Are you kidding? Everyone that isn't a 'computer person' is still using their daughter's name...
Still, "Random Frequent Flier" is not crackable with this brute force method... Not to mention that other child first names can hurt the attacker - remember little Bobby tables?
They do. For as many places as they're in, their coverage tends to be rather iffy if you get out of the major metro areas.
To be fair, having used Verizon (work phone) and T-Mobile (personal) for the 5-6 years I was in the states, I found that going out of the cities meant negligible coverage even for Verizon, so even when we say Verizon has the best coverage (very expensive and very bad lock-in tactics though), for a European (used to getting coverage from the subway to the middle of nowhere) it is still abysmal. And while on average I did see Verizon getting better signal in some suburban areas etc, in NYC T-Mobile was definately the better choice, as I was enjoying 2+ Mbps data transfer on my N900 (HSPA - I hear it is now called "4G" in the US hehe).
Totally depends on what you're after. It's a so-so phone, but a pocket computer like none-other. Phone capabilities were tertiary (but still essential) for me, behind data and hackability. It's got some things that make no sense, and some that are just dumb, but I won't go to Android from here, never mind WP7 or the iPhone. And if you use Linux regularly, all the capability is there if you want it.
Well said. I don't think it is worse as a phone than say the Windows Mobile (pre-7) phones, but the iphone is a more polished experience in that respect (although not even close to the easy to use plain ol' non-smart phones). But, being a computer geek, I could not see myself going to even Android (I won't even mention iOS), the phone functionality is bare but not annoying to make me can consider giving up the amazing capabilities. I will just wait until the next MeeGo devices (hoping that MeeGo will not be worse than Maemo).
All slashdotters should do themselves a favor and check it out. I imagine the average response will be:
That is what *I* am saying. The way OP is using it, it is like a repository, he can't claim "his backup is deleted" when he is using a backup tool as a repository. Oh, because Time Machine apparently is not supposed to be something like svn/git. According to apple:
Time Machine will automatically back up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on a given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.
Note the "spare copy" - you are not meant to delete files you need from your working directories.
Yes, I get it, I was using Amanda over a decade ago. And it is exactly the reason I said it is more liable to corruption than just having your files somewhere. So it provides more functionality than just a backup copy PROVIDED THAT you don't go deleting your original files - otherwise you have the extra historical functionality but at a great risk.
Hmm... So it would be a bit like me using rsync without the --delete option so that data that gets deleted is not erased from the backup and then I go and ERASE data that I NEED from my working copy, since, you know, it is "backed up" ??? Hate to break it to the OP if that is the case, but keeping a single copy of your data cannot be called "backup" in any way. The whole situation sounds idiotic, as a historical backup that can get corrupted in various ways used as your single data store is LESS safe than not having a backup at all. But then again we are talking about a Mac user and kdawson no less...;)
Also, backups are backups. He can just create new ones.
Exactly, that is what I don't understand. I have to use a Mac at work, but I've never tried Time Machine since I use rsync on everything - even Windows machines. But in any case, if TM "backs up" your data, you end up with your original data + a backup with the point being you can lose one of the two and still have your data. So what happened here? He lost his backup, then what about his original data? How did he lose all his work when only the backup is gone? Also, he probably messed things up by killing processes etc. Next time use rsync - nothing happens if you kill it while it's working. And finally, A/V on a Mac? Seriously? Why just throttle down your cpu to half its frequency and just PRETEND you are running A/V software. You will have the same chance getting viruses, plus no problems like the one we are discussing now.
I have an iPhone supplied by my company and it stays tethered to my dev box as a debugger. I never once had the urge to carry it around with me as I was happy with a plain dumb phone and an older (but much more capable than an iPhone PDA - the X51v with full VGA, 624MHz etc) for when I wanted to watch movies (without having to recompress them) while traveling. And sometimes I would have to do a little work while on the road, so a full keyboard, ssh etc were required. That was until a year ago, when I switched to a N900. It can do everything my phone, my pda and my netbook can do (with varying degrees of success) and more! - As a phone: I still say basic phones are better than any smartphone (and especially touch-screen ones) for the actual making of calls where large screens are simply a disadvantage and small sizes, physical keys etc make a better experience. Moreover, I suspect the "flaws" you refer to are in the phone part of the N900, since it is rather obvious that the developers had geeks in mind, so it still feels like a phone app running on a computer and not a phone that has more capabilities. But there really is nothing particularly annoying and the audio quality and reception are very good. Plus there are some nice advantages. For example when making a call you can go through your voice network or through skype - this is rather seamless from a UI perspective. Then, you have "conversations" which is like a multi-IM client, but SMSs are also treated the same way, showing discussion threads with your contacts. -As a PDA: See below. It can do much more than any PDA has ever been able to do. -As a Netbook replacement: I can't really launch my IDE, but I have ssh/svn and vi to do my emergency code edits and have my projects rebuilt on my servers etc. That is what I personally needed the Netbook for, but apart from that it is a full linux machine, even has a full (flash etc) browser and I can open and switch from/to many apps/windows without feeling I am on a limited device. Plus I don't need an extra 3G usb dongle to have broadband everywhere, or an extra bluetooth gps to find my way! Anyway, let us say this is the ultimate geek device that can also act as a phone and it would be great if they can give us a worthy successor and also work on polishing Maemo/MeeGo for non-geek users so that everyone can enjoy the best (says I) mobile platform.
