Wrong, buddy. An airplane is a realy heavy thing in midair moving forward really fast. Its wings aren't big enough (aren't generating enough lift) to let it glide at low speeds. However, the addition of 4 1600 pound foil type chutes (think aerial demonstrators) greatly increases the airfoil surface available, and could let the plane generate enough lift to increase its glide distance. It's a question of getting your forward speed to keep you up, not slowing down your downward fall directly.
This AIBO just isn't as cute as the last model. It's head is flat, and proportioned like a bulldog's, and the flashing lights under the shield are creepy. Old AIBO had proportions like a puppy, but this one is like a small adult dog, and we all know what the world thinks of toy dobermans and poodles.
I wonder if the pumpkin computer overheats. After all, it's components are kinda GUI, er...I mean gooey. I wonder if seed slime lubricates the hard drive? Those boys need more to do.
THIS IS A COMPLETE CROCK.
The man doesn't exist
The department doesn't exist
The project doesn't exist
It's pretty sad that there are still new comments appearing talking about this system as a reality. In the last few days, we've had the completely wrong iPod slashback, now this. Come on editors AND readers, do a little research before posting. More readers should have caught the fake, and it shouldn't have been here in the first place.
The navigation is a list of links from a central home page. NOT A SINGLE ONE WORKS IN THIS MIRROR. It is totally useless, and a waste of time. Please Mod down parent.
I just checked the apple website, and you're right, to my surprise, they don't mention the capacity of the device for new fiemware updates. I got the info from a real world hard copy sheet of paper, which apple sent to some people in the tech community. (My brother is one of them.) The exact phrase is: "The iPod does much of its processing in software, and as such is open to future firmware updates, the likely purposes of which will be to add language and format compatibility." I very much appreciate that you took the time to look at the site, though your first post did not suggest that. There is tactile feedback on the dial (it clicks a little, like a scroll wheel), though you wouldn't know it from the site, it's a counterintuitive assumption that it doesn't. What did you expect, an ad that said: it's white and made of plastic? no, they talk about its goodies.
The talk of hacking the software packages of these things is still way on the horizon, though my brother tells me that it's theoretically possible. Third parties will be encouraged to submit their codecs (though I'm not clear on how.)
On a funny note, did you catch that there is no support for Microsoft's format? slap in the face for the "strategic ally."
One major thing a lot of people are forgetting is that this is not a closed system like an itsy bitsy Rio 600. It is a 5Gb hard drive, 32Mb of ram, and a big battery, enough kit to let it act as a computer, not just a data playback device. TO that end, Apple made it very clear (read the press releases shithead) that the firmware is easily upgradable to accomodate "other music formats and language packages." In other words, you can throw new programs onto the little computer, and since it's a powerful, high end device, they make it accomodate the user! *Sarcastic Gasp*
USB sucks for networking. It's designed for one-way data transfer, and bogs down if it gets much more sophisticated. Remember networking with serial cables on the mac, or null modem cables on the PC, that's why USB networking sucks, and hasn't been implemented.
I know that this is a discussion group for techies like myself, but you (and we all) wish that Linux had enough market share for it to be a war. Linus' hordes are throwing little tiny annoying darts at the giant that is mainstream computing. Maybe they'll fester and cause problems, but it's not a war. Apple has more market share, they're closer to war.
I went and read the portion of quaker.org you link to in your.sig, Mr. Nelson, and I'd like to explain something. What occurred is a crime of massive proportions. Adequate evidence has been collected, I believe, to without a doubt implicate Bin Ladin and a large, if disbursed terrorist organization surrounding him. Why do I believe that? Immediately after the attack, various NATO nations were calling for a complete and undoubtable presentation of evidence before any action was taken. In about a week, all those countries, including Turkey, Norway, and the Netherlands, who originally were loudly demanding actions be forestalled, were in full support of US actions, provided they were undertaken with care. None of those nations have lodged complaints since. Conclusion: they were persuaded, so therefore there is evidence.
