"Half-Life 2 will go down as one of the best-selling PC titles, and we are thrilled to deliver this ground-breaking title to the worldwide gaming community this fall."
I'm excited about this game... don't get me wrong, but you have to wonder about the effect of Doom 3 getting several months of play in advance of HL2's release and the mod community has been very active so far on Doom. I'll get the game when it comes out, but I've already been wowed by the graphics in Doom 3, so it's taken the Steam (pun intended) out of my thrills for HL2. That said, however, I'm really excited to see the physics (I've played CS Source and as a taste--it's very cool).
Built for less than $10,000, the project has caught the attention of experts in alternative-fuel research
I find it curious that the commercial fuel/automotive manufacturing sector can't (or maybe won't) make significant, transparent headway in the arena of alternative fuels and vehicles. No conflict of interest, is there? Couldn't be that they already have made advancements, but have kept their R&D under wraps.</sarcasm>
Recycling fuel is anathema to the petroleum industry--BP commercials ("it's a start") aside.
The titanium frame with its bone-growing ingredients were then implanted into a layer of muscle on the patient's right shoulder blade to form tissue and blood vessel connections to the muscle. "He actually didn't find this uncomfortable at all and was able to sleep on that side with no problems,"
I find this amazing. He was able to sleep with a partial jaw... a JAW growing from his shoulder.
I'd probably complain, something like, "damn, this really bites"...
The dual-core chips that Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories
As I understand it, the rationale behind Opteron's "Direct Connect" dual-core architecture is to make it easier to place two processor cores on the same silicon die. It's also a power-consupmtion issue, as the two processors can run at lower clock speeds. However, unlike Intel's design, Direct Connect features an integrated memory controller and hypertransport interconnects that connect the processor to the I/o port or directly to another processor.
Dammit, I shouldn't have purchased that fancy 2.4GHz cordless piece of crap. Besides, it interferes w/my 802.11g and--you make a good point--doesn't provide me any extra reliability.
"We saw what would happen with Voice over Internet Protocol. Rather than allow it to happen to us, we decided to embrace the technology," a BT spokesman said.
Smart move. The discount carriers are going to ramp-up competition, and this can only be good for us, the good ol' consumer. One of these days, VoIP will come to mobile, and that will be another milestone; we'll see how the big carriers respond to that.
I still keep my land-line operational, though... I'm beginning to wonder why.
During those odd weather patterns, I've often thought it would be nice to adjust the temperature settings at home, or perhaps increase air circulation, etc. So I bought an OmniPro II home controller system, which does this--and more (lights, security, etc)--remotely. So, the Proliphix isn't the first of its kind... but it's still a "cool" idea;)
WAP has such a negative stigma attached to it because that's what carriers marketed several years ago
The stigma is largely a result of the lack of support for WAP 2. Many new phones on the market today support only WAP 1, as well as most of the existing phones already in use.
WAP 1 had some limitations and faults, but much of that has been addressed in WAP 2. However WAP 2 is only supported by newer, higher end phones.
Though SCO's lawsuits against IBM Corp., Novell Inc., DaimlerChrysler AG and AutoZone Inc. have attracted a great deal of attention in the last year, they have not helped SCO's bottom line
And a marketing push for SCO Openserver/Unixware will?
NIST proposed yesterday to withdraw the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Actually, NIST withdrew their endorsement of DES in 1997. DES as a standard was adopted in 1972. Back in '74 when the NSA was looking at Lucifer for NIST, they actually approved it despite a reduction in its original key length of 128 bits to 56 bits, weakening it significantly. The NSA was accused of planting a "back-door" in Lucifer that would allow agents to decrypt without the key, but of course such a thing was never found.
In '76 Lucifer was adopted and renamed "DES". Of course as computers became faster and more powerful, it was recognized that a 56-bit key was simply not large enough for high security applications. As a result of these and other serious flaws, NIST abandoned their official endorsement of DES in 1997 and began work on a replacement, to be called the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). And so the story continues...
a driver in Alaska is being charged with second-degree murder
Astonishing. In my experience, you can drive for hours--even days--at a time in Alaska and not even see another human being. To cream one on the road is, well, amazing.
