Certainly not. But if an organization like CNN or BBC ran the story, it would give those sensible people more publicity, and it would help the Western world realize that there are moderate voices in the country. Otherwise all we end up with are snarky comments like "they should just start burkha-book".
What is nice to see is that there has been a protest against the ban by students and professors
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=162813&cid=2
Unfortunately, this probably doesn't make for as exciting news as yet-another-theocracy-bans-facebook. A search on Google News for "bangladesh facebook" doesn't even throw up this link, and I haven't yet seen any mention of these sensible, logical voices on BBC,CNN etc.
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I'd highly recommend getting hold of the BBC documentary "Tetris : From Russia with love". Link
Also, there was a game design challenge a few years ago at GDC. Mr. Pajitnov was one of the participants (and the eventual winner I think), and I loved the way he approached the problem
I'm not sure what the plan is now, but when the Nano was first unveiled Ratan Tata (the CEO) said that they would be focusing on selling the car in smaller cities.
The larger cities like Delhi and Mumbai have good public transport systems, and most people are pragmatic enough to realize that a train will get them to work faster (and cheaper) than driving in a car. I worked in Mumbai for two years, and I was earning more than enough money to own a regular car (and pay a driver!) but I still used public transport on a daily basis. The same is true for almost all of my peers.
I don't think there will be too many people buying this thing as a status symbol. I see it being primarily bought by lower-to-middle income families in the smaller cities, or in villages which are well connected to neighboring cities. If you ever visited India, you'd see some of these people taking their whole family on a single motorcycle which is dangerous.
I said "Many of them" and not "all of them". Perhaps I should have said "some of them". I also think that there are more scholarships available for masters/PhD programmes than for undergraduate studies.
It just seems illogical to me that this country would not want to keep the professionals whose education they paid for.
There's also the fact that many of them get scholarships/fellowships/teaching assistantships from US universities. Essentially, American taxpayer money has gone into funding their education, and because of idiotic political reasons they are going back. Of course the layman just sees them as taking up a job, and won't see the fact that a) They could create more jobs b) A US-educated immigrant going back is a net loss (in terms of taxpayer money) for the country.
"In my opinion, you're talking out of your ass. Have you ever considered that perhaps controller design has reached a point of mautrity? There's a reason that keyboards and mice are fundamentally the same as they were 20 years ago - the input device works, and it works well."
The keyboard and mouse do not fundamentally deter people from using a computer. Modern controllers do simply because they look too complicated to the layman. I think its pretty obvious what is more intuitive - rotating analog sticks to control your _rate_ of looking around in an FPS, or making small precise movements with your wrist to achieve the same thing.
"The problems with the Revolution controller are numerous. First, it eliminates compatibility - games that play well on the PS3 or XBox 360 will likely play poorly on the Revolution. And most (if not all) of the first-person-shooters on the Cube were XBox/PS2 simultaneous releases or ports. The "different" controller makes companies like EA question whether they even want to do a port. Now, you may argue that companies will make exclusive Revolution FPS games, but that wasn't the case with the Cube, and there is no reason to believe that it will be the case with the Revolution."
Point taken. I'm having a hard time trying to imagine how certain genres (such as sports) can even be played using the revolution controller. However if you look fundamentally, all the analog sticks + dpad on normal controllers do is capture directional information - the revolution controller just does it differently. So there is still a chance that with a little thought, a developer could come up with a good interface for revolution ports.
"Second, the analog controller is awkward. You're going to need it for movement control in FPS games, but it's attached to the "main" controller with a damn cable. That basically rules out fast movements of the Revolution controller. Third, you need to make big movements to make small changes with the Revolution controller. That's bad from an ergonomic standpoint. Can you imagine moving your arm around in the air (or, for that matter, twisting your wrist) for multiple hours on end?"
This is completely wrong. If you read what the parent said - and this has been confirmed by a number of people who were present at the demonstration Miyamoto gave at TGS - you make _large_ movements onscreen simply by flicking your wrist. So effectively, you use the analog stick attachment and the 'remote' with your hands resting on your lap comfortably. Nintendo themselves are probably to blame for this misconception because they showed a guy jumping out from behind a sofa waving his arms frantically in the video at TGS.
"Fourth, it has very few buttons. If you use the d-pad for weapon selection, Start for the menu, a for primary fire, and b for secondary fire, you still need to find another button for jumping, a button for "Use", a button for reload, a button for crouch - where are these buttons going to come from? How are you even going to use the buttons at the bottom of the remote?"
