Sure, motion controls are all the rage now, but trust me, the number of hours spent in total using motion based controls vs a gamepad or KB and mouse to control a video game is 1 vs 100, and I'm being VERY generous with that estimate. Motion controls, and controlling anything on a touch screen is nowhere NEARLY as precise as a controller, which is nowhere nearly as precise as a mouse and keyboard.
To illustrate: You have generic multiplayer FPS/RPG/RTS game X. Who wins in a three way battle, player skill all being equal? The guy with the kinect or wiimote? The guy with a game controller? Or the guy with the KB and Mouse. I daresay anyone on Slashdot would know the answer to that.
So until you can give me the precision of a Mouse in a motion controller, or hell, even the precision of a gamepad... motion controls will be for the 'wow your parents' factor or the occasional party game. Not for gaming in general. I love me a good party game, but that's once a month gaming there, not five times a week or more.
+1 interwebs my good sir. I've made it my mission to explain the reasons behind IT decisions at every opportunity, to anyone who's interested. And you know what, people have WAY less complaints than they used to. We provide solutions when we can, and when we can't, we tell them why, and if it is an issue, we give the various plusses and minuses to the management and let them make the decisions.
When management decides against it, it's not IT stopping the user, it's management, and since we explain the reasoning behind every decision anyway, guess what happened.... People started TRUSTING the I.T. dept!!!! Once you build that trust it's amazingly difficult to tear down as long as you treat people like people and help them as much as you can, the yearly service survey results suddenly turn sharply upwards.
Am I the only person on Slashdot who thinks if this law passes the Supreme Court will knock it down as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech?
After all, corporations are people now, so Google's right to free speech is the same as Sony's.
Mod Parent up. With proper storage, print is definitely the way to go when cost isn't an obstacle. Obviously we still have photographs from 150+ years ago, tens of thousands of them are still in existence and still mostly legible.
This also has the added benefit of forcing you to edit your collection. Say what you will about capturing every second of your princess' fourth spit-up, 90% (or more) of your digital photos will go in the trash when you realize you have to choose which ones to print.
Candids are always fun, and there is something to be said for not editing TOO hard. But going through digital photos it's amazing sometimes how two pictures of the same event can look almost exactly the same. In those cases, you don't really need both do you?
Does anyone have a link to this Pinwheel design house? I'm not as up on my modern architecture as I should be I guess. Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful
Forget Rentals, and demos aren't much better. Even selling your used games is the same as stealing money out of the mouths of the developer's children. Renting is effectively a legal sex slave brothel where a Pimp (your local rental place, or gamefly, or, now, Qwikster) buys a child slave (a copy of a game) then pimps it out to be used... nay not used... RAPED HORRIBLY... by strangers, who then return the sad sad little creature to it's pimp who puts it back in its proprietary case and puts it back on display to be drooled on by further perverse strangers.
And the worst part of all this? The Parents who sold the child to the renter, only get paid once, whereas the pimp gets paid until the end of time. So you should not only feel bad for the poor developers. You should immediately report yourself or anyone you know who's borrowed or bought a used game to the police for grand larceny, because you have stolen $13million from the developers of a crappy game. If you borrowed a GOOD game, god help you, you caused the financial collapse of 2008.
Then most of the managers you know are idiots. I've had good and bad managers, more good than bad. The good managers got the hell out of the way unless you were way off course. And all of them admitted happily they knew less about the topic than the experts they hired. Hell, most of those managers INSISTED on getting input from the team, and would bug the crap out of you until they got it.
This may be, and on the PC, I'll admit piracy is probably an issue. Lord knows I pirated games like crazy until I realized what I was doing and matured enough to realize that expecting something for nothing was for children, not grown men.
But what does bother me about this, is that Blizzard isn't SAYING this is what the issue is. Blizzard is pretending it is to keep people from 'cheating'. Cheating in single player?? Cheating who; themselves? This comes off as a damn near lie from Blizzard, and it stinks of the Marketing dept. having too much sway over the developers.
And on top of that, does anyone here on Slashdot TRULY believe this will stop the pirates? How hard would it be to spoof a server connection? Pirates have been doing that for years. Now all Blizzard has done is guarantee that people without an always on internet connection HAVE to pirate the game.
