I do like Wall-E as a character, but yes after 6 months of having all these cool ideas about what the film was going to be like and how a garbage robot develops sentience and tragically falls in love with a lifeless drone (which was what the adverts to me made it seem like) I was pretty disappointed.
I don't have a problem with suspending disbelief - I was perfectly happy with the idea that a clownfish can go on an adventure to save his kid from enslavement by a dentist, that there is a company called Monsters, Inc that invades through kids' closets, that there is a planet where the inhabitants are all somehow Cars, or that there is a planet full of Robots, that toys come to life when you're not around, that ants and other bugs have little pubs and circuses in people's lawns, etc. I just think Wall-E didn't do itself any favours with the way it misrepresented itself in the ads. Happily most other people don't seem to give a shit because they haven't spent months of their lives studying AI and designing their own:p
Things like wall hacks only work because the server is providing the client with too much information
Games might suck a little without sound - and it would be a bit much having to render all the sound on the server.
if your game depends so much on your ability to click accurately on small things to be fun, the odds are that it isn't.
I don't know, I've had a lot of fun playing games like Counter-Strike where if you're good you can take someone out with one shot to the head (you can also do spray and pray and it's still fun and feasible with the right tactics, but you're more likely to die than if you take people out with razor-like precision). Games where you repeatedly have to pummel hundreds of shots into anywhere on a player's body are generally quite tedious in comparison IMO.
Well if you want to be able to go long distances you'd probably want all the hydraulics stuff self contained on the unit itself otherwise you're going to have to deal with some crazy pressures (or very large diameter hoses I suppose) and a lot of power to drive the fluid. I'm not a hydraulics expert but the company I do IT for design and manufacture dredgers that use hydraulics. Our normal dredgers would probably operate down to about 500 metres at most, not entirely sure, but we are designing a deep water (max of 3000 metres) system that has a self contained hydraulics system powered electrically from the surface. Obviously that would add a lot of extra bulk and complexity and it would probably be better just to use a bunch of electric motors instead?
Yeah there haven't been many interesting space or flight sims in the last few years. It's definitely one of the major oversights in the current PS3 catalogue of games at least. I hope Elite IV doesn't go the way of Duke Nukem Forever..
Sony have released Dual Shock controllers for the PS3 now, they couldn't release them at first because of a patent lawsuit AFAIK.
Anyway, force feedback is a different thing from simple vibration/'rumble pack' type stuff. It would be impossible to do force feedback on full body movement unless you are wearing some kind of suit or are being moved around by robotic arms etc:P Only joysticks and steering wheels do force feedback; joypads, mice, etc just rumble.
Could someone please explain to me why Wall-E was a good movie? The graphics were good, the plot was rather cliched - and not even as good as most cliches because the robot was apparently developed with feelings rather than somehow developing them after an accident like in Short Circuit, which is still silly, but at least there is some kind of reason. I enjoyed Short Circuit much better than Wall-E. Perhaps my expectations were just far too high after them having adverts out for months in advance though.. I said to myself I'd probably never watch it again, but I might enjoy it better if I did. With Transformers 1 I didn't enjoy it much at the cinema either, but after I decided just to ignore some of the more stupid parts and get it on DVD, it makes a decent action/comedy kind of movie.
I know what they meant, but they have a stupid way of saying it.. would have been much better with a semi-colon or some other way of separating the generic from the specific:
"more than one fifth of the world population; two thirds of the US population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."
I'm fine with reading, but sometime's the meaning of a phrase depends greatly on whether your indicating possession or not indicating possession skill's are good or not. It's annoying having to do a double-take, especially on long sentences with no punctuation. I much prefer your over-punctuated style to the crazy rants you sometimes get on slashdot where people write sentence after sentence with no punctuation i have seen it many times there was that time that the person said this thing to someone else sheep's are really cool but than this other time that happened but yeah of course now if i get up before 5 then that would be good see you.
More importantly, when did the US and European Union population leave the world? I would have thought I'd have noticed. Maybe I'm just in a big European version of the Matrix though. That means my trip to Canada a few years back must have been a lie.
What? What did you ever imagine? The suspense is killing me.
Sorry, I just hate when people confuse than and then. I don't know why it happens. I suppose it has probably been going on for at least a few decades but I just didn't notice because I mostly spoke to people rather than typed - but now everyone and his dog is posting online so the failings of English teachers the world over are becoming apparent.
