I... want an iToilet so I can take an iDump and I can patent it and I can sell it as the youPoo... BBC iDea good or bad, I can see certain parties wanting their iCut of the iProfits for youCopyright reasons. (ducks)
So if i spend countless hrs farming plants to sell at the AH and the AH gets their cut on a sale, then I sell the gold profit I make outside the game, I pay tax on it, isn't the AH part of the cycle and responsible for filing earning reports directly associated with funds going outside the game?
Come on, it's a freekin' game. What about taxing certain other 'services' that occure in the game. Things like... Sex... So I pay some pretty warrior in game to sit real close to my Elf and 'Chat' with me... Is the Warrior legally responsible for paying tax on the Gold that I pay her with if I bought said gold from outside the game.
My intellect is dizzying.
I better stop before I change my mind and stop playing WoW.
You, Klingon. What's today?
nuq?
What's to-day, my fine turtle head fellow?
To-day? Why, It is a good day to die sir!
A good day to die, I haven't missed it. Do you know the Targ merchant on the next street, at the corner?
p'tahk! Of course I do!
An intelegent Klingon! Do you know if they've sold the prize Targ that was hanging up there?
Dor-sho-gha! Of course it is!
Go and buy it.
Shortly after releasing all their diagrams and research onto the internet, Gas is seen at $4538.63 per Gallon in California. Either way, high mileage cars, new sources of energy or shorter distances to travel, 300 miles will cost you the same tomorrow as it costs you today. I used to pay $20 to fill up my '73 cutlas and it would cost me about $60 to travel about 600 km. Today I fill up my Jag and it still costs me $60 to travel 600 km. I guess the only way to get out from under the whole mess is to ride a pogo stick.
Perhaps next gen won't be based on a great leap in graphics or in some of the other things that have been mentioned here, but rather on the games ability to change over time based on the users skill. To use a first person shooter game as an example, one ends up fighting the same monsters over and over again in exactly the same way each time you die in order to learn the game patterns until you ultimately reach the final goal. Now perhaps next gen games will see that you are doing better each time you re-live a certain portion of the game and automatically adjust the skill required to pass that level. This is addressed somewhat in the online games where you play against other people and therfore have an unlimited number of patterns, or to be exact, no patters only chaos to master in order to get better.
On the front of games such as racing games, little things bother me. As I love motorcycle games and ride a bike more than I drive a car, I have yet to find a game that mimics the actual head angle and intonation as that in real life. All the bike games I play whip you over at some obsure angle everytime you go into a corner when that does not happen in real life. As to car racing games, I think next gen will be more about realism in feeling. No game, even the fantastic robotic manipulated simulation games here in Japan come close to the real feeling of tar strips, four wheel slides or cornering although some do a decent job of acceleration ad braking. Vanishing point and resolution of distance objects are another drawback to being able to feel immersed in the game. Racing requires you look one or two corners ahead of where you are but in games this is impossible due to the limitation of the monitors or processing power of the graphics.
This seems to me to be nothing more than a patent version of cyper squatting... Oh well, when companies wake up one day and realize that doing business in the US is too much of a pain in the ass, they may find out that there are 7 odd billion other people out there who don't live in a country with idiotic money grubbing lawyers running common sence into the ground.
This controller is beautiful, sleak and fits nicely with the look and feel of their console. Now the obvious... It has hard edges. Sure it looks cool as some guy uses it as a sword, but hey real swords have cylindrical handles for a reason... BECAUSE you will end up doing more damage to your own hand with a cubic handle than you will do to your enemy. Thousands of years of development went into cylinrical things we have to grasp and hold for any period of time for a reason... example, swords, clubs, baseball bats, your dicks... Even the newest television remotes are ergonomic in this sence. Granted your standard dvd remote isn't as once you press play and hit enter a few times, you put it down for an extended period, but your tv remote is pretty much glued to your hand the whole time you are surfing so studdies showed that users wanted something that was more comfortable to hold for long periods of time.
Personally I don't think it has enough buttons... it needs more buttons to look really cool, because if it is too easy to learn to use, it just isn't a game controller.
The second handle is a cool idea and will, I assume, eventually be fully thought out over a number of years to be quite useful and full featured. As to Left handed players, I guess you will all have to wait till Ned opens his new store and starts to stock them...
From an ergonomic point of view, I think extended use will cause wrist problems as the position your hand is in when holding it facing the TV is not a natural one. I think they could have done a much better job on the ergonomics by moving away from the look and feel of the console. Granted they are part of a whole, but they both have very different uses. One is for looking good on the shelf the other is for feeling good in the hand.
