Rants Raves
...theory behind the use of solar sails will be tested by the Cosmos 1 satellite (Baby Sputnik Flies the Coop, March 29, 2005). This is as misleading as writing that the launch of that satellite will test Newton's theory of gravitation. The pressure of light was measured by Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev mo......more...You, Too, Can Be a Comics Whiz
...reason is that with sprite comics, there's easy entry.
Gallagher doesn't hold this against sprite comics, however. Good sprite comics rely heavily on writing and placement of the sprites, he said. There are many examples of that. Sometimes people are very successful and come up with great ideas. Som......more... Game Makers' Hand-to-Hand Combat
...utation as the 800-pound gorilla of handheld gaming.
I can't see any scenario where they get out of the handheld market, he said. A lot of people are writing Nintendo off, but I wouldn't do that. They've owned this market, and they're not going to let it go without a fight.......more... How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
... flaws were implicated in miscounts and wrote an account of them (PDF) on her website. I didn't finish (finding cases), she said. I just got tired of writing. In Dallas County, Texas, in 1998, for example, ESS tabulation software failed to count about 44,000 votes that its optical-scan machine had r......more... But Will IRS Accept Virtual Cash?
...urnalist immerses himself in the virtual world of online gaming and sets himself a challenge: to earn more from the sale of imaginary goods than from writing. As his deadline looms, he scrambles to make good on his bet. By Daniel Terdiman.
By Daniel Terdiman
2:00 a.m. March 24, 2004 PDT
Julian Dibbe......more... Tech Toys Survive Trial by Tots
...'s LCD screen.
The desk provides guidance on how to write letters, numbers and simple pictures. With 11 modes -- from free play to letter- and number-writing games -- the desk is a very engaging marriage of crafts and computer-driven challenges.
One of the kids' favorite activities was guided drawin......more... Rants Raves
...gan to believe the hype, that it could do no wrong. Well, it has done so. The promise of Matrix I was squandered and lost. CG cannot make up for poor writing and shallow concepts and trite resolution. We did pay to see it, but won't again.
Only Warner Bros. knows what really happened. Obviously it t......more... Game Makers Aren't Chasing Women
...EA in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's a guy who says, 'These sports games are doing really well, so let's make more of those.' You don't have women writing the checks or making the games. I really don't think you're going to see amazing games for women for another 10 years.
IDSA President Douglas ......more... IPublish.com: The Latest to Bomb
...com, with significantly less upfront investments or overhead, continue to report very positive growth.
U.K. E-books: It's art:Proponents of new-media writing as an art form unto itself received a symbolic boost in the form of a $67,000 grant given to the trAce Online Writing Centre by the U.K.'s fun......more... |