The analog attachment has two trigger buttons. Having too many buttons will simply go against their philosophy of trying to make things simpler.
"Nintendo is a very unique and innovative controller. But designing a controller that is radically different is a bad move for a company that very much needs third-party involvement. In the end, the games make the system. And Nintendo cannot deliver a compelling game lineup without 3rd party developers."
Only time will tell if third-party developers are ready to and do make quality games. I surely hope they do, Nintendo needs it and the game industry does need a company like Nintendo.
I remember Iwata stating at E3 that he was pushing the Nintendo Dev teams to create a Super Smash Brothers for the the Revolution's launch. Couple that with the fact that Miyamoto and co. _always_ pay a great deal of attention to the control interface and I'm sure they'll come up with a nice way to implement a fighting game using the new controller.
A BIG "if." What evidence do we have of this? Medical school admission in the US is extremely competitive, likely the most competitive academic process in the US. I'd like to see some evidence that "Indian doctors are probably at least as good as those one is likely to get in the U.S." There are competitive schools in India, but to make a blanket statement about Indian doctors is ludicrous. After all, don't a lot of brilliant Indians come to the U.S. to attend grad school?
And would you agree that it's incorrect to make a blanket statement about doctors in the US ? There will be incompetent doctors _everywhere_ but you can rest assured that if you're paying 10,000$ for a surgery in India, the doctor _is_ pretty darn good (10,000$ is a rather huge amount that only the elite Indian hospitals can demand). As far as competition goes, the country's premier medical institution - AIIMS (All India Insitutue of Medical Sciences), has an entrance examination given by around half a million people, out of which only 40 people get selected. I seriously doubt if this level of competition is ever witnessed in the US.
Again, just because the cost of surgery is an order of magnitude lower in India, it simply doesn't mean that the quality is low. All costs that go into the surgery - hospital labor, equipment etc. are simply so much cheaper in India.
Well, the idea is pretty neat. There are a few things about it though that might turn off _regular_ sports games players 1) Licenses - Players would generally like to think that they are playing for a major team (say Manchester United in football). They might not enjoy the experience of playing the game if they were playing street football. (One of the reasons why the FIFA 200x series is so popular despite having relatively shallow gameplay as compared to Pro Evolution Soccer).
2) How do you address the aspect of every player wanting to be a part of the action. Take the case of football again. Almost everyone, would like to be in control of the player who is dribbling the ball. Playing the game sort of loses it's excitement if one has to stand at the back of the defense.
Of course it's highly possible that there does exist an audience for whom the above two shortcomings don't really matter, and who would like the concept of starting out as a street player,moving up to the major league, and along the way breaking away from 'guilds' of players whose skills they have surpassed. There could even be roles for managers/coaches of teams .
Does the violence in games have a positive social effect ? Probably not. Does it have a negative social effect ? Probably not.
But to say that the violence in games is unnecessary to gameplay is going a bit too far . Your argument that having fights is a cheap and lazy way of writing a computer game is inappropriate. It takes a fair bit of programming skill to have good enemy AI, which can vastly enrich the experience of a first person shooter. I found this especailly true in Halo, a game with the best enemy AI I've ever seen. In the case of games like Doom3 the monsters (which have very little intelligence, being monsters) simply add to the atmosphere of fear and dread which is the purpose of the game. It would be a shame if the Doom3 engine was used to make a game full of jumping puzzles (something which I absolutely detest in an FPS, but which you seem to like).
I don't think anyone realises what India's major problem is... it is population. India has an astounding rate of growth of population because of which all it's economic progress in the last 50 years is made to look like zilch.
What's worse is that the government eats up a lot of the money. A lot of ministries have post which have become redundant because of computerisation. The amount of money spent on the government is staggering.
This is why India has to turn it's attention to new technologies like IT and Space technology. It's very easy for you to say "Help the poor" but where is the money going to come from. India did miss out on the Industrial revolution which is why it can't afford to do so in the case of the information revolution and the space revolution.
Once it does acquire enough expertise in the space technology it could prove to be a valuable source of revenue. I have my reservations about their IT policy though... they spend money on building fancy software company offices and green IT parks. What the government really ought to be doing is improving the telecom and power infrastructure so that IT cos. here can be more productive.
In essence what I'm trying to say is that... if you think in the short term India should not be spending all this money on space and information technology. And yes, they can stop spending on IT and space technolgy.But in the long term it is important for India to get a foothold in these critical areas. Didn't England have poor people before the Industrial Revolution ?
