Another good reason to use Smith act on people
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
George Washington @ Minnesota History Center
Mirror of the official page
I saw George wax models, mount vermon, some guns from the French and Indian war, some native american attack on a fort in the french and indian war that he commanded after some General died. He was the British General's Secretary. He became President and died 3 yrs after the presidency.
The Minnesota History Center had LCD TVs showing chapters of a History Channel documentary of George Washington.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
There was a nice World War II exhibit on display. My grandfather was in the Civilian Conservation Corps, because he was the youngest before becoming drafted into company that didn't see action. There was a CCC uniform. There was a fake movie theater, a drug shop, a 1945 Ford car, a marine carrier vehicle. an interactive B29 Stratofortress simulation that crash landed (with three paratrooper survivors) as a ride.
It was overall alright way to spend the day. I also spend the other half looking at King Tut jewelry, artifacts, busts, statues at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Saw some dinosaur remains.
Our family always likes this to explain the war.
I saw George wax models, mount vermon, some guns from the French and Indian war, some native american attack on a fort in the french and indian war that he commanded after some General died. He was the British General's Secretary. He became President and died 3 yrs after the presidency.
The Minnesota History Center had LCD TVs showing chapters of a History Channel documentary of George Washington.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
There was a nice World War II exhibit on display. My grandfather was in the Civilian Conservation Corps, because he was the youngest before becoming drafted into company that didn't see action. There was a CCC uniform. There was a fake movie theater, a drug shop, a 1945 Ford car, a marine carrier vehicle. an interactive B29 Stratofortress simulation that crash landed (with three paratrooper survivors) as a ride.
It was overall alright way to spend the day. I also spend the other half looking at King Tut jewelry, artifacts, busts, statues at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Saw some dinosaur remains.
Our family always likes this to explain the war.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
The more TVs, the better
From my 2006 youtube video, I figured out that the more TVs I own, the higher my hitcounter is. I got this old 24" LCD, this 32" LCD, two old Sanyo 17" and 24" CRT TVs.
Somebody with 30,000 hits
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My TVs.
Christmas present for 2004 (stored)
2010 Christmas Present
1997 Christmas Present
Somebody with 30,000 hits
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My TVs.
Christmas present for 2004 (stored)
2010 Christmas Present
1997 Christmas Present
Friday, May 6, 2011
Signs of dark matter from Minnesota mine
An experiment in Minnesota is the first to bolster a long-contested claim that detectors a continent away have found evidence of particles called WIMPs.
WIMPs are theorized particles considered to be leading candidates for dark matter, invisible material believed to make up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. In the Minnesota experiment, called COGENT, a hockey puck–sized chunk of germanium deep in a former iron mine attempts to record rare collisions with WIMPS.
In 15 months’ worth of data, COGENT researchers detected a seasonal variation in the collision rate — higher in summer and lower in winter — similar to that seen for 13 years by a larger experiment, using different detectors, in Italy. Researchers with that experiment, DAMA/LIBRA, have attributed the results to the Earth’s motion through a cloud of WIMPs (for weakly interacting massive particles) (SN: 5/10/08, p. 12). But many physicists have doubted that interpretation because, until now, no other experiment had found similar results.
WIMPs are theorized particles considered to be leading candidates for dark matter, invisible material believed to make up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. In the Minnesota experiment, called COGENT, a hockey puck–sized chunk of germanium deep in a former iron mine attempts to record rare collisions with WIMPS.
