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PS3 Controller Officially Called 'Sixaxis'
morpheus83 writes "Sony has decided to call the PS3's wireless controller 'Sixaxis' as it has sensors which allow it to sense linear motion along six axes. The Bluetooth controller charges when connected via the USB cable, after a full charge it is good for 30 hours of gaming. It becomes a wired controller when charging so you can continue playing." The Next Generation article also offers some further details on PS3 accessories: "Sony will also sell a memory card adapter used to upload data from PS or PS2 memory cards to the PS3 hard drive. That peripheral will go for 1500 yen ($13) and will be available at launch as well. A Blu-ray/DVD movie controller will also be in the accessory mix, selling for 3600 yen ($31)."
Are the six axes not orthogonal or has Sony come up with some practical use for string theory? (If the latter, I can see why it's on the expensive side...)
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The only reason the name is sticking is because it's a palindrome and probably will have some nifty logo =)
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The fourth dimension is not time! There is no specific fourth dimension just as there is no specific first, second, or third. Can you point along the axis of "first dimension" for me? No, you can't! Only if we agree ahead of time can we both know what each other mean by "the first dimension".
We might say that the first dimension is described by the axis running between my two feet, perpendicular to the hight of my body. But guess what, my body is in constant motion as the earth revolves and rotates, and as the solar system and even galaxy both move. There can be no specific, universally-accepted "first dimension".
Only in when talking about something localized can we intelligently say something like "the first dimension"--if we have agreed ahead of time what we mean by that. Say we both work at a box manufacturer and we use a piece of software to record the dimensions of boxes. We might be told to always enter the dimensions of the boxes from largest to smallest. Then we can say, "The first dimension of the box is 23 cm." or, "The length of the box is 23 cm." We have defined the first dimension to be "length".
When discussing relativity, it is often helpfull to have graphs to explain things. What is often done is that three dimensions of space are all represented by one dimension of the graph and time is represented as the other dimension of the graph. We do this because a piece of paper is best at showing two-dimensional graphs. If we were using a 3
D graph, we could show two dimensions of space and have the third one being time. All of these are illustrations however and don't mean that "time is the fourth dimenstion" or anything of the kind. But it is a usefull way of drawing things like light cones and explaining relativistic effects.
I am wondering, why give it a name at all? Where people really saying "Hey, pass me the dualshock"? As for Nintendo, I can understand giving it's controllers a name to differenciate the 2 parts, but for sony, it is kinda useless.
No one's going to call it anything but 'the controller' unless they're maybe talking to a clerk at Best Buy or somewhere. Having these bullshit product names is just dickhead marketing executive justifying their leeching off the corporate teat. "Dual Shock" etc etc. What crap. Hand me the controller for my PS2, I'm off. duh.
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