"if you consider the history of the portables. i mean,till now,nintendo portables did squished every single other portable (including some of their own) like bugs,but PSP is still alive and selling a LOT more than any other portable in history that was against nintendo."
Huh? I guess this might be true if we use the N-Gage, the Lynx, Tiger.com, and Sega's two portables as a barometer for the PSP's success. "Hey look folks, we will never win, but at least we aren't losing as bad as the others did. Woohoo!"
The sad truth is that Sony will drop this hot potato soon. Developers of new games flock to the DS for the same reasons they are doing the same to the Wii over PS3 platforms. A larger installed base means more sales. Sony has never shown any shyness from dropping dead-products for fear of alienating customers. A quick mind-exercise would be to consider why they keep changing the firmware with new games. Older games get broken, but at least they stopped those damn home-brewers eh? That will sure get word-of-mouth out promoting the PSP amongst the hardcore crowd!
If you believe in this philosophy, good on you. The PSP still sits on shelves in Japan, while the DS lite cannot keep up demand. Kinda sounds like what is happening here in North America with the Wii overshadowing the PS3.
But what do we know? We are already in the loop. Mainstream media has tons of articles discussing Wii Sports. Just do a quick Google. Then tell me one must-have for the PS3 that has generated as much ink. Same for the DS vs. PSP. The word-of-mouth for the PSP is just not there in the mainstream when products like Brain Age or Nintendogs exist for wider audiences. Having the latest GTA may be cool for the hardcore, but it doesn't seem to make a difference to the buying public.
Sony will dump it soon for a non-backwards compatible PSP2.
It if were Nintendo, I'd also intentionally keep supplies limited. As we've seen, consumers who hear "Wiis are scarce" turn into the knuckleheads who will wait in line, and more importantly, pay premium prices for every Wii that dribbles out.
What you suggest Nintendo do defies all financial logic (short of the twisted kind).
They are in a very short period of time before the next price-drop amongst their competitors occurs. Sony has already dropped the price of the PS3 in Japan. With the introduction of 360 Elite this week, Microsoft will likely get rid of their lower-end "Core" system before the holiday season. Look for prices comparable to the Wii's current premium price. "Dribbling out" small quantities makes absolutely no sense as this is the time to produce as many units as you can manufacture before the "knuckleheads" disappear from the lines and get distracted by the next shiny object.
As in all life-lessons, follow the money. Think about it: Nintendo would clear as much money as they can from the early-adopters. It turns out there is a helluva lot now waiting for their Wii. Why would they wait until an inevitable price decrease before releasing more units? As a public relations stunt?
Naw, Nintendo makes money instead of dribbling it in.
Giving a 90 minute speech isn't easy. I do it roughly 3 times a weekday with different content in each speech throughout the 8 hour day as an IT instructor. It isn't as easy as you might think.
You will occasionally flub a simple word like "click" only because your mind is working on the next sentence, while your mouth catches up. It isn't as if you are directly reading off a teleprompter.
At http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/08/cont ent_5176989.htm
This cite doesn't single out the recent folks that prompted this thread. The roots of it begin there. The Chinese gov't feels porn is amongst the four usual suspects responsible for 90% of juvenile delinquency. "The statement announced that technical methods would be explored and applied to prevent teenagers from being harmed by unhealthy on-line information and help teenagers out of Internet addiction."
"The authorities would also help set up more rehabilitation and treatment agencies for addicted youth. Response centers would be established to deal with complaints and reports of unhealthy on-line behavior."
The roots of this proclamation have been set so that "unhealthy information" actually takes precedent.
Looking at naked pictures of women, when you have been raised for the past 15 years in a society that has now gotten itself in a quandry with more males than females in many towns can be just the crime tossed against you when someone has decided you have accessed other "unhealthy information".
I have to fully agree with you on the security issue. It is the whole issue of security that is behind their implementation.
Even as an admin on a Vista system it still lets me know when "something" is being installed. Some people don't like one extra mouse-click and would prefer it to be transparent to the user because after all, they are the sys-admins. Next to God on the omnipotence scale, of course.
The warnings are there for a reason, but some people don't want to bother with the hassle of denying the latest php trojan running amok because they had to re-think their decision and click an OK box. Why should the user even bother to deny anything?
And then we will read many/. stories of how Vista is insecure because Grandma's computer got compromised.
You get what you asked for.
"They consistently had better battery life in their portable products than their competitors."
If this is not enough to convince you of a troll, you deserve to go up in flames.
