I wouldn't give it that much credit. One achievement, which was long overdue, and not all that intersting (when will we get people to orbit?). It might have made the project a bit more exciting, but giving the credit to the prize is a bit of a long shot, not least because the development costs far outnumber the prize.
What it is good for though, is setting actual real-world goals for scientists to achieve, learn from, with the prospect of winning the prize and the fame. They compete with other entries and it also sparks interest in it, rather than only staying a concept, with no specific development.
But what if all your customers done the same? Particularly small developers need every sale they can get, because it doesn't help them if they made "the great game that nobody bought" (Beyond good and Evil anyone?)
Are you really prohibited from reselling it? Might be like that in the US, but in Germany, I believe it was ruled that they can't stop you from reselling software, no matter what they print on the package. So, stores have lines of "not to be sold seperately" Windows copies and the like, which fetch almost the same price as the ones with a prettier box.
What about drinking cold water? Water you take in is warmed to body temperature, until it is passed out as urine. So, say you drink 400ml of water, and the Delta T between the water and the urine is 30 Kelvin, your body has to burn around 11 kcal for proper thermoregulation.
Wow, I haven't seen such an uninformed, but confident comment in a long while. The responsibility is copyright infringement. Merely posessing copyright infringing material is an offense in itself. It's not punished as severely as when you sell, but still. And if you know the copyright situation is dubious, theres no claiming you didn't know.
And if you live in the US, US laws apply to everything you have and do. Simple.
So, which one is less "game machine"? You don't have to list every difference between the PS3 and Wii, I know them already. But most people wouldn't consider "this uses blu-ray not DVD" or "this one has a more powerful processor", as a signifacant difference in what the products are. To call one a "toy" and the other a "gaming machine", there has to be something more to it.
But both are TV-connected computer systems, which use purchased software disc medium, to provide interactive entertainment. People will use Wiis the same way they use PS3s. They will switch them on, and play games sitting on their couch.
My point eactly. E3 was just too stupid for how important it was supposed to be. If all they do is have fun, then why should only press representatives be admitted? You have Events like PAX for that.
the Wii being a popular choice but more viewed as a toy than a games machine
Now come on, that's the oldest flame in the book. Whether or not you prefer to call consoles a toy or not, the Wii really isn't much of a different product than the PS3, especially since Sony have adopted motion-sensing technology.
Therefore the PS3 is, as a function of purchasing parity, 1.6 times less expensive than in the US.
Yeah, right. Nice logic you have there.
Certainly $500 for a games console isn't a big deal for most affluant UK households who will have two incomes of approx $40,000 each
Wow, you really get to know alot of average UK households don't you?
E3 always was a press-only event, it was never intended for fans. But then more and more "journalists" began to come. What happened in the last few years is that anyone with a reasonably visited blog got a ticket. And then we began to see the fruits of these huge torrents of quite immature and unprofessional "journalists": Booth Babes at every corner, stupid parties, and more and more covorage happening "behind closed doors", for the real journalists. The big players didn't even bother revealing anything at the Show itself, but preferred to host their own press conferences.
Fun shows, with playable demos and the like should be open to the public. But if you can only get in if you are from the press, I'd expect it to be a little more serious and down to earth than what E3 has been.
The Body Mass Index is exactly what it is, a definition. Something that is defined can't be called "inaccurate". I guess you meant to say "The BMI is not an good measure for somebody's health/fitness/body fat", but that is true for any similar kind of measure, as there is no universal "health formula". The BMI "underweight-normal-oveweight-obese" borders are intended for physically inactive people. Much more important is it's value for statistics within populations. For example in this case, high BMI has been linked to low IQ. What the cause for this statistical fluctuation is, hasn't been found.
On the other hand, some conditions are known to be a direct result of high BMI's, even for people with low body fat, such as certain skeletal issues.
I haven't seen any kind of dissection of the Wiimote, but I doubt it contains that much. At least the gyroscopes would be kind of difficult to implement, and not all that necessary with the CCD-chip that it uses to detect is position relative to the screen.
