Just as an observation, in the live demos they were doing in the Macy's windows in NYC a week or two ago there was only about 3-4 feet of width and roughly 6-7 feet of open space in front of the Kinect. I would say the demoer was roughly about 5' away, and had just enough room to swing her arms. That's a much better representation of a living room than most stage demos, and the Kinect was still picking up all her movements just fine.
Except that, if you look at the list, aside from one in 2002 and in 2003, their investment essentially stop after 2001, whereas their aquisitions continue on through 2005.
Looking at that list, you get a sense that they used to put more into investing than aquisitions, but their focus seems to have changed.
Also, if you consider that an aquisition usually costs quite a bit more than investments, then it would seem that even in 1999 and 2000 (the seemingly biggest investment years), more was spent on aquisitions even then.
I am. First off, I love my original xbox. Secondly, every game that's come out for both the PS2 and the xbox almost always looks and plays better on the xbox, no question. My intuition tells me that the same will be true for the next generation.
Then there's Elder Scrolls 4. That's a main reason right there, and with luck eventually a new Ninja Gaiden, but that may just be a pipe dream.
There are only two things that make me want other systems, Soul Calibur III is going to be PS3 only... And I will never get zelda on anything but nintendo.
However, as mentioned in that answers.com snippet, it must be a voluntary transaction to avoid the legal tender laws. Having your car towed and then having the towing company refuse to give it back unless you pay is not by any means a voluntary transaction.
You think that's bad... I was in McDonalds one day and tried paying for my meal with one of the older $10 bills. The cashier actually called over two different managers to ask if it was real money.
Now, In order to work here in NY, you really have to be at least 16 (maybe 14 or 15 if they got school permission). That really means you've had to have seen thses bills before. Doesn't it?
Anyway, the managers, my friends, and I all had a good laugh over that one.
I just have to respond that I personally have been very pleased with Citibanks online aspect. Keeping in mind I'm a bank customer, not a credit card customer.
They have an internal messaging system that can only be accessed when you've logged into your account. They only ever send emails saying you have a message waiting for you and never send me anything important by email. This is how I know that the 40 emails a week I get that are supposedly from citibank are all phishing scams.
Even if I get one that is really well done and slips past my radar, I simply type in the URL that I know is my banks and check for information there. In fact, citibank explains this to it's customers, as does every other bank I've used online.
I believe you may be confused as far as PHP is concerned in that yes, they removed the bundled libraries, but it's because MySQL is built into PHP now by default. Thus the bundled library is no longer necessary.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been using MySQL with the latest version of PHP with no problem.
Yeah, I hear ya. I started as a finger poker. Never took a typing course in my life and I seriously do not regret it.
Now my finger poking uses all eight fingers, and an occasional thumb or two and I can type about 60-70 wpm so long as I'm not reading something at the same time. Then I get reduced to about 45 wpm.
The disadvantage is that I have to glance at the keyboard for spatial reference for my hands. The advantage is that I don't actually ever search for a key and since I'm not locked to a specific hand position, I have never.. NEVER had wrist or hand problems. Also, since both my hands are free to roam about the keyboard at will, no key combination ever feels awkward to me.
disclaimer: all caps in this post were done with the shift key.
Good to know if I ever go there... But aside from a few extra condidtions, it's still illegal. The point I was trying to make is that nowhere is it really a legal course of action to defend yourself after rear-ending someone in the left lane with "It's their fault, they shouldn't have been there."
I feel it should be pointed out, that at least in this instance, the MS bashing spin was on the part of the NY Times people.
"Powerpoint Makes You Dumb", is in fact the NY Times title of the story. Please people, wait for the dupe to come out with "Using MS Office Products Significantly Lowers Your IQ" before bashing slashdot.:)
So the laws should stay the same for everyone, the majority of which have reasonable cars, because your crappy car can't handle anything better? I can't make that make sense to me.
I don't drive a new car; never have. I started with a 1971 Plymouth Valiant and now drive a 1988 Pontiac 6000. But my car is safe to drive, and it's safe to drive it at 75 too (assuming a competent driver).