So why, you ask, doesn't the public get to see that evidence? Eventually, you will, however, the difficulty in fighting a terrorist organization is in gathering dependable intelligence. We DO NOT want to reveal our sources, because then we lose them. I don't generally trust the US government blindly, but that some extremely liberal European nations are persuaded, and Turkey, who is islamic, was as well, speaks in favor of trust for the US.
But how, you ask, can we attack Afghanistan? After the first WTC bombing attempt, the US court system had found Bin Ladin guilt of a very serious crime:conspiracy to cause multiple murders. The finding was backed up by judicial review in countries from Russia to England, most of whom agreed to make him a wanted man under the extradition treaties that civilized nations maintain amongst each other. The WTC bombing cas was not Mumia Abu Jamal, there were no shades of grey, and evidence was used conclusively. However, Afghanistan doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US, and hence, OBL has been there since. The military operations, I truly believe, are being carried out with great care.
Final point: I strongly respect pacifists, however, I believe that in a world where evil still exists, pacifism cannot work as foriegn policy. Don't tell me wars never solve anything. WWII killed some german civilians who may not have supported the Nazis, however, you'll be hard pressed to persuade me that they were not a reasonable sacrifice in stopping hitler. And yes, Germany was in a recession, and reparations were unreasonable, but that did not mean that once war began, involvement was not justifiable. Simialarly, there may be some awful accidental deaths, and there may be some causes behind our enemy, but that does not invalidate our reaction.
I mistyped on the chip. For that I sincerely apologize, however..... The G4 tower at a lower price was definitely an error, but one of timing. The non-gigabit ethernet towers were being phased out, but were still on sale at discount prices, accounting for the embarrasing disparity. That pricing problem does not fully account for the dissapointing sales figures. Simialarly to the unit reviewed in this article, the product was a very small computer at a normal computer's price. The size just wasn't a high enough priority for the comsumer to forsake a more powerful product. I loved it,, and think it looks sleek and sexy on other people's desks, but I wouldn't buy it myself.
The last really big effort to sell a teensy weensy computer was the G3 cube, and they discovered that there's just not enough of a market to support it. People aren't worried enough about desktop space to make the compromises inherent in a smaller case. Now, I think that the little machines are cute, but it's a little ridiculous to think that pure cute can sell...you need some muscle or a good hook (iMac's integration, G4's power), not just a little tissue box.
"both socialism and facism result in no freedoms for the people"
Have you ever been to Sweden? Heard of it? It's a country with lots of beautiful women and a democratically elected socialist government that is ultra-liberal in some respects, and amazingly middle-america-ish in others. There's not a lot of War Communist stalinist policy flying around.
This is a legitimate business move. One of the main reasons people go to arcades is to play other people. A good friend of mine bought a copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for his Dreamcast and hardly plays it anymore. He's had it maybe three weeks. However, he still goes to arcades and spends hour after hour playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2. The Dreamcast version he can play at home on his big screen TV is arcade perfect (arguably better than the arcade version), but playing a computer-controlled opponent just can't compare to playing another person. Computer-controlled opponents have routines and tendencies that become familiar to players after a while. On the other hand, if console networking continues to improve that incantive decreases. There is a lure to having a physical opponent to scream insults at, but is it strong enough?
Cap'n Justice: Hahaha, excellent idea timmy, we must stand up for american ideals of truth, justice, and changing columns of ones into columns of zeros, to prevent other people from doing the same, but timmy, there's one problem...
Timmy: What's that Capt'n Justice?
Cap'n Justice: Traq isn't how you spell track. It's hardly even close, and even sounds slightly french.
Timmy: Since we're speaking, how could you even tell?
Cap'n Justice: Ah, Touché mon frere, but you forgot one thing: Soap. You stink like a french bugmaker.
Timmy: Mwa ha ha, you cannot stop me now, for I am ze Fronch I337 haxeur. Mwahaha
Cap'n Justice: Ha! your feeble BASIC coded Trojans cannot hurt me. You shall fold like your country's armies!
Timmy Le Haxeur: NOOOOO I shall taunt you! Away with your list! Stop it! Ohhhh my bugs, my precious bugs
go to http://www.lego.com/eng/bionicle/frontpage.asp
Click on Toa, and then see all the sets on the submenu....their pieces are totally specialized, and they look like action figures.
