No interface on earth is instantly usable for people who don't have a baseline competency in similar interfaces.
Very true.
To a good designer, this implies "...so make sure there's a training option to teach baseline competency."
To a bad designer--or worse yet, an engineer who thinks he's a designer--it implies "...so they must be stupid and unteachable and I don't want their money."
Julian Assange is our savior and can do no wrong, therefore any flaw he demonstrates must actually be fabricated by a sinister conspiracy - in accordance with the prophecy.
Capital idea! We'll just shoot every single bird that takes to the air within a ten-mile radius of every airport in the world. It should only take about 100 million professional snipers on 24/7 duty.
Seriously. Kids are all different. People are all different. ADHD roughly translates to "Teacher doesn't understand this kid and can't get through to him/her so we're going to use this made-up diagnosis to put him/her in a box and then pump him/her full of drugs to make the problem appear to have gone away."
Administering neurotoxins to healthy children is child abuse and should be treated as such.
The funny thing is, so many people say "oh yes, you're right, 99% of ADHD diagnoses are really just misunderstood children" but then their "ADHD" child always seems to be part of that last 1 percent. Nope, sorry, doesn't work that way, no exceptions. If you label a child "ADHD" you are an incompetent parent or teacher. Period.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You also don't know what "neurotoxin" means.
Please research the issue and report back to the class.
Or you could take responsibility for your own problems. I don't mean drugs, that is just as bad. Each individual is going be different and needs to be taught how to focus if they don't fall within the norm.
Would you tell a kid with a broken leg that he needed to take responsibility for his own problems, and just needed to be taught a different way of walking? Or would you give him a cast and some crutches?
Medical problems call for medical solutions. They also call for appropriate therapy and adaptation, of course, but those are useless if you aren't addressing the medical cause.
As someone who's been 'diagnosed' with ADHD, I can confidently say that I would never have graduated high school without both Ritalin and good teachers.
Some teachers are horrible and need to be fired. Some students have genuine brain imbalances that require medication. Please don't confuse the two problems. Just because ADHD drugs are over-prescribed doesn't mean that ADHD isn't real.
That would be pretty cool if you could do it with nonferrous electromagnets. Implanting magnets or indeed anything magnetically attracted in your skin is fucking stupid.
Yeah, you'd better hope you never need an MRI for anything.
I think they should make 'em modular, myself. Just flip up your fingernail to access the space. If you're not using them for magnets, you could transport secret messages, say, or extra Tabasco for your lunch. Don't see any way for that to go wrong!
They can put it under the "Tech" section if they like, but this is really another disappointing Ask Slashdot. It's disappointing because too many of these have this format: "my boss at work wants me to do X, but I'd really rather do Y; what are the merits of X versus Y?" All of them need to be summarily rejected, with a polite e-mail sent to the submitter which says "within the bounds of the law, you need to do what your boss asks you to do whether or not you necessarily agree with it. If you cannot convince your boss to do otherwise, and this is a problem for you, perhaps you should consider working elsewhere."
I don't know about you, but I was hired for my technical expertise. It is part of my job description to let management know when they are making bad technical decisions. If they still insist after that, then sure, I gotta shrug my shoulders and do it; but until then, it's my job to find out the facts and make sure they stay informed...which is exactly what the questioner is doing.
Save the "shut up and do as you're told" bit for McDonald's burger-flippers. We're professionals here.
It really does. If you mean "game with a first-person perspective and combat", that goes back to Maze War in 1973--it was even multiplayer. If you mean "game with true 3D environments", well, wireframe/polygon shooters have been around since the early 80s at least, possibly earlier. ID's Catacomb 3D introduced texture-mapped walls (in 16 colors!) in 1991, but unlike those polygon shooters was really only 2D in layout.
DOOM really kickstarted the modern FPS concept in 1993 with psuedo-vertical 3D, floor and ceiling textures, and immersive lighting and audio effects. DOOM was revolutionary in a lot of ways, but it was far from the first FPS.
I haven't read any other comments yet, but I'm using my psychic powers to predict that they will be full of people who cheer when someone spends months on a Windows or Linux casemod, calling this stupid because it's on a Mac.
Yeah right. Actually the gave which most similar games have been judged is Half Life and before that Quake!
Funny you should say that, because in a lot of ways Quake 1 was relentlessly bland. Monochromatic palette; flat and lifeless weapons compared to Doom's big, loud, animated guns; less plot even than Doom. Its engine was amazing in every way, and set the bar for years afterward, but the game they built on that engine was bog-standard.
I still loved it, because the audio and video immersion really sucked you in, but even at the time I was disappointed to come over from Doom and see the almighty BOOM-click-click of the shotgun and the howl of the plasma rifle replaced by a barely-animated popgun and a crackly little lightning thing.
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Yeah, it's Launchy with better app/OS integration. It's cool, and I look forward to using it, but it's hardly a new idea.
Mmm, if the glue/resin/finish is flammable, plywood could ignite in a microwave, even if regular wood wouldn't. Woodn't. Whatever. Make your own joke.
Can't everyone be right? Maybe they're both cowards and idiots.
Actually, yes!
Your credit is delivered in the form of getting to play an awesome game for four years.
Jesus Christ, some people love to whine. Do you bitch when you buy a game at retail and the price drops a few years later?
Did you read the *other* FA? There's two of them, and the one you're quoting is a year and a half old.
How is this news?
No interface on earth is instantly usable for people who don't have a baseline competency in similar interfaces.
Very true.
To a good designer, this implies "...so make sure there's a training option to teach baseline competency."
To a bad designer--or worse yet, an engineer who thinks he's a designer--it implies "...so they must be stupid and unteachable and I don't want their money."