Of course the laws should be the same for everyone, otherwise it doesn't make much sense as a law. Maybe you're right and there should be stricter standards for what cars are allowed on the roads, and which drivers, but since they're not, they must support the least common denomenator.
Regardless of whether you believe that your skills are enough to safely drive your car at 75, do these skills also give you the ability to overcome the events which may happen when another such comptetent driver cuts you off, or swerves to miss a small child and sideswipes you?
But honestly, what would your reaction be if the qualifications were made more strict and you failed the tests to become a driver. Keeping in mind that these tests are concieved by the same people who think 55 or 65 is the highest speed reasonable for a road. Would you simply accept that, or would you rail against those same strict measures.
Even with the strictest regulations, an incredibly skillfull driver with an incredible car may get a license, then get depressed and drive drunk. If he kills you, it is not the state's fault, nor the police's, because they can only take him off the road if he's caught.
I'm not saying the traffic laws are correct as they are now, but neither is your concept of only the elite should drive. Because regardless of how you phrase it, this is in essence what you are saying. The only truly safe way to enable driving would be to get rid of it completely, which is not a valid option currently.
But all this aside, what I mostly object to was MrChuck's declaring: And if you're in the left lane and get rear ended, it's YOUR fault. You shouldn't have been there.
If people are passing you on the right, you're breaking the law. You must move to the right except to pass.
Yes, in most US states it is true that unless you are in the process of passing someone, you must be in the right hand lanes. However, it is also illegal to pass someone on the right unless they are in the process of making a left turn or are stopped on the road. Because someone is traveling at the speed limit does not make passing them legal, at least not in any state i've been in. And I'm sure you'll find that in most states, it is a law that passing someone does not give you the right to break any laws yourself, including no turning signals, speeding, or passing on the right.
I will say that I used to speed, until, through my own actions I flipped my truck. Now I don't speed anymore, but it's not really directly because of the accident. I had to get a car. Due to lack of funds, it had to be an older one. Now, between the shitty handling, unresponsive engine, and lack of noise dampening, doing anything above the speed limit on highways is scary and dangerous.
Remember that just because you think you can control a car at high speeds, and maybe your car is nice and new and overly engineered, many other people aren't. And you have no more right to the road than they do.
Do they sue the playset manufacturer because they were smarter than the instructions and as a result the swingset fell on their kid?
Actually I think a more apt comparison would be that they ask their handyman friends to help them build the playset because they can't understand the japanese assembly instructions.
There are those who do not feel comfortable wielding a hammer and those who have trouble understanding technical manuals.
That said, RTFM, then if you need help ask. But don't always assume that because someone is asking, they haven't RTFM.
Theoretically if you can reduce any digital file down to simple binary, then it would be possible.
One must simply write a program that sequentially increases the binary value of a file, then saves that file. If you start with those binary values that indicate the file is an MP3, then just increase all other bits within the file sequentially, it would theoretically be possible to create not only every existing work out there, but every future work as well.
Of course the time and resources this would require are a bit unreachable I think, it is possible to do with todays technology, just not feasible.
For that matter, you could theoretically do the same thing for anything which can be made digital and stored in binary on a computer (documents, art, etc.).
People may also want to try filing complaints with the Better Business Bureau. While they won't directly investigate a company, they could cause a few problems.
From their complaint site is a list of problems they do handle:
The BBB can handle the following complaints involving marketplace activities:
Misleading Advertising.
Improper Selling Practices.
Non-delivery of Goods or Services.
Misrepresentation.
Unhonored Guarantees or Warranty.
Unsatisfactory Service.
Credit/billing Problems.
Unfulfilled Contracts.
Add this to your SEC and FTC complaints.
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You mean, like this sentence on the home page:
"Inspired by the drawings of HR Giger and the creative artists and visionaries that brought us the Alien®"
Actually I have the film academy edition of two towers on DVD-R here and it fit's just fine. So even longer movies can be done, just not with any extras or not quite full DVD quality (though I didn't really notice any lack of quality).
Er, wait.. no.. no I don't.. The previous statement is a lie. I would NOT traffic in illegal copies of anything.. nope.. uh-uh.
