What makes you think Yoda was averse to a little swamp dive? That little sucker could live on any remote and abandoned planet in the galaxy, and he chose a swamp planet, because he loves swamps so much. Well, that and it's a great excuse for not cleaning up his hovel. Any place not waist-deep in muck is considered clean on Degobah.
Which is to say, I think generalizing your latter point invalidates your former one.
It was the same point, which as I made explicit (rather than merely using the most sarcastic tone I know how) last post, is that I think this is a stupid patent.
I hope that is perfectly clear now. I don't think just adding "but on a computer" to an existing idea makes for a novel patent, neither does "but on the internet". Should I repeat that again?
Oh, well I thought you were talking about a physical console or mix board where the electronics inside would (on a digital board at the very least) certainly be a computer, the interface itself is traditional buttons, knobs, and sliders. Whereas IBMs patent is on a computer GUI. That's not the case, mea culpa.
More importantly, I was completely supporting your position that this is a stupid patent. I can't be more sarcastic than "Next up they'll patent the same thing, but On The Internet! Genius!" without feeling like I'm being a complete ham.
What, you think it wasn't obvious you were trolling from the get-go? Troll-baiting is as fun a time-waster as trolling, just an fyi, especially vs. the histrionic ones since the bar for hilarity is lower.
Further hilarious implication: It crossed your mind that I might care what you think, or that I wasn't being intentionally antagonistic.
But of course I absolutely meant everything I said about you being a moron.
You are a moron, unfit to live, and the error of your birth should be corrected through blunt force trauma.
Huh? What? No, I'm not saying you should be bludgeoned to death! How dare you assume that merely because the words I used in the order I used them would imply exactly that! I'm saying something completely different. No really, you misinterpreted me. You only think I said that because you can't comprehend my deep thoughts. Yeah, and everyone else who reads that, well they might think I was saying the same thing you did, but that's because they're stupid too! Yeah, that's it! I'm a genius! Everyone else just can't appreciate me, so please stop laughing!
Really, you're hilarious. You're an idiot, you said something stupid, you can't even correct yourself, and you blame everyone else for it. Please keep it up.
Or don't. You're just the same joke repeating itself, and it's already getting old. If you had anything worthwhile to say you would have done so by now. The only thing you tried to actually say was wrong and stupid, and your belligerent defense suggests you don't have anything better hidden within your vacuous skull.
Whatever you were trying to communicate, you failed, and for any reasonable interpretation of what you actually said, you were wrong and stupid.
How hard is it for you to understand that?
Is it impossible for you to actually try to communicate better? Or is screaming and blaming everyone else for their inability to see your genius through the opaque veil of your imbecilic writing all I can expect?
Sorry for "assuming" you have the basic language skills necessary to put your thoughts to paper. Though at this point it's just an assumption that you have anything worthwhile rattling around in your skull at all, and I already know what assuming gets with you!
Exactly how it's written, that being " a consequence of misbehavior in a muslim regime is death by an unpleasant method". If you're not sure, stop fucking assuming and ask like you did.
Which is how it was interpreted, as a statement of factual cause and effect -- question dogma, get burned in the street. Not hypothetically, not maybe, but for real, "right now".
Why would he attribute ANY NUMBER AT ALL? I didn't make any claims on that, so why even bring it up other than to troll? Exactly.
You stated it as if it was a rule -- question the dogma, get burned in the street. Since many people in the Muslim world are taught evolution and other ideas that run contrary to the dogma, if what you said was true, then there would be a great many street-burnings.
It's called a logical consequence. Just because you didn't think of it doesn't mean it doesn't apply. When your statement, taken as given, implies ludicrous things like thousand upon thousands of annual street-burnings, that's YOUR fault, not the fault of those who "assume" that you are saying what you actually mean.
I notice your clarification doesn't actually free you of this unfortunate little logical consequence. Maybe instead of ranting about how everyone should be politely asking for clarification of your argument, you should think a little harder and realize the reply had you spot-on. Or maybe you should have asked him for clarification! Hah.
No guy, any reasonable person wouldn't assume a fucking thing because reasonable people don't make such assumptions, they seek clarification.
Your original statement needed no clarification. It was hyperbolic horse shit. You can "clarify" as much as you want, you're still wrong.
Did you seriously just call 'acting out a murder in a video game' "the most natural thing?"
It's the Wii. It uses motion controls. In most games the motion controls are used to simulate the action your avatar performs. It has a paucity of buttons. So yes, using motion controls to control your actions is the most natural thing to do.
