It's not about likenesses, it's about getting actual actors to do the voice acting.
There's thousands of actors in SAG who aren't Sam Jackson or Harrison Ford. If you want professional-quality voice acting, you're going to get guild actors.
Sure, game makers could have their programmers or people on the street do the voices, but then you end up with crappy voice acting, which gets real annoying before long.
There's still plenty of good hard sci-fi being produced these days. The first one that comes to mind is Kim Stanley Robinson's series about the colonization and terraforming of Mars (Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars).
I'm willing to admit that I go in for lots of the more fantastical stuff myself, but I'm sure others here can make good reccomendations.
I haven't actually read the article, but the radius is probably just based on extrapolating the mass with a similar density to our own rocky planets.
You're just not going to find anything heavier than iron in any significant quantities. That's basic astrophysics.
It's certainly possible that the composition of the planet will be different from our own, but not very likely. We're assuming that planetary formation follows the same two courses throughout the galaxy (rocky planets and gas giants), and that protostellar discs are pretty much the same everywhere.
The 3000 psi of the tank is for storage, yeah, but the first stage (the contraption that attaches to the tank neck) only lowers that pressure to about 140 psi.
You seem to be suggesting that the ambient pressure is going to push the air from the tank into your lungs, which is just wrong. That pressure is going to keep the air in the tank unless it's released at higher than ambient. So it needs a high pressure to leave the tank, then the second stage (the regulator in your mouth) drops it from that 140 to just about ambient pressure so that you can breathe it.
Actually, pure O2 at just about any pressure beyond 1 atmosphere can be toxic. It depends a little on the person.
The Navy rigs you're talking about are a form of rebreather. They take the air you breath out, remove some CO2, add O2, and give it back to you like that. You're limited in these cases by the amount of O2 you carry as well as the amount of CO2 the scrubbers in the apparatus can uptake. I think these also have trouble delivering at any significant pressure, thus the low-depth limitations.
I've heard (and it may be completely BS) that the drive in the Gamecube actually spins backwards relative to normal DVDs. This is supposedly what makes it hard to pirate for.
I spent a lot of time building maps for Duke way back when, so I remember the system well.
You could indeed put floors on top of floors, but they had to be laid out in such a way that you couldn't see both at the same time from any one position.
The exception was using sprites instead of actual walls to build bridges in open air.
Except those two situations are the reverse of this one.
Wikipedia is free as in beer, but is not public domain. It's released under the GNU document thingy, so you're allowed to use it, but the articles are all still copyrighted by their original authors.
The CDDB thing comes to mind, obviously, but it's a very different situation.
All the contributions to CDDB were merely info copied from liner notes and CD cases by fans with some free time. GraceNote was a bastard when they went closed, but it's hard to argue that the information was owned by anyone (except perhaps the original artists).
With Wikipedia, you've got original works. These are things that are copyrightable, and as far as I know, the original authors of all the articles still retain their copyrights. The Wikipedia license doesn't seem to say anything about surrendering that. So if Google were to try and close this and charge for redistribution, they'd be violating the license under which these thousands of original authors released their work and opening themselves up to a very valid lawsuit.
So you're going faster than any interplanetary craft to date, and your only propulsion system requires you to be moving away from the sun (or the Earth, if they're using a laser to push you).
How do you slow down? Orbital insertion at that speed would be seriously difficult, if not impossible.
I don't know what sort of doctor your friend saw, but that's not homeopathy.
Homeopathic medicine is based on the principle that something that causes an illness in a healthy individual will (in small doses) cure that illness in a sick individual. If large doses of substance X give you a headache, a homeopath will take substance X, dilute it in some solvent (distilled water or the like), and administer that to cure a headache.
Except that the way they dilute it, you end up having only a small chance of finding a single molecule of substance X in any given dose. But that's ok, because it's imparted its healing powers on the solvent.
That's homeopathy. Telling someone not to eat yeast is great, but it's not homeopathy.
Listen, TiVo needs to make money. They're a company selling a product. Everyone seems to forget that and whine when they don't give you everything for free. I applaud them for coming up with a way to sell ad space without interfering with normal use of the product.
Nobody's asking to get anything for free. TiVo already charges for the unit and you have to pay a monthly charge to just use the damn thing. If they want to add banner ads and give me the service free, that's great, but it's not what they're doing.
Well, existing multiplayer GBA games aren't compatible with the new GBA wireless adapter (Pokemon Fire/Leaf and the new Mario Golf are the only ones I'm aware of that use it). Nintendo's got a history of being slightly annoying in that department, but being able to play the GBA games at all is good enough for me.
There's going to be an iteration of Crystal Chronicles for DS. Not just a port, but I don't know anything beyond that. I'm sure that's not what you're looking for, though.
