Orange Box PS3 was supposed to be out about a month ago. It's now due out in December. Really, version that 1Up got to play should going into production any day now if EA want to meet the new release date. The game's engine isn't going to come on leaps and bounds in that sort of time.
Specifically, EA UK. From Wikipedia, their resume:
*Burnout Legends
*Burnout Dominator
*Catwoman
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
*Untitled DICE Project
*PS3 port of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2
In my humble opinion, it was going back and taking the myths and legends which awed us (who the Jedi and Sith had been, how the Empire changed the galaxy) and acting them all out, while giving the prequels few myths and legends of their own to compensate. It made the series feel too much like some self-contained construct, a fantasy world dreamed up in its entirety, with no mysteries that the audience's imaginations could explore. The huge number of links into the "classic" trilogy also destroyed the sense of scale by making it seem like everybody in the series new everybody else. I know about small world networks, but that's not how an epic should feel. So you wound up with something that had all the enormity and mystery of a plastic diorama.
There have been tens to hundreds of those couple-of-dozens, though, none of which have shown any statistically significant ability. That's pretty meaningful. If tens to hundreds of doctors each turned up a couple of dozen patients who saw no benefit from anaesthetic, for example, that'd be conclusive.
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old asshole, but one of my pet peeves with Wikipedia is that 90% of the effort in writing about fiction seems to go into rewriting them in encyclopedia form, which is less useful for somebody trying to find out about those works of fiction than, say, collating background information, analyses and discussions about said fiction. If these rewritings are found to be copyright-infringing derivative works, then it might redirect the Wikipedia's efforts in a more interesting direction.
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I think you get this sort of problem with pretty much every computer which doesn't have filters, it just kicks in sooner with laptops. I'm amazed that even desktops don't have much in the way of removable dust filters. I suppose it's partly planned obsolescence. I actually look up service manuals for my prospective laptop purchases to see how easy it is to clean them out now.
I was using my laptop on my lap a lot over the summer, and to be honest, my thigh was always blocking the air intake on the underside and a fair portion of the laptop's weight was on the battery pack. So I switched to using a TV tray which has a beanbag sort of arrangement underneath, and it's perfectly comfortable for both myself and the laptop. No mousing surface, of course, and the lip on the tray is just high enough to block my DVD drive from opening. You can't have everything, though.
Of course, it's not totally. Microsoft's decision how long the 360 lasts, they've got to ensure publisher support doesn't dry up like it did with the Xbox. I've read in a lot of places that this was down to customers jumping ship to the 360 and the back compatability wasn't really there, so there was no point in developing original Xbox titles. This seems like a good time to bring it up again and ask whether this is reason why the platform was abandoned, or a just-so story.
Returning to Zettl's runner analogy, the vibrating nanotube is akin to a ditch with a constantly changing width.
I really do love the analogies we use to describe quantum-mechanical or relativistic behavior. Even the best ones start off comprehensible but rapidly morph into the deranged land of our most cheese-fuelled nightmares.
The Wikipedia fund drive is to buy servers and so on. So, yes, all the articles do cost money, and Wikipedia has to constantly expand. Of course, some of this is due to bandwidth demand also.
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Orange Box PS3 was supposed to be out about a month ago. It's now due out in December. Really, version that 1Up got to play should going into production any day now if EA want to meet the new release date. The game's engine isn't going to come on leaps and bounds in that sort of time.
(I should point out: the DS version of Burnout Legends, and the DS and PSP versions of Dominator.)
I for one do not welcome our metaphor-mangling CNET overlords.
Done well it's fantastic, definitely. The prequels' tendency to fill in the blanks too completely was my specific annoyance, I guess.
In my humble opinion, it was going back and taking the myths and legends which awed us (who the Jedi and Sith had been, how the Empire changed the galaxy) and acting them all out, while giving the prequels few myths and legends of their own to compensate. It made the series feel too much like some self-contained construct, a fantasy world dreamed up in its entirety, with no mysteries that the audience's imaginations could explore. The huge number of links into the "classic" trilogy also destroyed the sense of scale by making it seem like everybody in the series new everybody else. I know about small world networks, but that's not how an epic should feel. So you wound up with something that had all the enormity and mystery of a plastic diorama.
I tried to get one of our scientific principals to apply himself in the kitchen. He told me to make a new pot of coffee and get back to the lab.
There have been tens to hundreds of those couple-of-dozens, though, none of which have shown any statistically significant ability. That's pretty meaningful. If tens to hundreds of doctors each turned up a couple of dozen patients who saw no benefit from anaesthetic, for example, that'd be conclusive.
Hoist by my own petard! Alas!
Discrete = distinct, seperate. Discreet = subtle, low-key. That is all.
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old asshole, but one of my pet peeves with Wikipedia is that 90% of the effort in writing about fiction seems to go into rewriting them in encyclopedia form, which is less useful for somebody trying to find out about those works of fiction than, say, collating background information, analyses and discussions about said fiction. If these rewritings are found to be copyright-infringing derivative works, then it might redirect the Wikipedia's efforts in a more interesting direction.
I think you get this sort of problem with pretty much every computer which doesn't have filters, it just kicks in sooner with laptops. I'm amazed that even desktops don't have much in the way of removable dust filters. I suppose it's partly planned obsolescence. I actually look up service manuals for my prospective laptop purchases to see how easy it is to clean them out now.
I was using my laptop on my lap a lot over the summer, and to be honest, my thigh was always blocking the air intake on the underside and a fair portion of the laptop's weight was on the battery pack. So I switched to using a TV tray which has a beanbag sort of arrangement underneath, and it's perfectly comfortable for both myself and the laptop. No mousing surface, of course, and the lip on the tray is just high enough to block my DVD drive from opening. You can't have everything, though.
On Soviet Wikipedia, your textbooks plagiarise articles!
I jinx you!
I prefer to think of them as "on" switches. Err, except the ones which actually are off-only. Obviously.
Of course, it's not totally. Microsoft's decision how long the 360 lasts, they've got to ensure publisher support doesn't dry up like it did with the Xbox. I've read in a lot of places that this was down to customers jumping ship to the 360 and the back compatability wasn't really there, so there was no point in developing original Xbox titles. This seems like a good time to bring it up again and ask whether this is reason why the platform was abandoned, or a just-so story.
We'll just get the European Parliment to increase the speed of light. It's such a silly limit, anyway.
If the company was called "Seatech Astronomy", you'd have a really amazing joke there.
They managed to walk right into the front page of Slashdot with no resistance whatsoever.
Ah, where I come from it's assumed that if you eat a lot of cheese at night, you will have vivid dreams.
I really do love the analogies we use to describe quantum-mechanical or relativistic behavior. Even the best ones start off comprehensible but rapidly morph into the deranged land of our most cheese-fuelled nightmares.
Executive summary: "Management ineptitude with statistics, not conspiracy, behind stupid BBC move."
"This just in: I'm not being sued anymore, in a landmark ruling which is sure to shake the judiciary to its core. More at eleven."
;)
Huh, guess he does qualify as a journalist.
The Wikipedia fund drive is to buy servers and so on. So, yes, all the articles do cost money, and Wikipedia has to constantly expand. Of course, some of this is due to bandwidth demand also.