So basically, you're saying that regardless of whether or not a weapon is concealed, crimes would still be committed anyway
By that logic, wouldn't it make more sense *not* to conceal a weapon, so you know definitively that at least *some* of the people won't become victims, rather than leaving the situation entirely random?
It's kind of like how the NRA nuts defend their right to carry concealed weapons, because it will make criminals think twice about committing crimes against citizens, since potentially anyone *might* have a gun on them. Why not just wear the weapon openly and remove all doubt that you're armed?
Maybe these guys just looking for an excuse to blow someone's head off, rather than actually achieving the goal of detering criminal activity.
They're already working to get human clinical trials (bottom of the page) going on this. I'm strongly considering being a test subject for it if they can get a site set up near my area.
Considering how things are currently going in the US though, this could end up being the only chance many of us will have for getting this sort of treatment any time soon. Eventually, some self-righteous asshat is going to propose federal bans on this, forcing those of us suffering from this type of condition to either live with the problem as-is, or leave the country and pay for it out of pocket.
This would probably lend itself better to tablet PCs and touch screen/kiosk systems where you are actually touching the objects on the screen, instead of the cursor/input device method, where you use the relative position of a device to manipulate items on a screen. While it works ok for the time being, the cursor/input device method is not very intuitive and is actually pretty awkward when it comes to making changes on impulse.
If we could actually interact with our computers like we do with real world objects, we'd be able to get more work done in less time, with far less effort. You wouldn't have to think about how you're going to do something before you actually do it.
Is it just me, or isn't this just a fancier form of an external CRT degausser used to correct chronic magnetic drift that have been used for decades? Hardly what you'd call "new" technology, since these devices have been used for this exact purpose in the past.
You might want to read some of the feedback left on VersionTracker for RB2005 and up. (Keep in mind the 4-star rating is based on an average of all versions of RB, from 2006 and lower.) There are very few positive reviews of the software past RB5.x, aside from a few token pity ratings for it.
Back before it turned into a steaming turd, RealSoftware's RealBasic Professional would have been an ideal solution to the cross-platform authoring problem that VisualBasic presents. (It supports Mac OS, Windows and Linux.) In fact, they even went so far as to provide tools needed to port VB projects to RB.
However, the folks at RealSoftware got greedy and let the quality of their past products go to their heads. All current versions of the software are written and compiled using RB itself... a move that has caused the brand to suffer horribly compared to the 5.x and earlier versions.
Apple did this several years ago (back in the pre-OS X days) with a browser/plug-in called "HotSauce". It worked, somewhat, but wasn't nearly as cool or as useful as one might have hoped for. There are probably far better ones out there now that are more like the 3D file browsers available today. But, like most of these types of browsers, they are mostly a gimmick and don't really offer any real benefit over traditional 2D interfaces.
What may make the difference though with regards to web browsing on a Wii, is that the user could tilt the controller to scroll horizontally and vertically, then simply move the controller while it's in a level position to control an on-screen cursor for interaction (like clicking links) or entering data via an on-screen keyboard... all in one hand.
This game goes a few steps beyond all of those first-person shooters that are open to modification by skilled designers. It literally makes the all the tools needed to create fully custom, playable characters available to the average person using a highly intuitive interface. Combine this with the possibility to create several hundred thousand variations in character design, each with their own custom world for them to populate in a virtual universe open to millions of users around the world via the internet to interact with them and you have one hell of an experience that is going to put any Sim* games before it to shame.
I am really looking forward to this game and the uproar it'll inevitably cause with the "intelligent design" proponents.
Could part of this sudden rush at Apple, as described by Think Secret, be in response to the XBox 360? As it is, the 360 is currently the closest thing to Apple's ideal behind the "digital hub".
The 360 software seems to accept almost any device you can throw at it. I imagine with a large external USB 2.0 drive connected to it, one could easily store their entire dvd collection on it and play it back using the 360 itself.
Also, the new XBox Live Marketplace could easily be made into the next iTunes Music Store, offering both music and tv shows on demand for a small price. Obviously bandwidth isn't an issue for Microsoft, since they already allow free downloads of game demos to the 360... many of which weigh in at 500MB-1GB in size.
I think we've only seen the surface of the 360's overall capabilities so far. The next year or so should be very interesting.
ADV is not in good shape right now, and I'm surprised to see an article trying to put a positive spin on them this late in the game.
