There ain't nothing wrong with Force Feedback (rumble) in controllers.
I wasn't saying that there's anything wrong with Forced Feedback. I was playing Flight Simulator at a friend's house with the Microsoft FF sidewinder joystick, and I must say, it made the experience more realistic and enjoyable (but at the time it wasn't worth the $120 premium over the non-FF sidewinder joystick). The difference with that is that the FF on the joystick was fairly detailed, which included resistance in certain directions, etc.
Console controllers, on the other hand, pretty much only allow for a variation in the frequency and the intensity of the vibrations, so the effect isn't the same.
There are a variety of games, including MGS, which have used this limited feedback quite well. Another example of a good use of the rumbling is in baseball games against a friend where the controller rumbles when you're pitching out of the strike zone. The only downside to that is that most controllers make noise when they rumble anything more than a little bit, so you usually could tell when your opponent had the marker out of the strike zone.
Should have done my homework, because you are most certainly correct. However, I think my confusion is understandable since it was heavily hyped in Nintendo's (actually Universal's) feature length ad^H^Hfilm "The Wizard".
It's nothing 'new', technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to videogames yet.
Well, this may be hit or miss. Nintendo's "innovations" have either been huge successes or horrible failures. Some of these innovations include:
A controller that fits around your hand and senses movement
A system with a visor screen display that created a "true" 3D display
A wireless controller that just flat out worked
A dual-display portable with a touch-screen
My bet is on something with voice-recognition, and I hope that it is a success. If it is voice-recognition, I hope they don't overuse it, like they have overused the rumble feature of controllers.
Yes, most of those are funny. But after playing ESPN NFL 2K5 as the Jets, I am really sick of hearing "Curtis 'My Favorite' Martin." I heard it several times a game, as he was always on the highlight reels and was often the player of the game.
Last time I checked, Stuart Scott focuses primarily on basketball. I would say your better bet is Chris Berman Football 2011, although he'll be quite old by that time as well. Maybe Mike Golich Football? Anyone who listens to ESPN Radio from 6-10AM every weekday knows what I'm talking about.
And after seeing professional bowling on ESPN2 an hour ago at a bar, I can safely add bowling to the list of sports ESPN covers that are definitely not invented for TV (in this case, not only because it was around before TV, but also because it absolutely sucks on TV).
Aside from the X-Games sports, can anyone think of sports on ESPN that didn't exist before either ESPN (25 years ago) or TV itself?
One more thing that I didn't make clear in my original post: They offer this to everyone who the schools decide can't afford the full cost of tuition. There are no athletic scholarships (the Ivy League doesn't allow it), and Harvard, for one, does not give merit based scholarships either.
Presidents associated with Ivy League Schools
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The following presidents all went to an Ivy League school at some point in their careers, or in the case of Eisenhower, was the president of one (Columbia). Courtesy of Wikipedia
John Adams
James Madison
John Q. Adams
William H. Harrison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisonhower
John F. Kennedy
Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
That's 15 of 43 presidents (35%). Then again, 7 didn't even go to college...
Re:Ivy is still a big bonus! (big deal)
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Except that for hockey, the Ivy League schools play in the ECAC. They still crown an "Ivy League" champion in Hockey, but the only thing that really matters is the ECAC champion (a.k.a. Harvard or Cornell), as that's the one that gets the automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs.
The only positive part of your history that really matters to a potential employer is your most recent history. Once you're in college, no one really cares what you did in high school. If you go to grad school after college, no one really cares what you did in college. Once you've had a job for a few years, no one really cares what you did in grad school. However, there are two things that the college you go to directly affect:
1. Your first job out of college, and likely your starting salary.
2. The opportunities you get for the rest of your life, due to the network of people you hopefully built during college and reinforced through your alumni association.
Re:Ivy League is no plus for tech grads
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When everybody gets an A at Harvard, how could it be otherwise?
Speaking from personal experience, not everyone gets an A at Harvard. And grade inflation, while it does exist (I got an A in an economics class where all I did was take the midterm and final, no classes, no homework), certainly does not exist in most of the computer science and engineering classes.
Otherwise, there's no advantage in engineering and the hard sciences.
I think an Ivy-league degree will give you an advantage in the very early process of finding a job (you're more likely to get an interview, for example), but once you go on your interview, the name on your degree matters much less.
That being said, hopefully what you learned at the Ivy League school will then help you blow them away at your interview.
It's more likely that unless you come from a wealthy family you don't have a chance in hell of paying elite university tuition.
Actually, if you're not wealthy, you're more likely to be able to afford an "elite" university tuition than you would a high-quality state university (assuming you are coming from out of state).
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and I'm pretty sure most of the other Ivies will offer a financial aid package that will fully cover the difference between what (the schools think) your family can pay and what tuition (and room and board) is. What the schools think your family can afford is almost always manageable. To make things even better, they put a cap on the amount the student loan will be a part of the financial aid package.
For example, there's no way my family and I could afford $34k a year for Harvard a few years ago. They offered me a financial aid package that was about $24k a year, and my final year (in '02-'03) the loan cap was about $2k a year (so final tuition was about $10k a year plus a $2k loan).