Do you not have "full beam" in your car..? My first time learning to drive was in autumn/winter so it was pretty dark. Here in the UK there are plenty of country roads to drive around on. I don't quite get what you mean by driving at night being creepy or fantastic to be honest! What is cool though is driving on a moonlit and snowy night with your headlights off (obviously put them on if there are other cars coming, and don't drive too fast:P )
Scotland is part of the UK in a similar fashion to California or any other state being part of the US, for example. The UK is comprised of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Perhaps someone else could explain for the benefit of you guys in the US how to use google though.
I'm in Scotland, they're called Highers here not A levels. Yes there were some courses I wouldn't have had to do at all in 1st year if I'd taken appropriate highers, but I think it's possible to skip the first year altogether if you take enough of them. I had to do this lame little IT course just because I didn't take Higher IT, which was just basically how to use Office and other such bullshit.
In the UK you can leave high school after 4 years if you wish, but you won't have the qualifications you require to get into University. That takes 5 years, and some people stay on for 6. Depending on what you studied in 5th and 6th year you can sometimes skip your first year at Uni.
I like the idea a lot of being able to go at your own pace, I'm sure I could have trimmed at least 3 years off of my education from ages 4 to 16 - probably a lot more , especially where maths and science were concerned. With the ubiquity of computers these days we could easily have kids learning at their own pace. If they gave out experience points, levels and silly outfits for study time and passing tests, then you'd probably have a lot of kids ready for University before they hit their teens:p
Well I've never heard it before and I usually check the headlines every couple of days at least. But I only have the titles shown by default for the games section rather than the full summary, so I miss a lot of gaming stories. I'm now going to go have a google and see what the game actually is..
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I do like Wall-E as a character, but yes after 6 months of having all these cool ideas about what the film was going to be like and how a garbage robot develops sentience and tragically falls in love with a lifeless drone (which was what the adverts to me made it seem like) I was pretty disappointed.
I don't have a problem with suspending disbelief - I was perfectly happy with the idea that a clownfish can go on an adventure to save his kid from enslavement by a dentist, that there is a company called Monsters, Inc that invades through kids' closets, that there is a planet where the inhabitants are all somehow Cars, or that there is a planet full of Robots, that toys come to life when you're not around, that ants and other bugs have little pubs and circuses in people's lawns, etc. I just think Wall-E didn't do itself any favours with the way it misrepresented itself in the ads. Happily most other people don't seem to give a shit because they haven't spent months of their lives studying AI and designing their own :p
Ratatouille and Bolt were indeed excellent. I hadn't seen Idiocracy at the time I saw Wall-E and had never made that link, but you're right there.
Ratatouille really looks amazing on blu-ray, all these CGI films are great candidates for HD viewing :)
Things like wall hacks only work because the server is providing the client with too much information
Games might suck a little without sound - and it would be a bit much having to render all the sound on the server.
if your game depends so much on your ability to click accurately on small things to be fun, the odds are that it isn't.
I don't know, I've had a lot of fun playing games like Counter-Strike where if you're good you can take someone out with one shot to the head (you can also do spray and pray and it's still fun and feasible with the right tactics, but you're more likely to die than if you take people out with razor-like precision). Games where you repeatedly have to pummel hundreds of shots into anywhere on a player's body are generally quite tedious in comparison IMO.
Well if you want to be able to go long distances you'd probably want all the hydraulics stuff self contained on the unit itself otherwise you're going to have to deal with some crazy pressures (or very large diameter hoses I suppose) and a lot of power to drive the fluid. I'm not a hydraulics expert but the company I do IT for design and manufacture dredgers that use hydraulics. Our normal dredgers would probably operate down to about 500 metres at most, not entirely sure, but we are designing a deep water (max of 3000 metres) system that has a self contained hydraulics system powered electrically from the surface. Obviously that would add a lot of extra bulk and complexity and it would probably be better just to use a bunch of electric motors instead?
Heh, well just get a really long power cord like in Evangelion!
Yeah there haven't been many interesting space or flight sims in the last few years. It's definitely one of the major oversights in the current PS3 catalogue of games at least. I hope Elite IV doesn't go the way of Duke Nukem Forever..
Sony have released Dual Shock controllers for the PS3 now, they couldn't release them at first because of a patent lawsuit AFAIK.
