Most cattle here around are produced on field which are not used for wheat production that years (rotation) or downright never used for meat production (lotta sheep rising area are full of rock, don't matter for the sheep but make the field improper to any wheat/legumes mass production). There are some food fed to the cattle, but such food would not be produced if the cattle was not here to eat it up. Best example of it are some non-sweet corn, which are produced just for cattle feeding, because producing anything else (food/wheat) would be at a *LOSS*.
The bottom line is that we can , in the west, grow non feed stuff for cattle , and be inefficient at food production, because we are over producing and swamping all otehr market ! So yes, meat production is inneficient per hectare, but whore care when efficiency is not a factor in area where food is overproduced ? Remember the hunger problem is not a problem of producing not enough food, it is a distribution problem on where the food is produced, and where it is needed. Also quite a political problem, as when we *dump* our price on food (remember we over produce) we can sometime destroy local market in place where agriculture is not as extended, and destroy local people living.
In conclusion, all the rethoric on meat being inefficient , is rather missing the point. The place which produce the most meat, don't have a food production quantity problem. On the contrary we already destroy meat, legumes, fruit, and milk by the tons, and pay farmer to *NOT* produce more !
In the west we continue to produce cattle and eat meat not because we need it , we could perfectly replace it with an array of protein from various source, we do it because we like the taste. And trust me on that one, some insect are not too bad grilled, some are downright disgusting, some are "neutral" , I tried about anything from spider to cricket, to various crawling and creeping stuff, and nothing, nothing can replace the texture and taste of my angus filet.
In the very end , the manufacturer are not given the CHOICE of using iOS. And the market share of the Operating system iOS and Android doesn't have to be interpreted differently. The bottom line is that if in the end the market share of Android is much greater than the one of apple (and long term I think it will if only by the virtue it is available for everybody) then developper will migrate to where they can get a greater market share for their apps (or do both market). This is also the reason why even if MAC were a better operating system, in the end windows with all its incompatible machine, video driver, and other sheenanigan, got the lion share of personal application.
And then we should immediately condemn them all to death for being such psychopathic killer of porpoise. And while we are at it, we should give an ultimatum to the dolphin nation to not be such a git and stop pissing directly in the water and shitting in it. If they do not stop polluting our common resource we should declare war on them.
Or alternatively we could leave the situation as is.
It cost money to defend yourself from a lawsuit if it is not dismissed outright, and from the description, it is not one which will be. Case in point, JREF/James Randi had to defend themselves agaisnt scammer because they had shown that the scammer were offering a bogus item. They won naturally, but they did not get any money back (and it was rather expansive 4 zero non trivial amount). So this guy you are saying a non story, it could ruin his life, and if the greek law are the same as in the US, worst case scenario he doesn't get a pip money back once he won.
Baggage fee are not new. You have a certain weight authorized with your ticket, (depending on class and trip it can go from 25 Kg to 40 Kg) and everything over that is Excess Baggage, for which a fee will be asked. We (yeah I wqork in airline nindustry) even have a document named EBD (Excess Baggage Doc) for this case, and when I started 10 years ago it was already existing. What might be new, is that the agent are asked to ENFORCE the rule strictly on baggage weight instead of being more relax and allow a kg or 2 of coolance. In other word if you were not paying before for baggage over the allowance it was NOT because the fee did not exists, but because the CKI agent skipped it. So now you are paying what you should always have paid. And really that is not a big deal. WEIGHT your luggage at home on a personal weighter, the one you use yourself, and remove crap until you get it OK.
As for food, make the concurrence work on that one. Other airline are still giving the crappy sandwich for free. A fee european airline comes to mind for that, and they are even airline which are "in the black" making profit. I think for example LH is still giving crappy food without asking money. If the crappy food (and it *IS* crappy) is that important, then check around for other airline. Otherwise do like we all do, buy MUCH less crappy food for the same price after you are thru security, in the gate area.
The minimum guaranteed income in most country I know of which practice it, does not allow a good standard of living, you get a crappy roof, crappy food, minimum care and that's about it. I am a lazy ass, but there is no way I would live a life like that. think about it : no distraction, no alcohol (too expansive, unless you starve yourself a few day) no computer (ditto) no telephons (ditto) no internet (ditto). If you think the minimum money given , as practiced in some country, to survive would allow you a lazy life, you are fully and utterly mistaken. It only allow you to , at best, survive.
