The controller alone could be death. How many sales do you think the Dreamcast controller cost Sega? The X-box controller is BARELY any better...with buttons that feel more like they belong on a TV remote. Everyone playing an in-store demo is familiar with it, and probably with Sony's as-yet-unsurpassed-in-general (as opposed to controllers designed for a specific game, as the gamecube's seems to be for Luigi's Mansion) design.
While this would definitely be faster, maybe more accurate...if all you have to do is LOOK at something to blow it up, might not the chances for friendly fire or other accidents be increased? What else does a pilot have to do to mark and/or fire at their target?
You have to either be AWFULLY slow at typing, or AMAZINGLY fast at writing to be faster writing Japanese than typing it. And if Japanese isn't your first language, I am betting it is NOT the latter.
That doesn't mean that the predominant input systems are ideal. I mean, my Japanese isn't that great, but when I know the words, I type as fast or faster than a native speaker. That doesn't strike me as good, and for them, a stylus might be a better idea. Especially considering that it isn't quite as easy to get writer's cramp writing Japanese (non-cursive forms, at any rate) as writing English.
I had a supervisor who had a similar problem...his optic nerve was badly developed from birth. Legally blind (he couldn't drive...and in AK, that is not fun), when he needed to see something on the monitor, he just had his face about 6 inches from the screen, and squinted a lot. Well, worked for him.
A massively multiplayer Fallout would make me care about the genre. I mean, the series already has a story structure ideal for a MMORPG...so much freedom with dozens of subplots, and the main storyline being resolvable anytime you want, with no more difficulty, IF your character has the power...
What would be difficult...and amazing...is if they could have plotlines adjust for one player as other players do things.
The ultimate, though would be MMO Escape Velocity. An acquaintance of mine said to me once "I would play that 10 hours a day." So would I.
How can you stand to watch the guy anymore? I mean...that Roeper guy isn't a total clone, but they agree entirely too much. The show is just BORING now.
"You analogy is flawed. Instead of attacking it I'll just just point out that if fair use applied to digital media (which it should), you could make as many copies as you please and distribute them for free, legally. "
Where do you get this idea? Fair use has only ever meant either redistributing small portions, for review, commentary, or criticism (I think use in new artistic works might be debated, although most people doing so don't attempt it), or archival copies for your own personal use.
These uses are under heavy attack, and need to be defended.
What you are talking about is NOT fair use, and it has been illegal as long as we've had copyright.
Seriously...Slashdot needs to have an explaination of what Fair Use is right on the front page, above the banner ads.
No, but you can opt-in with disreputable ones. Ones who might say "do you want to receive mail from our associates" or somesuch. Why...however are they supposed to send messages if we don't give them your address! (I know, I know...)
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The commercials seem to be rather short on zombies. There's lots of spooky ghosty-looking bullshit. Did they envision it as yet another haunted-house movie but with a few zombies?
I suggest that most of the zombies associated with the Resident Evil movie worked behind the camera in in the board room.
Note the downward trend in those bars for product life there. They may not be entirely accurate, but note how the ATI and especially Nvidea bars generally get shorter and shorter....
Any time you're dealing with a state of dynamic equilibrium, small differences can have huge effects. (Consider the social effects of gender ratios in India, for example. The imbalance is small, but it gives us hordes of horny indians on yahoo chat....)
Two things to consider: Massive volcanic activity is not continuous, human pollution is. Volcanic pollution has been a factor in the environment since the beginning, human pollution has not.
Volcanoes may have bad effects over the short term, but humans are screwing things up a little more every year.
Oh, and I'd like to know how long it takes for one of these ice sheets to form...the sea ice sheets, not land-based glaciers. That would pretty much settle any doubts I would have about global warming (like, if it's a decade, the libertarian-because-it-is-convenient crowd may be right. If it's a century, it's a question mark. If it's multiple millennia, they need to shut the fuck up.)
I prefer the touchpad to a trackball. I find it much more responsive, and resistant to gunk. Of course, a touchpad is virtually impossible for FPSs, but that's what my USB ports are for.
Typically, I was telling college students, many in their 30s and 40s, this. Most of them will have learned life's painful lesson, that puppies do not live forever.
If you don't think about the digits as separate numbers, you can easily remember more than 7. Groups of two are easiest, I think (probably due to all the practice most people get through combination locks), unless there is an easy-to-remember pattern in the digits.
In high school, a friend of mine has "hoyas" as his password for the school network. Another friend guessed this easily when we were talking outside the computer lab one day. He looked the guy up and down. Then he bolted into the lab and the idiot ran into the lab after him, both of them racing to change his password.
Of course, my retarded friend was wearing a Georgetown hat, and a georgetown Tshirt.
Duh.
And with regard to pets....whenever someone asked what they should set their password to, I would always tell them, "use the name of a DEAD pet." Much harder to guess than a living one. Especially if it's long dead.
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The controller alone could be death. How many sales do you think the Dreamcast controller cost Sega? The X-box controller is BARELY any better...with buttons that feel more like they belong on a TV remote. Everyone playing an in-store demo is familiar with it, and probably with Sony's as-yet-unsurpassed-in-general (as opposed to controllers designed for a specific game, as the gamecube's seems to be for Luigi's Mansion) design.
Gun Valkyrie.
No hype, and it looks and plays very reminiscant of Panzer Dragoon.
This is the game that made me actually give a rat's ass about the X-box.