Actually it is not even like that. $100 billion is over an estimated 30 years for ISS, while just the war in Iraq costs over $100 billion per year, ON TOP of the $600+ billion per year for the base US army budget. The ISS and everything that has been spent in space exploration over the last 2-3 decades is peanuts compared to military spending.
I just had to create a youtube account to upload this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dr_EjKV5CM . It's from almost ten years ago (Greek TV), so perhaps the current version is less hilarious?
Also it has to do with another point in the article. While Jennifer is in the future, there is no Jenifer in 1985 to grow old, another paradox. Although I strongly advise against trying to rationalize the plot of this amazingly entertaining trilogy, the way I think we should explain it keeping in the spirit of the movies is: The future is as it would be had the Delorean not traveled in time, at least for a while, since the events that would happen during the visit in the future had not happened yet. Let's not forget that there was a potential that Jennifer would not return, e.g. if she died in the future, her future self should disappear. Then, since we assume her actions are not predetermined, they could not possibly merge in the timeline until she actually returned to 1985. Her older self could not remember her, since it was not yet decided what she will do next and when/how she will return to '85 to grow old, so her grown old state can only be in some sort of "limbo", being in the state she would have been without the time travel until the travel was completed so that there could be some continuity in her existence... I am not sure if I made any sense, which is why, as I said, I always advise against analyzing this or any time-travel movie. You simply can't have a solid plot going BACK in time... Going only forward OTOH... Can't wait for a Forever War movie version!;)
Exactly. My company was developing for Symbian (among various platforms), and after years of trying to keep up withe various incompatible OS releases while not leaving the numerous previous gen devices out of the loop, at the Symbian 9 release we have up. Porting our app collection would require way too much effort due to the significant changes and it that effort would be squared if we also wanted to keep supporting the 90%+ (at least for a while) of symbian phones out there that could not run the new versions... I mean, what is the point of having that closed ecosystem with signed apps and everything, and specific phones running specific versions of software WITHOUT A FRIGGIN' APP STORE??? No, I am not talking about copying the Apple App store that came years later. The idea was an old one, with a successful implementation. I am talking about BREW (US/.ers should know it) which was working over a wide variety of non-smartphone level hardware, so it should have been much easier for Nokia to set it up for their own devices. And to add insult to injury, in 2005 Nokia released the 770 "internet tablet" with Maemo, I got one for our company to evaluate possible developing on it. I remember saying that it was idiotic to keep on pushing with more incompatible Symbian iterations instead of working on that wonderful platform they had and make it friendly enough for a phone. Well, it turns out they being idiotic and they sort of found out 5 years too late. Although they are still not dropping Symbian, at least they are giving MeeGo a try. Can you imagine what they would have done by now had they been developing Maemo phones for the last 5 years? They would probably have had an answer to iPhone... RIGHT BACK THEN when the iPhone was launched!
Still, 21Mbit which is deployed in many countries and called 3G is close. In fact, at least a couple of countries have deployed HSPA+ at 28Mbit and the technology has a theoretical max of 56Mbit. And it is always called 3G or at most 3.5G. You can't go calling something 4G unless it is much faster as 3G was to 2G.
It seems kind of obvious, reading that Verizon's LTE can give 5 - 12Mbit and WiMax 3 - 6Mbit, doesn't it? How can they advertise that as 4G when my current 3G network (Cosmote in Greece) offers HSPA+ at up to 21Mbit and while I don't have an HSPA+ device to test that, I do get the 3-7Mbit that my HSDPA device promises. Now that I look at the specs, my N900 at 10/2 capability should be even faster than my 7.2Mbit usb modem, perhaps I should benchmark it to make sure and throw away the modem...