What you are failing to see is that none of the other countries you mentioned give a shit about LaGrange points, let alone will sink their countries curency just to posses something. Despite the propaganda coming from the US since the 30's, not everyone feels that they have to own everything in order to be fulfilled or have a rich full life. As they grew up with the ideas presented to them by a much more socialist propeganda machine, over the last 70 years, it only makes sence that now as leaders of countries outside of the NH and EU, their values and ideologies of need and value would remain ouside the influence of modern corporate bullshit. So tell you what, you go ahead and grab those LaGrange Points for yourselves, and when your national debt runs so high that a dollar is worth less than a Pesso and your military has to sell parts just to buy gasoline to drive your president around, I will go to the Live 28 concert with Sir Bob and Sir Bono to feed the starving Americans.
looks like two of them were not enough to keep thier servers going up in flame... "Pics to check out..." They either wanted to load test their systems or they forgot to read the warning on the bubble wrap that said don't inhale the air from inside the bubbles... My I suggest ten times as much cooling piped directly around your CPS's if your are going to even think about positng "Pics to check out" on/.
The theme of the EXPO is enviornment so all of the country pavillions are geared towards that, but the robots are mostly if not all part of the corporate pavilions which include Toyota, Hitachi, Mitsui-Toshiba among others. But even theirs are geared towards the theme and how their technology improved the enviornment.
I saw a number of robots during my 5+ hrs at EXPO and hope to actually get into the Toyota pavillion (130min wait time)to see their song and dance routine when I go again tomorrow.
The ones I saw included a tour guide robot that was, if you can imagine, like one of those old dime store fortune tellers except it looked like a japanese real doll (tm) flight attendant done up in a lime green suit and hat. You could ask it for directions to venues using voice command (japanese only of course) and it would give you verbal directions. With my piss poor understanding of Japanese, I could not make out if it was giving the right answers or not, but the voice seemed like a pre recorded message. I guess the thing did not understand, or had difficulty with background noise as quite often people would have to repeat their questions a few times, slower and closer to the mic which was basically a mesh ball mounted to the counter in front of the robot. It's movements were for lack of a better word, robotic and they didn't do the skin very well as it looked like satin silicon. It did do decent facial expressions while it was talking and from the looks on peoples faces, i guess it did a good job of matching facial experessions to dialogue. Again there was about a 20 min wait to get to try it out.
Another one I did see was in front of the India pavillion and it was what you would expect a robot to look like from the sixties all shiny red plastic and black lexan. It had a huge bubble head and arms of a sort that moved slightly. This one too would give you directions of a sort and answer a few other questions as well as respond to people's proximity and stop moving if you were very close so you could have your picture taken with it. There was an attendant minding it to help people in it's usage and to keep kids from climbing aboard for a free ride as it ws on wheels and moved very slowly around what I imagine was a pre defined path although I could not see any magnetic tape on the ground or a remote in the attendants hand.
4 cores on one chip... I guess they will have to call it the earth simulator as the temprature of the chip will be reaching that of the earths core. At least it will open up innovative new designs like built in coffee pot as well as new uses for old technology, like making pizza pops in your old cd burner.
I appreciate your opening that I only triggered the rant and that is was not dirrected specifically at me. I too will rant to some point and again as you said, it is not directed specifically at you.
I have heard your argument before and although I agree with you that the only right one has is the right to die and all others are privileges, the assumption made is that everyone on the planet shares the same beliefs and moral latitude as the American public. I am not an American, so even though I may think what the ACLU is doing is worthy, donations to the ACLU is not something I will do as there are Canadian equivilants. Giving a job to someone who needs it is something I would do. Moreso, giving the person a piece of the company for the work they perform is also something I would do as i belive it instills more value and a greater sence of self sufficiance. The whole idea of paid slave labour to survive with no sence of ownership is something that drives me nuts.
I am a Canadian and although we have the freedom of speach it differs dramatically from the American idea. In Canada, I have the right to say what I like up to a point. That point takes into consideration the majority. So unlike the United States where, as you put it, This means that you have to put up with your neo-Nazi neighbour ranting about stoning the black lesbian Wiccan couple across the road. You don't have to listen... but you can't stop him talking. That's a very real cost, particularly when he can pick up the phone and call a thousand people who think just like him. I can stop him from talking if his ideologies run against the public good. He can call a thousand people who think like him, but he is still outnumbered by many others who think what he is saying is wrong. As far as i am concerned, he can think what he likes and can gather with like minded people to discuss ideas that may be disgusting to me, but he can not get on top of a soap box and spout his ideologies to a public that does not want to hear them.
