HBO is experimenting. It is available in Nordic countries (hbonordic.com) on iOS, Android and web already. This "HBO Now" is instead available only in North America.

So different offers whatever suits them in different markets...

840 and 840 EVO are using TLC NAND which is "early SSD" all over again in some respects, and the bug itself is not in the wear-leveling, but on read-retry on cells which are not written to for a certain period of time. Agressive wear leveling (by shifting the data around) can get around this problem, but it is not desirable, especially on TLC NAND which has fewer P/E cycles than MLC or SLC.

So hopefully the fix is really in the read calibration to get "right" results from cells without retries, and not a workaround which would lower the life expectancy of the drive.

The "real" functions people are joking about when talking about PHP mostly come directly from mysql API.

This is still pretty far-fetched from your original assertion of saying as his opinion that Finland should never do or say anything that could be construed as being antagonistic to Russia. If that would be the case, he would not assess the situation against what Kremlin says the situation is, would he?

Saying that he doesn't support stronger and more permanent NATO bases in Baltic countries is a very different thing. Finland still has politicians and public figures who think that the best way would be the official line from 30-40 years ago which indeed included "pragmatic" stance towards Soviet Union but Tuomioja in his old days is now much more honest and direct than before, and Finland is highly divided when it comes to NATO so his comment is perfectly reasonable coming from person (and party) who is opposed to applying for NATO membership.

For comparison, look at the comments from Paavo Väyrynen (also former foreign minister).

This is simply not true. Just by using Google translate on his home page (www.tuomioja.org) you can see that on his analysis on the situation at Ukraine he puts Russia as supplier of weapons and as part of the ongoing armed conflict. A fact which official Russia (and their supporters) still firmly deny. I can understand your ...umm...criticism with Tuomioja because of his background, but what you say is simply not true.

This has been used already by Nokia in Symbian devices and also on N900 (Maemo).

Granted, memory might have been even more expensive then (even relatively to requirements on what is considered much) and this could have been seen as a "smart choice" and not so surprisingly what happened was that Nokia would squeeze the fast "application" memory to a bare minimum, and it left users complaining that their "C-drive" is full on their mighty 16 GB device with 13 GB free. No premium manufacturer concerned with user experience today would do this (unless they can get away with it transparently and hide the fact from the end user) .

On the other hand - in case of Huntington's there is a 50/50 chance of your children inheriting it from you if you have it. So it can be argued that is it not ethical to test yourself if one of your parents has it in case you are planning to have kids?

I can understand some people do not want to know and still have kids and are ok with that, however I would not be in the case of Huntington's specifically (no cure, very, very nasty disease - although depending on the repetition count of the gene pattern that causes the disease the age and severity of when the disease manifests itself vary).

Managers?

I see this all the time with tech-oriented people as well. They say that we don't need IPv6 because IPv4 and NAT works just fine, and XP is the best thing ever and it is just greed by Microsoft to not support it. What separates tech people and managers is that managers count money. IPv6 and DNSSEC implementation cost money.

Techies who oppose these often cloud their inability or non-desire to learn something new and "complex" in "if it works, don't fix it". Which of course also comes down to investment - if you have to invest your time to learn something new with no immediate (as in pay raise *now* opposed to "able to get a job in 2 years") reward it is easy to write off improvement as unnecessary.

Yeah, every *novice* race driver claims that they can stop faster without ABS.

This has been debunked even on 20 year old ABS systems. In Finland - with professional rally drivers. Yes - on perfect conditions when the driver has the power to start whenever he likes - the non-ABS braking distances were a little bit shorter. But when you introduce even 1 unknown variable (not knowing when to start braking, unknown traction below the wheels, distraction during braking) even the professionals failed to stop faster on non-ABS car.

Thank you for the Washington Times link - the comment section is pure entertainment. I particularly like the piece about Obama being gay whose male lovers were shot before he was elected.

You are mixing causes and effects. I'm sorry for your friend, but I guess the biggest problem was not that 3-way he saw, but that his mom was not an responsible adult. And mixing sexual behavior is not the right way to assess that. It is an easy way, yes - calling somebody a "slut" is among the first thing teenage girls learn on how to insult others.

Ok, now we have established equilibrium - fucking strangers == bad. Yes, it can be, but don't put that on women. (I might disagree, because having sex can be done in a responsible way and there is nothing wrong with that...).

I was with you right before "just fucking everything with a dick". Because how is that harmful to children? Ok, even your first reason "if the bitch cheated" - is it still illegal in US to cheat in some states?

It is sad if the great dads lost custody, and yes, it is problem - females tend to get custody over males in many nations more easily given the same circumstances. But getting into sexual behavior as a deciding criteria...please, go back to 19th century.
 

N9 was moderately successful, but would Maemo have taken off as a competitor to Android and iOS markets? Hard to say - and Jolla might still give it a shot.

But Maemo was far from ready, Nokias HW partner on Maemo (Intel) was (and still is) far from ready, and the whole thing was a management mess. Yes, it could have been fixed - maybe, but frankly Windows Phone was not that bad choice compared to Maemo at the time. The only thing that made N9 come out at all was because Maemo was axed, and the team got "let's show them" -attitude after the fact.

For a nice (but long) history about Maemo / MeeGo read:

http://taskumuro.com/artikkelit/the-story-of-nokia-meego

Cell broadcast is the delivery method (although parent suspected that it was *not* used but they used regular SMS instead, for an example on my Android device (JB) the default is to disable cell broadcast, disabling incoming "normal" SMS is much harder), flash SMS is the name for the "instantly appearing" message.