I'm sure you meant the acting part, but if you can't see what makes that disturbing, where pressing buttons wasn't disturbing, I can't even begin to imagine how to clear that up for you.
I'm sure that you have no idea what I meant.
You're acting out a virtual murder in any event. If making your on-screen avatar brutalize innocents by pressing "A" or "X" is fine with you, but doing the same thing by making vague stabby motions in empty air is not fine, then it's because you've never actually thought about what you were doing before. If you actually found the violence itself disturbing, that would be fine, and these games simply wouldn't be for you. But when shanking someone in the neck is honky-dory as long as you do it with a button but not a motion, then that speaks to greater issues that have nothing to do with the game or its interface. That's why you can't make the difference clear, because it rests on essentially a hairs breadth difference in level of abstraction in what is in either case a completely abstracted and artificial act.
By the way, how do you feel about murdering virtual people with a gun by pulling the trigger button? Are shooters too disturbing for you?
But is anyone else very disturbed by the idea of using a Wiimote to stab/strangle/maim people?
Uh... it sounds like the most obvious thing to do, exactly what you would expect to do in any similar game for the Wii.
I mean, you hack things apart in Zelda by waving the wiimote around. Granted it's cartoony, and manhunt is "realistic". Same difference between Zelda for GC and GTA:SA for PS2. Either way, just like on those consoles you expect to control your character's actions with buttons, on the Wii you expect to do so by simulating the action with the Wiimote.
So how exactly is doing the most natural thing "over the top"? How exactly should they abstract the act of stabbing someone (besides the fact that you'll be 'stabbing' your wiimote at empty air)?
If pushing buttons vs making vague stabby motions in the air is all it takes to turn something like GTA:SA from a fun romp into something deeply distrubing, well, I guess that is what disturbs me.
Also, I don't get the impression a lot of people are running the old 60 uber-epic quests anymore. Not much point when you're just going to be replacing those Tier 1 and 2 epics with greens as soon as you get to the outland. If that's true, they could just make those dungeons challenging for 70 (or 80) level characters in groups of 5-10 and add some incentives to go back in there. There's no point in letting those dungeons go to waste.
When the concept was announced, this is what I thought "heroic mode" dungeons were going to be: the old dungeons, re-balanced for the new level cap. I mean that's what it said, that heroics were dungeons re-balanced around level 70 players and with similarly upgraded loot. Sounded great to me. Instead, what we got was the -new- dungeons, including the ones that are already level 70 dungeons, made harder and with a pre-requisite rep grind. Yay?
If the current state of affairs is going to continue for healers and tanks, lowering the respec cost caps for those professions would definitely be a nice gesture (If a priest is going to HAVE to respec for solo questing it should either cost a lot less or he should get some free ones every week.)
Respec costs are a gold sink, nothing more. There's no real reason for them to exist as far as gameplay goes. It's just another way for Blizzard to suck money from the economy. Money sinks are needed, but I think respec costs are an ill-conceived way to do it.
Actually the funny thing to me about this one is that I can't "undo" the illusion nearly as easily as I can with most others. Even with the gray bar connecting the two squares, I still see them as distinct colors, and the bar itself as a gradient from dark to light.
In Chicago driving around a building several times is what you do before you decied to park somewhere you aren't supposed to be parked.
Oh well yeah. Maybe it wasn't clear, but those are going to be their standards for normal. The system will actually be raising warning flags on people who drive several times around the building and then drive off because there were no legal parking spaces, or the people who upon finding a legal parking space politely allowssomeone else who found the same spot first to park instead of rushing in to block them off.
Also, city officials refusing bribes, and businesses that have no visible connection to organized crime will be flagged and monitored for their suspicious abnormal behavior.
It really doesn't matter if they plan to pay it off in a single year or not. It's state funded which means that the state taxpayers are paying to reduce the commute times on a service very few are likely to use more than once or twice a year, if that.
Sure it matters. If the income from the people who do use it is enough that it exceeds the annual operational cost by enough that within a reasonable time frame it pays for itself then the state and ergo the taxpayers will net a profit.
I think I was just confused by what you were intending for me to look at in that link -- I thought you were implying that 2.6bil was equivalent to 8% of the transportation industry that they'd need to capture in order to recoup costs. What data were you trying to point out?
While it's good that Monsoon's finally agreed to uphold the GPL agreement I was rather hoping that they'd hold out, if only to establish precedent for future actions.
