Google has mapped the UK. Makes an interesting map of the world, North America and United Kingdom.
And people say google does no evil, its discarded the rest of the world.
"A new species of rodent has been discovered by a/. Reader. He found this creature on his desk. The creature known as Human Computer Interface device to the locals is so unique it represents an entire new species of wildlife. HCID diverged from other rodents about 30 years ago."
After being in a secondary/high school and college with well equipped computers in classrooms as well as computer rooms. Let me tell you about the wonders of the interactive whiteboard.
Things have moved on from the day of having a 486 in the corner of the class. We have projectors linked up to whiteboards, like a giant graphics tablet.
This is great for maths, draw the graph of a differential out in derive, copy and paste it, and anotate. Can zoom right down onto turning points. And when ur done, no more wiping, just hit new page. Time saving as well. No need for the oh the pen has run out crap either.
For physics, demo's can be run showing how particles interact etc. Instead of trying to decipher the teachers diagrams.
Start to go out and buy those 'i own an acre of the moon' certificate in bulk. Declare a new state. The Peoples republic of The Sea of Tranquility.
PRoTSoT hmmm maybe not such a good acronym.
my 120gb Western Digi hdd's burn to the touch without cooling. They were the 1st 120gb hdd's I ever saw, think they have got 3 platters so it has a beefy motor to keep all 3 spun up at 7200rpm. Therefore mucho heat.
well i guess this is wat sucks about history channels. They say costs blah amount, but never now or then.
so sorry, my bad.
So how about my other opinion of NASA, that it is old, warn out, complacent and needs shutting down, scrapped and a new agency formed.
What does NASA get now, a pultry $15 Bill a year if that, thats almost a 7th of the amount, not including inflatation. and the military gets almost $400 billion IIRC. Now wat u do is, u put that money into NASA. If there is a will, and the money. There is most diffinantly a way.
I have just skimmed over the article.
3D LCD's have been out for a while. I have read a large 3 Page article on it in new scientist a while back.
If my memory serves, as mentioned above. Current 3d screenes only work so long as u are virtually straight ahead of the screen. As it relies on 2 filters to filter one screen from each eye. They had developed 3d screens using 4 LCD's and several filters to allow viewing from as large a range as normal LCD screens. But much more costly. (obviously)
The current main problem with 3D flat screens which doesnt seem to be mentioned in the article is eye strain. Your eye see's 3d so tries to focus on these objects. Which are fake as its all just a flat screen. This causes eyestrain and headaches after 1/2hr to an 1hr. But the main plus side is for 3D TV it will only require around 5% more data to set the depth for each pixel and would require a brand new format, just an extension of the existing formats used. Also there is already technology to quickly make 2D video into 3d video. by using computers to track objects in the scene.
The current main use, as far as I am aware is in the medical proffesion. For the new 3d ultra sounds and CAT scans. As toshiba was advertising laptops for this purpose on the back of new scientist.
My isp (plus.net) monitors any communications on port 135 etc and if it dedicates any when your connected. You get redirected to a Plus.net you may have been effected with MSBlast page etc. And give you the links to tools to fix it.
I have to agree that the PS3 will be much more powerful. I can see it doing realtime raytracing. But the xbox2 is going to have much better online gaming support. It just depends what you want. Anyway by the time the PS3 comes out next year you have had plenty of time to save and get both.
Yes, but then they a huge ammount of articles a day. Regional, National and International. I would even dare to say 1000s of articles a day. So your bound to get mistakes.
Play Burnout 3 and drive around slowly. Theres PGA 2005 Golf Billboards, Need For Speed Underground 2 Billboards. Battlefield Billboards. Axe Deodorant Billboards which is the one that looks most inkeeping, even on a Cold Snow covered track.
I find they really detract from the game, With all these damn EA Game Billboards over the place. Its bad enough with they're slogan:
"EA Games, Challenge Everything"
Makes me think of Gamers playing chicken with an oncoming bus in a supermarket trolley. But then it is a game where you are doing almost 200mph most of the time you don't really see them. A lot of people don't.
Well guess they have finished watching Star Wars movies and have now moved onto Starship Troopers.
I always though replacing like an XBox's rumble system with a couple of electric shock giving pads would be good. Or on a seperate system, so every time u died in Halo Multi the controller gets shocked out of ur hands, more fun.
Although if the DS Linux eventually gets browsers, organisers, flash viewers and stuff on it. I would get one. Port teamspeak and use the built in mic:P. Make more sense to their site, being goteamspeak.com.
