Last I checked the way kinect works is it basically shines an infrared light that you can't see but the cameras can. It uses this light to illuminate things. BTW, your cell phone's camera can also see in infrared. (As can the sensor on the Wii.)

Besides how much the car costs how much does it cost to get your electrical installation in your house upgraded to support charging the car? (My house was built in the 50s and it can barely handle the load of a modern house. I'm thinking I'd need to upgrade it if I want to have a tesla. I know I have to upgrade it if I wanted to add central air.)

Since in college I was hopeless in my foreign language class when listening/speaking were stressed. (And failed those classes multiple times.) When all I had to do was read it(at the same 4th semester level) I passed it the first time and I wasn't even close to failing. (Yes, I realize this is an anecdote but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a difference between reading and listening.)

I mean it would be really scary if you felt like you were right in the middle of a bunch of college kids who are about to be murdered.

I don't know if this is just a north east thing but we used to make pizzas by taking half an English muffin and putting sauce, cheese and toppings on it and then put it in a oven. That was a quick, easy, and tasty.

I realize that but it would be incredible to watch a "movie" where you're in the middle of the scene. (Kind what I hear they were trying to achieve with Avatar with 3d glasses and IMAX.) I mean could you imagine how much better the experience of pretty much any movie (especially horror) if you felt like you were right in the middle?

I missed out on seeing Avatar in 3D in one of those IMAX theaters. (With the screen that covers your peripheral version.) I didn't bother to watch it on cable since apparently the part that made it impressive is in that environment it's like you're in the movie. With these VR glasses it seems there's now finally a setup that can display that movie(and other) properly.

You know, where when you're on the highway you pull your energy from the road itself which would have power cables in it. Unfortunately I think I've read that would be really expensive. (Plus I think doing an induced current is less efficient. Been awhile since I've looked up anything on that though.)

I mean when I read his bio on Wikipedia nothing came out to me that said he was some sort of uber hacker so it seemed weird just how much stuff he managed to get. Oh well, hopefully since there's at least 3 other people at the NSA that have some sort of moral compass there are more in there as well. (But knowing how these things go they'll probably just fire everybody that hasn't drunk the kool-ade.)

Heh, you mean managers. The other developers here know exactly how tiring a job that consists of thinking all day truly is.

I mean it's not new that the max you can expect out of people is 40 hours.(One of the big reasons we switched to 40 hour weeks in the 20th century, it was pointless to have people work longer than that you don't actually get any more production.)

(sarcasm on)

Oh wait, we're talking about IT. The rules don't apply to us. You know, we don't need a business plan. Lets just wing things, it'll work out and sure 60+ hour weeks make sense.

(sarcasm off)

Fuck them like Catherine fucking a horse.

Ok this is a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when people say they're graded on a curve because 60 is an A. The mechanism that converts a raw score into a grade is the scale. If that scale is determined by how the class did as a whole then your grade is curved. (IE I got in the top 10% of scores therefore I got an A) If the scale is not based on how the class did then your grade is simply scaled. (IE I got an A because I got above 60 which the professor defined to be the cut off for an A. If everybody in the class gets above 60 they all get A) Seriously, it's as though since through out elementary/high school the whole "90+ is an A, 80+ is a B, ..." that people think that somebody, Einstein, Socrates, Jesus, or Mohammed decreed these scores or something. (Just as telling me that the temperature is 20 is meaningless without units telling me you scored X on a test is meaningless without having a meter that tells me what that score actually means.)

I ask because about 10 years ago I took organic chemistry. The professor basically said that she had been teaching this class for 10 years, she set up the tests so 65 was "average". So every time she gives the class and given the size(150~ students) she always gets a bell curve with the average right where she expected. She'd love it if everybody did well but she also said that statistically the likelihood that would happen is basically 0.

The way I looked at it when I thought about it was that the more different people you'd face in Jeopardy the more likely you'd come across someone that could absolutely clean your clock. Given that I had thought it was in your best interest to face a few different people as possible, and you could do that by getting tie and facing the same guy a second time. (Versus facing a new person that might be much better.)