Just wondering why this was modded as Flamebait. It's 100% spot-on accurate. How hard is it to check if the story is still current/valid before posting it? If site this was a legit news site that'd be akin to posting a story about a big hostage standoff going on, when actually the hostage was already released and chilling out in a chair sipping coffee and eating donuts with the Five-Oh.
In response to GP and P: Slashdot is an aggregator service, not a news service. Slashdot has always been this way and always will be.
Agree, and raise you one... North Korea developed a nuke program, but Iran is uncapable of doing so? North Korea has been stuck in the 1970s for years, with an economy that can't even grow enough food to feed it's population (well, now that millions have died off, maybe it can support the new, smaller population). Iran is far better off than North Korea, and likely has North Korea's help (just like Syria did).
The vast majority of casualties are from insurgents targeting other civilians, not from insurgents targeting multi-national forces. It hasn't been a war since June of 2003... just an extended police action versus a religious or nationalist insurgencies.
Am I the only one suspicious that they're using a rigged definition of "smartphone"? That is an awfully small list of phones for Japan. What is their criteria? How the hell could a Windows Mobile device even be number two? Beating that is like winning the Special Olympics.
Man, remember when people were pretending the iPhone was a smartphone before it had third party software, just to get it out of the feature phone category? Those were the days.
If you take even just a weekend trip to Japan and walk around in public, you will see a TON of iPhones. I just got back last week, having been there for 15 days. The iPhone is very, very popular there. This is anecdotal evidence and a rather shoddy sampling, but for real statistics... well, that's why we have TFA;)
From what I've seen of the game so far, I think I can honestly say without hyperbole that this game is the biggest and possibly most important experiment in the past 15 years of gaming. It really takes the whole idea of what is considered to be a game and breaks the mold. It actually reminds me a bit of Indigo Prophecy, but ten times more deviated from standard gameplay practices. I'm excited to see if it will work and how it will be received.
Remember Spore before it came out? That's all I'll say until I actually have this game in my hands. I have learned my lesson about expecting too much.
I saw this at Tokyu Hands a couple days ago. Now I know what it was. The picture is only just barely similar to whatever photo you send them when you look up close. You have to view it from far away to have it appear to have the detail of the photo.
This is neither the first time nor the second time this has happened. These videos show the exact same phenomenon exhibited in TFA. It's a rocket spinning mostly out of control, as reported here.
Last death throws of a failing regime. I feel horrible for the Iranian people right now, but thank god they don't seem to be taking this lying down.
It's like the 1960's over there, a huge boom of 'youth' and a repressive establishment to fight. Here's hoping the result of this revolution is a bit more friendly then the last, but more importantly that it treats it's people better.
Bleh. South Korea tried protests in the 1980 for democratization, and the military ended up killing several hundred demonstrators while troops were brutally restablishing control over Kwangju. South Korea has only had democracy since the 1987--and that's only if you believe Noh Tae-Woo, the previous dictator's buddy, was elected in a fair election. Otherwise, ROK has only had democracy since the mid-90s... and that covers the entire period from the end of World War II to present.:(
Fighter maneuverability for decades has been kept in check by the limits of the human body. UAV is the way to go. We've reached the point where we don't need manned fighters anymore.
Whereas UAV pilots cower in bunkers on another continent - so very brave.
Thank you. Personally, I only go to battle wearing a bright red jacket and blue pants carrying a balloon above me for higher visibility. It's the only honorable thing to do.
In any case, here's a photo of the RQ-170 Sentinel.
Any ideas on why they need such a secret and stealthy UAV in Afghanistan for? Obviously they weren't too worried about it if this Bill Sweetman guy was able to see it at the Kandahar International Airport.
Interesting idea, especially since specialized hardware hasn't really been needed for console gaming/emulation since the early 2000s. I would pay half the price of the console for an official Nintendo/Xbox/PS emulator, and I would also pay money for controllers.
It's like a SSD thumbstick that you buy in a store, except it plugs into the DS just like a game cartridge does, and you can put many, many games on it at once. You select the game you want to play through the flash cart's software on your DS.
I have one of these, and it's too easy to pirate games. It's really unfortunate... easy pirating is one of the things that brought Dreamcast to its doom. Maybe we'll still see Shenmue 3...:(
But the quality of Wiki articles is close to horrible. Okay, articles regarding computers, LOTR, Star Wars and Star Trek have been very well written and thought out but if you actually have knowledge of any other subject and look at wikipedia about those, you quickly notive that the quality of articles is extremely low - whether it is about political sciences, economy, more exotic animals, etc... And that is without even going to the most controversial topics...
Wiki is OK place to look up what some word means and what's the basic concept but for anything more it is pretty useless.
And you have nobody to blame but yourself. When was the last time you contributed?
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Just wondering why this was modded as Flamebait. It's 100% spot-on accurate. How hard is it to check if the story is still current/valid before posting it? If site this was a legit news site that'd be akin to posting a story about a big hostage standoff going on, when actually the hostage was already released and chilling out in a chair sipping coffee and eating donuts with the Five-Oh.
In response to GP and P: Slashdot is an aggregator service, not a news service. Slashdot has always been this way and always will be.
