I occasionally order old books at an antiquary. Not really valuable ones mind you, but out-of-print runs, hard to obtain ones or plain obscure ones that never hit the market here. And this one particular antiquary I use does not have price lists. You call them, they ask you what you consider fair price for the item and then decide whether they want to sell it to you.
Interestingly though, they never rejected an offer I made. Never. In fact, when I bought my first book there and was quite confused by the M.O., the friendly, old man laughed at my first bid (which was middle-of-the-road: solid amount, but something I would have been willing to pay for a clean copy) and sold it to me for half that.
It's as if this dude runs the shop just for the fun of it and uses it to educate people to his own ways. While not exactly a model of self-determined price or freebies, it still makes for an interesting departure from standard business models.
I never said anything about it replacing the cane. It could very well just be used in addition, giving an additional safety measure, seeing as the cane doesn't really enjoy high-resolution ground mapping and could miss some things.
Just use it in a complementary way and get off my weak, puny, never-touched-by-sunlight nerd back.
Indeed I thought of and meant forward-orientated IR sensors, as opposed to the circular arrangement of the device described in the article. Otherwise, a miniature IRST, with laser range finder, calculating intercepts would certainly be worth considering for the future.
Well, time for some buzzing shoes with forward looking IR then. Shouldn't be much of a problem to put the electronics and battery into the soles and attach the sensor at the front.
Anybody who has ever planned a large network (meaning.0000000000001% of Slashdotters) already knows that getting users to hog MORE bandwidth doesn't require an evil plot.
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It is interesting to note that where many American quizzes refer to "true/false" questions, it's pretty common for a Japanese quiz to use a circle as "correct" and an X as "incorrect." I doubt that would become a negative product connotation (like the apocryphal Chevy "No-Go" Nova story), but it's another useless bit of trivia to add to this mostly worthless thread anyway.
Which seems to explain the UI logic of the PS2 in Japanese games, where the circle button confirms your choice and the X button cancels it.
One of the best posts I've read on/. yet. Sounds a bit like the depressive side of an asymmetric bipolar disorder though (which makes more people kill themselves than "normal" one-sided depression).
"Yeah, this is obviously just a case of sour grapes when they were denied the use of rumble due to losing the lawsuit."
I think it was sour grapes on Immersion's part to bring this topic up over and over again when they saw the additional $90m swimming away. The PS2 rumble law suit was set at ~90 million US dollar for the installed base, and I guess everybody expects the PS3 to reach similar market penetration, which would have meant additional $90m for Immersion. Now they are whining because Sony doesn't opt-in on their patent trolling scheme and the money is slipping their grubby paws. You really think they care about the gamers?
I'm no Sony apologist. They have made a lot of crappy choices and Ken "Crazyman" Kuaragi has spewed enough bullshit to make me think really hard about ever buying the PS3, but I think it's right to show Immersion the finger.
Additionally, I'd love to see the Very Short Introduction series by the Oxford University Press. I think they would be perfect for Wikipedia as extended content on major topics.
Personally I'm holding out for 1080p consumer TVs. Looked into 23" computer TFTs to use as monitor and TV set with 1080p capability, but will just wait for it to become more common and cheaper so I can go with a bigger screen.
The jump from SD to 720p just doesn't seem worth it to me, especially as games look nowhere near their counterparts of real life footage. Real life boxing still looks better than Fight Night, RL football still looks better than EA Sports FIFA Soccer, racing coverage better than GT4 and action movies still look a lot better than Halo or Ninja Gaiden in SD to me, so SD doesn't seem to be graphically exhausted to me.
I wonder if Brechtian theater that seeks to involve the spectator and intentionally breaks the Fourth Wall is less art according to Ebert than traditional theater. Asides, there are enough art theories that make the reception and interpretation, which are (re)actions by nature, an integral, sometimes even neccessary, part of art itself.
Ebert's opinion is just his opinion, and his theory of art is his theory of art, which makes it just yet another one.
I like some of his commentaries and some of his reviews, but I disagree with him about as often as not. Still, he's free to have his own opinion and I'd guess he leaves everyone the same freedom.
I think gamers were not meant to be using strafing in those games if the default config is anything to go by. Default was turning and strafing was demoted to. and, I think in many cases. I don't think strafing can be considered a key element back then.
