They're going to try make their money from opera for the mobile. Not a bad idea, try get as many people as possible using it on their home machines, and then when they buy their new trendy web enabled mobile device, they may just be willing to pay for Opera.
While I think the mouse will still be superior for looking around quickly, this definitely allows for aiming to be seperated from moving. The ability to shoot at anything currently in view without changing the direction you are facing would definitely make the idea of playing an FPS game on a console more appealing.
Judging from your post, you have not played much competitive gaming at all. Get online and don't worry about hackers. I used to be very involved counter strike and was quite good, and if someone joined with an aim bot or something similar, I still stood a chance. Compared to the guys who got sponsorships though, I completely sucked.
Nothing is funnier than seeing someone with cheats loaded get owned by someone with true skill.
I think in the end you're probably better off just using the telephone. They're more likely to understand technology thats been around for more than 100 years.
Of course the slashdot article mentions all the stupid additions and leaves out: One function of the new mouse, however, is its ability to sense if there is wireless interference from other devices, an increasingly common problem with today's numerous wireless devices, and to change channels to establish the most secure connection.
Now thats a good addition, not sure if anyone else has done it before, but I've never seen it.
I read the article, and I can definitely see them achieving this...
The theme park part that is: One plan is to build a full-scale version of the planned Mars settlement and charge visitors to tour the "Mars Settlement Research and Outreach Center."
What a great idea. We can get individual media companies to replace it.
Overheard in the near future: "Hey I just signed up with SonyNet, they format my harddrive for me once a month and decide what emails I need to read, and they got really cool movies and download speeds. What a great service!!!"
While I prefer the idea of degrees not really counting much when compared to experience, I've found that they do unfortunately count for more than they should.
The company I currently work at used to hire based on experience, and some of our best coders have no degree. Then it got big enough to have an HR department and now we only get people with degrees. When you are in a company where the hiring is done by technical people, degrees mean very little, but when non technical HR lackies get involved, it becomes important.
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Your monitor must really suck. The Toshiba, while upside down, is clearly visible.
That would be the new math Microsoft keep telling us about Linux being more expensive?
They all secretly want to run on Windows?
*thud*
Ow, hey stop throwing stuff at me!
help
HELP!
Prevention fit just fine, even if it was wrong.
What did you say? Linux?
They're going to try make their money from opera for the mobile. Not a bad idea, try get as many people as possible using it on their home machines, and then when they buy their new trendy web enabled mobile device, they may just be willing to pay for Opera.
Almost better.
While I think the mouse will still be superior for looking around quickly, this definitely allows for aiming to be seperated from moving. The ability to shoot at anything currently in view without changing the direction you are facing would definitely make the idea of playing an FPS game on a console more appealing.
I believe the GP said "red-blooded male American".
That cliché always seems to be used when denigrating people who don't like violence.
Slashdot trolls and lawyers. Now there is a good machine to own.
I don't think any of those sports were professional then. They were just something that people played for fun.
Kind of like computer games today.
Judging from your post, you have not played much competitive gaming at all. Get online and don't worry about hackers. I used to be very involved counter strike and was quite good, and if someone joined with an aim bot or something similar, I still stood a chance. Compared to the guys who got sponsorships though, I completely sucked.
Nothing is funnier than seeing someone with cheats loaded get owned by someone with true skill.
You're right, the society will never change, things that are popular today will still be popular in a 100 years, no difference, no sir.
Good
You cannot say bad things about anything mac without running the risk of being modded flamebait or troll.
His idea is almost as mad as my idea. And I know mad!
I think in the end you're probably better off just using the telephone. They're more likely to understand technology thats been around for more than 100 years.
"MS-Internet" is confusing to them.
First mission, making it through sunday church without falling asleep.
Now thats a good addition, not sure if anyone else has done it before, but I've never seen it.
One gets the feeling that NASA should get out of the game as far as rockets/shuttles go.
Let private companies compete for the best and cheapest way off the surface and let NASA spend its time and money focusing on the science up in space.
They're the ones who were sure there must be something good in it and they just hadn't found it yet.
I read the article, and I can definitely see them achieving this...
The theme park part that is:
One plan is to build a full-scale version of the planned Mars settlement and charge visitors to tour the "Mars Settlement Research and Outreach Center."
Yup, they develop a time machine 20 years from now from the profits they make on mars and send back the necessary tech to make this happen.
Ahh but in the timewarp that spawned this article, its already April... 2021
Overheard in the near future: "Hey I just signed up with SonyNet, they format my harddrive for me once a month and decide what emails I need to read, and they got really cool movies and download speeds. What a great service!!!"
While I prefer the idea of degrees not really counting much when compared to experience, I've found that they do unfortunately count for more than they should.
The company I currently work at used to hire based on experience, and some of our best coders have no degree. Then it got big enough to have an HR department and now we only get people with degrees. When you are in a company where the hiring is done by technical people, degrees mean very little, but when non technical HR lackies get involved, it becomes important.