Well, you could work on an "untrusted" principle. Google for Analog hole; the various *IAA have been trying to plug it for years.
It is possible to turn off the video output if the monitor is "untrusted", and to encrypt the entire video stream, from source to pixel.
The problem is that the technology right now is fragile, and would cause a huge uproar. It might also run afoul of some anti-monopoly laws, as only certain "approved" hardware platforms would be able to display the video stream.
No. Read the outright racist newspaper accounts of WWII. What you're suggesting would require expunging the vast majority of human history.
We can start by removing "offensive" words, but where do we stop? "nigger" is offensive to some, "jap" to others, "squaw" to still others.
But it's not just words that are hurtful. We need to expunge all history of violence and pain. How about accounts of the thousands of dead bodies in Pearl Harbor, floating so thick the survivors could walk on them? How about Mogadishu? Hutu-Tutsi genocide?
The human race is the most successful predator to walk the face of the earth in 4 billion years. You can't expunge violence and pain; it is our nature. We need to deal with the fact that we are a vicious, violent species, and we need to evolve beyond that level to survive.
The fact that it makes some of us uncomfortable is proof that at least a few of us are rising above our violent nature, and that maybe there is hope for us yet.
Yup; my dad still has Kodachrome slides from back in the 60s? 50s? It's the only film he's ever used that kept its color.
Every other film has faded and lost color.... There's a reason the stuff is expensive. I haven't used it in 20 years, but it still saddens me to see something that good die.
So are you saying that the kids should be paid for signing? I'm confused.
Signing for the joy of it should be free. Playing music for the joy of it should be free. Just as dancing is free. I can copy a ballet and dance without royalties. What makes music special?
Education is a different business from any other; your product is not measured in profitability but rather in making better kids and citizens.
Every culture out there in recorded and unrecorded history has had music and song. Heck, they even dug up a bone flute from 35,000 years ago. It's only in the last 70 years or so that it's become a business.
Song and dance is innate to human existence, just like food or breathing. Heck, animals sing and dance. Watch any mating pair of herons.
So now you're teaching those kids that singing a song is a business proposition, not a joyous thing. You pay to play. Talk about taking the fun out of something. And, maybe, just maybe, there won't be as many musicians because a lot of schools will eliminate music. It's just plain stupid.
Capitalism is a philosophy of private ownership, pacifism, and protection of property rights.
The only problem is that your argument relies on a sort of "enlightened dictator" in the role of the supreme capitalist. In the history of the world, this has never happened for any significant length of time.
Look at the history of the labor movement. The mega-companies at the turn of the century had de-facto private armies that beat and killed workers who protested horrendous working conditions.
Capitalism in its pure form as as rare as any theory; too many people are avaricious bastards who will screw their own mother for a dime. Capitalism without a strong government will not lead to "respect of property rights"; rather it will lead to theft, murder, and destruction of anyone who is less powerful than you.
Look at the history of the American West; a lot of "pure capitalists" look at that as some sort of proof of superiority of pure american capitalism personified by the immigrants. In fact, those who became wealthy often did so by cheating, killing, and stealing the property of others. It's not a pretty story, and it goes on to this day.
To put in the perspective of world politics, the big companies are like Russia, China, or the US. Each has significant assets to protect, making MAD a viable way to protect themselves.
The patent trolls are like North Korea or Iran; they have no real assets to protect and nothing of significant value that can be destroyed (assuming you don't give a damn about people or jobs, which they don't).
So as long as the big companies have something to protect, the North Koreas and Irans of the business world will continue to harass them until the rules change.
The boats back then were likely waterproofed using a highly flammable tar mixture. It's not at all farfetched that something like this would work - assuming you could get enough mirrors.
Think of it as a terror weapon - you are in the attacking fleet, all of the sudden a huge area of the defending army shines a bright light and one ship bursts into flames.
Maybe the sailors knew about flaming arrows but this would have seemed like the gods were on the side of the defenders.
Heck, maybe they did the mirrors and the flaming arrows; it would still be effective as a weapon because it would sow fear and uncertainty.
The intermarriage of white persons with negroes, mulattoes, or persons of mixed blood, descended from a negro to the third generation inclusive of their living together as man and wife in this State is prohibited.
It's a law, it has not been repealed, and it's widely ignored.
There's a whole slew of laws that are widely ignored, from the absurd (it's illegal to decapitate a snake with your cane on a sidewalk in Klamath Falls, OR) to the outright offensive, as in the above quite.