Click on Turaga, and again click the little submenu tabs. These guys are tiny bits of leftover Technic pieces. There are no gears involved though, just joints and rods, but at least the parts can be interchanged.
Makuta seems to offer the most promise, click the pictures at the bottom. The kits build large technic animals. These, unlike the other two subgroups, could be quite fun to smash apart and build a super thingy out of.
I have to say, I don't see a single raised circle for attaching blocks on any of these sets...oh well. That's modern business, taking things that rock and making them suck.
CIA estimates state that there are between 55 and 240 missiles unnaccounted for in Afghanistan. They guess that about half that are operational, and will be deployed around high value targets. It only takes one Missile to drop a plane, and the Stinger is a truly excaptional design. Its heat seeking head is very difficult to fool, and doesn't set off any warning systems in its targets. If conventional strike aircraft, or choppers are used, these could be devestating. That's why the weapons of choice are high altitude, and the copters in theater are "stealth hawks," a modification of the Blackhawk with thermal and auditory dampening.
As a big supporter of private access to space, this does not seem like such a good thing for the american public. NASA started off as a wonderful, if costly, employment plan that showed the Russians we had ICBMs, but is now charged with maintaining their own finances. That's all well and good, but NASA still has government beaurocracy and inertia holding it back. Small private companies, attempting to develop reusable access vehicles, are more likely to be efficient and innovative in their approaches than the dinosaur that is most of NASA (admittedly, some of the departments are quite good, like the recent jury rig to survey a comet.) In order to get funding, those companies were going to need investment from large companies, which would go into developing their businesses. I fear that NASA has beaten them to the punch, and the investment dollars will be thrown at the beaurocracy to dissapear.
P.S. Before anybody whines, advertising is a form of investment like any other. You give somebody money, and hope you get more back while they use it.
>Nintendo didn't release it, a third-party did (ISTR Mattel...?)
I am looking at the Powerglove, and it carries the Nintendo logo, with no mention of Mattel or any such other company.
>Well, in the sense that rudimentary photoreceptors are sort of like cameras, yes.
The official instruction booklet from Nintendo says "the concept under which Nintendo guns work is essentially comparing a very basic photograph to what is seen on the screen." The guns snagged an ultra low resolution digital image, and saw whether the gap in the white was in the center. The screen flashed white, except around targets, each time the gun fired. That's why the gun didn't work to close, too.
>And anyone who uses a graphical web browser should understand exactly the opposite. So?
I use a graphical web browser, and if buttons are scattered all over the place, it's pretty damn inneficient. Selecting from a dense menu, or better yet, using keyboard based shortcuts is much faster.
>the game was designed to be played using a digital game pad
Punch out was actually designed specifically for the Power Glove. It failed, and no more games were produced in that line. By the way, it is hard to emulate because of the wacky 3Desque actions made to accomodate the glove.
In conclusion, I appreciate your response, but disagree with your points. obviously, the "new technology" is better, and has some potential. I was pointing out that a previous implementation didn't work so well, and this one probably isn't there yet either.
As a jew, I'm sorry. I read the Tanakh-a literal translation and commentary on our holy scripture, the Torah. It is not the same as the old testament of the bible, though you'd recognize a lot of the stories. The phrase "spilling your seed" was introduced sometime in the late 1500s. I can tell you for a fact that the literal translation of the fun bits of the Torah (the law code) specifically demands the death of female sorceresses, and prohibits animal-human copulation, but does not mention spilling seed. Sorry, I've spent too many years at sunday school to fuck up now.
I don't know if anyone else remembers the powerglove, one of the silliest things nintendo ever released. The original nintendo system had the ability to accept remarkably versatile input, from a whole range of weapons (actually crappy cameras) to the tactile sensative power glove, power pad, and even a device that sensed hand position in midair with infrared(it folded open like a laptop and sensed the airspace above it.) I actually had the powerglove, and you know what? It was rather useless. No way making gestures is simpler than well placed keys. Anyone here who codes should understand that more mouse movement=less efficiency. I'd say that for now, we have to play on the computers' terms, and use a simple system relying on muscle memory that contains no ambiguity. Maybe eventually the computers can learn to understand subvocalized commands (like in the ender Quintet by Orsen Scott Card) or even mental ones, but until then, I'm afraid that the simpler the system, the better it will work. Mike Tyson's Punch Out really sucked when you actually had to punch with the glove!
