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Will you be able to run any OS you want in the future? Maybe not. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/ This is a big deal.

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Nice. Not quite thedailywtf.com material though.

Archer looks good, will check it out. Have been watching Venture Brothers, sounds somewhat similar?

I don't know. For me the secret of getting good battery life is learning which things eat battery fast and not do those things. Seems to me that the biggest complainers are the ones that don't really understand the things this mini pocket computer is doing. A lot of apps like twitter use GPS...

The article I linked mentions a workaround for this.

Memory. I was under the impression the types of batteries used in cell phones didn't have the memory problem.

That was a pretty fun read on UV merc.

More info http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2012/01/09/microsoft-previews-options-around-mass-storage-in-windows-8/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-storage-for-scale-resiliency-and-efficiency.aspx

Another system that I tried and works is movies sold with ultraviolet. It is a little quirky as mentioned but I was able to get mobile versions downloaded. Much easier than ripping and processing a disk too. http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/Amazon-gets-board-UltraViolet-ap-1501388500.html?x=0

BTW, ESD straps done correctly have a huge resistor inline so that you can't ground and kill yourself by hitting voltage somewhere.

Interesting point but electricity should not be going into his head. If so it isn't a static problem. Is there even exposed metal on the headphones?

Yeah you're going to have some real trouble if the systems themselves are having stability issues. I also don't have problems using plain windows copy paste for say 6TB at a time. I do 40GB transfers all the time. That copy program mentioned in the utility section is pretty handy too. That's...

Several podcasts I listen to have had mentions of static in their earphones shocking them in the ear during the show. It's made for some interesting listening with sudden cursing tourettes style. Wear an anti static wrist strap? Go with a wireless headphone setup? Ground your chair and thus...

It is, it just dumbfounds me that Showtime and HBO go 90% of the way and then lock it out any non subscribers. Put a price on it, any price just make it available.

I think they make some really good stuff, but they are just doing some weird stuff with the copying. Areas they could easily differentiate themselves in. I'm not saying this is good or bad but it certainly has attracted legal attention, and isn't fairing well in that attention. I have no problem...

Showtime adds streaming I can't get either. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/new-showtime-anytime-app-brings-showtimes-movies-and-shows-to-the-ipad/

Me neither but it made all the mobile tech press. http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/2/2675592/samsung-galaxy-tab-ad-poaches-child-actress Which reminds me that 2011 was the year I started following mobile press, it is far more entertaining than anything PC press has to offer.

That's a good point I hadn't thought about and reminded me. Think about the grease monkeys we had here in US mills. Back then they had a huge steam engine or waterfall driving a bunch of shafts mounted in the ceiling of a factory. They had big leather belts running from the ceiling to the...

2011 was the year that moved me to Comcast for ISP. I had a lot of micro outages with Fairpoint that they could never track down and I lived with it for years. So far five months with comcast has been more reliable and much faster. Unfortunately unlike the DSL I don't have internet when the...

I am reasonably certain that they could do a LOT of things to improve conditions. But I also believe they have already set an example there of improvements. Apple has massive production facilities focused on a small product line that quite easily draw focus when you want to start poking around...

s/n ratio IS very good here, why I keep coming back. I completely fail to even keep up on other boards.

http://lifehacker.com/5873407/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-wpa-password-with-reaver Another reason not to like the linksys/cisco gear. In my very small exposure with them they have exhibited very significant problems with the web page setup, so it is of no surprise to me that this article...

Wanted this for years, fortunately I am only rarely in the NYC area. http://consumerist.com/2012/01/microsoft-patents-gps-feature-that-steers-you-away-from-slums.html

The nosedive http://www.changewaveresearch.com/articles/2012/smart_phones_20120109.html

Which every notebook/netbook for the past couple years at least should be getting right.

I was under the impression they already did that, the area not being somewhere you can go elsewhere and make more with those benefits etc. Americans would have a hard time adjusting to it sure.

I really did get the wrong thread.

What I am thinking. Even using an old PATA drive and a USB converter would fit here.

ATS sounding good. http://www.freep.com/article/20120109/BUSINESS03/201090367/2013-Cadillac-ATS-puts-an-American-spin-on-luxury?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/sns-2013-cadillac-ats-at-the-2011-detroit-auto-sh-20120108,0,2560706.story...

Such a weird position to be in to have really good stuff that won't sell. I rather like my UD5, I imagine that USB3 would make a great computer. I'm all the way out of ebay now, they plus paypal end up taking over 20%. Only really good for not filling landfills, sometimes not even that.

I have had two out of the last five high end video cards die on me, both were over $300 new. Small sample size but makes me think whats going on? Further the company for both wasn't around still and I had to do a credit card claim to get them replaced. Definitely something shady going on with...

HBO Go requires you to have cable already, so completely useless. Something I would pay for. Anyway covered this elsewhere.

Having dealt with Drive extender and being thoroughly unimpressed with it I'm not excited. There is no speed benefit, in fact there is a significant speed penalty as demegrator goes about its business for disc duplication and data leveling. I wasn't even able to stream a Blu-ray movie off of...

Irony http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2687804/symantec-source-code-stolen-hackers-endpoint-antivirus

Really? Where are they streaming?

Damnit. http://consumerist.com/2012/01/report-warner-bros-will-stretch-new-release-rental-window-from-28-to-56-days.html http://consumerist.com/2012/01/if-netflix-wants-to-rent-out-hbo-dvds-it-will-have-to-get-them-elsewhere.html

Keep in mind that with locked phones a lot of those detail settings are hidden. Locked phones are quite common here in the US with subsidies. The idea is they choose the settings that work and that's all you need.

Unlock the phone this morning to see an application permissions request for an https site, it is our proprietary aging application. So I approve it and hit okay this this leads to a complete phone reboot. Four minutes and four seconds later after the reboots I see a changes accepted message...

All iBooks purchased books are ePub. I don't know what the deal is with their DRM but I have yet to find a book with it. Also if you go to the publisher you can get whatever format you want usually. I generally use stanza as a reader. It also does some basic conversions and allows you to edit...

True and on the latest generation eink I think they made four or five refreshes in a row quick and the next one is the long slow one. The older ones did the full screen refresh every page turne.

I actually used to use beyond compare for USB sticks. Does it scale well to TB of files and tens of thousands of files?

I'm still following this thread I really need to get beyond copy paste for my backups.

In the US RIM is sliding down nicely in market share but they have a LOT of international business. If you ignore the technical warning signs their financials aren't desperate or even really bad. That's why I think it's going to be quite some time. But boy if they can't get QNX out the door in...

I think merc was referring to changing citizenship. Which is no piece of cake either tax wise but it isn't forever.

For best possible reading experience I think the eink kindle with buttons (non touch) is about tops. For me it's about not carrying an additional thing though and I read on my phone. Book is always with me.

I don't know about sealed but there aren't any drain holes. I have spilled a little coffee and tea on it but not much and it did nothing to it. I have a feeling you could take it apart and clean it if you did flood it. I'm sold enough on pricey keyboards that the next one is going to be one of...

I'm still using the pckeyboards/unicomp customizer. I guess it lasted about a year and a half to two years so far. Still works like new.

I think I agree, I'm focused on devices that do one or two things really well as nothing just does it all. The Dune player does blurays and everything I get through other means over the network file browser, it doesn't have any real cloud services I'm interested in. Apple tv does netflix (though...

I linked this at work on yelp and I have gotten no comments at all. It impresses me just how many people don't care about this, sopa, protect IP et cetera. I read on Twitter this morning that the big providers out there like Google Yahoo etc. might put notices up on their sites one of these days...