An interesting novelty item sure, but what genuine purpose would this serve? Whenever advancements in household robotics have been made there has been some justification, especially when related to hygene and cleaning. But minor household chores aren't something worthy of such an investment of time, money and effort.
But this clearly has no practical use as anything other than a novelty, the fact that it just irons shirts doesn't help this image, would you fork out close to 2 grand for something that'll only give half your clothes a nice ironed finish? I doubt it.
In the end, you have to take a step back and think how far this should be taken, it's surely obvious that the mass market will never be able to afford or even accept overly large amounts of robotics, at least not for several decades.
A nice novelty, but even novelties have their limits.
OLEDs die. I was under the assumption that this was the main reason holding OLED displays back. Now it would seem that the panel described here is only for lighting purposes (white light only, no colors or even pixels for that matter), but presumably it will still die or at least dim after a few thousand hours of use. I recognize that this is not a major problem with cell phone displays and such, but if you plan on building the lighting of your house with these, you won't be too happy if next year or the year after that you get only 300 lumens instead of the promised 1200.
If you take a closer look you'll notice that this particular card has a PCI Express x16 interface, but with no bridge chip. It looks like the rumors of a bridgeless NV45 were true.
A truly challenging game is hard to come by these days, for every Ninja Gaiden, Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero GX, there are 2 dozen games that bow to eye candy and plot development over actual difficulty. Sadly this is a curse that has been steadily gaining momentum since the PlayStation era and throughout, where the craftsmenship of demanding perfection/reactions within a 2D environment were sacrificed at the alter of style over substance. Itagaki needs to be lauded for his attidude, not criticised.
Another device to aid the terminally lazy, I'm sure the few minutes of minor exercise saved by this device will be well used to perform such important tasks as "eating", "programming perl" and "reading slashdot". Well, it's your heart attack, I'm just the guy whos taxes pay for your heart bypass at 52.
But I doubt this stunt will be enough to silence the most rabid of followers of Douglas Adams' work, that particular camp will only be content if this movie is never released at all. After all, not even Peter Jackson, with his vision, scope, funding and love of the books could silence the complaints following the rings trilogy.
He has to realise that with book-to-film adaptations, whether it be Harry Potter or Battle Royale, you can never satisfy the lunatic fringe. In fact, in the end, you can never win, all you can do is please as many people as you can.
Back in its heyday on the PSone I was a massive fan of both Driver and its sequal, the games seemed fresh, innovative, providing a real challenge with it's misson based diving (and the occasional time on-foot in the sequal) However this was during the murky distant times where the GTA series was confined to a mere 2-dimentions. The gameplay sounds hauntingly similar; From the wide selection of vehicles to commandeer, the on foot aspect thrown in, the mission based gameplay (albeit with more arcade leanings), and even the HUD itself. All of these draw faint echos of Rockstars creation and its rapidly expanding list of somewhat accomplished clones. Conisdering the protracted and near aborted development alongside this, I fear that not even the minor wave of nostalgia for the prequals could save this game from being another albatross around the already weighty neck of Atari.
It was a game where you remembered the best routes with the easiest overtaking opportunities. There was no driving skill involved. It was repetitive and boring.
The exact same thing could be said for your average (or not so average) shooter. What is Ikaruga other than an exercise in memory and steady hands, backed up with reactions and skill?
Then we have Rez, one of the classics of this generation, throwing the exact same enemies in the exact same attack patterns every time you play, with your character stuck on the exact same path.
By your logic this makes them bad games, but they have provided some of my most merorable gaming experiences in recent memory. Driving games are no different, adapt to the optimal racing line, keep steady, don't screw up, repeat until finish.
A game being an exercise in memory does not necessarily make it a bad game.
Flash is a lead lined cudgel with which talentless unfunny people can flesh out their poorly designed and impossible-to-navigate websites. (or, if they're really talentless, they just ship them off to sites like newgrounds.com) I have personally lost count of the number of times I've had my browsing experience ruined by an annoying as hell flash banner ad spawning in the middle of my screen, or a homepage so slowed and crippled by flash that I left and never returned. Of course this isn't the only problem, trolls such as the GNAA are known to use this in their browser crashing Shock Sites. Which force users of MSIE to end the entire process to stop the endlessly respawning windows. And this is just the tip of an iceberg of security issues. As a result of this (and this "last measure" especially) I decided to abandon windows altogether and become another convert to *nix. So I think you can forgive me for not celebrating the porting of this pesterware to Linux, nor will I be letting it anywhere near my linux box. Regular banner ads are annoying enough thank you.
Would you rather people work on minor issues only after the more serious ones have been resolved?
I would when solving the major issues allows the minor ones to be tackled far more effectively.
I agree, harsh words, but the arguement is sound.
Surely a democratic government and more integration into the wider world would do far more to stop all forms of computer related annoyance and illegality in China than an single branch of Spamhaus.
