Then you have a major misunderstanding about how our cardiovascular system works.
First of all, your bloodstream consists of two different systems - the high-pressure system and the low-pressure system. The high pressure system consists of your arteries and your left heart ventricle (while pumping) and the hydrodynamic pressure ranges from 120mmHg in systolic times (heart pumping) to 80mmHG (heart not pumping, aorta "pumping"). Due to these high pressures the walls of your arteries are very thick in order to resist them and it only contains 15% of your blood. The rest is inside the low-pressure system which consists of the capillaries, veins, the lung system and your entire heart during diastole. The hydrodynamic pressure inside this system is considerably low, but a lot of blood can be stored inside, therefore the walls of your veins are pretty thin for maximum elasticity. In order to keep the hydrostatic pressure as low as possible, they got valves that limit the height of such a blood column to a physiologically manageable minimum. I won't go into further detail.
This is the reason why your theory is faulty. One liter of blood that goes down results in an extension of the capillaries which reduce the hydrodynamic pressure to zero. Therefore your left ventricle (the one responsible of pumping the blood into this system) is not responsible for anything beyond this. The blood that s inside your veins is moved entirely by processes in your right heart (complex process), so the one liter that goes up is moved physically independently from the one liter that goes down.
In "zero G", your right heart won't have to deal with any hydrostatic pressure and will therefore always be able to give your left heart the optimum amount of blood. Besides, the blood will probably flow faster through your capillaries which results in more muscle tissue being oxygenated properly. Looks like a good way of studying stamina increase during "zero G".
Physiologically speaking, you don't have any gravity for your blood stream, specifically your heart, to handle. In my opinion you can't compare such a run to a real one!
Intelligence says that some German retailer had a crazy stunt: Bring your Xbox360, smash it in front of the audience and get a PS3 for free! Limited to the first fifty people...
Wow. Just because Slashdot didn't show the exponent 3 I used for the m... Didn't expect that it obscured my point THAT much. If it did confuse you, I apologize and present you the corrected version:
If we compress that amount of air (90 cubic meters) to 300 bar, we will be able to reduce its volume to 0.3 cubic meters. And it can be compressed even further.
...you know, there is a computer education program for school teachers by Intel which certainly exists in other countries, too. Participating nets you a free copy of Microsoft Office (a few years ago this was Office 2000 Premium) under some special license. Actually it is no license at all, because the package says "Non-licensed software! Don't use without separate license by Microsoft!"
The german government doesn't give a rat's ass about file sharing. The music industry, on the other hand, does. A lot. They hire a lawyer's office which uses a hacked version of Shareaza to monitor the IPs of users that sent them data (the only aspect in file sharing that is illegal). Afterwards they contact the provider to get those users' identity and mass-mailed cease-and-desist letters including a bill to settle this "outside of the court". No hacking of PCs involved.
...sadly still doesn't keep certain lawyer's offices from logging hundreds of IPs using hacked P2P programs. Just to ensure a steady flow of money towards them and their "clients"...
In my opinion it is pretty hard to draw a sharp line between those generations. Just because they managed to stuff a beefed-up SNES into a handheld case, I wouldn't call this thing last gen. Together with the PS2 and the Xbox and the Gamecube. But that's only my opinion. If we did that, the PSX would be current gen, too, because someone stuffed it into a handheld case. The graphical capabilities should be equal to the DS.
It has always been a problem with every new genre. Back in the old era of small movie companies getting rich over night in Hollywood, the movie world was full of plagiarism. Everyone tried to make slapstick stuff like Hardy&Laurel or Chaplin did. It took years before film was really considered an art and a medium to formulate more complex thoughts.
While the (mainstream) games genre technically has evolved rapidly (seeing the little time it took from seeing an 8x8 pixel model of General Custer raping an 8x8 pixel model of an innocent squaw to seeing a highly polygonized model of an average pervert raping highly polygonized models of innocent school girls) the audience is still far too mainstream-oriented. It will take some time until video games will be really considered art and get to fill niches like those art movies do. Give them some time.
I guess that our opinions of a "main gripe" differ a little, here. Flaws in game mechanics can be forgiven (Ever played Koudelka?), but killing off a wonderful epic like this...
You mention Xenosaga and just rant about the battle system? Why? Because you didn't understand it and saw others rant about it as well? I found it rather entertaining, once I got used to it. If done right, you could pummel your enemies with almost infinite chained attacks. Once you knew their hit zones, of course.
Here's the real reason why that series was driven to the ground by greedy big business:
After awesome episode one they fired the original script writer Soraya Saga (who already did the plot of Xenogears) and made the plot of the next games more mainstream-fitted (less plot, more action).
Propably due to Saga's "removal" Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed the music for these two games, resigned.
The third and last member of this "magic trio", continued designing the characters and doing some additional work, but has ever since distanced himself from the results.
And finally: They cut the series in half! Originally it was planned to be six episodes long with a chance of Xenogears being remade. Which alone would have been awesome.
Everything mentioned here can also be found there.
Well, acording to research the brain region responsible for reasonable thinking is fully (re-)developed at the age of 25 after being pretty much smashed during puberty (guess why).
They propably just wanted to make sure that every possible "variations" are covered.
Yes, but Beckstein is a moron - can't believe that so many want him to be Stoiber's successor. From what I read/heard Mrs. Zypries (minister of judgement) only intends to create unified rules for creating a blacklist of ultraviolent games. Selling those blacklisted games to minors would be made a crime then.
Oh, and this article clearly states that "a EU-wide ban of ultraviolent productions is NOT planned. Every EU country has to decide for itself which videos/games to ban. That's no decision to be made in Brussels."
