Bored and worried about saving for Christmas, would be more correct. While I'm still excited about the wii, I'm also sitting around waiting for the new mario Galaxy game to be released. I finished beating Zelda, never was too fond of 1st person shooters (Metroid Prime) and so am left with a small gap until the holiday season allows my game spending budget to pick up another game or two. Since I only buy a few games a year, I don't take changes. When Brawl and Galaxy come out, I'll buy.
Since Nintendo has cultivated a mostly Non-hardcore gamer market, the majority of their customers are only going to buy the AAA titles because that's what they hear about in the media. Most of those will be released in the coming months.
On top of that, the claim about the squid in this particular article is incorrect. The giant squid is not the largest invertebrate. The Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, or colossal squid, is. Also, the claims of 18 meters, 60 feet, are exaggerated due to stretching after death. The colossal squids are generally accepted to be around 45 to 50 feet in length.
Would this lawsuit have come about if nintendo chose to not even offer a wrist strap? My bet is that it would not have. The documentation clearly states the user is not supposed to release the wiimote, thus a strap should not be a necessity. And while I appreciate the fact nintendo chose to include one, as I intend to buy a wii as soon as I can, I genuinely believe their attempt to avoid problems has inadvertently caused them one.
For navigation in the wild? how about a compass? moss on the trees... the north star and a map. There's plenty of options. If you're talking about some kind of specific computing research that needs to be done for geologic research, then no, I have no solution, but that's not what you said. you mentioned you wanted a computer for camping, and I find that highly amusing because the vast reason most people go camping is to get away from technology. Being this is a geek website with constant wisecracks about not getting out of the parent's basement and such, surely you can spot the irony.
and next time, try taking the joke with a little bit of salt. no harm intended.
I'd pay $200.00 for one right now for tinkering. Hell as a backpacking/camping PC it's down right perfect!
Perfect for what? Kindling? Sure, GPS maybe, but even then there's better / simpler / easier to carry solutions. This post is just screaming for a nature / technology soviet russia joke.
The linked article isn't very informative. More information can be found here and here.
a brief history of the company can be found here and a brief readout of this particular rocket can be found here.
Your post screams sarcasm to me, but I'm honestly not certain if that was your intent due to the fact some artistically ignorant people genuinely recognize your point as valid. If you were sarcastic, I apologize if this reply feels berating.
The idea of everything being art is a grotesque abstraction of an otherwise clean concept. Many people bring up new age artists such as Andy Warhol (soup can) or minimalists such as william carlos williams (the red wheelbarrow) and argue artistic merit on a relative scale... "if i believe it's art, it's art." The problem with this argument is the global definition of art is created almost entirely by the opinions of other artists, a process very similar to how words are added to a language. Britney spears is sometimes referred to as an artist, but you can be assured an extremely limited amount of self-respecting poets or musicians guage her work as falling more on the artistic side of the art / entertainment divide, which brings me to another point. Art can be entertaining, and entertainment can sometimes have artistic facets, but this gray area should in no way be considered the defining argument that renders the definition of art entirely abstract.
Also, realize that this distinction isn't a new phenomena; even the classical era of greek pottery / sculpture has many more examples of crap than masterpieces, it's just the masterpieces are all we deem worthy our time, as artists, to study.
The concrete styles and details that create the distinction between masterpiece and crap is defined by each individual artistic labor, thus the very reason "art" does not have one simple phrase that can aptly describe it, and also the likely reason uninformed people consider "art" to be anything.
There are some who believe science or biology simply means anything at all outside because science class in school was about things outside. If I pick up a clump of dirt, I would be wrong to blandly describe it as science. Yes, science could describe specific details of it, and so on, but so could art. Likewise, just because some random hack calls some piece of burnt toast or random stack of boxes art doesn't make it so... time, study, opinions, and arduous labor by artists attempting to recreate, rectify, and re-render the style will make that decision.
The masses are generally ignorant when it comes to science; it is the same in art.
