Diesel engines are already able to convert the potential energy stored in a drivers fat ass/belly and convert it into kinetic energy.

We've been running them on french fry oil for years, so all you need to do is cook the average American car-driver down in a large stock pot and skim off the oil as it separates from the carcass.

...and I for one welcome the forthcoming VR editions of "FarmVille" and "Panda Jam".

Excellent choice Mark, you're clearly appealing to a core demographic. Your stockholders will be pleased.

Far better to start with a piece of stock material and remove excess, bit by bit, until you get the fit you require. All the tools and materials are readily available now.

As an added bonus you can also fabricate parts out of strong and durable materials vs crappy extruded plastic.

...and yes, for the pedants in the audience, you CAN buy an industrial sintered metal deposition printer, but even then you'll end up with something significantly weaker than a milled part...assuming A) you could afford one and B) you have the 3 phase power service it takes to make one work

Because

#1. For CPU heavy loads you probably have more than one CPU per board.

#2. Most people don't use their 1U Rack-Mount Servers to play Crysis and TitanFall, they just need to handle a crap-ton of threads/ram/drives. Therefore having the latest built-in GPU features does nothing useful.

#3. Stability > Core Speed

I mean, everybody is so excited about DDR4... But do people understand that instead of 8 dimm slots we'll get only 4

No...not everyone. Going from DDR2 to DDR3 netted fractional gains in real world applications and indications are that the same will be true going from DDR3 to DDR4.

Also plenty of consumer level boards only have 4 DIMM slots now. Which has always been plenty for most people, ever since we moved up from DDR1 boards and their crappy 2GB limit per stick.

A spacious three-wheeler with automotive safety features, a large back seat, 84mpg, a top speed over 100mph,

Either that mpg rating is grossly optimistic or I predict 0-60 in ...around...6 minutes or so.

I can't think of a single large bike that get over 35mpg, and while I'm sure the aerodynamics help, the extra weight most certainly doesn't.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned LSD reprogramming? That was the most effective outside force in brainscaping I could think of.

The DEA happened? And yes, the limited studies that have been done looked quite positive...but again, DEA

Childhood IQ tests is one of the best predictions we have of adult success, in whatever terms we have tried to measure that

Really? I thought your parents stock portfolio and political connections did that.

So how did RMS posses Shuttleworths body?

A trojan in his ACPI firmware?

And by PETA, of course I mean People Eat Tasty Animals.

Dodo, Moa, SSDD.

"Like many animals that evolved in isolation from significant predators, the Dodo was entirely fearless of humans. This fearlessness and its inability to fly made the Dodo easy prey for sailors"

Sadly, the reason more people don't go (or have problems with) SSD has nothing to do with SSDs themselves, it has to do with Microsoft's crappy software.

When you have an OS that can consume 30+GB all by itself and then create suites of applications that can only be installed on the boot (C) drive, the idea of having a small SSD + a large spinny disk completely falls apart.

I could make the same argument regarding 4K displays. Nothing wrong with the technology itself, but now try using a small screen 4K display (ex: laptop) under any flavor of Windows. Are you enjoying your 2 point system font?

As much as I'm not in favor of an always on camera controlled by a shady mega-corporation, anyone who lived through the late 80's-early 90's knows how little third party support you get when you have optional components.

I'm sure there were plenty more, but here are a few off the top of my head. (for the Genesis) Sega CD, Sega 32x. (for the NES) Powerglove, (for the Saturn) Twin-Stick, (for the PS2) Trance Vibrator, (for the DC) omg...so many. Maracas, Fishing Reels, Mice, Keyboards, Microphones, Cameras, etc.

None of the above got much love from developers, because of market fragmentation. The good news (for DC owners) was that those controllers allowed flawless ports of their arcade titles since you had the same controller setup...and also the Trance Vibrator is both super creepy and clearly brought to you by the same minds that created tentacle rape pr0n.

Yes

Operating temperature and noise output would only be valid measurements for the reference card. Once it starts getting manufactured by PNY or Diamond or eVGA or whomever they'll be using their own coolers and their own variations of the NVIDIA board.

Seriously, while the 'scout' concept is flawed, a real life cam-bot that can keep up with traffic could be quite useful.

There's no need for a human operator in this case because it's just keeping a static position relative to your vehicle.

What do you think sirs? I'm quite anti-drone, but given that our Orwellian police state seems dead set on having them we may as well get a few perks too.

Yes, because most people totally have 4 or 5 great options for high speed internet service.

Oh wait, actually I meant 1 or 2, but sure. If there's true competitive pressure then things change.

Just like how Comcast offers faster internet speeds in some metropolitan areas. Not coincidentally those are the exact same areas that happen to have Verizon FiOS. Where their only competition is DSL? Not so much.