I've had a similar thing happen. Flew to Boston from London a few years ago to cover for another guy in our US office while his kid was sick.
Like an idiot I told the customs guy that I was there to work for three weeks, and I couldn't even tell him where I was working, or where I would be staying, as the whole thing was being organised by our guys at the other end. Was pretty scary but in the end I think he just felt sorry for me and let me go through.
He clearly lays out a way around this problem - just have an identical row of buttons down each side, and when you turn the thing on, you quickly calibrate the keyboard so it knows which button to use for your thumb etc.
Check it out, I found a place that has designed some smaller VR goggles specfically for FPS gaming, and have actually brought them to market. Am still investigating though, the gun sounds kind of pony.
Aren't they supposed to be marketing to us? If sony released a VR setup for the PS3 I'd buy one tomorrow. As it is, they've not really got much to offer, just slightly better graphics that I could get by beefing up a PC.
Set your registration form to require manual activation? Seems to work ok for a few sites I've been to lately. You could argue that the administrative overhead would become too great, but if you get that many signups, you're probably delegating admin tasks to trusted users already.
Hopefully this spells the begininng of the end for the web plague known as CAPTCHA. I am heartily sick of having to squint at barely recognisable characters, only to be informed that I've got it wrong, and then have to enter all my details again.
He's exactly right, most people don't WANT to screw around with dependencies etc, they just want to turn the thing on and get some work done. Or some games played. Or some porn surfed. Ok, maybe that's just me.
Is gaming flavour of the month or what? I can't wait for the wind to change so that the Morality Police can go back to picking on dangerous dogs, paedophiles, death metal or whatever.
Laughed when I read this article. It looks as though he wrote it to deliberately provoke a response from the/. massive.
I also dislike the way he claims that if it were not for Microsoft us "normal people" would not be working in IT.
Firstly, you can't just include all computer workers into such a broad demographic. Joe the 1st line log n flogger is a far cry from Mike the Oracle Unix DBA.
I would have ended up working in IT anyway. It's in my blood. I had a computer long before I'd ever heard of Windows, and if MS wasn't around I'd be using something else.
While some of the points he makes are almost valid, they are backed up with nothing apart from opinion, and heavily biased opinion at that.
In conclusion then: "-1 flamebait" Shame we can't mod the world.
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I've had a similar thing happen. Flew to Boston from London a few years ago to cover for another guy in our US office while his kid was sick.
Like an idiot I told the customs guy that I was there to work for three weeks, and I couldn't even tell him where I was working, or where I would be staying, as the whole thing was being organised by our guys at the other end. Was pretty scary but in the end I think he just felt sorry for me and let me go through.
Next time I'll just lie, it's easier.
Although I believe we have our american friends to thank for the phrase "pwned".
I quite liked "Deus Ex: Invisible War" as well, though it didn't do as well as the original. The plot worked for me!
He clearly lays out a way around this problem - just have an identical row of buttons down each side, and when you turn the thing on, you quickly calibrate the keyboard so it knows which button to use for your thumb etc.
Check it out, I found a place that has designed some smaller VR goggles specfically for FPS gaming, and have actually brought them to market. Am still investigating though, the gun sounds kind of pony.
/kenobi
http://www.spokane7.com/tech/stories/?ID=6278
http://www.trimersion.com/
However, these are not the glasses you are looking for.
Aren't they supposed to be marketing to us? If sony released a VR setup for the PS3 I'd buy one tomorrow. As it is, they've not really got much to offer, just slightly better graphics that I could get by beefing up a PC.
There is a market demand for savagely violent games such as yours. I will buy it, and I promise not to go Postal at work.
Set your registration form to require manual activation? Seems to work ok for a few sites I've been to lately. You could argue that the administrative overhead would become too great, but if you get that many signups, you're probably delegating admin tasks to trusted users already.
Hopefully this spells the begininng of the end for the web plague known as CAPTCHA. I am heartily sick of having to squint at barely recognisable characters, only to be informed that I've got it wrong, and then have to enter all my details again.
So bye-bye CAPTCHA, I won't miss you.
Come on, mod parent up!
He's exactly right, most people don't WANT to screw around with dependencies etc, they just want to turn the thing on and get some work done. Or some games played. Or some porn surfed. Ok, maybe that's just me.
There's nothing funny about this, it's terrifying!
Is gaming flavour of the month or what? I can't wait for the wind to change so that the Morality Police can go back to picking on dangerous dogs, paedophiles, death metal or whatever.
I'm definitely going to buy it. Can I order direct from Rockstar?
If this game gets released for the PC I'm going to import it out of principle. Now, where did I leave my hammer again?
"Score:5 , BadAss"
Sheer brilliance, Sir! *doffs cap*
Most spot-on post I've ever read on here. You're absolutely right.
Badass!!
Could this be the next meme? /tasteless
Quite. What the hell is this rubbish? And why are they posting it as FP on every single thread? I have mod points today and I'm going to use them!!
You left out the stabbing and the dislocated jaw... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/165115 41?source=PA/
Looks like this one has been slashdotted already.
t -the-Logitech-G15-Wonder-at-the-Games-Convention-2 005-6245.shtml
There's some picccies here though, looks quite nice.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Logitech-to-Presen
Laughed when I read this article. It looks as though he wrote it to deliberately provoke a response from the /. massive.
I also dislike the way he claims that if it were not for Microsoft us "normal people" would not be working in IT.
Firstly, you can't just include all computer workers into such a broad demographic. Joe the 1st line log n flogger is a far cry from Mike the Oracle Unix DBA.
I would have ended up working in IT anyway. It's in my blood. I had a computer long before I'd ever heard of Windows, and if MS wasn't around I'd be using something else.
While some of the points he makes are almost valid, they are backed up with nothing apart from opinion, and heavily biased opinion at that.
In conclusion then: "-1 flamebait"
Shame we can't mod the world.
Let's not be forgetting a petrified Natalie Portman .
I didn't actually see the ads... thank you firefox!