It would seem to me that you're actually using FirebirdSQL as one word, thus making any trademark issues you have for that full word. As an example, I could easily open a restaraunt and call it Donalds, to which McDonalds would not be able to press issue.
I really don't see how you could have any issue with Mozilla's use of the word Firebird, unless you've consistantly been calling your project Firebird, an SQL DBMS. But then perhaps SQL might have cause.
And of course, by your analogy, somone paralyzed from the neck down (ie - nervous system severed at the neck) would also move their hand if a hot coal was dropped on it?
If the spinal cord does not need the brain to make that decision, this would be the case.
I really have to disagree with your "hot coal" analogy. The fact is, that if you are not looking when the hot coal is dropped into your hands, you will need to have that "Holy crap, that is fucking hot" message reach your brain before your body can react. Conversely, if watching, you will seem to drop the coal before that message reaches your brain because your eyes have already sent the message "if you catch this, you're a moron".
In both instances however, it is the brain that makes the decision, just the processing time from eyes or hands that is different.
Multiple OC-3's? Man, you think small, I'd say at least multiple OC-48's, or even, multiple OC-192's.
Maybe then one could build a site that may actually hold up to a slashdotting. Then I think I'd get huge amounts of storage and mirror the internet, just for fun.
However, in the FAQ they're not saying it shouldn't be done, merely that it should be thought through extremely well before implementation.
I think someone should post the idea to "Ask Slashdot" with a list of all the potential problems and see if a few hundred geeks can't figure it out once and for all.
alliances in the computer business never turn out to be more than spit in the wind
So you're saying the fact that IBM allied itself with this little known company called microsoft didn't have any effect?
I have to disagree, with you in that alliances between companies that actually want to achieve something, usually are quite successful at it. Granted most alliances become mergers, but think about the current OS war for a minute. IBM is now jusmping on the linux boat, yes, Red Hat has a big business chunk right now, but how many businesses would adopt Linux just because IBM put there name on it. Now consider that IBM is trying to do something similar to this project.
In reality, I see this as something IBM might jump on to, and if they do this could be one of the best things to happen to linux since apache.
Of course, this could all be smoke in the wind, in which case I'll just shut up and go back to my code.
Slashdot Mirror
Just as an observation, in the live demos they were doing in the Macy's windows in NYC a week or two ago there was only about 3-4 feet of width and roughly 6-7 feet of open space in front of the Kinect. I would say the demoer was roughly about 5' away, and had just enough room to swing her arms. That's a much better representation of a living room than most stage demos, and the Kinect was still picking up all her movements just fine.
Except that, if you look at the list, aside from one in 2002 and in 2003, their investment essentially stop after 2001, whereas their aquisitions continue on through 2005.
Looking at that list, you get a sense that they used to put more into investing than aquisitions, but their focus seems to have changed.
Also, if you consider that an aquisition usually costs quite a bit more than investments, then it would seem that even in 1999 and 2000 (the seemingly biggest investment years), more was spent on aquisitions even then.
I am. First off, I love my original xbox. Secondly, every game that's come out for both the PS2 and the xbox almost always looks and plays better on the xbox, no question. My intuition tells me that the same will be true for the next generation.
Then there's Elder Scrolls 4. That's a main reason right there, and with luck eventually a new Ninja Gaiden, but that may just be a pipe dream.
There are only two things that make me want other systems, Soul Calibur III is going to be PS3 only... And I will never get zelda on anything but nintendo.
However, as mentioned in that answers.com snippet, it must be a voluntary transaction to avoid the legal tender laws. Having your car towed and then having the towing company refuse to give it back unless you pay is not by any means a voluntary transaction.
You think that's bad... I was in McDonalds one day and tried paying for my meal with one of the older $10 bills. The cashier actually called over two different managers to ask if it was real money.
Now, In order to work here in NY, you really have to be at least 16 (maybe 14 or 15 if they got school permission). That really means you've had to have seen thses bills before. Doesn't it?
Anyway, the managers, my friends, and I all had a good laugh over that one.
I just have to respond that I personally have been very pleased with Citibanks online aspect. Keeping in mind I'm a bank customer, not a credit card customer.
