One reasonable definition would be "stationary with respect to the frame of reference of the bulk of matter around it." This does, of course, beg several questions about whether your frame of reference is the solar system, at which point we're doing a loop, or the galaxy, at which point we're doing some funky spirograph thing, or in fact the universe as a whole, wherein legitimate arguments can be had about what exactly we're doing.
That said, even if you're trapped in the 1500s and want to pretend that the Earth is the appropriate frame of reference for describing the frame of motion of the Earth, it's not like that's suddenly stopped our axial rotation. So even if you genuinely believe the universe revolves around you - as you actually suggested - then no, the Earth still isn't stationary.
And if you want to throw some common sense into the mix, so much the better.
More likely is that your downloading application simply dropped the connection early and didn't notify you. The entire point of TCP is reliable sockets, and when used correctly, it is indeed reliable. Putting things in quotation marks doesn't make them particularly damning.
Surprisingly, there are more than these two things that you've picked out of thin air that can go wrong.
Three months, actually. The bounty was started in late July. Besides, people have day jobs. The IM clients should be relatively trivial, a port of KHTML would be a few hundred hours, nobody's even vaguely interested in it as a media player, though companies like g6 have had that running since almost month one.
Getting OpenH323 running would be relatively trivial, but the DS wouldn't make a much better phone than the NGage did, and you'd be tied to an access point.
I mean, I might do it for fun, but I doubt it'll be practical.
Actually, we had code running on the machine through the PassMe (a custom CPLD, though back then it was on an FPGA) about two weeks after the device was released. The short version: put a chip between a legitimate cart and the device, wait for the cart to authenticate, then take over and branch to the GBA slot on the bottom, where an oldschool flash cart works jus' fine.
These days, we use a patched BIOS written permanently to the device through FlashMe (only works on older DSes, though that's almost fixed) which doesn't perform the fingerprint check, and boot our games through the wireless hardware over the built in wireless multiboot system.
The bounty is about deciphering and learning to use the wifi hardware in a typical fashion, so that the device can be used with an access point as a network device. VNC, maybe web browsing, and of course, network games are on their way.
+ DS cartridges cost less than PSP UMDs (the UMD uses more plastic and metal in the casing alone than the DS cartridge does as a whole).
I wonder what gave you this idea. The manufacturing cost of a minimum size DS cartridge (64 megabits) is marginally cheaper than UMD, including case. As the size goes up, so does the cost; by the time you've hit 256 megabits, you're more expensive than a UMD.
Disks mean load times.
Certainly true, and a much bigger issue than most people admit.
+ Blu-Ray disks are not inexpensive to manufacture, when you add in the $2 million cost per production line (assuming all Blu-Ray lines will be adapted from existing DVD lines) that will get funnelled down to consumers.
This is pretty silly. You think that the Matrix Semiconductor 3d FRAM plant costs less to make than the UMD plant? (By the way, blu-ray is the next gen DVD format, not what the PSP uses. They're fundamentally different.)
+ Nintendo DS's current market share is more and more becoming predominantly teen to twenty something women. The DS was launched for the older gamer, believe it or not.
Where are you getting your data? The primary market demographic for the DS is the 7-11 cross-gender range, the secondary demographic is the 13-17 male range, and the tertiary demographic is the young male range. Young adult females are well represented in comparison to consoles, but they're certainly not the platform's primary demographic, nor are they what the platform was launched for. A quick inspection of the commercials or launch titles will tell you exactly who Nintendo thought their market was.
The PSP wireless support is terrible at best. I have not played a match of Twisted Metal to completion without getting dropped.
Yeah, that's more about your wifi hardware than the PSP. The vendors of the Nintendo and Sony wifi hardware are comparable in quality.
Also, DS supports any wi-fi connection, and provides a universal network, a-la Xbox Live, for players to connect to.
This is, admittedly, a big win. That said, they're a year late to really use it, which is a serious loss, and the libraries they ship to their developers are hamstringing in terms of the ability to use the net in any way other than a carrier to dedicated servers. To deploy actual socket-aware software would require reinventing the network stuff from the ground up, and the likelihood of Nintendo authorizing such software is near-zero.
Proprietary DVD format came from the fact that Nintendo agressively fights pirating, which is a hell of a lot harder to do when off-the shelf DVD-R's don't fit in your machine.
