OpenOffice.org distributes their software via BitTorrent in order to help save bandwidth. You can get it other traditional ways but this is an example of where P2P can be used legitimately.
Boot Camp is a ploy to get Windows users to finally see what Mac OS X can do. I've messed around with Mac OS X on a brand new MacBook Pro and I found it works better than Windows XP ever did. I never had a single problem installing software or even getting USB devices to work OUT-OF-THE-BOX.
On the Mac OS X side the ATI drivers are pretty good, Wi-Fi setup was a breeze, many of my USB devices worked without needing to install any software, and installing new software was really very easy.
On the Windows side the ATI drivers are garbage as usual, Wi-Fi is a chore to set up, most of my USB devices required me to install software for them except for the external hard drives (I had to really DIG in Google to find a FUBAR way to get my digital camera to work with XP despite the fact the camera comes with XP drivers which for some reason don't want to work), and installing software can sometimes be a pain.
The plain truth is, but this guy from PC Mag just doesn't to admit it, that Mac OS X is LIGHTYEARS BETTER than Windows XP. Apple has done decades of research and development in operating systems in order to finally achieve what they have with OS X today. Microsoft bought their OSes from somebody else and just modified the code. They did very little innovation on their own except for the original NT kernel and even that's questionable whether or not if it was really developed my Microsoft or not.
The author obviously doesn't get the whole story of FFVII at all or the appeal of the characters. Its close-minded, self-righteous idiots like this guy that make me wish for manditory sterilization of stupid people.
FFVII was a masterpiece of storytelling and innovative game design. It changed the world of console RPGs forever and showed what could really be done with the PSOne hardware if developers too the time to "try" harder.
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jofi wrote: No 16-bit support? Good! ==========
Not Good, no not good at all. I would mean that nearly the entire existing library of software and games for XP will be useless on Vista if the 16bit libraries are left out. Everyone will have to buy new software. This means that games like Oblivion which might use a 16bit installer can't be played on Vista unless it doesn't support 16bit code.
Consider that before automatically thinking it a good thing. No it would be a disaster for Microsoft, but a good thing for Apple.
I understand that Windows VISTA will support 64bit processors much like Windows XP 64bit Edition. However, XP64 has a major flaw which is keeping it from being widely implimented. It has no 16bit libararies. Over 99% of all the available apps, utilities, and games for XP have 16bit installation programs that require the 16bit libraries that are a part of the 32bit version of XP. Without these libraries 16bit code cannot run.
If Vista does not have 16bit libraries the OS is dead before it even ships. The Golden Age of Apple will begin.:-)
I'm a veteran Rifts GM and I'd welcome a Rifts MMORPG. The gmae is awesome, has fantastical interdimensional settings, anime-style mecha, magic, demons, aliens, vampires, insane psychics, and mutants! Perhaps they should start opening a dialogue with Wizards of the Coast.
I like the idea of mandating unrestricted access to municiple areas by competing companies. Right now only one cable company can do business in certain areas because of a deal with that city, and the city bars anyone else from coming in...unless they are satelite TV. More competition between cable TV services in the same area will lead to lower prices. Right now most cable companies can charge whatever they want because there aren't very many other options except for Direct TV, and we know how underhanded cable companies can be towards the satelite companies.
That would be the Unreal Engine. I had a video with a hard-rock version of "Grab Bag" (the Duke Nukem 3D theme song) showing different scenes from the game. One was a ride in a mine car, another was Duke on the back of a truck firing at space ships chasing the truck down a highway. He was supposed to have a female companion who followed along as his assistant.
Its established Paloentological fact that the Sabertooth Tiger has appeared, went extinct, and reappeared at least four times in prehistory. This is due to genetics. Every big cat and every domestic feline carries the genes that could become active again and thus bring about the reappearance of the Sabertooth.
All one has to do is think of DNA as a complex computer program. It can correct itself if errors are found, and it can change itself to adapt. Its not hard to imagine that Evolution is a byproduct of DNA's ability to rewrite itself to suit certain situations. Its not Intellegent Design, its just how DNA functions.
Final Fantasy XI is slated to be released next month on the Xbox 360 along with the release of the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion. I've heard rumors that MS plans to ship 360s in Japan with FFXI already installed on the hard drives to boost sales. PS2 and PC users (I use the PC version) will need to get the expansion while the 360 version will already include it.