The *only* difference is that the *IAA organizations have a lot of cash behind them, whereas the cane-carrying snake decapitators don't.
Nobody should be subject to a verbal assault by a judge or other public employee.
The tirade could have been very methodical and deliberate. Nowhere does it say that he turned purple, yelled, and blew spittle all over the bench.
OTOH, public employees have every right to "verbally assault" people who are just boneheaded and interfere with the proper function of government. As a public employee I have every right to "assault" you if I tell you the rules, ask you to follow them, make sure you understand them, and then you still come into my construction site and put yourself and my crews in danger. I have every right to "assault" you for behavior that causes the government to waste resources on your boneheaded actions. Especially when you're another public employee!
I'm not aware of another sport where the atheletes heartrate is sustained at the 180-200bpm level for 90+ minutes _continuously_.p>
Cycling? A 90 minute stage in the TDF would be considered a rest day.... Marathons? Ironman triathlons? Most any endurance sport, actually.
At that level, athletes are pretty much specialized for their activity.
Anyway, the idea wasn't to make the guy into an F1 driver but rather to make him physically fit enough to drive the car for a few laps without puking. Pretty much anyone can do that given the motivation and gym time.
Agreed... Any sport at that level is demanding. But I can guarantee that if this guy was to sign up for Crossfit, or at one of the gyms where I teach, he'd be fit in a lot less time than it took to learn all the ins and outs of racing.
Pretty much anyone can develop core strength and decent endurance. Me, I'm the original white guy with no rhythm, and I have the natural physique of Mr. Potatohead, and yet I can pretty much drive guys half my age to exhaustion, mostly because I work out regularly.
Well, if nothing else this might motivate him to get fit... I mean, the physical demands aren't that great compared to the skills needed to drive that car.
T-Mobile will even unlock your phone for you. Over the last few years, I've had about a half-dozen t-mobile phones unlocked.
We use the same phones in the US that we do in Europe. Japan is the holdout; you have to have a local phone. AFAIK, there is no common phone that will in both US and Japan just by swapping a SIM card.
Not to mention it would make absolutely NO sense to fire off the coast of CA and risk a panic when we already have test ranges in the Pacific just for such tests. I'm starting to wonder if this wasn't a fuckup, as that is the ONLY reason why I could think they would launch something that close.
That gets my vote. I can't think of any win-win scenario, either as a demonstration by the US or by some other power.
I'd guess this would be considered an act of war.
Of course there's always the possibility that the Repubs launched this to demonstrate the Dems inability to respond to a crisis.
Yeah, so the premium services have to stay ahead of the pirates, offering a value added something. So music sorted by beats-per-minute, intelligent playlists based on previous selections, or even a service that could build playlists based on my general instructions...
Imagine that... Competition in the delivery of music. Wouldn't that be grand?
The music delivery method hasn't changed significantly since 1950 or so - we still pick it by genre, artist, and title. How about by mood, or rhythm, or time of day, or lyrical meaning.....
Nope. You pay for service. So get the game for free, but unless you register and pay you don't get the live feeds that make it fun, or take you to the next level, or whatever.
I buy my music simply because I find Amazon easier to deal with than many of the pirate sites. I get what I want with a minimum of effort; that's worth a buck.
Make it more convenient to pay than to pirate, and it will work out. Right now it's more convenient to pirate than to pay.
I've heard the drinking's become an issue, along with rampant grade inflation. Hopefully the school will get its act together soon; it would be a shame if the undergrad program came apart.
An athlete is by definition competitive. Read the dictionary definition.
I'm not competitive and I don't consider myself an athlete. I just work out hard and long - and not with a wiimote in my hand. My point is that if you want to be in shape, you need to exercise. Waving a wiimote around while pretending to play tennis is not a whole lot of exercise.
I think the wii was sold to parents as "your kid will be more active if you buy this" but it's a marketing ploy, not reality. It helps justify the purchase.
Dude, I went to Princeton. At least in the engineering school, you do not "coast" on academics. It's a 70hr/wk workload. I graduated with honors - with a C+ average.
You sweat blood to get a BSE degree at Princeton.
Ditto for pol sci or international studies; the Woodrow Wilson school is incredibly hard.
Maybe as an art major or something, but the majority of programs is *hard*.
OK, I can't spead for Harvard or Yale, no doubt they're a cake walk.
People find the path of most enjoyment for least effort.
We certainly didn't buy the Wii to get our kids off the sofa, we bought it because it was fun to play.
