Wow, where do you get struggling with weight out of any of that? She actually looks pretty normal and possibly under it (for US standards).

All of the above would involve Intel or AMD building them into the chip, which they have no plan on doing... So I'm guessing no where. This can be made by currently producing heatsink manufacturers... which means I'd give it a year or two and you'll start seeing them.

I'm not sure about the interface film, but that may be made into a TIM pad or you might start seeing graphene thermal compounds. Either way this is quite a bit different then the other examples you listed.

It's surprising in this day and age someone at the top of a billion dollar company can't see what is so blatantly wrong with their company that they could easily fix it. All they have to do is go to one of their stores incognito and attempt to shop there.

1. Stop upselling, train staff to be courteous and informative, rather then preying on those who don't know better. Offer customers relevant information on whatever they're buying in close proximity to what they're buying, like different display technologies for TVs and monitors, pros/cons, that sort of thing.

2. Change prices so they're competitive with online with a markup that covers the costs associated with having a retail store.

3. Carry a range of devices, not just the top of the line monster cable (something high, low and medium end). You don't realize how expensive cables are till you buy one off amazon, even cheap ones.

4. Make sure your stock is up to date. Buying a graphics card that is two generations old for the original retail price is beyond stupid. Best Buy should neither be proud of selling these or having people buy them.

Then advertise what you no longer doing and how you've changed to bring in customers (this will only work once and it will most definitely be a huge PR incident if you haven't changed).

It's that simple. This would change their sales immensely... Where is my million dollar salary?

Curiously, how oblivious were you to how parties worked in college or what they were for... Heck how dating worked in college in general... What bars are for... or in general any other hangout in real life that people go to pick up the other gender. Picking out one mode of doing so seems a bit 'pathetic' as well, not to mention ignorant and shortsighted.

"I sure as hell wouldn't respond to a text message from some random person who thought we could be friends. I'd probably tell them to fuck off or not even reply."

You make his point quite well. Enjoy your walls of eden.

My brother is currently in highschool and they have a laptop program there too. I got a chance to inspect his laptop. Students are encouraged to use their laptops not only at school, but also at home. They're allowed to take them home, over spring break, over summer break, and they have a trade up program.

However, all traffic from the laptop is routed through their VPN, you can't even shut it off or edit any system settings. They have the OS completely restricted. If you install anything on the laptop without their permission, they reprimand you for it. They have unfettered access to the embedded webcam (I told him to put a piece of electrical tape over it and if anyone questions it ask why he needs to remove it) and they also have complete remote access abilities to monitor his laptop.

Honestly this is all pretty sick. A school isn't a business. While it may be appropriate for a business to protect it's assets and make sure they aren't being misused, the school is run by the government, which is in turn (supposed to be) run by the people. A simple reimage of the computer would wipe anything the user has done. As long as they don't physically break it then there shouldn't be any problems. Instead they are not only going out of their way to lockdown the OS (which prevents any sort of meaningful learning experience outside of a handful of software suites they deem worthy), but also patrol what their students do, which in turn opens up space for liability as well. Whatever happened to parents doing this sort of thing anyway?

If he didn't HAVE to use the laptop, and oh yes, they are required, to use the laptop in school, outside of school, and they can't buy their own, I would suggest him using the home computer. They are required to essentially funnel everything that is school related through the device. There aren't ways to access the in school programs outside of the VPN, like the drop box.

This is exactly how NOT to do a laptop program if you give a shit about the people actually using them.

This shouldn't be rated up and if it was it should've been rated as funny or trolling. Don't believe someone merely because they say 'they're serious' and throw in a bit of reverse psychology.

Everyone pretty much understands that ecological environments are destroyed when dams are built... but why don't many people think further then that? Life exists in all parts in the world, a giant lake above a dam isn't going to be automatically devoid of all life. An environment will be destroyed, but a new one will pop up. There are ways that both the environment and people cope with change like this. The environment will readjust on it's own and people can do things like install fish ladders.

I don't understand why people throw up a red flag and seem to think that as soon as a dam is put in it eradicates all life within a 10 mile radius and prevents any sort of life from coming back. There is a regenerative factor here that should be considered as well. You can't step on any part of the world without being ecologically damaging, heck just being alive is ecologically damaging.

