I don't understand this attitude at all. Controllers are just peripherals. Given that they have a slowly standardizing interface (heck the PS2 has USB and the Xbox has mutant USB of a sort), you should be able to get all the control you want on any console. On top of that, all the modern consoles have configuration modes that come up when you boot without a game. This seems like a very easy problem to solve.
I'm the proud owner of a Thrustmaster HOTAS/Cougar, quite possibly the sexiest stick-and-throttle set ever to be released for the PC. Its a USB device. Let's just imagine a future console's input interface allowing for a 110 button controller, with 10 axes. Sure, the average game pad (like a PS2 controller) would only use 16 buttons and four axes. But under this scheme, I could attach any USB controller (like my Cougar) and make full (or near full) use of it. Most games would be written to use far fewer than the maximum allowable controls. This, however, would allow for more games to be played effectively on consoles without having to dumb down the controls (or to give the player a choice between dumbed down 'console' controls or a richer, more complex 'PC' style control scheme).
Further, such a setup would allow for migration of controllers to and from consoles, easily. Steel Battalion has a sexy, beautiful controller set (though not as sexy as my Cougar!), which I wouldn't mind having for playing mech style games on my PC.
Meh. Perhaps I'm asking for too much. I still want Windows to see all game controllers as subsets of a ridiculously over buttoned, over axised uber game controller, so I wouldn't have to pick just one controller for each game. That'll never happen.
What you're forgetting is that, until DirectX came along, games couldn't rely on 'robust video and sound drivers'. They had to make do with what they had.
Sure, having 'robuts video and sound drivers' would be a nice-to-have, but its certainly not absolutely necessary.
"Hey, it seems that EA will have to create a new building for Simcity!"
I think you meant:
"Hey, now we'll have something to do with the next crop of EA games!"
I think you have fallen into the trap of "if its good for me, it must be good for everyone".
I don't know about you, but I don't groove on sitting and doing nothing. If I--and I suspect this goes for the person who asked the question in the first place--felt like I needed some time to for "lying around, ignoring the phone, staring out the windows and contemplating [my] navel", I'd take it. Since I don't feel I need more down time, I'd rather have more ways to pack more things into my time.
Remember: just because its good for you doesn't mean its good for anyone else. The guy asked a person for a reason: he wants to 'cram more stuff into life'. It doesn't matter if you don't.
In other words: answer the question, don't bitch about how its the wrong question.
Truer words have seldom been said. I ran an IIS4 webserver on NT4 from 1998-2002 without a single hack or defacement. The trick? Turn off absolutely everything that you don't use and might be exploitable. By the time I was done with it, IIS4 only loaded the DLLs for ASP and every gadget and gizmo normally installed as a 'demo' was ripped out.
Basically, I did everything I'd do to secure a FreeBSD system.:D
Amen to that.
On the job training--or any company sponsored (internal or external) training--has been thrown out the window. It seems like the attitude is "if we teach these people stuff, they'll go somewhere else and do it for someone else".
I miss the military environment, the focus on learning and teaching and getting the job done in the best way, rather than the most politically correct way.
I should really go back into the Navy.
A guy I used to work for called that collection "The Killer B's". I have to agree with him. I haven't read many books from those authors that sucked. There were some misses, but a hell of a lot more hits.
I for one don't acknowledge ESR as being a 'steward' of Open Source. I think of him as a self appointed PR, not really for Open Source, but for himslef.
Funny, that's how a lot of us feel about RMS. Its all a matter of how you pick your figureheads, isn't it?
I, for one, do consider ESR a 'steward' of the open source initiative. He's done as much as RMS, and isn't half so obnoxious. That is, of course, my opinion, and worth exactly as much as yours.
You can't tell the penguins anything: you must give them time to learn. Eventually they'll get tired of fighting with packaging systems that have to grok filesystem layouts that are moving targets. They need to standardize the hierarchy and then they can start trying to standardize the package manager.
Of course, once they do this, they'll have reinvented the ports system and its accompanying package management system.
'There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,' Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday.
There were never any jobs that were America's God-given right, but the sentiment does make a nice dodge from the real issue at hand.
What these corporations seem to have forgot is that privelege goes hand in hand with responsiblity. They fight hard to continue to be treated by the government (and thus the nation, by extension) as a citizen with all the rights thereof. However, they forget that those rights come with responsiblity. They move jobs overseas, they keep their funds in offshore tax havens so they don't have to pay taxes, and then they want they want to be treated like legitimate tax-payers.
Globalisation is a nice idea, but not when it only serves as a tool to cheat.
I don't want to read webpages or anything on my celphone. I don't even CARRY a cell phone. I do carry a PDA though. If I could point my PDA at one of these little tags, and have it capture the URL to a Mozilla bookmarked-tabs list that I could then pull up in mozilla when I get home, I'd be plenty chuffed. If something caught my eye through the day, I could just bookmark it and check it out later when its more convenient.
