Do you have a source for that? In my world, I don't see how turning the monitor off (or rather having the OS put the monitor to standby/off/whatever), would do anything to lower the power usage. Anything still drawing to the screen (a screen saver, a game or something) would still be active with the monitor in standby/off so how would that lower the power used? Or nowadays when you have folding@home or similar using the GPU for processing, it would definitely still use a lot of power?

From TFA: "Braidwood, which is expected to offer anywhere from 4GB to 16GB capacity, ..." - In what way would it even compete with the SSD market? I'll stick to my separate 250 gig SSD drives for a while longer methinks.

Wasteful perhaps, but not really affecting game play (for the vast majority of players).

True, but very few of the 571534 computers contributing to BOINC are using the Core i7 processors (or even anything close to them). The average seem to be about 5 GFlops per computer.

Well, you're both correct. Blizzard used to be owned by Vivendi Games, who in turn was fully owned by Vivendi (a French company). Vivendi Games and Activision merged to form the publicly traded Activision Blizzard. Vivendi currently own 54% of Activision Blizzard ( http://www.vivendi.com/vivendi/-Group- ).

Yes, there will always be a market, but having a billion potential customers instead of "just" millions, makes it a lot more attractive segment.

No one I hope? That's why (at least in Sweden), the ATMs give the card back before giving out any money (and no, you don't get any money until you remove the card). You're not likely to forget your money, are you?