If you're a good high school student, don't look past the Ivies because you think you can't afford it. It may be much more affordable than you think.
A ten degree increase in temperature, by itself, will not appreciably impact the ability of human beings to survive anywhere on the globe.
Except on the current coastlines, which would now be under water due to the melting of much of the world's ice. Then again, by 2100 we'll probably be living underwater anyway...
No, that one had names that weren't based on the real players' names. For instance, I believe the Cardinal's pitchers were all named after famous comedians.
I'm almost positive that the game I'm thinking of was for the NES, because it was back when Darryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden, and Howard Johnson were all playing for the Mets (late 80's?).
That reminds me of a baseball game for the NES (maybe SNES) back in the day when you couldn't get both an MLB and an MLBPA license in the same game. For example, on the New York Mets you had "Darryl Raspberry" and "HoJo".
Umm...why does everyone keep forgetting about NCAA football? While I was never a huge fan of the college football offerings from Sega or EA, I will definitely put my money next year on Sega's College Football 2K6 or whatever they will call it. While you can't get the actual names (due to the whole amateur thing), you at least get real teams and the stats of the players are based on real people...
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Lookit the GTA series. Sure hardware limitations of the PS2 are valid arguments as to why the games 3D engine isn't as stylish as some, but they could have easily reduced the scope of the series in order to boost the graphical content on the screen. Yet they focused on a fun interactive experience and made serviceable, yet visually stimulating, graphics.
Great point. I would also offer up World of Warcraft as another game that used its graphics to enhance the story and the immersion in the world, rather than as a way to sell more copies (a la EQ2). The game is pretty, but the graphics aren't overly detailed. The graphics serve the game extremely well.
Probably the second best purchase I've made for my theater, next to my projector/screen.
So are the DVD's that you use to actually utilize your theater not very important, or did you not purchase them? If you ask me, all that theater setup is pretty useless if you have nothing to play.
Unless of course you download a crack that gets you by that. From the discussion in previous articles, this crack also exists.
And that wasn't my main point anyway -- my point was that as soon as you modify something, the original vendor is no longer reponsible if it no longer works, because you have violated the software license you agreed to when you installed the product. You buy their software, you have to follow their rules -- if you don't like their rules, then quit b*tching and play Doom 3.
I'd like to add Jurassic Park II to the list of movies that had a really ridiulous ending, which ruined the.... oh wait, the entire movie sucked. But the ending (with the T-rex running around California) was really, really bad.
It's amazing that Hollywood could ruin such a good book. Then again, they do it all the time, so maybe it's not so amazing anymore.
The way I see it, using a no-cd crack is very similar to using a mod chip on your console. While using a mod chip for legitimate purposes (like anyone besides those that use an XBox as a cheap computer does this...) is probably legal, you are doing so at your own risk. If something goes wrong and the console stops working, you're screwed, whether the problem was directly due to the mod chip or was completely unrelated (like a faulty hard drive) and normally covered under warranty.
I haven't heard anyone here complain about the fact that your XBox live account will get locked if Microsoft finds you using a hacked XBox, yet most people here are complaining about the same exact thing -- Valve is locking your account if you get caught using a hacked (in this case, cracked) executable.
Besides, in both cases of being locked out by the vendor, you should still be able to play non-online games. If Valve locks your account for using a no-cd crack, you still should be able to play single player, since you can bypass the Valve validation anyway with another crack.
One more thing -- with the XBox, Microsoft knows that the Xbox was actually purchased (with the exception of those which were stolen), while in the case of HL2, there is a significant number (the percentage is of course debatable, but my guess it is >50%) of illegally copied software being disabled.
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I wasn't saying that there's anything wrong with Forced Feedback. I was playing Flight Simulator at a friend's house with the Microsoft FF sidewinder joystick, and I must say, it made the experience more realistic and enjoyable (but at the time it wasn't worth the $120 premium over the non-FF sidewinder joystick). The difference with that is that the FF on the joystick was fairly detailed, which included resistance in certain directions, etc.
Console controllers, on the other hand, pretty much only allow for a variation in the frequency and the intensity of the vibrations, so the effect isn't the same.
There are a variety of games, including MGS, which have used this limited feedback quite well. Another example of a good use of the rumbling is in baseball games against a friend where the controller rumbles when you're pitching out of the strike zone. The only downside to that is that most controllers make noise when they rumble anything more than a little bit, so you usually could tell when your opponent had the marker out of the strike zone.
Should have done my homework, because you are most certainly correct. However, I think my confusion is understandable since it was heavily hyped in Nintendo's (actually Universal's) feature length ad^H^Hfilm "The Wizard".
Well, this may be hit or miss. Nintendo's "innovations" have either been huge successes or horrible failures. Some of these innovations include:
My bet is on something with voice-recognition, and I hope that it is a success. If it is voice-recognition, I hope they don't overuse it, like they have overused the rumble feature of controllers.
Yes, most of those are funny. But after playing ESPN NFL 2K5 as the Jets, I am really sick of hearing "Curtis 'My Favorite' Martin." I heard it several times a game, as he was always on the highlight reels and was often the player of the game.
