I wonder if the parents tried or even knew that they could apply for a restraining order against the bullies. Florida actually has state laws that allow for restraining orders for Stalking that is broadly defined in such a way that it would have definitely been applicable in this case.
The college money benefit is pretty borderline really. For some it works out because they actually have to time to take classes when stationed near a school. But others end up doing revolving deployments in such a way that actually attending school is impossible. And if you wait until you finish your enlistment to go to school you only have 10 years in which to do it and during that period you can only collect the benefit for something like 36 months. So in order to actually get all of the benefit you need to go to school full time for three years straight.
With all of that I haven't found it to be worth my time to persue a degree. Luckily though I picked a career that doesn't require it especially given the six years of experience I gained during my service.
By the way, to participate in the MGIB you have to pay in a set amount of cash during your first year of service. That money is presumably matched or something by the government and held to pay out the benefit later. I only knew one guy that didn't pay into the MGIB and I can't think of any that have yet to actually use it from my group of friends. I would wager that there is a lot fewer tax dollars paying for educations in the military than you might think. And given the way that the military straight up uses people I think it is a more than fair trade.
I'm not sure if I've ever stayed at a Motel 6, but I have stayed at plenty of Best Westerns which I think is probably fairly comprable. Starting about 8 years ago I noticed that free wifi and wired internet access seemed to be the standard. Those rooms are usually $50 or less a night. Meanwhile I stayed at an Embassy Suites about a year ago because I was on a business trip and it's location was excellent. The Website talked about having free internet access so I didn't think about it too much. It turned out that the free internet was through two terminals in the lobby. If you wanted access otherwise it was $10+ a day. The cost of the room was more than triple what I'd expect from a budget hotel and honestly the facilities and service didn't even warrant double the cost. I don't plan to stay at another Embassy Suites ever again.
Dealerships definitely do tires. Whenever I take one of our vehicles in for the regular maintance they let us know what the tread depth is like and push us to get new tires through them when they get worn.
Steering I half agree with you since I only ever have the alignment checked when the tires seem to be wearing funny or the car doesn't drive straight on it's own. In the last decade and a half the only cars I had which needed an alignment were in pretty bad shape. And I'm not really sure how people mess up the alingments on their cars anyways. I had a small sports car that I drove hard and actually slide into a curb hard enough to take a large chunk out of the rim, but when I had it checked the alignment was still good.
Suspension is a little iffy. It really depends on what you are doing with the vehicle. How often you push it's load limit and what kind of roads it gets driven on. And a lot of people won't even recognize when they need new shocks, though I suppose that could be used as evidence that they don't actually "need" the shocks.
Correct, legal rights are created by law, and in the case of the US Constitution all rights not specifically granted to the Fed are retained by the people. So any right that you can think of which doesn't infringe on one of those rights granted to the Fed is legally defined as belonging to the citizens.
In this case his fingerprints are probably covered under PII laws. If his work contract doesn't explicitly require he provide it then they have little grounds to force it from him. In addition in the US you always have the right to decline to particpate in a new contract or any other activity really unless there is a court order involved. They could have been asking him to wear brown shoes like everyone else and he'd still have the legal right to refuse to comply, that might depending on his contract be grounds for firing him but it is still his legal right to refuse.
One of my favorite waste activities to bitch about is mandatory meetings where the whole organization has to be present for an hour or two. I've been to exactly two of those in more than a decade of federal service that I thought were well worth the time spent. I figured out the other day that each time our self absorbed leadership has one where I work now it cost roughly $18,000 in lost man hours per 60 minutes of briefing.
To me that sounds like pure marketing spin for the same root cause I listed. Let me rephrase there statement less politely.
"We know some of you assholes are going to pay each other real money for items and that others of you will exploit the shit out of our game to get stuff to sell as a comercial venture so we're going to head all that off by making you compete with everyone else."
Yes, they could entirely kill the idea of an item economy by making everything account bound. Hopefully they don't resort to that as one of the big draws for a significant part of the player base is the item trading.
I think it's more of a statement about how easy to maintain an EV would be compared to a typical ICE car that GM was actually able to build one that worked. The only really complicated bits in the electronics system should be the battery management system.
Personally I am really hoping for a really bare bones sort of EV with the ability to have it tow a small generator for really long trips. I really like the Model S but I'd prefer a model without the giagantic touch screen interface that controls so much of the vehicles features.
