The Discovery Channel online store has a coupon for 15% off today only and it works for the Mindstorms NXT. Enter TOYDAY in the coupon box at checkout. They charge tax and ~$20 for shipping though, but for me it came out to about $244.
This reminds me of my experience with video game emulators. I downloaded a torrent that contained about one hundred N64 games, many of them classics. But since there were so many, none of them were really that amusing and I ended up spending about five minutes on a few games before deleting everything.
When I was staying in the dorms here at UW Madison, iTunes music sharing over the dorm-wide LAN was more than enough for my needs. It was instant access to more music than I could ever have time to listen to.
And with myTunes & ourTunes I could download everything at 100 mbps:)
I'm a biomedical engineering undergrad at the Univ. of Wisconsin, and I have to say I'm very much enjoying the program here. Yea, it's an assload of work and my roomies (who are coincidentally business majors) don't do jack shit, but I feel like I'm learning something useful and that the work I will do will actually serve a purpose rather than just bringing in a fat paycheck.
The thing I like best about the BME program here is that each semester we are given a team design project. Two sophomores are paired with two juniors and given a design project from local companies. Right now, I'm designing an artificial eye for my project. And it makes me feel like an engineer. None of the other engineering majors here have design projects built in throughout the curriculum, and some of my buddies in mechanical or electrical always drop comments about "not feeling like engineers" while getting raped by all the classroom learning and homework. Maybe if there was more hands-on work infused into engineering degree programs people would be more motivated?
So... if Macs start getting more market share from Tiger, what will the EU do? Would OS X have to be stripped of its most compelling features? I can see it now: Mac OS X Tiger Reduced Productivity Edition, without Spotlight, Quicktime, Dashboard, etc.
You're right, Xbox Live is definitely not innovative.
Give me a break, Microsoft set the standard for online console gaming, which is THE future. Hopefully Xbox 2 will build off of this and create an even more cohesive and enjoyable online environment.
I work in the Desktop Support group of a company with around 500 employees, and everytime I need to clean spyware off someone's box, I'm instructed to install Adaware Personal, run the scan, and then uninstall it. If Microsoft's solution is free, I'd imagine we would abandon the illegal use of Adaware and adopt MS AntiSpyware into the corporate image.
If MS provides this free of charge, it may drive Adaware, Spybot and the likes out of the corporate domain. Why would a company choose to license Adaware if they could have an MS-supported spyware scanner free of charge loaded onto their corporate PC image?
On another note, I loaded this beast and started a 'deep scan,' which takes an estimated 29 minutes, after running updated Adaware and Spybot scans and it has already found a few 'threats.' It also provides active protection, alerting the user of services such as 'messenger' that are active and pose a threat.
Forget the shuttle. As soon as carbon nanotube research allows, the space elevator will pwn all.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1.htm
Yes, UBI has made plenty of good games. But with recent releases like the second Prince of Persia and Ghost Recon 2, it seems like they were capitalizing on the franchise name rather than focusing on creating a top-quality game. Look at Ghost Recon 2. New engine, new perspective, same game. And on the Xbox, the online interface looks like it was thrown together last minute. sheesh. Rainbow Six 4 is coming next spring. Maybe they don't need EA to buy them to turn into EA.
UBI can speak out against it all they want, but what they really need to do is give their current shareholders more reasons to hold onto the stock. Maybe they should have spent more time polishing Ghost Recon 2...
the shuttle program is obviously in trouble and there needs to be a cheaper way to get to space... brazil is using common sense by going with rockets, but nasa can get hop-skip-LEAP ahead of them if they start researching the use of space elevators constructed with carbon nanofibers.
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The Discovery Channel online store has a coupon for 15% off today only and it works for the Mindstorms NXT. Enter TOYDAY in the coupon box at checkout. They charge tax and ~$20 for shipping though, but for me it came out to about $244.
... when you take into account that the PSP version originally retailed for $40.
Are the people on Pluto trying to avoid paying the exorbitant non-planet property tax? What's the big deal here?
This reminds me of my experience with video game emulators. I downloaded a torrent that contained about one hundred N64 games, many of them classics. But since there were so many, none of them were really that amusing and I ended up spending about five minutes on a few games before deleting everything.
When I was staying in the dorms here at UW Madison, iTunes music sharing over the dorm-wide LAN was more than enough for my needs. It was instant access to more music than I could ever have time to listen to. And with myTunes & ourTunes I could download everything at 100 mbps :)
I'm a biomedical engineering undergrad at the Univ. of Wisconsin, and I have to say I'm very much enjoying the program here. Yea, it's an assload of work and my roomies (who are coincidentally business majors) don't do jack shit, but I feel like I'm learning something useful and that the work I will do will actually serve a purpose rather than just bringing in a fat paycheck.
The thing I like best about the BME program here is that each semester we are given a team design project. Two sophomores are paired with two juniors and given a design project from local companies. Right now, I'm designing an artificial eye for my project. And it makes me feel like an engineer. None of the other engineering majors here have design projects built in throughout the curriculum, and some of my buddies in mechanical or electrical always drop comments about "not feeling like engineers" while getting raped by all the classroom learning and homework. Maybe if there was more hands-on work infused into engineering degree programs people would be more motivated?
Send Paris Hilton please!
So... if Macs start getting more market share from Tiger, what will the EU do? Would OS X have to be stripped of its most compelling features? I can see it now: Mac OS X Tiger Reduced Productivity Edition, without Spotlight, Quicktime, Dashboard, etc.
You're right, Xbox Live is definitely not innovative. Give me a break, Microsoft set the standard for online console gaming, which is THE future. Hopefully Xbox 2 will build off of this and create an even more cohesive and enjoyable online environment.
I work in the Desktop Support group of a company with around 500 employees, and everytime I need to clean spyware off someone's box, I'm instructed to install Adaware Personal, run the scan, and then uninstall it. If Microsoft's solution is free, I'd imagine we would abandon the illegal use of Adaware and adopt MS AntiSpyware into the corporate image.
On another note, I loaded this beast and started a 'deep scan,' which takes an estimated 29 minutes, after running updated Adaware and Spybot scans and it has already found a few 'threats.' It also provides active protection, alerting the user of services such as 'messenger' that are active and pose a threat.
Forget the shuttle. As soon as carbon nanotube research allows, the space elevator will pwn all. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1 .htm
Mobile Tetris never ran better!
Yes, UBI has made plenty of good games. But with recent releases like the second Prince of Persia and Ghost Recon 2, it seems like they were capitalizing on the franchise name rather than focusing on creating a top-quality game. Look at Ghost Recon 2. New engine, new perspective, same game. And on the Xbox, the online interface looks like it was thrown together last minute. sheesh. Rainbow Six 4 is coming next spring. Maybe they don't need EA to buy them to turn into EA.
UBI can speak out against it all they want, but what they really need to do is give their current shareholders more reasons to hold onto the stock. Maybe they should have spent more time polishing Ghost Recon 2...
What happens if John Madden dies?
the shuttle program is obviously in trouble and there needs to be a cheaper way to get to space... brazil is using common sense by going with rockets, but nasa can get hop-skip-LEAP ahead of them if they start researching the use of space elevators constructed with carbon nanofibers.