It's really easy! Seismic surveys are key to the oil & gas industry, and can be used for other resources as well. We use thumper trucks instead of waiting for earthquakes.
That's what CCP did with the EVE-VR demo, and it makes sense in the context of a flight sim. It'll be interesting to see what developers come up with for FPSes.
"Wrist-watches" with bullet and health readouts. Just look down at any point in the game and your virtual arm will come up, showing everything that you need to know on the back of it.
Well, hopefully not for health or ammo. The whole point of a heads up display is so that you can literally keep your head up. A "look down for info" mechanic might be neat for stats you'd normally put on a pause screen or things like your inventory, though.
For health it might not be best, but I think for ammo it would work well. I mean, in the real world you don't even get a HUD for ammo, unless you're in an airplane or tank I suppose. A HUD for health is necessary just because the game isn't real life, but the ammo HUD is just a convenience; you can be more creative with it.
Maybe gun models that give a visual indication of remaining ammo will become more popular.
Perhaps adding blur/color saturation filters to your entire field of view might take off as a primary indication of remaining health.
There weren't any legitimate technical reasons for switching from LGA1156 to LGA1155, but Haswell and LGA1150 are introducing major changes to power delivery and voltage regulation. Given that power delivery accounts for something like half the pin count of a modern CPU, a new socket for Haswell is quite justified. (Although, those power delivery changes only really benefit the mobile market, but Intel's long been unwilling to produce different dies for the desktop market and the mainstream mobile market.)
There is another deposit in Nevada called Kings Valley that is in feasibility. It's about 300,000 tonnes LCE, and fairly likely to go into production.
If the Wyoming deposit it real (their numbers wouldn't float for a listed company and they're short on details), it's probably 10+ years away from production. Neat discovery, but very speculative.
No, it's really the economics of it. Lithium and other evaporite minerals are usually concentrated in ponds so the evaporation rate can play a part, but usually it's a matter of efficiently using the capital over the lifetime of the operation.
It's easy to drill more wells or build more ponds.
I work in the industry and, as luck would have it, am on a project near the facility in Nevada.
Local currencies are a mess of jurisdiction, but generally legitimate currency, or for the purposes of this document, 'real'.
Linden Dollars (along with WoW gold, EVE ISK), are owned by the respective developers. That database entry denoting your Titan isn't yours per se, you're just allowed to have it rendered as long as you abide by the terms of service.
