If the exoskeleton relies on detecting nerve signals to mirror body movement, then paralysed people whose motor-neurone transmission is disrupted might have a problem here. At this point, perhaps the signals need to be tracked back to the brainstem...
If he's a good enough author, he won't work around that issue.
If Jordan had lived, he'd have spent the entirity of the whole book describing the sound of some woman's snort as she decided on what to wear that morning before she sat down and thought about what she might do 6 books down the line.
I have just thought of another problem: if using the stick to rotate, you either always have
* a preferred 'North', which would not work, * some kind of North-resetting function, which could be awkward in the extreme, * a separate rotational control for 'true rotation' (as opposed to head turning), which could actually work - perhaps a trackball for the thumb? * angle of stick's inclination indicates speed of rotation - as opposed to position - in that axis, which I think would be rubbish
Before I say anything else I must admit that I'm not much of a gamer, although I have started playing stuff again thanks to new housemates with decent consoles and PCs.
Anyway.
A brief consideration of what I'd consider the ideal set-up, for FPS at least, has put the following idea into my mind:
Keyboard & mouse is great except for this problem of Where Are My Keys?, and the awkwardness of using mice for much more than a few main buttons.
So a good solution as far as I can see is to replace the mouse with some kind of one-handed motion-sensitive device, a bit like the Wii's. Not only would rotational (looking/turning) movement be fantastically intuitive but translational could be used to some small degree too (perhaps for quick dodging movements). If shaped a bit like a joystick, the thumb could have quick access to a few buttons/joypad/hat switch/scroll wheel, and the index and pointing fingers a button each.
The other hand can use the keyboard - specifically, the numeric keypad, cursor keys and Insert->Page Down grouping as these are all isolated, easily accessible and navigable, and should be sufficient for pretty much everything.
The only problems I foresee are expense for non-standard parts for the stick, and tiredness due to its use. I suppose a compromise might be a kind of mouse-mounted joystick.
"Why is religion and evolution irreconcilable? If I accept an omnipotent and omnipresent god, what is so strange at accepting, that said god created a universe, with exactly those laws, which science deciphers, which obviously lead to our existence? Is it disprovable? No. Does it contradict with scientific knowledge? No. Is it compatible with further scientific findings? Yes. So, why bother, when you have people, which claim, the earth is 4000 years old."
Yes, because humanity clearly lies on every branch of the universal quantum tree. Even the cosmos, with the general laws and space-time we know, is itself a small corner of the underlying system space. We are not exactly a cornerstone of existence.
I think my experience shows that it gets rather complicated: due to my... shall we say, somewhat awkward social skills, I know a lot of people thought I was a bit of an idiot when I was young. And many still do. The general response when, at the age of 14, I scored 171 on my IQ test result was of disbelief and cynicism.
The development curve of young children is so variable that such precision makes no sense. There are a hell of a lot of late bloomers out there that turn out just fine.
Yes - it's her own loss. If she was of college age, then it would be her own fault, too. But she's 14, and there's a reason kids have to be forced to go to school and to follow rules - because unlike college kids, she's not theoretically there because she chooses to be - but because society requires that she is, likely against her own preferences.
If kids could choose to go to school or not, we'd have a bit of a problem.
Yes, but you do have to have some standards as to what constitutes 'story'. For one thing, _something relevant_ to the storyline has to occur. There are at least 2 WoT books which might as well just have been the characters discussing what the clouds looked like.
The 1st 3 books were good. After that, it's diminishing returns - each book takes longer to do less, so that by the end we're barely getting a chapter's worth.
Then what does he do?
He writes, IIRC, a decent last book that finally goes somewhere and sets up a good conclusion... then pisses about with retellings of previous books and up and dies. Very unprofessional.
Well, hiding the matter would be a different thing entirely. A straight-out admission of whatever the facts maybe, and then doing whatever needs to be done, is obviously the proper course of action.
If this would make his presidency unconstitutional then the constitution is silly and needs to be changed.
Dot them all from when he became politically responsible and accountable, yes, but I just can't see how the silly citizenship hurdles his parents had to go through just to send him to school has any relevance.
Does it in any way make him fitter or weaker for the job of president? Is it really anything to do with him at all?
This would be like disqualifying him because his mother didn't tick the exact right box when registering his birth, or something stupid like that. Who cares?
The Bible, you say? Is that the one with the dysfunctional family who live atop a mountain, or the one with the zombie carpenter? I get them mixed up sometimes.
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If the exoskeleton relies on detecting nerve signals to mirror body movement, then paralysed people whose motor-neurone transmission is disrupted might have a problem here. At this point, perhaps the signals need to be tracked back to the brainstem...
No, no, men sniff and women snort. This is a basic secondary sexual characteristic in the WoT.
If he's a good enough author, he won't work around that issue.
