Maybe OT, but please don't forget that the PS3 can also be used as an excellent BluRay, DVD, SACD and SACD-R player. Although I'm not a gamer, I would buy it if I could afford it.
I modded +1 Insightful and it turned out 2, Flamebait, which is totally insane with regard to this post. So I have to post to undo.
The possibility of easily making guns, even from soap (as is done in prisons), is very, very frightening. And don't tell me that it's better to have kids attempt to steal a bubble gum with a plastic gun than actually using a real one!
It won't be long until we read that a kid was suspended from school for life because a plastic printed gun was found in his locker.
The problem is that no present company can schedule such a "scaling up of their architecture". In two years (and after at least two more reincarnations of iDevices, tablets and smartphones) the needs for bandwidth might increase 100x. In another two years (when all your home appliances, kids' and pets' collars etc. all require even more bandwidth) the demand might still increase 100x. I'm not optimistic the problem will ever be resolved.
All I see for the future is people carrying personal electromagnetic radiation meters routing their daily lives (ironically with the help of GPS-driven apps) to avoid heavily e/m polluted areas.
If I were in your shoes, I'd recommend your uni legal department to advise explicitly all the teaching and research stuff to avoid sending mail containing sensitive materials unencrypted. Current industrial/research espionage is indistinguishable from magic.
Enough with this anti-"US law" crap... It's not a matter of the US laws but of the international treaties signed between US and its allies. No country dares to deny signing such treaties, because US has its ways.
If a difference of 849-629 = $220 is really such a deterrent to a prospective US buyer, whose average income is 6+ times our income, he shouldn't be buying an iPhone in the first place.
The main issue is that purchases made with iDevices are gossip/tweet/facebook newsworthy, while purchases made with lowly Android devices are doomed to be scuffed upon.
If you can afford an iPhone 4Gs 64GB (€898.99 in my country, no contract) or an iPad 2 Wi-Fi 64GB ( €719.00), it's evident you have plenty more to spend online.
Using thermite on my hard drive would be perceived by the interested parties as a confession of my guilt. If I were in his shoes I'd never use it, I'd just use non-destructive methods like the ones he did.
We will probably never learn where that $9b was sourced from - Apple has a long history of funding plants in exchange for exclusive rights to products and/or major pricing cuts.
Could you make an estimate regarding the percentage of these new ~1100 jobs for which the main requirement was fluent knowledge of the Korean language?
Excuse me for enhancing your worst fears, but if you are using IE for your "private" (and supposedly sensitive) stuff, IMHO you must be doing something wrong. Please find the time to do this research and act accordingly as soon as possible.
I used to like Iron a lot too (the portable version) until in a recent Slashdot comment somebody pointed to a debunking of it at http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam. I must admit at first I was a bit disappointed, but then I said to myself "welcome to the wonderful world of FOSS".
If you close a program and it insists remaining in memory for 3 hours without the process being killed, you definitely have either an OS issue, or some exotic plugins/addons combination issue. For example, from my experience I regularly see that FF has a particular difficulty unloading flash from its memory (running x64 here).
To troubleshoot the issue, and to avoid installing/uninstalling Firefox all the time, use the portable version from portableapps.com and keep a clean master copy of it somewhere. Then copy this installation somewhere else and use that one to start adding your usual addons to pinpoint the problem.
I decided to lose a mod point to add that since I upgraded to 8 gigs of RAM, I run all my browsers (not just their cache) from ramdisk. I have setup a 1 gig ramdisk, I copy to that one my "master" portable installations of FF8 (and FF9 for making comparisons) and run my browsers exclusively from ramdisk.
This technique has the additional advantage that FF's cache is also on the ramdrive and from what I have seen this offers me the fastest possible browsing experience. When the cache and browser bloat grows too large, I delete this copy and make a new one. In addition, all temporary files (downloads, installations, things to unzip/unrar etc) are also processed in the ramdrive, thus reducing the overall fragmentation of my hard disks. Finally, the technique has also security benefits, since all my browsing history and cache are safely erased every time I reboot or wipe the ramdrive.
