I wonder what's the average conversion rate. Usually not all who pirate buy the game anyway. How about demo downloads versus purchases? It's a neat trick they pulled, but I think some context would be nice.
Context from this example will be useless as it will be offset by people who do download the pirated version simply because of the press it's getting, regardless of actual interest in the game.
...We may just end up having to revive the virtually-extinct trades of shoe-shine boys, gas station attendants, bank tellers and so forth, just to have something to do.
This technology could cause accidents by people assuming the safety function is operational, similar to when electric carving knives were introduced they had a pressure activated on switch on the blade.
It may also lead to the assumption that a gun is safe when it can still accidentally fire for other reasons inherent in a firearms mechanism.
Not to mention that a gun "keyed" to it's owner and used (or fired) in a crime will be used to lock up the owner because "only he" could fire it. What's the software platform anyway, Java?
... If they respond to a noise complaint, which doesn't even require a warrant, then see a bag of weed on the table when you open the door, they absolutely can enter your home, seize the drugs and arrest you....
Which is why it is often a good idea to open the door as narrowly as possible, step out, and close the door behind you when dealing with the police. I've seen lawyers (in real life, not CSI) do this same thing, not that they had anything to hide, but they know how to deal with the police. If the police looking for a reason to get in, for whatever motive, taking away their viewpoint can limit their ability to do so legally.
It can't match 1:1 to the screen. There is no eye tracking, which would be required for proper eye-hand-screen coordination.
Sony managed to be first to patent a combo with eye tracking, however.
of course, I forgot the eye-tracking, but with the web-cams these things come with, it wouldn't be out of reach...
You may not have noticed, but I know all that. I was just reacting to the GP's insinuation that this has anything to do with exposing anything blood-related to solar radiation.
Your fault for responding to AC without quoting. He got down-modded below most of our filters.
Try telling that to the guy who has to keep that HCPV cell running...
The heat conductor actually doesn't care where the heat came from, or whether or not it passed through a PV cell on its way. In the same vein, the PV cell doesn't care how the heat is dissipated, as long as it is done somehow. Engineers usually call this "mix-and-match approach".
Somehow I don't think that this has actually anything to do with solar power at all...if this stuff is actually "inspired by the hierarchical branched blood supply system of the human body", it's probably just something like street hierarchy, only applied to heat flow instead of car traffic.
It's a cooling system for a HCPV solar cell. Instead of just releasing the heat into the air, they made use of it, similar to CSP solutions. In doing so they've combined 2 products into one and they get more energy out of the same installation.
It doesn't matter where does the heat come from.
Try telling that to the guy who has to keep that HCPV cell running...
Should we really give them another chance on a new product, when there are alternatives??
Depends on the alternatives, and intended use. While HP has made some mis-steps, I'd still put their hardware over most of their competitors, and right along-side the rest. The leap motion *could* be a great product for artists. I'm wondering how it could implement with autodesk's sketchbook, google's sketchup, Zbrush, 3DS Max, etc. This plus a wacom tablet could offer quite a few methods of creative expression. In time we will see how widely it is supported, and that will be the difference maker.
I'm picturing a 17 inch HP Envy with an integrated Leap sensor just past the trackpad. If it can calibrate 1-to-1 with the screen and be supported by the software I use, that would be a hell of an incentive for me to upgrade.
Only if all fingers are currently present and visible, or all have been present (and externally identified, either using manual calibration or an additional camera and some sort of classifier) at once and the remaining fingers have been continuously visible since (no occlusions), and the hand has not changed orientation. Forming a fist and then extending a single finger would prevent identification.
...and we could all guess which finger that would be.
I believe, at this point, I am legally permitted, by the great State of Florida, to dope-slap the both of you. Not only am I permitted to do so, I may be legally required as well, something I am not about to question. Please turn around.
That's no dope slap!
Overhead:
Why does this dope slap feel like a prostate exam with your hands on my shoulders?
How sad it must be to run Motorola and see all of your hard work at developing the company basically turn in to a multibillion dollar patent portfolio.
FYI Motorola still sell phones...and some good ones. Keep your eye out for the Xphone it might just be your next smartphone:)
I'm still waiting for the Google Pinball machine. Motorola made some good ones in the day.
If Google was allowed to cheat the User Agent when crawling, those websites could be hidden to the users. Those infected sites I found were not listed as malware on Google.
Soooo, you're saying that Google was unable to find malware because their indexing agent didn't advertise itself as IE. By that logic, Google would be missing more malware on it's scan, and therefore would be serving MORE malware infested sites as top/high results to search queries? But the article is saying that Bing is serving more malware, and by definition finding and filtering out less of it than Google.
Logic fail or reading fail? Either way, read and try again...
Says the UID that came approximately 41 million signups after mine...you need to be here longer before you can use that statement. Honestly, you must be new here =D
This isn't about successfully searching for malware, this is about failing to filter compromised or hostile websites out of your search results. It's about Google topping Bing at that filtering.
Slashdot Mirror
As in Jeff Bridges in TRON? That's what this laser beam thing reminds me of. (but you probably mean the bifrost from Thor)
Note the subject. Light bridges are a common occurrence in many sci-fi/futuristic games.
Of course the first thing to be made out of light would be bridges...
Just don't load the pink scorpion.
Good advice for anyone in a relationship...
Here's a forum about this with screencaps: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550032 They show that in the first day 6,4% were genuine versions and the rest were pirated copies.
I wonder what's the average conversion rate. Usually not all who pirate buy the game anyway. How about demo downloads versus purchases? It's a neat trick they pulled, but I think some context would be nice.
Context from this example will be useless as it will be offset by people who do download the pirated version simply because of the press it's getting, regardless of actual interest in the game.