Now what some bastard do , is to say they have no job, get the minimum money from the gov, and then work on the "black market" making a normal sum.
firstly the long tail means for "small" artist, a better way to make themselves heard, and a chance at celebrity however small. Wthout it you are condemned to obscurity or nearly. Secondly more importantly that can mean in certain case the difference between having to have a job beside music to pay rent, or live off music, have more time to be creative, the same way people live off their job (not rich, but enough to live as us the common mortal). And thirdly, for US the public, it gives us globally much betetr chance to hear other music that the "promoter" RIAA might not give a chance to because their marketing say them they won't recoup their cost.
It is a win for the artist, a win for the public, and even a win for the RIAA in case the artist don't want to promote itself, so that can see whoever is "catching up", even if they can't propose them a "bad contract" and remove the skin from the artist, they will have to propose a better one, but OTOH they know in advance what they buy. It is a win for everybody really.
But I have lived in Paris for a lot of time, basicaly some people are impolite to other NO MATTER their country of origin. Especially garcon de cafe (sorry no c cedille or accent on this keyboard) I have been spit in my glass by some of those guy, despite being polite to them. But I bet with you they remembered the BAD stuff, and never recalled all the other french being civil. That is a selection bias at work here.
But that does NOT matter, this is missing the point by a mile. Politesse and civility is not something earned by a nation. When 2 random indivudal encounter what should matter is the history between them, and if they have no history, civility and politesse SHOULD be the ground state, and only if that precise individual show itself to be an idiot, one can if wished switch to being impolite. BUT , being impolite to a french, because some otehr guy years ago laughed at you, this is not a justification, this is grounding one's decision on prejudice. Prejudice is never a good way to do decision, in social situation.
I have *yet* to see an American churned by the younger generation. All also know a bit of english due to the school system. I keep hearing those story, but from older people. But even if youw ere right, that does not excuse being randomly impolite to a stranger. So what now ? A frencvh was impolite so you can churn any other frnech ? A black has attacked you so you can all accuse them in mass ? A woman spurned you so they are all bitch ? Get real. Prejudice and bad history is not a reason to be impolite for a whole class of people. And frnakly , when the french excercized their right of "free speech" by not agreeing with the Irak war , what happened ? Well a few american started to act like real polite resonable adult : they renamed the fries fries "freedom fries" (or was it freedom toast?) and destroyed merchandize (IIRC unpaid merchandize, aka , vandalizm) does that mean I have to spurn American because of a minority of idiot ? Jeez NO. Civility and politess is the normal state of what one should have with a stranger , unless that stranger demonstrate he did not earn it. This is the true sign of a polite nation. And nonetheless , no matter how insightful the mod found you, you are not insightful, you are simply mistaken.
1) in some area only *ONE* corporation offers a service. So yeah. Once they decide to fuck you in the ass, better get K gel or completely abandon the service offered, or move away 2) once the 2 or 3 megacorp decide that, yes they want a part of the cake, and if they ALL do it , then none of them will have a disadvantage, then pffft. Sure , under the table agreement are forbidden, but the fine for them are ridiculously small comapred to potential benefit.
Your view of capitalism free market is a near fantasy one.
I have been enough to America, to know that msot of the folk is highly prejudicied for a reason or another. I am always polite, and try to speak the local language as good as possible. But once people remark my french accent, it is game over. I get cold shoulder and so on. And pelase don't tell me that's because I am french : 1) I have colleague from other nationality which also got cold shoulder (Iran, Indian, Swiss, german, Spanish nationalities) 2) For TRULY polite people it would not matter which color or nationaly one is, by default people should be polite with people they don't know anything beyond the nationality.
Sure it is only a bunch of anecdotial story, and so no real evidence, but really I call bullshit on what you said. The US is not a country of polite people. Provide us evidence of it and maybe we'll all think our anecdotial evidence is only a sign we got bad luck. until then, all i have to answer you is : get real.
THAT would be the type of game I respect and like for the story "what can change the nature of man". "regrets". As you said the other game incomparison have no depth. Still a film on PS:torment would lose part of the depth by having a prefered start / middle and ending path. That would break it for me, as every time i replay it, I get a different story.
Or did you jump from 0 year old to 21 year old full aware of all law and implication ? Many 16 year old actually don't even KNOW that sharing is illegal. Heck long ago when I told somebody of my middle school that mass replicating K7 and giving them to friends is illegal, they panicked and destroyed the K7. No kidding. try to place yourself in otehr people shoe, and you will realize that SOME people can very well not know sharing is illegal, without having their head in sand.
