Thanks for your well-put-together analysis.

Do we still give reasons why we hate shit around here?

The point murder in a legal sense, something someone could be tried for murder over.
And yes, legal meaning whatever bullshit happens to be in law as what murder is.
IANAL, but drones are being treated as legal, at least for now.

It's worth considering that the reasons behind banning landmines include others, like long-term out-of-war casualties.

Those mines stay there.

Gabe never confirmed Source 2. He said "We’ve been working on Valve’s new engine stuff for a while, we're probably just waiting for a game to roll it out with".

That's promising, but it sounds more to me like a further evolution of Source the way they've been doing it so far.

We'll see soon(TM) enough.

This is actually an interesting concept.
As one who enjoys tiled window interfaces, I'd like to see more concepts that avoid the stacking window management we've had for so long.
I do think the model posed is a bit more restrictive than I'd like, though.

"Charges Russian"? Not man, not woman?
I was sure at first that the U.S. was making claims of the country Russia, and so prepared for big shit to go down.

So I see.

It was a joke about how politically incorrect it seems to be now to refer to a dark-skinned person's skin tone.
I recall a case of bullying with some African American kid who was white, because the other kids didn't believe him.

It's all ridiculous. Race is race, skin color is skin color.

African American.

But that's exactly what we're saying -- x264 can match the speed of GPU encoders or QuickSync, and still provide better quality.
Or, it can provide the same quality, faster.

Sure, GPU/QuickSync encoders will have a niche once they can be faster than x264. But they're still not. They have no niche at the moment.
I'm not a fanboy of x264, it's simple fact.

Further evidence: ArsTechnica report on this, says Intel's roadmap doesn't include DDR4 until Haswell-EX in 2014.

http://arstechnica.com/business/guides/2012/05/ddr4-memory-is-coming-soonmaybe-too-soon.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Except even when you compare the fixed function H.264 encoders to x264 at those exact settings, x264 still dominates.

Intel has already confirmed that the 2013 "tock", Haswell, will still use DDR3.
Not sure about AMD's position, but this sounds like DDR4 will wait on desktops and laptops for 2014 or 2015.

I _knew_ the US Congress was a whore.

NVIDIA artificially limits their double-precision performance to boost sales of their Quadro chips.

They have secretaries to deal with the open-source 'wierdos'.