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Not certain, especially since things may change, but I think he's contracted only for Anthem.

Instructions are to stay inside here as well and shelter in place, block door off, etc. - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/high-rise-fire-1.3966746 Granted I suppose that reasoning presumes the previous four items are not an issue and the building is well made (though with the condos they build these days I am unsure ). Hopefully some heads end up rolling Stay still makes sense with sensible building practices, certainly, and especially if there are suppression measures in place. Though the only large buildings I've ever spent time in all used evacuation plans they were relatively small compared to that apartment building and had other reasons to evacuate (chemicals etc). OTOH there's a lot of evidence that people knew the building was a fire trap before this happened and in that case getting people out ought to be priority one. If you know the building has no sprinklers etc then the risks of evacuation (panic, smoke etc) are less than the risks of being trapped.

Consoles basically are PCs this time around. The xbox dev kits have always been PC based as well*, even when the xbox was using powerPC, and they've always used directX- indeed, that's where the 'X' in their name came from in the first place. That is why you can have show demos that won't work on release consoles, because they're pushed via dev kit PCs. *though you can use an xbox1 as a dev kit it is strongly discouraged, and per above it's basically a PC anyway. It's not a 12GB GPU though, that's unified memory and the bandwidth is shared as well. Everything shares the memory and the bandwidth. It has the same flops as an RX580, unsurprisingly as it basically is one, which is a decent upper mid range PC card but that's it. It's wholly outclassed by anything above a 1070 in PC land despite its high flops because that measure isn't everything performance wise. And I say that as someone who bought a 580. It's not a PC vs console thing, frankly if people are only gaming a console has always been better value unless you're buying loads of games on sale on PC (in which case you can use cheap hardware as well), the big plus for PC has always been that you can do other stuff apart from gaming on it. You can have direct hardware access and a skimline OS all you want and just as much as you can put slimline tyres and nitrous into your Civic, but it won't become a pseudo Ferrari nor will the console become a 7700k/ Titan killer.

Plenty of genius on display there. One stairwell, no central alarm system, no sprinklers, no fire suppression system, instructions to stay inside in case of fire, no fire drills plus the candlewick insulation on the outside. And apparently that situation is pretty common too.

Yeah, an RX580 is able to run something like Twitcher 3 at ~high settings, functionally above 60 fps 1080p, on PC. To get it to actual 4k/60fps you need to ~quadruple its power, which cannot happen no matter how many optimisations are applied. It's like tweaking a Honda Civic with a max speed of 150kph to run at 300kph- you might get it to 200 by pimping it but there's only so far you can go before you hit inherent limitations. 2xA10 processors and an RX580 is not going to get native 4k/60 on demanding games with high settings, it simply doesn't have the horsepower. Upscaling is a decent solution, but while it's far less strain than actual 4k it also lacks its graphical fidelity since it is, basically, using an antialiasing algorithm to predict what the 'missing' pixels would look like rather than actually generating the pixels.

I'd bet a million dollars that there will be very few games that run at actual 60fps/4k on xbx which aren't Stardew Valley equivalents graphics wise. You need a 1080Ti/ Titan to do that reliably- and even then not that reliably on newer games- on PC, and the xbx's RX580 equivalent just plain and fundamental ain't in those cards' power class. Nor is it, to be fair, in their cost bracket either as a PC card nor as a whole system for xbx. It will inevitably be the same situation as last gen when people thought they were playing CoD Iteration in glorious 1080p but were actually playing it upscaled from somewhat less glorious 960x540. Still, people should as always buy whatever suits themselves best, and for some the xbx will be a good fit. I personally wouldn't buy an xbx, but then I also wouldn't buy a 1080/Ti/Titan either.

Think they just wanted SW focus to be on Battlefront 2, since Battlefront 1 was not too well received and it will release before the Visceral game. Who knows though, their use of the SW license hasn't been too impressive.

