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I did. VT-d is really useful if you want to give direct access to specific hardware for a virtual machine. I do a lot of virtualization so it's useful to me, the K version is also missing the TSX instructions which long term will probably be super useful once compilers start supporting it...

Haswell is out, I took the dive today and bought a Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H and a i7-4770. Yea no K, it's fucking bullshit they disable the visualization technology in the unlocked versions but I should be able to get a fairly decent overclock out of the none K version. I'm upgrading from a i7-930, so...

My understanding is that the gestation time for the mammoth would be longer than a regular elephant (2-3 months longer was the guesstimate), so a normal birth may not be possible. You'd have to pop it out early, or risk killing the elephant. Implanting it would be easy enough though.

They definitely exist, and have been used/going to be used in quite a few NASA mission.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_engine#Missions NASA is doing research on FTL travel:http://www.space.com/21140-star-trek...-possible.htmlIf they prove the effect exists we still can't produce enough...

New Scientist had an updated Drake equation that put the figure at 10 possible planets within range of James Webb that could potentially have life and one suspected but not confirmed one 6.5 light years away that we know of. http://www.newscientist.com/article/...n-upgrade.html

Anandtech did a decent run down of the Xbox One and how it compares to the PS4. Depending on how they use the 32mb cache, it may offer comparable performance in terms of memory bandwidth with the PS4. Obviously theres no way to make up for the 50% deficit on the GPU front though...

From where? Steam had the pre-order up for 49.99$, 44.99$ if you owned Metro 2033.

You only needed a few buttons on the flight stick... but the game came with a keyboard overlay for all the shortcuts it had. Shift power between the laser types, the engines and shields. Hell you could change which part of your shield recharged faster. Then there were buttons for controlling the...

I had one of these, it was awesome. It's quite the expensive hobby though, especially if you like things cooked low and slow. Buying some sort of automated temperature control unit is all but mandatory imo. Also I wouldn't bother with anything smaller than a large. There are other brands that...

I haven't had any issues with my HTC One feeling slippery in my hands, so I disagree there. I have hard time believing that anything "just came off" a unibody aluminum phone. My experience with the phone it's been solid as a rock, the thing feels solid enough that you could club somebody with it...

New trailers are up! One for each of the protagonists. http://www.rockstargames.com/

I always saw the priest as a reflection of how Ragnar values people. I did some reading and in Viking culture human sacrifices were generally people who were of high worth, and their worth was determined by how they benefited the community. The priest could be perceived as being high worth and...

Butterfly labs has started shipping jalapenos, no date on when the rest of their line up is shipping though.

Heres a good article contrasting the US and Canadian system. I went to a public high school with lots of very rich kids simply because private schools aren't that much better than our public education system. Even though we have one of the best systems in the world, we still have tons of...

The HTC One in a similar use pattern to my Galaxy S3 seems to have a longer life span. It's consuming roughly 2.4%/hr over a 24 hour period with about a half hour of talk time and a couple hours of youtube videos over 4G and some mild web surfing. I plugged it in this morning at work at 1 day...

I got a HTC One today... my fucking international S3 had a case of the "I feel like rebooting every 30 fucking minutes". I used my free carrier upgrade and got it. It's fucking amazing so far, it is literally the iphone of android. Feels great, sound is amazing, screen is gorgeus and the...

Positives: -Lower transaction fees (3% vs 0 dollars if you're willing to wait for a verification delay) -No charge backs, this is a surprisingly large amount of an online vendors cost because they eat the hit for fraud. Negatives: -Price volatility.. when the price per coin can vary 20$ a...

Floki being pissed off I found kind of strange, especially when he's named after a trickster god. I honestly don't think the god Loki would blink an eye at somebody pretending to be Christian to get a couple thousand pounds of gold and silver.

I can admit the games plot was terrible and the voice acting.. and some of the level designs, but I thoroughly enjoyed the game start to finish. So much so that I pre-purchased Riptide. The combat was a lot of fun.

Indie developers are trying to make a modern version of Road Rash via kickstarter. I was a massive fan of the original game, and the intro video they have looks like pretty awesome. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...oad-redemption

For those complaining about poisonous snakes in england:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipera_berus They do exist, and enough bites from it would likely kill you.

If you're Canadian nothing beatshttps://www.cavirtex.com/You can pay in person at four different Canadian banks (we only have 6) to load your account, you can wire transfers, bank deposits and online bill payments. It's pretty awesome and was entirely painless to cash out after I sold most of my...

Coworker linked me this. Some guys invests his life savings and takes out 30k in credit card debt to invest it all in bitcoin. He bought in at 12-21$ mark. I wouldn't recommend anyone doing this but, I gotta give the guy credit for having the balls to go through with it...

Wow, I would have bought a second SC unit if I had known they were going to literally double the price. They're really capitalizing on the higher bitcoin valuation.. when the bubble finally bursts I expect a pretty big drop in their prices.

I just cashed out the majority of my bitcoins at 140$+/coin, this is going to have to burst at some point. Theres no way we you have 40+ dollar spikes in price a day and have it last.

Bitcoins just hit 100$ US a coin, absolutely crazy.

North Korea is now claiming it's in a state of war with the south. Fun times! http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-p...031388862.html

I updated the driver to the beta, same deal. It's kind of wrecking the experience for me :/ some of the signs that have text are basically unreadable unless I move to specific angles and wait for them to pop in.

Anyone else having visual issues with 7900 series cards? I'm getting horrid texture popping and in certain places it just doesn't load the high quality textures at all and looks terrible. When it's working right it's absolutely gorgeous though. Running 13.1 drivers+7970 at 2560x1600 with...

New day, new threat! North Korea cuts all contact militarily off with the south and warns of nuclear war. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-p...430576757.html

They really need to ditch the concept of charging for updates and certification. Until they do that, they'll have nothing on steam.

Oh you crazy North Koreans and your threats! Now they're saying they're on alert ready to missile strike Guam and Hawaii at the drop of a hat. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-p...419350867.html

Hrmm mine is unpacking, and has been for the better part of 15mins. Is it safe to switch once it's at that stage? I really don't get why it's so slow. Edit: nm it worked, nm.. I guess I still need the VPN to play.

Ahh thanks!

FlyVPN only seems to have Korea and USA as options? Is there something I'm missing or will the Korean VPN allow me to unlock?

I don't think you can have a "hero" version of littlefinger. He gets ahead by being willing to setup and sell out anyone to his own benefit, and that's where most of his power is derived from. On the opposite end of little finger you have Varys who I think is as close as you're going to get to a...

So North Korea has come out with a brand new set of threats! This time against military bases in Japan. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-p...659341275.html

Did anyone have XCOM unlock so they can download it now on steam? It doesn't show up on my licensed game list or available to download. I've restarted steam a couple times and it's still not available to download.

Is it possible to get in and play now?

Is it almost in a playable state now? Or is there still a good chance that your city/region will just get fucked?