Er. The PS2 format was proprietary too. As far as off the shelf DVD-Rs, sure, the DVD-R Minis fit just fine. The primary problems with piracy in the GameCube are that 1) the discs are encrypted in a fashion that was (thank god) never broken, and 2) the discs are spun in the opposite direction of normal discs, requiring custom firmware, a laser realignment and a new motor for a writer, something well outside of the ability of most pirates.
By the time Mortal Kombat was released, Sega was already semi-dominant. Sega had a commanding lead at the beginning of the 16-bit era, which only closed in the latter years of that generation.
There's argument about this. I won't say you're wrong, but I will say I disagree with you. Many people believe the big nail that started Sega's coffin was the nonsense confusion about the saturn and the sega cd. Nintendo closed the gap primarily on software dominance; people who agree with me tend to believe that Nintendo started closing the gap about two years after the release of the SNES, primarily on total RPG and fighter dominance (go ahead, name two Genesis RPGs other than Sword of Vermillion without looking online for cues. No need to reply to do so; it's a thought exercise.) Many people believe
For one, handwriting recognition works fine on 386es.
For two, Palm has a fair amount of operating overhead.
For three, there are two CPUs, not one.
For four, the major limiting factor in handwriting recognition quality is algorithm quality, not CPU speed.
For five, there's no significant overhead to simply recording the sketching position; it would be trivially easy to recognize previous writing while working on storing the next set.
Full sentence handwriting isn't really possible on a screen that size, nor in fact any portable I've ever seen.
Time and time again, it has been shown that screen keyboards are much faster than handwriting, much less frustrating than handwriting, and more quickly learned though less quickly used at high speed than handwriting.
Handwriting recognition has not failed to take off because it's difficult; though it is difficult, it was reasonably do-able ten years ago. It failed to take off because it's impractical in use. To suggest that it'll be problematic on a machine with two CPUs because some other machine with some other product was slow on one CPU whose sum rate was the same as the pair CPUs despite doing nonparallel tasks and despite OS and application overhead... eesh.
You can write in Python for any machine in which the python embedding interface can be compiled, which includes the DS. Moreover, there are roundabout ways of getting C from a python script, though god forbid you ask #python how to do it (they'll give you a bunch of non-answers, then tell you you're being hostile and ban you.)
If you really want to, you could use jython to compile through gcj to the DS directly.
I know these things are difficult for anonymous cowards. Let me explain.
1) I didn't know the full extent of what was going on back then. I was under the impression it was a software rollback, and even then I was pretty pissed.
2) We don't act on our own. I was waiting until I talked to other ops before I acted. Luckily, I didn't have to; someone else did. That said, if I banned a regular without talking to the channel owner, I would have been a giant asshole. What I did was to act carefully.
I do remain relatively amused how badly thieves react to the tool. Nonetheless, if you bother to read what I said, I was trying to get DarkFader to release a tool to identify the bad rom. Did you bother to think about why, or who it was that reported these to the antivirus companies?
Don't bother replying if you're too much of a coward to admit who you are. I suspect your name starts with an N and ends with a D, though.
All I can say is, DF, we told you not to do it when you joked around. We told you what would happen when you speculated. You've been on the outside edge because of your relationship with known warez outfits like Golden Sun for years.
Your apology is meaningless. The damage you've done to our reputation is permanent. Every day we deal with half a dozen sanctimonious assholes in our channel who really believe we encouraged you to do this.
You're permanently banned from the homebrew community. We won't have anything to do with you ever again. It may be years before we recover from what you've done. Apologize all you want, if it makes you feel better, but you're none the better for it.
Eh. Hubble's neat and all, but the honest truth is we're too technologically primitive to put anything significant into space. Instead of putting money into a replacement Hubble, we need to put that money into the technologies that would support putting something huge into orbit or on the moon instead.
It's a little like saying "we could do a lot of good shipping rice across the ocean in frigates." Well, we could do a lot more good researching planes, then sending those. Priorities are a bitch, but they're also pretty nessecary. First things first, and infrastructure is required here.
It is currently an unknown as to whether or not stars are living beings or inanimate objects. Our understanding of plasma physics and the internal electrical structure of stars is simply too small to tell for certain.
Nothing is alive until shown otherwise. By that logic, the core of the Earth is also alive, because there's a lot of energy down there too, and our understanding of the spinning molten core is simply to small to tell for certain.
