The Wii is NOT a next generation console as we have come to expect. It is decidely underpowered, even compared to last generation.
The Wii is a more substantial change to the previous console than the PS3 or X-Box 360. It is a qualitative, not just a quantitative upgrade. It has more of a claim to be a "next-gen console" than either of those two.
Pretty much. The Gamecube was substantially more powerful than the PS2, for that matter; it fell between the X-Box and the PS2 in power, and was closer to the X-Box. "Two Gamecubes strapped together" should perform better in most ways than the original X-Box.
Right now, I think that the hardware is being under-utilized. There were only a few games that pushed the Gamecube hardware, also (Resident Evil 4, for instance, which is generally regarded as one of the best looking games of the last generation). I expect things to improve with all the attention the Wii is garnering.
Red Steel on the Wii was one of the most enjoyable FPS I've ever played on a console... and what's funny is that I agree with you that it wasn't a very good game. But the Wiimote interface, even though clunky, was so much better than a gamepad that it was almost unfair to compare to the other consoles.
There's no reason the Wii couldn't have a FPS that looked as good and polished as Halo II, for instance... and when it does, it will likely play better than any FPS not on a PC.
I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this:
I wanted to try programming some simple flash games, but my initial searches left me somewhat unclear about what software I needed to obtain to do so. There's flash, which incorporates actionscript, which has a traditional compiler, but is part of a larger development system that include a GUI? I became confused.
Is FlashDevelop or the FDT plugin for Eclipse all that is needed?
I would bet that the vast majority of all high-schools in the U.S. have been turned into FPS maps.... probably 90% or more. My school sure was, several times, independently. So have several places I've lived... so have many offices. I don't know, but I'm sure there's Microsoft and Google maps out there. I'll bet there's even a White House map.
You just reminded me... isn't it provable that this sequence of digits is contained within PI? Every numerical key would be, an infinite number of times... just the larger ones would be repeated at larger intervals.
That means that any key could be defined by 'nth digit of pi'.
I haven't seen any studies that indicate one way or another whether violent books contribute to violent behavior. Why is nobody concerned about this?
That's rhetorical... the answer is that video games are new and scary to a large group of relatively influential people. In a few decades, nobody will worry about this issue at all.
And, as another poster mentioned, how about the catastrophic number of injuries and deaths throughout the nation caused by sports? Why aren't people enacting panicked legislation banning sports? It's because they are familiar with sports, they played sports when they were young.
All we have to do is fight a delaying action... stop as many inane laws as possible for another 10-20 years. After that, nobody will care.
Is there any widely-published videogame in recent history that a parent couldn't make an informed decision about by simply checking the rating, and examining the pictures and text on the box? Nothing could be simpler than that.
On the other hand, if the goal is to keep the games from being passed from kid to kid while on the school bus, well... good luck, but you aren't going to put a dent in that. Nobody has ever stopped adult magazines from being passed around.
I don't even get that a surface gravity that high. Can somebody check me?
Mass is 2.5 g. If we assume the same density as Earth, the radius would be 1.357 times Earth's. (1.357 ^ 3 = 2.5)
Gravitational attraction is proportional to Mass, and inversely proportional to radius squared, which means attraction = 2.5 / (1.357 ^ 2) = 1.357. It looks like, holding density constant, surface gravity increases at the cube root of the mass increase.
A lightsaber game might be tough, but an actual fencing game would be much more workable, because the sword is almost always held pointed straight ahead. The tip of the blade usually only moves inches.
Parrying is the hard part, but I imagine that if your thrust is parried, your 'on-screen' sword would be held up until you pull your sword back to the spot it was blocked. Or maybe it would be knocked to the side, and you have to bring your wiimote over to the same side to recover.
Somebody will figure it out, because whoever does will sell a million copies. I'm hoping that somebody licenses John Carter of Mars and does it justice. Isn't this a no-brainer?
If the Japanese candidate violates Japanese election laws, disqualify the candidate. Duh.
So simple, yet so correct. Japanese law should mandate behavior in their jurisdiction. I think such a law would be stupid, but at least it is within their purview.
I think that Google understands that it needs to not fold to requests like this. If Youtube pulled down videos when requested, even if it is a reasonable request, they would open the floodgates to anybody with a gripe... also, destroying any sort of popularity (or cool factor) Youtube has.
They should pull content when the law requires them to pull content. (And by that, I mean the law of the United States.)
