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  1. Re:No internet connection required! on Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images · · Score: 1

    How do I download it if I don't have an internet connection? Does this require special hardware?

    Order Wikipedia on DVD, from Wikipedia themselves. http://dumps.wikimedia.org/dvd.html

  2. Re:Finally! on Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images · · Score: 2

    You've always been able to download every page and image. Am I missing something?

    http://dumps.wikimedia.org/

  3. Re:"similar to" on BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed that Amazon use human beings as pickers. I'm surprised it is not all automated.

    Take Ocado as an example. 9 people work in each warehouse that is just as big as Amazons that employ thousands in each one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpyPO76yZ4

  4. Re:Total Crap on BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wouldn't class stress or depression as a mental illness, it is a physical one.

    AC, at least the BBC have the balls to do this, unlike other commercial broadcasters.

  5. I'm an Apple user and have only ever really looked in to UFI on a Mac, UFI has its own memory space, current Macs have 512MiB of DDR3 separate to the main memory. Also have 512MiB of DDR3 for networking too.

  6. Re:So in the real world? on Intel's 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming To Broadwell and Other Future CPUs · · Score: 1

    Interesting that the gigabit Ethernet controller on the latest Apple Mac's have 512MiB of DDR3. Any idea what this is for?

  7. Re:So in the real world? on Intel's 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming To Broadwell and Other Future CPUs · · Score: 4, Informative

    The only benchmarks I have found is from SiSoftware. http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?d=qa&f=mem_hsw

    But how is this going to effect Firefox, Photoshop, or video conversion?

    Does it have an effect on battery life?

  8. So in the real world? on Intel's 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming To Broadwell and Other Future CPUs · · Score: 0

    I have a Retina MacBook Pro with this Crystal Well processor. What advantages does it really bring?

    Unsure of any real world benchmarks compared to standard Haswell processors.

  9. Re:Patents on Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense · · Score: 1

    Just to clarify, not the UN itself but a member state protesting.

  10. Re:Patents on Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense · · Score: 1

    It seems the USA is alone in the world on this one. I'm surprised someone like the UN isn't stepping in and stopping American companies from buying out Israeli companies like this. A right diplomatic nightmare brewing I feel.

  11. Re:PR crapapalooza on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 1

    A south-bridge? I haven't seen one of those in a computer for 10 years now. Controllers are built on to CPU dies these days with direct connections. North-bridges are a thing of the past too and I'm sure Sony will not be using them.

  12. Re:Chrome Is Better on Ninth Anniversary of Firefox 1.0 Release · · Score: 0

    You should try it on OS X and Linux. It is not really worth using apart from in testing.

  13. Re:PR crapapalooza on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's more than double the price by including a 500GB SSD.

  14. Re:Good luck with that... on Cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For H.264 In WebRTC · · Score: 2

    Why not sell full h.264 converters in countries other than USA, Australia, New Zealand and the other handful of countries that have such software patents?

    Bring the datacentres to the UK or other EU countries.

    At the same time Mozilla set up bank accounts and trading addresses in Europe and release a browser with h.264 support. Companies get away with it for tax, so why not for patents?

  15. Re:Onavo app on Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo · · Score: 1

    Used to use on it iOS, until it routed all data through an insecure VPN.

  16. Re:Does this matter? on Meet the Voice Behind Siri · · Score: 1

    Finally, a face to my best friend and who I always ask to marry me.

  17. Re: Steve jobs says: on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 1

    It's a known routing bug. Currently being fixed. Hope so soon, Google Maps will be using Waze routing services soon.

  18. Re:Steve jobs says: on Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway · · Score: 1

    First time I used Apple Maps it wanted to make me cross a river, there was no bridge. It gets my home postcode wrong by about 10 miles. Seems to not know about central reservations in many places as well, wants you to go through fencing. Sticking with Waze for now.

  19. Re:Netflix on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 0

    Same is with the iTunes store in many territories. Guess you'll have to buy the box set, a steal at $210

  20. Re:That's not a refund. on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Meanwhile Apple can profit from the interest. It may be pennies on this single credit note, but increase that to tens or hundreds of thousand people and Apple are sure to profit handsomely.

  21. Netflix on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whoever pays $22.99 for half a season, or any other TV show, when it is available on Netflix is beyond me. Don't get me started on bluray box sets.

  22. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    they don't sell 'em at Walmart? why not? around here they sell them at places where they sell phones and walmart like places are included..

    Sold everywhere here in the UK too, and supermarkets like Asda (Walmart) and Tesco sell iPhones and have their own MNVOs. Tesco being one of the cheapest and offer iPhones on 12 month contracts.

    iPads are sold almost in any shop that sells electrical equipment. Even my local Spar, a small convenience store sells them.

  23. Re:You can switch it off. on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 2

    But if you go to so much effort and have the knowledge to set up a VPN on your mobile device, surely you'd know to go to the giffgaff site and switch this blocking off anyway.

  24. You can switch it off. on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can switch off the blocking if you so wish on the giffgaff web site.

    News at 11.

  25. Re:Um, is this news? on High-end CPU Coolers Reviewed and Compared · · Score: 2

    Welcome to 10 years ago when this type of thing was posted weekly. I used to write reviews for Blarg, OCAU, [H], we loved getting on slashdot as we had 200,000+ referrals in 6 hours. Wonder how many hits from slashdot techspot will get?