I am not saying the Canadian system is better than the American one, just that it is different and you need to realize that just because big corporations tell you the world wants American freedom and products doesn't make it so. That type of mind set sounds too much like British imperialaism where "the laws and rules of Britain make the world British". As we have seen this does not work in the long run and it is only your time, for a while, to run things until such time as the corporate imperialism that defines much of the governance of America falls to the same pressures as Britain had not so long ago.
Well, I figure it won't be your lungs you will have to worry about, more like your groin... I think wearing these pants would be like tossing on a pear of fiberglass insulation underwear... warm but damn itchy.
unfortunately our rights get taken away in huge leaps and bounds yet we are left with this advice that we need to take them back in small steps or nudge the course of law like a goldfish shouldering a tanker. Does anyone else feel that these are OUR RIGHTS to begin with and we should not let them be touched at all? I mean you see someone messing with your new car, you step up and sort it right away, you don't wait till the car is stolen and have the police bring you back one piece at a time from the chop shop.
I too live in Japan, and agree that while the cost of manufacturing all this new stuff may be a huge consuption, don't forget the amount of recycleing done here. i don't mean stuff like bottles and cans, I mean recycle shops where you can get anything from electronics to tyres and rims to mufflers and GPS systems or jewlery or toys and housewares , most in damn good shape as the origional poster pointed out, "it's not like anyone keeps anything for more than 2 years here anyway." Don't even get me started on the cost of gasoline, I drive a 3 Litre nissan gloria and 3/4 of a tank cost me 6800 yen yesterday. My parents just got here from a trip to China and they tell me that gas is only about $.50us a gallon... so shake down your big corps. in the US and do something about it seeing how you all be democratically publically represented by your elected officials.
As to your oven, I do believe it is a Range, so Press the button that says Ranji, select your wattage with the Up/Down arrows, set your time with the knob and hit Sutato.
Funny enough, I was searching yesterday to see if 3D Studio Max wsa going to be ported to *nix as it is my program of choice and it is the only reason I am still using an XP system as my main work computer.
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I... want an iToilet so I can take an iDump and I can patent it and I can sell it as the youPoo... BBC iDea good or bad, I can see certain parties wanting their iCut of the iProfits for youCopyright reasons. (ducks)
So if i spend countless hrs farming plants to sell at the AH and the AH gets their cut on a sale, then I sell the gold profit I make outside the game, I pay tax on it, isn't the AH part of the cycle and responsible for filing earning reports directly associated with funds going outside the game?
Come on, it's a freekin' game. What about taxing certain other 'services' that occure in the game. Things like... Sex... So I pay some pretty warrior in game to sit real close to my Elf and 'Chat' with me... Is the Warrior legally responsible for paying tax on the Gold that I pay her with if I bought said gold from outside the game.
My intellect is dizzying.
I better stop before I change my mind and stop playing WoW.
So you can teleport hundreds of Km but still have to tell the computer to time stamp your personal log... I expected more from Star Trek. Sigh.
You, Klingon. What's today?
nuq?
What's to-day, my fine turtle head fellow?
To-day? Why, It is a good day to die sir!
A good day to die, I haven't missed it. Do you know the Targ merchant on the next street, at the corner?
p'tahk! Of course I do!
An intelegent Klingon! Do you know if they've sold the prize Targ that was hanging up there?
Dor-sho-gha! Of course it is!
Go and buy it.
Shortly after releasing all their diagrams and research onto the internet, Gas is seen at $4538.63 per Gallon in California.
Either way, high mileage cars, new sources of energy or shorter distances to travel, 300 miles will cost you the same tomorrow as it costs you today.
I used to pay $20 to fill up my '73 cutlas and it would cost me about $60 to travel about 600 km. Today I fill up my Jag and it still costs me $60 to travel 600 km. I guess the only way to get out from under the whole mess is to ride a pogo stick.
Perhaps next gen won't be based on a great leap in graphics or in some of the other things that have been mentioned here, but rather on the games ability to change over time based on the users skill. To use a first person shooter game as an example, one ends up fighting the same monsters over and over again in exactly the same way each time you die in order to learn the game patterns until you ultimately reach the final goal. Now perhaps next gen games will see that you are doing better each time you re-live a certain portion of the game and automatically adjust the skill required to pass that level. This is addressed somewhat in the online games where you play against other people and therfore have an unlimited number of patterns, or to be exact, no patters only chaos to master in order to get better.