ADV simply fell into the trap of exploiting a fad at it's peak by spending money like crazy. (Most notably, their "Anime Network".) Once the anime fad here in the US began to drop off, ADV began to suffer. During that time, they've had several company-wide layoffs and now their product quality is at an all-time low. The fact that they gave Cartoon Network the keys to their flagship anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion (which they have notoriously anal about protecting at all costs), shows just how desperate they've become to stay afloat.
At least the other major anime distributors (Viz, CPM, Etc...) were smart enough not to fall for the fad. It just amazes me that ADV didn't know better.
How about a true, scientific test of Intelligent Design so we can observe it? Maybe create a transparent vacuum chamber and call forth to the intelligent designer to "create" a cherry pie in the chamber within one minute so we can verify his existence and credit him for his work.
And, if a crime is committed in the real world solely to reproduce/parody/satirize actions seen in a popular movie or game, shouldn't those actions be protected as free speech? Why should it matter whether the action actually occured in a physical or electronic form if the said action itself is illegal in itself?
One who argues in support of something; an advocate.
A "proponent" is certainly not how I'd describe the guy when it comes to Apple. John C Dvorak has been out to get Apple for several years now... almost at a religious level at that.
That said, the guy used to be somewhat interesting back in his ZDTV days, but he's pretty much lost all credibility ever since then.
I'm not so sure this would be a good idea for use on humans. As it is, we are right on the very edge of how many people our planet can support combined with our technological advancements. If we suddenly had the ability to live 400 years and could all procreate for 250-300 years of that, we might find ourselves having to impliment a Logan's Run system to prevent our own extinction.
Why the hell can't Nintendo crank out a 2D side scroller of Mario World for the cube? There's TONS of people like me with CASH now, that would be 50 bucks for a Super Mario World 2.
Absolutely!
Super Smash Brothers: Melee showed us this was well within their ability for the gamecube. Why did it take so long for Nintendo to figure out that a game like the upcoming New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS would be popular? Instead, we got Super Mario Sunshine, which can't even compete with Mario 64 on the fun scale. (Well, except for the few bonus stages in the game, which could have made an excellent game by themselves.)
Nintendo, please give us the same gaming goodness you gave us when we were growing up! I just want to see a game where I can go back to smashing bricks, collecting coins and traditional powerups (mushrooms, fireflowers and stars) and pounce on enemies in large chains. Heck, even a 3D remake of Super Mario Bros 3 would be pretty awesome. The heck with these giant sprawlling lands, just give us a lot of items to interact with in close quarters.
It's not surprising really. The DS doesn't exactly have the power to send and receive massive amounts of data while playing a game on it. And, even if it did, how many people really have access to broadband that is significantly higher than 2Mbit/sec? It makes sense that Nintendo is going to try focusing on the least common denominator.
That said though, the faster speeds might be nice for specific tasks like web-browsing, where available.
Well, you have to consider that most of this work is already done. Many of these old shows, including the really obscure ones, have already been cleaned up and put to DVD. Aside from that, the process for video/film restortion is pretty much automated these days. Really, there's relatively few issues preventing these shows from being ITMS ready within a matter of weeks.
The interesting thing with doing this, is that the amount of bandwidth needed for these older shows is far lower than that of the modern programs, such as Lost. Many of these older television shows only need to be encoded in greyscale and given a mono soundtrack. This could be a great, yet, inexpensive way to give the itunes video store some credibility.
Let's say for a second that this guy is right in regards to his fears of "preying upon children" and whatnot. Now that iPod Video exists, does this mean all porno sites dealing in content playable in Quicktime now risk being accused of making their content readily available to minors in an iPod-compatible format?
I would not be surprised if someone at Microsoft is spreading the FUD on this one to scare the industry into converting their offerings entirely to Windows Media format. Porno will ultimately decide which media format will remain on top... everything else is simply along for the ride.
My thinking is that the issue is political. With the MPAA/RIAA cartels in place with their hooks buried deep within our government, who in their right minds would risk offering consumers with high enough broadband speeds, making their system efficient enough to transfer high quality content in mere seconds? Knowing our legal system, they'd probably get sued for facilitating large scale P2P file sharing of copyrighted materials.
That's not to say, of course, these services are entirely innocent of playing games with the consumer. By trickling higher bandwidths to us slowly over a period of several years "for $10 more" each upgrade, they stand to make a huge fortune off the generally ignorant population we have here.
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So basically, you're saying that regardless of whether or not a weapon is concealed, crimes would still be committed anyway
By that logic, wouldn't it make more sense *not* to conceal a weapon, so you know definitively that at least *some* of the people won't become victims, rather than leaving the situation entirely random?
