I don't know what genre of game the submitter plays, but for fighting games, which I play, input latency can mean the difference between winning and losing. 50ms is 3 frames of lag, which means you need to react 3 frames faster to an overhead or throw. This wouldn't be a problem if everyone used the same equipment, ie PlayStation controller, but if someone had a controller that somehow had lower latency than the regular controllers then everyone who wants to compete would flock to it.

Not only that, but it lacks the features to exploit. Which is actually an important point in security, to only have the features you need and nothing else. Less surface area to attack.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/5836/Lynx.html
Pretty much any software that is sufficiently complicated will have security bugs.

The current slowdown in PC sales started well before Windows 8 was released to the public and oems. As someone who holds a little bit of money in AMD stocks, I followed their press releases and they were claiming some slowdown in spring of 2012. If you look at Intel's financials, they were also experiencing an inventory buildup of the latest and greatest ivy bridge CPUs and had to idle more 22nm fabs than usual just to keep their margins and income up. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6378/intel-q312-earnings-3-billion-profit-on-weakening-market-intel-to-idle-some-fab-capacity

The fact is that smartphones and tablets have replaced PC notebooks for some tasks like email, calendar/scheduling, and instant messaging. If a certain percentage of the population used a PC primarily for those things then they might delay upgrading their PC and instead get a smartphone.

I appreciate the suggestion but I very much remain dubious they will get it "right". While I don't have anything against those features they are superfluous. Someone needs to get drawing and note taking right. It should work very much like writing on a paper note pad and be very easy to use. Every pen implementation I've seen so far gets carried away with handwriting recognition and other theoretically nifty features (which rarely work very well) but don't make just writing/drawing easy which is the bit that actually matters. It's more important that *I* be able to write and recognize what I wrote than the computer. I remain hopeful but so far every attempt I've seen has fallen badly short.

In fact, the note series does let you just scribble or doodle or whatever. The handwriting and formulae recognition is a feature you need to tap to activate.

You may be looking for the galaxy note series from samsung. The whole series (note 1, note 2, note 10.1, note 8) have features like formula match, which reads your handwritten equations and tries to guess what the formula was, shape match for diagrams, and handwriting recognition.

The hardware part was done by a 3rd party, but the software to do the skeleton tracking and other things was all done by Microsoft. Basically the hardware combined a regular camera with an IR camera in an intelligent way to do range imaging. To get from just the camera to what you have with Kinect takes an awful lot of intelligent algorithms. I think that qualifies as innovative.

The age of planes used as missiles lasted exactly one day.

How long did the kamikaze phase of ww2 last?

The use cases would be: 1. People who like fitness bands, will likely appreciate the tighter integration that would come from using a smart watch and smart phone from the same manufacture. 2. People who get a lot of notifications, (texts, calls they might not answer, calendar events, etc.) will be able to determine if the notification requires immediate attention without the disruption of pulling out their phone. 3. Combined with a headset allows you to operate your phone and music without needing voice control or to take out your phone. 4. makes checking the time slightly quicker.

All of those things have already been implemented by the current crop of smartwatches, although I don't think there is one that implements all 4 points at the same time. Motoactv does (1) and (3), Sony Smartwatch does (2) and (3), and Metawatch does (2), (3), and (4).

Interestingly, smoking, but not drinking, is one of the things that insurance companies will still be allowed to discriminate on in the Affordable Care Act. So if you are a boozehound they can't increase your rates but if you are a smoker then they can charge you more. The other things that can still affect your rates are your age, whether you are married w children, and what area of the country you live.

I hope there's good privacy controls on the data as I'm sure your insurance company would like to have that data too. "We're sorry sir, but we we're canceling your policy because you are pre-diabetic and you drink too much"

Obamacare makes it illegal to refuse coverage for pre exisiting conditions as of 2014.

A majority of the games on PS1 are 320x240, however, there are a significant minority of games that use more than that. Some of these are pretty popular titles. I know that tekken 3 at least uses 320x480.

It might have to do with the audio lag in the android sound system. Android uses something called audioflinger which had a very high latency. This became apparent to me when I tried running some emulators on my phone a year ago. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) seems to have fixed this issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQcl4RDl5I

No, I mean electrically, as in vending machines measure the electrical impedance of each coin you stick in to determine if you are actually inserting US currency and not iron slugs/foreign coins.

This might be correct if the dollar coin were a new thing, but dollar coins have been in circulation since the Carter administration. Vending machines that take the Susan B. Anthony dollar should also take the newer Sacagewea dollars and Presidential dollars, because they were manufactured to be electrically compatible. So any vending machine that has been updated since the 80s should accept dollar coins.