"Tengu (?, "heavenly dogs") are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature. They are one of the best known ykai (monster-spirits) and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami (revered spirits or gods)." Wikipedia is awesome
Most tasks can be done with 5 fingers, so even if you've lost one whole arm you should still be able to do 90% of the tasks shown. The only thing that'd be hard would be the multi-tasking (eg Zoom out + Move Window), everything else would be okay.
the final few seconds of the vid shows it as a suppliment to a keyboard (below it) so while you're using WASD for movement you can still use the pad like a mouse
OR you can use the left hand for movement on the pad (splitting the left side into Forward/back/left/right sections) totally ignoring the keyboard. Combine it with it's own thin screen below it to display custom click areas, and boom! FPS. Could even replace the keyboard in that case
Android is definitly a tempting choice for development - purely because of the ease in which you can push a product to market. But then again, there's also Symbian, which is used on things like the Nokia N97, which has been around for ages (in various itterations), the latest one is the true smart-phone style thing, but I have a 3 year old phone with an older version of Symbian on it that can still run Java Games, meaning there is already the possibility of a large market for simple apps that can run on older phones as well as the newer smartphones
There used to be 3 GAME shops within 5 minutes walk of each other in Glasgow, one in the Buchanan Galleries (which used to be an Electronics Boutique) one on Buchanan St, and one at the St Enoch Center at the bottom of Buchanan St (Which also used to be an EB). Now the one on Buchanan St has closed, we have a GAME on Sauchiehall St (about 3 blocks along from the top of Buchanan St), and it's massive. The only reason they opened it is because Gamestation opened up a shop there and it was the only part of Glasgow's main Shopping district they didn't have a shop in:P
You really have alot of bile towards PHP. Why, if so many people are using it, and continue to use it, do you think it's a bad language? You have yet to say *why* it is a bad language, all you've spouted some blue language and shown us your vitriol.
As for Crayons. Alot of nice art can be done with crayons, if they're in the hands of someone competent.
all the bullet points in the article are examples of things he *wants* to do, that he *pledges* to do. Nuclear Disarmament, he's working with the Russians to mothball more nukes Climate Change, he's stated his goals for it Human Rights, he's begining the closure of Guantanamo Bay Iraq, begun pulling out troops and no comment has been made on Afghanistan, where the pull is for *more* not less troops.
"A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry links daily consumption of candy at the age of 10 to an increased chance of being convicted of a violent crime by age 34"
It doesn't say how much of an increased chance, and whether or not other rewards (such as toys, or non-candy foodstuffs) would also increase this. Is it the candy that's causing the impulsive behaviour or the rewards themselves? If it's the Candy, which chemical, or mixture of chemicals, is causing it and is it contained in all candy? The article doesn't say, and I'm certainly not paying to read the whole thing.
Eating Candy at the age of 10 does not put you in jail 24 years later.
The moment I realised that WoW was just Facebook for me I pulled out of it. I realised it wasn't fun anymore, it was just for friends and waiting for new content. When that new content was the lacklustre haphazard Crusaders Colluseum that cemented my desire to leave. All the friends I wanted to talk to in game I have on MSN anyway, so I jumped ship, no point paying a subscription to do that.
Thank god only AS3 is supported. Although, most of what our company outputs is AS2, mainly because our primary clients have paranoid and backwards IT techs who refuse to update their flash players, or low-budget IT Depts who are still using Pentium IIIs. Anything that'll give us some leverage to put AS3 into practice is well worth it "Sure, you can have it on the iPhone, but only if you update your flash player on your PCs"
I work for a company that makes mainly Flash-based software. The thing about Flash is that with the same source code (totally unchanged between versions) we can output a web application and a stand-alone executable (for example, to go on a CD). Something which our clients love is the multi-format, multi medium nature of Flash. Yes, most of this can be done with Java, but not in the same amount of time and not with the same artist-integration Flash has.
On the topic of iPhone integration, if Flash CS5 lets almost anyone make iPhone apps will this slow the approval of apps as every Tom Dick and Harry will be submitting their Newgrounds fodder? Not only this, but does this mean we can create and compile iPhone apps on the PC? As far as I'm aware it can only be done on Mac OSX with their Objective-C libs at the moment (one of the reasons we've not already started iPhone development is the lack of Macs in our office... or iPhones)
Once you get the whole Ascension thing and have watched "Prometheus" (So end of Series 6) you're pretty much up to speed on what's needed for SGU tech-wise. Maybe watch the first Series of Atlantis to get some Ancient tech ideas, but it's not really that worth it.
I get the feeling that we'll find out it was actually Rush that contacted the Lucien Alliance in order to attack the planet, so that it'd free enough energy from the core to dial the gate. If I'm right then I'll likely stop watching it, as me guessing a major plot point like that was par for the course for Atlantis:P
If Firefly had been called Starfly it'd have suceeded
Look at the 3 biggest Sci-fi franchises. Star Trek (5 TV Spin-offs, 11 Movies, countless books, 40 years old) Star Wars (7 Movies, 1 TV series, countless books too, 30 years old) StarGate (1 Movie, 2 DVD Movies, 3 TV Spin-offs, lots of books too, 15 years old)
Then you have BattleSTAR Galactica, 2 Spin-offs and one in the works, also 30 years old.
Next time you're pitching a script, put STAR in the title name somewhere, it'll go far!
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"Tengu (?, "heavenly dogs") are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature. They are one of the best known ykai (monster-spirits) and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami (revered spirits or gods)."