The default is "no," not "maybe." You watch too much Andromeda. Stars don't hold councils, nor do they fight vaguely demonish enemies. They're big furnaces, and until Betelgeuse says "hi," that's not changing, no matter what your crystal chakras or aether buddies tell you.
Resent the implication that you're a mystic? Fine, and as well you should. By the way, a mystic is someone who says "well you don't know it isn't there." That's exactly what you just did.
By the way, the chances that any form of life could tolerate the immense stresses placed onto it by thermonuclear furnaces are vanishingly small. Dice aren't life, and there's nothing but dice inside a star. Life needs order to survive. Nothing can withstand its constituent matter being blown apart literally billions of times a second, no matter how badly you want for it to.
When you show me a Burger King at the center of the sun, I'll apologize.
A physicist, mathematician, priest and lawyer were arguing about whose profession was older.
The physicist noted that even apes study their world, which was the fundamental practice of a physicist; thusly certainly theirs was the first profession.
The mathematician retorted that even simple animals could count, such as to check whether all their children remained, and that since counting was the basis of study, his occupation surely was older.
The priest remarked that more primal was to sort normalcy from chaos, such as to flee from fire, or to help the wounded, and that since god was the core of order, clearly his vocation was still older.
All then turned to the then silent lawyer, who simply leaned forward and said, "who do you think made that chaos?"
Well, that's cute and all, except that we actually do have photographs of this occurring. Just because you don't know about what's going on doesn't mean the sciences don't.
Sure, there's a chance we don't understand what we're looking at. There's also a chance that evolution is wrong, or that mathematics is wrong, or that we're all shackled up in Plato's cave. That said, the Skeptic movement died out some 2500 years ago, because living your life by saying "you can't prove that" is futile. Sure, we can't prove it. But we've got damned strong models, huge amounts of supporting data, and some surprisingly pretty pictures.
Find something credible that suggests that a cloud of hydrogen acting under its own gravity wouldn't collapse and form a star, and we'll talk. Unless, of course, you think gravity is suspect too? Or, maybe hydrogen just doesn't fuse? Perhaps Wile E Coyote was putting dynamite in the particle colliders, trying to keep us from accreting a road runner.
By the way, it's one of my pet peeves when someone who can't even spell peeve gets on a soapbox ranting at other people about their fundamental capacities.
I'd say mod parent down, but given that he doesn't seem to believe in simple gravity, it's not clear whether he'll realize in what direction he's going.
Well, not that a remote star passing through our solar system is particularly likely either, but it's worth pointing out that a star passing within twice the radius of the Oort cloud would be enough to significantly alter our planet's orbit, to the point where our ecosphere would be annihilated, and if we were lucky maybe we could hide from new deadly weather under domes.
Granted, stripping two digits out of that mantissa makes it insignificantly less spectacularly unlikely.
First, considering that IGN actually saw the hardware and had more detail in their article than anyone else, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Well, that's your choice to make. That said, IGN's history of speculative commentary shows a litany of bad speculation presented as insider information. The several examples I gave were credible, and easily researched.
Maybe more importantly, there are no such sensors in the example video.
I don't know where you learned to separate truth from fiction, but citing IRC comments as an authoritative source doesn't give you a whole lot of credibility.
Oh for christ's sake, nobody cited those as authoratative sources. That was an attempt at humor. Take the stick out, corporal.
Second, in ALL of your examples of gripped objects, the thumb is curled into a ball. If the object is small enough, the thumb ends up between the first and second fingers. The Revolution is quite different.
Well, no, that's not actually true of the motorcycle grips, many melee weapons, some telephones (I'm sure you'll suggest all phones are small, but that's relatively recent,) certainly not true of most sporting equipment, or torches. By my count, only about half of my examples incur a thumb bend of more than a right angle. One wonders if you've ever ridden a motorcycle, held a football or wielded a mace.
That said, I don't see that the angle of the thumb is terribly germane. The human hand was designed for a non-controlled natural world. It is equally well suited to carrying things like large rocks, melons and coconuts, carcasses and the like. I don't see any compelling reason to believe that this distinction at all matters, whether or not it is valid.
Extending it at that angle and wiggling it under pressure for prolonged periods of time looks painful to me.
Yes, and I'm sure the famed Nintendo ergonomics engineers missed that one. Does it not occur to you that these things are designed by educated people?