Very well, it may not have had a name.. but the functionality was there. I've played both games in the last year thanks to GOG.com... and they were just as fun as I remember them.
You do realize that if they had left VATS out they would have been completely eviscerated by the Fallout community right?
Fallout 1 and 2 weren't FPSs, but VATS was a HUGE part of the fiction, and the fact they were able to incorporate it into a FPS was one of the most impressive things about Fallout 3 when it came out.
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Ummm... did I mention that quote in there? Or is that just you diverting the focus away from a point of view you realize is probably more logical than the opposing view? Because apparently it worked. So good job.
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The second myth is that Republican leadership wants to end abortion. That's not true in the least.
Obviously the Christian Conservatives are a huge portion of the voting bloc of the Republican party. The biggest Christian issue of the moment is abortion. If abortion becomes illegal the fight over it will die down considerably (though obviously it won't end). But once that happens, Christians will have to focus on other Christian beliefs.
And yes, while I realize a LOT of Christians won't change teams just out of stubbornness, some will, because frankly, other than abortion, the Left satisfies the White Christian guilt of middle America than the Right. Other than abortion, name another 'Christian' trait the right espouses? Feed the hungry? Mercy for the imprisoned? Swords into Plowshares? Hell, the Beattitudes are practically a Democratic Party Platform.
Just because 5% of gamers are 'willing to' spend 50 bucks on a game, doesn't mean they WILL spend 50 bucks on a mobile game.
Hell, I'd be *willing* to spend $50 on a mobile game if it's good enough. I just cannot conceive of a game now that would be that good... does that put me in the 5%?
I don't know what you mean by they have 'interlaced' displays. A CRT at 1080p standing next to an LCD of similar size in a darkened room absolutely dominated the comparison when I tried this out. I've not seen the LED tv's side by side yet, but other than DLP, I've seen little that compares to CRT.
Just FYI, the difference between standard CRT and HD CRT tvs is probably the highest of any technology.
Although they don't come in very large sizes (if you can even find them anymore) a CRT HD TV has, by leaps and bounds, a better picture than any other HDTV technology.
I'm pretty sure the path Jamie takes from being a heinous child-murderer to slowly realizing the error of his ways and reluctantly, but inevitably changing them to see past his own nose is what is called a "Character Arc" in literary circles. I'm pretty sure it's a pretty common trope and isn't exactly meant to forgive him, but show growth of a man over a period of time.
Interview with Henry Markram This is the guy the article was about, but for the life of me I can't find the actual article where they describe the brain 'lighting up like a christmas tree', though I remember that exact phrase. Still, this describes his work pretty well. So might be worth a read.
There was an article in Discover last year sometime describing the different techniques computer scientists were using to try to emulate/simulate a human brain. One of the more interesting is one that actually used simple software to create several thousand neurons, each able to communicate with thirty or so other neurons, and they made the pathways changeable.
Obviously I'm simplifying and paraphrasing a year old article here, but one of the most intriguing things about this one setup is not only that it apparently 'paid attention' when various objects were held in front of its cameras, but when the cameras and mics were shut off, the software neurons still showed waves of activity completely independent of outside input. To anthropomorphize a bit, it was almost like a sleep-state or beta waves in humans. I found that to be incredibly interesting.
Sorry, posted as AC before: Here's what I wrote.
Good sir, I would mod you informative if I could, as it is, hopefully some mod will do the same. So, on that list we have....14 companies. So either that means Corporations as a whole, of the millions that exist in the US alone, only fourteen have committed a crime and been found out, or else it means only fourteen have committed a crime so blatant that even their masses of lawyers and piles of cash could not save them. So, tell me, do the defenders of corporate personhood believe these fourteen cases prove their point? Because I'm pretty sure that the fact Enron isn't on there, or AIG, or Bear Stearns is a pretty good indication that criminal law does not apply to corporations exactly the same as it would apply to a 'person'.
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By the way, if you can point me at a $100 3TB hard drive, I'm in the market for one.
Mod Parent up.
