No, you use Control + Mouse Wheel to change the size of icons in Windows.

You don't need piracy, not even the "piracy" of format conversion from inconvenient disc collections, to fill 1TB disks with ease. Just buy a couple of cameras: a DSLR shooting RAW and a HD camcorder, and you'll very quickly find out how little space 1TB is.

And oddly enough, it turns out that jaywalking is safer than crossing at intersections.

That is, proportionally more people are killed at controlled pedestrian crossings than those people who take responsibility for safe crossing themselves.

The US has a large advantage in that it is an affluent, monolingual and fairly culturally homogeneous single market. Capital costs of innovation can be amortized faster in the US than anywhere else.

Japan has about 127 million people. Has the US increased to 12.7 billion some time recently?

On error resume next didn't exist in MS Basic for microcomputers, of which the author of the article speaks. It wasn't anything goes in terms of variants either - variables had types, indicated by suffix (!, % or $).

It was more like programming in type-safe assembly language, but without an argument stack.

Why would you get a 920 and not overclock it? I run mine at 3.6GHz with ease, no voltage adjustments, no special cooling arrangements.

UKIP are isolationist reactionaries, better suited to the early 20th century. Imperial measures? Closer ties to the commonwealth? What do they think they have, an Empire? Lower inheritance taxes? Flat income taxes???

It reads like an imperial / aristocratic daydreamer wishlist.

Eh? You needed a controller to play them - mouse view was locked when inside a vehicle. I'd rate them around 3/10 for control playability compared to GTA4.

If you're talking about x64, the primary 64-bit consumer desktop / laptop CPU architecture, has it occurred to you that code running in the CPU's 32-bit mode also benefits from the doubled cache? It's not like the 32-bit code only uses half the cache, with 64-bit code using the full cache.

Newspapers are in the business of selling readers to advertisers, not news to readers. And don't worry, it's not going to work out well for them. They'll end up more niche and less relevant.

Irish police are not British police.

Bertie has a brother, Noel Ahern, who was also in government but is not currently a minister. The Slovakian minister talked rather to Dermot Ahern, who is not related to Bertie.

Many console games target 30fps, and console controllers are very ill-suited to twitch FPS gaming. No serious PC gamer would put up with such a low rate and will certainly the lag more with the richer control setup of keyboard and mouse.

Assume 60 fps, synced with 60Hz monitor. That's 16.7ms per frame, and usually means a target budget of 16.7ms per iteration in the game loop - and input is probably processed exactly once in the game loop. Consider also that many decent displays already lag by a frame or two. So in a local hardware situation, you already have a built-in lag somewhere in the region of 30ms or so, pretending there isn't any lag in the actual hardware path between devices and what the OS surfaces to apps.

Now, given the above assumptions, but factoring in your posited reactive input model (i.e. no delay from game loop), you think that's good enough? The way I see it, it can only be good enough if the round trip averages to less than 16ms or so; and even then, it's not great. I've long noticed the lag in games since moving from CRT to LCD, and I can even see the lag between moving my mouse and the pointer moving across the screen - it's small but perceptible, and is either caused by the mouse / usb / driver path or by the LCD delay.

But I can't realistically see a 16ms or so round-trip being achievable outside heavily populated areas and without lots of expensive hardware very close to local loops. As it is, Google.com is 29ms away from my machine, and it's still slow to download the front page's HTML content - (yes, I know, TCP connection, several round trips, etc.) - on the order of 200ms or so.

It seems to me that round trips on the order of 50 to 100+ms are more likely, and delays of that nature are highly, highly noticeable in twitch FPSes - especially when it comes to things like changing the view direction. Pretty much all multiplayer FPSes don't wait for a server round-trip for changing the view direction. In that situation twitch FPSes will suck.

Other kinds of games may work better.