Lets start with This Guy, which happens to work for Microsoft now.
Now considering that Kinect can track depth and location relative to Kinect placement, which is usually under the TV, it should be trivial to do the above head tracking minus the special headgear. In Fact, I would be surprised if a game doesn't do this with Kinect sometime in the future to simulate glasses free 3D that works on any TV. Now I know that Webcams now can do this (the droid does site is a real world example) but since they cant measure depth like Kinect, the effect isn't as eye popping like it is in the Johnny Lee video.
Now imagine this on your PC. I can't imagine Microsoft missing an opportunity to make more money selling a Kinect for PC's sometime in the future, but then again, it's been over three years and I still can't use the Xbox 360 chatpad on my PC.
From the article, it says that it won't pop up unless you either have no AV product, or the AV product is expired. And even then, you have to manually browse windows update to see optional updates.
It's not like you're going to turn on your PC, and all of a sudden it's on there out of the blue.
It's a gimmick. There's no gigantic artificial whole-town sun or anything. Certainly nothing "ultimate"
Actually, I find it ironic, that Phillips, a Leading Light bulb Manufacture, can't do an artificial sun, but Tropicana, An Orange Juice manufacture, can.
I don't block ads because I hate ads, I block them because I hate These.
I don't trust Ad firms. Especially when most of them will take anybody's money that waves in front of their face and distribute their infected Flash/JavaScript file without question, and the rest get tricked into running them. Considering that a rogueware firm can buy tons of ads with just one fake antivirus buy, I trust them even less.
The day ad firms decided to allow flash and scripts in ads was the day they asked to be blocked.
Actually it's pretty interesting that it's Gene Simmons of KISS bashing Music Pirates, Especially since KISS merchandise is such a substantial portion of their sales, if not more than album sales itself at this point.
Last time I checked, it's still pretty hard to use the internet to pirate a KISS action figure.
On top of this, it's going to be more expensive than it's competitors.
Fully loaded, with absolutely every option you can add to a Prius from the factory (At least when I built one on Toyota's site), it costs $36795, and can be easily retrofitted to work similar to the Volt's powertrain since the Prius powertrain already has an electric only mode built in. (albeit, not with the same range or power, or with a plug)
The Chevy Volt is reported to start at $41000, and is $44600 fully loaded.
Yes I know there's a tax credit that will knock $7500 off the price, but that only lasts until they build 200,000 cars. After that the credit starts phasing itself out.
Considering that what made this car special is now proven to be just another hybrid in a sea of hybrids, and an expensive one at that, There's a good chance that the Volt will be GM's Edsel.
the idea of a car carrying both gas/electric makes zero sense.
Actually it makes perfect sense even in the future.
Right now, the technology isn't practical to make an electric vehicle get equal range and equal refilling speed to an gasoline car, but even when that time comes, you're going to still want some form of generator in the car. The difference however is that the generator will be much smaller and used solely for emergency recharging only, specifically if your battery drops out before you get to a refilling station. You can pull over to the side, start the emergency generator, wait 30 minutes and get back on the road to find the closest refilling station.
In this particular scenario, the generator wouldn't have more gas than your typical push mower, and may not be used for years at a time, if ever. It can also use cleaner burning fuels such as alcohol. Also depending on technological advances, even this could be replaced with something akin to a hydrogen fuel cell if the technology achieves the same fuel density, weight and size of a small combustion engine and generator combination.
Very effective and it has the added benefit of dropping IT dept stress dramatically, Although the Housekeeping dept. seems to beg to differ for some reason.
The PSP GO is a failure because Sony wants it to fail. I mean seriously, what would you want? the PSP 3000, that can play all PSP (UMD and PSN) games and costs $170, or the PSP GO, which can only play PSN games, leaving out a majority of UMD only titles that the 3000 can play, and costs $250?
