MS 'Surface' is an array of cameras that motion-detect. The cameras are below the surface and they are responsible for all proxy work done between user and the system.
There is no interaction with the 'surface' other than to prescribe a boundary layer (zone) for the cameras to baseline.
"..controlled by reflex information received by peripheral sensors..., as well as an accelerometer which monitors the pitch of the machine. These sensors pass data on to..."
"The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind."
If the definition of 'move' and 'space' mean that certain baseline/root information was made available in a manner that meant both easier access and freedom to use it, with the expectation that such a move would foster more information and more giving, etc. etc, I contend that when the printing press was unleashed, a much larger move occurred, in a similar place.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not chipping on IBM, but if you are doing good for goods' sake, then do it, but please try to leave out the part where you paint yourself up as all warm and fuzzy and giving:)
"...and they'll all have burst from the freezing process."
Technically, cell rupture occurs as a result of the thawing process, and is not related directly to freezing.
It is possible to control thawing and avoid cell rupture if an organism is found while still originally frozen. I suspect something such as this 6 month old Mammoth has been subjected to more than one cycle of being frozen and thawed out.
...but until you've had an opportunity to get up close and personal with CA-MRSA, you DO NOT know how much fun you are missing.
Starts out like an ingrown hair or pimple. Might even be a spider bite. Then it gets angry. Take a large marble...light it on fire and have it surgically planted underneath, say, two layers of skin. Day three and the redness is now inches in diameter and the bump is still growing and...damn! It hurts! Burns like hell! Pimple my ass! Get that thing out of there! You can't sleep from the pain and you find yourself wondering which would be the better method to dig it out: kitchen cutlery or claw-hammer. In any case, if you don't have a doctor lance it, you're going to have to do it yourself.
Day four and it is open, draining and talk about cheese!! The stuff draining from the now open wound is so toxic, it blisters the surrounding skin. Makes it a bit difficult to remember to trash your clothes, bedsheets, etc., but at least the burning has lessened...a bit.
Ten or twelve days later, after finally getting on an anti-biotic (tetracycline?) that can put up a fight, the fluid draining out is almost stopped, the redness is almost gone and a bit of scar tissue is starting to form. Good news is, now that you know the routine, you can put up a slightly better fight next time - and there will be a next time...unless you died from this incident, of course. You did wash your hands before you helped your kids get dressed this morning, right...?
'Microsoft Surface'...interesting name, given that there are five cameras below the 'surface' tracking movement, leading some to wonder why the word surface is used. Normal for MS marketing I suppose.
The questions as to how the hardware and 'touching' would work are simply a continuation of the routine misdirection in thinking that has helped to stall reliable advances. The driving element is functionality and the hardware layer is something that will follow. Notice the pinch/spread finger motion that is part of the iPhone's touch interface. Such motions can be picked up in various ways, including simply moving your fingers in the air. The important element is the gesture itself, not how that particular gesture is conveyed. Focusing on 'how' inhibits refining the gesture. Get the gestures right first, then work out the hardware layer as it relates to whatever device is being controlled.
The mouse is simply a proxy by which the user indicates choices. It was just a matter of time before the need for a proxy was removed completely. Touch screens accomplish this. Problem is, no one, clear good method of using touch as the primary input method has presented itself...until now.
What will become clear in time is the role the iPhone will play in the death of the mouse. The version of OS X on the iPhone, not Leopard by the way, is the next big thing - get on board now and enjoy the ride.
"Lastly, we set Windows XP's Visual Effects to "best performance," installed all of our benchmarking software, defragged the hard drives, and ran all of the tests."
Nice to note that the only non-UNIX based OS on the market continues to come from MS. Too bad such a nice little box is held back by such a stoic, muzzle-loading OS.
Lovely! Name calling by a Vancouverian AC (wait...seems redundant, somehow ) ! My day is complete - that the best you can do? Heat of the moment made your mind go all giddy, did it, or is this the first time you've wielded your volatile little johnson in anger:)
Skin a bit thin from taking all those brackish showers, mate?
How'd you like to go home and tell yo' backwater-mama some dork kicked your digital white flabby asse?
Expo 86 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"It remains to date the biggest event in British Columbia history and is viewed by many as the transition of Vancouver from a sleepy provincial backwater to...
