That looks really nice. A few questions, though, if you know the answers, as I can't find them on the site. Is it only USB 1.1? I imagine filling up 20GB at a maximum of 1.375MB/s can get pretty tedious. Can it hold non-music files?
And because I have a Creative MuVo: Does the 128MB portion register automatically as a USB drive on WinXP machines?
I assumed "dead" languages are considered so because the language no longer changes. English and other languages are changing, albeit reasonably slowly. Compare an English conversation today with one from two hundred years ago. Then go to the Vatican and compare what you hear there with two-thousand-year-old texts. From what I understand, they're pretty similar.
The base for that robot is an official development platform called, I think, the Segway RMP, not just "the bottom half of a Segway." My college has one, too. It acts a bit differently from a regular Segway and can reasonably easily be remote controlled, balancing itself with up to 250 pounds on it. At the moment, it seems they've stuck a robot torso on top of the RMP. Not to say that's not a reasonable accomplishment in itself. I'm an undergrad research assistant in a robotics lab, and real-world application can be extremely frustrating.
Are there any handheld systems that don't use proprietary storage? I still hope they don't use Memory Sticks, if only because they seem to be pretty expensive. The UMD that they're using seems decent, and I like how it's encased like a floppy disk. Better for carrying around.
What anime have you seen? There are certainly those series out there that are of low quality, just like any medium. There are also stand-out series and movies that are actually worth watching.
I'm not a big fan of Ghost in the Shell. It did seem slong the same lines of many anime and non-anime that superficially deal with the nature of identity and humanity but don't really answer the questions they pose, or even really provide much insight into them. I submit the Matrix series as an example of this in American entertainment.
There are other shows and movies that don't attempt such pseudophilosophy and end up telling surprisingly human stories. As examples, I'd recommend trying something out of Studio Ghibli, like "My Neighbor Totoro" or "Grave of the Fireflies," which both appeared in Japanese theaters in the late 80s as a double feature.
From other posts, it seems that plasma screens actually do have burn-in issues. Another reason to just buy a higher-resolution poster of the art, it seems.
I've not seen any numbers at all, but I'm not sure I'd like to just leave a $5,000 piece of equipment with a static picture while I'm not actually using it. Apparently burn-in isn't a problem in these, but just normal wear-and-tear might come into play. Again, I don't know particularly well how these work, but wouldn't leaving it on while not in active use cut its lifespan significantly?
An interesting point. I wonder how much trouble he would be in if he had asked the companies' permissions before plying his trade, and simply moved to others if refused. I dunno, though. Maybe there wouldn't have been many to acquiesce.
My apologies for lack of clarity. I suppose I meant that the presence of gore (I said it again, just for you) doesn't automatically make it a game that appeals to mature audiences. Obviously such content would warrant a mature rating, as it is judged to be inappropriate for minors. My point, I guess, was that gore and the like aren't necessary for a game to be enjoyed by mature gamers. Many of Nintendo's games follow that logic and produce a game experience that adults can enjoy, and children can watch and/or play without being exposed to senseless violence (yeah, I know, violence also isn't necessarily that bad. Heck, I was playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was 12). And hey, you may be right that those games aren't in high demand, and I suppose it's been seen time and again that violence and sex sell, so who are publishers to argue?
Though I'm loath to respond to this flamebait, I'd just like to say that the presence of gore does not make a game mature. By the same token, games that appeal to mature gamers do not have to depict gore, sex, and the like. I have a Gamecube and over ten games, about half published by Nintendo, and only one (Eternal Darkness, a great, atmospheric, mature game, published by Nintendo) features gore. I enjoy them all.
Mainly because pants are required by law, unlike shirt and shoes. That's why stores have to have that policy. I guess everyone knows this, with the possible exception of the jackasses on Jackass.
The mention of the need for FAT32 to access the card seems to indicate that it's larger than 2 gigabytes. It would be nice to see some consistency, though, rather than having to guess based on context.
