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General: Blizzard Grabs for Cash
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Originally posted by Drew
I'm curious to know if a more appropriate title wouldn't be "Activision Grabs for Cash."
Blizzard seems to be making a series of incredibly unwise business decisions over the past 9 months or so, resulting in a loss of approximately 900,000 total subscriptions since Cataclysm launched (if the numbers released over time are to be believed). Given that Cata only sold some 4.3 million copies (if the numbers I read back in March are to be believed), that doesn't paint the prettiest of pictures.
IMO, Activision's history of makingless-than-sound business decisions is far longer than Blizzard's. RealID, battle.net, Facebook integration, the mess that is Cataclysm (it took them over 6 months to correct a graphical issue that caused seizures...), RMT built into the game... all of these terrible decisions sound like Activision. Or like a company that believes itself "too big to fail" and needs a lesson in humility.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: 'Welfare Epics'
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Originally posted by MikeB
You're right, I didn't. I might... later.
Fact is, the elitist jackasses that tend to have the point of view the terminology indicates find their way onto my ignore list very quickly anymore. I'm too old to tolerate the stupidity anymore (hence my canceled WoW account).
/my lawn. Get off. ;)
Star Wars: The Old Republic: 'Welfare Epics'
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Originally posted by MikeB
Wow, Michael. Your word choice was so poor, I couldn't be bothered to read your article. Could you possibly come across as any more of an ass? If you play this game, I hope to God you aren't on my server - alternately, I hope I know your toon name, so I can instantly ignore you. People who use terms like 'welfare epic' are the type of people who gained WoW the dubious (and true) reputation of having the worst community in gaming. You'd think an industry writer would know better.
Diablo 3: The "Real Money" Auction House
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Originally posted by EricDanie
Well, the article I read on it quoted Rob Pardo directly, so I'm thinking it's safe to say we're not talking leaks here, but the actual policy.
With that out of the way, there are two things that bother me here: 1 - the single-player game cannot be played without an internet connection. My internet goes out, I'm in the hospital, what have you, no D3. It didn't work for Ubisoft, but BLizzard thinks it's a good idea anyway. Is it piracy, or Blizzard's potential AH profits? Don't know, don't care. Not buying the game because of it.
2 - It's one thing when RMT is illegal and being run out of Chinese sweatshops and companies like Blizz are actively seeking to squash it. When Blizz and others say "screw it, can't squash it, may as well make a few bucks from it," that's when I have an issue. Sony did it by allowing players to sell characters and items and taking a cut, now Blizz is doing it.
Am I the only person who has a problem with Blizzard looking to SOE for advice on how to run games?
Are forum posters here lost in their own reality?
General Discussion « Star Wars: The Old Republic
Originally posted by Loke666
What Loke said.
Obviously, kishe wasn't paying attention to the DA2 debacle. Pretty sure BioWare let EA push that one so soon so they could get those 50+ pages of complaints and multiple horrid reviews specifically so that they'd be able to tell EA ("destroyers of worlds and companies great and small") to get stuffed if they tried the same thing with SW:TOR... or any other BioWare games.
"BioWare kool-aid." I'm no real EA fan, either, but... did John Riccitiello steal your lunch money?
Game will "Flop" harder than RIFT did...
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Originally posted by SioBabble
SioBabble hit the nail on the head: WoW is a fluke. Pretty sure I read an interview with Rob Pardo a long time ago where he says as much and basically cautions other companies not to make the mistake of calling their game a failure if it doesn't get millions of subs right off the bat. He makes it clear that companies need to focus on shipping and launching complete games that are actually good - that the numbers will come from that, not from focusing on beating other games in sub numbers.
Bottom line: Rift is not a failure in terms of subs if they're clearing a million. That's 15 million dollars in revenue a month for Trion... for a genre where titles were considered a success to pull in one third of that number once upon a time.
Take WoW out of the equation. It does not belong. It is an anomaly that needlessly skews the balance because even the folks who are responsible for it have openly said you cannot use it as the standard for the industry. Now, with the behemoth gone, try recalibrating your measure of success.
1 million subscriptions for Rift (if that number is accurate) is not a flop.
Anecdotal evidence for TOR indicates that some editions were sold out at some retailers within 24 hours of the start of presale in the United States. Once again, in terms of pure box sales, this does not indicate flop at launch (it is impossible to accurately predict active subscription numbers for a game that has not even launched, so your premise is ridiculous. Try again three to six months after launch, once players have tried the game and decided whether to maintain subscriptions).
Even 300k subs (Warhammer) isn't a total failure. It's about standard for the genre, especially considering the game really didn't get a ton of publicity if I recall correctly (not like Rift, and certainly not like SW:TOR or WoW).
It's one thing to have an opinion (wish?), another to try and present that opinion (wish?) as fact. If you don't like SW:TOR and don't care to buy or play it, no one is pulling money out of your wallet. But calling a game a flop several months before it's even launched?
Were you bored and just wanting to troll or what?
Daniel Erickson: Closed beta maybe, No open Beta!
General Discussion « Star Wars: The Old Republic
Originally posted by Isane
I agree with Isane.
