For years, many assumed that the authors employed rigorous research and stringent financial screens to identify "excellent" companies. Peters now maintains that he and Waterman simply asked their McKinsey colleagues and other "smart people" for the names of companies doing "cool work." Then, they screened that initial list of 62 organizations for financial performance over a 20-year period. That whittled the list to 43 companies, ranging from Johnson & Johnson to Intel Corp.
Even more peculiar than Peters' confession of inventing data is the author's insistence that his published admission is actually untrue. "Get off my case," he grouses. "We didn't fake the data. It's called an aggressive headline."
That's what I meant. And finding that balance is extremely important for the launch games if the Wii shall be successful. But if the Wii selles well and there is demand and interest in, e.g., a sword game with very fine control, I am sure it will be done (if the wiimote precision supports it, which you confirmed.)
What part of the statement is incorrect: that "a well-calibrated wiimote is very accurate as far as the hardware goes", or that "they all go for a kind of mouse gestures without 1:1 mapping [of] player movements to in-game movements."?
Hi Mipoti, when you were banned you wrote this posting as an Anonymous Coward. I answered you here but then I realized you might not see it there, and so I write this reply to a posting you made under your nickname in the hope that you will see it.
It seems a general consensus is that a well-calibrated wiimote is very accurate as far as the hardware goes, but the first wave of games does not use this accuracy. Instead they all go for a kind of mouse gestures without 1:1 mapping off player movements to in-game movements. Of course this disappoints gamers who already dreamed of "real" sword fighting, golf, or tennis.
That the first games that are published for the Wii go this route does not surprise me at all though. First of all there is Nintendos initial main focus on casual gamers, which of course makes them emphasize more accessible games. The developers also need to come to grips with the controller, they need to understand a new kind of gameplay, and there also may be some hardware precision issues in the first Wii generation.
However if the wiimote is capable of precise tracking in principle, and it seems like it, then I am convinced that the second or third wave of games will go into completely new directions, and there will be games that will use precision movements for all kinds of stuff: sports like gold, tennis, or ballsports, sword (or lightsabre) fighting games, and things I am not creative enough to think of.
Your nickname might have been temporarily banned, possibly because you posted 4 postings within 4 days since creating your account and all 4 were sweet but useless. They were consequently moderated to -1, and some automatic Slashdot script took you for a troll and banned you. If you want to clear things up you might want to do what the message you received tells you, and email the Slashdot staff at posting@slashdot.org. Include "Mipoti Gusundar" in the email subject.
By the way the, judging from your signature you still have problems comprehending what "offtopic" means although I already told you here. I believe you just have some problems adapting to Slashdot (or the world?) plus I have a few ties to Chennai, and so I will assume for now that you are genuine and not a very clever troll. Email me if you want to ask questions, you can find my email address on my user page.
On the other hand, the website URL on your user page has a typo ("instatute") but even after fixing it I cannot find the server. I did however find thesepostings of yours where you also failed to enter the URL correctly (plus failed to make a useful posting in the first place). Hmmm, what's up with you?
I can help. Based on the articles in Fortune, it appears Sony intends to make us pay lots of money for DRM-enhanced Music and Movies that we will buy in the Blu-Ray format. Their selling point will be that they have extra video and even mini-game addons for those.
Thanks, but I know that. But this is more along a business for premium brands (I'm sure there is a buzzword for it). "Sell expensive (but still sold at a loss) and exclusive console to consumers with not-so-common HD TVs and make up loss with expensive and exclusive bluray movies." This still has nothing to do with the razor model as I outlined it above.
As I posted above in reply to somebody else, it could just be the whole "razor" theory where you sell the razor for cheap, and make your money (hopefully) on the blades
I totally don't get how one could apply the razor concept to the PS3. The razor concept depend on the idea that the razor is cheap so that people buy it without thinking, and then buy the relatively expensive blades over time without noticing since in absolute terms the blades still don't cost very much and the purchases are spread out over time.
Care to explain to me how this has anything to do with a console that costs USD 500-600 and has games that cost 50-100?
So it is true it is a service as it is implemented on Windows, but at 12K, I really don't think the word bloated would apply.
I wouldn't know, the guy I was talking to that had claimed that people are disabling this and other services due to bloat. And as stated earlier, our corporate IT seems to do the same.
As for the user not wanting to take the shortcut/alias with them, this is a usability concept that is very subjective.