Besides, there's virtually no pressure involved in holding something which is likely to weigh less than six ounces, and I don't have the faintest idea why you think the thumb would be "wiggling," nor in fact why that would matter. The mucles which govern knuckle movement in the thumb aren't even on the same side of the digit as the ones which keep the thumb in place.
As far as your last comment goes... I'm sure you're very knowledgeable about pornography, but I don't really see how it's relevant.
It was another joke. Until you turned nasty, I thought this conversation quite amicable. Maybe you didn't notice, but asserting pornographic relation is a common joke with this device. I was just trying to give you a laugh.
Please refer to my original post - they're the first company to really make it work. I never claimed that they invented it. In fact, the statement in my original post was to prevent people such as you from arguing that point.
No amount of making hollow, unprovable statements like "make it work" will change that the Intellivision controller in question outsold every Nintendo external peripheral until the Max. Similarly, tacking on something true like that Nintendo revitalized an industry doesn't fortify your original mistake about Nintendo being the first to make something work, when companies outsold them more than five years earlier on exactly the same terms.
That's just not true. The Colecovision and Intellivision both made that design work 10 years before Nintendo hit the market at all. Just because you don't remember how popular those consoles were doesn't mean they weren't popular.
You underestimate my age.:)
It's your knowledge I'm estimating, not your age. My grandmother doesn't know anything thing about Intellivision. Furthermore, based on your statements, such as that Nintendo invented something they didn't, that there was no Intellivision magazine or toy line (hell, Pac-Man alone had its own magazine, TV show, and toy line,) I stand by my estimate.
IGN claims that the Revolution will require sensors deployed on either side of the TV.
IGN also claimed that the DS would be an internet phone, that the Playstation would be defeated by the GameCube, and that the XBox then later the N-Gage was the future of gaming. Choose your sources wisely.
What concerns me about the controller is the constant thumb pressure. That's not at all a 'normal' grip position.
It can be argued that that is in fact the defacto grip for all human tools. Consider knives, hammers, toothbrushes, motorcycle grips, almost every non-projectile weapon, your telephone, your beer, cups, remote controls, many musical instruments, microphones, most non-projectile sporting equipment, steering wheels, most simple tools, torches, flashlights, and so on. Many of those things are used for hours at a time without problems, even when they're significantly heavier than that controller is likely to be.
Projector people are known to snicker, "You still measure your screen size in inches? How quaint.":)
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One reasonable definition would be "stationary with respect to the frame of reference of the bulk of matter around it." This does, of course, beg several questions about whether your frame of reference is the solar system, at which point we're doing a loop, or the galaxy, at which point we're doing some funky spirograph thing, or in fact the universe as a whole, wherein legitimate arguments can be had about what exactly we're doing.
That said, even if you're trapped in the 1500s and want to pretend that the Earth is the appropriate frame of reference for describing the frame of motion of the Earth, it's not like that's suddenly stopped our axial rotation. So even if you genuinely believe the universe revolves around you - as you actually suggested - then no, the Earth still isn't stationary.
And if you want to throw some common sense into the mix, so much the better.
More likely is that your downloading application simply dropped the connection early and didn't notify you. The entire point of TCP is reliable sockets, and when used correctly, it is indeed reliable. Putting things in quotation marks doesn't make them particularly damning.
Surprisingly, there are more than these two things that you've picked out of thin air that can go wrong.
My vote goes to the "Not Small Telescope."
Well, except that they released the Net Yaroze and the Linux kit with hardware driver libs.
Three months, actually. The bounty was started in late July. Besides, people have day jobs. The IM clients should be relatively trivial, a port of KHTML would be a few hundred hours, nobody's even vaguely interested in it as a media player, though companies like g6 have had that running since almost month one.
Getting OpenH323 running would be relatively trivial, but the DS wouldn't make a much better phone than the NGage did, and you'd be tied to an access point.
I mean, I might do it for fun, but I doubt it'll be practical.
Actually, we had code running on the machine through the PassMe (a custom CPLD, though back then it was on an FPGA) about two weeks after the device was released. The short version: put a chip between a legitimate cart and the device, wait for the cart to authenticate, then take over and branch to the GBA slot on the bottom, where an oldschool flash cart works jus' fine.
These days, we use a patched BIOS written permanently to the device through FlashMe (only works on older DSes, though that's almost fixed) which doesn't perform the fingerprint check, and boot our games through the wireless hardware over the built in wireless multiboot system.