Massive kudos to Bioware for reminding the industry and players what the purpose of testing actually is (hint: it's not a marketing tool).
Star Wars: The Old Republic: What's the Endgame?
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I'm inclined to disagree with you here. In my own experience, "endgamers" are people who rush to levelcap, then complain they have nothing to do (as a general rule). In some games, it is possible to level cap in under 30 days - in some games, it can be done in under 14 days. You cannot honestly mean to say that all of a game's content can be experienced in just 14-30 days, can you? Because based upon your word choice, that is exactly what you seem to be saying, and as a general rule, no endgamers under the definition most apply to the term, do not even come close to experiencing "all" of any game's content.
General: The Console MMO is the Future
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The fact that an MMO can be made for and released on a console does not mean I will buy it and play it on one.
1 - I do not buy Sony products. Period. So Sony's numbers mean jack diddly to me.
2 - I own a 360. That does not mean I use it often. I use it when I want to play a game best suited for console play, like Fable - which was so obviously made for console that computer gamers prefer to use their Fable disks as coasters or frisbees. Or DA2, which also suffered from the "holy sweet baby Jesus, what the bloody hell did you do to my game?!" syndrome where, if I'd known it was going to be so horrifically BAD on PC, I'd have saved myself the trouble and bought it for my 360, since it was clearly made for the console crowd and screw the PC players (thank you SO MUCH, EA... now go play with your sports titles and leave BioWare alone).
3 - DCUO is your example? Free Realms? Seriously? Go pick a title that is not a Sony game. First, there are damned few gamers, MMO or otherwise, that take Sony seriously. It's not the NGE - any sane, rational person got over that a long time ago. It's the way Sony does business. Sony kills games, lies to customers, and THINKS THIS IS ACCEPTABLE AND ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICE. NGE is synonymous with what not to do, we all know that. Sony took over MxO from a moderately okay company and literally destroyed that game by... doing nothing. They had INTERNS running the show with a single dev overseeing them. No joke. The recent major hacking scandal and their defense was "what, a week isn't timely notification?!"
Honestly, Drew. Give me something to work with besides Sony and FFXI (which I tried to like. I really, really did. But that game suffered from some of the most piss-poor design I have ever been horrified to witness). I admit to being extremely skeptical because I strongly prefer my PC to my console (and I used to strongly prefer my console). But MMORPGs are group endeavors that are supposed to support this concept called role playing. Call me crazy, but it breaks the immersion for me when that female character gets on voice - which you will HAVE to do on console unless we suddenly have to buy a $150 keyboard attachment - and has a bass so deep I have to adjust my sub so I don't scare the crap out of my neighbors.
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Is BioWare trying too hard?
General Discussion « Star Wars: The Old Republic
Originally posted by Hopscotch73
Hopscotch hit it on the head for me and my style of play.
Even in WoW, I prefer to take my time (unless it's a race I happen to have played before whose questlines have not changed at all). I actually read the quests and pay attention to what's going on and I've been known to turn off XP in order to stay in an area or zone and complete all of the quests in that zone.
What WoW did was good and bad when it made gaming more accessible. In the past, people took their time. They were willing to work harder for their rewards. And, prior to the advent of WoW, I don't recall too many people soloing much of anything in the MMOs I played - we had to work together. IIRC, the 'modern' MMO finds its roots in the old table top games some of us used to play, specifically, D&D - which was and is very much about the journey (and the people you journey with) and not the destination.
As Hopscotch said, if "innovation" means reversion back to what MMOs used to be: focus on the journey, choices matter, your character is not the same as the Warrior/Cleric/Mage next to you, defeating the Massive Dragon of Unholy Ugly Death requires the skills of everyone you can get to help you, and skill - in addition to equipment - is what determines a fight's outcome, then by all means, let us revert... I mean, innovate. It is long past time we did. And for those who still want to rush to endgame... well, there's always WoW. ;)
Is BioWare trying too hard?
General Discussion « Star Wars: The Old Republic
Originally posted by EndDream
Well...not sure I agree with you on that. WoW is focused on max-level players and balanced around top-tier-geared players as a general rule. Skill does not matter, having fun does not matter - having the certain level gear enchanted and gemmed a certain way to reach a certain gear scroe and pull a certain DPS/HPS and do the fight in the same cookie cutter way every time is all that matters.
And WoW has some story, yes. But you're gonig to have to buy a novel in between xpacs or read up on the lore on a wiki somewhere because you probably won't get time to read up on it if you're grouped... which you will need to be for most things that entail more than killing ten rats (not that that is a bad thing; it's a MMO. The problem is that the community is so busy chasing carrots that they couldn't care less that, oh holy Thor's Hammer! There's a freakin STORY! And LORE! And a REASON these two factions want to kill each other! Who knew?!)
The difference with TOR is that the story is the reason for playing. The game is not designed around PvP grieftards or people who don't care about things like story and actually having fun while you play and whose only goal in life is to make sure they get the newest shiniest pixellated stuff and ruin everyone else's good time in the process. In other words, the combat system may be similar to WoW's because, well, MMO combat systems haven't changed a whole hell of a lot in the last 10 years or so that I've been playing them, and designers go with what works. But as for the rest, I'll reserve judgment until I play and try to be optimistic that the numerous BioWare guys who've all been saying the same thing for years now kind of know what they're talking about when they talk about the game they've been working on for the past few years. BioWare caters to a specific audience and they know thier customers very well.
