haven't tried it with RTS but a friend and geeked out the other night trying to find the ultimate controller combination for FPS... after a trip to Frys i was convinced to buy this.
don't give into the propaganda... use this thing in new and creative ways.
the movement is not switched but with practice there's enough finess movement and you can move while using other keys.
play counter strike with it. the programming on the fly is cool, it's just associating strings of key presses to a macro button. nice form factor. doze only... suck.
quote: "This thing looks really slick, emulating the Windows CE user interface quite closely."
while the boys and girls in richmond do a fair job building user interfaces i'm sick of the free software community ripping their stuff and producing look alike - but generally inferior - interfaces.
the palm interface is slick as shit on a wet shovel... why could they not come up with something as ground breaking for the yoppy? why the hell does the free software community not come up with a new idea in the UI space? or at least innovate rather than play catch up?
my point was that these companies are always on about how they're out to make everyones life better and that ms is just there to stifle all innovation.
that apple is no better, no worse than ms when it comes to ur: Mshing their pack to trained lawyers.
just goes to show that all these companies, apple, sun, oracle just want to be like ms and rule the world, control your thoughts and make HUGE piles of money.
vhs == more money from movies
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movies have become more profitable and more people are going to the cinema since vhs was released.
until i get a 15 metre screen and all the kit to go with it in my house i will continue to pay to watch movies at cinemas.
given how infrequently geeks get laid (judging by #slashdot) i would say that getting them hooked on the internet and programming linux should do wonders for population control.
pdf seems to be the best electronic format available currently... you can search through it electronically and most important you can print it as many times as you need to. html can deliver this as long as the document is presented as one monolithic file.
it's a must as far as i am concerned to provide electronic copy of manuals... i can turn that into paper when i need to.
our company releases only in electronic format - both pdf and online book html format. it works well... but we're not distributing boxed software.
it just means that they can hook unfit quake trained geeks up to the hardware to do the physical work and have them run around in battle, getting shot at for real.
i will probably never work for defense agencies - they design stuff to kill humans better. unfortunately they design really cool, fun stuff to kill people better.
why did we decentralise? why did the pc become so popular? bandwidth (and to a lesser extent processing power) - people wanted nicer user interfaces, those could not be delivered over the network available when pc's rolled out.
processing power just keeps going up and it's now cheap and pentiful... hell throw another server into the cluster.
bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper so funtional user interfaces are becoming possible to serve over the network.
lets face it, we took a HUGE leap backwards in terms of user interface when we moved to early neo-centralized interfaces (aka the early www and html forms). now as our bandwidth grows and we learn a better balance between fat clients and thin clients things are beginning to pick up. the web still sucks for delivering half way decent user interfaces (in the thin client form) but as bandwidth gets there we'll see improvements.
there are still very important uses for fat clients - imagine playing team fortress classic through a thin client. and then look at what is possible with those fat clients. the classic notion is that we will move towards a matrix like computer system - well right now multi-player games is the closest we've got and they are not possible with thin client technology.
that's exactly the point of a network. it is a super set of the typical hierachy we've been dealing with for so long. every category (node) can have many parents and children. it's the very fact that these categories can be so intertwined that makes the internet so suited to capturing the complexity. there is absolutely nothing preventing dominant categories or hubs from being established - sharing sub categories.
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haven't tried it with RTS but a friend and geeked out the other night trying to find the ultimate controller combination for FPS... after a trip to Frys i was convinced to buy this.
don't give into the propaganda... use this thing in new and creative ways.
the movement is not switched but with practice there's enough finess movement and you can move while using other keys.
play counter strike with it. the programming on the fly is cool, it's just associating strings of key presses to a macro button. nice form factor. doze only... suck.
quote:
"This thing looks really slick, emulating the Windows CE user interface quite closely."
while the boys and girls in richmond do a fair job building user interfaces i'm sick of the free software community ripping their stuff and producing look alike - but generally inferior - interfaces.
the palm interface is slick as shit on a wet shovel... why could they not come up with something as ground breaking for the yoppy? why the hell does the free software community not come up with a new idea in the UI space? or at least innovate rather than play catch up?
my point was that these companies are always on about how they're out to make everyones life better and that ms is just there to stifle all innovation.
that apple is no better, no worse than ms when it comes to ur: Mshing their pack to trained lawyers.
maybe the rumour was cooler than the actual product and they didn't want to let everyone down when they announced it?
just goes to show that all these companies, apple, sun, oracle just want to be like ms and rule the world, control your thoughts and make HUGE piles of money.
movies have become more profitable and more people are going to the cinema since vhs was released.
until i get a 15 metre screen and all the kit to go with it in my house i will continue to pay to watch movies at cinemas.
-tim
given how infrequently geeks get laid (judging by #slashdot) i would say that getting them hooked on the internet and programming linux should do wonders for population control.
:p
pdf seems to be the best electronic format available currently... you can search through it electronically and most important you can print it as many times as you need to. html can deliver this as long as the document is presented as one monolithic file.
it's a must as far as i am concerned to provide electronic copy of manuals... i can turn that into paper when i need to.
our company releases only in electronic format - both pdf and online book html format. it works well... but we're not distributing boxed software.
hmmm... i remember that the nt resource kit for 4.0 came with posix complient layer...
it just means that they can hook unfit quake trained geeks up to the hardware to do the physical work and have them run around in battle, getting shot at for real.
i will probably never work for defense agencies - they design stuff to kill humans better. unfortunately they design really cool, fun stuff to kill people better.
so this turned into a bit of an essay
why did we decentralise? why did the pc become so popular? bandwidth (and to a lesser extent processing power) - people wanted nicer user interfaces, those could not be delivered over the network available when pc's rolled out.
processing power just keeps going up and it's now cheap and pentiful... hell throw another server into the cluster.
bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper so funtional user interfaces are becoming possible to serve over the network.
lets face it, we took a HUGE leap backwards in terms of user interface when we moved to early neo-centralized interfaces (aka the early www and html forms). now as our bandwidth grows and we learn a better balance between fat clients and thin clients things are beginning to pick up. the web still sucks for delivering half way decent user interfaces (in the thin client form) but as bandwidth gets there we'll see improvements.
there are still very important uses for fat clients - imagine playing team fortress classic through a thin client. and then look at what is possible with those fat clients. the classic notion is that we will move towards a matrix like computer system - well right now multi-player games is the closest we've got and they are not possible with thin client technology.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philoso phy.html i encourage anyone reading this thread to also read these discussions on why patented and non-free software is bad.
unplug
what's with the kill command bs?
- tim
subject: matrix on dvd
store: hmv
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nuff said
that's exactly the point of a network. it is a super set of the typical hierachy we've been dealing with for so long. every category (node) can have many parents and children. it's the very fact that these categories can be so intertwined that makes the internet so suited to capturing the complexity. there is absolutely nothing preventing dominant categories or hubs from being established - sharing sub categories.