MS announces a new R & D center 'coming soon' to one backwater or another at least once a month. These 'outside'-the-US day care center are not about US policy or lack of this or lack of that. They are about MS and only MS.
When MS want's to grease the skids and keep a govt. off it's greasy backside so it can rewrite rules o' law, the first thing it does is pinch off yet another press release, so that the target country will gape raw ass and make the whole process easier. OWW! Uhhhuh! I said relax!
Just remember. Investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.
"As for the name/address in apples drm free files."
Stop there, please (nothing else beyond those words has any meaning as you've driven the conversation off the road and into the ditch, sorry).
Apple embeds a minimum of three items relating to you, in EVERY file/song in your iTunes library. Not just the new 'drm free', nor just ones you purchase, but every file/song. Buy a CD at the carwash, import it via iTunes and bingo... Eh? Why?...simple question, that some feel honor bound to brag about not wanting to ask. Ignorance may be bliss, but paying to have your info fed back to you without knowing or even knowing why is another matter...
And by missing that piece of information and still clinging to the 'doesn't bother me what they do..." mantra, you've once again proven the point why things need to be clear upfront (not half way...either not at all or all), so that such misunderstandings don't arise.
"If this is the direction business transparency is going we seem to have pushed things to ridiculous lengths."
Like most consumers, you've completely missed the basics that drive 'transparency' (disambiguation) by internalizing things - me; me; me. You don't see the point - not my job to hit you over the head with it:)
As I said, today's business climate pushes transparency. If you are going to take pains to explain to me what you, as a business, are doing with ALL of my personal information, then do it - leaving something (anything, sorry...) out dilutes the promise. Transparency is the keyword here, not privacy.
Apple's CPP, as written in this example, follows the 'who, what, when, where, why' format (more specifically for this case: 'why, what, when, how') of a traditional document designed to provide clear and logical information for the purpose of fulfilling an obligation to the public. The document then goes on to cover protection of the integrity of your info, purpose of cookies & pixel tags and Apple's supposed companywide commitment to user privacy.
The CPP contains 2,084 words and mentions customer service/support, forums, websites, purchases, logons, emails, software updates, market research, data-sharing with law enforcement and third party vendors, people you send gift certificates to and feedback, yet....it does not reveal the simple fact that some of your personal information is embedded in every song you choose to include in your iTunes library. An oversight, I'm sure, but one that in some people's minds casts doubt on the entire CPP. That is a shame, since Apple's legal team seems to have taken such pains as to exhaustively cover as many specific personal use examples as they could come up with. All the price of doing business these days. When they take steps to outline embedded info, not only in songs, but applications, etc., the issue, at least in my thinking, will go away:)
*The linked version I referenced, for those that for whatever reason wish to reverse-assemble my comment/logic, was last modified 12.2004 as noted by Apple. Any version dated otherwise is hereby disqualified in relation to my comment.
The issue isn't 'what' Apple's process involves, it is 'how' Apple has to date failed to apply an otherwise seemingly transparent privacy policy by telling users about it. Apple states their policy has not been updated since 12.2004 - they need to simply add verbiage explaining that certain basic (personal) information tags are routinely created and embedded withing EVERY song in your iTunes library. Disclosure - transparency - fair...simple. Done.
BTW...if you wish to strip said info for whatever reason, these are the atoms you need to target:
Most Critical Unpatched The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Apple Macintosh OS X, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Less critical
Yep, you are absolutely right - that $100k price is fixed in stone and will never, ever be any lower. What price would make you happy? The average price of a new car also continues to climb, and is just under $30k at this time, I believe.
And dropping 10k per year on fuel instead is just fine w/you, I guess. Sure, those micro-payments come in small bits, so who cares?:)
25k miles per year, 10 mpg for that extended cab F350 you love so much, at $4.00 per gallon = $10,000.00 -- gone money. Why use an electric car when you don't like the price, right? LIke a monkey on a football, that will show the neighbors you mean business.
I'm originally from Calif., where your car is you of course, and for decades, public transportation was something people on welfare used to renew their claims.
