Majora's Mask is the new N64 one. I can forgive him being confused though, every single Zelda game is exactly the same after all....if I'm ever asked to go after the bleeding Triforce again I'm going to hit somebody. Not to mention that Hyrule seems to be a breeding ground for dungeons - every time you go back another 3-8 castles have sprung up complete with evil boss who has terrorised the universe for centuries:-/
They're classified, citizen. This is approaching military level hardware* and have been sealed down under Majestic-12 access level regulations.
* Specifically, two knackered 486 boxes, a Casio calculator and a massive thingy with valves.
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>> Anyway, does anybody see a mass market for a device to "address issues of consciousness"?
No, but I'd like a large hammer to bonk people on the head who talk about computers taking over the world as being a BAD thing. Anything that brings me closer to SHODAN, my one true love, is a good thing in my book. It's a twisted, burnt, half-assimilated book, but it's MINE!
As for AI (in a desperate attempt to avoid being declared off-topic and losing seven million Karma points), ELIZA is artificial intelligence. The Daiktana frogs have artificial intelligence. The opponent's bat in PONG has artificial intelligence.
AND HAL IS ONLY VERGING ON THAT??? In one fell swoop, this guy has killed my innocent dreams of the kind of stuff which I might one day get my hands on.
Four billion dollars and he can't even spare a couple of quid to pay a local pre-schoolar to make his website a little bit l337. I'm impressed though - a high technology company with background MIDI music? I thought that we'd already exiled all of those to the Moon....
I think we now know why MI5 are on his case. HE SUCKS AND MUST BE DESTROYED BEFORE HE CODES AGAIN!
Absolutely. The Gaurdian never mikes any mystakes. Incidentally, for anybody who was really excited by this story, I have one fully functional alien spacecraft to sell you. It is fully backed by Iain M. Banks who says that it's just like the Culture would be if they took a Micro Machines figure, spraypainted it silver, wrote UFO on the side and tried to flog it to/.ers. So buy one today!
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Nah - I say "BRING IT ON!". Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I haven't wired mine up to my entire house as yet, so I think I'm probably fairly safe. I can hear the battle now
PC: "Go on Rich, take off the case and stick your hand into it..."
ME: "Nah."
PC: "Oh...go on! For me! I love you:-)"
My PC's natural psychopathic urges are restrained by being an inanimate object, and the fact that I've threatened on numerous times to hang it from its own modem cord should instill a sense of fear in the entire thing.
And if that fails, that little Skynet thing that I hooked up will avenge my death.
Um...just out of interest how often do you go to Asian sites? An estimate will do - maybe once since you first logged on? For the vast majority of Internet users in the West this will have no effect whatsoever at all because the vast majority don't speak Chinese, Japanese and the other languages which use different alphabet sets. The people affected will be the ones whose alphabets are being introduced, and therefore the ones who are likely to find it convenient not to have to use our system. The sites run by companies such as, say, Sony will continue to have sites which can be easily accessed by the rest of the world. A very black day for the net? Not really. More a sign that the system doesn't have to be designed by Americans for Americans.
I really didn't like this controller. It's a nice idea, but it doesn't go far enough. Basically you can queue keystrokes - but it's rare for that to be especially important
For example take buildings. You have to click/otherwise select what you want to build, drop it and select another one. That generally involves the mouse, commands of which are not programmable into the Strategic Commander. So...since you have to remember which button does what why not just use the keyboard? If it could record mouse movements too then it would be great - splash a village down with a button click! As it is, it's not worth the money. The movable top is..well...OK. The zoom and camera rotation command is easy but scrolling the map with it is tricky as it lacks the precision of keys.
I'm surprised it took so long for somebody to do this. I don't relish trying to learn a whole new set of shortcuts (my grasp of the 255 odd ASCII set is slipping fast, never mind kanji!). I did a story about this yesterday called over at http://www.t3.co.uk. It's nice to see that the global part of the Internet is still spreading...
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Majora's Mask is the new N64 one. I can forgive him being confused though, every single Zelda game is exactly the same after all....if I'm ever asked to go after the bleeding Triforce again I'm going to hit somebody. Not to mention that Hyrule seems to be a breeding ground for dungeons - every time you go back another 3-8 castles have sprung up complete with evil boss who has terrorised the universe for centuries :-/
>> Why would you use toilet paper and not use a sentient computer?
