17th September 2005, 12:49 AM
There is no shame in copying what works N_A. You act like them recognizing a good thing when they see it and adapting it themselves is actually a sign of weakness. What would you say if everyone REFUSED to copy it? That's like saying copying the horseless carriage would be shameful, or copying the lightbulb. Well, not to that degree... Okay, more like copying the mouse. Adapt or be left behind.
ABF, about the NES thing? That's what I SAID! You can't use those two buttons when it's held vertical so you hold it horizontal, but what then? Now you can't use the other buttons, and so what do you have, functionally? You have TWO buttons to use at any ONE time as opposed to FOUR. That's all I'm saying here. And, as I said, they can easily eliminate that one problem if they simply shrank down the size and made it sort of a... okay think painter's pallette but more rounded. What I'm thinking of here would let the thumb reach any of the buttons fairly easily. Okay, let me draw it crudely in paint in about 10 seconds...
ABF, about the NES thing? That's what I SAID! You can't use those two buttons when it's held vertical so you hold it horizontal, but what then? Now you can't use the other buttons, and so what do you have, functionally? You have TWO buttons to use at any ONE time as opposed to FOUR. That's all I'm saying here. And, as I said, they can easily eliminate that one problem if they simply shrank down the size and made it sort of a... okay think painter's pallette but more rounded. What I'm thinking of here would let the thumb reach any of the buttons fairly easily. Okay, let me draw it crudely in paint in about 10 seconds...
"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)