Newest generation of consoles; same reasoning.

If it wasn't for consolization MS and Sony would've had to have released a console by now to keep up with the demands of gamers, but consolization took over and all developers are doing for the most part is crapping out below par games (compared to computers). These games lowered the standards of both PC and console gamers and stagnated the entire industry at a certain level. This allowed MS and Sony to milk out their current generation to seven years currently and current gamers are stuck in the lethargy that games are 'good enough', 'graphics are good enough', 'I want to hold onto my investment for awhile longer', and all that jazz allowing the two b big ones to take advantage of such a situation.

MS and Sony aren't going to release a new console in a forseable future till the pendelum swings back to PCs and people realize how awesome they are in comparison to ancient hardware running in their living room. Which will and is starting to happen as game developers realize that the whole 'PC gaming is dying' was a load of shit and there is plenty of money to be made on the PC, especially in the f2p genre... You can really thank TF2 and LoL for promoting that. Right before it swings back MS and Sony will release a new barrage of consoles to bring their console gamers back and attempt to solidify their position once again.

I'm almost 100% positive they have a dynamic model they keep updating just waiting to be released at the right time in both camps. This isn't a war for making quality products, it's for milking as much as humanely possible from their original investment in a console (which really doesn't amount to much more then a custom computer and a bunch of marketing). They have no reason or goal to improve their old products besides offering buzz things like, motion controls the Wii hit a home run with and the equivalent of a Kinect. This is what happens when a company is given complete reign over their industry. Companies turn a profit, they aren't their to be innovative when they have nothing to compete with.

Hopefully, and I really do mean hopefully, Valve will get it's act together and take Steam to the next level. A few self help videos showing people how they can hook their PCs up to their big screen TV and how easy it is to hook a x360 controller up to a said system (a fatal mistake MS made to promote consolization). This is in addition to features that just make gaming easier. Like making a open performance specification, not a static baseline that all games adhere to because hardware is so antiquated, but rather what level of performance a game will run at on your hardware.

Giving each game a red/green/yellow sticker on their product page based on your hardware specifications. Red it wont run at all or really poorly, green it will run more then adequately (say 40fps without stutters or huge pitfalls longer them a certain MS), and yellow it will run with some stutters or may seem sluggish. Valve already harvests computers for their specs and they have the Steam overlay in place which could quite easily check FPS in game. This would be quite easy for Valve to implement as they have access to the biggest repository of hardware for gamers and performance data from it. For anyone else this would be almost unachievable.

Breaking this up a bit, each red/green/yellow sticker could be hovered over and broken down into components showing the user what they need to upgrade in order to improve their experience. This would take a lot of the guesswork out of the hardware aspect, which is one of the marketing points for buying a console from MS or Sony and it'll allow game makers the freedom of producing a game to whatever specifications they want as per normal on a computer.

It's things like this that empower users to play their games. The idea should be not to lock down the hardware, but offer a means of allowing users to see how their experience will vary on a case by case basis. Adding to this the planned big HTPC Steam interface can make a huge impact on how PC gaming is seen. Too many people still seem to think computers require you to sit behind a desk in a dark room or basement, but the times have changed and you can make a remarkably small and ridiculously powerful mini-itx HTPC for pretty cheap. If users start to discover how easy it is to play games on the PC now it really will put a dent in consoles. The illusion that consoles are somehow different then PCs and not just antiquated PCs themselves with giant GUI overlays is one of the things keeping consoles in the position that they are. It's the thinly constructed line that MS and Sony have been guarding closely and as soon as anyone makes a claim that a console is a PC, they attempt to muddle the waters further.

Valve can deal a significant blow to consoles and consolization if they put their mind to it, if not completely obliterate consoles once and for all. And the 'Steambox', which is just another console that preys on the good intentions of PC gamers, is not the answer.

I still think the answer to both the SSD and Mechanical question is hybrid drives. Seagate has tried them in the past, but they definitely aren't as fast as normal SSDs. If they can improve that tech and attach it to something like this, it's literally the best of both world. Honestly it would just be a much improved drive cache, which Seagate and other drive makers could've improved for years... but somehow never did...