Sony Demos Natal-Like Control System 63
An anonymous reader writes "It's not just Microsoft investigating full body, markerless motion capture. Sony has enlisted the help of Swiss firm Atracsys to develop similar technology. Sony has openly discussed the technology with New Scientist, and has realistic expectations for the new system — it can capture broad body gestures but not individual fingers. That's just one trade-off needed in order to develop a real-time system that anyone can use, according to a markerless motion-capture expert."
It's still in the early stages of development, but the accompanying video shows the use of face-recognition software as well. The demo game has players moving their heads left or right to position their character, and then smiling to "catch" an object.
Comment Re:1100 Kg of air per hectare... (Score 1) 467
...and the moon landings never happened since you weren't there?
Comment Re:More complex than that (Score 1) 256
I'm in Sweden and I have quite a few unsubbed and legal channels both on-air and over satellite. There are some "accessibility requirements" for SVT (the government owned commercial free channel that charges a TV license fee) but even they aren't required to subtitle everything and many channels that do subtitle do so in English since few channels are dedicated to Sweden and Swedes in general have little problems with English.
Comment Re:rock and a hard place (Score 1) 782
So what you're saying is that the license accompanying the code shouldn't be trusted, you should always call and ask the original author if he changed his mind?
Comment Re:Postgres is looking better than ever (Score 2, Insightful) 906
This also has the advantage that the hash of the entered password never travels over the wire (if your db server is on a different box)
Umm... and the actual correct password hash traveling over the wire as a result is better how?
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 177
"Autogiro" being, essentially, a blank check saying "take as much money as you like when you want to from my account." I just won't accept that.
E-mail billing is... well, maybe a bit better than a physical bill but still I prefer getting my bill to my bank with all bill payment, PDF printable copies and records in one place. I actually "threw out" all places that want to bill me in other ways a few months back and sorry, at this point I'm not going back even for what I consider being a good cause.
E-mail billing is... well, maybe a bit better than a physical bill but still I prefer getting my bill to my bank with all bill payment, PDF printable copies and records in one place. I actually "threw out" all places that want to bill me in other ways a few months back and sorry, at this point I'm not going back even for what I consider being a good cause.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 5, Interesting) 177
I don't actually fileshare, but Bahnhof, you have my support and the day you support e-faktura (electronic bills & payment) I'll support you with my business too. /Actual Swede
Comment Re:Will they allow encryption? (Score 1) 342
3) You have to store encrypted data individually for each user. Most user won't fill their GDrive with their own unique data, most data will already be uploaded by someone else. This means the service can, if the checksum already exists on the server, skip both the upload and the storage of the file, it'll just add a reference to the existing one.
Money saved right there, and won't work with individually encrypted data. (and yes, it can be "abused", a hacked client could add a reference to a file you don't actually have - yet - if you know the checksum, so perfect for distribution of your "photo collection")
Comment Re:Maybe that's because portable devices wear fast (Score 1) 207
Admittedly not getting lost/damaged/stolen as much, but I've had two desktops stolen and one damaged in a fire while my laptop never had problems like that, mostly because I carry it with me so I can keep it safe. Not saying you're wrong in general, just that your mileage may vary.
Comment Re:Here's hoping (Score 1) 417
Heh, you can but I see I linked to a non LCD TV in this case... :-P I'll find a new link and return ;-)
Comment Re:Here's hoping (Score 1) 417
You can pretty easily get a 32" LCD TV for around $250 in Sweden, and that's including 25% sales tax, so should be pretty easy over there too, no?
Submission + - Scientists Burn Saltwater (livescience.com)
th3l4m3 writes: "An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century."
Submission + - Sliverlight plugin for Linux?
LWATCDR writes: Miguel de Icaza is at it again. He is claiming that he can add support to for Microsoft's Silverlight to Mono. While I am not a big fan of Flash or Silverlight adding support for Linux users is usually a good thing, except this comment scares the hell out of me. "Fortunately, Microsoft released the source code of .NET's new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) — a critical component of Silverlight — under a highly-permissive open source license. According to de Icaza, Microsoft's DLR can be incorporated into Mono and won't have to be reimplemented." So Mono will have honest to goodness Microsoft code in it. I hope some really bright lawyers from the FSF have looked at this highly-permissive open source license from Microsoft.