The graphical weaknesses on some multi-format Cube games weren't because of the disc, but because of the fact that the GameCube was a little different in hardware design, and many developers were too lazy to optimize it. It had less RAM for example, but the discs could be accessed faster because of their size, and it used the the very potent 1T-SRAM.
That was an estimate for a robotic repair mission, which would have required alot of new development, and initially be more expensive than sending the shuttle (although probably not by much)
Since then the idea of the robotic mission has been rejected. Personally, I'd have liked to have seen it happen despite the costs, because the amount that would have been learnt would be a huge gain for future missions of that kind, and they would be much cheaper. It just seems a waste to send astronauts up for something that could be don by a machine.
Don't take that as a guarantee. Until the official preorders start, you're only relying on the vendors ability to secure the supply (which is still good, but not fail safe). I always wait for official Nintendo preorders.
Well, that isn't exactly top-secret information is it?
I was wodering though, considering how much technology has advanced in recent years, would we be able to launch a much better telescope, and would we have more bang for the buck?
I can't understand the people who complain about windmills being an eyesore. Sure, they're noticable, like just about any other structure. But they're also a reminder of our thirst for energy, and a symbol of our civilisation. They're something we should be proud of
I have seen much mor offending things than a few windmills in the scenery
DRM is necessary to get the music industry involved. You might not like it, but I that's the way business goes.
AAC files can be played by any player computer with the Codec installed. But, as with any DRM, you can only play Tracks bought from ITMS with a Quiktime plugin. But it does let you register up to 5 Computers for an iTunes account.
Out of the two existing DRM formats for Audio files, Faiplay is definatly the lesser evil.
Lower Quality solar panels? That's not the place to save money. They could have made the whole rovers out of Platimun, and it would still be a minute amount compared to the total cost of the mission. (about 7 million USD vs. 820 million USD)
It doesn't necessaraly kill germs, but it removes them and their food source from the places you clean. Using disinfectant is way too overkill for most situations. Plus, completely sterile environments aren't too good for a healthy immune system.
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I wouldn't give it that much credit. One achievement, which was long overdue, and not all that intersting (when will we get people to orbit?). It might have made the project a bit more exciting, but giving the credit to the prize is a bit of a long shot, not least because the development costs far outnumber the prize.
What it is good for though, is setting actual real-world goals for scientists to achieve, learn from, with the prospect of winning the prize and the fame. They compete with other entries and it also sparks interest in it, rather than only staying a concept, with no specific development.
Silly me. I thought there was only one.
But what if all your customers done the same? Particularly small developers need every sale they can get, because it doesn't help them if they made "the great game that nobody bought" (Beyond good and Evil anyone?)
It's called the "emotion engine"
Are you really prohibited from reselling it? Might be like that in the US, but in Germany, I believe it was ruled that they can't stop you from reselling software, no matter what they print on the package. So, stores have lines of "not to be sold seperately" Windows copies and the like, which fetch almost the same price as the ones with a prettier box.
Just posessing copyright infringing material is an offense in the US. Keep that in mind.
What about drinking cold water? Water you take in is warmed to body temperature, until it is passed out as urine. So, say you drink 400ml of water, and the Delta T between the water and the urine is 30 Kelvin, your body has to burn around 11 kcal for proper thermoregulation.
Wow, I haven't seen such an uninformed, but confident comment in a long while. The responsibility is copyright infringement. Merely posessing copyright infringing material is an offense in itself. It's not punished as severely as when you sell, but still. And if you know the copyright situation is dubious, theres no claiming you didn't know.
And if you live in the US, US laws apply to everything you have and do. Simple.
So, which one is less "game machine"? You don't have to list every difference between the PS3 and Wii, I know them already. But most people wouldn't consider "this uses blu-ray not DVD" or "this one has a more powerful processor", as a signifacant difference in what the products are.
To call one a "toy" and the other a "gaming machine", there has to be something more to it.
But both are TV-connected computer systems, which use purchased software disc medium, to provide interactive entertainment.
People will use Wiis the same way they use PS3s. They will switch them on, and play games sitting on their couch.