I had a feeling this topic would incite numerous comments about cost. What I don't understand is, how can the slashdot crowd champion vague astronomical science experiments so highly for no other reason than "possible future uses," and then be so quick to call a military venture of the same vague, dubious nature a useless waste of money? Granted this missle defense will probably (hopefully) never be used for its original purpose, as the face of war is changing, but the technology this missle defense project is using, refining, and creating could very well have other "future uses" that are totally unrelated to any militaristic ventures.
I figured someone would say this. In the circumstances you've provided, the officers are not wielding any type of authority that couldn't be wielded by a person who is not an officer. That being said, the officer only has the authority to do something if a driver doesn't pay attention to traffic laws and therefore becomes a criminal. The police officer in this situation is an extension of the law by performing a duty. The law keeps the people from running stop signs, not the officer. If a person obeys all laws, police officers can do nothing to him or her. The law, on the other hand, wields constant authority over all citizens at all times... as is more fully explained in many dreary boring texts.
It's not like police are some high and mighty upper class that rises above the rest of the world in importance simply becuase of the authority they wieild over citizens.
Police Officers don't wield authority over citizens... they wield it over criminals.
So I guess now we can call all those dopey muscle bound guys 'apes' with a clear conscience
I realize this comment is in jest--and that my response is way offtopic-- but the world is changing, damnit... I played Division IA college football, and yes--I'm posting on Slashdot... The Geek/Tech/Nerd stigma/prejudice/expectation is deeply ingrained as someone single/pimply/bug-eyed... but someone is dopey just because they workout? wtf? Mod this Offtopic, but shouldn't the intelligent crowd be the first ones to try and change this persona... try and accept the fact that technology now appeals to more than just typical Geeks and not everyone who posts on this site is male/single/pimply?
Moreover, researchers say, the treatment has the advantage of being able to be simply turned off or removed if it does not work or if problems occur.
Nevertheless, the research arouses fears of reviving the reckless use of brain surgery, about the wisdom of poking around in what some consider the font of a person's humanity, about oversimplifying mental illness as a purely biological problem, and the temptation to move too quickly to try out new technologies. and then I read this A lot of good can come out of this - potentially. But I can see a the potential for misuse too.
My question is this: what technology has been created in the past that COULD NOT have potentially been misused? Sure, you invented a pencil... a whole lot of good could come from this--but some dejected office worker could jam it in someone's ear too...
This technology has the potential to be fantastic. Sure, a crazy mad scientist somewhere could definitely mess someone up pretty bad with this stuff--but how many medical procedures are already performed now where the doctor Doesn't have to power to seriously mess the patient up?
I support this technology... Yeah, sure... Doctor's may be able to kill someone with it... but they also may just run someone over on the sidewalk driving home. And before anyone starts ranting about thousands of armies full of pacemaker brain-people... cut me a break. (although it would probably make a pretty cool book) There's too many things that are not directly related to science for that to happen... so the argument isnt' exactly with the science but with the implementation of it... There are more holes... also, but they're not on-topic to this discussion....
Give science a break... this stuff could save lives and help out a lot of people.
this may be offtopic... but that Goddamn third level on Burger Time still pisses me off to this day when I think about it... How in the hell are you supposed to get the top bun all the way down? It's freakin impossible!
I have wasted many... MANY hours of my life and still have yet to see level four...
I agree, fantasy has been around forever... but it hasn't been in the genre of fantasy forever. While the Illiad and the Odyssey are great works, ancient greece considered them a type of national scripture or folklore... On that note, the very cover of the illiad calls it a tragedy--the odyssey is referred to as an adventure. Neither are really considered fantasy works because at the time they were written they were considered factual
beowulf was a type of folklore that came out of the celtic belief of the battle of dark and light forces--this wasn't fantasy to those people--they believed it, hence the evolution of the intertwined celtic art.
I did tend to have my post wrongly focus more on science fiction, but the general point still applies--the fiction genre has only recently been created because the world has only recently risen out of the celtic/germanic views of nature as evil etc...
fantasy writing can only be considered "fantasy" whenever people don't believe it as factual truth... it has to have a sense of other-worldlyness...
this wasn't your response, I don't believe... but yes, it was christopher marlow... my mistake.
