dinsdag 25 januari 2011

Xbox 360's Kinect

Xbox 360’s Kinect was first announced under the code name Project Natal on June 1, 2009 at E3 2009.


Kinect for Xbox 360 is a controller free gaming and entertainment experience by Microsoft for the Xbox360 video game console.


The name Natal was chosen because of two main reasons, to reflect Microsoft's view of the project as the birth of the next generation of home entertainment and because it was named after the Brazilian city of Natal as a tribute to the country Brazil by Microsoft director Alex Kipman, Who incubated the project.


Five demos were shown to showcase Kinect at Microsoft's E3 2009.
Ricochet, Paint Party, Milo & Kate, Mega Ring Ring and a demo based on Burnout Paradise, which celebrity and Hip Hop Rap star Soulja boi got a chance to test out that day.


With Kinect for Xbox360 you not only get the privilege to play control-free games but you also get your own remote-free living room entertainment set simply by giving hand gestures and voice control. Simply call out xbox and it “listens” to your command.
Could you imagine this in every home for Christmas?


I myself don’t care for the hand free gaming idea but the ability to jump through shows and scroll through your music hands free intrigues me.
It’s something like what I saw in the film, I Robot starring Will smith in the lead role of Del Spooner.
Where in one scene Bridget Moynahan said play, run, on to a JVC cd player expecting it to actually come on.

That was funny!

With the sale of 8 million units sold as of June 8, 2011 it would seem that the future is growing to be just that of the film.


Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

vrijdag 21 januari 2011

Hott fuzz film


Nicholas Angel a top of the line cop from London eager to do his best at everything, with an arrest record of 400 percent higher than any other officers on the force.

 


Graduated in Counterbra University with displayed acts of great courage and will in all athletic training and skills.

He is believed to be so good, that he makes everyone else look bad. But because of his talents and outstanding abilities his superiors decide to transfer him to a place where his talents won't even be needed, well at least so they think.

Thinking he would be missed he was shocked once more as all his fellow officers awaited outside the office with a farewell party.

Poor Angel.         
                                                                
Even his ex Jeanine couldn’t handle his conceitedness with his job!

But anyways he reaches to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford, where he is partnered with police officer Danny Butterman, the son of Police Chief Frank Butterman.
Danny is a huge action movie fan with a seemingly soft heart and kindred spirit and believes his new big-city partner might just be a real-life bad boy.

A series of terrible “accidents” occur in the village and Angel is convinced that Sandford is not what it seems to be.
Apparently no one believes him for some reason and the police head of staff there seem to be complete idiots.

I wonder why?

Turns out the bad guys are the people of the town conceited to keep their town crime free of even the smallest.

Angel eventually solves the case and kicks ass alongside Danny a.k.a the new “Badboy” of Sanford village.
It was though in the end having to take down the brains of the operation, Chief Frank Butterman being that he is danny’s father. But as luck has it he didn’t have to. He took care of that himself by falling to his own demise.


The movie was meant to be an action comedy which fulfilled its purpose with idiot characters throughout the film. But it’s not something you would say lets watch it a second time.
To think all this just to win a town award.
The other police officers were content with explanation for everything, while  on the other angel had an eye for every little detail that didn’t quite make since, such as the skid marks that weren’t seen at the so called car incident and the unexplained stone that just happened to fall on the news reporter.

But yes retarded equals funny I guess.

Apple's iphone 4




The long awaited iphone 4 was unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, june 7th 2010 by CEO Steve Jobs.

You could imagine how many people had been waiting for it.

Though most of the excitement had been snatched away by leaks of the new phone there were still a few features we hadn’t heard of as of yet.

The new phone with a capacity of 16GB was going out for 199 dollars while the 32GB model was priced at 299 dollars on a monthly contract plan. It is less than 10mm thick compared with 12mm for the 3GS last year. The screen has roughly four times as much detail as before. There is also a front-facing camera, which could be used for videoconferencing, in addition to one on the back for pictures. "Jobs called it the biggest leap since the original iPhone".

It was expected in the United States to go on sale June 24th, 2010 and pre-orders to be taken in France, Germany, Japan, and the UK, beginning June 15.

After its release apple thought they had a success on their hands with a sale of more than 1.7 million Phones in the device’s first three days at market.

  
It would seem they missed the “small” little detail!

The Antenna problem!



All you hear from blog to blog, videos and YouTube is the connection has issues.  Some people don’t mind while others just won’t stand for it.

I can admit I have tested it myself being an owner myself,  I have noticed when I grasped the phone on the two specific edges that it would normally be held at while making calls, that the bars do in fact drop.

I’ve seen funny comments such as use tape it will work like a charm! 

Ask yourself this would you put tape on your brand new Ferrari to hold up your bumper??

Apple had decided to come to some sort of an agreement on giving out phone bumpers and cases to help, which I thought was only right.


I can handle the fact that I need a case to protect against signal loss, and I am sure many others as well, because when you think about it, you were going to protect your phone anyways!

But please apple the next time you try and sell your products please do full testing before selling maintenance work!

woensdag 19 januari 2011

George Bush 911?

 

Here's what Mr. Bush had to say a month later in California.

He was sitting in a school house in florida in the midst of learning about a reading program that works. He commented as well that he is a big believer in basic education and that it is essential that every child has the opportunity to learn in any way or with what ever method possible that works!

Applause was heard there after...

He carried on by saying, as he sat in the class room of  (Florida September 1 2001), then quickly he withdrew his sentence and began by the moment before he entered the classroom, he said he had seen this-s uh plane fly into the first building with a (stutter) that could have possibly been uncertainty to his own words. He then led up to saying there was a TV s-set on. (Once again with a stutter). He said he actually thought it could have been a pilot error amazed at such a mistake seeing he used to be a pilot as well.

He skips forward to the classroom briefing that he was listening to as his chief of staff Andy Card came and said to him, America is under attack.

September 11, 2001. Sarasota, Florida. President Bush's reaction to the news from Chief of Staff Andrew Card.
           
Proof of the only known footage with the first plane crash in the first tower was first broadcasted about 15 hours after it happened.

My thoughts?


How is it possible that he saw this on television? And the manner which he had spoke of it with such uncertainty and utterances durring a conference. It would seem as if it was a lie off the top of his head or just the plain fact that he was avoiding saying something he shouldn’t say that might have been confidential.

Some say he knew the attack was going to happen, while others suspect he planned it to give reason on Iraqis infiltration to access there oil.

If you look at it the world revolves around money. From middle ages way back you hear stories of countries fighting for treasures and land from which they could gain power over the world!

This would lead you to accusate anything. 

What’s the difference now?

So far what we have heard concerning the video George bush saw, was that it may have been displayed in his presidential limousine with an embedded phased array satellite antenna.


(911blimp.net) filed a Freedom Of Information Act request of DISA for records of visual information sent to the limo that morning.

Guess what?  Denied,
It’s a cover up to his words. If the president is to be trusted why not be honest to the people?


My view on the role “president”, a well trained actor! with rehearsed lines resembling a puppet on strings!



(Video of the first tower being hit).
(Fast forward to 2:45 as he is asked a question that he can’t answer).

done by: Alfonso Girardi Reiph
date: 19th january 2011