The pink goat (actually a lamb that had just been sheared) was part of a short film (Boundin') that ran before the movie. Pixar runs shorts like this before all their movies, and you can download some of them from their website. They've got nothing to do with the film itself (although one of their older shorts had a character playing chess against himself, and the character later appeared in Toy Story 2), but they're pretty neat in and of themselves.
They could have made Syndrome's attack on the city not be a totally evil move, but rather have his intention to be to put on a show and be a hero (with the attitude of collateral damage being just "breaking a few eggs"), and the machine goes out of control.
**SPOILERS**
Did you watch the movie? That's exactly what did happen. Syndrome wasn't trying to kill random innocents or take over the world, he was trying to make a name for himself as a hero. Once he was a hero, he wanted to use his technology to eliminate the edge heroes had over the common man.
I thought he was a rather sympathetic character. The wanton killing of earlier heroes in developing his machines was a bit much, but everything he did was a backlash against Mr. Incredible's original rejection of him.
Syndrome's character was defined by his anger over the treatment of the common man (particularly himself) by heroes. He took things way too far, but his goals do make a modicum of sense.
That's why the companies with the patents don't actually produce anything. They're just lawyers who buy patents and go around suing. They don't actually do anything that could infringe on patents held by others.
The email came from StopInfringement@PerkinsCoie.com.
Does that look like the email address a multinational corporation would use? Nintendo's sure to have their own in-house lawyers for stuff like this. It just looks to me like some random law firm is looking for suits to file and then hoping Nintendo will pay them for the favor. I'm sure I heard something about laws in certain European countries making this common practice.
I figured that it wasn't a weapon designed to kill, but to subdue. A bounty hunter would love a gun that could break their quarry down into little Lego-sized bits as long as they've got a device that'll take all those bits and reassemble them later.
The last episode wasn't intended to be the last, so of course they weren't supposed to actually die there. It was just a dramatic cliffhanger.
The major backpack makers also make laptop bags. I've got an Eastpak with a padded sleeve inside, but from the outside it looks pretty much like all their other bags. Works great and isn't too distinctive.
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It's not about likenesses, it's about getting actual actors to do the voice acting.
There's thousands of actors in SAG who aren't Sam Jackson or Harrison Ford. If you want professional-quality voice acting, you're going to get guild actors.
Sure, game makers could have their programmers or people on the street do the voices, but then you end up with crappy voice acting, which gets real annoying before long.
There's still plenty of good hard sci-fi being produced these days. The first one that comes to mind is Kim Stanley Robinson's series about the colonization and terraforming of Mars (Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars).
I'm willing to admit that I go in for lots of the more fantastical stuff myself, but I'm sure others here can make good reccomendations.
That's great if you just want the teaser, but for the actual movie that page links back to the dead server.
I haven't actually read the article, but the radius is probably just based on extrapolating the mass with a similar density to our own rocky planets.
You're just not going to find anything heavier than iron in any significant quantities. That's basic astrophysics.
It's certainly possible that the composition of the planet will be different from our own, but not very likely. We're assuming that planetary formation follows the same two courses throughout the galaxy (rocky planets and gas giants), and that protostellar discs are pretty much the same everywhere.
The 3000 psi of the tank is for storage, yeah, but the first stage (the contraption that attaches to the tank neck) only lowers that pressure to about 140 psi.
You seem to be suggesting that the ambient pressure is going to push the air from the tank into your lungs, which is just wrong. That pressure is going to keep the air in the tank unless it's released at higher than ambient. So it needs a high pressure to leave the tank, then the second stage (the regulator in your mouth) drops it from that 140 to just about ambient pressure so that you can breathe it.
Actually, pure O2 at just about any pressure beyond 1 atmosphere can be toxic. It depends a little on the person.
The Navy rigs you're talking about are a form of rebreather. They take the air you breath out, remove some CO2, add O2, and give it back to you like that. You're limited in these cases by the amount of O2 you carry as well as the amount of CO2 the scrubbers in the apparatus can uptake. I think these also have trouble delivering at any significant pressure, thus the low-depth limitations.
I've heard (and it may be completely BS) that the drive in the Gamecube actually spins backwards relative to normal DVDs. This is supposedly what makes it hard to pirate for.
Or you can read Heise's own translation into English, which actually makes sense from the start
I spent a lot of time building maps for Duke way back when, so I remember the system well.
You could indeed put floors on top of floors, but they had to be laid out in such a way that you couldn't see both at the same time from any one position.
The exception was using sprites instead of actual walls to build bridges in open air.
Except those two situations are the reverse of this one.
Wikipedia is free as in beer, but is not public domain. It's released under the GNU document thingy, so you're allowed to use it, but the articles are all still copyrighted by their original authors.
