I'm committing a few of your pundit remarks to memory... first time I've heard some of them. Beezel-Bill, Nervous Pack, thats good shit man. I'll be waiting to use those in the office, OH! Shauna's at the waterfountain and was asking me if she needed to turn on this automatic update thingy... here's my chance! *scatter*
... would love to see an Apple mobile gaming device, as long as it had great games, or even better... could run user created apps and games. Apple's sleek styling that I really dig.
Think of an Apple console! I'm sure it'd look slick, but if they really put some though and innovation into it, it'd be great to see them entry in the next generation of consoles. I think the next generation of consoles will have for "PC" or "Media Center" functionality than those out now. Apple already has a grip on the way a lot of us listen to our music, it would be really nice to see what they could do with a gaming console / media center. Competition is good for the consumer.
They better start rolling out porn in 1080p format or the only thing that sized drive will be viable for is storing the "citizen surveillance" data at the Department of Homeland Security.
I was just wondering why they didn't seize the opportunity to name something "Adamantium" or maybe that will be saved for and alloy it's used in down the road...
Well said, I even wrote down: "your actions in assuming responsibility for my debts don't give you any legitimate authority over my behavior' - That was beautiful
Having been a console and pc gamer all my life (28 years) I have seen all the consoles come and go over the years. What it's really about is sitting down, chilling and gaming. Whether that is with your family, your best friend, or by yourself... it has to be fun. We'll see how the PS Home thing works out, but for now the 360 is king when it comes to playing while at home by yourself, because you aren't "by yourself", the whole world is waiting to play you. Hardware is only a tool. If you buy a game console for the optical drive then you are buying the product for a reason secondary to gaming.
Being a former Wii owner and current 360 owner I can impart this into the conversation: My mom and dad got me a Wii because they remembered when they bought me a NES back in 1986 with zelda and excitebike. So they did a 20 years later kinda thing and it was great. I played through Zelda:TP and it was great, Ocarina of Time great. But I ended up hocking it on eBay this last Thanksgiving for $400 and bought a 360. Why? because the games just weren't what I was after. I hate to say it because Nintendo go this wrap back when the Genesis came out, but the games seem kiddish, plus it's nice to just kick back and play instead of standing and flailing about.
The 360 and PS3 are a little premature in the "HD Generation" of gaming. HDTV's are just now becoming affordable at 1080p. I would hate to be someone who bought a 720p native resolution TV, but it's not that big a deal when it comes to watching TV, GAMING however is a whole different story. 1920x1080 is a beefy resolution for even the latest PC's to to handle at a playable framerate. PC gamers have been playing in HD for years now, ever since games were playable in 1024x768 on their monitors. But HD is the buzzword for the new tv market, and they have to give it name. I guess HD sounds cooler than HR (High Resolution).
I for one look forward to the NEXT generation of consoles. 1080p Big HDTV's will be even more affordable, The format war is over, and consoles will have to huddle up with a company to come up with some really impressive hardware to ensure their console has a 4-5 year minimum lifespan. In that respect, Sony has delivered on with it's last two consoles with DVD, and now with the Cell and Blu-Ray. I am a fanboy of neither Microsoft or Sony, I am a gamer and I just want a way to play good games at a reasonable price. My opinion on this generation at this time, Microsoft wins.
My brother-in-law and I decided to make some of these last year on the 4th. For just a couple bucks we built a launchpad and spent the building and launching rockets in the back yard, it was damn fun and we plan on doing it again. Things did get a little dodgy as far as safety was concerned when I decided to put a tinfoil and Drain-o "warhead" on the tip of mine. Timing was a little off, freaked the dogs out bigtime...
If you spent any amount of time making and modding paper airplanes when you were a kid, this is exactly that kind of fun.
Oh great, a solar system like ours!? Considering we here on earth can't seem to keep our weapons pointed away from each other, what makes you think they're any different? They are bound to have weapons of mass destruction! Sounds like a storybook beginning to the first Intersolar War.
