No, that's cracking. Hacking seems to be exactly what has taken place...
Whatever. The point is that the expensive part of Kinect is what's inside the XBox and much more difficult to get to.
A little over a year ago Microsoft announced to developers that all that processing was going to be removed from the Kinect (Natal at the time) and be done on the XBox. It seemed like a stupid idea, and they said it was to cut costs which seemed lame. But when the open source driver came out last week I realized there really are some forward-thinkers at Microsoft. Now they have a peripheral which is relatively cheap to make and was quite cheap to design, and all of the money they spent on R&D is nicely protected inside a box.
My first thought when I read the summary was, "Hah, suckers are getting what they deserve!"
My dad had a small red cross in a button, overlaid with text, on his (small) company website that linked to his "First Aid" section. The Canadian Red Cross sent him a cease and desist letter and threatened to have lawyers shut him down... (yes, he's in Canada!)
I understand protecting a copyright, but it's not like my dad was using the "red cross" as or in his company logo or something. They should waste less time on that kind of crap and spend more time helping people.
Anyways, I changed it to a green cross and they can go suck a fat one.
They could have been more successful (participants *and* program) if they had been better organized and provided better information to the competitors about how the competition would be run.
I was working with a team that was going to compete, and as of last August they still hadn't been told the rules, or even what material would be used to simulate lunar soil.
When I was in highschool I created an entire map of my school for Doom. I even created locker wall textures in various colours to match the different hallways at the school, chalkboards (with various tags on them heheh) and created furniture like desks, chairs, cafeteria tables/chairs, etc. Suffice to say, you couldn't mistake the level for anything but a school, and probably not for any other school than mine.
Then I made the zombies into nerds with glasses, put prefect sweaters on the imps, and football jerseys on the demons. The prefect sweaters and football jerseys matched the colours of our school.
Now, just to note, I was a nerd with glasses, a prefect, and played on the football team. I didn't do all this because I hated anyone or anything, I just did it because it was fun and cool.
I'm gonna go see if I can find that on a disk somewhere...
I haven't reinstalled Windows XP in 4 years since I replaced a faulty hard drive in it. After changing the HD, it was an AMD 1700 with 256 MB RAM and a single 80 GB HD. Now its an AMD64 3700+ with 2 GB RAM and 2 80 GB HDs, and the only thing I had to do was run the installer over top of the existing install to get the motherboard upgrade to be recognized properly. I've had to reactivate it 3 times as well of course.
I've changed RAM, sound cards, several video cards, monitors, power supplies, countless peripherals, etc. This machine is on 24 hours a day, I use it as a work machine (writing/compiling code,) photo editor, movie editor, 3D modeler, file server, media center (hooked up to the TV,) etc. I can usually run the machine without a reboot for weeks at a time, and then I only reboot because of a patch - and usually because of stupid-ass McAfee virus scan needing the machine to reboot, but I'm looking at my virus scan options right now. I never blue screen with this machine - at least not since I got rid of my NVidia video card 3 years ago.
Oh, and its XP Home, not Pro.
The key to not having to reinstall is to not be a pussy. You have to maintain your PC just like you would a Linux (or any other) machine. Remove old nasty drivers, keep drivers up to date. Clean up the registry. Make sure you run a firewall (or have a router at least). Run anti-virus software. Be careful about what you run/install.
So please, you and everyone like you should stop whining about Windows needing to be re-installed all the time. It just shows you know little about computers or maintaining them. Maybe you should call your nerd cousin to help you out next time.
Uhhh... he is no longer a Member of Parliament. He stepped down after he confessed and tried to run again in the next election, but lost to Hedy Fry, in an area where his party should have won.
That said, he wasn't given a criminal record and only had to do community service and go to counselling. Considering the magnitude of the crime (he nabbed a ring), the fact that he turned himself in a week after stealing the ring, and that he has a mental illness (he says?) its not a horribly disproportianate punishment.
The fact that he was gay had nothing to do with him getting away with it. It was the fact that he was a public figure.
You even linked to a wikipedia article that contains all this information (except the gay vs. public figure opinions.) Are you retarded? Or just a homophobe?
Not from what I've heard from people developing games for it! The OS and other overhead take a good chunk first...
But yes, I agree, you do know you have full reign over whatever is left. You can only run one thing at a time on it, right? Sounds really powerful , like DOS;)
Not at all, I didn't even bother reading the story right away, because I thought it was just an exaggeration, or someone finding something else to blame games on.
It wasn't until I read an e-mail from work that the Hong Kong office was experience connectivity problems due to the earthquake in Taiwan that I was like, "Why the hell wasn't that on Slashdot?"