If they priced the PSP Go around $100 and offered a majority (if not all) of the UMD library on PSN, they wouldn't be able to keep it in stock. Hell, just changing the price point alone would make it sell like gangbusters, UMD games or not.
While I can somewhat understand the cost logistics of having an upgradable processor via software. what no one seems to be talking about here is the downgrading of processors.
For example, What stops someone from making a Ransomware that disables the full functionality of your high end processor that you have paid for and won't reverse it until you pay them $50? Now that I think about it, I'm amazed that this hasn't happened already, since hyper-threading and cores can be disabled at the BIOS level, but at least in those cases you clean the virus, reset the bios and your back to normal. A CPU lock or a BIOS lock that you can't adjust would make this permanent.
Then there's board replacement. Lets say you buy one of these systems and upgrade it, then the board fails. Since most likely this is a Bios lock, swapping the board would swap the bios and disable the chip again. does that mean another $50 bucks to Intel? I doubt that the program that unlocks processors could be used more than once.
It's things like this that makes me glad I bought AMD
I've seen estimates from 200-10000 years depending on how close you are from the reactor.
What I don't understand, is why isn't this area used to build more nuclear reactors? It's not like there's anyone there to scream NIMBY, or that it'll be a bigger disaster if another reactor goes boom, which shouldn't happen if they use a modern reactor design. The only issue I see is employee safety, and that could be virtually eliminated given a reactor that is designed to shield the workers from the outside excess radiation.
Unfortunately today, Ti is more concerned about sales vs functionality, and the NSpire is the pinnacle of this philosophy.
Ti's focus is to sell NSpires directly to high schools, so when they ask high schools what they want in a calculator, the first thing they say is "Not a Gameboy" and the 2nd is "use it on ACT/SAT" Stripping the program functionality solves problem #1 and a standardzed test mode called Press to test solves Problem #2.
Now not all of this is Ti's fault. Standardized tests are unbelievably strict when it comes to their test taking procedures. I'm currently the test administrator for our college's ACT's compass college placement test system. ACT requires you to first install a special lockdown browser to your system which administers the test and register the MAC address of your computer systems to ACT. During the test, you must supply scratch paper which you must collect and destroy once the test is complete. They also want students to only use supplied pencils and not their own. All electronic devices must not be visible before, during and after the test, this also includes calculators, since ACT requires the only calculator used is the on screen calculator. Now I know Why ACT requires this stuff (to protect their test & minimize cheating) but if these are the requirements that they have for this system it has to be even more strict for the pen and paper ACT. Now imagine that Ti want's their calculators in on these tests.
It's a shame that Ti has all but abandoned the Engineering / College math market. The Ti-89/92 series was an excellent calculator and it's a shame that they still do more then the nspire, especially when the nspire has so much processing power to burn. For what it's worth, Ti is fixated on keeping the 82 series around with rehashes (83/84/+/etc) until the end of time, while phasing out their more capable models (the 85/86 and 89/92 variants) and replacing them with inferior models (such as the Nspire).
With my droid, I found that I have to restart the phone once in awhile because the performance would get noticeably slow. Also, the browser in 2.0 had an annoying bug where it would turn on the GPS and leave it on even if is wasn't on screen. Nothing like looking at your phone only to find out the battery was dead. They fixed the browser issue in 2.1 but I would force the GPS off until I needed it for just this bug. If it had WebOS's multitasking or no multitasking, this would never be an issue since the OS itself is designed to either handle multitasking in a intuitive manner, or not at all.
while I agree with Vista and their mobile phone strategy, They were ahead of the netbook and tablet curve with the UMPC concepts. The problem is that they gave up on the tablet concept just as the netbook started getting cheap enough to get people interested in UMPC's. They also had some interesting Handheld PC systems back in the 90's, but they were way ahead of their time and never caught on.
At this point though, No one has a good IPad competitor strategy. if they did we would see other tablets by now. All we see is vaporware and "coming soon" signs.