*Warning, message mostly sarcastic, but in a non-flaming way.*
"Essentially every major world religion..."
You're right, the largest religions in the world, are all just like christianity. Islam promotes monogamy, right? What? they don't? You're kidding. Well, surely Judaism tells you masturbation and polygamy is wrong. What? The only prohibition is on coveting somebody's wife, and lying with farm animals? Next thing you know, you'll tell me hinduism doesn't make that big a deal out of virginity, and hatched a big book of sex with some wacky name like Khama Sutra or something, some of the positions in which involve more than two people. At least there was a stigma on all that awful, non-puritanical sex in historic cultures, like greece, right? Harems of little boys for the emperor you say...oh my.
I'm sorry, but whether you like it or not, people liking to do things that feel nice are usually encouraged, except in christianity of the last couple thousand years. Don't just take that statement in reference to sexuality. (Warning, short libertarian rant coming) Why shouldn't people do whatever they want? The government's role is to keep people from hurting each other in that process. As long as nobody but my poor old right hand suffers, and people are willingly being naked/drunk/angry in online forums without gaining deep psychological scars, then so be it. Let the teens have their thrills, as long as nobody else suffers. Let the suck fucks look at bondage, as long as the lady in the nipple clamps isn't unhappy, why should you be? Let lady liberty wave her torch high, as long as she doesn't light the sky on fire.
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Wrong, buddy. An airplane is a realy heavy thing in midair moving forward really fast. Its wings aren't big enough (aren't generating enough lift) to let it glide at low speeds. However, the addition of 4 1600 pound foil type chutes (think aerial demonstrators) greatly increases the airfoil surface available, and could let the plane generate enough lift to increase its glide distance. It's a question of getting your forward speed to keep you up, not slowing down your downward fall directly.
This AIBO just isn't as cute as the last model. It's head is flat, and proportioned like a bulldog's, and the flashing lights under the shield are creepy. Old AIBO had proportions like a puppy, but this one is like a small adult dog, and we all know what the world thinks of toy dobermans and poodles.
I wonder if the pumpkin computer overheats. After all, it's components are kinda GUI, er...I mean gooey. I wonder if seed slime lubricates the hard drive? Those boys need more to do.
THIS IS A COMPLETE CROCK.
The man doesn't exist
The department doesn't exist
The project doesn't exist
It's pretty sad that there are still new comments appearing talking about this system as a reality. In the last few days, we've had the completely wrong iPod slashback, now this. Come on editors AND readers, do a little research before posting. More readers should have caught the fake, and it shouldn't have been here in the first place.
The navigation is a list of links from a central home page. NOT A SINGLE ONE WORKS IN THIS MIRROR. It is totally useless, and a waste of time. Please Mod down parent.
I just checked the apple website, and you're right, to my surprise, they don't mention the capacity of the device for new fiemware updates. I got the info from a real world hard copy sheet of paper, which apple sent to some people in the tech community. (My brother is one of them.) The exact phrase is: "The iPod does much of its processing in software, and as such is open to future firmware updates, the likely purposes of which will be to add language and format compatibility." I very much appreciate that you took the time to look at the site, though your first post did not suggest that. There is tactile feedback on the dial (it clicks a little, like a scroll wheel), though you wouldn't know it from the site, it's a counterintuitive assumption that it doesn't. What did you expect, an ad that said: it's white and made of plastic? no, they talk about its goodies.
The talk of hacking the software packages of these things is still way on the horizon, though my brother tells me that it's theoretically possible. Third parties will be encouraged to submit their codecs (though I'm not clear on how.)
On a funny note, did you catch that there is no support for Microsoft's format? slap in the face for the "strategic ally."