Also, side note: DA2 was EA's fault. Read the Kotaku article. EA told them to rush it to capitalize on it, so BioWare did. Later, on their forums, last I saw the thread it was over 50 pages of complaints and BioWare's community folks were encouraging the community to keep the complaints coming. Not gonna speculate why they wanted over 50 pages of complaints, but I know what I would be doing with all that documentation from the people who pay for the stuff I make and try to sell.
Texas Senator Insulted by Testimony in Spanish
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Texas Senator Insulted by Testimony in Spanish
Religion & Politics « General Discussion
The use of the Godwin tactic to defend any argument proves that argument's inherent flaws.
You call others 'fascist' and accuse others of ad hominem attacks. Tell me: is not calling an individual a fascist attacking what you believe to be their ethos while completely ignoring their argument? In other words, is that not also ad hominem? Further, in taking the stance that you do, are you not attempting to purge forces, ideas and systems deemed different from your own in an attempt to procure unity - a unity to your own system of belief by insulting and ridiculing anyone who disagrees with you by calling them fascist, 'like Hitler,' and otherwise attempting to bully them in whatever way you can until they agree with you?
I am also of Scottish descent as well as American Indian, German, British and French. I also happen to be descended from one of the men who signed the United States Constitution and several men who fought in the Revolutionary War (and every war this nation has fought since. Personally, I served in Desert Storm.) My descent does not matter in this. In this, I am an American. And as an American, I value freedom of thought and idea. To that end, I am perfectly free to disagree with you and your silly little notions. Further, I am free to think you churlish, irresponsible, and frankly, a fool who has not the slightest notion of world history, this nation's history, or what better men than you have bled and died for... what men and women today still bleed and die for all over the world.
I have read (and read, and read ad infinitum) your circular logic and/or a reiteration of the same inherently flawed points. Repetition does not and will not make those points any more logical, nor will it change my opinion. Again, I say, prove your point! Find documentation in the form of one or more decisions from the Supreme Court or legislation from Congress showing intent to amend the United States Constitution to prove that the deliberate intent of the First Amendment has changed from protecting citizens' rights to speak their opinions freely to a non-citizen's right to speak in Spanish when testifying before Congress and I will concede the point.
Until you can do that, until you can prove to me that the United States Constitution, the supreme law of this nation, applies to non-citizens over citizens; until you can prove to me that the supreme law of this land does not apply to a citizen's right to speak freely without fear of retribution from the government, but instead applies to a non-citizen's right to speak to a government body in whatsoever language he or she chooses, you, sir, have chosen a flawed argument from the start. And no amount of Godwinning can save such a deeply flawed basic argument. If you like, I can present your argument to a local Constitutional Law attorney and see if it flies there... but my guess is he or she will call you out on the base insanity of the premise you are attempting to present in much the same manner as I have.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Do You Really Want a Beta Invite?
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Yes. I do.
Because you hit the nail on the head, Michael: being a beta tester is not about playing the game to see if you like it or not (or at least, it's not supposed to be and it didn't used to be before it became a marketing tool).
I've beta tested several games now, and to me, it's about making the game as good as it can be at launch. I happen to be a very detail-oriented person, so I take the time to submit detailed bug reports and pay attention to what is and is not working. Because I do have the time to do it, I spend hours with each class I am interested in (and even with at least one class I dislike) trying to make sure that they are "working as intended" so that the game will launch as smoothly as any game can - after all, it is software, and software will always have some bugs.
So yeah, I'd like a beta invite. Not only because I'm interested in the game itself, but because I would genuinely like to see the game succeed. And it can't do that if a majority of the selected beta testers are only out to play the game before launch to see if it's a game they want to buy. No game can.
Texas Senator Insulted by Testimony in Spanish
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Originally posted by Arbadacarba
Your newest retort doesn't even argue against anything I have wrote; it is an ad hominem. Those are sometimes used by a person whom cannot disprove the argument, so they attack the arguer instead. I am familiar with the meaning of ad hominem. My point, which is not an attack, merely an observation, remains. What I have declared is as plain as day; I do not make wild assertions. You are free to argue against what I perceive to be the case, but you need to remember that unsubstantiated attacks against someone's ethos does not invalidate his or her argument. And what I said was not assumption or prediction; I only affirmed what I believe to be the case (reality). Your perception is not reality. You cannot, through argument, philosophical argument or via your perception or arrogance (that was ad hominem, though it is based on your "we are better" statement - a statement which many in the world, including myself, would state is patently false. Those of us who would deny the truth of your opinion would cite the fact of youth of our nation which is a mere infant of only 235 years compared to other nations, some of which have existed since at least the Roman Empire and even as far back as the Iron Age, as well as the very idea you seem to be espousing on one hand and denying on the other which is that no man is any better or any worse than any other), change the First Amendment of the United States Constitution to mean that abridging freedom of speech includes the right of non-citizens to speak freely in a language other than American English when testifying before Congressional hearings - be they State or Federal. http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Preamble Read it with notes for clarification for yourself - the Constitution does not apply to non-citizens, not does the First Amendment refer to the choice of language one uses to speak in. Your choice of argument is moot in this instance, but I will be happy to listen to you and take you seriously if you present a (different) valid argument or produce legislation and ratification changing the US Constitution or Supreme Court cases (multiple) that have referred the question to Congress for legislative review.
