When you made this mistake with Spore, the company and all your employees suffered for it.
FORBES: EA Employee Chastises Company Over SimCity in Public Letter
The wind, after all, is the preferred vehicle of many a seed or spore.
They can see the spore-cloud coming, even if the men in Washington can't.
ECONOMIST: The spores of wrath have descended on a southern crop
Just forget that Sims 2 stuff and save your darseks up for Spore.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Developed by Will Wright, Spore involves players using tools to help their creations evolve from cells to civilised beings.
Investigators also traced the envelopes that contained the spore-laced letters to the Frederick, Maryland, area where Ivins lived, Taylor said.
So, she must have been exposed to a sufficient amount, and that would vary, depending on the individual and the quality of the spore.
Think of Spore as an exploded Sims--way, way bigger in scale.
Outside of the few titles--"Spore, " "Super Monkey Ball" and "Krull"--that were announced at Apple press conferences, game developers are being forced to keep quiet about their applications.
In Spore, players start as a single-celled organism and evolve into a swimming or walking creature that mates, becomes a village and, eventually, ends up as a planet.
Among the possible applications for the software, YouTube announced that Electronic Arts' upcoming game, "Spore, " will allow players to upload clips of the game's characters to the Web.
Spotting their tracks, where they have fed, their spore (fecal pellets) or maybe a very rare glimpse of them on the skyline, is enough to excite even the most half-hearted naturalist.
Stibich showed that a high-energy form of UV called UV-C could kill C. diff, in either its active state or as a dormant spore protected by a tough seedlike shell.
FORBES: How A New Machine Uses U.V. Rays To Blast Killer Bacteria
In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.
"I suspect that when "Spore" comes out this year or next year, it will be another example of that, " Meretzsky says, referring to an upcoming title by Electronic Arts star designer Will Wright.
The FBI had hoped to use science to trace the source of the anthrax, a biological spore that even in small amounts can prove deadly and can be easily transmitted through the air.
Among the possible applications for the software, YouTube announced that Electronic Arts' (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) upcoming game, "Spore, " will allow players to upload clips of the game's characters to the Web.
Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.
"It was apparent to us that one day the robots would take over the world, and we decided we wanted to be on the wining side, " Wright wrote in a note posted on Wednesday to Sporum, the official "Spore" forum.
Although the South suffers from weed and mold spore allergies in the fall, Gerald Kress, an executive with SDI Health, which operates Pollen.com, says the North and Northeast gets hit particularly hard by ragweed -- and 2009 is shaping up to be a banner year for ragweed pollen.
Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.
For these organisms, getting down from a cloud may be more of an ordeal than getting up: spore-releasing fungi tend to shed spores at the times of day and year when thermals are most likely, and bacteria are so small and light that the slightest puff of wind can send them flying.
应用推荐