They have an internal messaging system that can only be accessed when you've logged into your account. They only ever send emails saying you have a message waiting for you and never send me anything important by email. This is how I know that the 40 emails a week I get that are supposedly from citibank are all phishing scams.
Even if I get one that is really well done and slips past my radar, I simply type in the URL that I know is my banks and check for information there. In fact, citibank explains this to it's customers, as does every other bank I've used online.
I believe you may be confused as far as PHP is concerned in that yes, they removed the bundled libraries, but it's because MySQL is built into PHP now by default. Thus the bundled library is no longer necessary.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been using MySQL with the latest version of PHP with no problem.
Yeah, I hear ya. I started as a finger poker. Never took a typing course in my life and I seriously do not regret it.
Now my finger poking uses all eight fingers, and an occasional thumb or two and I can type about 60-70 wpm so long as I'm not reading something at the same time. Then I get reduced to about 45 wpm.
The disadvantage is that I have to glance at the keyboard for spatial reference for my hands. The advantage is that I don't actually ever search for a key and since I'm not locked to a specific hand position, I have never.. NEVER had wrist or hand problems. Also, since both my hands are free to roam about the keyboard at will, no key combination ever feels awkward to me.
disclaimer: all caps in this post were done with the shift key.
Good to know if I ever go there... But aside from a few extra condidtions, it's still illegal. The point I was trying to make is that nowhere is it really a legal course of action to defend yourself after rear-ending someone in the left lane with "It's their fault, they shouldn't have been there."
I feel it should be pointed out, that at least in this instance, the MS bashing spin was on the part of the NY Times people.
:)
"Powerpoint Makes You Dumb", is in fact the NY Times title of the story. Please people, wait for the dupe to come out with "Using MS Office Products Significantly Lowers Your IQ" before bashing slashdot.
So the laws should stay the same for everyone, the majority of which have reasonable cars, because your crappy car can't handle anything better? I can't make that make sense to me.
I don't drive a new car; never have. I started with a 1971 Plymouth Valiant and now drive a 1988 Pontiac 6000. But my car is safe to drive, and it's safe to drive it at 75 too (assuming a competent driver).
Of course the laws should be the same for everyone, otherwise it doesn't make much sense as a law. Maybe you're right and there should be stricter standards for what cars are allowed on the roads, and which drivers, but since they're not, they must support the least common denomenator.
Regardless of whether you believe that your skills are enough to safely drive your car at 75, do these skills also give you the ability to overcome the events which may happen when another such comptetent driver cuts you off, or swerves to miss a small child and sideswipes you?
But honestly, what would your reaction be if the qualifications were made more strict and you failed the tests to become a driver. Keeping in mind that these tests are concieved by the same people who think 55 or 65 is the highest speed reasonable for a road. Would you simply accept that, or would you rail against those same strict measures.
Even with the strictest regulations, an incredibly skillfull driver with an incredible car may get a license, then get depressed and drive drunk. If he kills you, it is not the state's fault, nor the police's, because they can only take him off the road if he's caught.
I'm not saying the traffic laws are correct as they are now, but neither is your concept of only the elite should drive. Because regardless of how you phrase it, this is in essence what you are saying. The only truly safe way to enable driving would be to get rid of it completely, which is not a valid option currently.
But all this aside, what I mostly object to was MrChuck's declaring:
And if you're in the left lane and get rear ended, it's YOUR fault. You shouldn't have been there.
Safe Driving...
If people are passing you on the right, you're breaking the law. You must move to the right except to pass.
Yes, in most US states it is true that unless you are in the process of passing someone, you must be in the right hand lanes. However, it is also illegal to pass someone on the right unless they are in the process of making a left turn or are stopped on the road. Because someone is traveling at the speed limit does not make passing them legal, at least not in any state i've been in. And I'm sure you'll find that in most states, it is a law that passing someone does not give you the right to break any laws yourself, including no turning signals, speeding, or passing on the right.
I will say that I used to speed, until, through my own actions I flipped my truck. Now I don't speed anymore, but it's not really directly because of the accident. I had to get a car. Due to lack of funds, it had to be an older one. Now, between the shitty handling, unresponsive engine, and lack of noise dampening, doing anything above the speed limit on highways is scary and dangerous.