Texas Senator Insulted by Testimony in Spanish
Religion & Politics « General Discussion
Originally posted by ArbadacarbaOriginally posted by Nifa
You hear but you do not listen. You read but you do not comprehend. You believe yourself to be wise, but you have mistaken arrogance for wisdom. In ancient times, masters would say that when stone thought itself wise and began to boast of its wisdom, entire civilizations would disappear. I prefer Mark Twain's version of the saying, but I assume you can find that on your own. ;)
Texas Senator Insulted by Testimony in Spanish
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Originally posted by Arbadacarba
1. The United States Constitution grants these rights to citizens. The man in question is not a citizen of the United States, nor, it seems, is he inclined to become one in the manner prescribed by the law.
2. It's all very nice to take portions of the First Amendment out of context. "abridging the freedom of speech," however, does not refer to an illegal immigrant's right to speak in whatever language he or she chooses. The First Amendment guarantees citizens ( there's that pesky 'c' word again) of the United States the right to speak their opinions freely, without fear of retribution from the government for criticizing said government (among other things) - again, it does not apply in this case. I encourage the quoted poster to pick up a history book or two, beginning with the Federalist Papers, for clarity on the intent of the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, since the framers make these things very clear in many later writings.
3. I have no desire to restrict the use of any language - in the home. In public, however, this is an (American, not the Queen's) English-speaking country, and those who wish to testify before government, gain benefits from the government, use public facilities (including stores, etc), should make an effort to learn the language. If I go to Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, or any other nation and expect to live there for twenty years, I had damned well better learn the language if I expect to survive any length of time. Other nations will not cater to immigrants - legal or illegal - why should we?
Is this illegal ? Pay to play mmo model
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Originally posted by Kooshdin
when the game gets ruined by negativity on forums and ingame players spoiling the game in chat.
Well, no, you are not "right." You are presenting - repeatedly, as I read your multiple posts- your opinion regarding the conduct of other players which has a negative impact on your gaming experience and which, therefore, is right for you... but not necessarily for everyone else.
Just as your opinion is valid and you have every right to it, so, too, are the opinions of others. Negativity and good or bad press does not impact my gameplay in the least because I tune it out and enjoy games for what they are or do not enjoy them for what they are not to me personally.
It seems to me that the crux of your complaint here is community and not publishers because that it what you keep coming back to.
But to answer your basic question, no. It is not at all wrong or improper for a company to charge what is, in effect, a minimal monthly fee for the maintenance of the servers and ongoing maintenance and development of a live, persistent online world and the support staff when players expect immediate technical and service support for that imaginary world they are paying fifty cents a day - less than two cents per hour - to play in. Boiling those numbers down even further, on initial purchase, you are paying $25-45USD for the game (initial purchase prices ranging from $40USD to $60USD) and the remaining $15USD is paying for your first month's subscription. It's not free; it is included into the purchase price.
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(swtor = Dragon Age MMO?) too much cinema. But most people dont even read quest nor follow story in MMORPGs
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Originally posted by MMOExposed
Look, OP, please say what you mean - clearly. Because your post is either well-intentioned but poorly expressed or you are flat trolling.
A requirement to use steam inorder to play a single player game???
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It's due to DRM. Steam has their own DRM, which is, by and large, not nearly as harsh as a lot of the DRM out there. Games that come with DRM and are sold through Steam use Steam's DRM rather than the (often far more restrictive DRM) the companies set on them.
With Steam, you need to be logged in to activate the game. Once that is done, you can simply right click your Steam icon in your toolbar and select "play offline" and you're good to go - meaning that you do not have to be online the entire time you play as you often have to be with many of the gaming companies' DRMs, which are so restrictive that they require you to be online at all times while playing.
Steam also provides a lot of far more useful services such as always having a record of your serial for games that require registration (don't know about you, but I've been known to lost those), being able to back up your games in case of hardware malfunction/needing to reformat your hard drive, and several other useful services. Plus, they frequently run sales on games so you end up getting them cheaper than you would at Best Buy or another retailer.
I do like hard copies, don't get me wrong. But the fact is that we're moving to digital delivery mediums for games, music, movies, books, etc.
Frankly, I would much rather use a service like Steam that has features that are useful and decent customer service than, say, D2D, whose customer service has been a fair nightmare every time I've been forced to use it. In the end, it's an individual's call, but I'd rather be subject to Steam's DRM than, say, Ubisoft's.
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compile the kernel in any way?
2. Mem=NoPentium setting
Should this setting be done on my AMD system? if yes how should I do it?
3. People have advised using the 2.4.18-10 kernel instead of the 2.4.18-3smp kernel I'm using
Pls advise which one should I use - or do u suggest using a new kernel version altogether?
4. noapic option at bootup?
