Force feedback is great, but you would need a machine the size of a small room to give you force feedback for motions like waving a sword at someone. This isn't Gran Turismo where a couple of motors in a steering wheel will make it feel like the wheel is pushing back. If you actually mean rumble, then yes you will feel a signal, but is that really any better than the visual and audio cues you get on screen. You still cut air, and that is the problem.
I'm not the biggest fan of motion sensing in games, because you have no point of reference. Intuitive is hitting a ball. Not intuitive is swinging at nothing where you think the ball should be. You're never quite sure where the game has placed it in relation to you. If very simple, think Punch-Out!! and Wii Sports, motion control can work OK. But with anything more complex, think Uber Tricks in SSX Blur (not the actual skiing though, that was a great use of motion controls), you find that the controls feel loose. That is not something that can be solved on the developer end. It is a flaw in the concept.
The company that can't make a decent mouse thinks they can bust through all of the drawbacks of voice recognition, visual recognition, and gestures in a single bound?
This is going to be a lot like watching someone get kicked in the nuts: hilarious.
Voice recognition ain't that great. Better get practicing that Midwest accent. I have great doubts that you will get the in game Richard Karn to understand "Bar Harbor" as someone from Bar Harbor would actually say it. Of course that word would have to be in the system. It will be like a text adventure where only special words get recognized. Fun!
Well then you really don't want to hear my trifecta. It involves choking people without a sense of humor to death by ramming my cock, covered in shit, down their throat, and that's just the first part!
Without demand there is no need to distribute. That is the big problem. Corporations control the media and thus control what we hear in the background of our lives. You will never hear true indie music as you walk into a Subway or a Starbucks despite their "indie" label featuring such unknowns as Paul McCartney. Indie music must be searched for, and when you do try to look for it, you learn that much of it is crap.
That is not to say that most major label music isn't crap. It is. But the key is that you don't have to make any effort to sift through the major label music, because you hear it all the time. The effort it takes to find not just good indie music but indie music you like enough to buy is a huge barrier. It can take many hours of time dedicated to the search to find just one band you want to support. It is great if you do it once, but how many people have the time or the passion to bang their head against the glut of content continuously.
Sure there have been attempts to resolve this, but even sites with reviews and previews only eliminate the obviously poor bands and only shrinks the massive barrier a bit.
Add that to the fact that the labels have the money to sweep up any marketable talent they can find, and the fate of the great indie boom is as still-born as it was before the invention of the internet.
I'm a comedian, and I face many of the same problems. You could call me an indie or underground comedian, but in my experience those labels are often shorthand for "not ready for prime-time." This is not always the case (though, sadly, it is for me... for now), but there is an ocean of competent comedians and indie musicians, and only a select few that have or find that spark, that x factor, that forces you to listen. While it is extremely rewarding to find them, the effort it takes wading through the ocean to find them cannot be ignored.
I find that many scientists have neither the competence, the knowledge, the understanding, nor the integrity to evaluate their own field. I agree with scientific criticism and wish it were taught more.
As a comedian myself, I will say that it is very hard to show true comic genius in the sterilized world of corporate comedy. It's worse than clean comedy, it's like comedy without victims.
That said, it didn't do anything for me. He has confidence, but little spark.
Her enormous popularity in the state took a hit this summer over her firing of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, a former Anchorage police chief.
State lawmakers launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Monegan because he would not fire the governor's ex-brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who has been involved in a messy custody battle with Palin's sister.
A candidate complete with pre-made scandal. Outstanding.
A lot of transsexuals go through an extremely hard time for the first few years after "transition" which is the point in time when he or she begins living full time in his or her chosen gender. This is equivalent to the time we all spend as a child learning what society expects of us in our preordained roles, only as adults, the margin for error is a lot more thin than it was at age 6.
It is hell, but here's the rub: It is hell beforehand too. It is like being in a long, dark tunnel. You can sit and do nothing. The awful mushrooms and putrid water will sustain you. If you choose to leave, the journey is long, exhausting, and painful, more painful than doing nothing, but it is the only chance you have to ever see the sun.
You know NASA has made a few major announcements that they have had to retract in the past few years. Remember the "river beds" that had no other possible origin? NASA later admitted that they were likely caused by the wind.
NASA doesn't let science get in the way of a good press release.
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What the fuck is 'Terra'? I live on Earth.
I have to say that when I see anyone using sci-fi jargon in a conversation about reality I immediately discount anything he or she has to say.
Force feedback is great, but you would need a machine the size of a small room to give you force feedback for motions like waving a sword at someone. This isn't Gran Turismo where a couple of motors in a steering wheel will make it feel like the wheel is pushing back. If you actually mean rumble, then yes you will feel a signal, but is that really any better than the visual and audio cues you get on screen. You still cut air, and that is the problem.
I'm not the biggest fan of motion sensing in games, because you have no point of reference. Intuitive is hitting a ball. Not intuitive is swinging at nothing where you think the ball should be. You're never quite sure where the game has placed it in relation to you. If very simple, think Punch-Out!! and Wii Sports, motion control can work OK. But with anything more complex, think Uber Tricks in SSX Blur (not the actual skiing though, that was a great use of motion controls), you find that the controls feel loose. That is not something that can be solved on the developer end. It is a flaw in the concept.