IIRC the GTX 460 is the lowest-end nVidia card that supports FP64, and if that is the case it is definitely the cheapest CUDA development platform for those who are into that. Then again, I am personally hoping OpenCL picks up and we get good dev tools and support since it is a much more exciting technology. Compare developing a program to run on a number of specific manufacturer's GPUs, to developing a program to run on a heterogeneous system taking advantage of the specific strengths of available GPUs, CPUs, APUs etc and at the same time does not tie you to a single manufacturer.
This seems to be one of the worst reviews out there, looks like it comes directly from the nVidia PR department. The main reason, apart from the benchmark selection and lack of any methodology details, is that it only pits the new cards against an OC card that nVidia strategically priced yesterday and had EVGA send it to the reviewers asking for this to be the AMD competition. Also, I don't see the prices that the article uses, because even the sites that did try out the EVGA card (along with others of course, unlike this site here) stated it is competitive but did not notice a price/perf advantage. The point is that while the OC cards vary in price and availability (since the good ones use hand picked GPU's, at their introduced price points the AMD cards have the best price/performance, and absolute performance over the regular 460 versions. In fact, all other reviewers seem to say that even at yesterday's price cuts the regular GTX 460 is a bad buy, while interestingly if you can go to the GTX 470 price that is the only point nVidia now leads. Unless in Great Britain there is some weird pricing going on hence the article...
What don't you get? If you have any 2 year old card or a low-end 1 year old card, these cards will give you a big improvement at a price that is considered "mid-range". In fact, thanks to this release you can now get for $180 (HD 6850) a bit better performance than $230 gave you up to 2 days ago (GTX 460 1GB). If you already have a good card, I guess you have to wait for next month's high-end release, but that comes with a price. Since it is always about price/perf, all reviews correctly state that this launch was very beneficial to the consumer (look at nVidia's price drops). Of course if you are like me and only play Civilization 5 on an otherwise HTPC (it being the only Windows machine in the house), the good ole' HD4650 is fine and will be until you want to e.g. check out a 3D blu-ray in a couple of years when 3D projectors/displays are better priced, which is when you will pick up something like an HD6650 or HD7650 for $50...
Ok, FTFA, it seems that the researchers did a very simplistic model and then found some videos so that they can measure what the animals actually do and noticed that they did not fit their model. So, nothing to see here until someone really sits down and models the wet dog oscillations with accuracy and tell us what the optimal frequency is (so that we can teach our dog if it is not that good with drying of course!).
Judging from how the crowd responds on the linked video, it is interesting to see that Sharon Apple is not far away. Well, I mean it is not far away temporally, since spatially it is still a few thousand km away, in Japan.
BTW whoever has not seen Macross Plus, should do so immediately (there is a more detailed-plot 4 episode version and a more action oriented movie version), it is one of the best anime ever (especially if you had watched Macross/Robotech as a kid).
The general idea is that the 5850/5870 will be phased out as these cheaper new cards will be introduced, so the AMD mid to up-range lineup will be 5750/5770, 6850/6870, 6950/6970 (next month, + 6990 later). So, that does make sense since the 6850 and 5750 will be out at the same time and the former is much faster (and that is indicated by its x8xx vs x7xx), and also has the new features (like HDMI 1.4, 3D and those are indicated by its 6xxx vs 5xxx). But the 5850/5870 will not disappear overnight so for a while these will be out too, so AMD could have avoided any confusion by, e.g. naming the new cards 6830/6850 or something like that...
Also what's up with the summary? APU = Applications Processer (sic) Unit? Spelling mistake AND acronym mistake in one? (It's supposed to be Accellerated Processing Unit)
No, the quote was used in the wrong context. He was not referring to his laptop/data but his calendar which was in the stolen backpack that was returned by the thief (backpack with calendar, other documents etc) a few hours later. Then, a week later he also got the USB with his work for which we simply know that it was not backed up well... Way to go Telegraph. Read this instead: http://www.thelocal.se/29636/20101015/
Wrong. Trolls count to three just fine and they do have "many", which comes after three and before "lots". Also they can probably count just fine to whatever number should the environment be cool enough...
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Are you kidding? Everyone that isn't a 'computer person' is still using their daughter's name...
Still, "Random Frequent Flier" is not crackable with this brute force method... Not to mention that other child first names can hurt the attacker - remember little Bobby tables?
They do. For as many places as they're in, their coverage tends to be rather iffy if you get out of the major metro areas.