FFXI on the 360 looks just like FFXI on a high-end PC with high-res textures and bumpmapping. The overall artwork won't look that different than the PS2 version but it will not be quite as fuzzy and will look better. Its expected that there will a PS3 version since its inconceivable that SquareEnix would abandon their VAST army of current PS2 users.
FFXI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan for the PC and PS2 is coming out April 30th similtaneously in Japan and the US.
In FFXI you start to see Enix's influence. Its a subtle change, most of FFXI is still very much a Squaresoft dominant game, but game elements like missions and the rank system are Enix influences.
FFXII is the first Single-Player FF game since the MMORPG was released. Square and Enix have settled into their new role as a combined company, thus ideas from both sides will unsurprisingly be incorporated into the game. So, future FF games will start to look like a cross between FF and Dragon Quest. Dragon Quest VIII is a darn good game and seeing some of the gaming conventions from DQ in FF will add to the game rather than ruin the experience. Future FF games will be very different from those we are more familiar with, but that's not a bad thing. I look forward to the future of FF.
NCSoft is good at making MMORPGs and its great that they have Lord British, yes I'm old enough to know who he is, on their side.
Lineage II is a great MMORPG, in fact one of the best MMORPGs that sadly not enough people have discovered. They're all running to WoW, EverQuest, and Star Wars Galaxies...no, forgot, their running "away" from SWG. My bad.:-p Plus, the game has the most creative use of the Unreal engine I've ever seen. Its a continuous, presistant world with no ZONING or loading screens between areas. You just start walking and keep going and the world unfolds around you seamlessly like it should in every MMORPG. City of Heroes and Villians are both great games too, and both are from NCSoft.
There is little if nothing of TechTV left alive on G4 nowadays. I really miss stuff like The Screensavers, one of the best techie shows on TechTV, or what about Call For Help which really made strides towards making it easier for computer noobs to learn how to use their computers. I used to watch TechTV for coverage of CES, COMDEX, e3 and more.
The truly sad thing is that G4 itself has sunk low in the quality of its own programming. Not that G4 didn't have its problems to begin with but it did have a rather good lineup of shows on its own before it suddenly went out of control. Some of the shows are wilder than a few "way out there" MTV shows I've seen in the past. About 70% of G4's programming is just Plain-Jane vulger garbage targeted towards pop culture fanboys who'd just as soon drop out of school and go rob a liquor store than make something of themselves.
Merging G4 and TechTV I think was the biggest mistake that could have ever been made on cable TV. I had a really sick feeling in my stomach when I learned the two channels were mergering a few yeara ago, and now I see why. I knew this day was coming, it was bound to happen. G4 is today what would happen if Jerry Springer & Howard Stern were to start their own cable network.
I'd gladly welcome the return of TechTV, even if we have to do it from a browser or from within Windows Media Player or Winamp (which has been playing Internet TV streams for more than a year now).
Einstein's equation E=MC^2 is the universal equation you'd use to determine how much energy you will get out of something with a specific mass.
When scientists started investigating Gamma Ray Bursts they were puzzled. One researcher suggested they were coming from all over the sky. They ridiculed him as a quack because that would have violated E=MC^2. They said they were within our solar system. When an investigation was done with an orbital gama ray observator they found the bursts didn't like up with the galactic plane but were uniform over the entire sky. This violated E=MC^2 because the bursts were coming from so far away and were so powerful that at their point of origin they were titanic explosions larger than anything ever known in the universe. One researcher suggested we were seeing gama ray streams coming from rotating neutron stars and black holes in other galaxies. Its a convenient way to make Einstein's theory fit the situation, which in my mind is suspect. Science treats Einstein's equations as rock-hard fact rather than as the theory it is. Even Einstein himself said that the laws of his equations change when dealing the infinitely small and the immensely large. Just because you can do an experiment and get the same results using his equations over and over again means very little. We are already beginning to discover that the laws of gravity work different over infinitely vast distances, new discovers where are making the idea of "dark matter" less and less plausable.
Now, we see this experiment. The temperature is pretty high, but then you got to understand that the Sun is an average star. There really isn't anything special about it. There are hotter stars out there, stars as hot or hotter than the temperatures achieved in this experiment. 3.6 billion degrees is only 3 1/2 times hotter than our sun, but there are stars 100 times hotter than our sun out there. Blue Giants are among the largest and hottest stars in the sky, and many burn in excess of a trillion degress. These are the same kinds of stars that either go out with a bang or collapse into black holes.