Let the power of linux roll on to all platforms and devices.
yes in 2 years they have managed to get up to 10000 players on a server, but a lot of those accounts are multis/mules anyway.
Yes the game has mature people, because its a slow methodic game. Thats why most people don't play it and have left. I bet if you look at the copes they have sold, to numbers of people subscribing its worse than a 10:1 ratio. The main thing that killed it was the lack of updates, nothing major until the recent Exodus patch. By then most have lost interest completely as well as faith.
If it lasts more than a 18 months i would be surprised
Eve-Online is a dieing game, everyone I know who used to play it has left. I only know one person who has picked it up in the last 3 months. It has a subscriber base of around 50k www.mmogchart.com Thats tiny compared to most other MMO's.
I played this game from Beta (about build 816) I dont know why, but it was more fun in beta because there was nothing. Now there is everything and its lost its drive.
I know people say the MMO gaming world is flooded. And it is with Fantasy and ye oldie games. There is room for a really good proper space MMO.
X2 - The Threat is a good space game, shame about its lack of multiplayer. Kills the longevity. X3 Is shaping up pretty good by the looks of it. But still no Multi.
I found Nexus to be a really good game, a bit slow but a good game.
But I have to agree, with this isnt news worthy on/. Maybe if it was news of an upcoming new Space Sim using some new techonlogy or like an Elite Remake but not 2 crummy review down grading a couple of good games. (Well I have never played MechAssault) So one good game.
well, seeing that most of Stardocks games are pretty poor. The only way it will sell is if its for free.
And most prob have adverts spattered across the place.
easy way around, decent speakers and a recording of your engine idling. So you have virtual engine idling. Could add Dual Shock ability to make the car rumble as if the engine is idling. But only if you buy the rights 1st:P
developing D&D on they're own if you read they're site.
Turbine, in conjunction with Wizards of the Coast and Atari, is currently hard at work bringing the massively multiplayer version of Dungeons & Dragons® to life.
To me sounds like they are just a well known front. Atari arn't known for MMO's, Turbine is.
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More likely check ur IP. I'm sure that most of the video's can only be streamed in the uk on the beebs site.
Google has mapped the UK. Makes an interesting map of the world, North America and United Kingdom. And people say google does no evil, its discarded the rest of the world.
"A new species of rodent has been discovered by a /. Reader. He found this creature on his desk. The creature known as Human Computer Interface device to the locals is so unique it represents an entire new species of wildlife. HCID diverged from other rodents about 30 years ago."
After being in a secondary/high school and college with well equipped computers in classrooms as well as computer rooms. Let me tell you about the wonders of the interactive whiteboard.
Things have moved on from the day of having a 486 in the corner of the class. We have projectors linked up to whiteboards, like a giant graphics tablet.
This is great for maths, draw the graph of a differential out in derive, copy and paste it, and anotate. Can zoom right down onto turning points. And when ur done, no more wiping, just hit new page. Time saving as well. No need for the oh the pen has run out crap either. For physics, demo's can be run showing how particles interact etc. Instead of trying to decipher the teachers diagrams.
Start to go out and buy those 'i own an acre of the moon' certificate in bulk. Declare a new state. The Peoples republic of The Sea of Tranquility. PRoTSoT hmmm maybe not such a good acronym.
and they used to have a 6th in kit form.
Most games I see on the shelves here in the UK are now DVD. Not like a new DVD drive cost that much anyway. Less than the price of a new game.
my 120gb Western Digi hdd's burn to the touch without cooling. They were the 1st 120gb hdd's I ever saw, think they have got 3 platters so it has a beefy motor to keep all 3 spun up at 7200rpm. Therefore mucho heat.
well i guess this is wat sucks about history channels. They say costs blah amount, but never now or then. so sorry, my bad. So how about my other opinion of NASA, that it is old, warn out, complacent and needs shutting down, scrapped and a new agency formed.
Well the Moon landings cost about $100 Billion+.
What does NASA get now, a pultry $15 Bill a year if that, thats almost a 7th of the amount, not including inflatation. and the military gets almost $400 billion IIRC. Now wat u do is, u put that money into NASA. If there is a will, and the money. There is most diffinantly a way.
75 years? wat about the next 5. With 30 mill new retired americans. Got to love that 1940's baby boom u know.
