After seeing what the kinect sensor is capable of - not a chance of having such device in my house without having root on it or being able to work completely offline. It is too creepy. And too potent.
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Xbox One: The Review
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Re: Xbox One: The Review
#42After seeing what the kinect sensor is capable of - not a chance of having such device in my house without having root on it or being able to work completely offline. It is too creepy. And too potent.
Doesn't seem much worse than a regular camera, is it?
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
This kind of comment is useless without information on browser, version, OS, etc. It works fine in the latest Safari.
Up to date chrome on windows 7. The scrolling is broken because it dynamically loads content as you scroll.
Windows 8.1
Firefox 25 : Works flawlessly.
Up to date Chrome : Works great.
Spoiler : 2x2x2
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#44Again, focusing on the presentation rather than the content, I'm extremely impressed with the integration of advertising on the page, using position:fixed to lock it in place while the content scrolls over it. If we go with the assumption that advertising is a necessary evil, this isn't a bad direction in which to take it.
Well, it looks great on my desktop but really plain on my phone.
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#45If you've ever complained about surveillance then I don't see how you could even consider buying this.
>Kinect is also used for lots of little things throughout the Xbox One's user experience. Profiles support fast facial recognition for sign-in. Once a profile has a face associated with it, the console will sign that person in whenever they sit in front of the console — it even says hello. Controllers sync automatically based on who's holding them.
Not to mention that Microsoft has been working on techniques for reading the emotions of people in the room through body language in order to better serve up adds.
By having this in your living room, you have a device that passively builds facial profiles, monitors emotional states, and counts the number of people in the room. But people are paying to be spied on by Microsoft so that makes it OK, right? Even when the NSA goes to Micrsoft and says "give us access to your data".
But privacy doesn't play the latest Killzone or log you in with facial recognition or play blu-rays.
There's too many people in the valley that complain about surveillance and then do everything in their power to enable it in ways ever more omnipresent and pervasive.
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#46It's interesting that the D-Pad on the controller is now just a cross, instead of this awkward circle with a hinted cross on top. Didn't Nintendo have a patent for the cross D-Pad? Hence all the other "fun" ideas from Sega, Sony and Microsoft. Edit: Yep, the patent expired a while ago: U.S. Patent 4,687,200 (expired in 2005) - Nintendo's multi-directional switch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-pad#Patents
My first thought was that having just a cross eliminates the ability to easily hit a diagonal on the D-Pad. I can't imagine it being easy than what was before.
The problem with having it be a disk is that it's hard to push any direction reliably. If it is a cross, if gives you fingers a guide, and actually makes it easier to go diagonally by doing a sort of roll from the top to side.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first thought was that having just a cross eliminates the ability to easily hit a diagonal on the D-Pad. I can't imagine it being easy than what was before.
The problem with having it be a disk is that it's hard to push any direction reliably. If it is a cross, if gives you fingers a guide, and actually makes it easier to go diagonally by doing a sort of roll from the top to side.
Personally I have an Xbox360 controller for use with my PC and both a Nintendo Wii and DS and I find that it's much easier for me to reliably press diagonals on the xbox controller, than either the DS or Wii controller.
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#48After seeing what the kinect sensor is capable of - not a chance of having such device in my house without having root on it or being able to work completely offline. It is too creepy. And too potent.
Doesn't seem much worse than a regular camera, is it?
I don't have camera on my pc. It is not the sensor that is worse but the control over it.
Can MS turn it on remotely if hit with an lawful request? Some of these consoles will work their way to places that are of interest for law enforcement.
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#49The article was well matched to its topic; like modern video games, its flashy and high tech, but nothing new or interesting.
I had to laugh at the kinect video. The white/beige featureless walls with no human pictures in its field of view, the actors wearing extremely high contrast clothes, the incredible cinematography style smooth and even lighting... My real world experiences with the kinect on a 360 have been super aggravating and frankly I hate the GD thing. Hey, all you need to do, is remodel and redecorate your home and buy new clothes... No, instead I think, F microsoft, my plan will be to not buy another kinect instead, they need my money more than I need their aggravation. Don't get me wrong, its really cool for about the first 15 minutes until it gets super aggravating.
As a disclaimer after the initial newness wore off I tend to use the 360 for living room youtube viewing (you need to disable kinect and voice recognition or miscues will drive you insane) and multi-player minecraft on the same screen at the same time is entertaining. And I play Forza although the review notes the new version has been neutered and downgraded so I don't want it.
Re: Xbox One: The Review
#50After seeing what the kinect sensor is capable of - not a chance of having such device in my house without having root on it or being able to work completely offline. It is too creepy. And too potent.
Just put some tape on it? Make a startup that sells kinect shutters so it can't watch you?