If they'd still had the management issues it wouldn't have made any difference at all. Doesn't matter if you have the best people in the world working on something if the ability to put it into a coherent whole isn't present. Having ten times the facial animations makes no difference if the part of the team working on the engine haven't been told to or hasn't been able to implement facial animations, all that work is wasted. And that, apparently, is fairly close to what actually happened.

Intel's R&D budget is higher than AMD's entire turnover- it's certainly sufficient (or should be) to stay well ahead. They also have a host of research agreements with universities and the like. Their big mistake has been focusing on going after ARM's low power business which so far has been an utter failure. It was an understandable mistake though, that's the one market segment they have no real stake in so an obvious target for expansion. Also AMD somewhat sandbagged Ryzen's expected performance increase at 40% above Bulldozer when it was closer to 60% increase in reality, and that transforms it from competitive under certain circumstances to highly competitive under almost all circumstances. AMD's cluster based architecture is also exactly the sort of thing that a monolithic company like Intel would have difficulty coming up with when in a dominant position as there would be no incentive to try new approaches.

Sessions and Kushner were as well, difference being that they didn't lie to Pence who repeated the lie publicly, only on their clearance application (and senate hearing for Sessions?). Though how many transition teams have had similar contact and nobody cared is a very open question, I suspect rather a lot given the nature of transitions. Yes, a PM who has not been through and won an election is regarded as being less legitimate than a leader who has been through that process but it isn't usually a prompt to call an election. But that slight whiff of illegitimacy is certainly part of why May called the election early (though it was mostly because she expected to win well). The loss of legitimacy is also certainly not enough to force an election on any May successor, though there are usually a few by-elections in a parliamentary term due to deaths or other circumstance changes. If the Tories lose a couple of seats that way then governing may be unworkable.

It's shelved only in the sense that they don't have a team available with B: Edmonton working on [NewIP] and Dragon Age and B: Montreal getting a time out- and it's probably a good idea to give MEA some space anyway. MEA had actually shipped nearly a million more copies than ME2 at a comparable time, but it's a bit of an open question as to whether they sold through to customers or if there have been any additional shipments. Probably no to both, but then you'd also have to add download copies which for obvious reasons aren't included in 'shipped' totals and they'd likely again be more than ME2 managed at a comparable time. Probably decent sales numbers overall and certainly not a turkey, but equally probably disappointing for 5 years investment in a solid franchise, and its critical reception was genuinely poor.

Vaguely related. Cultural sensitivity definitely works both ways. UK rugby writers are all precious manbabies crap, but there's certainly a point to be made about having a minutes silence for victims of a knife attack then having a haka with throat slitting gestures immediately after, and somebody should have thought about it. Wasn't that gesture banned long ago? The All Blacks took it out of their new haka soon after it was launched, but it wasn't 'banned' in the normal sense. Haka are mostly used for marketing nowadays, so having a throat slit gesture was counter productive to Brand All Blacks®. Their more famous (Ka Mate/ Te Rauparaha) haka never had it in. The one done by the Blues was a bespoke haka for the match occasion. There are a load of different haka used by different groups- most schools including my albinoesque whitey white mcwhite one have them for example- but the only ones I've seen with the throat slitting gesture were the Blues one from Saturday and Kapa o Pango (the secondary AB's one). Pretty tone deaf choice in the circumsatnces, though the haka would have been designed months ago.

Vaguely related. Cultural sensitivity definitely works both ways. UK rugby writers are all precious manbabies crap, but there's certainly a point to be made about having a minutes silence for victims of a knife attack then having a haka with throat slitting gestures immediately after, and somebody should have thought about it.

E3 has been on a steady decline since they downsized it substantially a decade or so ago. They reversed that decision pretty quick, but the sky hadn't fallen and alternatives had been found in the interim so it never reclaimed anything near preeminence. Bad case of not knowing that while their proximal audience was trade people their ultimate audience was the average gamer who buys the games and read the reviews of those trade people; and not giving them what they wanted meant that other people did.