I haven't had one virus in years. There is no infection vector you can attack me on either. I used to build some for fun in my pre-teen idiotic years (from my own version of pong using the 21hz INT, to some which self replicated on COM, and later EXE). Today, from time to time I download one of the anti virus & anti spyware and test my machine. In the last 10 years the results has always been the same : Zero Trojan, zero Virus, zero everything. it takes discipline and knowledge but you CAN be without any virus whatsoever.
And for a lot of money. You can look it up if you want. OTOH A lot of us remember the slap on the face MS got , from the US court, and if one want to call it a slap. And the other non story where nothing happened.
What yous aid about having to upgrade was true 5 years 10 years ago, but not today. I have a machine which is two year old and it crank high FPS without a hitch, except on 2 games (FF14 MMO, and Fallout new vegas, and the last one I am wagering it is a bug).
I don#t plan to upgrade in the next time, because I have *NO* reason, even game sold today I can crank at high settings and still get a good FPS. So your 6 month upgrade cycle is outdated.
And PC gaming is cheaper on a game by game basis. Average price of PC game I bought : 39. Average price of console game I bought : 59. That is 20 PER GAME. After 10 game i can buy the mega super shiny upgrade new graphic card *if I wanted*. As for driver being current, I haven't had a problem with that for years. Vista automatically upgrade my drivers.
If you pissed in the casket without us SEEING and SMELLING it, then the casket being buried, and it turns out later you indeed pissed in it, I would not care. You are welcome to do it on a rotten piece of meat. My mother once dead will be the summation of all memory I have from her, not the corpse.
Starts good end bad. The pessimist in me is that due to "compromise" with "industry leader" a tad tiny bit of fair use will be added, but in addition heavy fine , prison stay will be added for copyright infrigement, and maybe even copyright lengthened a bit.
It is The worst kind of censorship. The one a quasi monopolist can do, and you CAN'T do anything to fight it, except taking a stand and losing revenue.
Being born in the western europe, I never feared governement censorship. But private censorship done by all media, advertising, now that is the one which is difficult to fight, as the *conduit* which are supposed to be used to spread info, are stopping that info to go out. First amendement , lost schmamendement. I would wagger a bet that it is the same in the US: most censorship , is not done by the governement, but by private media. It is all nice that the govenrement can't stop your free speech, when all you can do is take a soapbox and go in the street yell your opinion, because NONE of the mass media will let you carry it. But with some form of speech, this is the situation where we are headed to.
If you read between the line, what they are "thrusting" isn't always spears, and worst, usually it is the kind of very bad porn the bible offers , what I call snuffporn (a lot of incest and semen spilling everywhere, as well as rape). IIRC for example Noah and his two daughter in the cave. Or the "bash baby head on the rock" and "kill all of them except the nubile women" type of fiction. Seriously there should be a disclaimer on the whole OT that it is not family-friendly and certainly not kid-safe.
Sure we can say *some* sales will be lost, but how many will be won by word of mouth (hu, never mind for porn film, but the argument is usable for everything else) ? Frankly there are a few study I know of which quantified the sales loss, but AFAIK they showed that word of mouth from pirated stuff brought more sales in than those losses.
* Just plain fun
* Limitless potential, could move beyond gaming.
* New, innovative technology will only get better.
Lows:
* $150 price on top of Xbox 360 console * Half-second of inherent lag
* Fairly basic games
* Only handles two players at a time
german summry
Approximative transaltion in english :
The setup is a problem too. So kinect needs really much place and has problem with light. One tester from joystiq was not recognized due to his glasses, because it was reflecting too much light.
Whoever want to paly to 2 needs 3 meter of free palce from TV (9 foot aprox) which needs a lot of moving furniture by many. Which means also that the dashboard features like move command cannot be used when one want to do only a to watch a film, not to play. Also the price is critized.
My verdict from what i all read : the lag will probably limit it to games where it is not too important (casual family game, or game where a 1/3 to 1/5 second lag has no impact). Tech looks good and could be a revolution, but at the moment too expensive. Wait and see for Kinect 1.2 with a good offering of games.
I know the fine article mention virgin birth, by why mix in immaculate conception ? Just name the article "parthenogenesis in boa Constrictor". Why mix in christian myth with biology ?