Last time I checked, Stuart Scott focuses primarily on basketball. I would say your better bet is Chris Berman Football 2011, although he'll be quite old by that time as well. Maybe Mike Golich Football? Anyone who listens to ESPN Radio from 6-10AM every weekday knows what I'm talking about.
Aside from the X-Games sports, can anyone think of sports on ESPN that didn't exist before either ESPN (25 years ago) or TV itself?
One more thing that I didn't make clear in my original post: They offer this to everyone who the schools decide can't afford the full cost of tuition. There are no athletic scholarships (the Ivy League doesn't allow it), and Harvard, for one, does not give merit based scholarships either.
That's 15 of 43 presidents (35%). Then again, 7 didn't even go to college...
Except that for hockey, the Ivy League schools play in the ECAC. They still crown an "Ivy League" champion in Hockey, but the only thing that really matters is the ECAC champion (a.k.a. Harvard or Cornell), as that's the one that gets the automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs.
The only positive part of your history that really matters to a potential employer is your most recent history. Once you're in college, no one really cares what you did in high school. If you go to grad school after college, no one really cares what you did in college. Once you've had a job for a few years, no one really cares what you did in grad school. However, there are two things that the college you go to directly affect:
1. Your first job out of college, and likely your starting salary.
2. The opportunities you get for the rest of your life, due to the network of people you hopefully built during college and reinforced through your alumni association.
Speaking from personal experience, not everyone gets an A at Harvard. And grade inflation, while it does exist (I got an A in an economics class where all I did was take the midterm and final, no classes, no homework), certainly does not exist in most of the computer science and engineering classes.
Otherwise, there's no advantage in engineering and the hard sciences.
I think an Ivy-league degree will give you an advantage in the very early process of finding a job (you're more likely to get an interview, for example), but once you go on your interview, the name on your degree matters much less.
That being said, hopefully what you learned at the Ivy League school will then help you blow them away at your interview.
Actually, if you're not wealthy, you're more likely to be able to afford an "elite" university tuition than you would a high-quality state university (assuming you are coming from out of state).
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and I'm pretty sure most of the other Ivies will offer a financial aid package that will fully cover the difference between what (the schools think) your family can pay and what tuition (and room and board) is. What the schools think your family can afford is almost always manageable. To make things even better, they put a cap on the amount the student loan will be a part of the financial aid package.
For example, there's no way my family and I could afford $34k a year for Harvard a few years ago. They offered me a financial aid package that was about $24k a year, and my final year (in '02-'03) the loan cap was about $2k a year (so final tuition was about $10k a year plus a $2k loan).
If you're a good high school student, don't look past the Ivies because you think you can't afford it. It may be much more affordable than you think.
Except on the current coastlines, which would now be under water due to the melting of much of the world's ice. Then again, by 2100 we'll probably be living underwater anyway...
I'm almost positive that the game I'm thinking of was for the NES, because it was back when Darryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden, and Howard Johnson were all playing for the Mets (late 80's?).
Anyone remember the game?
Umm...why does everyone keep forgetting about NCAA football? While I was never a huge fan of the college football offerings from Sega or EA, I will definitely put my money next year on Sega's College Football 2K6 or whatever they will call it. While you can't get the actual names (due to the whole amateur thing), you at least get real teams and the stats of the players are based on real people...
Great point. I would also offer up World of Warcraft as another game that used its graphics to enhance the story and the immersion in the world, rather than as a way to sell more copies (a la EQ2). The game is pretty, but the graphics aren't overly detailed. The graphics serve the game extremely well.
Well, Microsoft is paying money to people who claim to be the owners of Unix/Linux... Does that count?
Why not a UV-RAY format? Or an X-RAY format?
In 10 years it's going to be SMUD-DVD (SuperMegaUltraDefinition) vs. Gamma-Ray.
No fair if you can't already walk straight due to alcohol.
Or just use NYTSlashdot/NYTSlashdot as your username/password, you do have to log in, but then you don't have to sell your soul.
So are the DVD's that you use to actually utilize your theater not very important, or did you not purchase them? If you ask me, all that theater setup is pretty useless if you have nothing to play.
And that wasn't my main point anyway -- my point was that as soon as you modify something, the original vendor is no longer reponsible if it no longer works, because you have violated the software license you agreed to when you installed the product. You buy their software, you have to follow their rules -- if you don't like their rules, then quit b*tching and play Doom 3.
It's amazing that Hollywood could ruin such a good book. Then again, they do it all the time, so maybe it's not so amazing anymore.
I haven't heard anyone here complain about the fact that your XBox live account will get locked if Microsoft finds you using a hacked XBox, yet most people here are complaining about the same exact thing -- Valve is locking your account if you get caught using a hacked (in this case, cracked) executable.
Besides, in both cases of being locked out by the vendor, you should still be able to play non-online games. If Valve locks your account for using a no-cd crack, you still should be able to play single player, since you can bypass the Valve validation anyway with another crack.
One more thing -- with the XBox, Microsoft knows that the Xbox was actually purchased (with the exception of those which were stolen), while in the case of HL2, there is a significant number (the percentage is of course debatable, but my guess it is >50%) of illegally copied software being disabled.