My point eactly. E3 was just too stupid for how important it was supposed to be. If all they do is have fun, then why should only press representatives be admitted? You have Events like PAX for that.
Yeah, right. Nice logic you have there.
Wow, you really get to know alot of average UK households don't you?
E3 always was a press-only event, it was never intended for fans. But then more and more "journalists" began to come.
What happened in the last few years is that anyone with a reasonably visited blog got a ticket. And then we began to see the fruits of these huge torrents of quite immature and unprofessional "journalists": Booth Babes at every corner, stupid parties, and more and more covorage happening "behind closed doors", for the real journalists. The big players didn't even bother revealing anything at the Show itself, but preferred to host their own press conferences.
Fun shows, with playable demos and the like should be open to the public. But if you can only get in if you are from the press, I'd expect it to be a little more serious and down to earth than what E3 has been.
The Body Mass Index is exactly what it is, a definition. Something that is defined can't be called "inaccurate". I guess you meant to say "The BMI is not an good measure for somebody's health/fitness/body fat", but that is true for any similar kind of measure, as there is no universal "health formula".
The BMI "underweight-normal-oveweight-obese" borders are intended for physically inactive people. Much more important is it's value for statistics within populations. For example in this case, high BMI has been linked to low IQ. What the cause for this statistical fluctuation is, hasn't been found.
On the other hand, some conditions are known to be a direct result of high BMI's, even for people with low body fat, such as certain skeletal issues.
I haven't seen any kind of dissection of the Wiimote, but I doubt it contains that much. At least the gyroscopes would be kind of difficult to implement, and not all that necessary with the CCD-chip that it uses to detect is position relative to the screen.
The graphical weaknesses on some multi-format Cube games weren't because of the disc, but because of the fact that the GameCube was a little different in hardware design, and many developers were too lazy to optimize it. It had less RAM for example, but the discs could be accessed faster because of their size, and it used the the very potent 1T-SRAM.
This is exactly a useful, innovative, or even challenging mod.
Whats next? We'll see the Slashdot headline "Man tapes laser to his dick: Fully detailed instructions with pictures"
That was an estimate for a robotic repair mission, which would have required alot of new development, and initially be more expensive than sending the shuttle (although probably not by much)
Since then the idea of the robotic mission has been rejected. Personally, I'd have liked to have seen it happen despite the costs, because the amount that would have been learnt would be a huge gain for future missions of that kind, and they would be much cheaper. It just seems a waste to send astronauts up for something that could be don by a machine.
Don't take that as a guarantee. Until the official preorders start, you're only relying on the vendors ability to secure the supply (which is still good, but not fail safe). I always wait for official Nintendo preorders.
Well, that isn't exactly top-secret information is it?
I was wodering though, considering how much technology has advanced in recent years, would we be able to launch a much better telescope, and would we have more bang for the buck?
I can't understand the people who complain about windmills being an eyesore. Sure, they're noticable, like just about any other structure. But they're also a reminder of our thirst for energy, and a symbol of our civilisation. They're something we should be proud of
I have seen much mor offending things than a few windmills in the scenery
I suppose they'd complain about these too.
DRM is necessary to get the music industry involved. You might not like it, but I that's the way business goes. AAC files can be played by any player computer with the Codec installed. But, as with any DRM, you can only play Tracks bought from ITMS with a Quiktime plugin. But it does let you register up to 5 Computers for an iTunes account. Out of the two existing DRM formats for Audio files, Faiplay is definatly the lesser evil.
This is a game I played quite a few years ago on the playstation: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/globaldominati on/index.html
I think it was only released on the PC in America.
Lower Quality solar panels? That's not the place to save money. They could have made the whole rovers out of Platimun, and it would still be a minute amount compared to the total cost of the mission. (about 7 million USD vs. 820 million USD)
If only bicycles were to ride on the roads, they'd only need to be 12 feet wide, very thin, and would last forever.
It doesn't necessaraly kill germs, but it removes them and their food source from the places you clean.
Using disinfectant is way too overkill for most situations. Plus, completely sterile environments aren't too good for a healthy immune system.