On the front of games such as racing games, little things bother me. As I love motorcycle games and ride a bike more than I drive a car, I have yet to find a game that mimics the actual head angle and intonation as that in real life. All the bike games I play whip you over at some obsure angle everytime you go into a corner when that does not happen in real life. As to car racing games, I think next gen will be more about realism in feeling. No game, even the fantastic robotic manipulated simulation games here in Japan come close to the real feeling of tar strips, four wheel slides or cornering although some do a decent job of acceleration ad braking. Vanishing point and resolution of distance objects are another drawback to being able to feel immersed in the game. Racing requires you look one or two corners ahead of where you are but in games this is impossible due to the limitation of the monitors or processing power of the graphics.
This seems to me to be nothing more than a patent version of cyper squatting... Oh well, when companies wake up one day and realize that doing business in the US is too much of a pain in the ass, they may find out that there are 7 odd billion other people out there who don't live in a country with idiotic money grubbing lawyers running common sence into the ground.
This controller is beautiful, sleak and fits nicely with the look and feel of their console. Now the obvious...
It has hard edges. Sure it looks cool as some guy uses it as a sword, but hey real swords have cylindrical handles for a reason... BECAUSE you will end up doing more damage to your own hand with a cubic handle than you will do to your enemy. Thousands of years of development went into cylinrical things we have to grasp and hold for any period of time for a reason... example, swords, clubs, baseball bats, your dicks... Even the newest television remotes are ergonomic in this sence. Granted your standard dvd remote isn't as once you press play and hit enter a few times, you put it down for an extended period, but your tv remote is pretty much glued to your hand the whole time you are surfing so studdies showed that users wanted something that was more comfortable to hold for long periods of time.
Personally I don't think it has enough buttons... it needs more buttons to look really cool, because if it is too easy to learn to use, it just isn't a game controller.
The second handle is a cool idea and will, I assume, eventually be fully thought out over a number of years to be quite useful and full featured. As to Left handed players, I guess you will all have to wait till Ned opens his new store and starts to stock them...
From an ergonomic point of view, I think extended use will cause wrist problems as the position your hand is in when holding it facing the TV is not a natural one. I think they could have done a much better job on the ergonomics by moving away from the look and feel of the console. Granted they are part of a whole, but they both have very different uses. One is for looking good on the shelf the other is for feeling good in the hand.
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What you are failing to see is that none of the other countries you mentioned give a shit about LaGrange points, let alone will sink their countries curency just to posses something.
Despite the propaganda coming from the US since the 30's, not everyone feels that they have to own everything in order to be fulfilled or have a rich full life.
As they grew up with the ideas presented to them by a much more socialist propeganda machine, over the last 70 years, it only makes sence that now as leaders of countries outside of the NH and EU, their values and ideologies of need and value would remain ouside the influence of modern corporate bullshit.
So tell you what, you go ahead and grab those LaGrange Points for yourselves, and when your national debt runs so high that a dollar is worth less than a Pesso and your military has to sell parts just to buy gasoline to drive your president around, I will go to the Live 28 concert with Sir Bob and Sir Bono to feed the starving Americans.
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looks like two of them were not enough to keep thier servers going up in flame... "Pics to check out..." /.
They either wanted to load test their systems or they forgot to read the warning on the bubble wrap that said don't inhale the air from inside the bubbles... My I suggest ten times as much cooling piped directly around your CPS's if your are going to even think about positng "Pics to check out" on
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it had to be said.
The theme of the EXPO is enviornment so all of the country pavillions are geared towards that, but the robots are mostly if not all part of the corporate pavilions which include Toyota, Hitachi, Mitsui-Toshiba among others. But even theirs are geared towards the theme and how their technology improved the enviornment.
I saw a number of robots during my 5+ hrs at EXPO and hope to actually get into the Toyota pavillion (130min wait time)to see their song and dance routine when I go again tomorrow.
The ones I saw included a tour guide robot that was, if you can imagine, like one of those old dime store fortune tellers except it looked like a japanese real doll (tm) flight attendant done up in a lime green suit and hat. You could ask it for directions to venues using voice command (japanese only of course) and it would give you verbal directions. With my piss poor understanding of Japanese, I could not make out if it was giving the right answers or not, but the voice seemed like a pre recorded message. I guess the thing did not understand, or had difficulty with background noise as quite often people would have to repeat their questions a few times, slower and closer to the mic which was basically a mesh ball mounted to the counter in front of the robot.
