The chassis on that looks exactly like the Ariel Atom. The Atom is a very slick, road-legal, car fitted with a Civic Type-R engine that's then supercharged. It produces more power-to-weight than an Enzo, I believe. They're also very cheap (It think the basic model is around £20k here). That'll also do 0-60 in 2.5 seconds (faster than the Ferrari).
You're suffering from a lack of knowledge of the game. PGR3 has a rather neat in-game photo system that allows you take a photo from any angle, whilst also changing things like aperture, shutter speed, etc. The shot is taken using the game engine. The Microsoft logo is on there probably because it was taken from the Microsoft site, or was one of the shots in the press packs.
The PGR3 shot certainly isn't pre-rendered. Yes, it has a Microsoft label on it at the bottom, but those shots can easily be taken in-game using the photo system (where you can set things like aperture, shutter speed, focus, etc.)
My Samsung HD950 upscales via HDMI natively, but through the remote key combo it allows upscaled 720p and 1080i to be output on the analogue component connectors. I believe this is the same for the 850 model too. I don't believe, however, that it disables the copy protection.
What are you talking about?;)
He's referring to the fact that the iPod is charged when it's synced via the Firewire cable - either that, or you have to plug it in to a mains charger. Also, if you're syncing via Bluetooth, you're not just going to have the 40mA being drawn - there's HD usage too remember. If you're copying over a few gig of MP3s, that's going to take its toll.
with all due respect to Alex, I'm not sure this is the news we want covered on Slashdot.
Is the Firebird naming issue the most important thing about the Mozilla project at the moment? I don't think so - we should be promoting (when it happens) the fact that there's a great new release of Mozilla Firebird, not the fact that we're still arguing about whether or not it was right to call it firebird in the first place and complaining that we've been treated unfairly...
Continued focus on something that Blizzard acknowledges damages Mozilla can only make the damage worse...
How is that +2 funny? It's real - three.co.uk is the first 3G mobile operator in the UK, but sadly the only handsets available are ugly as sin and probably lack some of the key features that later phones will have.
There's already a pretty good mouse gesture program out for Windows called StrokeIt. I tried using it for a while, but it's really not worth it unless you have an optical mouse IME - a balled mouse ended up screwing up the gestures something chronic. Since I got my Logitech optical, it's a bit more usable, but I do wonder how much more efficient it is. To close a window, you have to draw a Q, and in the same time you've done it you could have just clicked the X.
I use the gestures in Phoenix though, moving back and forth between pages is a breeze now though - I really wouldn't recommend it for a full windows system though.
As I mentioned in my other comment, the UK system uses MHEG, and we've been able to enjoy some pretty interesting interactive experiences. David Attenborough's "Life of Mammals" allowed some cool interactive 'games' to be played.
ITV's "Who wants to be a millionaire", previously interactive, is now going back to an interactive version that allows you to play along with the game, using the remote buttons to choose your answers. You can then enter into a prize draw to win:
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Goes Interactive on ITV1
A fully interactive version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? launches this Saturday (15 February) on ITV1.
This interactive service, which will be sponsored by BT, follows a major agreement between ITV and BSkyB that will enable ITV to launch a range of interactive services on the digital satellite platform. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Interactive will also be available on DTT from Saturday and Telewest in the near future, making it available in approximately 8 million homes in the UK.
Using their remote control, viewers can play along with the contestant in the studio to answer questions, notch up points and enter a prize draw at the end of each programme. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Interactive has been designed by Carlton Active to mirror Celador's hugely popular television show experience as closely as possible, and the game is simple to play and enjoy for viewers at home.
A prize draw after each show will offer two viewers who register with the required score the chance to win one main and one runner-up prize. The highest scores (based on how quickly the questions are answered) will also be entered on a leader board, creating a weekly league of the best 'armchair' contestants.
As part of BT's renewed sponsorship deal, BT information graphics will run alongside the weekly league table. Interactive users will also be able to obtain further information on BT products and services by entering a BT branded information zone, accessed via digital TV handsets.
Paul Cooper, Carlton Active's commercial manager, said: "Millionaire is a fantastic brand and the interactive service is a natural extension to that brand. We are delighted that BT has renewed its sponsorship - this proves that interactive advertising works, and works well, when done properly. Viewers see BT as bringing a new experience - as well as the chance to get on the real show - into their homes and the value of that should not be underestimated."
Amanda Mackenzie, director of marketing services at BT, said: "The renewal of BT's sponsorship of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Interactive is great news, especially given that the programme is breaking new ground by being the first interactive programme accessible via all interactive TV systems. BT's relationship with Millionaire enables us to demonstrate our continued commitment to offering new and cutting edge communication. In addition the sponsorship brings families closer together as they play the game at home - consistent with our campaign theme of 'Bringing People Together'."
The deal between BT and Carlton TV was brokered by the Allmond Partnership and BT's interactive graphics have been designed and produced by ape TV.