If MS (or you) are counting on this somehow "forcing" people off their butts and being active, it won't make it past the first week of sale. People will use it in whatever way gives them the most enjoyment, not because it's some pedantic / techno means of "exercise".
If you want exercise, join Crossfit, swim, run, ride bikes, be a competitive triathlete or swimmer - all of which we do.
If you want entertainment, get an entertainment console.
But don't try to convince me that kinect will somehow replace a Crossfit WOD, or enable my daughter to take second overall in a double triathlon, or let my son compete in the state championships.
It will probably open up gaming to more people now. I can see great uses in exercise programs here, your own personal trainer who really does know if your doing it right. Think of the ability to extend this to at home rehabilitation! That alone makes this device a break through.
If our society wasn't so litigious, I could see that. But the first time someone gets a little sore, they will hit the Kinect Personal Trainer software author with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Too bad; I think you really have a great idea there. If the kinect is accurate enough, I can see a lot of physical trainer applications here.
I'm trying to get set up for a shooting match; minor variations in position can lead to large errors which result in you being off target. A miss is being off 1" at 25 yards - can the kinect pick up my position accurately enough to tell me that it's correct?
I just don't see it living up to that promise. I watch my kids play wii - at first, they were jumping all over the place. Now they lay on the sofa, and "play tennis" by simply waving the controller a few inches.
Until the kinect is smart enough to figure out that *this* finger flick means hit the ball, and *this* finger flick means "shoo fly" and *this* motion means change the menu and *this* motion means I'm reaching for the chips, all while laying on the sofa and moving about 12" at most, it ain't gonna work.
My kids use games to kick back and do nothing; they don't use them as some sort of false athleticism. All the kinect hoo rah has been about how you will jump around your living room; at least in my house when we want to do something we go out and do it. When we want to lay on the sofa and veg, that's what we do. Where does the kinect fit in?
I think this will find uses MS never expected if it stays on the market long enough; pet monitors, some researcher will start using this to measure erosion in a channel, or something - but as a game controller I see a minimal market.
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Well, you could work on an "untrusted" principle. Google for Analog hole; the various *IAA have been trying to plug it for years.
It is possible to turn off the video output if the monitor is "untrusted", and to encrypt the entire video stream, from source to pixel.
The problem is that the technology right now is fragile, and would cause a huge uproar. It might also run afoul of some anti-monopoly laws, as only certain "approved" hardware platforms would be able to display the video stream.
No. Read the outright racist newspaper accounts of WWII. What you're suggesting would require expunging the vast majority of human history.
We can start by removing "offensive" words, but where do we stop? "nigger" is offensive to some, "jap" to others, "squaw" to still others.
But it's not just words that are hurtful. We need to expunge all history of violence and pain. How about accounts of the thousands of dead bodies in Pearl Harbor, floating so thick the survivors could walk on them? How about Mogadishu? Hutu-Tutsi genocide?
The human race is the most successful predator to walk the face of the earth in 4 billion years. You can't expunge violence and pain; it is our nature. We need to deal with the fact that we are a vicious, violent species, and we need to evolve beyond that level to survive.
The fact that it makes some of us uncomfortable is proof that at least a few of us are rising above our violent nature, and that maybe there is hope for us yet.
Yup; my dad still has Kodachrome slides from back in the 60s? 50s? It's the only film he's ever used that kept its color.
Every other film has faded and lost color.... There's a reason the stuff is expensive. I haven't used it in 20 years, but it still saddens me to see something that good die.
So are you saying that the kids should be paid for signing? I'm confused.
Signing for the joy of it should be free. Playing music for the joy of it should be free. Just as dancing is free. I can copy a ballet and dance without royalties. What makes music special?
Education is a different business from any other; your product is not measured in profitability but rather in making better kids and citizens.
Every culture out there in recorded and unrecorded history has had music and song. Heck, they even dug up a bone flute from 35,000 years ago. It's only in the last 70 years or so that it's become a business.
Song and dance is innate to human existence, just like food or breathing. Heck, animals sing and dance. Watch any mating pair of herons.
So now you're teaching those kids that singing a song is a business proposition, not a joyous thing. You pay to play. Talk about taking the fun out of something. And, maybe, just maybe, there won't be as many musicians because a lot of schools will eliminate music. It's just plain stupid.
Capitalism is a philosophy of private ownership, pacifism, and protection of property rights.
The only problem is that your argument relies on a sort of "enlightened dictator" in the role of the supreme capitalist. In the history of the world, this has never happened for any significant length of time.
