Here's a picture of the StarTac, circa 1996: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MotorolaStarTAC.jpg

It, like almost all mobile phones since, has a green button to call (go) and a red button to hang up (stop). I would wager most people have this association.

Yes, but Kinect mocap data is very low quality in comparison to what most studios use for professional production. Also, the skeleton tracking doesn't include rotations of the head, feet or hands. On top of this, it doesn't track props, fingers or faces so it is quite limited. If you watched the video you hear the narrator talking about the Kinect getting them 70% there with lots of tweaking (he specifically mentioned adding head animation). The great advantage with Kinect, of course, is cost.

For high end work, equipment from Vicon or Motion Analysis is the way to go. I use a 24 camera Vicon T160 system daily at Motek Entertainment, which is also where Brekel works. He's developed the plugin for which allows the Kinect to stream skeleton data directly into Motionbuilder.

I had assumed the lesser value of 1440 (HDV) versus the greater (1440p). Mark me as corrected, and pleasantly surprised.

You may be correct in this case since it does seem that 1440p is a different format than what I was describing. However, my referenced format does indeed exist, it's the HDV1080 standard, which is 1440*1080 with pixels at 1.33:1 (anamorphic).

1440 is a version of 1080p. It still has 1080 lines of horizontal resolution, but only 1440 vertical lines instead of the standard1920. This format uses non-square pixels to fill a 16x9 aspect.

...by "just spent", I meant "are planning to invest".

GS purchased an approximately 3% stake in Facebook because they have a plan. The most likely scenario is that they expect an IPO in the next year or two, and they want to be on good footing to be the investment bank for Facebook when that happens. The fees they'll make in that position will pay handsome returns over the $1.5B they just spent. As soon as this happens, they'll disinvest and move on.

The fact that something is "under investigation" should have absolutely no bearing on this. Either it is, or is not, currently involved in the legal system. Beyond that, it is "innocent until proven guilty".

There is a huge difference between personal privacy, and the privacy of governments or organizations. Especially if these governments are meant to be publicly accountable by nature.

Except that there is no legal limbo. No charges, let alone convictions have been rendered. This is simply Apple enforcing their morality.

My theory about why the usage is so high, is that this demographic is treating SMS just like an instant messenger. There is probably lots of low-content back-and-forth chatter that the older generation would probably structure differently since they are more likely consider the cost per message.

Quicktime Alternative could be a viable option. It works for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_Alternative

It's part of the K-Lite codec pack, or you can download it as an individual codec here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quicktime_alternative.htm

Agilent has the MSO6014A for sale on their site for around $8500. Has the price really dropped nearly an order of magnitude since yours was purchased?

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I second this proposition