April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bausch & Lomb Inc., the maker of a contact lens cleaner linked to a dangerous eye infection, withdrew the product from the U.S. market and offered refunds to consumers.
Wearers of contact lenses shouldn't use ReNu with MoistureLoc while the outbreak is being investigated, Rochester, New York- based Bausch & Lomb said today in a statement. The company asked retailers to remove the solution from shelves, a step already taken by many drug and department stores.
Having been involved in game design projects before, yes I do think it's possible. Let's put it this way: there are 3 major screen ratios in the world, 4:3 (TV, CRT), 16:9 (the new widescreen standard) and 16:10 (some computers-only bastardisation to keep LCD costs lower or something)
In most games you just render off to the side a little more. You space out your HUD. Since the viewport in 3D games is set out by 2 or 3 procedural functions, this is very very very trivial coding.
Why use a fixed list of resolutions? That is down to usability and user friendliness. If you listed every resolution that a graphics card claimed to support, or a monitor with broken DDC supported, or some variation on a theme, there would be a 100-entry list just for the resolutions (a great example here; go get Black and White 2, which asks DirectDraw what resolutions it can support. If your DDC monitor works, it shows all the resolutions it DOES support. If you are using Component output on a HDTV or so, you are presented with a 62 item list of very esoteric and probably unsupported display modes).
Most games present a preset or filtered list with the most common screen modes in, so that you can pick out the one you want.
Since I know Half-Life 2, Doom 3 (after a bunch of patches) and Quake 4 (also after a bunch of patches but broken in the latest patch in a potentially monitor-damaging way. I wonder how the f**k they did THAT though??) can do it, I wonder why other games companies can't.
Yeah I have HL2. It's great apart from the chat font in the Steam UI being way way way too tiny to read from 6 feet away on a CRT HDTV. And having no way to change it except for hacking resource files..
I find it sickening that modern games do not support what should be standard screen resolutions.
All console games these days have widescreen support. It is not hard to do.
In this HDTV age, why don't games support the standard HDTV resolutions, too? 720x480, 720x576, 1280x720, 1920x1080 - it's not hard is it? How hard is it to populate an array with some other options?
How many of them qualified what they meant by "trust" - did the survey qualify it?
Trust to produce a quality product?
Trust with your details?
Trust with your life?:)
Microsoft makes much more visible, complicated products. If you have a bad experience (for instance with a Netgear router) you may say you don't trust that company again and never buy any DIFFERENT products even though faults are unrelated.
Windows is obviously more prone to failure than a pair of noise-cancelling headphones or a MiniDisc player.
And of course when your Sony Vaio explodes, it's Microsoft's fault - right?:)
That's kind of neat in principle. It doesn't really work in real life though - static screenshots are awesome until you put them on your monitor and move them.
Makes you glad all the "new" games are all 3D and can be graphically enhanced like Halo/Halo 2 on the XBox/XBox 360.
Blurring it up with a bilinear filter makes it look worse on a big TV or monitor; eye strain the same way you get with Ocarina of Time being blown up to 480p..
"Universal Studios Home Entertainment has completely stopped producing UMD movies, according to executives who asked not to be identified by name. Said one high-ranking exec: "It's awful. Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb -- like Blu-ray.""
Would say a lot more if Universal were backing BD-ROM at all but having a real executive state an opinion is good.
The thing here being that Nintendo probably only plan to release those 150 games.
Nintendo don't HAVE access to a large back catalogue of games. Other people own them; other games companies. They can negotiate to release them but seriously, we are gonna get the Mario games (I hope Mario Allstars ones and not the NES ones) and the original Nintendo classics and a bunch that Nintendo have vied for, but not much else.
We are certainly not getting the whole 7000-title swathe ever released on any Nintendo console ready to buy. They will cherry pick the popular ones.
Unfortunately this means we will miss out on Blast Corps, and possibly Goldeneye/Perfect Dark, because Nintendo own them. But who gives a shit if they don't offer Battletoads?