Sure, it is a question of target audience. If I were to design this for a mass-market OS however, I would make the Apple way the default without a doubt (and am pretty sure any usability test outside a comparatively tiny group of experts would support this)
I already have PS2 if I wanted old graphics with standard controller
You repeated that more than once so far, so I will join the line of people correcting you on this one. Dude, the Gamecube blew the PS2 away, and the Wii is allegedly 2 -3 times as powerful as the GC was.
When an NFS client does a stat( ) of a directory entry and finds it is a symbolic link, it issues an RPC call to read the link (on the server) and determine where the link points. This is the equivalent of doing a local readlink( ) system call to examine the contents of a symbolic link. The server returns a pathname that is interpreted on the client, not on the server.
But the symlink is a feature of the on-disk filesystem and is there whether the client does something with it or not.
I totally agree to each and every point (although I find the speed limit thing very funny - never seen one here and nobody would care anyway) and would like to add another one: unneeded and therefore completely unpredictable turns.
In Vienna (Austria) there is the Ringstraße, a beautiful boulevard around the inner city with a sidewalk that is several meters wide. The bike strip they painted there bends and turns every 100 meters without any need and usually with a radius that requires you to slow to walking speed to make the turn. It's as if it tries to shake you off the bike strip, and of course the turns also make it impossible for pedestrians to stay off it (and they don't pay attention anyway which is fine, it is a sidewalk after all).
Oh, and to make matters worse sometimes a straight part will lead head on to a tram station only to make a sharp turn a few meters before you'd hit the kiosks there. Of course when a tram stops and people get out they flood the bike strip. People actually died there!
Another one I loved was a bike strip that spit you out into a rather big intersection, still on a painted strip which would then suddenly vanish in the middle of the intersection and also not start again on the other side. It's as if they want to kill you on purpose.
Regarding your point "cyclists must pass to the inside of turning traffic, going from the driver's blind spot straight into the car's path" I must say that since I moved to Berlin I don't cycle anymore but drive by car (city is too big for me), and these situations are not only horrible for bikers but for car drivers too. Having biked myself I know that I have to look out, and it's fucking impossible. Bikers without headlights in bad weather or darkness also don't help. I often think it's just a matter of time until I kill someone. I don't know how it is in the US, but here in fact the bikers have the right of way since they go straight while the car makes a right turn. I am all for privileging pedestrians and bikers over cars, but this is the most stupid traffic rule ever devised! It would be better to make clear to the biker that it's impossible for the car driver to reliably see the biker and so the biker should fucking let the car through, it's better for everyone.
I still think that the OS should do the Right Thing automatically, and if this needs a bloated service then one more thing is wrong in Windows. I understand that one might sometimes want the Shortcut not follow the moved file automatically, but having that option should be doable without breaking a good default behavior. And for the other case, I would still think that it is a safe bet that copying a Shortcut to removable media does not mean the user wants to take the Shortcut text file with him:)
Cyclists as myself aklthough often feel -and I believe are- much safer on seperate bike lanes.
Depends on the quality of the bike lane. Here in Germany and Austria the bike lanes are often so stupidly set up (on the sidewalk behind the parked cars, since it is cheaper to create a bike lane by simply painting a line on the sidewalk) that whenever there is an intersection it is a gamble with death. Many people therefore prefer to stay on the road where they are at least visible, even though the law says you must stay on the bike lane/strip if there is one.
what I want is to have the display change when I press the CTRL or ALT key.
It doesn't do this? I thought that's the whole point of this keyboard and the reason why I found it cool. I even had kind of assumed it would include (or at least have planned) a way to make this controllable by the application that has focus, so that, for example, vim or Gimp could display their shortcuts. Not that would be helpful.
The parent was talking about the fact that this is simply not true on a modern default install of Windows, even if you move the file linked to to a different machine. Just like Aliases, they are updated automatically.
I realize that second-guessing the parent is stupid, but I don't think this is what he said. Here he replies to and clarifies himself and, speaking about Aliases as opposed to Shortcuts, says
When I said "And they are not fragile: you can move them or rename them or whatever and they still point to the right place," what I meant was that you can move or rename the targets they point to without breaking the link.
So, apparently he says that Shortcuts are fragile and moving or renaming the targets breaks the link.
As for your claim that this is not true anymore: thanks for the info. It seems then that our corporate IT changes this setting; I haven't used Windows outside of work in years.
Not to be an ass, but even freaking Shortcuts in Windows (from Win2k and newer) don't break either, even if the shortcut points to a volume half way around the globe.
