There would be some awsome opportunities in this game to be able to build your own houses, cars, super-weapons or whatever by finding/obtaining the raw Lego building blocks needed and then assembling them in any manner you choose. It would allow user-created content a-la Spore with such massive potential. Furthermore, quests could be used to make obtaining certain Lego parts challenging. But yeah, in the end it just seems like if the game designers really put some thought into this then they might have a great game on their hands that would allow today's children to build with Lego virtually, preparing them for future high-tech computer jobs while still having fun.
I have been saying this exact same thing for a few years. There is so much useful material that we have thrown away and at such high concentrations that this should seem like a logical, and profitable, step in the cleanup of our planet.
I think that while finding new ways to recycle old computer parts and PCBs is still a good idea, educating the public about how and where to take their old computer parts is probably money equally well spent. I know that I have often just tossed old computer cards and whatnot that I would have preferrably recycled, for a simple lack of knowledge as to where to take them.
It looks more like a Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth style shuffle than a true walk. It would probably be much cooler if it had on a pair of slippers, though.
Wouldn't it be pretty easy to, say, program some sort of virus/worm that uses tubes to replicate itself and then decimate a whole network of tube-linked computers? I feel that I might wait a while before jumping into these tubes feet first, lest an alligator be at the other end.
Big parent companies often have smaller subdivisions that make different products. Just because you may not like the products in one division doesn't mean that you have to hate everything that company makes. Take for example Philip-Morris which makes cigarettes. It's parent company is Altria group, which also owns Kraft foods. Now tell me that you don't love mac and cheese. See, we can all love mac and cheese (Xbox 360) and hate cigarettes (windows or what have you) without just bashing everything that the parent company comes out with.
Wow, if this doesn't cause a shit fit among people who have money to burn (and hence, power and influence) then I don't know what will... So is it ok if I have a projector and only have it project onto a 27" screen. Or is the fact that it is a projector and is capable of displaying larger images going to mean that it needs to be registered? Will this cost be "factored" into the cost of large screen TVs and projectors?
I'm tired of all this nonsense where lefties get the shaft. When will game developers (and the rest of the world) learn to make things that work for both lefties and righties? Take guitar hero for example. While they did add the option to flip the way the notes are displayed on the screen, actually using the guitar upside-down sucks; the whammy bar has to be PULLED on, and the strap gets in the way, making it just that much less fun and giving me less of a reason to want to buy it. Even games with traditional controllers can be different for lefties. Try playing Tiger Woods and using your left hand to pump the power button while swinging the left analog stick back and forth with your right hand. I mean, we lefties learn to adapt, but you righties just don't realize all the little things like this that take away just enough from things to make them annoying. I will, however, give props to the makers of Brain Age and their nice, albeit simple, way of compensating for lefties. P.S. Another reason they should cater to us lefties is because we tend to have shorter lifespans, so give us a break here and enjoy your few extra years.
I'm seriously left sided, not just kinda like a lot of people who claim to be left handed. I eat, write, kick, see, hear, chew, mastur..., well, pretty much everything with the left side of my body. However, growing up in a world where the norm was to use a right handed mouse and have scroll bars on the right side, I have just learned to deal with it. I have tried using my left hand for "right handed mice" as well as neutral handed mice, and it just feels different using my left hand to mouse around. And I think that if I were to switch the scroll bars on my computer somehow to be on the left side, it would just make things that much more confusing since I use other computers for school and whatnot. I do, however, have a laptop with a touchpad and a nice little dedicated scroll touch part on the right side that I find extremely useful, much like a scroll wheel. However, THAT is on the right side and has kind of forced me to use the touch pad with my right hand as well, although I do find myself using the left hand once in a while.
My advice, just deal with it and then tell all your righty friends that they are conformists for being right handed, and can't deal with all the extra stuff that we lefties go through on a daily basis.
P.S. If you ever sprain or break your dominant wrist, it makes wiping your ass really awkward, but the "sex" is new and fun! hehe...
How will we explain to our children that back in the day we had this sweet airplane shaped orbiter to take us into space, and now all they have is this cone-shaped hunk of a "spaceship".
Yeah, these things can go where conventional tools cannot. But you have to remember that these things still need some sort of wiring for power. So don't count on seamlessly fastening two things together with no sort of external access whatsoever... unless you include a battery in the enclosed system, but then that just raises the overall price.
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Yes you would be correct. This is a terrible idea.
There would be some awsome opportunities in this game to be able to build your own houses, cars, super-weapons or whatever by finding/obtaining the raw Lego building blocks needed and then assembling them in any manner you choose. It would allow user-created content a-la Spore with such massive potential. Furthermore, quests could be used to make obtaining certain Lego parts challenging. But yeah, in the end it just seems like if the game designers really put some thought into this then they might have a great game on their hands that would allow today's children to build with Lego virtually, preparing them for future high-tech computer jobs while still having fun.