Well, following G.W. thinking patterns, they'll probably just equip it with a flash. In other news, strange lights in the sky have been reported over Afghanistan, China, and North Korea.
I for one look forward to the next generation of consoles. I've been a gamer ever since I was 7 years old, and now at 28 I am getting that little kid feeling all over again. I played Wii Sports after Thanksgiving Dinner with my 7 year old cousin, 45 y/o Aunt, and my Grandpa. A little toasted, and well... high, I took a moment to reflect while relaxed in the chase lounge waiting my turn to "bowl". I saw a really good time being had by 4 generations of family (myself included). As a gamer, it was a beautiful moment because what was once "my thing", referring to gaming, was being heavily enjoyed by people who I would convince to play Call of Duty 4 with me.
I think we've finally reached a point of acceptance in gaming as another entertainment form thanks to the innovation of Nintendo.
That being said, look at Microsoft *ducks*. Xbox Live on the 360 is simply the best gaming I've ever had in my life. Now that my friends are scattered across the country, XBL allows us to play together, and message/video conference very easily. I realize this has been available on PC forever, I've been doing it... but to be able to chill out in front of the fireplace on the couch instead of a office chair that I'm in 8 hours a day at work too is awesome. To get to my point, the 360 despite it's hardware flaws is innovative in a whole other direction, some might call "hardcore gaming".
The future will just get better. Imagine the posibilities of taking Wii interface innovation and combining it with an Xbox live experience.
I'm right there with ya bro. I'm 28, newlywed, and I've played games since I can remember (I can still remember the first time I played a NES, vividly). I'm Chief Designer for a Truss Manufacturer and live a fairly responsible life. For me gaming is a lifestyle, I have little brothers that game and encourage their gaming as if it where playing a sport. Gaming is a culture for some people, and I for one am glad to be part of it.
Exactly... I would much rather pay $120 bucks to take a nice scenic, comfortable 3-4 hour airship ride from St. Louis to Chicago, than be crammed in a DC-10 for 50 mins. To me, airships are much more economic and stylish than commercial airlines. We rush around too much in America, Inc.
1) Regulating the Cable industry (ok, that's a bad one if it falls under censorship. But they do have the power to force a la carte services, which would be a good thing for most people).
The day I can get only the channels I want a la carte, will be a very very liberating day indeed. I don't even watch 80% of the channels I get. But I have to get the super digital ultra package to get the History, Discovery Channels, Science, and Military that I watch most of the time anyway. Oh,that'd piss off the wife though... Doh!... So much for my liberty, the shackles are attached in several places it seems.
The best thing my ISP offers at the moment is 10mbs, and they charge me 70 bucks for it. While I enjoy 1MB/s downloads from Bangbros, nearly instant webpage loading, and zero lag in gaming, they would be hard pressed to squeeze any more money out of me for an internet connection. I think it will take several years, if not a decade before we see a full throttle 100mb internet option. We already have cables just fine for dealing with that amount of bandwidth, why re-wire your house when They (Charter in my case) have yet to utilize the capability of the current infrastructure.
... a couple of nights ago my wife and I had a "movie night", taking in about 3 dvd's before heading to bed. That night I dreampt someone had broken into the house downstairs. Being conditioned to this by living in a house in the country, my initial reaction of fear QUICKLY turns into adrenaline and anger (having swept the farmhouse several times, deagle in hand after hearing animals messing around). -- So in my dream, I grab my "piece", jump over my wife and storm downstairs. Sure enough, some scrub has come through our window and is unhooking our tv. He has a knife, so I point and unload into him. That's when things got weird. Every round richocet'd off him and he caught the last one. I remember just getting pissed and wolverine claws burst out of my arms and I went after him, threw a punch...... and hit my wife in the mouth.
I didn't make contact very hard, it must have been more of a twitch than a swing in real life. but it was enough to wake her up and make it swell a little. She thought I'd accidently head-butted her or something turning over... then I told her about my dream and we both started laughing so hard we cried.
