I hope they have done safety testing on these new dyes, since children will be getting this stuff in their eyes. If they didn't, these colored bubbles might end up like the Opti-Grab. Then these two guys will look like real jerks.
I can't trust any game reviews anymore on any scale. I've noticed that the bigger the game in terms of hype and advertising, the bigger the review it gets, regardless of quality or (especially) originality. Either the reviewers are a bunch of star-struck gaming geeks or the advertisers on the game review sites have too much power over the sites, skewing the review scores ever upward. Probably a combination of these two factors. Either way, I just can't trust them anymore, I need to get word of mouth recommendation from a friend or try the game myself.
Yes, so when human spacefarers wearing spandex outfits, accompanied by a hot bald woman with an LED in her throat make their way to the center of the massive alien ship threatening to wipe us out, at it's center will be this!
The electromagnetic waves, while reflected by the aluminum, can pass through the face and neck to reach the brain. Once inside, the aluminum hat can act like an amplifying cavity, which probably explains the experimental results obtained.
The answer is of course to cover yourself entirely with foil. Head to toe, no gaps. Kind of an anti-EM body condom.
Excuse me, I'm off to the grocery store for supplies...
The Museum of the Moving Image is pretty cool, I went there when I was on vacation in NY this summer. The highlight of their exhibits (for me anyway) was the original model of the Tyrell Corporation building from Blade Runner. When I saw it I geeked-out, no other way to describe it.
151 dB at 1 m. I got a feeling the pirates didn't get this close. It may be a tightly focused beam but it would be greatly diminished in amplitude 100's of meters away.
I happen to think that Mythbusters, while highly entertaining, does a pretty good job of testing myths. They are very systematic and have a decent grounding in science. Sure they like to blow stuff up at the end for fun, but the part before the explosion is usually quite rigorous.
I have the solution: give all control of the internet over to Canada! Nice freedom-loving liberal government, well medicated and educated. Plus, they are too damn polite to do anything nasty with that kind of power! I've never been steered wrong by a Canadian. ".ca" all the way, eh!
Wait a second. You are approaching this topic with optimism and enthusiasm, and expressing yourself without sarcasm? What are you doing posting on slashdot?:)
They ARE archaeologists. There are questions to be answered about the human race that they could be addressing that cannot be answered by Copernicus' mold-ridden left femur.
By the way, I do research in plasma science, when I'm not wasting valuable time posting to/. Man, I need to get back to work...
What good is it to find the decayed, dessicated remains of Copernicus? Maybe the people searching for his bones should be looking for things of more historical importance, like manuscripts or the like. Writings by Archimedes were found recently that are a fascinating glimpse into his method. PBS did a NOVA special on it recently: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/. Much more interesting than if they had found his empty, dusty skull.
What about if you play WoW using Wine or Cedega? I assume that "The Warden" would be limited in some way if not totally crippled. Does anyone who knows more than I do have any thoughts? And what about Macs?
I DVR BBC World News every night on my local PBS station. It is so much better than US cable news. Five minutes into a CNN Headline News block, you're likely to be listening to an in-studio musical guest or hearing about the latest sexual exploits of the famous. With BBC, it's concentrated, international news. Those people know how to use a half-hour!
I have to agree, I've always thought the trinitron color reproduction was superior to other methods. I've got 3 CRT's in my household (1 TV, 2 Monitors), all of them trinitron and they all look gorgeous. I'm not anti-LCD but I wouldn't buy one if it can't match the image quality that I have now.
The moon is closer than Mars to the sun, it also has no atmosphere, so you'd think there would be much more available solar energy.
Course, it won't be playing golf on the lunar surface in front of a camera, so despite it being millions (billions?) of dollars cheaper than sending people back to the moon, it won't happen.
Ok, just so all of you know that I have cred, I played Civ I on the Amiga...
I have to ask, how revolutionary or evolutionary is this latest incarnation of the game going to be? The original was a classic, but the fundamental gameplay, in my opinion hasn't really changed much over the life of the series. Do we really need a Civ IV? [/provocative]
I have a huge problem with patenting what is essentially natural data. How is patenting the human genome different from patenting a constellation of stars or the contour of a coastline. How about the optical emission spectrum of hydrogen? I could go on...
