One additional difficulty in making Portal 2-dimensional is the loss of a relative frame of reference, which can cause control problems. If you hold down the left key to enter a right-facing portal, and exit through another right-facing portal, do you start moving right even though you are holding down the left key? Massive kudos if they can find a intuitive way to solve this.
Stanford gives out automated warnings if you have a lot of torrent-y network activity (I got a few back in the day after downloading some linux distros), but as I recall they are only to notify students that if they are pirating music/movies/etc, they will be held accountable if someone from the RIAA or some other group contacts Stanford about it. If you're downloading legitimate software you shouldn't have anything to worry about (except for some occasional automated spam)
"If you divide 480 by 44 you get a remainder of 20. Divide by 11 and you get a remainder of 9"
Isn't it 40 and 7 respectively?
edit: I think the author meant 460, which is 480px - 20px for the status bar
It personally reminds me of 2d side-view games (like later castlevanias) where you can't walk around objects like tables or boxes (you have to jump over them to progress). Perhaps level designers for these sorts of games will become architectural consultants when super-thin houses start springing up in other places?
Um, I think you misread what he meant by "destroying" websites - this app seems to be a game where you control an "asteroids"-style spaceship shooting UI elements on websites (a mobile version of this: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/kick-ass-bookmarklet-...)
Also, would Apple really approve an application used for DDOS-ing websites?
Judging by the fact that Boise, ID is their only market right now, and the deals on both sites for Boise are different, I'd say it's independent of livingsocial
Here is the paper their tech is based on: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
Basically, the light isn't focused to a single plane, but rather is sent through an array of microlenses which can be sampled in various ways to simulate the focal plane of a traditional camera.
The math comes out to about 17 months' subscription fees for a permanent license for each product. Hopefully at least some of those fees can go towards buying a full license in the future.
The conversation in the middle of the post doesn't sound too different from conversations I've had with friends. I hope I didn't miss out on a big opportunity...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/world/asia/22poverty.html
The poverty rate in Japan isn't that much lower than the US (15.7% vs. 17.1% according to the article). However, people below that line in Japan are somewhat unwilling to admit being in poverty.
The Japanese title on the about page translates to something like "Heart-Pounding Library: The Legend of Gatsby", which is how I think the book should have been titled.