It happens because western propaganda strives to instill the feeling of exceptionalism in its citizens hearts which, in effect, deafens the citizens to the government atrocities in foriegn affairs.
Overt Chinese propaganda becomes subtle American propaganda.
We get it. The US is a Big country with a lot of resources, you don't have to keep telling us stuff like "The United States is the world's biggest producer of geothermal energy." You know, even at only 20% of the nation's total electric energy consumption, the US is still the biggest commercial supplier of Nuclear energy? Beating out France and their 80% of their nation's energy consumption. We've got a lot of resources and a lot of needs, why do we have to favor Geothermal over Nuclear or Solar or Wind? Why can we invest heavily into all of them? Maybe with a diverse supply, we won't be caught with our pants down next time an energy resource starts to become more trouble than we need.
Granted, I'll give you the Wii as It seems a bit of an oddball in its good value, but my point is that even that stuff released on the PS2 could run on a PC, hell I'm sure I could even find an emulator around here somewhere that would do it, but games you'll find on the xbox 360 and PS3 would even be playable with a cheap-o upgrade, were they built for PC. My favorite example thus far has to be the upcoming Crysis (if only in theory.) Everyone is excited about Crysis' fancy Directx 10 abilities, even though at the very begining it will only support Directx 9. Directx 9 support won't go away when Directx 10 comes out and Directx 9 supporting cards are as cheap as a GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-e (or AGP if your still back that far as I am) for as $50 on Ebay. Will I beable to play Crysis at the bare minimum? most likely. And if not, have you seen the prices of 7000 series lately, $100-150 I guarentee you I could find a card capable of enjoying Crysis. A more definite example would be Half-Life 2's episodes. They are going to support multi-core processors starting with episode II, and have long since supported 64-bit processors (something that seems to still struggle in gaining acceptance in the software) but I'll still be able to play it on my 32-bit processor with AGP GeForce 6800 Ultra, probably darn near top settings too. In this example, Half-Life 2: Black or Orange or whatever will be coming out just the same for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Old consoles (Wii exempted) are the real frugal choice. When it comes down to the latest games, PC can brawl with the best of them and can (with proper perspective) be cheaper too.
What Gamestop/EBgame stores are you shopping at? Mine may have walls of Console games, but they are quite spread out, setup to display the games and advertise there presences I suppose, but PC? Two or three shelves stacked face to face, end to end, so dense they could easily fill entire walls. PCs just don't seem to get the same level of attention it seems, but in terms of quality I've always found myself back between the PC shelves.
But I'm also think PCs have the chance to become as close to a de facto console, not that I think such a thing would ever really happen. The arguments is pretty old, but basically, PCs already have a huge mass of people who buy them for work, document processing, ect. I won't specify, but consider that the smart PC gamer recognizes that it doesn't take a $1000 or often even a $500 upgrade to play the latest games, unless your really behind in the hardware or wish to play the latest games at the greatest settings. With relativly cheap upgrades an average working PC can still play great games. All the consoles have made laudable efforts at 'beyond gaming' integration this generation, but none of them are even close to the PC in terms of sheer digital convergence. At best, I look at home consoles as a sort of bizarro world Mac built for gaming and a little of some other utility (as a general term...) stuff on the side.
I suppose it might have a serious dampening effect, but considering it can identify the unsilenced gunfire from about a mile away, the significantly quieter but not completly silent silenced gun should still be caught at some distance. I would be more conscious of masking the gunfire to sound like something the robot will or ignore. Worse yet, we have to be sure the designers have included the ability to ignore other types of bangs, like a car backfiring.
Nasa creates a market need, market blooms, Nasa leaves market, commercial space companies fulfil market need, commercial space companies bloom. 2010 maybe cutting it a little close, I would rather see a gradual transfer out, but either way I foresee mutual benefit.
The fundamental creepy feeling stems not from the fact that someone or something is watching you, its that they may do something. There's not a whole lot stopping Google or the Government to interrupt the analysis-ad chain and turn it into data mining operation designed to monitor users. I will say that I trust Google more than Hotmail...and much more than the average/.er *shifty eyes*
I have this problem with Hotmail as well. Google's ads are far less noticable, but far more creepy. Google is obviously reading my mail, as there's no possible way they could so consistently offer products directly related to what I'm writing about. But I think we're pretty much stuck with them like radio and TV telethons before them, as long as we want something for nothing.