Oh please. Find Fast was the beginning. You can already have the search engine integrated with your OS if you install the Indexing Service in
Win2k. @whee. Though it will make me sound like a Microsoft apologist, better search support on the OS is a good thing. If your pathetic slashbot
parotting left any room in your skull for other possibilities, you might see that 'find' and
'start->find->files and folders' are not very smart ways to find anything.
...Featuring Iron Chef Time Warner vs the contender from Redmond, Chef Bill Gates.
I'd really love to see Microsoft and AOL/Time-Warner trading legal blows over this one. I don't even care who one. I just want to see them blow money and whip up on each other.
Rather than push a stereotypical geek book, I'll suggest Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" or "Oryx and Crake". Both are brilliant and absorbing, multilayered and multitextured.
... I can build a Thrustmaster HOTAS/Cougar into it. And then I need the thing to pitch, yaw, and roll based on the movements of my stick, throttle and pedals. Of course none of this has to do with work, but it would make for one hell of a PC Gaming/Piloting experience.:)
You know, I started my gaming life on consoles. Few games make me want to play like Metroid and Final Fantasy and ChronoTrigger. But they don't MOVE me.
Every game that has honestly moved me has had the involvement of one man: Warren Spector.
I started with System Shock 2. The music, the atmosphere, the insane chanting of the hybrids, and SHODAN. No game has ever scared me that much. It didn't shock me. It didn't surprise me. It engendered a deep fear of corners and screeching monkeys and muttering madmen in the shadows. The game touched me on visceral level.
The next one was Thief. I readily admit I never finished Thief. I was weak. The zombies scared the living crap out of me. No one warned me that they came back after you hacked them to death. Imagine my surprise, when I turned around and there was the one I just "killed" standing there ready to give me a hug.
Deus Ex just combined everything good about Shock2 and Thief and combined it with every conspiracy theory ever. It wasn't as scary as Thief and Shock2 but it had a farther reaching story.
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No, I'm afraid you're wrong. He's just a nutjob.
Idealism can be good. Idealism-cum-fanaticism is never good.
... I would be leary of getting into a "Myst Online" sort of game.
On the one hand, I disliked Myst (the game, not the mechanics, which were simple and rather elegant for the time). On the other hand, it was fun to play with friends. Depending on how well its done (and if it shys away from the graphical MUD thing), I may check it out.
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I don't understand this attitude at all. Controllers are just peripherals. Given that they have a slowly standardizing interface (heck the PS2 has USB and the Xbox has mutant USB of a sort), you should be able to get all the control you want on any console. On top of that, all the modern consoles have configuration modes that come up when you boot without a game. This seems like a very easy problem to solve.
I'm the proud owner of a Thrustmaster HOTAS/Cougar, quite possibly the sexiest stick-and-throttle set ever to be released for the PC. Its a USB device. Let's just imagine a future console's input interface allowing for a 110 button controller, with 10 axes. Sure, the average game pad (like a PS2 controller) would only use 16 buttons and four axes. But under this scheme, I could attach any USB controller (like my Cougar) and make full (or near full) use of it. Most games would be written to use far fewer than the maximum allowable controls. This, however, would allow for more games to be played effectively on consoles without having to dumb down the controls (or to give the player a choice between dumbed down 'console' controls or a richer, more complex 'PC' style control scheme).
Further, such a setup would allow for migration of controllers to and from consoles, easily. Steel Battalion has a sexy, beautiful controller set (though not as sexy as my Cougar!), which I wouldn't mind having for playing mech style games on my PC.
Meh. Perhaps I'm asking for too much. I still want Windows to see all game controllers as subsets of a ridiculously over buttoned, over axised uber game controller, so I wouldn't have to pick just one controller for each game. That'll never happen.
You got the order wrong. Probably just a typo. Allow me to help you out:
*Some of it may be good, but for every Space: Above and Beyond or Babylon 5 there are 6 Star Treks or Milleniums
Nice idea, but actually quite flawed.
What you're forgetting is that, until DirectX came along, games couldn't rely on 'robust video and sound drivers'. They had to make do with what they had.
Sure, having 'robuts video and sound drivers' would be a nice-to-have, but its certainly not absolutely necessary.
"Hey, it seems that EA will have to create a new building for Simcity!" I think you meant: "Hey, now we'll have something to do with the next crop of EA games!"
I think you have fallen into the trap of "if its good for me, it must be good for everyone".
I don't know about you, but I don't groove on sitting and doing nothing. If I--and I suspect this goes for the person who asked the question in the first place--felt like I needed some time to for "lying around, ignoring the phone, staring out the windows and contemplating [my] navel", I'd take it. Since I don't feel I need more down time, I'd rather have more ways to pack more things into my time.
Remember: just because its good for you doesn't mean its good for anyone else. The guy asked a person for a reason: he wants to 'cram more stuff into life'. It doesn't matter if you don't.
In other words: answer the question, don't bitch about how its the wrong question.
