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MS obviously don't care about the users that really need Windows. |
There is the Xbox if they want to experiment with AR, VR and stupid GUIs. |
Just give us back the customisation of UI and logical access to stuff that there was 1996 to 2006 on Windows NT. Stop with Flat and faffing around with wizards and removing settings. |
"There is the Xbox if they want to experiment with AR, VR and stupid GUIs." |
But I don't like it much THERE, either... (live ad tiles on XBox, for example). I skip that part of the "show" and just play the games. It's the only reason I own one (well, more than one, but they keep breaking, and I won't get an 'XBox One' and I want 100% compatibility - my NEXT gaming platform will probably be a pl... |
"Stop with Flat and faffing around with wizards and removing settings." |
Conclusion: For the foreseeable future VR / AR is hype. Hololens is being overhauled right now and sales of VR gear has been scaled back at almost every store. Yes Facebook is still pushing Oculus, but no one is buying, not at those prices... And this is the third time prices have come down too, no matter what 'virtual... |
Last thing... Tens of Thousands of VR headsets were given away for free to game devs in recent years. This has helped produce content and garner attention. But how many game devs are actually planning real strides into VR / AR? Very few... Even Epic / Unreal-Engine refuse to officially support Hololens etc. While this ... |
That's not what Sweeney said - he's talking about pervasive VR. |
I don't think VR is hype, but it's finding its way. I've just bought a rift, as the discounted Black Friday price fell within my discretionary spending. The Vive is tempting, but 600 quid is too much at the moment. |
Even running it on a system which ideally needs to be faster, in a space below Oculus' minimum 3ft by 3ft I can see the potential. It's clearly early days, and there is a lot of hype, but the technology basically works - it just has to be used for the right things. |
I would agree that if someone is expecting photorealistic environments that they can react with, it's a long way off yet. |
This is the best time to get into VR if you're interested, when there's a lot of experimentation, but things aren't eye bleedingly expensive. Provided you're prepared for some sub par experiences, and the hardware to be fairly quickly superceded, of course. |
Somewhat ironic as this update has knackered my nvidia 3d vision. Severe ghosting, no screen resolution change, and fails to install new drivers. Between nvidia and microsoft I'm going back to windows 7 for gaming. Windows 10 has been a joke - every major update something breaks or doesn't work as well. Why don't they ... |
The Chicago Transit Authority plans to keep trains running on a normal schedule Wednesday evening despite the extreme cold brought on by the polar vortex. |
While trains on the Red, Blue, Green and Yellow lines operated with longer intervals between service because of weather-related delays during the morning rush, CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski said the agency is not planning to reduce service or modify schedules for the evening commute. |
“Crews will be working very hard today and tonight to make sure service runs as smoothly as possible,” Hosinski said. |
As of 1:30 p.m., normal service was reported on all CTA train lines. Riders were advised to dress in layers and allow extra travel time in the event that the cold affects train or bus equipment. |
Temperatures will remain at “life-threatening” levels through Thursday morning, the National Weather Service said. The freezing conditions could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes. |
A virtual Holocaust memorial has been launched to remember Jewish victims from Munich. |
Visitors to the Bavarian capital can now see the biographies of hundreds of Jewish victims of the Holocaust as they pass by their former homes, thanks to a new app launched last week called Stolpersteine Muenchen, or Munich Stumbling Blocks. |
Martina Bachmann, who is not Jewish, launched the app with business partner Sacha Bertram, who has a Jewish father. Bachmann told JTA that the aim is to create a digital memorial to all Munich victims of the Nazi regime, using 8,000 biographies. “Every person who was victimized and for whom we can find the biographical... |
The app is a virtual version of the small brass memorials, called “stumbling blocks,” located in many German cities today, with the notable exception of Munich. |
