Zonk hit the nail right on the head. The revolution could do for console games what world of warcraft did to the mmorpg market. It has the potential to drastically widen the market, by bringing non gamers into console gaming. My mom or my gandmother could use this interface intuitively.
All these comments against the revolution remind me of my friends comments who prefer windows, IE, and outlook express.
I have to disagree here. I love gesture browsing in firefox, and I love the gestures in Black and White. Mainly because they're fast. I don't have to move to the part of the screen where my back button is. A menu takes longer. You have to move to the menu then find your selection, likely among a tree of choices. Instead you can just do one quick gesture. You didn't even have to remember the gestures because of legend in the lower corner of the screen. There were all sorts of keyboard shortcuts for them too. You're playing a GOD, I think hand gestures has a very mystical jedi-like feel to it. Menus would definitely take away from that. Black and white had an amazingly powerful and simple to use interface. Gestures, navigation, training your pet was all very simple, and fast.
Black and White isn't for everyone. Neither is gestures in your web browser. However, calling either one complex is a ridiculous.
I don't know the details about the internal workings of either one, but they both bug me.
For years I've hated MySQL's install process. Call me old fashioned but I just want to
./configure
make
make install
It makes upgrading and maintaining my servers really nice. MySQL is just an annoyance.
Today I tried PostgresSQL, and I was happy to see a typical install process. Then I finished and I was blown away that it requires a shell in order to run. I understand that daemons need user accounts, but it just doesn't seem secure to give a daemon a shell.
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Zonk hit the nail right on the head. The revolution could do for console games what world of warcraft did to the mmorpg market. It has the potential to drastically widen the market, by bringing non gamers into console gaming. My mom or my gandmother could use this interface intuitively.
All these comments against the revolution remind me of my friends comments who prefer windows, IE, and outlook express.
I have to disagree here. I love gesture browsing in firefox, and I love the gestures in Black and White. Mainly because they're fast. I don't have to move to the part of the screen where my back button is. A menu takes longer. You have to move to the menu then find your selection, likely among a tree of choices. Instead you can just do one quick gesture. You didn't even have to remember the gestures because of legend in the lower corner of the screen. There were all sorts of keyboard shortcuts for them too. You're playing a GOD, I think hand gestures has a very mystical jedi-like feel to it. Menus would definitely take away from that. Black and white had an amazingly powerful and simple to use interface. Gestures, navigation, training your pet was all very simple, and fast.
Black and White isn't for everyone. Neither is gestures in your web browser. However, calling either one complex is a ridiculous.
I don't know the details about the internal workings of either one, but they both bug me.
./configure
For years I've hated MySQL's install process. Call me old fashioned but I just want to
make
make install
It makes upgrading and maintaining my servers really nice. MySQL is just an annoyance.
Today I tried PostgresSQL, and I was happy to see a typical install process. Then I finished and I was blown away that it requires a shell in order to run. I understand that daemons need user accounts, but it just doesn't seem secure to give a daemon a shell.
IMO MySQL is a pain, and PostgresSQL is a joke.