Why couldn't you filter both the diode and the camera? I.e. (Normal/Today's world):
Diode 1 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Camera 1 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Diode 2 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Camera 2 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Apply filters to both emitter and detector, on both Kinect 1 and 2:
Diode 1 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 700-800nm wavelengths actually leave the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Camera 1 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 700-800nm wavelengths enter the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Diode 2 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 900-1000nm wavelengths actually leave the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Camera 2 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 900-1000nm wavelengths enter the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Granted, the filter won't stop 100% of the other wavelengths, but it'd probably mute them enough that it's not detectable (or less so).
Some recalibration may be required, but other than that it should just work.
The most engaging game I've played recently is Portal. Unique, and fresh. Looking forward to Portal 2.
Let me just point out that there is something ironic in your opening statements.
Not really if you think about it;
Portal was really only a half of a game (4h long, essentially a demo/shareware version).
Portal2 is really going to be the first real game. As well, it adds new perspectives, such as co-op play.
Older ones (lower-cost/entry-level, not the X-25s) actually did have an issue during writes; in that it couldn't keep up the throughput (and as such the system would "stall", like it used to with floppy-disk access). This caused CPU usage to go through the roof while the system kept trying to get confirmation of the write.
Cache on the SSD and better controllers have pretty much alleviated that, though.
Yeah, but SSDs have more CPU overhead than HDs. If you are running something that doesn't do a lot of disk I/O it may be that you would be better off with an HD.
[Citation needed]
Current-gen SSDs don't have the high-overhead found in those released even as recent as a year ago.
Actually, TFA did have scoped measurements (granted it was through a loopback into another input, so was subject to the quality of the ADCs on the inputs), so you could at least see how the various cards performed against each other.
Frequency response (the onboads dropped off completely at/around 20kHz), noise levels, hamonics, and stereo crosstalk were all plotted for the three cards in the test.
If "On like Donkey Kong" was a phrase used to market a game that consumers though was the Nintendo property, there might be a case here. That is the only test that is used to determine whether a phrase or symbol infringes a trademark.
Corporations who frivolously try to grab intellectual "property" like this should have to pay the government fees for using up taxpayer funded resources.
It is;
From TFA, it's the phrase they're using to promote the newest incarnation of Donkey Kong Country for the Wii, which releases 11/21.
GP's statement still stands;
Neither the car nor the manufacturer claim themselves the savior of mankind.
In the case of the prius, each and every smug self-indulgent owner refers to themselves as the saviors of mankind, raising themselves above the owners of all other cars.
Just watch the southpark episode; it'll spell it out for you quite clearly.
Yes, once you see spelling errors of that sort enough times, you start two loose the ability too differentiate between the right and left version of the word.
...require cloning research to hand off truly mind numbing and dangerous work to clones.:)
That's multi-body job efficiency and task-assistance research, citizen; and it is for your protection, and your fun.
Anyone found referring to their method of assisting the complex as "mind numbing" must be a traitor, for work is fun. Friend computer has ensured that enjoyment of a citizen's job is at maximum levels.
As well, the amount of danger involved in all job has been reviewed and found to be within acceptable tolerances.
Enjoy your wonder life, as enabled by Friend Computer. As always, citizen, remember, Friend Computer loves you, and fun is mandatory.
The bigger problem we're facing with corporate practices like this is that, when the revolution comes, we won't have a wall big enough to put all these marketing departments against.
Not a problem at all, we just need one big island where we can dump them.
Supply them with massive ammounts of high-tec surveillance equipment and shitloads of all kinds of weapons. Then keep the food supplies limited to 'almost enough to survive'
Come back in 10 years and shoot the ones that survived.
So... Los Angeles?
What? It should be an island anyways.
The Bikini Atoll would be a large enough wall. Let's ship them there.
"Only way to be sure..." and all that.
There is only one "only way to be sure".
It is fitting though; if you alter your perspective, the surface of the earth could be viewed as a fairly large wall, and it would surely be big enough.
The bullets, in this case, rather expensive, however there would be little mess to clean up. The wall would be turned into a window (well, glass, anyways).
I prefer the method, as is used in games (and which video card manufacturers are pushing better and better cards to be able to do in hardware), in which the background is beautifully rendered, sure, but it's then blurred out slightly (moreso the further back you go) if it's not your primary focus.
It helps with the immersion a lot that the images in my periphery (outside the base 20% frontal-viewing cone) pretend to be blurred as if I were looking at it IRL.