:-D
We're clearly not as rich as you are, PD
(I don't have many thoughts, and even with my skills I could probably add Counterstrike to my Startup folder)
Oh puh-lease. I could set up a system to read my thoughts on a Pentium II!
They're classified, citizen. This is approaching military level hardware* and have been sealed down under Majestic-12 access level regulations.
* Specifically, two knackered 486 boxes, a Casio calculator and a massive thingy with valves.
>> Anyway, does anybody see a mass market for a device to "address issues of consciousness"?
No, but I'd like a large hammer to bonk people on the head who talk about computers taking over the world as being a BAD thing. Anything that brings me closer to SHODAN, my one true love, is a good thing in my book. It's a twisted, burnt, half-assimilated book, but it's MINE!
As for AI (in a desperate attempt to avoid being declared off-topic and losing seven million Karma points), ELIZA is artificial intelligence. The Daiktana frogs have artificial intelligence. The opponent's bat in PONG has artificial intelligence.
AND HAL IS ONLY VERGING ON THAT??? In one fell swoop, this guy has killed my innocent dreams of the kind of stuff which I might one day get my hands on.
Bah.
PC: "Good morning Richard. Shall I load Outlook or stab you through the eye with a rusty diode?"
ME: "Surprise me."
Um...it was the *backers* that said that, not the journalist writing the article :-) Everybody knows that cute little HAL talking toaster!
Four billion dollars and he can't even spare a couple of quid to pay a local pre-schoolar to make his website a little bit l337. I'm impressed though - a high technology company with background MIDI music? I thought that we'd already exiled all of those to the Moon.... I think we now know why MI5 are on his case. HE SUCKS AND MUST BE DESTROYED BEFORE HE CODES AGAIN!
Besides, it already exists. It's called 'Microsoft Tech Support'.
Absolutely. The Gaurdian never mikes any mystakes. Incidentally, for anybody who was really excited by this story, I have one fully functional alien spacecraft to sell you. It is fully backed by Iain M. Banks who says that it's just like the Culture would be if they took a Micro Machines figure, spraypainted it silver, wrote UFO on the side and tried to flog it to /.ers. So buy one today!
Nah - I say "BRING IT ON!". Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I haven't wired mine up to my entire house as yet, so I think I'm probably fairly safe. I can hear the battle now PC: "Go on Rich, take off the case and stick your hand into it..." ME: "Nah." PC: "Oh...go on! For me! I love you :-)"
My PC's natural psychopathic urges are restrained by being an inanimate object, and the fact that I've threatened on numerous times to hang it from its own modem cord should instill a sense of fear in the entire thing.
And if that fails, that little Skynet thing that I hooked up will avenge my death.
Um...just out of interest how often do you go to Asian sites? An estimate will do - maybe once since you first logged on? For the vast majority of Internet users in the West this will have no effect whatsoever at all because the vast majority don't speak Chinese, Japanese and the other languages which use different alphabet sets. The people affected will be the ones whose alphabets are being introduced, and therefore the ones who are likely to find it convenient not to have to use our system. The sites run by companies such as, say, Sony will continue to have sites which can be easily accessed by the rest of the world. A very black day for the net? Not really. More a sign that the system doesn't have to be designed by Americans for Americans.
I really didn't like this controller. It's a nice idea, but it doesn't go far enough. Basically you can queue keystrokes - but it's rare for that to be especially important
For example take buildings. You have to click/otherwise select what you want to build, drop it and select another one. That generally involves the mouse, commands of which are not programmable into the Strategic Commander. So...since you have to remember which button does what why not just use the keyboard? If it could record mouse movements too then it would be great - splash a village down with a button click! As it is, it's not worth the money. The movable top is..well...OK. The zoom and camera rotation command is easy but scrolling the map with it is tricky as it lacks the precision of keys.
Nice try though...
I'm surprised it took so long for somebody to do this. I don't relish trying to learn a whole new set of shortcuts (my grasp of the 255 odd ASCII set is slipping fast, never mind kanji!). I did a story about this yesterday called over at http://www.t3.co.uk. It's nice to see that the global part of the Internet is still spreading...