According to several articles and interviews I heard on the radio, as well as this little german article (idn't found any better one) the german efforts only involve creating unified child protection rules. Of course they'll ban games, but this will only affect MINORS!
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...so why should Cedega be one?
This one somehow reminds me of the futile attempts Nokia made to get into video gaming market. Some people might remember this as the NGage.
Then you have a major misunderstanding about how our cardiovascular system works.
First of all, your bloodstream consists of two different systems - the high-pressure system and the low-pressure system. The high pressure system consists of your arteries and your left heart ventricle (while pumping) and the hydrodynamic pressure ranges from 120mmHg in systolic times (heart pumping) to 80mmHG (heart not pumping, aorta "pumping"). Due to these high pressures the walls of your arteries are very thick in order to resist them and it only contains 15% of your blood. The rest is inside the low-pressure system which consists of the capillaries, veins, the lung system and your entire heart during diastole. The hydrodynamic pressure inside this system is considerably low, but a lot of blood can be stored inside, therefore the walls of your veins are pretty thin for maximum elasticity. In order to keep the hydrostatic pressure as low as possible, they got valves that limit the height of such a blood column to a physiologically manageable minimum. I won't go into further detail.
This is the reason why your theory is faulty. One liter of blood that goes down results in an extension of the capillaries which reduce the hydrodynamic pressure to zero. Therefore your left ventricle (the one responsible of pumping the blood into this system) is not responsible for anything beyond this. The blood that s inside your veins is moved entirely by processes in your right heart (complex process), so the one liter that goes up is moved physically independently from the one liter that goes down.
In "zero G", your right heart won't have to deal with any hydrostatic pressure and will therefore always be able to give your left heart the optimum amount of blood. Besides, the blood will probably flow faster through your capillaries which results in more muscle tissue being oxygenated properly. Looks like a good way of studying stamina increase during "zero G".
Physiologically speaking, you don't have any gravity for your blood stream, specifically your heart, to handle. In my opinion you can't compare such a run to a real one!
Intelligence says that some German retailer had a crazy stunt: Bring your Xbox360, smash it in front of the audience and get a PS3 for free! Limited to the first fifty people...
Wow. Just because Slashdot didn't show the exponent 3 I used for the m... Didn't expect that it obscured my point THAT much. If it did confuse you, I apologize and present you the corrected version:
If we compress that amount of air (90 cubic meters) to 300 bar, we will be able to reduce its volume to 0.3 cubic meters. And it can be compressed even further.
Well, if we compress that amount of air to 300 bar, we will be able to reduce its volume to 0.3 m. And it can be compressed even further.
...you know, there is a computer education program for school teachers by Intel which certainly exists in other countries, too. Participating nets you a free copy of Microsoft Office (a few years ago this was Office 2000 Premium) under some special license. Actually it is no license at all, because the package says "Non-licensed software! Don't use without separate license by Microsoft!"
Molecular biology scientists of the world, this is your chance to prove yourself worthy! Remove our limiters, now!
...whether this will be a similar huge commercial success as its prequel...
You are right and wrong at the same time, here.
The german government doesn't give a rat's ass about file sharing. The music industry, on the other hand, does. A lot. They hire a lawyer's office which uses a hacked version of Shareaza to monitor the IPs of users that sent them data (the only aspect in file sharing that is illegal). Afterwards they contact the provider to get those users' identity and mass-mailed cease-and-desist letters including a bill to settle this "outside of the court". No hacking of PCs involved.
That wasn't even funny.
...sadly still doesn't keep certain lawyer's offices from logging hundreds of IPs using hacked P2P programs. Just to ensure a steady flow of money towards them and their "clients"...
No, I was thinking of advertising in Ski or Die and Skate or Die, actually...
It has always been a problem with every new genre. Back in the old era of small movie companies getting rich over night in Hollywood, the movie world was full of plagiarism. Everyone tried to make slapstick stuff like Hardy&Laurel or Chaplin did. It took years before film was really considered an art and a medium to formulate more complex thoughts.
While the (mainstream) games genre technically has evolved rapidly (seeing the little time it took from seeing an 8x8 pixel model of General Custer raping an 8x8 pixel model of an innocent squaw to seeing a highly polygonized model of an average pervert raping highly polygonized models of innocent school girls) the audience is still far too mainstream-oriented. It will take some time until video games will be really considered art and get to fill niches like those art movies do. Give them some time.
Guess how EA made its billions...
I guess that our opinions of a "main gripe" differ a little, here. Flaws in game mechanics can be forgiven (Ever played Koudelka?), but killing off a wonderful epic like this...
Here's the real reason why that series was driven to the ground by greedy big business:
Everything mentioned here can also be found there.
Well, acording to research the brain region responsible for reasonable thinking is fully (re-)developed at the age of 25 after being pretty much smashed during puberty (guess why).
They propably just wanted to make sure that every possible "variations" are covered.
Yes, but Beckstein is a moron - can't believe that so many want him to be Stoiber's successor. From what I read/heard Mrs. Zypries (minister of judgement) only intends to create unified rules for creating a blacklist of ultraviolent games. Selling those blacklisted games to minors would be made a crime then. Oh, and this article clearly states that "a EU-wide ban of ultraviolent productions is NOT planned. Every EU country has to decide for itself which videos/games to ban. That's no decision to be made in Brussels."
Ever seen Wargames?
According to several articles and interviews I heard on the radio, as well as this little german article (idn't found any better one) the german efforts only involve creating unified child protection rules. Of course they'll ban games, but this will only affect MINORS!