Look up the Tueller Drill. Quite a bit of research has been put into this. If I remember right, even Mythbusters tested this once and confirmed it.

What are you talking about? Any desktop environment is perfectly happy running at 4K. Most games made in the past few years will render at 4K (whether your graphics card can handle it is something else entirely). 4K televisions are still a bit of a solution without a problem, but I could take advantage of a 4K screen on my computer immediately.

I would just start checking dumpsters if your goal is to get an older computer to run Linux and a P4 is fine. Early LGA775 stuff (which is what a 3.8Ghz P4 would be) is common, and even if the computer doesn't run you could probably harvest it for parts and fix yours up.

It'll probably work too. A lot of people complain about Vista, but if they ever actually used it they'd find it's not much different than Windows 7.

Hey, at least in Windows 8 they brought back the go up a directory button. Though by this time I've gotten so used to using backspace that I don't even push it despite it being there.

Looks like someone played Simtower back in the day? My guess that in a building that large most people would not leave the tower on an average day, so it's more like an arcology in SimCity 2000. It's an interesting point though, as the proposed design would not have living spaces in a lot of the areas where the jetstream would be found (the idea would be to let the wind pass though the open structure to reduce lateral stress) though those areas could not be completely empty as there would have to be elevator shafts passing through them.

Not necessarily. If they can use DNA to prove that the remains are of St. Mark then they can't Alexander's.

There's often going to be difference between an aftermarket charger and a counterfeit one. There are plenty of perfectly fine third-party chargers that are CE, UL listed, etc. that are safe to use. The counterfeiters generally don't concern themselves with that kind of thing and build about the cheapest thing possible.

That's assuming that the newbies can even make it to the front lines. With so many entry-level jobs going overseas or to H1-b's, a lot of STEM graduates end up having to find work in other fields.

Windows is constantly paging ram contents out the disk. That way, if something suddenly has a need for a large amount of memory, Windows can let it have it instantly because the contents have already been paged out. Linux doesn't do this so if something needs a lot of ram you have to wait while the kernel swaps something out to disk first. This is usually a good thing if you are trying to run Windows on a system without a lot of ram, but the thing is Windows keeps on doing it even if there is gobs of ram available. And if you think Windows 7 is bad about it, Vista was a lot more aggressive when it came to this.

Well, later on you get the cut-down version, where the 3TB is (for example) a 2-platter 4TB drive where one side of one of the platters is not used for whatever reason.

With that said, I have four of the Seagate 1.5TB drives that seemingly have earned quite a reputation. but mine thus far have been flawless.

That's not my experience. I've always wondered why Asus has been held in such high regard when I've found their stuff be to be pretty much crap, dating back to at least the Socket A days. Not just motherboards too, as their video cards are just as flaky and die just as quickly, and don't buy their laptops either unless you need a paperweight. Heck, I'd buy ECS before buying Asus. The quality may not be any better but I'd at least save myself some money.

Literally, by the time you get to the workplace the language does not matter.

We may know that, but try convincing the hiring manager of that. If the job is programming in language X, and you don't have Y years of experience in language X, your resume goes straight into the circular file.

VGA forever!

They exist as medical-grade monitors, and cost as much as a decent used car.