I also use my phone as my alarm. One night I re-arranged things and now have my phone plugged into the charger on a nightstand about a foot from my head. A month later, at a regular checkup I complained of insomnia and morning headaches to my doctor. He gave me Ambien, but I just ended up using it to trip out instead of going to sleep. Turns out when I got a new alarm clock at the company christmas party I moved my phone and noticed a change. So I've rowed that boat...
January 22nd, NASA announces new information that puts the asteroid's impact within 1 mile of the Opportunity Rover. Calling for the implementation of the "Johnny 5, Stay Alive" emergency exit plan in which the rover will raise it's instruments upward, "scream" in modemspeak, and run like a bitch on fire - away from the projected impact zone.
*FAN FICTION*...yeah, I'm gonna get back to work now.
4) Your desk should face the door. Otherwise, people will always walk up behind you.
You might wanna make sure the poster/wall decoration directly behind you isn't reflective. An employee of mine was mindful enough to arrange his monitors and desk to face the door, but whenever I walked into his office all I had to do was look above his head and see what was on his screen. I made sure to move MY framed poster after observing his folly.:)
Thanks for your insight. As I said before I am no expert, just a geek that daydreams of this kinda stuff. But I think it's really cool that an idea I had about black holes after watching a show on the History Channel, has been thought of by researchers too. Thanks for your links and comments, I found them very interesting and made for a good morning read during a slow day here at work (Friday before Christmas). I found the wiki article on Fecund Universes to be exactly what I was looking for. Here is an excerpt:
Black holes may generate new universes
Modern scientific theory, however, does provide a mechanism by which universes can be formed. The original theory of general relativity predicted that when a black hole was formed it collapsed into a singularity. That is, space and time would become so curved here that everything would collapse into a point. General relativity also predicted that our universe sprang from a singularity during the big bang. But we now know that general relativity breaks down below the Planck length. It is here that quantum mechanics begins to play a part. For this reason, physicists have suspected for a long time that a singularity would violate the uncertainty principle, and hence cannot exist. Recently, this conjecture has been investigated mathematically. This is still speculative, but according to one theory of quantum gravity a singularity is not formed. Instead, space and time do not collapse to a point but rather into a (four-dimensional) tube which opens into an entirely new region of space and time. The singularity "bounces" back out into a big bang. This means it is entirely possible that our own universe was produced when a black hole was formed in another universe.
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I'm committing a few of your pundit remarks to memory... first time I've heard some of them. Beezel-Bill, Nervous Pack, thats good shit man. I'll be waiting to use those in the office, OH! Shauna's at the waterfountain and was asking me if she needed to turn on this automatic update thingy... here's my chance! *scatter*
*Do not post without hitting "PREVIEW" while on Vicodin* I really should have proof read that....
... would love to see an Apple mobile gaming device, as long as it had great games, or even better... could run user created apps and games. Apple's sleek styling that I really dig. Think of an Apple console! I'm sure it'd look slick, but if they really put some though and innovation into it, it'd be great to see them entry in the next generation of consoles. I think the next generation of consoles will have for "PC" or "Media Center" functionality than those out now. Apple already has a grip on the way a lot of us listen to our music, it would be really nice to see what they could do with a gaming console / media center. Competition is good for the consumer.
They better start rolling out porn in 1080p format or the only thing that sized drive will be viable for is storing the "citizen surveillance" data at the Department of Homeland Security.
Ahh... the price you pay for getting noticed. Bookmarked for later... I wanna try some Tower of Goo
I was just wondering why they didn't seize the opportunity to name something "Adamantium" or maybe that will be saved for and alloy it's used in down the road...
Well said, I even wrote down: "your actions in assuming responsibility for my debts don't give you any legitimate authority over my behavior' - That was beautiful
Having been a console and pc gamer all my life (28 years) I have seen all the consoles come and go over the years. What it's really about is sitting down, chilling and gaming. Whether that is with your family, your best friend, or by yourself... it has to be fun. We'll see how the PS Home thing works out, but for now the 360 is king when it comes to playing while at home by yourself, because you aren't "by yourself", the whole world is waiting to play you. Hardware is only a tool. If you buy a game console for the optical drive then you are buying the product for a reason secondary to gaming.