I guess. Is a precedent really necessary? I mean the "GPL hasn't been tested in court -- it might be an invalid license!" makes for great anti-GPL FUD, but when you get down to it there is no reason to believe the GPL would be invalid. There are thousands of licenses out there that have never been tried in court, and with most of them there would be no point.
This may be the first GPL lawsuit, but it is hardly the first GPL-related incident with lawyers involved. The fact is that most companies cave immediately when faced with the facts of their GPL violations. Before now nobody has even wanted it to get to the point of a lawsuit being filed, much less letting the facts be tried by a jury. I think it's safe to say that most of these companies' legal departments regard the GPL as a sound license, and getting it ruled invalid as unlikely (and detrimental, since without the GPL they would have no license to use the code at all).
The closest we've come to a company actually fighting the GPL in a court of law was SCO who claimed it was unconstitutional of all things. Nobody else seems to be crazy enough to want to fight the GPL at all.
So a precedent would be nice simply for being able to say "the GPL has been tested in court and was ruled to be a valid license" to silence the FUDmeisters, but practically speaking it's not necessary to protect GPLed code.
The main problem I see is that it can't do any turn by a a 60 degree turn. It can travel in 6 directions only... Makes me feel like I'm playing a hex board game...
Meaning you are prepared for leading the legions of strider-based war machines that are soon to be developed. Bet you never thought hex-based strategy gaming would be relevant to real life, but now you could be a General!
The international oil companies are going to get their share of Iraqi oil once the region stabilizes.
Hey, have you checked the price of a barrel of oil lately? Checked oil company financials? They don't need to wait to get their share of the loot until the part of Bush's plan is supposed to magically bring stability to the Middle East, which is good for them.
Instability in the Iraqi oil flow serves them perfectly by making the oil they're pumping elsewhere more valuable. Besides, that oil at least officially belongs Iraq so there's going to be a cut taken. As long as their other oil fields keep producing, they make ridiculous amounts of money (and have been since the war started). Halliburton gets the contract to repair the pipelines every time they get blown up, so there's profit for business cronies coming and going.
I don't get it. is the task of writing papers inherently biased against women?
Read what you quoted. It didn't say papers written, it said papers published. It is the academic publishing process that is biased against women because the reviewers are mostly men, and a lot of them with the same "girls can't and/or don't really want to do engineering" mentality as you will see in posts to this very Slashdot article, and thus they reject the paper due to being written by a woman without considering its merit.
Granted, as I said, there really is no replacement for a keyboard and mouse, but it doesn't take long to get used to using the controller.
It's not a matter of "used to"; I've logged many many hours of console FPS play. Yet it has always been and will always be an inferior input scheme compared to keyboard and mouse. I simply accepted this as the cost of playing an FPS on a console.
Now that I've played Metroid Prime 3, I no longer consider it acceptable. Now even on a console I can have fast, accurate aiming. If only you could turn as quickly as with a mouse, the wiimote would be the perfect input device for FPS. As is, it's only so awesome that I never want to touch dual analog FPS controls again. My Time Splitters 2 GC disk will miss me.:P
I don't have to worry about having my hand in the wrong position and hitting a key I don't mean to hit.
Yes, the keyboard is in many ways the weaker half of the mouse/keyboard pair. It does allow you to fit all the necessary functions without resorting to things like the L3/R3 buttons on the Sony controller, but has the problem of having roughly 80 unnecessary keys.
This is one of the beauties of the wii, by the way. The analog stick is a great method for moving your character, since you really only need two speeds anyway (full run, and slow cautious), you never need to stop on a particular pixel, and your character is rarely supposed to be so fast that they can run back and forth across a room in a second. Whereas aiming is something where you're inherently supposed to be able to whip the barrel of your gun around to shoot people on opposite ends of a room, since you're not really moving yourself you're just moving the angle of the gun. Analog sticks turn this into basically the same thing as moving your character. Analog thumbsticks suck for aiming, even if you're as familiar with them as it is possible to be. So the wii gives you the best of both: The nunchuck has the analog stick for moving your character, and the wiimote gives you fast and precise aiming that no thumbstick can.
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Well I felt pretty silly when I didn't realize that Apple Logic was a piece of desktop software. So there ya go. :)
What makes you think Yoda was averse to a little swamp dive? That little sucker could live on any remote and abandoned planet in the galaxy, and he chose a swamp planet, because he loves swamps so much. Well, that and it's a great excuse for not cleaning up his hovel. Any place not waist-deep in muck is considered clean on Degobah.