The bounty is about deciphering and learning to use the wifi hardware in a typical fashion, so that the device can be used with an access point as a network device. VNC, maybe web browsing, and of course, network games are on their way.
+ DS cartridges cost less than PSP UMDs (the UMD uses more plastic and metal in the casing alone than the DS cartridge does as a whole).
I wonder what gave you this idea. The manufacturing cost of a minimum size DS cartridge (64 megabits) is marginally cheaper than UMD, including case. As the size goes up, so does the cost; by the time you've hit 256 megabits, you're more expensive than a UMD.
Disks mean load times.
Certainly true, and a much bigger issue than most people admit.
+ Blu-Ray disks are not inexpensive to manufacture, when you add in the $2 million cost per production line (assuming all Blu-Ray lines will be adapted from existing DVD lines) that will get funnelled down to consumers.
This is pretty silly. You think that the Matrix Semiconductor 3d FRAM plant costs less to make than the UMD plant? (By the way, blu-ray is the next gen DVD format, not what the PSP uses. They're fundamentally different.)
+ Nintendo DS's current market share is more and more becoming predominantly teen to twenty something women. The DS was launched for the older gamer, believe it or not.
Where are you getting your data? The primary market demographic for the DS is the 7-11 cross-gender range, the secondary demographic is the 13-17 male range, and the tertiary demographic is the young male range. Young adult females are well represented in comparison to consoles, but they're certainly not the platform's primary demographic, nor are they what the platform was launched for. A quick inspection of the commercials or launch titles will tell you exactly who Nintendo thought their market was.
The PSP wireless support is terrible at best. I have not played a match of Twisted Metal to completion without getting dropped.
Yeah, that's more about your wifi hardware than the PSP. The vendors of the Nintendo and Sony wifi hardware are comparable in quality.
Also, DS supports any wi-fi connection, and provides a universal network, a-la Xbox Live, for players to connect to.
This is, admittedly, a big win. That said, they're a year late to really use it, which is a serious loss, and the libraries they ship to their developers are hamstringing in terms of the ability to use the net in any way other than a carrier to dedicated servers. To deploy actual socket-aware software would require reinventing the network stuff from the ground up, and the likelihood of Nintendo authorizing such software is near-zero.
Luckily, I'm fixing this.
Proprietary DVD format came from the fact that Nintendo agressively fights pirating, which is a hell of a lot harder to do when off-the shelf DVD-R's don't fit in your machine.
Er. The PS2 format was proprietary too. As far as off the shelf DVD-Rs, sure, the DVD-R Minis fit just fine. The primary problems with piracy in the GameCube are that 1) the discs are encrypted in a fashion that was (thank god) never broken, and 2) the discs are spun in the opposite direction of normal discs, requiring custom firmware, a laser realignment and a new motor for a writer, something well outside of the ability of most pirates.
By the time Mortal Kombat was released, Sega was already semi-dominant. Sega had a commanding lead at the beginning of the 16-bit era, which only closed in the latter years of that generation.
There's argument about this. I won't say you're wrong, but I will say I disagree with you. Many people believe the big nail that started Sega's coffin was the nonsense confusion about the saturn and the sega cd. Nintendo closed the gap primarily on software dominance; people who agree with me tend to believe that Nintendo started closing the gap about two years after the release of the SNES, primarily on total RPG and fighter dominance (go ahead, name two Genesis RPGs other than Sword of Vermillion without looking online for cues. No need to reply to do so; it's a thought exercise.) Many people believe
Handwriting recognition has not failed to take off because it's difficult; though it is difficult, it was reasonably do-able ten years ago. It failed to take off because it's impractical in use. To suggest that it'll be problematic on a machine with two CPUs because some other machine with some other product was slow on one CPU whose sum rate was the same as the pair CPUs despite doing nonparallel tasks and despite OS and application overhead
You can write in Python for any machine in which the python embedding interface can be compiled, which includes the DS. Moreover, there are roundabout ways of getting C from a python script, though god forbid you ask #python how to do it (they'll give you a bunch of non-answers, then tell you you're being hostile and ban you.)
If you really want to, you could use jython to compile through gcj to the DS directly.
I wasn't using the word nerd. I'm referring to someone's nick.
I know these things are difficult for anonymous cowards. Let me explain.
1) I didn't know the full extent of what was going on back then. I was under the impression it was a software rollback, and even then I was pretty pissed.