But 480p isn't dual 1080p at 120Hz like the PS3 can do, so it must be complete shit!!!!1
I have an HDTV and seriously just having the big screen and the higher dot pitch makes it worthwhile playing PS2 and Gamecube games compared to a standard TV. The better color definition from the component output gives a new lease of life to Metroid Prime, and even We 3 Katamari.
People forget that most people are running the older consoles through Composite or S-Video to their TV and haven't seen crystal clarity, bright colors, with no wavy lines or crawling. Moving to a SD progressive scan TV is awesome. Moving to an HDTV even at that "low resolution" is just as awesome.
I will say something though.. I am a little worried about Virtual Console on TVs that can actually support HD inputs, nice clear screens, especially TFTs - the golden era of NES, SNES and N64 games that were running at 320x240 look absolutely terrible 32" wide with pixels the size of a baseball. Playing games like Ocarina of Time on the Gamecube (came free with Wind Waker) is so muddy and gross. Walking around the market place to the cathedral, with the static backgrounds, rolling around on Epona and having a green swathe of poo scroll past.. it looked great on a 14" fishbowl portable TV set but I couldn't even get past the first few quests in progressive scan.
I don't think they will be #1 - not in terms of console sales at least, or in terms of retail games which is what the industry counts.
Microsoft are doing well with Arcade in a way I think they thought wasn't possible. But at the end of the day Arcade game sales don't count in the retail game charts and these ratings. You are going to see MS Live Arcade go head to head with Virtual Console and nobody being the "official" winner. But MS will sell more retail games as a whole, apart from when Nintendo brings out a first or second party game.
Then you see the game charts: Zelda or Metroid Prime at the top of the top 10 for six weeks, and the rest of the games shuffling back and forth on the PS2 and Xbox underneath it.
I know a couple guys who are "professional students" (read: professional potheads living off bank loans) and all they do all day is play Final Fantasy Tactics. On the Playstation 2. This is not a game that even needs a Playstation 2 to play! It's a classic PSOne game.
Nintendo are going to roll in the money from these guys.
Then there is my little brother who has always gotten consoles a year behind me. He gets the console and one game; and then is usually banned from spending his money on games for the forseeable future. Birthday and Christmas he gets a new game or so, but it's a long slog. After spending hundreds of dollars on the box, parents don't want to spend THOUSANDS of dollars a year on their gaming habit.
But you can bet that a $250 toy for the kids and 18-24 university students.. not plugged into the HDTV in the living room but relegated to a bedroom, or an efficiency/studio apartment playing such simple games, is going to be a godsend to these guys.
Why spend the money on a $500 console when a $250 one plays the games you want to play?
Why spend $500 on Billy's christmas present with zero games, when you can buy him a $250 one and load his "Nintendo Virtual Console Card" up with credit for him to buy any games he wants, for much better value for money?
Why buy the HD pack (hard disk, wireless controller etc.) if you don't have an HDTV? Nintendo are counting on this too. Cynical people might consider this pandering to the kids market again, but in reality they are right. HD games look shit on a 480p screen. Have you tried playing Half-Life 2 in 640x480? Far Cry? God Forbid you want something with a menu (Homeworld 2 springs to mind but any strategy game would do).
NOT ONLY THAT but Revolution plays Gamecube games. If the Revo games are going to be $45.99 or so, and Gamecube ones are $20 "best ofs" or relegated to second hand bargain bins, these guys are going to be in heaven. But these games also don't count towards retail sales.
UWB has signal range like wireless - in the tens to hundreds of feet. Easily across the house. Freescale have demonstrated the OTHER UWB standard (UWB Forum) streaming MPEG2 video from one device (a home theater box) to a UWB TV. It was really quite neat.
Hopefully adopting the WiMedia version and using Bluetooth as the remote control method of choice (why not control your TV and media center from your mobile phone, even?:) won't be too hard for them.
Most people I know with a Quad G5 only throw 2GB into it anyway. Much more is prohibitively expensive right now, specially on top of a $3000 box, and really 2GB is still a lot of memory to throw at a machine these days. I think I know a guy with a dual G5 and he put 2.5GB into it for some reason (seems an odd value to me).
