8th June 2009, 1:51 PM
But you're in a 3d world. Wouldn't you much prefer being able to move with much finer precision instead of just 8 absolute directions and absolute speeds? I can imagine a lot of accidental deaths due to not being able to cross that board at the right angle.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)