Interesting point, but from my viewpoint, the more trolls that go over to Digg, the happier I'll be, especially if they take all the science-denying posters with them.
But, it's strange to see a list with Ken, Rob, and Linus as the ten least important. Linus never was important per se, so long as he did his work well, Rob is just a person (code lives forever), but pretending that Sony doesn't matter, even when they're wrong (PS3, Blu-Ray) and nuts (DRM, rootkits), is probably not correct.
No. Most of the time when hunting you wait. Most of the time while gathering, you're squatting.
Most medical genetics seems to indicate 30-45 minutes of moderate exercise (walking/gardening) a day, five out of seven days, is what you need. You can do more, but the health benefits drop off after that.
We're definitely not designed to sit in chairs and type on keyboards.
Dude, for $500, I can play Red Steel and about 15 other games on the Wii, and ignore the format wars until I actually buy an HDTV that's big enough for me to care, in about three years when they'll be selling for $300 on sale. Including the Star Wars game coming out where you battle with light sabers as your Wii controller literally sounds like it is a lightsaber... or a blaster...
Not everyone likes to spend more than $500 on a lark.
[caveat - I liked the E3 demo so much, I sold my 400 shares of MSFT and bought 500 shares of Nintendo ADR]
While Sony, by cramming a $500 to $600 PS3 down our throats, has decided to lose the war.
It's that simple.
Look, the major revenue is not the players themselves - it's the licenses for the patents from the manufacturers, the license fees from the people cranking out the discs (HD-DVD or Blu-Ray), the license fees from the music, the movies, the motion...
You get the drift.
You can either play to win - or you can lose and look good doing so.
The whole purpose of ergonomic chairs is to remove the fat wad of cash from your wallet, and make you spend lots of money so you can lose weight due to your nervousness at being able to afford them in the first place.
I get mine at the university surplus for $5 or $10 each, instead of the $1000 the original buyer paid. I think our office was equipped for about $100 all told.
That said, I find if you don't get up and stretch about once every hour or so, you'll probably end up with back problems. And if you'd just take the stairs instead of sit all day, you'd have far fewer problems in the first place, since humans are designed to walk about 30 to 45 minutes a day.
If you are fishing in a small pond, and then suddenly the dam bursts and the large earth depression your boat is in is now in a large lake, you could either decide to notice all the people who now come to the lake to catch all the fish that entered from behind the freshwater dam - or you could see that there's more pond and more fish.
A better question would be:
Is the number of gamers other than MMORPGs smaller, the same, or larger?
not
Is the number of non-MMORPG compared to total gamers smaller, the same, or larger?
One picture, the former, leads one to see if the number of gamers has actually grown, but is dwarfed by those attracted to MMORPGs. The other picture, the latter, makes one think non-MMORPG gaming has shrunk, even if it increases.
As a side example, consider how many new gamers play Nintendogs and other handheld games now - many of them people who never played games before, especially women and girls underserved by our current gaming industry.
I think we should realize they occassionally have been known to have pictures of space aliens as well.
We might want to find these same pictures from a more reliable website first.
That said, overclocking your CPU and cranking out too much heat is a known problem with Dell. So it's quite possible that this is a true incident.
Realistic swordfights, technical solutions
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Thats not what I'm most concerned about...my big concern is how can you have realistic sword fights when there is nothing to forcibly stop the controller from moving past a certain point if your character makes contact in the game.
I especially see this as a problem for multiplayer swordfighting (think a multiplayer Star Wars game) where two people might be waving their swords, but if they cross blades, the controller keeps moving past the contact point, thus screwing up the positioning of the players hands with the remote.
Not really. It's fairly simple. Remember the Wii controller also has a speaker. What you do is have an audio "clang" when your sword hits another, or a "buzz" when your light saber touches another one.
Also, in the game mechanics, once your sword comes in contact with another, you just stop the forward motion of the displayed sword, and use any further forward motion as "push" motion against the opponent sword, used to simulate strength.
Now, it might take a bit of getting used to, especially if you had a true swords and sorcery game, where someone might be wearing heavy armor - in that a blow straight against someone with plate mail won't penetrate, but will glance off, but it's a fairly simple programming exercise to translate any motion after armor hit or after sword hit into the appropriate vector. The main thing is to use both audio feedback - both Wii controller and speakers - and force feedback (vibration on controllers if applicable) to indicate what's really happening. Most players will quickly adapt.
On the other hand, if you stick to fighting gelatinous blobs, your sword will literally chop straight through them. And a light saber - unless it meets a force field or another light saber (also force field) - will also keep going through the body it chops into. But there should be some audio and other feedback to represent the energy drain.
How to tell if someone has a Wii or a PS3
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The person who has toned arm and leg muscles has the Wii.
The one with the weight problem has the PS3.
I guess the one with the xBox360 is a Borg. Or at least dresses like one.
The water vapor coming out the other end of the fuel cell allows one to put out the flames on a coworker's Dell.
Re:I can't get it to run on my Apple II+
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no, but it's been in my basement for quite a few years.
The strength of Wii is that it's not just FPS
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But that it makes a lot of non-FPS games really fun to play.
