Can't you just... turn it off when not playing it? I mean the whole thing, not just the Kinect. I don't and won't own any gaming console anytime soon, that's why I'm asking.
I think a substantial portion of the population WILL still use it. Microsoft's stance change solely means they want to turn off the most vocal naysayers, that's all there is to it.
So then you keep some relevant pictures, not the whole thing. 5 pics of Dave having lost weight are just as good as 300. It's the law of diminishing returns.
I have a HTC Desire S which has an 8 GB SD card and 1 GB internal memory. I use about 300 MB internal memory, and about 1.2 GB from the SD card, and that's consisting of this week's pictures, 3 lossless audio albums and whatever else Android puts there.
That's because I don't put EVERYTING on my phone. I have a dedicated MP3 player, an USB stick for data that I travel with and (when needed) a 2 TB external HDD for backups.
Put 5 images, 3 answers each, get all right or GTFO. Or have image matching, like two columns of 5 images each, click on any image on the left and then its pair on the right (example: a groom on the left and a bride on the right, obviously that's a match; lemon on the left, orange on the right; pen on the left, paper on the right).
i love it when people get stuck on a fucking EXAMPLE and refuse to think any further with as much as a whiff of extrapolation.
On the other hand, the captchas became ridiculously fuzzy as of late. My vision is 19/20 (rough comparison; doctor said I can be anything BUT an aviator) and I still find myself refreshing several captchas because they don't make sense. Sometimes I eyeball a "word" for 10-15 seconds and then I'm sure i got it right, I type it in and ERROR, wrong captcha.
If anything, word captchas became impossible to solve for most people and very annoying to perfect vision ones. Why can't there be a captcha showing a picture and three buttons with possible answers? Like an image of a baby and three buttons saying MAN, WOMAN, BABY. Or a picture of a running man and buttons saying SLEEP, RUN, CHILD.
As a matter of fact, you'd probably pay to watch an excerpt of 2 minutes of either of those. I once watched "Twins" (Arnold&DeVito) dubbed in Hungarian. it was hilarious... for a few minutes. Then it was annoying, then I couldn't handle it anymore.
Just one mention: I think I agree with Stephen King, not the other way around. After all, I heard of him (as a matter of fact, I just finished reading The Long March and started Misery) but I highly doubt he ever heard of me:)
I am sorry, but as far as literature goes, writing style anonymization (is that a word?) would harm the original intent of the author. A literary work is valuable (when so) due to author's style, among other factors, much like in movies, where a certain actor's voiceover is best for a certain character. The same character would become retarded if the actor's voice changes. Imagine Donkey (from Shrek) played by Morgan Freeman or Darth Vader played by Danny de Vito. Good characters, good actors, no match in style and intent.
Yeah, students would love this in their paper, but literature? Hell, no.
The Crab Nebula exploded in 1054; well, 6500 years earlier, to be pedantic. But the light arrived to Earth in 1054. So what else happened in 1054? Oh yeah, the great Schism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism#Mutual_excommunication_of_1054). Funny coincidence...
It's the "Ode to my Stomach" syndrome. Personally, I found home made food much more rewarding. At least I know for sure what do I put in my mouth. No funny business.
As a matter of fact... OK, I may be too pedantic, but a 747 full of DVDs is just large storage, wildly different from large bandwidth. When you stream something, the data is immediately ready for processing as it comes (provided it's structured with that goal in mind). On the other hand, a 747 full of DVDs is data that must be read before it's ready for processing, and the average DVD read speed is more or less 100 Mbps, maybe a bit more than that but not by much. Throw time spent writing those DVDs into the mix and you'll get a shitty bandwidth, if you really want to go as far as calculating a bandwidth equivalent.
Let's assume fly time is zero, just for kicks. Now for a DVD it takes you 10 minutes to write it (at high speeds) and 10 minutes to read it, that's 20 minutes per DVD. Say you can write/read 100 DVDs at the same time, that's roughly 430 GB every 20 minutes, that's roughly equivalent to a bandwidth of 367 MB/second. That's provided all DVDs are readable and you have tens of people you allocate to this project.
" before being streamed across 500 miles of Australia's National Broadband Network to the Pawsey Centre, which gets rid of most of it as quickly as possible."
I imagine a bunch of Indian and Chinese people pressing Shift+Delete randomly on files. Their target: 90% resolution rate on incoming data:)
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Fair enough. I have seen plenty retarded marketing phrases that caught on, so that must've been one of them :)
Can't you just... turn it off when not playing it? I mean the whole thing, not just the Kinect.
I don't and won't own any gaming console anytime soon, that's why I'm asking.
I think a substantial portion of the population WILL still use it. Microsoft's stance change solely means they want to turn off the most vocal naysayers, that's all there is to it.
So what? You think an iMac is wonderful because you save some minutes doing something that you usually do ONCE per every new computer?
You sir just won the Way to Go! Award...
