Nope. Minecraft runs on IOS and Android. A Xbox 360 version is suppose to be coming out soon too.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that the reported FPS in a video game is more easily noticeable because it's not only showing how limited the picture you're seeing being updated but also as a function of mouse input. Since you're directly control the picture and expecting it to change a certain way a lack of smoothness in transition becomes more apparent.

But with more "modern" games I'm having a harder time determining between 30fps and 60fps especially since a lot of them are trying to go for that cinematic look and add in all sorts of things like motion blurring. As someone who loves classic death math of quake and unreal tournament the motion blurring in newer games drives me nuts since it limits how fast I can move a viewpoint without it going blurry.

I put together a nice charging station for all my 5V devices (a fairly efficient AC to DC 5V adapter and a lot of custom cables) and found the PS3 controller to be particularly annoying. The easy USB charging devices just want to see 5V. The slighltly less easy ones (like phones) will want to see a certain value resistor placed between various pins of the usb device. The playstation 3 controller comes in as super annoying because you can't get it to charge with the above two techniques, it needs to go through the whole USB protocol to establish a connection and negotiation before it will start charging.

Watts is a unit of power. Multiplying voltage by current gives you power. Multiplying time by power gets you energy. More precisely integrating power over time gets you energy because power might not necessarily be constant over the duration of time.

It works for light bulbs because you assume a lot of things. If we were a more scientifically inclined society then light bulbs would be measured in Watt-hours and not watts. Light bulbs are mostly linear regarding their power usage which is why a 60 watt light bulb that runs for an hour uses less energy than a 120 watt light bulb ran for an hour.

The video in the article mentions that the computer does most of the counting and I get the feeling that surveying animal count from aerial photographs might only work with penguins in Antarctica. It's relatively easy to distinguish between snow, poop and penguin from a computer vision algorithm stand point seeing how it boils down to distinguishing between black or brownish spots with little noise from other unwanted objects. Not that I'm trying to say it's trivial to program it but it it's a lot simpler problem than say counting people in a city from space or cars.

Even though the final decision and final barrier to a premature death is a personal choice there's still more than enough blame to be distributed. We should be better than to say "personal choice" is reason enough to shove ALL the responsibility to a single person. Our society is no where near perfect or utopian and can have the right combination of shit to push a person to thinking incorrectly. For example: suicide attempts among LGBT youths are significantly higher than that of the general population. Are we gonna just blame it all on the LGBT youths and ignore the deeper issues of how they receive no support from their peers, teachers or family? I hope not.

And in this specific case TFA says his sister claims that his ex-wife their disabled 20 year old daughters gets all of hims money for support and the ex-wife never lets him see his daughter. It also mentions she told him to 'fuck off and die already'. Given those facts are true I would put a decent amount of blame on his ex-wife. While I wouldn't put blame on the reddit users to the extent of wrongful death I would still say they deserve enough blame to where they hopefully will reflect on their actions.

One time at my university the engineering department had this paper airplane competition, everyone was given a sheet of 8.5x11" paper and a paper clip. It was particularly windy that day and the event had been organized for better weather so we ended up having to throw the planes directly into the wind from ground level. The distance of the various planes people built ranged from -10 feet to 20 feet from launch point. Taking this into account I decided to modify my design at the last second. I stepped up to the launch area with my plane, aimed it at a 45 degree angle, crumbled it up into a ball and threw it as hard as I could. I got something like 40 feet and had the furthest distance. I kept saying that it was designed to minimize air resistance but In the end I was disqualified for being a smart ass.

Gives new meaning to Intel Inside.

IANAL but I'm pretty sure they're just making a photocopy of the information printed on the license which is perfectly legal, even in Texas.

Car dealerships scan driver licenses all the time for test drives.

Handout iPads.

Non existant due to the large cost of the necessary optics.

The carrier are not adding value, they are not removing value.

While my knowledge and understanding is limited I think that the extra power in the light output comes from heat. So light power out is greater than electrical power in but if you consider thermal power AND electrical power then total efficiency is under 100%. Thus the first law of thermal dynamics is safe.

I'm glad you mentioned Uncharted because I think it's a perfect example of how pushing towards a movie type of story telling ruins a game. The story telling elements in Uncharted 2 was over used, forced and ultimately broke game play. For example when you first start the game and granted control: you find the main character hanging off a crashed train danging off an edge of a cliff. You start to climb upwards and then BAM a piece of the train breaks off and you loose control to a mini-scene where you watch him dangle by one hand, he watches the broken pipe fall a long ways down and you're given a scenic views of the snow covered mountains in the distance as he slowly turns himself back around and gets his other hand back on the train. You're then granted control again and this process is repeated a number of times until you finally make it onto solid ground. That ruins the game play for me, I've lost control and was interrupted not because I made a mistake but because the designers wanted it to be more like a movie. Metal Gear Solid 4 while having a million hours of cut-scenes manages not to break game play; when they take control away and show a scene it's because there's going to be a change in game play. If I sneak into a house and they start a cut-scene it's because the gameplay is shifting from sneaking past henchmen to a boss battle. Playing Uncharted 2 I felt less like playing a game with an interactive world with a story to drive that interaction and more like watching a movie that required me to push some buttons.

While a Windows 8 ARM laptop doesn't really entice me the idea of a laptop with an ARM and a x86/64 processor is something that does. In the future we could see laptops that have both a low power ARM and a high performance x86/64 processor and would switch between the two as necessary. In that respect I find Windows 8 ARM interesting, it would be out there to build up the library of programs and drivers so the next (next) version of Windows could support both ARM and x86 as one single OS. It would then have enough software to run on the ARM core to see the battery life of days but can run anything you can throw at it.