Getting into discrete graphics they way you're thinking is a waste of money. Graphics cards are going the way of the dodo bird. The current trend is moving everything is moving onto the CPU. Onboard graphics has already cannibalized the low end graphics market, and is starting to cannibalize the mid-range. It's only a matter of time before the onboard tech catches up to the discrete tech.

For the HPC market, Intel already has their MIC processors, latest being the Xeon Phi. The only market they're not competing right now in is the high-end gaming and high end graphics. It's only a matter of time before integrated is "good enough" for high end gaming and they add more features to their Phi processors to compete in the high end graphics market.

You mean, when all the major browsers enable DNT by default, everybody ends up just ignoring the flag, putting us back to where we started? I'm shocked.

I ran a large minecraft server for a while. It was on an unmetered 10/10 for a while, worked fine with 100 people on it. The only problem I had was trying to get backups working correctly without kicking people off the server. In the end I just upgraded to a 100/100, since working on the server became a pain. I had to make sure when pulling large files off the server I didn't saturate the connection and lag out the connections for the players, which meant waiting a long time to trickle files off the machine.

If you're careful and don't need that bandwidth for anything other than your Minecraft server, and have a way to do administrate it on an out of band connection, 10/10 is more than plenty.

Static and dynamic linking are treated the same as far as the GPL is concerned. Changing from static to dynamic linking won't make your software compliant. Fortunately most important libraries are released under the LGPL (or a more permissive license such as MIT or BSD), which makes your issue irrelevant.

Punishing them financially doesn't do anything. They price fix, make a bunch of money, get fined, then have to bump the prices up anyways to pay off the fines. Either way, the customer is screwed with higher prices (at first for price fixing, secondly to pay the fines), the company ends up fine. If you fine the executives, they give themselves a pay bump to pay off the fines, and then pass the cost to the consumer.

If executives actually went to jail for criminal activities, they might think twice before engaging in the first place. No amount of monetary damages will fix the problem.

For fucks sake, acting like an idiot on purpose isn't trolling.

This idea was tried at one point. It never really took off. At best, laptops have an interchangeable optical drives, HDD, RAM, and a MiniPCI card. Anything else is going to require donor parts from other similar laptops. Some brands have laptops with interchangeable parts spanning several generations, others don't.

This has bugged me as well. It's a nice piece of hardware, has a touch screen, audio, video, few buttons, wifi. Any app that works your phone could be adapted to work on the 3DS, if the platform was opened up.

To be fair, Romney has also openly criticized and attacked his opponents in the past for not disclosing their tax records during their campaign. The issue with Romney is more of the hypocrisy surrounding it all. Nintendo isn't going around to other companies and demanding they show they're not buying conflict minerals, they're just keeping their mouth shut. If it were Romney, he would attack Sony, Apple, Samsung, etc and demand they release documents saying where they get their minerals from, and when the companies turn around and ask him, he would clam up and say he doesn't need to show you anything.

Sure, I can do that for you. Your assumption is wrong.

... while true, still irrelevant

My point is that it is reasonable to assume that a food source (plants) had to have existed before animals could exist. And a planet needs to exist before the plants can exist. Which is why the Genesis story being "close" to reality is really a non-story. You're taking it to some nonsensical tangent that's irrelevant to the topic.

Food had to exist, what does "favorite food" has to do with anything? Food has to exist before humans, period. It doesn't matter what the food is. I can't tell if you're trolling, or really that stupid.

Anybody who wrote those stories would have to write it that way to be believable. Logically it makes sense that the things that are lower on the food chain have to come before the things that will eat them. If somebody made a story where humans were created before their food or land they live on were created, people would scratch their heads.

It happens to line up with science, because what do you know, plants had to have existed before animals because there would have been no other way for animals to sustain themselves otherwise, just like the storytellers thousands of years ago hypothesized.

They do make cases like that if you go with MicroATX boards (same features as full ATX, just less PCIe slots). Something like one of these sounds like what you want.

Pizza box case

Cube