I used to build family and company PCs. I stopped when I realized they all expect lifetime service for free. Now my mom has a Dell, my sister has an Eee, my company has Macs, and they all have reasonably competent support organizations that aren't me.

I still roll my own though.

I imagine weapon switching working along the lines of the scrolling seen in the video. You use one hand to aim and shoot and the other for "swishing" through your weapons. Activating the sniper scope could be your arms-in-a-different-position scenario.

It's the movement I'm tripping over. Would you lean to strafe? Twist at the hip to turn? Simply nod your head to change view angle? Voice commands would be good too, for things that are trivial with mouse & keyboard but would be ridiculously difficult with full-body motion. "180!" "Rocket jump!"

Damn. Now I'm looking forward to a Natal FPS.

I honestly haven't seen a 60hz LCD for years. My four-year-old Samsungs are running at 75hz, and current nicer TVs run at 120hz.
 
/takes off pedantic hat

It's a Russian doll kinda thing. Ballot in one envelope (with zero voter info). That envelope in another (with voter info). That envelope in another (with election address and stamp).

At the election board, outside envelope gets opened, first inside envelope gets recorded as having voted (because you have a right to know if you got counted). Second inside envelope (with secret ballot still inside) gets bundled with hundreds or thousands of others before being handled again, opened, and scanned.

Of course, there's nothing to stop them from saying they do that and doing something else.

Mod parent up. This is exactly what's needed - especially for the smaller programming teams. More games period (and therefore, statistically, more good games) can be made if the team can focus on the game itself, and just plug in graphics, physics, AI, etc APIs.

Granted, it's sortta been done. Things like DMM, Euphoria... they're getting closer for sure, but wow, TFU was disappointing.

http://dev.sharpercoding.com/maps/
So I went camping on the Oregon Coast a few weeks ago, and had a hell of a time finding the right campground.
While out there I had an idea to make my own 'google map hack' for showing campgrounds around the state (there were absolutly no drugs -- mushrooms -- involved in coming up with this idea, I swear ;))

So when I got home, I emailed oregonstateparks and got the info I needed to map out the campgrounds and stateparks all over the state. I want to eventually do this nationwide but haven't had time to work on it.

I used to have a "maps application" look to it, but since the official API came out, I just updated it so it actually worked again. Currently, I'm only showing a random 20 parks out of the 400 or so in the database.

I'd like to separate them out by region (north coast, portland metro, etc...) and also maybe map hiking trails via the polyline object.