Ok, so I move left to take cover then I decide to try to backtrack down the hall (further left). What do I do? Keep moving left until I bump into the wall of my living room or do I signal the kinect to ignore me moving right and again signal it to watch as I move left again?
Those dance and fitness games work only because you don't go running all around. A track&field game would work because you can run in place.
Better than what? For a third or first person shooter, I'd take (in order from best to worst) keyboard&mouse, wiimote, dual analog stick controller, and I guess kinect would be about here because I can't imagine anything worse. Ok, I would put kinect above punchcard computers. Other than that... ok, above or maybe on par with DS games that require you to blow on the microphone. Or any game that requires voice input.
The trouble is that either the movement is realistic (table tennis) but limited to games where you always return to the same spot (fitness type games) or it's unrealistic movement because you have to stay in view of the camera (no combat roll, good luck turning your character around while viewing TV still). I don't think that it was hard. I just think that it's not the best (by a loooooong shot) controller for these games.
You need the right tools for the right job and it's no different with gaming. Keyboard&mouse for first person shooters, arcade sticks for fighters (or so I'm told; not a fan of the genre), and controllers for platformers.
I have seen only one game that the kinect best fits and that's the dancing one from the commercial. I'd never play it but it fits. An exercise game would work, too. Everything else just looks like extremely awkward and inappropriately shoehorned in (see 3rd party Nintendo DS and Wii games).
What the fuck? Sorry, not you but the article's date. Amorphous metal or metallic glass that doesn't require rapid cooling has been around for more than a few years and is commercially available. The company is called Liquidmetal and the way they manage to make the stuff is basically using a big mix of many metals so that it cannot form orderly crystalline shapes because the sizes of the atoms vary too much.
Hm. Do AV companies pull this same stunt? I mean, if there's any particular software that should produce liabilities (as in "in exchange for money, you protect my system" kinda deals, thus excluding free licenses or open source stuff), you'd think it'd be the ones hootin' and hollerin' that they're needed to protect you from internet boogeymen.
That dull drivel has some entertainment value though not at all due to the efforts of Lucas and Co. Might I direct your attention to reviews (with a meta-story among these and other reviews) of The Phantom Menace, The Attack of the Clones, and The Revenge of the Sith? These are video reviews and very much NSFW (but still very analytical and all the movies are thoughtfully picked apart). They are also rather long, each over an hour.
A software-only hack is very bad news indeed for Sony. It's worse news than such a hack would be for Microsoft. Why? As TFA notes, Sony probably will be able to catch and ban people with custom firmware who connect to the Playstation Network, just as MS can with users on Xbox Live. However, as an owner of both consoles (who has no strong overall preference for either), I can fairly confidently say that Xbox Live is a much more central part of the whole "360 experience" than the PSN is to the PS3.
I'm sure they're making a note of that for the next console and future PS3 games (as much as PSN allows).
It shall be a sad day when I see console owners having to input serial numbers to play games.
Cannibalism: If the person to be eaten doesn't want to be, yes, you'd have a point. You could argue against it for medical reasons though. IIRC, there was a tribe in the southeast pacific that ate their dead which passed along an illness similar to madcow or whatever the human equivalent is. But suppose cloned meat takes off. There goes medical reasons and the ethics of wolfing down some Steve or Sue steak. Nothing but good clean meat, all wrapped up in cling film right next to beef and pork.
Murder: Killing with the intent, right? The Texas state government does it often. I just find it interesting that killing intentionally can be legal even when no one is in immediate danger.
Incest: As long as it's consensual, it ain't my business. Again, possible medical reasons against it but if we banned things under than criteria, everything would be illegal.
Anyway, I just those couple of thoughts while reading your post. Carry on.
A politician was shot at a public event. This wasn't, say, a carjacking gone bad. Yes, I'm implying assassination. Part of a conspiracy? I'm leaning between Mexican hitman (based on comments of her work against cartels) and a frothing Republican decided to follow all those hinted "second amendment solutions" from Beck and Palin and company.
Plus, I don't know if you noticed but there's a politics section here.
Unless I'm required to update it so I can watch OTA stations or cable or newly released movies.
In any case, I'd prefer not to anything extra I won't use that will pad the cost and allow for possible software bugs. And how long will it be before they're all wireless? What then? Cover my TV with aluminum foil?
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Isn't it obvious? It's a cover! Seaquest, man! SEAQUEST! IT HAS BEGUN!
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I SAY!
Ok, so I move left to take cover then I decide to try to backtrack down the hall (further left). What do I do? Keep moving left until I bump into the wall of my living room or do I signal the kinect to ignore me moving right and again signal it to watch as I move left again?
Those dance and fitness games work only because you don't go running all around. A track&field game would work because you can run in place.
