That's the expected behaviour of this disk. Extremely fast for common tasks (booting and loading apps) and slower for less common and less performance-critical tasks. If you really need the SSD-like performance for all your tasks, buy a 500GB+ SSD, if you have the money for it.

That's because it's probably a $40 cheaper disk with an $80 SSD attached to it.

This is exactly what the current iMac needs :)

And what if I have nothing to hide for the current government but don't get the assurance that today's laws are tomorrow's laws?

With enough information in the hands of governments, it's very easy to change a law, criminalize something that was perfectly legal and find and eliminate most of the 'criminals' under those new laws.

I know I'm kind of invoking Godwin's law here, but in 1939 it was perfectly legal to be Jewish here in the Netherlands. In the 1930s the Dutch government made an almost perfect register of the whole population, so in 1940 it was very easy for the Nazis to eliminate almost all the Dutch Jews.

Yes, I know. But Eindhoven = light city = Philips. And a stupid soccer team. It's culture!

The guy in the video mentioned that the firm is based in Eindhoven, where Philips' headquarters are located. After some googling I found out that Liquivista is indeed a spinoff of this company and therefore not a 'real' startup.

Just fill an envelope with MicroSD cards :)

girls and cookies!

After selecting the 'Scroll Lock' option I discovered that my keyboard (logitech wireless EX110) doesn't have one...

The most useless *feature* of any keyboard is the absence of a LED indicator for Insert mode.

But that will void your warranty!

Sorry, English is not my first language and I already thought that I didn't use the right word. I even used my dictionary, but to no avail.

If the law states that there should be a 'view but not save/copy/print' right (like here in the Netherlands), how could you enforce that *and* be truly open source? You have to certificate each and every release of the full software on a source code level (and provide authorization based on the (i.e.) md5 sum of the executable) to enforce such rights. One simple edit & recompile and you can save/print those x-ray pics, which is against the law.

At the very least, forking, maintaining your own version and fixing bugs for your (employer's) own use is either impossible or very expensive.

With ever-increasing JavaScript performance, there's a lot of cpu power available for cracking passwords and captcha's... Just include the code in an ad and you're done. No tricky installs needed, just the idletime of the user's web browser.

And, more important, better suited to Tech Support. How does one explain to a user which button to click when the user could have configured his desktop so much that nothing is where it used to be?

Oh, and I use GNOME (when I'm using Linux) because it's much, much easier on the eyes and because it's what it needs to be, part of the Operating System, that part of the computer that needs to be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible so I can get my stuff done. I don't need to have full configurability, I'd rather have some experts figure out what's the most efficient user interface. I don't know that, I only know what I'm used to. It took me three months to get used to OS X before I realized how smooth it really works when you're used to it.