GM built the EV1 and then refused to sell them. They would only lease them, and even then there was a miles long list of people who wanted to do so, such that just to be on the list you had to submit a resume about why you'd be great publicity for them. GM pretty much did everything they could to sabotage their own electric car. If they had actually kept that project going and actively improved it as they went they would probably own the EV and hybrid market today.
That is exactly it. I met a guy once who was apparently one of maybe a dozen guys in our entire state that climbed antenna masts and such to change burned out light bulbs. This was in the early 90's and he said it paid around $30 an hour. Was it hard work, well that is a lot of ladder climbing. Was it mentally challenging, not in the least. Was it dangerous, hell yes.
All hours residential plumbers are a good example. Not dangerous, not particularly hard work physically or mentally. But boy can it be crappy, sorry for the pun, and the on call hours suck. So expect to pay through the nose when you need one.
There are still a few features missing that I'd really like to see, but of course won't ever make it because it's scheduled for decom now.
1. Implement a DPS filter, there is currently an Average Damage filter, but that isn't actually the same thing. 2. Include a filter for minimum bids such that I can more easily find items within my bidding range without sorting through dozens of pages. 3. Include an option to to see only auctions with no buyout price listed, or no buyouts and buyouts below a specified value. 4. When searching for legendary and set pieces allow for filters that aren't normally available for that item slot, such as elemental damage and class bonuses on rings when searching for a Stone of Jordan. Gawdam searching for a SoJ in the AH is a nightmare, you have to mouse over each one and wait for the item info tooltip just to see if it's for your class.
Wizards also had a bug/exploit where they could actually become fully invulnerable until they dropped out of the game. If I remember right it involved using teleport and the mirror image skill to teleport to your current location. Once you did that you could take all the time you wanted to kill stuff, or just run past it. And because most of the difficulty in Inferno at the time was from the incredible DPS output of the monsters this trivialized it entirely.
The game isn't as full as it was at release but there is still a lot of players. I've been playing for the last couple weeks and the number of Inferno games has been in the thousands most of the time.
The date for implementing this is far enough out they could literaly change anything about it they wanted. The testing is probably happening on the Console version right now. The Console version has a different loot generating system. The basic idea being that they get much higher quality items more frequently than the current PC version. They are planning a loot revamp called Loot 2.0 which is supposed to improve the loot for PC players right before or with the release of the RoS expansion. If it works out too well we might see trading die completely.
I don't think the sellable rate of rares is even that high, I might have sold 1% of the rares I've found, and even that seems pretty high. I go into runs with only six spots in my inventory taken up with potions, gems and tomes. I usually pick up all the rares and fill up my inventory 2 and a half times per game. I get a sellable item maybe every third game. And with several hundred hours in the game I've only ever sold a few items for more than a few million gold. So far all of them have been valuable for only one stat, reduced level requirement of 10+ on a weapon with 800+ DPS.
I think you've got Blizzard's motivations all wrong there. In Diablo 2 there was a relatively huge market for good items and people were willing to pay cash for them. Since there was no in game way to arrange these transactions that business was conducted outside of Blizzards realm of control. Businesses sprung up to fill this niche and scammers in droves. When naive or just plain ignorant players got scammed or felt they were wrong in some way they would take up blizzards time complaining. Additionally many of these third party businesses cheated via botting and item duping which affected the entire community because this screwed up the item economy, frequently involved crashing game servers to dupe items, and spamming every available in game channel with advertisements. Those scammers and businesses were making money off of damaging Blizzards game and reputation.
So with Diablo 3 they realized that they couldn't let people trade items, a core game mechanic of the franchise, and at the same time keep real money out of the picture. So they attempted to create a venue under their control where anyone could buy and sell their items. Blizzard would also take a cut to increase their revenue and offset the cost of maintaining such a system.
Where all this fell down was that apparently most of their customer base never really bothered trading before. Now that there was an authorized and easy to access venue for trading nearly everyone participated. Because of the games reliance on gear this meant that people could progress much faster than they might have expected. This meant that the super harsh change in difficulty when starting Inferno was that much more pronounced. And because of the way loot drops were scaled, poorly in my opinion, even using the Gold Auction House wouldn't help much with Inferno progression. The Real Money Auction House became a more viable option for those people that just absolutely had to finish the game on all difficulty levels.
