At the GDC last February, Epic Games announced, and revealed the trailer
for Gears of War 2. According to Epic’s lead designer, “Gears 1 was just a set-up, an appetizer for all the characters, the environments, the game play mechanics where introduced in the first. Gears 2 is going to be bigger, better, and far more bad ass than the first game in every way.”
After a year and a half of the Nintendo Wii being released inside the United States, it may finally become possible for anybody to get their hands on one. Nobody knows for sure why the Nintendo Wii was so hard to find here in the states, but one reporter, Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News, thinks the fault lies in the weakness of the declining value of the U.S. dollar.
By defeating Davidson 59-57 in Sunday’s Midwest Regional final, Kansas became the final piece of the most impressive Final Four field ever!
For the first time in history, all number 1 seeds advanced to the semi-final round known as the Final Four, which should make for the most exciting and most anticipated weekend in March Madness History.
The Tesla Roadster:
0-60 in 3.9
13,000 rpm redline
135 mpg Equivalent
220 miles per charge
less than 2¢ a mile
100% electric
batteries are included
In the past, youtube has been known for limiting resolution to conserve bandwidth, but this may not be the case for long. Youtube is now in the process of testing and developing the steps required to provide higher quality videos. The project was announced last year by the Youtube co-founder Steve Chen, and now appears to be in the earliest stages of deployment. By simply adding &fmt=6 onto the end of the video’s URL, you are able to view the video in high resolution and the difference is amazing!
Low resolution: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0
High resolution: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0&fmt=6
It seems that Youtube will now convert all newly uploaded videos about an hour or so after uploading into high resolution, and they are also in the process of converting all of the millions of other videos hosted on their site into high resolution, although this may take quite along time to do. It seems so far that about 1 out of every 5 videos are now available in high resolution.
