Umm most places already do give gigantic tax rebates, or straight up rebates on solar installations. Still too expensive for the average household. Not to mention I imagine most place would benefit from other upgrades before solar, such as better insulation, better windows, etc.

Yes that changed. AMD had integrated memory controller (HyperTransport), which gave them a huge memory bandwidth advantage over Intel. That ended with the i7, Intel moved memory controller on die as well. Intel has been beating up AMD offerings in both cores and raw speed ever since. Hence the first hexcore being an extreme edition, along the $1k price tag. Right now AMD is catching up on cores, but still behind on manufacturing tech, they still on 45nm, where Intel is already on 32nm. The new socket/board is no surprise, its all part of Intel's Tick/Tock strategy.

Because your talking top of the line, which applies to what? .01% of computers? Also those power supplies are only needed for people who want a dedicated GPU, along with probably overclocking headroom. Most off the shelf stuff that companies buy en masse, DOES use less power. The stock voltage for RAM and CPU's keeps falling, IIRC Core i5 can barely go over 1V before it fries the integrated memory controller. RAM voltage is down below 1.5V on DDR3. So yeah the majority of newer standard desktops use less power by default.

Actually in the case of Blizzard, all you gotta do is register your CD Key at Battle.net and then DL the installer. In effect you can make infinite DVD copies of the install disc, only costs you the bandwidth to DL it.

Yeah this was covered in a Star Trek Voyager episode (Year of Hell). Guy fucked his own race by removing an immunity to a disease by fucking with the timeline.

Agreed, this sounds like perfect expression of the Tyranny of the Majority. Thankfully they cannot organize into a political party, with all the problems that causes, ie Nazi Germany. Oh and Godwin

The former was/is true, because Sergey Brin had issues with it since he lived in the former Soviet Union. I imagine he is a driving force behind Google's current actions.

Well you could be a traveling businessman, have your work on a netbook, but be able to hook up to the conference room HD projector and show your HD Powerpoint (wonder if MS has made that pitch yet "PowerPoint IN HD!!!!). More likely an HD video preview of a product to customer?

Or I can just get an ION powered netbook, install Linux and use VDPAU, and play any HD without any issue. Why is this news?

Umm, hate to break it to you, but both creating and consuming power can't defy thermodynamics, specifically 2nd law.

No, the garbage collector detects that, and frees the memory accordingly. It keeps track whether an object can be reached my the main program or not.

Actually no it didn't, world war 2 started with the declarations of war by the British, the British Commonwealth, and France in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. Remember that Germany had effectively already taken over Czechoslovakia and Austria with no resistance and it wasn't consider war at that point.

True, aircraft fight in 3 dimensions, but there are hard limits on the range of said aircraft on the z axis (the ground, and whatever air ceiling the aircraft is capable of), plus the physics with no drag from an atmosphere would certainly influence battle tactics. I'm not a pilot, but physics seem to limit what kind of approaches one can do in an atmospheric combat zone vs in space.

Then use Reader inside a VM or otherwise a throw away OS. Seems like a fairly secure* sandbox for such vulnerable applications. *Yes a VM itself can be exploited and broken out of, but that is way harder then the swiss cheese of Adobe Reader.