You grant as much freedom to others to behave however they think proper, up to the point that they attempt to restrict the freedom of others.
It's a simple principle, and can usually be objectively applied. It's one of the guide you can use for determining which cultures are......Wait for it... this'll make your head explode......which cultures are bad.
Wind power results in a net cost to the level of atmospheric energy. Any attempt to harness wind power extracts energy from the atmosphere and redirects it to human ends. On a small scale, that is no problem. On a large scale, like the bizarre concept represented in this post, the consequences on the planet would be unpredictable and eventually potentially harmful.
No... the consequences might be unpredictable and could be potentially harmful. It might turn out actually... good. Sometimes progress is actually progress.
Big, expensive, and high-tech is the most likely way we are going to solve our resource problems.
"The Godfather", which is a game I would have never thought I would enjoy, uses the motion control incredibly well.
It's a GTA-clone, and in general, the wiimote is your right hand, the nunchuck your left. You can grab people, hold them with one hand while punching with the other.. then throw them against a wall, grab them again, squeeze your hands together to choke the life out of them... it's incredibly immersive.
And it's not a kiddy game, it's not a collection of mini-games, it's not a tech demo, it's "real game" enough to even satisfy a sixteen year old boy.
You can't derive an 'ought' from an 'is', true enough.
But Objectivism brings in an 'if' statement to justify it. The idea is that living and conscious creatures have to act with volition (make choices) to stay alive.
Acting with volition requires some sort of hierarchical value structure (otherwise, decisions are impossible).
So, objectivism doesn't say "you should do X," but instead it says "in order to live, you should do X," which I think is much more logically sound.
What "X" is may be open to argument. But it begins with "be rational, and make decisions based on the observable facts of reality."
If you set up an array of these offshore, would this be an effective means of generating drinkable water? I could see a whole bunch of these a mile off the California coastline, if that was true.
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The Wii is NOT a next generation console as we have come to expect. It is decidely underpowered, even compared to last generation.
The Wii is a more substantial change to the previous console than the PS3 or X-Box 360. It is a qualitative, not just a quantitative upgrade. It has more of a claim to be a "next-gen console" than either of those two.
Pretty much. The Gamecube was substantially more powerful than the PS2, for that matter; it fell between the X-Box and the PS2 in power, and was closer to the X-Box. "Two Gamecubes strapped together" should perform better in most ways than the original X-Box.
Right now, I think that the hardware is being under-utilized. There were only a few games that pushed the Gamecube hardware, also (Resident Evil 4, for instance, which is generally regarded as one of the best looking games of the last generation). I expect things to improve with all the attention the Wii is garnering.
Red Steel on the Wii was one of the most enjoyable FPS I've ever played on a console... and what's funny is that I agree with you that it wasn't a very good game. But the Wiimote interface, even though clunky, was so much better than a gamepad that it was almost unfair to compare to the other consoles.
There's no reason the Wii couldn't have a FPS that looked as good and polished as Halo II, for instance... and when it does, it will likely play better than any FPS not on a PC.
A series of levels parodying other videogames? Don't think of it as the seventeenth Simpsons sequel... think of it as the first sequel to Gorf.
I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this:
I wanted to try programming some simple flash games, but my initial searches left me somewhat unclear about what software I needed to obtain to do so. There's flash, which incorporates actionscript, which has a traditional compiler, but is part of a larger development system that include a GUI? I became confused.
Is FlashDevelop or the FDT plugin for Eclipse all that is needed?
Nobody's passionate about HD-DVD v. BluRay,
Oddly, many people are passionate about HD-DVD versus BluRay, but few are passionate about HD-DVD OR BluRay. Subtle distinction?
I would bet that the vast majority of all high-schools in the U.S. have been turned into FPS maps.... probably 90% or more. My school sure was, several times, independently. So have several places I've lived... so have many offices. I don't know, but I'm sure there's Microsoft and Google maps out there. I'll bet there's even a White House map.
We're raising a generation of terrorists!
You just reminded me... isn't it provable that this sequence of digits is contained within PI? Every numerical key would be, an infinite number of times... just the larger ones would be repeated at larger intervals. That means that any key could be defined by 'nth digit of pi'.
I haven't seen any studies that indicate one way or another whether violent books contribute to violent behavior. Why is nobody concerned about this?
