenty of time to begin content creation for DLC and expansions. Including post-QA content and features to a stable build is way too risky. To ship software successfully, you need to know when to freeze an iteration and start scheduling features for the next one.
This image isn't from an electron microscope, it uses AFM (atomic force microscopy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscope), which actually touches the molecules with its tip. In this case though, they bonded a single carbon monoxoide molecule to the AFM cantilever so that it would only interact with the oxygen atoms on the pentacene molecule. I imagine it didn't image the substrate at all because of that
It doesn't actually touch the molecules, because weak force cancels out the attraction. That's kind of a key point here because touching it was too destructive to get these images in the first place.
Skip the article, read eldavojohn's post above.
The article is a failure to sensationalize shallow observations in hopes of generating traffic. It's fiction, all that matters is if you're entertained.
"EPIC FAIL" as a term, as a meme, as a method of verbalizing extremes, has become an epic fail.
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...than the African Anteater Mating Ritual? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIrQPffSIg
From the article: "April 2010 may have been a disappointing month for video game industry numbers, but new top 20 U.S. console retail game from the NPD Group reveals that 14 titles sold more than 100,000 units -- above analyst expectations, and more than the 9 that were sold in April of last year." http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28566/NPD_Top_20_Reveals_Aprils_Hits_FFXIIIs_Chart_Miss.php
. . . water and electricity are not finite.
[citation needed]
"Hydroelectricity is a low-cost, non-polluting, renewable energy source. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
If you use more water, or more electricity, you're consuming finite resources that wouldn't be used otherwise. The same isn't true of bandwidth--the ISP is paying for a certain amount on their outgoing connections, regardless of whether or not uses are actively using it.
You need electricity to use bandwidth... Even so, water and electricity are not finite.
Good to know. Thanks for the info.
If you line your clothes with something conductive, would it disperse the waves before reaching skin? What about your house? What about tinfoil? I know little about this stuff, but I'm genuinely concerned about being groped internally. Talk about spooky action from a distance.
It would be nice to see this linked from the article but.... the EFF has a page up to send your reps a request to call senate hearings on this issue:
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=383
I have been forwarding the link to everyone that I know, I recommend that everyone else who cares about transparency in the legal process to do the same.
-Steve
This is super important, thanks for posting. I have also begun sending it to everyone I know. Can we get this as an update to the main article, please?
IMHO, an interface's success is directly proportionate to the amount of effort required to use it.
As a game wraps up, the order of operations is generally thus:
In an ideal world, this process is only a few months. This allows plenty of time to begin content creation for DLC and expansions. Including post-QA content and features to a stable build is way too risky. To ship software successfully, you need to know when to freeze an iteration and start scheduling features for the next one.
This image isn't from an electron microscope, it uses AFM (atomic force microscopy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscope), which actually touches the molecules with its tip. In this case though, they bonded a single carbon monoxoide molecule to the AFM cantilever so that it would only interact with the oxygen atoms on the pentacene molecule. I imagine it didn't image the substrate at all because of that
It doesn't actually touch the molecules, because weak force cancels out the attraction. That's kind of a key point here because touching it was too destructive to get these images in the first place.
Skip the article, read eldavojohn's post above. The article is a failure to sensationalize shallow observations in hopes of generating traffic. It's fiction, all that matters is if you're entertained. "EPIC FAIL" as a term, as a meme, as a method of verbalizing extremes, has become an epic fail.
That monitor must be huge! Why are they so small now?