You missed the point completely. Most people treated the DS like a stupid gimmick before it came out ("I want a games console, not a PDA") and it's probably the best handheld since the original Gameboy. Most people, like you, are treating Wii like a stupid gimmick. If you hate it that much, go play Twilight Princess on the Gamecube. I'll be hacking my way through Hyrule by hand, thank you very much.
Amen to that. At this point in time, you're right - adding 37% more graphical glitz is just that, glitz. I think right now, if this tech is gonna go anywhere, it's offloading physics processing so the CPU can spend more time doing decent AI. HL2 isn't photo realistic, but it's a damn better game than it's nearest neighbour, Doom 3, which used all it's graphical prowess to render several thousand miles of poorly-lit corridor. Right now I'm playing Cave Story and Bontago, both freeware games, while waiting on the Wii. My Intel Core Duo with 2 Gigs of RAM and 512MB NVidia graphics card has been bored while I've been entertained. You claim that graphics are secondary - I say that gameplay is primary, story is secondary, graphics are tertiary.
A lot of people don't use gestures, true, but the average home user using Firefox would almost certainly benefit from Adblock, and my initial point was essentially that Tab Mix Plus could easily be integrated into Firefox itself, and is that where FF is headed?
Very true, in fact they're in love with the letter X - Rockman X, X Japan, Guilty Gear XX, they just don't stop using it... But it's because they don't have it in their language they're obsessed with it. The closest spelling I can get to it in romanised katakana is EKUSU. (that's three Japanese letters, E, KU, SU)
The Tab Mix Plus extension is widely considered to be greatly enhancing to any Firefox experience, alongside extensions like AdBlock Plus and All-In-One Gestures (and similar gesture extensions). Are these 3 features - enhanced tab manager, advert blocker, and gestures - going to be included in the initial Firefox package at any point?
And along the same lines, what would you rather do - streamline Firefox by removing features and making them optional add-ons, or enhance Firefox by building in more features which can be enabled and disabled without the need for extra installations?
I know I'm not meant to ask multiple questions, but it's all on the same theme - would you consider creating two major download versions for Firefox, one which is "barebones" and the other preloaded with the most popular extensions?
A common topic in philosophy. I like to think of it in the most nihilistic way possible - does it matter either way whether we have it or not? In the long run - and I mean, The Long Run, does it matter either way, when you have the heat death of the universe, or the cycling universe, or whatever? And besides - the physics occurring in the brain could be quantum supercomputing for all we know, which could plausibly be non-deterministic. I like your theory, but I've heard it a few too many times and prefer to stick to ooh, squirrels.
Also, on the original topic - embodied intelligence is something I'm definitely going to look into, but I don't know enough about it to make a meaningful comment, at least for now.
Ever heard of augmented reality? That would make this plausible - able to view your drawing as you made it without the need for silly holograms. Also, they were using their 'wand' as a simple pen tool - why not make it like a 3D Photoshop, and have many tools? Basic geometric shapes - primitives - which can be edited and modelled, as well as free-hand drawing and other such tools. Once you've created your 3D masterpiece and aligned it using virtual measuring tools, save it and send it to your 3D plastic moulder/printer. "I would not see much of a market" - oh, I would.
Yes, "tubes" is alright if you're using it as an analogy to explain congestion of a single server. He was using it to imply that when there's so much high-media content on the internet, it makes the entire internet slow. That's why people are harsh on it - he used the wrong analogy, in the wrong situation, pushing an unpopular viewpoint.
Please check your sibling posts. Apple gives you a one-time get out of jail free card for re-downloading, and your music can be transferred from device to device a limited number of times. Yes, it's still DRM, but it's better than what Channard implied.
Something repeatedly bothers me. We act like global warming caused by humans means the end of days, but surely the earth has undergone far more cataclysmic changes (such as after supervolcanoes), even during the lifespan of humanity, and we've lived to tell the tale? Perhaps it's just now that we're so widely knowledgeable (if not intelligent) about our world at large, we realise just how many people will be outright fucked over by the coming changes. I'm sure humanity will survive, regardless of what happens. Anyone recall Daisyworld and biodiversity versus adverse conditions from biology class?
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Okay, you win the pedant competition, but my point stands - he cocked up the facts and still wrote over two paragraphs on it.
You missed the point completely.
Most people treated the DS like a stupid gimmick before it came out ("I want a games console, not a PDA") and it's probably the best handheld since the original Gameboy.
Most people, like you, are treating Wii like a stupid gimmick. If you hate it that much, go play Twilight Princess on the Gamecube. I'll be hacking my way through Hyrule by hand, thank you very much.
Link's the one at the bottom. The Tron-like girl is Midna.
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You can't even remember the book. The question in the book was "WHAT IS SIX TIMES NINE".
The answer is 42.
