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For the gas cars, did they also take account of the emmissions/polution from the oil rigs/refineries/gas stations etc?

You make certain assumptions that he knows his way around a PC, especially if he's building gaming rigs.

Counting new rigs/new investment is much better metric, and rig counts have responded to pricing pressure by stopping drilling.

The only people for whom mining at a loss makes sense are people who already have sunk costs in mining rigs.

Creation devices were custom 3D rigs as expensive as the GoPro setup or consumer cameras like the Fuji W3 camera series.

This is really important as virtual reality begins to take center stage, but most people don't have the rigs to run it.

The only thing the reduction in rigs will cause, is slowing down growth.

Custom facial rigs often have blending between different expressions, controlled by 2d sliders.

Content creators are already using better rigs to experiment with creating immersive experiences.

I wonder though how things like the kind of rigs artists like Kraftwerk use (for wavefield synthesis) compare to 'normal' rigs (I've not enjoyed the experience yet, so just do not know).

AMD GPU mining rigs and some other hardware pics.

It rigs elections overseas and it coups genuine leadership.

I worked a bit with refurbishing "small" oil-rigs, now used mostly for search drilling.

But even these "small" rigs (typically built in the 70s, with a goal of lasting 5-10 years) -- are so huge -- that most people that worked on them had no issues with vertigo/fear of heights.

Her most interesting points, in my opinion are as follows: We think whales are bad (but shouldn't) because they spend their money on virtual goods: "Spending $5-­$10k on specialized PC Gaming rigs that improve your skills and enhance your competitiveness is not really that different from spending money for in-game items that do the same.

I'd bet one of the first killer-apps for VR will be sports: Imagine several of these rigs set up around (and over) a football field, so that spectators can choose to "be" at the right point on the field to observe the game, and have complete freedom to look around the field.