It probably wouldn't. But a dual-core Intel processor would be as good as (or better than) a quad-core AMD. And a quad-core Intel would be as good as, or better than, an 8-core AMD. Especially with Intel's Hyperthreading enabling 2 cores-worth of processing to be handled on a single core.

Maybe you should look at the actual performance numbers. Intel is performing better than AMD, and at a cheaper price point. And unfortunately, I'm an AMD fan, running a Hexcore Bulldozer here.

And for those computations, at the desktop level, 1 Intel core is approximately as fast as 2 AMD clocks. Intel has MUCH better IPC (Instructions Per Clock) and better re-ordering and lookahead than AMD, and have since the Intel introduced their "Core" infrastructure. This is why a mid-range Intel part (Say, an Intel Core i5-4670K) can handily (and significantly) beat AMD's top-of-the-line desktop CPU (An FX-8350)

It has been confirmed in the discussion on the valve forums that the latter is what happens.

So does this. If you want to play your copy of any game in your library while someone is using it, they get booted. Even if it's a different game. 'cause it's the whole library that is shared, not individual games.

Read more carefully. The ENTIRE LIBRARY is shared. And not on a per-game basis, it's all or nothing. And if you (as the sharer) decide you want to play one of your games while someone is using your library, they get booted, even if it's not the same game. And if you're sharing your library with two other people, only one of them can play any game at a time. So you can't play Portal while friend A plays CS:GO and friend B plays HL2.

You're not. If you want to use said portable device, you can do. And (In the UK at least) portable communication devices are in their own calling prefix, so you as a user know you're going to call a cellular customer ('cause you have to put in a cellular prefix), and that you're going to be charged more for it. If you don't want to pay extra to call me when I'm not at home or at work, you don't call my cell.

The video is Here. Or, if you want to refute their "Strap lawnmower engines together to make a ferrari", I'd like to go one step further and point out this 24-chainsaw-engine Motorbike.

Yes, yes it is. As they have said, countless times, you can disable the Kinect entirely if you so desire. If you have any proof whatsoever that data from XBoxes/Kinects are being sent to any US authorities (without a fully authorised warrant being issued), do please point to it, post it, or something similar. Otherwise it's just rampant, and damaging, speculation on your part.

Except, of course, that you're just a troll, and all you can do is innuendo and speculation to try and shill for your particular corporate overlord.

The pilot HAD to manual land, the ILS system and PAPI glidepath height assistance for runway 28L (and 28R) at SFO is down, as reported in the current NOTAMs(Check for SFO)

!SFO 06/005 (KSFO A1056/13) SFO NAV ILS RWY 28L GP OTS WEF 1306011400-1308222359
!SFO 07/046 (KSFO A1326/13) SFO RWY 28L PAPI OTS WEF 1307062219

That means he was relying on nav beacons and glidepath estimates to come in. Given that SFO's beacons are approx 1.2 miles apart, if he picked the wrong beacon to guild his descent he would have been too high, dropped steeper than usual to get down once he noticed the discrepancy, and didn't have the necessary power to flare and ascend at the end of the runway, so he tailstruck. That makes it pilot error, but confounded and mitigated by most (if not all) the regular guidance and assistance systems they rely on being out of commission.

And it's perfect to acclimatise your ears to the next heavy metal concert you attend, too.

When looking at comparative efficiencies and pollutants, you have to look at the whole chain. From hole in the ground to rotating wheel. Even burning "Dirty" coal, Electric Vehicles have a distinct advantage. The losses and energy use involved in drilling/mining, transporting, burning and generating, transporting (considerably less loss) and finally turning wheels pales in comparison to the ICE requirements of drilling/pumping oil, transporting crude, upgrading/refining to petroleum (Which takes HUGE amounts of energy and is almost never mentioned), transporting petroleum, burning it and finally using it to turn wheels. For an ICE, you can generally only find information about the latter stages, and that is less than 40% efficient. Electric cars are 90%+ efficient with power from the wall, and the whole chain comes in at around 60-75% (So far, this is getting better all the time). Electric cars don't have, or need, cooling systems (in fact, the opposite is often the case, where heaters have to be installed as there is no "Waste" heat generated to warm the passenger cabin).

But, even if that wasn't the case, and pollution from both methods was exactly equal, it's much MUCH easier to introduce measures to clean up the products from 1 smokestack (recirculation/sequestration etc) than it is to do the same thing with hundreds of thousands of tiny, mobile, tailpipes.

Of course, as renewable resources come online in the power grid, the Electric car gets greener automatically (as it's power is being produced in a more green manner) without the owner having to do a thing about it, and that's also not considering engine oil changes, transmission fluid etc. Try doing that with your gas-guzzler.

Batteries for electric cars aren't perfect, they do require some digging in the ground and a little bit of chemical work to make them (Though ICEs also need batteries, along with the odd and rare elements they require for durability and longevity) but once made they are 99% recyclable. And even with that, they're still cleaner than the parts and ancillary equipment needed for ICEs

You didn't with the previous spec MS had put out for the XBox One. Now that they've executed their peer-pressured 180, that's not an option any more.

They were. You also now need the disc in the console to play the game at all times, which you didn't before. The DRM/Phone Home was entirely to enable the sharing features, including the "Play on a friend's console with your library". If the console can't verify you own a game, it won't let you play it (obviously). That stops you installing a game on your (connected) console, then giving the game to your friend to play on their (offline) console. Now the "Ownership" of a game is tied inexplicably to the disc the game comes on. So instead of "Digital Rights Management" you have "Physical Rights Management". Which is the step forward/backward is up to you.

Because there would be no trust to that key. Sure, it means your message would be encrypted, but so would all the spam you receive, 'cause there would be next-to-no incentive. And where would you distribute that key from? Who is in charge of that key server? What happens with forwarding? How about mailing lists?