To be fair, having used Verizon (work phone) and T-Mobile (personal) for the 5-6 years I was in the states, I found that going out of the cities meant negligible coverage even for Verizon, so even when we say Verizon has the best coverage (very expensive and very bad lock-in tactics though), for a European (used to getting coverage from the subway to the middle of nowhere) it is still abysmal. And while on average I did see Verizon getting better signal in some suburban areas etc, in NYC T-Mobile was definately the better choice, as I was enjoying 2+ Mbps data transfer on my N900 (HSPA - I hear it is now called "4G" in the US hehe).
Totally depends on what you're after. It's a so-so phone, but a pocket computer like none-other. Phone capabilities were tertiary (but still essential) for me, behind data and hackability. It's got some things that make no sense, and some that are just dumb, but I won't go to Android from here, never mind WP7 or the iPhone. And if you use Linux regularly, all the capability is there if you want it.
Well said. I don't think it is worse as a phone than say the Windows Mobile (pre-7) phones, but the iphone is a more polished experience in that respect (although not even close to the easy to use plain ol' non-smart phones). But, being a computer geek, I could not see myself going to even Android (I won't even mention iOS), the phone functionality is bare but not annoying to make me can consider giving up the amazing capabilities. I will just wait until the next MeeGo devices (hoping that MeeGo will not be worse than Maemo).
All slashdotters should do themselves a favor and check it out. I imagine the average response will be:
- It's - a - UNIX - system... I know this... ;)
Time Machine is not backup.
That is what *I* am saying. The way OP is using it, it is like a repository, he can't claim "his backup is deleted" when he is using a backup tool as a repository.
Oh, because Time Machine apparently is not supposed to be something like svn/git. According to apple:
Time Machine will automatically back up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on a given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.
Note the "spare copy" - you are not meant to delete files you need from your working directories.
Yes, I get it, I was using Amanda over a decade ago. And it is exactly the reason I said it is more liable to corruption than just having your files somewhere. So it provides more functionality than just a backup copy PROVIDED THAT you don't go deleting your original files - otherwise you have the extra historical functionality but at a great risk.
Hmm... So it would be a bit like me using rsync without the --delete option so that data that gets deleted is not erased from the backup and then I go and ERASE data that I NEED from my working copy, since, you know, it is "backed up" ??? ;)
Hate to break it to the OP if that is the case, but keeping a single copy of your data cannot be called "backup" in any way. The whole situation sounds idiotic, as a historical backup that can get corrupted in various ways used as your single data store is LESS safe than not having a backup at all. But then again we are talking about a Mac user and kdawson no less...
Also, backups are backups. He can just create new ones.
Exactly, that is what I don't understand. I have to use a Mac at work, but I've never tried Time Machine since I use rsync on everything - even Windows machines. But in any case, if TM "backs up" your data, you end up with your original data + a backup with the point being you can lose one of the two and still have your data. So what happened here? He lost his backup, then what about his original data? How did he lose all his work when only the backup is gone?
Also, he probably messed things up by killing processes etc. Next time use rsync - nothing happens if you kill it while it's working.
And finally, A/V on a Mac? Seriously? Why just throttle down your cpu to half its frequency and just PRETEND you are running A/V software. You will have the same chance getting viruses, plus no problems like the one we are discussing now.
I have an iPhone supplied by my company and it stays tethered to my dev box as a debugger. I never once had the urge to carry it around with me as I was happy with a plain dumb phone and an older (but much more capable than an iPhone PDA - the X51v with full VGA, 624MHz etc) for when I wanted to watch movies (without having to recompress them) while traveling. And sometimes I would have to do a little work while on the road, so a full keyboard, ssh etc were required.
That was until a year ago, when I switched to a N900. It can do everything my phone, my pda and my netbook can do (with varying degrees of success) and more!
- As a phone: I still say basic phones are better than any smartphone (and especially touch-screen ones) for the actual making of calls where large screens are simply a disadvantage and small sizes, physical keys etc make a better experience. Moreover, I suspect the "flaws" you refer to are in the phone part of the N900, since it is rather obvious that the developers had geeks in mind, so it still feels like a phone app running on a computer and not a phone that has more capabilities. But there really is nothing particularly annoying and the audio quality and reception are very good. Plus there are some nice advantages. For example when making a call you can go through your voice network or through skype - this is rather seamless from a UI perspective. Then, you have "conversations" which is like a multi-IM client, but SMSs are also treated the same way, showing discussion threads with your contacts.