It's actually not that surprising that this took so long, really. well... let me clarify that--it is unfortunate that it took so long to have fantasy considered serious, but it shouldn't be surprising once you consider the evolution of other quasi-similar genre's.
The first basic pulp fiction magazine (the Argosy) appeared in the late 1800's. (1896 actually)... Some of the first SF pieces people tend to offer up are Atlantis (1628), Utopia (1516) and even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817) though the latter has since fallen moreso into the horror genre.
Jules verne took over the room in the 1850's and started pumping out all kinds of things. Later (1894), H. G. Wells was considered the man. And even though almost all of these titles faired well with the public--none of them were considered "serious" literature for decades --some for hundreds of years.
The Oscar voters are not the only critics to dispute the validity of fantasy and SF--this has been going on for hundred(s) of years. Back in the day, critics didn't even take tragedy and comedy drama as serious "art"... they used whatever would sell. Macbeth was rewritten numerous times with comical subplots (the witches songs) inserted so the public would keep dishing out their money. The Jew of Malta (generally considered the first comic-book-style evil villain ever written) wasn't at all taken seriously for hundreds of years after ben jonson wrote it.
All genre's take time to be accepted and considered serious. Tragedy and Comedy were written back with Sophocles and Aristophenes... critics respect this "age" and likewise respect them more. Every piece of pottery you look at in art 101 isn't the greatest example in the world--most of them were piles of crap back when they were made--but they're considered fabulous examples now just because of their age (this obviously doesn't apply to every example).
Western literature is another perfect example. Owen Wister's "the virginian" , zane gray's "riders of the purple sage", and jack schaefer's "shane" are all fabulous pieces of art... but only very recently have they even been considered literature at all.
It's not the content that's holding them back... it's the age and the way critics interpret this--and this really shouldn't be all too surprising... even if it is wrong.
Or they could just send up another beagle. The wind from it smashing into the ground nearby may blow off some of the dust...
hey... you never know.
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just a few things that come to mind after reading your comment... offtopic? eh... maybe, maybe not.
What does Bog want? Does Bog want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Alex - But what I do I do because I like to do.
Alex - No time for the old in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter.
Alex - What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent.
Alex - You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. That sort of thing could just sap all the strength and the goodness out of a chelloveck.
Alex - As we walked along the flatblock marina, i was calm on the outside but thinking all the time. So it was to be Georgie the general saying what we should do and what not to do and Dim as his mindless grinning bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and the oomny ones used like inspiration and what Bog sends. Well now, it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do......
For those unknowing (the websites don't really cover this.)
There is a nice FAQ about the NGage here
N-Gage Specifications
CPU: 104Mhz ARM processor 12-bit CPU
Maximum Simultaneous Colors: 4096
Resolution: 176 x 208 pixels
Size: 133.7 x 69.7 x 20.2 mm
Weight: 137 g
Operating System: Symbian OS with Java 2 Micro Edition support
Memory: 4MB internal
N-Gage Features
High performance mobile 3D gaming
Gaming-optimized design and functionality
Bluetooth
Digital music player and recorder
Stereo FM radio
Nokia Audio Manager PC software
New design concept, new UI experience
Multimedia messaging
Full email support (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, MIME2)
Content with XHTML browser
Tri-band EGSM 900/GSM1800/GSM 1900
Series 60 UI enabling application multitasking
Slave USB 1.1. for digital music download from PC
MP3, AAC, Midi, WAV ringing tones
WAP over GPRS
How can they expect mass appeal whenever they're offering these things for $380? I can go buy a freakin gamecube and a PS2 for less than that, then go sign up for a phone plan and get a phone for free.
The pricing point in this article can't be correct. I just can't possibly fathom how they would expect people to run screaming into the stores for these things when they're charging this much.
I understand the premise behind namebrand familiarity... but I have a hard time believing anyone is going to spend thousands of dollars on a car simply because they got to wreck it in a video game like this article suggests.
