Yeah, that came up on Slashdot quite a while ago... I seem to recall that it only works with a very specific type of microwave (one that doesn't have a fan in it to scatter the microwaves - they're very rare, only found in really old ones).
It was the fungal forests cleaning up the pollution (by purifying the soil) - the bugs were just there to protect the forects and to spread the forests using spores on their bodies.
RTFP, and RTFA. It will be commercially available for 50 pounds - this is also a proper game, not just a government tool. So if you cough up the dough, presumably you can muck around with it all you want.
Mind you, a lot of Chrono Trigger's music was done by Yasunori Mitsuda, not Nobuo Uematsu (who did all the music for this particular concert). And I like Mitsuda's work better:). Mitsuda's work can also be found in Chrono Cross, Xenogears, and Xenosaga.
Better yet, send good old fashioned snail mail to your Representatives or Senators themselves. Best thing you can do if you're not rich enough to afford lobbyists.
Erm, actually, the PSOne *is* portable with the battery pack and LCD add-ons. Sure, those are expensive, but I'm willing to bet not as expensive as the N-Gage started out ($299). I would agree with you on point seven, however - they really shouldn't be speculating like that (and if they are, it's a crime to not even mention the mysterious Nintendo DS).
It might be because the program is trying to dither/use the optimal 256- (or 16-) color palette. I remember similar stuff happening to me the last time I tried to use GIFs... then I discovered the PNG format, and it didn't matter any longer.
Not likely - the WINE folks could just show some code from before the leak with the "similar routines" included. That said, they'd have to find a way to *prove* that it came from before.
For the clueless - Detritus is a zombie enlisted in the Watch of the city of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. Presumably the helmet would be used to keep his already dead brain from decaying further.
The trouble would be keeping the camera pointed down and steady, I imagine - the pigeon beating its wings would make the image bounce a lot. Maybe if you could get the camera to trail behind this effect would be minimized.
I'll bite the troll. *chomp*. It's because this deals with spam, which clogs the Internet and has grown to outnumber legitimate email. As such, the Defenders of the Internet (i.e. us, the Slashdot nerds) have banded together to gripe about it, and we're excited whenever somebody actually gets up off of his/her arse and does something about it.
its seems possible that at least one member of the Halo team, or someone close to them, is actually celebrating this - because somebody with access to the PC version pirated it and put it on the web something like nine days before the official release.
Funny, yes, but for the love of let's hope they never seriously try something like that... there's enough spam clogging the email arteries without "free music" attachments. Even a 30-second clip (like those on iTunes) adds up to a lot of bandwidth. The good news is of course that this works both ways - it would take quite a lot of bandwidth to *send* that sort of spam.
Math/science *novels*? Do you mean "popular science" books like the works of Sagan and Hawking, or novels that attempt to teach or promote math and science (such as Flatterland or The Number Devil) in a true story format?
Because unlike Wesley Crusher, we're real human beings. I've seen plenty of examples of this - for example, the game Alpha Centauri predicted that we wouldn't finish the Human Genome Project until far into the future (when in fact it was completed within years of the game's release).
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The likely reason for needing to install the drivers to use it is that this discourages you from casually going to a friend's house, plugging in the Dell device, and copying over your friend's 3GBs of MP3s onto it. If you have to remember to bring the CD with you, it's that much more likely that you won't bother.
Actually, it only came with a very specific release of Windows 95 (the version that added limited USB support), so a number of people here wouldn't be familiar with it. It came on my old VAIO PC, though, and I will admit to wasting a great deal of time on it myself. I was only about ten back then, so anything with 3D graphics (however rudimentary) could completely capture my attention.
Not turn it all into gold, just collect those traces of it together...
Besides, if they actual could transform water into gold, gold would be horribly devalued, causing an economic crisis. A lot of gold's value comes from the fact that it is so scarce.
Far more likely, they'll Google linux. And frankly, what comes up right now won't leave the best impression - MyDoom is bad press for linux, and it's currently the top news article involving linux. The sites that show up (such as linux.org) give a too-technical description that's just plain not a good introduction to linux for newbs.
... which is *precisely* why they've added [in amount of releases]. Nobody's claiming that Rare made *good* games during their last years with Nintendo, they just pumped them out at a respectable rate compared to that of, say, Silicon Knights (the only game they've published in the last several years is Eternal Darkness). The trick is to keep them coming that fast, and have them be good, too.
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Yeah, that came up on Slashdot quite a while ago... I seem to recall that it only works with a very specific type of microwave (one that doesn't have a fan in it to scatter the microwaves - they're very rare, only found in really old ones).
