Those countries have denied doing so.

Except that France has already apologized.

Yes, that's my point. Detractors of gun control are using this sensationalization to silence discussion, accusing proponents of politicizing $nearest_tragedy every time gun control gets mentioned. In two weeks somebody will considering approaching the topic and you'll see Fox News frothing at the mouth in reference to this shooting.

No, it's not.

No, it's not.

Before this was the Empire State shooting. Before that, the Aurora shooting. Before that, the Tulsa shooting. Before that, the Chardon High School shooting. And that's only 2012. We're quickly coming to a state where gun control discussion is silenced the whole year because there is always a shooting nearby.

So after talking goats, walking cows, walrus men, British werewolves, zombies, vampires, zombie vampires, egyptian cat men, fungus people, bearish furbolgs, beings of energy wrapped in bandages and necromantic crow-men... you have a problem with pandas?

Eh, it depends. The Kinect has only about 1090 depth values between 30 cm and 10 meters. Most of the values are concentrated in the low range.
So yes, while at close depths you'll get a 2 mm resolution, at greater depths the discretization error becomes much higher.

Of course, the main problem is not so much the resolution, but the noise and the image size. At 1.5 meters it gets really hard to track a hand because you get very few samples with unpredictable (noisy) values. You also lose samples (or even worse, get wrong values) around the edges because of registration issues and shadows between the infrared camera and the projector (plus the registration and shadows to the RGB camera if you need the colors). And since fingers are relatively thin, edges are pretty much everywhere. Estimating five fingers under these conditions is pretty hard.

If Minesweeper crashed all the time on windows, I'd blame Microsoft, right?

Well, it seems the application crashes all the time on you, so I'd rather blame you.

(it leads to a placeholder page because of the spurious trailing SLASH-with-no-dot).

What does it have to do with scrunching "en.wikipedia.org/" in front of some random term? The fact that it works without the slash proves that the expression was anything but random.

There *does* happen to be a useful page with that name.

Are you implying that you did declaw all your other cats? Are you aware of how much amputating your cat can hurt them?

I think you have the wrong idea about what being the "absolute worst kind of cat owner" constitutes.

Here in Germany I watch it around 9 - 10 AM. Sometimes the page gets updated a bit later. That would mean usually before 3 - 4 AM in US time.

I wonder how many times we'll keep seeing that picture every time water and Mars are mentioned. It was fun in 2005, and it hasn't aged well.