Four days…we have the Kinecthack

giacomo

9 Nov 2010

“The whole thing was started by Adafruit, the New York company that challenged hackers to hack the Kinect. The prize? $2,000 in cold hard cash to the person(s) that would be able to come up with an open source driver for the Kinect. An it looks like the Kinect can be used with a PC although it’s not exactly clear how that’s useful for now.”

“Microsoft however is not exactly happy, and who can blame them? They have one of the coolest products in town and having it hacked so soon is not exactly what they must have anticipated back at Redmond. In fact here’s what they told CNET about the whole situation:

“Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a company spokesperson told CNET. “With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.”

So, anyone out there ready to bring motion controlled gaming to PCs.”

From: http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/11/08/microsoft-kinect-hack-to-bring-windows-7-pc-motion-control-gaming-not-quite-the-kinect-has-been-hacked-to-run-with-windows-7-pcs-long-live-the-kinect/

Here you are the 30 seconds video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkODbZwGinQ&feature=player_embedded

Imagine (there’s no Gantt charts)

kevin

8 Nov 2010

While reading what’s new on the #Agile Daily from paper.li, I found this funny video talking about Agile and based on Imagine (yes, the one from John Lennon).

Imagine Agile by @oclaudiobr and Gustavo Sato (Japa)

At first it’s a little bit stupid, but..in the end it makes some fun. And here are the lyrics:

“Imagine there´s no Gantt charts
It’s easy if you try
No “resources” bellow us
Above us only ROI
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no requests for change
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no silver bullets too
Imagine all the people
Sharing tasks in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And our kanban will guide the flow

Imagine real commitment
I wonder if you can
No need for fear or blood pacts
We’ll deliver what we really can
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the code

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And our kanban will guide the flow”

Thx to @oclaudiobr who doesn’t really seem to have better things to do!

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