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Most cattle here around are produced on field which are not used for wheat production that years (rotation) or downright never used for meat production (lotta sheep rising area are full of rock, don't matter for the sheep but make the field improper to any wheat/legumes mass production). There are some food fed to the cattle, but such food would not be produced if the cattle was not here to eat it up. Best example of it are some non-sweet corn, which are produced just for cattle feeding, because producing anything else (food/wheat) would be at a *LOSS*.
The bottom line is that we can , in the west, grow non feed stuff for cattle , and be inefficient at food production, because we are over producing and swamping all otehr market ! So yes, meat production is inneficient per hectare, but whore care when efficiency is not a factor in area where food is overproduced ? Remember the hunger problem is not a problem of producing not enough food, it is a distribution problem on where the food is produced, and where it is needed. Also quite a political problem, as when we *dump* our price on food (remember we over produce) we can sometime destroy local market in place where agriculture is not as extended, and destroy local people living.
In conclusion, all the rethoric on meat being inefficient , is rather missing the point. The place which produce the most meat, don't have a food production quantity problem. On the contrary we already destroy meat, legumes, fruit, and milk by the tons, and pay farmer to *NOT* produce more !
In the west we continue to produce cattle and eat meat not because we need it , we could perfectly replace it with an array of protein from various source, we do it because we like the taste. And trust me on that one, some insect are not too bad grilled, some are downright disgusting, some are "neutral" , I tried about anything from spider to cricket, to various crawling and creeping stuff, and nothing, nothing can replace the texture and taste of my angus filet.
In the very end , the manufacturer are not given the CHOICE of using iOS. And the market share of the Operating system iOS and Android doesn't have to be interpreted differently. The bottom line is that if in the end the market share of Android is much greater than the one of apple (and long term I think it will if only by the virtue it is available for everybody) then developper will migrate to where they can get a greater market share for their apps (or do both market). This is also the reason why even if MAC were a better operating system, in the end windows with all its incompatible machine, video driver, and other sheenanigan, got the lion share of personal application.
And then we should immediately condemn them all to death for being such psychopathic killer of porpoise. And while we are at it, we should give an ultimatum to the dolphin nation to not be such a git and stop pissing directly in the water and shitting in it. If they do not stop polluting our common resource we should declare war on them.
Or alternatively we could leave the situation as is.
It cost money to defend yourself from a lawsuit if it is not dismissed outright, and from the description, it is not one which will be. Case in point, JREF/James Randi had to defend themselves agaisnt scammer because they had shown that the scammer were offering a bogus item. They won naturally, but they did not get any money back (and it was rather expansive 4 zero non trivial amount). So this guy you are saying a non story, it could ruin his life, and if the greek law are the same as in the US, worst case scenario he doesn't get a pip money back once he won.
Baggage fee are not new. You have a certain weight authorized with your ticket, (depending on class and trip it can go from 25 Kg to 40 Kg) and everything over that is Excess Baggage, for which a fee will be asked. We (yeah I wqork in airline nindustry) even have a document named EBD (Excess Baggage Doc) for this case, and when I started 10 years ago it was already existing. What might be new, is that the agent are asked to ENFORCE the rule strictly on baggage weight instead of being more relax and allow a kg or 2 of coolance. In other word if you were not paying before for baggage over the allowance it was NOT because the fee did not exists, but because the CKI agent skipped it. So now you are paying what you should always have paid. And really that is not a big deal. WEIGHT your luggage at home on a personal weighter, the one you use yourself, and remove crap until you get it OK.
As for food, make the concurrence work on that one. Other airline are still giving the crappy sandwich for free. A fee european airline comes to mind for that, and they are even airline which are "in the black" making profit. I think for example LH is still giving crappy food without asking money. If the crappy food (and it *IS* crappy) is that important, then check around for other airline. Otherwise do like we all do, buy MUCH less crappy food for the same price after you are thru security, in the gate area.
The minimum guaranteed income in most country I know of which practice it, does not allow a good standard of living, you get a crappy roof, crappy food, minimum care and that's about it. I am a lazy ass, but there is no way I would live a life like that. think about it : no distraction, no alcohol (too expansive, unless you starve yourself a few day) no computer (ditto) no telephons (ditto) no internet (ditto). If you think the minimum money given , as practiced in some country, to survive would allow you a lazy life, you are fully and utterly mistaken. It only allow you to , at best, survive.