Look at the history of the labor movement. The mega-companies at the turn of the century had de-facto private armies that beat and killed workers who protested horrendous working conditions.
Capitalism in its pure form as as rare as any theory; too many people are avaricious bastards who will screw their own mother for a dime. Capitalism without a strong government will not lead to "respect of property rights"; rather it will lead to theft, murder, and destruction of anyone who is less powerful than you.
Look at the history of the American West; a lot of "pure capitalists" look at that as some sort of proof of superiority of pure american capitalism personified by the immigrants. In fact, those who became wealthy often did so by cheating, killing, and stealing the property of others. It's not a pretty story, and it goes on to this day.
To put in the perspective of world politics, the big companies are like Russia, China, or the US. Each has significant assets to protect, making MAD a viable way to protect themselves.
The patent trolls are like North Korea or Iran; they have no real assets to protect and nothing of significant value that can be destroyed (assuming you don't give a damn about people or jobs, which they don't).
So as long as the big companies have something to protect, the North Koreas and Irans of the business world will continue to harass them until the rules change.
The boats back then were likely waterproofed using a highly flammable tar mixture. It's not at all farfetched that something like this would work - assuming you could get enough mirrors.
Think of it as a terror weapon - you are in the attacking fleet, all of the sudden a huge area of the defending army shines a bright light and one ship bursts into flames.
Maybe the sailors knew about flaming arrows but this would have seemed like the gods were on the side of the defenders.
Heck, maybe they did the mirrors and the flaming arrows; it would still be effective as a weapon because it would sow fear and uncertainty.
Really?
Try this:
The intermarriage of white persons with negroes, mulattoes, or persons of mixed blood, descended from a negro to the third generation inclusive of their living together as man and wife in this State is prohibited.
It's a law, it has not been repealed, and it's widely ignored.
There's a whole slew of laws that are widely ignored, from the absurd (it's illegal to decapitate a snake with your cane on a sidewalk in Klamath Falls, OR) to the outright offensive, as in the above quite.
The *only* difference is that the *IAA organizations have a lot of cash behind them, whereas the cane-carrying snake decapitators don't.
Nobody should be subject to a verbal assault by a judge or other public employee.
The tirade could have been very methodical and deliberate. Nowhere does it say that he turned purple, yelled, and blew spittle all over the bench.
OTOH, public employees have every right to "verbally assault" people who are just boneheaded and interfere with the proper function of government. As a public employee I have every right to "assault" you if I tell you the rules, ask you to follow them, make sure you understand them, and then you still come into my construction site and put yourself and my crews in danger. I have every right to "assault" you for behavior that causes the government to waste resources on your boneheaded actions. Especially when you're another public employee!
I'm not aware of another sport where the atheletes heartrate is sustained at the 180-200bpm level for 90+ minutes _continuously_.p>
Cycling? A 90 minute stage in the TDF would be considered a rest day.... Marathons? Ironman triathlons? Most any endurance sport, actually.
At that level, athletes are pretty much specialized for their activity.
Anyway, the idea wasn't to make the guy into an F1 driver but rather to make him physically fit enough to drive the car for a few laps without puking. Pretty much anyone can do that given the motivation and gym time.
Agreed... Any sport at that level is demanding. But I can guarantee that if this guy was to sign up for Crossfit, or at one of the gyms where I teach, he'd be fit in a lot less time than it took to learn all the ins and outs of racing.
Pretty much anyone can develop core strength and decent endurance. Me, I'm the original white guy with no rhythm, and I have the natural physique of Mr. Potatohead, and yet I can pretty much drive guys half my age to exhaustion, mostly because I work out regularly.
Well, if nothing else this might motivate him to get fit... I mean, the physical demands aren't that great compared to the skills needed to drive that car.
So if you happen to end up on some TSA shitlist, and get stripped naked every time, you're OK with that?
How about the next level, soon to be introduced, when they shove a stick up your ass?
And the one after that, when they shove that cattle prod up your ass?
All in the name of security. And if you don't believe it, just look at the slipery slope we've been on since 9/11.
Christ, I left the communist block to get away from shit like this.
T-Mobile will even unlock your phone for you. Over the last few years, I've had about a half-dozen t-mobile phones unlocked.
We use the same phones in the US that we do in Europe. Japan is the holdout; you have to have a local phone. AFAIK, there is no common phone that will in both US and Japan just by swapping a SIM card.