Anyway, force feedback is a different thing from simple vibration/'rumble pack' type stuff. It would be impossible to do force feedback on full body movement unless you are wearing some kind of suit or are being moved around by robotic arms etc :P Only joysticks and steering wheels do force feedback; joypads, mice, etc just rumble.
Could someone please explain to me why Wall-E was a good movie? The graphics were good, the plot was rather cliched - and not even as good as most cliches because the robot was apparently developed with feelings rather than somehow developing them after an accident like in Short Circuit, which is still silly, but at least there is some kind of reason. I enjoyed Short Circuit much better than Wall-E. Perhaps my expectations were just far too high after them having adverts out for months in advance though.. I said to myself I'd probably never watch it again, but I might enjoy it better if I did. With Transformers 1 I didn't enjoy it much at the cinema either, but after I decided just to ignore some of the more stupid parts and get it on DVD, it makes a decent action/comedy kind of movie.
I know what they meant, but they have a stupid way of saying it.. would have been much better with a semi-colon or some other way of separating the generic from the specific:
"more than one fifth of the world population; two thirds of the US population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."
I'm fine with reading, but sometime's the meaning of a phrase depends greatly on whether your indicating possession or not indicating possession skill's are good or not. It's annoying having to do a double-take, especially on long sentences with no punctuation. I much prefer your over-punctuated style to the crazy rants you sometimes get on slashdot where people write sentence after sentence with no punctuation i have seen it many times there was that time that the person said this thing to someone else sheep's are really cool but than this other time that happened but yeah of course now if i get up before 5 then that would be good see you.
And end up with a Wikipedia link as your top result.. way to add in an extra useless click and shill for MS..
PS I just banged your mom :p
Kind of like laws saying you can't discriminate by age, race or sex either? They're obviously working really well.
Yeah it can really throw off your reading of a sentence if you actually know how to read and aren't just parsing everything phonetically..
More importantly, when did the US and European Union population leave the world? I would have thought I'd have noticed. Maybe I'm just in a big European version of the Matrix though. That means my trip to Canada a few years back must have been a lie.
then I ever imagined
What? What did you ever imagine? The suspense is killing me.
Sorry, I just hate when people confuse than and then. I don't know why it happens. I suppose it has probably been going on for at least a few decades but I just didn't notice because I mostly spoke to people rather than typed - but now everyone and his dog is posting online so the failings of English teachers the world over are becoming apparent.
It was a very cool post apart from that :/
Do you not have "full beam" in your car..? My first time learning to drive was in autumn/winter so it was pretty dark. Here in the UK there are plenty of country roads to drive around on. I don't quite get what you mean by driving at night being creepy or fantastic to be honest! What is cool though is driving on a moonlit and snowy night with your headlights off (obviously put them on if there are other cars coming, and don't drive too fast :P )
Scotland is part of the UK in a similar fashion to California or any other state being part of the US, for example. The UK is comprised of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Perhaps someone else could explain for the benefit of you guys in the US how to use google though.
if they are linux, doing something like "rm -rf /"
Probably nobody, since it'll do fsck all if they aren't root - they might lose their homework or something but that's their own fault.
Don't worry, Hasbro can save us - they just need to build some Autobots that are to proper scale!
I'm in Scotland, they're called Highers here not A levels. Yes there were some courses I wouldn't have had to do at all in 1st year if I'd taken appropriate highers, but I think it's possible to skip the first year altogether if you take enough of them. I had to do this lame little IT course just because I didn't take Higher IT, which was just basically how to use Office and other such bullshit.
Penis envy? "You should see the size of MY tower".
In the UK you can leave high school after 4 years if you wish, but you won't have the qualifications you require to get into University. That takes 5 years, and some people stay on for 6. Depending on what you studied in 5th and 6th year you can sometimes skip your first year at Uni.
I like the idea a lot of being able to go at your own pace, I'm sure I could have trimmed at least 3 years off of my education from ages 4 to 16 - probably a lot more , especially where maths and science were concerned. With the ubiquity of computers these days we could easily have kids learning at their own pace. If they gave out experience points, levels and silly outfits for study time and passing tests, then you'd probably have a lot of kids ready for University before they hit their teens :p
The Sims doesn't count
I hope you can play it better than you can spell it! ;)
Well I've never heard it before and I usually check the headlines every couple of days at least. But I only have the titles shown by default for the games section rather than the full summary, so I miss a lot of gaming stories. I'm now going to go have a google and see what the game actually is..