"Compiled" Python is basically just pre-lexed. If you "compile" your python, it still has to be run through the Python interpreter. You're just saving it the process of parsing your code character-by-character. Since you can run Python code from plaintext without compiling, this would make it non-compiled. Anyone who has ever actually written in Python would know this. Idiot.
Ditto that. If the Revolution contains the same technology that's in the Warioware: Twisted cartridge, which is likely, it will be insanely intuitive and responsive. I think the gyroscope inside the Twisted cart may also double as a low-vibration rumble pak - although I have no idea how that would be built exactly. To tell the truth, I've been hoping and praying that the Revolution uses the same thing, because as much as I love the interaction in Twisted, spinning the screen along with the controller is a little nauseating.
With a flourish, I give you my Unified Theory of Revolution Controller Operation. I think that most of the positional and rotational data is going to be taken by a gyro/accelerometer inside the controller itself. IR sensors will be used to double check position and keep the system calibrated, but positional data for the purpose of streaming info to the console will likely be generated inside the controller. The IR sensors will be input-only, the results going to the console instead of being beamed back to the cotroller. The IR sensors will calibrate at a lower refresh cycle, say, once every second. They will also be used to "tell" the system what direction the screen is in and approximately where its bounding box is at startup. Because the IR sensor on the Revolution is mounted on the front, the system will be able to tell if the initial position of the controller is facing the screen's bounding box. The controller will not stop streaming gyro/acelerometer data if it goes out of bounds. (If this is all true, some interesting gameplay ideas arise at the idea manipulating the controller "out of bounds" to produce certain effects - such as the classic reload function.)
Actually, it would appear that it has both. An external sensor for detecting position and an internal one for determining orientation. (1UP.com referred to it as a "chip", but I can't imagine what it could be other than an gyroscope.) Also, IGN confirmed that you can turn the controller over along it's axis as an input method. Can't do that with anything but a gyro.
What will be great is seeing Sony and Microsoft try to fit this into their "second round" next gen controller. Sony's dual shock is already overfull with buttons and sticks because they keep adding Nintendo's design ideas to their own. Next they'll try to work a gyro, touch pad, and mic in and we'll have a controller that no one under the age of 30 can remember how to operate. Not to mention that Sony will, by tradition, fail to enforce any purpose for any particular input device. Games with confusing, shifting, counterintuitive controls! All hail the Sony Revolution!
The compromise is already there. It is already illegal to sell a game containing any universally-restricted content to minors. This includes pornographic material and, presumably, hate speech. If you'd care to widen the range of objectionable material, please feel free to propose your guidelines to the Supreme Court.
I just thought I would take a moment to put in a word for the good ol' Promise Keepers, who believe that fatherhood is analogous to priesthood, and priesthood is analogous to godhood. In other words, sire up some followers and become a God-King!
They also teach that it is a sin for people to have sex without the express intention of starting a family. This, to my mind, is one of the reasons for exactly what you're talking about. In order to prevent disease we tell kids not to fornicate, so in order to fornicate they get married. And we told them not to use birth control. We told them that marriage is a magical state of being in which you can't get sick or pregnant unless you want to - why else would married people be so very, VERY happy? So they end up with parenthood foisted on them as well as marriage. Then what do they do? They're stuck in the American dream and there's no way out.
Seriously, movements like this are like bad parenting for the parents. Personal responsibility my ass.
The most annoying thing about the Madden games is how they go to great lengths to make them sound as obnoxious as a real football game. Seriously, why would you go to great lengths to recreate the sound of the least audially appealing thing on television? You can't tell me you enjoy that constant buzzing in your ear.
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Next up from the Microsoft design team:
Glitter Happy Fun Messenger
Bubbly Bunny Chocolate Word
Giggle Tehe Goodtime Player
Candy Candy Popcorn Exchange
BZZT! No, but thanks for playing.
"Compiled" Python is basically just pre-lexed. If you "compile" your python, it still has to be run through the Python interpreter. You're just saving it the process of parsing your code character-by-character. Since you can run Python code from plaintext without compiling, this would make it non-compiled. Anyone who has ever actually written in Python would know this. Idiot.
Ditto that. If the Revolution contains the same technology that's in the Warioware: Twisted cartridge, which is likely, it will be insanely intuitive and responsive. I think the gyroscope inside the Twisted cart may also double as a low-vibration rumble pak - although I have no idea how that would be built exactly. To tell the truth, I've been hoping and praying that the Revolution uses the same thing, because as much as I love the interaction in Twisted, spinning the screen along with the controller is a little nauseating.
With a flourish, I give you my Unified Theory of Revolution Controller Operation. I think that most of the positional and rotational data is going to be taken by a gyro/accelerometer inside the controller itself. IR sensors will be used to double check position and keep the system calibrated, but positional data for the purpose of streaming info to the console will likely be generated inside the controller. The IR sensors will be input-only, the results going to the console instead of being beamed back to the cotroller. The IR sensors will calibrate at a lower refresh cycle, say, once every second. They will also be used to "tell" the system what direction the screen is in and approximately where its bounding box is at startup. Because the IR sensor on the Revolution is mounted on the front, the system will be able to tell if the initial position of the controller is facing the screen's bounding box. The controller will not stop streaming gyro/acelerometer data if it goes out of bounds. (If this is all true, some interesting gameplay ideas arise at the idea manipulating the controller "out of bounds" to produce certain effects - such as the classic reload function.)
Actually, it would appear that it has both. An external sensor for detecting position and an internal one for determining orientation. (1UP.com referred to it as a "chip", but I can't imagine what it could be other than an gyroscope.) Also, IGN confirmed that you can turn the controller over along it's axis as an input method. Can't do that with anything but a gyro.
What will be great is seeing Sony and Microsoft try to fit this into their "second round" next gen controller. Sony's dual shock is already overfull with buttons and sticks because they keep adding Nintendo's design ideas to their own. Next they'll try to work a gyro, touch pad, and mic in and we'll have a controller that no one under the age of 30 can remember how to operate. Not to mention that Sony will, by tradition, fail to enforce any purpose for any particular input device. Games with confusing, shifting, counterintuitive controls! All hail the Sony Revolution!
The compromise is already there. It is already illegal to sell a game containing any universally-restricted content to minors. This includes pornographic material and, presumably, hate speech. If you'd care to widen the range of objectionable material, please feel free to propose your guidelines to the Supreme Court.
I just thought I would take a moment to put in a word for the good ol' Promise Keepers, who believe that fatherhood is analogous to priesthood, and priesthood is analogous to godhood. In other words, sire up some followers and become a God-King!
They also teach that it is a sin for people to have sex without the express intention of starting a family. This, to my mind, is one of the reasons for exactly what you're talking about. In order to prevent disease we tell kids not to fornicate, so in order to fornicate they get married. And we told them not to use birth control. We told them that marriage is a magical state of being in which you can't get sick or pregnant unless you want to - why else would married people be so very, VERY happy? So they end up with parenthood foisted on them as well as marriage. Then what do they do? They're stuck in the American dream and there's no way out.
Seriously, movements like this are like bad parenting for the parents. Personal responsibility my ass.
The most annoying thing about the Madden games is how they go to great lengths to make them sound as obnoxious as a real football game. Seriously, why would you go to great lengths to recreate the sound of the least audially appealing thing on television? You can't tell me you enjoy that constant buzzing in your ear.