"Apache Backdoor in the Wild"
Am I the only one who initially pictured a rear entrance to a teepee in the countryside?
And when those who provide, create and actually work refuse to give those who are lazy and do nothing the fruits of their efforts what then?
You mean the robots? Either they become sentient, rise up and kill us ; or they keep blindly churning out manufactured goods.
You seem to think those outcomes are exclusive of each other...
...We may just end up having to revive the virtually-extinct trades of shoe-shine boys, gas station attendants, bank tellers and so forth, just to have something to do.
Oregon and New Jersey seem to agree...
But incomes went up.
Yes, but for whom?
This technology could cause accidents by people assuming the safety function is operational, similar to when electric carving knives were introduced they had a pressure activated on switch on the blade. It may also lead to the assumption that a gun is safe when it can still accidentally fire for other reasons inherent in a firearms mechanism.
Not to mention that a gun "keyed" to it's owner and used (or fired) in a crime will be used to lock up the owner because "only he" could fire it. What's the software platform anyway, Java?
... If they respond to a noise complaint, which doesn't even require a warrant, then see a bag of weed on the table when you open the door, they absolutely can enter your home, seize the drugs and arrest you. ...
Which is why it is often a good idea to open the door as narrowly as possible, step out, and close the door behind you when dealing with the police. I've seen lawyers (in real life, not CSI) do this same thing, not that they had anything to hide, but they know how to deal with the police. If the police looking for a reason to get in, for whatever motive, taking away their viewpoint can limit their ability to do so legally.
It can't match 1:1 to the screen. There is no eye tracking, which would be required for proper eye-hand-screen coordination. Sony managed to be first to patent a combo with eye tracking, however.
of course, I forgot the eye-tracking, but with the web-cams these things come with, it wouldn't be out of reach...
You may not have noticed, but I know all that. I was just reacting to the GP's insinuation that this has anything to do with exposing anything blood-related to solar radiation.
Your fault for responding to AC without quoting. He got down-modded below most of our filters.
Try telling that to the guy who has to keep that HCPV cell running...
The heat conductor actually doesn't care where the heat came from, or whether or not it passed through a PV cell on its way. In the same vein, the PV cell doesn't care how the heat is dissipated, as long as it is done somehow. Engineers usually call this "mix-and-match approach".
...and you miss at sarcasm too.
If one woman can have a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can have a baby in one month, right?...
I'm sorry, this is slashdot. You must include an obligatory car analogy to get your point across.
Somehow I don't think that this has actually anything to do with solar power at all...if this stuff is actually "inspired by the hierarchical branched blood supply system of the human body", it's probably just something like street hierarchy, only applied to heat flow instead of car traffic.
It's a cooling system for a HCPV solar cell. Instead of just releasing the heat into the air, they made use of it, similar to CSP solutions. In doing so they've combined 2 products into one and they get more energy out of the same installation.
It doesn't matter where does the heat come from.
Try telling that to the guy who has to keep that HCPV cell running...
Should we really give them another chance on a new product, when there are alternatives??
Depends on the alternatives, and intended use. While HP has made some mis-steps, I'd still put their hardware over most of their competitors, and right along-side the rest. The leap motion *could* be a great product for artists. I'm wondering how it could implement with autodesk's sketchbook, google's sketchup, Zbrush, 3DS Max, etc. This plus a wacom tablet could offer quite a few methods of creative expression. In time we will see how widely it is supported, and that will be the difference maker.
I'm picturing a 17 inch HP Envy with an integrated Leap sensor just past the trackpad. If it can calibrate 1-to-1 with the screen and be supported by the software I use, that would be a hell of an incentive for me to upgrade.
Only if all fingers are currently present and visible, or all have been present (and externally identified, either using manual calibration or an additional camera and some sort of classifier) at once and the remaining fingers have been continuously visible since (no occlusions), and the hand has not changed orientation. Forming a fist and then extending a single finger would prevent identification.
...and we could all guess which finger that would be.
Weeeeeee, good old end of the day mistake to make me look like a tard =D
I believe, at this point, I am legally permitted, by the great State of Florida, to dope-slap the both of you. Not only am I permitted to do so, I may be legally required as well, something I am not about to question. Please turn around.
That's no dope slap!
Overhead:
Why does this dope slap feel like a prostate exam with your hands on my shoulders?
>> Sounds like a sensible response from the judge
Nope. He could and should have just thrown out all claims from both sides.
Meh, this way, they can't immediately re-file. I disagree.
How sad it must be to run Motorola and see all of your hard work at developing the company basically turn in to a multibillion dollar patent portfolio.
FYI Motorola still sell phones...and some good ones. Keep your eye out for the Xphone it might just be your next smartphone :)
I'm still waiting for the Google Pinball machine. Motorola made some good ones in the day.
Their share holders wont be alive then. As its Apple's responsibility to maximise return to share holders then they cannot possibly wait that long.
Apple's? Maybe.
The Judge's? Absolutely not.
If Google was allowed to cheat the User Agent when crawling, those websites could be hidden to the users. Those infected sites I found were not listed as malware on Google.
Soooo, you're saying that Google was unable to find malware because their indexing agent didn't advertise itself as IE. By that logic, Google would be missing more malware on it's scan, and therefore would be serving MORE malware infested sites as top/high results to search queries? But the article is saying that Bing is serving more malware, and by definition finding and filtering out less of it than Google.
Logic fail or reading fail? Either way, read and try again...
(you must be new here)
Says the UID that came approximately 41 million signups after mine...you need to be here longer before you can use that statement. Honestly, you must be new here =D
Wait, you released a Digital Novel about my Wang?
Technically it was a "short story".
Darth Vader voice: All too easy...
Also:
...and admittedly small percentage of websites."
editing plz?