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Kinect used along with a controller could be very cool. Microsoft didn’t let the first generation of Kinect games do that though. So has MS learned that lesson?

about 7 hours ago on Microsoft's new Kinect will be coming to Windows 1 recommend

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No copy of digital code is contained in the videos. The other assets are the real legal question.

6 days ago on Who owns a 'Luigi's Mansion' walkthrough video, the player or Nintendo? 1 reply 6 recommends

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That’s what happens when I don’t get enough sleep.

7 days ago on Google unveils Hangouts: a unified messaging system for Android, iOS, and Chrome 2 recommends

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Sadly because too many people are dumbass’
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/the-wrong-definition-of-literally-is-literally-going-in-the

7 days ago on Google unveils Hangouts: a unified messaging system for Android, iOS, and Chrome 1 reply 1 recommend

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That won’t always show what the weather is likely to be in ten minutes or an hour.

7 days ago on Google Maps integrates Google Earth and Street View in completely redesigned interface

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Choppy representations yes. The idea here is hamstrung because it has to pretend to be a controller. The on-screen character doesn’t draw a bow until the player has already made the stance. However if the player and character moved together the bow would be drawn as the player moves into the stance.

9 days ago on Sony's break-apart DualShock controller brought to life, coming to Kickstarter

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Any smaller and it’s too comfortable to hold and easy to reach from bottom to top?

9 days ago on Sony shrinks the Xperia Z to 4.6 inches with new Xperia ZR

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TheVerge should explain why Zact is better than Ting, because the latter has a good deal already.

9 days ago on Zact tries to out-uncarrier T-Mobile with customizable mobile plans

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Other people play for the immersion and that includes motion controls.

9 days ago on Sony's break-apart DualShock controller brought to life, coming to Kickstarter 1 reply

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The sad thing is those out of shape gamers could lose weight if they just exercised for the 1 to 8 hours of gaming per day that they do. It’s well established that working at a standing desk burns notably more calories than sitting at a desk. Games that can find a way to make motion controls fun will turn a largely sedentary activity into real exercise. Even if the calories per hour never exceeds that of walking a golf course, it’s still helpful.

9 days ago on Sony's break-apart DualShock controller brought to life, coming to Kickstarter 1 recommend

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To the superheroes yes, and also any falling people Spiderman swings into and grabs. The idea of going from 120mph to 20 in 200 feet is still laughable when there’s ten people hanging off of a regular person.

10 days ago on Behind the VFX and stuntmen who created 'Iron Man 3's' Air Force One rescue scene

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He countered 80% of gravity for twelve people. That’s the amount of energy needed to carry 9.6 people.

SPOILER:

The dumbest thing by far was how the last person was reached ridiculously close to the ground and only then was Iron Man able to slow them from terminal velocity. The G-force on one person would be near-lethal let alone the forces on the first few people holding onto the rest. I’d have enjoyed it more and rolled my eyes less if the last person was grabbed at 1000 feet, not 200.

11 days ago on Behind the VFX and stuntmen who created 'Iron Man 3's' Air Force One rescue scene 3 replies 2 recommends

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On the other hand having the tallest building in the world would have the message that we came back bigger than before.

Until the Saudis built the kilometer-high tower that’s been proposed.

12 days ago on Is One World Trade Center really the tallest building in the West? 1 reply 1 recommend

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The extra “i” was added by a Brit having a snit that the metal didn’t fit the naming pattern of many other elements. Before that they called it Aluminum.

12 days ago on Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon announced, available May 16th for $99.99 1 reply 3 recommends

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Check out the cover story of this months Atlantic Magazine. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/

We aren’t going to run out of oil. Methane hydrate may well replace a lot of oil. Fracking is also set to free the USA from importing oil in just twenty years.

Current levels of consumption is almost useless because things will change. Some vehicles can switch to natural gas from gasoline. Others will switch to lithium-air batteries. Oil consumption will drop drastically. Oil may get more expensive but that will only make tar sands and other recovery techniques more economical which grows the amount of oil worth extracting.

14 days ago on Ferrari Chairman says no to electric cars 1 reply 1 recommend

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Hipsters can afford cable or satellite TV. Probably a lot of the 10-15% of households that still get TV over the air can’t.

In my neighborhood reception is no problem with an antenna on the roof. But in New York City rent is insane which makes housing a challenge. The requirement there is living on an upper floor and not having the signal reflected by the other buildings. That’s not realistic for many people in that area.

For decades the networks made quality TV with the money they got from advertisers. If they can’t do that model anymore I suggest they become cable and satellite TV-only, the spectrum goes to cell phone networks, and just like low-income folks get reduced-rate phone service, have the government require reduced-rate cable TV plans for those same households.

15 days ago on Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network

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In January Adobe released Photoshop CS2 for free. Folks in your position no longer have to pirate CS6.

16 days ago on Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only products 2 replies

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Why do you want to penalize people who don’t live where they can receive the broadcast signal?

16 days ago on Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network 1 reply 2 recommends

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Fine so Jordanians and Syrians and West Bankians and Gaza Strippians are all Arabs, but rather than call some of them Gaza Strippians, or worse – Gaza Strippers, we could call those people Palestinians along with those from the West Bank.

18 days ago on Google recognizes Palestine in update to its localized search page 1 reply 1 recommend