I defy you (or anyone over the age of 4) to do that sort of thing in Windows with a mouse. But honestly, if the shell is something you complain about then you probably are better off with microsoft products. Small-minded software for small-minded users.
Hate to remind you of this, but more than half of the population is equal to or less than than average intelligence. A Linux geek telling them they are small-minded for using industry standards results in IT dept's getting underfunded, and surprise, surprise, Linux going nowhere. Try explaining to your boss, and his boss, and so on that they are small-minded. Be an idealist all you want. Until you get over that attitude, you and your non-Microsoft OS's will go nowhere. You can tell me otherwise upside-down, but you clearly have no idea how businesses work. Boss: What, that dip in IT is going to tell how I want to use my computer? Well I will just tell him where to place his next paycheck. We clearly have strong ideas on both issues.
"Ummmm...learning to "interface" with Seven of Nine on a continuing and increasing basis didn't constitute payment??"
Not really. As fun as it might sound, it was more about respect than restitution. He had been dealing with humans on a day-to-day basis for longer than she had. Besides, Chakotay bagged her in the end. Or maybe somewhere else, I'm not quite sure.
Furthermore, if the system can do that, it's probably going to be self-aware, so it will want to be paid...
Maybe the Ferengi or Orion computers would, but the Federation is supposed to be a cashless society. One is to presume (by the series bible) that the prestige of working on a starship would be reward enough, just as the jobs of our meat counterparts on the ship that twiddle knobs and buttons and speaking "the hrrrm..hah..glavin!" do, so getting paid seems out of the question. The Doctor (a holograph) from Voyager seemed to have no qualms about performing his job. He would only get upset originally when he kept being turned off. So they decided to keep him on 100% of the time and he grew greater AI, gave him a portable holographic device, and started to learn human skills. None of which involved payment.
As a mater of fact, dose it not suggest to anyone that adaminnj is perhaps trolling? The way he brakes all rules of grammar and spelling, and proudly declares himself an American? I am I the only one on the contanet that can see this? Dident anyone else? Is this rite?
Seriously though, there are a few points that need addressing: (I'll leave the spelling as it is)
"with the amount of immigration that is going on here it's funny how the "White Canadians" do not involve them self with the immigrents and the immigrants all cluster together Chinese cluster with Chinese, Indians cluster with Indians, and so on and so forth. Canada is setting up for an all out race war in the next 10-15 years"
There is no need to. 10-15 years down the road is a new generation. The ones born in Canada will bear that brunt, and I am optimistic. Perhaps blindly so, but history bears me out: How many large cities in the US advertise their own local "Chinatowns", "Little Italy", "Mexican District" and so forth? Heck, you might as well run the Irish out of town back in (name the city of your choice in the 20's). Maybe even today, if you could find them. To kill immigration is to kill your future. The Statue of Liberty had it right. Forgive my self "richeousness". (Hah!)
As long as it registers on screen, I am not sure what the point is.
Some folks cannot obviously get used to the control-scheme.
Most of us have no problem making the mental-connect between moving a mouse on a horizontal surface to control a vertically moving cursor on our PC's, Macs, whatever.
As for looking at your hands? It happens in Real Life(tm) too. There are millions of golf, baseball and tennis books that attest that a certain grip or twist will give you success. Kudos for Nintendo for allowing spin to be a factor in Sports Games. You should be keeping an eye on your follow-through.
Hate to be a grammar gramma here, but you lost me at this statement. The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
Other than that, the whole reason that the Wii has caught on is because it favoured gameplay and value over graphics.
"But that was it. No high-definition graphics, no multi-core processor, no hard drive storage, and most of all, no games (for that platform brand) that really appealed to my personal tastes in gaming."
Why should any parent require the first three on your list to make it a must-buy? The Cell by itself will not make gaming better. Neither will prettier graphics. Hard drive storage? Why? It has flash memory to take care of save-games. If it doesn't have the games you want, that doesn't factor into a parents' choice: Does it have the game your kids want? These folks control the market, as much as the "hardcore" gamers like to believe otherwise. Just look at the top ten in Japan and tell me prettier versions of 1st person shooters are eating everyone's lunch.
Ultimately there are bound to be at least as many stories of Wii failure than there are PS3 failure. Many more units were (and will until the year end of 4M) be sold.
You raise some interesting points, but there are a few holes in your cheese:
First cheese hole: As a "very very casual gamer" the market segment (college students that play Madden) you are describing is narrow, already won (according to you) and would be money down the toilet to focus on (unless you feel the Wii presents some threat to this segment). Market growth does not happen by keeping the status-quo.