Not every stick you see on the ground is a gun. Some can become swords. Some can become walking sticks, or pitons to use as you climb Mount Everest without the use of your left leg. Some can become claws as you become a crab beneath the waves. Some can become fishing rods, as you wait patiently for the slippery silvery salmon to go by.
The attraction of the Wii is that many things become fun - not just one.
but I have to question why our slashdot image of Microsoft remains of a robotic-enhanced Borg Bill Gates, when it should most likely be a Chair-tossing Borg, or some other Microsoft individual, now that Bill has announced he's retiring to run the Gates Foundation instead of Microsoft.
Or should it perhaps be a half-Bill half-???? cyborg mix, or even a two-headed Borg, to represent the transitional state as Bill Borg is phased out in favor of a more chair-tossing-enabled Borg?
That said, all this use of robotics and software will end badly. At least, that's what the Governator of California predicts...
Actually, since the article states it's based on statistics from the cookies from WebSideStory, if you happen to use Firefox and Adblock and NoScript, like my household, you'll never count me if I don't use IE to visit one of the sites they refer.
I tend to use Adblock and NoScript to turn off all but site-originated cookies and scripts, so when I go to say, Seattle Times, I only turn on anything from www.nwsource.com and never from any of the ad sites or cookie sites that link, unless I have to turn it on to get the web site working.
Thus, it's surprising that 10 percent of we non-IE browser users still permit them to track us via WebSideStory.
For all we know, 90 percent of the visitors to the sites mentioned did just as I do, and maybe the majority of their users are non-trackable. The only time you can be certain someone is browsing you is when the HTTP request occurs. If you use a resolver hosted from the actual site, you could be sure you're counting all pages, but many people only use a banner or web ad impression request or cookie, so by definition we exclude those.
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Interesting point, but from my viewpoint, the more trolls that go over to Digg, the happier I'll be, especially if they take all the science-denying posters with them.
But, it's strange to see a list with Ken, Rob, and Linus as the ten least important. Linus never was important per se, so long as he did his work well, Rob is just a person (code lives forever), but pretending that Sony doesn't matter, even when they're wrong (PS3, Blu-Ray) and nuts (DRM, rootkits), is probably not correct.
No. Most of the time when hunting you wait. Most of the time while gathering, you're squatting.
Most medical genetics seems to indicate 30-45 minutes of moderate exercise (walking/gardening) a day, five out of seven days, is what you need. You can do more, but the health benefits drop off after that.
We're definitely not designed to sit in chairs and type on keyboards.
Dude, for $500, I can play Red Steel and about 15 other games on the Wii, and ignore the format wars until I actually buy an HDTV that's big enough for me to care, in about three years when they'll be selling for $300 on sale. Including the Star Wars game coming out where you battle with light sabers as your Wii controller literally sounds like it is a lightsaber ... or a blaster ...
Not everyone likes to spend more than $500 on a lark.
[caveat - I liked the E3 demo so much, I sold my 400 shares of MSFT and bought 500 shares of Nintendo ADR]
While Sony, by cramming a $500 to $600 PS3 down our throats, has decided to lose the war.
...
It's that simple.
Look, the major revenue is not the players themselves - it's the licenses for the patents from the manufacturers, the license fees from the people cranking out the discs (HD-DVD or Blu-Ray), the license fees from the music, the movies, the motion
You get the drift.
You can either play to win - or you can lose and look good doing so.
My girlfriend has a slipped disk too - she uses a giant inflatable gymnasium ball to sit on.
It's a lot cheaper.
The whole purpose of ergonomic chairs is to remove the fat wad of cash from your wallet, and make you spend lots of money so you can lose weight due to your nervousness at being able to afford them in the first place.
I get mine at the university surplus for $5 or $10 each, instead of the $1000 the original buyer paid. I think our office was equipped for about $100 all told.
That said, I find if you don't get up and stretch about once every hour or so, you'll probably end up with back problems. And if you'd just take the stairs instead of sit all day, you'd have far fewer problems in the first place, since humans are designed to walk about 30 to 45 minutes a day.
If you are fishing in a small pond, and then suddenly the dam bursts and the large earth depression your boat is in is now in a large lake, you could either decide to notice all the people who now come to the lake to catch all the fish that entered from behind the freshwater dam - or you could see that there's more pond and more fish.
A better question would be:
Is the number of gamers other than MMORPGs smaller, the same, or larger?
not
Is the number of non-MMORPG compared to total gamers smaller, the same, or larger?
One picture, the former, leads one to see if the number of gamers has actually grown, but is dwarfed by those attracted to MMORPGs. The other picture, the latter, makes one think non-MMORPG gaming has shrunk, even if it increases.
As a side example, consider how many new gamers play Nintendogs and other handheld games now - many of them people who never played games before, especially women and girls underserved by our current gaming industry.
to Pluto, maybe Cosmonaut Li can land on Nix.
Li nix - a good thing.
under our new Department of Freedom, you're required to carry papers and be subservient to the Party Police, here in America.
...
So a Broadcast Flag being implemented through back-door legislation is the least of your worries.
