Once upon a time, there was SEGA and the DreamCast (and Sega Saturn and megadrive/genesis). There was also NEC and the Pc-Engine/turbografx and the PC-FX. SNK and the Neo-Geo also.
I agree with you all the ethical console manufacturers have died. Just wanted to point out there was a time when we had ethical console makers.
A compromise can be found by buying the modern console you seek second-hand, so you don't support them directly.
We need the 21% oxygen to burn our food inside our bodies, which gives us energy to move and live. The plants need the carbon dioxyde to synthetize organic matter, ie. to build themselves. It's a building block they pull from the air.
Thus, the needed percentage of carbon dioxyde for plants is way less than the oxygen needed for animals (who consume a lot of energy).
On a side note, plants also use oxygen like we do, just way,way less.
Same game by two teams who wanted to exploit their hardware to the maximum. The results reflect the hardware differences : X360 displays more enemies on screen and effects. PS3 does better lighting.
Choose your favourite, but stop the fanboy rant. We're talking about games, not visual demos.
Indeed. Once the ATARI ST was launched, Jack left the reins to his sons. They coasted for 7 years with basicly the same hardware as on launch day. When Jack realized the damage done, he made the company leave the home computer market and launched the Jaguar game console. We know how it turned out.
Full scale helicopters also take massive advantage of ground effect - many helicopters struggle to hover out of ground effect at gross weight. Watch any light piston helicopter take off, and you'll see it lifts into a ground effect hover, then flies in ground effect until it's in translational lift and then some before actually climbing out.
You do not fully understand what you are otherwise accurately describing. Full scale helicopters do not "take advantage" of ground effect. It is actually a hindrance that reduces its flight capacity. The reason is that the helicopter is caught inside its own turbulences. As long as the aircraft is within the ground effect, its flight performances are degraded.
You can find a real-life account of this phenomena, in books such as "Chickenhawk" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(book) by Robert Mason or "Centaur Flights" by Richard Spalding for example.
That really is a big difference between the US & a lot of other countries - you can truly become an American, no matter where you're from. It's not just words, people really do accept immigrants (despite the anti immigrant rhetoric which is so much in the news) in a way that I haven't seen in say, France or the UK. Third generation immigrants still don't seem to be a part of French society;
"Sarkozy is the son of Pál István Ern Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa[5] (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál [nboti arkøzi pal] ( listen); in some sources Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál István Ern),[6] a Hungarian aristocrat, and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah (b. Paris, 12 October 1925), whose Greek Jewish father converted to Catholicism to marry her French Catholic mother."
Because the 360 is region locked and we don't feel like importing from the other side of the world via FedEx + custom tax another 360 regularly because it RRoDs or is simply bricked by Microsoft themselves ?
I'm talking about absolutely genuine, untampered with consoles here. See 1st gen 360 and the 1GB DVD extension update.
Absolutely. Every time I write Maxwell's equation, I 'see' the special relativity in it. While my co-students who didn't study relativity don't. I feel they're missing on an important aspect of the physics of electromagnetism.
Speaking of which, what always amaze me is that Maxwell's equations, written half a century before Einstein's special relativity, are actually fully compatible with it. You need not modify them to work with special relativity like you would, for example, kinetic energy. Special relativity is 'engrained' inside Maxwell's equations.
And what truely blew my mind is the revelation that the Magnetic field is just a relativistic effect of the Electrical field. See Pr. Feynman's Physics Course for a detailed explanation.
As did Unreal Tournament on the DreamCast. Together with VGA out, Ethernet NIC (Broadband adapter), and the ability to play with/against PC players on the maps in common between the two versions. Nothing short of amazing.
"Planetary magnetic fields (...) also act as a shield against high energy cosmic rays"
_Magnetic fields can only deviate charged particules _Cosmic Rays are electromagnetic radiation, they have no charge.
Then how can planetary magnetic field serve as shield against cosmic rays ? There must be a side-effect that would explain it, does anyone care to explain please ?
The US courts have found M$ guilty of abusing its monopoly. It is a fact. M$ appealed. They were condemned in appeal too.
Along the way the world was treated to very damning e-mails, declarations, B Gates memos, etc from inside M$.
Excuse me if I don't find the question 'is M$ abusing its monopoly ?' worthy of debate, such as your post implies. It is an established fact (findings of law), that did lead to a guilty verdict TWICE.
The Atari ST was usable within 3 seconds of pushing the reset button or the power switch. It only needed the time to check if the floppy boot sector was executable (it would then run the floppy) before giving you access to the full fledged GUI OS that was the combo TOS/GEM.
If only it could play PS2 games, I would be more tempted to acquire one. I play in progrssive scan since the DreamCast, and would like to try some of the best games that the PS2 has.
But I'm afraid for Sony that PC-based emulators will get enough power with quad-cores CPU to run PS2 games flawlessly before they manage to provide a back-compatible PS3 again.
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Once upon a time, there was SEGA and the DreamCast (and Sega Saturn and megadrive/genesis). There was also NEC and the Pc-Engine/turbografx and the PC-FX. SNK and the Neo-Geo also.
I agree with you all the ethical console manufacturers have died. Just wanted to point out there was a time when we had ethical console makers.
A compromise can be found by buying the modern console you seek second-hand, so you don't support them directly.
We need the 21% oxygen to burn our food inside our bodies, which gives us energy to move and live.
The plants need the carbon dioxyde to synthetize organic matter, ie. to build themselves. It's a building block they pull from the air.
Thus, the needed percentage of carbon dioxyde for plants is way less than the oxygen needed for animals (who consume a lot of energy).
On a side note, plants also use oxygen like we do, just way,way less.
