In the United States I know with much certainty that Blizzard sells time cards for WoW--by the truckload, in fact. My local game store runs through them fairly quick, and I'm going to be moving to them myself soon.
While I'm fairly confident you're not lying when you say you cannot find time cards in your area, I am a bit suprised. I know European players that play on my server using time cards.
The 'real' origin of game-based comics came in May 1998, when Scott Kurtz started Player vs. Player, a strip based around the office hijinks at a video game magazine.
Wrong. Dead wrong. My proof? Howard and Nester (http://hn.iodized.net/main.htm), a comic which successfully ran in Nintendo Power for several years in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
And while Howard and Nester predates PvP by 10 years, I'm almost positive it wasn't the first of its kind, either.
You know, when the Screen Savers had their final episode I felt like I was saying goodbye to family. When I watched ZDTV and TechTV it was the first time that I felt that it was ok to like technology--to be a geek or nerd. Leo and Patrick showed me that you could be a geek and still be cool, and that had a huge impact on my self-image. Not only that, but the huge success of the Screen Savers helped improve the world's perception of us. People appreciated us more after tech became more mainstream, and TechTV was largely responsible for that.
If it wasn't for TechTV I would still be a total social recluse. TechTV taught me that I'm a geek, and that's ok. Now I watch G4/TechTV and I barely find any of the positive images I used to see of tech people; now I only see edgy teen culture, pushing the latest game and telling the world what's cool.
TechTV opened my eyes to the greater world of technology, and brought me here to Slashdot. Rest in peace, TechTV, and bless Leo and Patrick.
In Japan, the near-PS2 quality portable gaming device sold only about 500k units on account of GPU shortages.
If I recall correctly, the PS2 had a similar problem on its launch--there was a shortage of CPUs.
Who supplies Sony with these processors, and why can they never meet demand?
Intellectual Property Reform = Communism?
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From the CNET article:"What's driving [intellectual property reform], and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?" "No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were."
Notice how Mr. Gates immediately equates intellectual-property law reform with 'communism?' It appears that the anti-trust cases are finally starting to break him down; if calling intellectual property reform "communist" is the best argument he can make, then we know his logic and rationale beginning to break down to baseless assumptions and insults.
In other words, the reformists may be winning in Gates' view.
Are you driving with your highbeams on to intentionally blind the bus driver?
IANAL, but I think that intentionally trying to blind the bus driver would be Malicious Intent, since you're actually trying. Wreckless Disregard would mean you have your highbeams on and you know it could be dangerous, but you do it anyway.
Startups are not allowed in the US anymore?
True some mistakes were made by IL. Too bad Kyle can't understand that companies have to start somewhere when they don't start with a couple billions.
Ah, thank you for that wonderfully misinformed opinion. This gives me the opportunity to point out the obvious lies, deceit, and chicanery(thank you Penny Arcade) produced by the Infinium Labs 'company.' Please, observe the Infinium Labs HQ--yes, that is a mail depot.
I don't own a copy of OS X, but after reading this story I really wish I did. After reading about this amazing act of hard work and dedication I really wish I could sit down at a Mac right now and play around with it.
The vision of Epic 2014 reminds me of the early 20th century's era of Yellow Journalism, except on a much more massive scale. The publications during that time were a dime a dozen (sometimes quite literally), and full of gossip and sensationalist garbage. It took decades for such trash news to leave the mainstream....
But our current situation could be millions of times worse than the era of Yellow Journalism. What if everyone was capable of creating their own 'publications?' The massive search engines we are developing today will evolve into the portals for this amature news, and one quick look around any message board can tell you what most of that news is going to be like: poor, baseless, and gossip.
Journalists are supposed to act as the gatekeepers of information; they choose what is most important for the world to know using carefully made decisions and insight. If we take away the gatekeepers, there's a good chance that the sheer volume of information on the internet will crush us.
After all, for every webpage talking about the latest war or legal decision, there are at least ten talking about how much someone hates their boss, the latest Wal-Mart opening, and other such random things.
But the guy has a good sense of humour: the guy on the Googlezon ID card is called Winston Smith!