Then I went back to my RSS feed to check, and saw that the story was there. I read the story, started reading the comments, and then saw your comment and realised why I hadn't noticed it earlier. So thanks for completing the puzzle for me!
Or how about putting that money into a college fund, so that they don't have such a huge debt after going to college. We all complain about the corporate machine but then we all just blindly buy into it every single year.
There should be a new rule for Xmas, birthdays, whatever: If you don't know what to get someone, don't get them anything.
Besides... its not like they waited 10 years to file the lawsuit. It takes years for a lawsuit like this to be filed, and if the suit was settled less than 6 years after the patent was filed, that's a pretty quick turn-around.
Why would they bother filing if the iPod didn't take off? For a company the size of Creative, the amount of the settlement for some lesser known player (say Rio) wouldn't warrant the cost of the lawsuit.
Maybe Creative needs the money so they can compete with Apple in the MP3 Player market. Maybe they'd like to make their products better, and have bigger marketing campaigns, to prevent Apple from achieving a monopoly in this market.
The difference in this case is that without all the internet hype, the traditional marketing wouldn't have been so wacky. It would have been more plain vanilla marketing hype for a cheesy action movie.
Samuel L. Jackson saw this from the beginning - the name made a big difference to the hype surrounding the movie. The name attracted attention, along with SLJ himself, and the internet hype built out of that. From there came the wacky trailers, etc.
I definitely think this movie would have been a bust without the internet hype, because everyone I talked to in line at the "Audience Participation Advance Screening" I went to (at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver) was there because of the internet hype.
How many cheesy action movies that come out these days have people dressing up on opening night and bringing props (rubber AND real snakes, toy planes)?
Dream on man... without the internet, max $5mil gross opening weekend for that POS* film.
There are several places in Vancouver (at least) where there is a time limit on how long you can use a parking spot, including metered spots. This new system prevents you from going over that time limit, and it also saves you from parking there when it is not allowed (e.g. during rush hour), by not allowing you to feed the meter.
This reminds me of a quote from a TV show I saw when I was a kid: guy calling into radio show with southern accent: "You know, if everyone carried around a sawed-off shutgun, there'd be a lot less crime!" DJ's response: "Yeah, and a lot less people too, dork!"
To paraphrase - you're not going to stop criminals by giving everyone guns. You're just going to create "stronger" criminals - and a lot more people will die, criminals and non-criminals included.
Based on your example, I expect all the criminals robbing the town without guns, will have gotten their guns from the other town. They'll build up a veritable collection of guns, and once the town without guns increases their security (either through police, technology, or guns) then do you think the criminals are going to stop? No, they're gonna say, "Well... this town over here has a bunch of security now. This other town over here has no security, but i know a lot of'em have guns. But I bet I have *more* guns. Yeah, let's go boys!" So now, instead of some material goods being stolen, people are getting killed, maimed, what have you.
Look, the point of gun control is not to punish responsible citizens. The point is to make it harder for criminals to get guns.
I want to tie this back in to cigarettes, but my views on cigarettes are skewed due to public health care. Guns on the other hand create the same issues universally.
Maybe there would be fuel savings by not putting the engine on the asteroid and trying to move it. Basically you can get the tug-ship up to speed alongside the asteroid and then cut the engines, with occasional thrust to adjust course (and maintain speed?). Gravity would do most of the work of moving the asteroid.
Plus once it is done moving one asteroid, the spaceship could move on to another one. The logistics of landing on the asteroid, setting up the rockets, and then taking them off again would probably be prohibitive, so we would just leave them there.
Plus the article did cover this (in a way) saying that asteroids may be made of loose material and applying the thrust directly on the asteroid is more likely to break it up/affect its rotation, etc.
I dunno... I'm thinking you guys have never seen the complete frag. Now that's character.
In any case, games will become more expressive because that's what people want. Ever since the first 'tag' textures in MP games people have found a way to express themselves differently from others. When virtual reality hits big, there will be even more expression in games.
And of course there's smack talk during the game - the best smacker will get a big following for sure. Behaviour off the 'court' will be a big factor too.
Hell, look at poker these days!
While I don't think video games will replace sports, I'm sure they will be right there along-side.
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No, that's cracking. Hacking seems to be exactly what has taken place...
Whatever. The point is that the expensive part of Kinect is what's inside the XBox and much more difficult to get to.
A little over a year ago Microsoft announced to developers that all that processing was going to be removed from the Kinect (Natal at the time) and be done on the XBox. It seemed like a stupid idea, and they said it was to cut costs which seemed lame. But when the open source driver came out last week I realized there really are some forward-thinkers at Microsoft. Now they have a peripheral which is relatively cheap to make and was quite cheap to design, and all of the money they spent on R&D is nicely protected inside a box.
...the Russians wouldn't be happy that NASA was stealing their idea.