I've been in Asia for many years now, and continue to shake my head on how beneficial a good transport system can be and what is so hard that the USGovt. can't get onboard. You can set your watch by the subway trains in Tokyo. I'm in China now, and use the Maglev from the airport when I go to Shanghai - trains around the country are being upgraded one after another to make them high-speed in prep for the 2008 games. I live just across the border from HongKong, and that subway system is not only a delight, it is being migrated into southern China at a rapid pace and just in time. The Chinese have discovered the car here in Shenzhen, but the roads are already bottlenecked and talk about deja 'vu. Oh well...
Gas/diesel will only continue to increase in price. The points about the Tesla you make are valid, but if you plot the two curves, with those points being ticked off one by one against the rise in fuel, my money says the two will cross soon enough.
"...can't be a foul if you don't see it coming out of your tailpipe right?"
I'm guessing that is a rhetorical question, but... I'm ASE certified auto and heavy truck - journeyman. There are two basic forms of bad emissions surrounding gas & diesel. Unburned and poorly burned. That soot you may see coming out of a diesel exhaust, as an example, is made up of unburned particulates. They happen to be the least worrisome in terms of strict pollution. Poorly burned is another issue and the main one. So, just because you see something trailing a vehicle in motion, doesn't necessarily mean it is the biggest problem:)
At least since the creation of an affordable autombile.
I think the Veyron is the perfect automobile. And with a price of USD$1.16 million (and Bugatti losing $2 million), I consider it affordable. How about you? Didn't think so.
The key word in this thread is 'perfect' - not affordable. The day I go shopping for a car and tell the sales person it must be affordable is the day I stop driving.
Thanks for taking a run at the conversation and proving both my points, but you may want to try again if you want yours to stick, sorry...
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MS 'Surface' is an array of cameras that motion-detect. The cameras are below the surface and they are responsible for all proxy work done between user and the system.
There is no interaction with the 'surface' other than to prescribe a boundary layer (zone) for the cameras to baseline.
Total length includes the tentacles, at least one of which is larger and much, much longer than the rest, terminating in a paddle:
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"..controlled by reflex information received by peripheral sensors ..., as well as an accelerometer which monitors the pitch of the machine. These sensors pass data on to..."
S E G W A Y
Someone had to say it.
"The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind."
:)
If the definition of 'move' and 'space' mean that certain baseline/root information was made available in a manner that meant both easier access and freedom to use it, with the expectation that such a move would foster more information and more giving, etc. etc, I contend that when the printing press was unleashed, a much larger move occurred, in a similar place.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not chipping on IBM, but if you are doing good for goods' sake, then do it, but please try to leave out the part where you paint yourself up as all warm and fuzzy and giving
"...and they'll all have burst from the freezing process."
Technically, cell rupture occurs as a result of the thawing process, and is not related directly to freezing.
It is possible to control thawing and avoid cell rupture if an organism is found while still originally frozen. I suspect something such as this 6 month old Mammoth has been subjected to more than one cycle of being frozen and thawed out.
...but until you've had an opportunity to get up close and personal with CA-MRSA, you DO NOT know how much fun you are missing.
Starts out like an ingrown hair or pimple. Might even be a spider bite. Then it gets angry. Take a large marble...light it on fire and have it surgically planted underneath, say, two layers of skin. Day three and the redness is now inches in diameter and the bump is still growing and...damn! It hurts! Burns like hell! Pimple my ass! Get that thing out of there! You can't sleep from the pain and you find yourself wondering which would be the better method to dig it out: kitchen cutlery or claw-hammer. In any case, if you don't have a doctor lance it, you're going to have to do it yourself.
Day four and it is open, draining and talk about cheese!! The stuff draining from the now open wound is so toxic, it blisters the surrounding skin. Makes it a bit difficult to remember to trash your clothes, bedsheets, etc., but at least the burning has lessened...a bit.
Ten or twelve days later, after finally getting on an anti-biotic (tetracycline?) that can put up a fight, the fluid draining out is almost stopped, the redness is almost gone and a bit of scar tissue is starting to form. Good news is, now that you know the routine, you can put up a slightly better fight next time - and there will be a next time...unless you died from this incident, of course. You did wash your hands before you helped your kids get dressed this morning, right...?
'Microsoft Surface'...interesting name, given that there are five cameras below the 'surface' tracking movement, leading some to wonder why the word surface is used. Normal for MS marketing I suppose.