The company that can't make a decent mouse thinks they can bust through all of the drawbacks of voice recognition, visual recognition, and gestures in a single bound?
This is going to be a lot like watching someone get kicked in the nuts: hilarious.
"Blue" ... ... ...
"Blue!"
"BLUE!"
"BLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Voice recognition ain't that great. Better get practicing that Midwest accent. I have great doubts that you will get the in game Richard Karn to understand "Bar Harbor" as someone from Bar Harbor would actually say it. Of course that word would have to be in the system. It will be like a text adventure where only special words get recognized. Fun!
Well then you really don't want to hear my trifecta. It involves choking people without a sense of humor to death by ramming my cock, covered in shit, down their throat, and that's just the first part!
Without demand there is no need to distribute. That is the big problem. Corporations control the media and thus control what we hear in the background of our lives. You will never hear true indie music as you walk into a Subway or a Starbucks despite their "indie" label featuring such unknowns as Paul McCartney. Indie music must be searched for, and when you do try to look for it, you learn that much of it is crap.
That is not to say that most major label music isn't crap. It is. But the key is that you don't have to make any effort to sift through the major label music, because you hear it all the time. The effort it takes to find not just good indie music but indie music you like enough to buy is a huge barrier. It can take many hours of time dedicated to the search to find just one band you want to support. It is great if you do it once, but how many people have the time or the passion to bang their head against the glut of content continuously.
Sure there have been attempts to resolve this, but even sites with reviews and previews only eliminate the obviously poor bands and only shrinks the massive barrier a bit.
Add that to the fact that the labels have the money to sweep up any marketable talent they can find, and the fate of the great indie boom is as still-born as it was before the invention of the internet.
I'm a comedian, and I face many of the same problems. You could call me an indie or underground comedian, but in my experience those labels are often shorthand for "not ready for prime-time." This is not always the case (though, sadly, it is for me... for now), but there is an ocean of competent comedians and indie musicians, and only a select few that have or find that spark, that x factor, that forces you to listen. While it is extremely rewarding to find them, the effort it takes wading through the ocean to find them cannot be ignored.
There is evidence backing his point. It is just much more lucrative to ignore it.
I find that many scientists have neither the competence, the knowledge, the understanding, nor the integrity to evaluate their own field. I agree with scientific criticism and wish it were taught more.
If someone named Ford walks in claiming the world is about to end, we can snag him before he leaves us all to die.
Fucking wanker.
You're going to die of heart disease, and I'd imagine there are many more mutations that we haven't found yet.
1) Find physical phenomena.
2) Claim publicly that it might indicate life or the conditions for life regardless of the actual data involved.
3) Get funding.
4) Repeat.
As a comedian myself, I will say that it is very hard to show true comic genius in the sterilized world of corporate comedy. It's worse than clean comedy, it's like comedy without victims.
That said, it didn't do anything for me. He has confidence, but little spark.
The Google servers should be made of wood, just as God intended.
This joke is about 5 years late, just like their Dick Cheney/undisclosed location joke I saw a few weeks back.
I remember when the Onion was something special.
If anime has taught me anything, Steve Jobs should be back to work in no time with a huge rack.
1) She is being investigated for abuse of power. If this is not "in legal trouble," I don't know what is.
2) The media is reporting it. It is negative. Therefore, it is a scandal.
I said nothing about a verdict. Stevens is not convicted yet either.
It's almost like I'm reading an argument between two Republican talking points.
Yes, but so is she.
Her enormous popularity in the state took a hit this summer over her firing of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, a former Anchorage police chief.
State lawmakers launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Monegan because he would not fire the governor's ex-brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who has been involved in a messy custody battle with Palin's sister.
A candidate complete with pre-made scandal. Outstanding.
They always blend.
A lot of transsexuals go through an extremely hard time for the first few years after "transition" which is the point in time when he or she begins living full time in his or her chosen gender. This is equivalent to the time we all spend as a child learning what society expects of us in our preordained roles, only as adults, the margin for error is a lot more thin than it was at age 6.
It is hell, but here's the rub: It is hell beforehand too. It is like being in a long, dark tunnel. You can sit and do nothing. The awful mushrooms and putrid water will sustain you. If you choose to leave, the journey is long, exhausting, and painful, more painful than doing nothing, but it is the only chance you have to ever see the sun.
This is true. As someone who is currently working to change my sex, I have first hand experience.
I have to say, however, that I like both astrophysics and stuffed animals. So such things aren't mutually exclusive.
Quotas are stupid. Take your daughters to a planetarium.
Ah, BOB. So many memories.
The Big Orange Book was a good friend.
And that is why I didn't do it.
You know NASA has made a few major announcements that they have had to retract in the past few years. Remember the "river beds" that had no other possible origin? NASA later admitted that they were likely caused by the wind.
NASA doesn't let science get in the way of a good press release.
That isn't what Carl Brutananadilewski says.