Well the US Citizen's did vote in Al Gore but somehow we got George Bush(via the EC), so much for the actual citizen's having the power to vote in who they want!
I used to be a very loyal reader to PC Gamer and Maximum PC for years but I have let my subscriptions expire. I just can't justify the magazines now because the Internet just does it better. I'm surprised there hasn't been a much wider bleeding in the market because of it. I'm honestly surprised magazines are still around at all. I guess they'll always have a place in the waiting room's of doctors and such and that is what is keeping them alive.
I'm not buying the orange box either because this bundling is absurd. Till they come out with them separately at reasonable prices for EP2/Portal or TF2 I will not buy either.
I thought I was on Digg. Jack Thompson stories every other hour there and I'm surprised to see Thompson to get any attention here. I thought Slashdot was smarter than to give this idiot any attention at all.
I hope we don't start seeing Ron Paul stories next!
Trent has one more CD to put out and he's fulfilled his contract with his current label. He has said after that CD comes out that his contract is over and he will be going independent and will release his music via his website and such.
Is when we'll see that the Wii has established a firm grip on #1 this generation. Also I believe the people developing games for the PS3 will finally get the graphics power out of the PS3 that Sony/IBM have been drooling over for years now. Xbox 360 this time next year will have a firm grip on #2 something Microsoft doesn't want. They wanted #1 and nothing less.
I'm backing whomever gets sub $100 first. Blu-ray doesn't appear to be too aggressive in the pricing part of this war. The dvd's themselves are a stalemate are far as I'm concerned. I'll be surprised if any studio will actually fill up an entire blu-ray dvd to make HD-DVD look that much more inferior of a format so it all comes down to price for me.
The studios will go wherever the biggest user base is eventually.
The effect they measured is not new. As they described correctly, the waves are evanescent modes. The thing about these modes is that they do not possess a velocity with a real number value; the index of refraction is effectively imaginary. Imaginary in the sense that you need to consider the square root of a negative number. The imaginary velocity means the modes decay away from the surface (of the prism in this case). But if you have another prism close enough, it can pick up some of the evanescent mode and convert it back to real propagating light (which travels at real light speed).
Since imaginary speed waves die out over long distances, for which we do need "faster than light" speed, we will not be able to use this effect.
This brings me back to the days where there were at least 4 or 5 SCO Stories a day on Slashdot! Oh...those were the day!!! I almost miss those days....NOT!
Hey, at least there were good for the In Soviet Russia jokes!
You can say they cater to different audiences, but Microsoft doesn't want to settle for anything less than #1 this time around and they are failing at achieving that. The Wii is becoming the Ipod of the video game market and there isn't any amount of money short of giving away 360's(which they can't anyhow due to anti-trust/dumping issues) to change that.
That's one thing I'm dreading about the whole xbox live on PC stuff is that the PC gamers will be hobbled with only 20 person servers when most FPS PC games on the PC have 32-64 player servers.
It's a good decision on the part, but they had to make this decision otherwise a Class-action Lawsuit was going to come sooner rather than later now.
This still doesn't address the fact that the 360 has a faulty design! I don't know about anyone else but every console system(pretty much anything to hit the market) I have owned is still working today minus an Atari Jaguar. I expect when I buy a system for it to work the life of the console on the market. The Xbox 360 is going to be around more than the 3 year warranty. The 360 has a life of at least 5 to 6 more years. 3 year warranty is nice but doesn't cut it with the design flaw the 360 has.
I agree, the 360 just doesn't have the foothold in Japan to warrant Square/Enix to develop for the 360. The PS3 has a larger player base in Japan than the 360 and eventually the price will come down enough that the Japanese and Americans will buy the system en mass. You can't say the same for the 360. America yes, but in Japan I doubt it.
But....I wouldn't be totally surprised to see Square/Enix to totally focus on the Nintendo systems. The Wii will have by far the larger player base of the 3 systems and the DS just has an enormous player base. We've seen the start of this focus with the next DragonQuest game coming on the DS and not on a next gen system(Wii/PS3/360). I think we are seeing Nintendo reclaiming the video game king throne.
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Here it is straight from Youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYbgouqlMw
Well the US Citizen's did vote in Al Gore but somehow we got George Bush(via the EC), so much for the actual citizen's having the power to vote in who they want!
