It comes down to the placement of the left thumbstick...you have to "reach" your thumb in order to use it effectively, whereas with a gamecube/xbox/360 controller, the way your hand naturally cradles the controller places your thumb EXACTLY where the the thunbstick is, no movement necessary.
You must be a girl or Jeremy Beadle. My thumbs reach the sticks no problem. In fact they often overextend too far and I end up pressing the button in the middle that makes the screen go black.
Plus when you've got your fingers on the shoulder buttons, having your thumbs on the sticks in the middle gives you a firmer, more balanced grip on the controller than where the buttons/Dpad are.
Try this. Pick up a PS2/PS3 controller and leave your hands in their neutral position. Check where your thumbs are. They should be BETWEEN the D-pad/buttons and the analog sticks.
That depends entirely on how you hold the controller in your hands, and how big your hands are. The way I hold it, I can reach the buttons and the sticks equally easily. In fact, holding it a certain way leaves my thumbs directly over the D-pad and buttons.
This means that, in order to hit ANY button on the controller, you have to move your thumb to some uncomfortable position.
Thankfully, I have opposable thumbs, meaning I can use them to press any part of the controller very easily. Maybe you have inflexible thumbs. I'm also capable of adjusting my grip so my thumb falls over different parts of the controller as and when it is necessary.
Plus, another benefit of the dualshock is that the sticks being further in means you stretch your thumb over the controller, giving you a tighter grip on the controller, and thus better control over the stick. If the sticks were at the edge of the controller, a la the gamecube, then you'd only have a loose hold on the controller and wouldn't be able to move the stick with the same conviction.
Not to mention that it could easily pinch your thumb
Now your post descends into realms of complete fantasy. What the hell are you doing with your controllers?
Then check out the shoulder buttons. Two of them rest on the middle fingers.
My buttons don't rest on my fingers, my fingers rest on the buttons. I'll admit that the back buttons are a bit squishy, but I can access them all with ease.
Try waggling your middle fingers back and forth. Hurts, doesn't it?
1) The controller was genius and is still utterly unsurpassed.
I'm sorry but the N64's controller was utterly abysmal. Not only did you have to hold it asymmetrically, but putting buttons on the fucking back is completely inexcusable. If your hand was on the middle stick, you couldn't easily access the buttons at the top left, or the left shoulder button.
The controller is too chunky to hold and they've made Sony's mistake of putting two analogue sticks on it.
Two sticks are great. You have one for control, and another for moving the camera. It offers quick, easy, intuitive control.
It's bad for the rich, because they have to invest their money, which stimulates the economy. Inflation is good for the poor, because of said economic stimulation.
A stagnant gold standard would be terrible for everyone other than those with reserves of gold. Like Ron Paul.
If the car is safer, it doesn't matter to them if they can't afford to buy one.
Then go to a scrapyard and find some old banger for $200. It'll probably be as slow, ugly, unreliable, unsafe and inefficient as something made in the 60s.
If the house is better constructed, it doesn't matter to them if they can't afford to buy it, or can't pay the payments and taxes on it.
I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find a decrepit shack in a ghetto somewhere that'll cost the equivalent of a house in 1960, and it will be just as luxurious.
What matters is can you afford a place to live, a place to raise your family, a competitive education, heating and cooling.
Heating and cooling? In the 60s, most people barely had any heating other than a few lumps of coal in the middle of winter, never mind air conditioning.
As for oil, most people use far too much of that anyway. It's not like the gold standard would bring down the cost of anything. All of Ron Paul's handwaving ideologies won't stop increased demand for resources.
The streets are narrow because they're older than your country.
the sublimated violence that turned into rage at sports matches
Rather that than the riots that occur in places like Cincinnati, Seattle, LA etc. Not to mention rampaging through the streets burning cars after winning a baseball game.
the binge drinking...
Try visiting your local college 'frat house' on a Friday night.
I distinctly recall that most people didn't have air conditioning and that heat waves resulted in people dying in surprising numbers
I recall people being killed by hurricanes and forest fires in the US.
When Europe's standard of living catches up to ours
When I get two weeks holiday a year, have to work over forty hours a week, can't afford proper healthcare, can only shop at the local Walmart, earn £3 an hour minimum wage, have to put up with inferior broadband internet, have my house eminent-domained to build a shopping mall, and have only two identical parties to vote for at crooked elections, then, and only then, will I consider myself to have a standard of living comparable to Americans.
The Constitution does not explicitly mandate a two party system, but it sets up an electoral system using proportional representation, in which a district is represented by whoever wins a plurality of votes. A two-party political system will naturally emerge from this as a mathematical certainty. Straight out of game theory.
A two party system has nothing to do with pluralities. The UK has a first past the post system, yet there are three major parties and ten represented in parliament.
In a parliamentary system, your district might send 7 guys to the capital- three from A, two from B, and two from C.
I don't think you know what a parliamentary system actually is. It has nothing to do with how representatives are elected, it means that the executive is controlled and selected by the legislative.
Except spaceships are far more cramped and inhospitable than submarines. They also need people with far more skills and expertise than a navy meathead.
God forbid that the people and entities that benefit from public works be expected to contribute some portion to their upkeep.
Oh right, so Microsoft and their employees don't pay gasoline tax, property tax, sales tax etc? Hang on they do, so this corporation tax is just the state double-dipping to fund pork barrel projects.
I guess Microsoft should maintain their own bridge then.
It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain a bridge?