Remember that just because you think you can control a car at high speeds, and maybe your car is nice and new and overly engineered, many other people aren't. And you have no more right to the road than they do.
Do they sue the playset manufacturer because they were smarter than the instructions and as a result the swingset fell on their kid?
Actually I think a more apt comparison would be that they ask their handyman friends to help them build the playset because they can't understand the japanese assembly instructions.
There are those who do not feel comfortable wielding a hammer and those who have trouble understanding technical manuals.
That said, RTFM, then if you need help ask. But don't always assume that because someone is asking, they haven't RTFM.
Theoretically if you can reduce any digital file down to simple binary, then it would be possible.
One must simply write a program that sequentially increases the binary value of a file, then saves that file. If you start with those binary values that indicate the file is an MP3, then just increase all other bits within the file sequentially, it would theoretically be possible to create not only every existing work out there, but every future work as well.
Of course the time and resources this would require are a bit unreachable I think, it is possible to do with todays technology, just not feasible.
For that matter, you could theoretically do the same thing for anything which can be made digital and stored in binary on a computer (documents, art, etc.).
http://complaints.bbb.org/Welcome.asp
From their complaint site is a list of problems they do handle: Add this to your SEC and FTC complaints.
You mean, like this sentence on the home page:
"Inspired by the drawings of HR Giger and the creative artists and visionaries that brought us the Alien®"
Actually I have the film academy edition of two towers on DVD-R here and it fit's just fine. So even longer movies can be done, just not with any extras or not quite full DVD quality (though I didn't really notice any lack of quality).
Er, wait.. no.. no I don't.. The previous statement is a lie. I would NOT traffic in illegal copies of anything.. nope.. uh-uh.
It would seem to me that you're actually using FirebirdSQL as one word, thus making any trademark issues you have for that full word. As an example, I could easily open a restaraunt and call it Donalds, to which McDonalds would not be able to press issue.
I really don't see how you could have any issue with Mozilla's use of the word Firebird, unless you've consistantly been calling your project Firebird, an SQL DBMS. But then perhaps SQL might have cause.
And of course, by your analogy, somone paralyzed from the neck down (ie - nervous system severed at the neck) would also move their hand if a hot coal was dropped on it?
If the spinal cord does not need the brain to make that decision, this would be the case.
I really have to disagree with your "hot coal" analogy. The fact is, that if you are not looking when the hot coal is dropped into your hands, you will need to have that "Holy crap, that is fucking hot" message reach your brain before your body can react. Conversely, if watching, you will seem to drop the coal before that message reaches your brain because your eyes have already sent the message "if you catch this, you're a moron".
In both instances however, it is the brain that makes the decision, just the processing time from eyes or hands that is different.
Multiple OC-3's? Man, you think small, I'd say at least multiple OC-48's, or even, multiple OC-192's.
Maybe then one could build a site that may actually hold up to a slashdotting. Then I think I'd get huge amounts of storage and mirror the internet, just for fun.
However, in the FAQ they're not saying it shouldn't be done, merely that it should be thought through extremely well before implementation.
I think someone should post the idea to "Ask Slashdot" with a list of all the potential problems and see if a few hundred geeks can't figure it out once and for all.
Yeah, cause no one ever used to do this with cassette tapes. Hell, my entire music collection from the 80's was dubbed cassettes.
alliances in the computer business never turn out to be more than spit in the wind
So you're saying the fact that IBM allied itself with this little known company called microsoft didn't have any effect?
I have to disagree, with you in that alliances between companies that actually want to achieve something, usually are quite successful at it. Granted most alliances become mergers, but think about the current OS war for a minute. IBM is now jusmping on the linux boat, yes, Red Hat has a big business chunk right now, but how many businesses would adopt Linux just because IBM put there name on it. Now consider that IBM is trying to do something similar to this project.
In reality, I see this as something IBM might jump on to, and if they do this could be one of the best things to happen to linux since apache.
Of course, this could all be smoke in the wind, in which case I'll just shut up and go back to my code.