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An interesting novelty item sure, but what genuine purpose would this serve? Whenever advancements in household robotics have been made there has been some justification, especially when related to hygene and cleaning. But minor household chores aren't something worthy of such an investment of time, money and effort.
But this clearly has no practical use as anything other than a novelty, the fact that it just irons shirts doesn't help this image, would you fork out close to 2 grand for something that'll only give half your clothes a nice ironed finish? I doubt it.
In the end, you have to take a step back and think how far this should be taken, it's surely obvious that the mass market will never be able to afford or even accept overly large amounts of robotics, at least not for several decades.
A nice novelty, but even novelties have their limits.
OLEDs die.
I was under the assumption that this was the main reason holding OLED displays back. Now it would seem that the panel described here is only for lighting purposes (white light only, no colors or even pixels for that matter), but presumably it will still die or at least dim after a few thousand hours of use.
I recognize that this is not a major problem with cell phone displays and such, but if you plan on building the lighting of your house with these, you won't be too happy if next year or the year after that you get only 300 lumens instead of the promised 1200.
If you take a closer look you'll notice that this particular card has a PCI Express x16 interface, but with no bridge chip. It looks like the rumors of a bridgeless NV45 were true.
A truly challenging game is hard to come by these days, for every Ninja Gaiden, Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero GX, there are 2 dozen games that bow to eye candy and plot development over actual difficulty.
Sadly this is a curse that has been steadily gaining momentum since the PlayStation era and throughout, where the craftsmenship of demanding perfection/reactions within a 2D environment were sacrificed at the alter of style over substance. Itagaki needs to be lauded for his attidude, not criticised.
Another device to aid the terminally lazy, I'm sure the few minutes of minor exercise saved by this device will be well used to perform such important tasks as "eating", "programming perl" and "reading slashdot".
Well, it's your heart attack, I'm just the guy whos taxes pay for your heart bypass at 52.
as long as Christmas Island coughs up its share of the bill
Battle Royale was based off a book?
Indeed it was.
But I doubt this stunt will be enough to silence the most rabid of followers of Douglas Adams' work, that particular camp will only be content if this movie is never released at all. After all, not even Peter Jackson, with his vision, scope, funding and love of the books could silence the complaints following the rings trilogy.
He has to realise that with book-to-film adaptations, whether it be Harry Potter or Battle Royale, you can never satisfy the lunatic fringe. In fact, in the end, you can never win, all you can do is please as many people as you can.
Back in its heyday on the PSone I was a massive fan of both Driver and its sequal, the games seemed fresh, innovative, providing a real challenge with it's misson based diving (and the occasional time on-foot in the sequal) However this was during the murky distant times where the GTA series was confined to a mere 2-dimentions.
The gameplay sounds hauntingly similar; From the wide selection of vehicles to commandeer, the on foot aspect thrown in, the mission based gameplay (albeit with more arcade leanings), and even the HUD itself. All of these draw faint echos of Rockstars creation and its rapidly expanding list of somewhat accomplished clones.
Conisdering the protracted and near aborted development alongside this, I fear that not even the minor wave of nostalgia for the prequals could save this game from being another albatross around the already weighty neck of Atari.
It was a game where you remembered the best routes with the easiest overtaking opportunities. There was no driving skill involved. It was repetitive and boring. The exact same thing could be said for your average (or not so average) shooter. What is Ikaruga other than an exercise in memory and steady hands, backed up with reactions and skill? Then we have Rez, one of the classics of this generation, throwing the exact same enemies in the exact same attack patterns every time you play, with your character stuck on the exact same path. By your logic this makes them bad games, but they have provided some of my most merorable gaming experiences in recent memory. Driving games are no different, adapt to the optimal racing line, keep steady, don't screw up, repeat until finish. A game being an exercise in memory does not necessarily make it a bad game.
Flash is a lead lined cudgel with which talentless unfunny people can flesh out their poorly designed and impossible-to-navigate websites. (or, if they're really talentless, they just ship them off to sites like newgrounds.com) I have personally lost count of the number of times I've had my browsing experience ruined by an annoying as hell flash banner ad spawning in the middle of my screen, or a homepage so slowed and crippled by flash that I left and never returned.
Of course this isn't the only problem, trolls such as the GNAA are known to use this in their browser crashing Shock Sites. Which force users of MSIE to end the entire process to stop the endlessly respawning windows. And this is just the tip of an iceberg of security issues.
As a result of this (and this "last measure" especially) I decided to abandon windows altogether and become another convert to *nix. So I think you can forgive me for not celebrating the porting of this pesterware to Linux, nor will I be letting it anywhere near my linux box. Regular banner ads are annoying enough thank you.
Would you rather people work on minor issues only after the more serious ones have been resolved? I would when solving the major issues allows the minor ones to be tackled far more effectively.
I agree, harsh words, but the arguement is sound. Surely a democratic government and more integration into the wider world would do far more to stop all forms of computer related annoyance and illegality in China than an single branch of Spamhaus.