I know the logic: gene patents will spur drug development! This is idiotic. The demand to CURE DISEASE should drive drug development. Making huge swaths of the human genome off limits to everyone but the patent holder will hinder, not help drug research.
Having read the article I sort of agree, but also disagree with you. The issue of photo-realism is certainly relevant in game design and it warrants an intellectual analysis. On the other hand, the essay was a little hard to follow, I'm not sure exactly what the thesis of it was or what he was trying to argue. I know I learned something reading it, but the writer rambled and didn't clearly lay out the points he was trying to make.
How will this affect the game America's Army, the U.S. military's Orwellian recruiting tool? They're having trouble with their recruitment numbers already (I wonder why?). The right will have to figure out whether they want the game played by minors so they will be more likely to sign up to fight wars, or if they want to continue scapegoating the video game industry for all of society's ills.
Go with the lamp cord. Boutique audio cables are separated only by the particular electrical phenomena that they use to justify their rediculous prices, phenomena that are real but have no effect whatsoever for audio. Here's a short list:
-skin effect losses (real but completely irrelevant for audio frequencies, i.e. 20 kHz)
-directionality (The microscopic crystal structure of the copper has some effect on currents running through it. Audible? No freaking way. Unless you are an idiot and put a diode inline between your components, there is no such thing as cable directionality.)
-memory effect in dielectrics (Real and inportant for electrolytic capacitors, but again completely irrelevant for audio speaker cables)
Though I'm an electrical engineer, it is my opinion that the mechanical aspects of the speakers you use have the greatest effect of the sound rather than the electronics. You get diminishing returns from better and better electronic components, while the design of the speakers and enclosures can color the sound significantly.
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I hope they have done safety testing on these new dyes, since children will be getting this stuff in their eyes. If they didn't, these colored bubbles might end up like the Opti-Grab. Then these two guys will look like real jerks.
I can't trust any game reviews anymore on any scale. I've noticed that the bigger the game in terms of hype and advertising, the bigger the review it gets, regardless of quality or (especially) originality. Either the reviewers are a bunch of star-struck gaming geeks or the advertisers on the game review sites have too much power over the sites, skewing the review scores ever upward. Probably a combination of these two factors. Either way, I just can't trust them anymore, I need to get word of mouth recommendation from a friend or try the game myself.
Yes, so when human spacefarers wearing spandex outfits, accompanied by a hot bald woman with an LED in her throat make their way to the center of the massive alien ship threatening to wipe us out, at it's center will be this!
The electromagnetic waves, while reflected by the aluminum, can pass through the face and neck to reach the brain. Once inside, the aluminum hat can act like an amplifying cavity, which probably explains the experimental results obtained.
The answer is of course to cover yourself entirely with foil. Head to toe, no gaps. Kind of an anti-EM body condom.
Excuse me, I'm off to the grocery store for supplies...
I thought it was from Enter the Dragon...
The Museum of the Moving Image is pretty cool, I went there when I was on vacation in NY this summer. The highlight of their exhibits (for me anyway) was the original model of the Tyrell Corporation building from Blade Runner. When I saw it I geeked-out, no other way to describe it.
That's actually a modest sum for a case like this. Enough to be punitive to the school and award enough to cover 2 years of legal fees.
151 dB at 1 m. I got a feeling the pirates didn't get this close. It may be a tightly focused beam but it would be greatly diminished in amplitude 100's of meters away.
I happen to think that Mythbusters, while highly entertaining, does a pretty good job of testing myths. They are very systematic and have a decent grounding in science. Sure they like to blow stuff up at the end for fun, but the part before the explosion is usually quite rigorous.
I have the solution: give all control of the internet over to Canada! Nice freedom-loving liberal government, well medicated and educated. Plus, they are too damn polite to do anything nasty with that kind of power! I've never been steered wrong by a Canadian. ".ca" all the way, eh!