It's kind of like how the NRA nuts defend their right to carry concealed weapons, because it will make criminals think twice about committing crimes against citizens, since potentially anyone *might* have a gun on them. Why not just wear the weapon openly and remove all doubt that you're armed?
Maybe these guys just looking for an excuse to blow someone's head off, rather than actually achieving the goal of detering criminal activity.
They're already working to get human clinical trials (bottom of the page) going on this. I'm strongly considering being a test subject for it if they can get a site set up near my area.
Considering how things are currently going in the US though, this could end up being the only chance many of us will have for getting this sort of treatment any time soon. Eventually, some self-righteous asshat is going to propose federal bans on this, forcing those of us suffering from this type of condition to either live with the problem as-is, or leave the country and pay for it out of pocket.
This would probably lend itself better to tablet PCs and touch screen/kiosk systems where you are actually touching the objects on the screen, instead of the cursor/input device method, where you use the relative position of a device to manipulate items on a screen. While it works ok for the time being, the cursor/input device method is not very intuitive and is actually pretty awkward when it comes to making changes on impulse.
If we could actually interact with our computers like we do with real world objects, we'd be able to get more work done in less time, with far less effort. You wouldn't have to think about how you're going to do something before you actually do it.
Is it just me, or isn't this just a fancier form of an external CRT degausser used to correct chronic magnetic drift that have been used for decades? Hardly what you'd call "new" technology, since these devices have been used for this exact purpose in the past.
You might want to read some of the feedback left on VersionTracker for RB2005 and up. (Keep in mind the 4-star rating is based on an average of all versions of RB, from 2006 and lower.) There are very few positive reviews of the software past RB5.x, aside from a few token pity ratings for it.
Back before it turned into a steaming turd, RealSoftware's RealBasic Professional would have been an ideal solution to the cross-platform authoring problem that VisualBasic presents. (It supports Mac OS, Windows and Linux.) In fact, they even went so far as to provide tools needed to port VB projects to RB.
However, the folks at RealSoftware got greedy and let the quality of their past products go to their heads. All current versions of the software are written and compiled using RB itself... a move that has caused the brand to suffer horribly compared to the 5.x and earlier versions.
Apple did this several years ago (back in the pre-OS X days) with a browser/plug-in called "HotSauce". It worked, somewhat, but wasn't nearly as cool or as useful as one might have hoped for. There are probably far better ones out there now that are more like the 3D file browsers available today. But, like most of these types of browsers, they are mostly a gimmick and don't really offer any real benefit over traditional 2D interfaces.
What may make the difference though with regards to web browsing on a Wii, is that the user could tilt the controller to scroll horizontally and vertically, then simply move the controller while it's in a level position to control an on-screen cursor for interaction (like clicking links) or entering data via an on-screen keyboard... all in one hand.
This game goes a few steps beyond all of those first-person shooters that are open to modification by skilled designers. It literally makes the all the tools needed to create fully custom, playable characters available to the average person using a highly intuitive interface. Combine this with the possibility to create several hundred thousand variations in character design, each with their own custom world for them to populate in a virtual universe open to millions of users around the world via the internet to interact with them and you have one hell of an experience that is going to put any Sim* games before it to shame.
I am really looking forward to this game and the uproar it'll inevitably cause with the "intelligent design" proponents.
Could part of this sudden rush at Apple, as described by Think Secret, be in response to the XBox 360? As it is, the 360 is currently the closest thing to Apple's ideal behind the "digital hub".
The 360 software seems to accept almost any device you can throw at it. I imagine with a large external USB 2.0 drive connected to it, one could easily store their entire dvd collection on it and play it back using the 360 itself.
Also, the new XBox Live Marketplace could easily be made into the next iTunes Music Store, offering both music and tv shows on demand for a small price. Obviously bandwidth isn't an issue for Microsoft, since they already allow free downloads of game demos to the 360... many of which weigh in at 500MB-1GB in size.
I think we've only seen the surface of the 360's overall capabilities so far. The next year or so should be very interesting.
ADV is not in good shape right now, and I'm surprised to see an article trying to put a positive spin on them this late in the game.
ADV simply fell into the trap of exploiting a fad at it's peak by spending money like crazy. (Most notably, their "Anime Network".) Once the anime fad here in the US began to drop off, ADV began to suffer. During that time, they've had several company-wide layoffs and now their product quality is at an all-time low. The fact that they gave Cartoon Network the keys to their flagship anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion (which they have notoriously anal about protecting at all costs), shows just how desperate they've become to stay afloat.