As for Windows Phone 7, Multitasking is overrated. The only OS doing multitasking right is WebOS. The other run into batery issues and memory errors. At least with WebOS, when you run on of ram you just simply flick the cards away. Copy and paste, however, should be an option, or at least have an interesting concept to replace it Ala the MS Kin.
Speaking of Kin, That's a great example of Microsoft dropping the ball. If they were serious about making that phone sell, they would have included a Zune Pass with your Phone service. That would give you access to the entire Zune library anytime and anywhere on your phone. I know parents that would buy the Kin for that alone so they don't have to dump hundreds of dollars in the ITunes store so their kid can listen to the Justin Bieber song of the week.
Right. They've already made their position clear by refusing to even discuss when they'll be fixing it. Give them 60 days and they'll probably simply arrange for a nice smear campaign about how you're trying to use the vulnerability to extort them
Yeah, kinda like what MS is doing now, except not only Microsoft but the Entire Security Industry is smearing him.
At least if he waited 60 days the Security Industry would blame MS for sitting on the exploit report for two months.
PS: Don't try to justify a idiotic stunt with Microsoft hate. If this guy pulled this stunt with any other OS, Slashdot would be pulling out the torches and pitchforks (as they should) and you know it.
Then give MS an ultimatum that you'll release the exploit in 60 days if they ignore it. It gives you the same result you were looking for and reduces the chance of a wild exploit.
Giving them 5 days to set a priority on an exploit when they have to deal with hundreds, if not thousands of exploit reports per patch cycle, then releasing exploit code because you didn't like the answer they gave you is not helping your case, Microsoft, or the internet for that matter.
Like I said in a previous Article, Steve Never Forgets. Especially when you Ruin Steve's party.
Considering that WWDC is the Party I was referring to, why would it be a surprise they're banned from it. Hell they better get really close to Microsoft now, because they'll probably never set foot inside another Apple Event ever again.
Right now, I'm more curious to know what level of Living Hell the Apple Employee that Gizmodo outed is going through.
I never really got into lost, probably because I figured out how JJAbrams makes plots.
Every show he does has this thing I call the "JJAbarms box". Basically, Imagine you're in a room with a guy and a big box. the guy says there's something special in the box. your mind goes nuts trying to figure out what that special something is. Finally once your mind is in this "whatsinthebox!whatsinthebox!" loop, he opens the box to reveal another box saying that theres something special in that box. rinse and repeat.
I find it ironic that the last box in lost was in fact a pine box with nothing inside it.
Steve Never Forgets. Especially when you Ruin Steve's party.
If I was that guy and I didn't get fired over this I would be resigning because I guarantee that Apple would make my job such a living hell that I wouldn't fear Satan anymore because I would have first hand experience going in.
Personally I don't care about ads. They never bothered me on a site as long as they didn't interfere with the site itself. (IE Popups, sound, or random hyperlinking)
What I do care about is Malware, and most of the Malware sites out there (your Antivirus 360's of the day for example) spread using Advertising firms that are tricked into hosting their malicious flash Ads. Add to the fact that high profile sites like the Murdoch sites (Myspace, FoxNews, ETC) or Gawker (Gizmodo, Kotaku, ETC) can get hit by these malicious ads because there's only a handful of Ad companies serving millions of sites and you have a real mess on your hands.
For that reason and that Reason alone I use AdBlock Plus.
Just as effective and it has the added benefit of dropping IT stress dramatically, Although the Housekeeping dept. seems to beg to differ for some reason.
As for the question asked, My sig below covers a lot of that. The Premise of Monkey rule would probably be the best bet there.
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Lets start with This Guy, which happens to work for Microsoft now.
Now considering that Kinect can track depth and location relative to Kinect placement, which is usually under the TV, it should be trivial to do the above head tracking minus the special headgear. In Fact, I would be surprised if a game doesn't do this with Kinect sometime in the future to simulate glasses free 3D that works on any TV. Now I know that Webcams now can do this (the droid does site is a real world example) but since they cant measure depth like Kinect, the effect isn't as eye popping like it is in the Johnny Lee video.
