Wow, nice straw man. The registry has nothing to do with itunes suckiness. Itunes is bloated and slow. its a what, 100mb download for a fancy media player and organiser. Winamp, foobar2000, mediamonkey and pretty much every other media player I've used over the years are tons lighter, quicker and just plain work better.

I mean, itunes can't even automatically pick up new media you put in the media folder on your computer.

FWIW, the registry is NOT slow. And you don't have to "open the database" to get each setting. When you log on your registry hive is loaded into memory, and its pretty quick. However, it does suck having a bunch of programs settings stored in one binary file, and file associations on windows do suck.

That is also what was so good about Stargate SG1. It was quite common for a scientist-type character to say to one of the other characters "we found this gizmo on an old abandoned planet. Their technology was way ahead of ours. We have no idea how it works, but you press this button here, and this happens! Isn't that handy!"

At least you've got it better than australian TV.

Typically the networks here hype the shit out of upcoming shows or new seasons, highlighting the fact that it is "fast-tracked" from the US. 1/3rd of the way through the season they will without warning suddenly either miss a few weeks, or show a few re-runs of old episodes in random order, without advertising that it is a re-run. Sometimes a few new epoisodes will be shown, but the ratings probably aren't what the network hoped (because they have successfully driven away a decent proportion of their viewers)

They they will move the show to another timeslot, 11:30 on a weeknight or something. Possibly they will randomly change the timeslot each week week for a few weeks after this.

Another few weeks of this and the show will disappear without a trace, never to be mentioned again.

They have done this with supernatural, V, house, NCIS.

A lot of people here now just download torrents of shows if they like the torrent. Of course, the networks now winge that "internet is destroying us".

Or maybe the iphone 4 is more sensitive to water than the 3gs?

Can't buy ARM outside a cellphone? Are you kidding?

Check this out - this is just one I found with about 5 seconds

http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKND01

There are dozens of ARM boards out there suitable for DIY/embedded systems

If a large number of people were behind a NAT device then I don't reckon those people could accept incoming connections - meaning they couldn't seed at all, making their speeds suck, and everyone else's speeds suffer as well (less seeders)

So, maybe MPAA/RIAA are fine with this idea. We should all be happy content consumers, we don't need the ability to distribute our own bits at all.

And about it taking 25 seconds to boot? Well guess what, my itouch takes longer than that to boot. Iphones and ipads I've played with all take much longer than that to boot too.

Seriously, WTF is it with people obsessing with boot times? If you need to reboot your computer/device more than once a week these days, then you are doing something wrong.

Every laptop I've owned in the last 10 years has had the ability to last more than a week in "sleep" mode before the battery goes flat, and wakes almost instantly.

Windows 7 shares the same kernel as server 2008 R2.

Yep, and lets not also forget that a LOT of the sites had nothing do do with child porn. And some dude did an analysis of the sites and listed the results on his blog. Not the actual sites, just out of x sides, y were child porn, z were gay porn, etc etc. This proved the "quality" of the blacklist was fairly shakey at best.

And guess what? His site was then added to the blacklist

Yeah, +1 for that. A decent quality PSU is way underrated. Often people who build a PC from components use the cheapest power supply they can find, or the really really crappy one that was thrown in with the case... Or maybe that was just me...

Anyway, about 7 years ago I built an athlon from (cheap) parts, it was as unstable as fuck, and I ran some ram tests that showed the ram was dodgy so I eventually replaced the ram with quality kingmax stuff and the leafblower PSU with an expensive silent PSU from Q-Tech and my puta was from that moment one of the most solid computers I've ever used... I've still got that PSU in my main desktop PC, and its still a very stable quiet powerful machine.

Sometimes you get what you pay for...

Firefox 3.6 is pretty sluggish compared to the latest 4.0 betas, and I beleive that b6 will have a lot more JS optimisation enabled.

So yeah, I'd expect FF 3.6 to be the slowest of the bunch. Excluding IE of course, which is in a whole different league of slow.
Actually, there are probably several empty leagues between FF/Chrome/Safari/Opera and IE

And another useless factoid is the team behind Outlook Web Access invented AJAX. (call it web 2.0 if you are that way inclined)
(but wait, I thought microsoft never did anything truely innovating...)

They wrote an ActiveX control for IE 4 to do asyncronous http requests that could be called from client-side scripts on the page for OWA in exchange 2000. Microsoft saw the potential in this, and added support for XMLHTTP into IE 5. It was quite a few years until the rest of the world woke up to the potential of this technique, and AJAX really took off.

You can read the full history of OWA here.

Bingo, you've got it.

Now hackers have full access to the hypervisor Its only a (probably short) matter of time until apps appear that either lie about the firmware version, or even better, allow you to upgrade the firmware and retaining hypervisor access.

Totally agree. Only problem is writing recursive CTE queries is beyond most programmers. Hell, a lot of programmers struggle with anything but simple inner joins.

IMHO CTE's are one of the most underused and powerful features of SQL. Not just for recursive queries, but for bridging the gap between functional and procedural programming.

I write all my complex queries as a series of simple CTE's now - each CTE gets me one step closer to the actual query I need, and the magic of the query optimizer combines them all into a single query plan. Makes testing, debugging and maintaining a complex query about a million times easier.

I wonder if that includes the time inbetween running out of fuel and slamming into the gound.