Second cheese hole: People do want innovative controls. They don't mind a new control system, considering it may even be the first control system they have even learned (more on this in your third hole). A learning curve should be part of every game released. The DS is a great example of this type of situation. It succeeded beyond all college students' predictions that the PSP was the safe bet because that goofy new Nintendo had two screens, touch, and inferior graphics that couldn't play a movie. College students and their siblings bought the PSP in crazy numbers based on this focused segment's recommendations in some alternative universe. Branding really should mean something here. Oh wait, maybe they weren't released on school breaks when big bro' can tell the younger ones what they should like. All adolescents want to be their big brother, surely.
Third hole: "Nintendo has a stigma I'd say as being nerdy and childish." Well you would say that representing the ultra-casual gamer, but why are the DS games that are directed towards an aging population (Brain Age. Brain Academy) ripping up the charts? Could it be that they don't care if gramma has to learn an interface considering she has no old one to get upset about losing? And she liked it, and is buying more non-traditional titles (cooking simulator?!?). Japanese charts bear this out.
I could have many more holes, even pointing out that your post suggested that it was males that will drive the industry by concentrating on the sport-dorm and frat-boys (and graduates from) that influence a buying public. (Older brothers)
Good luck with that attitude in the future. Meanwhile, Ninteno seems to be eating Sony's lunch.
I think you are missing the whole point in question.
It really doesn't matter if you feel the "business whiners" should or should not be complaining to the OS folks or the software vendors. They could not frankly care either whether you buy their line of whining/bullshit. They want backward compatibility so that they can continue to run their business with little or no interruption. That is a dealbreaker. There is no bull to buy. Microsoft understands that, and any "broken" Linux distros that won't cater to backward compatibility don't.
Those business whiners outnumber everyone here a thousand-fold.
As for upgrades? They do need to happen. When the PC's are on 24/7, systems fail. New machines have to be purchased, and finding a new 486 isn't so easy these days for the purchasing dept.
Does this give them a God-given right to keep running old software? No they have a customer's right, which is actually stronger, as evidenced by the fact that backward-compatibility sells. Of this, there really can be no argument.
What this all boils down to is self-esteem. If you have the confidence in yourself to succeed (girls, putting down bullies, etc,) you will. I have no cold hard numbers to back this next claim up either, but can only speak from anecdotal experiences: Wallowing in self-pity makes you appear pitiful. It is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
The OP is definately confident enough in himself to post his IQ. What he lacks is the ability to use that IQ to become part of the social fabric. "Boo-hoo, I'm so special that people can't accept me." Think and present yourself as a victim and you will be treated as one by (girls, bullies, etc,). The OP is victimizing himself.
Sony is producing a multimedia powerhouse with some (stolen) unconventional input; as I've argued before (when people complained about the Wii's one handed controller) you can't do much with 6 axis control when your hands are together (try it, hold a book and rotate it in as many ways as you can, now try with a remote control.
Are you aware of what "six degrees of freedom" means? If you can't perform the feat you offered, even with just one page of your book between your thumb and index fingers, then I suggest you find a good physiotherapist.
I am not sure whether you are qouting "6 axis control" from some article, from Sony hype, or are just creating the term yourself, but any one single three axis system controls all movements. Three rotation, three translation. These are the six degrees of freedom that control any and all movement, regardless of how I arbitrarily decide to plunk down the orientation of an axis system. Any movement is a derivative of the six degrees of freedom from a single axis system.
I really have no idea where you got the comparison of "slowness" from. Could you at least attempt to provide an example? It seems a rather odd comment to make on a country that used the internet for national elections, while some nations still whinge about hanging-chads.
I'm kind of mad too, because I bought a car 5 years ago. My service contract ended with them after the warranty ran out. We mutually agreed upon ending our business interactions. Well back then I could get cheap labour out of them, but it turns out that now when I bring my car in for repairs, they can charge me whatever they want!!! Even after I asked them to do the repairs without asking for the estimate. They tell me the same policy applies!!!
Needless to say, I will be making a boat for my next purchase when it comes to commuting.
You have it ass-backwards. If your Best Buy associate agrees to give you a TiVo provided you give hima hand-job, you agree, he gives you the box and give him a quick pinch in the nuts, well, no wonder security stops you at the door and asks you to pay-up for the TiVo. TiVo has been very clear about the hand-jobs required when purchasing a new unit. The sticker is on the box.
