King Tutankhamun
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lol, interesting pictures!
I did a similiar thing with our dean's photo at school.
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The number three player in consoles, Nintendo, successfully stole its share of the spotlight last week, with the strange yet somehow intriguing naming choice for its "Revolution" console. Was "Wii" just a ploy for attention that'll burn out by the end of the week? Michael Cai doesn't think so; in fact, he believes Nintendo's move may have a streak of brilliance to it. "Since Nintendo wanted to expand the gamer audience to focus more on the moderate, casual gamers, and re-invigorate the gaming-as-a-family experience anyway, it might as well end up being a smart move."
Cai's reasoning goes like this: Only hard-core gamers knew of the existence of the "Revolution" console by that name anyway. The Wii name introduces Nintendo's console to its true targeted market, which is made up more of parents. For them, he said, Nintendo may need to distinguish itself as more of a family-friendly brand anyway, and the "Wheee!" notion sounds more like a roller-coaster ride than something blowing up. Sure, the console was a revolution of sorts when it was first announced, to those to whom it was announced. "But casual gamers, and the moms who might make these decisions to buy that platform, might not even know. They might never have heard of ['Revolution']," he remarked. For them, the former code name might not have given the proper message.
Besides, Cai threw in for the heck of it, the Wii is no longer a particularly revolutionary console, especially from a hardware standpoint, stacked up against Xbox 360 and PS3. Perhaps - just perhaps - the little remote controls could be considered "revolutionary," but even the concept itself smacks of war and revolt and all the things that moms won't invest in. "Why would you want to call it 'Revolution,'" he asked hypothetically, "if your technology is much less?"
-Tom's Hardware Pre-E3 coverage.
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A buddy of mine is going to get this for his 360, and the screens really do look great.
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Guess what.....
ok, I'll tell you.
Preloading and Preordering are now available on steam. When you preorder you save 10% off the 19.95. Release is set for June 1 still.
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haha
Moody Blues - your Wildest Dreams
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Cool deal! I really wish that FiOS would come to our town, it's be so much faster than our 1.5 (up from 768).
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Hehe, that's a cool ad.
I think the PC guy is a journalist for the Daily Show.
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Washington (DC) - The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its third annual robot race, the DARPA Urban Challenge - or as some are calling it, "Grand Challenge 3." While the first two races had autonomous vehicles kicking up dust in the desert, this race will have vehicles drive through a mock city and merging into moving traffic. The top prize for the fastest vehicle to complete the 60-mile course in less than 6 hours will be a cool $2 million dollars. Participants can also compete for government research funding.
The Urban Challenge race will be held on 3 November 2007. As with the previous two competitions, qualifying events will be held in the month preceding the race. Information made available by DARPA yesterday treats the matter a bit like a top-secret government project, vaguely stating the race will be held in the Western United States. We can assume this means California, because vehicle safety equipment and markings must conform to California standards as stated in the official rules.
Vehicles will have to detect stationary and moving obstacles while driving forward and in reverse. They also have to negotiate intersections and obey lane markings and signal lights. To add further complication, vehicles must be able to merge into moving traffic.
Unlike the previous races, the Urban Challenge will have two different tracks with different prizes. The first is where participants have a chance to win up to $1 million in development funds, but the government then gets limited rights to use the technology.
The second track has participants competing for no-strings attached prizes of $2 million for first place, $500,000 for second place and $250,000 for third place. In addition, participants get $50,000 for making it to the qualifying event and $100,000 for completing it. This is a significant change because many teams from the last two competitions burned through significant resources just sending 30+ people and their vehicles to the Fontana Speedway qualifying event. Team CyberRider, who competed in last year's Grand Challenge 2, was personally funded by team leader Ivar Schoenmeyr.
Last year's 132-mile Grand Challenge 2005 course was completed by four vehicles from Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Gray Team from Louisiana. Stanford won first prize with their Volkswagen Touareg. That year, TG Daily published a series of ten articles featuring team interviews, the qualifications and even blogged the Grand Challenge race. In the first Grand Challenge race none of the vehicles finished and several partipants couldn't even exit the starting area.
Don't get all excited yet, it won't be till in the fall. As usual, I'll keep you guys up to date on the challenge. I know Paul was interested in the last one.
Last year's winner from Stanford.
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eah, yea there is. But that is why its PG-13 movie, has some sexual humor. Some might find it objectionable, but it's just a movie.
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David Bowie - Changes
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Yea, seems that it might just be a marketing stunt like Morgan said. We'll see.
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Although the auction ended a few hours ago, it's still interesting.
Here's the article I found on it http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/11116/G...mselves_On_Ebay
Interesting idea to auction themselves away to build a game, too bad nobody bid on their auction.
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Wii", the replacement for Nintendo's "Gamecube", is scheduled to be launched by the firm on its home market and in North America in late 2006 to compete with Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's XBox 360.
The name deliberately sounds like "we" to emphasise what the firm hopes will be its universal appeal, Nintendo said.
"Wii will break down the wall that separates video game players from everyone else," it said in a statement.
"While the code-name 'Revolution' expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer."
"Wii" is to be officially unveiled at "E3 2006", the world's biggest show for video-game makers, which is being held in Los Angeles from May 9 to 12.
Nintendo said that "Wii" uses an infra-red game control that senses the movements of the user to give increased control.
Nintendo has lagged in the game console stakes since about 2000.
In the battle for new-generation gamers, the XBox 360 has already had a poor reception in the key Japanese market while Sony has had to put back the PlayStation 3's launch because of technical difficulties.
Interesting name change.
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Anyone seen it?
I saw it last weekend with some friends, and it was a funny movie.
The scene with Charlie Sheen was really funny, if you saw it you'll know what I'm talking about.
Movies that it parodied: Village, Grudge, War of the Worlds, Brokeback Mountain, Saw, Oprah show, and a few others.
Much better than number 3 I think, but still not quite as good as 1 or 2. Nonetheless it was a funny movie, might be good for a DVD rental if you haven't seen it.
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Hey ZeZar! Good luck with your CS competition.
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Number 7 was a tricky one, it was the sodoku type puzzle but a 5*5. Google calculator works great for the question it asks at the end.
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ooo, nice list of movies. Miami Vice looks great, and I look forward to seeing that.
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I guess I mostly remember everything, but items that are far away writing them on a calender helps. Google's Calender is a neat new tool they just introduced.
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Good layout! Looks very pro.
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Earth Wind & Fire - Pure Funk
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Update on this, still have invite left if anyone wants one.
A new version of the beta was released yeasterday, and it has some nice cosmetic changes and it dosen't appear to crash as frequently as the presious beta.
New features such as phone calling, more activities, themes, ect.
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The third puzzle is a neat one. Be careful how you type the word (don't put hyphens in, only spaces) as that tricked me up.
Puzzle 3 Answers:
Fluer de lis
Vitruvian Man
5
Pandora Music Saving Program
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I came across this neat program that gets the song and artist info from the title bar in Firefox and saves it all nicely formated to the mp3 temp file.
3Tunes Program
Help
It can save you some time instead of manually taking the temp files and renaming them (as I did for about 100 of them a little while ago and got tired of doing that)