How about they strip off the rockets and find a way to make a house for homeless people?
I say why strip off the rockets?
Which is to say, I think generalizing your latter point invalidates your former one.
It was the same point, which as I made explicit (rather than merely using the most sarcastic tone I know how) last post, is that I think this is a stupid patent.
I hope that is perfectly clear now. I don't think just adding "but on a computer" to an existing idea makes for a novel patent, neither does "but on the internet". Should I repeat that again?
Oh, well I thought you were talking about a physical console or mix board where the electronics inside would (on a digital board at the very least) certainly be a computer, the interface itself is traditional buttons, knobs, and sliders. Whereas IBMs patent is on a computer GUI. That's not the case, mea culpa.
More importantly, I was completely supporting your position that this is a stupid patent. I can't be more sarcastic than "Next up they'll patent the same thing, but On The Internet! Genius!" without feeling like I'm being a complete ham.
This is a common UI design in the audio world.
Ah-hah! But this is On A Computer! Completely original!
Next up they'll patent the same thing, but On The Internet! Genius!
What, you think it wasn't obvious you were trolling from the get-go? Troll-baiting is as fun a time-waster as trolling, just an fyi, especially vs. the histrionic ones since the bar for hilarity is lower.
Further hilarious implication: It crossed your mind that I might care what you think, or that I wasn't being intentionally antagonistic.
But of course I absolutely meant everything I said about you being a moron.
You are a moron, unfit to live, and the error of your birth should be corrected through blunt force trauma.
Huh? What? No, I'm not saying you should be bludgeoned to death! How dare you assume that merely because the words I used in the order I used them would imply exactly that! I'm saying something completely different. No really, you misinterpreted me. You only think I said that because you can't comprehend my deep thoughts. Yeah, and everyone else who reads that, well they might think I was saying the same thing you did, but that's because they're stupid too! Yeah, that's it! I'm a genius! Everyone else just can't appreciate me, so please stop laughing!
Really, you're hilarious. You're an idiot, you said something stupid, you can't even correct yourself, and you blame everyone else for it. Please keep it up.
Or don't. You're just the same joke repeating itself, and it's already getting old. If you had anything worthwhile to say you would have done so by now. The only thing you tried to actually say was wrong and stupid, and your belligerent defense suggests you don't have anything better hidden within your vacuous skull.
Whatever you were trying to communicate, you failed, and for any reasonable interpretation of what you actually said, you were wrong and stupid.
How hard is it for you to understand that?
Is it impossible for you to actually try to communicate better? Or is screaming and blaming everyone else for their inability to see your genius through the opaque veil of your imbecilic writing all I can expect?
Sorry for "assuming" you have the basic language skills necessary to put your thoughts to paper. Though at this point it's just an assumption that you have anything worthwhile rattling around in your skull at all, and I already know what assuming gets with you!
Exactly how it's written, that being " a consequence of misbehavior in a muslim regime is death by an unpleasant method". If you're not sure, stop fucking assuming and ask like you did.
Which is how it was interpreted, as a statement of factual cause and effect -- question dogma, get burned in the street. Not hypothetically, not maybe, but for real, "right now".
Why would he attribute ANY NUMBER AT ALL? I didn't make any claims on that, so why even bring it up other than to troll? Exactly.
You stated it as if it was a rule -- question the dogma, get burned in the street. Since many people in the Muslim world are taught evolution and other ideas that run contrary to the dogma, if what you said was true, then there would be a great many street-burnings.
It's called a logical consequence. Just because you didn't think of it doesn't mean it doesn't apply. When your statement, taken as given, implies ludicrous things like thousand upon thousands of annual street-burnings, that's YOUR fault, not the fault of those who "assume" that you are saying what you actually mean.
I notice your clarification doesn't actually free you of this unfortunate little logical consequence. Maybe instead of ranting about how everyone should be politely asking for clarification of your argument, you should think a little harder and realize the reply had you spot-on. Or maybe you should have asked him for clarification! Hah.
No guy, any reasonable person wouldn't assume a fucking thing because reasonable people don't make such assumptions, they seek clarification.
Your original statement needed no clarification. It was hyperbolic horse shit. You can "clarify" as much as you want, you're still wrong.
Did you seriously just call 'acting out a murder in a video game' "the most natural thing?"
It's the Wii. It uses motion controls. In most games the motion controls are used to simulate the action your avatar performs. It has a paucity of buttons. So yes, using motion controls to control your actions is the most natural thing to do.
