Your thinking of sega.net, for the Sega Genesis. I remember thinking it was a good idea when it came out (they had it on the Saturn too), but I wasn't ever able to get one - I think it only lasted for about a year.
You are also completely wrong. The glorious revolution was in 1688. It had everything to do with internal politics in Great Britian. The first Puritan colonies in North America appeared in 1620. In 1644, the Puritans, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell and with the backing of parlement, overthrew King Charles I and set up a military theocracy in which thier ideas were supreme. Eventually, after Cromwell died, the monarchy was restored. In addition, New England was a wilderness, and certainly was not a "civilized place". The diseases of which you speak of would not strike the Native Americans until after settlement was well underway.
Further whittling it down is the fact that first generation stars wouldn't have the heavy elements in thier planetary disks nessissary for rocky planets or any complex molecules to form. The first stars that could have rocky planets formed about 5 billion years after the big bang, and therefor Earth has been around for about 1/2 the period in time in which a rocky planet could have existed.
Nintendo started developing the SNES CD to compete with the rival Sega CD for the Genesis. However, once Nintendo realized that the Sega CD was a flop, they cancelled the project, dumping Sony. Sony decided to continue on thier own and release it as a stand-alone console.
Heroes of Might and Magic III is still one of my favorite games ever. I was kinda disapointed, though, with what 3DO did with Heroes IV. There was just something about the game that didn't seem right... oh well, I hope someone else gets a hold of this franchise and does it right.
This has happened before. In 1990, a year before the SNES came out, Nintendo released its new top-loading NES, remember? In 1994, Sega came out with its 32x, just a year before the Saturn was released. Both of these were major redesigns / new systems that would have very limited lifespans.
Still doesn't mean that it makes sense, though. I think that probably what your seeing in all these cases is that two different divisions of the same company are on totally different wavelengths when it comes to thier consoles.
actually, if it were bismuth 208, it would still be heavier then lead (208), since a proton wieghs more then a neutron.
By the way, this is all academic, since Bismuth 208 is the only (realitively) stable isotope anyway
It might not nessisarly be lead, (although I'm pretty sure your right), since there could have been some lighter isotope of bismuth which was stable (208, 207, etc).
This just proves what we already knew: These music companies only care about money. The fact they are suing the people who bought napsters assets just because they bought them just proves that. It also shows that these companies have no interest in innovation - they just want to keep on churning out the same crap on the same format forever, and they will sue anyone who tries to change the status quo.
I would like to know what is really going on here. Does anyone really have any idea? One day we hear that everything is going 1984-esque with personal ID cards and Microsoft personel watching our every move. Then the next day we hear this. Whats happening?
I have to wonder what the point is with some of these new faster processors. At this point, almost no applications can really take advantage of the fastest chips available. My sister uses a 500 MHZ machine at home, and as far as I can tell she has no real issues with its speed. I have to wonder if Intel is just shooting itself in the leg, spending needlessly large amounts on R&D to produce chips that no one actually needs.
PS - FP?
Dreamcast and PS2 are in the same generation as Xbox and Gamecube since they are all second generation 3D consoles. As for the 32X, Neo*Geo, 3DO, CDi, Jaguar, etc, they came out in between generations - the fact that they didn't sell at all (Like the Halcyon) means that they don't get a generation of thier own - the 3rd gen consoles were still being sold when they came out, and when they failed.
In addition, your view itself is scewed - you say that Atari, etc, don't count because they don't have a story line. Just because you don't find the games interesting doesn't mean they don't count. The Atari sold millions and millions of copies and had a profound influeance on the video game industry.
1995 Sega Saturn
1995 Sony Playstation
1996 Nintendo 64
Fifth Generation
1999 Sega Dreamcast
2000 Playstation 2
2001 Xbox
2001 Gamecube
Now, if you take the average year for each Generation, you get a distint pattern -
First Generation - 1980
Second Generation - 1985
Third Generation - 1990
Fourth Generation - 1995
Fifth Generation - 2000
If this pattern continues, then we would expect your average 6th generation console to come out in 2005, with perhaps one console in 2004 and one in 2006. In any case, if a console doesn't come out until 2005, it won't be at all unusual - this generation wouldn't be any longer than previous ones.
Right now a 3 year old machine runs most business and office type applications adequately and there is very little incentive to upgrade. Unlike the good old days when an upgrade was need approximately every 1.2 years just to run the newest spreadsheet which had features that you desperately needed.
I think the same can really be said for gaming as well. At one point in the late 90s I was getting a new computer every 1 1/2 years because my old PC just couldn't keep up. In 1999, though, I bought a 500 MHZ box, and with just a few small upgrades it got me through to last summer. My current computer, an Athlon 1800+ with a Geforce 4, can run absolutely any game I throw at it, and I really can't see that changing anytime soon.
What that means, really, is that the PC market is finally stablizing after years of explosive growth, and so a new PC standard system seems to me to be a really good idea. GPC (Gaming PC) Level 1 could be your 500 MHZ machine, for running massive-appeal games like the Sims. GPC2 could be a 1 GHZ machine, capable of running mainstream games, like Warcraft III, etc, and the GPC3 would be a 1.5 GHZ machine with a Geforce 4, capable of running the high end games out there. Seems like a good idea to me.