While this would definitely be faster, maybe more accurate...if all you have to do is LOOK at something to blow it up, might not the chances for friendly fire or other accidents be increased? What else does a pilot have to do to mark and/or fire at their target?
You have to either be AWFULLY slow at typing, or AMAZINGLY fast at writing to be faster writing Japanese than typing it. And if Japanese isn't your first language, I am betting it is NOT the latter.
That doesn't mean that the predominant input systems are ideal. I mean, my Japanese isn't that great, but when I know the words, I type as fast or faster than a native speaker. That doesn't strike me as good, and for them, a stylus might be a better idea. Especially considering that it isn't quite as easy to get writer's cramp writing Japanese (non-cursive forms, at any rate) as writing English.
I mean, what with the music being designed to make the listener throw up.
I had a supervisor who had a similar problem...his optic nerve was badly developed from birth. Legally blind (he couldn't drive...and in AK, that is not fun), when he needed to see something on the monitor, he just had his face about 6 inches from the screen, and squinted a lot. Well, worked for him.
It's okay. I had trouble as I was a little too close to the wall. About comparable to playing on an LCD.
Have you played it? The demo fucking rocked. (But found me with the money to buy either that, or Quake 1-3...)
The voice acting's declined a bit, though...
A massively multiplayer Fallout would make me care about the genre. I mean, the series already has a story structure ideal for a MMORPG...so much freedom with dozens of subplots, and the main storyline being resolvable anytime you want, with no more difficulty, IF your character has the power...
What would be difficult...and amazing...is if they could have plotlines adjust for one player as other players do things.
The ultimate, though would be MMO Escape Velocity. An acquaintance of mine said to me once "I would play that 10 hours a day." So would I.
Here's one source.
That link has some info I DIDN'T know...I did not know that classroom use was EXPLICITLY allowed.
How can you stand to watch the guy anymore? I mean...that Roeper guy isn't a total clone, but they agree entirely too much. The show is just BORING now.
Me, I listen to AICN's Moriarty.
What's wrong with that?
Yellow text on a white background is a sin, but white on black?
"You analogy is flawed. Instead of attacking it I'll just just point out that if fair use applied to digital media (which it should), you could make as many copies as you please and distribute them for free, legally. "
Where do you get this idea? Fair use has only ever meant either redistributing small portions, for review, commentary, or criticism (I think use in new artistic works might be debated, although most people doing so don't attempt it), or archival copies for your own personal use.
These uses are under heavy attack, and need to be defended.
What you are talking about is NOT fair use, and it has been illegal as long as we've had copyright.
Seriously...Slashdot needs to have an explaination of what Fair Use is right on the front page, above the banner ads.
At long last, I can fulfill my wildest fantasy, and edit Bob Cringely into pornography without getting sued.
No, but you can opt-in with disreputable ones. Ones who might say "do you want to receive mail from our associates" or somesuch. Why...however are they supposed to send messages if we don't give them your address! (I know, I know...)
The commercials seem to be rather short on zombies. There's lots of spooky ghosty-looking bullshit. Did they envision it as yet another haunted-house movie but with a few zombies?
I suggest that most of the zombies associated with the Resident Evil movie worked behind the camera in in the board room.
Maybe he'S a nitrogen-cooled overclocker who doesn't mind destroying his machine after several seconds?
Note the downward trend in those bars for product life there. They may not be entirely accurate, but note how the ATI and especially Nvidea bars generally get shorter and shorter....
Heh. Could this have any factor in their success?
Any time you're dealing with a state of dynamic equilibrium, small differences can have huge effects. (Consider the social effects of gender ratios in India, for example. The imbalance is small, but it gives us hordes of horny indians on yahoo chat....)
Two things to consider: Massive volcanic activity is not continuous, human pollution is. Volcanic pollution has been a factor in the environment since the beginning, human pollution has not.
Volcanoes may have bad effects over the short term, but humans are screwing things up a little more every year.
Oh, and I'd like to know how long it takes for one of these ice sheets to form...the sea ice sheets, not land-based glaciers. That would pretty much settle any doubts I would have about global warming (like, if it's a decade, the libertarian-because-it-is-convenient crowd may be right. If it's a century, it's a question mark. If it's multiple millennia, they need to shut the fuck up.)
I prefer the touchpad to a trackball. I find it much more responsive, and resistant to gunk. Of course, a touchpad is virtually impossible for FPSs, but that's what my USB ports are for.
Hey, didn't enron give their partnerships starwars names?
Typically, I was telling college students, many in their 30s and 40s, this. Most of them will have learned life's painful lesson, that puppies do not live forever.
If you don't think about the digits as separate numbers, you can easily remember more than 7. Groups of two are easiest, I think (probably due to all the practice most people get through combination locks), unless there is an easy-to-remember pattern in the digits.
"I'm going to get the book of petnames now and write a brute force hack into paypal, wee! "
Okay, now we're getting into people coming up with stupid names for their pets.
The other dogs aren't going to pick on your dog for having a silly name, ya know.
In high school, a friend of mine has "hoyas" as his password for the school network. Another friend guessed this easily when we were talking outside the computer lab one day. He looked the guy up and down. Then he bolted into the lab and the idiot ran into the lab after him, both of them racing to change his password.
Of course, my retarded friend was wearing a Georgetown hat, and a georgetown Tshirt.
Duh.
And with regard to pets....whenever someone asked what they should set their password to, I would always tell them, "use the name of a DEAD pet." Much harder to guess than a living one. Especially if it's long dead.