Comment Re:A500 -Why not the Acer ? (Score 2) 356
Mod +1
Ditto to the above post.
Comment Re:Summary sucks. (Score 1) 663
Speak for yourself. Amiga rule{z|d}!
Comment Re:Summary sucks. (Score 1) 663
Hey you kids, get off my board!
Comment Re:Two eyes are better than one (Score 1) 106
This could be solved by replacing the IR source in the 'projector' (actually a point source and a pinhole grid) with one of a different wavelength, and adding appropriate filters to the IR cameras in each Kinect.
Or maybe timing the grid light to be off while the other camera is on and vis-versa. Alternating back and forth quickly like the 3D LCD 'shutter' lenses. This way the grids would not interfere with each other. Don't have to turn off the cameras, just don't use the 3D grid data from those frames where the opposite grid is being used.
Just my
Comment Re:Think of the constitution. (Score 1) 745
Consider, do you need to be convicted by a jury of your peers to be confined to quarantine if you have a dangerous infectious disease? Is quarantine of those with infectious diseases punishment?
What if that person has been diagnosed with something like HIV? Should they be quarantined against their will since they poses a risk to public safety?
It's a slippery slope with shoddy breaks.
Comment Re:Already done by VMware (Score 1) 137
Mod parent up +1.
Some people just think that money still grows on trees. I work for a local government who is migrating to VMWare for some of our core servers. But we have many other servers that could be virtualized with HA using this, but for a fraction of the cost.
Submission + - MIT demonstrates wireless power transfer (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "Power wires are dead, long live power cords. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experimentally shown how everything from iPods to laptops could be wirelessly recharged by using a carefully designed magnetic field to deliver power to such devices from a range of 10 to 15 feet.WiTricity is rooted in such well-known laws of physics that it makes one wonder why no one thought of it before. "In the past, there was no great demand for such a system, so people did not have a strong motivation to look into it," points out MIT professor John Joannopoulos. The researcher said MIT would handle licensing of the technology should it be used in a consumer service or product in the future.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1599 8"
