From the article: Why would gravity behave that way? The answer requires taking a leap of
faith: when one reaches into the submillimeter realm, extra dimensions open up. And when gravity has more dimensions in which to operate, it becomes far more intense.
Doesn't this mean, however, that those subatomic particles have to be present in those extra dimensions for the extradimensional gravity to affect them?
I don't know that just because you might have six dimensions worth of gravity it will necessarily use its whole force on four dimensions worth of particles. Or does the fact that these are microdimensions mean that all subatomic particles automagically exist in all of them?
If you're using Business Strategy students, you're going to want a business strategy game. Personally, I'd recommend Koei's Aerobiz or Aerobiz Supersonic, but if you can't get the students interested in something that old (or for the console), Railroad Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon would probably work well. Some students have probably already played Rollercoaster Tycoon, though, and it has a moderately steep learning curve. Aerobiz would be my pick.
"I am not advocating human genetic engineering as a good thing," he said. "I'm just saying it is likely to happen in the next million years whether we like it or not."
Emphasis mine. Interesting prediction. Likely not to be disproven before it is forgotten... a self-fulfilling prophecy? Also, since when has a millennium been a million years?
That was probably some bad reporting on behalf of CNN, but Hawking's speech program might have messed up, saying "a million years" instead of "a millennium".
The article spoke about how Xbox 'already looks like the system to beat' and coding and porting for the Xbox will be so much easier, but who really needs this?
For almost a year and a half I was running a PII 400 with 64 megs ram and a $20, 8 meg video card, non-3dfx enabled, and it supported every game I wanted to play that came out in that timespan, up to and including Diablo II. I've always played console games because they weren't available for the PC, not because they'll look better than the PC variant. If the Xbox is just going to be an outlet for high-graphics FPS games, it's not going to be a merket leader. Sure Quake III or Half-Life will look amazing on the Xbox, but do you really need more than two Doom-clones a system? Besides, at the rate hardware is advancing, given the lack of upgradability for the Xbox, PCs will be able to belt out faster and prettier graphics by the end of 2002 anyway. My point is, if the Xbox doesn't have a set of games produced for it only, it's not going to succeed as a console.
In a similar vein, I do not think the PS2 will take as much of the share as some of you think it will. The gaming core knows it has exceptional hardware and will feature more and better titles than the Dreamcast, but I've talked to people farther from the gaming center, and their money, for the moment anyway, is all going to the Dreamcast. First of all, it's much more available, and the public hasn't seen any proof of the PS2's higher capabilities. The Dreamcast is already building quite the fan base, while the PS2 is still largely an unknown. The PS2 is a system that the general public, by and large, is not willing to wait or pay for, and it and the current PS2 owners are not seen in a favourable light by the "softcore gaming" sector, due entirely to the launch process.
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Doesn't this mean, however, that those subatomic particles have to be present in those extra dimensions for the extradimensional gravity to affect them?
I don't know that just because you might have six dimensions worth of gravity it will necessarily use its whole force on four dimensions worth of particles. Or does the fact that these are microdimensions mean that all subatomic particles automagically exist in all of them?
Does anyone here know?
-Crypthanatopsis
Better not take your laptop with you, or any other magnetic storage eqipment, for that matter....
I personally didn't think the trolling was that good though. It was too obvious. Better luck next time, rk!
Emphasis mine. Interesting prediction. Likely not to be disproven before it is forgotten... a self-fulfilling prophecy? Also, since when has a millennium been a million years?
That was probably some bad reporting on behalf of CNN, but Hawking's speech program might have messed up, saying "a million years" instead of "a millennium".
-Crypthanatopsis
Any response will certainly help out the moderators.
The article spoke about how Xbox 'already looks like the system to beat' and coding and porting for the Xbox will be so much easier, but who really needs this? For almost a year and a half I was running a PII 400 with 64 megs ram and a $20, 8 meg video card, non-3dfx enabled, and it supported every game I wanted to play that came out in that timespan, up to and including Diablo II. I've always played console games because they weren't available for the PC, not because they'll look better than the PC variant. If the Xbox is just going to be an outlet for high-graphics FPS games, it's not going to be a merket leader. Sure Quake III or Half-Life will look amazing on the Xbox, but do you really need more than two Doom-clones a system? Besides, at the rate hardware is advancing, given the lack of upgradability for the Xbox, PCs will be able to belt out faster and prettier graphics by the end of 2002 anyway. My point is, if the Xbox doesn't have a set of games produced for it only, it's not going to succeed as a console. In a similar vein, I do not think the PS2 will take as much of the share as some of you think it will. The gaming core knows it has exceptional hardware and will feature more and better titles than the Dreamcast, but I've talked to people farther from the gaming center, and their money, for the moment anyway, is all going to the Dreamcast. First of all, it's much more available, and the public hasn't seen any proof of the PS2's higher capabilities. The Dreamcast is already building quite the fan base, while the PS2 is still largely an unknown. The PS2 is a system that the general public, by and large, is not willing to wait or pay for, and it and the current PS2 owners are not seen in a favourable light by the "softcore gaming" sector, due entirely to the launch process. -Crypthanatopsis "Once I had no shoes, and I pitied myself. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes."