If your game has crosshairs on the cover, it might be generic. If your game mentions another game on the box, it might be generic. If your game claims to be the best [insert genre here], it might be generic. If your game was made or published by EA, it might be generic.
"Let me do the math for you..." (emphasis mine) Oh no you didn't... Do the math?! I think you just lost your argument. You might as well have invoked Godwin's law.
Nintendo's next system will cater exclusively to mature games. It'll be called the MiiLF. It won't have the same mature marketshare as the upcoming Atari Cougar though.
Motion control is useful in and of itself but more importantly, it has the potential to be a universal control system. Ideally any sort of control scheme could be emulated through a sufficiently sophisticated motion control system. Analog controllers, steering wheels, fishing poles, even d-pads and buttons. Are we there yet. Hell no. It's even still easier to use an old-fashioned controller than it is to use the steering wheel option in Mario Kart. But it's not exactly an impossible dream. Right now, there are several forms of control that can be successfully emulated by the Wiimote. I don't think the Wiimote will carry us to the end game of motion controls but it's not like the PS3 uses a one-button digital joystick made for left-handed people.
Dallas is the home of Ma Bell (or AT&T or whatever name she goes by these days). That's the frickin' phone company. The phone company is for all intents and purposes an IT shop. EDS? TI? I guess they employ people but the company who is practically in charge of our physical network domestically trumps a few oil companies when it comes to IT workers.
When? I've kept myself fairly familiar with Big Finish and am not aware of one set in the Time War. In fact, in their own FAQ they state:
We are unable to feature the Time War in any of our stories for the reasons given in the previous answer.
The previous answer being:
The terms of our licence with the BBC allow us to only produced 'Classic' Doctor Who. This means that we can only use the first eight Doctors and their companions. Anything connected to the new series - even characters who are no longer featured - cannot be used by us in a Big Finish Doctor Who production.
"he has built a Cult of Personality that will immediately cripple whoever follows."
Jobs certainly embodies Apple and is the person most people associate with it but whoever immediately follows Jobs will do fine. It's the guy after that who strangles his companions and gets put on trial where he is his own prosecutor that will struggle.
And if the project lays dormant for a while and comes back in a completely new direction that doesn't even match up with where the project previously was, they'll just make up a "Time War" to explain away the differences.
Boss: How many IT tickets did you close today? IT Drone: Oh, Boss, I don't keep score. Boss: Then how do you measure yourself with other IT workers? IT Drone: By height.
Who else has been burned by less popular keyboard layout? I'll still occasionally be hunting for the ` and end up with a [ thanks to the TI-99 or click the bottom-left key expecting a \ thanks to my old Packard Bell keyboard. Maybe not a mistake, but definitely a massive frustration.
"Like with any console hardware... Games are the ultimate measure of success."
Tell that to Sega. The Dreamcast had what was probably the best lineup of games ever assembled at a console launch and they followed it up with consistently good games. And hardware sales were great... until Sony promised the kitchen sink on the upcoming PS2. Then people stopped buying the Dreamcast and waited for the upcoming console with its own DVD player attached.
"The main downside of course is if your cable company decides not to plug this service in you will have no way to subscribe."
Yeah, that's what ESPN is doing now with ESPN 360. The ISP subscribes or you are out of luck. ESPN would actually make money off of me if they bothered to set up their own network infrastructure instead of charging local ISPs for the privilege.
Motion controls are NOT lengthening the current console life cycle. That wasn't implied in the article and the notion itself is absurd. Analyst believe that because the console makers are devoting significant time and effort to producing new hardware for consoles that will be 3-4 years old by the time that hardware is released, it is a sign the console makers are planning on stretching out the usual console life cycle. Motion detection is not the cause. Motion detection hardware is being shown as evidence of a hypothesis that at least Sony has publicly confirmed long ago: video game consoles will be released at a slower pace than previously.
It didn't stop Sony and their army of lawyers but what about a smaller shop who comes up with a good idea that happens to involve motion control? Nintendo and/or Sony and/or Microsoft will litigate that competition out of business.
