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Nintendo Trying To Win Back Core Gamers With Wii U 223

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:04AM from the modern-warfare-yoshi's-revenge dept.

Speaking at a shareholder meeting yesterday, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata discussed the company's goals for the Wii's successor, which aims to pick up the subset of gamers turned off by imprecise motion control. He said, "Wii was not accepted by core gamers because they did not want to abandon their preferred control approach. Additionally, Wii did not use HD because HD cost/performance at the time was low. Wii U makes it easier to use conventional controls. Also, the Wii U controller is not as big or heavy as it looks." Earlier comments from Shigeru Miyamoto indicate the new console will have more to offer in terms of online capabilities, but Nintendo isn't going to focus too heavily on that.

Comment Link to the CEO's PhD thesis... (Score 1) 155

by karbonKid on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @06:55PM (#36536056) Attached to: Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting

...which explains the tech and its application in wonderful detail. http://www.lytro.com/renng-thesis.pdf

Comment Re:all those platforms are yours... (Score 1) 296

by karbonKid on Monday April 05, 2010 @10:40AM (#31733708) Attached to: Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base

Speaking as a self-confessed 'psuedo-programmer artist type', I can say that those tools definitely are available in the form of Processing.

Comment Re:Is the Airflow OK? (Score 2, Insightful) 101

by karbonKid on Thursday June 11, 2009 @09:35PM (#28303261) Attached to: Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings

However, I do wonder about the airflow

The floor of the case above forms the roof of the case below when mounted in a rack. Airflow problem solved. IIRC, Google was the first to implement this.

Comment You don't say... (Score 1) 319

by karbonKid on Saturday April 25, 2009 @04:57PM (#27715985) Attached to: The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict

"The Pirate Party now surpasses in size four smaller parties in Sweden" In other news, reseachers find that bigger mugs can hold more coffee..."

Comment Finally??? (Score 4, Informative) 180

by karbonKid on Friday March 27, 2009 @06:41PM (#27364797) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Now In Beta

"Finally, someone has broken the 25+ year old too-many-open-windows-and-chaos desktop paradigm with UNR's task oriented layout."

Umm... tiling window managers have been around longer than non-tiling ones. You can blame apple for making windows overlappable. The 'task-oriented layout' is nothing new or innovative - see wmii, awesome, xmonad, dwm, etc. etc. (even fluxbox, with its 'tabs', actually) for examples of modern X11 window managers that offer similar functionality, plus much more...

Personally, I started using wmii a few months back and haven't looked back since.

Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 381

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @11:01AM from the mine-started-before-that dept.

krou writes "The BBC is reporting that a new study suggests that our mental abilities start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, and 27 could be seen as the 'start of old age.' The seven-year study, by Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia, looked at 2,000 healthy people aged 18-60, and used a number of mental agility tests already used to spot signs of dementia. 'The first age at which there was any marked decline was at 27 in tests of brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability. Things like memory stayed intact until the age of 37, on average, while abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.'"

Comment Re:Best KDE 3.5 distro? (Score 1) 386

by karbonKid on Sunday February 15, 2009 @07:06AM (#26862177) Attached to: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released

Umm.. what about slackware?

Comment Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score 1) 1055

by karbonKid on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @06:50AM (#26446187) Attached to: How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out?

Only because the person decided to begin spending beyond their means. Taxes are not at fault here, poor money-management is...

I fail to see how the 'Government is holding them down', when they _know_ (or at least have the means to find out) how much they will be taxed, but still decide to drive themselves further into debt.

Comment "anti-vibration" damping?? (Score 1) 125

by karbonKid on Friday January 02, 2009 @07:37AM (#26298507) Attached to: Why Not To Shout At Your Disk Array

Having seen this, I wonder what effect the 'anti-vibration' rubber grommets that are used on most modern desktop PC hard drive bays have on disk latency. After all, they stop vibrations being transmitted into the case my allowing the HDD itself to vibrate more and damping the movement as it reaches the case. Of course, having the HDD vibrate of its own accord is much better than having it resonate with another component in the case, so perhaps in some cases, the damping is beneficial to latency aswell.

In fact, I'm surprised that no-one has come up with a case in which all parts have a natural frequency that does not coincide with the speeds of modern hard disks, such that the case will vibrate with HDDs, but not resonate, which is where most sound problems (the reason for damping in the first place) come from.

Comment Re:CDs are still readable (Score 2, Informative) 805

by karbonKid on Friday June 20, 2008 @05:11PM (#23879125) Attached to: Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years?

From what I can discern from this, it seems that even if 'CD rot' does affect certain CDs, all of these CDS are of the pressed, as opposed to burnt, variety. AFAIK, there have been no reports of Philips CD-Rs failing in a similar way, and the manufacturing (including the data pressing/burning process) methods for both types of disc are different enough to rule it out as a cause for concern, aren't they?

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