Now imagine this on your PC. I can't imagine Microsoft missing an opportunity to make more money selling a Kinect for PC's sometime in the future, but then again, it's been over three years and I still can't use the Xbox 360 chatpad on my PC.
From the article, it says that it won't pop up unless you either have no AV product, or the AV product is expired. And even then, you have to manually browse windows update to see optional updates.
It's not like you're going to turn on your PC, and all of a sudden it's on there out of the blue.
It's a gimmick. There's no gigantic artificial whole-town sun or anything. Certainly nothing "ultimate"
Actually, I find it ironic, that Phillips, a Leading Light bulb Manufacture, can't do an artificial sun, but Tropicana, An Orange Juice manufacture, can.
I don't block ads because I hate ads, I block them because I hate These.
I don't trust Ad firms. Especially when most of them will take anybody's money that waves in front of their face and distribute their infected Flash/JavaScript file without question, and the rest get tricked into running them. Considering that a rogueware firm can buy tons of ads with just one fake antivirus buy, I trust them even less.
The day ad firms decided to allow flash and scripts in ads was the day they asked to be blocked.
Actually it's pretty interesting that it's Gene Simmons of KISS bashing Music Pirates, Especially since KISS merchandise is such a substantial portion of their sales, if not more than album sales itself at this point.
Last time I checked, it's still pretty hard to use the internet to pirate a KISS action figure.
On top of this, it's going to be more expensive than it's competitors.
Fully loaded, with absolutely every option you can add to a Prius from the factory (At least when I built one on Toyota's site), it costs $36795, and can be easily retrofitted to work similar to the Volt's powertrain since the Prius powertrain already has an electric only mode built in. (albeit, not with the same range or power, or with a plug)
The Chevy Volt is reported to start at $41000, and is $44600 fully loaded.
Yes I know there's a tax credit that will knock $7500 off the price, but that only lasts until they build 200,000 cars. After that the credit starts phasing itself out.
Considering that what made this car special is now proven to be just another hybrid in a sea of hybrids, and an expensive one at that, There's a good chance that the Volt will be GM's Edsel.
the idea of a car carrying both gas/electric makes zero sense.
Actually it makes perfect sense even in the future.
Right now, the technology isn't practical to make an electric vehicle get equal range and equal refilling speed to an gasoline car, but even when that time comes, you're going to still want some form of generator in the car. The difference however is that the generator will be much smaller and used solely for emergency recharging only, specifically if your battery drops out before you get to a refilling station. You can pull over to the side, start the emergency generator, wait 30 minutes and get back on the road to find the closest refilling station.
In this particular scenario, the generator wouldn't have more gas than your typical push mower, and may not be used for years at a time, if ever. It can also use cleaner burning fuels such as alcohol. Also depending on technological advances, even this could be replaced with something akin to a hydrogen fuel cell if the technology achieves the same fuel density, weight and size of a small combustion engine and generator combination.
Customer Service Bat.
Very effective and it has the added benefit of dropping IT dept stress dramatically, Although the Housekeeping dept. seems to beg to differ for some reason.
a 4 way 12 core AMD Magny-Cours system is 48 core, is cheap, and available now.
AMD is already talking about eclipsing that on the server end, that is unless Oracle buys them and screws it up.
Just look what a failure the PSPgo was.
The PSP GO is a failure because Sony wants it to fail. I mean seriously, what would you want? the PSP 3000, that can play all PSP (UMD and PSN) games and costs $170, or the PSP GO, which can only play PSN games, leaving out a majority of UMD only titles that the 3000 can play, and costs $250?
If they priced the PSP Go around $100 and offered a majority (if not all) of the UMD library on PSN, they wouldn't be able to keep it in stock. Hell, just changing the price point alone would make it sell like gangbusters, UMD games or not.