2) We don't act on our own. I was waiting until I talked to other ops before I acted. Luckily, I didn't have to; someone else did. That said, if I banned a regular without talking to the channel owner, I would have been a giant asshole. What I did was to act carefully.
I do remain relatively amused how badly thieves react to the tool. Nonetheless, if you bother to read what I said, I was trying to get DarkFader to release a tool to identify the bad rom. Did you bother to think about why, or who it was that reported these to the antivirus companies?
Don't bother replying if you're too much of a coward to admit who you are. I suspect your name starts with an N and ends with a D, though.
All I can say is, DF, we told you not to do it when you joked around. We told you what would happen when you speculated. You've been on the outside edge because of your relationship with known warez outfits like Golden Sun for years.
Your apology is meaningless. The damage you've done to our reputation is permanent. Every day we deal with half a dozen sanctimonious assholes in our channel who really believe we encouraged you to do this.
You're permanently banned from the homebrew community. We won't have anything to do with you ever again. It may be years before we recover from what you've done. Apologize all you want, if it makes you feel better, but you're none the better for it.
The standard forbids calling the entrypoint. Calling main() is undefined. Besides, it's silly.
The "pfft" sound you hear is coming from your readers, not the stars.
Well, you got the mold part right, at least.
Eh. Hubble's neat and all, but the honest truth is we're too technologically primitive to put anything significant into space. Instead of putting money into a replacement Hubble, we need to put that money into the technologies that would support putting something huge into orbit or on the moon instead.
It's a little like saying "we could do a lot of good shipping rice across the ocean in frigates." Well, we could do a lot more good researching planes, then sending those. Priorities are a bitch, but they're also pretty nessecary. First things first, and infrastructure is required here.
It is currently an unknown as to whether or not stars are living beings or inanimate objects. Our understanding of plasma physics and the internal electrical structure of stars is simply too small to tell for certain.
Nothing is alive until shown otherwise. By that logic, the core of the Earth is also alive, because there's a lot of energy down there too, and our understanding of the spinning molten core is simply to small to tell for certain.
The default is "no," not "maybe." You watch too much Andromeda. Stars don't hold councils, nor do they fight vaguely demonish enemies. They're big furnaces, and until Betelgeuse says "hi," that's not changing, no matter what your crystal chakras or aether buddies tell you.
Resent the implication that you're a mystic? Fine, and as well you should. By the way, a mystic is someone who says "well you don't know it isn't there." That's exactly what you just did.
By the way, the chances that any form of life could tolerate the immense stresses placed onto it by thermonuclear furnaces are vanishingly small. Dice aren't life, and there's nothing but dice inside a star. Life needs order to survive. Nothing can withstand its constituent matter being blown apart literally billions of times a second, no matter how badly you want for it to.
When you show me a Burger King at the center of the sun, I'll apologize.
A physicist, mathematician, priest and lawyer were arguing about whose profession was older.
The physicist noted that even apes study their world, which was the fundamental practice of a physicist; thusly certainly theirs was the first profession.
The mathematician retorted that even simple animals could count, such as to check whether all their children remained, and that since counting was the basis of study, his occupation surely was older.
The priest remarked that more primal was to sort normalcy from chaos, such as to flee from fire, or to help the wounded, and that since god was the core of order, clearly his vocation was still older.
All then turned to the then silent lawyer, who simply leaned forward and said, "who do you think made that chaos?"
Well, that's cute and all, except that we actually do have photographs of this occurring. Just because you don't know about what's going on doesn't mean the sciences don't.
Sure, there's a chance we don't understand what we're looking at. There's also a chance that evolution is wrong, or that mathematics is wrong, or that we're all shackled up in Plato's cave. That said, the Skeptic movement died out some 2500 years ago, because living your life by saying "you can't prove that" is futile. Sure, we can't prove it. But we've got damned strong models, huge amounts of supporting data, and some surprisingly pretty pictures.
Find something credible that suggests that a cloud of hydrogen acting under its own gravity wouldn't collapse and form a star, and we'll talk. Unless, of course, you think gravity is suspect too? Or, maybe hydrogen just doesn't fuse? Perhaps Wile E Coyote was putting dynamite in the particle colliders, trying to keep us from accreting a road runner.
By the way, it's one of my pet peeves when someone who can't even spell peeve gets on a soapbox ranting at other people about their fundamental capacities.
I'd say mod parent down, but given that he doesn't seem to believe in simple gravity, it's not clear whether he'll realize in what direction he's going.
