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...result is ... impressive. You start getting impressed when you walk in front of the thing and it immediately recognizes your face and logs you in. Very Star Trek. A few months ago Microsoft demoed Project Natal for Steven Spielberg, who in addition to directing movies designs video games, including Medal of Honor and the Wii title Boom Blox. He's one of the few movie people who really gets games as an insider, and Microsoft was looking for his blessing. He gave it. "The technology recognized me as a full person," he says. "It identified me, my legs, my arms...
...catch up on four years of missed fun, we tried to use WolframAlpha.com to write this column, but he just gave us the weather on the day of David Ortiz’s birth. [2] So, inspired by Rocky Balb-onion, the Italian scallion, we return to the one thing that we all have in common: expos. In this paper we will argue that you should not be sad that you are leaving Harvard because you did not actually enjoy your time here, with special reference to the works of Virginia Woolf. [3]Most of this column was originally...
Kenneth G. Saathoff ’09 RR: What will you miss most about Harvard?KS: Sunrise breakfast quesadillas. Hot breakfast in general.RR: After four years at Harvard, the greatest thing you can think of is a breakfast quesadilla?KS: I’ve actually never had one.RR: ...KS: I’ve never eaten a sunrise breakfast quesadilla.RR: So you lied?KS: I’m sorry. I was disingenuous.RR: Let’s start over. And let’s be honest this time. What will you miss most about Harvard? KS: I should have thought more about...
...recovered, it will be impossible to know what caused the disappearance of Air France Flight 447, says Gourguechon. "As frustrating as it is, we'll need more information before we can imagine any scenarios." But for Learmount, if a short-circuit fire is to blame, one thing is for sure. "We have to look here for the lessons we got from that [Swissair flight]," he says. "Airplanes should have heat and smoke detectors all over them ... so that if a fire started anywhere, you would know immediately." He adds, "That has not been implemented by any of the world...
...which crashed off the coast of Canada after flammable material in the aircraft structure allowed a fire to spread unbeknownst to the crew, remains vivid in the minds of many aviation-safety experts. "[The Swissair flight] rattled a lot of cages in the industry," says Learmount. "A lot of things have changed since that time, but there's still one thing that hasn't changed, and that is, for all the sophistication of today's airplanes, if a fire starts onboard somewhere, behind panels, the only detectors you've got in a large part of the airplane are the cabin...