I'm sure you meant the acting part, but if you can't see what makes that disturbing, where pressing buttons wasn't disturbing, I can't even begin to imagine how to clear that up for you.
I'm sure that you have no idea what I meant.
You're acting out a virtual murder in any event. If making your on-screen avatar brutalize innocents by pressing "A" or "X" is fine with you, but doing the same thing by making vague stabby motions in empty air is not fine, then it's because you've never actually thought about what you were doing before. If you actually found the violence itself disturbing, that would be fine, and these games simply wouldn't be for you. But when shanking someone in the neck is honky-dory as long as you do it with a button but not a motion, then that speaks to greater issues that have nothing to do with the game or its interface. That's why you can't make the difference clear, because it rests on essentially a hairs breadth difference in level of abstraction in what is in either case a completely abstracted and artificial act.
By the way, how do you feel about murdering virtual people with a gun by pulling the trigger button? Are shooters too disturbing for you?
But is anyone else very disturbed by the idea of using a Wiimote to stab/strangle/maim people?
Uh... it sounds like the most obvious thing to do, exactly what you would expect to do in any similar game for the Wii.
I mean, you hack things apart in Zelda by waving the wiimote around. Granted it's cartoony, and manhunt is "realistic". Same difference between Zelda for GC and GTA:SA for PS2. Either way, just like on those consoles you expect to control your character's actions with buttons, on the Wii you expect to do so by simulating the action with the Wiimote.
So how exactly is doing the most natural thing "over the top"? How exactly should they abstract the act of stabbing someone (besides the fact that you'll be 'stabbing' your wiimote at empty air)?
If pushing buttons vs making vague stabby motions in the air is all it takes to turn something like GTA:SA from a fun romp into something deeply distrubing, well, I guess that is what disturbs me.
Also, I don't get the impression a lot of people are running the old 60 uber-epic quests anymore. Not much point when you're just going to be replacing those Tier 1 and 2 epics with greens as soon as you get to the outland. If that's true, they could just make those dungeons challenging for 70 (or 80) level characters in groups of 5-10 and add some incentives to go back in there. There's no point in letting those dungeons go to waste.
When the concept was announced, this is what I thought "heroic mode" dungeons were going to be: the old dungeons, re-balanced for the new level cap. I mean that's what it said, that heroics were dungeons re-balanced around level 70 players and with similarly upgraded loot. Sounded great to me. Instead, what we got was the -new- dungeons, including the ones that are already level 70 dungeons, made harder and with a pre-requisite rep grind. Yay?
If the current state of affairs is going to continue for healers and tanks, lowering the respec cost caps for those professions would definitely be a nice gesture (If a priest is going to HAVE to respec for solo questing it should either cost a lot less or he should get some free ones every week.)
Respec costs are a gold sink, nothing more. There's no real reason for them to exist as far as gameplay goes. It's just another way for Blizzard to suck money from the economy. Money sinks are needed, but I think respec costs are an ill-conceived way to do it.
Actually the funny thing to me about this one is that I can't "undo" the illusion nearly as easily as I can with most others. Even with the gray bar connecting the two squares, I still see them as distinct colors, and the bar itself as a gradient from dark to light.
In Chicago driving around a building several times is what you do before you decied to park somewhere you aren't supposed to be parked.
Oh well yeah. Maybe it wasn't clear, but those are going to be their standards for normal. The system will actually be raising warning flags on people who drive several times around the building and then drive off because there were no legal parking spaces, or the people who upon finding a legal parking space politely allowssomeone else who found the same spot first to park instead of rushing in to block them off.
Also, city officials refusing bribes, and businesses that have no visible connection to organized crime will be flagged and monitored for their suspicious abnormal behavior.
I think Jack Thompson and Rick Santorum need to get together and go bowling... and see what develops from there.
It really doesn't matter if they plan to pay it off in a single year or not. It's state funded which means that the state taxpayers are paying to reduce the commute times on a service very few are likely to use more than once or twice a year, if that.
Sure it matters. If the income from the people who do use it is enough that it exceeds the annual operational cost by enough that within a reasonable time frame it pays for itself then the state and ergo the taxpayers will net a profit.
I think I was just confused by what you were intending for me to look at in that link -- I thought you were implying that 2.6bil was equivalent to 8% of the transportation industry that they'd need to capture in order to recoup costs. What data were you trying to point out?
Heh, that made me laugh.
Do you think they're trying to pay it off in a year?