Most of the 9/11 guys were middle class, bin Laden was a multi millionaire, al Zawahiri was a pediatrician etc. Windmill tilting, par for course. More fake news from low energy failing CNN. Sad! Hack was pretty much definitely done by UAE or Saudi, since they responded instantly and had a media campaign/ statements etc already set up and ready to go.

Saudi kind of is done with Syria, and that's part of the problem. Their main proxy is currently being ground into pulp by Qatar's indirect proxy, and was well on the way down even before that. That and Qatar sponsoring groups antipathetic to Saudi's Libyan proxies is certainly a factor in the blockade. And to be fair to Saudi, Qatar is not averse to sponsoring more radical islamists than Saudi is willing to openly support. The main factor is that Qatar sponsors the Ikwhan (Brotherhood) which Sisi, Saudi and the UAE hates (ironically, because they espouse islamist democracy, not for Qatar though. Brotherhood themselves are fairly moderate though, certainly comparatively, and aren't salafi/ wahhabi like most of the head chopper factions). There's basically no chance of an invasion of Qatar though, and there aren't any convenient groups to sponsor either. Most likely Qatar will give lip service to some demands about the brotherhood and the whole thing will dial back over the next month. Saudi's foreign policy is a joke anyway, they only ever get lip service support from people with their hands out. The only bigger joke is their military which has all the toys but regularly gets their bottoms paddled and Abrams destroyed by barefoot Houthis with AKs. It's also full of petty rivalries that see things like the infamous instance of SAMs bought based on how well they'd be able to shoot their own air force's planes down (two rival princes heading the army and air force at that time).

Trump's a moron, Gulf States are all hypocrites (except Oman, and to an extent Kuwait), news at 11. Not like Qatar is a saint; but their sin isn't sponsoring terrorism, it's not toeing the Saudi line- and that's it.

And then they immediately stuck her on Hillary's team. That set the tone (deafness) for her entire campaign. I'd say that if you have a properly functioning electoral system then you don't need term limits. Power entrenchment comes mainly from political parties and bureaucrats anyway, and they aren't effected by term limits except for whoever is the figure head.

The two figures are measuring different things. 0.3 degrees = difference from US pulling out only 0.6-1.1 degree = difference if everyone pulled out/ there was no agreement. This includes the US contribution, it doesn't exclude it. This is where you are making the mistake. Trump is wrong because he has used the first figure and stated it as representing the second data set. If he'd stated that 0.2 degrees was the difference for the US pulling out he'd be correct (enough), but he said it was the figure for if the agreement didn't exist at all, which is incorrect. The new expected difference is 0.4 to 0.8 reduction per (0.6-0.2) to (1.1-0.3). (All simple case, statistically it's a bit more complicated than that)

... It's Teresa May then? Lies! Deception! (meh, low hanging fruit)

Got my computer assembled and all working well. Had to set the RAM up manually as XMP caused a boot loop but otherwise no problems. Have to say that for a purely cosmetic feature I did rather like the LEDs when I had the side off as well.

And he didn't even mention the solder issue either. The i9/x299 situation makes a lot more sense if Intel planned the whole thing under the assumption there would be no external competition and that their chips would be competing with each other rather than another company's products. The variable PCI lane numbers, dual/quad channel RAM depending on processor and no ECC make sense if you see the competition as being your own lower range chips and need reasons to sell the expensive ones. But if the competition suddenly becomes external you end up with a decidedly odd looking and inconsistent line up with gimped features relative to the competition instead. There's definitely some panic there when the flagship chip won't be available at launch (and may not even make 2017).

What are you talking about man? It's a rumour from 4chan, they'd never lie.

Technically the guy you play in R3 isn't wholly generic, since he's Patty's bro. But yeah, you're basically Mr B. Slate, esquire, otherwise. (I have to admit I rather liked the occasional dialogue in the PB games that poked fun at themselves for not having a lead character with any sort of defined name or previous role)

Every Piranha Bytes game has Raptors ('Snappers'), right from the first Gothic.