Was talking about geographical borders.
Globalization: making borders fuzzy and customers confused...
So then you keep some relevant pictures, not the whole thing. 5 pics of Dave having lost weight are just as good as 300. It's the law of diminishing returns.
Yes, because you are looking at ALL your EVERY family weddings, christmases and whatnot ALL THE TIME.
I have a HTC Desire S which has an 8 GB SD card and 1 GB internal memory. I use about 300 MB internal memory, and about 1.2 GB from the SD card, and that's consisting of this week's pictures, 3 lossless audio albums and whatever else Android puts there.
That's because I don't put EVERYTING on my phone. I have a dedicated MP3 player, an USB stick for data that I travel with and (when needed) a 2 TB external HDD for backups.
...when bullies meet...
Put 5 images, 3 answers each, get all right or GTFO.
Or have image matching, like two columns of 5 images each, click on any image on the left and then its pair on the right (example: a groom on the left and a bride on the right, obviously that's a match; lemon on the left, orange on the right; pen on the left, paper on the right).
i love it when people get stuck on a fucking EXAMPLE and refuse to think any further with as much as a whiff of extrapolation.
Or simply cut yourself in it, lay down and die of thirst/starvation, if you're the average city dweller.
On the other hand, the captchas became ridiculously fuzzy as of late. My vision is 19/20 (rough comparison; doctor said I can be anything BUT an aviator) and I still find myself refreshing several captchas because they don't make sense. Sometimes I eyeball a "word" for 10-15 seconds and then I'm sure i got it right, I type it in and ERROR, wrong captcha.
If anything, word captchas became impossible to solve for most people and very annoying to perfect vision ones.
Why can't there be a captcha showing a picture and three buttons with possible answers? Like an image of a baby and three buttons saying MAN, WOMAN, BABY. Or a picture of a running man and buttons saying SLEEP, RUN, CHILD.
As a matter of fact, you'd probably pay to watch an excerpt of 2 minutes of either of those.
I once watched "Twins" (Arnold&DeVito) dubbed in Hungarian. it was hilarious... for a few minutes. Then it was annoying, then I couldn't handle it anymore.
Your cat was almost two months late. June 3rd to July 20th.
Just one mention: I think I agree with Stephen King, not the other way around. After all, I heard of him (as a matter of fact, I just finished reading The Long March and started Misery) but I highly doubt he ever heard of me :)
I am sorry, but as far as literature goes, writing style anonymization (is that a word?) would harm the original intent of the author. A literary work is valuable (when so) due to author's style, among other factors, much like in movies, where a certain actor's voiceover is best for a certain character. The same character would become retarded if the actor's voice changes. Imagine Donkey (from Shrek) played by Morgan Freeman or Darth Vader played by Danny de Vito. Good characters, good actors, no match in style and intent.
Yeah, students would love this in their paper, but literature? Hell, no.
Same here. And I've been browsing the Internet for a long time, looking for geeky stuff.
Oh well...
I'd prefer to stay falsely pedantic, thank you very much :)
Exactly. I was trying to be funny but apparently I was too subtle, so here's the "Redneck Joe" joke:
A star exploding 6500 years ago caused, through its light, Christianity to also explode in 1054.
The Crab Nebula exploded in 1054; well, 6500 years earlier, to be pedantic. But the light arrived to Earth in 1054. So what else happened in 1054? Oh yeah, the great Schism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism#Mutual_excommunication_of_1054).
Funny coincidence...
It's the "Ode to my Stomach" syndrome.
Personally, I found home made food much more rewarding. At least I know for sure what do I put in my mouth. No funny business.
Let's be super-pedantic :)
Does psychological injury count? As in "a good scare", followed by a fear of connecting stuff to power mains?
As a matter of fact...
OK, I may be too pedantic, but a 747 full of DVDs is just large storage, wildly different from large bandwidth.
When you stream something, the data is immediately ready for processing as it comes (provided it's structured with that goal in mind). On the other hand, a 747 full of DVDs is data that must be read before it's ready for processing, and the average DVD read speed is more or less 100 Mbps, maybe a bit more than that but not by much. Throw time spent writing those DVDs into the mix and you'll get a shitty bandwidth, if you really want to go as far as calculating a bandwidth equivalent.
Let's assume fly time is zero, just for kicks. Now for a DVD it takes you 10 minutes to write it (at high speeds) and 10 minutes to read it, that's 20 minutes per DVD. Say you can write/read 100 DVDs at the same time, that's roughly 430 GB every 20 minutes, that's roughly equivalent to a bandwidth of 367 MB/second. That's provided all DVDs are readable and you have tens of people you allocate to this project.
" before being streamed across 500 miles of Australia's National Broadband Network to the Pawsey Centre, which gets rid of most of it as quickly as possible."
I imagine a bunch of Indian and Chinese people pressing Shift+Delete randomly on files. Their target: 90% resolution rate on incoming data :)