Oh, ok, I just thought it would make people slower. Guess I have missed out on never actually testing it and figure out myself.
And here I thought I was hardcore when I took rhodiola rosea, ginkgo biloba, acetyl-l-carnitine, caffeine and theobromine, green tea / egcg and finally tyrosine and taurine though I don't see how the later would help before a couple of games of WC 3.
(I won 3 games in a row but there's a 1/8 chance for that so nothing special, since then I've won my last 11 games in a row at a chance of 1/2048 which is more weird:D)
Anyway, thanks for the info, and enlightenment on consideration of educational use:D
A simple reminder would be that people used to (some probably still do) consider black people to be stupier, or whatever "tribal people."
I do see a benefit in community knowledge so to speak, the bigger group and communication in between the more widespread knowledge of everything, of course it's harder for smaller more isolated groups to come up with all the same ideas, still doesn't mean they are stupid.
But my answer was to a post about why people wouldn't use Skype.
Talk about iChat somewhere else, and iChat doesn't support MSN or Yahoo either, and I doubt they can keep XMPP support up to date all the time either since it's unlikely to be updated between OS revisions.
Yeah, but turning around are pretty useless to click a hero under other units and it jumps back.
You can change ground angle with the scroll wheel as well but it takes time and time is important while fighing. Also if there are plenty of units and lights and shit like that it doesn't help much anyway, sometimes it's hard to actually SEE the unit.
I don't know how it was in Starcraft, my SC games may be countable on one hand.
But yes, true, I think you could hide things behind refineries in C&C maybe aswell? Maybe they want to have it that way to allow for taller buildings and in that case WC 3 / 3D is actually an improvement since at least you can do something about it.
Ah, whatever, just mass archers/bats/gargs/.. and kill all air, done;)
WC III uses 3D as well but since only the almost-from-the-top-view is the only good one everyone use that and it look pretty flat. Sure you can look around some stuff, hide a unit behind a tree or building somewhat and it makes ground units very hard to click on when there are lots of air units on top but I'd say it works well.
It doesn't look as cool as on screenshots from a lower angle and more up close but it works very well for playing the game.
Also I guess it's easier to support more resolutions and aspect ratios and such when it's rendered vs uses animations.
The ones on the Starcraft 2 webpage use to be of acceptable quality, if it's not there yet it will get there I guess. (Not the reviewers of course, maybe he should had made it private and used Vimeo? =P)
lol, some mac fanatic moderated your very informative post flamebait just because you told the truth (your Linux based Zaurus let you run everything and iPhone tries to prevent you from running everything =P)
Your point may be valid for FPSs but Metroid on the DS works decent using the touchscreen to shoot and the arrow keys for moving around. Though the Wii controller are probably even better since you don't cover your screen any more.
I guess a "light pen" would work, something you could use at a small distance.
There have been prototype designs where you have a screen in front facing your face and then the touch sensetive part on the back of the device. This way you can still press virtual buttons, move around or whatever using your finger tips but more comfortable and on the back of the device and still not cover any of the screen in the front.
Yeah, I wanted to say Nintendo DS as well (started by tagging the article accordingly) but first I wanted to look around for similar posts from others.
In my opinion it was the DS which started the lets-put-touchscreens-everywhere.
Before the DS and at launch many considered it a failure, afterward everyone wanted to join.
iPhone gets way to much credit, sure it may be one of the first units with multitouch and a decent interface making use of it but that's all. It's not the-thing-which-started-touchscreens.
Also after the DS, but still early, there was the Cowon D2 which was the first MP3-player with touchscreen (which in my thoughts seems like a very bad idea since it make it hard to use it while in your pocket, bag, while running, riding your bike, or whatever.)
Blind Biker have a point regarding PDAs, but haven't it always been "lets emulate writing" there compared to "lets design an interface around a touchscreen"?
Yeah, iChat functionality may be cool (shared desktop and showing applications and such to), to bad the UI isn't (Why do they use multiple contact lists for instance? Fixable with a third party fix/plugin/patch/...) but most important since Jabber doesn't offer webcam support yet and everyone around uses MSN they need to support MSN or I won't use it because it's no fun talking to yourself all the time.
Not that I have many friends or people added anyway. I tend to remove MSN contacts and my IRL circle are small so..
Also why doesn't Apple let me use the resolution my webcam can actually handle? (MBP with high-res cam)
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Oh, ok, I just thought it would make people slower. Guess I have missed out on never actually testing it and figure out myself.
And here I thought I was hardcore when I took rhodiola rosea, ginkgo biloba, acetyl-l-carnitine, caffeine and theobromine, green tea / egcg and finally tyrosine and taurine though I don't see how the later would help before a couple of games of WC 3.
(I won 3 games in a row but there's a 1/8 chance for that so nothing special, since then I've won my last 11 games in a row at a chance of 1/2048 which is more weird :D)
Anyway, thanks for the info, and enlightenment on consideration of educational use :D
A simple reminder would be that people used to (some probably still do) consider black people to be stupier, or whatever "tribal people."
I do see a benefit in community knowledge so to speak, the bigger group and communication in between the more widespread knowledge of everything, of course it's harder for smaller more isolated groups to come up with all the same ideas, still doesn't mean they are stupid.
