The nexus one can do pinch-to-zoom so of course it supports multitouch.
The hardware on the Nexus One was not designed with multitouch in mind. There was a firmware hack released that changes the way it reads the touchscreen hardware, such that it can "sort of" detect two touches. This hack fails when X and Y axes align, and it often loses track of which coordinates belong to which touch. Pinch zoom works because you're not generally pinching exactly down the axes.
And quite a lot crapper. shitty touch sensor and GPU on Nexus One really let it down
Indeed, and this is the reason I'm graveyarding my N1 for a Desire HD. Developing multitouch games on a quasi-multitouch device is unfortunately unacceptable. The 3G reception on the N1 is also abysmal. http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on-the-nexus-one/
(Link seems to be down at the moment)
If they are really true to Asimov's laws they'll also need to implement the zeroth law which was to protect humanity from harm even if that meant not protecting one or more humans from harm.
Not much good for an ATM though if you have someone waiting in line.
"Please enter your PIN."
*user types PIN...*
"1...5...7...9"
"You have $500,000 in your account."
*user gets mugged*
Not saying that it would be stupid enough to speak your PIN as you type it, but I wouldn't like random strangers knowing how much money I have in my account.
Seriously. First Person RPG, but a decent remake would be epic.
That world was HUGE. Not Minecraft huge, but it'd take you many hours to walk from one side of the country to the other. That's not even including the convoluted procedural dungeons.
I like the idea of time travel requiring a "receiver". If you make some kind of portal to walk through, you can obviously only go back as far as it was created, and forward as far is it's destroyed.
I hate reading comments in most papers (and slashdot) where anonymous trolls spew the worst rhetoric just to get a rise out of people. (BTW, good job here, it worked on me)
This is why (up until recently) I clicked the "hide comments" button on YouTube so I wouldn't find myself reading and replying to trolling. Now that YouTube has gone all 3.0 on us and no longer has that option (that I've seen, anyway) I just hide the entire comment block with the Adblock Element Hider extension for Firefox. Out of sight, out of mind.:)
The problem, though, is that they generally aren't willing to face the reality of the issue.
Partially correct. The main problem (in Australia at least) is that teachers have no power (legally) to do anything drastic. All a student has to do is make a complaint to their parents that "teacher did this to me" even if it's an outright lie, and the parents come after the school. Who do you think (most) parents will believe when little Johnny comes to them with some bullshit story and the teacher denies it?
Teachers can only yell so much, and the worst of the students will just laugh at them. A few generations ago the teachers were allowed to give them a rap on the knuckles or a kick up the arse and the parents would assume the retribution was well deserved. Students had a lot more respect for their teachers and parents.
IANAT, but both of my parents are, and I hear some awful stories. My mother is a principal and she has been kicked and spat on by students. She's even come home in tears from the verbal abuse she's received.
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The nexus one can do pinch-to-zoom so of course it supports multitouch.
The hardware on the Nexus One was not designed with multitouch in mind. There was a firmware hack released that changes the way it reads the touchscreen hardware, such that it can "sort of" detect two touches. This hack fails when X and Y axes align, and it often loses track of which coordinates belong to which touch. Pinch zoom works because you're not generally pinching exactly down the axes.
What hacks? Android supports hundreds of fingers. If anything is hacked it's the shitty firmware/drivers in some phones.
No, it's the physical screen.
And quite a lot crapper. shitty touch sensor and GPU on Nexus One really let it down
Indeed, and this is the reason I'm graveyarding my N1 for a Desire HD. Developing multitouch games on a quasi-multitouch device is unfortunately unacceptable. The 3G reception on the N1 is also abysmal.
http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on-the-nexus-one/
(Link seems to be down at the moment)
If they are really true to Asimov's laws they'll also need to implement the zeroth law which was to protect humanity from harm even if that meant not protecting one or more humans from harm.
I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
That statement is awfully close to the bullshit people throw around about "atheism is a religon durr durr durr"
Reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:
"Atheism is a religion in the same way that 'not collecting stamps' is a hobby."
Someone call Uwe Boll!
Then, everyone moved to the quiet keyboards that use the rubber sheet and the dielectric, and it had less of a tactical response.
They provided me with one of those at work and they're just plain awful to code with. I ended up ordering one of these:
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/review-filco-majestouch-keyboard-2010045/
Mechanical with Cherry MX brown keyswitches. Sooooo nice for coding and general typing.
I actually had a friend who lived in a town named Street (Street, MD).
I used to live on "Avenue Road". That always brought a chuckle whenever someone asked my address.
Not much good for an ATM though if you have someone waiting in line.
"Please enter your PIN."
*user types PIN...*
"1...5...7...9"
"You have $500,000 in your account."
*user gets mugged*
Not saying that it would be stupid enough to speak your PIN as you type it, but I wouldn't like random strangers knowing how much money I have in my account.
Seriously. First Person RPG, but a decent remake would be epic. That world was HUGE. Not Minecraft huge, but it'd take you many hours to walk from one side of the country to the other. That's not even including the convoluted procedural dungeons.
I LOVED the God mode in that...
:)
"HRRMMMMM!!!!" *shoots ball of light*
Dog mode was cool too.
Yes, Scala has full access to Java APIs including Swing.
And if you wanted to remove one of the javax dependencies, you could use SWT instead of Swing.
Lua! :D
Should the Australian government lift a finger to protect children from the evils that lurk online?
Stephen Conroy seems to think they should... :(
Ah but wait, the filter only actually blocks spams and scams.
I lost you at "could".
I bought BioShock 2 without realising it used GFWL. It was my first experience with GFWL, and hopefully my last.
I will never buy another GFWL game.
So we've come full circle then... I remember having my RAM in sockets on the motherboard, with a fancy resistor bank to switch over to EDO. :)
Australia is a penal colony the British Empire shipped its worst troublemakers to...
Unless you live in South Australia. We're the only state that wasn't founded by the original settlers.
In the case of the prequels, wouldn't this be just changing the colour from hangover-brown to blue?
Hell I may even buy a new laptop and buy two copies. One for home and on the go.
If it's on Steam, you could just buy the one copy and log in on both machines. :)
Alright, who else read that as "tribadism" and was disappointed...
Substrate? Nanoscale?
Stop using buzzwords...
*cough*
I like the idea of time travel requiring a "receiver". If you make some kind of portal to walk through, you can obviously only go back as far as it was created, and forward as far is it's destroyed.
I hate reading comments in most papers (and slashdot) where anonymous trolls spew the worst rhetoric just to get a rise out of people. (BTW, good job here, it worked on me)
This is why (up until recently) I clicked the "hide comments" button on YouTube so I wouldn't find myself reading and replying to trolling. Now that YouTube has gone all 3.0 on us and no longer has that option (that I've seen, anyway) I just hide the entire comment block with the Adblock Element Hider extension for Firefox. Out of sight, out of mind. :)
The problem, though, is that they generally aren't willing to face the reality of the issue.
Partially correct. The main problem (in Australia at least) is that teachers have no power (legally) to do anything drastic. All a student has to do is make a complaint to their parents that "teacher did this to me" even if it's an outright lie, and the parents come after the school. Who do you think (most) parents will believe when little Johnny comes to them with some bullshit story and the teacher denies it?
Teachers can only yell so much, and the worst of the students will just laugh at them. A few generations ago the teachers were allowed to give them a rap on the knuckles or a kick up the arse and the parents would assume the retribution was well deserved. Students had a lot more respect for their teachers and parents.
IANAT, but both of my parents are, and I hear some awful stories. My mother is a principal and she has been kicked and spat on by students. She's even come home in tears from the verbal abuse she's received.