Should I use this? if yes should it be done in bios or in the Linux Kernel?
I need to make my system stable as we are suffering in our Production schedules,
pls advise on the above points.
All yr inputs will be highly appreciated.
Can anyone please help here?
what power supply are you using with the above unit? Is it on AMD/Tyan's list of certified units?
You might also want to try a more recent 2.4.20 kernel.
one thing to try would be to remove the SCSI card and unplug the power from all of the SCSI drives and see if the problem persists.
my computer has very similar configuration: Tyan 2466, dual athlon 1800mp, adaptec 39160, geforce 5800... I have 6 different linux distributions installed. my x crashed several times, but every time i was able to kill it at least with <alt>-<sys rq>-<k> (if your kernel supports magic sequences). no single freeze neither with geforce nor with my old matrox for more than year.
I have almost the same configuration than you, only I got a Ti4400 instead of a Quadro and I got the Tiger MP instead of the MPX. First I would check with 3123 drivers, it seems they are far more stable than 4xxx, just take a look at my "Stress testing 4xxx" post.
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Going Tribal: Celeb Moms Who Love Their Aztec Prints (Photos)
There's a new hot summer trend this year that has everyone in Hollywood going tribal! That's right: Aztec prints are all the range and everyone from Gwen Stefani to Miranda Kerr are rocking the latest modern, tribal styles.
But like with every trend though, Aztec prints might not be for everyone. I'm not really digging the tribal-print maxi dresses but I am loving the Aztec bags that stars such as Gwen Stefani and Kristen Cavallari are sporting in our slideshow. Oh, and I absolutely adore Miranda Kerr's one-piece bathing suit too!
Check out our photo gallery and let us know what you think. Are you going to be rocking these prints this summer?
Gwen Stefani 1 of 10Gwen Stefani and her son Kingston at Heathrow Airport. The singer wore shiny leather riding boots and carried Aztec print bag to travel.
Kristin Cavallari 2 of 10Kristin Cavallari at the "Dancing With The Stars" rehearsals.
Tia Mowry 3 of 10New mom and new author Tia Mowry strikes a pose and sneaks a smile for photographers as she is spotted out and about in New York City.
Helen Hunt 4 of 10Helen Hunt is interviewed for "Entertainment Tonight" on the beach in Hawaii.
Kate Hudson 5 of 10Kate Hudson conceals her baby bump in a tribal scarf dress in New York.
Miranda Kerr 6 of 10Miranda Kerr at a bikini shoot by Sydney's famous Bondi Beach.
Solange Knowles 7 of 10Solange Knowles, attends the "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kate Moss 8 of 10Supermodel mother Kate Moss looks comfortable in a draping tribal print top as she runs errands in London near her Highgate home.
Heidi Klum 9 of 10Model Heidi Klum shows off her thin physique in a tribal print maxi dress in Los Angeles as she picks her kids up from karate.
Kerry Katona 10 of 10British reality star Kerry Katona attends the UK premiere of the "Salt", held at the Empire Leicester Square.
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Foresight Institute President J. Storrs Hall gave a response to my concern about what might be called a "hard nano take-off". I said:
The first nanofactories will be both impressive (in their exponential qualities and complete automation of manufacturing) and unimpressive (their chemical inflexibility, possible cooling requirements, electricity consumption, limited initial design space, etc.) I predict they will be revolutionary enough that the first model may also be one of the most widely distributed. Unless there are serious restrictions on nanofactory self-replication, a near-exponential flood of nanofactories and nanoproducts will follow, flowing from the first system to cross that adoption tipping point.
I realize that I left out an important qualifier in this paragraph: I meant to say that the first commercial nanofactories will be impressive enough that they are widely distributed. These may be preceded by hundreds of experimental iterations, many of them microscopic. At first my qualification may sound somewhat tautological, but it's not. Of course the first commercial version of a technology will be more widely distributed than the experimental versions, but by "widely distributed" I mean "very widely", as in "iPod-level adoption rates", if laws and corporate incentives permit. This would be highly uncharacteristic for any new technology — the first commercial automobiles, telephones, and computers were not very widely adopted for some time. In computer terms, this would be like your non-technical boss, house cleaner, grandmother, and New Age psychotherapist all adopting the Apple II shortly after it was released in 1977.
Part of the challenge here may be differing definitions. The common definition of "nanofactory" is a desktop, user-friendly system capable of building macroscale products using positional placement of individual atoms. Dr. Hall appears like he may (?) be using the term to describe "any nanomachine that makes another nanomachine", but reading the writings of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) for about five years, and seeing them use the term "nanofactories" thousands of times to refer to advanced desktop systems, not nanomachines-building-nanomachines in general, I am specifically referring to the former.
In his post, Dr. Hall tells us that we'll see gradual improvements over decades, and that the first nanofactories will be like ENIAC — "Very, very few people will have the skill to get anything useful out of it at all." He says, "Early nanofactories will be cranky and experimental, expensive, require expensive inputs, be able to produce only very limited products, and be very lucky to replicate themselves before they break down."
