There are also studies that indicate that you should not get eight hours of uninterrupted sleep, but should wake up for an hour during the night.
Apparently, some argue that this is how we evolved to sleep an thus this should be the most healthy way.
The only reference I could find on short notice is the Wikipedia article on Segmented sleep

2560x1440, 2560x1600 and 2560x1080 are the exact same amount of horizontal space.
If you can get 2 or 3 pages side by side on a 2560x1080 screen, you can also get in on a 2560x1600 screen.
And a 2560x1440 screen usually cost the same as a 2560x1080, so you pay the same for less pixels.

Here's a film depicting the problem:
Badgers badgers badgers!

Or, while in desktop, Alt+F4 for shutting down.

One thing that many people overlook when they voluntary bring their own hardware to work is that when it breaks or is worn out, it's their own responsibility.

For instance, if you use your private laptop 8 hours a day at work and the fan or battery is worn out after a year, it's your own responsibility.

Or, if you bring your laptop to work and it breaks, it's also your own responsibility.
You'll have to pay for repairs or a new laptop yourself.

Unless, of course, if you have a contract with your employer about them taking responsibility for private equipment.

...you just described what "artificially limited" means in this case.

I'd say option three is best.

3. Products that can not be resold are not bought by anyone, so the companies that insist on selling such products either disappear from the market or change their business model.

The problem is that this options requires people to actually not buy, for instance, games that can not be resold.

Try looking at HP, Dell and Lenovo.
For instance, here's a few of the ones from HP, Simply filter on "Operating System: Windows 7 (64 bit)":
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=B0C30EA&opt=ABU&sel=PCNB
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=B8W13AA&opt=ABU&sel=PBNB
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=H4P02ET&opt=ABU&sel=PBNB
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=C5A68ET&opt=ABU&sel=PBNB

Similarly, I found a whole bunch of Thinkpads from Lenovo which ships with Windows 7 after searching for about 1 minute.

The easy solution is to simply not buy the product if you think it's bad.

Ford: "So, we got ourselves a life-signs detector."

Sheppard: "We can name it later."

I had similar issues with a USB3 pcie card. I don't remember the chip-model but the problem was solved by switching to another card made by another OEM. This one had the same chip and used the same driver, so I assume either a faulty card or a faulty design was to blame.

Building giant, expensive, vibration sensitive equipment in an area prone to earthquakes seems like a bad call in the long run.

I converted my main workstation at work to windows 8 a week ago, mostly in order to learn and get used to it.
While there indeed is a bit of a hassle to change some of the habits from xp, vista and 7 to fit 8, and I really dislike the start panel that has replaced the start menu, it's not really a big deal.
I've put my 20 or so most used applications in the taskbar and pinned my most used folders and files into the respective taskbar icons and changed my "click start menu and open the file or folder"-habit into a "right click the taskbar icon and open the file or folder"-habit.
Also, I've installed regular windows applications as replacements for all the standard windows 8 applications, like vlc instead of the full screen windows 8 movie player, acrobat reader instead of the full screen windows 8 pdf-viewer, etc.
To be honest, I haven't used the start panel at all this entire week, except for going to the desktop after logging in.

On one hand, I've not really seen any of the horrible downsides with windows 8 that everyone talks about. On the other hand, I haven't seen many improvements over windows 7 yet. The new task manager and the new file-copy graph windows are awesome though.

I think it is time for the US to declare a state of war against climate change. That's the only way.
If there can be armed military conflicts going on against other incorporeal foes like crime, drugs and terrorism, why not climate change... =-P

UHDTV 4K is 3840x2160 (Which really should be called 2160p, if we are to follow the name convention of HDTV)
UHDTV 8K is 7680x4320

So a regular Display Port 1.4 port can indeed drive a 4K monitor.
But, as you say, it can not drive higher resolutions today.

It would be possible to use the same method that IBM used for their T220 and T221 monitors though.
There was no connector that could drive the 3840x2400 resolution in 2001, so they used up to four single link DVI-connectors, sending part of the screen on each connector.
This, of course, needed special driver support. But the same thing could be done with Display Port.
Use 4 of them to run a 7680x4320 display.