So now a year later they have nerfed the difficulty of Inferno but have implemented what is essentially ten more difficulty levels. The difficulty scaling is much better now but you still have the issue of loot generally being horrible and everyone feeling like they absolutely have to use the AH to progress.
In my opinion the design of the character classes is what has actually broken the system. Practically every single class and build of those classes wants the exact same 3 to 5 attributes on every piece of gear. Those stats are Critical Chance, Critical Hit Damage, All Resist and Vitality. The only variance will be depending on what class you also want all the Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence you can get. The only class unique item attributes that I can think of is that Wizards would also like Arcane Power on Critical Hit, Witch Doctors would like some Pick Up Radius, and Monks would like passive Spirit Regen. But even those unique bits aren't absolutely necessary for those classes except for specific builds, they are just perks to get if you can.
My conclusion is that unless the loot patch, that is supposed to coincide with the AH removal, is perfectly balanced they will just be pushing all of the trading business to third party businesses again or kill the trading aspect of the game because no one will need to bother trading.
I would wager that the actual encryption protocols, recommended in FIPS, are probably still good enough and not likely sabotaged by the NSA. FIPS is the standard that the military is using and it is highly unlikely that the NSA would tell the military to use something they knew was vulnerable. There are two good reasons for that; first the NSA knows that they are bound to have spies within their agency and so anything like a backdoor to the encyption standard which your entire military is using would certainly end up being known by your enemies. Secondly the NSA would have a trivially easy time getting access to whatever military data they need, wanting to secretly peak at it would be an epically bad compromise to accept for telling them to use a broken encryption protocol.
I seem to remember reading something about how archeologists determined that as Native Americans transitioned life styles from unter gather to more sedintary farming methods their life expectancy decreased by decades.
I just hope that if it doesn't die back down that the prices will come down for their Low Earth Orbit for media. The TV I bought this last holiday season came with 3D as a basically free feature. That is I figured out which TV fit my size requirements, desired features (of which 3D was not one), and price point. 3D just came as another one of those features like power windows in a new car.
Anyways the 3D is fun and a neat feature but definitely not a must have. The price for movies though, even stuff that came out years ago is still sky high. $35 for a 90 minute movie, no thanks.
Like others have observed TV's aren't really single use devices. The various roles they fill of course can be done by a variety of other devices in some shape or form. Personally we have a TV so that we can watch things together as a family. Also my eye sight is getting worse as I age and so having a nice big screen makes for less eye fatigue. Watching short videos and such on phone and tablet size screens is bad enough, I can't imagine trying to watch an entire movie that way. We also do not subscrib to cable or satelite TV services. We have a cable modem for internet service and through that we get netflix which streams very nicely through our bluray player.
All that said I don't plan to replace my current HDTV until it stops functioning properly. I did the same with the previous TV and it lasted nearly a decade, hopefully I'll get similar millage out of this newer one.
I also think it'd likely take more than a week. But you also have to remember that the tornados while devastating were rather tightly localized. If your entire country or the world is affected you'd likely see a much worse outcome. There wouldn't be any influx of aid workers and supplies from unaffected areas.
I don't even know that hibernation would even be enough. We'd still have to contend with protecting the bodies over time scales that dwarf anything we've designed and built to date. I think the only real hope is in figuring out brain to machine transfers, and possibly a transfer in the other direction eventually if you wanted. Even then we'd still have the issue of building a ship capable of maintaining its functionality over time scales that are again longer than we've ever done.
I recently installed a 212 and the only negatives I can think of were that it only just barely fit inside my case because it is so tall. And also because of my case design I had to completely remove the mother board in order to install the backplate.
So yeah no real complaints about the cooler its self, just my stupid case.
Maybe the newer Intel chips are coming with better heatsinks but my experience with my i5 doesn't match at all. The heatsink was tiny with very little surface area and some kind of rinky dink fan. Whenever I did anything more demanding than open a web browser you could hear the fan spool up and despite all the racket it was doing a poor job of cooling, temps in the 70's weren't unusual and I saw it get up to 84 at least once. I switched to a coolermaster that uses a couple 120mm fans which is comparatively silent and keeps the CPU within a few degrees of ambient until I start playing a game at which point it might get as high as the 60's if it's a poorly written port of a game, more normally it's in the 40's or 50's.