The lower end PowerMac models have always had a lower memory limit than the top end models. I recall it being 3GB and 8GB at one time, maybe nowadays it is all 16GB? But it was used to differentiate between models. I don't think Apple have any scruples against it (it is after all the same northbridges in the entire range, the limit is actually down to something innocuous like firmware)
Google are paying me money (by cheque) this month for ad clicks from my site, because I have a 120x600 skyscraper and a search box which I signed up for an account to get, and had their little web page generate some Javascript (with my account UID) to print it there every visit.
How is having a search box on my website, having Google index the page for values so it can display adverts, and paying me for that advertisement privilege (i.e. I get paid for clickthroughs and searches), any different to having Mozilla pop up a search box in it's start page, and every search from google.com/firefox being logged? So that Google can add a couple cents to Mozilla's account? It isn't AdSense but it's the same principle applied.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&si d=adOW2nqhjEKE&refer=us
April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bausch & Lomb Inc., the maker of a contact lens cleaner linked to a dangerous eye infection, withdrew the product from the U.S. market and offered refunds to consumers.
Wearers of contact lenses shouldn't use ReNu with MoistureLoc while the outbreak is being investigated, Rochester, New York- based Bausch & Lomb said today in a statement. The company asked retailers to remove the solution from shelves, a step already taken by many drug and department stores.
They add acetaminophen and aspirin to the opiate because it increases the effect of the opiate.
Distill out the hydrocodone from a vicodin and take it and you'll be sorely disappointed..
Of course you know what this means.. did anyone think of this just now?
Even for a big game, on a modest cable modem connection, it'll be downloaded
in 10 seconds flat.
Isn't that service!?
I work for a Power.org member, so maybe I am biased, but I think OpenSPARC is one of the best things Sun has ever done.
But it's no way as cool as the Solaris port to PowerPC.
Sun is involved in both, you see!
So who cares? They're both right.
Having been involved in game design projects before, yes I do think it's possible. Let's put it this way: there are 3 major screen ratios in the world, 4:3 (TV, CRT), 16:9 (the new widescreen standard) and 16:10 (some computers-only bastardisation to keep LCD costs lower or something)
In most games you just render off to the side a little more. You space out your HUD. Since the viewport in 3D games is set out by 2 or 3 procedural functions, this is very very very trivial coding.
Why use a fixed list of resolutions? That is down to usability and user friendliness. If you listed every resolution that a graphics card claimed to support, or a monitor with broken DDC supported, or some variation on a theme, there would be a 100-entry list just for the resolutions (a great example here; go get Black and White 2, which asks DirectDraw what resolutions it can support. If your DDC monitor works, it shows all the resolutions it DOES support. If you are using Component output on a HDTV or so, you are presented with a 62 item list of very esoteric and probably unsupported display modes).
Most games present a preset or filtered list with the most common screen modes in, so that you can pick out the one you want.
Since I know Half-Life 2, Doom 3 (after a bunch of patches) and Quake 4 (also after a bunch of patches but broken in the latest patch in a potentially monitor-damaging way. I wonder how the f**k they did THAT though??) can do it, I wonder why other games companies can't.
Yeah I have HL2. It's great apart from the chat font in the Steam UI being way way way too tiny to read from 6 feet away on a CRT HDTV. And having no way to change it except for hacking resource files..
I find it sickening that modern games do not support what should be standard screen resolutions.
All console games these days have widescreen support. It is not hard to do.
In this HDTV age, why don't games support the standard HDTV resolutions, too? 720x480, 720x576, 1280x720, 1920x1080 - it's not hard is it? How hard is it to populate an array with some other options?
How many of them qualified what they meant by "trust" - did the survey qualify it?
:)
:)
Trust to produce a quality product?
Trust with your details?
Trust with your life?
Microsoft makes much more visible, complicated products. If you have a bad experience (for instance with a Netgear router) you may say you don't trust that company again and never buy any DIFFERENT products even though faults are unrelated.
Windows is obviously more prone to failure than a pair of noise-cancelling headphones or a MiniDisc player.
