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Overall, the Series 7 Gamer is a respectable, well-designed rig with only a hint of the stereotypically hardcore.
ENGADGET: Samsung Series 7 Gamer review: the company's first gaming laptop makes its way to the US
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Development Driller II, the rig drilling a second relief well as a redundancy measure, is completing preparations for its blowout preventer to be used on the Macondo well, while the Development Driller III -- the rig drilling the relief well expected to intercept the main well -- is standing by until that's done.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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And if so, what about the other companies that were involved in some way that may have an interest in the well or the rig -- are they liable at all?
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on BP Oil Spill
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The civil lawsuit was brought against the UK oil firm - as well as other companies involved in the accident, including rig-owner Transocean and cement-provider Halliburton - by the US Justice of Department and the US states affected by the oil slick.
BBC: BP: Scope of oil disaster internal probe 'had limitations'
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Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.
NPR: Judge OKs $4B BP Oil Spill Criminal Settlement
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Sure, Acer's newly-refreshed Predator gaming rig is all well and good if you like your PCs orange and menacing, but less adventuresome folks need PCs too, and Acer's more than happy to cater to them as well with a range of decidedly more understated offerings.
ENGADGET: Acer rolls out ASM5800, ASM3202, ASX5810 desktop PCs
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Transocean lawyer Brad Brian said that last week's settlement was not an admission of gross negligence and that last-minute changes to the well design by BP had the rig's crew "at wits' end" before the disaster.
CNN: BP's billions at stake as courtroom showdown starts
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An explosion on an offshore rig killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well head, which took 84 days to seal.
BBC: BP appeal over 'absurd' Gulf oil spill payouts
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We have seen it in transactions where the bank was more worried about its own well-being than its clients and now we are seeing it in a case were a bank attempts to rig the entire market.
CNN: Quest: Guilty bankers should clean toilets
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In Caithness, LiDAR revealed fields where medieval and later rig and furrow systems overlie much earlier agricultural use as well as the remains of 3, 000-year-old low-walled, thatched roofed houses called hut circles.
BBC: Website reveals hidden landscape in Caithness