In 15 months’ worth of data, COGENT researchers detected a seasonal variation in the collision rate — higher in summer and lower in winter — similar to that seen for 13 years by a larger experiment, using different detectors, in Italy. Researchers with that experiment, DAMA/LIBRA, have attributed the results to the Earth’s motion through a cloud of WIMPs (for weakly interacting massive particles) (SN: 5/10/08, p. 12). But many physicists have doubted that interpretation because, until now, no other experiment had found similar results.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Greatest RPGS of all time
Greatest RPGS of all time
1. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
2. Mass Effect 2
3. The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Diablo II
5. Dragon Age
6. Final Fantasy VII
7. Neverwinter Nights
8. Mass Effect
9. Fable
10. Deus Ex
11. World of Warcraft
12. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II
13. Final Fantasy IX
14. Fallout 3
15. Final Fantasy XII
16. Kingdom Hearts
17. Guild Wars
18. Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
19. Baldur's Gate
20. Final Fantasy VI
21. Paper Mario The Thousand Yaer Door
22. Bioshock
23. Neverwinters Nights 2
24. Final Fantasy Tactics
25. Final Fantasy X
26. Earthbound
27. Chrono Trigger
28. Final Fantasy IV
29. Chrono Cross
30. Xenogears
1. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
2. Mass Effect 2
3. The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Diablo II
5. Dragon Age
6. Final Fantasy VII
7. Neverwinter Nights
8. Mass Effect
9. Fable
10. Deus Ex
11. World of Warcraft
12. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II
13. Final Fantasy IX
14. Fallout 3
15. Final Fantasy XII
16. Kingdom Hearts
17. Guild Wars
18. Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
19. Baldur's Gate
20. Final Fantasy VI
21. Paper Mario The Thousand Yaer Door
22. Bioshock
23. Neverwinters Nights 2
24. Final Fantasy Tactics
25. Final Fantasy X
26. Earthbound
27. Chrono Trigger
28. Final Fantasy IV
29. Chrono Cross
30. Xenogears
Monday, May 2, 2011
My CAANOO review (bought today)
I remember I wanted a Gamepark GP32 long time ago, but I waited for a device to get 128 MB of RAM in it so it wouldn't be limited. The GP2x Wiz only had 64 MB of RAM.
Download firmwares, emulators
The Caanoo is a solid build device with a light but tight feel. The buttons feel good when you press down on them and the analog stick feels good when in use but sometimes it feels weird to use when you are playing a game that was originally built for a D-Pad. it will take some time to get use to that in some cases but its not too bad.
The screen is a 3.5in 320×240 LCD with a resistive touch screen that makes the 16-bit style games look awesome while still giving off good quality when playing video and pictures. The touch screen is ok but not the greatest but a stylus is available to make the experience easier. I’m sure a resistive screen was chosen to lower cost and its not a main feature that will be used on the device so.
The 533mhz processor runs fine for most games but there can be slow down in some games that are heavy on the animation with a lot enemies on the screen. The dual stereo speaker are nice and loud and have good quality sound. The build in Wi-Fi is used to allow you to play network enabled games against friends and upload your high scores. Storage is done via SD card which support up to 32GB of storage and you download content on the device via the proprietary USB cable included. Overall the hardware package is solid and gives you what you need to have a good experience.
Software
The UI of the Caanoo is a Linux based system that is an open platform so anyone can develop for it. The system allows you not only to play games you can also listen to music, view pictures, watch movies, use apps and read e-books via text. The Caanoo supports your most comment files with music that supports MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG files and for video the device supports Xvid, Divix, Avi and MPEG 4. Pictures support is JPG, BMP, GIF, and PNG files. E-Books are supported via text only.
Games
CAANOO is practically paid for if I instead bought Earthbound and Final Fantasy III for Super NES.
The system comes with games preloaded such as Hellfire, Rhytmos, Snow Bros 2 and other games made by FunGP. The system also comes with an MAME emulator and Neo Geo emulator as well with preloaded games. Games do load up fast and play well although some games will run a bit slow when there is a lot of sprites on the screen but its nothing that you haven’t experience before in the 16 bit era of gaming. Flash games are also supported as well.
Super Castlevania 4 $22.99
Castlevania Bloodlines $17.99
Final Fantasy III $36.95
Chrono Trigger $54.99.