Even in good "3D" (Avatar), the rest of the shot was not what the director had the lenses focused on. Everything not within the vertex of the two lenses actually did appear correctly, in that they weren't perfect.
When an image is too perfect to be real, our brains can tell. If it has those imperfections that our brains expect as we've seen the world that way all of our lives, then our brain is more apt to allow suspension of disbelief.
Says I. Care to explain how, step by step, are nukes going to work against the terroristas? Maybe I can use that against that Anonymous bastard from/b/ who tried to DDoS my wall wart server.
Easy
Step 1. Find terrorist
Step 2. Provide WMD (with extreme prejudice)
Step 3. Terrorist and all his friends within a 3-5 mile radius are no longer a threat.
(which is kinda what happens when you hit a dog at 65MPH+ and take a header and decide it is better to damage your hands than your face)
s/dog/curb/
s/65mph/50mph/i
I chose face
My face still looks fine (didn't even need reconstructive surgery), and my fingers work fine.
A few minor psychoses, but who these days really is truly sane?
Let that be a lesson to future generations; next time choose face, scars (if you get them) are sexy, battle-wounds that you can use to start interesting stories.
Loss of dexterity has a significantly higher negative impact to your ability to function (as you've found out).
Agreed - take a trick from Doctor Who or Firefly - explain just enough
Just enough... just enough?
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff."
— The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who, "Blink"
"Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff" is "just enough", in the same way that "big" describes the universe "just enough"
Of course they did.
It was safer to drink than water (potable water goes stale rather quickly at sea) and kept morale up.
Booze is cheap, like really cheap, to make, and a heck of a lot easier to keep fresh (store it in a barrel, the alcohol keeps it clean) than water (which would get all manner of potentially harmful microorganisms after even days of sitting).
With regards to GFX cards, it's generally just easier to wait for a hand-me-down from a friend.
I've got friends that get my old gfx cards when I upgrade. Sure, I could post ads on craigslist to get rid of the old card and maybe make enough for a night of drinking, or I could help out a friend who can't realistically afford a newer card.
I bought a GTX460OC a month ago, the EVGA one listed often in TFAs benchmarks (they were on sale or something, don't quite remember) for increased framerate in FFXIV and SC2.
My old 9800GTX/OC went to a friend, it was a welcome upgrade from his 8800GT.
It's really no skin off my back, as he's usually the DD when we go out.
His 8800GT then went to another friend of ours who was still running a 7300GTX.
Unless you can justify the expense yourself, it's better more often than not to have friends who can, and then just pay it back with favors and such that don't cost money.
Seriously though, this is the exact same thing as the Metallica issue back around the turn of the millennium.
"You fucking made us rich. You fucking made us popular. I worship you. Unless you downloaded 'Until It Sleeps' from Napster... then you're going to motherfucking jail. You're motherfucking meat." ...Camp Chaos
If you're the type of person that had 10 years worth of data with no backups, then its not inconceivable that you'd insert a found USB stick into a PC.
Personally, I'd just stick it into a pc at a kinkos or net cafe first.
Not really tampering...
His prints will be on the stick regardless if he 'finds' it in an envelope.
He wouldn't know it's his data until he sticks it in a pc and looks at it.
So:
1. Receive new stick (physically pull from envelope?)
2. Insert into PC
3. Realize what it is, copy all data off
4. Hand over to police
I'm surprised to hear that part about your ISP's own offerings not being included in the cap.
I believe in Canada, that practice is illegal. If they are going to cap you they can't discriminate their traffic or a competitors.
Not True.
I'm on Rogers (until I get switched to TekSavvy).
They charge me past bandwidth caps (to a certain point, which I make sure I go way over so I'm paying less per overcap-gb when all's said and done) and throttle my torrent speeds.
Full 10mbit (1mbyte/sec) is easy to get off of an http stream, but my torrents rarely break 200k/s (until a couple weeks ago torrents weren't throttled, and I regularly saw 700-800k/s torrent downloads)
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Why couldn't you filter both the diode and the camera?