Now what some bastard do , is to say they have no job, get the minimum money from the gov, and then work on the "black market" making a normal sum.
firstly the long tail means for "small" artist, a better way to make themselves heard, and a chance at celebrity however small. Wthout it you are condemned to obscurity or nearly. Secondly more importantly that can mean in certain case the difference between having to have a job beside music to pay rent, or live off music, have more time to be creative, the same way people live off their job (not rich, but enough to live as us the common mortal). And thirdly, for US the public, it gives us globally much betetr chance to hear other music that the "promoter" RIAA might not give a chance to because their marketing say them they won't recoup their cost.
It is a win for the artist, a win for the public, and even a win for the RIAA in case the artist don't want to promote itself, so that can see whoever is "catching up", even if they can't propose them a "bad contract" and remove the skin from the artist, they will have to propose a better one, but OTOH they know in advance what they buy. It is a win for everybody really.
But I have lived in Paris for a lot of time, basicaly some people are impolite to other NO MATTER their country of origin. Especially garcon de cafe (sorry no c cedille or accent on this keyboard) I have been spit in my glass by some of those guy, despite being polite to them. But I bet with you they remembered the BAD stuff, and never recalled all the other french being civil. That is a selection bias at work here.
But that does NOT matter, this is missing the point by a mile. Politesse and civility is not something earned by a nation. When 2 random indivudal encounter what should matter is the history between them, and if they have no history, civility and politesse SHOULD be the ground state, and only if that precise individual show itself to be an idiot, one can if wished switch to being impolite. BUT , being impolite to a french, because some otehr guy years ago laughed at you, this is not a justification, this is grounding one's decision on prejudice. Prejudice is never a good way to do decision, in social situation.
I have *yet* to see an American churned by the younger generation. All also know a bit of english due to the school system. I keep hearing those story, but from older people. But even if youw ere right, that does not excuse being randomly impolite to a stranger. So what now ? A frencvh was impolite so you can churn any other frnech ? A black has attacked you so you can all accuse them in mass ? A woman spurned you so they are all bitch ? Get real. Prejudice and bad history is not a reason to be impolite for a whole class of people. And frnakly , when the french excercized their right of "free speech" by not agreeing with the Irak war , what happened ? Well a few american started to act like real polite resonable adult : they renamed the fries fries "freedom fries" (or was it freedom toast?) and destroyed merchandize (IIRC unpaid merchandize, aka , vandalizm) does that mean I have to spurn American because of a minority of idiot ? Jeez NO. Civility and politess is the normal state of what one should have with a stranger , unless that stranger demonstrate he did not earn it. This is the true sign of a polite nation. And nonetheless , no matter how insightful the mod found you, you are not insightful, you are simply mistaken.
1) in some area only *ONE* corporation offers a service. So yeah. Once they decide to fuck you in the ass, better get K gel or completely abandon the service offered, or move away 2) once the 2 or 3 megacorp decide that, yes they want a part of the cake, and if they ALL do it , then none of them will have a disadvantage, then pffft. Sure , under the table agreement are forbidden, but the fine for them are ridiculously small comapred to potential benefit.
Your view of capitalism free market is a near fantasy one.
I have been enough to America, to know that msot of the folk is highly prejudicied for a reason or another. I am always polite, and try to speak the local language as good as possible. But once people remark my french accent, it is game over. I get cold shoulder and so on. And pelase don't tell me that's because I am french : 1) I have colleague from other nationality which also got cold shoulder (Iran, Indian, Swiss, german, Spanish nationalities) 2) For TRULY polite people it would not matter which color or nationaly one is, by default people should be polite with people they don't know anything beyond the nationality.
Sure it is only a bunch of anecdotial story, and so no real evidence, but really I call bullshit on what you said. The US is not a country of polite people. Provide us evidence of it and maybe we'll all think our anecdotial evidence is only a sign we got bad luck. until then, all i have to answer you is : get real.
THAT would be the type of game I respect and like for the story "what can change the nature of man". "regrets". As you said the other game incomparison have no depth. Still a film on PS:torment would lose part of the depth by having a prefered start / middle and ending path. That would break it for me, as every time i replay it, I get a different story.
Or did you jump from 0 year old to 21 year old full aware of all law and implication ? Many 16 year old actually don't even KNOW that sharing is illegal. Heck long ago when I told somebody of my middle school that mass replicating K7 and giving them to friends is illegal, they panicked and destroyed the K7. No kidding. try to place yourself in otehr people shoe, and you will realize that SOME people can very well not know sharing is illegal, without having their head in sand.