Also, the expansion thing I mentioned might not be right. I was just trying to think of how that would keep it continually spinning, and it just wouldn't. I'm not sure why I was thinking that. I guess I had to have heard it somewhere. I'm not sure where, though. It probably does have more to do with the black side of each paddle absorbing more energy. Still not supporting the perfect mirror solar sail idea necessarily, though.
But those aren't perfect mirrors, or mirrors at all, really (if you're talking about those light-bulb-shaped novelties you can get at museum gift shops and the like). I think those spin because the materials that the spinning part is composed of have different coefficients (my use of the term "coefficient" may be incorrect. I don't know if heat-based expansion is linear or not) of expansion.
While awkward and maybe incorrect, it seems that the sentence is complete, not a fragment. If you'll note, there is a verb there. It's just timid and small, hiding between "TV" and "in."
After looking at that hi-res picture posted just above, I like it, too. I had a little trouble equating the number dimensions to physical size, but after seeing it in someone's hand, I'm impressed. I'm definitely tempted to buy that at some point now. Unless the hand holding it is abnormally large.
This isn't power lines, though. This is beaming out EM waves at a frequency near or at what people use to cook food, at power levels high enough to induce current flow from a distance. I agree that there's cause for concern.
I've been modded Troll? Come on, people that work around microwave antennas do have higher incidences of cancers. The cooking properties of microwaves were discovered by accident.
It's a genuine concern, and I was just addressing it rather light-heartedly. I've done science fair projects on EMF effects on plants, and I have observed differences in growth patterns; there is an observable effect on biological systems. The risks are real, and there should be more study before they start beaming out microwaves that can power homes.
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Ah, nice. Thanks for the info!
That looks really nice. A few questions, though, if you know the answers, as I can't find them on the site. Is it only USB 1.1? I imagine filling up 20GB at a maximum of 1.375MB/s can get pretty tedious. Can it hold non-music files?
And because I have a Creative MuVo: Does the 128MB portion register automatically as a USB drive on WinXP machines?
I assumed "dead" languages are considered so because the language no longer changes. English and other languages are changing, albeit reasonably slowly. Compare an English conversation today with one from two hundred years ago. Then go to the Vatican and compare what you hear there with two-thousand-year-old texts. From what I understand, they're pretty similar.
The base for that robot is an official development platform called, I think, the Segway RMP, not just "the bottom half of a Segway." My college has one, too. It acts a bit differently from a regular Segway and can reasonably easily be remote controlled, balancing itself with up to 250 pounds on it. At the moment, it seems they've stuck a robot torso on top of the RMP. Not to say that's not a reasonable accomplishment in itself. I'm an undergrad research assistant in a robotics lab, and real-world application can be extremely frustrating.
Or if he was named Hans. Amazing how such a simple typo can have such hilarious results. Or maybe it's because I'm groggy.
Are there any handheld systems that don't use proprietary storage? I still hope they don't use Memory Sticks, if only because they seem to be pretty expensive. The UMD that they're using seems decent, and I like how it's encased like a floppy disk. Better for carrying around.
What anime have you seen? There are certainly those series out there that are of low quality, just like any medium. There are also stand-out series and movies that are actually worth watching.
I'm not a big fan of Ghost in the Shell. It did seem slong the same lines of many anime and non-anime that superficially deal with the nature of identity and humanity but don't really answer the questions they pose, or even really provide much insight into them. I submit the Matrix series as an example of this in American entertainment.
There are other shows and movies that don't attempt such pseudophilosophy and end up telling surprisingly human stories. As examples, I'd recommend trying something out of Studio Ghibli, like "My Neighbor Totoro" or "Grave of the Fireflies," which both appeared in Japanese theaters in the late 80s as a double feature.
From other posts, it seems that plasma screens actually do have burn-in issues. Another reason to just buy a higher-resolution poster of the art, it seems.
