Every time Nintendo attempts to drive forward with a new implementation a whole big group of people dog-pile into the room trying to be the first to shout 'gimmick!' They shouldn't be taken seriously as they don't even engage their brains yet before posting their criticism. Here are a few non-verbatim quotes of I've seen before:
- "The DS's use of a stylus is a gimmick. They should do something non-gimmicky like building in an eye-tracker."
- "Nobody can use two screens at once."
- "Well, it looks like Nintendo invented the 'remote control!'. Sony had one years ago!".....(This was written before the dippy found out about the motion controls.)
- "Can you say: Virtual Boy? Bet the Virtual Boy 2 will be as much of a failure as the original. It was difficult to use and gave people headaches."......(This is actually in this thread.)
- "Nintendo is doomed. Their business prospects look dismal because Sony created the Move controller."
Sometimes I think Nintendo harvests energy from people shouting 'gimmick' and uses it to power their R&D division.
The flying games were easier to navigate through. Having that bit of depth really helped there. I also think it's a little easier to draw your eye to what it is you're supposed to be looking at.
It's also worth noting that it's a very big graphical upgrade and they're also implementing a Virtual Console for the system. I'm sold on those two bits alone.
Unless you keep your head DIRECTLY aligned with the center of the screen you lose the 3D effect. Really annoying for what already is at best a mediocre 3D effect.
I had the same concern. However, I played one and what I found was that because you are holding it, keeping it in the sweet spot is much easier than expected. It was way better than the large barrier screens I had seen elsewhere for simply that reason. As for the 'mediocre 3d effect', I was surprised to find that it was easier to play whatever the flying game because of the depth cues.
20 light years is millimeters of astrophysical distance.
It amazes me we have been observing space so long and yet we only now have detected this planet.
I don't know why. If a light year is a millimeter, a planet is less than a thousandth of a nanometer.
It just goes to show how incredibly likely it is to find planets like Earth everywhere in the galaxy.
No, it doesn't. Distance to us doesn't mean anything about abundance. Also, we don't even know that planet actually is Earth-like.
Don't get me wrong, optimism is good, it keeps us exploring. But if you leap to such erroneous conclusions, you're going to be disappointed when nothing big turns up over the course of the next 20 years.
And they nearly took an actually good show with them in the process.
You'll pardon me for not taking the accusation too seriously. The only 'proof' he offers is that the shows came out at roughly the same time. Then he goes on to say that it's a big stunning coincidence that a Star Trek show would dare set itself on a space station, during a time when the ISS was big in the news, because we've never seen a Space Station on Star Trek or any other sci-fi series, right? Where choices did the next series have? Starship, colony, and... a space station.
Wake me when we see some of his original scripts that are similar to DS9's first season.
Just because you stick to one browser only doesn't mean that there are no reasons for other people to work differently.
Actually I don't stick to just one browser, which is why I was asking. I run Opera, FF, and Chrome (Safari, too, if you count my phone) and haven't encountered a big need for a service like that. That's why I asked questions to learn more instead of making a big karma-posing speech about how whatever method I use is better.
Cool your jets, hotshot. This is one instance of you blazing forward on a bad assumption. Next time you could get zinged.
"It would still be nice to have a single way to keep my bookmarks from my work machine in sync with my home machines and my mobile devices without exerting much effort."
Try Opera...
Pity he was snide in his post, he does have a point. Opera has had this as an integrated feature for years. It also synchronizes your speed-dial and and your 'notes', which are like bookmarks but are organized by the section of text you highlight. Very handy. I especially like this feature for keeping useful snippets of Python around.
Not really. It panders to business speak... "oh, we'll take a page from their playbook" - eg: referring to strategy, not a gaming platform.
I know a bunch of alpha salespeople / marketers that are gonna love this thing, even if it is crap.
RIM should create a phone called the "New Paradigm". I wish I could say I'm aiming for a 'funny' here but I used to work at a place where 'Buzzword Bingo' was a way us engineering-peons really passed the time during meetings.
