Seems like overkill, but I guess you might want to be able to logically connect your toaster to your bedroom lights so that toast would be ready some predetermined time after you wake up in the morning.
I totally agree. This is why I still like having a Nintendo system around. I keep my Playstation 2 for racing sims, which I want to be as realistic as possible, but in general, Nintendo tends to focus on making their games fun first, realistic second (if at all).
Most people tend to dismiss Nintendo's stuff as more kid-oriented (and thus not worth looking at) because of this, but I disagree. Just because kids like to watch cartoons doesn't mean all cartoony games are just for kids. I still have fun playing them.
theforce.net is currently dispelling the rumor. Apparently, they actually talked to Lucasfilm.
From their web site:
We just got off the phone with Jeanne Cole from Lucasfilm. As many of you know, many places are reporting that the title to Episode II is "Rise of the Empire". All of this originated from a report from an Australian newspaper that credited "inside sources".
When we talked to Jeanne, she had actually just become aware of the report. She says they are calling it what everyone else is calling it - Episode II. She said, "At this point it is still Star Wars - Episode II."
It's great that we've got all these "real" programming languages to use, but doesn't the average kid need something a little simpler?
IIRC, the official development environment that you get with a Mindstorms set is built around an ActiveX component that you use with a drag-and-drop Windows interface. Seems pretty easy.
(is there a Z80 in the machine then, or is it software emulation on the ARM?)
No, there doesn't appear to be either. This story at IGNPocket says that they shrunk the whole original Gameboy into a single chip that plays old games. The relevant passage:
Built into the Game Boy Advance's circuitry is a single chip - engineers have shrunk the Game Boy Color chipset into a single chip. When you plug an original Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge into the Game Boy Advance, the Game Boy Advance will check to see what type of game it is. If it recognizes the cartridge as a Game Boy or Game Boy Color title, the system will boot up as a Game Boy Color.
Why do so many people think CGI has something to do with computer graphics? You can't combine the acronyms SGI (Silicon Graphics International, a company that makes powerful graphics computers) with CG (Computer Generated/Graphics). It doesn't work. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and it's the way web pages can be made dynamic by altering the URLs sent to the server. It has absolutely nothing to do with computer graphics. What would the "I" stand for?
In this context, I've always thought it was "Computer Generated Imagery".
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While I appreciate the conversion for those of us north of said border, this is marijuana we're talking about, so "2 kilos" works just fine.
I think this one Deals Dogfish, Dockside.
Did anybody else try googling 'wikiality' last night, notice there were 0 hits, then try again today and see that there are (as yet) "about 209,000"?
No? Just me? Ah, well, worth a shot...
Seems like overkill, but I guess you might want to be able to logically connect your toaster to your bedroom lights so that toast would be ready some predetermined time after you wake up in the morning.
Sweet; we'll become lazier than ever.
I totally agree. This is why I still like having a Nintendo system around. I keep my Playstation 2 for racing sims, which I want to be as realistic as possible, but in general, Nintendo tends to focus on making their games fun first, realistic second (if at all).
Most people tend to dismiss Nintendo's stuff as more kid-oriented (and thus not worth looking at) because of this, but I disagree. Just because kids like to watch cartoons doesn't mean all cartoony games are just for kids. I still have fun playing them.
theforce.net is currently dispelling the rumor. Apparently, they actually talked to Lucasfilm.
From their web site:
IIRC, the official development environment that you get with a Mindstorms set is built around an ActiveX component that you use with a drag-and-drop Windows interface. Seems pretty easy.
No, there doesn't appear to be either. This story at IGNPocket says that they shrunk the whole original Gameboy into a single chip that plays old games. The relevant passage:
Built into the Game Boy Advance's circuitry is a single chip - engineers have shrunk the Game Boy Color chipset into a single chip. When you plug an original Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge into the Game Boy Advance, the Game Boy Advance will check to see what type of game it is. If it recognizes the cartridge as a Game Boy or Game Boy Color title, the system will boot up as a Game Boy Color.
In this context, I've always thought it was "Computer Generated Imagery".
Actually, Bruce is right on this one. Here's what Webster's Third International Dictionary says (in part) about their verb forms:
So, there's a subtle difference, but Bruce said:
You can rewrite that last bit to sayI don't normally use the word this way, but it's perfectly legal.