The abortion laws are still ridiculous though. In the case of a woman being raped, she cannot get an abortion.
Also, it takes 5 years to get a divorce in Ireland

From the looks of the video clip the optimisation is done by removing real-time shadows. That would be the same as setting the quality to the lowest level.

Yeah, you can thank Intel's contra revenue for that. Basically, Asus get the SoC and chipset for free.

The good: next year AMD start making APUs with HBM. The only thing that was holding back the iGPU was memory bandwidth. So, now they can put a 1024 shader GPU on the die and not have it starved by bandwidth. That will have interesting applications: powerful gaming laptops much cheaper than those with a discreet GPU and HPC (especially considering HSA applications)
The bad: this year AMD is only releasing one new GPU, Fiji. The rest are rebadges. And there is no new architecture. Even Fiji is making do with GCN 1.2

Not the only downside. You are paying $200 more for Iris Pro

The selling point of the Iris Pro is that it should be able to play AAA games at medium presets, but it's crippled by the low TDP and other iGPUs thrash it in benchmarks.
But then you would expect it to be virtually silent, because of the low TDP, but it's actually quite noisy.
Then, there's the price. Iris Pro has always come with a high price, because eDRAM is expensive to manufacture. That's one of the reasons why the previous generation Iris Pro had so few design wins.

I should have said I was talking about the 2008 version: http://www.gamersperspective.c...

The author thinks that pixel art style is the only alternartive to realistic, which is false. Look at Prince of Persia, or Borderlands (both of which have very good looking stylised art)

I don't know why you were moded up.
Zen is 40% IPC greater than EXCAVATOR. The FX-8350 is bulldozer core. Since Bulldozer there has been 3 cores: Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator (to be released this year).
Intel has in fact dropped the ball. They have not released a new desktop CPU in 2 years.

TSMC has already produced test wafers on 10nm and plan to enter volume production in 2016
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/p...

The answer is 3D printers. They solve all known problems. Just 3D print a massive spaceship, then fly said spaceship to Mars and 3D print yourself a city, then 3D print a breathable atmosphere and magnetic field.

Maybe they should ask CSI for some help. Those guys have tech that can magnify any image to infinity.

tweets are still restricted to 140 characters, yet they allow you to embed dos games into the message?

If I had diabeties I don't think I would want a poker playing AI controlling the insulin. What if it decides to go "all in"?

I wonder if they will make the same mistake they did with Windows Phone and not provide any OpenGL ES support