1 is solved by these autonomous cars (the old lady would not be allowed to drive), 2 sounds like a failure at parking by the minivan driver which would also be solved by an automated car parking in a better spot, 3&4 are perfect examples of why humans should not be driving as their poor eyesight and tendency toward paranoia creates imaginary problems.

That sounds like an effective way to kill off income from returning players.

2. Consoles use GPUs and CPUs the same as PCs do. There is a longer update cycle in place, but whenever each cycle ticks they adopt all the new technology that has been developed during the lifetime of a console. As such, it makes sense for the console makers to encourage such development.

They even adopt new technology inside a cycle, though it's often used to improve power efficiency and lower cost.

Hmm, I have a cheap Nokia 3120 classic and it has a forward facing VGA camera for video conversations (in addition to the higher resolution camera on the back). I thought such features were standard nowadays as this phone belongs in the cheapo category.

- seeing a computer which can run Crysis?

Ahem.

You're off by about 4.5 billion years unless something has changed recently.

What else would a sick person do at home other than play games and watch television? It's not like you can sleep 24/7...

Indeed. Here in the EU companies bought up old coal plants in eastern europe that would have been shut down anyways due to them being uncompetitive and modernized/closed them to get carbon credits.

But AFAIK this article is not about carbon credits. ;)

And we (Canada) are wasting our economy with such a high proportion of our exports being raw materials (I think it's something like 90%), instead of refining/processing them within our borders before export,

If doing so was competitive, then people would be doing it. One would assume it isn't competitive due to regulation/high costs. Therefore the most profitable (optimal) solution actually is to sell things as raw materials as the refined product could not be sold at a competitive (the correct) price.

thus creating jobs (and higher-level ones to boot).

Jobs either exist or don't, they cannot be "created". In the current regulatory (Canadian regulation, undervalued Chinese currency) and price (demand for refined product, cost of labor) environment the jobs don't exist.

And even if so, it doesn't account for the phones that don't have one or more of them.

This problem has always existed and isn't relevant. Either a software requires a piece of hardware or it doesn't, usually a user wouldn't even need a software that requires a certain kind of hardware unless they have the hardware in question.

Good visual effects - check
Epic music - check
Illogical plot (certainly dropping a bomb would be easier than marching through Uruguay) - check

Yep, he is certainly Hollywood material. :P

Some would argue that FX is the only thing Hollywood is good at.

Well the post that started this thread was pointing out that this is proof of Hollywood running out of ideas, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that this $300 movie is standard Hollywood fare. Who knows, maybe the dude will make an awesome movie with a great plot, but that is not what he got hired for (if this short movie really was the reason he got the deal).

Some of them are far too large (e.g. WC, Maraudon) and take a long time even with a max level character due to the distances involved (not to mention getting lost!). Better design of their layout would help. On the other hand SFK is very nice and I look forward to its HC version.

Like the other poster mentioned the badge system has been expanded upon since 3.2, you now get emblems in 5mans that can be used to buy items of the previous tier which means that you can pretty much start raiding the newest raid after gearing up in 5mans. Also, you don't need BIS to be able to raid, a player who knows his rotations and doesn't stand in fires will easily outdps someone who just runs around in epics with no knowledge of their class.