On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Let's cut out all the hoopla and jargon and go straight to the point. What is the new Kinect from Microsoft . Kinect is an Xbox 360 peripheral that plugs into the consoles USB port. How does it work . With the new Kinect you can now play games on the Xbox without the need of any controllers. Kinect comes with sensors that have a camera and microphone. That enable you to interact with the system using gestures, spoken commands and other objects. This was originally called "Project Natal" which has since been rechristened "Kinect". Kinect is much more smarter than an average webcam. it can track 48 points across your body for up to 2 players thanks to it's secret trick of spotlighting the entire room with infrared light. Equipped with a microphone you can talk to it, it also has face recognition so you can sign in by looking at it. So you can control the start button by reaching for it with you hand in the air off-course. If you are on Xbox live you can wa...