The thing is £150 for a couple of motion sensors and a camera. If they're selling that at a loss then they're doing something VERY wrong.
I think you're not considering microsoft's r&d costs as something that may help $150 for each kinect sale amount to a loss when factored in.
An investment in intel won't necessarily stop riots
This is why I support AMD.
Yeah, and if there's even a slight problem with the coolant system -- the liquid turns to gas, expands 1,500x its original size... and is surrounded by ceramic, metal, plasma, and several thousand degree temperatures at a critical point on the airframe.
What could possibly go wrong?
Which would be why this is unmanned testing.
What about an archive of the site and all those things hosted throughout the world via torrents and the like? Etc..
For some reason I don't like the idea of donating my IP to a swarm full of the stuff that wikileaks has..
I think it depends on the content of the message rather than the means of sending it.
I have to disagree. The only way to determine the content of the message is to acknowledge it through reading. The typically vague use of subject lines in the corporate workplace don't help this any. If you're compelled to check that mail for any reason other than personal dedication, I think it should be technically be billable. A few posts up made a good point in that hourly workers are paid to work within certain hours and that really should be where it stops. If the worker is felt necessary beyond their normal hours, on-call arrangements need to be established to compensate the employee for these situations.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer