If anything, Heavy Rain was too short... the story could be completed in about 15 hours (if not less). The experience was very good, but it left you eager for more, not for less. I wonder who did not reach the end of this game. Of course, the slightly branching story enhanced the replayability - but most of the story was still the same whatever choices you made.
This is what this plane is doing. It charges its batteries during the day, while flying, and discharges them during the night. It has already flown during a complete day-night cycle.
He is probably both, as many engineers or scientists. These fields are often mixed nowadays - there are a lot of people primarily working as engineers that are using scientific method to perform research, and a lot of people primarily working as scientists that are using engineering knowledge to develop practical solutions.
Now, that does not mean he is a good leader, which is probably a bigger problem.
Actually, there are already reports saying that according to "leaked" information from the investigators, after preliminary analysis of the FDR contents, the likely cause of the crash is not an aircraft malfunction. See this very rough google translation. Of course, such early reports should be taken with a lot of caution, but they come from a rather respectable source.
If you work in engineering and need to do preliminary assessment of system performance, or resource sizing during meetings, conference calls, think tanks... then the form factor of a calculator is very handy. I use my HP 50G very often in this context. However, as you say, some of the most advanced functions are overkill for this use.
It would seem an hologram would precisely cure that problem. You should be able to focus naturally on it, if I remember correctly how the optical waves coming from an hologram are produced.
There have already been two search campaigns in the most likely places so far. It's more like it took them almost two years... but utlimately, they did find it.
I'm surprised that you say that voice communication is much slower - if anything, I find it faster than most of the other methods available. Just see the amount of data that you can cram in a 10 minute discussion, compared to the endless roundtrips with e-mail and the tedious speed of IM.
Of course, I am talking about natural voice communication, not about the very poor voice interfaces that we currently have with computers.
Dear Anonymous,
I think you are reading between the lines of my argument. I do not think I am entitled to anything for free from Sony or Microsoft because I am paying my ISP. My argument is just the following one: I am already paying an amount of money that I find substantial for access to a large number of online services. I do not want to pay for anything more related to online services if I can avoid it, especially if I can find similar services for free.
The bottom line is that I was just saying that I was cheap. That is all. It's not very different from your opinion that "the amount they ask is not worth to you what you would get in return"
Can you mod the system that much ? My understanding was that the main attack vector was an optical drive firmware hack, which allowed you to play backup games (legitimate or not). Holes that allowed you to run homebrew have been plugged off for a long time. I may have missed something.
Thanks, but I am already paying my ISP: I do not want to pay again for the right of playing online.
Anyway, I do not think that having a paying service or not makes a difference: you agree to the terms of PSN just like you do for XBL, even if it is free.
It's just because so far, the technology behind such products is not very compelling. You have significant lag, fans that blow the odor in your face, cartridges you need to replace, a very limited subset of odors, etc... of course, I'm not able to propose a better way to do this. But someone may find some day. And I'm sure that if some day the technology is refined and leads to the creation of a smell synthetizer, it will be a big hit. It really has the potential to greatly improve the immersion in games or movie. Just watch when you think of the past... how smell is an important component of some old memories. And look at the great freedom perfume makers have at their disposal to go and create new smells...
I'm a bit surprised by your opinion. I've recently watched Alien again, and I really find that this movie has aged very well. It's still frightening - slow, deliberate, and with no shitty jump scare moments. The scene in the mechanic storage rooms with water falling down is excruciating. The aliens eggs are still gross and gory. Of course, the puppet alien running on the table after bursting from his host's chest looks cheap compared to today's standards. But it's about the only scene like this.
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If anything, Heavy Rain was too short... the story could be completed in about 15 hours (if not less). The experience was very good, but it left you eager for more, not for less. I wonder who did not reach the end of this game. Of course, the slightly branching story enhanced the replayability - but most of the story was still the same whatever choices you made.
This is what this plane is doing. It charges its batteries during the day, while flying, and discharges them during the night. It has already flown during a complete day-night cycle.
