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Comment Fallout 3 (Score 3, Interesting) 109

by Middle - Adopter (#26277327) Attached to: The Best Games of 2008
I'm an avid gamer, and Fallout 3 was the best game hands down this year. Bionic Commando: Rearmed was pretty great too, for a Xbox Live title. But beyond those two, this was actually a great year for games: GTA IV, Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, Gears of War 2...man, I wish I didn't have to go to bed now! :/
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Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008 255

Posted by timothy from the pregnant-pause dept.
ammorris writes "Don't be the laughingstock of your friends when you shout 'Happy New Years' a second too early ... The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has announced that a leap second will be added on December 31, 2008 at 23h 59m 60s, meaning that this year will be exactly one second longer. The last leap second occurred Dec 31, 2005; they are added due to fluctuations in the rotational speed of the earth. You can read all about leap seconds on Wikipedia."
Real Time Strategy (Games)

Early Praise For Empire: Total War 79

Posted by Soulskill from the more-nutritious-than-17-bowls-of-generic-brand-war dept.
CVG had a chance to preview Empire: Total War, the latest in Creative Assembly's popular strategy series. This installment focuses on a time period which includes the Industrial Revolution and the struggle for US independence. CVG praises the intuitive interface and the improved AI, as well as the level of detail shown in large-scale battles. Quoting: "With a single mouse click I changed my troops' attack orders to melee and sent a sea of blue uniforms sweeping down the hill at the enemy. Zooming into the action revealed a previously unmatched level of battlefield realism and detail, with each motion captured soldier actively seeking out an opponent before engaging in a mortal shoving and stabbing match. Men toppled into the mud, squirming with terror before receiving a deft bayonet jab to the windpipe. After a titanic, 20-minute struggle the tide turned my way with the enemy hightailing it thanks in no small part to a bullet to the British general's head that broke his men's morale."

Comment The XM/Sirius Merger sucks (Score 1) 397

by Middle - Adopter (#25933753) Attached to: iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio

I can't say I'm too happy with the result of the merger - I was originally an XM subscriber. They really pared down some of the channels I enjoyed, like XM Fungus (punk rock) and 3 out of the 4 Mexican music stations. Another shitty thing is that now all the channel names are mixed up on my Honda Element's dashboard display; for example, Air Musique (French Canadian rock music station) is now displayed as "World/Latin" for some reason. They're all out of whack.

Basically, this merger made the service less varied and worse off than before. Still beats regular radio, though...NPR excluded of course.
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Evolving Rocks 172

Posted by kdawson from the survival-of-the-firmest dept.
SpaceAdmiral notes a new study making the claim that rocks have been evolving throughout Earth's history. "'Mineral evolution is obviously different from Darwinian evolution — minerals don't mutate, reproduce or compete like living organisms,' said Hazen in a statement announcing the study's findings. 'But we found both the variety and relative abundances of minerals have changed dramatically over more than 4.5 billion years of Earth's history. For at least 2.5 billion years, and possibly since the emergence of life, Earth's mineralogy has evolved in parallel with biology,' Hazen added. 'One implication of this finding is that remote observations of the mineralogy of other moons and planets may provide crucial evidence for biological influences beyond Earth.'"

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