I have just skimmed over the article. 3D LCD's have been out for a while. I have read a large 3 Page article on it in new scientist a while back. If my memory serves, as mentioned above. Current 3d screenes only work so long as u are virtually straight ahead of the screen. As it relies on 2 filters to filter one screen from each eye. They had developed 3d screens using 4 LCD's and several filters to allow viewing from as large a range as normal LCD screens. But much more costly. (obviously)
The current main problem with 3D flat screens which doesnt seem to be mentioned in the article is eye strain. Your eye see's 3d so tries to focus on these objects. Which are fake as its all just a flat screen. This causes eyestrain and headaches after 1/2hr to an 1hr. But the main plus side is for 3D TV it will only require around 5% more data to set the depth for each pixel and would require a brand new format, just an extension of the existing formats used. Also there is already technology to quickly make 2D video into 3d video. by using computers to track objects in the scene.
The current main use, as far as I am aware is in the medical proffesion. For the new 3d ultra sounds and CAT scans. As toshiba was advertising laptops for this purpose on the back of new scientist.
My isp (plus.net) monitors any communications on port 135 etc and if it dedicates any when your connected. You get redirected to a Plus.net you may have been effected with MSBlast page etc. And give you the links to tools to fix it.
Very handy indeed.
I have to agree that the PS3 will be much more powerful. I can see it doing realtime raytracing. But the xbox2 is going to have much better online gaming support. It just depends what you want. Anyway by the time the PS3 comes out next year you have had plenty of time to save and get both.
Yes, but then they a huge ammount of articles a day. Regional, National and International. I would even dare to say 1000s of articles a day. So your bound to get mistakes.
I find they really detract from the game, With all these damn EA Game Billboards over the place. Its bad enough with they're slogan: Makes me think of Gamers playing chicken with an oncoming bus in a supermarket trolley. But then it is a game where you are doing almost 200mph most of the time you don't really see them. A lot of people don't.
Well guess they have finished watching Star Wars movies and have now moved onto Starship Troopers.
I always though replacing like an XBox's rumble system with a couple of electric shock giving pads would be good. Or on a seperate system, so every time u died in Halo Multi the controller gets shocked out of ur hands, more fun.
Console vs PC gamers argument is really going to have something to chew over now! Ill just stand in the corner, watching and sniggering.
I have mandrake 10.1 running on a vacuum cleaner: http://zeussy.com/comment.php?comment.news.12
:P. Make more sense to their site, being goteamspeak.com.
Although if the DS Linux eventually gets browsers, organisers, flash viewers and stuff on it. I would get one. Port teamspeak and use the built in mic
Let the power of linux roll on to all platforms and devices.
yes in 2 years they have managed to get up to 10000 players on a server, but a lot of those accounts are multis/mules anyway. Yes the game has mature people, because its a slow methodic game. Thats why most people don't play it and have left. I bet if you look at the copes they have sold, to numbers of people subscribing its worse than a 10:1 ratio. The main thing that killed it was the lack of updates, nothing major until the recent Exodus patch. By then most have lost interest completely as well as faith. If it lasts more than a 18 months i would be surprised
Eve-Online is a dieing game, everyone I know who used to play it has left. I only know one person who has picked it up in the last 3 months. It has a subscriber base of around 50k www.mmogchart.com Thats tiny compared to most other MMO's.
/. Maybe if it was news of an upcoming new Space Sim using some new techonlogy or like an Elite Remake but not 2 crummy review down grading a couple of good games. (Well I have never played MechAssault) So one good game.
I played this game from Beta (about build 816) I dont know why, but it was more fun in beta because there was nothing. Now there is everything and its lost its drive.
I know people say the MMO gaming world is flooded. And it is with Fantasy and ye oldie games. There is room for a really good proper space MMO.
X2 - The Threat is a good space game, shame about its lack of multiplayer. Kills the longevity. X3 Is shaping up pretty good by the looks of it. But still no Multi.
I found Nexus to be a really good game, a bit slow but a good game.
But I have to agree, with this isnt news worthy on
well, seeing that most of Stardocks games are pretty poor. The only way it will sell is if its for free. And most prob have adverts spattered across the place.
easy way around, decent speakers and a recording of your engine idling. So you have virtual engine idling. Could add Dual Shock ability to make the car rumble as if the engine is idling. But only if you buy the rights 1st :P
Hope they have good insurance. Not just 3rd Party, Fire and Theft.
To me sounds like they are just a well known front. Atari arn't known for MMO's, Turbine is.