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Friday, April 12, 2002
from gamespy.com
Top 10 Proves PS2 Dominance
The Video Software Dealer's Association just released their list of the top ten videogame rentals for the week ending April 7th. From this chart below we can learn two very important things: 1: Sony's dominance in the current console market is pretty much unquestioned. They have the products, and they have the market penetration. And 2: I should really try out Agent Under Fire. Here's the list:
Top Ten Videogame Rentals For Week Ending April 7th:
1. Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2)
2. Virtua Fighter 4 (PS2)
3. State of Emergency (PS2)
4. Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (PS2)
5. All Star Baseball 2003 (PS2)
6. Max Payne (PS2)
7. Agent Under Fire (Xbox)
8. Agent Under Fire (PS2)
9. Knockout Kings 2002 (PS2)
10. NBA 2K2 (PS2)
It'll be interesting to see if the mix changes later in the year as more higher-quality second-generation games hit both Xbox and GameCube. Still, it's fairly safe to say that Sony will dominate this generation of console entertainment much as it did the last.
Top 10 Proves PS2 Dominance
The Video Software Dealer's Association just released their list of the top ten videogame rentals for the week ending April 7th. From this chart below we can learn two very important things: 1: Sony's dominance in the current console market is pretty much unquestioned. They have the products, and they have the market penetration. And 2: I should really try out Agent Under Fire. Here's the list:
Top Ten Videogame Rentals For Week Ending April 7th:
1. Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2)
2. Virtua Fighter 4 (PS2)
3. State of Emergency (PS2)
4. Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (PS2)
5. All Star Baseball 2003 (PS2)
6. Max Payne (PS2)
7. Agent Under Fire (Xbox)
8. Agent Under Fire (PS2)
9. Knockout Kings 2002 (PS2)
10. NBA 2K2 (PS2)
It'll be interesting to see if the mix changes later in the year as more higher-quality second-generation games hit both Xbox and GameCube. Still, it's fairly safe to say that Sony will dominate this generation of console entertainment much as it did the last.
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
strange quarks
washingtonpost.com
Two Stars Defy Current Theories
By Paul Recer
AP Science Writer
Wednesday, April 10, 2002; 1:01 PM
WASHINGTON ?? Two bizarre objects found by an orbiting X-ray telescope may represent a new class of star and may contain a new form of matter, defying current theories of particle physics and astronomy.
Observations of the objects, called RXJ1856 and 3C58, found they were too small and too cold to fit the pattern of neutron stars, which are collapsed, very dense stars composed of neutrons, an extremely heavy, elemental particle.
At a news conference Wednesday, astronomers announced that RXJ1856 has a temperature of about 1.2 million degrees, too cool for a neutron star, and a diameter of about 12 miles, too small to fit the standard model for neutron stars.
This evidence "points to a star composed not of neutrons, but of quarks in a form known as strange quark matter," said Jeremy Drake of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the lead researcher for the RXJ1856 observations.
Quarks are elemental particles that make up a neutron. The quarks in an ordinary neutron are of two types ?? up and down. Drake said that data from the X-ray telescope suggests that RXJ1856 is composed of up and down quarks, plus another particle called a strange quark.
Strange quarks are much denser than up or down quarks. The group of quarks could have evolved from neutrons that were collapsed by the extreme density and mass of the star, Drake said.
A team led by David Helfand of Columbia University observed 3C58, the neutron star remnant of a famous supernova, or exploded star, and found that its temperature was less than 1.8 million degrees, far below the predicted value for a neutron star.
This cool temperature, said Helfand, violates the standard theory for neutron stars and raises fundamental questions about the matter in 3C58.
"It appears that neutron stars aren't pure neutrons after all ?? new forms of matter are required," said Helfand.
Michael Turner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, said the two observations suggest the objects "may be new members of the stellar family tree."
He said they appear to be less dense than black holes or white dwarfs, two other exotic objects in the universe, but are clearly different than neutron stars.
"It is possible that all of the stars we call neutron stars may be strange stars" such as those observed by Drake and Helfand, said Turner. He said, however, that the observations will have to confirmed by others.
© 2002 The Associated Press
washingtonpost.com
Two Stars Defy Current Theories
By Paul Recer
AP Science Writer
Wednesday, April 10, 2002; 1:01 PM
WASHINGTON ?? Two bizarre objects found by an orbiting X-ray telescope may represent a new class of star and may contain a new form of matter, defying current theories of particle physics and astronomy.
Observations of the objects, called RXJ1856 and 3C58, found they were too small and too cold to fit the pattern of neutron stars, which are collapsed, very dense stars composed of neutrons, an extremely heavy, elemental particle.