The questions as to how the hardware and 'touching' would work are simply a continuation of the routine misdirection in thinking that has helped to stall reliable advances. The driving element is functionality and the hardware layer is something that will follow. Notice the pinch/spread finger motion that is part of the iPhone's touch interface. Such motions can be picked up in various ways, including simply moving your fingers in the air. The important element is the gesture itself, not how that particular gesture is conveyed. Focusing on 'how' inhibits refining the gesture. Get the gestures right first, then work out the hardware layer as it relates to whatever device is being controlled.
Think different.
The mouse is simply a proxy by which the user indicates choices. It was just a matter of time before the need for a proxy was removed completely. Touch screens accomplish this. Problem is, no one, clear good method of using touch as the primary input method has presented itself...until now.
What will become clear in time is the role the iPhone will play in the death of the mouse. The version of OS X on the iPhone, not Leopard by the way, is the next big thing - get on board now and enjoy the ride.
"Lastly, we set Windows XP's Visual Effects to "best performance," installed all of our benchmarking software, defragged the hard drives, and ran all of the tests."
Nice to note that the only non-UNIX based OS on the market continues to come from MS. Too bad such a nice little box is held back by such a stoic, muzzle-loading OS.
Lovely! Name calling by a Vancouverian AC (wait...seems redundant, somehow ) ! My day is complete - that the best you can do? Heat of the moment made your mind go all giddy, did it, or is this the first time you've wielded your volatile little johnson in anger :)
Skin a bit thin from taking all those brackish showers, mate?
How'd you like to go home and tell yo' backwater-mama some dork kicked your digital white flabby asse?
Pride goeth...
"Gastown is the historic centre of Vancouver. But after the 1920s, Gastown became a quiet backwater of deteriorating buildings. It wasn't until the 1960s that the public began to appreciate Gastown's distinctive architecture and role in the city's history, and undertook to revitalize the area.
Posted - 6/10/2007 1:01:27 AM: Having recently spent some time in London UK, coming back to Vancouver was a shocker. "Yes the air was cleaner and the people laid back here but woah, Vancouver felt like a rural back water."
Ocean Cement is one of the last tenants of its kind here; its lease on Granville Island expired in 1999. The occasional tugboat still makes its way in and out of False Creek with a load of sand for the city works yard, but otherwise this sheltered backwater is the playground of kayakers and canoeists...
Expo 86 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"It remains to date the biggest event in British Columbia history and is viewed by many as the transition of Vancouver from a sleepy provincial backwater to...
Vancouver Courier.com 'SOUL FOOD FOR FESTIVE SEASON'
Whether it's music, theatre or ballet, the city has no shortage of festive entertainment to temporarily ward off the winter blahs and infuse the soul with Christmas spirit. So bah, humbug to all the Eastern Canadian culture snobs who think Vancouver is a backwater."
MS announces a new R & D center 'coming soon' to one backwater or another at least once a month. These 'outside'-the-US day care center are not about US policy or lack of this or lack of that. They are about MS and only MS.
When MS want's to grease the skids and keep a govt. off it's greasy backside so it can rewrite rules o' law, the first thing it does is pinch off yet another press release, so that the target country will gape raw ass and make the whole process easier. OWW! Uhhhuh! I said relax!
Just remember. Investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.
Ok, now we seem to agree - thanks for the reply :)
"As for the name/address in apples drm free files."
...simple question, that some feel honor bound to brag about not wanting to ask. Ignorance may be bliss, but paying to have your info fed back to you without knowing or even knowing why is another matter...
Stop there, please (nothing else beyond those words has any meaning as you've driven the conversation off the road and into the ditch, sorry).
Apple embeds a minimum of three items relating to you, in EVERY file/song in your iTunes library. Not just the new 'drm free', nor just ones you purchase, but every file/song. Buy a CD at the carwash, import it via iTunes and bingo... Eh? Why?
And by missing that piece of information and still clinging to the 'doesn't bother me what they do..." mantra, you've once again proven the point why things need to be clear upfront (not half way...either not at all or all), so that such misunderstandings don't arise.
Thanks!
"If this is the direction business transparency is going we seem to have pushed things to ridiculous lengths."
:)
Like most consumers, you've completely missed the basics that drive 'transparency' (disambiguation) by internalizing things - me; me; me. You don't see the point - not my job to hit you over the head with it
As I said, today's business climate pushes transparency. If you are going to take pains to explain to me what you, as a business, are doing with ALL of my personal information, then do it - leaving something (anything, sorry...) out dilutes the promise. Transparency is the keyword here, not privacy.
