You don't consider that "tectonic activity"?

This is not true. They have been quite clear that Mahmoud Khalil has not been accused of a crime.

Okay, but why doesn't he go on these five to seven day trips with his family?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Sometimes and for a certain type of person it's good to have alone time.

That really tripped me too and made it hard to focus on the rest is the article. I had this feeling all the way through that he's hiding things, which doesn't make much sense given the kind of content.

The 360 one is better for 3d scanning. Xbox one version is better for object tracking.

Isn't this just because there was nowhere near as much software for 3d scanning made for v2?

There was something unsatisfactory to V1 users in the V2 system. Depth was jittery or whatever it had been.

V1 was based on an Israeli structured light tech that later became Apple TrueDepth, a static dot pattern taken with a camera which deviations becomes depth. V2 was technically an early and alternative implementation of Time-of-Flight LIDAR based on a light phase delaying device, that output deviations from set known distance as pictures or something along that.

There wouldn't have been lacking app support issues if V2 did work. There was/were something that made users be "yeah... by the way" about it.

The problem with the v2, from someone who had a boss that loved the kinect and used it in retail environments experimentally wasn't the new tech. The new tech was/is amazing. The level of detail you can get from the v2 dwarfs the v1 on every axis.

The problem was that it ONLY had a windows SDK and most of the people who did amazing work outside of games and the xbox with the kinect v1 were using it with macs and linux in tools like openframeworks and processing. The v1 was developed outside microsoft and primesense and there were SDKs that were compatible cross platform. Tons of artists dove right in.

The KinectV2 only offered a windows sdk, and that's what killed it in the 'secondary market'.

Luckily now we have libfreenect2 (https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2) but that came too late for most of us.

Interesting stuff, thanks for the clarification!

Did MS provide SDKs for other OSes for v1 or was it just easier for people to make an open source one?

primesense made them, the guys who sold the sensor to microsoft.

Not even close

I doubt it was shipped from the factory with CrowdStrike, and if they had enough access to install it, they have enough access to fix it.

These things are "cost optimized" and don't feature the kind of remote management iDRAC/openBMC/piKVM that would allow it to be remotely fixed. Embedded windows connected to the internet is super ***.

You can doubt, but you literally don’t know.

They must be running it at its minimum frequency all the time. And/or lying about the TDP. I'd assume both

The first point you raises goes with the second. Some obvious prejudice showing through.

It's already been tested to maintain 40W by third-parties...

No, my comment was entirely based on the fact that it apparently uses significantly less power than the CPU alone is rated for.

Yes, but a truly de-googled Android phone is a huge pain. Many apps rely on play services, and the open source alternatives still don't fully work.

I've been using LineageOS with microg for over 2 years without much pain, other than initial setup.

Memory bandwidth is still a factor, right?

> There was always going to be an opinion war after 1200 massacred civilians, when a large portion of the other side doesn't take the primary tack of "stop bombing Palestine" but instead "Free Palestine".

The West Bank shows what happens if they only stop being bombed without actually being free. Palestine needs to be free in order for there to be peace.

Your comment implies that Palestinian civilians can't have peace until Israeli territory is ceded back to them. This is in the context of October 7th and a the current Gaza seige. It is reflective of the loudest echo in the war zone.

There won't be a single outcome but the most negative one for radicalized Palestinian civilians as a result. Hopefully, morally clearer voices will be raised higher.

No I think his comment implies Gazans see how Israeli settlers treat West Bank Palestinians (sometimes burning their homes while families are inside and laughing at whosoever dies) and think that they'd rather support strongmen who attempt to fight back against Israel.

It's the exact same mentality that drove normal Afghan people to support the Taliban.