I would imagine that you can't judge how sad the day is before seeing what the reaction is. I would imagine this scheme is active in most countries enforcing copyright.

Cause he did not break any laws there?

They should at least respond, better yet warn the users.

I'm on my third or fourth linkedin email despite having it non-visible. They never responded to any messages.

This is how it goes... However if they where smart, they would be able to understand what the background motives of the experts could be, and try to get opinions from several experts with differing motives (preferably also experts who's motives are not financial). This is where politicians seem to fail, at least here in Finland.

Back in the day I got a fully loaded Sun Enterprise 450 with 4 of the fastest CPU's, 4GB of ram and 20 SCSI disks. It had 3 NICS each with 4 sockets, 3 power supplies and even 2 fiber connections. It felt like every geeks dream come true and I had big plans on what to do with it.

Then I turned it on... The thing sounded like an aeroplane taking off. I knew it would be loud, but this thing was just ridiculous. It took up quite a lot of space, so putting it in a data-center would have been very expensive. For a while I was thinking of turning it into a table, then I just sold it off.

I guess I could have rented it to some movie production studios for use as a wind machine :)

Another vote for OpenELEC. I used to run XBMC on a small Asus box, but after having a bucket of water fall on it replaced it with a passively cooled Shuttle running OpenELEC. Install was a breeze, small footprint. Unlike XBMC it was almost fully functional from the first boot (note, hardware changed too which might have affected this). It made a samba share with config files, changing audio configuration was as simple as dragging a ready configuration file from one folder in the samba share to another and rebooting.

Basically it's of course the same thing, both are XBMC. OpenELEC just is the whole distro aimed at having a dedicated as light as possible linux installation dedicated to XBMC. It removes a majority of all configuration, boots really fast and just works.

The US dollar is not just a national currency, if it where they would be in way more trouble for their recless spending. The dollar has it's current value because it was chosen as the international trade currency that almost all countries use while trading between each other. To do this they have to have a large dollar reserve allowing the US to sell treasuries with very low interest. If more and more countries start trading with other currencies the value of the dollar would drop very quickly, and the interest you pay for loans would double (or more) before you know it.

Most comments on a currencies valuation are correct, but it's not the reason the dollar is valued as high as it is.

As long as somebody borrows the money for fuel and ammo it will work well. After that things could change rapidly (no, I'm not saying it will soon, on my logic it should have happened ages ago).

That's true. However Apple is designing the devices and the operating system, controlling the app ecosystem... They have an iron grip from the devices to the users, even too much so if you ask me (but I'm still locked up there).

Nokia has always had the capacity to build great hardware. Towards the end of their reign less and less of the devices where that great though. I would go to the Nokia store to pick my phone and they would have 50 models that where pretty much the same, just different covers. Still it was fairly easy to pick, as less and less of them would feel well built, most would creak while new...

The new phones feel well built, and finally they have understood that they don't need 50 models, but what distinguishes them from other phones? What will they have left after Microsoft fucks them over like they have done every partner till now? Android? Restart work on Maemo after pissing off all the workers in the team and then firing them (that's probably most of the workers in that field in Finland)? The awnser is that they won't have a lot left.

Soon the only people left are the ones who spent ages fighting each other and designing piles of phones just line the previous ones, and who still think Nokia was so big for so long because they made so good products (not because others made even worse ones) and that it's falling because they stopped Symbian, not because Android and IOS have really nice usability, good phones and good API's for developers...

Had problems deciding if I should mod you up or respond, but here goes... It's true they had to do something, but they actually already did now and then. The N9 for example was different and people liked it; so they did not sell it to people or make a new model out of it. They where already doing things, but they killed everything that could have saved them.

What really killed Nokia was the belief that years of good sales where due to them being so damn good. Internal competition combined with that attitude caused them to stagnate. "This is what they want, so we'll just keep doing the same thing over and over again". It's a perfect example of how middle management can kill a company...

So will MS phone save them? How could it? Phone manufacturing is outsourced, operating system is outsourced... The only thing left is what killed them in the first place. They might get something to work, but it will never be the same as before.

I'd love to get to see the meetings where the desktop architecture decisions where made!

I bought a win 8 license since support for xp is ending, there was a decent offer and I felt I should still have a Windows virtual (despite needing it less and less).

Before buying I tried to ensure it supports a clean install and was told it does (upgrade license). The upgrade tool was supposed to offer image creation but that was missing. I was told running the tool after upgrading would let me create it and it did, but that seems a vit backwards?

So I upgraded, created the image, did a clean install... Only the license key was not accepted. Called MS, spent 30 minutes in queue, 15 waiting for the agent to find out what a virtual machine is and if it's supported and then got a working key. A bit later I had to activate, and went through the whole process again. I was also told any future install would ve the same.

All this before even getting to use the mess of an operating system that it is. I can't say I got a good taste in my mouth of purchasing the license (why does a paying customer have to have a bad conciousness?), or felt windows had become more friendly (quite the opposite). Hopefully this is the last windows I get, and I expect it is 'cause I feel really bad every time I start it up.

Because changing a countries complete IT infrastructure to a new platform is something that can be done in a blink of an eye? With every attack I would imagine we will get closer to Iran moving to a really controlled environment, but weather that is a huge fix is another issue (I would imagine the US and Israel have the capability to infect anything they wish).

That return rate is measured by a retailler so it will also seem lower for a manufacturer who takes direct RMA's from European customers vs ones that prefer you go through the store. I believe OCZ accepts direct returns.

Or it could just be that the financial companies will start to abide the law.

Wow, how one sided and US-centric can somebodies views be? I'm sure the swedes found it informing that their politicians had secret agreements to give private information on citizens to US agencies even though it was against their law. Maybe they also found the covert support for US military actions while publicly seeming neutral to have some informative value. I'm sure people from NZ found it interesting and informative that their prime minister sent troops to Iraq to avoid losing Oil for Food contract. It could also be, that the people of Haiti found it interesting to find out just how strongly their politicians decisions where steered by pressure from the US.

There is not a lot of countries in the world who's citizens would not have found the cables to be interesting and informative... Now from a US point of view you probably already understand what influence you have towards other countries. We also understand that there is continuous political pressure, but when you find that your politicians elected to run the country and enhance the wellbeing of it's citizens are secretly breaking the law or placing the benefit of a foreign nation above that of it's own citizens, then the details sure as hell are informative.