That's rhetorical... the answer is that video games are new and scary to a large group of relatively influential people. In a few decades, nobody will worry about this issue at all.
And, as another poster mentioned, how about the catastrophic number of injuries and deaths throughout the nation caused by sports? Why aren't people enacting panicked legislation banning sports? It's because they are familiar with sports, they played sports when they were young.
All we have to do is fight a delaying action... stop as many inane laws as possible for another 10-20 years. After that, nobody will care.
Is there any widely-published videogame in recent history that a parent couldn't make an informed decision about by simply checking the rating, and examining the pictures and text on the box? Nothing could be simpler than that.
On the other hand, if the goal is to keep the games from being passed from kid to kid while on the school bus, well... good luck, but you aren't going to put a dent in that. Nobody has ever stopped adult magazines from being passed around.
I don't even get that a surface gravity that high. Can somebody check me?
Mass is 2.5 g. If we assume the same density as Earth, the radius would be 1.357 times Earth's. (1.357 ^ 3 = 2.5)
Gravitational attraction is proportional to Mass, and inversely proportional to radius squared, which means attraction = 2.5 / (1.357 ^ 2) = 1.357. It looks like, holding density constant, surface gravity increases at the cube root of the mass increase.
People are not waiting until the last day to save the interest. People are waiting until the last day because they are lazy
Don't forget, there's a large number of people that wait until the last day to file simply out of a vague hostility to the government.
*Raises Hand*
A lightsaber game might be tough, but an actual fencing game would be much more workable, because the sword is almost always held pointed straight ahead. The tip of the blade usually only moves inches.
Parrying is the hard part, but I imagine that if your thrust is parried, your 'on-screen' sword would be held up until you pull your sword back to the spot it was blocked. Or maybe it would be knocked to the side, and you have to bring your wiimote over to the same side to recover.
Somebody will figure it out, because whoever does will sell a million copies. I'm hoping that somebody licenses John Carter of Mars and does it justice. Isn't this a no-brainer?
If the Japanese candidate violates Japanese election laws, disqualify the candidate. Duh.
So simple, yet so correct. Japanese law should mandate behavior in their jurisdiction. I think such a law would be stupid, but at least it is within their purview.
I think that Google understands that it needs to not fold to requests like this. If Youtube pulled down videos when requested, even if it is a reasonable request, they would open the floodgates to anybody with a gripe... also, destroying any sort of popularity (or cool factor) Youtube has.
They should pull content when the law requires them to pull content. (And by that, I mean the law of the United States.)
You grant as much freedom to others to behave however they think proper, up to the point that they attempt to restrict the freedom of others. It's a simple principle, and can usually be objectively applied. It's one of the guide you can use for determining which cultures are... ...Wait for it... this'll make your head explode... ...which cultures are bad.
No... the consequences might be unpredictable and could be potentially harmful. It might turn out actually... good. Sometimes progress is actually progress.
Big, expensive, and high-tech is the most likely way we are going to solve our resource problems.
Well, it's the controller and it's the price. Both are big factors.
"The Godfather", which is a game I would have never thought I would enjoy, uses the motion control incredibly well. It's a GTA-clone, and in general, the wiimote is your right hand, the nunchuck your left. You can grab people, hold them with one hand while punching with the other.. then throw them against a wall, grab them again, squeeze your hands together to choke the life out of them... it's incredibly immersive. And it's not a kiddy game, it's not a collection of mini-games, it's not a tech demo, it's "real game" enough to even satisfy a sixteen year old boy.
I'm not sure that's even a valid concept.
the state has the right to intervene before someone gets killed. What? No, they don't. They have the right to extract punishment after the fact.
Sheesh, I can tell you that... they ain't gonna buy a PS3.
You can't derive an 'ought' from an 'is', true enough. But Objectivism brings in an 'if' statement to justify it. The idea is that living and conscious creatures have to act with volition (make choices) to stay alive. Acting with volition requires some sort of hierarchical value structure (otherwise, decisions are impossible). So, objectivism doesn't say "you should do X," but instead it says "in order to live, you should do X," which I think is much more logically sound. What "X" is may be open to argument. But it begins with "be rational, and make decisions based on the observable facts of reality."
CO2 + 2H2O? It outputs carbonated water? Get Pepsi to invest.
If you set up an array of these offshore, would this be an effective means of generating drinkable water? I could see a whole bunch of these a mile off the California coastline, if that was true.