If this experiment can be done by others then its confirmed true. It has the potential to revolutionize the way we generate power, and so help our understanding of the natural forces within stars or even how primeordia matter behaved just after the Big Bang which was theoretically 100,000,000 times hotter than our sun.
Yet more nails have been driven into the coffin for the RIAA.
They had planty of time to see the writing on the wall and now all we see are their desparate kicking and screaming as they slowly sink into oblivion.
"You'll pay the price for your lack of vision" indeed. That line certain holds well for the recording industry. Technology has evolved to the point that we don't need them anymore and they are terrified that people will find that out. When they do, and its starts to explode there will be putting the genie back into the bottle. The beginning of the end has come, its Judgement Day for the RIAA.
He knows better NOT to shut RIM down. I live near D.C. and I can tell you there would be major hell to pay if the service was shutdown. NTP would have the full weight of Congress and the FTC down their backsides so fast they won't know what hit them. And, there would be Patent Reform like you wouldn't believe. In fact, I'd love see ALL SOFTWARE PATENTS INVALIDATED. Patents were for physical objects only, not abstract ideas like software.
This very likely shouldn't have an effect unless they make it impossible for anyone but licensed vendors to write software for MacIntel systems which for Apple would be suicide. Without the ability to create software of your own using publicly available dev tools the Mac would become useless in the business arena. Apple would never be able to compete with Windows for corporate contracts.
It would be like Microsoft making it illegal for companies to ship C++ tools for writing Windows software. It would kill them.
Quantum Computers follow the laws of Quantum Physics which totally throw out the normal laws of physics right out the door according to many descriptions I've heard. This little discovery could lead to computers that use very little power. Imagine running a computer on a 9 volt battery for a year!
Interestingly enough, the equation works in reverse when it comes to vast distances between objects in space. There have been some discovers concerning gravity and how it works on a large scale, thus eliminating the whole idea of Dark Matter. And before you say "well these two aren't related", yes they are related because according to what is know known the laws of physics change when dealing with the immensely small and the immensely large. Its not a constant anymore.
My first computer was the Tandy TSR-80 Color Computer II with 64k of RAM, tape data drive, two joysticks, and a dot-matrix printer. It connected to my television using the same videogame switchbox used on the old Atari 2600. Remember the one you had to switch manually? Man that seems like so long ago.
I had a few games on cartridge: Dino Wars and Polaris. I had a game on tape called "Temple of Apshi" or something like that. It was a text adventure and took a while to load from tape. I used to write all kinds od BASIC programs on the thing and save them to tape. I still have that tape drive BTW!
ObsessiveMathsFreak has it right. That is fossilized sedimentary rock. You can find it all over places like China where several feathered dinosaurs were found recently directly linking dinos with birds.
Anyway, if there is at all a chance of proving that Mars might have once harbored life THIS IS THE PLACE to look. Because its within sedimentary rock that you find the greatest proliferation of fossils. Any self-respecting paleo-geek can tell you that.
The TG-16/PCE is such an underrated game system. I personally believe it was released too late to make a difference in the market. The system dethroned the Famicom (Japanese NES) from its top spot in Japan with its improved graphics, sound and CD-ROM capabilties. It was the first console that did anti-aliasing.
The controller wasn't revolutionary in the least. It was a two button NES/Famicom look-a-like with a D-Pad, but it was the first controller bundled with a console to have dual turbo-fire selectors. This isn't a major advance, I believe the most significent advancement in game controller design is analog joysticks, as well as button velocity sensors, button presseure sensors, and motion sensors (I've heard the Dual Shock 2 has this feature, and the Revolution's controller will definitely have it). The other major innovation is reliable RF style (non-IR) wireless controllers. Logitech's PS2 wireless controller isn't IR like other wireless game controllers. It works via an RF frequency so if somebody moves in front of the console you don't loose control of the game and you have a longer range than IR permits. The 40 hour battery life is significent also because RF wireless devices, especially wireless mice, have a notoriously short battery life.
Reducing the number of cords and cables used to clutter your living room up is a major plus for the next-gen systems, in my honest opinion.
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OpenOffice.org distributes their software via BitTorrent in order to help save bandwidth. You can get it other traditional ways but this is an example of where P2P can be used legitimately.
Boot Camp is a ploy to get Windows users to finally see what Mac OS X can do. I've messed around with Mac OS X on a brand new MacBook Pro and I found it works better than Windows XP ever did. I never had a single problem installing software or even getting USB devices to work OUT-OF-THE-BOX.