Wikipedia is awesome
Most tasks can be done with 5 fingers, so even if you've lost one whole arm you should still be able to do 90% of the tasks shown. The only thing that'd be hard would be the multi-tasking (eg Zoom out + Move Window), everything else would be okay.
the final few seconds of the vid shows it as a suppliment to a keyboard (below it)
so while you're using WASD for movement you can still use the pad like a mouse
OR you can use the left hand for movement on the pad (splitting the left side into Forward/back/left/right sections) totally ignoring the keyboard. Combine it with it's own thin screen below it to display custom click areas, and boom! FPS.
Could even replace the keyboard in that case
Android is definitly a tempting choice for development - purely because of the ease in which you can push a product to market. But then again, there's also Symbian, which is used on things like the Nokia N97, which has been around for ages (in various itterations), the latest one is the true smart-phone style thing, but I have a 3 year old phone with an older version of Symbian on it that can still run Java Games, meaning there is already the possibility of a large market for simple apps that can run on older phones as well as the newer smartphones
I loved Stephen Fry's quote on this
There used to be 3 GAME shops within 5 minutes walk of each other in Glasgow, one in the Buchanan Galleries (which used to be an Electronics Boutique) one on Buchanan St, and one at the St Enoch Center at the bottom of Buchanan St (Which also used to be an EB). Now the one on Buchanan St has closed, we have a GAME on Sauchiehall St (about 3 blocks along from the top of Buchanan St), and it's massive. The only reason they opened it is because Gamestation opened up a shop there and it was the only part of Glasgow's main Shopping district they didn't have a shop in :P
Universal Serial Puss?
You really have alot of bile towards PHP. Why, if so many people are using it, and continue to use it, do you think it's a bad language? You have yet to say *why* it is a bad language, all you've spouted some blue language and shown us your vitriol.
As for Crayons. Alot of nice art can be done with crayons, if they're in the hands of someone competent.
all the bullet points in the article are examples of things he *wants* to do, that he *pledges* to do.
Nuclear Disarmament, he's working with the Russians to mothball more nukes
Climate Change, he's stated his goals for it
Human Rights, he's begining the closure of Guantanamo Bay
Iraq, begun pulling out troops
and no comment has been made on Afghanistan, where the pull is for *more* not less troops.
so your e-peen IS worth something after all :D
Unless we use a Bussard Ramjet to collect interstellar dust...
True. This is more of a Relativisitc Drive.
One step closer to Revelation Space
"A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry links daily consumption of candy at the age of 10 to an increased chance of being convicted of a violent crime by age 34"
It doesn't say how much of an increased chance, and whether or not other rewards (such as toys, or non-candy foodstuffs) would also increase this. Is it the candy that's causing the impulsive behaviour or the rewards themselves? If it's the Candy, which chemical, or mixture of chemicals, is causing it and is it contained in all candy?
The article doesn't say, and I'm certainly not paying to read the whole thing.
Eating Candy at the age of 10 does not put you in jail 24 years later.
*dons Kevlar vest*
*rewards you with candy*
correllation is not causation?
The moment I realised that WoW was just Facebook for me I pulled out of it. I realised it wasn't fun anymore, it was just for friends and waiting for new content. When that new content was the lacklustre haphazard Crusaders Colluseum that cemented my desire to leave. All the friends I wanted to talk to in game I have on MSN anyway, so I jumped ship, no point paying a subscription to do that.
It's probably just a remake of Castle of Illusion
this looks like it should be on star trek - and it's much nicer looking than that silly circular one
Thank god only AS3 is supported.
Although, most of what our company outputs is AS2, mainly because our primary clients have paranoid and backwards IT techs who refuse to update their flash players, or low-budget IT Depts who are still using Pentium IIIs.
Anything that'll give us some leverage to put AS3 into practice is well worth it
"Sure, you can have it on the iPhone, but only if you update your flash player on your PCs"
I work for a company that makes mainly Flash-based software. The thing about Flash is that with the same source code (totally unchanged between versions) we can output a web application and a stand-alone executable (for example, to go on a CD). Something which our clients love is the multi-format, multi medium nature of Flash. Yes, most of this can be done with Java, but not in the same amount of time and not with the same artist-integration Flash has.
On the topic of iPhone integration, if Flash CS5 lets almost anyone make iPhone apps will this slow the approval of apps as every Tom Dick and Harry will be submitting their Newgrounds fodder? Not only this, but does this mean we can create and compile iPhone apps on the PC? As far as I'm aware it can only be done on Mac OSX with their Objective-C libs at the moment (one of the reasons we've not already started iPhone development is the lack of Macs in our office... or iPhones)
Once you get the whole Ascension thing and have watched "Prometheus" (So end of Series 6) you're pretty much up to speed on what's needed for SGU tech-wise. Maybe watch the first Series of Atlantis to get some Ancient tech ideas, but it's not really that worth it.
I get the feeling that we'll find out it was actually Rush that contacted the Lucien Alliance in order to attack the planet, so that it'd free enough energy from the core to dial the gate. If I'm right then I'll likely stop watching it, as me guessing a major plot point like that was par for the course for Atlantis :P
If Firefly had been called Starfly it'd have suceeded
Look at the 3 biggest Sci-fi franchises.
Star Trek (5 TV Spin-offs, 11 Movies, countless books, 40 years old)
Star Wars (7 Movies, 1 TV series, countless books too, 30 years old)
StarGate (1 Movie, 2 DVD Movies, 3 TV Spin-offs, lots of books too, 15 years old)
Then you have BattleSTAR Galactica, 2 Spin-offs and one in the works, also 30 years old.
Next time you're pitching a script, put STAR in the title name somewhere, it'll go far!
Nice idea, It'd have been a more visceral scene too. Might not have passed the muster for it's timeslot though :P