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Could very well be and I wouldn't rule it out. I was just going for the cheap shot there.
*shakesfist*
I occasionally order old books at an antiquary. Not really valuable ones mind you, but out-of-print runs, hard to obtain ones or plain obscure ones that never hit the market here. And this one particular antiquary I use does not have price lists. You call them, they ask you what you consider fair price for the item and then decide whether they want to sell it to you.
Interestingly though, they never rejected an offer I made. Never. In fact, when I bought my first book there and was quite confused by the M.O., the friendly, old man laughed at my first bid (which was middle-of-the-road: solid amount, but something I would have been willing to pay for a clean copy) and sold it to me for half that.
It's as if this dude runs the shop just for the fun of it and uses it to educate people to his own ways. While not exactly a model of self-determined price or freebies, it still makes for an interesting departure from standard business models.
Pet rock? Who needs the love of a pet rock when you've got a Weighted Companion Cube?!
Depends on the metrics of the radar's LPI quality.
I never said anything about it replacing the cane. It could very well just be used in addition, giving an additional safety measure, seeing as the cane doesn't really enjoy high-resolution ground mapping and could miss some things.
Just use it in a complementary way and get off my weak, puny, never-touched-by-sunlight nerd back.
Indeed I thought of and meant forward-orientated IR sensors, as opposed to the circular arrangement of the device described in the article. Otherwise, a miniature IRST, with laser range finder, calculating intercepts would certainly be worth considering for the future.
Also, sharks.
Well, time for some buzzing shoes with forward looking IR then. Shouldn't be much of a problem to put the electronics and battery into the soles and attach the sensor at the front.
No. Just porn.
It is going to end. Very suddenly and chaotic, leaving you to wonder what happened at the end.
And the Penny Arcade guys coughed up the 10k for charity to spite him.
That's like saying blue is quite enough to kill.
A lot subtler than me. I didn't use Sims.
He actually ruined it for a lot more SW fans with the way the whole game was designed from day one on.
Aren't there any editors around here?
Note to self: Change chicken-based recipes.
3. Mourn the general cut & paste skills of the industry.
Which seems to explain the UI logic of the PS2 in Japanese games, where the circle button confirms your choice and the X button cancels it.
One of the best posts I've read on /. yet. Sounds a bit like the depressive side of an asymmetric bipolar disorder though (which makes more people kill themselves than "normal" one-sided depression).
Anyway, good post.
I think it was sour grapes on Immersion's part to bring this topic up over and over again when they saw the additional $90m swimming away. The PS2 rumble law suit was set at ~90 million US dollar for the installed base, and I guess everybody expects the PS3 to reach similar market penetration, which would have meant additional $90m for Immersion. Now they are whining because Sony doesn't opt-in on their patent trolling scheme and the money is slipping their grubby paws. You really think they care about the gamers?
I'm no Sony apologist. They have made a lot of crappy choices and Ken "Crazyman" Kuaragi has spewed enough bullshit to make me think really hard about ever buying the PS3, but I think it's right to show Immersion the finger.
Additionally, I'd love to see the Very Short Introduction series by the Oxford University Press. I think they would be perfect for Wikipedia as extended content on major topics.
Dawn of the Dead has the footage.
Personally I'm holding out for 1080p consumer TVs. Looked into 23" computer TFTs to use as monitor and TV set with 1080p capability, but will just wait for it to become more common and cheaper so I can go with a bigger screen.
The jump from SD to 720p just doesn't seem worth it to me, especially as games look nowhere near their counterparts of real life footage. Real life boxing still looks better than Fight Night, RL football still looks better than EA Sports FIFA Soccer, racing coverage better than GT4 and action movies still look a lot better than Halo or Ninja Gaiden in SD to me, so SD doesn't seem to be graphically exhausted to me.
HD? Yes, please - just not now yet.
Ebert's opinion is just his opinion, and his theory of art is his theory of art, which makes it just yet another one.
I like some of his commentaries and some of his reviews, but I disagree with him about as often as not. Still, he's free to have his own opinion and I'd guess he leaves everyone the same freedom.
I think gamers were not meant to be using strafing in those games if the default config is anything to go by. Default was turning and strafing was demoted to . and , I think in many cases. I don't think strafing can be considered a key element back then.