Won't do it, if we're understanding the problem correctly. If the limiting factor is the bandwidth of the streaming connection, no reduction in video settings would make that work faster. It could be two pre-rendered movies and you wouldn't be able to go faster, the choke point isn't the rendering, it's delivering the…

Only if you like to lie down in farm fields. It's not like a laser can get into the ground water.

The rags-to-riches stories are mostly flukes. The story that doesn't make the news is the story of the other people, the ones that gamble everything on a dream, work tireless hundred-hour weeks, and end up in marginally-worse rags.

All this stuff is statistical. Obviously a black woman born into wealth is going to have an easier time of it than a white male born into poverty. I can certainly understand (but not condone) the reactions from white guys who have had a rough time of it, and frame any discussion of these issues as "your life needs to…

Because a fraction of us don't need to get good grades to get jobs. Or think we don't. And they drag down the average.

Rubber is old tech, but the newest cars still use it in supercar tires. Steel is old tech, but they use it in the very newest buildings. It's not always when your tech was invented that's the important thing.

They need to prove they can maneuver it safely. Even though the final docking is by the arm, they still need to fly the Dragon close enough to the irreplaceable ISS and her crew for the arm to reach, and then match speed (in relative terms, stop). No second chances, it needs to be perfect or people could die, and this…

This. The textures are low-res, but the amount of total detail that needs to be loaded in memory for the game to function pushes a lot of systems to the limit. The memory budget for textures needs to be very generous even at low-res, because the game has to be ready to display whatever the world generator or the…

I'd have to say because the code that splits the screen is built around the 16:10 aspect ratio. That's the big one, not the number of pixels available.

There isn't any split screen multiplayer on PC. So if they wanted to try the split-screen they would need the xBox demo. Your point remains valid for the rest of the gameplay, I just wanted to get that out there.

Gold just got expensive at roughly the same rate, it's a pretty meaningless comparison. If the currency were tied to the market price of gold, the value of a dollar would rise. Believe it or not, that's a problem. People who had some money saved would make out like bandits, but everyone who had a mortgage, car loan,…

When this stuff gets expensive enough, we'll use synthetic polymers made from recycled plant waste. We can do it now, the reason we don't is that the stuff pumped out of the ground is still cheaper.

There's a difference between using oil to build something and using it to power something. At the end of the journey, you still have a ship, but the fuel is gone. If we replace all the fuel uses for oil, then the supply we still have can be used for all the non-fuel uses effectively forever. That's not to say that…

No, just in the future. When humanity has its stuff together.

They pay taxes on profits. If they spend more money on labor (which is an expense), they pay less in tax.

The Foxconn plant. It makes a heck of a lot more than just Apple products. It also makes stuff for Samsung, Nintendo and Microsoft, among others, and of those only Microsoft has any political reason to relocate production to the US.

Not to mention all the human-shaped ones running around before humans were even really a thing. Modern man wasn't around during the timeline of the games, even though our ancestors were progressing nicely.

I'm down wiy yat.

But China still gets paid. It's like Doc Brown selling the Libyan terrorists that shoddy bomb casing full of old pinball machine parts.

Make them big enough to swallow a semi trailer and you've just described intermodal rail freight. If we keep that how it is, except we convert it over to electricity (no need for fancy batteries since trains can link to the grid while they're moving) and raise the speed, there we go.