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If you have some time, here's a great video on the seemingly controversial global warming / climate change debate.

Vulkan will not rely on, or be restricted to systems running windows 10+. That alone makes it better and far more appealing than DX 12.

You can try to grab an old used disc copy on ebay or amazon. The game is nearly 12 years old and difficult to find; as such you could pirate it... There are no legitimate way to obtain a "new" or digital copy of the game and it's effectively become abandonware.

IMO EA has killed the NHL games franchise with recycled yearly crap and changes that more often than not dumb down the gameplay. We really don't need terrible ports brought over to the PC. Try this instead http://nhl04rebuilt.com/index.php?showtopic=1

You're forgetting Take On Helicopters. It's part of the official real virtuality terrain and in a way the Arma series in that you can import those maps/assets. Seattle map is 60x60 KM, and south asia, while mostly barren is 120x120 KM. Although if you're searching for large terrain maps/games check out outerra/anteworld

Add a cryptography course to that work load if you want to understand various ransomware and the encryption methods used. There is no getting around or removing it; the only solutions are to cut your loss and wipe everything, pay up, or hope the creator of that particular one was sloppy with his keys and they will eventually be leaked. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

Dead Island following it's announcement trailer.

Funny, I didn't realize using less than 2.5% of network capabilities would be considered "heavily" used. It should not be possible to hit an arbitrary ceiling/data cap with less than 24 hours of full speed use. With both upload and download hitting their respective max of 500/500, you would expect a single hour to equal 450GB, exceeding the 7TB threshold in a modest 15.5 hours. My personal opinion on data caps is that they should be set no less than the equivalent of running 6 days max speed up/down. That still only gives the user a max of 20% full usage but at least it's better than what we currently see today.

http://www.sxswtorrent.com/11 years. 11,000 songs. 55GB.The ultimate SXSW Music archiveThese torrents are provided as an alternate means to sample the songs available on the official SXSW site.

It will pass within 2.8 Million miles of Earth... Our moon is 238 thousand miles away, just let that sink in before the doomsday prophecies start. In astronomy that is very close, but relatively speaking there's no reason to be "on Alert." The next encounter in 2033 will be much closer at only 2 million miles away a mere 8 and a half times the distance past the moon. (anyone up for some real life metro 2033?) If you want something to worry about, take a look at how many asteroids have been discovered/tracked so far within our inner galaxy.

Seriously, drones require a human pilot, a low ceiling, and must remain within line-of-sight... Talk about the 1865 red flag act deja vu. This is incredibly disappointing and really shows how these archaic heavy handed regulatory bodies stifle innovation in favor of invested interest group monopolies no matter what the industry.

One of the great advantages of Bitcoin is that no matter how much money you have, you can't cheat the system. Throw as much money, and violence at the problem as you like but 2+2, it will always equal 4. So no, mortgaging your house and investing in mining hardware or directly purchasing bitcoins will not give you an advantage beyond anyone else. Mortgaging your house to go all in on a technology, or any potential investment, speculative or otherwise isn't a good idea as it comes with tremendous risk. The phrase never spend/invest more than you can afford to lose comes to mind; at the same time spending a small amount that you can afford to lose is worth it (when done properly.) If the technology works, the potential "reward" could be far greater than the risk of losing that small amount of money versus not doing anything at all.

Disassemble it again, ensure all ribbon cables are securely connected, and check that the gears are clear from debris and can effortlessly move the laser assembly (grease the slide rails as well.) It's likely a connection issue with a cable not seated properly, something is blocking clean movement of the optical laser/alignment, or the lens has become physically damaged. Clean the lens with rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab by gently rolling it across the surface applying as little pressure as possible. If the issues aren't from cables or physical damage/alignment changes you can try to incrementally increase the lasers voltage to reduce read errors if a weak laser is the issue (risks permanent damage if adjusted too much.) On the back side of the laser assembly is a pot (potentiometer) which can be used to increase or decrease resistance by slightly turning it.

You can view a list of pre-defined crossfire profiles within catalyst control center. Start by opening catalyst control center, using advanced view navigate to the gaming tab then select "3D Application Settings" From here, select "Add..." choose any .exe or file (in this example I used an mp4), preferably not a game unless you want to make a game specific profile. Select your newly added entry. At the bottom, under "AMD CrossFireX Mode" change "default" to "Use AMD pre-defined profile" This will give you both a search bar, and a small window to scroll through every pre-defined profile. After you're done, feel free to delete the test profile so it doesn't accidentally interfere with regular use. Crossfire support is not limited to pre-defined profiles. Crossfire will "work" in nearly every game. Manual changes to crossfire mode can improve/change experiences if needed. Only games with compatibility issues or in need of tweaks tend to get specific pre-defined profiles made for them.

The smaller ISP's buy bandwidth at wholesale, even though telus may only offer "15Mb" max to your area a different ISP running on the same infrastructure may be able to offer more. I'd recommend reaching out and contacting some of the ISP's that can provide service to your area.

Abandon the large telecoms. There are other smaller ISP's with with much better packages/deals. http://www.canadianisp.ca/

It's not the first time they have sued for using a single word that they happened to use in one of their past game titles/series either. One that comes to mind is when they took mojang to court over their game Scrolls. http://kotaku.com/5844247/the-elder-scrolls-vs-mojang-scrolls-battle-goes-to-court http://kotaku.com/5892179/bethesda-settles-lawsuit-with-mojang-whose-next-game-can-be-called-scrolls

You seem to have very limited gaming experience with only a small handful of titles played. This makes it both easy and hard to recommend games as nearly every game will offer a new experience yet there's such a large pool of great past games it's hard to find a starting point for recommendations. Grab the latest humble bundle, $7 can get you Hitman absolution, Supreme Commander 2, Thief, Murdered soul suspect, Deus Ex Human Revolution, and additional game(s) added next week. Deus Ex being in my opinion the best out of that bundle. Paying $15 for the top tier has sleeping dogs which is a good game, but may not be worth it as you already have tomb raider. https://www.humblebundle.com/

If you have a wii, you can easily copy your original memory card save file and import it into dolphin. This will keep all your stats and unlocks. You can also use AR codes.

Play them in the order of release date. Best way to experience the story is in the order it was available. Remember, the games haven't aged nearly as well as people claim.

The best controller is the actual Gamecube controller. Seeing as you already own the actual game on gamecube, it's not a far stretch to assume you already have a gamecube contoller. Pick up one of the new four port gamecube controller adapters for wiiu and PC. http://www.play-asia.com/gamecube-controller-adapter-for-wii-u-pc-usb-paOS-13-49-en-70-8h2n.html I picked one up last month when they were first available and it works amazingly well. I use it for both the WiiU smash, and dolphin emulator on the PC. It's also configurable as a standard controller that can be used in other pc games. Keep in mind mapping in some games can be an issue due to default position of the L and R analogue triggers.

I'd recommend waiting until the next set of cards is released. The 280x is a great card, however it's fairly old at this point with no support for new features such as TrueAudio or freesync. Artifact issues that may occur (unlikely) are usually caused by ULPS. Disable ULPS on the GPU and it will stop most if not all artifacting.

You should add the list of the very few whitelisted games to the OP https://r.ncp.nintendo.net/whitelist/ The 10 Wii U titles wouldn't even need to be included in a spoiler as there are so few. Nintendo has a very recent history of grossly underestimating demand. The WiiU gamecube controller adapters, and every round of amiibo's without refreshing previous stock comes to mind. I would bet money on and there being a lack of New 3DS consoles available over the next couple months in the North America too.