"Gaming boxes combined with say... cable boxes... yes, it could work. Would I buy it? No. A cable box goes out of date fairly slowly than people think, whereas who here still uses their old Gamecube?"
To back up your point, there are plenty of hotels that have gaming systems on their cable boxes. You'll see a controller attached directly to the box. The newest one I've seen has an N64 controller attached.
"certainly Sony and Microsoft seem to be trying hard to make their consoles more than just gaming machines, both not only have the ability to play media, but are pushing it quite strongly as a major part of the offering."
And they're both being outsold by a machine that is so obstinate in being a gaming-only machine that it won't even play a regular CD or DVD even though it has capable hardware. We think of Microsoft as a Windows company and Apple as an iPod company because that's what they're best at. Why would a consumer get stuck with a Zune for convergence's sake when they could buy an iPod and still keep their Windows PC? The only party that benefits is Microsoft.
How can you simulate the normal failure rate? The normal failure rate is how often normal packets will need to be resent. The expected number of extra packets sent assuming you don't go over the expected number of normal packets lost would be zero. You would have to be lucky to get a failure low enough to be able to shove these extra packets into the stream and keep the same number of resends.
I can tell you right now this research will get savaged in peer review. At my university, we were working on delaying ACKs to get a server to push the full window all at one time so a wireless device could power down between transmissions. Even though the server sent the packet and we sent the ACK, we were absolutely demolished in peer review because what we were doing wasn't proper TCP. If what we were doing isn't proper TCP even though it technically didn't violate the protocol at all, there's no way in hell this will fly.
You missed a few. We went from all buttons to rotary knobs to digital joysticks to analog joysticks to digital gamepads to digital gamepads with an analog option to analog gamepads with a digital option to motion sensing nunchuck with IR pointer attached back to analog gamepad with a digital option but with rudimentary motion sensing tacked on to whatever Sony is putting out now.
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If your game has crosshairs on the cover, it might be generic.
If your game mentions another game on the box, it might be generic.
If your game claims to be the best [insert genre here], it might be generic.
If your game was made or published by EA, it might be generic.
"Let me do the math for you..." (emphasis mine)
Oh no you didn't... Do the math?! I think you just lost your argument. You might as well have invoked Godwin's law.
Planet? Someone obviously hasn't seen Moon.
Nintendo's next system will cater exclusively to mature games. It'll be called the MiiLF. It won't have the same mature marketshare as the upcoming Atari Cougar though.
Motion control is useful in and of itself but more importantly, it has the potential to be a universal control system. Ideally any sort of control scheme could be emulated through a sufficiently sophisticated motion control system. Analog controllers, steering wheels, fishing poles, even d-pads and buttons. Are we there yet. Hell no. It's even still easier to use an old-fashioned controller than it is to use the steering wheel option in Mario Kart. But it's not exactly an impossible dream. Right now, there are several forms of control that can be successfully emulated by the Wiimote. I don't think the Wiimote will carry us to the end game of motion controls but it's not like the PS3 uses a one-button digital joystick made for left-handed people.
Right, because you can keep going back in time and playing that portion again.
Dallas is the home of Ma Bell (or AT&T or whatever name she goes by these days). That's the frickin' phone company. The phone company is for all intents and purposes an IT shop. EDS? TI? I guess they employ people but the company who is practically in charge of our physical network domestically trumps a few oil companies when it comes to IT workers.
The previous answer being:
So that makes Hans Reiser the 6th Doctor, right?
"he has built a Cult of Personality that will immediately cripple whoever follows."
Jobs certainly embodies Apple and is the person most people associate with it but whoever immediately follows Jobs will do fine. It's the guy after that who strangles his companions and gets put on trial where he is his own prosecutor that will struggle.
And if the project lays dormant for a while and comes back in a completely new direction that doesn't even match up with where the project previously was, they'll just make up a "Time War" to explain away the differences.