At a news conference Wednesday, astronomers announced that RXJ1856 has a temperature of about 1.2 million degrees, too cool for a neutron star, and a diameter of about 12 miles, too small to fit the standard model for neutron stars.
This evidence "points to a star composed not of neutrons, but of quarks in a form known as strange quark matter," said Jeremy Drake of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the lead researcher for the RXJ1856 observations.
Quarks are elemental particles that make up a neutron. The quarks in an ordinary neutron are of two types ?? up and down. Drake said that data from the X-ray telescope suggests that RXJ1856 is composed of up and down quarks, plus another particle called a strange quark.
Strange quarks are much denser than up or down quarks. The group of quarks could have evolved from neutrons that were collapsed by the extreme density and mass of the star, Drake said.
A team led by David Helfand of Columbia University observed 3C58, the neutron star remnant of a famous supernova, or exploded star, and found that its temperature was less than 1.8 million degrees, far below the predicted value for a neutron star.
This cool temperature, said Helfand, violates the standard theory for neutron stars and raises fundamental questions about the matter in 3C58.
"It appears that neutron stars aren't pure neutrons after all ?? new forms of matter are required," said Helfand.
Michael Turner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, said the two observations suggest the objects "may be new members of the stellar family tree."
He said they appear to be less dense than black holes or white dwarfs, two other exotic objects in the universe, but are clearly different than neutron stars.
"It is possible that all of the stars we call neutron stars may be strange stars" such as those observed by Drake and Helfand, said Turner. He said, however, that the observations will have to confirmed by others.
© 2002 The Associated Press
Political - Oil
4/9/2002 - Seattle
i've said it before, but i have to say it again.
in very simple terms:
the pursuit of and reliance upon oil is, literally, destroying the world.
internal combustion vehicles ruin our environment.
the reliance upon cars ruins our communities.
our reliance upon oil screws up our foreign policy.
our defence of oil reserves puts western soldiers in harms way.
so let's all say it together: fuck oil.
why are we knocking ourselves out supporting and propping up the petroleum
industry when there are so many viable, sustainable, alternative forms of
energy?
the only thing that oil is necessary for is Big Things That Move
(i.e-airplanes). but cars, buses, trucks, buildings, etc. could all be
powered by sustainable and renewable forms of energy.
the next time it's sunny and warm just look around you and count the solar
panels. most likely you'll see NONE. it's like free energy just pouring down
upon us and being wasted.
and the next time you drive through a vast and windy part of the world count
the number of wind-turbines. most likely you'll see none.
etc
etc.
all of this free energy just going to waste.
oil is destroying us. in many ways. and it sucks that we have oil men as our
president and vice-president.
the next time a western soldier dies for an oil producing country just
remember that they died defending a dirty, anachronistic, and dangerous form
of energy.
it's time to change. for a million reasons it's time to change our reliance
upon oil.
the world should be covered with solar panels and wind-turbines and
hydro-generators and etc. the world should not be covered with choking smog,
greenhouse gases, oil spills, and texas oil men determining our foreign
policy.
-moby
4/9/2002 - Seattle
i've said it before, but i have to say it again.
in very simple terms:
the pursuit of and reliance upon oil is, literally, destroying the world.
internal combustion vehicles ruin our environment.
the reliance upon cars ruins our communities.
our reliance upon oil screws up our foreign policy.
our defence of oil reserves puts western soldiers in harms way.
so let's all say it together: fuck oil.
why are we knocking ourselves out supporting and propping up the petroleum
industry when there are so many viable, sustainable, alternative forms of
energy?
the only thing that oil is necessary for is Big Things That Move
(i.e-airplanes). but cars, buses, trucks, buildings, etc. could all be
powered by sustainable and renewable forms of energy.
the next time it's sunny and warm just look around you and count the solar
panels. most likely you'll see NONE. it's like free energy just pouring down
upon us and being wasted.
and the next time you drive through a vast and windy part of the world count
the number of wind-turbines. most likely you'll see none.
etc
etc.
all of this free energy just going to waste.
oil is destroying us. in many ways. and it sucks that we have oil men as our
president and vice-president.
the next time a western soldier dies for an oil producing country just
remember that they died defending a dirty, anachronistic, and dangerous form
of energy.
it's time to change. for a million reasons it's time to change our reliance
upon oil.
the world should be covered with solar panels and wind-turbines and
hydro-generators and etc. the world should not be covered with choking smog,
greenhouse gases, oil spills, and texas oil men determining our foreign
policy.
-moby
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
Monday, April 08, 2002