I'd be more concerned by the fact that your library records are already being given to the Department of Correct Thinking
3 dimensions, 6 degrees of freedom. More than 3 dimensions would require the manipulation of time and/or some string theory dimensions.
...
Or a rewind button as in Prince of Persia.
Oh, wait, that's already implemented
thanks for the update on the Inquirer. I was unaware that it was a tech news site on the other side of the Pond.
I think we should realize they occassionally have been known to have pictures of space aliens as well.
We might want to find these same pictures from a more reliable website first.
That said, overclocking your CPU and cranking out too much heat is a known problem with Dell. So it's quite possible that this is a true incident.
Thats not what I'm most concerned about...my big concern is how can you have realistic sword fights when there is nothing to forcibly stop the controller from moving past a certain point if your character makes contact in the game.
I especially see this as a problem for multiplayer swordfighting (think a multiplayer Star Wars game) where two people might be waving their swords, but if they cross blades, the controller keeps moving past the contact point, thus screwing up the positioning of the players hands with the remote.
Not really. It's fairly simple. Remember the Wii controller also has a speaker. What you do is have an audio "clang" when your sword hits another, or a "buzz" when your light saber touches another one.
Also, in the game mechanics, once your sword comes in contact with another, you just stop the forward motion of the displayed sword, and use any further forward motion as "push" motion against the opponent sword, used to simulate strength.
Now, it might take a bit of getting used to, especially if you had a true swords and sorcery game, where someone might be wearing heavy armor - in that a blow straight against someone with plate mail won't penetrate, but will glance off, but it's a fairly simple programming exercise to translate any motion after armor hit or after sword hit into the appropriate vector. The main thing is to use both audio feedback - both Wii controller and speakers - and force feedback (vibration on controllers if applicable) to indicate what's really happening. Most players will quickly adapt.
On the other hand, if you stick to fighting gelatinous blobs, your sword will literally chop straight through them. And a light saber - unless it meets a force field or another light saber (also force field) - will also keep going through the body it chops into. But there should be some audio and other feedback to represent the energy drain.
The person who has toned arm and leg muscles has the Wii.
The one with the weight problem has the PS3.
I guess the one with the xBox360 is a Borg. Or at least dresses like one.
The water vapor coming out the other end of the fuel cell allows one to put out the flames on a coworker's Dell.
no, but it's been in my basement for quite a few years.
But that it makes a lot of non-FPS games really fun to play.
Not every stick you see on the ground is a gun. Some can become swords. Some can become walking sticks, or pitons to use as you climb Mount Everest without the use of your left leg. Some can become claws as you become a crab beneath the waves. Some can become fishing rods, as you wait patiently for the slippery silvery salmon to go by.
The attraction of the Wii is that many things become fun - not just one.
I block scripts using NoScript, so you still don't count me.
Oh well.
Right at this moment I'm blocking scripts from:
1. google-analytics.com
2. tacoda.net
3. doubleclick.net
4. falkag.net
But am permitting slashdot.org.
It's time to wake up and smell the Firefox extensions.
for political ads and campaign spam.
But the rest of us will be forced to reroute via the slower sections of the net.
I could live with a Half-Bill Half-Jeri Ryan ... ok, if I shut the eye that sees Bill.
8. A robot may not retaliate when a chair is thrown at it.
8.1. Except where such a chair might harm Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, his spouse, or his heirs.
Will these be the only choices we're presented with on a hardware failure of our software robots?
Or will we expect to see a Borg Clippy pop and say "I see you're trying to be assimilated. Would you like to comply, or resist futilely?"
If so, remember that kill -9 or kill -all might have additional meaning.
but I have to question why our slashdot image of Microsoft remains of a robotic-enhanced Borg Bill Gates, when it should most likely be a Chair-tossing Borg, or some other Microsoft individual, now that Bill has announced he's retiring to run the Gates Foundation instead of Microsoft.
...
Or should it perhaps be a half-Bill half-???? cyborg mix, or even a two-headed Borg, to represent the transitional state as Bill Borg is phased out in favor of a more chair-tossing-enabled Borg?
That said, all this use of robotics and software will end badly. At least, that's what the Governator of California predicts
Actually, since the article states it's based on statistics from the cookies from WebSideStory, if you happen to use Firefox and Adblock and NoScript, like my household, you'll never count me if I don't use IE to visit one of the sites they refer.
I tend to use Adblock and NoScript to turn off all but site-originated cookies and scripts, so when I go to say, Seattle Times, I only turn on anything from www.nwsource.com and never from any of the ad sites or cookie sites that link, unless I have to turn it on to get the web site working.
Thus, it's surprising that 10 percent of we non-IE browser users still permit them to track us via WebSideStory.
For all we know, 90 percent of the visitors to the sites mentioned did just as I do, and maybe the majority of their users are non-trackable. The only time you can be certain someone is browsing you is when the HTTP request occurs. If you use a resolver hosted from the actual site, you could be sure you're counting all pages, but many people only use a banner or web ad impression request or cookie, so by definition we exclude those.
Actually, when I use Opera, it depends on what I tell Opera it is.
It gives different strings depending on my settings.