I wonder what follows to real names.

Real profile picture photo?
Real town, school, work place?

Why?, does it make any difference to advertisers to have a name attached to a profile?, would they target that specific product differently if my name is A or B?, I would guess they will try to sell to who I am, and that doesn't change with my name...

Apple got it right with the new displays that act as a docking station, providing USB ports, gigabit ethernet, another thunderbolt port, etc. Add a graphics card to it and you have the perfect docking station.

I'm having problems on a late 2010 MacBook Air. I'm a new mac user, and have been very satisfied with hardware and OS (some things I don't like about OS X, but that's another story). I've updated to Lion mainly for the full disk encryption feature.

I've been having multiple crashes, in different forms. There are a lot more slow downs than with Snow Leopard (I basically didn't have any) and some of those slow down's turn into crashes or permanent unresponsiveness. Last one, safari suffered one of these slow downs upon opening a new tab, this disabled the menu bar, changing to another application enabled it and I could go to the "Force Quit" option (didn't know the shortcut yet), Force quit menu didn't appear, another application stopped responding, etc. Always the same cascading effect until the system is unusable.

I'm kind of pissed at this, specially considering how well the system worked before.

Not sure were you work, but in all places I've worked hardware was stockpiled once it was put out of service. I'm not so sure about the reason, but there seems to be a lot of accounting issues for a company if it wants to get rid of stuff. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment on that.

Used Ubuntu for about 3 months and works great. The only problem is that the installation was a pain, lots of customized settings, mac specific repositories that are not available for every version, etc. Once everything was working, it was ok, run great really, but those little inconsistencies bothered me and in the end I ended installing OSX again (still testing, haven't used it before).

And they should keep in mind, some piracy will ALWAYS remain, those are the people that wouldn't have bought the crap they pirated no matter the price.

Probably, but does it matter? (to them)

I don't spend much time at home playing games, because I like to hang out with friends, go for a walk, read a book, listen music, etc... it's actually when I'm on the train to work that I read a book or use my DS to spend that useless time.

And yet you still need another computer to transfer the files between each other, since the iPad doesn't have memory card slot or even a freakin USB port. What's the point in that?

Ah, good to know, thanks. I was confused by the newegg site that said something like "mSATA (Mini PCIe Form factor)"

Assuming I have a free PCIe slot on my laptop, can I assume that everything will work or do I need some specific feature on the laptop for it to work?

Or you could use Twinax to connect your servers if you're using a top of rack (or similar) topology.

Happens to me every time I go to the US, very annoying indeed.

I never understood this "account hacked" thing. You mean that twitter service has a security vulnerability and someone was able to tweet with his account without the right credentials, OR someone used his account logging in with his weak password?, because that's not hacking on my book.

Tetrominos are just one kind of the standard Polyomino geometric figures.