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I wonder if the parents tried or even knew that they could apply for a restraining order against the bullies. Florida actually has state laws that allow for restraining orders for Stalking that is broadly defined in such a way that it would have definitely been applicable in this case.
http://www.womenslaw.org/laws_state_type.php?id=15038&state_code=FL
The college money benefit is pretty borderline really. For some it works out because they actually have to time to take classes when stationed near a school. But others end up doing revolving deployments in such a way that actually attending school is impossible. And if you wait until you finish your enlistment to go to school you only have 10 years in which to do it and during that period you can only collect the benefit for something like 36 months. So in order to actually get all of the benefit you need to go to school full time for three years straight.
With all of that I haven't found it to be worth my time to persue a degree. Luckily though I picked a career that doesn't require it especially given the six years of experience I gained during my service.
By the way, to participate in the MGIB you have to pay in a set amount of cash during your first year of service. That money is presumably matched or something by the government and held to pay out the benefit later. I only knew one guy that didn't pay into the MGIB and I can't think of any that have yet to actually use it from my group of friends. I would wager that there is a lot fewer tax dollars paying for educations in the military than you might think. And given the way that the military straight up uses people I think it is a more than fair trade.
I'm not sure if I've ever stayed at a Motel 6, but I have stayed at plenty of Best Westerns which I think is probably fairly comprable. Starting about 8 years ago I noticed that free wifi and wired internet access seemed to be the standard. Those rooms are usually $50 or less a night. Meanwhile I stayed at an Embassy Suites about a year ago because I was on a business trip and it's location was excellent. The Website talked about having free internet access so I didn't think about it too much. It turned out that the free internet was through two terminals in the lobby. If you wanted access otherwise it was $10+ a day. The cost of the room was more than triple what I'd expect from a budget hotel and honestly the facilities and service didn't even warrant double the cost. I don't plan to stay at another Embassy Suites ever again.
I'm all for requiring that each order be issued via a paper form signed and notarized. Require the same process for canceling an order.
Dealerships definitely do tires. Whenever I take one of our vehicles in for the regular maintance they let us know what the tread depth is like and push us to get new tires through them when they get worn.
Steering I half agree with you since I only ever have the alignment checked when the tires seem to be wearing funny or the car doesn't drive straight on it's own. In the last decade and a half the only cars I had which needed an alignment were in pretty bad shape. And I'm not really sure how people mess up the alingments on their cars anyways. I had a small sports car that I drove hard and actually slide into a curb hard enough to take a large chunk out of the rim, but when I had it checked the alignment was still good.
Suspension is a little iffy. It really depends on what you are doing with the vehicle. How often you push it's load limit and what kind of roads it gets driven on. And a lot of people won't even recognize when they need new shocks, though I suppose that could be used as evidence that they don't actually "need" the shocks.
Correct, legal rights are created by law, and in the case of the US Constitution all rights not specifically granted to the Fed are retained by the people. So any right that you can think of which doesn't infringe on one of those rights granted to the Fed is legally defined as belonging to the citizens.
In this case his fingerprints are probably covered under PII laws. If his work contract doesn't explicitly require he provide it then they have little grounds to force it from him. In addition in the US you always have the right to decline to particpate in a new contract or any other activity really unless there is a court order involved. They could have been asking him to wear brown shoes like everyone else and he'd still have the legal right to refuse to comply, that might depending on his contract be grounds for firing him but it is still his legal right to refuse.
One of my favorite waste activities to bitch about is mandatory meetings where the whole organization has to be present for an hour or two. I've been to exactly two of those in more than a decade of federal service that I thought were well worth the time spent. I figured out the other day that each time our self absorbed leadership has one where I work now it cost roughly $18,000 in lost man hours per 60 minutes of briefing.
To me that sounds like pure marketing spin for the same root cause I listed. Let me rephrase there statement less politely.
"We know some of you assholes are going to pay each other real money for items and that others of you will exploit the shit out of our game to get stuff to sell as a comercial venture so we're going to head all that off by making you compete with everyone else."
Yes, they could entirely kill the idea of an item economy by making everything account bound. Hopefully they don't resort to that as one of the big draws for a significant part of the player base is the item trading.
I think it's more of a statement about how easy to maintain an EV would be compared to a typical ICE car that GM was actually able to build one that worked. The only really complicated bits in the electronics system should be the battery management system.
Personally I am really hoping for a really bare bones sort of EV with the ability to have it tow a small generator for really long trips. I really like the Model S but I'd prefer a model without the giagantic touch screen interface that controls so much of the vehicles features.
