I guess the problem might be replacing Kinect with a different device presenting itself as Kinect to XBox. This way you'd gain unfair advantage in online games - where your fitness, physical condition and body momentum would restrict you normally, you could use, say, a key to deliver lightning fast kicks, or duck to the ground faster than gravitational acceleration would normally let you.
The question should be: "Now what exactly can this do that any shitty 18-axis joystick can't?"
That's the kind of data you receive on the cable. Just like with optical mice, you don't have access to raw imaging device output, only processed through the image recognition layer.
A friend got Skype on his smartphone. WPA2 works. Skype works. Skype over WPA2 doesn't work - hiccups, pauses - the ~400MHz CPU is too weak to perform voice encoding and WPA2 encryption together. WEP is fine though.
ORG 0000h
LCALL MACROLIB #initialize the macro library
#from now on, let's write some macros we have just defined.
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
LCALL EXECUTE
JMP $
To add, we had quite a few successful experiments at creating controlled fusion. Some room-temperature, some only technically so (few atoms big pin blade superheated). Look it up in past stories on Slashdot. We came quite close to break-even point of energy - but best results are hard to sustain over longer time (like that pin evaporating eventually), and fusion sustained over longer time is far from producing as much energy as it uses. It will be quite a while until we get a working thermonuclear power plant.
You log in securely, you receive a cookie that proves you did. You present it to a webpage, the webpage allows you to access the content, because the cookie identifies and authorizes you. Then someone else obtains a copy of your cookie and their browser, upon presenting the cookie to the website, receives the same treatment as your own. Since the cookie is sent in plaintext in headers of every common unencrypted connection, obtaining it is trivial (compared to secure login)
Examples? Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, enough for you?
Anyway, that very wishy-washy love of God for Israel could be taken right with a literal translation of the metaphor to screen. So that the porn actress is in fact a metaphor for Israel, and the male actor plays God, and all they do is a metaphor...
Natural selection is half of the evolution. The other half is mutation creating new traits. It's all there is to it. Create new traits randomly, retain desired/remove undesired ones by natural selection, repeat.
Actually, I'd be quite interested in one that is not based on daylight. Think of it as input device, taking, say, HDMI signal on input, and outputting the video directly to optical nerves. Attach an external camera, or a computer, or a remote camera, or a video player... skipping the middle-man of display-light-eye-retina and feeding video data straight to the optical nerve.
One interesting caveat: eye projects the image on the retina upside-down and it's sent as such to the brain. The flipping is done fully "in software" and supposedly occurs only a few weeks after the child gains sight. It would be interesting to observe this effect in adult humans.
Interestingly, Dasher, amongst its many natural languages dictionaries, has a few programming languages dictionaries in it, meaning if you want to write Perl, it will guess the right keywords and suggest braces, special characters, quotes etc. where they belong.
Unfortunately, proofs of said activity will be released only by order of the very people who committed the crime. The corporation can make it as easy or as difficult (impossible) for the investigator to gather proofs on selected employees. Papers get displaced, entries get deleted, witnesses know nothing, people who might know a thing are transferred to a unit in Paraguay, and the conclusion of the investigation is "general incompetence caused the mistake, and I wonder how such a mess of a company can act at all".
Nope, you must be really, really willing to lose your job, chance to be employed by others in the industry and risk lawsuits on bogus charges from your employer, if you, as an employee want to let investigators know -who- personally is responsible.
Unless, of course, that person was out of favor, and is the designated scapegoat.
Any engineer whose boss tells them to do so. Not really "miscalculate", just like "simplify it"
If you can't reliably decide when the discount applies and when not to apply it, apply it only to the smallest possible 100% sure subset. If your app can't work correctly due to overwhelming complexity of correct solution, choose mistakes/simplifications in a way that brings most revenue.
Somehow I almost never see news "Company X lost $$$mln in erroneously assigned discounts to customers", "Company X made a $$$mln mistake in favor of n millions of customers", "Customers of X have not been billed for last month due to a computer mistake". Only in the opposite direction. Billed twice, denied discounts, made a mistake that costed the customers money...
"We accept responsibility for those errors, and apologize to our customers who received accidental data charges on their bills. We also send a big FUCK YOU to those we purposely tried to screw for money in full awareness of making bogus charges, and make a solemn promise to get these bastards who sued us for that."
...actually, Mozilla was about adding more features from day one. Then someone got really pissed off about that, took Mozilla base, removed all the cruft and forked off Phoenix, which was Mozilla minus all the "features". Then, when Mozilla began to die away and Phoenix began gaining popularity, Mozilla jumped the ship and joined the Phoenix team (and renamed it to Firefox later). Then they began doing to Firefox what they used to do to Mozilla, and what caused people to abandon Mozilla in favor of Firefox.
You're neglecting some very robust and quite common media in industrial use.
CAN, RS485, SPI - note Ethernet was never designed as an outdoor conditions network. RS485 was, and unlike RS232 it doesn't require one port per one remote device.
RS232 is preferred choice for higher-level debug/maintenance console (lowest is JTAG). For actual production-related communication, depending on traffic and distance, others are used.
Seriously, a whole lot of embedded devices - sensors, microcontrollers, machinery, vehicles, booths - use RS232 (as simple, universal and VASTLY easier to program than USB) It would be pretty exciting news... if it wasn't iPhone, a platform so locked down that it's nearly useless for homebrew like that.
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Not that much of a problem - Kinect is sold just above costs, and if it sells more games, the goal has been achieved.
I guess the problem might be replacing Kinect with a different device presenting itself as Kinect to XBox. This way you'd gain unfair advantage in online games - where your fitness, physical condition and body momentum would restrict you normally, you could use, say, a key to deliver lightning fast kicks, or duck to the ground faster than gravitational acceleration would normally let you.