Wait a second. You are approaching this topic with optimism and enthusiasm, and expressing yourself without sarcasm? What are you doing posting on slashdot? :)
They ARE archaeologists. There are questions to be answered about the human race that they could be addressing that cannot be answered by Copernicus' mold-ridden left femur. By the way, I do research in plasma science, when I'm not wasting valuable time posting to /. Man, I need to get back to work...
What good is it to find the decayed, dessicated remains of Copernicus? Maybe the people searching for his bones should be looking for things of more historical importance, like manuscripts or the like. Writings by Archimedes were found recently that are a fascinating glimpse into his method. PBS did a NOVA special on it recently: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/. Much more interesting than if they had found his empty, dusty skull.
Did you RTFA? Explain the requirement for the prominently displayed "Sold Out" signs.
What about if you play WoW using Wine or Cedega? I assume that "The Warden" would be limited in some way if not totally crippled. Does anyone who knows more than I do have any thoughts? And what about Macs?
I DVR BBC World News every night on my local PBS station. It is so much better than US cable news. Five minutes into a CNN Headline News block, you're likely to be listening to an in-studio musical guest or hearing about the latest sexual exploits of the famous. With BBC, it's concentrated, international news. Those people know how to use a half-hour!
I have to agree, I've always thought the trinitron color reproduction was superior to other methods. I've got 3 CRT's in my household (1 TV, 2 Monitors), all of them trinitron and they all look gorgeous. I'm not anti-LCD but I wouldn't buy one if it can't match the image quality that I have now.
The moon is closer than Mars to the sun, it also has no atmosphere, so you'd think there would be much more available solar energy.
Course, it won't be playing golf on the lunar surface in front of a camera, so despite it being millions (billions?) of dollars cheaper than sending people back to the moon, it won't happen.
Ok, just so all of you know that I have cred, I played Civ I on the Amiga...
I have to ask, how revolutionary or evolutionary is this latest incarnation of the game going to be? The original was a classic, but the fundamental gameplay, in my opinion hasn't really changed much over the life of the series. Do we really need a Civ IV? [/provocative]
I have a huge problem with patenting what is essentially natural data. How is patenting the human genome different from patenting a constellation of stars or the contour of a coastline. How about the optical emission spectrum of hydrogen? I could go on...
I know the logic: gene patents will spur drug development! This is idiotic. The demand to CURE DISEASE should drive drug development. Making huge swaths of the human genome off limits to everyone but the patent holder will hinder, not help drug research.
Having read the article I sort of agree, but also disagree with you. The issue of photo-realism is certainly relevant in game design and it warrants an intellectual analysis. On the other hand, the essay was a little hard to follow, I'm not sure exactly what the thesis of it was or what he was trying to argue. I know I learned something reading it, but the writer rambled and didn't clearly lay out the points he was trying to make.
Oh yeah? Well, our president has an MBA, so that's got to count for something.
Oh wait, no it doesn't.
How will this affect the game America's Army, the U.S. military's Orwellian recruiting tool? They're having trouble with their recruitment numbers already (I wonder why?). The right will have to figure out whether they want the game played by minors so they will be more likely to sign up to fight wars, or if they want to continue scapegoating the video game industry for all of society's ills.
Go with the lamp cord. Boutique audio cables are separated only by the particular electrical phenomena that they use to justify their rediculous prices, phenomena that are real but have no effect whatsoever for audio. Here's a short list:
-skin effect losses (real but completely irrelevant for audio frequencies, i.e. 20 kHz)
-directionality (The microscopic crystal structure of the copper has some effect on currents running through it. Audible? No freaking way. Unless you are an idiot and put a diode inline between your components, there is no such thing as cable directionality.)
-memory effect in dielectrics (Real and inportant for electrolytic capacitors, but again completely irrelevant for audio speaker cables)
Though I'm an electrical engineer, it is my opinion that the mechanical aspects of the speakers you use have the greatest effect of the sound rather than the electronics. You get diminishing returns from better and better electronic components, while the design of the speakers and enclosures can color the sound significantly.
"open sauce"
Are you from Bawston?