Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Burger Lab: The Myth of The 12-Year-Old McDonald's Hamburger

If you've recently gone for a couple of 88mph spins in a souped-up DeLorean outfitted with a flux capacitor
running at 1.21 jigawatts and have somehow ended up in an alternate
universe in which internet memes don't exist, then you may not yet have
read about the 12-year old McDonald's Hamburger
that still looks just like a McDonald's Hamburger. For the rest of you
who are already with me, you'll have to indulge me for a moment while I
fill-in the time travelers as to what's been going on.

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The Burger Lab: The Myth of The 12-Year-Old McDonald's Hamburger | A Hamburger Today

Monday, October 18, 2010

Through the Flood

Government aims to ban all Emulators


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In a surprising move, the Australian government who are renown for their particularly stubborn stance on censorship have decided that the possibility of people playing unrated games on emulators is too great, moving to ban them as soon as possible.

An emulator in computer sciences duplicates (provides an emulation of) the functions of one system
using a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and
appears to be) the first system. This focus on exact reproduction of
external behavior is in contrast to some other forms of computer simulation, which can concern an abstract model of the system being simulated.

While the government will not say what games, if any currently pose a threat to the rating system, it is believed that the action is one of 'future proofing' against the possibility of import loopholes down the track.

And Magmarock, don't believe everything you read :)

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

My time has passeed

"I've got good news: this is an incredibly long game. The 12 levels are each divided into as many as eight or nine stages and it will take you 15-20 hours to reach the end."

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Long is now 15 - 20 hours :(