The question should be:
"Now what exactly can this do that any shitty 18-axis joystick can't?"
That's the kind of data you receive on the cable. Just like with optical mice, you don't have access to raw imaging device output, only processed through the image recognition layer.
It's computationally heavy.
A friend got Skype on his smartphone. WPA2 works. Skype works. Skype over WPA2 doesn't work - hiccups, pauses - the ~400MHz CPU is too weak to perform voice encoding and WPA2 encryption together. WEP is fine though.
To add, we had quite a few successful experiments at creating controlled fusion. Some room-temperature, some only technically so (few atoms big pin blade superheated). Look it up in past stories on Slashdot. We came quite close to break-even point of energy - but best results are hard to sustain over longer time (like that pin evaporating eventually), and fusion sustained over longer time is far from producing as much energy as it uses. It will be quite a while until we get a working thermonuclear power plant.
Firesheep doesn't steal login credentials, only hijacks (insecure) session already (securely) authenticated.
You log in securely, you receive a cookie that proves you did. You present it to a webpage, the webpage allows you to access the content, because the cookie identifies and authorizes you. Then someone else obtains a copy of your cookie and their browser, upon presenting the cookie to the website, receives the same treatment as your own. Since the cookie is sent in plaintext in headers of every common unencrypted connection, obtaining it is trivial (compared to secure login)
Examples? Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, enough for you?
But being a time-waster is EVIL.
German porn based on the Bible?
Anyway, that very wishy-washy love of God for Israel could be taken right with a literal translation of the metaphor to screen. So that the porn actress is in fact a metaphor for Israel, and the male actor plays God, and all they do is a metaphor...
Natural selection is half of the evolution. The other half is mutation creating new traits.
It's all there is to it. Create new traits randomly, retain desired/remove undesired ones by natural selection, repeat.
What about Microsoft's PC gaming revival initiative? Is it dead already?
It would be actually quite interesting to see Kinect used with PC. Could result in many cool projects outside gaming.
I'd keep the better of my eyes bio.
Seems like the right job for the device drivers.
Actually, I'd be quite interested in one that is not based on daylight. Think of it as input device, taking, say, HDMI signal on input, and outputting the video directly to optical nerves. Attach an external camera, or a computer, or a remote camera, or a video player... skipping the middle-man of display-light-eye-retina and feeding video data straight to the optical nerve.
One interesting caveat: eye projects the image on the retina upside-down and it's sent as such to the brain. The flipping is done fully "in software" and supposedly occurs only a few weeks after the child gains sight. It would be interesting to observe this effect in adult humans.
Interestingly, Dasher, amongst its many natural languages dictionaries, has a few programming languages dictionaries in it, meaning if you want to write Perl, it will guess the right keywords and suggest braces, special characters, quotes etc. where they belong.
I'm actually overclocking my computer by using electricity made of electrons with 3/4 spin.
And now the primary problem / most frequent complaint about Firefox is...?
Unfortunately, proofs of said activity will be released only by order of the very people who committed the crime. The corporation can make it as easy or as difficult (impossible) for the investigator to gather proofs on selected employees. Papers get displaced, entries get deleted, witnesses know nothing, people who might know a thing are transferred to a unit in Paraguay, and the conclusion of the investigation is "general incompetence caused the mistake, and I wonder how such a mess of a company can act at all".
Nope, you must be really, really willing to lose your job, chance to be employed by others in the industry and risk lawsuits on bogus charges from your employer, if you, as an employee want to let investigators know -who- personally is responsible.
Unless, of course, that person was out of favor, and is the designated scapegoat.
Any engineer whose boss tells them to do so. Not really "miscalculate", just like "simplify it"
If you can't reliably decide when the discount applies and when not to apply it, apply it only to the smallest possible 100% sure subset. If your app can't work correctly due to overwhelming complexity of correct solution, choose mistakes/simplifications in a way that brings most revenue.
Somehow I almost never see news "Company X lost $$$mln in erroneously assigned discounts to customers", "Company X made a $$$mln mistake in favor of n millions of customers", "Customers of X have not been billed for last month due to a computer mistake". Only in the opposite direction. Billed twice, denied discounts, made a mistake that costed the customers money...
"We accept responsibility for those errors, and apologize to our customers who received accidental data charges on their bills. We also send a big FUCK YOU to those we purposely tried to screw for money in full awareness of making bogus charges, and make a solemn promise to get these bastards who sued us for that."
...actually, Mozilla was about adding more features from day one.
Then someone got really pissed off about that, took Mozilla base, removed all the cruft and forked off Phoenix, which was Mozilla minus all the "features".
Then, when Mozilla began to die away and Phoenix began gaining popularity, Mozilla jumped the ship and joined the Phoenix team (and renamed it to Firefox later).
Then they began doing to Firefox what they used to do to Mozilla, and what caused people to abandon Mozilla in favor of Firefox.
You're neglecting some very robust and quite common media in industrial use.
CAN, RS485, SPI - note Ethernet was never designed as an outdoor conditions network. RS485 was, and unlike RS232 it doesn't require one port per one remote device.
RS232 is preferred choice for higher-level debug/maintenance console (lowest is JTAG). For actual production-related communication, depending on traffic and distance, others are used.
Seriously, a whole lot of embedded devices - sensors, microcontrollers, machinery, vehicles, booths - use RS232 (as simple, universal and VASTLY easier to program than USB)
It would be pretty exciting news... if it wasn't iPhone, a platform so locked down that it's nearly useless for homebrew like that.
Are you implying EA is making high quality games now?