I haven't had one virus in years. There is no infection vector you can attack me on either. I used to build some for fun in my pre-teen idiotic years (from my own version of pong using the 21hz INT, to some which self replicated on COM, and later EXE). Today, from time to time I download one of the anti virus & anti spyware and test my machine. In the last 10 years the results has always been the same : Zero Trojan, zero Virus, zero everything. it takes discipline and knowledge but you CAN be without any virus whatsoever.
And for a lot of money. You can look it up if you want. OTOH A lot of us remember the slap on the face MS got , from the US court, and if one want to call it a slap. And the other non story where nothing happened.
What yous aid about having to upgrade was true 5 years 10 years ago, but not today. I have a machine which is two year old and it crank high FPS without a hitch, except on 2 games (FF14 MMO, and Fallout new vegas, and the last one I am wagering it is a bug). I don#t plan to upgrade in the next time, because I have *NO* reason, even game sold today I can crank at high settings and still get a good FPS. So your 6 month upgrade cycle is outdated.
And PC gaming is cheaper on a game by game basis. Average price of PC game I bought : 39. Average price of console game I bought : 59. That is 20 PER GAME. After 10 game i can buy the mega super shiny upgrade new graphic card *if I wanted*. As for driver being current, I haven't had a problem with that for years. Vista automatically upgrade my drivers.
If you pissed in the casket without us SEEING and SMELLING it, then the casket being buried, and it turns out later you indeed pissed in it, I would not care. You are welcome to do it on a rotten piece of meat. My mother once dead will be the summation of all memory I have from her, not the corpse.
Animal are tasty. That is enough for me. Call me egoist , but I have only one life, so feel free to eat your cow-chow, I will eat the cows.
Starts good end bad. The pessimist in me is that due to "compromise" with "industry leader" a tad tiny bit of fair use will be added, but in addition heavy fine , prison stay will be added for copyright infrigement, and maybe even copyright lengthened a bit.
It is The worst kind of censorship. The one a quasi monopolist can do, and you CAN'T do anything to fight it, except taking a stand and losing revenue.
Being born in the western europe, I never feared governement censorship. But private censorship done by all media, advertising, now that is the one which is difficult to fight, as the *conduit* which are supposed to be used to spread info, are stopping that info to go out. First amendement , lost schmamendement. I would wagger a bet that it is the same in the US: most censorship , is not done by the governement, but by private media. It is all nice that the govenrement can't stop your free speech, when all you can do is take a soapbox and go in the street yell your opinion, because NONE of the mass media will let you carry it. But with some form of speech, this is the situation where we are headed to.
If you read between the line, what they are "thrusting" isn't always spears, and worst, usually it is the kind of very bad porn the bible offers , what I call snuffporn (a lot of incest and semen spilling everywhere, as well as rape). IIRC for example Noah and his two daughter in the cave. Or the "bash baby head on the rock" and "kill all of them except the nubile women" type of fiction. Seriously there should be a disclaimer on the whole OT that it is not family-friendly and certainly not kid-safe.
Sure we can say *some* sales will be lost, but how many will be won by word of mouth (hu, never mind for porn film, but the argument is usable for everything else) ? Frankly there are a few study I know of which quantified the sales loss, but AFAIK they showed that word of mouth from pirated stuff brought more sales in than those losses.
a kinect review
Highs:
* Just plain fun
* Limitless potential, could move beyond gaming.
* New, innovative technology will only get better.
Lows:
* $150 price on top of Xbox 360 console
* Half-second of inherent lag
* Fairly basic games
* Only handles two players at a time
german summry
Approximative transaltion in english :
The setup is a problem too. So kinect needs really much place and has problem with light. One tester from joystiq was not
recognized due to his glasses, because it was reflecting too much light.
Whoever want to paly to 2 needs 3 meter of free palce from TV (9 foot aprox) which needs a lot of moving furniture by many.
Which means also that the dashboard features like move command cannot be used when one want to do only a to watch a film, not to play.
Also the price is critized.
IGN video review linked ina rticle
Mixed reviews for kinect
My verdict from what i all read : the lag will probably limit it to games where it is not too important (casual family game, or game where a 1/3 to 1/5 second lag has no impact). Tech looks good and could be a revolution, but at the moment too expensive. Wait and see for Kinect 1.2 with a good offering of games.
I know the fine article mention virgin birth, by why mix in immaculate conception ? Just name the article "parthenogenesis in boa Constrictor". Why mix in christian myth with biology ?