Given the amount of licensed content already in existence that does not rely on any of those plot points, I think it is safe to say that they can think of something.
The 'fumbling' for the pause button would basically be a wash in comparison to the method you had suggested earlier with respect with ease of use for users. The reason it would be better is that if you could get other software developers to join in and could get critical mass, controller manufacturers would start to fall in line.
One method is permanently fiddly. The other has the potential to get better over time as more controller manufacturers start standardizing on button layouts.
They said that Michigan was one of the better states to teach in because of how much they paid their teachers. My dad (34 years of teaching, nearly had his PhD)
Button[1] and button[2] are going to be available on every multi-button controller. Where they are on the controller is simply not that hard of a problem for people to figure out, so having button[1] as the menu selector, and button[2] as back button, you can navigate any menu with any controller. If you are talking about to get back if they are in the game, then just set whatever button number is the back button on the xbox360 controller, and the user will just press all of the buttons until he finds the one that takes him back. If you want to get fancy, you can poll the number of buttons and if there are few enough that you cannot match the back button to the xbox360 controller, you just set the highest numbered button to be exit.
Don't try to detect controllers for automatic configuration. It is doomed to failure and would be a massive undertaking on it's own. The only way it could be successful is if you decided to build a cddb style database that applications could pole to get button layouts. Like I have said before. Pick either the Xbox360 or Logitech layout and make that the standard. Let everyone else configure their controllers and save the configuration in a file that can be universally by other games.
Nope. No prompting. He didn't learn to read until about his 3rd birthday, but installing Ubuntu doesn't require knowing how to read. It only requires being able to identify a few words like "Next" and "OK". It is that easy to install.
This is a really dangerous trend lately. Phrenology is back in full force. As long as an MRI is used, the population and medical community alike are declaring it 'SCIENCE'.
That is kid of a loaded statistic. Every father that knows they have a child, also knows who that child's mother is. The same is not true of mothers always knowing who the father is. We also have a society with support systems in place to allow single mothers to more easily care for a child than a single father. Finally, we have a legal system that is heavily weighted to unfairly give women preference in child custody over men. If the women are less capable of providing for the child, the legal system will take as much as it wants from the man to pay the woman. I have personally known more than one man who had child support payments that were larger than their take home pay.
Make the default the Xbox and button one the [Action] button. Under the Options screen you could have your:
[Sound]
Video
Controller
And under Controller you have:
[Default]
Configure
Under Options --> Controller --> Configure is where you give people the "push this button" system.
I use primarily Logitech controllers, but if I had to set my buttons via my controller the first time I played, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. If you wanted to get extra user friendly, you could store the button mappings to the users home directory in a folder called something like 'Gamepad Configurations', so that any game that wants to play nice can look for a configuration file named 'default.gpc' in a standard place and load that as the game's default mappings.
I understand it completely. Your example of Mario Party is a good example of why only supporting one is a bad thing. The 1 in the 1v3 games changes with each round. This would require that the 'good' controller keeps having to be passed around. That is a pain, and people will gravitate away from those kinds of games. Supporting 4 would not prevent the 1v4 scenario, but it would allow for things like sports games where calls need to be played by both sides without having to ask people to turn away.
The Gamecube/GBA link was a failure. For different reasons, but a failure none the less.
The tablet isn't a bad idea. Supporting only one is crippling a good idea.
It would be crazy for them not to. It would be trivial for Valve to contract Canonical to produce a distro that is stripped of all non-Steam related apps and boots directly into the Steam 10' interface. Beyond that, it is just a matter of making a custom case and they are a large player in the console market.
It would be surprising if Valve didn't do this (or contract an existing distro to do this) in relatively short order. Their first priority needs to be getting the base out, but they clearly see the value in a 10' interface and thus see the value in using the PC as a console. With Steam on Linux, it would be trivial to put out a stripped down distro that boots directly into their 10' interface. They could use simple off the shelf parts in a custom case to release a next gen console. There would be virtually no hardware R&D necessary, and the software R&D would simply be the stuff they were already doing.
For users, Valve releasing a SteamBox wouldn't need to prevent Steam from running on any other system.
The other side of that is that a week after my son turned 2, I formatted his hard drive and handed him an Ubuntu disk. I told him to go install it on his own. He did so with no problem. While it might take the more advanced skills of a sixty-year old woman to do the download, even a two year old can do the install.
The difficulty of installing and using Linux has been vastly overstated for 7-8 years now. The biggest hurdles have been Office software (solved), IE lock in (solved), games and the fact that a good portion of the population didn't really understand the idea of different OS existing. They though Personal Computer = MS Windows.
