1. George Lucas has had a "digital animation" firm for years. It's called Industrial Light and Magic. You may also remember them doing really _good_ special effects too, what with the models and the puppets.
2. George Lucas is not making episodes VII-IX. He has admitted this several times, most notably during the pre-interviews from the special edition VHS tapes.
3. Unless the man actually gets his ass in gear for III, you can bet your ass that nobody will give a damn, especially us geeks. Not that it really matters, as I already care so little.
Allow me to assist, assuming that the earth's rotation yields 10 kilodeconds (or "Kil's", as in "What Kil is it?") a day, where 1 decond = 0.1157407 seconds (407 repeating).
So, once again the article in full metric glory.
"Researchers at Holloman AFB have broken their own two decades old land speed record for rail vehicles. The rocket powered sled covered the 4.8 km track in roughly.694 deconds. Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach 8.6 or about 24720 km/kilodecond - it covered the last 2.9 km in just 0.150 deconds. The previous record of 23642.4 km/kilodecond was set on Oct. 5, 1982. Other accounts are at the Alamogordo Daily News, the Denver Post, and CNN."
After running Linux on my PS2, I'm positive that running any kind of video editing software on it would be a death wish.
Hell, it has enough trouble just editing stills. For video editing you need a really powerful processor, but you also need RAM, and lots of it. The PS2 only has 32 MB.
Iris biometric devices also require some blood pulsing to be detected as well (as do fingerprint devices) so you cannot use a fancy glass eye, or an amputated eyeball.
Can you back this up with anything? According to this article the iris is recognized by a single snapshot, not a "scan". How then could you determine if blood were flowing or not?
Every fingerprint ID device I've ever seen is comprised of a clear plate and a scanner. You could press a ham against it and it would take its picture.
Links? Support? Shooting things down arbitrarily doesnt fly with me.
I think I enjoyed Final Fantasy VII mostly because the story was the most emphasized part. A good story offers emotional connection to the characters and the situations. In the end, it makes you more prone to play your character with actual zeal, not just go through the motions to trigger the cutscenes.
A great RPG should have me saying "I'm gonna kill that bastard," after he offs one of the main characters. My mood should be affected by the plot.
As I remember a while back, satellite internet basically meant getting your downstream in the dish and your upstream through a phone line. Is this still the case?
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1. George Lucas has had a "digital animation" firm for years. It's called Industrial Light and Magic. You may also remember them doing really _good_ special effects too, what with the models and the puppets.
2. George Lucas is not making episodes VII-IX. He has admitted this several times, most notably during the pre-interviews from the special edition VHS tapes.
3. Unless the man actually gets his ass in gear for III, you can bet your ass that nobody will give a damn, especially us geeks. Not that it really matters, as I already care so little.
Heh, you cant possibly be from Houston, not when you spell program like that ;)
E3 starts up next week, 13-16 I believe.
http://www.e3expo.com/
That's backwards. Seconds to deconds would be a multiplication by the conversion factor. For example,
10,000 deconds in one day
86,400 seconds in one day
86,400 seconds * 0.1157407 = ~10,000 deconds
Voila!
Heh, you believe it so strongly it's in your sig! That's great :) I'll have to check that out.
...in roughly 6 seconds.
.694 deconds. Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach 8.6 or about 24720 km/kilodecond - it covered the last 2.9 km in just 0.150 deconds. The previous record of 23642.4 km/kilodecond was set on Oct. 5, 1982. Other accounts are at the Alamogordo Daily News, the Denver Post, and CNN."
What the hell? No metric time?
Allow me to assist, assuming that the earth's rotation yields 10 kilodeconds (or "Kil's", as in "What Kil is it?") a day, where 1 decond = 0.1157407 seconds (407 repeating).
So, once again the article in full metric glory.
"Researchers at Holloman AFB have broken their own two decades old land speed record for rail vehicles. The rocket powered sled covered the 4.8 km track in roughly
Once my desktop's graphics card had more memory than my laptop's system memory, I knew the graphics hardware development was going a weird route.
Hell, some graphics cards have more memory than my desktop!
I'll second that and add that "Deus Ex" was probably one of the best first person strategy games ever.
Well, it was a bankruptcy auction. They usually start the bidding at 1 stick of Fruit Stripe gum at those things.
Why were you pissed? Sony never promised that the PS2 supported VCD...
After running Linux on my PS2, I'm positive that running any kind of video editing software on it would be a death wish.
Hell, it has enough trouble just editing stills. For video editing you need a really powerful processor, but you also need RAM, and lots of it. The PS2 only has 32 MB.
Discreet - Free from ostentation or pretension; modest.
Discrete - Consisting of unconnected distinct parts.
I dont think Mendel meant to say that the passing is done in a modest fashion.
Um, take a joke or don't read Slashdot today. I promise, you'll live.
Hans Blix is a tool.
A troll based on misinformation? THIS is scored as a 4?!
Ahh, the end of an age. The only computer my mother ever used that almost completely replaced my usefulness.
Iris biometric devices also require some blood pulsing to be detected as well (as do fingerprint devices) so you cannot use a fancy glass eye, or an amputated eyeball.
Can you back this up with anything? According to this article the iris is recognized by a single snapshot, not a "scan". How then could you determine if blood were flowing or not?
Every fingerprint ID device I've ever seen is comprised of a clear plate and a scanner. You could press a ham against it and it would take its picture.
Links? Support? Shooting things down arbitrarily doesnt fly with me.
Attractive and affordable ground effects for my case.
Go RECON! *clink clink BOOM*
The best part is, mashing the X button harder than normal DOES make you go faster on PS2!
Shouldn't that be "GNU Sewage"? Don't worry, common mistake.
You're right, 32 and 128 bit numbers are much easier to remember.
I think I enjoyed Final Fantasy VII mostly because the story was the most emphasized part. A good story offers emotional connection to the characters and the situations. In the end, it makes you more prone to play your character with actual zeal, not just go through the motions to trigger the cutscenes.
A great RPG should have me saying "I'm gonna kill that bastard," after he offs one of the main characters. My mood should be affected by the plot.
DP = Dirigible Pendant
Or Houston.
As I remember a while back, satellite internet basically meant getting your downstream in the dish and your upstream through a phone line. Is this still the case?