It was the fungal forests cleaning up the pollution (by purifying the soil) - the bugs were just there to protect the forects and to spread the forests using spores on their bodies.
RTFP, and RTFA. It will be commercially available for 50 pounds - this is also a proper game, not just a government tool. So if you cough up the dough, presumably you can muck around with it all you want.
Mind you, a lot of Chrono Trigger's music was done by Yasunori Mitsuda, not Nobuo Uematsu (who did all the music for this particular concert). And I like Mitsuda's work better :). Mitsuda's work can also be found in Chrono Cross, Xenogears, and Xenosaga.
I gotta get me some of those bills!
Better yet, send good old fashioned snail mail to your Representatives or Senators themselves. Best thing you can do if you're not rich enough to afford lobbyists.
Erm, actually, the PSOne *is* portable with the battery pack and LCD add-ons. Sure, those are expensive, but I'm willing to bet not as expensive as the N-Gage started out ($299). I would agree with you on point seven, however - they really shouldn't be speculating like that (and if they are, it's a crime to not even mention the mysterious Nintendo DS).
It might be because the program is trying to dither/use the optimal 256- (or 16-) color palette. I remember similar stuff happening to me the last time I tried to use GIFs... then I discovered the PNG format, and it didn't matter any longer.
And DK64 had the full original Donkey Kong in it (as well as Jet Pac). Best part of the game, IMHO.
Seriously, though, if they worked it in as a watermark or into the text itself, probably not.
Not likely - the WINE folks could just show some code from before the leak with the "similar routines" included. That said, they'd have to find a way to *prove* that it came from before.
For the clueless - Detritus is a zombie enlisted in the Watch of the city of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. Presumably the helmet would be used to keep his already dead brain from decaying further.
The trouble would be keeping the camera pointed down and steady, I imagine - the pigeon beating its wings would make the image bounce a lot. Maybe if you could get the camera to trail behind this effect would be minimized.
I'll bite the troll. *chomp*. It's because this deals with spam, which clogs the Internet and has grown to outnumber legitimate email. As such, the Defenders of the Internet (i.e. us, the Slashdot nerds) have banded together to gripe about it, and we're excited whenever somebody actually gets up off of his/her arse and does something about it.
its seems possible that at least one member of the Halo team, or someone close to them, is actually celebrating this - because somebody with access to the PC version pirated it and put it on the web something like nine days before the official release.
Funny, yes, but for the love of let's hope they never seriously try something like that... there's enough spam clogging the email arteries without "free music" attachments. Even a 30-second clip (like those on iTunes) adds up to a lot of bandwidth. The good news is of course that this works both ways - it would take quite a lot of bandwidth to *send* that sort of spam.
Math/science *novels*? Do you mean "popular science" books like the works of Sagan and Hawking, or novels that attempt to teach or promote math and science (such as Flatterland or The Number Devil) in a true story format?
Because unlike Wesley Crusher, we're real human beings. I've seen plenty of examples of this - for example, the game Alpha Centauri predicted that we wouldn't finish the Human Genome Project until far into the future (when in fact it was completed within years of the game's release).
Mind you, it'd have to be the ASCII version.
The likely reason for needing to install the drivers to use it is that this discourages you from casually going to a friend's house, plugging in the Dell device, and copying over your friend's 3GBs of MP3s onto it. If you have to remember to bring the CD with you, it's that much more likely that you won't bother.
Actually, it only came with a very specific release of Windows 95 (the version that added limited USB support), so a number of people here wouldn't be familiar with it. It came on my old VAIO PC, though, and I will admit to wasting a great deal of time on it myself. I was only about ten back then, so anything with 3D graphics (however rudimentary) could completely capture my attention.
Besides, if they actual could transform water into gold, gold would be horribly devalued, causing an economic crisis. A lot of gold's value comes from the fact that it is so scarce.
Far more likely, they'll Google linux. And frankly, what comes up right now won't leave the best impression - MyDoom is bad press for linux, and it's currently the top news article involving linux. The sites that show up (such as linux.org) give a too-technical description that's just plain not a good introduction to linux for newbs.
... which is *precisely* why they've added [in amount of releases]. Nobody's claiming that Rare made *good* games during their last years with Nintendo, they just pumped them out at a respectable rate compared to that of, say, Silicon Knights (the only game they've published in the last several years is Eternal Darkness). The trick is to keep them coming that fast, and have them be good, too.