The intense difficulty of implementing such behavior is identifying games. It can't simply be any program that uses Direct3D; think of CAD software. It can't just be any app that goes fullscreen; think of Windows Media Center and other fullscreen application-like things, which also use Direct3D.

Not easily. Userland programs (most modern malware is userland; rootkits are becoming much more rare thankfully) are able to use APIs to access a camera, but they are not allowed to enable or disable devices, and they can't talk to the hardware directly because the operating system's kernel does not allow it. If the…

I generally regard any website that engages in this kind of practice as a scam site, and promptly close the tab.

Oh wow, I can suddenly see tiny little microSD cards, each one with itty-bitty box art. This is a *fantastic* idea.

Oh my god, why does it matter? They simply should have kept silent about it in the first place. There aren't female assassins because nobody on the development team wanted to code them in. The main story mode revolves around a male Assassin, so that's the only model they created all those animations and assets for,…

I'm mostly remembering speedruns that I've watched, and various techniques that are used to make the game lag less during certain techniques. That may not count for much though, as speedrunners are already pushing the game pretty hard just by moving through the areas so much faster than the game developers intended to…

This is something I have consistently loved about Nintendo. I'm not aware of very many games of theirs that run at inconsistent framerates. About the only exceptions I can think of are games that were seriously pushing the limits of the 64 (OoT is noticably laggy during some of the more intense fights) and I'll…

Neither have I, and I'm slightly intrigued. Wouldn't that have to be OS level, as it would need to rearrange the virtual page tables themselves? That seems extremely unnecessary, as the page tables need to exist anyway (for process isolation and security) and having the pages out of order incurs zero penalties…

"So the first exploit rears it's ugly head!," Mario Kart Wii forum poster Lonely Dolphin exclaims. "Well it's not as bad as MK7's Monster tires, and not even close to MKWii inward drift bikes or MKDS snaking, so it wont ruin the online or anything," they reason.

For some odd reason, the linked article is now offline. Hrm... coincidence? :P

If I remember this correctly, Evernote will automatically scan the text in your images and make it searchable. I'm not sure if that's terribly useful (it's a far cry from turning a page of written text into a document) but it's something.

For quick one-offs (and handouts!) I carry around a Magic Wand portable scanner thing. It's not the most accurate thing in the world, and you need a steady hand and a flatish surface to make it work, but it's still super handy. I found it especially useful during my music classes, as they allowed me to scan in sheet…

There are many advantages to writing longhand. Over the years, there have been numerous studies that suggest that it is easier to remember information if it is written out in longhand rather than typed. Students the world over are all too familiar with this concept—who hasn't spent hours writing and re-writing lecture…

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You know, I said that thing earlier about something being not age appropriate, then I see THIS character making THIS expression... y'know, motion to strike earlier comment. The M-rated remarks are well earned with this screenshot.

This is pretty much a side-effect of playing through each single player cup tournament, but it bears mentioning. Take those early 50cc races as an opportunity to learn every nook and cranny of Mario Kart 8's 16 new and 16 returning courses. Each new raceway is filled with secrets and shortcuts, and the returning…

They wouldn't even need virtual console support. A system menu update could simply enable GameCube games to run via the existing Wii Menu. (Which makes sense; the Wii is a GameCube, hardware wise, so all the system-level support is there.) Though, I admit being able to *download* GameCube titles would be infinitely…

The cool thing about TAS runs though is that often many of the techniques discovered by those runs can indeed be pulled off by a human, and wouldn't necessarily have been found otherwise.

On a technical level, you upload the image to their server, it spawns a new task to process the image, and when that finishes, the server sends you a download link.

I don't use self checkouts because I typically find that human checkers, even the occasionally rude / distracted ones, are much better at the task than I am.