The only drawback is that when FF extensions are updated, I have to update my master copy too, which is a small price to pay for always having access to a "clean and mean" FF copy every time I desire so. If you are the type that adds new bookmarks all the time, just copy bookmarks.html to the "master" installation before shutdown.
To sum up, I think that everybody will benefit from using a ramdrive, not only those using SSDs.
Could we please have a more precise summary by putting the quotes in their proper place, because I cannot decipher between what was said by the submitter and what was said by the Judge?
They are going to continue to do with it what they want to do with it
Agree very much on this - as long as WebOS exists as a name, it will be discussed (rather favorably) on various sites thus increasing HP's brand recognition and leaving open the possibility that they are interested in producing something interesting in the future (say a new tablet, a new smartphone or a new gadget).
If on the other hand HP declares WebOS as abandonware, then it will simply disappear from people's memory. In addition, developers might accuse them for not opening the source to such a nice OS, as they rightfully do with any accidentally or purposely obsoleted technology.
Thus I perceive their strategy as "Better undead than forgotten" - everybody wins (especially the undead ones).
It may be not legal but all of us here must have noticed that there are millions upon millions of songs/music pieces on YouTube displaying just cover art pics (meaning they're not official videoclips) and I am certain the majority of them are copyrighted.
I am inclined to think that Google receives money from some music publishing companies to leave these songs alone, while they censure songs belonging to companies that don't want to pay them. Looks fair to me, if I were Google I'd do the same thing.
Reading all the comments I can't resist making a social political comment about the problems the otherwise most advanced country of the planet apparently has not yet solved:
- Don't work in a country where theft from workers or the poor is considered the official way to support the poorer or the richer - If you must live in that country, stop voting for governments that care more about IP/copyright/corporate "theft" than citizen theft - If you must live in that country and work for that company, keep your personal laptop at home and have your company buy you another one for work, which stays at work.
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Maybe OT, but please don't forget that the PS3 can also be used as an excellent BluRay, DVD, SACD and SACD-R player. Although I'm not a gamer, I would buy it if I could afford it.
I modded +1 Insightful and it turned out 2, Flamebait, which is totally insane with regard to this post. So I have to post to undo.
The possibility of easily making guns, even from soap (as is done in prisons), is very, very frightening. And don't tell me that it's better to have kids attempt to steal a bubble gum with a plastic gun than actually using a real one!
It won't be long until we read that a kid was suspended from school for life because a plastic printed gun was found in his locker.
If I were you, I'd do a LOT of research before even thinking about suing a religious organization. Especially if I had a family, wife and kids.
The problem is that no present company can schedule such a "scaling up of their architecture". In two years (and after at least two more reincarnations of iDevices, tablets and smartphones) the needs for bandwidth might increase 100x. In another two years (when all your home appliances, kids' and pets' collars etc. all require even more bandwidth) the demand might still increase 100x. I'm not optimistic the problem will ever be resolved.
All I see for the future is people carrying personal electromagnetic radiation meters routing their daily lives (ironically with the help of GPS-driven apps) to avoid heavily e/m polluted areas.
If I were in your shoes, I'd recommend your uni legal department to advise explicitly all the teaching and research stuff to avoid sending mail containing sensitive materials unencrypted. Current industrial/research espionage is indistinguishable from magic.
It might be the "only truly private cloud" but still it's not safe (if installed within an EU country).
Enough with this anti-"US law" crap... It's not a matter of the US laws but of the international treaties signed between US and its allies. No country dares to deny signing such treaties, because US has its ways.
If you're really interested, I'd suggest to limit your search in non-EU and non-NATO European countries like e.g. Albania.
For those small countries, the development of data centers/clouds right at this moment might be the opportunity of a lifetime.
I like the way you think, that's called artificial scarcity.
You are in the right direction, but you have to consider that most Apple fanbois don't know they are fanbois - they just do it subconsciously.
+1, I think this is the most important result so far.
If a difference of 849-629 = $220 is really such a deterrent to a prospective US buyer, whose average income is 6+ times our income, he shouldn't be buying an iPhone in the first place.
The main issue is that purchases made with iDevices are gossip/tweet/facebook newsworthy, while purchases made with lowly Android devices are doomed to be scuffed upon.
