it will be a totally different feel to play other games with this controller, if you are used to using the "normal" controller.
looks/feels like it is supposed to drive a huge mech warrior, not throw passes or ride a snowboard
That's the whole point, brainiac. This interface is *better* for these games. It'd be good for any sort of sim game, flying game, or even driving game.You think they're marketing it as a generic replacement controller?
News flash! Light guns suck for fighting games! Steering wheel controllers suck for FPS games!
does anyone else want to avoid paying $30+ for a controller you can only use for one game
This thing has: two yokes (analog sticks), a throttle and a dial (analog triggers) and lots of switches (regular buttons). In short, it's a superset of the existing Xbox controllers.
Why would you assume it can be used ONLY for Steel Batallions? Of course it's going to support other games.
the really bad wooden acting - I had no problem with the acting in Ep1, but Ep2 really sucked.
The bad acting was just the symptom of really bad directing. Look at the talent he has to work with! McGregor, Portman, Lee, Jackson. They're all very, very good actors. And they come off like they're in some sad grade school Christmas play. It's painfully obvious that the real problem is Lucas' directing.
How in the name of god could you yell "Cut! Print!" after any one of those "love scenes"? What sort of pointers could he have given them to coax them into that performance? It's mind boggling.
the really corny lines
Ditto the writing. Lucas couldn't supply dialogue to a Craftmatic adjustable bed commercial. Painful.
Lucas is a very visionary, very motivated guy. If he left just those two tasks, writing and directing, to others, I think he could make something great.
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Or the all caps may have been for emphasis, and he was talking about a thin flat bread pocket.
You're missing the real objective here: slashdot wants to get more revenue from all the readers that are compelled to reply to duplicate stories. They get MORE traffic on dupes, because not only to readers view them, they are powerless to resist replying to them. That adds up to several more page hits.
What is my TV is from 1981 and has an ultrasonic remote instead of IR?? HUH? WHAT THEN? Why don't you support my dumbass home theatre setup that involves burying my reciever under 4 feet of concrete in the backyard?
I just spent $3000 on a gigawatt ruby laser remote that LITERALLY blasts through walls! Why should I spend a reasonable amount of money on appropriate technology that works properly???
They used CG for clone trooper close ups. For heaven's sake, why? They go through all that trouble to simulate something that a guy in a plastic suit could pull off just as well.
a) he was still in combat "I need the speed to kick ass" mode, and was switching to "I need to save the loserboys on the floor" mode. That, and he needed to keep an eye out for Dooku.
Nah, he's a master. There is no context switching. You're always aware of everything, living in the moment.
I noticed that (in the film version) too, especially during face closeups. It was bad enough that I found it distracting. It looked as though they had cropped and zoomed the scene digitally.
Reminds me of Perfect Storm. It's "based on a true story", but no one ever saw the crew again after they left port about 1/4 into the movie. Hence the rest of it is utter fantasy.
Interesting point, but irrelevant, because that part of the slashdot story is completely false. (Surprise, surprise, I know) The image is almost entirely unaffected by compression.
I can confirm this. I tried it out when I first heard the story a month or two ago. It's not a checksum or some other digitally embedded data block, it's simply the spectrograph output. It doesn't change due to compression, it will just gradually degrade. MP3 quality is way more than adaquate.
A few of his other songs do similar things, with spirals and other designs appearing in the spectrograph. But the windowlicker track contains a digitized image. Very cool.
We are in a transition phase, where society around the world is still adjusting to this new, rapid communications medium.
I think that this is the important point. It's not that the net has changed nothing in people's nature, or made it worse. It's that the change has only begun.
Right now, the same old ignorant garbage that people have always believed is being posted. What's new is that suddenly the other side can see it! So of course anger is going to flare, as the real levels of igorance, hate, and intolerance that have always existed are finally seen firsthand by either side. Of course it's going to be a painful phase.
But this is where the potential for progress begins. Hopefully, the "shock" will wear off in time, and the mutual awareness will lead to dialogue, which will lead to understanding.