Munch does not have these memorials because Charlotte Knobloch, head of Munich’s Jewish community and the statewide Bavarian Jewish organization, has opposed these memorials — small brass stones set into the sidewalks in front of buildings from which Jews were deported — as disrespectful, since they can be stepped on. |
Some 9,000 Jews were living in Munich when the Nazis came to power in 1933. By 1939, many Jews had fled Germany. Ultimately, nearly 3,000 Munich Jews were deported; fewer than 300 returned after the war. |
The Stumbling Blocks memorial project was launched by Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in 1993, and has been introduced in hundreds of cities in Germany and former German occupied countries. |
Virtual stumbling block apps already have been launched in Berlin and Hamburg, where there are also real stumbling blocks, said Terry Swartzberg, head of the Stolpersteine Initiative in Munich. |
The Munich initiative has collected thousands of biographies, which are the sources for the virtual stones. |
This story "Virtual Stumbling Blocks Holocaust Memorial to Jews Launched in Munich" was written by JTA. |
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has urged the international community for better coordinated joint efforts in fighting terrorism as he believes that the recent Moscow terror attacks were not a domestic matter. |
Stressing the importance of joint efforts in fighting terrorism, the foreign minister also noted that the sources of terrorism funding, drug-trafficking, should be investigated. Sergey Lavrov has also told Interfax news agency that the investigation into the Moscow bombings will be done “quickly and effectively”. |
“I am convinced that those who masterminded and funded those terrorist acts will not be left unaccounted for,” added Sergey Lavrov. |
“When foreign minister Lavrov speaks of some outside forces, hidden somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan, everybody knows what he means. It's the same old Al-Qaeda. Of course, Al-Qaeda is not what is used to be. Now it is a much bigger terrorist global network. And of course it would be foolish to believe that Ru... |
In his opinion, the terrorists were seeking to achieve two goals: to destabilize the situation in the North Caucasus and to increase anti-Islamic sentiments in the society. |
“They wanted to influence the Russian authorities in such a way that they refer to harsh methods against the terrorists and against all those suspects, Muslims in the Northern Caucasus, which will result, of course, in widespread protests of the Muslims living in the North Caucasus, against the Russian authorities and ... |
Igor Khokhlov, the candidate of political science at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science, disagrees. |
He does not think that the recent terrorist acts will increase the anti-Islamic sentiments in the society, since Russia, unlike Europe, for instance is historically a country where several religions have lived in one territory. |
“Terrorists in that region are under a lot or pressure from the Russian security forces and are losing their support, and society in the North Caucasus is not supporting those extremists,” thinks Khokhlov. |
No matter what measures you take and how hard you try, it is impossible, he thinks, to eliminate those attacks all together, but the measures that the Russian authorities are taking at the moment are, in his view, the right ones. |
Braves manager Brian Snitker and general manager Alex Anthopoulos were among those saw Cox. |
“He’s holding up great, as Bobby would,” Snitker said. |
Snitker described his reaction to Cox’s stroke as “stunned.” Snitker, who worked as a third base coach for Cox, became emotional when talking about his 77-year-old mentor. |
First baseman Freddie Freeman, who made his debut in Cox’s 2010 farewell season, said he felt a missing presence around the team. |
Even in retirement, Cox has remained a regular around the Braves. His routine includes pregame coffee with Snitker. |
“I said about 6:20 when I’m normally in there drinking coffee with him, it’s going to be a big void,” Snitker said. |
Cox’s family released a statement on Wednesday which thanked fans for their support. |
Freeman said he expected Cox would be watching Wednesday night’s Cubs-Braves game. |
Cox ranks fourth all-time with 2,504 wins in 29 years as a manager, including 25 years in two stints with the Braves and four years with Toronto. |
Jones used his Twitter account to express support for Cox. “Prayers up this morning for the Skipper!!!” Jones wrote. |
The Braves retired Cox’s No. 6 following his final season. He entered the Hall of Fame in 2014 with Maddux and Glavine. |
Among the 50 components in the Nifty index, 10 shares were trading in the green, while 40 were in the red. |
The Nifty 50 index was trading 108 points down at 11,348.90. |