On the Mac OS X side the ATI drivers are pretty good, Wi-Fi setup was a breeze, many of my USB devices worked without needing to install any software, and installing new software was really very easy.
On the Windows side the ATI drivers are garbage as usual, Wi-Fi is a chore to set up, most of my USB devices required me to install software for them except for the external hard drives (I had to really DIG in Google to find a FUBAR way to get my digital camera to work with XP despite the fact the camera comes with XP drivers which for some reason don't want to work), and installing software can sometimes be a pain.
The plain truth is, but this guy from PC Mag just doesn't to admit it, that Mac OS X is LIGHTYEARS BETTER than Windows XP. Apple has done decades of research and development in operating systems in order to finally achieve what they have with OS X today. Microsoft bought their OSes from somebody else and just modified the code. They did very little innovation on their own except for the original NT kernel and even that's questionable whether or not if it was really developed my Microsoft or not.
Go with the new Intel Macs. Battlefield 2 is available for Mac OS X and you cna still use WinXP for other stuff if you want using BootCamp.
This whole article is flame bait.
The author obviously doesn't get the whole story of FFVII at all or the appeal of the characters. Its close-minded, self-righteous idiots like this guy that make me wish for manditory sterilization of stupid people.
FFVII was a masterpiece of storytelling and innovative game design. It changed the world of console RPGs forever and showed what could really be done with the PSOne hardware if developers too the time to "try" harder.
jofi wrote:
No 16-bit support? Good!
==========
Not Good, no not good at all. I would mean that nearly the entire existing library of software and games for XP will be useless on Vista if the 16bit libraries are left out. Everyone will have to buy new software. This means that games like Oblivion which might use a 16bit installer can't be played on Vista unless it doesn't support 16bit code.
Consider that before automatically thinking it a good thing. No it would be a disaster for Microsoft, but a good thing for Apple.
I understand that Windows VISTA will support 64bit processors much like Windows XP 64bit Edition. However, XP64 has a major flaw which is keeping it from being widely implimented. It has no 16bit libararies. Over 99% of all the available apps, utilities, and games for XP have 16bit installation programs that require the 16bit libraries that are a part of the 32bit version of XP. Without these libraries 16bit code cannot run.
:-)
If Vista does not have 16bit libraries the OS is dead before it even ships. The Golden Age of Apple will begin.
I'm a veteran Rifts GM and I'd welcome a Rifts MMORPG. The gmae is awesome, has fantastical interdimensional settings, anime-style mecha, magic, demons, aliens, vampires, insane psychics, and mutants! Perhaps they should start opening a dialogue with Wizards of the Coast.
Sony has been doing everything in their power to nerf the ability to web surf on the PSP.
Then we learn that the DS will be able to browse the web via its wi-fi link using a version of Opera designed for it.
I think Sony needs to change their strategy fast or loose ground to Nintendo fast.
I like the idea of mandating unrestricted access to municiple areas by competing companies. Right now only one cable company can do business in certain areas because of a deal with that city, and the city bars anyone else from coming in...unless they are satelite TV. More competition between cable TV services in the same area will lead to lower prices. Right now most cable companies can charge whatever they want because there aren't very many other options except for Direct TV, and we know how underhanded cable companies can be towards the satelite companies.
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Not sure what engine this is from 2001: http://www.gamenavigator.ru/pub/gallery/news/news
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That would be the Unreal Engine. I had a video with a hard-rock version of "Grab Bag" (the Duke Nukem 3D theme song) showing different scenes from the game. One was a ride in a mine car, another was Duke on the back of a truck firing at space ships chasing the truck down a highway. He was supposed to have a female companion who followed along as his assistant.
Its established Paloentological fact that the Sabertooth Tiger has appeared, went extinct, and reappeared at least four times in prehistory. This is due to genetics. Every big cat and every domestic feline carries the genes that could become active again and thus bring about the reappearance of the Sabertooth.
All one has to do is think of DNA as a complex computer program. It can correct itself if errors are found, and it can change itself to adapt. Its not hard to imagine that Evolution is a byproduct of DNA's ability to rewrite itself to suit certain situations. Its not Intellegent Design, its just how DNA functions.
Final Fantasy XI is slated to be released next month on the Xbox 360 along with the release of the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion. I've heard rumors that MS plans to ship 360s in Japan with FFXI already installed on the hard drives to boost sales. PS2 and PC users (I use the PC version) will need to get the expansion while the 360 version will already include it.