I disagree. If nanofactories work at all, they will be very powerful. A nanofactory would be a very complicated, "huge" thing. The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology compares the complexity of a molecular assembler to that of a Space Shuttle. I think the analogy would be apt for a nanofactory as well. We are talking about a miniature factory with more moving parts and individual computers than a typical 100 million-dollar modern factory today. Difficulties with the basic technology will manifest themselves in the pre-nanofactory stage, working with individual assemblers or small ensembles of assemblers. If you've made it all the way to nanofactory-level MNT, you've already jumped the primary technological hurdles.
A nanofactory would be a desktop system with a very numerous amount of assemblers. If an assembler fits into a cube 200 nm on a side, just 1,000 cm3 (1/1000 m3) is enough for roughly 1017 assemblers. To get from one assembler to 1017, modular self-replication has to execute with a very high degree of reliability and consistency, otherwise the whole process falls apart. Think of an assembly line where one product jams, a hundred other products jam behind it, the drive motor burns out, and the whole thing is so tiny and unwieldy that attempting to repair it directly would be like conducting brain surgery with Mickey Mouse gloves.
If you were a human at the nanoscale and an assembler module were a brick, a "mini-nanofactory" just a tenth of a millimeter tall would already be 500 bricks high, like a building 30 m (100 ft) tall. Any fundamental challenges with replication reliability will have been resolved long before reaching even this stage. There are simply too many moving parts for micromanagement to be possible — either the "code-level" operations are automated or they haven't been established yet.
A desktop nanofactory would be like a 20-mile tall cathedral, using the brick analogy. If you can build one, it's a good bet that your bricklaying strategy is pretty sound. You can't even repair problems if they appear during the construction process or immediately after — if there is one problem, it is bound to be replicated countless times throughout the architecture. Unless the error rate is less than one in a trillion, you are going to have millions or billions of the same error throughout the nanofactory. Redundancy and automated error-checking/deactivation of corrupted modules may help to a certain extent here, but only so much.
So far I've made just one point — 1) replication reliability. Next, we can look at expense.
95% of the investment costs in building a nanofactory will go into building nanoscale machines, including an assembler, making them work reliably, putting them into a cooperative, redundant architecture that works without letting in molecular contamination, letting molecular contamination escape its internal confines, and so on. These are all low-level problems. If they aren't all pretty much solved, you are going to get precisely nowhere. The cost of building the first nanofactory will be immense. But if you have a basic nanoscale modular architecture that can reliably build itself up from the micron level to the centimeter level, then it's not going to matter whether you are building 100 centimeter-scale units or a million. The salient scaling issues are at the nanoscale and microscale. By the time you're at the macroscale, the system has to be completely automated, and hence likely inexpensive.
The number one expense in any product comes from human input, attention, and craftsmanship on a per unit basis — the less you need, the cheaper it is. Desktop nanofactories would need to be almost completely automated, or they wouldn't exist in the first place. You cannot micromanage each of every 1017 fabrication events and expect to leave the workbench any time in this geologic eon. The vast majority of direct human control, trial-and-error, and experimentation will likely take place in the first few thousand or millions of instances that scientists use assemblers to build additional assemblers — not in the first billion or trillion or quadrillion (those will be automatic by necessity). Some scaling problems could appear at the microscale rather than the nanoscale, but these will be trivial in comparison to the initial nanoscale challenges that must be overcome (we already have experience working with moving parts at the microscale, but very little at the nanoscale). The macroscale is our territory — we are familiar with it. The nanoscale is not.
Dr. Hall mentioned that early nanofactories will use expensive inputs. If he is talking about laboratory prototypes that you need a microscope to see, then maybe so. We won't have the advantage of precision manufacturing to purify feedstock. But there is little indication that feedstock will be inherently expensive. In an interview I conducted with Robert Freitas, he listed acetylene as a good diamondoid mechanosynthesis (DMS) feedstock molecule from an efficiency perspective, and propane as another. Both are dirt cheap. Even if DMS doesn't work out, the feedstock will have to consist of simple molecules, because they'll be easiest to split up into atomic components for disposition. None of these are expensive. The theoretical cost would come from processing the feedstock for extremely high purities. Again, this hurdle will either be crossed at the prototype stage, or not at all. The earliest nanofactories will be extremely limited in their chemical palette — probably to only one or two elements. To work at all, they must be extremely effective at handling these elements, and will probably be useless for handling anything else.
So, I addressed 1) replication reliability, 2) general expense, and 3) cost of feedstock, generally based on the argument that these obstacles will be overcome at the micro-nanofactory stage as a prerequisite for having a desktop-sized nanofactory at all.
Maybe diamondoid mechanosynthesis nanofactories won't be developed until strong AI comes along and tell us how to do it. Or maybe they are physically impossible, and we will need to use other materials, like proteins and organic chemistry to do molecular manufacturing. Only time will tell. But if DMS-based nanofactories are developed, they will be powerful and cheap if they work at all.
More on this from others:
Brian Wang on early nanofactories.
Chris Phoenix at CRN on nanofactory errror correction and takeoff speeds, part 1 and 2.


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Hotel Condal
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Pokémon Stadium (Nintendo 64)
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Enter the arena with your favorite Pokémon from Red, Blue and Yellow. Have you got what it takes to become the ultimate Poké Master?
