Don't forget about Black & White as another game that was delayed, delayed, delayed, and was just not a good game at all when it was released...
And, yet, if you think about what they tried to do with Black & White, you realize that in some ways the model used in it is the precursor to the Wii method of game play - admittedly fatally flawed by the use of a mouse instead of a Nunchuk and Wii-mote.
I would love to see B&W done right for the Wii, and by done right I mean bug-free and totally reset.
And with a frickin option to turn off that voice...
Did I mention I patented the GATC encoding scheme as a business process?
Don't tell anyone, but I'm working on some improvements using mRNA, sRNA, and other fun things that let me express many different proteins from the same DNA chain.
I'd ask to digest this information, but I just patented that, so hold that thought.
Oh, and since thought is a biochemical process, you owe me royalties on that one too.
Sometime around 2002 I think, Maxis had announced a game called Simsville, which was supposed to combine elements of Simcity with elements of the Sims. The game was canned, and we got Simcity 4 instead.
I think that morphed into Wii Sims, which has house building aspects, but is more like Animal Crossing.
But Spore will be on the Wii, the Nintendo DS, as well as the PC.
No word on the Mac, but maybe I missed the announcement.
And noone said if they have a SimCity for the Wii... think of how much fun it would be to be an Alien crushing a city... oh, wait, that's another PS2 game, where you take their spinal cords and brains, never mind...
I bear some of the blame for that. After hacking the encoded SimCity city files to figure out how the blocks worked (a core block surrounded by enabler blocks) in a double-byte hex scheme, I came up with functional ideas for solar, wind, hydro, and other power sources as well as new bridge and transportation types (they didn't implement ferries, sadly). And Will and his team implemented them.
I did base them on reality, of course.
Perhaps the addition of all this chrome overloaded the simplistic base model.
So, maybe a more simplistic method, more akin to Wii Sims, is what is needed for SimCity in the future.
"The four transcription factors used by Yamanaka reprogramme cells inconsistently and inefficiently, so that less than 0.1% of the million cells in a simple skin biopsy will be fully reprogrammed."
As noted, the major problem is not just the inconsistency, but the locating of the modified cells.
However, unlike many other slashdot articles, this is is in a peer-reviewed journal, it is based on a technique which has been run for a while and altered based upon other followup work, and it might prove a useful addition for labs to do research, while of limited use in therapeutics.
But that also depends on cost. People forget that a successful research lab has got to get costs per experiment down - if it costs me $20 per sample and I have a plate of samples, I'll go broke trying to run any sizeable research of any note, especially that with significant data that can answer more than 2 basic questions of statistical significance.
I still have an Apple II+ in the garage
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with dual floppy drives, a copy of AppleWriter II, and a 172k RAM board I used to load programs from the first floppy into memory in, letting them execute at about 1000 times faster speeds than if I read them from floppy.
Good times...
I think the floppies are all goo by now, mind you.
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on file in Ottawa, I think this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
...
The DCMA won't help Canadians, only multi-nationals that suck the lifeblood of Canadian writers, artists, game designers, and musicians dry.
But, hey, what do I know, I've only flown across Canada for literary and game conventions on Canada Council grants
In Summary: Bad Idea. Very Bad.
Don't forget about Black & White as another game that was delayed, delayed, delayed, and was just not a good game at all when it was released...
...
And, yet, if you think about what they tried to do with Black & White, you realize that in some ways the model used in it is the precursor to the Wii method of game play - admittedly fatally flawed by the use of a mouse instead of a Nunchuk and Wii-mote.
I would love to see B&W done right for the Wii, and by done right I mean bug-free and totally reset.
And with a frickin option to turn off that voice
Will Wright delivers.
If it isn't ready, that's because it isn't ready.
That said, Wii Sims (or Mii Sims for the Wii, aka Animal Crossing does Anime on the Wii) is still coming out in a month.
I can live with that.
KWANZAI OVERDOSE!
As we follow our fearless band of gold farmers thru the tunnel systems, hoping to bring home $2 for a long hard day's work.
I live without a watch or a cellphone.
Can't say I miss them.
Don't have a PDA either.
just don't power it.
...
... oops ... hmmm, why is it empty? must have been static discharge ....
Problem solved
no power, no info, no harm, no foul.