At least the other major anime distributors (Viz, CPM, Etc...) were smart enough not to fall for the fad. It just amazes me that ADV didn't know better.
Sigh....I have a 360 and nope no crashes, no problems, no inner need-to-bash-microsoft for the sake of it.
Agreed. The system is very solid and does what it does extremely well. (No crashes here either.)
The FUD the system is getting is unjustified outside of the potential for yet another Microsoft bashing fest.
These guys have a fairly big list going too.
How about a true, scientific test of Intelligent Design so we can observe it? Maybe create a transparent vacuum chamber and call forth to the intelligent designer to "create" a cherry pie in the chamber within one minute so we can verify his existence and credit him for his work.
And, if a crime is committed in the real world solely to reproduce/parody/satirize actions seen in a popular movie or game, shouldn't those actions be protected as free speech? Why should it matter whether the action actually occured in a physical or electronic form if the said action itself is illegal in itself?
Proponant - n.
One who argues in support of something; an advocate.
A "proponent" is certainly not how I'd describe the guy when it comes to Apple. John C Dvorak has been out to get Apple for several years now... almost at a religious level at that.
That said, the guy used to be somewhat interesting back in his ZDTV days, but he's pretty much lost all credibility ever since then.
Wow... I think this is the first anti-Dvorak post rated "flamebait" by the Slashdot community.
That said, I think the 360 has potential, but I guess I'll find out Tuesday whether or not it's bad enough to justify Dvorak "liking" it.
I'm not so sure this would be a good idea for use on humans. As it is, we are right on the very edge of how many people our planet can support combined with our technological advancements. If we suddenly had the ability to live 400 years and could all procreate for 250-300 years of that, we might find ourselves having to impliment a Logan's Run system to prevent our own extinction.
Why the hell can't Nintendo crank out a 2D side scroller of Mario World for the cube? There's TONS of people like me with CASH now, that would be 50 bucks for a Super Mario World 2.
Absolutely!
Super Smash Brothers: Melee showed us this was well within their ability for the gamecube. Why did it take so long for Nintendo to figure out that a game like the upcoming New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS would be popular? Instead, we got Super Mario Sunshine, which can't even compete with Mario 64 on the fun scale. (Well, except for the few bonus stages in the game, which could have made an excellent game by themselves.)
Nintendo, please give us the same gaming goodness you gave us when we were growing up! I just want to see a game where I can go back to smashing bricks, collecting coins and traditional powerups (mushrooms, fireflowers and stars) and pounce on enemies in large chains. Heck, even a 3D remake of Super Mario Bros 3 would be pretty awesome. The heck with these giant sprawlling lands, just give us a lot of items to interact with in close quarters.
It's not surprising really. The DS doesn't exactly have the power to send and receive massive amounts of data while playing a game on it. And, even if it did, how many people really have access to broadband that is significantly higher than 2Mbit/sec? It makes sense that Nintendo is going to try focusing on the least common denominator.
That said though, the faster speeds might be nice for specific tasks like web-browsing, where available.
Well, you have to consider that most of this work is already done. Many of these old shows, including the really obscure ones, have already been cleaned up and put to DVD. Aside from that, the process for video/film restortion is pretty much automated these days. Really, there's relatively few issues preventing these shows from being ITMS ready within a matter of weeks.
The interesting thing with doing this, is that the amount of bandwidth needed for these older shows is far lower than that of the modern programs, such as Lost. Many of these older television shows only need to be encoded in greyscale and given a mono soundtrack. This could be a great, yet, inexpensive way to give the itunes video store some credibility.
Let's say for a second that this guy is right in regards to his fears of "preying upon children" and whatnot. Now that iPod Video exists, does this mean all porno sites dealing in content playable in Quicktime now risk being accused of making their content readily available to minors in an iPod-compatible format?
I would not be surprised if someone at Microsoft is spreading the FUD on this one to scare the industry into converting their offerings entirely to Windows Media format. Porno will ultimately decide which media format will remain on top... everything else is simply along for the ride.
My thinking is that the issue is political. With the MPAA/RIAA cartels in place with their hooks buried deep within our government, who in their right minds would risk offering consumers with high enough broadband speeds, making their system efficient enough to transfer high quality content in mere seconds? Knowing our legal system, they'd probably get sued for facilitating large scale P2P file sharing of copyrighted materials.
That's not to say, of course, these services are entirely innocent of playing games with the consumer. By trickling higher bandwidths to us slowly over a period of several years "for $10 more" each upgrade, they stand to make a huge fortune off the generally ignorant population we have here.