Boss: How many IT tickets did you close today?
IT Drone: Oh, Boss, I don't keep score.
Boss: Then how do you measure yourself with other IT workers?
IT Drone: By height.
Who else has been burned by less popular keyboard layout? I'll still occasionally be hunting for the ` and end up with a [ thanks to the TI-99 or click the bottom-left key expecting a \ thanks to my old Packard Bell keyboard. Maybe not a mistake, but definitely a massive frustration.
Tacking motion controls on an already released game? Yeah, that works out well.
"Like with any console hardware... Games are the ultimate measure of success."
Tell that to Sega. The Dreamcast had what was probably the best lineup of games ever assembled at a console launch and they followed it up with consistently good games. And hardware sales were great... until Sony promised the kitchen sink on the upcoming PS2. Then people stopped buying the Dreamcast and waited for the upcoming console with its own DVD player attached.
"The main downside of course is if your cable company decides not to plug this service in you will have no way to subscribe."
Yeah, that's what ESPN is doing now with ESPN 360. The ISP subscribes or you are out of luck. ESPN would actually make money off of me if they bothered to set up their own network infrastructure instead of charging local ISPs for the privilege.
You know the next onslaught of Bing ads will claim:
"More popular than Yahoo!"*
* For one day after weeks of massive advertising, Bing beat out Yahoo in website traffic. Results not typical.
Motion controls are NOT lengthening the current console life cycle. That wasn't implied in the article and the notion itself is absurd. Analyst believe that because the console makers are devoting significant time and effort to producing new hardware for consoles that will be 3-4 years old by the time that hardware is released, it is a sign the console makers are planning on stretching out the usual console life cycle. Motion detection is not the cause. Motion detection hardware is being shown as evidence of a hypothesis that at least Sony has publicly confirmed long ago: video game consoles will be released at a slower pace than previously.
It didn't stop Sony and their army of lawyers but what about a smaller shop who comes up with a good idea that happens to involve motion control? Nintendo and/or Sony and/or Microsoft will litigate that competition out of business.
Just you wait. In this new version, Guybrush insults first.
"Gaming boxes combined with say... cable boxes... yes, it could work. Would I buy it? No. A cable box goes out of date fairly slowly than people think, whereas who here still uses their old Gamecube?"
To back up your point, there are plenty of hotels that have gaming systems on their cable boxes. You'll see a controller attached directly to the box. The newest one I've seen has an N64 controller attached.
"certainly Sony and Microsoft seem to be trying hard to make their consoles more than just gaming machines, both not only have the ability to play media, but are pushing it quite strongly as a major part of the offering."
And they're both being outsold by a machine that is so obstinate in being a gaming-only machine that it won't even play a regular CD or DVD even though it has capable hardware. We think of Microsoft as a Windows company and Apple as an iPod company because that's what they're best at. Why would a consumer get stuck with a Zune for convergence's sake when they could buy an iPod and still keep their Windows PC? The only party that benefits is Microsoft.
How can you simulate the normal failure rate? The normal failure rate is how often normal packets will need to be resent. The expected number of extra packets sent assuming you don't go over the expected number of normal packets lost would be zero. You would have to be lucky to get a failure low enough to be able to shove these extra packets into the stream and keep the same number of resends.
I can tell you right now this research will get savaged in peer review. At my university, we were working on delaying ACKs to get a server to push the full window all at one time so a wireless device could power down between transmissions. Even though the server sent the packet and we sent the ACK, we were absolutely demolished in peer review because what we were doing wasn't proper TCP. If what we were doing isn't proper TCP even though it technically didn't violate the protocol at all, there's no way in hell this will fly.
You missed a few. We went from all buttons to rotary knobs to digital joysticks to analog joysticks to digital gamepads to digital gamepads with an analog option to analog gamepads with a digital option to motion sensing nunchuck with IR pointer attached back to analog gamepad with a digital option but with rudimentary motion sensing tacked on to whatever Sony is putting out now.