Yeah, the blackberry browser in OS6 is fantastic. I find myself using it more frequently then my ipad browser at times...

maybe not as dead as you think. I remember the last olympics was available all online...in full HD....in silverlight. First time I downloaded it, and I have to admit that it was easily the best representation of what I THINK the future of TV should be. All available online, all back events available, at a click of a mouse, including streaming of live events, all in HD. I wonder how many more ppl still have silverlight installed cause of the olympics...

I've owned the Ipad 1 since it originally came out, and paid for a 3G plan since I got it. First off, having constant data access is (personally) one of the major selling features of a tablet. You can say all you want about using your phone as a internet access point, but screen real estate is a huge factor in how functional it is. And having constant access (not just around the house wifi style) is a part of that feature! But it also is RIDICULOUS how companies charge for the feature. Yes, you pay for your toys, and I've paid 30 bucks a month since I got it. That comes out to over $300 bucks just to use a feature! I think Blackberry has the right idea: make teathering with your phones trivial. One plan, total connectivity. I just wish/hope they make it available to all phones, not just blackberry's.

Not sure why the submitter didn't post the Intel response denying it: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/03/23/chip-shot-intel-reaffirms-commitment-to-itanium While you would think Intel would of course deny it, but considering Intel just took the wraps off their next revision of the Itanium, this is pretty much just FUD coming from Oracle.

Do we really have to keep calling this a Sandy Bridge issue? This isn't a sandy bridge issue, the name Sandy bridge is for the CPU. The issue is NOT with the CPU, it's with the chipset Cougar point. The Sandy Bridge is (so far) perfectly fine, and has no issues at all. Of course, I guess "Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Cougar Point chip" doesn't seem as catastrophic.

disclosure: I work for an online p2p payment platform.
While you are correct that sending money via the bank tends to be much much easier, it was not historically the area the Bank wanted to be involved in. To be clear, most banks want to keep your money INSIDE their vaults, making it hard for you to take them out. They actually make money on idle funds you have.
And while you can say that it doesn't cost you a cent, it actually does (at least inherently). You must have an account with said bank to be offered online payment options, which means you either have enough funds to avoid paying monthly banking fee's (which of course means you have enough funds so that you are making the bank money), or you are paying a monthly account fee that covers this cost. To say you aren't paying a fee is naive.

The reason why it is such an issue with companies that are not banks?
1. identification is difficult (consider how much information a bank has about you...do you really want Paypal knowing that much as well?).
2. Compliance issues with registered users. With a man of ill-repute sends money from one person to another, with a bank, that person had to register with registered documents. With companies that are not banks, you are limited in what you can ask for, and what you can keep.
3. Compliance issues on who you can send to (you cannot send "anonymous" money generally for national security reasons).
4. Merchant functionality costs money, and is a big money generator for companies.
5. Money generation. Ie. how do these companies make money? Banks already have a source of income. With companies that are not banks, this generally tend to be fee's on sends (which people hate and complain about...but then never notice they are already paying fee's for their banks!), monthly fee's, or integrations.


Not to say that banks aren't opening up now.

Just as a reference, mastercard has just announced their own P2P payment platform, there is obopay, zoompass, hyperwallet, and a dozen other payment platforms out there.

I'm not sure if you are serious or not but... There are a few things that Western Union has over paypal, but the largest is that Western Union is available in a massive number of countries (think 240 countries), with integrations into mobile partners. I'm not entilrely sure what Paypal is but I remember that just recently they've expanded into China. The other point being that just about any corner store can become a western union kiosk. Instead of having to register you bank account/credit card to Paypal, someone can simply send you the money via western union agent. If Western Union had made and internet payment system (which they have now), with actual reasonable rates, they could still destroy paypal. Unfortunately, they are content with just screwing people on fee's and % points on exchange rates, instead of taking over paypals market.

Depends on what type of access they want.
To change code? Hell no
To get access to production logs? Yes
To get database-read only access? Maybe

With our company, we use to have full control, but with compliance issues, that changed in a hurry. The only time this ever became a problem is because our product integrates with a moderate (10+) 3rd party integrations. Most of these integrations have garbage UAT environments that never behave as the production environments, and what that means is when something goes wrong, the only recourse you have is to look at production to see what went wrong.

Or, you could simply turn off the internet reliance of steam.

I check out what's on sale on Steam on their website, see something good, boot up steam, en-able steam's internet connection, buy the game, start the game up once, then immediate set Steam to offline mode.

Though, I've heard that not every game can be played offline, the majority can.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-AGCB-2555

Not to be a troll, but that has more to do with your standing with the bank, and less to do with the bank. There is a clearing process that occurs whenever you deposit anything, and if you are in good standing, you can have that clearing process removed. With most deposits of "untrusted" sources, a bank will hold a request for money until it can clear the money request (which is about 3 days for businesses, shorter for banks).

I've deposited 10k into my bank account and withrdrew it immediately, but hey, I'm pretty sure someone will jump in with another small sample to prove me wrong.

Look up zoompass or obopay as some alternatives (beyond Paypal). There's actually a surprisingly lot of alternatives out there, just gotta find the one thats right for you.

Unless you were being sarcastic, and then you get just woooshhhh me :)

And who's copyright are they infringing?
The group isn't even around anymore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_(warez)
and I somehow doubt that they copyrighted their "product"