It's significant to note that it doesn't matter where you bought your device - even Nexus devices purchased directly from Google Play can be blocked by the carrier.
Can anyone point me to a good SSD-caching hard disk for a laptop, with a total SSD+HDD size of 500 Gb or more?
I want the benefit of rapid OS and application start-up, but also need the large disk space, so a simple SSD is still too expensive at these sizes. Other solutions for Laptops don't quite cut it... I'd rather not lug around an external HDD everywhere, and Laptops generally only have one drive bay, so I can't have one small SSD + one large HDD... Microsoft ReadyBoost is an alternative but requires a USB key or SD Card and probably isn't as effective as a firmware-based SSD-caching HDD.
- Any attempt to enter device password wrong 3 x wipes device - erases all content.
Let's say you're having the extended family over for dinner... then your cousin's kid finds your phone. He decides it's fun to press buttons and watch the screen light up. Oops... all content erased!
I do technical support for a large company that uses this sort of policy on (some) mobile devices... People call up saying they're usually very careful, but it can still happen if you're unlucky. And no, we don't have any back doors to retrieve the data after a wipe like that. Bad luck.
If you have a decent idea for a game, patent it!
After all, that's what patents are all about. Be greedy and selfish, if it's really a good idea maybe the game studios will licence it.
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It's significant to note that it doesn't matter where you bought your device - even Nexus devices purchased directly from Google Play can be blocked by the carrier.
e.g. The network with the largest market share in Australia, Telstra - is blocking the Lollipop OTA update from all Nexus devices.
To say the the count "peaks" suggests to me that the count has reached as high as it will go... which is nonsense!
Can anyone point me to a good SSD-caching hard disk for a laptop, with a total SSD+HDD size of 500 Gb or more?
I want the benefit of rapid OS and application start-up, but also need the large disk space, so a simple SSD is still too expensive at these sizes. Other solutions for Laptops don't quite cut it... I'd rather not lug around an external HDD everywhere, and Laptops generally only have one drive bay, so I can't have one small SSD + one large HDD... Microsoft ReadyBoost is an alternative but requires a USB key or SD Card and probably isn't as effective as a firmware-based SSD-caching HDD.
http://diasporafoundation.org/ and http://noserub.com/ ...but don't kid yourself that these things will take ever over the mainstream without widescale support from a leading corporation.
- Any attempt to enter device password wrong 3 x wipes device - erases all content.
Let's say you're having the extended family over for dinner... then your cousin's kid finds your phone. He decides it's fun to press buttons and watch the screen light up. Oops... all content erased! I do technical support for a large company that uses this sort of policy on (some) mobile devices... People call up saying they're usually very careful, but it can still happen if you're unlucky. And no, we don't have any back doors to retrieve the data after a wipe like that. Bad luck.
If you have a decent idea for a game, patent it! After all, that's what patents are all about. Be greedy and selfish, if it's really a good idea maybe the game studios will licence it.