I live in India where Linux is easily available. Almost every month some PC mag. has a linux distro on it and costs just 2.5$ or so. To date... having gone to the biggest bookstores I haven't come across any book carrying FreeBSD. There's a LUG in every city in India, and every guy who uses is *nix is using linux.
Everyone would then naturally want to use linux then.
What do YOU think is better... selling 5000 CDs of Os X for 100$, or 50 machines at 2000$, with an almost zero production cost for the former and quite a large one for the latter ?
It's based on Unix meaning that stuff like the kernel and other services have all been taken from Unix. What the guys at Apple have done is just provide a front-end to it and modified the base system so that it runs better on macs. Essentially what they've done is provide an interface to cryptic unix
Teacher's in India are mostly those people who can't find other work and resort to teaching as a last alternative.
Considering that teacher's here are paid less than 150$ (5000 Rupees) in most places a month there's no doubt why.
I was lucky enough to go to a private school and even there there were some teacher's who were lousy. But there were a lot of good ones. If I had to pick one it would be my 10th grade Mathematics Teacher (and also the school Vice Principal) Mr. Kapadia who left school 2 years back. I really can't pick out why everyone liked him so much... he was impartial, funny, handsome, intelligent, dedicated.
The biggest thing that stood out from him was that he was highly qualified himself. He chose this profession because he wanted to and not because he was forced to. I remember that in the 5 years he was in school... he missed only one day. He'd be willing to teach after the school hours as well.
Now he's in Pittsburgh doing a PhD on something related to black holes.
I'm a pathetic Tolkien Fan... one of those people who reads the book 10 times a year.... and I really have been looking forward to the movie and I still haven't seen the trailer (Internet in India is slow)
But one thing I do have is the BBC's rendition of LOTR on CD which is great. It' a great way of telling this magnificent story and it also allows you to use your own imagination.
Whenever a fantasy or sci fi book is made into a movie people have a tendency to imagine the world as it's shown in the movie and the very essence of fantasy is lost... everyone then has the same interpretation of the world that has been created. So if any of you haven't read the book or heard the CD's you should do it before the movie releases.
But the excitement this movie is generating is amazing. It's surely going to entice more and more people to read the books. All I'd like to say is.. FRODO LIVES !!!
Does anyone ever remember when Steve Jobs re-entered apple and stopped the cloning. He publicly called cos. that made Mac Clones "leeches". So as long as Apple keeps it's hardware standards proprietary, and as long as Mister Jobs is there, Mac OS X is never going to make the Open Source Community scratch it's neck
One statement I'd like to make... The Lord of the Rings is the greatest book of all time in my humble opinion.
About the movie... the trailer looks fine (i'm talking about the old one) but there is a problem.. american accents. Now Tolkien never explicitly stated that the characters spoke with a british accent. But for me.. american accents don't go well with these historical movies. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood was a real joke. They have got some British actors like Hugo Weaving and Ian Mckellen playing Elrond and Gandalf but Liv Tyler as Arwen and Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn ??? I don't know but I sure would hate to hear Aragorn saying "Arrrwen... I surre do Love ya "
But one thing... American Accents sure would suit the orcs. Esp. a bit of a western accent.
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Wow !! You ought to get this thing on the market... but if you do you should solemnly pledge that you will never let Mircosoft buy it.
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I don't mean remove distance totally... what I meant was that in real life if we have to go from say one building to another we have to actually walk.. in the 3D interface we could tell the computer to take us to the building instead of us pressing the up arrow key for 5 minutes
These guys who are all trying to make 3DUI's are going the wrong way.. they're all trying to map 2D environments into 3D space which isn't a radical thing at all. I think that a 3D interface would be really intuitive if it mimicked real life as closely as possible but removed the bottlenecks we have...distance for one. A combination of a 3D environment with voice recognition might result in a totally new type of interface. For example.. whenever someone goes to the office he actually can walk around using a keyboard or mouse (or give a voice command to go to the office) (i think if a cheap 3d glove could be made available it'd be great)... he'd give a voice command to his secretary to send a letter which he would dictate....if he had to have a video conference he'd go to a conference hall in the virtual building and everyone's video would be displayed in the hall.
2D interfaces are intuitive enough for people familiar with computers particularly the younger generation (heck... a CUI is the best for us geeks) but if you look at senior citizens they are totally lost even in a GUI (at least my parents are... and their friends)
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Certainly not. But if an organization like CNN or BBC ran the story, it would give those sensible people more publicity, and it would help the Western world realize that there are moderate voices in the country. Otherwise all we end up with are snarky comments like "they should just start burkha-book".