Pokémon Stadium lets you stage Pokémon battles in a whole new arena -- on your Nintendo 64!
Pokémon Stadium gives trainers a ring-side seat for heated 3D arena battles. Tons of features, including support for playing your Game Boy Pokémon Red, Blue or Yellow game through your N64, make Stadium a must-have for Pokémon fans!
The American version of Pokémon Stadium is actually based on the second Japanese edition of Pokémon Stadium. Pokémon Trainers are able to conduct turn-based battles similar to the Game Boy versions of Pokémon, but outrageous animation sequences and flashy special attack effects will make your Pokémon come to life like never before.
One of the most exciting aspects of Pokémon Stadium is that you're able to battle using your most loyal Pokémon from the Red, Blue and Yellow versions of Pokémon (sold separately). Thanks to a Transfer Pak that comes with the Pokémon Stadium Game Pak and plugs into the bottom of your Controller, data can be transferred straight from a Game Boy cartridge to your N64. (Note: You can not trade Pokémon directly from a Pokémon Gold or Silver Game Pak to Pokémon Stadium. For more information, see the FAQs.)
The Technical Machines, attacks and levels of your trained Pokémon are available on Pokémon Stadium, so you won't have to leave any of your favorites behind. You'll want your specially trained Pokémon to battle Stadium's toughest rivals.
On top of the visual treat of watching your Pokémon duke it out on the big screen, Pokémon Stadium also contains a variety of minigames, including the Nintendo Power Award-winning Sushi-Go-Round, in which rambunctious Lickitungs slurp up platefuls of lunch. Watch out for the red-hot entree!
One hundred fifty Pokémon can be used, or "rented," in Pokémon Stadium, even if you decide not to transfer data from your Game Boy Pokémon games. (Mewtwo is never available as a Rental Pokémon, but you can upload Mewtwo from your Pokémon Game Pak.) Pokémon Stadium will allow up to four players to compete in a grueling Pokémon tournament, designed to reveal which of your friends is the best Pokémon Trainer.
Pokémon Stadium is available now as a specially priced Player's Choice game with a MSRP of $39.95. The game has been rated "E" (Everyone) by the independent Entertainment Software Rating Board with the content descriptor of Mild Animated Violence. Games rated "E" are suitable for persons age six or older.
Contributed by Evil Ryu (58506) on Aug 17, 2005.
The ultimate Pokémon battle is about to begin...
- Awesome 3-D animation on the N64 makes all 151 Pokémon larger than life!
- Use the N64 Transfer Pak to battle using your Pokémon from Red, Blue or Yellow.
- Battle your way to the top of the championships, or have a free-for-all with up to four players!
- Nine Mini-Games add to the multi-player fun!
- Use the power of the Transfer Pak and the N64 to play the Pokémon Game Boy games on your television!
At long last, all of your favorite Pokémon are ready to go head-to-head on the N64! Whether you're battling a friend, a Gym Leader or a tournament contestant, you're about to witness some of the most spectacular battle scenes in Pokémon history! Select a team from a huge stable of "rental" battlers, or use the included N64 Transfer Pak to upload your own team from Pokémon Red, Blue or Yellow! This Stadium is packed and ready to rock!
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POKéMON STADIUMTM BRINGS ULTIMATE BATTLE TO NINTENDO 64®
Innovative New PokémonTM Game Enables Game Boy® To Interface With N64®
REDMOND, Wash. March 6, 2000 - Pokémon trainers, prepare for battle! From the small Game Boy screen to the big TV screen, all 151 Pokémon are ready to compete in full 3-D splendor as Poké-fans put their creatures to the test in Pokémon Stadium. The second Pokémon game for N64, Pokémon Stadium allows up to four players to battle it out in a free-for-all Pokémon tournament complete with special attacks and fully animated movements. The game is available for a suggested retail price of $69.95.
This ground-breaking game allows players for the first time to transfer their captured and trained Pokémon from the best-selling Blue, Red and Yellow Game Boy games directly to the N64. This capability is possible through the use of Nintendo's innovative new N64 Transfer PakTM. The Transfer Pak plugs into the bottom of the N64 controller and is packaged with all retail versions of the game. If players do not own a Game Boy version of Pokémon, a special "Rental Pokémon" feature allows them to battle with creatures already inserted in the game. The Transfer Pak also allows users to play their Red, Blue and Yellow games on the television screen.
"Pokémon Stadium is the game that Poké-fans have been craving for ever since the introduction of the franchise," says Peter Main, Nintendo's executive vice president, sales and marketing. "The ability to transfer Pokémon that have been trained on Game Boy to full 3-D battle arenas is something every experienced player has dreamed of doing." Pokémon Stadium features numerous game play modes providing endless replay value. Start by learning the basics of Pokémon battles in the game's training mode. This is a great way for newcomers to the Pokémon world to become familiar with training and battling different Pokémon. The highlight of Pokémon Stadium is the game's "Free Battle," where up to four players can compete against each other for the title of Pokémon Master Trainer. In an "Event Battle," players can set time limits and determine how much time is allotted between moves. The "Research" mode lets gamers organize their Pokémon and swap data with the Game Boy games. Players can also choose to engage in a number of exciting mini-games and a single-player mode that add to the Pokémon experience.