While I can somewhat understand the cost logistics of having an upgradable processor via software. what no one seems to be talking about here is the downgrading of processors.
For example, What stops someone from making a Ransomware that disables the full functionality of your high end processor that you have paid for and won't reverse it until you pay them $50? Now that I think about it, I'm amazed that this hasn't happened already, since hyper-threading and cores can be disabled at the BIOS level, but at least in those cases you clean the virus, reset the bios and your back to normal. A CPU lock or a BIOS lock that you can't adjust would make this permanent.
Then there's board replacement. Lets say you buy one of these systems and upgrade it, then the board fails. Since most likely this is a Bios lock, swapping the board would swap the bios and disable the chip again. does that mean another $50 bucks to Intel? I doubt that the program that unlocks processors could be used more than once.
It's things like this that makes me glad I bought AMD
you could fix the noise by using one of those Military Pain guns instead. That should get their attention.
I've seen estimates from 200-10000 years depending on how close you are from the reactor.
What I don't understand, is why isn't this area used to build more nuclear reactors? It's not like there's anyone there to scream NIMBY, or that it'll be a bigger disaster if another reactor goes boom, which shouldn't happen if they use a modern reactor design. The only issue I see is employee safety, and that could be virtually eliminated given a reactor that is designed to shield the workers from the outside excess radiation.
Unfortunately today, Ti is more concerned about sales vs functionality, and the NSpire is the pinnacle of this philosophy.
Ti's focus is to sell NSpires directly to high schools, so when they ask high schools what they want in a calculator, the first thing they say is "Not a Gameboy" and the 2nd is "use it on ACT/SAT" Stripping the program functionality solves problem #1 and a standardzed test mode called Press to test solves Problem #2.
Now not all of this is Ti's fault. Standardized tests are unbelievably strict when it comes to their test taking procedures. I'm currently the test administrator for our college's ACT's compass college placement test system. ACT requires you to first install a special lockdown browser to your system which administers the test and register the MAC address of your computer systems to ACT. During the test, you must supply scratch paper which you must collect and destroy once the test is complete. They also want students to only use supplied pencils and not their own. All electronic devices must not be visible before, during and after the test, this also includes calculators, since ACT requires the only calculator used is the on screen calculator. Now I know Why ACT requires this stuff (to protect their test & minimize cheating) but if these are the requirements that they have for this system it has to be even more strict for the pen and paper ACT. Now imagine that Ti want's their calculators in on these tests.
It's a shame that Ti has all but abandoned the Engineering / College math market. The Ti-89/92 series was an excellent calculator and it's a shame that they still do more then the nspire, especially when the nspire has so much processing power to burn. For what it's worth, Ti is fixated on keeping the 82 series around with rehashes (83/84/+/etc) until the end of time, while phasing out their more capable models (the 85/86 and 89/92 variants) and replacing them with inferior models (such as the Nspire).
Actually, it's not that bad since the US has robots on our side.
Now if they were ninjas that would be a different story, since the only place that has pirates is somalia.
With my droid, I found that I have to restart the phone once in awhile because the performance would get noticeably slow. Also, the browser in 2.0 had an annoying bug where it would turn on the GPS and leave it on even if is wasn't on screen. Nothing like looking at your phone only to find out the battery was dead. They fixed the browser issue in 2.1 but I would force the GPS off until I needed it for just this bug. If it had WebOS's multitasking or no multitasking, this would never be an issue since the OS itself is designed to either handle multitasking in a intuitive manner, or not at all.
while I agree with Vista and their mobile phone strategy, They were ahead of the netbook and tablet curve with the UMPC concepts. The problem is that they gave up on the tablet concept just as the netbook started getting cheap enough to get people interested in UMPC's. They also had some interesting Handheld PC systems back in the 90's, but they were way ahead of their time and never caught on.