Phantasy Star IV $13.94
Phantasy Star II $7.00
Earthbound: $98.00
Secret of Evermore $24.95
SoC (System on a Chip): MagicEyes Pollux VR3520F
CPU: ARM926EJ 533 MHz embedded on SoC (architecture version ARMv5TEJ)
GPU: 3D hardware engine embedded on SoC (OpenGL ES 1.1 support)
3D performance: 133M Texel/s and 1,33M Polygon/s
main RAM: 128 Mbytes DDR SDRAM 133 MHz (peak memory bandwidth: 533 Mbytes/s)
video buffer: about 16 Mbytes of main RAM are reserved for the video/texture information
Operating System: GNU/Linux based (2.6.24)
Flash memory: None (128 Mbytes reserved to the OS)
Connection to PC: USB 2.0 High Speed through EXT Port
USB Host: USB 1.1 standard socket
Supports SD / SDHC memory cards (up to 32 Gigabytes)
G-Sensor/Vibration Motor
High precision analog stick
Display: 3.5 inch LCD 320×240 pixel (resistive touchscreen)
Stereo audio DAC: Wolfson Microelectronics WM1800
Embedded Microphone and stereo Loudspeakers
Power: Internal 1850mAh Lithium Polymer Battery (approx. 5/6 hours game/video playback)
Dimensions : 146 (w) × 70 (h) × 18.5 (d) mm
Weight : 136g
WiFi via adapter (USB dongle – Purchased separately)
Colors: Black/Blue, White
Video
Container files: AVI, mp4
Video formats: DivX, XviD, MPEG4, H264
Audio formats: MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV
Maximum Resolution: 640×480 pixel
Maximum Frame Rate: 30 frame/s
Maximum Video Bitrate: 2500kbit/s
Maximum Audio Bitrate: 384kbit/s
Captions: SMI
Audio
Audio formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
Channels: Stereo
Frequency Range: 20Hz - 20kHz
Power output: ?
Sample Resolution/Rate: 16bit/8–48 kHz, in 8bit/22kHz
Photos
Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, Bitmap File Formats
Emulators
-Nes - Gpfce
-Snes - DrPocketSnes v7.1.0 via GINGE (My personal favourite)
-GB/GBC - OhBOy
-Master System - DrSMS
-Genesis/Megadrive/CD/32X - Picodrive
-GBA - Gpsp
-Arcade - Mame4All
-CPS2 - CPS2 Emulator
-TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine - Hugo/Temper (via GINGE)
-Playstation - PCSX4ALL (This emulator is very hit and miss depending on the game)
- Built in MAME
-built in NEO-GEO
Interpreters
-ScummVM (Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island LeChuck's Revenge)
-GINGE (backwards compatibility)
Don't update the firmware no matter what you do. It'll only get you into trouble.
The SD cards are formatted in FAT-16.
Windows command FORMAT G: /FS:FAT /V:CAANOO
Linux command sudo mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda1
Download firmwares, emulators
The Caanoo is a solid build device with a light but tight feel. The buttons feel good when you press down on them and the analog stick feels good when in use but sometimes it feels weird to use when you are playing a game that was originally built for a D-Pad. it will take some time to get use to that in some cases but its not too bad.
The screen is a 3.5in 320×240 LCD with a resistive touch screen that makes the 16-bit style games look awesome while still giving off good quality when playing video and pictures. The touch screen is ok but not the greatest but a stylus is available to make the experience easier. I’m sure a resistive screen was chosen to lower cost and its not a main feature that will be used on the device so.
The 533mhz processor runs fine for most games but there can be slow down in some games that are heavy on the animation with a lot enemies on the screen. The dual stereo speaker are nice and loud and have good quality sound. The build in Wi-Fi is used to allow you to play network enabled games against friends and upload your high scores. Storage is done via SD card which support up to 32GB of storage and you download content on the device via the proprietary USB cable included. Overall the hardware package is solid and gives you what you need to have a good experience.
