...also known as Out of this World is one of my most favorite games of all time. I played the MSDOS version at a time when graphics were getting fairly decent. Even though Another World used very simple vector graphics, the motion capture that went into making the character animations was absolutely amazing. The art was beautiful and the original music fit really well into the bizarre fantasy/scifi world envisioned in the game. It was the first time the visuals, music, and story of a game really came together to create a truly immersive mood for me.
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Actually, half the tags come across as heavily opinionated comments. Questions are answered "yes" or "no" or often, both. A product that might not work quite right or a company that gets its come-uppens gets tagged "haha".
I totally agree -- laws against free speech are improper in the EU, and as such, Turkey should be kept out. However, at least the EU nations are making laws against *denying* a genocide as a way of healing and reconciliation, where as Turkey is making laws against *acknowledging* a genocide as a way of covering up its brutal past. Of all the crap being tossed around about East vs West, this is, to me, the biggest issue. The defining moment for Europe was WW2 and the genocide within. If Turkey can't come to terms with its own genocide, I could care less about the EU's apparent hypocrisy in the free speech issue, the EU should just tell Turkey to fuck off. It all comes down to this for me.
Does anyone honestly believe Turkey belongs in the European Union? I mean, come on, it doesn't matter if you're in a current EU nation or currently in Turkey -- you gotta side with what you believe. If you're in Turkey and truly believe in censorship/fascism for the good of the nation, then stop pretending you're European. They dealt with that mid 20th century and rejected it. STAND UP for your belief in a bigotry and intolerance! STAND UP for censorship! Acknowledge it and embrace it! STAND UP for revisionist history (Armenians who? Genocide what?). At least the most oppressive middle eastern nations openly embrace their belief systems. Turkey on the other hand is a living hypocrisy -- it has no place in the EU as long as this sort of BS continues. This is a harsh statement, but I believe well representative of the majority of Europeans.
Well, you're partly right, but you're assuming that they can just sit around making these episodes for free. If it starts to take up too much time, it won't just be a hobby anymore, it's a job. And if you're relying on it for income, you stick with it as long as it generates income, but if it stops doing that, you gotta get another job.
It was a great concept and they executed it beautifully, but besides some shining gems, the writing was sub-par. Without a great narrative, no amount of technology is gonna save a series. Many of the episodes got kind of boring. Some were just flat out off the deep end.
Um, besides wii sports, I don't see anything out there that's really changed the way we play games. In my mind, the wii motion controller is just another kind of peripheral, like a steering wheel, a dance pad, or a guitar, or eye toy, etc. It's great for somethings. All in all, as a general feature, it's kind of just a gimmick. So I can see exactly where MS is coming from when they say there isn't much developer support... there isn't all that much of a sustainable future there in its current form. Let's face it, Wii users mostly just play wii sports with the motion sensor used to its fullest.
They would also offer a modest amount of protection to future human explorers. The thin atmosphere of Mars offers no protection against solar radiation, so lots of solid rock would be our best bet (though it will be pretty cold in there).
That's actually a pretty neat way of looking at it. I'm just sad the % of people who don't believe in evolution is the highest in the US as compared to every other developed nation (and most developing nations). For me in California, sometimes I lose sight of how big this country is -- I don't know many people who doubt evolution, but I guess there's the large central region full of hillbillies.
I don't know how the iPhone will fare, but I do know that Dvorak is basically an egomaniac who thinks he knows best about just about all technology issues. Headlines like these is what he lives for -- telling companies what to do, and pretending he knows what the public will buy. Portable MP3 players were abundant when Apple got into that market, and they've seem to do OK. You don't have to enter a new market, you just have to have a decent product.
The post is very misleading (don't think the poster actually read TFA, surprise surprise). There's no new "Superbug" to replace old antibodies. The new immuno activating peptide was designed in a lab based on rules derived by analysing naturally occuring host peptides that trigger immunomodulatory responses. Superbugs have nothing to do with this. The peptide did not come from a bug, and it does not directly kill bugs either (which is what antibiotics do). This peptide simply stimulates the innate immune response to fight infection. The abstract from the paper is below:
We show that an innate defense-regulator peptide (IDR-1) was protective in mouse models of infection with important Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. When given from 48 h before to 6 h after infection, the peptide was effective by both local and systemic administration. Because protection by IDR-1 was prevented by in vivo depletion of monocytes and macrophages, but not neutrophils or B- and T-lymphocytes, we conclude that monocytes and macrophages are key effector cells. IDR-1 was not directly antimicrobial: gene and protein expression analysis in human and mouse monocytes and macrophages indicated that IDR-1, acting through mitogen-activated protein kinase and other signaling pathways, enhanced the levels of monocyte chemokines while reducing pro-inflammatory cytokine responses. To our knowledge, an innate defense regulator that counters infection by selective modulation of innate immunity without obvious toxicities has not been reported previously.
