when my dad got out of college and was hired by dupont, where he continues to work today, his first project was to replace the entire electrical accessory system in a car with fiber optics. turn signals, headlights and things of that sort.
i guess the idea turned out to be not as useful as thought because he was moved to management soon thereafter (isn't that the story with all engineers?) and has been there since and i have yet to see a fiber optic car.
not to mention their total disregard of the NES. it's not on their little table and i think most people would agree that it had alot to do with the reviving of the gaming industry in america after the crash of the atari systems.
another thing that bugged me, was in the text of the article the jump from 1979's zork to 1993's Doom. i seem to remember being alive in the 80's and i think that i played some video games, pretty sure at least.
i guess the author's intention was to race quickly through the history of consoles (which he harldly talks about, save for one incomplete chart) to get to the hardware of the new stuff, since it is tom's hardware. but whatever, very incomplete...blarg.
i took an astronomy class last year and one of the requirements was to watch the shuttle pass over blacksburg. well the time we decided to watch was special indeed. first the ISS passed overhead and then the shuttle (i forget which one) passed over head on its way to rendevous with the ISS. it was around the time when the ISS was being fitted with new and bigger solar panels.
the whole thing was very cool, and extremly fast. the two objects looked like very bright stars, about the magnitude of venus, and crossed the whole sky in under 90 seconds. it gave a great feeling of the speed that those guys were zipping around earth at.
if you get a chance check it out, you won't regret it.
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when my dad got out of college and was hired by dupont, where he continues to work today, his first project was to replace the entire electrical accessory system in a car with fiber optics. turn signals, headlights and things of that sort.
i guess the idea turned out to be not as useful as thought because he was moved to management soon thereafter (isn't that the story with all engineers?) and has been there since and i have yet to see a fiber optic car.
not to mention their total disregard of the NES. it's not on their little table and i think most people would agree that it had alot to do with the reviving of the gaming industry in america after the crash of the atari systems.
another thing that bugged me, was in the text of the article the jump from 1979's zork to 1993's Doom. i seem to remember being alive in the 80's and i think that i played some video games, pretty sure at least.
i guess the author's intention was to race quickly through the history of consoles (which he harldly talks about, save for one incomplete chart) to get to the hardware of the new stuff, since it is tom's hardware. but whatever, very incomplete...blarg.
i took an astronomy class last year and one of the requirements was to watch the shuttle pass over blacksburg. well the time we decided to watch was special indeed. first the ISS passed overhead and then the shuttle (i forget which one) passed over head on its way to rendevous with the ISS. it was around the time when the ISS was being fitted with new and bigger solar panels.
the whole thing was very cool, and extremly fast. the two objects looked like very bright stars, about the magnitude of venus, and crossed the whole sky in under 90 seconds. it gave a great feeling of the speed that those guys were zipping around earth at.
if you get a chance check it out, you won't regret it.