If you can afford an iPhone 4Gs 64GB (€898.99 in my country, no contract) or an iPad 2 Wi-Fi 64GB ( €719.00), it's evident you have plenty more to spend online.
Using thermite on my hard drive would be perceived by the interested parties as a confession of my guilt. If I were in his shoes I'd never use it, I'd just use non-destructive methods like the ones he did.
We will probably never learn where that $9b was sourced from - Apple has a long history of funding plants in exchange for exclusive rights to products and/or major pricing cuts.
Could you make an estimate regarding the percentage of these new ~1100 jobs for which the main requirement was fluent knowledge of the Korean language?
Excuse me for enhancing your worst fears, but if you are using IE for your "private" (and supposedly sensitive) stuff, IMHO you must be doing something wrong. Please find the time to do this research and act accordingly as soon as possible.
I used to like Iron a lot too (the portable version) until in a recent Slashdot comment somebody pointed to a debunking of it at http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam. I must admit at first I was a bit disappointed, but then I said to myself "welcome to the wonderful world of FOSS".
If you close a program and it insists remaining in memory for 3 hours without the process being killed, you definitely have either an OS issue, or some exotic plugins/addons combination issue. For example, from my experience I regularly see that FF has a particular difficulty unloading flash from its memory (running x64 here).
To troubleshoot the issue, and to avoid installing/uninstalling Firefox all the time, use the portable version from portableapps.com and keep a clean master copy of it somewhere. Then copy this installation somewhere else and use that one to start adding your usual addons to pinpoint the problem.
I decided to lose a mod point to add that since I upgraded to 8 gigs of RAM, I run all my browsers (not just their cache) from ramdisk. I have setup a 1 gig ramdisk, I copy to that one my "master" portable installations of FF8 (and FF9 for making comparisons) and run my browsers exclusively from ramdisk.
This technique has the additional advantage that FF's cache is also on the ramdrive and from what I have seen this offers me the fastest possible browsing experience. When the cache and browser bloat grows too large, I delete this copy and make a new one. In addition, all temporary files (downloads, installations, things to unzip/unrar etc) are also processed in the ramdrive, thus reducing the overall fragmentation of my hard disks. Finally, the technique has also security benefits, since all my browsing history and cache are safely erased every time I reboot or wipe the ramdrive.
The only drawback is that when FF extensions are updated, I have to update my master copy too, which is a small price to pay for always having access to a "clean and mean" FF copy every time I desire so. If you are the type that adds new bookmarks all the time, just copy bookmarks.html to the "master" installation before shutdown.
To sum up, I think that everybody will benefit from using a ramdrive, not only those using SSDs.
Could we please have a more precise summary by putting the quotes in their proper place, because I cannot decipher between what was said by the submitter and what was said by the Judge?
They are going to continue to do with it what they want to do with it
Agree very much on this - as long as WebOS exists as a name, it will be discussed (rather favorably) on various sites thus increasing HP's brand recognition and leaving open the possibility that they are interested in producing something interesting in the future (say a new tablet, a new smartphone or a new gadget).
If on the other hand HP declares WebOS as abandonware, then it will simply disappear from people's memory. In addition, developers might accuse them for not opening the source to such a nice OS, as they rightfully do with any accidentally or purposely obsoleted technology.
Thus I perceive their strategy as "Better undead than forgotten" - everybody wins (especially the undead ones).
Don't' you see YouTube proudly wearing the sheriff's golden star?
It may be not legal but all of us here must have noticed that there are millions upon millions of songs/music pieces on YouTube displaying just cover art pics (meaning they're not official videoclips) and I am certain the majority of them are copyrighted.
I am inclined to think that Google receives money from some music publishing companies to leave these songs alone, while they censure songs belonging to companies that don't want to pay them. Looks fair to me, if I were Google I'd do the same thing.
Reading all the comments I can't resist making a social political comment about the problems the otherwise most advanced country of the planet apparently has not yet solved:
- Don't work in a country where theft from workers or the poor is considered the official way to support the poorer or the richer
- If you must live in that country, stop voting for governments that care more about IP/copyright/corporate "theft" than citizen theft
- If you must live in that country and work for that company, keep your personal laptop at home and have your company buy you another one for work, which stays at work.