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New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances 342

ajs writes "World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion was staggered into 4 phases. The fourth and final phase, patch 3.3, was released on Tuesday. This patch is significant in that it will be the first introduction of one of the most anticipated new features in the game since PvP arenas: the cross-realm random dungeon, as well as the release of new end-game dungeons for 5, 10 and 25-player groups. The patch notes have been posted, and so has a trailer. The ultimate fight against the expansion's antagonist, the Lich King a.k.a. Arthas, will be gated as each of the four wings of the final dungeon are opened in turn — a process that may take several months. The next major patch after 3.3 (presumably 4.0) will be the release of Cataclysm, the next expansion."

Comment Re:Graphics and quality are largely unrelated. (Score 1) 216

Bach's work was great, but think of what he could have done if he had access to the high quality instruments of our time. Better instruments makes music more enjoyable to listen to, just as better graphics make games better to play.

Instrument quality is not the most important aspect of music, just as graphics aren't the most important part of games, but they add to the experience.

Comment Re:Classic case of idiotus not understandus (Score 1) 287

If the dark matter keeps going independently of the baryonic matter, why is dark matter still associated in any way with regular matter in the universe? That is to say, why is it still hanging around in galaxies and not off on its own.

If dark matter can't be stopped by regular interactions, should there not be galaxies bereft of dark matter after collisions, which now conform to our non-dark-matter theories?

Comment Re:Do-over (Score 1) 238

There is one way to surreptitiously build infrastructure on the cheap. Cable companies have connections to nearly every home, and many are getting into the internet/phone gig. Where I work, the cost per metre of fibre optic cable is low enough that we're running new cables all the time.
Space

Submission + - Active glacier found on Mars (bbc.co.uk) 1

FireFury03 writes: "The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has spotted an icy feature which appears to be a young active glacier. Dr Gerhard Neukum (what a cool name :), chief scientist on the spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera said "We have not yet been able to see the spectral signature of water. But we will fly over it in the coming months and take measurements. On the glacial ridges we can see white tips, which can only be freshly exposed ice". Estimates place the glacier at 10,000 — 100,000 years old."
Space

Submission + - Voyager 2 finds solar system's shape is 'dented' (reuters.com)

Selikoff writes: "NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is "dented" by the local interstellar magnetic field of deep space, space experts said on Monday. The data was gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey into the edge of the solar system when it crossed into a sweeping region called the termination shock, they said. It showed that the southern hemisphere of the solar system's heliosphere is being pushed in or "dented." Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter this region of the solar system behind Voyager 1, which entered the northern region of the heliosheath in December 2004."

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