Now, if they want the flash memory, that is a whole nother can of worms
Well, I don't know about you, but I for one welcome our [CARRIER] [DIALTONE] [AT AH CR LF AT AT CR LF] BRRRZZZZTTT dial-up overlords and ...
[CARRIER LOST]
containing plans for Microsoft's Jihad against the Linux unbelievers.
to tell the truth.
Seriously.
Yes, exactly what I said.
Seriously.
.
And the rest down a black hole where it does no good, anyway.
not unless you're a blood elf ... I'm in the Cult of Foamy ... (e.g. Palo is the leader, and then there's Foamee and Magistra)
Yes, but I used siRNA to silence your patent.
I patented Creation.
Which version?
The standard Bible has three. Then there's all the other variants (like Mormons, etc) and other religions (Hindu, etc).
I claim prior art - I'm a druid.
I just patented DNA replication.
Did I mention I patented the GATC encoding scheme as a business process?
Don't tell anyone, but I'm working on some improvements using mRNA, sRNA, and other fun things that let me express many different proteins from the same DNA chain.
I'd ask to digest this information, but I just patented that, so hold that thought.
Oh, and since thought is a biochemical process, you owe me royalties on that one too.
sorry, i have prior art on this, with this new method I created called "apotosis".
And, actually, I am working on some other biochemistry changes to create cell death.
One involves alchohol. Lots of alcohol. I am hoping Stoli will finance my research into the subject.
My son.
I used the GATC encoding scheme.
All your offspring are belong to me.
Not suprising they didn't want to go back.
We get a lot of refugees from there and Cali.
Sometime around 2002 I think, Maxis had announced a game called Simsville, which was supposed to combine elements of Simcity with elements of the Sims. The game was canned, and we got Simcity 4 instead.
I think that morphed into Wii Sims, which has house building aspects, but is more like Animal Crossing.
You should see the building demos.
Gimme fricken Spore already!
... think of how much fun it would be to be an Alien crushing a city ... oh, wait, that's another PS2 game, where you take their spinal cords and brains, never mind ...
They delayed the product launch.
But Spore will be on the Wii, the Nintendo DS, as well as the PC.
No word on the Mac, but maybe I missed the announcement.
And noone said if they have a SimCity for the Wii
I bear some of the blame for that. After hacking the encoded SimCity city files to figure out how the blocks worked (a core block surrounded by enabler blocks) in a double-byte hex scheme, I came up with functional ideas for solar, wind, hydro, and other power sources as well as new bridge and transportation types (they didn't implement ferries, sadly). And Will and his team implemented them.
I did base them on reality, of course.
Perhaps the addition of all this chrome overloaded the simplistic base model.
So, maybe a more simplistic method, more akin to Wii Sims, is what is needed for SimCity in the future.
I can see the news headline now.
... what! ... no! get away! ... AAAARRRRRRGGGGH!! (splat) (rend) (growl) ...
So long as it works with the new Hello Kitty Laptop to run it remotely, sounds like a plan.
I for one welcome our
Mind you, the linux laptop is fully functional in less time than it takes for the WinXP to resume from suspend mode ...
Making the lack of suspend less of an issue.
The reality is that someone asked the wrong question.
Pay for privacy? News flash - we're shoppers, customers, not your servants.
And, if you're from the EU, you have privacy rights.
Same goes for Canada.
"The four transcription factors used by Yamanaka reprogramme cells inconsistently and inefficiently, so that less than 0.1% of the million cells in a simple skin biopsy will be fully reprogrammed."
As noted, the major problem is not just the inconsistency, but the locating of the modified cells.
However, unlike many other slashdot articles, this is is in a peer-reviewed journal, it is based on a technique which has been run for a while and altered based upon other followup work, and it might prove a useful addition for labs to do research, while of limited use in therapeutics.
But that also depends on cost. People forget that a successful research lab has got to get costs per experiment down - if it costs me $20 per sample and I have a plate of samples, I'll go broke trying to run any sizeable research of any note, especially that with significant data that can answer more than 2 basic questions of statistical significance.
with dual floppy drives, a copy of AppleWriter II, and a 172k RAM board I used to load programs from the first floppy into memory in, letting them execute at about 1000 times faster speeds than if I read them from floppy.
...
Good times
I think the floppies are all goo by now, mind you.