I don't mind a body scan, whatever -- I'm like a Greek god anyway -- but freakin' make the damn thing so I don't have to empty my pockets, take my jacket off and remove my shoes.
I'll happily get scanned if I didn't spent a bunch of time and hassle half undressing anyway.
HP is global, but largely American. We Americans bend over and take it in the ass gleefully, compared to German workers. Especially since the fearmongers have us running scared due to the economy.
There's lots of articles that talk about it in detail.
The resolution of the grid is a key factor in how positionally accurate the 3-D skeletal model ends up being -- which is why it can't see what your fingers are doing, but can position you pretty accurately.
The same technique in two years when processing power is 4x will allow the hardware to be revved with even more resolution.
You need to keep in mind this is a device sold for a profit at $150 retail that has a webcam, a depth camera, a matrix microphone consisting of four mics, and a motion control rig. Camera resolution and processor speed were clearly matched to the expected 1st generation game needs. And playing around with Video Kinect, it does nearly as good a job tracking the speaker and auto-zooming on the people as a Polycom system costing 10-15x as much.
There's a lot of haters in here, presumably because they either dislike Microsoft or are PS3 fanboys, but I doubt any of them actually read about the hardware or have actually used one.
1) Maintennance and support development 2) Extremely strong engineering teams
Formal processes with more up-front planning and review like waterfall allow you to turn out high quality product with average teams. You can't use the typical Agile processes with average teams and do substantial new development, but I've seen it work well enough for incremental development or support engineering/bug fixing.
A good manager will know his or her team and use the methods appropriate for success with that team, and not chase buzzwords.
In my experience, though, these days there are a LOT of bad managers.
It was completely warped, sadistic, hard to believe, and overly drawn out. The multiple experiments to convince himself just seemed to make it feel drawn out, while making him look like a sadistic prick.
And there's no possibility that the writers intended to make him look like a sadistic prick?
I assume you're one of the people on here who didn't watch season 1.5? (Because the answer to that should be obvious in that case...)
Running a few episodes at a 10:00 (IIRC) timeslot on a *Saturday* is not how you "try to run a couple episodes".
That came across as an attempt to see if they could pull more viewers than the junk normally on on Saturday nights with a production cost they've already covered, not an attempt to see if the series could stand on its own in prime-time.
I bet it happens with SGU too. SG-1 and SGA would both still be watchable shows with likable and funny characters, but they cancel those to put up a boring, slow, drama instead. On that note, one of the few other shows I DVR, Storm Chasers, has turned into a drama as well. I'm sick of watching the chasers bitch about the other chasers and have little interviews like a reality show. Just show the tornadoes and talk about the cool science and vehicles!
Even in the most difficult of states its pretty easy to have a car that has never had a VIN titled -- you just typically do a state inspection where they verify there are no stolen parts on it.
Its different if its salvage or a car based on something otherwise previously titled. From scratch cars are easy to title, but harder to pass inspection with.
Your difficulty was because you started with a chassis that had a pre-existing VIN associated with it.
Microsoft has been late to the game in crucial modern technologies like mobile, search, media, gaming and tablets.
Microsoft was doing tablets (since 2002!) and mobile long before Apple kicked out the iPhone and the iPad (yes, I'm aware of the Newton, but it wasn't directly involved in the successes of the recent mobile efforts).
Just because they haven't been doing it right doesn't mean they haven't been doing it.
In the markets Microsoft was targeting with tablets, they were dominating. Consumer tablets seem to have taken them by surprise, but Microsoft powers tablets in dozens of industries where they've been doing so for a decade.
Games bought via XBox Live for download work that way -- the purchase is tied to your XBox Live account and the target device, so no disk is needed.
If they let you copy the disk, then you could resell the disk and keep playing the game. Given the way the used game market works, the market for game purchases would evaporate overnight.
If you are doing it just for OS state reasons, and you're using Windows, is to just run Windows 7 and boot from a differencing VHD, keeping your data files outside of it.
Its no more complex than safely using virtualization to do what you want (and ensuring you don't lose data on a revert) but you're running bare-metal. Virtualization doesn't buy you much if you're just doing a single OS.
So rather than ranting about how stupid your friends are, how about breaking down why you're so concerned about that sort of information being private?
I don't know if it's possible to burn nearly 10 years of positive karma in one post, but this appears to be the thread to attempt it on, so here goes...
Ah kids these days. People of my Slashdot generation know that starting a reply like that is the best way to get a quick karma bump.
(And, moderators, replies to threads from the old guard pointing that out should be moderated "insightful" or "funny")
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Capital letters don't make you smarter.
Or authoritative.
Its including it for people without any security software already.
If Trend Micro's crap didn't get bought by the sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Huser already, odds are pretty low they will at that point.
I don't mind a body scan, whatever -- I'm like a Greek god anyway -- but freakin' make the damn thing so I don't have to empty my pockets, take my jacket off and remove my shoes.
I'll happily get scanned if I didn't spent a bunch of time and hassle half undressing anyway.
HP is global, but largely American. We Americans bend over and take it in the ass gleefully, compared to German workers. Especially since the fearmongers have us running scared due to the economy.
You need to watch more German porn ...
There's lots of articles that talk about it in detail.
The resolution of the grid is a key factor in how positionally accurate the 3-D skeletal model ends up being -- which is why it can't see what your fingers are doing, but can position you pretty accurately.
