The SDK for the xbox version of the Kinect does not contain a commercial license. While all you guys (and myself) are having fun hacking things and making cool homebrew stuff, the industry R&D guys get left out! The windows version comes with a commercial license. I work for a small consulting firm and currently have a project where the customer has asked us to use Kinect sensors to develop a proof of concept for a larger scale application that demonstrates human machine interaction. Now we can tell them that we can pursue this and deploy things legally.
I have cox as well. Tell them you went online and found a $45/mo for the premier service (20Mb). I found the deal online awhile back and it has worked for me three times in the past three years (I have moved each year and changed the plan between roommates for various reasons). Not to the point of TFA, but hopefully helpful for you.
The University of Texas in Austin is perennially ranked among the top engineering institutions in the country. I think you are trying a little too hard to blindly spew ignorant generalizations.
agreed. what makes this worthy of slashdot? I recently helped high school kids implement some A/D conversion for a senior project. And they even transmitted the data wirelessly. Perhaps this demonstration at the local vo-tech deserves national acclaim?
agreed. the mention of superconductivity in the blurb is nothing more than using buzz words in a technically correct manner though graphene is not being touted as a superconductor.
The software is LabView from National Instruments in Austin, TX. If you contact them they would probably give you at least one cd for free. I'm interning with them in the summer. LabView is a visual programming language that they sell with the fact that you don't have to get so worried about the little details i.e. semicolons in the wrong place and such.
wouldn't simply requiring two photos fix this problem. A frontal view and a profile. How many magazines are going to have mug shots? The two pictures would also be compared against each other to ensure that the backgrounds are congruent.
As a recent high school graduate (2006) I was in high school during NCLB. I do not see the program as having destroyed any meaningful civic curriculum because there never really was one to begin with. Sure the government and history teachers present the material, but as Enderandrew mentioned the parents can't stand to see a child failing or even falling short of perfection. This leads to great pressure on the teachers from parents and the school to pass all the students and inflate grades. The only thing that NCLB had done to change this is to add another source of pressure on the teachers to inflate grades. I was speaking with one of the government teachers the year after I had graduated. During this conversation he described the government teachers meeting to decide the curve on the test that all the government kids have to take due to NCLB and the driving factor was not what is a true cutoff, but how low can they make the req's for an A in order to maximize the overall results. They aren't even attempting to kid themselves into thinking it's not blatant grade inflation.
NCLB doesn't provide a basis level of education, it ties the hands of the teachers from actually being able to focus on learning. They only have time to focus on the test because so much rides upon these standardized tests. You can see similar effects in the AP program, however the kids on that track are usually motivated harder working students, and the 'test' that is taught in AP is much more encompassing. Putting so much focus on these tests just serves to lower the standard to the test rather than setting a basis to start from.
The high school I attended was in an affluent suburb, and in one of the better districts in the state. If this is happening in the "good" school districts imagine what is happening in the "bad" ones.
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The SDK for the xbox version of the Kinect does not contain a commercial license. While all you guys (and myself) are having fun hacking things and making cool homebrew stuff, the industry R&D guys get left out! The windows version comes with a commercial license. I work for a small consulting firm and currently have a project where the customer has asked us to use Kinect sensors to develop a proof of concept for a larger scale application that demonstrates human machine interaction. Now we can tell them that we can pursue this and deploy things legally.
The weight of the internet has been estimated: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2057018/Internet-weighs-strawberry.html
I have cox as well. Tell them you went online and found a $45/mo for the premier service (20Mb). I found the deal online awhile back and it has worked for me three times in the past three years (I have moved each year and changed the plan between roommates for various reasons). Not to the point of TFA, but hopefully helpful for you.
The University of Texas in Austin is perennially ranked among the top engineering institutions in the country. I think you are trying a little too hard to blindly spew ignorant generalizations.
agreed. what makes this worthy of slashdot? I recently helped high school kids implement some A/D conversion for a senior project. And they even transmitted the data wirelessly. Perhaps this demonstration at the local vo-tech deserves national acclaim?
agreed. the mention of superconductivity in the blurb is nothing more than using buzz words in a technically correct manner though graphene is not being touted as a superconductor.
The software is LabView from National Instruments in Austin, TX. If you contact them they would probably give you at least one cd for free. I'm interning with them in the summer. LabView is a visual programming language that they sell with the fact that you don't have to get so worried about the little details i.e. semicolons in the wrong place and such.
wouldn't simply requiring two photos fix this problem. A frontal view and a profile. How many magazines are going to have mug shots? The two pictures would also be compared against each other to ensure that the backgrounds are congruent.
buried as redundant.
As a recent high school graduate (2006) I was in high school during NCLB. I do not see the program as having destroyed any meaningful civic curriculum because there never really was one to begin with. Sure the government and history teachers present the material, but as Enderandrew mentioned the parents can't stand to see a child failing or even falling short of perfection. This leads to great pressure on the teachers from parents and the school to pass all the students and inflate grades. The only thing that NCLB had done to change this is to add another source of pressure on the teachers to inflate grades. I was speaking with one of the government teachers the year after I had graduated. During this conversation he described the government teachers meeting to decide the curve on the test that all the government kids have to take due to NCLB and the driving factor was not what is a true cutoff, but how low can they make the req's for an A in order to maximize the overall results. They aren't even attempting to kid themselves into thinking it's not blatant grade inflation. NCLB doesn't provide a basis level of education, it ties the hands of the teachers from actually being able to focus on learning. They only have time to focus on the test because so much rides upon these standardized tests. You can see similar effects in the AP program, however the kids on that track are usually motivated harder working students, and the 'test' that is taught in AP is much more encompassing. Putting so much focus on these tests just serves to lower the standard to the test rather than setting a basis to start from. The high school I attended was in an affluent suburb, and in one of the better districts in the state. If this is happening in the "good" school districts imagine what is happening in the "bad" ones.