NEW DELHI: The domestic equity benchmark BSE Sensex was trading 369.57 points down at 37,795.04 on account of selling in frontline bluechip counters. |
Shares of Zenith Fibres (up 19.93 per cent) , Godavari Drugs (up 11.40 per cent) , Lancor Holdings (up 11.14 per cent) , Rexnord Electric (up 10.89 per cent) , Aayush Food & Herbs (up 10.77 per cent) , JK Agri (up 10.12 per cent) , King Infra Ventures (up 9.89 per cent) , Prerna Infra (up 9.54 per cent) , Nirvikara Pap... |
PG Electroplast (up 9.38 per cent) and Dynacons Systems (up 7.22 per cent) and too were trading 7-9 per cent higher at around the same time. |
Public cloud adoption has been more of a grassroots affair, with individual developers or small teams identifying a requirement and using a credit card to rent the resources they think they need. |
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Police say a tip about a truck doing doughnuts in a parking lot led officers to suspects of a shooting. |
BROCKTON — An investigation into shots fired outside a former school early Wednesday morning led to two arrests and the seizure of a handgun and nearly 14 pounds of marijuana with the help of Snapchat. |
Officers responded to the area of 70 Highland St., outside the former Lincoln Alternative School, at 1:17 a.m. after ShotSpotter, the city's electronic gunfire detection system, alerted police to four gunshots. |
Police arrived on scene and located three 9mm shell casings in the middle of the road at Highland Street's intersection with Newbury Street. |
"While on the scene, investigators received information that a white pickup truck fled the area after the shots were fired," Brockton police spokesman Darren Duarte told The Enterprise. |
Police then received a tip that a vehicle matching that description had just appeared on Snapchat doing doughnuts in the parking lot near McDonald's and Stop & Shop on Belmont Street. |
"Officers rushed to 715 Belmont St. and found a white Ford 350 and a black Chevrolet Malibu," Duarte said. "Police confiscated a 9mm handgun from the driver’s side floor of the Malibu. Investigators believe the gun was passed from the operator of the pickup truck to the driver of the Malibu." |
The man inside the Malibu was identified by police as 20-year-old David Lynch of Abington and the driver of the pickup truck as 26-year-old Guy Pina-Dubisson of Taunton. |
In Lynch's front right jeans pocket, police found and seized $2,546 in cash, Duarte said. In the backseat of the Malibu, police located 12 large bags of marijuana that weighed 13.7 pounds, he said. |
Neither Pina-Dubisson or Lynch have a license to carry a firearm, Duarte said. |
Pina-Dubisson was arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, malicious destruction of property over $1,200, failure to produce a license to a police officer and improper operation of a motor vehicle. |
Lynch was arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession with intent to distribute a Class D drug (marijuana) and threatening to commit a crime. |
Lynch was also arrested in early January last year and charged in connection with a New Year's Eve armed home invasion in Canton. The status of that case wasn't immediately available. |
Both men pleaded not guilty Wednesday during their arraignments in Brockton District Court. |
The Plymouth County district attorney's office requested Pina-Dubisson and Lynch each be held on $25,000 bail. |
Judge Paula Clifford set Lynch's bail at $15,000 and held Pina-Dubisson on $5,000 bail. |
But Clifford also revoked Lynch's bail on an open case and he is being held. Pina-Dubisson posted the $5,000 bail following his arraignment and was released on the condition he wear a GPS-monitoring bracelet, according to court documents. |
Both men are due back in court on March 13 for pretrial hearings. |
On Feb. 9 at about 12:00 p.m., Deja Knafel, 28, of Seward, contacted the Alaska State Troopers and stated that she had a warrant for her arrest that she would like to clear. Troopers met her at the Seward Jail, where she was arrested on the following warrants: $250 felony warrant for failure to appear on original charg... |
On Feb. 10 at 12:12 a.m., Soldotna based Alaska State Troopers responded to a disturbance in the area of Sandhill Crane Loop in Soldotna. Investigation revealed that Aaron Bullard, 55, of Soldotna, had placed a person in imminent fear of physical injury and had caused damage to property. Bullard was arrested for fourth... |
On Feb. 9 at about 2:30 a.m., Alaska State Troopers stopped at a vehicle in the ditch near Mile 91 of the Sterling Highway. The driver was later contacted and identified as Derrick Burlison, 27, of Sterling. Burlison was determined to have been operating the vehicle while under the influence and was arrested. Burlison ... |