Being a former Wii owner and current 360 owner I can impart this into the conversation: My mom and dad got me a Wii because they remembered when they bought me a NES back in 1986 with zelda and excitebike. So they did a 20 years later kinda thing and it was great. I played through Zelda :TP and it was great, Ocarina of Time great. But I ended up hocking it on eBay this last Thanksgiving for $400 and bought a 360. Why? because the games just weren't what I was after. I hate to say it because Nintendo go this wrap back when the Genesis came out, but the games seem kiddish, plus it's nice to just kick back and play instead of standing and flailing about.
The 360 and PS3 are a little premature in the "HD Generation" of gaming. HDTV's are just now becoming affordable at 1080p. I would hate to be someone who bought a 720p native resolution TV, but it's not that big a deal when it comes to watching TV, GAMING however is a whole different story. 1920x1080 is a beefy resolution for even the latest PC's to to handle at a playable framerate. PC gamers have been playing in HD for years now, ever since games were playable in 1024x768 on their monitors. But HD is the buzzword for the new tv market, and they have to give it name. I guess HD sounds cooler than HR (High Resolution).
I for one look forward to the NEXT generation of consoles. 1080p Big HDTV's will be even more affordable, The format war is over, and consoles will have to huddle up with a company to come up with some really impressive hardware to ensure their console has a 4-5 year minimum lifespan. In that respect, Sony has delivered on with it's last two consoles with DVD, and now with the Cell and Blu-Ray. I am a fanboy of neither Microsoft or Sony, I am a gamer and I just want a way to play good games at a reasonable price. My opinion on this generation at this time, Microsoft wins.
If you spent any amount of time making and modding paper airplanes when you were a kid, this is exactly that kind of fun.
Oh great, a solar system like ours!? Considering we here on earth can't seem to keep our weapons pointed away from each other, what makes you think they're any different? They are bound to have weapons of mass destruction! Sounds like a storybook beginning to the first Intersolar War.
Well, following G.W. thinking patterns, they'll probably just equip it with a flash. In other news, strange lights in the sky have been reported over Afghanistan, China, and North Korea.
I for one look forward to the next generation of consoles. I've been a gamer ever since I was 7 years old, and now at 28 I am getting that little kid feeling all over again. I played Wii Sports after Thanksgiving Dinner with my 7 year old cousin, 45 y/o Aunt, and my Grandpa. A little toasted, and well... high, I took a moment to reflect while relaxed in the chase lounge waiting my turn to "bowl". I saw a really good time being had by 4 generations of family (myself included). As a gamer, it was a beautiful moment because what was once "my thing", referring to gaming, was being heavily enjoyed by people who I would convince to play Call of Duty 4 with me. I think we've finally reached a point of acceptance in gaming as another entertainment form thanks to the innovation of Nintendo. That being said, look at Microsoft *ducks*. Xbox Live on the 360 is simply the best gaming I've ever had in my life. Now that my friends are scattered across the country, XBL allows us to play together, and message/video conference very easily. I realize this has been available on PC forever, I've been doing it... but to be able to chill out in front of the fireplace on the couch instead of a office chair that I'm in 8 hours a day at work too is awesome. To get to my point, the 360 despite it's hardware flaws is innovative in a whole other direction, some might call "hardcore gaming". The future will just get better. Imagine the posibilities of taking Wii interface innovation and combining it with an Xbox live experience.
I'm right there with ya bro. I'm 28, newlywed, and I've played games since I can remember (I can still remember the first time I played a NES, vividly). I'm Chief Designer for a Truss Manufacturer and live a fairly responsible life. For me gaming is a lifestyle, I have little brothers that game and encourage their gaming as if it where playing a sport. Gaming is a culture for some people, and I for one am glad to be part of it.
Exactly... I would much rather pay $120 bucks to take a nice scenic, comfortable 3-4 hour airship ride from St. Louis to Chicago, than be crammed in a DC-10 for 50 mins. To me, airships are much more economic and stylish than commercial airlines. We rush around too much in America, Inc.