GM built the EV1 and then refused to sell them. They would only lease them, and even then there was a miles long list of people who wanted to do so, such that just to be on the list you had to submit a resume about why you'd be great publicity for them. GM pretty much did everything they could to sabotage their own electric car. If they had actually kept that project going and actively improved it as they went they would probably own the EV and hybrid market today.
That is exactly it. I met a guy once who was apparently one of maybe a dozen guys in our entire state that climbed antenna masts and such to change burned out light bulbs. This was in the early 90's and he said it paid around $30 an hour. Was it hard work, well that is a lot of ladder climbing. Was it mentally challenging, not in the least. Was it dangerous, hell yes.
All hours residential plumbers are a good example. Not dangerous, not particularly hard work physically or mentally. But boy can it be crappy, sorry for the pun, and the on call hours suck. So expect to pay through the nose when you need one.
There are still a few features missing that I'd really like to see, but of course won't ever make it because it's scheduled for decom now.
1. Implement a DPS filter, there is currently an Average Damage filter, but that isn't actually the same thing.
2. Include a filter for minimum bids such that I can more easily find items within my bidding range without sorting through dozens of pages.
3. Include an option to to see only auctions with no buyout price listed, or no buyouts and buyouts below a specified value.
4. When searching for legendary and set pieces allow for filters that aren't normally available for that item slot, such as elemental damage and class bonuses on rings when searching for a Stone of Jordan. Gawdam searching for a SoJ in the AH is a nightmare, you have to mouse over each one and wait for the item info tooltip just to see if it's for your class.
You forgot Attack Speed as a required attribute on some pieces of gear. The term "Trifecta" in D3 parlance meaning an item with CC, CHD and AS.
Wizards also had a bug/exploit where they could actually become fully invulnerable until they dropped out of the game. If I remember right it involved using teleport and the mirror image skill to teleport to your current location. Once you did that you could take all the time you wanted to kill stuff, or just run past it. And because most of the difficulty in Inferno at the time was from the incredible DPS output of the monsters this trivialized it entirely.
The game isn't as full as it was at release but there is still a lot of players. I've been playing for the last couple weeks and the number of Inferno games has been in the thousands most of the time.
The date for implementing this is far enough out they could literaly change anything about it they wanted. The testing is probably happening on the Console version right now. The Console version has a different loot generating system. The basic idea being that they get much higher quality items more frequently than the current PC version. They are planning a loot revamp called Loot 2.0 which is supposed to improve the loot for PC players right before or with the release of the RoS expansion. If it works out too well we might see trading die completely.
I don't think the sellable rate of rares is even that high, I might have sold 1% of the rares I've found, and even that seems pretty high. I go into runs with only six spots in my inventory taken up with potions, gems and tomes. I usually pick up all the rares and fill up my inventory 2 and a half times per game. I get a sellable item maybe every third game. And with several hundred hours in the game I've only ever sold a few items for more than a few million gold. So far all of them have been valuable for only one stat, reduced level requirement of 10+ on a weapon with 800+ DPS.
I think you've got Blizzard's motivations all wrong there. In Diablo 2 there was a relatively huge market for good items and people were willing to pay cash for them. Since there was no in game way to arrange these transactions that business was conducted outside of Blizzards realm of control. Businesses sprung up to fill this niche and scammers in droves. When naive or just plain ignorant players got scammed or felt they were wrong in some way they would take up blizzards time complaining. Additionally many of these third party businesses cheated via botting and item duping which affected the entire community because this screwed up the item economy, frequently involved crashing game servers to dupe items, and spamming every available in game channel with advertisements. Those scammers and businesses were making money off of damaging Blizzards game and reputation.
So with Diablo 3 they realized that they couldn't let people trade items, a core game mechanic of the franchise, and at the same time keep real money out of the picture. So they attempted to create a venue under their control where anyone could buy and sell their items. Blizzard would also take a cut to increase their revenue and offset the cost of maintaining such a system.
Where all this fell down was that apparently most of their customer base never really bothered trading before. Now that there was an authorized and easy to access venue for trading nearly everyone participated. Because of the games reliance on gear this meant that people could progress much faster than they might have expected. This meant that the super harsh change in difficulty when starting Inferno was that much more pronounced. And because of the way loot drops were scaled, poorly in my opinion, even using the Gold Auction House wouldn't help much with Inferno progression. The Real Money Auction House became a more viable option for those people that just absolutely had to finish the game on all difficulty levels.