Amen to that. At this point in time, you're right - adding 37% more graphical glitz is just that, glitz. I think right now, if this tech is gonna go anywhere, it's offloading physics processing so the CPU can spend more time doing decent AI. HL2 isn't photo realistic, but it's a damn better game than it's nearest neighbour, Doom 3, which used all it's graphical prowess to render several thousand miles of poorly-lit corridor.
Right now I'm playing Cave Story and Bontago, both freeware games, while waiting on the Wii. My Intel Core Duo with 2 Gigs of RAM and 512MB NVidia graphics card has been bored while I've been entertained. You claim that graphics are secondary - I say that gameplay is primary, story is secondary, graphics are tertiary.
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A lot of people don't use gestures, true, but the average home user using Firefox would almost certainly benefit from Adblock, and my initial point was essentially that Tab Mix Plus could easily be integrated into Firefox itself, and is that where FF is headed?
You just defined "munchkin".
Very true, in fact they're in love with the letter X - Rockman X, X Japan, Guilty Gear XX, they just don't stop using it...
But it's because they don't have it in their language they're obsessed with it. The closest spelling I can get to it in romanised katakana is EKUSU. (that's three Japanese letters, E, KU, SU)
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0.5a: "USSR"
1.0b: "PRC"
1.0rc1: "USA"
I'm just wondering if the UK will also end up adopting the same version number... perhaps 1.0rc2...
The Tab Mix Plus extension is widely considered to be greatly enhancing to any Firefox experience, alongside extensions like AdBlock Plus and All-In-One Gestures (and similar gesture extensions). Are these 3 features - enhanced tab manager, advert blocker, and gestures - going to be included in the initial Firefox package at any point?
And along the same lines, what would you rather do - streamline Firefox by removing features and making them optional add-ons, or enhance Firefox by building in more features which can be enabled and disabled without the need for extra installations?
I know I'm not meant to ask multiple questions, but it's all on the same theme - would you consider creating two major download versions for Firefox, one which is "barebones" and the other preloaded with the most popular extensions?
A common topic in philosophy. I like to think of it in the most nihilistic way possible - does it matter either way whether we have it or not? In the long run - and I mean, The Long Run, does it matter either way, when you have the heat death of the universe, or the cycling universe, or whatever?
And besides - the physics occurring in the brain could be quantum supercomputing for all we know, which could plausibly be non-deterministic.
I like your theory, but I've heard it a few too many times and prefer to stick to ooh, squirrels.
Also, on the original topic - embodied intelligence is something I'm definitely going to look into, but I don't know enough about it to make a meaningful comment, at least for now.
The smell of silicon designed for the software it runs?
Ever heard of augmented reality? That would make this plausible - able to view your drawing as you made it without the need for silly holograms. Also, they were using their 'wand' as a simple pen tool - why not make it like a 3D Photoshop, and have many tools? Basic geometric shapes - primitives - which can be edited and modelled, as well as free-hand drawing and other such tools. Once you've created your 3D masterpiece and aligned it using virtual measuring tools, save it and send it to your 3D plastic moulder/printer. "I would not see much of a market" - oh, I would.
I dunno, even the Greeks had the classical 4 elements, but tacked up "Ether" to account for the Sun, the Moon, and life.
You're not using Firefox 2? Shame on you!
FTS: We all know that the five elements that comprise the human and the world are called the "Paanchbhootas".
Of course we do.
Yes, "tubes" is alright if you're using it as an analogy to explain congestion of a single server. He was using it to imply that when there's so much high-media content on the internet, it makes the entire internet slow.
That's why people are harsh on it - he used the wrong analogy, in the wrong situation, pushing an unpopular viewpoint.
I just suffered the same fate as many who read that comment you linked to.
Coke all over my screen. Damn you.
Are you implying that the inhabitants of Quebec are Trolls?
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Please check your sibling posts. Apple gives you a one-time get out of jail free card for re-downloading, and your music can be transferred from device to device a limited number of times.
Yes, it's still DRM, but it's better than what Channard implied.
That never works, especially here in England. One-way roads aplenty mean no inverse journeys.
Eunuchs, unix, close enough...
You are right if bare survival is your criterium of success. But I'd prefer to aim a little higher than that.
And you, along with anyone else, is free to try that -
but I am a player of Defcon, and understand that victory can mean less than 100,000 survivors.
Something repeatedly bothers me. We act like global warming caused by humans means the end of days, but surely the earth has undergone far more cataclysmic changes (such as after supervolcanoes), even during the lifespan of humanity, and we've lived to tell the tale?
Perhaps it's just now that we're so widely knowledgeable (if not intelligent) about our world at large, we realise just how many people will be outright fucked over by the coming changes. I'm sure humanity will survive, regardless of what happens. Anyone recall Daisyworld and biodiversity versus adverse conditions from biology class?