Intel is working on major improvements in idle power consumption though, because they know that is their weakest area at the moment.

For their next big architecture (Haswell), they are claiming a 20x reduction in idle power consumption compared to Sandy Bridge. Then another year after that Intel will have a die-shrink of Haswell (called Broadwell) using 14nm, which you would expect to reduce power consumption even further.

Those kind of improvements will bring them a lot closer to ARM in power consumption, while still having far superior performance.

It plays games a lot better than the P4 he was comparing it to though (since that had no integrated graphics)

Only if it's them doing it. Anything Obama does is automatically wrong.

Most of my favorite movies are from the 60s and 70s, and I was born in 1985. It must be that nostalgia from when I was -20 years old. I wouldn't go as far as saying "movies suck now" though. Most movies do suck, but you could say that of any time period.

Welcome to web journalism 101. Putting Apple in headline = page views.

In my view you'd be a fool to throw away a vote on a candidate who you don't agree with. If you really think there would be a big difference between a Romney or Obama presidency you are kidding yourself. They say anything they can to try to make themselves seem different, but if you actually look at their records rather than their words they are extremely similar. http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

I could see it working on earth, but surely the latency would make it impossible for a physician on earth to tactility interact with a patient on Mars. At best Mars is about 3 light minutes away from earth, and it can be as far as 20+ light minutes away. 100-200ms is enough to throw off online gamers, so I imagine 600,000ms would be a bit too much for a doctor to work with.

You have to buy the Apple branded TP for $5 per roll

They were complaining about Mario wearing a raccoon suit a few months ago. At least they have moved on to whining about things that happened in the 90s now.

The problem with that logic is you are more likely to die of a horrible agonizing illness if you eat unhealthily/too much. Eating too much doesn't just magically reduce your lifespan by a few years. It reduces your lifespan because it's hard on your body and makes you more prone to life-threatening diseases that you may have to suffer through.

You can still be healthy and eat a triple bacon burger with cheese too, you just can't do it every single day.

There are virtually no games that actually use 6 cores though, so 2 of those cores just sit idle doing nothing. There are a lot of games that still only use 2 cores too, for example Skyrim (one of the most popular games in recent years):

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skyrim-performance-benchmark,3074-9.html

That's one of the big problems with Bulldozer. In programs than can use all 8 cores it is somewhat competitive with 4 Intel cores, but in the programs that can't use 8 cores (quite a few) they get absolutely crushed by Intel.

Someone named Pirateat40 couldn't possibly be defrauding people surely?

I guess you won't mind sending me all of your passwords then?

If we have the technology to live a million years we would probably also have technology to augment our brains. Of course when you go down that route, the question becomes whether we are still human?

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?