Bruce Vandenberg, Head of Digital at Celador, said: "We are really excited now that Millionaire can be played interactively across all 3 major platforms. The technology is becoming more accessible and being able to reach 8 million homes will provide a substantial base for us to extend our programme brand and commercialise the audience."
BSkyB's Chief Operating Officer, Richard Freudenstein, said: 'Sky is delighted to welcome ITV as the latest terrestrial broadcaster to take advantage of the interactivity available on digital satellite and are delighted that they have chosen to use sky interactive's infrastructure for this launch on the digital satellite platform. Over 20 channels and 250 advertising campaigns have used this technology so far to enhance their offering, and I am sure ITV and its viewers will benefit from it too. We look forward to working with them as the services develop.'
The UK digital systems have been using MHEG for the past 5 years for our interactive service, and although slow at first (mainly due to STB problems) it's getting pretty fast now. BBC's BBCi is superb, and offers everything our our teletext system used to.
Some of the interactive services are a bit naff, but some are pretty interesting.
Actually, it's not a trilogy. There's "Rendevous with Rama", "Rama II", "Garden of Rama", and "Rama Revealed". The last book in the series goes a bit over the top, but is still on par with the rest of the series, and covers everything you could want to know about what the Rama ships are.
Amazing, I really hope they can pull off the suspense and shear "can't put it down" feel of the book - I think I finished this book in a day because it was so good. I wonder if they plan to do the whole series, because although I found the first one to be a very good read, the next books were better IMHO. If they leave the ending of the film the way it is in the books, I guess they'll have to do the sequels.
I see they're planning theme parks and computer games based on the books - I'm not entirely sure how that will work, could be a bit tacky.
My University's PC lab ran linux (dual boot with Win 2k), but it also ran telnetd which anyone with a computer science login could telnet to. This led to some interesting fork bomb wars between 'friends', and didn't really help us get on with our (probably late) work. Ironically, although Linux is chosen (amongst other things) its security, it was Windows that was the most secure in this case, simply due to poor administration.
They've actually removed Linux at the moment, as they attempt to change their linux policies.
In the UK, the XBox is £299, now dropping to £199. So if I buy an XBox at £299 now (the price drop isn't until 26th April AFAIK) then I get a 2 free games and a controller (worth 2x£45 + £30 = £120). Therefore, by buying at the older price, I've saved myself more money:)
Now... Just need to find somewhere that doesn't sell them in bundles:(
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Presumably your monitor supports 1080i and/or 720p. If so, you can select which resolution you want from the 360 Dashboard.
The chassis on that looks exactly like the Ariel Atom. The Atom is a very slick, road-legal, car fitted with a Civic Type-R engine that's then supercharged. It produces more power-to-weight than an Enzo, I believe. They're also very cheap (It think the basic model is around £20k here). That'll also do 0-60 in 2.5 seconds (faster than the Ferrari).
Yes, it's called "marketing", you might have heard of it. Welcome to the 21st century.
You're suffering from a lack of knowledge of the game. PGR3 has a rather neat in-game photo system that allows you take a photo from any angle, whilst also changing things like aperture, shutter speed, etc. The shot is taken using the game engine. The Microsoft logo is on there probably because it was taken from the Microsoft site, or was one of the shots in the press packs.
The PGR3 shot certainly isn't pre-rendered. Yes, it has a Microsoft label on it at the bottom, but those shots can easily be taken in-game using the photo system (where you can set things like aperture, shutter speed, focus, etc.)
Which ones are pre-rendered? A comment by the editor states that all shots in actual engine shots. I can testify for some of the 360 shots myself.
My Samsung HD950 upscales via HDMI natively, but through the remote key combo it allows upscaled 720p and 1080i to be output on the analogue component connectors. I believe this is the same for the 850 model too. I don't believe, however, that it disables the copy protection.
That may well be the case, but the SABRE referred to is ILM's proprietary v/fx and compositing system.
We've had running water for 10 years, AND we invented the cat.
" And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill."
Actually, the correct plural of Octopus is Octopodes. Octopus is not a Latin word, but a Latinised version of the Greek work Oktopous.
I agree with you about wondering who the product is aimed at, though.
Or even at whom the product is aimed.
Gnome 2.6, KDE 3.2 and Kernel 2.6 (not sure of the specific version.
I wonder if this had anything to do with the defacement of their headquarters...
What are you talking about? ;)
He's referring to the fact that the iPod is charged when it's synced via the Firewire cable - either that, or you have to plug it in to a mains charger. Also, if you're syncing via Bluetooth, you're not just going to have the 40mA being drawn - there's HD usage too remember. If you're copying over a few gig of MP3s, that's going to take its toll.
How is that +2 funny? It's real - three.co.uk is the first 3G mobile operator in the UK, but sadly the only handsets available are ugly as sin and probably lack some of the key features that later phones will have.
There's already a pretty good mouse gesture program out for Windows called StrokeIt. I tried using it for a while, but it's really not worth it unless you have an optical mouse IME - a balled mouse ended up screwing up the gestures something chronic. Since I got my Logitech optical, it's a bit more usable, but I do wonder how much more efficient it is. To close a window, you have to draw a Q, and in the same time you've done it you could have just clicked the X.
