Try tapping Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A on the pad.
Brilliant, now I guess I'll waste my time looking for Konami all over other Polygon big reviews. Edit : PS4 Review too. http://www.polygon.com/a/ps4-review
lol ... which one?
Xbox One: The Review
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Re: Xbox One: The Review
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, the biometrics profile is stored locally on the device, just like the iPhone 5S, and is never synced to the cloud. If you sign in on two consoles, you have to go through the biometrics setup process twice. Edit: Why the downvotes?
Except that it's closed source so who can really tell? And even if it is now, who says a 'security update' won't change that in the future?
Same with almost all smartphones with cameras and microphones that people have with them 24/7 and even take to their bedrooms and bathrooms. Even on Android, the baseband and many drivers are closed source. I fail to see how this is any worse.
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#63Again, 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.
What are you talking about? 100% of that page is an advertisement.
That claim seems pretty weak, especially without any support whatsoever.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that it's closed source so who can really tell? And even if it is now, who says a 'security update' won't change that in the future?
Same with almost all smartphones with cameras and microphones that people have with them 24/7 and even take to their bedrooms and bathrooms. Even on Android, the baseband and many drivers are closed source. I fail to see how this is any worse.
The difference is that because Xbox One feels like it's watching you, people's minds jump to how people could end up watching you, even though the actual risk is far less than with the devices you mentioned.
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#65If 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 automatic…
>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. (sic)
>By having this in your living room, you have a device that passively... monitors emotional states,
Has this ever been confirmed? I haven't seen it touted anywhere as a feature (possibilities are not features until they actually happen). Sounds like FUD to me.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The system will function without Kinect plugged in, Microsoft reversed the always on requirement: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/get-the-facts > Xbox One does not require a Kinect to be plugged in for the system to function. You can supposedly control the use of your data according to the fact page also.
Thanks, I missed that they changed this requirement. As an owner of all 3 of the previous generation of consoles, the always-on camera + voice was an absolute deal breaker for me. I'm still going to hold off for a few reasons. The first is the requirement for XBox Live Gold. It makes no sense to me why I have to pay $$$ to Microsoft in order to watch Netflix. My PS3 does quite fine without a subscription. I was a fan…
The PS4 requires Playstation Plus to play online but I'm not sure whether apps like Netflix require that.
I had the same issue with Halo. Ultimately, I'm not going to support the Xbox One due to likely surveillance. At least with the PS4 the camera isn't forced on you at purchase. Although the PS4 camera does seem to have similar features like facial recognition. I wonder whether that will encourage anything malicious.
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#67The 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 su…
> Hey, all you need to do, is remodel and redecorate your home and buy new clothes...
A friend of mine is an editor for a tech magazine, and has been playing with the Xbone (I totally read that as EX-bone now...) -- the Kinect is a thousand times better now, in that regard.
Re: Xbox One: The Review
#68Again, 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.
What are you talking about? 100% of that page is an advertisement.
Oh go jump. Polygon is awesome, and frankly take their journalistic stance far more seriously than any other game-review website.
Re: Xbox One: The Review
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, the biometrics profile is stored locally on the device, just like the iPhone 5S, and is never synced to the cloud. If you sign in on two consoles, you have to go through the biometrics setup process twice. Edit: Why the downvotes?
Except that it's closed source so who can really tell? And even if it is now, who says a 'security update' won't change that in the future?
Except that it's closed source so who can really tell?
Anyone with a computer and Wireshark.
And even if it is now, who says a 'security update' won't change that in the future?
Do we want to get into justifications about what could possibly be done with a technology and therefore refuse to use said technology? I've heard Kinect could identify the guns in your house and send the police automatically!
Re: Xbox One: The Review
#70If 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 automatic…
Even when the NSA goes to Micrsoft and says "give us access to your data"
I bet Bitcoin would help with that.
There, we've officially talked about both the NSA and Bitcoin in the discussion of this article, fulfilling the New Requirements for Every Single Thing Submitted To Hacker News.
Can we get another thread that talks about the actual article voted to the top now?