The parent was talking about the fact that if you have a Shortcut pointing to a file and then move/rename the file, the Shortcut points to nowhere. This is not the case with Aliases, they are updated automatically.
I'd like to add that someone at MS had the hilarious idea that if a user copies a Shortcut to a removable medium he really wants to take the 1 KB textfile with him. In contrast, Apple understands that if he copies an Alias he actually wants the file that it points to.
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Worst analogy ever.
Sony been leading for what 10 decades now
... yeah, worst post ever.
That would be Nintendo. Otherwise
That's what I meant. And finding that balance is extremely important for the launch games if the Wii shall be successful. But if the Wii selles well and there is demand and interest in, e.g., a sword game with very fine control, I am sure it will be done (if the wiimote precision supports it, which you confirmed.)
What part of the statement is incorrect: that "a well-calibrated wiimote is very accurate as far as the hardware goes", or that "they all go for a kind of mouse gestures without 1:1 mapping [of] player movements to in-game movements."?
Hi Mipoti, when you were banned you wrote this posting as an Anonymous Coward. I answered you here but then I realized you might not see it there, and so I write this reply to a posting you made under your nickname in the hope that you will see it.
It seems a general consensus is that a well-calibrated wiimote is very accurate as far as the hardware goes, but the first wave of games does not use this accuracy. Instead they all go for a kind of mouse gestures without 1:1 mapping off player movements to in-game movements. Of course this disappoints gamers who already dreamed of "real" sword fighting, golf, or tennis.
That the first games that are published for the Wii go this route does not surprise me at all though. First of all there is Nintendos initial main focus on casual gamers, which of course makes them emphasize more accessible games. The developers also need to come to grips with the controller, they need to understand a new kind of gameplay, and there also may be some hardware precision issues in the first Wii generation.
However if the wiimote is capable of precise tracking in principle, and it seems like it, then I am convinced that the second or third wave of games will go into completely new directions, and there will be games that will use precision movements for all kinds of stuff: sports like gold, tennis, or ballsports, sword (or lightsabre) fighting games, and things I am not creative enough to think of.
I for one cannot wait.
Just out of curiosity: what is so important about DVD playback? Why don't you get one of those $30 DVD players and be done with it?
http://wii.ign.com/articles/746/746637p1.html
Your nickname might have been temporarily banned, possibly because you posted 4 postings within 4 days since creating your account and all 4 were sweet but useless. They were consequently moderated to -1, and some automatic Slashdot script took you for a troll and banned you. If you want to clear things up you might want to do what the message you received tells you, and email the Slashdot staff at posting@slashdot.org. Include "Mipoti Gusundar" in the email subject.
By the way the, judging from your signature you still have problems comprehending what "offtopic" means although I already told you here. I believe you just have some problems adapting to Slashdot (or the world?) plus I have a few ties to Chennai, and so I will assume for now that you are genuine and not a very clever troll. Email me if you want to ask questions, you can find my email address on my user page.
On the other hand, the website URL on your user page has a typo ("instatute") but even after fixing it I cannot find the server. I did however find these postings of yours where you also failed to enter the URL correctly (plus failed to make a useful posting in the first place). Hmmm, what's up with you?
I can help. Based on the articles in Fortune, it appears Sony intends to make us pay lots of money for DRM-enhanced Music and Movies that we will buy in the Blu-Ray format. Their selling point will be that they have extra video and even mini-game addons for those.
Thanks, but I know that. But this is more along a business for premium brands (I'm sure there is a buzzword for it). "Sell expensive (but still sold at a loss) and exclusive console to consumers with not-so-common HD TVs and make up loss with expensive and exclusive bluray movies." This still has nothing to do with the razor model as I outlined it above.
As I posted above in reply to somebody else, it could just be the whole "razor" theory where you sell the razor for cheap, and make your money (hopefully) on the blades
I totally don't get how one could apply the razor concept to the PS3. The razor concept depend on the idea that the razor is cheap so that people buy it without thinking, and then buy the relatively expensive blades over time without noticing since in absolute terms the blades still don't cost very much and the purchases are spread out over time.
Care to explain to me how this has anything to do with a console that costs USD 500-600 and has games that cost 50-100?
So it is true it is a service as it is implemented on Windows, but at 12K, I really don't think the word bloated would apply.