See, I made a similar comment earlier and got modded down by some haters. But maybe your link is better than mine.
This really isn't such an interesting story at all. There is, in fact, a type of CMOS logic called Domino Logic. So nothing really suprising then.
I have been saying this exact same thing for a few years. There is so much useful material that we have thrown away and at such high concentrations that this should seem like a logical, and profitable, step in the cleanup of our planet.
Boob support? I hear that's a really hands-on and exciting job!
I think that while finding new ways to recycle old computer parts and PCBs is still a good idea, educating the public about how and where to take their old computer parts is probably money equally well spent. I know that I have often just tossed old computer cards and whatnot that I would have preferrably recycled, for a simple lack of knowledge as to where to take them.
It looks more like a Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth style shuffle than a true walk. It would probably be much cooler if it had on a pair of slippers, though.
At first glance I was intrigued at the idea of a National Internet Erection.
They need an amusement park. We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon...
Kaopectate. Every time I have a mud volcano spewing from my backside this seems to work.
Twas Chuck Norris killed the Webmasters.
Wouldn't it be pretty easy to, say, program some sort of virus/worm that uses tubes to replicate itself and then decimate a whole network of tube-linked computers? I feel that I might wait a while before jumping into these tubes feet first, lest an alligator be at the other end.
Big parent companies often have smaller subdivisions that make different products. Just because you may not like the products in one division doesn't mean that you have to hate everything that company makes. Take for example Philip-Morris which makes cigarettes. It's parent company is Altria group, which also owns Kraft foods. Now tell me that you don't love mac and cheese. See, we can all love mac and cheese (Xbox 360) and hate cigarettes (windows or what have you) without just bashing everything that the parent company comes out with.
Won't it get quite dusty in there?
for the World Series of knitting on Lifetime! Granny Maude vs. Aunt Mary-Beth Sue for the world championship!
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Wow, if this doesn't cause a shit fit among people who have money to burn (and hence, power and influence) then I don't know what will... So is it ok if I have a projector and only have it project onto a 27" screen. Or is the fact that it is a projector and is capable of displaying larger images going to mean that it needs to be registered? Will this cost be "factored" into the cost of large screen TVs and projectors?
Maybe they are just planning on giving astronauts laser eye surgery from the ground.
I'm tired of all this nonsense where lefties get the shaft. When will game developers (and the rest of the world) learn to make things that work for both lefties and righties? Take guitar hero for example. While they did add the option to flip the way the notes are displayed on the screen, actually using the guitar upside-down sucks; the whammy bar has to be PULLED on, and the strap gets in the way, making it just that much less fun and giving me less of a reason to want to buy it. Even games with traditional controllers can be different for lefties. Try playing Tiger Woods and using your left hand to pump the power button while swinging the left analog stick back and forth with your right hand. I mean, we lefties learn to adapt, but you righties just don't realize all the little things like this that take away just enough from things to make them annoying. I will, however, give props to the makers of Brain Age and their nice, albeit simple, way of compensating for lefties. P.S. Another reason they should cater to us lefties is because we tend to have shorter lifespans, so give us a break here and enjoy your few extra years.
What kind of documents do hobos need, aside from IOUs, and you might want those to last a while...
I'm seriously left sided, not just kinda like a lot of people who claim to be left handed. I eat, write, kick, see, hear, chew, mastur..., well, pretty much everything with the left side of my body. However, growing up in a world where the norm was to use a right handed mouse and have scroll bars on the right side, I have just learned to deal with it. I have tried using my left hand for "right handed mice" as well as neutral handed mice, and it just feels different using my left hand to mouse around. And I think that if I were to switch the scroll bars on my computer somehow to be on the left side, it would just make things that much more confusing since I use other computers for school and whatnot. I do, however, have a laptop with a touchpad and a nice little dedicated scroll touch part on the right side that I find extremely useful, much like a scroll wheel. However, THAT is on the right side and has kind of forced me to use the touch pad with my right hand as well, although I do find myself using the left hand once in a while. My advice, just deal with it and then tell all your righty friends that they are conformists for being right handed, and can't deal with all the extra stuff that we lefties go through on a daily basis. P.S. If you ever sprain or break your dominant wrist, it makes wiping your ass really awkward, but the "sex" is new and fun! hehe...
How will we explain to our children that back in the day we had this sweet airplane shaped orbiter to take us into space, and now all they have is this cone-shaped hunk of a "spaceship".
No more paying for those pricey 900 numbers... I'll just hack some poor schmuck's phone and whack o..err... talk for free.
Yeah, these things can go where conventional tools cannot. But you have to remember that these things still need some sort of wiring for power. So don't count on seamlessly fastening two things together with no sort of external access whatsoever... unless you include a battery in the enclosed system, but then that just raises the overall price.