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Updating BIOS is a common thing for newly released CPUs. Things like that are expected if you're building the PC yourself.

While bitcoin is no longer a good currency, it's still the best store of wealth - the crypto version of gold, due to massive PoW mining infrastructure.

While other cryptocurrencies may give you near perfect anonymity or sub-second transaction times with no fees, none of them are so secure and dependable.

That 1.3 GHz Core M chip will boost to over 3 GHz for short periods of time. It will perform very similarly to a Skylake i5 in tasks like web browsing, but will throttle aggressively under a sustained load. That's where the 1.3 GHz number comes from.

As for the new Skylake i5 - Iris graphics are a huge step up from the 4100 model, but overall there isn't much reason to upgrade. CPUs have been stagnating in terms of performance for a few years now.

I am always surprised how little focus there is on the mental aspects of overeating. Losing weight is really simple - consume fewer calories, eat less processed stuff. And yet so many smart, otherwise capable people struggle with weight loss despite having an excellent knowledge of modern diet plans.

Food doesn't get in a person's stomach by accident, a decision is made with every meal, especially when a person is aware of being overweight. So why do people continuously keep making wrong decisions for many months and years?

My case was simple - I was depressed and food made me happy. Making a decision not to eat something was mentally painful. Fixing things that were wrong with my life eliminated both my depression and my issues with overeating.

Neither Dell (Alienware) nor Lenovo sell reasonable pre-built hardware configurations.

Companies like http://www.ibuypower.com/ let you start with a base system and configure it until it meets the requirements. The recommended configuration costs about $1300, a premium one would be $1600.

Only a small number of people have gotten to try out HTC Vive so far, but I am yet to see someone complain about VR sickness when using it. Gabe Newell also said that "zero percent of people get motion sick" while using that system.

I think that both you and chez17 are listing factors that contributed to the decline of SC2. Design errors made by Blizzard cannot be dismissed.

Idra leaving the game because he hated it. Sea lasting about a week on Liquid before going back to play BW. Naniwa being forced by Alliance to play at IEM despite not having practiced for months due to Swarm Host infestation of EU ladder. Artosis pitching Starbow to prominent eSports organizations. Not to mention never ending community complaints about Protoss design. These are not signs of a beautiful game.

With Legacy of the Void alpha reveal Blizzard themselves have addressed many of existing design concerns. Breakable force fields, Swarm Host redesign, warp-in nerf, powerful defensive Zerg unit and even major economy adjustments.

You are correct, SC2 will never surpass MOBAs, but it can do much better than it is doing now.

I don't know how can you make this comparison. IeSF was universally condemned for that decision on various gaming subreddits and by prominent community members on twitter. In fact that controversy is the most publicity they've ever gotten. Their actual event has gone largely unnoticed, got ridiculed a bit on /r/starcraft.

It seems like you have an axe to grind.

That tournament was run by IeSF - an organization that is grossly incompetent and disconnected from reality. They have very little traction in the eSports scene and are in no way representative of eSports as a whole.