It'll be an instant classic! Take your standard fantasy world, pump up the most awesome elements (Orcs, Elves, bloody combat) add classic Carmack innovation (imagine the possibilities with the touch-pad) and boom: Instant Mega hit!
In terms of market share, looking solely at the new generation of home consoles atleast. Nintendo is survivor. At just over 117 years old and consistently generating net revenue, Nintendo has the kind of financial longevity Sony aspires to and the market experience Microsoft admires. Each of the Big Three have aspects that have them firmly cemented in the market, but Nintendo and Microsoft have real potential for market gain; Sony (without even considering it's pr flops) doesn't have anywhere to go but down in this generation. Sony indicates this is ok with them as "the industy is growing and the tide raises all boats." Although, If I were a Sony, investor...well, I wouldn't be soon. But what does Nintendo have that Microsoft thinks makes it it's biggest competition?
Japan.
Microsoft has been making substantial attempts to push it's X-box 360 in Japan, which it is sevearly deficient in. Latest word indicates Nintendo is the force to contend with in Japan, with the Wii beating out Sony's machine. Microsoft is in a position to ride the wave of the Wii's big splash down in Japan by touting itself as the true 'middle of the road' best deal console. Microsoft realises if it wants to succeed in Japan, it's not the hardware, it's the games; specifically Japanese games. They'll face major competition as they try to sweep up Japanese developers with Nintendo looking for the same.
I guess one could ague that nothing you look at is in real time, considering the light still has to travel (however fast it may be.) But, compared to light, your brain's processing the images is what really eats ups the time between 'real time' and 'perception's time.'
Astronomy messes with my head almost as much as time travel...
So, if we have detected a supernova that exploded 6,000-9,000 years ago, and a picture of the Pillars 7,000 years ago, wouldn't that mean that the supernova is some place between us and the pillars, ~1,000-2,000 lightyears closer to the pillars than the median of us and the pillars? IANAA so could someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I must say, they have a very extensive listing, I'm really impressed. But is it wise to post all the exams, including the final? I can only assume that they give the actual students different ones which would relegate the online versions to mere practice. Tons of interesting materials, though. I think I shall enjoy picking through it.
One giant leap towards serious PC-like robotics. Robots won't get out of the factories and into our homes in any really big way unless they develop more platforms like this. Easy(ier) to customize, modular designs allow more people access to them, speeding up market acceptance, boosting industry innovation and generally benefit the field. Lego Mindstorms also comes to mind as a good trend.
Err, deja vu. Is there some long running Slashdot joke I'm missing or is this just a dupe post. Of course I can't blame you if it's a dupe (hey, it's slashdot) but is there something I'm missing behind this that made the last one (and therefore, this one) funny?
7:32 - Video ended. "Games for Windows is a growing market. But of course, while leading platform, our 2nd is Xbox 360. We've become the leader in this next gen. We've sold 10.4 million consoles in 37 countries."
Emphasis mine. I wonder whether online sales were included in some of the parent's links; that might explain the discrepencies.
Personally, I hope this doesn't get off the ground. I'd rather see an expanded GDC, with more serious discussion and seminars instead of a public amusement fair. Partly, I'd rather the GDC expand because it gives developers more breathing room with their projects. When their main audience is other game developers, the tech demonstrations they have don't have to be so extravagent that they need to fudge the results to convice people "this is what we're aiming for." You can see those quarky, buggy, but above all, real works developers are making or even just skip the demos; a convincing speech helps pull an audience into a developer's dream more than any video ever could.
I'd also rather see E for all left behind because of it sounds too much like E3. The industry is maturing and I'd rather see E3, MTV, and the likes be left behind and develop a more professional attitude.
If a little too short. But I'd give a nod out to Garry's Mod 10 as Best Mod of the Year. Its very professional, updated as needed (so much smoother and quicker)and best of all, loads of fun. Garry definatly earned my $10.
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It happens because western propaganda strives to instill the feeling of exceptionalism in its citizens hearts which, in effect, deafens the citizens to the government atrocities in foriegn affairs.
Overt Chinese propaganda becomes subtle American propaganda.
You can't say they haven't tried
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Oh, wait. Georgia the country. Curse my American geography education!