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"if you consider the history of the portables. i mean,till now,nintendo portables did squished every single other portable (including some of their own) like bugs,but PSP is still alive and selling a LOT more than any other portable in history that was against nintendo."
Huh? I guess this might be true if we use the N-Gage, the Lynx, Tiger.com, and Sega's two portables as a barometer for the PSP's success. "Hey look folks, we will never win, but at least we aren't losing as bad as the others did. Woohoo!"
The sad truth is that Sony will drop this hot potato soon. Developers of new games flock to the DS for the same reasons they are doing the same to the Wii over PS3 platforms. A larger installed base means more sales. Sony has never shown any shyness from dropping dead-products for fear of alienating customers. A quick mind-exercise would be to consider why they keep changing the firmware with new games. Older games get broken, but at least they stopped those damn home-brewers eh? That will sure get word-of-mouth out promoting the PSP amongst the hardcore crowd!
If you believe in this philosophy, good on you. The PSP still sits on shelves in Japan, while the DS lite cannot keep up demand. Kinda sounds like what is happening here in North America with the Wii overshadowing the PS3.
But what do we know? We are already in the loop. Mainstream media has tons of articles discussing Wii Sports. Just do a quick Google. Then tell me one must-have for the PS3 that has generated as much ink. Same for the DS vs. PSP. The word-of-mouth for the PSP is just not there in the mainstream when products like Brain Age or Nintendogs exist for wider audiences. Having the latest GTA may be cool for the hardcore, but it doesn't seem to make a difference to the buying public.
Sony will dump it soon for a non-backwards compatible PSP2.
What you suggest Nintendo do defies all financial logic (short of the twisted kind).
They are in a very short period of time before the next price-drop amongst their competitors occurs. Sony has already dropped the price of the PS3 in Japan. With the introduction of 360 Elite this week, Microsoft will likely get rid of their lower-end "Core" system before the holiday season. Look for prices comparable to the Wii's current premium price.
"Dribbling out" small quantities makes absolutely no sense as this is the time to produce as many units as you can manufacture before the "knuckleheads" disappear from the lines and get distracted by the next shiny object.
As in all life-lessons, follow the money. Think about it: Nintendo would clear as much money as they can from the early-adopters. It turns out there is a helluva lot now waiting for their Wii. Why would they wait until an inevitable price decrease before releasing more units? As a public relations stunt?
Naw, Nintendo makes money instead of dribbling it in.
Giving a 90 minute speech isn't easy. I do it roughly 3 times a weekday with different content in each speech throughout the 8 hour day as an IT instructor. It isn't as easy as you might think.
You will occasionally flub a simple word like "click" only because your mind is working on the next sentence, while your mouth catches up. It isn't as if you are directly reading off a teleprompter.
At http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/08/cont ent_5176989.htm
This cite doesn't single out the recent folks that prompted this thread. The roots of it begin there. The Chinese gov't feels porn is amongst the four usual suspects responsible for 90% of juvenile delinquency.
"The statement announced that technical methods would be explored and applied to prevent teenagers from being harmed by unhealthy on-line information and help teenagers out of Internet addiction."
"The authorities would also help set up more rehabilitation and treatment agencies for addicted youth. Response centers would be established to deal with complaints and reports of unhealthy on-line behavior."
The roots of this proclamation have been set so that "unhealthy information" actually takes precedent.
Looking at naked pictures of women, when you have been raised for the past 15 years in a society that has now gotten itself in a quandry with more males than females in many towns can be just the crime tossed against you when someone has decided you have accessed other "unhealthy information".
Porn?
I have to fully agree with you on the security issue. It is the whole issue of security that is behind their implementation. Even as an admin on a Vista system it still lets me know when "something" is being installed. Some people don't like one extra mouse-click and would prefer it to be transparent to the user because after all, they are the sys-admins. Next to God on the omnipotence scale, of course. The warnings are there for a reason, but some people don't want to bother with the hassle of denying the latest php trojan running amok because they had to re-think their decision and click an OK box. Why should the user even bother to deny anything? And then we will read many /. stories of how Vista is insecure because Grandma's computer got compromised.
You get what you asked for.
"They consistently had better battery life in their portable products than their competitors." If this is not enough to convince you of a troll, you deserve to go up in flames.
I defy you (or anyone over the age of 4) to do that sort of thing in Windows with a mouse.
But honestly, if the shell is something you complain about then you probably are better off with microsoft products. Small-minded software for small-minded users.