-As a PDA: See below. It can do much more than any PDA has ever been able to do.
-As a Netbook replacement: I can't really launch my IDE, but I have ssh/svn and vi to do my emergency code edits and have my projects rebuilt on my servers etc. That is what I personally needed the Netbook for, but apart from that it is a full linux machine, even has a full (flash etc) browser and I can open and switch from/to many apps/windows without feeling I am on a limited device. Plus I don't need an extra 3G usb dongle to have broadband everywhere, or an extra bluetooth gps to find my way!
Anyway, let us say this is the ultimate geek device that can also act as a phone and it would be great if they can give us a worthy successor and also work on polishing Maemo/MeeGo for non-geek users so that everyone can enjoy the best (says I) mobile platform.
Actually it is not even like that. $100 billion is over an estimated 30 years for ISS, while just the war in Iraq costs over $100 billion per year, ON TOP of the $600+ billion per year for the base US army budget. The ISS and everything that has been spent in space exploration over the last 2-3 decades is peanuts compared to military spending.
You are right in most of your points and TFA is idiotic, however:
(That said, widescreen monitors suck for programming.)
Eh, no, you are just using them incorrectly. Rotate 90 degrees and try again.
I just had to create a youtube account to upload this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dr_EjKV5CM . It's from almost ten years ago (Greek TV), so perhaps the current version is less hilarious?
Also it has to do with another point in the article. While Jennifer is in the future, there is no Jenifer in 1985 to grow old, another paradox. Although I strongly advise against trying to rationalize the plot of this amazingly entertaining trilogy, the way I think we should explain it keeping in the spirit of the movies is: The future is as it would be had the Delorean not traveled in time, at least for a while, since the events that would happen during the visit in the future had not happened yet. Let's not forget that there was a potential that Jennifer would not return, e.g. if she died in the future, her future self should disappear. Then, since we assume her actions are not predetermined, they could not possibly merge in the timeline until she actually returned to 1985. Her older self could not remember her, since it was not yet decided what she will do next and when/how she will return to '85 to grow old, so her grown old state can only be in some sort of "limbo", being in the state she would have been without the time travel until the travel was completed so that there could be some continuity in her existence... ;)
I am not sure if I made any sense, which is why, as I said, I always advise against analyzing this or any time-travel movie. You simply can't have a solid plot going BACK in time... Going only forward OTOH... Can't wait for a Forever War movie version!
I am sure that with Casio's upcoming BionicEye artificial implantable eye bulbs, the difference will be astounding!
Exactly. My company was developing for Symbian (among various platforms), and after years of trying to keep up withe various incompatible OS releases while not leaving the numerous previous gen devices out of the loop, at the Symbian 9 release we have up. Porting our app collection would require way too much effort due to the significant changes and it that effort would be squared if we also wanted to keep supporting the 90%+ (at least for a while) of symbian phones out there that could not run the new versions... I mean, what is the point of having that closed ecosystem with signed apps and everything, and specific phones running specific versions of software WITHOUT A FRIGGIN' APP STORE??? No, I am not talking about copying the Apple App store that came years later. The idea was an old one, with a successful implementation. I am talking about BREW (US /.ers should know it) which was working over a wide variety of non-smartphone level hardware, so it should have been much easier for Nokia to set it up for their own devices.
And to add insult to injury, in 2005 Nokia released the 770 "internet tablet" with Maemo, I got one for our company to evaluate possible developing on it. I remember saying that it was idiotic to keep on pushing with more incompatible Symbian iterations instead of working on that wonderful platform they had and make it friendly enough for a phone. Well, it turns out they being idiotic and they sort of found out 5 years too late. Although they are still not dropping Symbian, at least they are giving MeeGo a try. Can you imagine what they would have done by now had they been developing Maemo phones for the last 5 years? They would probably have had an answer to iPhone... RIGHT BACK THEN when the iPhone was launched!
Still, 21Mbit which is deployed in many countries and called 3G is close. In fact, at least a couple of countries have deployed HSPA+ at 28Mbit and the technology has a theoretical max of 56Mbit. And it is always called 3G or at most 3.5G. You can't go calling something 4G unless it is much faster as 3G was to 2G.
It seems kind of obvious, reading that Verizon's LTE can give 5 - 12Mbit and WiMax 3 - 6Mbit, doesn't it? How can they advertise that as 4G when my current 3G network (Cosmote in Greece) offers HSPA+ at up to 21Mbit and while I don't have an HSPA+ device to test that, I do get the 3-7Mbit that my HSDPA device promises. Now that I look at the specs, my N900 at 10/2 capability should be even faster than my 7.2Mbit usb modem, perhaps I should benchmark it to make sure and throw away the modem...