As far as I know, software patents are not recognized in France.
See for instance here.
People are not going to spend money and cart around an extra piece of junk that's only a calculator. And they don't.
In which field are you working ? In mine (aerospace), they do.
He is probably both, as many engineers or scientists. These fields are often mixed nowadays - there are a lot of people primarily working as engineers that are using scientific method to perform research, and a lot of people primarily working as scientists that are using engineering knowledge to develop practical solutions.
Now, that does not mean he is a good leader, which is probably a bigger problem.
Actually, there are already reports saying that according to "leaked" information from the investigators, after preliminary analysis of the FDR contents, the likely cause of the crash is not an aircraft malfunction. See this very rough google translation. Of course, such early reports should be taken with a lot of caution, but they come from a rather respectable source.
It's not C. Notice the "then" operator.
Probe is also a name often used in the industry for such spacecrafts.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on PPC.
There is a thing called the separation of powers. Executive power should not act as if it were judiciary power.
For Europe : see this link. http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/06/update-on-identity-protection-scheme/
If you work in engineering and need to do preliminary assessment of system performance, or resource sizing during meetings, conference calls, think tanks... then the form factor of a calculator is very handy. I use my HP 50G very often in this context. However, as you say, some of the most advanced functions are overkill for this use.
It would seem an hologram would precisely cure that problem. You should be able to focus naturally on it, if I remember correctly how the optical waves coming from an hologram are produced.
And their press presentation slides in French and English.
There have already been two search campaigns in the most likely places so far. It's more like it took them almost two years... but utlimately, they did find it.
They have had stable releases every two years lately.
I'm surprised that you say that voice communication is much slower - if anything, I find it faster than most of the other methods available. Just see the amount of data that you can cram in a 10 minute discussion, compared to the endless roundtrips with e-mail and the tedious speed of IM.
Of course, I am talking about natural voice communication, not about the very poor voice interfaces that we currently have with computers.
Dear Anonymous,
I think you are reading between the lines of my argument. I do not think I am entitled to anything for free from Sony or Microsoft because I am paying my ISP. My argument is just the following one: I am already paying an amount of money that I find substantial for access to a large number of online services. I do not want to pay for anything more related to online services if I can avoid it, especially if I can find similar services for free.
The bottom line is that I was just saying that I was cheap. That is all. It's not very different from your opinion that "the amount they ask is not worth to you what you would get in return"
Well, of course, I am not forced to use that service, and I don't. Did I say anything that made you think I felt forced to use it ?
Can you mod the system that much ? My understanding was that the main attack vector was an optical drive firmware hack, which allowed you to play backup games (legitimate or not). Holes that allowed you to run homebrew have been plugged off for a long time. I may have missed something.
Thanks, but I am already paying my ISP: I do not want to pay again for the right of playing online.
Anyway, I do not think that having a paying service or not makes a difference: you agree to the terms of PSN just like you do for XBL, even if it is free.
It's just because so far, the technology behind such products is not very compelling. You have significant lag, fans that blow the odor in your face, cartridges you need to replace, a very limited subset of odors, etc... of course, I'm not able to propose a better way to do this. But someone may find some day.
And I'm sure that if some day the technology is refined and leads to the creation of a smell synthetizer, it will be a big hit. It really has the potential to greatly improve the immersion in games or movie. Just watch when you think of the past... how smell is an important component of some old memories. And look at the great freedom perfume makers have at their disposal to go and create new smells...
Actually, this site has a long and cherished history of pointing out when shit is shit.
Yes. Just like we did for the iPod. Oh wait.
Because their mobiles devices already support hardware decoding of h264.
I'm a bit surprised by your opinion. I've recently watched Alien again, and I really find that this movie has aged very well. It's still frightening - slow, deliberate, and with no shitty jump scare moments. The scene in the mechanic storage rooms with water falling down is excruciating. The aliens eggs are still gross and gory. Of course, the puppet alien running on the table after bursting from his host's chest looks cheap compared to today's standards. But it's about the only scene like this.