Having recently started to use Steam, having a superb Sidewinder Force 2 joystick, a couple of Logitech Rumblepads for the games suited to them ( like Batman, that game is amazing ) and a wonderful Logitech G25 for driving games ( iRacing ), I have to disagree with you.
I buy and install games far easier than my console-using friends. The cost of my Geforce 8600GT is not very high, in fact my computer was mid range when new, and far less now, and my only problem is just having enough time to play all the games I have.
I laugh at your superiority complex and your poor aiming. Mouse users will always rule the FPS arena. And PCs have the best driving simulations. With mods!
Most likely these guys will encourage you, guide you, and probably be very good friends in the long term.
It's very stupid to think that you can simply pay for something and become a 'winner' or be 'the best' because you show your credit card number. In fact, it's stupid to think that being the best doing something is what really matters in life. If that was the only important thing in life, then more than 6 billion people would live very sad and frustrating lives.
In fact, losing doesn't really matters. The only way to never lose is to never try anything. If you lose, it simply means you are learning something. You have some path to travel. The path is a lot more important than the finish line. And having good friends to help you going in that path leads to a very good life.
Doing what you love is what matters. May be you could love weight-lifting, or may be not. But you'll never know if you don't try.
I think that axel rotations are not the same as surface displacement even if both are measured by an optical sensor. I suspect that measuring the displacement of the road underneath the car requires a very advanced optical sensor, and that's the reason it's not done yet.
Now... measuring the speed from inside the car is theoretically impossible? Please provide a proof then.
In fact I will quote you: velocity is a relative measurement. We measure the speed of one object with respect to another.
So far the fixed object has been the earth surface. I can not see any physical reason that says that the car can't be the fixed object measuring the earth surface speed with respect to it. If you can have a sensor on one object, you can have a sensor on the other. Only the nature of the sensor would change.
Microsoft surely has a consistent business plan: partner with any possible competing companies and backstab them.
Apple at least respects their business partners.
WinMo suffers from that: no self-preserving mobile company will put all its eggs in the WinMo basket, they know that MS will backstab them and use them as puppets once they get a dominant market share.
Why would anyone parter with MS knowing they would be just cannon fodder?
MS has their standard business plans: but nobody trust them any more.
I predict that by using an optical sensor bigger but not too different to the ones we use every day in an optical mouse, the reported speed would be exactly the real one. Even in wet climate, as recent laser mouses have shown.
One can't get a truly accurate speed measurement by measuring only wheel rotation, that's true.
But I disagree with you about the 'external'.
I predict that by using an optical sensor bigger but not too different to the ones we use every day in an optical mouse, the reported speed would be exactly the real one. Even in wet climate, as recent laser mouses have shown.
I look at Windows 7 in this way: do I prefer Windows 7 to be a hit and make MS some money (deserved or not), or for it to fail and having me still be supporting IE6 in Web Apps for decades?
To me, this means: Windows 7 is tah bezt software EvaR!!
I have found that Opera gestures let me browse the web pages just as fast as the keyboard but much more comfortably.
I can touch type pretty fast, I do use vim at work but I am also a gamer, not a pro, but a gamer. And some StarCraft gamers (not me) are known by their 300+ actions per minute. I only have a 80-100 APM in StarCraft.
May be you lack precision and speed when using the mouse, so you are a newbie mouse user while I'm and others are seasoned mouse users.
In other words, do not generalize your experience to all people. Or settle this in a StarCraft match.
Bullshit about the FPS thing, I known a guy that can play with a touchpad and frag me and my other friends in Quake. He also frags us with a normal mouse, but still.
In other words, you can only criticize this system AFTER you have used it, a video will never make it justice.
The best science fiction is really based on the science, and produces totally alien stuff, like "The Gods Themselves" by Asimov or "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang.
If you only wanna see "Dallas in Space", that's your loss, really. The most popular stuff is mediocre at best, it has to be.
In NFS Underground if you play well, you'll see a F$%* Volkswagen going faster than your Skyline, way faster than is actually possible in that car.
Where's the fun?
Racing games definitely do NOT need the rubberbanding. What they need is a constant and small increase in difficulty from one race to the next. And lots of races.
"I won't hire someone who doesn't code in their free time" is Siliconvallese for "I don't want to hire any grownups because they remind me of my parents".
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I, on the contrary, am very happy because I use Opera precisely because of its security features.
I can surf any web page they post on reddit or digg without fear of viruses or trojans or endless javascript exploits or whatever.
It doesn't change the fact that the name sucks.
Specially for go players.
It doesn't really matter. Firefox embraces the insecurity of plugins by design. In fact, its users swear by the plugins feature.
Firefox advocates can't include plugins when it sounds like a good idea and ignore them when it's convenient.
I can't see why I can't have a giant TV and the giant sound system in a PC.
In fact, I have the giant sound system (Logitech X-540) and I plan to buy the HDTV shortly.
Having recently started to use Steam, having a superb Sidewinder Force 2 joystick, a couple of Logitech Rumblepads for the games suited to them ( like Batman, that game is amazing ) and a wonderful Logitech G25 for driving games ( iRacing ), I have to disagree with you.