Well, not that a remote star passing through our solar system is particularly likely either, but it's worth pointing out that a star passing within twice the radius of the Oort cloud would be enough to significantly alter our planet's orbit, to the point where our ecosphere would be annihilated, and if we were lucky maybe we could hide from new deadly weather under domes.
Granted, stripping two digits out of that mantissa makes it insignificantly less spectacularly unlikely.
First, considering that IGN actually saw the hardware and had more detail in their article than anyone else, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Well, that's your choice to make. That said, IGN's history of speculative commentary shows a litany of bad speculation presented as insider information. The several examples I gave were credible, and easily researched.
Maybe more importantly, there are no such sensors in the example video.
I don't know where you learned to separate truth from fiction, but citing IRC comments as an authoritative source doesn't give you a whole lot of credibility.
Oh for christ's sake, nobody cited those as authoratative sources. That was an attempt at humor. Take the stick out, corporal.
Second, in ALL of your examples of gripped objects, the thumb is curled into a ball. If the object is small enough, the thumb ends up between the first and second fingers. The Revolution is quite different.
Well, no, that's not actually true of the motorcycle grips, many melee weapons, some telephones (I'm sure you'll suggest all phones are small, but that's relatively recent,) certainly not true of most sporting equipment, or torches. By my count, only about half of my examples incur a thumb bend of more than a right angle. One wonders if you've ever ridden a motorcycle, held a football or wielded a mace.
That said, I don't see that the angle of the thumb is terribly germane. The human hand was designed for a non-controlled natural world. It is equally well suited to carrying things like large rocks, melons and coconuts, carcasses and the like. I don't see any compelling reason to believe that this distinction at all matters, whether or not it is valid.
Extending it at that angle and wiggling it under pressure for prolonged periods of time looks painful to me.
Yes, and I'm sure the famed Nintendo ergonomics engineers missed that one. Does it not occur to you that these things are designed by educated people?
Besides, there's virtually no pressure involved in holding something which is likely to weigh less than six ounces, and I don't have the faintest idea why you think the thumb would be "wiggling," nor in fact why that would matter. The mucles which govern knuckle movement in the thumb aren't even on the same side of the digit as the ones which keep the thumb in place.
As far as your last comment goes... I'm sure you're very knowledgeable about pornography, but I don't really see how it's relevant.
It was another joke. Until you turned nasty, I thought this conversation quite amicable. Maybe you didn't notice, but asserting pornographic relation is a common joke with this device. I was just trying to give you a laugh.
I'll know better next time.
Please refer to my original post - they're the first company to really make it work. I never claimed that they invented it. In fact, the statement in my original post was to prevent people such as you from arguing that point.
No amount of making hollow, unprovable statements like "make it work" will change that the Intellivision controller in question outsold every Nintendo external peripheral until the Max. Similarly, tacking on something true like that Nintendo revitalized an industry doesn't fortify your original mistake about Nintendo being the first to make something work, when companies outsold them more than five years earlier on exactly the same terms.
That's just not true. The Colecovision and Intellivision both made that design work 10 years before Nintendo hit the market at all. Just because you don't remember how popular those consoles were doesn't mean they weren't popular.
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You underestimate my age.
It's your knowledge I'm estimating, not your age. My grandmother doesn't know anything thing about Intellivision. Furthermore, based on your statements, such as that Nintendo invented something they didn't, that there was no Intellivision magazine or toy line (hell, Pac-Man alone had its own magazine, TV show, and toy line,) I stand by my estimate.
IGN claims that the Revolution will require sensors deployed on either side of the TV.
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IGN also claimed that the DS would be an internet phone, that the Playstation would be defeated by the GameCube, and that the XBox then later the N-Gage was the future of gaming. Choose your sources wisely.
What concerns me about the controller is the constant thumb pressure. That's not at all a 'normal' grip position.
It can be argued that that is in fact the defacto grip for all human tools. Consider knives, hammers, toothbrushes, motorcycle grips, almost every non-projectile weapon, your telephone, your beer, cups, remote controls, many musical instruments, microphones, most non-projectile sporting equipment, steering wheels, most simple tools, torches, flashlights, and so on. Many of those things are used for hours at a time without problems, even when they're significantly heavier than that controller is likely to be.
Projector people are known to snicker, "You still measure your screen size in inches? How quaint."
Pornographers say similar things.