Not to mention it would make absolutely NO sense to fire off the coast of CA and risk a panic when we already have test ranges in the Pacific just for such tests. I'm starting to wonder if this wasn't a fuckup, as that is the ONLY reason why I could think they would launch something that close.
That gets my vote. I can't think of any win-win scenario, either as a demonstration by the US or by some other power.
I'd guess this would be considered an act of war.
Of course there's always the possibility that the Repubs launched this to demonstrate the Dems inability to respond to a crisis.
Yeah, so the premium services have to stay ahead of the pirates, offering a value added something. So music sorted by beats-per-minute, intelligent playlists based on previous selections, or even a service that could build playlists based on my general instructions...
Imagine that... Competition in the delivery of music. Wouldn't that be grand?
The music delivery method hasn't changed significantly since 1950 or so - we still pick it by genre, artist, and title. How about by mood, or rhythm, or time of day, or lyrical meaning.....
Nope. You pay for service. So get the game for free, but unless you register and pay you don't get the live feeds that make it fun, or take you to the next level, or whatever.
I buy my music simply because I find Amazon easier to deal with than many of the pirate sites. I get what I want with a minimum of effort; that's worth a buck.
Make it more convenient to pay than to pirate, and it will work out. Right now it's more convenient to pirate than to pay.
I've heard the drinking's become an issue, along with rampant grade inflation. Hopefully the school will get its act together soon; it would be a shame if the undergrad program came apart.
An athlete is by definition competitive. Read the dictionary definition.
I'm not competitive and I don't consider myself an athlete. I just work out hard and long - and not with a wiimote in my hand. My point is that if you want to be in shape, you need to exercise. Waving a wiimote around while pretending to play tennis is not a whole lot of exercise.
I think the wii was sold to parents as "your kid will be more active if you buy this" but it's a marketing ploy, not reality. It helps justify the purchase.
Dude, I went to Princeton. At least in the engineering school, you do not "coast" on academics. It's a 70hr/wk workload. I graduated with honors - with a C+ average.
You sweat blood to get a BSE degree at Princeton.
Ditto for pol sci or international studies; the Woodrow Wilson school is incredibly hard.
Maybe as an art major or something, but the majority of programs is *hard*.
OK, I can't spead for Harvard or Yale, no doubt they're a cake walk.
People find the path of most enjoyment for least effort.
We certainly didn't buy the Wii to get our kids off the sofa, we bought it because it was fun to play.
If MS (or you) are counting on this somehow "forcing" people off their butts and being active, it won't make it past the first week of sale. People will use it in whatever way gives them the most enjoyment, not because it's some pedantic / techno means of "exercise".
If you want exercise, join Crossfit, swim, run, ride bikes, be a competitive triathlete or swimmer - all of which we do.
If you want entertainment, get an entertainment console.
But don't try to convince me that kinect will somehow replace a Crossfit WOD, or enable my daughter to take second overall in a double triathlon, or let my son compete in the state championships.
It will probably open up gaming to more people now. I can see great uses in exercise programs here, your own personal trainer who really does know if your doing it right. Think of the ability to extend this to at home rehabilitation! That alone makes this device a break through.
If our society wasn't so litigious, I could see that. But the first time someone gets a little sore, they will hit the Kinect Personal Trainer software author with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Too bad; I think you really have a great idea there. If the kinect is accurate enough, I can see a lot of physical trainer applications here.
I'm trying to get set up for a shooting match; minor variations in position can lead to large errors which result in you being off target. A miss is being off 1" at 25 yards - can the kinect pick up my position accurately enough to tell me that it's correct?
I just don't see it living up to that promise. I watch my kids play wii - at first, they were jumping all over the place. Now they lay on the sofa, and "play tennis" by simply waving the controller a few inches.
Until the kinect is smart enough to figure out that *this* finger flick means hit the ball, and *this* finger flick means "shoo fly" and *this* motion means change the menu and *this* motion means I'm reaching for the chips, all while laying on the sofa and moving about 12" at most, it ain't gonna work.
My kids use games to kick back and do nothing; they don't use them as some sort of false athleticism. All the kinect hoo rah has been about how you will jump around your living room; at least in my house when we want to do something we go out and do it. When we want to lay on the sofa and veg, that's what we do. Where does the kinect fit in?
I think this will find uses MS never expected if it stays on the market long enough; pet monitors, some researcher will start using this to measure erosion in a channel, or something - but as a game controller I see a minimal market.
Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand. The body is a marvelous tool - it will adapt if you put new demands on it.
He can use his other hand; it will be frustrating but I bet in the long run it will make him a better artist.