I've not seen any numbers at all, but I'm not sure I'd like to just leave a $5,000 piece of equipment with a static picture while I'm not actually using it. Apparently burn-in isn't a problem in these, but just normal wear-and-tear might come into play. Again, I don't know particularly well how these work, but wouldn't leaving it on while not in active use cut its lifespan significantly?
Isn't Revolutions supposed to have a worldwide simultaneous premiere, though? Or was it something else?
Brilliance. Does the movie close with ghosts of Smit, Morpheus, and... uh... someone else who died looking proudly at Neo?
So you would need to smoke 5 Crack Units then?
Woo, so yeah, I really contributed to this discussion. Ah, would that I could formulate relevant comments.
I'm still surprised you have to preorder a title to be sure you get it within a month of release.
In a way. In one of the episode commentary tracks on the Futurama Season 1 DVD set, it's revealed that Philo was the good professor's namesake.
An interesting point. I wonder how much trouble he would be in if he had asked the companies' permissions before plying his trade, and simply moved to others if refused. I dunno, though. Maybe there wouldn't have been many to acquiesce.
My apologies for lack of clarity. I suppose I meant that the presence of gore (I said it again, just for you) doesn't automatically make it a game that appeals to mature audiences. Obviously such content would warrant a mature rating, as it is judged to be inappropriate for minors. My point, I guess, was that gore and the like aren't necessary for a game to be enjoyed by mature gamers. Many of Nintendo's games follow that logic and produce a game experience that adults can enjoy, and children can watch and/or play without being exposed to senseless violence (yeah, I know, violence also isn't necessarily that bad. Heck, I was playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was 12). And hey, you may be right that those games aren't in high demand, and I suppose it's been seen time and again that violence and sex sell, so who are publishers to argue?
Though I'm loath to respond to this flamebait, I'd just like to say that the presence of gore does not make a game mature. By the same token, games that appeal to mature gamers do not have to depict gore, sex, and the like. I have a Gamecube and over ten games, about half published by Nintendo, and only one (Eternal Darkness, a great, atmospheric, mature game, published by Nintendo) features gore. I enjoy them all.
Mainly because pants are required by law, unlike shirt and shoes. That's why stores have to have that policy. I guess everyone knows this, with the possible exception of the jackasses on Jackass.
The mention of the need for FAT32 to access the card seems to indicate that it's larger than 2 gigabytes. It would be nice to see some consistency, though, rather than having to guess based on context.
Also, the expansion thing I mentioned might not be right. I was just trying to think of how that would keep it continually spinning, and it just wouldn't. I'm not sure why I was thinking that. I guess I had to have heard it somewhere. I'm not sure where, though. It probably does have more to do with the black side of each paddle absorbing more energy. Still not supporting the perfect mirror solar sail idea necessarily, though.
But those aren't perfect mirrors, or mirrors at all, really (if you're talking about those light-bulb-shaped novelties you can get at museum gift shops and the like). I think those spin because the materials that the spinning part is composed of have different coefficients (my use of the term "coefficient" may be incorrect. I don't know if heat-based expansion is linear or not) of expansion.
While awkward and maybe incorrect, it seems that the sentence is complete, not a fragment. If you'll note, there is a verb there. It's just timid and small, hiding between "TV" and "in."
After looking at that hi-res picture posted just above, I like it, too. I had a little trouble equating the number dimensions to physical size, but after seeing it in someone's hand, I'm impressed. I'm definitely tempted to buy that at some point now. Unless the hand holding it is abnormally large.
This isn't power lines, though. This is beaming out EM waves at a frequency near or at what people use to cook food, at power levels high enough to induce current flow from a distance. I agree that there's cause for concern.
I've been modded Troll? Come on, people that work around microwave antennas do have higher incidences of cancers. The cooking properties of microwaves were discovered by accident.
It's a genuine concern, and I was just addressing it rather light-heartedly. I've done science fair projects on EMF effects on plants, and I have observed differences in growth patterns; there is an observable effect on biological systems. The risks are real, and there should be more study before they start beaming out microwaves that can power homes.