..but wait, I thought the "death of the PC" had already come? How are people gaming on something that doesn't exist?

The #1 thing making that business model not "maintainable on like $1 a viewing" is the licensing fees the theaters have to pay to show the films. It depends on the particular business deals but usually 90%+ of the ticket value goes straight to the movie studio. Theaters make almost all of their money on popcorn/soda/candy. Yes it sucks, but that's the reality.

I think $1 for a movie ticket to a new film is pretty unrealistic though, when you consider how expensive a film is to make, plus the operational costs of the theater.

For most people Facebook is more like this though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W8K9SMI9Fk

So the same as all of their "news" then?

To be fair fan death IS real. It just takes about 70-80 years to take effect. ;)

and it certainly hasn't ended with Obama. He has extended most of the policies of Bush, but seems to get a free pass from most of the people who were up in arms about Bush.

A shocking revelation

Ivy Bridge on 22nm consumes less power than Sandy Bridge on 32nm when idle, according to Anandtech. Only very slightly less, but still less. Those differences will obviously pale in comparison to the claimed 20x reductions from architecture changes in Haswell though.

If you look back through all of Intels die shrinks they pretty much always have lower idle power consumption than their predecessor, although you are right to point out the load power consumption is where the biggest difference is seen.

Intel is working on major improvements in idle power consumption though, because they know that is their weakest area at the moment.

For their next big architecture (Haswell), they are claiming a 20x reduction in idle power consumption compared to Sandy Bridge. Then another year after that Intel will have a die-shrink of Haswell (called Broadwell) using 14nm, which you would expect to reduce power consumption even further.

Those kind of improvements will bring them a lot closer to ARM in power consumption, while still having far superior performance.

It plays games a lot better than the P4 he was comparing it to though (since that had no integrated graphics)

Only if it's them doing it. Anything Obama does is automatically wrong.

Most of my favorite movies are from the 60s and 70s, and I was born in 1985. It must be that nostalgia from when I was -20 years old. I wouldn't go as far as saying "movies suck now" though. Most movies do suck, but you could say that of any time period.

Welcome to web journalism 101. Putting Apple in headline = page views.

In my view you'd be a fool to throw away a vote on a candidate who you don't agree with. If you really think there would be a big difference between a Romney or Obama presidency you are kidding yourself. They say anything they can to try to make themselves seem different, but if you actually look at their records rather than their words they are extremely similar. http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

I could see it working on earth, but surely the latency would make it impossible for a physician on earth to tactility interact with a patient on Mars. At best Mars is about 3 light minutes away from earth, and it can be as far as 20+ light minutes away. 100-200ms is enough to throw off online gamers, so I imagine 600,000ms would be a bit too much for a doctor to work with.