I grew up with the same thing (AM radio, no less) and I've lost most of my highs in both ears and a lot of everything in my right ear at this point, so mono works fine for me...in fact, listening to some OLD recordings from the sixties and seventies when they really thought that separating the voices into different tracks was cool makes listening on headphones nearly impossible...I get left track only. Although a great take on the backup singers sometimes, depending on the mix. Frankly, if you stand behind me with a drum and a bass, I'm pretty much set for rest of my life.

Wow, I can see how that would shake your world...it would mine. Everyone knows that it's bathing that causes death, not the other way around.

I'm not sure reefs grow at that depth. Even deep water reefs are barely over a mile deep. I'm not saying NOTHING is down there, but the junk at 3 miles down isn't keeping a reef from growing.

Will it be called Francis?

Depending on your actual need, you might want to check out the Leap motion controller. It CAN track finger position, although not from the same distance, nor in the same way as the Kinect. But more granularity. https://www.leapmotion.com/

To be able to bring a patent infringement lawsuit in these software cases, they should require the lawyers to do the coding live. It would either slow them up, or make the courtroom more interesting. You'd at least have an idea that the people involved knew what they were doing.

Backing up folderol on this. Keep your mouth shut until you talk to YOUR lawyer.

What's the big deal? It's 54 degrees here in Texas right now...what? metric? we don't do metric here in Texas. How much is that in 'merican? Wow, that IS hot. Never mind.

Apple fanboyz don't have bad breath...they're too cool for that.

In the US, the principle is that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Whether what they did was right or wrong according to our (yours, mine) standards is irrelevant in a court of law...what matters is if they are convicted of doing something illegal.
Another principle of US jurisprudence is that everyone deserves a fair trial including having a lawyer, even if they can't afford one. And that the lawyer is to act on their behalf...again, whether what they did was right or wrong (or even legal or illegal). It is the basis of the innocent until PROVEN guilty thing.
And if I am in court as a defendant, I certainly don't want my lawyer deciding that what I did was wrong so he isn't going to defend me properly.
Like it or not, if the lawyers of the prosecution couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did the deed, he deserves to go free...in the US. And, no, I don't consider that evil.

I agree. MFWAL (My father was a lawyer) and he was paid to defend people, whether what they did was right or wrong...and he was very good at his job. So if a lawyer is paid to argue that up is down and black is white, that the lawyer will do.
My father didn't always win (USUALLY, but not always) and I can remember him talking to a con in prison on the phone...very pleasant, cordial, helpful, polite. I questioned him about why he was so nice to the guy, who really was "not a nice person". His reply..."Everybody else is beating up on him in there, somebody should be good to him."
Not all lawyers are evil. That said, I don't think I could do it for a living.

I actually CAN'T argue with his interpretation, since IANAL. He contends that an automobile is sculpture. There is, as I understand it, a large body of law that would say that it is not. I could argue that there is more of a correlation between fashion and the styling of automobiles...fashion which is also not copyrightable for some of the same reasons.
I DO understand copyright, in so far as it affects my life as a writer of software (it does) but in this case, the bat-mo-people are arguing trademark with a crossover into copyright and derivative works.
I suppose I could have just said, "No, your interpretation is probably wrong", but this is /.

An art student AND a lawyer...that is not a combination you see every day.

You got in an argument with your boss? About weather? And you want to keep this job? If the latter, I'd figure out a way to prove your boss right and then suck up. Or you can just be right and hungry. Just a thought.