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Comment Re:Take The Fanboy Goggle Off (Score 2) 146

No, you shut the fuck up, since you started with the insults.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ninjagaiden2-faceoff-article

Same game by two teams who wanted to exploit their hardware to the maximum.
The results reflect the hardware differences :
X360 displays more enemies on screen and effects.
PS3 does better lighting.

Choose your favourite, but stop the fanboy rant. We're talking about games, not visual demos.

Comment Re:So Thorsten Heins should buy Atari? (Score 1) 299

Indeed. Once the ATARI ST was launched, Jack left the reins to his sons.
They coasted for 7 years with basicly the same hardware as on launch day.
When Jack realized the damage done, he made the company leave the home computer market and launched the Jaguar game console.
We know how it turned out.

Comment Re:not really practical application (Score 2) 118

Full scale helicopters also take massive advantage of ground effect - many helicopters struggle to hover out of ground effect at gross weight. Watch any light piston helicopter take off, and you'll see it lifts into a ground effect hover, then flies in ground effect until it's in translational lift and then some before actually climbing out.

You do not fully understand what you are otherwise accurately describing.
Full scale helicopters do not "take advantage" of ground effect. It is actually a hindrance that reduces its flight capacity.
The reason is that the helicopter is caught inside its own turbulences.
As long as the aircraft is within the ground effect, its flight performances are degraded.

You can find a real-life account of this phenomena, in books such as "Chickenhawk" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(book) by Robert Mason or "Centaur Flights" by Richard Spalding for example.

Comment Re:RSA rocks (Score 1) 282

That really is a big difference between the US & a lot of other countries - you can truly become an American, no matter where you're from. It's not just words, people really do accept immigrants (despite the anti immigrant rhetoric which is so much in the news) in a way that I haven't seen in say, France or the UK. Third generation immigrants still don't seem to be a part of French society;

Then I'd like you to explain how this son of immigrant managed to become president of France, if what you say isn't bullshit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy#Family_background

"Sarkozy is the son of Pál István Ern Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa[5] (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál [nboti arkøzi pal] ( listen); in some sources Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál István Ern),[6] a Hungarian aristocrat, and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah (b. Paris, 12 October 1925), whose Greek Jewish father converted to Catholicism to marry her French Catholic mother."

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 177

Because the 360 is region locked and we don't feel like importing from the other side of the world via FedEx + custom tax another 360 regularly because it RRoDs or is simply bricked by Microsoft themselves ?

I'm talking about absolutely genuine, untampered with consoles here. See 1st gen 360 and the 1GB DVD extension update.

Comment Re:What do you really want to do ? (Score 1) 358

Speaking of which, what always amaze me is that Maxwell's equations, written half a century before Einstein's special relativity, are actually fully compatible with it.
You need not modify them to work with special relativity like you would, for example, kinetic energy.
Special relativity is 'engrained' inside Maxwell's equations.

And what truely blew my mind is the revelation that the Magnetic field is just a relativistic effect of the Electrical field. See Pr. Feynman's Physics Course for a detailed explanation.

Comment Shield against cosmic rays ?? (Score 1) 756

This part of the article strikes me as odd :

"Planetary magnetic fields (...) also act as a shield against high energy cosmic rays"

_Magnetic fields can only deviate charged particules
_Cosmic Rays are electromagnetic radiation, they have no charge.

Then how can planetary magnetic field serve as shield against cosmic rays ?
There must be a side-effect that would explain it, does anyone care to explain please ?

Comment Re:powerful piece of hardware? (Score 1) 177

It seems that you are unaware of the advantage of having a standardized graphics subsystem.

This allows you to extract much more power from a given hardware (Console) than when you have to support different architectures (PC).

Which makes the direct comparison console gpu specs to PC gpu specs an incorrect move.

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