I don't think that's a sense of humor--he's making a point. Epic 2014 is the modern media version of 1984. I can honestly say I was horrified by this film and just how real its prophesies could be. After all, even if Google doesn't do it, you know someone else will; this is such a profitable venture a company would have to be crazy to pass it up.
Actually, the only spam I get is from some spammer ring that advertises suspicious-looking deals such as, "SpECIAL DeaL WINdows XP OnLy $50." These started hitting my Gmail address as soon as I registered, which makes me think my e-mail address was sold to generate some revenue for the whole project, which is fine by me seeing as the spam filter catches all of it.
I also made my e-mail address using my name. After all, what sane person would hand someone a business card with the e-mail address "t8236gendalimuckersleap0O01ll1@gmail.com?"
Australia, the USA, Italy, and Israel seem to be the only countries with any possible political power in that list regarding something as grand as a global stem cell cloning ban. Notice that many of those countries are 1)small and 2) predominantly religious. The other big countries like Germany, France, the UK, Japan, and so on have already expressed that they will fight any ban on stem cell research and cloning.
Right. They found several Homo Floresiensis skeletons in a collapsed cave, along with primative tools. Apparently the island that the species lived on is known for pygmyism in its animal species, so one theory is that the decendants of the humans that came to the island eventually evolved into pygmies.
Also, the brain mass of Homo Florensis was apparently smaller than the other human species' brains of the time--pitty that they traded brain mass for lower food requirements.
What if I trip on the power cord and knock the whole stack over?
I may be observing this incorrectly, but judging from the photo Funny you should mention that. I think that each one of the bricks is secured by a large pole, much like a skewer through kabobs. This way the cubes won't easily lose contact with one another or get knocked over.
This would be a great way to dock things like handheld devices, cell phones, and cameras. It would also be great for portable media.
I've always thought that a great way for computer design to move would be totally modular computers and this cube system would be a great way to do it. Each block could contain a component of the system--from processors and memory to graphics cards to disk drives--and the owner would simply connect them all together, easily adding and removing parts when needed. And, as the article states, IBM's cube system is incredibly cool, meaning that there would be no need for a case, leaving all parts open and easiliy accessible.
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In the United States I know with much certainty that Blizzard sells time cards for WoW--by the truckload, in fact. My local game store runs through them fairly quick, and I'm going to be moving to them myself soon.
While I'm fairly confident you're not lying when you say you cannot find time cards in your area, I am a bit suprised. I know European players that play on my server using time cards.
Wrong. Dead wrong. My proof? Howard and Nester (http://hn.iodized.net/main.htm), a comic which successfully ran in Nintendo Power for several years in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
And while Howard and Nester predates PvP by 10 years, I'm almost positive it wasn't the first of its kind, either.
This is awesome. I think that we should prosecute them as criminals.
You know, when the Screen Savers had their final episode I felt like I was saying goodbye to family. When I watched ZDTV and TechTV it was the first time that I felt that it was ok to like technology--to be a geek or nerd. Leo and Patrick showed me that you could be a geek and still be cool, and that had a huge impact on my self-image. Not only that, but the huge success of the Screen Savers helped improve the world's perception of us. People appreciated us more after tech became more mainstream, and TechTV was largely responsible for that.
If it wasn't for TechTV I would still be a total social recluse. TechTV taught me that I'm a geek, and that's ok. Now I watch G4/TechTV and I barely find any of the positive images I used to see of tech people; now I only see edgy teen culture, pushing the latest game and telling the world what's cool.
TechTV opened my eyes to the greater world of technology, and brought me here to Slashdot. Rest in peace, TechTV, and bless Leo and Patrick.
Actually, this DS sold for $5,300!!!
Rumor has it that they have only one 90nm capable facility...
That explains why Sony is spending $1.6 billion on the next plant for the PS3 Cell processors. I guess all of those unit shortages are eating into their profits and reputation, so they need a bigger plant for the next generation of processors.
In Japan, the near-PS2 quality portable gaming device sold only about 500k units on account of GPU shortages.
If I recall correctly, the PS2 had a similar problem on its launch--there was a shortage of CPUs.
Who supplies Sony with these processors, and why can they never meet demand?
From the CNET article: "What's driving [intellectual property reform], and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?"
"No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were."