Julian Assange is our savior and can do no wrong, therefore any flaw he demonstrates must actually be fabricated by a sinister conspiracy - in accordance with the prophecy.
Yeah, fuck those guys. They're all just a bunch of self-important assholes who spend all day commenting on other people's newsposts. OH WAIT SHIT
Yeah, it turns out meat doesn't show up on radar very well.
Clearly we need robot birds.
Flight 1549 hit the geese five miles from the runway, several thousand feet up. Your hunters must have some pretty impressive shotguns.
Capital idea! We'll just shoot every single bird that takes to the air within a ten-mile radius of every airport in the world. It should only take about 100 million professional snipers on 24/7 duty.
Seriously. Kids are all different. People are all different. ADHD roughly translates to "Teacher doesn't understand this kid and can't get through to him/her so we're going to use this made-up diagnosis to put him/her in a box and then pump him/her full of drugs to make the problem appear to have gone away." Administering neurotoxins to healthy children is child abuse and should be treated as such. The funny thing is, so many people say "oh yes, you're right, 99% of ADHD diagnoses are really just misunderstood children" but then their "ADHD" child always seems to be part of that last 1 percent. Nope, sorry, doesn't work that way, no exceptions. If you label a child "ADHD" you are an incompetent parent or teacher. Period.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You also don't know what "neurotoxin" means.
Please research the issue and report back to the class.
Or you could take responsibility for your own problems. I don't mean drugs, that is just as bad. Each individual is going be different and needs to be taught how to focus if they don't fall within the norm.
Would you tell a kid with a broken leg that he needed to take responsibility for his own problems, and just needed to be taught a different way of walking? Or would you give him a cast and some crutches?
Medical problems call for medical solutions. They also call for appropriate therapy and adaptation, of course, but those are useless if you aren't addressing the medical cause.
As someone who's been 'diagnosed' with ADHD, I can confidently say that I would never have graduated high school without both Ritalin and good teachers.
Some teachers are horrible and need to be fired. Some students have genuine brain imbalances that require medication. Please don't confuse the two problems. Just because ADHD drugs are over-prescribed doesn't mean that ADHD isn't real.
That would be pretty cool if you could do it with nonferrous electromagnets. Implanting magnets or indeed anything magnetically attracted in your skin is fucking stupid.
Yeah, you'd better hope you never need an MRI for anything.
I think they should make 'em modular, myself. Just flip up your fingernail to access the space. If you're not using them for magnets, you could transport secret messages, say, or extra Tabasco for your lunch. Don't see any way for that to go wrong!
They can put it under the "Tech" section if they like, but this is really another disappointing Ask Slashdot. It's disappointing because too many of these have this format: "my boss at work wants me to do X, but I'd really rather do Y; what are the merits of X versus Y?" All of them need to be summarily rejected, with a polite e-mail sent to the submitter which says "within the bounds of the law, you need to do what your boss asks you to do whether or not you necessarily agree with it. If you cannot convince your boss to do otherwise, and this is a problem for you, perhaps you should consider working elsewhere."
I don't know about you, but I was hired for my technical expertise. It is part of my job description to let management know when they are making bad technical decisions. If they still insist after that, then sure, I gotta shrug my shoulders and do it; but until then, it's my job to find out the facts and make sure they stay informed...which is exactly what the questioner is doing.
Save the "shut up and do as you're told" bit for McDonald's burger-flippers. We're professionals here.
ken's labyrinth, Catacombs 3D for sure.. then Wolf-3D.
Nope. Ken's Labyrinth was just another Wolf3D knockoff; it came out a year later. Catacomb 3D wasn't even id's first FPS (that would be Hovertank 3D).
Depends on what criteria you want to use.
It really does. If you mean "game with a first-person perspective and combat", that goes back to Maze War in 1973--it was even multiplayer. If you mean "game with true 3D environments", well, wireframe/polygon shooters have been around since the early 80s at least, possibly earlier. ID's Catacomb 3D introduced texture-mapped walls (in 16 colors!) in 1991, but unlike those polygon shooters was really only 2D in layout.
DOOM really kickstarted the modern FPS concept in 1993 with psuedo-vertical 3D, floor and ceiling textures, and immersive lighting and audio effects. DOOM was revolutionary in a lot of ways, but it was far from the first FPS.
My point? Bush didn't put the North Koreans up to anything, but your description is remarkably close to fitting your own country.
Is that supposed to make me feel better about North Korea being one step closer to global nuclear capability?
Uh, don't you mean "Nolth Kolea Brog"?
Ha ha, wow, those crazy Asians sure do talk funny! Man! That one never gets old!
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Do what, now?
Hm, not quite as many trolls as I expected. Pleasantly surprised. I guess I'm...sort of psychic?
I haven't read any other comments yet, but I'm using my psychic powers to predict that they will be full of people who cheer when someone spends months on a Windows or Linux casemod, calling this stupid because it's on a Mac.
Let's go check, shall we?
Yeah right. Actually the gave which most similar games have been judged is Half Life and before that Quake!
Funny you should say that, because in a lot of ways Quake 1 was relentlessly bland. Monochromatic palette; flat and lifeless weapons compared to Doom's big, loud, animated guns; less plot even than Doom. Its engine was amazing in every way, and set the bar for years afterward, but the game they built on that engine was bog-standard.
I still loved it, because the audio and video immersion really sucked you in, but even at the time I was disappointed to come over from Doom and see the almighty BOOM-click-click of the shotgun and the howl of the plasma rifle replaced by a barely-animated popgun and a crackly little lightning thing.