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Let the "gopher hole" jokes begin.
I'd guess that it's got SP/DIF 5.1 output intended for use separate from the tube-amplified stereo output.
That means it's a deterministic pseudorandom order, the exact opposite of "REAL random".
I think you mean "Winchester drive".
What I want to know is, how does this film re-examine traditional cultural myths in the post-9/11 world?
looks/feels like it is supposed to drive a huge mech warrior, not throw passes or ride a snowboard
That's the whole point, brainiac. This interface is *better* for these games. It'd be good for any sort of sim game, flying game, or even driving game.You think they're marketing it as a generic replacement controller?
News flash! Light guns suck for fighting games! Steering wheel controllers suck for FPS games!
Since around 1984, when the North American market crashed and Nintendo released the NES in Japan. :)
This thing has: two yokes (analog sticks), a throttle and a dial (analog triggers) and lots of switches (regular buttons). In short, it's a superset of the existing Xbox controllers.
Why would you assume it can be used ONLY for Steel Batallions? Of course it's going to support other games.
The bad acting was just the symptom of really bad directing. Look at the talent he has to work with! McGregor, Portman, Lee, Jackson. They're all very, very good actors. And they come off like they're in some sad grade school Christmas play. It's painfully obvious that the real problem is Lucas' directing.
How in the name of god could you yell "Cut! Print!" after any one of those "love scenes"? What sort of pointers could he have given them to coax them into that performance? It's mind boggling.
the really corny lines
Ditto the writing. Lucas couldn't supply dialogue to a Craftmatic adjustable bed commercial. Painful.
Lucas is a very visionary, very motivated guy. If he left just those two tasks, writing and directing, to others, I think he could make something great.
Or the all caps may have been for emphasis, and he was talking about a thin flat bread pocket.
You're missing the real objective here: slashdot wants to get more revenue from all the readers that are compelled to reply to duplicate stories. They get MORE traffic on dupes, because not only to readers view them, they are powerless to resist replying to them. That adds up to several more page hits.
I just spent $3000 on a gigawatt ruby laser remote that LITERALLY blasts through walls! Why should I spend a reasonable amount of money on appropriate technology that works properly???
They used CG for clone trooper close ups. For heaven's sake, why? They go through all that trouble to simulate something that a guy in a plastic suit could pull off just as well.
Nah, he's a master. There is no context switching. You're always aware of everything, living in the moment.
I noticed that (in the film version) too, especially during face closeups. It was bad enough that I found it distracting. It looked as though they had cropped and zoomed the scene digitally.
Reminds me of Perfect Storm. It's "based on a true story", but no one ever saw the crew again after they left port about 1/4 into the movie. Hence the rest of it is utter fantasy.
All unchecked for me.
No kidding. Everyone knows that you should have cheese curds and gravy on fries, as God intended.
Wow, Canada's most famous radio personality is back from the dead and submitting stories to slashdot.
Remember the comment in that story about Kuhn's paper on this technique?
Interesting point, but irrelevant, because that part of the slashdot story is completely false. (Surprise, surprise, I know) The image is almost entirely unaffected by compression.
A few of his other songs do similar things, with spirals and other designs appearing in the spectrograph. But the windowlicker track contains a digitized image. Very cool.
Yep. Wash your hands. Then grab ahold and pull on the shit-encrusted door handle with your clean hands on your way out.
I think that this is the important point. It's not that the net has changed nothing in people's nature, or made it worse. It's that the change has only begun.
Right now, the same old ignorant garbage that people have always believed is being posted. What's new is that suddenly the other side can see it! So of course anger is going to flare, as the real levels of igorance, hate, and intolerance that have always existed are finally seen firsthand by either side. Of course it's going to be a painful phase.
But this is where the potential for progress begins. Hopefully, the "shock" will wear off in time, and the mutual awareness will lead to dialogue, which will lead to understanding.
Even back then, every photocopier I ever tried it on could adjust the contrast so that they could be copied legibly.
I also remember trading copied templates of the dials that you could cut out and assemble.