Sure, maybe just continually seeing one of these cars on the screen will make you turn your head once or twice and chuckle when it passes on the street, but to drop 10, 20, 30 grand on a car because you played it in a video game? Come on, this guy is going to drop 50k on a car just because it's on PS2? It's not like these are even niche companies looking for a market. Who hasn't heard of Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Nissan? I'm not saying marketing doesn't work... sure, get the name out there as much as possible--but how can you say someone is going to buy a car just because they got to play it in a game?
On top of that, he calls video gaming REALISTIC conditions? Okay, maybe game physics or what have you are accurate... but how in the crazy hell is pushing a button the same as pressing a pedal and feeling your entire body shift? To call video game driving realistic conditions is wishful thinking.
Stars and planets form as a result of the gravitational collapse of accreting material. Any net translational motion of that initial material is accelerated as its radius of rotation decreases....
I'm no physicist... but i can assume that if this radius increases, yes, the days will be longer... Another more detailed explanation of the planet's rotation can be found here... This second article more fully explains the earth's slowing rotation.
however, measuring this would not necessarily prove or disprove the claim, as the data needed would be immensly larger than the data available... as an example, this text can be found in the second article... It should be very clear from Appendix A that the rate of Earth's rotation both increases and decreases across rather lengthy stretches of time. For example, observations are tabled for some 374 years (from 1623 CE to 1997 CE). Throughout the many years covered in this table, it is apparent that the length of the solar-day was a fraction of a second faster than 86,400 seconds about 41 percent of the time. It is equally apparent that the length of the solar-day was a fraction of a second slower than 86,400 seconds about 59 percent of the time.
as you can see... this type of fluctutation would happen, but it would be nearly immeasurable with any accuracy for quite a while...
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Bored and worried about saving for Christmas, would be more correct. While I'm still excited about the wii, I'm also sitting around waiting for the new mario Galaxy game to be released. I finished beating Zelda, never was too fond of 1st person shooters (Metroid Prime) and so am left with a small gap until the holiday season allows my game spending budget to pick up another game or two. Since I only buy a few games a year, I don't take changes. When Brawl and Galaxy come out, I'll buy. Since Nintendo has cultivated a mostly Non-hardcore gamer market, the majority of their customers are only going to buy the AAA titles because that's what they hear about in the media. Most of those will be released in the coming months.
On top of that, the claim about the squid in this particular article is incorrect. The giant squid is not the largest invertebrate. The Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, or colossal squid, is. Also, the claims of 18 meters, 60 feet, are exaggerated due to stretching after death. The colossal squids are generally accepted to be around 45 to 50 feet in length.
Would this lawsuit have come about if nintendo chose to not even offer a wrist strap? My bet is that it would not have. The documentation clearly states the user is not supposed to release the wiimote, thus a strap should not be a necessity. And while I appreciate the fact nintendo chose to include one, as I intend to buy a wii as soon as I can, I genuinely believe their attempt to avoid problems has inadvertently caused them one.
For navigation in the wild? how about a compass? moss on the trees... the north star and a map. There's plenty of options. If you're talking about some kind of specific computing research that needs to be done for geologic research, then no, I have no solution, but that's not what you said. you mentioned you wanted a computer for camping, and I find that highly amusing because the vast reason most people go camping is to get away from technology. Being this is a geek website with constant wisecracks about not getting out of the parent's basement and such, surely you can spot the irony.
and next time, try taking the joke with a little bit of salt. no harm intended.
I'd pay $200.00 for one right now for tinkering. Hell as a backpacking/camping PC it's down right perfect!
Perfect for what? Kindling? Sure, GPS maybe, but even then there's better / simpler / easier to carry solutions. This post is just screaming for a nature / technology soviet russia joke.
If the writer is familiar with the characters, plot, etc, they should be able to rewrite a whole screenplay in under a week.
You obviously have never written a screenplay. Second, third, fourth draft. Whatever. 1 week is absurdly fast for any major piece of creative writing.
The linked article isn't very informative. More information can be found here and here. a brief history of the company can be found here and a brief readout of this particular rocket can be found here.
Your post screams sarcasm to me, but I'm honestly not certain if that was your intent due to the fact some artistically ignorant people genuinely recognize your point as valid. If you were sarcastic, I apologize if this reply feels berating.