One major thing a lot of people are forgetting is that this is not a closed system like an itsy bitsy Rio 600. It is a 5Gb hard drive, 32Mb of ram, and a big battery, enough kit to let it act as a computer, not just a data playback device. TO that end, Apple made it very clear (read the press releases shithead) that the firmware is easily upgradable to accomodate "other music formats and language packages." In other words, you can throw new programs onto the little computer, and since it's a powerful, high end device, they make it accomodate the user! *Sarcastic Gasp*
USB sucks for networking. It's designed for one-way data transfer, and bogs down if it gets much more sophisticated. Remember networking with serial cables on the mac, or null modem cables on the PC, that's why USB networking sucks, and hasn't been implemented.
"the OS Wars (Linux vs Windows)"
I know that this is a discussion group for techies like myself, but you (and we all) wish that Linux had enough market share for it to be a war. Linus' hordes are throwing little tiny annoying darts at the giant that is mainstream computing. Maybe they'll fester and cause problems, but it's not a war. Apple has more market share, they're closer to war.
I went and read the portion of quaker.org you link to in your .sig, Mr. Nelson, and I'd like to explain something. What occurred is a crime of massive proportions. Adequate evidence has been collected, I believe, to without a doubt implicate Bin Ladin and a large, if disbursed terrorist organization surrounding him. Why do I believe that? Immediately after the attack, various NATO nations were calling for a complete and undoubtable presentation of evidence before any action was taken. In about a week, all those countries, including Turkey, Norway, and the Netherlands, who originally were loudly demanding actions be forestalled, were in full support of US actions, provided they were undertaken with care. None of those nations have lodged complaints since. Conclusion: they were persuaded, so therefore there is evidence.
So why, you ask, doesn't the public get to see that evidence? Eventually, you will, however, the difficulty in fighting a terrorist organization is in gathering dependable intelligence. We DO NOT want to reveal our sources, because then we lose them. I don't generally trust the US government blindly, but that some extremely liberal European nations are persuaded, and Turkey, who is islamic, was as well, speaks in favor of trust for the US.
But how, you ask, can we attack Afghanistan? After the first WTC bombing attempt, the US court system had found Bin Ladin guilt of a very serious crime:conspiracy to cause multiple murders. The finding was backed up by judicial review in countries from Russia to England, most of whom agreed to make him a wanted man under the extradition treaties that civilized nations maintain amongst each other. The WTC bombing cas was not Mumia Abu Jamal, there were no shades of grey, and evidence was used conclusively. However, Afghanistan doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US, and hence, OBL has been there since. The military operations, I truly believe, are being carried out with great care.
Final point: I strongly respect pacifists, however, I believe that in a world where evil still exists, pacifism cannot work as foriegn policy. Don't tell me wars never solve anything. WWII killed some german civilians who may not have supported the Nazis, however, you'll be hard pressed to persuade me that they were not a reasonable sacrifice in stopping hitler. And yes, Germany was in a recession, and reparations were unreasonable, but that did not mean that once war began, involvement was not justifiable. Simialarly, there may be some awful accidental deaths, and there may be some causes behind our enemy, but that does not invalidate our reaction.
I mistyped on the chip. For that I sincerely apologize, however..... The G4 tower at a lower price was definitely an error, but one of timing. The non-gigabit ethernet towers were being phased out, but were still on sale at discount prices, accounting for the embarrasing disparity. That pricing problem does not fully account for the dissapointing sales figures. Simialarly to the unit reviewed in this article, the product was a very small computer at a normal computer's price. The size just wasn't a high enough priority for the comsumer to forsake a more powerful product. I loved it,, and think it looks sleek and sexy on other people's desks, but I wouldn't buy it myself.
The last really big effort to sell a teensy weensy computer was the G3 cube, and they discovered that there's just not enough of a market to support it. People aren't worried enough about desktop space to make the compromises inherent in a smaller case. Now, I think that the little machines are cute, but it's a little ridiculous to think that pure cute can sell...you need some muscle or a good hook (iMac's integration, G4's power), not just a little tissue box.