I used to be a very loyal reader to PC Gamer and Maximum PC for years but I have let my subscriptions expire. I just can't justify the magazines now because the Internet just does it better. I'm surprised there hasn't been a much wider bleeding in the market because of it. I'm honestly surprised magazines are still around at all. I guess they'll always have a place in the waiting room's of doctors and such and that is what is keeping them alive.
On Linux distro's that I'll never install or support.
I'm not buying the orange box either because this bundling is absurd. Till they come out with them separately at reasonable prices for EP2/Portal or TF2 I will not buy either.
Dark Elves?! It's Night Elves!
I thought I was on Digg. Jack Thompson stories every other hour there and I'm surprised to see Thompson to get any attention here. I thought Slashdot was smarter than to give this idiot any attention at all.
I hope we don't start seeing Ron Paul stories next!
Not get out his contract of soon? he has one more CD and his contract is done with his label. He'll be out of his contract within a year from now.
Trent has one more CD to put out and he's fulfilled his contract with his current label. He has said after that CD comes out that his contract is over and he will be going independent and will release his music via his website and such.
Is this the white flag saying we can't beat Google in the search arena?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
Is when we'll see that the Wii has established a firm grip on #1 this generation. Also I believe the people developing games for the PS3 will finally get the graphics power out of the PS3 that Sony/IBM have been drooling over for years now. Xbox 360 this time next year will have a firm grip on #2 something Microsoft doesn't want. They wanted #1 and nothing less.
Well we found the new home of the Pirate Bay and Supernova if this is allowed.
I'm backing whomever gets sub $100 first. Blu-ray doesn't appear to be too aggressive in the pricing part of this war. The dvd's themselves are a stalemate are far as I'm concerned. I'll be surprised if any studio will actually fill up an entire blu-ray dvd to make HD-DVD look that much more inferior of a format so it all comes down to price for me.
The studios will go wherever the biggest user base is eventually.
The effect they measured is not new. As they described correctly, the waves are evanescent modes. The thing about these modes is that they do not possess a velocity with a real number value; the index of refraction is effectively imaginary. Imaginary in the sense that you need to consider the square root of a negative number. The imaginary velocity means the modes decay away from the surface (of the prism in this case). But if you have another prism close enough, it can pick up some of the evanescent mode and convert it back to real propagating light (which travels at real light speed).
Since imaginary speed waves die out over long distances, for which we do need "faster than light" speed, we will not be able to use this effect.
This brings me back to the days where there were at least 4 or 5 SCO Stories a day on Slashdot! Oh...those were the day!!! I almost miss those days....NOT!
Hey, at least there were good for the In Soviet Russia jokes!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
the flux capacitor this time around?!?!
You can say they cater to different audiences, but Microsoft doesn't want to settle for anything less than #1 this time around and they are failing at achieving that. The Wii is becoming the Ipod of the video game market and there isn't any amount of money short of giving away 360's(which they can't anyhow due to anti-trust/dumping issues) to change that.
That's one thing I'm dreading about the whole xbox live on PC stuff is that the PC gamers will be hobbled with only 20 person servers when most FPS PC games on the PC have 32-64 player servers.
It's a good decision on the part, but they had to make this decision otherwise a Class-action Lawsuit was going to come sooner rather than later now.
This still doesn't address the fact that the 360 has a faulty design! I don't know about anyone else but every console system(pretty much anything to hit the market) I have owned is still working today minus an Atari Jaguar. I expect when I buy a system for it to work the life of the console on the market. The Xbox 360 is going to be around more than the 3 year warranty. The 360 has a life of at least 5 to 6 more years. 3 year warranty is nice but doesn't cut it with the design flaw the 360 has.
Is Apple going to release a Mac Gamer model or are we stuck going Mac Pro for our gaming needs?
I agree, the 360 just doesn't have the foothold in Japan to warrant Square/Enix to develop for the 360. The PS3 has a larger player base in Japan than the 360 and eventually the price will come down enough that the Japanese and Americans will buy the system en mass. You can't say the same for the 360. America yes, but in Japan I doubt it.
But....I wouldn't be totally surprised to see Square/Enix to totally focus on the Nintendo systems. The Wii will have by far the larger player base of the 3 systems and the DS just has an enormous player base. We've seen the start of this focus with the next DragonQuest game coming on the DS and not on a next gen system(Wii/PS3/360). I think we are seeing Nintendo reclaiming the video game king throne.
No, a GM in a MMO is basically a paid Customer Service Rep.
One of the best newest features on Slashdot and it's left off the list! Those bastages at PC World!