The idea of everything being art is a grotesque abstraction of an otherwise clean concept. Many people bring up new age artists such as Andy Warhol (soup can) or minimalists such as william carlos williams (the red wheelbarrow) and argue artistic merit on a relative scale... "if i believe it's art, it's art." The problem with this argument is the global definition of art is created almost entirely by the opinions of other artists, a process very similar to how words are added to a language. Britney spears is sometimes referred to as an artist, but you can be assured an extremely limited amount of self-respecting poets or musicians guage her work as falling more on the artistic side of the art / entertainment divide, which brings me to another point. Art can be entertaining, and entertainment can sometimes have artistic facets, but this gray area should in no way be considered the defining argument that renders the definition of art entirely abstract.
Also, realize that this distinction isn't a new phenomena; even the classical era of greek pottery / sculpture has many more examples of crap than masterpieces, it's just the masterpieces are all we deem worthy our time, as artists, to study. The concrete styles and details that create the distinction between masterpiece and crap is defined by each individual artistic labor, thus the very reason "art" does not have one simple phrase that can aptly describe it, and also the likely reason uninformed people consider "art" to be anything.
There are some who believe science or biology simply means anything at all outside because science class in school was about things outside. If I pick up a clump of dirt, I would be wrong to blandly describe it as science. Yes, science could describe specific details of it, and so on, but so could art. Likewise, just because some random hack calls some piece of burnt toast or random stack of boxes art doesn't make it so... time, study, opinions, and arduous labor by artists attempting to recreate, rectify, and re-render the style will make that decision.
The masses are generally ignorant when it comes to science; it is the same in art.
I totally agree... what a complete waste of time. And now I've gotta figure out a way to stuff all these pieces back into my monitor.
SO STUPID!
I had a feeling this topic would incite numerous comments about cost. What I don't understand is, how can the slashdot crowd champion vague astronomical science experiments so highly for no other reason than "possible future uses," and then be so quick to call a military venture of the same vague, dubious nature a useless waste of money? Granted this missle defense will probably (hopefully) never be used for its original purpose, as the face of war is changing, but the technology this missle defense project is using, refining, and creating could very well have other "future uses" that are totally unrelated to any militaristic ventures.
I figured someone would say this. In the circumstances you've provided, the officers are not wielding any type of authority that couldn't be wielded by a person who is not an officer. That being said, the officer only has the authority to do something if a driver doesn't pay attention to traffic laws and therefore becomes a criminal. The police officer in this situation is an extension of the law by performing a duty. The law keeps the people from running stop signs, not the officer. If a person obeys all laws, police officers can do nothing to him or her. The law, on the other hand, wields constant authority over all citizens at all times... as is more fully explained in many dreary boring texts.
It's not like police are some high and mighty upper class that rises above the rest of the world in importance simply becuase of the authority they wieild over citizens.
Police Officers don't wield authority over citizens... they wield it over criminals.
So I guess now we can call all those dopey muscle bound guys 'apes' with a clear conscience
I realize this comment is in jest--and that my response is way offtopic-- but the world is changing, damnit... I played Division IA college football, and yes--I'm posting on Slashdot... The Geek/Tech/Nerd stigma/prejudice/expectation is deeply ingrained as someone single/pimply/bug-eyed... but someone is dopey just because they workout? wtf?
Mod this Offtopic, but shouldn't the intelligent crowd be the first ones to try and change this persona... try and accept the fact that technology now appeals to more than just typical Geeks and not everyone who posts on this site is male/single/pimply?
On that note, were you aware that Harvard is the nations largest Div I athletics program... Looks like some of those geeky kids up in Boston do a little bit more than study.
And here's this just for the heck of it.
Bored at the Big H? Hows this for a few things to try?
Moreover, researchers say, the treatment has the advantage of being able to be simply turned off or removed if it does not work or if problems occur.
Nevertheless, the research arouses fears of reviving the reckless use of brain surgery, about the wisdom of poking around in what some consider the font of a person's humanity, about oversimplifying mental illness as a purely biological problem, and the temptation to move too quickly to try out new technologies.
and then I read this
A lot of good can come out of this - potentially. But I can see a the potential for misuse too.
