Noooo, Promethium boards aren't that good. The SmartTech SmartBoards are better, the software is much much nicer. Have a good look at the one you want, the new ones use DViT tech (ie. Cameras and InfraRed lights to work out where you're touching). The closer you can get without it registering a touch the better. I've got a Hitachi board and it registers your finger like 1.5cm out and the software is the worst I've ever seen. The SmartBoards are about 0.4cm out from the board that it registers your touch (ie. you pretty much have to touch the board for it to detect) and the software is quite good :)

The music is from a pretty common genre called Ambient. There's a LOT of music out there very similar to this, it's not some "magical track" that someone put together for this specific purpose, it's just a normal 60-50bpm soundscaped ambient track... Other artists in this category: Yellow6, Hybryds, Good Night, Gel Sol, Ishq, Kenji Williams, Ishvara, Ishq, Senzar, Grey Area, Lähtö, Foundation Hope, Our Sleepless Forest, Bluetech, Steinbrüchel, Aethenor, Steve Roach... And that's just the names I can think off the top of my head...

Your failure to adopt web standards and control your own computer volume is not our problem.

The lack of melody actually helps it, as you can't predict the melody to follow along with it.

I went to the website, there was a bunch of boring 3D objects that could have been made by a 3 year old... Even the Thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/ is way more interesting and useful than that site.

No. That's only for importing photos off a camera, nothing else.

Or maybe they're hoping you *will* blow your processor... Then they can sell you a new one!

That week sure feels like a month...

They tried that with GTA, even though you had to run a patch to unlock the offending content, they still got a stern talking to.

That's exactly what I'm thinking it would be good for. You could do some awesome VR/MoCap stuff with this :D

I think it's more an issue of them thinking that it wouldn't really bother anyone, especially that the point of it was to help the GPS function run better. So this update is probably going to increase GPS location speeds in certain cases (ie. if you're somewhere you haven't been for a while). Apple have said that the data will have its lifespan reduced (ie. it will only keep a short amount of time worth of updates), thus enabling it to still actually work. Also if you turn off Location Services, then the data file will get deleted.

The whole point of whois information is that your details are there. You can buy domain privacy too, but what's the point?

Whilst Chess promotes creative thinking, logic and other sorts of strange and whacky buzzwords, it's lacking any school curriculum linked ideas (based on the NSW Primary School Curriculum). I would have thought that if they want to use a game this way, they could have used some sort of D&D or Warhammer style game, where you can link them into parts of the curriculum like Maths or Literacy, hell, you could even throw in Role Playing ideas like creative writing and art, all based on the game they're playing. There's a school that is trialling a similar project using World of Warcraft: http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

Why not just have both? Lets take apache httpd.conf for example. Someone who's good at CLI can whack that open in vi/emacs, jump down to the line they want and change an option, or write a script that appends their configuration (eg. adding a vhost) automatically then roll it out across multiple servers. And then, for people who aren't doing a specific change and need to be able to see what's going on (eg. first time setup, where you're going through a lot of the options as you go anyway) can have the GUI open, where the GUI is just a pretty front end for the text based config underneath. Cisco routers work this way, they've got the web based gui that you can set things up in, or you can work in the CLI and config everything that way. Why not just offer both and give the users the choice to use whatever they please? Both CLI and GUI have advantages.

So it wasn't just me.. The IntelliMouse Explorer 3 is a pretty kickarse mouse but the wheel gumming up and the fact that you wear a hole in the side of it got to me. I use the Logitech MX Revolution now, sure it's wireless, but it tracks well and has very few problems =]