While it's good that Monsoon's finally agreed to uphold the GPL agreement I was rather hoping that they'd hold out, if only to establish precedent for future actions.
I guess. Is a precedent really necessary? I mean the "GPL hasn't been tested in court -- it might be an invalid license!" makes for great anti-GPL FUD, but when you get down to it there is no reason to believe the GPL would be invalid. There are thousands of licenses out there that have never been tried in court, and with most of them there would be no point.
This may be the first GPL lawsuit, but it is hardly the first GPL-related incident with lawyers involved. The fact is that most companies cave immediately when faced with the facts of their GPL violations. Before now nobody has even wanted it to get to the point of a lawsuit being filed, much less letting the facts be tried by a jury. I think it's safe to say that most of these companies' legal departments regard the GPL as a sound license, and getting it ruled invalid as unlikely (and detrimental, since without the GPL they would have no license to use the code at all).
The closest we've come to a company actually fighting the GPL in a court of law was SCO who claimed it was unconstitutional of all things. Nobody else seems to be crazy enough to want to fight the GPL at all.
So a precedent would be nice simply for being able to say "the GPL has been tested in court and was ruled to be a valid license" to silence the FUDmeisters, but practically speaking it's not necessary to protect GPLed code.
The main problem I see is that it can't do any turn by a a 60 degree turn. It can travel in 6 directions only... Makes me feel like I'm playing a hex board game...
Meaning you are prepared for leading the legions of strider-based war machines that are soon to be developed. Bet you never thought hex-based strategy gaming would be relevant to real life, but now you could be a General!
Pravda is my new Weekly World News, I just wish they'd pick up the Bat Boy features. I've been wondering what that little scamp is up to.
Duh. It's been ages since Weekly World News first broke his story. He's clearly grown into Batman.
The international oil companies are going to get their share of Iraqi oil once the region stabilizes.
Hey, have you checked the price of a barrel of oil lately? Checked oil company financials? They don't need to wait to get their share of the loot until the part of Bush's plan is supposed to magically bring stability to the Middle East, which is good for them.
Instability in the Iraqi oil flow serves them perfectly by making the oil they're pumping elsewhere more valuable. Besides, that oil at least officially belongs Iraq so there's going to be a cut taken. As long as their other oil fields keep producing, they make ridiculous amounts of money (and have been since the war started). Halliburton gets the contract to repair the pipelines every time they get blown up, so there's profit for business cronies coming and going.
I don't get it. is the task of writing papers inherently biased against women?
Read what you quoted. It didn't say papers written, it said papers published. It is the academic publishing process that is biased against women because the reviewers are mostly men, and a lot of them with the same "girls can't and/or don't really want to do engineering" mentality as you will see in posts to this very Slashdot article, and thus they reject the paper due to being written by a woman without considering its merit.
Granted, as I said, there really is no replacement for a keyboard and mouse, but it doesn't take long to get used to using the controller.
:P
It's not a matter of "used to"; I've logged many many hours of console FPS play. Yet it has always been and will always be an inferior input scheme compared to keyboard and mouse. I simply accepted this as the cost of playing an FPS on a console.
Now that I've played Metroid Prime 3, I no longer consider it acceptable. Now even on a console I can have fast, accurate aiming. If only you could turn as quickly as with a mouse, the wiimote would be the perfect input device for FPS. As is, it's only so awesome that I never want to touch dual analog FPS controls again. My Time Splitters 2 GC disk will miss me.
I don't have to worry about having my hand in the wrong position and hitting a key I don't mean to hit.
Yes, the keyboard is in many ways the weaker half of the mouse/keyboard pair. It does allow you to fit all the necessary functions without resorting to things like the L3/R3 buttons on the Sony controller, but has the problem of having roughly 80 unnecessary keys.
This is one of the beauties of the wii, by the way. The analog stick is a great method for moving your character, since you really only need two speeds anyway (full run, and slow cautious), you never need to stop on a particular pixel, and your character is rarely supposed to be so fast that they can run back and forth across a room in a second. Whereas aiming is something where you're inherently supposed to be able to whip the barrel of your gun around to shoot people on opposite ends of a room, since you're not really moving yourself you're just moving the angle of the gun. Analog sticks turn this into basically the same thing as moving your character. Analog thumbsticks suck for aiming, even if you're as familiar with them as it is possible to be. So the wii gives you the best of both: The nunchuck has the analog stick for moving your character, and the wiimote gives you fast and precise aiming that no thumbstick can.