I've got ideas for plenty of shooters that do things differently. Two have actually made it to playable prototypes, and confirmed that yes, the ideas are fun. I'd describe them, but I'm in talks to produce them so I'll keep my mouth shut for now. All the marketers think we want are "realistic" modern arena shooters, "realistic" modern open-map shooters, "old-school" twitch shooters, or maybe an occasional squad-level tactical shooter. In other words, a CoD clone, a Battefield clone, a Q3/UT clone, or a R6 clone. That's it. That's 90% of the industry, just remaking the same three games over and over with different settings or skins or variations on the same fucking theme. It's really quite infuriating, since half of them aren't even *good* clones.

It's a weird die layout. They have four "columns" of cores - three columns of 4 cores, and one of 6. The memory interface and some other stuff takes up the room that would have been used for the other two cores on the first three columns. I guess they didn't need to be longer, so they used the extra room for two more cores.

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Since nobody reads TFA, Phoronix killed an MSI X99S, and LR lost an Asus X99 Deluxe. It was also different RAM (Corsair vs G.Skill). However, both reported the burn was near the VRMs (Phoronix also reported a second event near the northbridge). The two mobos might be using identical parts for that, but I was unable to find out for sure.

So corporations can rip people off all they want, as long as those people suck? Man, no wonder there's no good music these days.

You can get 2560x1440 for about $500 +/-200 now - cheap imports are $350 on eBay, top-of-the-line ones are $700+ but you only need that if you do pro graphics stuff. For regular use, there's 27" 1440p monitors all over the place now.

You want to disable a division of tanks? I think the technical measure you're looking for is the CBU-100 cluster bomb. As long as you strike while they're still grouped together, you should be able to render them nonfunctional pretty effectively.

Software solutions to this sort of problem do not work. We've seen this a million times - if you have hardware access, getting software access is just a matter of time and effort. So you need to disable the hardware - and conveniently, we already have an entire category of "anti-tank weapons". So why not use them?

AnandTech is pretty much the only tech site I trust implicitly anymore. They don't do bullshit stories, they don't rush things out just because everyone else is, and they aren't afraid to criticize their own sponsor's products. More to the point, they know their stuff, and they have brought a lot more science to testing. They don't even test cases with actual computers in them anymore, they use strictly-controlled thermal loads and lab-grade probes because it wasn't repeatable enough. Hopefully Anand's spirit of accurate, thorough reporting will live on at Anandtech for years to come, because if they fail I don't know of anyone that could replace them.

Ah, but did they remember to reverse the polarity on the power couplings? It doesn't do anything unless you reverse the polarity.

Okay, but what are the odds of randomly drilling and finding water? Or consulting a geologist instead of a wizard? As others have noted, Ireland isn't exactly the Sahara, it wouldn't be too unusual to find water.

Are you reading the same Slate I read? Slate got my eyes by hiring Dr. Phil Plait, who is basically a full-time anti-science debunker, one who is specifically against anti-vaxxers, astrologers and conspiracy theorists. And although I don't often read many of their other authors, I've never seen an anti-vax or anti-GMO article there either. They've got their share of inanity (the advice blogger is almost hilariously bad), and they link to bullshit sites like Buzzfeed, but "science illiterate" isn't one of the complaints I'd voice about them.

Which emulators are you using? For NES/SNES/GBC/GBA, I've been using higan, and I've yet to find a single emulation error. Checking the forums, the kind of emulation bugs still getting reported are literally "on the Super Game Boy player for the SNES, an obscure series of cross-system memory writes with multiple joypads enabled ends up writing the wrong value to a register, which breaks this contrived test case". So it seems to be exceptionally solid. For more recent systems, yeah, I haven't found any truly good low-level emulators, but those are also not the ones you'd be breaking out the CRT display for.

You're asking for a simple answer to a very complex question. I already simplified it as much as possible while still having any meaning.

Current estimates are that we are dumping 40 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year, for a total of about 550 billion tons since 1870.

The current upswing seems to have begun sometime in the 19th century, although the dramatic increase only began in the 1920s or so, and it really took off in the '70s.