"both socialism and facism result in no freedoms for the people"
Have you ever been to Sweden? Heard of it? It's a country with lots of beautiful women and a democratically elected socialist government that is ultra-liberal in some respects, and amazingly middle-america-ish in others. There's not a lot of War Communist stalinist policy flying around.
Actually, you're wrong. Radio waves do not travel at the speed of light. maybe 30 light years is more like it, but good catch.
This is a legitimate business move. One of the main reasons people go to arcades is to play other people. A good friend of mine bought a copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for his Dreamcast and hardly plays it anymore. He's had it maybe three weeks. However, he still goes to arcades and spends hour after hour playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2. The Dreamcast version he can play at home on his big screen TV is arcade perfect (arguably better than the arcade version), but playing a computer-controlled opponent just can't compare to playing another person. Computer-controlled opponents have routines and tendencies that become familiar to players after a while. On the other hand, if console networking continues to improve that incantive decreases. There is a lure to having a physical opponent to scream insults at, but is it strong enough?
kiss my ass. Insulting french people is second only to beating up french people.
Timmy: Quick cap'n, it's time to traq some bugs.
Cap'n Justice: Hahaha, excellent idea timmy, we must stand up for american ideals of truth, justice, and changing columns of ones into columns of zeros, to prevent other people from doing the same, but timmy, there's one problem...
Timmy: What's that Capt'n Justice?
Cap'n Justice: Traq isn't how you spell track. It's hardly even close, and even sounds slightly french.
Timmy: Since we're speaking, how could you even tell?
Cap'n Justice: Ah, Touché mon frere, but you forgot one thing: Soap. You stink like a french bugmaker.
Timmy: Mwa ha ha, you cannot stop me now, for I am ze Fronch I337 haxeur. Mwahaha
Cap'n Justice: Ha! your feeble BASIC coded Trojans cannot hurt me. You shall fold like your country's armies!
Timmy Le Haxeur: NOOOOO I shall taunt you! Away with your list! Stop it! Ohhhh my bugs, my precious bugs
go to http://www.lego.com/eng/bionicle/frontpage.asp
Click on Toa, and then see all the sets on the submenu....their pieces are totally specialized, and they look like action figures.
Click on Turaga, and again click the little submenu tabs. These guys are tiny bits of leftover Technic pieces. There are no gears involved though, just joints and rods, but at least the parts can be interchanged.
Makuta seems to offer the most promise, click the pictures at the bottom. The kits build large technic animals. These, unlike the other two subgroups, could be quite fun to smash apart and build a super thingy out of.
I have to say, I don't see a single raised circle for attaching blocks on any of these sets...oh well. That's modern business, taking things that rock and making them suck.
CIA estimates state that there are between 55 and 240 missiles unnaccounted for in Afghanistan. They guess that about half that are operational, and will be deployed around high value targets. It only takes one Missile to drop a plane, and the Stinger is a truly excaptional design. Its heat seeking head is very difficult to fool, and doesn't set off any warning systems in its targets. If conventional strike aircraft, or choppers are used, these could be devestating. That's why the weapons of choice are high altitude, and the copters in theater are "stealth hawks," a modification of the Blackhawk with thermal and auditory dampening.
Problem posed:
$=Attempts
Investment=$
Advertisement=Investment
Advertisement goes to NASA
Advertisement doesn't go to upstarts
Upstarts, via chain above, can't make attempts. Fail, due to being broke. NASA continues to be big and antiquated.
As a big supporter of private access to space, this does not seem like such a good thing for the american public. NASA started off as a wonderful, if costly, employment plan that showed the Russians we had ICBMs, but is now charged with maintaining their own finances. That's all well and good, but NASA still has government beaurocracy and inertia holding it back. Small private companies, attempting to develop reusable access vehicles, are more likely to be efficient and innovative in their approaches than the dinosaur that is most of NASA (admittedly, some of the departments are quite good, like the recent jury rig to survey a comet.) In order to get funding, those companies were going to need investment from large companies, which would go into developing their businesses. I fear that NASA has beaten them to the punch, and the investment dollars will be thrown at the beaurocracy to dissapear.