I wouldn't know, the guy I was talking to that had claimed that people are disabling this and other services due to bloat. And as stated earlier, our corporate IT seems to do the same.
As for the user not wanting to take the shortcut/alias with them, this is a usability concept that is very subjective.
Sure, it is a question of target audience. If I were to design this for a mass-market OS however, I would make the Apple way the default without a doubt (and am pretty sure any usability test outside a comparatively tiny group of experts would support this)
I already have PS2 if I wanted old graphics with standard controller
You repeated that more than once so far, so I will join the line of people correcting you on this one. Dude, the Gamecube blew the PS2 away, and the Wii is allegedly 2 -3 times as powerful as the GC was.
Because you don't know any business consultants.
In Vienna (Austria) there is the Ringstraße, a beautiful boulevard around the inner city with a sidewalk that is several meters wide. The bike strip they painted there bends and turns every 100 meters without any need and usually with a radius that requires you to slow to walking speed to make the turn. It's as if it tries to shake you off the bike strip, and of course the turns also make it impossible for pedestrians to stay off it (and they don't pay attention anyway which is fine, it is a sidewalk after all).
Oh, and to make matters worse sometimes a straight part will lead head on to a tram station only to make a sharp turn a few meters before you'd hit the kiosks there. Of course when a tram stops and people get out they flood the bike strip. People actually died there!
Another one I loved was a bike strip that spit you out into a rather big intersection, still on a painted strip which would then suddenly vanish in the middle of the intersection and also not start again on the other side. It's as if they want to kill you on purpose.
Regarding your point "cyclists must pass to the inside of turning traffic, going from the driver's blind spot straight into the car's path" I must say that since I moved to Berlin I don't cycle anymore but drive by car (city is too big for me), and these situations are not only horrible for bikers but for car drivers too. Having biked myself I know that I have to look out, and it's fucking impossible. Bikers without headlights in bad weather or darkness also don't help. I often think it's just a matter of time until I kill someone. I don't know how it is in the US, but here in fact the bikers have the right of way since they go straight while the car makes a right turn. I am all for privileging pedestrians and bikers over cars, but this is the most stupid traffic rule ever devised! It would be better to make clear to the biker that it's impossible for the car driver to reliably see the biker and so the biker should fucking let the car through, it's better for everyone.
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"Parent post" is a relative term. ;)
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I still think that the OS should do the Right Thing automatically, and if this needs a bloated service then one more thing is wrong in Windows. I understand that one might sometimes want the Shortcut not follow the moved file automatically, but having that option should be doable without breaking a good default behavior. And for the other case, I would still think that it is a safe bet that copying a Shortcut to removable media does not mean the user wants to take the Shortcut text file with him
Cyclists as myself aklthough often feel -and I believe are- much safer on seperate bike lanes.
Depends on the quality of the bike lane. Here in Germany and Austria the bike lanes are often so stupidly set up (on the sidewalk behind the parked cars, since it is cheaper to create a bike lane by simply painting a line on the sidewalk) that whenever there is an intersection it is a gamble with death. Many people therefore prefer to stay on the road where they are at least visible, even though the law says you must stay on the bike lane/strip if there is one.
what I want is to have the display change when I press the CTRL or ALT key.
It doesn't do this? I thought that's the whole point of this keyboard and the reason why I found it cool. I even had kind of assumed it would include (or at least have planned) a way to make this controllable by the application that has focus, so that, for example, vim or Gimp could display their shortcuts. Not that would be helpful.
I certainly hope it (or any other new MS OS) won't.
I realize that second-guessing the parent is stupid, but I don't think this is what he said. Here he replies to and clarifies himself and, speaking about Aliases as opposed to Shortcuts, says So, apparently he says that Shortcuts are fragile and moving or renaming the targets breaks the link.
As for your claim that this is not true anymore: thanks for the info. It seems then that our corporate IT changes this setting; I haven't used Windows outside of work in years.
Not to be an ass, but even freaking Shortcuts in Windows (from Win2k and newer) don't break either, even if the shortcut points to a volume half way around the globe.
The parent was talking about the fact that if you have a Shortcut pointing to a file and then move/rename the file, the Shortcut points to nowhere. This is not the case with Aliases, they are updated automatically.
I'd like to add that someone at MS had the hilarious idea that if a user copies a Shortcut to a removable medium he really wants to take the 1 KB textfile with him. In contrast, Apple understands that if he copies an Alias he actually wants the file that it points to.
create a new OS completely from scratch.
They do