But my answer was to a post about why people wouldn't use Skype.
Talk about iChat somewhere else, and iChat doesn't support MSN or Yahoo either, and I doubt they can keep XMPP support up to date all the time either since it's unlikely to be updated between OS revisions.
Yeah, but turning around are pretty useless to click a hero under other units and it jumps back.
You can change ground angle with the scroll wheel as well but it takes time and time is important while fighing. Also if there are plenty of units and lights and shit like that it doesn't help much anyway, sometimes it's hard to actually SEE the unit.
I don't know how it was in Starcraft, my SC games may be countable on one hand.
But yes, true, I think you could hide things behind refineries in C&C maybe aswell? Maybe they want to have it that way to allow for taller buildings and in that case WC 3 / 3D is actually an improvement since at least you can do something about it.
Ah, whatever, just mass archers/bats/gargs/.. and kill all air, done ;)
I was going to say "unless you flush them out" and link to one such tunnel water slide.
You think USA is considering bombing Dubai?
Burn karma for less greenhouse gases.
We'll duh that's why we have already been discussing options for upgrading it into a tower.
Also it's just another building, and with 1.1 million people they would probably have their own fire men / sprinkler systems / ...
Imagine how fucking awesome it would be when they build a black citadel nearby :)
1.100.000 people with an average life spann of 80 years = 37.6 deaths / day, at 8 corpses / meat wagon that makes for 5 meat wagons per day!
Then the supposedly self-sufficient energy no longer happen to be enough they will automatically upgrade to neurobian (freeze) towers.
No words as of yet if they can also be upgrade into spirit towers, maybe with enough resources at another tier?
Abominations can regenerate from all health issues except final death by using cannibalize.
(And even as final dead undeads they can reanimate into invulnerable animated dead undeads!)
WC III uses 3D as well but since only the almost-from-the-top-view is the only good one everyone use that and it look pretty flat. Sure you can look around some stuff, hide a unit behind a tree or building somewhat and it makes ground units very hard to click on when there are lots of air units on top but I'd say it works well.
It doesn't look as cool as on screenshots from a lower angle and more up close but it works very well for playing the game.
Also I guess it's easier to support more resolutions and aspect ratios and such when it's rendered vs uses animations.
The ones on the Starcraft 2 webpage use to be of acceptable quality, if it's not there yet it will get there I guess. (Not the reviewers of course, maybe he should had made it private and used Vimeo? =P)
What? Skype supports other protocols now? Full support?
Even if it does no-one can use another client and communicate over "skype."
By a first look I can't see anything about aim, icq and so on, what was your point?
lol, some mac fanatic moderated your very informative post flamebait just because you told the truth (your Linux based Zaurus let you run everything and iPhone tries to prevent you from running everything =P)
Crippled and super expensive, the way of Apple.
In RTSs a touchscreen will beat a mouse any day :D
Probably also in general OS usage.
Your point may be valid for FPSs but Metroid on the DS works decent using the touchscreen to shoot and the arrow keys for moving around. Though the Wii controller are probably even better since you don't cover your screen any more.
I guess a "light pen" would work, something you could use at a small distance.
There have been prototype designs where you have a screen in front facing your face and then the touch sensetive part on the back of the device. This way you can still press virtual buttons, move around or whatever using your finger tips but more comfortable and on the back of the device and still not cover any of the screen in the front.
A brilliant idea I must say.
They have short memory ;)
Yeah, I wanted to say Nintendo DS as well (started by tagging the article accordingly) but first I wanted to look around for similar posts from others.
In my opinion it was the DS which started the lets-put-touchscreens-everywhere.
Before the DS and at launch many considered it a failure, afterward everyone wanted to join.
iPhone gets way to much credit, sure it may be one of the first units with multitouch and a decent interface making use of it but that's all. It's not the-thing-which-started-touchscreens.
Also after the DS, but still early, there was the Cowon D2 which was the first MP3-player with touchscreen (which in my thoughts seems like a very bad idea since it make it hard to use it while in your pocket, bag, while running, riding your bike, or whatever.)
Blind Biker have a point regarding PDAs, but haven't it always been "lets emulate writing" there compared to "lets design an interface around a touchscreen"?
... that and it's not compatible with anything else due to said reason.
Yeah, iChat functionality may be cool (shared desktop and showing applications and such to), to bad the UI isn't (Why do they use multiple contact lists for instance? Fixable with a third party fix/plugin/patch/...) but most important since Jabber doesn't offer webcam support yet and everyone around uses MSN they need to support MSN or I won't use it because it's no fun talking to yourself all the time.
Not that I have many friends or people added anyway. I tend to remove MSN contacts and my IRL circle are small so ..
Also why doesn't Apple let me use the resolution my webcam can actually handle? (MBP with high-res cam)
Yeah, because if you want to order 10 million mp3 players or 2 million tn panels you can't do it by telephone, mail or in person? :D
Anyone, doesn't matter, of course they won't turn of their Internet access, and people won't type about Tiber everywhere.
It's some snowy mountain area where Tintin have an adventure!
And rfid doesn't get its power thru coils and magnetic fields? How does it work?
Or maybe it was just considered a bad idea, and I think it's now as well.
.. and how is this news?