Truer words have seldom been said. I ran an IIS4 webserver on NT4 from 1998-2002 without a single hack or defacement. The trick? Turn off absolutely everything that you don't use and might be exploitable. By the time I was done with it, IIS4 only loaded the DLLs for ASP and every gadget and gizmo normally installed as a 'demo' was ripped out. Basically, I did everything I'd do to secure a FreeBSD system. :D
Amen to that. On the job training--or any company sponsored (internal or external) training--has been thrown out the window. It seems like the attitude is "if we teach these people stuff, they'll go somewhere else and do it for someone else". I miss the military environment, the focus on learning and teaching and getting the job done in the best way, rather than the most politically correct way. I should really go back into the Navy.
A guy I used to work for called that collection "The Killer B's". I have to agree with him. I haven't read many books from those authors that sucked. There were some misses, but a hell of a lot more hits.
I for one don't acknowledge ESR as being a 'steward' of Open Source. I think of him as a self appointed PR, not really for Open Source, but for himslef.
Funny, that's how a lot of us feel about RMS. Its all a matter of how you pick your figureheads, isn't it?
I, for one, do consider ESR a 'steward' of the open source initiative. He's done as much as RMS, and isn't half so obnoxious. That is, of course, my opinion, and worth exactly as much as yours.
You can't tell the penguins anything: you must give them time to learn. Eventually they'll get tired of fighting with packaging systems that have to grok filesystem layouts that are moving targets. They need to standardize the hierarchy and then they can start trying to standardize the package manager.
Of course, once they do this, they'll have reinvented the ports system and its accompanying package management system.
'There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,' Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday.
There were never any jobs that were America's God-given right, but the sentiment does make a nice dodge from the real issue at hand.
What these corporations seem to have forgot is that privelege goes hand in hand with responsiblity. They fight hard to continue to be treated by the government (and thus the nation, by extension) as a citizen with all the rights thereof. However, they forget that those rights come with responsiblity. They move jobs overseas, they keep their funds in offshore tax havens so they don't have to pay taxes, and then they want they want to be treated like legitimate tax-payers. Globalisation is a nice idea, but not when it only serves as a tool to cheat.
I love the idea of a projector. Does it matter if your external tuner is PAL or NTSC? Am I even asking a sane, legitimate question?
Not ever having used it, how does it deal with hacked clients, etc?
I don't want to read webpages or anything on my celphone. I don't even CARRY a cell phone. I do carry a PDA though. If I could point my PDA at one of these little tags, and have it capture the URL to a Mozilla bookmarked-tabs list that I could then pull up in mozilla when I get home, I'd be plenty chuffed. If something caught my eye through the day, I could just bookmark it and check it out later when its more convenient.
Since when is spam about morality?
Perhaps you should reload that page and scroll all the way to the bottom and read the fine print. ;)
Oh please. Find Fast was the beginning. You can already have the search engine integrated with your OS if you install the Indexing Service in Win2k. @whee. Though it will make me sound like a Microsoft apologist, better search support on the OS is a good thing. If your pathetic slashbot parotting left any room in your skull for other possibilities, you might see that 'find' and 'start->find->files and folders' are not very smart ways to find anything.
...Featuring Iron Chef Time Warner vs the contender from Redmond, Chef Bill Gates.
I'd really love to see Microsoft and AOL/Time-Warner trading legal blows over this one. I don't even care who one. I just want to see them blow money and whip up on each other.
Rather than push a stereotypical geek book, I'll suggest Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" or "Oryx and Crake". Both are brilliant and absorbing, multilayered and multitextured.
... I can build a Thrustmaster HOTAS/Cougar into it. And then I need the thing to pitch, yaw, and roll based on the movements of my stick, throttle and pedals. Of course none of this has to do with work, but it would make for one hell of a PC Gaming/Piloting experience. :)
Is that 'free as in free' or 'free as in free of all appended bullshit, including that which comes from RMS'?
Feel free to ignore. I'm trolling.
You know, I started my gaming life on consoles. Few games make me want to play like Metroid and Final Fantasy and ChronoTrigger. But they don't MOVE me.
Every game that has honestly moved me has had the involvement of one man: Warren Spector.
I started with System Shock 2. The music, the atmosphere, the insane chanting of the hybrids, and SHODAN. No game has ever scared me that much. It didn't shock me. It didn't surprise me. It engendered a deep fear of corners and screeching monkeys and muttering madmen in the shadows. The game touched me on visceral level.
The next one was Thief. I readily admit I never finished Thief. I was weak. The zombies scared the living crap out of me. No one warned me that they came back after you hacked them to death. Imagine my surprise, when I turned around and there was the one I just "killed" standing there ready to give me a hug.
Deus Ex just combined everything good about Shock2 and Thief and combined it with every conspiracy theory ever. It wasn't as scary as Thief and Shock2 but it had a farther reaching story.
No, I'm afraid you're wrong. He's just a nutjob.
Idealism can be good. Idealism-cum-fanaticism is never good.
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The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
... I would be leary of getting into a "Myst Online" sort of game. On the one hand, I disliked Myst (the game, not the mechanics, which were simple and rather elegant for the time). On the other hand, it was fun to play with friends. Depending on how well its done (and if it shys away from the graphical MUD thing), I may check it out.