Apple's online Customer Privacy Policy statement* should perhaps include words to the effect of:
:)
"...blahblahblah..."
Apple's CPP, as written in this example, follows the 'who, what, when, where, why' format (more specifically for this case: 'why, what, when, how') of a traditional document designed to provide clear and logical information for the purpose of fulfilling an obligation to the public. The document then goes on to cover protection of the integrity of your info, purpose of cookies & pixel tags and Apple's supposed companywide commitment to user privacy.
The CPP contains 2,084 words and mentions customer service/support, forums, websites, purchases, logons, emails, software updates, market research, data-sharing with law enforcement and third party vendors, people you send gift certificates to and feedback, yet....it does not reveal the simple fact that some of your personal information is embedded in every song you choose to include in your iTunes library. An oversight, I'm sure, but one that in some people's minds casts doubt on the entire CPP. That is a shame, since Apple's legal team seems to have taken such pains as to exhaustively cover as many specific personal use examples as they could come up with. All the price of doing business these days. When they take steps to outline embedded info, not only in songs, but applications, etc., the issue, at least in my thinking, will go away
*The linked version I referenced, for those that for whatever reason wish to reverse-assemble my comment/logic, was last modified 12.2004 as noted by Apple. Any version dated otherwise is hereby disqualified in relation to my comment.
BTW...if you wish to strip said info for whatever reason, these are the atoms you need to target:
Yep, you are absolutely right - that $100k price is fixed in stone and will never, ever be any lower. What price would make you happy? The average price of a new car also continues to climb, and is just under $30k at this time, I believe. And dropping 10k per year on fuel instead is just fine w/you, I guess. Sure, those micro-payments come in small bits, so who cares? :)
25k miles per year, 10 mpg for that extended cab F350 you love so much, at $4.00 per gallon = $10,000.00 -- gone money. Why use an electric car when you don't like the price, right? LIke a monkey on a football, that will show the neighbors you mean business.
Oh, and good luck on your A & P certs - they don't give those away and I'm sure I'd be hard pressed to qualify :)
'public transport'
I'm originally from Calif., where your car is you of course, and for decades, public transportation was something people on welfare used to renew their claims.
I've been in Asia for many years now, and continue to shake my head on how beneficial a good transport system can be and what is so hard that the USGovt. can't get onboard. You can set your watch by the subway trains in Tokyo. I'm in China now, and use the Maglev from the airport when I go to Shanghai - trains around the country are being upgraded one after another to make them high-speed in prep for the 2008 games. I live just across the border from HongKong, and that subway system is not only a delight, it is being migrated into southern China at a rapid pace and just in time. The Chinese have discovered the car here in Shenzhen, but the roads are already bottlenecked and talk about deja 'vu. Oh well...
"Starts to add up after a while eh?"
:)
:)
And $4.21 per gallon gas doesn't?
Gas/diesel will only continue to increase in price. The points about the Tesla you make are valid, but if you plot the two curves, with those points being ticked off one by one against the rise in fuel, my money says the two will cross soon enough.
"...can't be a foul if you don't see it coming out of your tailpipe right?"
I'm guessing that is a rhetorical question, but... I'm ASE certified auto and heavy truck - journeyman. There are two basic forms of bad emissions surrounding gas & diesel. Unburned and poorly burned. That soot you may see coming out of a diesel exhaust, as an example, is made up of unburned particulates. They happen to be the least worrisome in terms of strict pollution. Poorly burned is another issue and the main one. So, just because you see something trailing a vehicle in motion, doesn't necessarily mean it is the biggest problem
From Silicon Valley, that's where, and it's almost here.
... the TESLA Electric Roadster.
At least since the creation of an affordable autombile.
I think the Veyron is the perfect automobile. And with a price of USD$1.16 million (and Bugatti losing $2 million), I consider it affordable. How about you? Didn't think so.
The key word in this thread is 'perfect' - not affordable. The day I go shopping for a car and tell the sales person it must be affordable is the day I stop driving. Thanks for taking a run at the conversation and proving both my points, but you may want to try again if you want yours to stick, sorry...