P.S. Before anybody whines, advertising is a form of investment like any other. You give somebody money, and hope you get more back while they use it.
>Nintendo didn't release it, a third-party did (ISTR Mattel...?)
I am looking at the Powerglove, and it carries the Nintendo logo, with no mention of Mattel or any such other company.
>Well, in the sense that rudimentary photoreceptors are sort of like cameras, yes.
The official instruction booklet from Nintendo says "the concept under which Nintendo guns work is essentially comparing a very basic photograph to what is seen on the screen." The guns snagged an ultra low resolution digital image, and saw whether the gap in the white was in the center. The screen flashed white, except around targets, each time the gun fired. That's why the gun didn't work to close, too.
>And anyone who uses a graphical web browser should understand exactly the opposite. So?
I use a graphical web browser, and if buttons are scattered all over the place, it's pretty damn inneficient. Selecting from a dense menu, or better yet, using keyboard based shortcuts is much faster.
>the game was designed to be played using a digital game pad
Punch out was actually designed specifically for the Power Glove. It failed, and no more games were produced in that line. By the way, it is hard to emulate because of the wacky 3Desque actions made to accomodate the glove.
In conclusion, I appreciate your response, but disagree with your points. obviously, the "new technology" is better, and has some potential. I was pointing out that a previous implementation didn't work so well, and this one probably isn't there yet either.
As a jew, I'm sorry. I read the Tanakh-a literal translation and commentary on our holy scripture, the Torah. It is not the same as the old testament of the bible, though you'd recognize a lot of the stories. The phrase "spilling your seed" was introduced sometime in the late 1500s. I can tell you for a fact that the literal translation of the fun bits of the Torah (the law code) specifically demands the death of female sorceresses, and prohibits animal-human copulation, but does not mention spilling seed. Sorry, I've spent too many years at sunday school to fuck up now.
I don't know if anyone else remembers the powerglove, one of the silliest things nintendo ever released. The original nintendo system had the ability to accept remarkably versatile input, from a whole range of weapons (actually crappy cameras) to the tactile sensative power glove, power pad, and even a device that sensed hand position in midair with infrared(it folded open like a laptop and sensed the airspace above it.) I actually had the powerglove, and you know what? It was rather useless. No way making gestures is simpler than well placed keys. Anyone here who codes should understand that more mouse movement=less efficiency. I'd say that for now, we have to play on the computers' terms, and use a simple system relying on muscle memory that contains no ambiguity. Maybe eventually the computers can learn to understand subvocalized commands (like in the ender Quintet by Orsen Scott Card) or even mental ones, but until then, I'm afraid that the simpler the system, the better it will work. Mike Tyson's Punch Out really sucked when you actually had to punch with the glove!
*Warning, message mostly sarcastic, but in a non-flaming way.*
"Essentially every major world religion..."
You're right, the largest religions in the world, are all just like christianity. Islam promotes monogamy, right? What? they don't? You're kidding. Well, surely Judaism tells you masturbation and polygamy is wrong. What? The only prohibition is on coveting somebody's wife, and lying with farm animals? Next thing you know, you'll tell me hinduism doesn't make that big a deal out of virginity, and hatched a big book of sex with some wacky name like Khama Sutra or something, some of the positions in which involve more than two people. At least there was a stigma on all that awful, non-puritanical sex in historic cultures, like greece, right? Harems of little boys for the emperor you say...oh my.
I'm sorry, but whether you like it or not, people liking to do things that feel nice are usually encouraged, except in christianity of the last couple thousand years. Don't just take that statement in reference to sexuality. (Warning, short libertarian rant coming) Why shouldn't people do whatever they want? The government's role is to keep people from hurting each other in that process. As long as nobody but my poor old right hand suffers, and people are willingly being naked/drunk/angry in online forums without gaining deep psychological scars, then so be it. Let the teens have their thrills, as long as nobody else suffers. Let the suck fucks look at bondage, as long as the lady in the nipple clamps isn't unhappy, why should you be? Let lady liberty wave her torch high, as long as she doesn't light the sky on fire.