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Your thinking of sega.net, for the Sega Genesis. I remember thinking it was a good idea when it came out (they had it on the Saturn too), but I wasn't ever able to get one - I think it only lasted for about a year.
You are also completely wrong. The glorious revolution was in 1688. It had everything to do with internal politics in Great Britian. The first Puritan colonies in North America appeared in 1620. In 1644, the Puritans, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell and with the backing of parlement, overthrew King Charles I and set up a military theocracy in which thier ideas were supreme. Eventually, after Cromwell died, the monarchy was restored. In addition, New England was a wilderness, and certainly was not a "civilized place". The diseases of which you speak of would not strike the Native Americans until after settlement was well underway.
Further whittling it down is the fact that first generation stars wouldn't have the heavy elements in thier planetary disks nessissary for rocky planets or any complex molecules to form. The first stars that could have rocky planets formed about 5 billion years after the big bang, and therefor Earth has been around for about 1/2 the period in time in which a rocky planet could have existed.
Not just microsoft. who was it who said that playing thier console would be "just like jacking into the matrix"? *cough*Sony*cough*
Nintendo started developing the SNES CD to compete with the rival Sega CD for the Genesis. However, once Nintendo realized that the Sega CD was a flop, they cancelled the project, dumping Sony. Sony decided to continue on thier own and release it as a stand-alone console.
Heroes of Might and Magic III is still one of my favorite games ever. I was kinda disapointed, though, with what 3DO did with Heroes IV. There was just something about the game that didn't seem right... oh well, I hope someone else gets a hold of this franchise and does it right.
oops. Brain freeze. Your right, of course. Neutrons wiegh slightly more then protons. But, like I said, its all academic anyway.
Heh, kinda funny, since the French are the world leaders in nuclear power. Seems like we are trying to emulate them...
Last I checked, Methane still has 4 hydrogens.
Octane, the most common component of gasoline is C8H18 (ASCI drawing:)
H H H H H H H H
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H-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-H
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H H H H H H H H
This has happened before. In 1990, a year before the SNES came out, Nintendo released its new top-loading NES, remember? In 1994, Sega came out with its 32x, just a year before the Saturn was released. Both of these were major redesigns / new systems that would have very limited lifespans. Still doesn't mean that it makes sense, though. I think that probably what your seeing in all these cases is that two different divisions of the same company are on totally different wavelengths when it comes to thier consoles.
actually, if it were bismuth 208, it would still be heavier then lead (208), since a proton wieghs more then a neutron. By the way, this is all academic, since Bismuth 208 is the only (realitively) stable isotope anyway
It might not nessisarly be lead, (although I'm pretty sure your right), since there could have been some lighter isotope of bismuth which was stable (208, 207, etc).
This just proves what we already knew: These music companies only care about money. The fact they are suing the people who bought napsters assets just because they bought them just proves that. It also shows that these companies have no interest in innovation - they just want to keep on churning out the same crap on the same format forever, and they will sue anyone who tries to change the status quo.
I would like to know what is really going on here. Does anyone really have any idea? One day we hear that everything is going 1984-esque with personal ID cards and Microsoft personel watching our every move. Then the next day we hear this. Whats happening?
I have to wonder what the point is with some of these new faster processors. At this point, almost no applications can really take advantage of the fastest chips available. My sister uses a 500 MHZ machine at home, and as far as I can tell she has no real issues with its speed. I have to wonder if Intel is just shooting itself in the leg, spending needlessly large amounts on R&D to produce chips that no one actually needs. PS - FP?
How about the manned lunar missions? those went passed the Van Allen belts.
Dreamcast and PS2 are in the same generation as Xbox and Gamecube since they are all second generation 3D consoles. As for the 32X, Neo*Geo, 3DO, CDi, Jaguar, etc, they came out in between generations - the fact that they didn't sell at all (Like the Halcyon) means that they don't get a generation of thier own - the 3rd gen consoles were still being sold when they came out, and when they failed. In addition, your view itself is scewed - you say that Atari, etc, don't count because they don't have a story line. Just because you don't find the games interesting doesn't mean they don't count. The Atari sold millions and millions of copies and had a profound influeance on the video game industry.
First Generation
1979 Atari 1980 Colceovision 1981 IntellevisionSecond Generation
1984 Nintendo NES 1986 Sega Master SystemThird Generation
1989 Sega Genesis 1991 Super NintendoFourth Generation
1995 Sega Saturn 1995 Sony Playstation 1996 Nintendo 64Fifth Generation
1999 Sega Dreamcast 2000 Playstation 2 2001 Xbox 2001 GamecubeNow, if you take the average year for each Generation, you get a distint pattern -
First Generation - 1980
Second Generation - 1985 Third Generation - 1990 Fourth Generation - 1995 Fifth Generation - 2000If this pattern continues, then we would expect your average 6th generation console to come out in 2005, with perhaps one console in 2004 and one in 2006. In any case, if a console doesn't come out until 2005, it won't be at all unusual - this generation wouldn't be any longer than previous ones.