...at enterprisemission.com. That con artist "Doctor" Richard Hoagland has been scamming gullible people for decades. He's claimed at some time or another that he's behind most of the theories on planetary development that have become paradigms in astronomy now. On the other hand, he also claims the "face" on Mars and other naturally occurring phenomena are alien artifacts (see a nice parody of him at http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/lenin.html where Phil Plait sees Lenin in a pattern on his shower curtain). I'd hate to think what Hoagland's gonna make of this hexagonal shape at Saturn's pole... probably rant on about how it confirms his "hyperdimensional physics" baloney. It's great to see that a bunch of slashdotters have already posted common explanations for the phenomena (which TFA unfortunately left out).
When I saw this, I thought the amazing thing was how the human organs managed to maintain much of their functionality in sheep. The idea of harvesting them for later use back in humans seems cool, but sensationalist at this point. IMHO, the most remarkable thing here is that one could get a very realistic model of human diseases in animals, upon which to dissect out the mechanisms of diseases and look for/test treatments.
I'd rather take a million $1 laptops. Or, more realistically, 10,000 of the $100 laptops and donate them... Anyway, that's what I'd hope someone who'd by a $1,000,000 laptop might think...
Windows XP Upgrades still goes for $99 for a fully legal copy (the full version is ~$150-$200). MS has NEVER offered steep discounts on its OSs, even years and years after they came out. It won't happen this time either. I know the market situation is different, Mac OS X and Linux are gaining ground, but no one ever accused MS of trying to temper their greed with more realistic pricing and marketing.
Right on! I'm so sick of the whiners here. I've yet to buy from Dell or any other major brand... all my PCs have been brandless (often even cheaper than the packaged stuff). If you don't want it Win on it, don't frigging buy it there.
Most people who want Linux can handle it themselves. Getting it "available at DELL" isn't really for the benefit of those people...it seems more like a crusade to shove it down the throats of other people. I frankly think more Linux and less MS would be good overall, but it's something that shouldn't be forced. There's been waaay too much about this on Slashdot, where it probably doesn't convince anyone anyway.
Sometimes more impressive = more fake. Also, these features are cool, but they're not Olympus Mons. So, I'm not sure the comparisons are valid, and I tend to think the illusion of reality that NASA aims for when making these is potentially more boring, but more accurate than some commercially available interpolators.
You're kidding right? All high-end scientific cameras are monochromatic (cameras for microscopy and astronomy). This is because a "color" CCD is essentially just an approximation of what a RGB image would look like. For scientific purposes, you do NOT want a fixed color imager to be adding or subtracting data. You want imaging at particular visible wavelengths (as directed by specific filters). If you want to make a color image, you can individually take pictures at 3 visible wavelengths (e.g. RGB) and combine them. This is what the Mars rovers do. Color doesn't automatically equate mean better. Sometimes it means you get prettier images, but they're rarely more valuable than imaging with specific filters. For example, infrared and UV can also be used to image. You don't get the pretty pictures except by false coloring, but you sure as heck get a lot of valuable measurements.
Nice attempt at a rant/trolling, but maybe you don't know what you're talking about.
I have a biology Ph. D. as well, and with some great neuroscientists in my department doing some cool electrophysiology stuff, this article seems crackpot to me at best, and total bullshit at worst (i.e. they're just spinning it differently to get some publicity).
To illustrate, his most compelling argument is this: "The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced."
This was when I thought he was full of shit. Any type of 'communication' requires some energy. The transduction of sound (molecules hitting one another in a propagating a pressure wave) also could produce heat in the thermodynamic argument. TFA is lacking on sufficient detail to look into this further.