The popularity of iOS and Android have brought the idea of different OSes to the masses. Most people understand it now, and no longer see it as an insermountable mystery. That just leaves games. Can Valve solve this? Maybe.
The post you are replying do didn't complain about any of the things you are implying they did. The post was a complaint about people lying, and a statement that those things are good things. You are simply attributing every comment that doesn't depict teachers as victims as an attack on teachers.
He isn't complaining about retirement payments. He is complaining that they are not considered when people complain about teachers salaries. He is complaining about people lying to try to make a point.
The National average for teachers is $56k. This is higher than the national average for the general population. If teachers are in poverty, then the nation as a whole is in poverty.
San Francisco literally has the highest rent prices in the nation. Unfortunately, EVERYONE is screwed in San Francisco when it comes to housing prices. That is why most people that work there live outside of the city.
BS. First, kids are not changing that much. Second, if they were changing that much and teachers were adapting, they wouldn't be able to make the lesson plan before they met the students anyway. Thus, only an incompetent teacher would be making lesson plans in the summer.
No, what we have is a bunch of half truths that get stapled together into one big lie. Teacher A has to take a summer course and it gets added to the list. Teacher B has to grade essays and thus works more hours. That gets added to the list. Teacher C takes a summer job and that gets added to the list. Teacher D is brand new in a low cost of living district so gets a low starting wage and that gets added to the list. Teacher E lives in a high cost of living district, so their housing cost is high and that gets added to the list. This goes on and on until you have a picture of abused teachers living in shacks working 365 days a year just to put scraps on the table.
That is the lie that gets dragged out when it is proven that teachers are not in poverty. You could argue that you think teachers are worth more than they are paid, but when you are earning above average wages, claiming that their pay is "shit" is a lie. Of course, saying that "Teachers make more money than over half of you, but we should raise taxes, (or we shouldn't lower your taxes) because they are worth more than you." doesn't work as well on a billboard.
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Given the amount of licensed content already in existence that does not rely on any of those plot points, I think it is safe to say that they can think of something.
Even better. The last 3 will go into the 'Disney Vault' for 20 years.
Will they have grampa wookies getting off on porno like in the first Ewok Christmas?
In the same way that people who copy movies are 'Pirates', Disney is a 'child molester'.
The 'fumbling' for the pause button would basically be a wash in comparison to the method you had suggested earlier with respect with ease of use for users. The reason it would be better is that if you could get other software developers to join in and could get critical mass, controller manufacturers would start to fall in line.
One method is permanently fiddly. The other has the potential to get better over time as more controller manufacturers start standardizing on button layouts.
They said that Michigan was one of the better states to teach in because of how much they paid their teachers. My dad (34 years of teaching, nearly had his PhD)
That clearly wasn't it.
Yes it is. It was a good idea that was badly implemented and a little before it's time.
Button[1] and button[2] are going to be available on every multi-button controller. Where they are on the controller is simply not that hard of a problem for people to figure out, so having button[1] as the menu selector, and button[2] as back button, you can navigate any menu with any controller. If you are talking about to get back if they are in the game, then just set whatever button number is the back button on the xbox360 controller, and the user will just press all of the buttons until he finds the one that takes him back. If you want to get fancy, you can poll the number of buttons and if there are few enough that you cannot match the back button to the xbox360 controller, you just set the highest numbered button to be exit.
Don't try to detect controllers for automatic configuration. It is doomed to failure and would be a massive undertaking on it's own. The only way it could be successful is if you decided to build a cddb style database that applications could pole to get button layouts. Like I have said before. Pick either the Xbox360 or Logitech layout and make that the standard. Let everyone else configure their controllers and save the configuration in a file that can be universally by other games.
Nope. No prompting. He didn't learn to read until about his 3rd birthday, but installing Ubuntu doesn't require knowing how to read. It only requires being able to identify a few words like "Next" and "OK". It is that easy to install.
You probably don't even realize that your comment just reenforces my point.
There are thing about the skull that do frequently impact behavior as well. That doesn't make phrenology valid science.
This is a really dangerous trend lately. Phrenology is back in full force. As long as an MRI is used, the population and medical community alike are declaring it 'SCIENCE'.
That is kid of a loaded statistic. Every father that knows they have a child, also knows who that child's mother is. The same is not true of mothers always knowing who the father is. We also have a society with support systems in place to allow single mothers to more easily care for a child than a single father. Finally, we have a legal system that is heavily weighted to unfairly give women preference in child custody over men. If the women are less capable of providing for the child, the legal system will take as much as it wants from the man to pay the woman. I have personally known more than one man who had child support payments that were larger than their take home pay.
