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...

What is sad is that 10 years ago the top laptop screen resolution was 2 megapixels and now it's still only 2 megapixels, in a format that's worse for every application except watching video. What's sad is that the 9.7" screen in the new iPad is better than anything you can get in a laptop.

I don't think the market for 15-17" LCD TVs is that big. So that's not the reason. It's just that most consumers want HD because they naively think that's the gold standard. And HD means widescreen and shitty resolutions. But widescreen doesn't bother me so much for laptops, it's the lack of choice for desktops that pisses me off. High resolution 4:3 monitors are still around, but far fewer than their used to be and they're not cheap.

It's a mistake to assume that the $8 billion drop in music sales is entirely due to piracy. DVDs appeared in 1998 and by 2004 DVD sales were $14 billion. VHS sales were never that high so much of that money must have been coming out of other entertainment spending. I think a lot of people stopped buy so many CDs when they started buying DVDs.

I don't have any particular problem with requiring narrow patents, but I don't think it makes much difference in this situation as it simply means that the kitchen wares company should/would apply for many magnetic power connector patents on every type of device they can think of.

You clearly don't know what you are talking about or you wouldn't make such blatantly false statement.