NASA doesn't necessarily "back quantum computing claim" of D-Link. They just confirmed they made a chip for them. Didn't we already find out a month or so ago that, according to their own admission, it's not a true quantum computer, but it MAY use some quantum principles in its design? As far as I care, even that claim hasn't been verified.
...that Turkey belongs in the EU? Let's be serious -- EU nations certainly have their own flaws (didn't France just ban public videotaping of violence?). But come on, Turkey's bid to join the EU seems like a forced marriage for political correctness and to create a fake sense of 'oneness' of cultures with a moderate islamic state. But these cultures are very different, and as this post illustrates, there's just no basic freedom of speech in Turkey.
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...also known as Out of this World is one of my most favorite games of all time. I played the MSDOS version at a time when graphics were getting fairly decent. Even though Another World used very simple vector graphics, the motion capture that went into making the character animations was absolutely amazing. The art was beautiful and the original music fit really well into the bizarre fantasy/scifi world envisioned in the game. It was the first time the visuals, music, and story of a game really came together to create a truly immersive mood for me.
Actually, half the tags come across as heavily opinionated comments. Questions are answered "yes" or "no" or often, both. A product that might not work quite right or a company that gets its come-uppens gets tagged "haha".
Ya, these are really going to help anyone search.
I totally agree -- laws against free speech are improper in the EU, and as such, Turkey should be kept out. However, at least the EU nations are making laws against *denying* a genocide as a way of healing and reconciliation, where as Turkey is making laws against *acknowledging* a genocide as a way of covering up its brutal past. Of all the crap being tossed around about East vs West, this is, to me, the biggest issue. The defining moment for Europe was WW2 and the genocide within. If Turkey can't come to terms with its own genocide, I could care less about the EU's apparent hypocrisy in the free speech issue, the EU should just tell Turkey to fuck off. It all comes down to this for me.
Does anyone honestly believe Turkey belongs in the European Union? I mean, come on, it doesn't matter if you're in a current EU nation or currently in Turkey -- you gotta side with what you believe. If you're in Turkey and truly believe in censorship/fascism for the good of the nation, then stop pretending you're European. They dealt with that mid 20th century and rejected it. STAND UP for your belief in a bigotry and intolerance! STAND UP for censorship! Acknowledge it and embrace it! STAND UP for revisionist history (Armenians who? Genocide what?). At least the most oppressive middle eastern nations openly embrace their belief systems. Turkey on the other hand is a living hypocrisy -- it has no place in the EU as long as this sort of BS continues. This is a harsh statement, but I believe well representative of the majority of Europeans.
Well, you're partly right, but you're assuming that they can just sit around making these episodes for free. If it starts to take up too much time, it won't just be a hobby anymore, it's a job. And if you're relying on it for income, you stick with it as long as it generates income, but if it stops doing that, you gotta get another job.
It was a great concept and they executed it beautifully, but besides some shining gems, the writing was sub-par. Without a great narrative, no amount of technology is gonna save a series. Many of the episodes got kind of boring. Some were just flat out off the deep end.
Um, besides wii sports, I don't see anything out there that's really changed the way we play games. In my mind, the wii motion controller is just another kind of peripheral, like a steering wheel, a dance pad, or a guitar, or eye toy, etc. It's great for somethings. All in all, as a general feature, it's kind of just a gimmick. So I can see exactly where MS is coming from when they say there isn't much developer support... there isn't all that much of a sustainable future there in its current form. Let's face it, Wii users mostly just play wii sports with the motion sensor used to its fullest.
They would also offer a modest amount of protection to future human explorers. The thin atmosphere of Mars offers no protection against solar radiation, so lots of solid rock would be our best bet (though it will be pretty cold in there).
That's actually a pretty neat way of looking at it. I'm just sad the % of people who don't believe in evolution is the highest in the US as compared to every other developed nation (and most developing nations). For me in California, sometimes I lose sight of how big this country is -- I don't know many people who doubt evolution, but I guess there's the large central region full of hillbillies.
I don't know how the iPhone will fare, but I do know that Dvorak is basically an egomaniac who thinks he knows best about just about all technology issues. Headlines like these is what he lives for -- telling companies what to do, and pretending he knows what the public will buy. Portable MP3 players were abundant when Apple got into that market, and they've seem to do OK. You don't have to enter a new market, you just have to have a decent product.