The future is coming, through the back door... Only if this catches on with Real Doll.
GENIOUS!Finally, an explanation for the ugly green halo 3 edition stuff.... it would look great as an official army controller!
... test the shit out of these orc parts before they put them into people. I'd hate to see a new AIDS come of this.
1) Regulating the Cable industry (ok, that's a bad one if it falls under censorship. But they do have the power to force a la carte services, which would be a good thing for most people).
The day I can get only the channels I want a la carte, will be a very very liberating day indeed. I don't even watch 80% of the channels I get. But I have to get the super digital ultra package to get the History, Discovery Channels, Science, and Military that I watch most of the time anyway. Oh,that'd piss off the wife though... Doh! ... So much for my liberty, the shackles are attached in several places it seems.
The best thing my ISP offers at the moment is 10mbs, and they charge me 70 bucks for it. While I enjoy 1MB/s downloads from Bangbros, nearly instant webpage loading, and zero lag in gaming, they would be hard pressed to squeeze any more money out of me for an internet connection. I think it will take several years, if not a decade before we see a full throttle 100mb internet option. We already have cables just fine for dealing with that amount of bandwidth, why re-wire your house when They (Charter in my case) have yet to utilize the capability of the current infrastructure.
I didn't make contact very hard, it must have been more of a twitch than a swing in real life. but it was enough to wake her up and make it swell a little. She thought I'd accidently head-butted her or something turning over... then I told her about my dream and we both started laughing so hard we cried.
I also use my phone as my alarm. One night I re-arranged things and now have my phone plugged into the charger on a nightstand about a foot from my head. A month later, at a regular checkup I complained of insomnia and morning headaches to my doctor. He gave me Ambien, but I just ended up using it to trip out instead of going to sleep. Turns out when I got a new alarm clock at the company christmas party I moved my phone and noticed a change. So I've rowed that boat...
January 22nd, NASA announces new information that puts the asteroid's impact within 1 mile of the Opportunity Rover. Calling for the implementation of the "Johnny 5, Stay Alive" emergency exit plan in which the rover will raise it's instruments upward, "scream" in modemspeak, and run like a bitch on fire - away from the projected impact zone.
*FAN FICTION* ...yeah, I'm gonna get back to work now.
I had a box of epistellar jovians in my stocking this year.
4) Your desk should face the door. Otherwise, people will always walk up behind you.
You might wanna make sure the poster/wall decoration directly behind you isn't reflective. An employee of mine was mindful enough to arrange his monitors and desk to face the door, but whenever I walked into his office all I had to do was look above his head and see what was on his screen. I made sure to move MY framed poster after observing his folly.Thanks for your insight. As I said before I am no expert, just a geek that daydreams of this kinda stuff. But I think it's really cool that an idea I had about black holes after watching a show on the History Channel, has been thought of by researchers too. Thanks for your links and comments, I found them very interesting and made for a good morning read during a slow day here at work (Friday before Christmas). I found the wiki article on Fecund Universes to be exactly what I was looking for. Here is an excerpt:
Black holes may generate new universes Modern scientific theory, however, does provide a mechanism by which universes can be formed. The original theory of general relativity predicted that when a black hole was formed it collapsed into a singularity. That is, space and time would become so curved here that everything would collapse into a point. General relativity also predicted that our universe sprang from a singularity during the big bang. But we now know that general relativity breaks down below the Planck length. It is here that quantum mechanics begins to play a part. For this reason, physicists have suspected for a long time that a singularity would violate the uncertainty principle, and hence cannot exist. Recently, this conjecture has been investigated mathematically. This is still speculative, but according to one theory of quantum gravity a singularity is not formed. Instead, space and time do not collapse to a point but rather into a (four-dimensional) tube which opens into an entirely new region of space and time. The singularity "bounces" back out into a big bang. This means it is entirely possible that our own universe was produced when a black hole was formed in another universe.