And of course when your Sony Vaio explodes, it's Microsoft's fault - right?
That's kind of neat in principle. It doesn't really work in real life though - static screenshots are awesome until you put them on your monitor and move them.
Makes you glad all the "new" games are all 3D and can be graphically enhanced like Halo/Halo 2 on the XBox/XBox 360.
Blurring it up with a bilinear filter makes it look worse on a big TV or monitor; eye strain the same way you get with Ocarina of Time being blown up to 480p..
http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=41 36
"Universal Studios Home Entertainment has completely stopped producing UMD movies, according to executives who asked not to be identified by name. Said one high-ranking exec: "It's awful. Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb -- like Blu-ray.""
Would say a lot more if Universal were backing BD-ROM at all but having a real executive state an opinion is good.
Nope.
;)
But they are not going to have *EVERY* Sega Genesis game on it.
You're gonna get Sonic in every incarnation, a bunch of real Sega classics. A lot of *SEGA* games.
Not a 4000-title Genesis library encompassing every damn game, old, new, rare or popular.
Just (maybe) 50 or so really good ones. I would be surprised, for example, if you ever got to play
Zero Wing on Revolution
The thing here being that Nintendo probably only plan to release those 150 games.
Nintendo don't HAVE access to a large back catalogue of games. Other people own them; other games companies. They can negotiate to release them but seriously, we are gonna get the Mario games (I hope Mario Allstars ones and not the NES ones) and the original Nintendo classics and a bunch that Nintendo have vied for, but not much else.
We are certainly not getting the whole 7000-title swathe ever released on any Nintendo console ready to buy. They will cherry pick the popular ones.
Unfortunately this means we will miss out on Blast Corps, and possibly Goldeneye/Perfect Dark, because Nintendo own them. But who gives a shit if they don't offer Battletoads?
It will output 480p according to Nintendo.
But 480p isn't dual 1080p at 120Hz like the PS3 can do, so it must be complete shit!!!!1
I have an HDTV and seriously just having the big screen and the higher dot pitch makes
it worthwhile playing PS2 and Gamecube games compared to a standard TV. The better color
definition from the component output gives a new lease of life to Metroid Prime, and even We 3 Katamari.
People forget that most people are running the older consoles through Composite or S-Video to their TV and haven't seen crystal clarity, bright colors, with no wavy lines or crawling. Moving to a SD progressive scan TV is awesome. Moving to an HDTV even at that
"low resolution" is just as awesome.
I will say something though.. I am a little worried about Virtual Console on TVs that can actually support HD inputs, nice clear screens, especially TFTs - the golden era of NES, SNES and N64 games that were running at 320x240 look absolutely terrible 32" wide with pixels the size of a baseball. Playing games like Ocarina of Time on the Gamecube (came free with Wind Waker) is so muddy and gross. Walking around the market place to the cathedral, with the static backgrounds, rolling around on Epona and having a green swathe of poo scroll past.. it looked great on a 14" fishbowl portable TV set but I couldn't even get past the first few quests in progressive scan.
I don't think they will be #1 - not in terms of console sales at least, or in terms of retail games which is what the industry counts.
Microsoft are doing well with Arcade in a way I think they thought wasn't possible. But at the end of the day Arcade game sales don't count in the retail game charts and these ratings. You are going to see MS Live Arcade go head to head with Virtual Console and nobody being the "official" winner. But MS will sell more retail games as a whole, apart from when Nintendo brings out a first or second party game.
Then you see the game charts: Zelda or Metroid Prime at the top of the top 10 for six weeks, and the rest of the games shuffling back and forth on the PS2 and Xbox underneath it.
I know a couple guys who are "professional students" (read: professional potheads living off bank loans) and all they do all day is play Final Fantasy Tactics. On the Playstation 2. This is not a game that even needs a Playstation 2 to play! It's a classic PSOne game.
Nintendo are going to roll in the money from these guys.