What is nice to see is that there has been a protest against the ban by students and professors
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=162813&cid=2
Unfortunately, this probably doesn't make for as exciting news as yet-another-theocracy-bans-facebook. A search on Google News for "bangladesh facebook" doesn't even throw up this link, and I haven't yet seen any mention of these sensible, logical voices on BBC,CNN etc.
I'd highly recommend getting hold of the BBC documentary "Tetris : From Russia with love". Link
Also, there was a game design challenge a few years ago at GDC. Mr. Pajitnov was one of the participants (and the eventual winner I think), and I loved the way he approached the problem
Link
I'm not sure what the plan is now, but when the Nano was first unveiled Ratan Tata (the CEO) said that they would be focusing on selling the car in smaller cities.
The larger cities like Delhi and Mumbai have good public transport systems, and most people are pragmatic enough to realize that a train will get them to work faster (and cheaper) than driving in a car. I worked in Mumbai for two years, and I was earning more than enough money to own a regular car (and pay a driver!) but I still used public transport on a daily basis. The same is true for almost all of my peers.
I don't think there will be too many people buying this thing as a status symbol. I see it being primarily bought by lower-to-middle income families in the smaller cities, or in villages which are well connected to neighboring cities. If you ever visited India, you'd see some of these people taking their whole family on a single motorcycle which is dangerous.
This talk between Will Wright and Brian Eno about the joys and challenges of working with procedural content is great
http://blog.longnow.org/2006/06/26/will-wright-and-brian-eno-playing-with-time/
I said "Many of them" and not "all of them". Perhaps I should have said "some of them". I also think that there are more scholarships available for masters/PhD programmes than for undergraduate studies.
It just seems illogical to me that this country would not want to keep the professionals whose education they paid for.
There's also the fact that many of them get scholarships/fellowships/teaching assistantships from US universities. Essentially, American taxpayer money has gone into funding their education, and because of idiotic political reasons they are going back. Of course the layman just sees them as taking up a job, and won't see the fact that
a) They could create more jobs
b) A US-educated immigrant going back is a net loss (in terms of taxpayer money) for the country.
"In my opinion, you're talking out of your ass. Have you ever considered that perhaps controller design has reached a point of mautrity? There's a reason that keyboards and mice are fundamentally the same as they were 20 years ago - the input device works, and it works well."
The keyboard and mouse do not fundamentally deter people from using a computer. Modern controllers do simply because they look too complicated to the layman. I think its pretty obvious what is more intuitive - rotating analog sticks to control your _rate_ of looking around in an FPS, or making small precise movements with your wrist to achieve the same thing.
"The problems with the Revolution controller are numerous.
First, it eliminates compatibility - games that play well on the PS3 or XBox 360 will likely play poorly on the Revolution. And most (if not all) of the first-person-shooters on the Cube were XBox/PS2 simultaneous releases or ports. The "different" controller makes companies like EA question whether they even want to do a port. Now, you may argue that companies will make exclusive Revolution FPS games, but that wasn't the case with the Cube, and there is no reason to believe that it will be the case with the Revolution."
Point taken. I'm having a hard time trying to imagine how certain genres (such as sports) can even be played using the revolution controller. However if you look fundamentally, all the analog sticks + dpad on normal controllers do is capture directional information - the revolution controller just does it differently. So there is still a chance that with a little thought, a developer could come up with a good interface for revolution ports.
"Second, the analog controller is awkward. You're going to need it for movement control in FPS games, but it's attached to the "main" controller with a damn cable. That basically rules out fast movements of the Revolution controller.
Third, you need to make big movements to make small changes with the Revolution controller. That's bad from an ergonomic standpoint. Can you imagine moving your arm around in the air (or, for that matter, twisting your wrist) for multiple hours on end?"
This is completely wrong. If you read what the parent said - and this has been confirmed by a number of people who were present at the demonstration Miyamoto gave at TGS - you make _large_ movements onscreen simply by flicking your wrist. So effectively, you use the analog stick attachment and the 'remote' with your hands resting on your lap comfortably. Nintendo themselves are probably to blame for this misconception because they showed a guy jumping out from behind a sofa waving his arms frantically in the video at TGS.
"Fourth, it has very few buttons. If you use the d-pad for weapon selection, Start for the menu, a for primary fire, and b for secondary fire, you still need to find another button for jumping, a button for "Use", a button for reload, a button for crouch - where are these buttons going to come from? How are you even going to use the buttons at the bottom of the remote?"