At this point though, No one has a good IPad competitor strategy. if they did we would see other tablets by now. All we see is vaporware and "coming soon" signs.
As for Windows Phone 7, Multitasking is overrated. The only OS doing multitasking right is WebOS. The other run into batery issues and memory errors. At least with WebOS, when you run on of ram you just simply flick the cards away. Copy and paste, however, should be an option, or at least have an interesting concept to replace it Ala the MS Kin.
Speaking of Kin, That's a great example of Microsoft dropping the ball. If they were serious about making that phone sell, they would have included a Zune Pass with your Phone service. That would give you access to the entire Zune library anytime and anywhere on your phone. I know parents that would buy the Kin for that alone so they don't have to dump hundreds of dollars in the ITunes store so their kid can listen to the Justin Bieber song of the week.
Right. They've already made their position clear by refusing to even discuss when they'll be fixing it. Give them 60 days and they'll probably simply arrange for a nice smear campaign about how you're trying to use the vulnerability to extort them
Yeah, kinda like what MS is doing now, except not only Microsoft but the Entire Security Industry is smearing him.
At least if he waited 60 days the Security Industry would blame MS for sitting on the exploit report for two months.
PS: Don't try to justify a idiotic stunt with Microsoft hate. If this guy pulled this stunt with any other OS, Slashdot would be pulling out the torches and pitchforks (as they should) and you know it.
Then give MS an ultimatum that you'll release the exploit in 60 days if they ignore it. It gives you the same result you were looking for and reduces the chance of a wild exploit.
Giving them 5 days to set a priority on an exploit when they have to deal with hundreds, if not thousands of exploit reports per patch cycle, then releasing exploit code because you didn't like the answer they gave you is not helping your case, Microsoft, or the internet for that matter.
Like I said in a previous Article, Steve Never Forgets. Especially when you Ruin Steve's party.
Considering that WWDC is the Party I was referring to, why would it be a surprise they're banned from it. Hell they better get really close to Microsoft now, because they'll probably never set foot inside another Apple Event ever again.
Right now, I'm more curious to know what level of Living Hell the Apple Employee that Gizmodo outed is going through.
I never really got into lost, probably because I figured out how JJAbrams makes plots.
Every show he does has this thing I call the "JJAbarms box". Basically, Imagine you're in a room with a guy and a big box. the guy says there's something special in the box. your mind goes nuts trying to figure out what that special something is. Finally once your mind is in this "whatsinthebox!whatsinthebox!" loop, he opens the box to reveal another box saying that theres something special in that box. rinse and repeat.
I find it ironic that the last box in lost was in fact a pine box with nothing inside it.
Steve Never Forgets. Especially when you Ruin Steve's party.
If I was that guy and I didn't get fired over this I would be resigning because I guarantee that Apple would make my job such a living hell that I wouldn't fear Satan anymore because I would have first hand experience going in.
I agree that it was ahead of it's time.
If you could replace Clippy with Hatsume Miku, Japanese sales of Office would go through the roof.
Personally I don't care about ads. They never bothered me on a site as long as they didn't interfere with the site itself. (IE Popups, sound, or random hyperlinking)
What I do care about is Malware, and most of the Malware sites out there (your Antivirus 360's of the day for example) spread using Advertising firms that are tricked into hosting their malicious flash Ads. Add to the fact that high profile sites like the Murdoch sites (Myspace, FoxNews, ETC) or Gawker (Gizmodo, Kotaku, ETC) can get hit by these malicious ads because there's only a handful of Ad companies serving millions of sites and you have a real mess on your hands.
For that reason and that Reason alone I use AdBlock Plus.
Personally, I like the Customer Service bat.
Just as effective and it has the added benefit of dropping IT stress dramatically, Although the Housekeeping dept. seems to beg to differ for some reason.
As for the question asked, My sig below covers a lot of that. The Premise of Monkey rule would probably be the best bet there.