FFXI on the 360 looks just like FFXI on a high-end PC with high-res textures and bumpmapping. The overall artwork won't look that different than the PS2 version but it will not be quite as fuzzy and will look better. Its expected that there will a PS3 version since its inconceivable that SquareEnix would abandon their VAST army of current PS2 users.
FFXI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan for the PC and PS2 is coming out April 30th similtaneously in Japan and the US.
In FFXI you start to see Enix's influence. Its a subtle change, most of FFXI is still very much a Squaresoft dominant game, but game elements like missions and the rank system are Enix influences.
FFXII is the first Single-Player FF game since the MMORPG was released. Square and Enix have settled into their new role as a combined company, thus ideas from both sides will unsurprisingly be incorporated into the game. So, future FF games will start to look like a cross between FF and Dragon Quest. Dragon Quest VIII is a darn good game and seeing some of the gaming conventions from DQ in FF will add to the game rather than ruin the experience. Future FF games will be very different from those we are more familiar with, but that's not a bad thing. I look forward to the future of FF.
NCSoft is good at making MMORPGs and its great that they have Lord British, yes I'm old enough to know who he is, on their side.
:-p Plus, the game has the most creative use of the Unreal engine I've ever seen. Its a continuous, presistant world with no ZONING or loading screens between areas. You just start walking and keep going and the world unfolds around you seamlessly like it should in every MMORPG. City of Heroes and Villians are both great games too, and both are from NCSoft.
Lineage II is a great MMORPG, in fact one of the best MMORPGs that sadly not enough people have discovered. They're all running to WoW, EverQuest, and Star Wars Galaxies...no, forgot, their running "away" from SWG. My bad.
Whatever happed to "Tron: Killer App" the sequel advertised on the Tron DVD? The world is ready and waiting for a Tron sequel. What's the deal?
Ahmen ApewithGun, ahmen brother!
There is little if nothing of TechTV left alive on G4 nowadays. I really miss stuff like The Screensavers, one of the best techie shows on TechTV, or what about Call For Help which really made strides towards making it easier for computer noobs to learn how to use their computers. I used to watch TechTV for coverage of CES, COMDEX, e3 and more.
The truly sad thing is that G4 itself has sunk low in the quality of its own programming. Not that G4 didn't have its problems to begin with but it did have a rather good lineup of shows on its own before it suddenly went out of control. Some of the shows are wilder than a few "way out there" MTV shows I've seen in the past. About 70% of G4's programming is just Plain-Jane vulger garbage targeted towards pop culture fanboys who'd just as soon drop out of school and go rob a liquor store than make something of themselves.
Merging G4 and TechTV I think was the biggest mistake that could have ever been made on cable TV. I had a really sick feeling in my stomach when I learned the two channels were mergering a few yeara ago, and now I see why. I knew this day was coming, it was bound to happen. G4 is today what would happen if Jerry Springer & Howard Stern were to start their own cable network.
I'd gladly welcome the return of TechTV, even if we have to do it from a browser or from within Windows Media Player or Winamp (which has been playing Internet TV streams for more than a year now).
Einstein's equation E=MC^2 is the universal equation you'd use to determine how much energy you will get out of something with a specific mass.
When scientists started investigating Gamma Ray Bursts they were puzzled. One researcher suggested they were coming from all over the sky. They ridiculed him as a quack because that would have violated E=MC^2. They said they were within our solar system. When an investigation was done with an orbital gama ray observator they found the bursts didn't like up with the galactic plane but were uniform over the entire sky. This violated E=MC^2 because the bursts were coming from so far away and were so powerful that at their point of origin they were titanic explosions larger than anything ever known in the universe. One researcher suggested we were seeing gama ray streams coming from rotating neutron stars and black holes in other galaxies. Its a convenient way to make Einstein's theory fit the situation, which in my mind is suspect. Science treats Einstein's equations as rock-hard fact rather than as the theory it is. Even Einstein himself said that the laws of his equations change when dealing the infinitely small and the immensely large. Just because you can do an experiment and get the same results using his equations over and over again means very little. We are already beginning to discover that the laws of gravity work different over infinitely vast distances, new discovers where are making the idea of "dark matter" less and less plausable.
Now, we see this experiment. The temperature is pretty high, but then you got to understand that the Sun is an average star. There really isn't anything special about it. There are hotter stars out there, stars as hot or hotter than the temperatures achieved in this experiment. 3.6 billion degrees is only 3 1/2 times hotter than our sun, but there are stars 100 times hotter than our sun out there. Blue Giants are among the largest and hottest stars in the sky, and many burn in excess of a trillion degress. These are the same kinds of stars that either go out with a bang or collapse into black holes.
