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2.) should we go dicking with things we don't have complete knowledge and control over.
What, so digging up billions of tons of hydrocarbons and releasing them into the atmosphere isn't dicking around with things we don't have complete knowledge and control over?
Today, something like 300 children die every hour due to malnutrition. Feeding the world's current population is well within our technical abilities, but the rich sections of the world (I'd guess that's most people on this website) are in general only prepared to make very minor sacrifices to help the poorer sections of the world.
By the year 2060 the world population will have probably more than doubled. I find it unlikely we'll even have worked out how to feed everyone by then, let alone cure them of their disabilities.
Microsoft had another option which they have completely ignored. SVG is a standard graphics format which is vector based.
and a quote from the actual article...:
Windows 8, the platform natively supports vector graphics. Any images exported as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) or XAML art will scale without getting blurry.
No, the real idiots here are you and the wazzocks who rated you 'informative'...
The PS3 has probably provided the biggest software leap in game architecture in the last 3 years. This is in comparison to typical XBox or PC platform. I argue this only because the forced paradigm shift to fully utilize the Cell architecture should be directly transferable to multi threaded programming on an 8 core AMD/Intel processor.
Programming SPUs is really very unlike programming on a 'normal' multi-core processor. Experience with the six hardware threads available on the Xbox360 is going to be more useful on multicore PC CPUs than experience with the Cell.
It's not that developers are too stupid (although some may be).
It's that if you have to spend a bunch of extra time managing the complexity inherent in the system, you've either got to put less time in to other parts of the game or you've got to spend more money making the game.
> I will prefer to spend my $500 on PC hardware, and crack your software.
> Stop acting like entitled children.
I can think of a few useful applications that have nothing to do with gesture recognition; the z-depth would allow you to cut the image of the user away from the background, which could be useful for videoconferencing if you want to chat with someone but don't want them to see your surroundings or the other people in the room with you.
Close-field Kinect on a laptop would probably allow you to do very accurate head / eye tracking, so you can do things like the '3d window' effect demonstrated in this video by Jonny Lee.
3D object scanning. Microsoft already have a version of this for the Xbox with the Kinect Fun Labs, but it's rather limited in resolution. A close-field sensor would provide better resolution.
It's possible you could use facial recognition for security. Unlike most webcam-based facial recognition systems, this couldn't be fooled by a paper mask.
You don't get it do you? I've been posting here since the nineties and none of you useless meat-sacks ever realised I was a machine!
... it had set its Facebook status to 'single'.
So.... seeing as Bethesda and id Software are both now arms of Zenimax, can id Software employees be part of the Bethesda team?
Shoulda stuck with counter-strike, Notch!
An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit. -- Henry Ford