Plane of NonConformity

Thanks to everyone who submitted a question a couple of days ago for this month's shareholder's meeting. 41 questions... 41 answers.

  V-USB http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html sw3dprousb (aka 3DP-Vert) Google Code project -  http://code.google.com/p/sw3dprousb/ Teensy - http://www.pjrc.com   Reverse Engineering the Force Feedback Pro - http://www.descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19061  adapt-ffb-joy ...

  KeyBoard Encoders: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Keyboard_Encoders Cockpit Building Tips: http://www.hanskrohn.com/start.htm DIY USB converter for Sidewinder 3D Pro: http://www.descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=15526 http://grendel.koolbear.com/3dpro.htm

Microsoft has made some great improvements to the Interface on the Xbox 360.  I had written an outline of what I thought made a great Xbox game back in 2004 when Xbox Live had been out about a year and a half.   A few of the items on that list have been fixed with the blade interface on the 360, but some are still left up to the individual ...

Video games just don't hold the same appeal this days compared to a couple years ago.   I still play my Xbox everyday but some days I only play a few minutes to keep my streak going on 360voice.  Rock Band has been the only recent game to hold my interest for more then a few months.   I feel like there is almost too many games out there.   My ...

I was looking through Windows Vista's control panel what state today and I found windows Vista's speech recognition.  It just took me 20 minutes to write the first sentence with it.  It looks like the second sentence only took a minute. This sucks.

A personal project, GamerScoreGoal.com, that I have been working involves tracking Xbox live GamerScore.  One of my personal favorite Xbox sites is 360voice.com where your Xbox 360 blogs about your playing habits.  360 voice has an API set including one that returns the GamerScore history for a particular Gamertag. I ended up building a ...

As you may have noticed GamerScoreGoal.com was updated last Saturday, January 19th.  There are quite a few changes most noticeable is the new site theme and the updated user profile, but most of the work was again concentrated on less visible areas of the site.    I have updated the code base from .Net 2.0 to .Net 3.5 to take advantage of LINQ ...

It's just not my month for gaming hardware.   Since my Xbox is out I though I would fire up the Wii.   When I did I couldn't point to the left hand side of the screen.   I would move the cursor from right to left and right in the middle of the screen it would just disappear like there was an obstruction between the wiimote and sensor ...