Desktop sales shrinking for that long is not an insignificant shrinking of the market (segment), it's a sign that the market has permanently changed. There will always be a market for desktops but it's in the process of becoming a niche segment.http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3518209&cid=43088747#

It's happening now.

There is a Firefox feature request to add the ability to block all types of media (Flash, applets, other plugins) by site: bug 94035. It was created in 2001. More than 100 duplicate bugs have been added over the decade since. It's still not been implemented.

That would be Gorilla Glass vs. Gorilla Glass. Which was resurrected and promoted by Corning because Steve Jobs asked them to.

A decimal system does not mean you have to abandon fractions. There is nothing wrong with talking about 1/3 of a meter if you need to be that precise. But multiplying 37 by 12 is harder than multiplying 37 by 10, and 37*12*12 is much harder than 37*10*10.

If you RTFA, rather than just the summary, you'll see that they are saying that Broadwell will not be available in an LGA package. It Only BGA. Whether they are right or not, time will tell, but they are not confused about how CPUs are connected to motherboards.

But so far you've done the matching. You could put a cheaper CPU into an expensive motherboard or vice versa. You can pick for any one of say 10 CPUs and match it with any one of say 30 motherboards: 300 combinations. If the CPUs are soldered then there will probably be far fewer combinations available, say 50 in total. Expensive motherboards will be paired with expensive CPUs and cheap motherboards will only be available with cheap CPUs.

Like you I've almost always bought CPUs and motherboards together (primarily because I don't upgrade very often), but this move, if it happens, is clearly going to cut down the options we have.

How exactly is a biologist's opinion on climate change any more informed or relevant than Sarten-X's? If you want to restrict the field to scientists then you really should go all the way and reduce it to climatologists. They are the scientists who really count. And 99% of climatologists accept the AGW hypothesis as been correct. I've yet to hear of one climatologist who has become a sceptic.

If it's not mankind then what is the cause? If there is another cause it should be obvious by now - increased output from the sun, or increased volcanic activity, for example. But no convincing argument for an alternative cause has been presented.

The problem for Nokia is that they've got almost all of their eggs in the phone basket. If people lose interest in Nokia phones then all 3 legs of their strategy will fail, as has happened. Microsoft is in a completely different position. Their 3 legs are mobile software, business software (Windows, Office, Server), and entertainment (Xbox). If the mobile strategy fails it's unlikely to impact the other legs too badly. So Microsoft's fate is not intertwined with Nokia's, only the fate of their latest attempt at the mobile market. Though they might find it harder to find partners in the future.

You don't need to measure carbon emissions in foreign countries, you only need to set a tariff equivalent to what the carbon tax would be if the goods were manufactured locally. It doesn't have to be particularly accurate, just close enough to discourage moving production offshore purely to avoid the carbon tax. As for WTO rules, the US has repeatedly violated them in the past. What makes you think they'd be reluctant to this time?

It's a valid point, but it's also not particularly difficult to avoid those consequences. Simply apply a carbon tax to imported goods as well. Get it right and not only would a carbon tax work to reduce emissions, it would also work to increase domestic manufacturing.

I don't buy that theory. What's the volume on 15" and 17" HD TVs? Not that large I think. I think the issue is that too many consumers think HD is the gold standard so there is little point in producing anything high res than 1080p. Perhaps the iPad will change that perception though.

That's why I run 2 19" monitors for my desktop, one landscape, one portrait. The portrait orientation is great for anything involving reading or writing. Landscape is great for games and things like spreadsheets, Photoshop, etc. Best of both worlds...

Why are there so many? It kinda makes me think they must all be deficient in one way or another. Not that I think VC is particularly good...