Funny?!

That day 0 DLC was a preorder bonus. They just gave people the option of paying for it later if they didn't preorder. Seems like a reasonable promotional stratagem to me.

Sadly it looks like you're not completely wrong. Word is that the solar panels haven't deployed. It seems that they're trying to figure out if the module has enough battery power to attempt an ISS docking anyway. I don't know if the spacecraft has an ability to charge from the ISS, or if they would conceivably attempt a spacewalk to deploy the panels, but I'm sure they wouldn't risk stranding a capsule with flat batteries on one of the ISS's docking rings.

I wish I had a mod point for you.

The primary use case for my tablet is reading documents. For that, the 4:3 retina screen is better than the 16:9 and 16:10 screens on all the Android tablets I'm aware of.

If there's an Android tablet with a 4:3 high DPI screen (1024x768 does not cut it for US Letter or A4 typeset documents in single page full screen mode), I'd be interested to hear about it, because I like Android better than iOS for a variety of reasons.

Also, can anyone recommend a great PDF app for Android? I use GoodReader on my iPad and it renders complex PDFs very sharply and extremely fast. I haven't found anything with that kind of rendering speed on Android yet, and I want a better reader app for my Galaxy Note 2. I don't actually care about all the annotation features of GoodReader - I don't need a feature-complete replacement - I just want something that's blazingly fast, high resolution, and at least supports bookmarks & outlines.

Now that the non-Nintendo consoles ship with 8GB of RAM and x64 CPUs, I expect all the console SDKs are going to be pure x64 for the next generation - to use the extra registers, if nothing else! The PC ports won't be switching back to 32 bit mode for no reason. The days of 32 bit AAA games are coming to a close.

Meanwhile, Microsoft would claim all the songs written in C#.

A major victory, or a minor inconvenience?

I'm not sure what your point is.

Yes, we have rubidium, iridium, tellurium etc.

But we also have "platinum". My understanding is that in the early days, some people wanted the name to align with "platinum", and called it "aluminum". Later on, other people decided that the name should align with all the "ium" metals, but the American custom never changed from the older spelling.

In my opinion, it's no big deal. The one Americanism that really grates on me spelling "borough" as "boro".

Well, I kind of assume that some of the dot point revisions are due to security fixes. Sometimes I wonder if having the older ones installed exposes me to risk.

If Sony sells the hardware with little or no profit (or even as a loss leader) with the intention of making the money back from game licencing, then emulated PS4's wouldn't hurt them at all _as long as the games still sell_.

So if they've got effective anti-copying mechanisms (which "totally coincidentally" also ruin the secondary market for used games), then they'd be in gravy.

It would be nice if the Windows application management interface was a _little_ bit more like a package manager, though. It would be great if you could scan through the list of installed programs and see which ones are dependencies for other installed programs and which are not. Then, you could go through removing leaf nodes from the dependency tree until you run out of things that aren't needed, with confidence that you aren't going to be breaking stuff that you actually use.

My pet hate are all the minor dot releases of VC++ frameworks installed by various games. I'm sure I don't *really* need them all, but damned if I can figure out which are expendable.

Hmm, that _is_ a cunning piece of design. A bit like Metro's app docking but actually useful and less sucky.

If someone in Nigeria defrauds a person in Florida via email, where has the crime taken place?

Under whose jurisdiction has the offence occurred?

I agree with you that the answer isn't "in cyberspace", but the fact is that the characteristics of "cybercrime" do actually differ in a significant way from traditional in-person crime.

Impressive. Where did you order your kitchen things?

Or you can use Dropbox to synchronise the password file (which is volatile) and _also_ manually distribute a fixed, multi-hundred-bit key which is combined with the password to form the decryption credential.

That way, someone who breaks into your Dropbox account can get the password vault file, but can't decrypt it unless they also have file system access to (at least) one of your devices.