Basically, forget monitors. TVs got good enough to replace monitors. Want to see tiny details ? Come a little closer. Want to see the whole picture ? Sit a bit further away. I use scaling of 200%. There is really no need anymore for more screen space than FullHD provides (dunno why - had no need for it for a while now, even lost the need for the second monitor eventually), but much higher resolution of 4K with larger size of the whole thing makes the text way easier to work with. Rendering with 300% (default setting in win10), however, is shite. Also, if the TV got Android TV software in them, the problem of watching good quality but hard on cpu videos goes away, since the TV most likely can decode it in hardware.

I always had very high sensitivity to fans noise and dreamed of absolutely slient pc. I've finaly made it using streacom case. It's running great. Newer intel cpus also have good integrated GPU, so everything except gaming is simply exceptional (and I have a separate pc for gaming). But adding powerful GPU to the system was a pipe dream. If they have managed that in such a small case, that's beyond cool.

In the next few years we will probably run a little experiment of moving from sun java 6 to oracle java 7. Perhaps the attempt will fail at first and we will postpone the upgrade for another year or so, and then try again. But Java 8 ? Let me call you back in 5 years... or maybe 7.

Actually, this whole "integrated cpu" would be a very good deal had they went another step - integrate good heat dissipation solution. I.e. connect several heatpipes to the die of cpu, then a few more to other components, put nice thick metal bar on the side of the board and terminate all those headpipes on that bar. This way we could easily connect the whole thing to something big and metal and avoid having all those heavy cpu heatsinks. And broken cpu sockets, too.

none of the above

What ? PSU 1000 W ? How many people with high-end cards actually use that much power (even with two high-end GPU cards) ?

Depends on the volume of your "notes". If it is on the high side, then use pen, paper and a notebook with a good keyboard. Notebook is for words (waaay faster than writing them on paper), the rest is for sketches.

I've been assigned a task to find all occurrences of borrowed code in the project on my previous job and handle all related issues. First I tried to remove the code in each case (is is very often not really needed anymore). Second thing to is to try to find the license. If that does not help, try to find another source for the same code with a liberal license (which often happens to be the original source with multiple derived copies on the web). Next step is to clarify issue with the author if there is no license but you have reason to believe that the original intention of the author was to share code freely. If that does not help, return to step three and go backwards down to step one.

Is is pretty boring most of the time, but there was a case where I had to talk one of the very well known MSDN Magazine column authors into changing/clarifying the text of his license by contacting him. He had ambiguous license but obvious intention to share code freely, so the only problem was to get the attention.