Software
The UI of the Caanoo is a Linux based system that is an open platform so anyone can develop for it. The system allows you not only to play games you can also listen to music, view pictures, watch movies, use apps and read e-books via text. The Caanoo supports your most comment files with music that supports MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG files and for video the device supports Xvid, Divix, Avi and MPEG 4. Pictures support is JPG, BMP, GIF, and PNG files. E-Books are supported via text only.
Games
CAANOO is practically paid for if I instead bought Earthbound and Final Fantasy III for Super NES.
The system comes with games preloaded such as Hellfire, Rhytmos, Snow Bros 2 and other games made by FunGP. The system also comes with an MAME emulator and Neo Geo emulator as well with preloaded games. Games do load up fast and play well although some games will run a bit slow when there is a lot of sprites on the screen but its nothing that you haven’t experience before in the 16 bit era of gaming. Flash games are also supported as well.
Super Castlevania 4 $22.99
Castlevania Bloodlines $17.99
Final Fantasy III $36.95
Chrono Trigger $54.99.
Phantasy Star IV $13.94
Phantasy Star II $7.00
Earthbound: $98.00
Secret of Evermore $24.95
SoC (System on a Chip): MagicEyes Pollux VR3520F
CPU: ARM926EJ 533 MHz embedded on SoC (architecture version ARMv5TEJ)
GPU: 3D hardware engine embedded on SoC (OpenGL ES 1.1 support)
3D performance: 133M Texel/s and 1,33M Polygon/s
main RAM: 128 Mbytes DDR SDRAM 133 MHz (peak memory bandwidth: 533 Mbytes/s)
video buffer: about 16 Mbytes of main RAM are reserved for the video/texture information
Operating System: GNU/Linux based (2.6.24)
Flash memory: None (128 Mbytes reserved to the OS)
Connection to PC: USB 2.0 High Speed through EXT Port
USB Host: USB 1.1 standard socket
Supports SD / SDHC memory cards (up to 32 Gigabytes)
G-Sensor/Vibration Motor
High precision analog stick
Display: 3.5 inch LCD 320×240 pixel (resistive touchscreen)
Stereo audio DAC: Wolfson Microelectronics WM1800
Embedded Microphone and stereo Loudspeakers
Power: Internal 1850mAh Lithium Polymer Battery (approx. 5/6 hours game/video playback)
Dimensions : 146 (w) × 70 (h) × 18.5 (d) mm
Weight : 136g
WiFi via adapter (USB dongle – Purchased separately)
Colors: Black/Blue, White
Video
Container files: AVI, mp4
Video formats: DivX, XviD, MPEG4, H264
Audio formats: MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV
Maximum Resolution: 640×480 pixel
Maximum Frame Rate: 30 frame/s
Maximum Video Bitrate: 2500kbit/s
Maximum Audio Bitrate: 384kbit/s
Captions: SMI
Audio
Audio formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
Channels: Stereo
Frequency Range: 20Hz - 20kHz
Power output: ?
Sample Resolution/Rate: 16bit/8–48 kHz, in 8bit/22kHz
Photos
Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, Bitmap File Formats
Emulators
-Nes - Gpfce
-Snes - DrPocketSnes v7.1.0 via GINGE (My personal favourite)
-GB/GBC - OhBOy
-Master System - DrSMS
-Genesis/Megadrive/CD/32X - Picodrive
-GBA - Gpsp
-Arcade - Mame4All
-CPS2 - CPS2 Emulator
-TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine - Hugo/Temper (via GINGE)
-Playstation - PCSX4ALL (This emulator is very hit and miss depending on the game)
- Built in MAME
-built in NEO-GEO
Interpreters
-ScummVM (Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island LeChuck's Revenge)
-GINGE (backwards compatibility)
Don't update the firmware no matter what you do. It'll only get you into trouble.
The SD cards are formatted in FAT-16.
Windows command FORMAT G: /FS:FAT /V:CAANOO
Linux command sudo mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda1
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