Then there is my little brother who has always gotten consoles a year behind me. He gets the console and one game; and then is usually banned from spending his money on games for the forseeable future. Birthday and Christmas he gets a new game or so, but it's a long slog. After spending hundreds of dollars on the box, parents don't want to spend THOUSANDS of dollars a year on their gaming habit.
But you can bet that a $250 toy for the kids and 18-24 university students.. not plugged into the HDTV in the living room but relegated to a bedroom, or an efficiency/studio apartment playing such simple games, is going to be a godsend to these guys.
Why spend the money on a $500 console when a $250 one plays the games you want to play?
Why spend $500 on Billy's christmas present with zero games, when you can buy him a $250 one and load his "Nintendo Virtual Console Card" up with credit for him to buy any games he wants, for much better value for money?
Why buy the HD pack (hard disk, wireless controller etc.) if you don't have an HDTV? Nintendo are counting on this too. Cynical people might consider this pandering to the kids market again, but in reality they are right. HD games look shit on a 480p screen. Have you tried playing Half-Life 2 in 640x480? Far Cry? God Forbid you want something with a menu (Homeworld 2 springs to mind but any strategy game would do).
NOT ONLY THAT but Revolution plays Gamecube games. If the Revo games are going to be $45.99 or so, and Gamecube ones are $20 "best ofs" or relegated to second hand bargain bins, these guys are going to be in heaven. But these games also don't count towards retail sales.
UWB has signal range like wireless - in the tens to hundreds of feet. Easily across the house. Freescale have demonstrated the OTHER UWB standard (UWB Forum) streaming MPEG2 video from one device (a home theater box) to a UWB TV. It was really quite neat.
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:) won't be too hard for them.
http://www.audioholics.com/news/pressreleases/Hai
Hopefully adopting the WiMedia version and using Bluetooth as the remote control method of choice (why not control your TV and media center from your mobile phone, even?
That would have been mentioned and linked at the bottom of the article;
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Most people I know with a Quad G5 only throw 2GB into it anyway. Much more is prohibitively expensive right now, specially on top of a $3000 box, and really 2GB is still a lot of memory to throw at a machine these days. I think I know a guy with a dual G5 and he put 2.5GB into it for some reason (seems an odd value to me).
The lower end PowerMac models have always had a lower memory limit than the top end models. I recall it being 3GB and 8GB at one time, maybe nowadays it is all 16GB? But it was used to differentiate between models. I don't think Apple have any scruples against it (it is after all the same northbridges in the entire range, the limit is actually down to something innocuous like firmware)
XServe then?
It has potential for a serious budget offering. Perhaps a cheap Apple workstation for once..
Xeon LV supports SMP.. I think that is the only difference.
Now it's been released I wonder if Apple are going to put out a PowerMac based on it..
But the shuttle uses hydrogen and oxygen to get into space. That's what's in the orange foam-clad tank.
The SRB's (the little white ones) use aluminium and ammonium perchlorate.
No oil there.
For manuevering the shuttle burns hydrazine and oxygen (there was a big fuss when Columbia crashed as hydrazine is pretty toxic)
Not gasoline, not even kerosene. Why is fighting over oil affecting then again?
As cute as most of The Doctor's companions are/were, she's not got a wrist computer has she?!
Now you can have the best Leela costume ever!
I don't care what they call me.
The point is not terminology but EVERY TIME SOMEONE SEARCHES FROM MY SEARCH BOX, THEY PAY ME. And I'm asking what's the diff with Mozilla?
Google are paying me money (by cheque) this month for ad clicks from my site, because I have a 120x600 skyscraper and a search box which I signed up for an account to get, and had their little web page generate some Javascript (with my account UID) to print it there every visit.
If someone uses it I get a couple cents or so.
It's called AdSense.
https://www.google.com/adsense/?hl=en_GB
How is having a search box on my website, having Google index the page for values so it can display adverts, and paying me for that advertisement privilege (i.e. I get paid for clickthroughs and searches), any different to having Mozilla pop up a search box in it's start page, and every search from google.com/firefox being logged? So that Google can add a couple cents to Mozilla's account? It isn't AdSense but it's the same principle applied.