Funny because three weeks ago I had my GPS, not window-mounted mind you, walk away from my car. There's a pretty good possibility that I had left a door unlocked the night before. (The window was down enough to use a coat hanger to get in, so that's also a possibility.) I live in an area where this is rather unlikely to happen.. or at least you'd think so. Had my doors been locked and my windows been rolled up I wouldn't have lost it.
I hope you don't learn a lesson about it, but I think you will eventually. Getting back to the point we were discussing, doing something to protect your account is better than doing nothing at all. No matter how circumventable it is, you're still adding an energy and time requirement to the process, lowering the number of people that can/will get in. I can tell you from personal experience it's extra painful to lose something of yours because you failed to take the most basic step to protect it. I feel like a total moron and every week my friends remind me to lock my car. I hope you listen to my suggestion to not be as dumb as I was. I'm actually referring to your car, Google doesn't provide controls (yet) to geo-lock my account.
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Every time Nintendo attempts to drive forward with a new implementation a whole big group of people dog-pile into the room trying to be the first to shout 'gimmick!' They shouldn't be taken seriously as they don't even engage their brains yet before posting their criticism. Here are a few non-verbatim quotes of I've seen before:
- "The DS's use of a stylus is a gimmick. They should do something non-gimmicky like building in an eye-tracker."
- "Nobody can use two screens at once."
- "Well, it looks like Nintendo invented the 'remote control!'. Sony had one years ago!" .....(This was written before the dippy found out about the motion controls.)
- "Can you say: Virtual Boy? Bet the Virtual Boy 2 will be as much of a failure as the original. It was difficult to use and gave people headaches." ......(This is actually in this thread.)
- "Nintendo is doomed. Their business prospects look dismal because Sony created the Move controller."
Sometimes I think Nintendo harvests energy from people shouting 'gimmick' and uses it to power their R&D division.
Other than being cool what does it add?
The flying games were easier to navigate through. Having that bit of depth really helped there. I also think it's a little easier to draw your eye to what it is you're supposed to be looking at.
It's also worth noting that it's a very big graphical upgrade and they're also implementing a Virtual Console for the system. I'm sold on those two bits alone.
Unless you keep your head DIRECTLY aligned with the center of the screen you lose the 3D effect. Really annoying for what already is at best a mediocre 3D effect.
I had the same concern. However, I played one and what I found was that because you are holding it, keeping it in the sweet spot is much easier than expected. It was way better than the large barrier screens I had seen elsewhere for simply that reason. As for the 'mediocre 3d effect', I was surprised to find that it was easier to play whatever the flying game because of the depth cues.
20 light years is millimeters of astrophysical distance.
It amazes me we have been observing space so long and yet we only now have detected this planet.
I don't know why. If a light year is a millimeter, a planet is less than a thousandth of a nanometer.
It just goes to show how incredibly likely it is to find planets like Earth everywhere in the galaxy.
No, it doesn't. Distance to us doesn't mean anything about abundance. Also, we don't even know that planet actually is Earth-like.
Don't get me wrong, optimism is good, it keeps us exploring. But if you leap to such erroneous conclusions, you're going to be disappointed when nothing big turns up over the course of the next 20 years.
Heh. What part of the chick looks like a ... actually I'm not sure why I'm asking that here.
Wasn't this already figured out by Ancient Greek mathematicians? :)
Sorry to suck the fun out of the comment, but... no.
The ratio of straight lines rarely has much to do with the female form.
Translation: Did they give us any information that will give us any excuse to excuse the pirates?
Translation: Everybody must be a thief even though there's no proof anything is missing.
Slightly more objectionable that that it seems.
And they nearly took an actually good show with them in the process.