But then, I guess immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
One of the X-Prize competitors had the same idea. http://www.davinciproject.com/
My first thought when I read the summary was, "Hah, suckers are getting what they deserve!"
My dad had a small red cross in a button, overlaid with text, on his (small) company website that linked to his "First Aid" section. The Canadian Red Cross sent him a cease and desist letter and threatened to have lawyers shut him down... (yes, he's in Canada!)
I understand protecting a copyright, but it's not like my dad was using the "red cross" as or in his company logo or something. They should waste less time on that kind of crap and spend more time helping people.
Anyways, I changed it to a green cross and they can go suck a fat one.
They could have been more successful (participants *and* program) if they had been better organized and provided better information to the competitors about how the competition would be run.
I was working with a team that was going to compete, and as of last August they still hadn't been told the rules, or even what material would be used to simulate lunar soil.
When I was in highschool I created an entire map of my school for Doom. I even created locker wall textures in various colours to match the different hallways at the school, chalkboards (with various tags on them heheh) and created furniture like desks, chairs, cafeteria tables/chairs, etc. Suffice to say, you couldn't mistake the level for anything but a school, and probably not for any other school than mine.
Then I made the zombies into nerds with glasses, put prefect sweaters on the imps, and football jerseys on the demons. The prefect sweaters and football jerseys matched the colours of our school.
Now, just to note, I was a nerd with glasses, a prefect, and played on the football team. I didn't do all this because I hated anyone or anything, I just did it because it was fun and cool.
I'm gonna go see if I can find that on a disk somewhere...
I meant that the similarity is in actually "maintaining" the system.
Are you saying you never have to do anything to maintain a Linux system?
I haven't reinstalled Windows XP in 4 years since I replaced a faulty hard drive in it. After changing the HD, it was an AMD 1700 with 256 MB RAM and a single 80 GB HD. Now its an AMD64 3700+ with 2 GB RAM and 2 80 GB HDs, and the only thing I had to do was run the installer over top of the existing install to get the motherboard upgrade to be recognized properly. I've had to reactivate it 3 times as well of course.
I've changed RAM, sound cards, several video cards, monitors, power supplies, countless peripherals, etc. This machine is on 24 hours a day, I use it as a work machine (writing/compiling code,) photo editor, movie editor, 3D modeler, file server, media center (hooked up to the TV,) etc. I can usually run the machine without a reboot for weeks at a time, and then I only reboot because of a patch - and usually because of stupid-ass McAfee virus scan needing the machine to reboot, but I'm looking at my virus scan options right now. I never blue screen with this machine - at least not since I got rid of my NVidia video card 3 years ago.
Oh, and its XP Home, not Pro.
The key to not having to reinstall is to not be a pussy. You have to maintain your PC just like you would a Linux (or any other) machine. Remove old nasty drivers, keep drivers up to date. Clean up the registry. Make sure you run a firewall (or have a router at least). Run anti-virus software. Be careful about what you run/install.
So please, you and everyone like you should stop whining about Windows needing to be re-installed all the time. It just shows you know little about computers or maintaining them. Maybe you should call your nerd cousin to help you out next time.
LOL.. Great, now it looks like I'm the idiot because dude's been marked as a troll...
Uhhh... he is no longer a Member of Parliament. He stepped down after he confessed and tried to run again in the next election, but lost to Hedy Fry, in an area where his party should have won.
That said, he wasn't given a criminal record and only had to do community service and go to counselling. Considering the magnitude of the crime (he nabbed a ring), the fact that he turned himself in a week after stealing the ring, and that he has a mental illness (he says?) its not a horribly disproportianate punishment.
The fact that he was gay had nothing to do with him getting away with it. It was the fact that he was a public figure.
You even linked to a wikipedia article that contains all this information (except the gay vs. public figure opinions.) Are you retarded? Or just a homophobe?
> that you have full reign over it.
;)
Not from what I've heard from people developing games for it! The OS and other overhead take a good chunk first...
But yes, I agree, you do know you have full reign over whatever is left. You can only run one thing at a time on it, right? Sounds really powerful , like DOS
Not at all, I didn't even bother reading the story right away, because I thought it was just an exaggeration, or someone finding something else to blame games on.
It wasn't until I read an e-mail from work that the Hong Kong office was experience connectivity problems due to the earthquake in Taiwan that I was like, "Why the hell wasn't that on Slashdot?"
Then I went back to my RSS feed to check, and saw that the story was there. I read the story, started reading the comments, and then saw your comment and realised why I hadn't noticed it earlier. So thanks for completing the puzzle for me!
Maybe not, but his company *is* a Predator.
I'm j/k... I stole this from a post down below that mentioned MS being convicted of being an illegal monopoly and being a predator.