The analog attachment has two trigger buttons. Having too many buttons will simply go against their philosophy of trying to make things simpler.
"Nintendo is a very unique and innovative controller. But designing a controller that is radically different is a bad move for a company that very much needs third-party involvement. In the end, the games make the system. And Nintendo cannot deliver a compelling game lineup without 3rd party developers."
Only time will tell if third-party developers are ready to and do make quality games. I surely hope they do, Nintendo needs it and the game industry does need a company like Nintendo.
I remember Iwata stating at E3 that he was pushing the Nintendo Dev teams to create a Super Smash Brothers for the the Revolution's launch. Couple that with the fact that Miyamoto and co. _always_ pay a great deal of attention to the control interface and I'm sure they'll come up with a nice way to implement a fighting game using the new controller.
A BIG "if." What evidence do we have of this? Medical school admission in the US is extremely competitive, likely the most competitive academic process in the US. I'd like to see some evidence that "Indian doctors are probably at least as good as those one is likely to get in the U.S." There are competitive schools in India, but to make a blanket statement about Indian doctors is ludicrous. After all, don't a lot of brilliant Indians come to the U.S. to attend grad school?
And would you agree that it's incorrect to make a blanket statement about doctors in the US ? There will be incompetent doctors _everywhere_ but you can rest assured that if you're paying 10,000$ for a surgery in India, the doctor _is_ pretty darn good (10,000$ is a rather huge amount that only the elite Indian hospitals can demand). As far as competition goes, the country's premier medical institution - AIIMS (All India Insitutue of Medical Sciences), has an entrance examination given by around half a million people, out of which only 40 people get selected. I seriously doubt if this level of competition is ever witnessed in the US.
Again, just because the cost of surgery is an order of magnitude lower in India, it simply doesn't mean that the quality is low. All costs that go into the surgery - hospital labor, equipment etc. are simply so much cheaper in India.
Well, the idea is pretty neat. There are a few things about it though that might turn off _regular_ sports games players
,moving up to the major league, and along the way breaking away from 'guilds' of players whose skills they have surpassed. There could even be roles for managers/coaches of teams .
1) Licenses - Players would generally like to think that they are playing for a major team (say Manchester United in football). They might not enjoy the experience of playing the game if they were playing street football. (One of the reasons why the FIFA 200x series is so popular despite having relatively shallow gameplay as compared to Pro Evolution Soccer).
2) How do you address the aspect of every player wanting to be a part of the action. Take the case of football again. Almost everyone, would like to be in control of the player who is dribbling the ball. Playing the game sort of loses it's excitement if one has to stand at the back of the defense.
Of course it's highly possible that there does exist an audience for whom the above two shortcomings don't really matter, and who would like the concept of starting out as a street player
Does the violence in games have a positive social effect ? Probably not. Does it have a negative social effect ? Probably not.
But to say that the violence in games is unnecessary to gameplay is going a bit too far . Your argument that having fights is a cheap and lazy way of writing a computer game is inappropriate. It takes a fair bit of programming skill to have good enemy AI, which can vastly enrich the experience of a first person shooter. I found this especailly true in Halo, a game with the best enemy AI I've ever seen. In the case of games like Doom3 the monsters (which have very little intelligence, being monsters) simply add to the atmosphere of fear and dread which is the purpose of the game. It would be a shame if the Doom3 engine was used to make a game full of jumping puzzles (something which I absolutely detest in an FPS, but which you seem to like).
I don't think anyone realises what India's major problem is ... it is population. India has an astounding rate of growth of population because of which all it's economic progress in the last 50 years is made to look like zilch.
What's worse is that the government eats up a lot of the money. A lot of ministries have post which have become redundant because of computerisation. The amount of money spent on the government is staggering.
This is why India has to turn it's attention to new technologies like IT and Space technology. It's very easy for you to say "Help the poor" but where is the money going to come from. India did miss out on the Industrial revolution which is why it can't afford to do so in the case of the information revolution and the space revolution.
Once it does acquire enough expertise in the space technology it could prove to be a valuable source of revenue. I have my reservations about their IT policy though... they spend money on building fancy software company offices and green IT parks. What the government really ought to be doing is improving the telecom and power infrastructure so that IT cos. here can be more productive.
In essence what I'm trying to say is that... if you think in the short term India should not be spending all this money on space and information technology. And yes, they can stop spending on IT and space technolgy .But in the long term it is important for India to get a foothold in these critical areas. Didn't England have poor people before the Industrial Revolution ?
