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First Review of Avatar Special Edition 387

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @08:57AM from the more-blue-giant-chicks-please dept.

brumgrunt writes "Den Of Geek has the first review of James Cameron's extended cut of Avatar. Its thoughts? 'As opposed to, say, the extended cuts of Aliens, Terminator 2 or The Abyss, the new scenes add little of particular note to everything we've already seen.'"

EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) 308

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:09AM from the blame-it-on-the-torrents dept.

captainktainer writes "In one of the largest tests of EVE Online's new player sovereignty system in the Dominion expansion pack, a fleet of ships attempting to retake a lost star system was effectively annihilated amidst controversy. Defenders IT Alliance, a coalition succeeding the infamous Band of Brothers alliance (whose disbanding was covered in a previous story), effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets. A representative of the alliance claimed to have destroyed a minimum of four, possibly five or more of the game's most expensive and powerful ship class, known as Titans. Both official and unofficial forums are filled with debate about whether the one-sided battle was due to difference in player skill or the well-known network failures after the release of the expansion. One of the attackers, a member of the GoonSwarm alliance, claims that because of bad coding, 'Only 5% of [the attackers] loaded,' meaning that lag prevented the attackers from using their ships, even as the defenders were able to destroy those ships unopposed. Even members of the victorious IT Alliance expressed disappointment at the outcome of the battle. CCP, EVE Online's publisher, has recently acknowledged poor network performance, especially in the advertised 'large fleet battles' that Dominion was supposed to encourage, and has asked players to help them stress test their code on Tuesday. Despite the admitted network failure, leaders of the attacking force do not expect CCP to replace lost ships, claiming that it was their own fault for not accounting for server failures. The incident raises questions about CCP's ability to cope with the increased network use associated with their rapid growth in subscriptions."

Comment Kind and caring? har har (Score 1) 804

by tehfrr on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @10:08PM (#29524657) Attached to: In 100 Years, Health Care Won't Be An Issue Because ...

This is funny, humans being kind and caring comes in last, people seem to believe the singularity is more probable. I'd have to say I agree, and this makes me laugh.

Comment Re:how do you test it? (Score 2, Insightful) 329

by tehfrr on Thursday July 02, 2009 @10:06PM (#28567447) Attached to: HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials

not necessarily. Perhaps older people who are late in life that want to help benefit humanity. Not that they would be lining up to volunteer, but certainly someone would. I would think its safe to assume if the did in fact contract HIV, they would probably get the best health care available to keep it in check for the rest of their lives.

Comment Payloads (Score 1) 491

by tehfrr on Thursday June 04, 2009 @05:08PM (#28214999) Attached to: Best kind of engineering:

And us Nuclear Engineers build payloads, which you love us for...

Comment Re:And nuclear power? (Score 1) 705

by tehfrr on Sunday April 05, 2009 @07:15PM (#27469429) Attached to: Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World

The ancient, prototype nuclear plant (the ones installed all over the western world in the 1950's and 1960's) DO require the very same enrichment cycle that nuclear weapons require.

Sorry, wrong. The current light water reactors in the US run on up to 5% enriched U-235 (and cannot use anything higher due to regulation). For nuclear weapons it takes over 20% at least, usually over 90%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium

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