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Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? 202

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 19, 2009 @02:50AM from the precision-and-complexity dept.

An opinion piece on Gamasutra discusses how, in spite of the fancy new motion control systems that have come to console gaming, the PC's keyboard and mouse setup is still unreplaceable for many titles and genres. Quoting: "With over 100 keys to choose from (back of the box quotation right there), the possibilities are near endless, if you start to think of shift and control functions altering the purpose of keys. It means that, when the developers start to make their game, they don't have to worry about the limitations of the interface, knowing that, if all else fails, they can always assign the compass to K, even if that's a bit of a stretch to all but the pianists. The keyboard is the friend of ambition, and ArmA 2 is the testament to that, in all its surrealist, broken glory. ... It's the same reason RTS games have found a home on the PC for so long, able to use the skills people accumulate moving around windows and clicking on icons to command troops and manipulate their battle lines. Developers taking advantage of what we already know to teach us something we don't is what gaming is all about."

Comment LHC still important (Score 5, Funny) 397

by haleyeah on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:30AM (#26885347) Attached to: Race For the "God Particle" Heats Up

Yeah, but can the tevatron create black holes or rip the fabric of the time/space continuum? GO CERN!

Comment Re:Goodness, what trash (Score 1) 358

by haleyeah on Monday June 02, 2008 @10:23AM (#23626613) Attached to: China's All-Seeing Eye

I hadn't thought of the oil spikes affecting global distribution networks. Could this along with weak growth in the largest importing countries stall out the boom in the emerging markets? Starvation is a key motivator in political unrest. There is already unrest in some areas of China and India from those left out of the boom(80 or 90% of the populace). It won't be just there, in the US negative real wage growth and higher food and energy prices are squeezing the life out of the majority of the labor pool. Capital is increasingly being concentrated unto a new class of the hyper-rich. I see a threat of instability and chaos emerging along with the threat of an Orwellian totalitarian regime. Interesting times indeed.

Submission + - Spam botnet Achilles' heel found (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

amigoro

on Monday August 06, 2007 @02:23PM

amigoro writes: "While hundreds or thousands of compromised computers may be used to relay spam to users, most scams are hosted by individual Web servers and killing a single scam server or a spammer redirect will disable an entire botnet spam campaign, computer scientists from the UC San Diego have found."

Submission + - Recovering a Wrecked RAID

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Friday February 23, 2007 @10:14AM

Dr. Eggman writes: Tom's Hardware recently posted this article specifying how the professionals at Kroll Ontrack recover data from a RAID array that has suffered a hard drive failure, allowing for recovery of even RAID 5 arrays suffering two failures. The article is quick to warn this is costly, however, and points out the different types of hard drive failures that occure, some of which are repairable. Ultimatly the article concludes that consistant backups and other good practices are the best solution. Still, it provides an interesting look into the world of data after death.

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