Better than what? For a third or first person shooter, I'd take (in order from best to worst) keyboard&mouse, wiimote, dual analog stick controller, and I guess kinect would be about here because I can't imagine anything worse. Ok, I would put kinect above punchcard computers. Other than that... ok, above or maybe on par with DS games that require you to blow on the microphone. Or any game that requires voice input.
Besides, I yell at my games enough.
The trouble is that either the movement is realistic (table tennis) but limited to games where you always return to the same spot (fitness type games) or it's unrealistic movement because you have to stay in view of the camera (no combat roll, good luck turning your character around while viewing TV still). I don't think that it was hard. I just think that it's not the best (by a loooooong shot) controller for these games.
Heh, you made me google "reasons to hate oprah" and it turns out there's some good ones.
http://www.nerve.com/entertainment/2010/01/11/ten-real-reasons-to-hate-oprah
http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=639161
You need the right tools for the right job and it's no different with gaming. Keyboard&mouse for first person shooters, arcade sticks for fighters (or so I'm told; not a fan of the genre), and controllers for platformers.
I have seen only one game that the kinect best fits and that's the dancing one from the commercial. I'd never play it but it fits. An exercise game would work, too. Everything else just looks like extremely awkward and inappropriately shoehorned in (see 3rd party Nintendo DS and Wii games).
What the fuck? Sorry, not you but the article's date. Amorphous metal or metallic glass that doesn't require rapid cooling has been around for more than a few years and is commercially available. The company is called Liquidmetal and the way they manage to make the stuff is basically using a big mix of many metals so that it cannot form orderly crystalline shapes because the sizes of the atoms vary too much.
They even mention this was the result of efforts from CalTech like in TFA! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidmetal
We might get better stories (and better edited, at that)?
Hm. Do AV companies pull this same stunt? I mean, if there's any particular software that should produce liabilities (as in "in exchange for money, you protect my system" kinda deals, thus excluding free licenses or open source stuff), you'd think it'd be the ones hootin' and hollerin' that they're needed to protect you from internet boogeymen.
But what if it fails to defend you properly...
That dull drivel has some entertainment value though not at all due to the efforts of Lucas and Co. Might I direct your attention to reviews (with a meta-story among these and other reviews) of The Phantom Menace, The Attack of the Clones, and The Revenge of the Sith? These are video reviews and very much NSFW (but still very analytical and all the movies are thoughtfully picked apart). They are also rather long, each over an hour.
Oh man Groundhog Day in 3d would be totally sweet!
Dirty Jobs already covered this in S4e14. Here's part of the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSARE05ec5g
Wouldn't happen anyway. Anyone who knows about that gets screened out.
Now Democrats have the dubious honor of repealing it and OMG OBAMA WANTS TRRISTS TO ATTACK AMERICA or extending it and OMG OBAMA IZ SEIZING POWER!
Fun stuff.
I'm sure they're making a note of that for the next console and future PS3 games (as much as PSN allows).
It shall be a sad day when I see console owners having to input serial numbers to play games.
Exceeding the replacement rate is what you need to do to start a new world.
If you ordered security and the waiter misheard that as liberty, then you can expect free appetizers (but you didn't deserve them).
Cannibalism: If the person to be eaten doesn't want to be, yes, you'd have a point. You could argue against it for medical reasons though. IIRC, there was a tribe in the southeast pacific that ate their dead which passed along an illness similar to madcow or whatever the human equivalent is. But suppose cloned meat takes off. There goes medical reasons and the ethics of wolfing down some Steve or Sue steak. Nothing but good clean meat, all wrapped up in cling film right next to beef and pork.
Murder: Killing with the intent, right? The Texas state government does it often. I just find it interesting that killing intentionally can be legal even when no one is in immediate danger.
Incest: As long as it's consensual, it ain't my business. Again, possible medical reasons against it but if we banned things under than criteria, everything would be illegal.
Anyway, I just those couple of thoughts while reading your post. Carry on.
A politician was shot at a public event. This wasn't, say, a carjacking gone bad. Yes, I'm implying assassination. Part of a conspiracy? I'm leaning between Mexican hitman (based on comments of her work against cartels) and a frothing Republican decided to follow all those hinted "second amendment solutions" from Beck and Palin and company.
Plus, I don't know if you noticed but there's a politics section here.
This matters.
Unless I'm required to update it so I can watch OTA stations or cable or newly released movies.
In any case, I'd prefer not to anything extra I won't use that will pad the cost and allow for possible software bugs. And how long will it be before they're all wireless? What then? Cover my TV with aluminum foil?
I hate how all these "smart" ones can be tricked into doing nefarious deeds.
i no liek ya!!!