IIRC the GTX 460 is the lowest-end nVidia card that supports FP64, and if that is the case it is definitely the cheapest CUDA development platform for those who are into that.
Then again, I am personally hoping OpenCL picks up and we get good dev tools and support since it is a much more exciting technology. Compare developing a program to run on a number of specific manufacturer's GPUs, to developing a program to run on a heterogeneous system taking advantage of the specific strengths of available GPUs, CPUs, APUs etc and at the same time does not tie you to a single manufacturer.
This seems to be one of the worst reviews out there, looks like it comes directly from the nVidia PR department. The main reason, apart from the benchmark selection and lack of any methodology details, is that it only pits the new cards against an OC card that nVidia strategically priced yesterday and had EVGA send it to the reviewers asking for this to be the AMD competition. Also, I don't see the prices that the article uses, because even the sites that did try out the EVGA card (along with others of course, unlike this site here) stated it is competitive but did not notice a price/perf advantage.
The point is that while the OC cards vary in price and availability (since the good ones use hand picked GPU's, at their introduced price points the AMD cards have the best price/performance, and absolute performance over the regular 460 versions. In fact, all other reviewers seem to say that even at yesterday's price cuts the regular GTX 460 is a bad buy, while interestingly if you can go to the GTX 470 price that is the only point nVidia now leads.
Unless in Great Britain there is some weird pricing going on hence the article...
What don't you get? If you have any 2 year old card or a low-end 1 year old card, these cards will give you a big improvement at a price that is considered "mid-range". In fact, thanks to this release you can now get for $180 (HD 6850) a bit better performance than $230 gave you up to 2 days ago (GTX 460 1GB). If you already have a good card, I guess you have to wait for next month's high-end release, but that comes with a price.
Since it is always about price/perf, all reviews correctly state that this launch was very beneficial to the consumer (look at nVidia's price drops).
Of course if you are like me and only play Civilization 5 on an otherwise HTPC (it being the only Windows machine in the house), the good ole' HD4650 is fine and will be until you want to e.g. check out a 3D blu-ray in a couple of years when 3D projectors/displays are better priced, which is when you will pick up something like an HD6650 or HD7650 for $50...
Ok, FTFA, it seems that the researchers did a very simplistic model and then found some videos so that they can measure what the animals actually do and noticed that they did not fit their model. So, nothing to see here until someone really sits down and models the wet dog oscillations with accuracy and tell us what the optimal frequency is (so that we can teach our dog if it is not that good with drying of course!).
Judging from how the crowd responds on the linked video, it is interesting to see that Sharon Apple is not far away. Well, I mean it is not far away temporally, since spatially it is still a few thousand km away, in Japan.
BTW whoever has not seen Macross Plus, should do so immediately (there is a more detailed-plot 4 episode version and a more action oriented movie version), it is one of the best anime ever (especially if you had watched Macross/Robotech as a kid).
The general idea is that the 5850/5870 will be phased out as these cheaper new cards will be introduced, so the AMD mid to up-range lineup will be 5750/5770, 6850/6870, 6950/6970 (next month, + 6990 later). So, that does make sense since the 6850 and 5750 will be out at the same time and the former is much faster (and that is indicated by its x8xx vs x7xx), and also has the new features (like HDMI 1.4, 3D and those are indicated by its 6xxx vs 5xxx). But the 5850/5870 will not disappear overnight so for a while these will be out too, so AMD could have avoided any confusion by, e.g. naming the new cards 6830/6850 or something like that...
Also what's up with the summary? APU = Applications Processer (sic) Unit? Spelling mistake AND acronym mistake in one? (It's supposed to be Accellerated Processing Unit)
It is just you. The /. summaries have always been as misleading as they can get.
The difference is that in this case TFA is more misleading.
No, the quote was used in the wrong context. He was not referring to his laptop/data but his calendar which was in the stolen backpack that was returned by the thief (backpack with calendar, other documents etc) a few hours later. Then, a week later he also got the USB with his work for which we simply know that it was not backed up well...
Way to go Telegraph. Read this instead: http://www.thelocal.se/29636/20101015/
Well, we're not exactly back in the days of the Avro Arrow...
Wrong. Trolls count to three just fine and they do have "many", which comes after three and before "lots". Also they can probably count just fine to whatever number should the environment be cool enough...