Am I in the minority by really not giving a shit about being tracked? It's not personally identifying and I'd rather be shown ads that are relevant than something I have no interest in. For example, a few weeks ago Slashdot were running Nexus 7 adverts. First ad I've clicked in 10 years or so.

DualShock 3's cost the same as a game, at least in the UK, which shocked me. I guess that's the price of motion and wireless

Don't worry, people like that just live in a magical world where R&D is free and people aren't paid wages. It's doubly bullshit when people are whinging about the iPhone because it's priced pretty much exactly the same as every other high end smartphone out there.

Automatic updates are only bad in corporations, where it matters much more if something goes even slightly wrong. They are a brilliant idea for home use, given that your average user cannot be counted on to update anything at all.

I don't think it's too much of an issue from what I've seen. Apple definitely do it the most, but it's in programs like Calendar, Contacts, and Reminders, which perform limited functions and don't require complex user interfaces. Prettying them up a bit doesn't detract from usability. If you were to say, add a traditional paint pallete to Photoshop, that would be a different matter.

Not really, there's only two iOS devices if you don't consider each revision a separate product.

Eh, doubtful. BD-XL is a defined although currently unused standard which supports up to 128GB, they'll probably move onto that.

Okay, this argument that an OS X point release is equivalent to a service pack is bullshit. New functionality, new bundled applications, rewriting and reworking underlying technologies != bug fixes and patches. The OS X 10.x.y upgrades are the equivalent of service packs, just smaller and more frequent.

You are aware that OS X comes with gcc installed right?

Even with Gatekeeper enabled, if you right-click an app and click open, rather than double clicking it, it will open/install fine. If that's too much of an inconvenience for you, it's literally one radio button to turn it off.

Surely the issue is with Secure Boot, not UEFI? Secure boot is only being pushed by Microsoft, it's not an essential part of UEFI.

It's quite disgusting really.

Good to see the right thing has been done, for now at least.

These will likely be a very popular choice for HTPCs, especially with Intel's integrated GPUs improving as they are. Perhaps there would be a market for a taller, wider board with space for a discreet GPU, although I dread to think of the heat and airflow implications of that.