So now a year later they have nerfed the difficulty of Inferno but have implemented what is essentially ten more difficulty levels. The difficulty scaling is much better now but you still have the issue of loot generally being horrible and everyone feeling like they absolutely have to use the AH to progress.
In my opinion the design of the character classes is what has actually broken the system. Practically every single class and build of those classes wants the exact same 3 to 5 attributes on every piece of gear. Those stats are Critical Chance, Critical Hit Damage, All Resist and Vitality. The only variance will be depending on what class you also want all the Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence you can get. The only class unique item attributes that I can think of is that Wizards would also like Arcane Power on Critical Hit, Witch Doctors would like some Pick Up Radius, and Monks would like passive Spirit Regen. But even those unique bits aren't absolutely necessary for those classes except for specific builds, they are just perks to get if you can.
My conclusion is that unless the loot patch, that is supposed to coincide with the AH removal, is perfectly balanced they will just be pushing all of the trading business to third party businesses again or kill the trading aspect of the game because no one will need to bother trading.
I would wager that the actual encryption protocols, recommended in FIPS, are probably still good enough and not likely sabotaged by the NSA. FIPS is the standard that the military is using and it is highly unlikely that the NSA would tell the military to use something they knew was vulnerable. There are two good reasons for that; first the NSA knows that they are bound to have spies within their agency and so anything like a backdoor to the encyption standard which your entire military is using would certainly end up being known by your enemies. Secondly the NSA would have a trivially easy time getting access to whatever military data they need, wanting to secretly peak at it would be an epically bad compromise to accept for telling them to use a broken encryption protocol.
I seem to remember reading something about how archeologists determined that as Native Americans transitioned life styles from unter gather to more sedintary farming methods their life expectancy decreased by decades.
I just hope that if it doesn't die back down that the prices will come down for their Low Earth Orbit for media. The TV I bought this last holiday season came with 3D as a basically free feature. That is I figured out which TV fit my size requirements, desired features (of which 3D was not one), and price point. 3D just came as another one of those features like power windows in a new car.
Anyways the 3D is fun and a neat feature but definitely not a must have. The price for movies though, even stuff that came out years ago is still sky high. $35 for a 90 minute movie, no thanks.
Like others have observed TV's aren't really single use devices. The various roles they fill of course can be done by a variety of other devices in some shape or form. Personally we have a TV so that we can watch things together as a family. Also my eye sight is getting worse as I age and so having a nice big screen makes for less eye fatigue. Watching short videos and such on phone and tablet size screens is bad enough, I can't imagine trying to watch an entire movie that way. We also do not subscrib to cable or satelite TV services. We have a cable modem for internet service and through that we get netflix which streams very nicely through our bluray player.
All that said I don't plan to replace my current HDTV until it stops functioning properly. I did the same with the previous TV and it lasted nearly a decade, hopefully I'll get similar millage out of this newer one.
I also think it'd likely take more than a week. But you also have to remember that the tornados while devastating were rather tightly localized. If your entire country or the world is affected you'd likely see a much worse outcome. There wouldn't be any influx of aid workers and supplies from unaffected areas.
I don't even know that hibernation would even be enough. We'd still have to contend with protecting the bodies over time scales that dwarf anything we've designed and built to date. I think the only real hope is in figuring out brain to machine transfers, and possibly a transfer in the other direction eventually if you wanted. Even then we'd still have the issue of building a ship capable of maintaining its functionality over time scales that are again longer than we've ever done.
I recently installed a 212 and the only negatives I can think of were that it only just barely fit inside my case because it is so tall. And also because of my case design I had to completely remove the mother board in order to install the backplate.
So yeah no real complaints about the cooler its self, just my stupid case.
Maybe the newer Intel chips are coming with better heatsinks but my experience with my i5 doesn't match at all. The heatsink was tiny with very little surface area and some kind of rinky dink fan. Whenever I did anything more demanding than open a web browser you could hear the fan spool up and despite all the racket it was doing a poor job of cooling, temps in the 70's weren't unusual and I saw it get up to 84 at least once. I switched to a coolermaster that uses a couple 120mm fans which is comparatively silent and keeps the CPU within a few degrees of ambient until I start playing a game at which point it might get as high as the 60's if it's a poorly written port of a game, more normally it's in the 40's or 50's.