Sure, motion controls are all the rage now, but trust me, the number of hours spent in total using motion based controls vs a gamepad or KB and mouse to control a video game is 1 vs 100, and I'm being VERY generous with that estimate. Motion controls, and controlling anything on a touch screen is nowhere NEARLY as precise as a controller, which is nowhere nearly as precise as a mouse and keyboard.
To illustrate: You have generic multiplayer FPS/RPG/RTS game X. Who wins in a three way battle, player skill all being equal? The guy with the kinect or wiimote? The guy with a game controller? Or the guy with the KB and Mouse. I daresay anyone on Slashdot would know the answer to that.
So until you can give me the precision of a Mouse in a motion controller, or hell, even the precision of a gamepad... motion controls will be for the 'wow your parents' factor or the occasional party game. Not for gaming in general. I love me a good party game, but that's once a month gaming there, not five times a week or more.
+1 interwebs my good sir. I've made it my mission to explain the reasons behind IT decisions at every opportunity, to anyone who's interested. And you know what, people have WAY less complaints than they used to. We provide solutions when we can, and when we can't, we tell them why, and if it is an issue, we give the various plusses and minuses to the management and let them make the decisions.
When management decides against it, it's not IT stopping the user, it's management, and since we explain the reasoning behind every decision anyway, guess what happened.... People started TRUSTING the I.T. dept!!!! Once you build that trust it's amazingly difficult to tear down as long as you treat people like people and help them as much as you can, the yearly service survey results suddenly turn sharply upwards.
Am I the only person on Slashdot who thinks if this law passes the Supreme Court will knock it down as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech?
After all, corporations are people now, so Google's right to free speech is the same as Sony's.
Exactly how is this different than taking my money to the riverboat and laying it down on blackjack?
Mod Parent up. With proper storage, print is definitely the way to go when cost isn't an obstacle. Obviously we still have photographs from 150+ years ago, tens of thousands of them are still in existence and still mostly legible. This also has the added benefit of forcing you to edit your collection. Say what you will about capturing every second of your princess' fourth spit-up, 90% (or more) of your digital photos will go in the trash when you realize you have to choose which ones to print. Candids are always fun, and there is something to be said for not editing TOO hard. But going through digital photos it's amazing sometimes how two pictures of the same event can look almost exactly the same. In those cases, you don't really need both do you?
Does anyone have a link to this Pinwheel design house? I'm not as up on my modern architecture as I should be I guess. Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful
They learned that lesson as well.
Forget Rentals, and demos aren't much better. Even selling your used games is the same as stealing money out of the mouths of the developer's children. Renting is effectively a legal sex slave brothel where a Pimp (your local rental place, or gamefly, or, now, Qwikster) buys a child slave (a copy of a game) then pimps it out to be used... nay not used... RAPED HORRIBLY... by strangers, who then return the sad sad little creature to it's pimp who puts it back in its proprietary case and puts it back on display to be drooled on by further perverse strangers.
And the worst part of all this? The Parents who sold the child to the renter, only get paid once, whereas the pimp gets paid until the end of time. So you should not only feel bad for the poor developers. You should immediately report yourself or anyone you know who's borrowed or bought a used game to the police for grand larceny, because you have stolen $13million from the developers of a crappy game. If you borrowed a GOOD game, god help you, you caused the financial collapse of 2008.
Then most of the managers you know are idiots. I've had good and bad managers, more good than bad. The good managers got the hell out of the way unless you were way off course. And all of them admitted happily they knew less about the topic than the experts they hired. Hell, most of those managers INSISTED on getting input from the team, and would bug the crap out of you until they got it.
Have you not read this?
That's a pretty good reason to take him seriously.
This may be, and on the PC, I'll admit piracy is probably an issue. Lord knows I pirated games like crazy until I realized what I was doing and matured enough to realize that expecting something for nothing was for children, not grown men.
But what does bother me about this, is that Blizzard isn't SAYING this is what the issue is. Blizzard is pretending it is to keep people from 'cheating'. Cheating in single player?? Cheating who; themselves? This comes off as a damn near lie from Blizzard, and it stinks of the Marketing dept. having too much sway over the developers.
And on top of that, does anyone here on Slashdot TRULY believe this will stop the pirates? How hard would it be to spoof a server connection? Pirates have been doing that for years. Now all Blizzard has done is guarantee that people without an always on internet connection HAVE to pirate the game.