On Feb. 9 at 3:24 p.m., the Soldotna Alaska State Troopers K-9 Team attempted a traffic stop on a red 2002 Pontiac Grand-Am near Mile 64, of the Sterling Highway, during an attempted warrant arrest on Travis McHone 32, of Sterling. McHone has two separate outstanding Warrants for his arrest for Probation Violations tot... |
On Feb. 11 at 12:18 a.m., Alaska State Troopers received reports of an assault in Kenai. Investigation revealed that Susan G. Williams, 46, of Kenai, had punched the victim on the nose, then slapped the victim several times, causing physical injury. Williams was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility for four... |
On Feb. 10, Alaska Wildlife Troopers cited Joseph Lee , 42 , of Homer, for fishing without a valid 2019 license at Centennial Lake. This is a correctable violation, but if not corrected, has a $220 fine with the option of a court appearance. |
On Feb. 5 at 9:45 p.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to a residence off Mallard Road in Kenai. Troopers had received information that Jeremy Seal, 38, of Kenai, was violating his conditions of release. Seal was charged with violating conditions of release and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. |
On Feb. 4, Alaska Wildlife Troopers cited Joshua Van Hout, 23, of Soldotna, for failing to submit his drawing permit. This violation is a $120 fine with a optional court appearance. |
On Feb. 9 at 10:48 a.m., Kenai Police received a report of individuals attempting to enter a shed on a property in Old Town. Officers responded to area and contacted two individuals, James H. Duncan, 54, a transient, and Anthony D. Larocca, 50, a transient. After investigation, both parties were each issued a summons t... |
On Feb. 9, as the result of an ongoing investigation into an assault that occurred in November of 2017 a third arrest was made related to the two made on Feb. 8. On Feb. 9, Kenai police made an additional arrest of Elijah A. Trevino, 20, of Kenai. Trevino was charged with two counts of first-degree assault, two counts ... |
On Feb. 8 at 12:58 a.m., Kenai police received a call about a male causing a disturbance at a residence located on Highbush Lane. The caller reported that the male had broken furniture and lit a mattress on fire outside the residence. Police arrived on scene and contacted the male outside, who was identified as Zane D.... |
On Feb. 8, as the result of an ongoing investigation into an assault that occurred in November of 2017, two arrests were made. On Feb. 8, Kenai police arrested and remanded Austin B. Cronce, 20, of Kenai, at Wildwood Pretrial Facility. Cronce was charged with two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-deg... |
On Feb. 7 at 11:36 a.m., Kenai police received a report of people entering a shed on Peninsula Avenue. Police responded and contacted the parties involved, Joseph Chikoyak Jr., 44, of Kenai, and Brian K. Raham, 48, of Kenai. Both Chikoyak, Jr. and Raham were arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial for second-degree cri... |
On Feb. 7 at 10:36 p.m., Kenai police were patrolling the area of Peninsula Avenue and contacted a male with an outstanding warrant. James H. Duncan, 54, of Soldotna, had an outstanding $250 Soldotna Alaska State Troopers warrant for failure to appear for arraignment on the original charge of second-degree criminal tre... |
A police ballistics expert was called during Shrien Dewani's murder trial on Wednesday to testify about the trajectory of the bullet that killed his wife. |
"The wounds described... were the result of a single gunshot fired from the front of the deceased to the back of the vehicle," Warrant Officer Pieter Engelbrecht told prosecutor Adrian Mopp in the Western Cape High Court. |
He also testified on where the shooter may have been sitting. |
The State's tenth witness, Engelbrecht, was given pieces of sponge from the backrest in the shuttle taxi where Anni Dewani sat when she was shot dead in Gugulethu, Cape Town, on Saturday November 13, 2010. |
Her body was found in the abandoned shuttle in Khayelitsha the following day. |
"The defect on the backrest of the rear seat can only be in line with a fatal shot if the deceased leaned or moved to her right prior to the fatal shot being fired." |
He said the damage to the sponges gave him a trajectory from the left front of the vehicle to its right rear. |
Engelbrecht's evidence was in line with the State's version that convicted gunman Xolile Mngeni shot Anni Dewani, who was on the back seat, from the front passenger seat. |
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