From TFA: These sharp tips are needed for making contact with metals or semiconductors as well as for the manipulation and examination of atoms, molecules and small particles. Ultrafine tips are demanded for future experiments where the results are directly dependent on shape of the tip.
This is HUGE news in the nano scanning tunnel microscope world! Combined with the ability to determine an electrons spin, this could really open up new research results in a lot of fields. Good to see so many comedians on/. Lotta sharp wits.
In the end, the BDR-101A is really a device for a select audience. For what it's worth, the drive is actually cheaper than the first-generation DVD recorders, which weighed in at over $2,000 when they first launched. Over the next months and years, we'll see the price of Blu-ray drives start to come down, as players, media, and the technology for more easily creating discs becomes more prevalent. It's also not well-suited for watching Blu-ray movies, since no off-the-shelf software exists. It's a good tool for people who are authoring Blu-ray, and are willing to put up with the single-layer limitation. For anyone else, it's really an expensive toy.
This just about sums up the entire article: Wow, neat. Don't buy one yet.
I can think of a lot of smart, witty, even sarcastic jokes about this article... but this is truly a 'Wow' moment if you fully understand the implications of this.
This game sounds like a bunch of marketing people read a few Joseph Campbell books and wet their collective pants. TFA is like a teenage girl's journal recounting every boring detail of their life. Sure, I'm very into game design (I do it), but this is all me, me, me! Gag me with an analog controller.
The game actually sounds interesting though, and that's what it all comes down to. I'm sure there will be a lot of comments slamming the self praise of TFA, but hey, shameless self promotion is the name of the game, right? That's not new even if the game is.
I had a chance to play with this prototype a little while back. It was great to work with, but I noticed that the candy bars in my pocket kept melting and I haven't seen my dog in days...
There's not much of a story here except that if you commit to one hosting service, you run the risk of them being complete jerks with your content choice.
I do see your point, though some of us old hacks are a bit crafty and 'create' our rootkit out of a collection of undocumented and not-so-well-known bugs, carefully --even artfully-- scattered throughout the code. Of course, if you're this good, you're not getting into bed with shady investors/employers.
Offtopic: Love your website. Better luck with the firework photos next time.
Why aren't they in Virginia like AOL/TimeWarner? Or on the east coast, tied right into the trunk going under the Atlantic to Europe. It's a race. First company to offer realtime filtering of the internet gets the Chinese Government's thumbs up. Big markets emerging in the east. VoIP, B2B, eBay (and a whole bunch of other letters) needs to be controlled by China for them to allow foreign access to their burgeoning market. I think a Googleplex may have this goal in mind. Otherwise, why the west coast race? It's not like the internet benefits from being physically centric.
In reality, movie playback is secondary to overall gameplay for most consumers, no matter what you think- because that's how the market has actually spoken.
No matter what I think? Try reading my comment again. You extracted one thing I said, took it completely the wrong way, and then propped me up as arguing for something I think is idiotic and stupid. Every reply I have gotten so far has shown that the people replying rarely take the time to absorb what they've just read. Don't be a reactionary. My point was simply this: In a discussion of strategy, dual-screen was mentioned and UMD wasn't. If we are comparing features (good or bad; I really don't care people) then there should be full disclosure. Every reply I have received, including yours, had better information that should have been included in the article. That's what I was saying in my comment. More needed to be said, but with that long of an article, and no mention of UMD... it just struck me as massively stupid.
From TFA: but everyone can understand that a dual-screened machine with a stylus is different, or that a controller you move about in the air to control the game is different. It's obvious.
I am not an apologist for Sony or Nintendo, but I do think that the author, in discussing strategy, should have mentioned THE FAILED strategy of Sony's UMD movies. And how it affected console sales, good or bad. At least MENTION it once... in passing... with some sniggering. Because, if you're pointing out differences, why mention Nintendo's and not Sony's? Seems a bit one-sided to me...
I didn't intend to give the impression that PSP movies have been much help in sales, but that comparing the directions the two companies are taking to increase market share are totally different paths, and with totally different pitfalls. Yeah, I would like to see who wins, but it comes down to predicting something that (given the directions taken by both companies) is not clear to anyone. So what does this article have to offer in terms of clarification or answers? Nothing.
What was left out of the original translation from japanese is that Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi said that they would be offering everything from cellphone ringtones to a XBox 360 game emulator for the PS3, which he stated, 'Just involves turning a bunch of features off'.
From TFA: In short, I think Nintendo is coming out of a tunnel that Sony is only just going into and Microsoft hasn't even seen on the horizon.
In short?
In a huge piece on moblie gaming, Pocket Gamer reports...
Yeah, a huge piece of crap speculation. The author starts a melee of paragraphs with "Anyway, After all, Ultimately, It's a fair point, Equally, In other words, All that said, That might be right, Furthermore, However, To an extent, Nevertheless, If history is any guide, What's more, and Still."