I use the gestures in Phoenix though, moving back and forth between pages is a breeze now though - I really wouldn't recommend it for a full windows system though.
As I mentioned in my other comment, the UK system uses MHEG, and we've been able to enjoy some pretty interesting interactive experiences. David Attenborough's "Life of Mammals" allowed some cool interactive 'games' to be played.
ITV's "Who wants to be a millionaire", previously interactive, is now going back to an interactive version that allows you to play along with the game, using the remote buttons to choose your answers. You can then enter into a prize draw to win:
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Goes Interactive on ITV1
A fully interactive version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? launches this Saturday (15 February) on ITV1.
This interactive service, which will be sponsored by BT, follows a major agreement between ITV and BSkyB that will enable ITV to launch a range of interactive services on the digital satellite platform. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Interactive will also be available on DTT from Saturday and Telewest in the near future, making it available in approximately 8 million homes in the UK.
Using their remote control, viewers can play along with the contestant in the studio to answer questions, notch up points and enter a prize draw at the end of each programme. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Interactive has been designed by Carlton Active to mirror Celador's hugely popular television show experience as closely as possible, and the game is simple to play and enjoy for viewers at home.
A prize draw after each show will offer two viewers who register with the required score the chance to win one main and one runner-up prize. The highest scores (based on how quickly the questions are answered) will also be entered on a leader board, creating a weekly league of the best 'armchair' contestants.
As part of BT's renewed sponsorship deal, BT information graphics will run alongside the weekly league table. Interactive users will also be able to obtain further information on BT products and services by entering a BT branded information zone, accessed via digital TV handsets.
Paul Cooper, Carlton Active's commercial manager, said: "Millionaire is a fantastic brand and the interactive service is a natural extension to that brand. We are delighted that BT has renewed its sponsorship - this proves that interactive advertising works, and works well, when done properly. Viewers see BT as bringing a new experience - as well as the chance to get on the real show - into their homes and the value of that should not be underestimated."
Amanda Mackenzie, director of marketing services at BT, said: "The renewal of BT's sponsorship of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Interactive is great news, especially given that the programme is breaking new ground by being the first interactive programme accessible via all interactive TV systems. BT's relationship with Millionaire enables us to demonstrate our continued commitment to offering new and cutting edge communication. In addition the sponsorship brings families closer together as they play the game at home - consistent with our campaign theme of 'Bringing People Together'."
The deal between BT and Carlton TV was brokered by the Allmond Partnership and BT's interactive graphics have been designed and produced by ape TV.
Bruce Vandenberg, Head of Digital at Celador, said: "We are really excited now that Millionaire can be played interactively across all 3 major platforms. The technology is becoming more accessible and being able to reach 8 million homes will provide a substantial base for us to extend our programme brand and commercialise the audience."
BSkyB's Chief Operating Officer, Richard Freudenstein, said: 'Sky is delighted to welcome ITV as the latest terrestrial broadcaster to take advantage of the interactivity available on digital satellite and are delighted that they have chosen to use sky interactive's infrastructure for this launch on the digital satellite platform. Over 20 channels and 250 advertising campaigns have used this technology so far to enhance their offering, and I am sure ITV and its viewers will benefit from it too. We look forward to working with them as the services develop.'
The UK digital systems have been using MHEG for the past 5 years for our interactive service, and although slow at first (mainly due to STB problems) it's getting pretty fast now. BBC's BBCi is superb, and offers everything our our teletext system used to.
Some of the interactive services are a bit naff, but some are pretty interesting.
Actually, it's not a trilogy. There's "Rendevous with Rama", "Rama II", "Garden of Rama", and "Rama Revealed". The last book in the series goes a bit over the top, but is still on par with the rest of the series, and covers everything you could want to know about what the Rama ships are.
Amazing, I really hope they can pull off the suspense and shear "can't put it down" feel of the book - I think I finished this book in a day because it was so good. I wonder if they plan to do the whole series, because although I found the first one to be a very good read, the next books were better IMHO. If they leave the ending of the film the way it is in the books, I guess they'll have to do the sequels.
I see they're planning theme parks and computer games based on the books - I'm not entirely sure how that will work, could be a bit tacky.
My University's PC lab ran linux (dual boot with Win 2k), but it also ran telnetd which anyone with a computer science login could telnet to. This led to some interesting fork bomb wars between 'friends', and didn't really help us get on with our (probably late) work. Ironically, although Linux is chosen (amongst other things) its security, it was Windows that was the most secure in this case, simply due to poor administration.
They've actually removed Linux at the moment, as they attempt to change their linux policies.
In the UK, the XBox is £299, now dropping to £199. So if I buy an XBox at £299 now (the price drop isn't until 26th April AFAIK) then I get a 2 free games and a controller (worth 2x£45 + £30 = £120). Therefore, by buying at the older price, I've saved myself more money :)
:(
Now... Just need to find somewhere that doesn't sell them in bundles