Hiroshima is a special case. Most of the structures were easily flattened wooden framed traditional ancient Japanese buildings. IIRC the local government building at the centre of town was one of the only concrete structures in the city, and it survived. (I think the twisted metal of the domed roof structure is still preserved as a monument -- http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/imagesMac-PC/ForP EACE/hq/Dome.jpg ).
The War Game http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/ is another stunning mid sixties british documentary that was banned by the UK government for years. Scary as all hell and revealed the fallacies behind the civil defence plans of the time. Well worth hunting down.
They'll have to make sure every Xbox owner buys at least one copy to get close to and eclipse GTA: Vice City due to the Xbox' smaller userbase than the PS2's... I expect GTA: San Andreas and Gran Turismo 4 also coming in the next few weeks to go big, purely because the installed userbase is bigger worldwide.
Biggest North American release? - Xbox seems to be stronger in the American market then anywhere else, but I have no recent numbers.
Indeed, but special effects done with vision and detail last for a long time. I'm taking 2001: A Space Odyssey as possibly the only valid example of this. I can watch the film now, almost 40 years later and still believe that it's real. The stewardess rescuing Floyd's wayward pen in zero-g and returning it to his pocket still astounds me, the way that shot is done so very deliberately and in slow, careful detail so as to compel the audience to watch rather than get it out of the way quickly with a sleight of hand distraction trick.
I received a Gmail Invite to my Hotmail account last night too, although that one was sent specifically to me by a friend. I got a Blogger account a couple of weeks back to see if a Gmail invite would follow, and it didn't.
A modern F1 car has to weigh 600kg minimum , them's the rules set out by the FIA, of course, the top teams produce a much lighter car, some even in the 450kg range, then they make the rest up with ballast which they can distribute about the car however they want to get the best weight distribution. This changes from track to track.
At speeds approaching 200mph, a modern F1 car generates 2100kg of downforce. enough to stick it to the ceiling 3 times over.
It's a common misconception that the ground effect era of the 70's was the pinnacle of racing car downforce. The aero enginnering on an F1 car today is so advanced that the downforce they generate is way ahead of where they were in the 70's.
What *is* true is that ground effect gives more *mid corner* downforce when the car is going slow, so it pushes cornering speeds up. And if you lose the ground effect mid corner from hitting a kerb or something, you can get lift or at the very least lose all that lovely adhesive low speed downforce. This directly lead to the deaths of a couple of F1 drivers, hence ground effect aero was banned.
I'm not a christian or bible scholar, but I've seen this question answered either "Because God gave Man free will to do as he pleases" (which begs the question why on earth did he do that if he knew doing so would cause evil) or a vague brush off related to Adam and Eve having been cast out of the Garden of Eden.
He also only bought the facade. They chipped off the front face of the stone blocks to a depth of a couple inches, shipped that over and assebled the faces on a concrete structure. I live not far away from the quarry on moorland where the original stones are dumped.
i find it extremely hard to believe that we don't have the technology to get a picture, scan, radio imagery or whatever of some hardware we left on the moon of which some are 5 meters in diameter (and mostly metals).
We left mirror reflectors on the moon so that we could bounce laser beams off them and accurately measure how far away the moon really is. More info here and here.
BMW think you do. Their iDrive system, although it sounds like it's a Mac app, is a Windows CE in-car computer system controlling all aspects of the vehicle.
This guy has effectively implimented his own version, from scratch, even down to replicating the rotary dial controller using a Griffin PowerMate - his achievement in doing so is brilliant. I wonder if any auto-makers are taking a look at this.
Google for 'aerogel' and you'll find a couple of companies that produce it commercially.
The cost according to NASA (here) is about $1 per cubic centimetre for a litre's worth, so $1000 for 1000cm^3 of the stuff.
The last images if you scroll down the page linked as "1" in the article are of the sundial calibration instrument, on Mars, displaying the correct colors (as seen in the lab on earth).
Note that in those photos they have 'greyed out' the portion of the photograph containing the atmosphere and surface of the planet.
Bad example. PoP: Sands of Time is a stunning game, it has some of the most polished gameplay I've come across, and jaw-droppingly good visuals.
There's a good article on the development of the title at gamespot, here. And after Jordan Mechner saw the demo to approve the game (he owns the rights to the PoP name) he told the all-new deveelopment team "Guys, what I've just seen has reawakened the joy of making video games to me." So, yeah, good point but you couldn't have picked a more inappropriate example.
This isn't trolling, a few of my buddies did Digital Arts and Media Studies degrees and they're on a pretty hand-to-mouth existance right now. Not fun.
Re-reading my post, it wasn't obvious that I was taking the proactive standpoint. I agree with you, they should protect their innovations any way they can and Linux should come up with some of it's own.
Caveat: I am *trying* to switch all my Wintel stuff over to Linux, but I'm having a hard time with it - love the idea but the implementation is, however, lacking IMO.
I'm curious as to why you transfer files from one phone to another.
To beam Address Book contacts to buddies without having to read out the phone number they want and wait for them to type it in to their handset, to share amusingly-snapped pictures with friends in the same way, Bluejacking.
I agree with your post from your position though, two years ago the UK was in pretty much the same position and I can remember hearing the hype about the new Bluetooth phones coming and thinking 'what's the use of that? my phone is just great now'. Over here thought it seems to have developed through a push from the handset manufacturers deciding we need it rather than any consumer-driven movement, and now that it's fairly ubiquitous it's quite a cool toy (bluejacking, sharing photos), plus it does fairly useful stuff (sharing contacts, text messages, notes, memos).