We show that an innate defense-regulator peptide (IDR-1) was protective in mouse models of infection with important Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. When given from 48 h before to 6 h after infection, the peptide was effective by both local and systemic administration. Because protection by IDR-1 was prevented by in vivo depletion of monocytes and macrophages, but not neutrophils or B- and T-lymphocytes, we conclude that monocytes and macrophages are key effector cells. IDR-1 was not directly antimicrobial: gene and protein expression analysis in human and mouse monocytes and macrophages indicated that IDR-1, acting through mitogen-activated protein kinase and other signaling pathways, enhanced the levels of monocyte chemokines while reducing pro-inflammatory cytokine responses. To our knowledge, an innate defense regulator that counters infection by selective modulation of innate immunity without obvious toxicities has not been reported previously.
...at enterprisemission.com. That con artist "Doctor" Richard Hoagland has been scamming gullible people for decades. He's claimed at some time or another that he's behind most of the theories on planetary development that have become paradigms in astronomy now. On the other hand, he also claims the "face" on Mars and other naturally occurring phenomena are alien artifacts (see a nice parody of him at http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/lenin.html where Phil Plait sees Lenin in a pattern on his shower curtain). I'd hate to think what Hoagland's gonna make of this hexagonal shape at Saturn's pole... probably rant on about how it confirms his "hyperdimensional physics" baloney. It's great to see that a bunch of slashdotters have already posted common explanations for the phenomena (which TFA unfortunately left out).
When I saw this, I thought the amazing thing was how the human organs managed to maintain much of their functionality in sheep. The idea of harvesting them for later use back in humans seems cool, but sensationalist at this point. IMHO, the most remarkable thing here is that one could get a very realistic model of human diseases in animals, upon which to dissect out the mechanisms of diseases and look for/test treatments.
I'd rather take a million $1 laptops. Or, more realistically, 10,000 of the $100 laptops and donate them... Anyway, that's what I'd hope someone who'd by a $1,000,000 laptop might think...
Windows XP Upgrades still goes for $99 for a fully legal copy (the full version is ~$150-$200). MS has NEVER offered steep discounts on its OSs, even years and years after they came out. It won't happen this time either. I know the market situation is different, Mac OS X and Linux are gaining ground, but no one ever accused MS of trying to temper their greed with more realistic pricing and marketing.
Don't have kids. That's why. To do so would be purely selfish.
Wow, that's the most pseudo-profound bullshit I've heard on Slashdot yet. Bravo.
Right on! I'm so sick of the whiners here. I've yet to buy from Dell or any other major brand... all my PCs have been brandless (often even cheaper than the packaged stuff). If you don't want it Win on it, don't frigging buy it there.
Most people who want Linux can handle it themselves. Getting it "available at DELL" isn't really for the benefit of those people...it seems more like a crusade to shove it down the throats of other people. I frankly think more Linux and less MS would be good overall, but it's something that shouldn't be forced. There's been waaay too much about this on Slashdot, where it probably doesn't convince anyone anyway.
Sometimes more impressive = more fake. Also, these features are cool, but they're not Olympus Mons. So, I'm not sure the comparisons are valid, and I tend to think the illusion of reality that NASA aims for when making these is potentially more boring, but more accurate than some commercially available interpolators.
Nice attempt at a rant/trolling, but maybe you don't know what you're talking about.
To illustrate, his most compelling argument is this: "The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced."
This was when I thought he was full of shit. Any type of 'communication' requires some energy. The transduction of sound (molecules hitting one another in a propagating a pressure wave) also could produce heat in the thermodynamic argument. TFA is lacking on sufficient detail to look into this further.
NASA doesn't necessarily "back quantum computing claim" of D-Link. They just confirmed they made a chip for them. Didn't we already find out a month or so ago that, according to their own admission, it's not a true quantum computer, but it MAY use some quantum principles in its design? As far as I care, even that claim hasn't been verified.
...that Turkey belongs in the EU? Let's be serious -- EU nations certainly have their own flaws (didn't France just ban public videotaping of violence?). But come on, Turkey's bid to join the EU seems like a forced marriage for political correctness and to create a fake sense of 'oneness' of cultures with a moderate islamic state. But these cultures are very different, and as this post illustrates, there's just no basic freedom of speech in Turkey.