With a vehicle, it would seem more likely in Alaska you'd cross the median and strike an elk, grizzly, or something like that.
After a profit of $21 million last year, and some serious past cash flow problems, I'm sure Microsoft's desire to unload the online rag has less to do w/Slate's recommending Firefox than it does with a predetermined "build-it-to-flip-it" strategy. Now Slate is somewhat solvent. It's probably smart for MS to sell some of its content assets and focus more on delivery mechanisms, and Slate just happens to be one of the more controversial business units in that category.
Senate is leaning strongly in favor of the INDUCE Act sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch
Senator Hatch has a powerful incentive [opensecrets.org] in attacking P2P networks (see #'s 7, 15, 18).
Oddly enough, by the same logic he's using in this legislation prescription drugs should be illegal because they can be abused as well. But since the rest of his top contributors are pharma co's he isn't likely to raise that as an issue is he?
methods and apparatus for encouraging viewers to pay attention to television programs, commercials in particular, by offering viewers some incentive to watch
The best incentive would be decent programming.
One more reality show like "Wife Swapping" and I'm going to kill my TV...
the fact of the matter is that many of you will be just fine, although an upgrade may still be in your future
I'm not an expert on the Carmackian magic in Doom 3... but apparently the fact that the gaming engine works from the complex model downward and offers subsets to supported configurations is much more efficient in FPS terms than other engine architectures. However, as JC states, we should not all "live and die by the frame rate".
I guess an upgrade is in my future, although I'm not sure I'll get to the "cinematic" level that's possible in D3's rendering.
Verizon Wireless hasn't made any noise about this yet, but the carrier last month filed a lawsuit
In recent months, Verizon Wireless seems to have been doing a decent job protecting consumers from unwanted advertising.
In addition to their anti-spam efforts Verizon has opposed the cell-phone directory--and in the broadband-whore department, are at the forefront of deploying FTTP--which I personally want today.:)
I'm not a huge fan of VZW--although they do have great coverage, at least IMBY.
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Recycling fuel is anathema to the petroleum industry--BP commercials ("it's a start") aside.
I'd probably complain, something like, "damn, this really bites"...
Oh, it looks cool all right. I want people to stop me on the street and ask about it.
"Excuse me, sir, but why does your belt say 'night diaper bondage'?"
I still keep my land-line operational, though... I'm beginning to wonder why.
WAP 1 had some limitations and faults, but much of that has been addressed in WAP 2. However WAP 2 is only supported by newer, higher end phones.
In '76 Lucifer was adopted and renamed "DES". Of course as computers became faster and more powerful, it was recognized that a 56-bit key was simply not large enough for high security applications. As a result of these and other serious flaws, NIST abandoned their official endorsement of DES in 1997 and began work on a replacement, to be called the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). And so the story continues...
With a vehicle, it would seem more likely in Alaska you'd cross the median and strike an elk, grizzly, or something like that.
...latency in the transmission.
But then there is always the problem of...
I would, but I'm a hunt-and-peck typist, and my keyboard is pretty much just a blur.
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Oddly enough, by the same logic he's using in this legislation prescription drugs should be illegal because they can be abused as well. But since the rest of his top contributors are pharma co's he isn't likely to raise that as an issue is he?
One more reality show like "Wife Swapping" and I'm going to kill my TV...
I guess an upgrade is in my future, although I'm not sure I'll get to the "cinematic" level that's possible in D3's rendering.
That's pretty funny.
You can already do this, if you have a bluetooth-enabled phone.
In addition to their anti-spam efforts Verizon has opposed the cell-phone directory--and in the broadband-whore department, are at the forefront of deploying FTTP--which I personally want today.
I'm not a huge fan of VZW--although they do have great coverage, at least IMBY.
Why'd it take so long?