The same technique in two years when processing power is 4x will allow the hardware to be revved with even more resolution.
You need to keep in mind this is a device sold for a profit at $150 retail that has a webcam, a depth camera, a matrix microphone consisting of four mics, and a motion control rig. Camera resolution and processor speed were clearly matched to the expected 1st generation game needs. And playing around with Video Kinect, it does nearly as good a job tracking the speaker and auto-zooming on the people as a Polycom system costing 10-15x as much.
There's a lot of haters in here, presumably because they either dislike Microsoft or are PS3 fanboys, but I doubt any of them actually read about the hardware or have actually used one.
Ooof, I was about to make a snarky comment about it being 2010 not 1993 but realized there IS another 90210.
WTF?
In my experience, Agile works for two things:
1) Maintennance and support development
2) Extremely strong engineering teams
Formal processes with more up-front planning and review like waterfall allow you to turn out high quality product with average teams. You can't use the typical Agile processes with average teams and do substantial new development, but I've seen it work well enough for incremental development or support engineering/bug fixing.
A good manager will know his or her team and use the methods appropriate for success with that team, and not chase buzzwords.
In my experience, though, these days there are a LOT of bad managers.
It was completely warped, sadistic, hard to believe, and overly drawn out. The multiple experiments to convince himself just seemed to make it feel drawn out, while making him look like a sadistic prick.
And there's no possibility that the writers intended to make him look like a sadistic prick?
I assume you're one of the people on here who didn't watch season 1.5? (Because the answer to that should be obvious in that case...)
Running a few episodes at a 10:00 (IIRC) timeslot on a *Saturday* is not how you "try to run a couple episodes".
That came across as an attempt to see if they could pull more viewers than the junk normally on on Saturday nights with a production cost they've already covered, not an attempt to see if the series could stand on its own in prime-time.
Wish they would stop repeating these mistakes
I bet it happens with SGU too.
SG-1 and SGA would both still be watchable shows with likable and funny characters, but they cancel those to put up a boring, slow, drama instead.
On that note, one of the few other shows I DVR, Storm Chasers, has turned into a drama as well. I'm sick of watching the chasers bitch about the other chasers and have little interviews like a reality show. Just show the tornadoes and talk about the cool science and vehicles!
I've heard Ritalin has been known to help ...
Even in the most difficult of states its pretty easy to have a car that has never had a VIN titled -- you just typically do a state inspection where they verify there are no stolen parts on it.
Its different if its salvage or a car based on something otherwise previously titled. From scratch cars are easy to title, but harder to pass inspection with.
Your difficulty was because you started with a chassis that had a pre-existing VIN associated with it.
Google charges, too.
People seem to keep forgetting that.
Android's core OS is free, but the Google apps on it all cost money and everyone pays for them.
Microsoft has been late to the game in crucial modern technologies like mobile, search, media, gaming and tablets.
Microsoft was doing tablets (since 2002!) and mobile long before Apple kicked out the iPhone and the iPad (yes, I'm aware of the Newton, but it wasn't directly involved in the successes of the recent mobile efforts).
Just because they haven't been doing it right doesn't mean they haven't been doing it.
In the markets Microsoft was targeting with tablets, they were dominating. Consumer tablets seem to have taken them by surprise, but Microsoft powers tablets in dozens of industries where they've been doing so for a decade.
Games bought via XBox Live for download work that way -- the purchase is tied to your XBox Live account and the target device, so no disk is needed.
If they let you copy the disk, then you could resell the disk and keep playing the game. Given the way the used game market works, the market for game purchases would evaporate overnight.
I wasn't talking about VPC, just running Win7 native with a VHD.
That said, for a VM server, Hyper-V Server is also free and can run 64-bit guests. You lose native graphics, though.
Turn the decision making over to a computer. I'm sure it can't find the launch codes.
If you are doing it just for OS state reasons, and you're using Windows, is to just run Windows 7 and boot from a differencing VHD, keeping your data files outside of it.
Its no more complex than safely using virtualization to do what you want (and ensuring you don't lose data on a revert) but you're running bare-metal. Virtualization doesn't buy you much if you're just doing a single OS.
So rather than ranting about how stupid your friends are, how about breaking down why you're so concerned about that sort of information being private?
Why?
Unless everyone using it sets up their own uplink, its sure as hell easier to block their connectivity.
The problem is less homebrew and more that the ways homebrew tends to be done opens the system up to cheating.
They don't care about cheating in a single-player game, but rampant cheating in online games will drive gamers to another platform.
Did you forget to take your pill this morning?
Back in my day we didn't have quote tags, either.
Can never get these newfangled whiz-bang widgets to work ... now get off my lawn.
I don't know if it's possible to burn nearly 10 years of positive karma in one post, but this appears to be the thread to attempt it on, so here goes...
Ah kids these days. People of my Slashdot generation know that starting a reply like that is the best way to get a quick karma bump.
(And, moderators, replies to threads from the old guard pointing that out should be moderated "insightful" or "funny")
p>"I want access to these additional six million customers and it's going to cost me an additional $4600 per year to test for them. Worth it or not?"
That's great until your customers find out you're using a sweatshop of six year olds to test your apps ...
Sometimes there's a conspiracy.
Sometimes you just really don't understand.
If you think this has anything to do with SSL, guess which camp you're in?