My question is this: what technology has been created in the past that COULD NOT have potentially been misused? Sure, you invented a pencil... a whole lot of good could come from this--but some dejected office worker could jam it in someone's ear too...
This technology has the potential to be fantastic. Sure, a crazy mad scientist somewhere could definitely mess someone up pretty bad with this stuff--but how many medical procedures are already performed now where the doctor Doesn't have to power to seriously mess the patient up?
I support this technology... Yeah, sure... Doctor's may be able to kill someone with it... but they also may just run someone over on the sidewalk driving home. And before anyone starts ranting about thousands of armies full of pacemaker brain-people... cut me a break. (although it would probably make a pretty cool book) There's too many things that are not directly related to science for that to happen... so the argument isnt' exactly with the science but with the implementation of it... There are more holes... also, but they're not on-topic to this discussion....
Give science a break... this stuff could save lives and help out a lot of people.
brutally, temper-tamper inducing hard
this may be offtopic... but that Goddamn third level on Burger Time still pisses me off to this day when I think about it... How in the hell are you supposed to get the top bun all the way down? It's freakin impossible!
I have wasted many... MANY hours of my life and still have yet to see level four...
I agree, fantasy has been around forever... but it hasn't been in the genre of fantasy forever. While the Illiad and the Odyssey are great works, ancient greece considered them a type of national scripture or folklore... On that note, the very cover of the illiad calls it a tragedy--the odyssey is referred to as an adventure. Neither are really considered fantasy works because at the time they were written they were considered factual
beowulf was a type of folklore that came out of the celtic belief of the battle of dark and light forces--this wasn't fantasy to those people--they believed it, hence the evolution of the intertwined celtic art.
I did tend to have my post wrongly focus more on science fiction, but the general point still applies--the fiction genre has only recently been created because the world has only recently risen out of the celtic/germanic views of nature as evil etc...
fantasy writing can only be considered "fantasy" whenever people don't believe it as factual truth... it has to have a sense of other-worldlyness...
this wasn't your response, I don't believe... but yes, it was christopher marlow... my mistake.
or set up "Web cams" to allow others to see live pictures.
and judging from my email... at least half of that 44% is 18 year old HOT & HORNY Amsterdam teens!!!!
ps... wanna see my webcam? I'm waiting for you.... just go to--.....
It's actually not that surprising that this took so long, really.
well... let me clarify that--it is unfortunate that it took so long to have fantasy considered serious, but it shouldn't be surprising once you consider the evolution of other quasi-similar genre's.
The first basic pulp fiction magazine (the Argosy) appeared in the late 1800's. (1896 actually)... Some of the first SF pieces people tend to offer up are Atlantis (1628), Utopia (1516) and even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817) though the latter has since fallen moreso into the horror genre.
Jules verne took over the room in the 1850's and started pumping out all kinds of things. Later (1894), H. G. Wells was considered the man. And even though almost all of these titles faired well with the public--none of them were considered "serious" literature for decades --some for hundreds of years.
The Oscar voters are not the only critics to dispute the validity of fantasy and SF--this has been going on for hundred(s) of years. Back in the day, critics didn't even take tragedy and comedy drama as serious "art"... they used whatever would sell. Macbeth was rewritten numerous times with comical subplots (the witches songs) inserted so the public would keep dishing out their money. The Jew of Malta (generally considered the first comic-book-style evil villain ever written) wasn't at all taken seriously for hundreds of years after ben jonson wrote it.
All genre's take time to be accepted and considered serious. Tragedy and Comedy were written back with Sophocles and Aristophenes... critics respect this "age" and likewise respect them more. Every piece of pottery you look at in art 101 isn't the greatest example in the world--most of them were piles of crap back when they were made--but they're considered fabulous examples now just because of their age (this obviously doesn't apply to every example).
Western literature is another perfect example. Owen Wister's "the virginian" , zane gray's "riders of the purple sage", and jack schaefer's "shane" are all fabulous pieces of art... but only very recently have they even been considered literature at all.
It's not the content that's holding them back... it's the age and the way critics interpret this--and this really shouldn't be all too surprising... even if it is wrong.