Hate to remind you of this, but more than half of the population is equal to or less than than average intelligence. A Linux geek telling them they are small-minded for using industry standards results in IT dept's getting underfunded, and surprise, surprise, Linux going nowhere. Try explaining to your boss, and his boss, and so on that they are small-minded. Be an idealist all you want. Until you get over that attitude, you and your non-Microsoft OS's will go nowhere. You can tell me otherwise upside-down, but you clearly have no idea how businesses work. Boss: What, that dip in IT is going to tell how I want to use my computer? Well I will just tell him where to place his next paycheck. We clearly have strong ideas on both issues.
Anyway, this should have been modded flamebait.
"Ummmm...learning to "interface" with Seven of Nine on a continuing and increasing basis didn't constitute payment??"
Not really. As fun as it might sound, it was more about respect than restitution. He had been dealing with humans on a day-to-day basis for longer than she had. Besides, Chakotay bagged her in the end. Or maybe somewhere else, I'm not quite sure.
Maybe the Ferengi or Orion computers would, but the Federation is supposed to be a cashless society. One is to presume (by the series bible) that the prestige of working on a starship would be reward enough, just as the jobs of our meat counterparts on the ship that twiddle knobs and buttons and speaking "the hrrrm..hah..glavin!" do, so getting paid seems out of the question.
The Doctor (a holograph) from Voyager seemed to have no qualms about performing his job. He would only get upset originally when he kept being turned off. So they decided to keep him on 100% of the time and he grew greater AI, gave him a portable holographic device, and started to learn human skills. None of which involved payment.
"no I'm in Canada and the fact that I know anything aboat Canadian politics should tell you that."
Huh? Good luck to you with that.
As a mater of fact, dose it not suggest to anyone that adaminnj is perhaps trolling? The way he brakes all rules of grammar and spelling, and proudly declares himself an American? I am I the only one on the contanet that can see this? Dident anyone else? Is this rite?
Seriously though, there are a few points that need addressing: (I'll leave the spelling as it is)
"with the amount of immigration that is going on here it's funny how the "White Canadians" do not involve them self with the immigrents and the immigrants all cluster together Chinese cluster with Chinese, Indians cluster with Indians, and so on and so forth. Canada is setting up for an all out race war in the next 10-15 years"
There is no need to. 10-15 years down the road is a new generation. The ones born in Canada will bear that brunt, and I am optimistic. Perhaps blindly so, but history bears me out: How many large cities in the US advertise their own local "Chinatowns", "Little Italy", "Mexican District" and so forth? Heck, you might as well run the Irish out of town back in (name the city of your choice in the 20's). Maybe even today, if you could find them. To kill immigration is to kill your future. The Statue of Liberty had it right. Forgive my self "richeousness". (Hah!)
As long as it registers on screen, I am not sure what the point is.
Some folks cannot obviously get used to the control-scheme. Most of us have no problem making the mental-connect between moving a mouse on a horizontal surface to control a vertically moving cursor on our PC's, Macs, whatever.
As for looking at your hands? It happens in Real Life(tm) too. There are millions of golf, baseball and tennis books that attest that a certain grip or twist will give you success. Kudos for Nintendo for allowing spin to be a factor in Sports Games. You should be keeping an eye on your follow-through.
"(for all intensive purposes)"
Hate to be a grammar gramma here, but you lost me at this statement. The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
Other than that, the whole reason that the Wii has caught on is because it favoured gameplay and value over graphics.
"But that was it. No high-definition graphics, no multi-core processor, no hard drive storage, and most of all, no games (for that platform brand) that really appealed to my personal tastes in gaming."
Why should any parent require the first three on your list to make it a must-buy? The Cell by itself will not make gaming better. Neither will prettier graphics. Hard drive storage? Why? It has flash memory to take care of save-games. If it doesn't have the games you want, that doesn't factor into a parents' choice: Does it have the game your kids want? These folks control the market, as much as the "hardcore" gamers like to believe otherwise. Just look at the top ten in Japan and tell me prettier versions of 1st person shooters are eating everyone's lunch.
Ultimately there are bound to be at least as many stories of Wii failure than there are PS3 failure. Many more units were (and will until the year end of 4M) be sold.
You raise some interesting points, but there are a few holes in your cheese:
First cheese hole: As a "very very casual gamer" the market segment (college students that play Madden) you are describing is narrow, already won (according to you) and would be money down the toilet to focus on (unless you feel the Wii presents some threat to this segment). Market growth does not happen by keeping the status-quo.