Considering that MS employees pay Washington's high gasoline tax that pays to maintain the roads, and their income tax and property tax to pay for schools, police etc, what exactly would Microsoft get for their $528 million if they paid it?
Considering all that Microsoft has done for the state, getting little back in return, I'd say that Washington owes them.
So as a Washington resident doesn't it irritate you that you pay the highest gas tax in the country while Microsoft has evaded half a billion dollars in corporate taxes?
If gas tax is so high then there's enough there to build the roads and bridges to Microsoft's HQ, so what exactly would MS be getting if they paid corporation tax?
God forbid that profits might for once be kept by the people who created it, rather than leeched off by various governments in order to waste on all sorts of irrelevent crap.
If Nevada can manage without corporation tax, I see no reason why Washington can't.
It's actually not that dangerous, if it blows in re-entry it will go over a big enough area to just fade into the background radiation, and if it comes down in one piece they can go gather it up.
What if it comes down like Columbia, with various components falling in people's back gardens?
The point behind optical scan is that it is quick, low cost and still auditable. Hand counting is not quick, and human error can enter into that. Hand counting with lots of observers can be pretty time consuming in terms of man-hours.
Rubbish. In British general elections, we have paper ballots, counted by hand, and the results are usually all known by the following morning. Human error? Every party has observers watching every single vote being counted, the system is impeccable.
And cost? A few boxes, locks, and a school hall for the volunteers to count the votes in, versus computers, optical scanners, technicians etc.
Would you care to explain how all-paper doesn't work? It may not work in America with your hanging chads, mass disenfranchisement, electoral colleges and so on, but in the rest of the developed world many elections are run fairly and transparently using nothing but paper and pen.
I can: Say for instance, healthy food is, in some cases and some countries, more expensive than unhealthy food. Taxing heavily chocolate (maybe using the money to cut tax on veggies)I'm pretty sure that the prices of apples and oranges are already similar to most chocolates/crisps, and bananas are cheaper than anything other than those 10p space raiders.
The main reasons people choose unhealthy food is because they're nicer and need less preparation.
Ok you've said it hurt the economy and lowered the average income of the town. Can you tells us the numbers which show 1. How much the GDP of the town reduced, and 2. How much the average income reduced? You can give the figures in % or $, I'm not bothered.
Most markets, such as energy, telecoms, transport and water (except in Scotland) have little, if any government involvement outside of basic regulation.
Well, other than the water, which is run by government-granted monopolies, and trains, run by government-granted monopolies, and telecomes, where a government-granted monopoly controls the whole telephone infrastructure.
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Plus when you've got your fingers on the shoulder buttons, having your thumbs on the sticks in the middle gives you a firmer, more balanced grip on the controller than where the buttons/Dpad are.
Even with all that, it just makes him a successful businessman, not an entrepeneur.
It also gives politicians the power of deciding who's allowed to stand against them.
Plus, another benefit of the dualshock is that the sticks being further in means you stretch your thumb over the controller, giving you a tighter grip on the controller, and thus better control over the stick. If the sticks were at the edge of the controller, a la the gamecube, then you'd only have a loose hold on the controller and wouldn't be able to move the stick with the same conviction.Now your post descends into realms of complete fantasy. What the hell are you doing with your controllers?My buttons don't rest on my fingers, my fingers rest on the buttons. I'll admit that the back buttons are a bit squishy, but I can access them all with ease.No, I'm not arthritic.
A stagnant gold standard would be terrible for everyone other than those with reserves of gold. Like Ron Paul.
As for oil, most people use far too much of that anyway. It's not like the gold standard would bring down the cost of anything. All of Ron Paul's handwaving ideologies won't stop increased demand for resources.
A robot would probably have more personality than a McDonald's worker.
Except spaceships are far more cramped and inhospitable than submarines. They also need people with far more skills and expertise than a navy meathead.
Considering that MS employees pay Washington's high gasoline tax that pays to maintain the roads, and their income tax and property tax to pay for schools, police etc, what exactly would Microsoft get for their $528 million if they paid it?
Considering all that Microsoft has done for the state, getting little back in return, I'd say that Washington owes them.
God forbid that profits might for once be kept by the people who created it, rather than leeched off by various governments in order to waste on all sorts of irrelevent crap.
If Nevada can manage without corporation tax, I see no reason why Washington can't.
And cost? A few boxes, locks, and a school hall for the volunteers to count the votes in, versus computers, optical scanners, technicians etc.
Would you care to explain how all-paper doesn't work? It may not work in America with your hanging chads, mass disenfranchisement, electoral colleges and so on, but in the rest of the developed world many elections are run fairly and transparently using nothing but paper and pen.
I think what he means is, as they're in mortgages, which no-one wants to buy, they can't use them to pay back deposits.
Bananas and potatoes are hardly low in calories. Neither are oils, flour or butter.
I can: Say for instance, healthy food is, in some cases and some countries, more expensive than unhealthy food. Taxing heavily chocolate (maybe using the money to cut tax on veggies)I'm pretty sure that the prices of apples and oranges are already similar to most chocolates/crisps, and bananas are cheaper than anything other than those 10p space raiders.
The main reasons people choose unhealthy food is because they're nicer and need less preparation.
Ok you've said it hurt the economy and lowered the average income of the town. Can you tells us the numbers which show 1. How much the GDP of the town reduced, and 2. How much the average income reduced? You can give the figures in % or $, I'm not bothered.
Nuclear is very expensive, when you include the costs of building, maintaining, and decommissioning the plants.