"Intel's strategically timed CES 2015 launch of their new 5th Gen Core Series processors for notebooks was met with a reasonably warm reception"

Was the warm reception due to inadequate cooling in those laptops? ;)

So what is your opinion of intersex people? If you don't know what that is google it.

Bullshit.

From Intel's spec sheet for that processor:

Processor Base Frequency 2.7 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency 3.7 GHz

The rated full-time clock speed for that processor is 2.7GHz. The "max turbo frequency" which is intended for short jobs that are not massively parallel is 3.7GHz. This is not anything remotely similar to cable companies advertising 100Mbps where the only thing you ever see that speed is to their bandwidth test server.

Good. Cut down the number of channels. I now have about 900 channels of shit on the TV and nothing to choose from. Cut down the extra channels and deliver some quality programming. I'm constantly exploring TV shows that were on before I was even born - Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and stuff like that. I couldn't be bothered with so-called "reality TV." My cousin was on one of those so-called "reality" shows and I never once tuned into it. No interest in that shit.

I'd rather go back to a handful of networks that offer quality programming, or better yet, loosen up "licensing" a bit so Hulu, Amazon, etc. can expand their offerings. I will not tune into "reality" TV shows. It's utter shit.

High resolution audio does not guarantee they have not compressed the dynamic range to shit. It just means that instead of being mastered at 44.1kHz they have mastered it at a higher rate, like 96kHz.

It depends on the source. If I am listening to jazz, classical, or progressive rock (Pink Floyd) the difference is immediately apparent - especially through my home system. In my SAAB with its crappy stereo that I cannot upgrade without fudging up the CAN bus (the stereo head unit is a CAN hub - can you believe that?!) it's not so noticeable but on my home system with Klipsch reference series speakers or through even just halfway-decent headphones there is a WORLD of difference between 128kbps, 320kbps, and a CD or high definition DVD or Blu-Ray audio. On my home system highs are nice and crisp with the source material but with compressed audio the highs are distorted - almost a "sizzle" sound.

With highly compressed pop music, yeah, it's not much of a difference. It all depends on the subject matter.

> There is no way to adjust timing anymore.

You do it via OBD-II and CAN via software now, not by a vaguely semi-accurate twisting of a distributor. It's a heck of a lot more complex than it used to be - multiple lookup tables to build but for many makes there are software suites online made my enthusiasts and even performance timing and fuel curve profiles you can download for various makes and models. The benefits are huge; timing isn't driven by RPM and vacuum any more, but by actual power requests made by the position of the throttle position sensor, and air intake is now metered rather than a moronic mechanically-driven butterfly valve that you'd find in a Quadrobog carburator, and the best part is modern ECUs are often learning ECUs, where they test the fuel to see how lean the mixture can run and how far timing can be advanced without pinging, maximizing BOTH performance and economy.

I'd rather give up having to constantly replace worn distributor caps and rotors and monkey around with a timing light for the increased overall efficiency and reliability. Yes, the coil pack-on-plug design is more expensive to service but when the coil packs normally last 200K+ miles, who the heck cares? That would have been about 10 distributor cap and rotor sets, plus many sets of ignition wires. Good riddance to distributors and quadrobog carburators.

Good receivers now adapt for reflections and standing waves so there is no reason one cannot set up a good reasonably-priced component system that sounds absolutely fantastic.

"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers.
The introduction begins like this: "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen ..." and so on."

Faith without evidence? One may as well believe in Santa Claus or the FSM.

Let me guess: they used OCZ flash memory?

astronomers, astrophotographers, hunters, target shooters, etc.

That, too.

In a related story, going to the console and booting to single user mode will allow you to set the root password to anything you like. ZOMG!!!

Of course not but Fox admits to it and they claim to be "fair and balanced" but they are obviously biased to the far right.