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I managed to get a GTX 750 Ti for about $80 USD (I price matched it at $120 CAD and it had a $20 MIR, so it ended up being $100 CAD plus tax).

I bought it because my old 6850 wasn't running Far Cry 4 all that well. The GTX 750 Ti runs it like a champ at 1080P with settings between medium and high. Huge performance increase over the 6850, it's much quieter, doesn't need an external power connector, and I even sold my old card to someone for $70.

If your device is not sleeping while plugged in make sure you're using the charger that came with the device. It seems like it shouldn't make any difference, but I had this problem myself and sure enough using the original charger fixed it. If it's still not sleeping while plugged in I'd probably try a factory reset. There are a few software settings such as one in the developer mode to purposely keep it on, but if you haven't messed with this stuff then it shouldn't be the problem.

The blue light decreases melatonin production. Set your device to display amber on black and dim the room's lights. If you're extra sensitive to it like me, get yourself a pair of blue-blocking glasses.

Here's what they need:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnH95uzQPOo
It's both cheap and effective (apparently).

It currently receives 4/5 stars based on 569 reviews, so it's fair to say that people like it.

I browsed over the reviews and there's nothing there to suggest that many people are returning it because it's a Chromebook.

This answers most of your questions and does so using data based on a large dataset.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf

If you are concerned about reliability I suggest using an Intel SSD. Their failure rate is very low.

I started using the 64-bit version because the 32-bit version frequently hits 4GB of memory usage and crashes. I've seen the 64-bit version over 16GB on my 32GB system. This is a problem that Chrome does not have, but Firefox has some extensions I really like that Chrome lacks. As long as I can continue using the 64-bit nightly that I'm currently using I guess I won't really care, but this seems rather short-sighted.

Algae is plural, while alga is singular. If you wanted to say something like "algae-based" you would have to say alga-based. If "algae-based" doesn't sound wrong to you just substitute another plural in there such as "horses-based" to see how it sounds.

The Bay area is cheap compared to Vancouver Canada:
http://www.crackshackormansion.com/part2.html

According to the following website, the suspected person appeared in court yesterday:
http://www.dailydot.com/news/amanda-todd-kody-maxson/

I'm starting to think they'll never fix this.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660577
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683284

Slashdot messed up the path name. Where you see the double slashes is obviously the user name.

Setting up Google Chrome as the default PDF reader is more secure, and it's one less program to update. To do so in Windows 7 just right click on a PDF file, click "open with", click "choose default program", click Browse, and Browse to the following file:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Chrome.exe

Adobe Reader does have some features that Chrome lacks, but 95% of users will be perfectly fine with just Chrome.

Many of the early adopters out there are Google Apps users, and yet we still can't use our Google Apps accounts with Google+. I've heard many good things about Google+ but am still waiting for Google to allow me to use it.

And I'm not interested in managing yet another account just to try out Google+.

The front-facing cameras on the Google Nexus S, iPhone 4, and N900 are all 640x480.