It's movements were for lack of a better word, robotic and they didn't do the skin very well as it looked like satin silicon. It did do decent facial expressions while it was talking and from the looks on peoples faces, i guess it did a good job of matching facial experessions to dialogue. Again there was about a 20 min wait to get to try it out.
Another one I did see was in front of the India pavillion and it was what you would expect a robot to look like from the sixties all shiny red plastic and black lexan. It had a huge bubble head and arms of a sort that moved slightly. This one too would give you directions of a sort and answer a few other questions as well as respond to people's proximity and stop moving if you were very close so you could have your picture taken with it. There was an attendant minding it to help people in it's usage and to keep kids from climbing aboard for a free ride as it ws on wheels and moved very slowly around what I imagine was a pre defined path although I could not see any magnetic tape on the ground or a remote in the attendants hand.
Stan Lee won't leave my store.
A computer that will burst into flame without being /.ed first... I want one.
4 cores on one chip... I guess they will have to call it the earth simulator as the temprature of the chip will be reaching that of the earths core.
At least it will open up innovative new designs like built in coffee pot as well as new uses for old technology, like making pizza pops in your old cd burner.
I appreciate your opening that I only triggered the rant and that is was not dirrected specifically at me. I too will rant to some point and again as you said, it is not directed specifically at you.
I have heard your argument before and although I agree with you that the only right one has is the right to die and all others are privileges, the assumption made is that everyone on the planet shares the same beliefs and moral latitude as the American public. I am not an American, so even though I may think what the ACLU is doing is worthy, donations to the ACLU is not something I will do as there are Canadian equivilants. Giving a job to someone who needs it is something I would do. Moreso, giving the person a piece of the company for the work they perform is also something I would do as i belive it instills more value and a greater sence of self sufficiance. The whole idea of paid slave labour to survive with no sence of ownership is something that drives me nuts.
I am a Canadian and although we have the freedom of speach it differs dramatically from the American idea. In Canada, I have the right to say what I like up to a point. That point takes into consideration the majority. So unlike the United States where, as you put it, This means that you have to put up with your neo-Nazi neighbour ranting about stoning the black lesbian Wiccan couple across the road. You don't have to listen... but you can't stop him talking. That's a very real cost, particularly when he can pick up the phone and call a thousand people who think just like him. I can stop him from talking if his ideologies run against the public good. He can call a thousand people who think like him, but he is still outnumbered by many others who think what he is saying is wrong.
As far as i am concerned, he can think what he likes and can gather with like minded people to discuss ideas that may be disgusting to me, but he can not get on top of a soap box and spout his ideologies to a public that does not want to hear them.
I am not saying the Canadian system is better than the American one, just that it is different and you need to realize that just because big corporations tell you the world wants American freedom and products doesn't make it so. That type of mind set sounds too much like British imperialaism where "the laws and rules of Britain make the world British". As we have seen this does not work in the long run and it is only your time, for a while, to run things until such time as the corporate imperialism that defines much of the governance of America falls to the same pressures as Britain had not so long ago.
Well, I figure it won't be your lungs you will have to worry about, more like your groin... I think wearing these pants would be like tossing on a pear of fiberglass insulation underwear... warm but damn itchy.
unfortunately our rights get taken away in huge leaps and bounds yet we are left with this advice that we need to take them back in small steps or nudge the course of law like a goldfish shouldering a tanker.
Does anyone else feel that these are OUR RIGHTS to begin with and we should not let them be touched at all? I mean you see someone messing with your new car, you step up and sort it right away, you don't wait till the car is stolen and have the police bring you back one piece at a time from the chop shop.
I too live in Japan, and agree that while the cost of manufacturing all this new stuff may be a huge consuption, don't forget the amount of recycleing done here. i don't mean stuff like bottles and cans, I mean recycle shops where you can get anything from electronics to tyres and rims to mufflers and GPS systems or jewlery or toys and housewares , most in damn good shape as the origional poster pointed out, "it's not like anyone keeps anything for more than 2 years here anyway."
Don't even get me started on the cost of gasoline, I drive a 3 Litre nissan gloria and 3/4 of a tank cost me 6800 yen yesterday. My parents just got here from a trip to China and they tell me that gas is only about $.50us a gallon... so shake down your big corps. in the US and do something about it seeing how you all be democratically publically represented by your elected officials.
As to your oven, I do believe it is a Range, so Press the button that says Ranji, select your wattage with the Up/Down arrows, set your time with the knob and hit Sutato.
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Funny enough, I was searching yesterday to see if 3D Studio Max wsa going to be ported to *nix as it is my program of choice and it is the only reason I am still using an XP system as my main work computer.