Notice how Mr. Gates immediately equates intellectual-property law reform with 'communism?' It appears that the anti-trust cases are finally starting to break him down; if calling intellectual property reform "communist" is the best argument he can make, then we know his logic and rationale beginning to break down to baseless assumptions and insults.
In other words, the reformists may be winning in Gates' view.
Are you driving with your highbeams on to intentionally blind the bus driver?
IANAL, but I think that intentionally trying to blind the bus driver would be Malicious Intent, since you're actually trying. Wreckless Disregard would mean you have your highbeams on and you know it could be dangerous, but you do it anyway.
How is that offtopic? He's talking about something very real and very related to the Y2K bug and hoaxes, the very title of this article.
Startups are not allowed in the US anymore? True some mistakes were made by IL. Too bad Kyle can't understand that companies have to start somewhere when they don't start with a couple billions.
Ah, thank you for that wonderfully misinformed opinion. This gives me the opportunity to point out the obvious lies, deceit, and chicanery(thank you Penny Arcade) produced by the Infinium Labs 'company.' Please, observe the Infinium Labs HQ--yes, that is a mail depot.
Seems like an interesting opportunity in real-estate futures.
Only if you mean these real estate futures.
I don't own a copy of OS X, but after reading this story I really wish I did. After reading about this amazing act of hard work and dedication I really wish I could sit down at a Mac right now and play around with it.
Did anyone else try to read that as a poem?
The vision of Epic 2014 reminds me of the early 20th century's era of Yellow Journalism, except on a much more massive scale. The publications during that time were a dime a dozen (sometimes quite literally), and full of gossip and sensationalist garbage. It took decades for such trash news to leave the mainstream....
But our current situation could be millions of times worse than the era of Yellow Journalism. What if everyone was capable of creating their own 'publications?' The massive search engines we are developing today will evolve into the portals for this amature news, and one quick look around any message board can tell you what most of that news is going to be like: poor, baseless, and gossip.
Journalists are supposed to act as the gatekeepers of information; they choose what is most important for the world to know using carefully made decisions and insight. If we take away the gatekeepers, there's a good chance that the sheer volume of information on the internet will crush us.
After all, for every webpage talking about the latest war or legal decision, there are at least ten talking about how much someone hates their boss, the latest Wal-Mart opening, and other such random things.
But the guy has a good sense of humour: the guy on the Googlezon ID card is called Winston Smith!
I don't think that's a sense of humor--he's making a point. Epic 2014 is the modern media version of 1984. I can honestly say I was horrified by this film and just how real its prophesies could be. After all, even if Google doesn't do it, you know someone else will; this is such a profitable venture a company would have to be crazy to pass it up.
Actually, the only spam I get is from some spammer ring that advertises suspicious-looking deals such as, "SpECIAL DeaL WINdows XP OnLy $50." These started hitting my Gmail address as soon as I registered, which makes me think my e-mail address was sold to generate some revenue for the whole project, which is fine by me seeing as the spam filter catches all of it.
I also made my e-mail address using my name. After all, what sane person would hand someone a business card with the e-mail address "t8236gendalimuckersleap0O01ll1@gmail.com?"
Right. Trade up, not down. :P
Actually, it's a ban against stem cell cloning.
Australia, the USA, Italy, and Israel seem to be the only countries with any possible political power in that list regarding something as grand as a global stem cell cloning ban. Notice that many of those countries are 1)small and 2) predominantly religious. The other big countries like Germany, France, the UK, Japan, and so on have already expressed that they will fight any ban on stem cell research and cloning.
It's something we've already done several times before.
What? Have a probe return to Earth or have a probe crash into a planet?
Right. They found several Homo Floresiensis skeletons in a collapsed cave, along with primative tools. Apparently the island that the species lived on is known for pygmyism in its animal species, so one theory is that the decendants of the humans that came to the island eventually evolved into pygmies.
Also, the brain mass of Homo Florensis was apparently smaller than the other human species' brains of the time--pitty that they traded brain mass for lower food requirements.
But, of course, that's just an idea.
Why watch an adventure on TV (and in this case, a marred one) when I can be in one in a game?
Looks like you should have got broadband, first.
Seriously, someone mod the parent up. He has good points.