I don't love Microsoft, but I don't believe that Gates is evil.
Or how about putting that money into a college fund, so that they don't have such a huge debt after going to college. We all complain about the corporate machine but then we all just blindly buy into it every single year.
There should be a new rule for Xmas, birthdays, whatever: If you don't know what to get someone, don't get them anything.
Yup... good call on the link.
BitTorrent works well too Hacking Democracy BitTorrents
> When was the last time you saw actual analysis and comparisons of a politician's statements on a regular news program.
When Bill Clinton was president.
It's not the commute, it's the all the idiots out there on the road who can't drive (which excludes us of course!)
Besides... its not like they waited 10 years to file the lawsuit. It takes years for a lawsuit like this to be filed, and if the suit was settled less than 6 years after the patent was filed, that's a pretty quick turn-around.
Why would they bother filing if the iPod didn't take off? For a company the size of Creative, the amount of the settlement for some lesser known player (say Rio) wouldn't warrant the cost of the lawsuit.
Maybe Creative needs the money so they can compete with Apple in the MP3 Player market. Maybe they'd like to make their products better, and have bigger marketing campaigns, to prevent Apple from achieving a monopoly in this market.
The difference in this case is that without all the internet hype, the traditional marketing wouldn't have been so wacky. It would have been more plain vanilla marketing hype for a cheesy action movie.
Samuel L. Jackson saw this from the beginning - the name made a big difference to the hype surrounding the movie. The name attracted attention, along with SLJ himself, and the internet hype built out of that. From there came the wacky trailers, etc.
I definitely think this movie would have been a bust without the internet hype, because everyone I talked to in line at the "Audience Participation Advance Screening" I went to (at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver) was there because of the internet hype.
How many cheesy action movies that come out these days have people dressing up on opening night and bringing props (rubber AND real snakes, toy planes)?
Dream on man... without the internet, max $5mil gross opening weekend for that POS* film.
*POS, but I immensely enjoyed it!
Maybe you should take that as a sign that you have got the wrong one.
Roald Dahl definitely wrote a poem about an anteater that would rather eat people than ants, but I don't remember more than that.
There are several places in Vancouver (at least) where there is a time limit on how long you can use a parking spot, including metered spots. This new system prevents you from going over that time limit, and it also saves you from parking there when it is not allowed (e.g. during rush hour), by not allowing you to feed the meter.
Personally, I think its about time!
If it makes you feel any better... I remember you saying it.
But then again - *I* was the one who told you, so I said it first! So there!
This reminds me of a quote from a TV show I saw when I was a kid:
guy calling into radio show with southern accent: "You know, if everyone carried around a sawed-off shutgun, there'd be a lot less crime!"
DJ's response: "Yeah, and a lot less people too, dork!"
To paraphrase - you're not going to stop criminals by giving everyone guns. You're just going to create "stronger" criminals - and a lot more people will die, criminals and non-criminals included.
Based on your example, I expect all the criminals robbing the town without guns, will have gotten their guns from the other town. They'll build up a veritable collection of guns, and once the town without guns increases their security (either through police, technology, or guns) then do you think the criminals are going to stop? No, they're gonna say, "Well... this town over here has a bunch of security now. This other town over here has no security, but i know a lot of'em have guns. But I bet I have *more* guns. Yeah, let's go boys!" So now, instead of some material goods being stolen, people are getting killed, maimed, what have you.
Look, the point of gun control is not to punish responsible citizens. The point is to make it harder for criminals to get guns.
I want to tie this back in to cigarettes, but my views on cigarettes are skewed due to public health care. Guns on the other hand create the same issues universally.
Just thinking out loud here...
Maybe there would be fuel savings by not putting the engine on the asteroid and trying to move it. Basically you can get the tug-ship up to speed alongside the asteroid and then cut the engines, with occasional thrust to adjust course (and maintain speed?). Gravity would do most of the work of moving the asteroid.
Plus once it is done moving one asteroid, the spaceship could move on to another one. The logistics of landing on the asteroid, setting up the rockets, and then taking them off again would probably be prohibitive, so we would just leave them there.
Plus the article did cover this (in a way) saying that asteroids may be made of loose material and applying the thrust directly on the asteroid is more likely to break it up/affect its rotation, etc.
I dunno... I'm thinking you guys have never seen the complete frag. Now that's character.
In any case, games will become more expressive because that's what people want. Ever since the first 'tag' textures in MP games people have found a way to express themselves differently from others. When virtual reality hits big, there will be even more expression in games.
And of course there's smack talk during the game - the best smacker will get a big following for sure. Behaviour off the 'court' will be a big factor too.
Hell, look at poker these days!
While I don't think video games will replace sports, I'm sure they will be right there along-side.