She might have some input on this situation. Also, Mecha-Striesand might be effective at law enforcement.
Not sure if serious....
Very well, it may not have had a name.. but the functionality was there. I've played both games in the last year thanks to GOG.com... and they were just as fun as I remember them.
You do realize that if they had left VATS out they would have been completely eviscerated by the Fallout community right?
Fallout 1 and 2 weren't FPSs, but VATS was a HUGE part of the fiction, and the fact they were able to incorporate it into a FPS was one of the most impressive things about Fallout 3 when it came out.
Ummm... did I mention that quote in there? Or is that just you diverting the focus away from a point of view you realize is probably more logical than the opposing view? Because apparently it worked. So good job.
The second myth is that Republican leadership wants to end abortion. That's not true in the least.
Obviously the Christian Conservatives are a huge portion of the voting bloc of the Republican party. The biggest Christian issue of the moment is abortion. If abortion becomes illegal the fight over it will die down considerably (though obviously it won't end). But once that happens, Christians will have to focus on other Christian beliefs.
And yes, while I realize a LOT of Christians won't change teams just out of stubbornness, some will, because frankly, other than abortion, the Left satisfies the White Christian guilt of middle America than the Right. Other than abortion, name another 'Christian' trait the right espouses? Feed the hungry? Mercy for the imprisoned? Swords into Plowshares? Hell, the Beattitudes are practically a Democratic Party Platform.
Jesus was a liberal progressive.
Just because 5% of gamers are 'willing to' spend 50 bucks on a game, doesn't mean they WILL spend 50 bucks on a mobile game.
Hell, I'd be *willing* to spend $50 on a mobile game if it's good enough. I just cannot conceive of a game now that would be that good... does that put me in the 5%?
I would +1 you if I could you beautiful bastard. That is exactly the point.
I don't know what you mean by they have 'interlaced' displays. A CRT at 1080p standing next to an LCD of similar size in a darkened room absolutely dominated the comparison when I tried this out. I've not seen the LED tv's side by side yet, but other than DLP, I've seen little that compares to CRT.
Just FYI, the difference between standard CRT and HD CRT tvs is probably the highest of any technology.
Although they don't come in very large sizes (if you can even find them anymore) a CRT HD TV has, by leaps and bounds, a better picture than any other HDTV technology.
I'm pretty sure the path Jamie takes from being a heinous child-murderer to slowly realizing the error of his ways and reluctantly, but inevitably changing them to see past his own nose is what is called a "Character Arc" in literary circles. I'm pretty sure it's a pretty common trope and isn't exactly meant to forgive him, but show growth of a man over a period of time.
Interview with Henry Markram This is the guy the article was about, but for the life of me I can't find the actual article where they describe the brain 'lighting up like a christmas tree', though I remember that exact phrase. Still, this describes his work pretty well. So might be worth a read.
There was an article in Discover last year sometime describing the different techniques computer scientists were using to try to emulate/simulate a human brain. One of the more interesting is one that actually used simple software to create several thousand neurons, each able to communicate with thirty or so other neurons, and they made the pathways changeable.
Obviously I'm simplifying and paraphrasing a year old article here, but one of the most intriguing things about this one setup is not only that it apparently 'paid attention' when various objects were held in front of its cameras, but when the cameras and mics were shut off, the software neurons still showed waves of activity completely independent of outside input. To anthropomorphize a bit, it was almost like a sleep-state or beta waves in humans. I found that to be incredibly interesting.
Sorry, posted as AC before: Here's what I wrote. Good sir, I would mod you informative if I could, as it is, hopefully some mod will do the same. So, on that list we have....14 companies. So either that means Corporations as a whole, of the millions that exist in the US alone, only fourteen have committed a crime and been found out, or else it means only fourteen have committed a crime so blatant that even their masses of lawyers and piles of cash could not save them. So, tell me, do the defenders of corporate personhood believe these fourteen cases prove their point? Because I'm pretty sure that the fact Enron isn't on there, or AIG, or Bear Stearns is a pretty good indication that criminal law does not apply to corporations exactly the same as it would apply to a 'person'.