From the UI perspective it is like a big multi touch screen that works in 3d. It probably has a few "gestures" built in, a bit like iOS. A good source of first gen games would be converting some of them iPhone games over to it. As long as you can have something similar to the "finger off screen" event then i'm sure most of them would be fairly easy to port.
Overclocking you PC is one thing, but imagine if you could overclock your car! Just up the MPH modifier from 1 to 1.2 and get a another 20 miles per hour.
I think you will find it is just a very grouchy % of the end user. I mean, of all the millions of iPhones in operation I bet only a few thousand are Jailbroken. Most people couldn't give a damn.
It was never designed for playing "COD Black OPs" was it? Most iPhone games wouldn't work with a joypad either. They will just find some other way of doing things. The trouble with the XBOX fraternity is its so hung up on shooters, in a way the WIii crowd wasn't.
I am sorry, but it's people like you who totally miss the point of Kinect. You probably bitched about Macs when they first came out because using a mouse would never be as fast as your DOS typing speed.
It is a control-less controller. You don't have to hold any wands, press any buttons or do anything like that. They have finally made it possible. V1 probably isn't perfect, as these things never are. However give it a couple of years, the price/size will get smaller and eventually they will start building things like this into TVs and monitors. Now imagine lying on the sofa flicking through the TVs EPG as it knows, relative to your head, what part of the screen your finger is on. That is the future.
I never watched BSG or C but from what i gather, they tried turning it into a soap and doing it on the cheap. Boys like special fx and girls like character development. The former is easy to do but expensive for what you get. The latter is cheap but harder to do in the long run. In the end, budget usually wins.
Facebook and myspace almost work but not quite, as to begin with they were based around the individual. thing is everything has a facebook page from bands to films, to games, to organisations. what we need is something like facebook but better modelled on the real world.
It may be read/writable but you can bet bet your a$$ it will be encrypted. You can probably only copy stuff to it from an Xbox and vice versa. Stop those cheats hacking their saved games.
That is probably a good thing. I hang around on tech websites and I had never heard of most of the bottom ones, and in that respect I would be wary of recommending anyone install them on their PCs. In the long run it's probably better the user installs IE8 or FF than have them install some half baked bit of software thats not really used by anyone except the half dozen people who contribute to it. just cos it is open source doesn't make it good.
Trouble with the BBC is that they are so busy trying to be all thing to everyone in the world that they forgot who it was paying their bills. Quite regularly programs that read letters from viewers/listeners will read one form someone in a foreign country. How much they love the program and the BBC, even though the podcast/iplayer is totally free to them. Why should we pay for a web site when (statisticly) more people in the rest of the world are going to view it than there are people at home. Don't even get me started on the various "local" international BBC stations.
Don't get me wrong, I love the BBC. Subscription TV is the way to go be it BBC or HBO oe whoever. I would even pay to watch ITV if it meant no adverts and no lowest common denominator programming. People seem to think it is wrong though.
Since I gave up my xbox live gold account I haven't looked back. As a result I don't think I will be bothering with Reach. I played the Halo 3 campaign and that sucked. Move to next room, shoot some bad guys , get some ammo. Rince and repeat. The story didn't make much sense and Master Chief is a fairly unlikable hero.
They are the sort who want something simple that they can switch on, browse the net, without any trouble. May use windows at work but thats a bit tooo complicated. Someone told em Macs were good so they got one. Plesantly suprised you can surf the web and listen to music at the same time.
I maintain that Macs do the minimum amount of work that a computer should do very well. Anything more than that and you are stuck (or downloading random bits of shareware). The finder (10.4) just looked like it was designed on feedback from non tech users.
I don't now how much you guys know about rock history but sending bands out on the road (to tour/promote the album/make a living) is probably the worst thing you could make them do. It is the tedium between gigs on long tours that turn otherwise sane bands in to drink/drug/groupie monsters. When you are living for that hour on stage, the remaining 23 are a huge drag. Only way to get through them is to numb yourself till they don't exist. Similar principle to homelessness in that respect.
The other thing is imagine being in a band and having to tour all the time just to make a living. it's a bit like travelling salesmen. It takes a certain sort of person and they probably don't have much of a home/family life.
I think CmdrTaco was asking who gets to be on the board rather than what is the comittee structure going to be like. Does the Board consist of Linus and a few cronies? How much do you have to contribute to get on the board?
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From the UI perspective it is like a big multi touch screen that works in 3d. It probably has a few "gestures" built in, a bit like iOS. A good source of first gen games would be converting some of them iPhone games over to it. As long as you can have something similar to the "finger off screen" event then i'm sure most of them would be fairly easy to port.