I buy and install games far easier than my console-using friends. The cost of my Geforce 8600GT is not very high, in fact my computer was mid range when new, and far less now, and my only problem is just having enough time to play all the games I have.
I laugh at your superiority complex and your poor aiming. Mouse users will always rule the FPS arena. And PCs have the best driving simulations. With mods!
If you are fat and eat only 1700 calories a day, and do no exercise, you will feel like shit all day, tired and depressed.
Exercise helps you feel better because of the hormones released after doing it, calorie consumption is not the only reason to exercise.
Most likely these guys will encourage you, guide you, and probably be very good friends in the long term.
It's very stupid to think that you can simply pay for something and become a 'winner' or be 'the best' because you show your credit card number. In fact, it's stupid to think that being the best doing something is what really matters in life. If that was the only important thing in life, then more than 6 billion people would live very sad and frustrating lives.
In fact, losing doesn't really matters. The only way to never lose is to never try anything. If you lose, it simply means you are learning something. You have some path to travel. The path is a lot more important than the finish line. And having good friends to help you going in that path leads to a very good life.
Doing what you love is what matters. May be you could love weight-lifting, or may be not. But you'll never know if you don't try.
I think that axel rotations are not the same as surface displacement even if both are measured by an optical sensor. I suspect that measuring the displacement of the road underneath the car requires a very advanced optical sensor, and that's the reason it's not done yet.
Now... measuring the speed from inside the car is theoretically impossible? Please provide a proof then.
In fact I will quote you: velocity is a relative measurement. We measure the speed of one object with respect to another.
So far the fixed object has been the earth surface. I can not see any physical reason that says that the car can't be the fixed object measuring the earth surface speed with respect to it. If you can have a sensor on one object, you can have a sensor on the other. Only the nature of the sensor would change.
Microsoft surely has a consistent business plan: partner with any possible competing companies and backstab them.
Apple at least respects their business partners.
WinMo suffers from that: no self-preserving mobile company will put all its eggs in the WinMo basket, they know that MS will backstab them and use them as puppets once they get a dominant market share.
Why would anyone parter with MS knowing they would be just cannon fodder?
MS has their standard business plans: but nobody trust them any more.
I predict that by using an optical sensor bigger but not too different to the ones we use every day in an optical mouse, the reported speed would be exactly the real one. Even in wet climate, as recent laser mouses have shown.
One can't get a truly accurate speed measurement by measuring only wheel rotation, that's true.
But I disagree with you about the 'external'.
I predict that by using an optical sensor bigger but not too different to the ones we use every day in an optical mouse, the reported speed would be exactly the real one. Even in wet climate, as recent laser mouses have shown.
It helps stabilize some cars under turning and braking at high speed.
They should be. This should be required learning before the driving license is issued.
It was the same in the theater I was. Arnold's face paid for the ticket.
I think the 4th movie was very good.
Of course, I totally ignore the existence of a third movie.
To me it's just 1st, 2nd, 4th.
And still some people learn in simulators and then go and win races in real life.
The upcoming Motorola Cliq seems way better than this one, specially (at least to me) because of the keyboard.
I look at Windows 7 in this way: do I prefer Windows 7 to be a hit and make MS some money (deserved or not), or for it to fail and having me still be supporting IE6 in Web Apps for decades?
To me, this means: Windows 7 is tah bezt software EvaR!!
Get a second monitor ?????
Have you never heard of virtual desktops???
I have found that Opera gestures let me browse the web pages just as fast as the keyboard but much more comfortably.
I can touch type pretty fast, I do use vim at work but I am also a gamer, not a pro, but a gamer. And some StarCraft gamers (not me) are known by their 300+ actions per minute. I only have a 80-100 APM in StarCraft.
May be you lack precision and speed when using the mouse, so you are a newbie mouse user while I'm and others are seasoned mouse users.
In other words, do not generalize your experience to all people. Or settle this in a StarCraft match.
It is not vaporware, it is a product design and spec.
The commercial implementation can be done by MS or Apple or whoever wants to do it.
This is innovative enough to be totally worth implementing.
Bullshit about the FPS thing, I known a guy that can play with a touchpad and frag me and my other friends in Quake. He also frags us with a normal mouse, but still.
In other words, you can only criticize this system AFTER you have used it, a video will never make it justice.
The best science fiction is really based on the science, and produces totally alien stuff, like "The Gods Themselves" by Asimov or "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang.
If you only wanna see "Dallas in Space", that's your loss, really. The most popular stuff is mediocre at best, it has to be.
In NFS Underground if you play well, you'll see a F$%* Volkswagen going faster than your Skyline, way faster than is actually possible in that car.
Where's the fun?
Racing games definitely do NOT need the rubberbanding. What they need is a constant and small increase in difficulty from one race to the next. And lots of races.
I think this was worth quoting:
"I won't hire someone who doesn't code in their free time" is Siliconvallese for "I don't want to hire any grownups because they remind me of my parents".