I got an app called "instant heart rate" on my Lumia 920. It's free but does appear to work pretty well, and it's easy to use.

According to the website (www.azumio.com) it's also on iOS devices. Don't know if it's near medical quality though.

I almost skipped Bioshock since I heard it was similar to SS2. Obviously I don't like System Shock 2 :)

If Bioshock 1 is a 10 I give Infinite a 8. Both the plot and the gameplay is a step back. The game is better than I expected though.

Anyone else creeped out by the facial animations? They're freakish. Bioshock 1 too had poor character animation, but there they hid it with dim lighting. Besides the poor animation I've also seen characters walk through tables or throws stuff through walls. There's apparently no hit detection when an animation plays. Elizabeth also clearly have the ability to teleport when you're not watching, just turn around and she's there. A bit like Dr. Watson.

Check out Brutal Doom. It got jumping, aiming and lots and lots of blood.

"most impressive MOD for any game"
-- BaminationGames

I had the same thought. Airliners aren't suddenly going to order A350s. They know the 787 problem will be worked out and new purchases are done years in advanced.

And for that I get the game, soundtrack and art book in a jewel case. Shipping is free, and had I pledged more I could have gotten more stuff. Had the kickstarter failed to be founded, I would have paid nothing.

This particular project has a good chance of delivering, having already made a working demo of the game, so the $60 was not much different that preordering some limited edition of the next CoD game. Without kickstarter this game would never have been made, so in my eyes kickstarter have served a purpose that no other service I know of could have managed.

Naturally there's always a chance they will take their money and run, but the last $60 CoD game I bought was absolute garbage (despite stellar reviews), so there's always a bit of risk involved no matter how you spend your hard earned coin. It may not be a risk you are willing to take, but fortunately plenty of folks are, and thus project like Giana can see the light of day.

LINPACK is highly parallel. I.e. why I stated "LINPACK like workloads".

How useful LINPACK is to super computers isn't within my field of expertise, but if Arm is truly better on a performance per watt scale and some other constraint don't step in, then it does not matter how much faster a single chip is than the arm solution, as one can just add more arms (for LINPACK like workloads).

I'm somewhat skeptical to that article, reads too much like an advertisement, but the results may still be significant for the super computer landscape.

Unlike with engines if it's truly better on the "performance per watt" scale you can build super computers with 10x, 100x, whatever it takes of extra chips, to get there faster on the same power budget; Which would make Arm A9 viable for people with LINPACK like workloads, unless the cost of extra networking gear (and other support hardware), kills them.

Wasn't some company working on an Arm based super computer? They must be thrilled.

GDI has been hw accelerated since Windows 3.1. There was a time they even benchmarked graphics card on how quickly they accelerated windows drawing calls.

GDI+ introduced different text rendering and alpha colors, but you don't get anymore hardware acceleration in GDI from GDI+.

From Wikipedia's GDI article on Vista: "GDI is no longer hardware-accelerated by the video card driver"

I was thinking on the GDI part of Windows, it is software rendered on Vista. Some applications ran quite badly because of this.

If you wrote WPF or DirectX apps on Vista you got hardware acceleration, but 6 years later and most stuff is stilling using GDI instead.

Looking at the article they're talking about improving Direct2D and SVG performance, which is something apps are starting to use I believe.

Many Windows crashes was caused by hardware acceleration. As a result Vista supported less hardware acceleration than XP.

This makes me wonder if what they've done is gain back some of that performance. They say they render lines and Rectangles faster, and that's hardware accelerated on XP, while software on Vista (don't know about 7).

You'll probably need a driver license for the first round of autonomous enough cars. If only so that you can take over when the automation fails.

Then, imagine, you get in your car drunk, slur out "Drive me to Costa Rica", and fall asleep.

Before one can implement these laws a computer must be able to determine what a "human being" is. Besides flawed heuristics we're not there yet.

Areee? No. A housecat will never teach mathematics at a college level, just like how h. ergaster never got to do that (though some distant descendent eventually did).

A million years is also fairly short. It took more than that for man to evolve, and the rate of genetic mutation, horizontal gene transfer, etc, is fairly constant. Cats are further away from modern humans than man was back then, so 1 million years of natural evolution may simply not be enough to get a college ready smart!cat. And even if this happens, there could still be house cats around... perhaps the smart!cat will have one as a pet.

Not that I disagree about 9:16 being potentially awkward, the arm surface has the same horizontal resolutions as the ipad 1 and 2 in portrait mode.