And North Korea... and Iraq...
Agree, and raise you one... North Korea developed a nuke program, but Iran is uncapable of doing so? North Korea has been stuck in the 1970s for years, with an economy that can't even grow enough food to feed it's population (well, now that millions have died off, maybe it can support the new, smaller population). Iran is far better off than North Korea, and likely has North Korea's help (just like Syria did).
... he probably won't collect the million dollars he won by solving the Poincare Conjecture.
May I collect it?
The vast majority of casualties are from insurgents targeting other civilians, not from insurgents targeting multi-national forces. It hasn't been a war since June of 2003... just an extended police action versus a religious or nationalist insurgencies.
Flanking? LOL. Space tactics are more like WWII naval tactics, not army tactics.
If you do not think "flanking" is an extremely important part of World War II naval tactics, then you do not know what you are talking about.
Am I the only one suspicious that they're using a rigged definition of "smartphone"? That is an awfully small list of phones for Japan. What is their criteria? How the hell could a Windows Mobile device even be number two? Beating that is like winning the Special Olympics.
Man, remember when people were pretending the iPhone was a smartphone before it had third party software, just to get it out of the feature phone category? Those were the days.
If you take even just a weekend trip to Japan and walk around in public, you will see a TON of iPhones. I just got back last week, having been there for 15 days. The iPhone is very, very popular there. This is anecdotal evidence and a rather shoddy sampling, but for real statistics... well, that's why we have TFA ;)
This is your on-scene reporter who just got back from Japan this month and this last August: There really are a LOT of iPhones here.
From what I've seen of the game so far, I think I can honestly say without hyperbole that this game is the biggest and possibly most important experiment in the past 15 years of gaming. It really takes the whole idea of what is considered to be a game and breaks the mold. It actually reminds me a bit of Indigo Prophecy, but ten times more deviated from standard gameplay practices. I'm excited to see if it will work and how it will be received.
Remember Spore before it came out? That's all I'll say until I actually have this game in my hands. I have learned my lesson about expecting too much.
I saw this at Tokyu Hands a couple days ago. Now I know what it was. The picture is only just barely similar to whatever photo you send them when you look up close. You have to view it from far away to have it appear to have the detail of the photo.
This is neither the first time nor the second time this has happened. These videos show the exact same phenomenon exhibited in TFA. It's a rocket spinning mostly out of control, as reported here.
http://www.barentsobserver.com/failed-russian-missile-visible-over-northern-norway.4663494-116320.html
Bah,
Last death throws of a failing regime. I feel horrible for the Iranian people right now, but thank god they don't seem to be taking this lying down.
It's like the 1960's over there, a huge boom of 'youth' and a repressive establishment to fight. Here's hoping the result of this revolution is a bit more friendly then the last, but more importantly that it treats it's people better.
Bleh. South Korea tried protests in the 1980 for democratization, and the military ended up killing several hundred demonstrators while troops were brutally restablishing control over Kwangju. South Korea has only had democracy since the 1987--and that's only if you believe Noh Tae-Woo, the previous dictator's buddy, was elected in a fair election. Otherwise, ROK has only had democracy since the mid-90s... and that covers the entire period from the end of World War II to present. :(
Fighter maneuverability for decades has been kept in check by the limits of the human body. UAV is the way to go. We've reached the point where we don't need manned fighters anymore.
Whereas UAV pilots cower in bunkers on another continent - so very brave.
Thank you. Personally, I only go to battle wearing a bright red jacket and blue pants carrying a balloon above me for higher visibility. It's the only honorable thing to do.
Here's another photo that is much higher quality.
Here's another photo that is much higher quality.
The RQ-170 is impossible to photograph.
In any case, here's a photo of the RQ-170 Sentinel.
Any ideas on why they need such a secret and stealthy UAV in Afghanistan for? Obviously they weren't too worried about it if this Bill Sweetman guy was able to see it at the Kandahar International Airport.
Interesting idea, especially since specialized hardware hasn't really been needed for console gaming/emulation since the early 2000s. I would pay half the price of the console for an official Nintendo/Xbox/PS emulator, and I would also pay money for controllers.
:(
Too bad.
It's like a SSD thumbstick that you buy in a store, except it plugs into the DS just like a game cartridge does, and you can put many, many games on it at once. You select the game you want to play through the flash cart's software on your DS.
:(
I have one of these, and it's too easy to pirate games. It's really unfortunate... easy pirating is one of the things that brought Dreamcast to its doom. Maybe we'll still see Shenmue 3...
What's the symbology of that? :/
Dr. Zaius Dr.Zaius!.
North Korea captured the U.S.S. Liberty during "peacetime".
But the quality of Wiki articles is close to horrible. Okay, articles regarding computers, LOTR, Star Wars and Star Trek have been very well written and thought out but if you actually have knowledge of any other subject and look at wikipedia about those, you quickly notive that the quality of articles is extremely low - whether it is about political sciences, economy, more exotic animals, etc... And that is without even going to the most controversial topics...
Wiki is OK place to look up what some word means and what's the basic concept but for anything more it is pretty useless.
And you have nobody to blame but yourself. When was the last time you contributed?