We get it. The US is a Big country with a lot of resources, you don't have to keep telling us stuff like "The United States is the world's biggest producer of geothermal energy." You know, even at only 20% of the nation's total electric energy consumption, the US is still the biggest commercial supplier of Nuclear energy? Beating out France and their 80% of their nation's energy consumption. We've got a lot of resources and a lot of needs, why do we have to favor Geothermal over Nuclear or Solar or Wind? Why can we invest heavily into all of them? Maybe with a diverse supply, we won't be caught with our pants down next time an energy resource starts to become more trouble than we need.
Granted, I'll give you the Wii as It seems a bit of an oddball in its good value, but my point is that even that stuff released on the PS2 could run on a PC, hell I'm sure I could even find an emulator around here somewhere that would do it, but games you'll find on the xbox 360 and PS3 would even be playable with a cheap-o upgrade, were they built for PC. My favorite example thus far has to be the upcoming Crysis (if only in theory.) Everyone is excited about Crysis' fancy Directx 10 abilities, even though at the very begining it will only support Directx 9. Directx 9 support won't go away when Directx 10 comes out and Directx 9 supporting cards are as cheap as a GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-e (or AGP if your still back that far as I am) for as $50 on Ebay. Will I beable to play Crysis at the bare minimum? most likely. And if not, have you seen the prices of 7000 series lately, $100-150 I guarentee you I could find a card capable of enjoying Crysis. A more definite example would be Half-Life 2's episodes. They are going to support multi-core processors starting with episode II, and have long since supported 64-bit processors (something that seems to still struggle in gaining acceptance in the software) but I'll still be able to play it on my 32-bit processor with AGP GeForce 6800 Ultra, probably darn near top settings too. In this example, Half-Life 2: Black or Orange or whatever will be coming out just the same for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Old consoles (Wii exempted) are the real frugal choice. When it comes down to the latest games, PC can brawl with the best of them and can (with proper perspective) be cheaper too.
What Gamestop/EBgame stores are you shopping at? Mine may have walls of Console games, but they are quite spread out, setup to display the games and advertise there presences I suppose, but PC? Two or three shelves stacked face to face, end to end, so dense they could easily fill entire walls. PCs just don't seem to get the same level of attention it seems, but in terms of quality I've always found myself back between the PC shelves.
But I'm also think PCs have the chance to become as close to a de facto console, not that I think such a thing would ever really happen. The arguments is pretty old, but basically, PCs already have a huge mass of people who buy them for work, document processing, ect. I won't specify, but consider that the smart PC gamer recognizes that it doesn't take a $1000 or often even a $500 upgrade to play the latest games, unless your really behind in the hardware or wish to play the latest games at the greatest settings. With relativly cheap upgrades an average working PC can still play great games. All the consoles have made laudable efforts at 'beyond gaming' integration this generation, but none of them are even close to the PC in terms of sheer digital convergence. At best, I look at home consoles as a sort of bizarro world Mac built for gaming and a little of some other utility (as a general term...) stuff on the side.
A nice cold Mountain Dew Code Red gets me up.
We're already deep in development! Popsci lists a varient of it in the magazine's "Cop tech 2010" Airstrike not included. Be well, citizen!
I suppose it might have a serious dampening effect, but considering it can identify the unsilenced gunfire from about a mile away, the significantly quieter but not completly silent silenced gun should still be caught at some distance. I would be more conscious of masking the gunfire to sound like something the robot will or ignore. Worse yet, we have to be sure the designers have included the ability to ignore other types of bangs, like a car backfiring.
Both boxes are expected in 'late summer' of this year.
Should read "Both boxes are expected to be delayed in 'late summer' of this year."
Nasa creates a market need, market blooms, Nasa leaves market, commercial space companies fulfil market need, commercial space companies bloom. 2010 maybe cutting it a little close, I would rather see a gradual transfer out, but either way I foresee mutual benefit.
The fundamental creepy feeling stems not from the fact that someone or something is watching you, its that they may do something. There's not a whole lot stopping Google or the Government to interrupt the analysis-ad chain and turn it into data mining operation designed to monitor users. I will say that I trust Google more than Hotmail...and much more than the average /.er *shifty eyes*
I have this problem with Hotmail as well. Google's ads are far less noticable, but far more creepy. Google is obviously reading my mail, as there's no possible way they could so consistently offer products directly related to what I'm writing about. But I think we're pretty much stuck with them like radio and TV telethons before them, as long as we want something for nothing.