I live in India where Linux is easily available. Almost every month some PC mag. has a linux distro on it and costs just 2.5$ or so. To date... having gone to the biggest bookstores I haven't come across any book carrying FreeBSD. There's a LUG in every city in India, and every guy who uses is *nix is using linux. Everyone would then naturally want to use linux then.
What do YOU think is better ... selling 5000 CDs of Os X for 100$, or 50 machines at 2000$, with an almost zero production cost for the former and quite a large one for the latter ?
It's based on Unix meaning that stuff like the kernel and other services have all been taken from Unix. What the guys at Apple have done is just provide a front-end to it and modified the base system so that it runs better on macs. Essentially what they've done is provide an interface to cryptic unix
Teacher's in India are mostly those people who can't find other work and resort to teaching as a last alternative. Considering that teacher's here are paid less than 150$ (5000 Rupees) in most places a month there's no doubt why. I was lucky enough to go to a private school and even there there were some teacher's who were lousy. But there were a lot of good ones. If I had to pick one it would be my 10th grade Mathematics Teacher (and also the school Vice Principal) Mr. Kapadia who left school 2 years back. I really can't pick out why everyone liked him so much ... he was impartial, funny, handsome, intelligent, dedicated.
The biggest thing that stood out from him was that he was highly qualified himself. He chose this profession because he wanted to and not because he was forced to. I remember that in the 5 years he was in school ... he missed only one day. He'd be willing to teach after the school hours as well.
Now he's in Pittsburgh doing a PhD on something related to black holes.
I'm a pathetic Tolkien Fan... one of those people who reads the book 10 times a year.... and I really have been looking forward to the movie and I still haven't seen the trailer (Internet in India is slow) But one thing I do have is the BBC's rendition of LOTR on CD which is great. It' a great way of telling this magnificent story and it also allows you to use your own imagination. Whenever a fantasy or sci fi book is made into a movie people have a tendency to imagine the world as it's shown in the movie and the very essence of fantasy is lost ... everyone then has the same interpretation of the world that has been created. So if any of you haven't read the book or heard the CD's you should do it before the movie releases.
But the excitement this movie is generating is amazing. It's surely going to entice more and more people to read the books. All I'd like to say is .. FRODO LIVES !!!
Does anyone ever remember when Steve Jobs re-entered apple and stopped the cloning. He publicly called cos. that made Mac Clones "leeches". So as long as Apple keeps it's hardware standards proprietary, and as long as Mister Jobs is there, Mac OS X is never going to make the Open Source Community scratch it's neck
One statement I'd like to make... The Lord of the Rings is the greatest book of all time in my humble opinion. About the movie... the trailer looks fine (i'm talking about the old one) but there is a problem.. american accents. Now Tolkien never explicitly stated that the characters spoke with a british accent. But for me.. american accents don't go well with these historical movies. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood was a real joke. They have got some British actors like Hugo Weaving and Ian Mckellen playing Elrond and Gandalf but Liv Tyler as Arwen and Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn ??? I don't know but I sure would hate to hear Aragorn saying "Arrrwen... I surre do Love ya " But one thing... American Accents sure would suit the orcs. Esp. a bit of a western accent.
Do you masturbate ?
Wow !! You ought to get this thing on the market... but if you do you should solemnly pledge that you will never let Mircosoft buy it.
I don't mean remove distance totally... what I meant was that in real life if we have to go from say one building to another we have to actually walk.. in the 3D interface we could tell the computer to take us to the building instead of us pressing the up arrow key for 5 minutes
I never said I was a programmer... I'm merely someone who's interested in technological developments.
These guys who are all trying to make 3DUI's are going the wrong way.. they're all trying to map 2D environments into 3D space which isn't a radical thing at all. I think that a 3D interface would be really intuitive if it mimicked real life as closely as possible but removed the bottlenecks we have...distance for one. A combination of a 3D environment with voice recognition might result in a totally new type of interface. For example .. whenever someone goes to the office he actually can walk around using a keyboard or mouse (or give a voice command to go to the office) (i think if a cheap 3d glove could be made available it'd be great)... he'd give a voice command to his secretary to send a letter which he would dictate....if he had to have a video conference he'd go to a conference hall in the virtual building and everyone's video would be displayed in the hall.
2D interfaces are intuitive enough for people familiar with computers particularly the younger generation (heck... a CUI is the best for us geeks) but if you look at senior citizens they are totally lost even in a GUI (at least my parents are... and their friends)