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Modern Warfare 2′s ACR featured in Future Weapons
August 31st, 2010 by Franz No comments »One of the most used Assault Rifle in Modern Warfare 2, the ACR was even voted as the favorite assault rifle in Modern Warfare 2 in Infinity Ward’s website. In game, The ACR is the most accurate assault rifle in the game, and has only visual recoil. An entire magazine can hit roughly the exact same area without shots deviating. Most of us don’t know that in real life, ACR or Adaptive Combat Rifle is literally much better than its in game version. Watch this video from Discovery’s Future Weapon featuring the ACR
The Masada was a prototype rifle designed by Magpul Industries in an effort to build an infantry weapon better than any of the existing platforms. To bring the Masada to market, Magpul teamed up with Bushmaster and Remington and they renamed it the Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR).
The ACR is being sold as the Bushmaster ACR to law enforcement agencies and US civilians, and will be sold as the Remington ACR to military customers.
The “Basic” version of the ACR began shipping in April 2010 with an MSRP of $2685. (Street value is currently $2100). The “Enhanced” version with railed handguard and folding stock is expected to be available in June at an MSRP of $3061.
ATI Brand will retire next year
August 30th, 2010 by Franz No comments »So long ATI (Just the name though), AMD will finally take out the ATI Brand next year due to some apparent “internal research” or so they say:
Save those boxes guys, soon you won’t see an ATI logo on any product sold in the market. by Anand Lal Shimpi
You might want to read Anandtech.com’s article about AMD killing the ATI name
University of Florida Adds Starcraft Studies
August 27th, 2010 by Franz No comments »Source: Kotaku.com
Starcraft is being used to teach resource management skills in a new course offering at the University of Florida – but it’s only open to students in the honors college, and students have to have some familiarity with the game.
Nate Poling, a Ph.D candidate at UF, came up with the idea and sold his department on it, so IDS 2935 “21st Century Skills in Starcraft,” will be offered as an online-only class this coming semester.
Starcraft as a college subject isn’t new; California-Berkeley offered a course on competitive Starcraft through its renowned Haas School of Business. At Florida, it sounds like Poling’s lesson plan will also align Starcraft to business management.
Those who run businesses, factories and hospitals must manage according to their knowledge of their personnel’s strengths, weaknesses and different abilities, sort of the same calculus involved in StarCraft.
“A student who gets a normal education, gets an MBA, and is in the business world, he could realize that something he learned in his StarCraft course helps him think outside of the box,” Poling told MIT’s Technology Review. “You synthesize this with an MBA program and voila – you have an innovative business practice.”
He’s careful to stress this is a supplemental course, not a replacement for traditional teaching methods. Poling anticipates it’ll be a popular offering, but the StarCraft skillz and honors-only requisites should keep him from getting swamped by students wanting to play games for a grade.
There is no final examination, but the course does count toward undergrads’ GPA.
Honors Course Using StarCraft Is for Gamers Only [Technology Review, via GamePolitics]
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