I.e. (Normal/Today's world):
Diode 1 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Camera 1 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Diode 2 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Camera 2 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm)
Apply filters to both emitter and detector, on both Kinect 1 and 2:
Diode 1 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 700-800nm wavelengths actually leave the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Camera 1 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 700-800nm wavelengths enter the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Diode 2 emits light across the entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 900-1000nm wavelengths actually leave the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Camera 2 detects light across entire IR-A spectrum (700 - 1400nm), filter is applied so that only 900-1000nm wavelengths enter the kinect (all other absorbed, for the most part)
Granted, the filter won't stop 100% of the other wavelengths, but it'd probably mute them enough that it's not detectable (or less so).
Some recalibration may be required, but other than that it should just work.
The most engaging game I've played recently is Portal. Unique, and fresh. Looking forward to Portal 2.
Let me just point out that there is something ironic in your opening statements.
Not really if you think about it;
Portal was really only a half of a game (4h long, essentially a demo/shareware version).
Portal2 is really going to be the first real game. As well, it adds new perspectives, such as co-op play.
Older ones (lower-cost/entry-level, not the X-25s) actually did have an issue during writes; in that it couldn't keep up the throughput (and as such the system would "stall", like it used to with floppy-disk access). This caused CPU usage to go through the roof while the system kept trying to get confirmation of the write.
Cache on the SSD and better controllers have pretty much alleviated that, though.
Yeah, but SSDs have more CPU overhead than HDs. If you are running something that doesn't do a lot of disk I/O it may be that you would be better off with an HD.
[Citation needed]
Current-gen SSDs don't have the high-overhead found in those released even as recent as a year ago.
Since he's British, I suspect he isn't thinking that he can grow up to be president of the US.
If Arnie gets his way, this kid can be.
Actually, TFA did have scoped measurements (granted it was through a loopback into another input, so was subject to the quality of the ADCs on the inputs), so you could at least see how the various cards performed against each other.
Frequency response (the onboads dropped off completely at/around 20kHz), noise levels, hamonics, and stereo crosstalk were all plotted for the three cards in the test.
Barbara Streisand files for trademark over the use of "Streisand Effect"
I'm pretty sure, if she ever tried that, that Robert Smith and Syndey Poitier would beat her in a match of mecha-ro-sham-bo
If "On like Donkey Kong" was a phrase used to market a game that consumers though was the Nintendo property, there might be a case here. That is the only test that is used to determine whether a phrase or symbol infringes a trademark.
Corporations who frivolously try to grab intellectual "property" like this should have to pay the government fees for using up taxpayer funded resources.
It is;
From TFA, it's the phrase they're using to promote the newest incarnation of Donkey Kong Country for the Wii, which releases 11/21.
You've never heard of a Prius? :p
GP's statement still stands;
Neither the car nor the manufacturer claim themselves the savior of mankind.
In the case of the prius, each and every smug self-indulgent owner refers to themselves as the saviors of mankind, raising themselves above the owners of all other cars.
Just watch the southpark episode; it'll spell it out for you quite clearly.
Yes, once you see spelling errors of that sort enough times, you start two loose the ability too differentiate between the right and left version of the word.
FTFY
...require cloning research to hand off truly mind numbing and dangerous work to clones. :)
That's multi-body job efficiency and task-assistance research, citizen; and it is for your protection, and your fun.
Anyone found referring to their method of assisting the complex as "mind numbing" must be a traitor, for work is fun. Friend computer has ensured that enjoyment of a citizen's job is at maximum levels. As well, the amount of danger involved in all job has been reviewed and found to be within acceptable tolerances.
Enjoy your wonder life, as enabled by Friend Computer. As always, citizen, remember, Friend Computer loves you, and fun is mandatory.
The bigger problem we're facing with corporate practices like this is that, when the revolution comes, we won't have a wall big enough to put all these marketing departments against.
Not a problem at all, we just need one big island where we can dump them. Supply them with massive ammounts of high-tec surveillance equipment and shitloads of all kinds of weapons. Then keep the food supplies limited to 'almost enough to survive'
Come back in 10 years and shoot the ones that survived.
So... Los Angeles?
What? It should be an island anyways.
Learn to swim.
The Bikini Atoll would be a large enough wall. Let's ship them there. "Only way to be sure..." and all that.
There is only one "only way to be sure".
It is fitting though; if you alter your perspective, the surface of the earth could be viewed as a fairly large wall, and it would surely be big enough.
The bullets, in this case, rather expensive, however there would be little mess to clean up. The wall would be turned into a window (well, glass, anyways).