Cos like voice recognition, it has little use on the desktop. Still, it's USB isn't, so it will make its way to the PC eventually?
Overclocking you PC is one thing, but imagine if you could overclock your car! Just up the MPH modifier from 1 to 1.2 and get a another 20 miles per hour.
I think you will find it is just a very grouchy % of the end user. I mean, of all the millions of iPhones in operation I bet only a few thousand are Jailbroken. Most people couldn't give a damn.
It was never designed for playing "COD Black OPs" was it? Most iPhone games wouldn't work with a joypad either. They will just find some other way of doing things. The trouble with the XBOX fraternity is its so hung up on shooters, in a way the WIii crowd wasn't.
I am sorry, but it's people like you who totally miss the point of Kinect. You probably bitched about Macs when they first came out because using a mouse would never be as fast as your DOS typing speed.
It is a control-less controller. You don't have to hold any wands, press any buttons or do anything like that. They have finally made it possible. V1 probably isn't perfect, as these things never are. However give it a couple of years, the price/size will get smaller and eventually they will start building things like this into TVs and monitors. Now imagine lying on the sofa flicking through the TVs EPG as it knows, relative to your head, what part of the screen your finger is on. That is the future.
It is like someone tapped into 4CHANs subconscious and made it reality. Scary!
I never watched BSG or C but from what i gather, they tried turning it into a soap and doing it on the cheap. Boys like special fx and girls like character development. The former is easy to do but expensive for what you get. The latter is cheap but harder to do in the long run. In the end, budget usually wins.
What they should have done was "desprate housewives in space".
Yeah, and like they are going to rewrite all their games in Java. Next!
Does Hal singing "Daisy, Daisy" in 2001 count?
Facebook and myspace almost work but not quite, as to begin with they were based around the individual. thing is everything has a facebook page from bands to films, to games, to organisations. what we need is something like facebook but better modelled on the real world.
oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why?
What do you think the hackers have been trying to do for the last five years? ;)
It may be read/writable but you can bet bet your a$$ it will be encrypted. You can probably only copy stuff to it from an Xbox and vice versa. Stop those cheats hacking their saved games.
That is probably a good thing. I hang around on tech websites and I had never heard of most of the bottom ones, and in that respect I would be wary of recommending anyone install them on their PCs. In the long run it's probably better the user installs IE8 or FF than have them install some half baked bit of software thats not really used by anyone except the half dozen people who contribute to it. just cos it is open source doesn't make it good.
Trouble with the BBC is that they are so busy trying to be all thing to everyone in the world that they forgot who it was paying their bills. Quite regularly programs that read letters from viewers/listeners will read one form someone in a foreign country. How much they love the program and the BBC, even though the podcast/iplayer is totally free to them. Why should we pay for a web site when (statisticly) more people in the rest of the world are going to view it than there are people at home. Don't even get me started on the various "local" international BBC stations.
Don't get me wrong, I love the BBC. Subscription TV is the way to go be it BBC or HBO oe whoever. I would even pay to watch ITV if it meant no adverts and no lowest common denominator programming. People seem to think it is wrong though.
Since I gave up my xbox live gold account I haven't looked back. As a result I don't think I will be bothering with Reach. I played the Halo 3 campaign and that sucked. Move to next room, shoot some bad guys , get some ammo. Rince and repeat. The story didn't make much sense and Master Chief is a fairly unlikable hero.
They are the sort who want something simple that they can switch on, browse the net, without any trouble. May use windows at work but thats a bit tooo complicated. Someone told em Macs were good so they got one. Plesantly suprised you can surf the web and listen to music at the same time.
I maintain that Macs do the minimum amount of work that a computer should do very well. Anything more than that and you are stuck (or downloading random bits of shareware). The finder (10.4) just looked like it was designed on feedback from non tech users.
I don't now how much you guys know about rock history but sending bands out on the road (to tour/promote the album/make a living) is probably the worst thing you could make them do. It is the tedium between gigs on long tours that turn otherwise sane bands in to drink/drug/groupie monsters. When you are living for that hour on stage, the remaining 23 are a huge drag. Only way to get through them is to numb yourself till they don't exist. Similar principle to homelessness in that respect.
The other thing is imagine being in a band and having to tour all the time just to make a living. it's a bit like travelling salesmen. It takes a certain sort of person and they probably don't have much of a home/family life.
Has the last 20 years of computing taught us nothing?
I think CmdrTaco was asking who gets to be on the board rather than what is the comittee structure going to be like. Does the Board consist of Linus and a few cronies? How much do you have to contribute to get on the board?
What about 3d downloads? Will you have to buy a pair of M$ 3d glasses that only work with the 360?
Exactly.
I agree!