It's like his boss told him to write 3,000 words on the Nintendo DS vs. Sony's PSP. How can you have so many meandering arguements that lead nowhere and find no conclusion? How can you read an article that starts with the question of who will win the handheld console war and COMPLETELY FAIL TO MENTION THAT PSP's PLAY MOVIES!!! I would try to be nice, or even diplomatic about it, but I have to say that this article is crap and the author is an idiot.
Hearsay! A report about a report? Yeah, that's murky at best. And what is the cost of living in that part of China? Half of my friends in San Francisco (yes, they are Chinese) spend half or more of their monthly income on rent and food. Nobody visits them either. Are they being whipped? Are they being forced into working? My friends in SF also work 15+ days and 50+ hour weeks. BFD. It sucks everywhere until people make a concerted effort to fix things. Are you going to pay more for your precious nano to help the impoverished Chinese workers? I didn't think so. I don't think Apple is going to face any sort of backlash remotely similar to Nike. The variables are way too different.
I love how you can watch the glaciers melt and fall into the sea in 3D!!! The splashes are so much better. And with my whooshing sound effects, my daughter can enjoy them before they are gone. Thanks Google!!!
Working a bit in litigation support, I know that a significant amount of time and money is spent trying to make excel spreadsheets presentable as evidence in a courtroom (Arthur Anderson anyone?). There is an entire industry supported by excel being a whopping pile of crap to work with. If a better alternative were to take the market, it would definitely be championed by a world full of corporate lawyers. And I'm sure the lack of privacy is making the NSA positively bubbling with anticipation.
Like, I'm sooo stoned right now. It's totally, like, helping me write a Google Homepage plugin for checking your MySpace notifications. That way I can keep in contact with the people who do my homework for me! I tried a few drugs to help me as a programmer, but pot is the best. I tried coke for motivation and to focus, but like, I totally ended up foaming at the mouth playing WoW online. I tried LSD, then tried to program my cat to feed itself. I tried snorting my Mom's Zoloft, but I felt so good about my programming, I totally like, stopped tweaking it and it's still full of bugs. But when I smoke pot, I lay around playing XBox until the last minute when I drink an entire pot of coffee and my panic driven code is the best I could ever hope to write sober. Like pharmies are so pill-popping '80's. Sounds like something babyboomers would worry about, like, for reals.
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From TFA: These sharp tips are needed for making contact with metals or semiconductors as well as for the manipulation and examination of atoms, molecules and small particles. Ultrafine tips are demanded for future experiments where the results are directly dependent on shape of the tip.
/. Lotta sharp wits.
This is HUGE news in the nano scanning tunnel microscope world! Combined with the ability to determine an electrons spin, this could really open up new research results in a lot of fields. Good to see so many comedians on
This just about sums up the entire article: Wow, neat. Don't buy one yet.
I can think of a lot of smart, witty, even sarcastic jokes about this article... but this is truly a 'Wow' moment if you fully understand the implications of this.
This game sounds like a bunch of marketing people read a few Joseph Campbell books and wet their collective pants. TFA is like a teenage girl's journal recounting every boring detail of their life. Sure, I'm very into game design (I do it), but this is all me, me, me! Gag me with an analog controller.
The game actually sounds interesting though, and that's what it all comes down to. I'm sure there will be a lot of comments slamming the self praise of TFA, but hey, shameless self promotion is the name of the game, right? That's not new even if the game is.
I had a chance to play with this prototype a little while back. It was great to work with, but I noticed that the candy bars in my pocket kept melting and I haven't seen my dog in days...
No, I'm actually sending them dirt from a graveyard. They mention graveyard in TFA, so I wasn't trying to be witty, just rallying the troops!
I'm going to send them dirt from a graveyard!
So why don't people use Photobucket or Snapfish or Snapzilla or VillagePhotos or Zoto or TinyPic or SmugMug or Greatest Journal or...
My personal favorite DeviantArt?
There's not much of a story here except that if you commit to one hosting service, you run the risk of them being complete jerks with your content choice.
I do see your point, though some of us old hacks are a bit crafty and 'create' our rootkit out of a collection of undocumented and not-so-well-known bugs, carefully --even artfully-- scattered throughout the code. Of course, if you're this good, you're not getting into bed with shady investors/employers. Offtopic: Love your website. Better luck with the firework photos next time.
Why aren't they in Virginia like AOL/TimeWarner? Or on the east coast, tied right into the trunk going under the Atlantic to Europe. It's a race. First company to offer realtime filtering of the internet gets the Chinese Government's thumbs up. Big markets emerging in the east. VoIP, B2B, eBay (and a whole bunch of other letters) needs to be controlled by China for them to allow foreign access to their burgeoning market. I think a Googleplex may have this goal in mind. Otherwise, why the west coast race? It's not like the internet benefits from being physically centric.
If you want to protect yourself from ungrateful, uncaring employers... there's just one word: rootkit.