Second cheese hole: People do want innovative controls. They don't mind a new control system, considering it may even be the first control system they have even learned (more on this in your third hole). A learning curve should be part of every game released. The DS is a great example of this type of situation. It succeeded beyond all college students' predictions that the PSP was the safe bet because that goofy new Nintendo had two screens, touch, and inferior graphics that couldn't play a movie. College students and their siblings bought the PSP in crazy numbers based on this focused segment's recommendations in some alternative universe. Branding really should mean something here. Oh wait, maybe they weren't released on school breaks when big bro' can tell the younger ones what they should like. All adolescents want to be their big brother, surely.
Third hole: "Nintendo has a stigma I'd say as being nerdy and childish." Well you would say that representing the ultra-casual gamer, but why are the DS games that are directed towards an aging population (Brain Age. Brain Academy) ripping up the charts? Could it be that they don't care if gramma has to learn an interface considering she has no old one to get upset about losing? And she liked it, and is buying more non-traditional titles (cooking simulator?!?). Japanese charts bear this out.
I could have many more holes, even pointing out that your post suggested that it was males that will drive the industry by concentrating on the sport-dorm and frat-boys (and graduates from) that influence a buying public. (Older brothers) Good luck with that attitude in the future. Meanwhile, Ninteno seems to be eating Sony's lunch.
I hope you aren't a business student.
To be fair, what exactly is worth getting angry about on the console field today?
Price? (obvious) Games? (obvious) Availability? (will very soon be obvious) It is a slow day coming until the weekend.
I think you are missing the whole point in question.
It really doesn't matter if you feel the "business whiners" should or should not be complaining to the OS folks or the software vendors. They could not frankly care either whether you buy their line of whining/bullshit. They want backward compatibility so that they can continue to run their business with little or no interruption. That is a dealbreaker. There is no bull to buy. Microsoft understands that, and any "broken" Linux distros that won't cater to backward compatibility don't. Those business whiners outnumber everyone here a thousand-fold.
As for upgrades? They do need to happen. When the PC's are on 24/7, systems fail. New machines have to be purchased, and finding a new 486 isn't so easy these days for the purchasing dept.
Does this give them a God-given right to keep running old software? No they have a customer's right, which is actually stronger, as evidenced by the fact that backward-compatibility sells. Of this, there really can be no argument.
What this all boils down to is self-esteem. If you have the confidence in yourself to succeed (girls, putting down bullies, etc,) you will. I have no cold hard numbers to back this next claim up either, but can only speak from anecdotal experiences: Wallowing in self-pity makes you appear pitiful. It is a self-fulfilling prophesy. The OP is definately confident enough in himself to post his IQ. What he lacks is the ability to use that IQ to become part of the social fabric. "Boo-hoo, I'm so special that people can't accept me." Think and present yourself as a victim and you will be treated as one by (girls, bullies, etc,). The OP is victimizing himself.
Sony is producing a multimedia powerhouse with some (stolen) unconventional input; as I've argued before (when people complained about the Wii's one handed controller) you can't do much with 6 axis control when your hands are together (try it, hold a book and rotate it in as many ways as you can, now try with a remote control.
Are you aware of what "six degrees of freedom" means? If you can't perform the feat you offered, even with just one page of your book between your thumb and index fingers, then I suggest you find a good physiotherapist.
I am not sure whether you are qouting "6 axis control" from some article, from Sony hype, or are just creating the term yourself, but any one single three axis system controls all movements. Three rotation, three translation. These are the six degrees of freedom that control any and all movement, regardless of how I arbitrarily decide to plunk down the orientation of an axis system. Any movement is a derivative of the six degrees of freedom from a single axis system.
Until we really find the fourth dimension...
I really have no idea where you got the comparison of "slowness" from. Could you at least attempt to provide an example? It seems a rather odd comment to make on a country that used the internet for national elections, while some nations still whinge about hanging-chads.
I'm kind of mad too, because I bought a car 5 years ago. My service contract ended with them after the warranty ran out. We mutually agreed upon ending our business interactions. Well back then I could get cheap labour out of them, but it turns out that now when I bring my car in for repairs, they can charge me whatever they want!!! Even after I asked them to do the repairs without asking for the estimate. They tell me the same policy applies!!! Needless to say, I will be making a boat for my next purchase when it comes to commuting.
You have it ass-backwards. If your Best Buy associate agrees to give you a TiVo provided you give hima hand-job, you agree, he gives you the box and give him a quick pinch in the nuts, well, no wonder security stops you at the door and asks you to pay-up for the TiVo. TiVo has been very clear about the hand-jobs required when purchasing a new unit. The sticker is on the box.