Nintendo also will release a Limited Edition Pokémon Stadium Bundle set. This official battle set of Pokémon Master Trainers will feature an N64 control deck, two controllers (one gray and one Atomic purple), the N64 Transfer Pak, a Pokémon Stadium game pak, a Battle Guide, Pokémon Poster and a Wizards of the Coast Pokémon trading card. This exclusive hardware bundle will be available March 27 for a suggested retail price of $149.95. Nintendo will also continue its partnership with Blockbuster Video by making more than 4800 Pokémon Stations compatible with Pokémon Stadium. The promotion runs from March 6 through May 31, and allows Pokémon Trainers to print out stickers of their favorite Pokémon at local stores.
Nintendo Power Magazine will release an official Pokémon Stadium Player's Guide March 16 for a suggested retail price of $14.95.
The Pokémon phenomenon in America began in September 1998 with the release of the original Red and Blue Game Boy games and debut of the television series. More than 14 million Pokémon related video games have been sold to date. Pokémon has entertained millions of fans all over the world with a best-selling toy line, a hugely popular card game, a major motion picture and a multitude of licensed products. Leisure Concepts Inc., a division of 4Kids Entertainment Inc (NasdaqNM:KIDE), is Nintendo's exclusive licensing agent for Pokémon.
Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, is the acknowledged worldwide leader in the creation of interactive entertainment. To date, Nintendo has sold more than one billion video games worldwide, has created such industry icons as Mario® and Donkey Kong and launched franchises like The Legend of Zelda® and Pokémon'. Nintendo manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home video game systems, including the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy - the world's best-selling video game system. As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in North America.
The independent Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rates Pokémon Stadium "E" for "Everyone." For more information about the ESRB visit www.esrb.org.
For more information about Pokémon Stadium, or any other Nintendo product visit the company's web site, www.nintendo.com or the official Pokémon web site, www.pokemon.com.
Contributed by skl (1138) on Feb 17, 2004.


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Originally written on Fox Soccer | Last updated 3/24/13
Karim Benzema says he is 'fine' at Real Madrid, but is prepared to keep an open mind regarding his long-term future at the Santiago Bernabeu. The France international joined Real from Lyon three years ago and has been sharing the striking duties with Gonzalo Higuain this season. He has been linked with Chelsea and long-time admirers Manchester United at various points this term, and the 25-year-old is prepared to wait to see what the future holds. "My future? I am fine in Madrid," Benzema told radio station RMC. "But, each year you cannot know what will happen. "I am under contract until 2015, so we will see." Benzema also responded to critics of his performances for France, with the forward picked on for not singing the national anthem. He added: "You could take Zidane as an example, who didn't really sing it. Even if I sing it, I will not then score a hat-trick. To me, it is a dream to play in the French team. "People expect a lot from me, I am aware of that. On the pitch, ...
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The Poison Dart Frog
The Arrow Poison Frog's scientific name in a Latin is Dendrobates Auratus. The biome that the arrow poison frog lives in leafs and trees and eats bugs that live on the ground like fruit flies and wax worm. They mostly spend their life in the moist part of the rainforest mostly in Central and Southern America. It needs to live The frog is abiotic when it is dead. The frog is biotic when it is living. It is now almost an endanger animal.
The Poison Dart Frog mainly eats bugs that live on the ground like fruit flies and wax worm. In the zoo they eat crickets dusted with vitamin and mineral powered. They will also eat small or insects. The Poison Dart Frog doesn't really have any predators since the poison is said to taste like sour or bitter flavor so the animals that tries to eat the Poison Dart Frog spits it out and does not eat the frog. It however will get into fights with its own kind in defense to its area that it lives. It is very territorially over the area it lives in.
The Poison Dart Frog can live with other animals in the rainforest such as shrews and wheals. The Poison Dart Frog however is very territorial. So for example the frog will attack the predator is it sets foot in it territory or were it has it nest or younglings. The Poison Dart Frog can live with birds since the frog lives low on the rainforest floor or in amongst the tree and foliage. The birds live high up. A pond is very useful for the poison dart frog since it helps it from drying out when it is in a time of drought and helps it survive.
The Poison Dart Frog has adapted to its surrounding by using Poison on its skin to help predators from eating it. It also is sometimes green to blend in with its surroundings.
In conclition the Posion Dart Frog is well suites it's ecosystem. When I say them at the Toronto Zoo, I love there colour and how it is done.
This is a Food Chain showing the Posion Dart frogs position on it.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ The latest crop update from the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service shows improving topsoil moisture conditions for areas that have received significant rain or snow.
But the agency said Monday more precipitation is needed to have an impact on subsoil moisture, which is now short to very short across 73 percent of the state. Topsoil moisture in is faring somewhat better with 40 percent reported short to very short.
The latest snapshot shows Kansas growers have planted only about 3 percent of their planned corn acreage. That's far behind the 16 percent planted by this time last year or the 10 percent average for mid-April.
Winter wheat condition was reported to be 33 percent poor to very poor, 37 percent fair, 27 percent good and 3 percent excellent.
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