Just make sure you're not on the bottom of the pile of other theater-goers attempting the same
I prefer the method, as is used in games (and which video card manufacturers are pushing better and better cards to be able to do in hardware), in which the background is beautifully rendered, sure, but it's then blurred out slightly (moreso the further back you go) if it's not your primary focus.
It helps with the immersion a lot that the images in my periphery (outside the base 20% frontal-viewing cone) pretend to be blurred as if I were looking at it IRL.
Even in good "3D" (Avatar), the rest of the shot was not what the director had the lenses focused on. Everything not within the vertex of the two lenses actually did appear correctly, in that they weren't perfect.
When an image is too perfect to be real, our brains can tell. If it has those imperfections that our brains expect as we've seen the world that way all of our lives, then our brain is more apt to allow suspension of disbelief.
Says I. Care to explain how, step by step, are nukes going to work against the terroristas? Maybe I can use that against that Anonymous bastard from /b/ who tried to DDoS my wall wart server.
Easy
Step 1. Find terrorist
Step 2. Provide WMD (with extreme prejudice)
Step 3. Terrorist and all his friends within a 3-5 mile radius are no longer a threat.
(which is kinda what happens when you hit a dog at 65MPH+ and take a header and decide it is better to damage your hands than your face)
s/dog/curb/
s/65mph/50mph/i
I chose face
My face still looks fine (didn't even need reconstructive surgery), and my fingers work fine.
A few minor psychoses, but who these days really is truly sane?
Let that be a lesson to future generations; next time choose face, scars (if you get them) are sexy, battle-wounds that you can use to start interesting stories.
Loss of dexterity has a significantly higher negative impact to your ability to function (as you've found out).
Agreed - take a trick from Doctor Who or Firefly - explain just enough
Just enough... just enough?
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff."
— The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who, "Blink"
"Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff" is "just enough", in the same way that "big" describes the universe "just enough"
That's the problem.
They made him stronger, better, faster.
He was unable to compensate for the increased speed and killed himself in a car crash.
Of course they did.
It was safer to drink than water (potable water goes stale rather quickly at sea) and kept morale up.
Booze is cheap, like really cheap, to make, and a heck of a lot easier to keep fresh (store it in a barrel, the alcohol keeps it clean) than water (which would get all manner of potentially harmful microorganisms after even days of sitting).
With regards to GFX cards, it's generally just easier to wait for a hand-me-down from a friend.
I've got friends that get my old gfx cards when I upgrade. Sure, I could post ads on craigslist to get rid of the old card and maybe make enough for a night of drinking, or I could help out a friend who can't realistically afford a newer card.
I bought a GTX460OC a month ago, the EVGA one listed often in TFAs benchmarks (they were on sale or something, don't quite remember) for increased framerate in FFXIV and SC2.
My old 9800GTX/OC went to a friend, it was a welcome upgrade from his 8800GT.
It's really no skin off my back, as he's usually the DD when we go out.
His 8800GT then went to another friend of ours who was still running a 7300GTX.
Unless you can justify the expense yourself, it's better more often than not to have friends who can, and then just pay it back with favors and such that don't cost money.
Napster Bad!!
... then you're going to motherfucking jail. You're motherfucking meat."
...Camp Chaos
Seriously though, this is the exact same thing as the Metallica issue back around the turn of the millennium.
"You fucking made us rich. You fucking made us popular. I worship you. Unless you downloaded 'Until It Sleeps' from Napster
If you're the type of person that had 10 years worth of data with no backups, then its not inconceivable that you'd insert a found USB stick into a PC.
Personally, I'd just stick it into a pc at a kinkos or net cafe first.
Not really tampering...
His prints will be on the stick regardless if he 'finds' it in an envelope.
He wouldn't know it's his data until he sticks it in a pc and looks at it.
So:
1. Receive new stick (physically pull from envelope?)
2. Insert into PC
3. Realize what it is, copy all data off
4. Hand over to police
I'm surprised to hear that part about your ISP's own offerings not being included in the cap. I believe in Canada, that practice is illegal. If they are going to cap you they can't discriminate their traffic or a competitors.
Not True.
I'm on Rogers (until I get switched to TekSavvy).
They charge me past bandwidth caps (to a certain point, which I make sure I go way over so I'm paying less per overcap-gb when all's said and done) and throttle my torrent speeds. Full 10mbit (1mbyte/sec) is easy to get off of an http stream, but my torrents rarely break 200k/s (until a couple weeks ago torrents weren't throttled, and I regularly saw 700-800k/s torrent downloads)