The CDDB thing comes to mind, obviously, but it's a very different situation.
All the contributions to CDDB were merely info copied from liner notes and CD cases by fans with some free time. GraceNote was a bastard when they went closed, but it's hard to argue that the information was owned by anyone (except perhaps the original artists).
With Wikipedia, you've got original works. These are things that are copyrightable, and as far as I know, the original authors of all the articles still retain their copyrights. The Wikipedia license doesn't seem to say anything about surrendering that. So if Google were to try and close this and charge for redistribution, they'd be violating the license under which these thousands of original authors released their work and opening themselves up to a very valid lawsuit.
So you're going faster than any interplanetary craft to date, and your only propulsion system requires you to be moving away from the sun (or the Earth, if they're using a laser to push you).
How do you slow down? Orbital insertion at that speed would be seriously difficult, if not impossible.
Close, but not quite. The line from the article roughly translates to:
"I have an MBA, and I wanna write video games."
I don't know what sort of doctor your friend saw, but that's not homeopathy.
Homeopathic medicine is based on the principle that something that causes an illness in a healthy individual will (in small doses) cure that illness in a sick individual. If large doses of substance X give you a headache, a homeopath will take substance X, dilute it in some solvent (distilled water or the like), and administer that to cure a headache.
Except that the way they dilute it, you end up having only a small chance of finding a single molecule of substance X in any given dose. But that's ok, because it's imparted its healing powers on the solvent.
That's homeopathy. Telling someone not to eat yeast is great, but it's not homeopathy.
As a geologist, I can only wonder why this took so long to come to light. Geologists and beer go together like... shale and oil.
Listen, TiVo needs to make money. They're a company selling a product. Everyone seems to forget that and whine when they don't give you everything for free. I applaud them for coming up with a way to sell ad space without interfering with normal use of the product.
Nobody's asking to get anything for free. TiVo already charges for the unit and you have to pay a monthly charge to just use the damn thing. If they want to add banner ads and give me the service free, that's great, but it's not what they're doing.
Well, existing multiplayer GBA games aren't compatible with the new GBA wireless adapter (Pokemon Fire/Leaf and the new Mario Golf are the only ones I'm aware of that use it). Nintendo's got a history of being slightly annoying in that department, but being able to play the GBA games at all is good enough for me.
There's going to be an iteration of Crystal Chronicles for DS. Not just a port, but I don't know anything beyond that. I'm sure that's not what you're looking for, though.
The pink goat (actually a lamb that had just been sheared) was part of a short film (Boundin') that ran before the movie. Pixar runs shorts like this before all their movies, and you can download some of them from their website. They've got nothing to do with the film itself (although one of their older shorts had a character playing chess against himself, and the character later appeared in Toy Story 2), but they're pretty neat in and of themselves.
They could have made Syndrome's attack on the city not be a totally evil move, but rather have his intention to be to put on a show and be a hero (with the attitude of collateral damage being just "breaking a few eggs"), and the machine goes out of control.
**SPOILERS**
Did you watch the movie? That's exactly what did happen. Syndrome wasn't trying to kill random innocents or take over the world, he was trying to make a name for himself as a hero. Once he was a hero, he wanted to use his technology to eliminate the edge heroes had over the common man.
I thought he was a rather sympathetic character. The wanton killing of earlier heroes in developing his machines was a bit much, but everything he did was a backlash against Mr. Incredible's original rejection of him.
Syndrome's character was defined by his anger over the treatment of the common man (particularly himself) by heroes. He took things way too far, but his goals do make a modicum of sense.
That's why the companies with the patents don't actually produce anything. They're just lawyers who buy patents and go around suing. They don't actually do anything that could infringe on patents held by others.
The email came from StopInfringement@PerkinsCoie.com.
Does that look like the email address a multinational corporation would use? Nintendo's sure to have their own in-house lawyers for stuff like this. It just looks to me like some random law firm is looking for suits to file and then hoping Nintendo will pay them for the favor. I'm sure I heard something about laws in certain European countries making this common practice.
From the page linked by the earlier post: All competitive offers must be presented before you place your order with Apple.
So if you're like my brother and bought an iBook two weeks ago, you're screwed.
I figured that it wasn't a weapon designed to kill, but to subdue. A bounty hunter would love a gun that could break their quarry down into little Lego-sized bits as long as they've got a device that'll take all those bits and reassemble them later.
The last episode wasn't intended to be the last, so of course they weren't supposed to actually die there. It was just a dramatic cliffhanger.
The major backpack makers also make laptop bags. I've got an Eastpak with a padded sleeve inside, but from the outside it looks pretty much like all their other bags. Works great and isn't too distinctive.