If Jordan had lived, he'd have spent the entirity of the whole book describing the sound of some woman's snort as she decided on what to wear that morning before she sat down and thought about what she might do 6 books down the line.
You know why that is, don't you? Thetans.
I have just thought of another problem: if using the stick to rotate, you either always have
* a preferred 'North', which would not work,
* some kind of North-resetting function, which could be awkward in the extreme,
* a separate rotational control for 'true rotation' (as opposed to head turning), which could actually work - perhaps a trackball for the thumb?
* angle of stick's inclination indicates speed of rotation - as opposed to position - in that axis, which I think would be rubbish
Before I say anything else I must admit that I'm not much of a gamer, although I have started playing stuff again thanks to new housemates with decent consoles and PCs.
Anyway.
A brief consideration of what I'd consider the ideal set-up, for FPS at least, has put the following idea into my mind:
Keyboard & mouse is great except for this problem of Where Are My Keys?, and the awkwardness of using mice for much more than a few main buttons.
So a good solution as far as I can see is to replace the mouse with some kind of one-handed motion-sensitive device, a bit like the Wii's. Not only would rotational (looking/turning) movement be fantastically intuitive but translational could be used to some small degree too (perhaps for quick dodging movements). If shaped a bit like a joystick, the thumb could have quick access to a few buttons/joypad/hat switch/scroll wheel, and the index and pointing fingers a button each.
The other hand can use the keyboard - specifically, the numeric keypad, cursor keys and Insert->Page Down grouping as these are all isolated, easily accessible and navigable, and should be sufficient for pretty much everything.
The only problems I foresee are expense for non-standard parts for the stick, and tiredness due to its use. I suppose a compromise might be a kind of mouse-mounted joystick.
No. Definitely iNcendiary.
If I had any mod points to give, they would be yours.
Todd?
"Why is religion and evolution irreconcilable? If I accept an omnipotent and omnipresent god, what is so strange at accepting, that said god created a universe, with exactly those laws, which science deciphers, which obviously lead to our existence? Is it disprovable? No. Does it contradict with scientific knowledge? No. Is it compatible with further scientific findings? Yes. So, why bother, when you have people, which claim, the earth is 4000 years old."
Yes, because humanity clearly lies on every branch of the universal quantum tree. Even the cosmos, with the general laws and space-time we know, is itself a small corner of the underlying system space. We are not exactly a cornerstone of existence.
I think my experience shows that it gets rather complicated: due to my... shall we say, somewhat awkward social skills, I know a lot of people thought I was a bit of an idiot when I was young. And many still do. The general response when, at the age of 14, I scored 171 on my IQ test result was of disbelief and cynicism.
The development curve of young children is so variable that such precision makes no sense. There are a hell of a lot of late bloomers out there that turn out just fine.
They are facets of human behaviour. Is that then all that god might be?
You're pro-gun? Hey! I'm pro-bullets! We should totally hook-up sometime.
Yes - it's her own loss. If she was of college age, then it would be her own fault, too. But she's 14, and there's a reason kids have to be forced to go to school and to follow rules - because unlike college kids, she's not theoretically there because she chooses to be - but because society requires that she is, likely against her own preferences.
If kids could choose to go to school or not, we'd have a bit of a problem.
Didn't your friend try and do something?
I don't know - he's got a fair chance of getting a ride if he keeps standing there with his chopper out.
"We are starting a new strata of star trek, one where Kirk made it not because he is cleaver, but because he is an ass."
You think he won't be so sharp in this one? He won't cut it as genuine officer-material?
Yes, but you do have to have some standards as to what constitutes 'story'. For one thing, _something relevant_ to the storyline has to occur. There are at least 2 WoT books which might as well just have been the characters discussing what the clouds looked like.
The 1st 3 books were good. After that, it's diminishing returns - each book takes longer to do less, so that by the end we're barely getting a chapter's worth.
Then what does he do?
He writes, IIRC, a decent last book that finally goes somewhere and sets up a good conclusion... then pisses about with retellings of previous books and up and dies. Very unprofessional.
No, no, it's Stephen Fry you want.
Well, hiding the matter would be a different thing entirely. A straight-out admission of whatever the facts maybe, and then doing whatever needs to be done, is obviously the proper course of action.
If this would make his presidency unconstitutional then the constitution is silly and needs to be changed.
Dot them all from when he became politically responsible and accountable, yes, but I just can't see how the silly citizenship hurdles his parents had to go through just to send him to school has any relevance.
Does it in any way make him fitter or weaker for the job of president? Is it really anything to do with him at all?
This would be like disqualifying him because his mother didn't tick the exact right box when registering his birth, or something stupid like that. Who cares?
The Bible, you say? Is that the one with the dysfunctional family who live atop a mountain, or the one with the zombie carpenter? I get them mixed up sometimes.