Well, the fact that the President Elect is tweeting about it makes it news, regardless of the veracity of the documents to which he is responding.

I know that most Trump voters are not monsters, just dupes, like the people who don’t vaccinate their kids or got scammed by a guy in India who said he was from Microsoft and that he detected lots of IPs trying to hack their computer. I kind of feel like this cartoon best sums up the Trump voter:

I would say it is a little different though. It would be like a Jewish person being asked to help a client dressed in full Nazi regalia, except at least the Jewish person could probably refuse and claim that the situation was creating a hostile work environment and violating their religious rights.

Hey, it is a free country. The worst thing that could happen is that they get fired and make Donald Trump’s enemy list.

Oh, I agree with that but when you start throwing around terms like, “forced labor”, it becomes hyperbole. They are being required to perform by their employer as part of their job. That is a bit different than “forced labor”, which some have called it.

Please, it is not “forced labor” anymore than those Christian bakers who are “forced” to bake cakes for those “awful” gay weddings. Your employer has a right to ask you to perform the job you were hired for at their discretion and fire you if you fail to perform up to their standards so long as the law and your…

I sympathize with them, but I doubt that there will be any legal case, unless they have a contract that is favorable to them. Federal and State law generally allow that you can be asked to work and fired or otherwise disciplined if you fail to work, except in specific cases that are exempted by law (like reasonable…

I don’t think he understands the difference between modernizing and growing. The US military has increased its capabilities because it has modernized, not because it has grown.

There are other terms and conditions though that VW may be able to use to successfully argue in court that the car is ineligible, and judges are going to tend to look at the overall picture, including the entire terms of the contract and the intent when it was drafted. The fact that he acted in bad faith in order to…

Yeah, but going to court will cost them probably just as much and they might lose. UNLESS they really want to discourage this behavior because they think it will become common and costly, it does not make financial sense to take it to court.

Well, the courts take the intent of the two parties and whether they were acting in good faith into account, so I am not sure that he would win this case in court as he seems to be acting in bad faith. That being said, VW would probably settle anyway because the cost of defending the case in court is going to be more…

I mean, think about it. What are the settlement value of this car? $10K, certainly no more than $20K. How much would VW have to pay its lawyers to defend this case? Probably a minimum of $5K, and a lot more if he decides to take it to court and fight. They might initially reject his car, but if he sues, my guess…

If the “mass” component is “simulated”, then the controller is not doing anything since that is simulated purely in the software environment, so there would be no relevance in mentioning it. I mean, mass can be simulated in an NES game too when you push against an object using the D-pad. In-game physics has no…

“Right, but because it can track speed to such a precise degree, it can translate the speed of a swing into the force of a strike.”

I don’t think you understand what 1:1 tracking is. The Vive, for instance cannot track force. An example of a video game peripheral that tracks force is the Wii Balance Board. Also, FPS refers to how fast a still frame is rendered and has nothing to do with motion tracking. The only latency in either the Wiimote…

I used the Wiimote Plus to play skyward sword, the game seemed to have perfect relative 1:1 tracking to me. The Wiimote Plus had the ability to distinguish linear motion from acceleration.

I’m not sure what you mean 1:1 tracking then. The accelerometers were precise enough to exactly track relative motion so that once it was calibrated, it was incredibly accurate at tracking the relative motion of the controller in games like Skyward Sword.

What you want is frankly unhealthful. Sitting down and playing games is literally taking years off our lives. Motion control and VR has the potential to turn a growing form of entertainment (video games) into something healthful.

Not the original, but the motion plus did. It worked very well for certain types of games, like first person shooters or to represent swinging a sword, golf club, et cetera as it was natural and intuitive. However, it also got shoehorned into a lot of games that had limited benefit.

I think it comes down to maturity. The Wii was great, but it was an early entry. They had to release a more advanced controller to create more fully motion-controlled environments like those in Skyward Sword, and it was a very good experience. The Xbox 1's Kinetic was another big leap forward, and so is the PS VR.