There may end up being an Android console, there may not, but either way, button key bindings will not be the deciding factor.
Yes. But take it one step further. Make the Menu:
[Play]
Credits
Options
Make the default the Xbox and button one the [Action] button. Under the Options screen you could have your:
[Sound] Video Controller
And under Controller you have:
[Default] Configure
Under Options --> Controller --> Configure is where you give people the "push this button" system.
I use primarily Logitech controllers, but if I had to set my buttons via my controller the first time I played, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. If you wanted to get extra user friendly, you could store the button mappings to the users home directory in a folder called something like 'Gamepad Configurations', so that any game that wants to play nice can look for a configuration file named 'default.gpc' in a standard place and load that as the game's default mappings.
I understand it completely. Your example of Mario Party is a good example of why only supporting one is a bad thing. The 1 in the 1v3 games changes with each round. This would require that the 'good' controller keeps having to be passed around. That is a pain, and people will gravitate away from those kinds of games. Supporting 4 would not prevent the 1v4 scenario, but it would allow for things like sports games where calls need to be played by both sides without having to ask people to turn away.
The Gamecube/GBA link was a failure. For different reasons, but a failure none the less.
The tablet isn't a bad idea. Supporting only one is crippling a good idea.
It would be crazy for them not to. It would be trivial for Valve to contract Canonical to produce a distro that is stripped of all non-Steam related apps and boots directly into the Steam 10' interface. Beyond that, it is just a matter of making a custom case and they are a large player in the console market.
It would be surprising if Valve didn't do this (or contract an existing distro to do this) in relatively short order. Their first priority needs to be getting the base out, but they clearly see the value in a 10' interface and thus see the value in using the PC as a console. With Steam on Linux, it would be trivial to put out a stripped down distro that boots directly into their 10' interface. They could use simple off the shelf parts in a custom case to release a next gen console. There would be virtually no hardware R&D necessary, and the software R&D would simply be the stuff they were already doing.
For users, Valve releasing a SteamBox wouldn't need to prevent Steam from running on any other system.
The other side of that is that a week after my son turned 2, I formatted his hard drive and handed him an Ubuntu disk. I told him to go install it on his own. He did so with no problem. While it might take the more advanced skills of a sixty-year old woman to do the download, even a two year old can do the install.
The difficulty of installing and using Linux has been vastly overstated for 7-8 years now. The biggest hurdles have been Office software (solved), IE lock in (solved), games and the fact that a good portion of the population didn't really understand the idea of different OS existing. They though Personal Computer = MS Windows.
The popularity of iOS and Android have brought the idea of different OSes to the masses. Most people understand it now, and no longer see it as an insermountable mystery. That just leaves games. Can Valve solve this? Maybe.
The post you are replying do didn't complain about any of the things you are implying they did. The post was a complaint about people lying, and a statement that those things are good things. You are simply attributing every comment that doesn't depict teachers as victims as an attack on teachers.
He isn't complaining about retirement payments. He is complaining that they are not considered when people complain about teachers salaries. He is complaining about people lying to try to make a point.
The National average for teachers is $56k. This is higher than the national average for the general population. If teachers are in poverty, then the nation as a whole is in poverty.
San Francisco literally has the highest rent prices in the nation. Unfortunately, EVERYONE is screwed in San Francisco when it comes to housing prices. That is why most people that work there live outside of the city.
BS. First, kids are not changing that much. Second, if they were changing that much and teachers were adapting, they wouldn't be able to make the lesson plan before they met the students anyway. Thus, only an incompetent teacher would be making lesson plans in the summer.
No, what we have is a bunch of half truths that get stapled together into one big lie. Teacher A has to take a summer course and it gets added to the list. Teacher B has to grade essays and thus works more hours. That gets added to the list. Teacher C takes a summer job and that gets added to the list. Teacher D is brand new in a low cost of living district so gets a low starting wage and that gets added to the list. Teacher E lives in a high cost of living district, so their housing cost is high and that gets added to the list. This goes on and on until you have a picture of abused teachers living in shacks working 365 days a year just to put scraps on the table.
That is the lie that gets dragged out when it is proven that teachers are not in poverty. You could argue that you think teachers are worth more than they are paid, but when you are earning above average wages, claiming that their pay is "shit" is a lie. Of course, saying that "Teachers make more money than over half of you, but we should raise taxes, (or we shouldn't lower your taxes) because they are worth more than you." doesn't work as well on a billboard.