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The War Game http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/ is another stunning mid sixties british documentary that was banned by the UK government for years. Scary as all hell and revealed the fallacies behind the civil defence plans of the time. Well worth hunting down.
beatport.com will mail you a CDR of your chosen tracks in WAV format if you don't want to download them in one of their lossy formats.
We'll know it's the end if Steve Jobs unveils Duke Nukem Forever, live on stage.
Japanese Console Hardware Chart
PlayStation 2 - Last Month Sales 67,558; Total This Year 2,026,980
GameBoy Advance SP - 43,959; 2,125,520
GameCube - 4,880; 516,493
Xbox - 1,200; 32,966
GameBoy Advance - 1,024; 189,677
Swan Crystal - 76; 7,156
PSone - 60; 13,754
They'll have to make sure every Xbox owner buys at least one copy to get close to and eclipse GTA: Vice City due to the Xbox' smaller userbase than the PS2's... I expect GTA: San Andreas and Gran Turismo 4 also coming in the next few weeks to go big, purely because the installed userbase is bigger worldwide. Biggest North American release? - Xbox seems to be stronger in the American market then anywhere else, but I have no recent numbers.
That's one of the best thought out posts I've seen in a long time. Excellent argument CdBee.
Indeed, but special effects done with vision and detail last for a long time. I'm taking 2001: A Space Odyssey as possibly the only valid example of this. I can watch the film now, almost 40 years later and still believe that it's real. The stewardess rescuing Floyd's wayward pen in zero-g and returning it to his pocket still astounds me, the way that shot is done so very deliberately and in slow, careful detail so as to compel the audience to watch rather than get it out of the way quickly with a sleight of hand distraction trick.
I received a Gmail Invite to my Hotmail account last night too, although that one was sent specifically to me by a friend. I got a Blogger account a couple of weeks back to see if a Gmail invite would follow, and it didn't.
Adult Ticket for the screening of Harry Potter in a Warner Cinema at 7PM tonight would be 6, Child 4.50.
At speeds approaching 200mph, a modern F1 car generates 2100kg of downforce. enough to stick it to the ceiling 3 times over.
It's a common misconception that the ground effect era of the 70's was the pinnacle of racing car downforce. The aero enginnering on an F1 car today is so advanced that the downforce they generate is way ahead of where they were in the 70's.
What *is* true is that ground effect gives more *mid corner* downforce when the car is going slow, so it pushes cornering speeds up. And if you lose the ground effect mid corner from hitting a kerb or something, you can get lift or at the very least lose all that lovely adhesive low speed downforce. This directly lead to the deaths of a couple of F1 drivers, hence ground effect aero was banned.
I'm not a christian or bible scholar, but I've seen this question answered either "Because God gave Man free will to do as he pleases" (which begs the question why on earth did he do that if he knew doing so would cause evil) or a vague brush off related to Adam and Eve having been cast out of the Garden of Eden.
He also only bought the facade. They chipped off the front face of the stone blocks to a depth of a couple inches, shipped that over and assebled the faces on a concrete structure. I live not far away from the quarry on moorland where the original stones are dumped.
We left mirror reflectors on the moon so that we could bounce laser beams off them and accurately measure how far away the moon really is. More info here and here.
BMW think you do. Their iDrive system, although it sounds like it's a Mac app, is a Windows CE in-car computer system controlling all aspects of the vehicle.
This guy has effectively implimented his own version, from scratch, even down to replicating the rotary dial controller using a Griffin PowerMate - his achievement in doing so is brilliant. I wonder if any auto-makers are taking a look at this.
Google for 'aerogel' and you'll find a couple of companies that produce it commercially. The cost according to NASA (here) is about $1 per cubic centimetre for a litre's worth, so $1000 for 1000cm^3 of the stuff.
Note that in those photos they have 'greyed out' the portion of the photograph containing the atmosphere and surface of the planet.
There's a good article on the development of the title at gamespot, here. And after Jordan Mechner saw the demo to approve the game (he owns the rights to the PoP name) he told the all-new deveelopment team "Guys, what I've just seen has reawakened the joy of making video games to me." So, yeah, good point but you couldn't have picked a more inappropriate example.
This isn't trolling, a few of my buddies did Digital Arts and Media Studies degrees and they're on a pretty hand-to-mouth existance right now. Not fun.
Now there's an idea! Jive up computing, change the terminology to "Pimp" and "Bitch".
It's funny you should mention that :-)
Caveat: I am *trying* to switch all my Wintel stuff over to Linux, but I'm having a hard time with it - love the idea but the implementation is, however, lacking IMO.
Yeah.. and how long until Apple Legal comes with the smackdown to preserve 10.3's "look and feel" ?
Read on.. he screwed 'em. They worked that first time and then were dead when he went to install them in the box.
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To beam Address Book contacts to buddies without having to read out the phone number they want and wait for them to type it in to their handset, to share amusingly-snapped pictures with friends in the same way, Bluejacking.
I agree with your post from your position though, two years ago the UK was in pretty much the same position and I can remember hearing the hype about the new Bluetooth phones coming and thinking 'what's the use of that? my phone is just great now'. Over here thought it seems to have developed through a push from the handset manufacturers deciding we need it rather than any consumer-driven movement, and now that it's fairly ubiquitous it's quite a cool toy (bluejacking, sharing photos), plus it does fairly useful stuff (sharing contacts, text messages, notes, memos).