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Dragon Age: Origins Expansion Coming In March 80

ishanjain tipped news that BioWare has announced an expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, called Awakening, that is due out on March 16th. Awakening "is supposed to run about 15 hours and will allow for players to import and edit characters they've broken in from the core game," and it will take place "in the in the role of a Grey Warden Commander who's been tasked with rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens and finding out how the darkspawn survived following the death of the Archdemon dragon." A trailer is available at the official site, as well as some information on a new bit of DLC that will be out shortly, entitled Return to Ostagar. (It was originally due for release on January 5th, but was delayed.)

Comment Re:user-friendly? (Score 1) 398

What about this: drag a collection of files to the playlist in VLC and it starts playing the list from the last one?!?!? Personally this is why I hate open-source projects; this would never have got through a team with dedicated testers :) But to throw petrol on the fire I still have old PPC Macs and since 0.7.x releases VLC has been very, very picky in playing files without stuttering. Something as simple as iTunes checking for new podcasts will make VLC just stop dead. Mplayer on the other hand, though less sophisticated, won't.

Comment Re:What? No Mr. Fusion? (Score 1) 213

God damn it.

Look if the laws of thermodynamics are to be broken then it would have been observable in many different experiments, over many different areas of physics for the last 50 years. The LHC, Fermilab and any university department would have straightforward experiments demonstrating that the laws are broken. If the laws can be broken by bits of metal and magnets you can bet your bottom dollar that experiments that deal with observations on the quantum level would have, maybe, just maybe, have raised a red flag (like CPT violation).

It's far easier (note this is not about theoretic frameworks, just experimental observations) to see a discrepancy in the laws of thermodynamics than it is to exploit them. It's like saying it's easier to create fusion reactors than it is to observe them in nature (like, say, a star). So saying a machine can bypass the laws of thermodynamics but AT THE SAME TIME none of those discrepancies are actually observed is just plain dumb.

You know who were the people that DIDN'T believe the earth was round?; that objects of different masses would fall at the same rate?; that the universe is expanding?: normal, boring people on the street. When physicists were formulating the laws of quantum mechanics the average Joe was being amazed by the new invention of street lighting. Stop using the persecution of Galileo by the average Joe and his church with the scepticism of people with backgrounds in physics to Steom. They have a right to question and be extremely suspicious about a macro-scale observation that counters ALL observations, of different scales (from the universe to the quantum) that contradict their claim.

Saying that an observable, well documented law is just another mistake in physics is plain dumb and makes you look like someone who wouldn't know what a scientific principle is if it ran up your butt and whistled Dixie.

Rant over.

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