Or they could just send up another beagle. The wind from it smashing into the ground nearby may blow off some of the dust...
hey... you never know.
just a few things that come to mind after reading your comment... offtopic? eh... maybe, maybe not.
What does Bog want? Does Bog want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Alex - But what I do I do because I like to do.
Alex - No time for the old in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter.
Alex - What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent.
Alex - You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. That sort of thing could just sap all the strength and the goodness out of a chelloveck.
Alex - As we walked along the flatblock marina, i was calm on the outside but thinking all the time. So it was to be Georgie the general saying what we should do and what not to do and Dim as his mindless grinning bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and the oomny ones used like inspiration and what Bog sends. Well now, it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do......
For those unknowing (the websites don't really cover this.)
There is a nice FAQ about the NGage here
N-Gage Specifications
CPU: 104Mhz ARM processor 12-bit CPU
Maximum Simultaneous Colors: 4096
Resolution: 176 x 208 pixels
Size: 133.7 x 69.7 x 20.2 mm
Weight: 137 g
Operating System: Symbian OS with Java 2 Micro Edition support
Memory: 4MB internal
N-Gage Features
High performance mobile 3D gaming
Gaming-optimized design and functionality
Bluetooth
Digital music player and recorder
Stereo FM radio
Nokia Audio Manager PC software
New design concept, new UI experience
Multimedia messaging
Full email support (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, MIME2)
Content with XHTML browser
Tri-band EGSM 900/GSM1800/GSM 1900
Series 60 UI enabling application multitasking
Slave USB 1.1. for digital music download from PC
MP3, AAC, Midi, WAV ringing tones
WAP over GPRS
The author of this was: Scott Tsukamoto
How can they expect mass appeal whenever they're offering these things for $380? I can go buy a freakin gamecube and a PS2 for less than that, then go sign up for a phone plan and get a phone for free.
The pricing point in this article can't be correct. I just can't possibly fathom how they would expect people to run screaming into the stores for these things when they're charging this much.
I understand the premise behind namebrand familiarity... but I have a hard time believing anyone is going to spend thousands of dollars on a car simply because they got to wreck it in a video game like this article suggests.
Sure, maybe just continually seeing one of these cars on the screen will make you turn your head once or twice and chuckle when it passes on the street, but to drop 10, 20, 30 grand on a car because you played it in a video game? Come on, this guy is going to drop 50k on a car just because it's on PS2?
It's not like these are even niche companies looking for a market. Who hasn't heard of Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Nissan? I'm not saying marketing doesn't work... sure, get the name out there as much as possible--but how can you say someone is going to buy a car just because they got to play it in a game?
On top of that, he calls video gaming REALISTIC conditions? Okay, maybe game physics or what have you are accurate... but how in the crazy hell is pushing a button the same as pressing a pedal and feeling your entire body shift? To call video game driving realistic conditions is wishful thinking.
we have all manner of companies and countries going for it.
I don't even know what you're talking about. Who needs different countries when we've got this guy!
Just put this innovative mind on the cause... problem solved!
As found in this basic article here,
Stars and planets form as a result of the gravitational collapse of accreting material. Any net translational motion of that initial material is accelerated as its radius of rotation decreases....
I'm no physicist... but i can assume that if this radius increases, yes, the days will be longer...
Another more detailed explanation of the planet's rotation can be found here... This second article more fully explains the earth's slowing rotation.
however, measuring this would not necessarily prove or disprove the claim, as the data needed would be immensly larger than the data available...
as an example, this text can be found in the second article... It should be very clear from Appendix A that the rate of Earth's rotation both increases and decreases across rather lengthy stretches of time. For example, observations are tabled for some 374 years (from 1623 CE to 1997 CE). Throughout the many years covered in this table, it is apparent that the length of the solar-day was a fraction of a second faster than 86,400 seconds about 41 percent of the time. It is equally apparent that the length of the solar-day was a fraction of a second slower than 86,400 seconds about 59 percent of the time.
as you can see... this type of fluctutation would happen, but it would be nearly immeasurable with any accuracy for quite a while...