It'll be an instant classic! Take your standard fantasy world, pump up the most awesome elements (Orcs, Elves, bloody combat) add classic Carmack innovation (imagine the possibilities with the touch-pad) and boom: Instant Mega hit!
In terms of market share, looking solely at the new generation of home consoles atleast. Nintendo is survivor. At just over 117 years old and consistently generating net revenue, Nintendo has the kind of financial longevity Sony aspires to and the market experience Microsoft admires. Each of the Big Three have aspects that have them firmly cemented in the market, but Nintendo and Microsoft have real potential for market gain; Sony (without even considering it's pr flops) doesn't have anywhere to go but down in this generation. Sony indicates this is ok with them as "the industy is growing and the tide raises all boats." Although, If I were a Sony, investor...well, I wouldn't be soon. But what does Nintendo have that Microsoft thinks makes it it's biggest competition?
Japan.
Microsoft has been making substantial attempts to push it's X-box 360 in Japan, which it is sevearly deficient in. Latest word indicates Nintendo is the force to contend with in Japan, with the Wii beating out Sony's machine. Microsoft is in a position to ride the wave of the Wii's big splash down in Japan by touting itself as the true 'middle of the road' best deal console. Microsoft realises if it wants to succeed in Japan, it's not the hardware, it's the games; specifically Japanese games. They'll face major competition as they try to sweep up Japanese developers with Nintendo looking for the same.
Interesting enough, the display unit was demoing geological information and other applications for the Oil industry.
I guess one could ague that nothing you look at is in real time, considering the light still has to travel (however fast it may be.) But, compared to light, your brain's processing the images is what really eats ups the time between 'real time' and 'perception's time.'
Astronomy messes with my head almost as much as time travel...
So, if we have detected a supernova that exploded 6,000-9,000 years ago, and a picture of the Pillars 7,000 years ago, wouldn't that mean that the supernova is some place between us and the pillars, ~1,000-2,000 lightyears closer to the pillars than the median of us and the pillars? IANAA so could someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I must say, they have a very extensive listing, I'm really impressed. But is it wise to post all the exams, including the final? I can only assume that they give the actual students different ones which would relegate the online versions to mere practice. Tons of interesting materials, though. I think I shall enjoy picking through it.
One giant leap towards serious PC-like robotics. Robots won't get out of the factories and into our homes in any really big way unless they develop more platforms like this. Easy(ier) to customize, modular designs allow more people access to them, speeding up market acceptance, boosting industry innovation and generally benefit the field. Lego Mindstorms also comes to mind as a good trend.
Err, deja vu. Is there some long running Slashdot joke I'm missing or is this just a dupe post. Of course I can't blame you if it's a dupe (hey, it's slashdot) but is there something I'm missing behind this that made the last one (and therefore, this one) funny?
Further Supplement from the Keynote:
7:32 - Video ended. "Games for Windows is a growing market. But of course, while leading platform, our 2nd is Xbox 360. We've become the leader in this next gen. We've sold 10.4 million consoles in 37 countries."
Emphasis mine. I wonder whether online sales were included in some of the parent's links; that might explain the discrepencies.
(To intelligent life under his microscope)
We come in peace!
*Adjusts lens to get a better view*
*Squish*
and all for me?
Personally, I hope this doesn't get off the ground. I'd rather see an expanded GDC, with more serious discussion and seminars instead of a public amusement fair. Partly, I'd rather the GDC expand because it gives developers more breathing room with their projects. When their main audience is other game developers, the tech demonstrations they have don't have to be so extravagent that they need to fudge the results to convice people "this is what we're aiming for." You can see those quarky, buggy, but above all, real works developers are making or even just skip the demos; a convincing speech helps pull an audience into a developer's dream more than any video ever could.
I'd also rather see E for all left behind because of it sounds too much like E3. The industry is maturing and I'd rather see E3, MTV, and the likes be left behind and develop a more professional attitude.
An article like this without any specifics is hardly Slashdot material.
Can you specify what makes an article 'Slashdot material?'
If a little too short. But I'd give a nod out to Garry's Mod 10 as Best Mod of the Year. Its very professional, updated as needed (so much smoother and quicker)and best of all, loads of fun. Garry definatly earned my $10.