You'll pardon me for not taking the accusation too seriously. The only 'proof' he offers is that the shows came out at roughly the same time. Then he goes on to say that it's a big stunning coincidence that a Star Trek show would dare set itself on a space station, during a time when the ISS was big in the news, because we've never seen a Space Station on Star Trek or any other sci-fi series, right? Where choices did the next series have? Starship, colony, and ... a space station.
Wake me when we see some of his original scripts that are similar to DS9's first season.
go pick the worst star trek and make a game of it
We already have Elite Force. Now we can get an MMO of the best Star Trek series.
... which totally reminded me of one of my favorite XKCD comics.
It wasn't very nice of the story submitter to prevent 6 people in the thread from earning a +3 Funny.
Have you tried finding a 'portable' version of your favorite browser, or is it one of those things where they won't let you run it anyway?
(Xmarks is a better solution, but since it's going bye-bye I thought I'd offer that suggestion if it hasn't crossed your path yet.)
Just because you stick to one browser only doesn't mean that there are no reasons for other people to work differently.
Actually I don't stick to just one browser, which is why I was asking. I run Opera, FF, and Chrome (Safari, too, if you count my phone) and haven't encountered a big need for a service like that. That's why I asked questions to learn more instead of making a big karma-posing speech about how whatever method I use is better.
Cool your jets, hotshot. This is one instance of you blazing forward on a bad assumption. Next time you could get zinged.
Outside of web-testing have you encountered it? Like a workplace that only allows certain browsers?
I stand corrected. However, the main point still stands. None of these will sync to another browser.
What kind of situation calls for this?
(I'm not asking to argue, I'm curious if I'm likely to ever encounter it...)
"It would still be nice to have a single way to keep my bookmarks from my work machine in sync with my home machines and my mobile devices without exerting much effort."
Try Opera...
Pity he was snide in his post, he does have a point. Opera has had this as an integrated feature for years. It also synchronizes your speed-dial and and your 'notes', which are like bookmarks but are organized by the section of text you highlight. Very handy. I especially like this feature for keeping useful snippets of Python around.
Why, haven't had a real job yet?
Heh. You guys talk as if revenue isn't the critical factor in the decision to develop for a particular platform.
Leverage and Core Strength.
Not really. It panders to business speak ... "oh, we'll take a page from their playbook" - eg: referring to strategy, not a gaming platform.
I know a bunch of alpha salespeople / marketers that are gonna love this thing, even if it is crap.
RIM should create a phone called the "New Paradigm". I wish I could say I'm aiming for a 'funny' here but I used to work at a place where 'Buzzword Bingo' was a way us engineering-peons really passed the time during meetings.
Hobbits are gay. This fact is irrefutable. (Score:-1, Troll)
Well he's got a point, I mean they only lasted one generation!
Funny because three weeks ago I had my GPS, not window-mounted mind you, walk away from my car. There's a pretty good possibility that I had left a door unlocked the night before. (The window was down enough to use a coat hanger to get in, so that's also a possibility.) I live in an area where this is rather unlikely to happen.. or at least you'd think so. Had my doors been locked and my windows been rolled up I wouldn't have lost it.
I hope you don't learn a lesson about it, but I think you will eventually. Getting back to the point we were discussing, doing something to protect your account is better than doing nothing at all. No matter how circumventable it is, you're still adding an energy and time requirement to the process, lowering the number of people that can/will get in. I can tell you from personal experience it's extra painful to lose something of yours because you failed to take the most basic step to protect it. I feel like a total moron and every week my friends remind me to lock my car. I hope you listen to my suggestion to not be as dumb as I was. I'm actually referring to your car, Google doesn't provide controls (yet) to geo-lock my account.
What does a flaslight need serversockets for? And why wasn't this flagged by a simple api calls review?
Maybe the app is ad-supported.
They'd just go through a US proxy... That's no help at all.
Do you still lock your car doors even though a window is easy to smash?
Glad to know I'm not the only one fuzzy on the whole good / bad thing.
Somebody tell him about the twinkie.
Facebook is just a waste of time.
... said the Slashdot commentor on a Saturday.