A simple reply like that... so beautiful... and yet that info was left out of such a long article... makes you wonder.
In reality, movie playback is secondary to overall gameplay for most consumers, no matter what you think- because that's how the market has actually spoken.
No matter what I think? Try reading my comment again. You extracted one thing I said, took it completely the wrong way, and then propped me up as arguing for something I think is idiotic and stupid. Every reply I have gotten so far has shown that the people replying rarely take the time to absorb what they've just read. Don't be a reactionary. My point was simply this: In a discussion of strategy, dual-screen was mentioned and UMD wasn't. If we are comparing features (good or bad; I really don't care people) then there should be full disclosure. Every reply I have received, including yours, had better information that should have been included in the article. That's what I was saying in my comment. More needed to be said, but with that long of an article, and no mention of UMD... it just struck me as massively stupid.
Missed the point of my comment.
From TFA: but everyone can understand that a dual-screened machine with a stylus is different, or that a controller you move about in the air to control the game is different. It's obvious.
I am not an apologist for Sony or Nintendo, but I do think that the author, in discussing strategy, should have mentioned THE FAILED strategy of Sony's UMD movies. And how it affected console sales, good or bad. At least MENTION it once... in passing... with some sniggering. Because, if you're pointing out differences, why mention Nintendo's and not Sony's? Seems a bit one-sided to me...
I didn't intend to give the impression that PSP movies have been much help in sales, but that comparing the directions the two companies are taking to increase market share are totally different paths, and with totally different pitfalls. Yeah, I would like to see who wins, but it comes down to predicting something that (given the directions taken by both companies) is not clear to anyone. So what does this article have to offer in terms of clarification or answers? Nothing.
What was left out of the original translation from japanese is that Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi said that they would be offering everything from cellphone ringtones to a XBox 360 game emulator for the PS3, which he stated, 'Just involves turning a bunch of features off'.
From TFA: In short, I think Nintendo is coming out of a tunnel that Sony is only just going into and Microsoft hasn't even seen on the horizon.
In short?
In a huge piece on moblie gaming, Pocket Gamer reports...
Yeah, a huge piece of crap speculation. The author starts a melee of paragraphs with "Anyway, After all, Ultimately, It's a fair point, Equally, In other words, All that said, That might be right, Furthermore, However, To an extent, Nevertheless, If history is any guide, What's more, and Still."
It's like his boss told him to write 3,000 words on the Nintendo DS vs. Sony's PSP. How can you have so many meandering arguements that lead nowhere and find no conclusion? How can you read an article that starts with the question of who will win the handheld console war and COMPLETELY FAIL TO MENTION THAT PSP's PLAY MOVIES!!! I would try to be nice, or even diplomatic about it, but I have to say that this article is crap and the author is an idiot.
Hearsay! A report about a report? Yeah, that's murky at best. And what is the cost of living in that part of China? Half of my friends in San Francisco (yes, they are Chinese) spend half or more of their monthly income on rent and food. Nobody visits them either. Are they being whipped? Are they being forced into working? My friends in SF also work 15+ days and 50+ hour weeks. BFD. It sucks everywhere until people make a concerted effort to fix things. Are you going to pay more for your precious nano to help the impoverished Chinese workers? I didn't think so. I don't think Apple is going to face any sort of backlash remotely similar to Nike. The variables are way too different.
I love how you can watch the glaciers melt and fall into the sea in 3D!!! The splashes are so much better. And with my whooshing sound effects, my daughter can enjoy them before they are gone. Thanks Google!!!
The photos were great, but I had trouble downloading the license to read the DRM'd text.
Working a bit in litigation support, I know that a significant amount of time and money is spent trying to make excel spreadsheets presentable as evidence in a courtroom (Arthur Anderson anyone?). There is an entire industry supported by excel being a whopping pile of crap to work with. If a better alternative were to take the market, it would definitely be championed by a world full of corporate lawyers. And I'm sure the lack of privacy is making the NSA positively bubbling with anticipation.
Could I get my XBox to give me a happy ending? Force feedback with a light touch...
The line would be on the mirror.
Like, I'm sooo stoned right now. It's totally, like, helping me write a Google Homepage plugin for checking your MySpace notifications. That way I can keep in contact with the people who do my homework for me! I tried a few drugs to help me as a programmer, but pot is the best. I tried coke for motivation and to focus, but like, I totally ended up foaming at the mouth playing WoW online. I tried LSD, then tried to program my cat to feed itself. I tried snorting my Mom's Zoloft, but I felt so good about my programming, I totally like, stopped tweaking it and it's still full of bugs. But when I smoke pot, I lay around playing XBox until the last minute when I drink an entire pot of coffee and my panic driven code is the best I could ever hope to write sober. Like pharmies are so pill-popping '80's. Sounds like something babyboomers would worry about, like, for reals.
Who has time to read corporate lackey blogs? I can barely keep up with the slow-news-day Slashdot postings...