Youtube link of said documentary : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbLyVpWsVM
No, you shut the fuck up, since you started with the insults.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ninjagaiden2-faceoff-article
Same game by two teams who wanted to exploit their hardware to the maximum.
The results reflect the hardware differences :
X360 displays more enemies on screen and effects.
PS3 does better lighting.
Choose your favourite, but stop the fanboy rant. We're talking about games, not visual demos.
Indeed. Once the ATARI ST was launched, Jack left the reins to his sons.
They coasted for 7 years with basicly the same hardware as on launch day.
When Jack realized the damage done, he made the company leave the home computer market and launched the Jaguar game console.
We know how it turned out.
Full scale helicopters also take massive advantage of ground effect - many helicopters struggle to hover out of ground effect at gross weight. Watch any light piston helicopter take off, and you'll see it lifts into a ground effect hover, then flies in ground effect until it's in translational lift and then some before actually climbing out.
You do not fully understand what you are otherwise accurately describing.
Full scale helicopters do not "take advantage" of ground effect. It is actually a hindrance that reduces its flight capacity.
The reason is that the helicopter is caught inside its own turbulences.
As long as the aircraft is within the ground effect, its flight performances are degraded.
You can find a real-life account of this phenomena, in books such as "Chickenhawk" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(book) by Robert Mason or "Centaur Flights" by Richard Spalding for example.
That really is a big difference between the US & a lot of other countries - you can truly become an American, no matter where you're from. It's not just words, people really do accept immigrants (despite the anti immigrant rhetoric which is so much in the news) in a way that I haven't seen in say, France or the UK. Third generation immigrants still don't seem to be a part of French society;
Then I'd like you to explain how this son of immigrant managed to become president of France, if what you say isn't bullshit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy#Family_background
"Sarkozy is the son of Pál István Ern Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa[5] (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál [nboti arkøzi pal] ( listen); in some sources Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál István Ern),[6] a Hungarian aristocrat, and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah (b. Paris, 12 October 1925), whose Greek Jewish father converted to Catholicism to marry her French Catholic mother."
He's already demonstrated that he "can", which means he's ineligible to teach.
Pr. Richard Feynman begs to disagree ...
Pr. Albert "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" Einstein begs to disagree too ...
DX11 games ? (Vista/7 combo)
"Let me know how that USB 3 support is working or more than 4 gigs of ram on your XP box"
Win 2003 server x64 works well with my 16 gigs of RAM and USB3 motherboard.
Because the 360 is region locked and we don't feel like importing from the other side of the world via FedEx + custom tax another 360 regularly because it RRoDs or is simply bricked by Microsoft themselves ?
I'm talking about absolutely genuine, untampered with consoles here. See 1st gen 360 and the 1GB DVD extension update.
Absolutely.
Every time I write Maxwell's equation, I 'see' the special relativity in it.
While my co-students who didn't study relativity don't. I feel they're missing on an important aspect of the physics of electromagnetism.
Speaking of which, what always amaze me is that Maxwell's equations, written half a century before Einstein's special relativity, are actually fully compatible with it.
You need not modify them to work with special relativity like you would, for example, kinetic energy.
Special relativity is 'engrained' inside Maxwell's equations.
And what truely blew my mind is the revelation that the Magnetic field is just a relativistic effect of the Electrical field. See Pr. Feynman's Physics Course for a detailed explanation.
In the comments relative to running Quake 3 on the Raspberry Pi, they state the OS running in the video is Debian.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=106#comments
As did Unreal Tournament on the DreamCast.
Together with VGA out, Ethernet NIC (Broadband adapter), and the ability to play with/against PC players on the maps in common between the two versions.
Nothing short of amazing.
While I can't comment directly on XP64, Win 2003 server x64 (XP code base) runs fine.
You get 64-bit support and win XP. Best of both worlds.
This part of the article strikes me as odd :
"Planetary magnetic fields (...) also act as a shield against high energy cosmic rays"
_Magnetic fields can only deviate charged particules
_Cosmic Rays are electromagnetic radiation, they have no charge.
Then how can planetary magnetic field serve as shield against cosmic rays ?
There must be a side-effect that would explain it, does anyone care to explain please ?
It seems that you are unaware of the advantage of having a standardized graphics subsystem.
This allows you to extract much more power from a given hardware (Console) than when you have to support different architectures (PC).
Which makes the direct comparison console gpu specs to PC gpu specs an incorrect move.
The US courts have found M$ guilty of abusing its monopoly.
It is a fact.
M$ appealed.
They were condemned in appeal too.
Along the way the world was treated to very damning e-mails, declarations, B Gates memos, etc from inside M$.
Excuse me if I don't find the question 'is M$ abusing its monopoly ?' worthy of debate, such as your post implies.
It is an established fact (findings of law), that did lead to a guilty verdict TWICE.
"a pilot's first storm could bring hardening experience or crushing defeat."
The crew was described as very experienced, with the captain having logged 11,000 hours flight time.
Where is the ED-209 tag when you need it ?
Mod parent up !
The Atari ST was usable within 3 seconds of pushing the reset button or the power switch.
It only needed the time to check if the floppy boot sector was executable (it would then run the floppy) before giving you access to the full fledged GUI OS that was the combo TOS/GEM.
Just to clarify :
Nokia acquired TrollTech.
Nokia then decided to license QT under the LGPL, it wasn't a decision made by TrollTech while they were still independent
Which is why you should have bought a display device that doesn't not have a tuner built-in.
Like, for example, a video projector or a video monitor.
If only it could play PS2 games, I would be more tempted to acquire one.
I play in progrssive scan since the DreamCast, and would like to try some of the best games that the PS2 has.
But I'm afraid for Sony that PC-based emulators will get enough power with quad-cores CPU to run PS2 games flawlessly before they manage to provide a back-compatible PS3 again.