If this experiment can be done by others then its confirmed true. It has the potential to revolutionize the way we generate power, and so help our understanding of the natural forces within stars or even how primeordia matter behaved just after the Big Bang which was theoretically 100,000,000 times hotter than our sun.
Yet more nails have been driven into the coffin for the RIAA.
They had planty of time to see the writing on the wall and now all we see are their desparate kicking and screaming as they slowly sink into oblivion.
"You'll pay the price for your lack of vision" indeed. That line certain holds well for the recording industry. Technology has evolved to the point that we don't need them anymore and they are terrified that people will find that out. When they do, and its starts to explode there will be putting the genie back into the bottle. The beginning of the end has come, its Judgement Day for the RIAA.
Either PERL or JAVA.
Both are cross-platform, powerful, and its easy to learn the basics but takes a while to learn the more advanced stuff.
He knows better NOT to shut RIM down. I live near D.C. and I can tell you there would be major hell to pay if the service was shutdown. NTP would have the full weight of Congress and the FTC down their backsides so fast they won't know what hit them. And, there would be Patent Reform like you wouldn't believe. In fact, I'd love see ALL SOFTWARE PATENTS INVALIDATED. Patents were for physical objects only, not abstract ideas like software.
This very likely shouldn't have an effect unless they make it impossible for anyone but licensed vendors to write software for MacIntel systems which for Apple would be suicide. Without the ability to create software of your own using publicly available dev tools the Mac would become useless in the business arena. Apple would never be able to compete with Windows for corporate contracts.
It would be like Microsoft making it illegal for companies to ship C++ tools for writing Windows software. It would kill them.
Quantum Computers follow the laws of Quantum Physics which totally throw out the normal laws of physics right out the door according to many descriptions I've heard. This little discovery could lead to computers that use very little power. Imagine running a computer on a 9 volt battery for a year!
Interestingly enough, the equation works in reverse when it comes to vast distances between objects in space. There have been some discovers concerning gravity and how it works on a large scale, thus eliminating the whole idea of Dark Matter. And before you say "well these two aren't related", yes they are related because according to what is know known the laws of physics change when dealing with the immensely small and the immensely large. Its not a constant anymore.
My first computer was the Tandy TSR-80 Color Computer II with 64k of RAM, tape data drive, two joysticks, and a dot-matrix printer. It connected to my television using the same videogame switchbox used on the old Atari 2600. Remember the one you had to switch manually? Man that seems like so long ago.
I had a few games on cartridge: Dino Wars and Polaris. I had a game on tape called "Temple of Apshi" or something like that. It was a text adventure and took a while to load from tape. I used to write all kinds od BASIC programs on the thing and save them to tape. I still have that tape drive BTW!
ObsessiveMathsFreak has it right. That is fossilized sedimentary rock. You can find it all over places like China where several feathered dinosaurs were found recently directly linking dinos with birds.
Anyway, if there is at all a chance of proving that Mars might have once harbored life THIS IS THE PLACE to look. Because its within sedimentary rock that you find the greatest proliferation of fossils. Any self-respecting paleo-geek can tell you that.
The TG-16/PCE is such an underrated game system. I personally believe it was released too late to make a difference in the market. The system dethroned the Famicom (Japanese NES) from its top spot in Japan with its improved graphics, sound and CD-ROM capabilties. It was the first console that did anti-aliasing.
The controller wasn't revolutionary in the least. It was a two button NES/Famicom look-a-like with a D-Pad, but it was the first controller bundled with a console to have dual turbo-fire selectors. This isn't a major advance, I believe the most significent advancement in game controller design is analog joysticks, as well as button velocity sensors, button presseure sensors, and motion sensors (I've heard the Dual Shock 2 has this feature, and the Revolution's controller will definitely have it). The other major innovation is reliable RF style (non-IR) wireless controllers. Logitech's PS2 wireless controller isn't IR like other wireless game controllers. It works via an RF frequency so if somebody moves in front of the console you don't loose control of the game and you have a longer range than IR permits. The 40 hour battery life is significent also because RF wireless devices, especially wireless mice, have a notoriously short battery life.
Reducing the number of cords and cables used to clutter your living room up is a major plus for the next-gen systems, in my honest opinion.