Well if it's data about me (i.e. movies I've made of events, photos, copies of movies that I have around etc etc), then it's a few TB. But if it's data that I actively use, then the whole of LHC recorded data would add to it taking it to a bunch of PB instead, but that's not just mine (though I could take the analysis skims that I've created, those could be maybe listed as mine, that's a few hundred TB).

Decided to vote for the 1-5TB one still :P

Why do you claim that they should have lost the vehicle? A failure of one engine out of 9 is something that the system was designed to handle. And the fact that it was designed to handle this doesn't mean that it's considered normal operation. Your car has an airbag designed to handle an accident, this doesn't mean that accidents will be normal operation.

In fact as mentioned multiple times already the Falcon 9 switches off two rockets at a late phase of the launch to avoid exceeding 5g acceleration, therefore the loss of one subengine wouldn't cause a loss of vehicle.

Yes, they will investigate it thoroughly and understand what was the cause and wether it needs fixing (1C will only make one more flight afaik) or if this has already been addressed in Merlin 1-D or Merlin 2, but in no way should you claim that the vehicles success was a crazy luck accident.

No, but those were really and truly crap for browsing. I was an early adopter and all the treos etc in the world couldn't compete or truly be well usable. Their screens were of crappy quality, low res and only half of the device due to keyboards. If you want to call that browsing, then good luck...

On what? Pre-iPhone you were hard pressed in finding a decent device to actually look at sites on...

Not sure. Terminal velocity is determined by air resistance. The surface area of a Cray2 is larger therefore it'd probably fall slower assuming the iPad managed to keep the sharp surface pointed towards the ground. Of course if the iPad went nicely flat it may well have a relative resistive surface that's larger so block better. Hmm... This isn't that trivial to solve I think. We need an experiment.

In estonia the iPhone package is 44 eur giving you the 4S for free (16GB), 100 min, 60 sms, 500MB data for 24 months.

If you take the same conditions without the phone it's ca 15 eur/month so the 30 eur/month is the phone fee. So buying it out vs contract does give a difference here...

Got an iPhone 4 and planning to upgrade. For me the 4S wasn't a large enough upgrade to go with it, but I do feel the lack of siri as a point. Now with iPhone 5 i also get added benefits in slightly larger screen (thank god it's not as huge as SIII has), the performance snappiness, the camera upgrade and a number of iOS upgrades that do not come to iPhone 4. And at least in Estonia the LTE speed is quite decent so that's added value as well. Also, I can sell the iPhone 4 for about half of the iPhone 5 cost making it a reasonable upgrade without a contractual need.

The heck are you speaking? I'm maintaining a huge datacenter and partook in the Higgs discovery using a MacBook Pro. What is it in a full Linux distro that is so needed that you need a Linux/Windows VM? I write python and C code for both simulationdata mining and visualization and it works fluently in OS X.

I used to teach a course in Grid/distributed computing in our local IT College, but after putting up with the stupidity of the students for two years I stopped. This was a side project where I wanted to give something back, not my main finance source, but I just couldn't cope with last year sysadmin/systems engineers struggling with linux command line. I mean that it was as bad as unpacking their tarballs exclusively with double clicking on it on the desktop. I did try in the second/third iteration to pre-empt it a bit by doing a few first weeks basic shell programming tutorials, but there was no foundation to build on and I didn't have the time to teach a whole seat if courses from scratch so I stopped the course although they still ask if I want to return every year.

I've seen the same in other universities too, the people who are excellent were already before entering and have just hoend and extended the skills. Who enter blank rarely make out as anything useful...

Wolfram alpha, yelp, etc Apple's extending the database count all the time to bypass google.

Oh and love also the fact that most of those city SUV's are quite useless in now :P I usually keep both rope and tools readily in car and am usually the person who stops and pulls the cars out. Having decent four wheel drive, studded tires and the excellent drivetrain logic of an Evo X means I usually keep going when most cars stop and can still pull those guys out. Last few winters we've had way more snow than usual and it's a fun pastime just to drive around town and pull cars out of snow :P

Yikes, mountain roads probably are not what I'd prefer overly much during winter. Here in Estonia the biggest elevation difference is 300m and that's from coast to the other border almost. Also, I guess you're from a country that doesn't allow studded tires. I have studded tires and that makes a huge difference on ice. Sure in snow it makes no difference and you can use lamells or chains, but if you get onto ice (what you do at times on tarmac or when you go ice lake driving) the studs really help to keep the car handling at least to a certain level.

Well that gets to be a wrong kind of excitement only if it is unexpected :D If you drive a 4-wheel drive car and expect all the drifting and what accompanies driving on slippery surfaces and if you're proficient in it (at the minimum have taken the car to an ice track a number of times and spent hours bringing it to the limit so you know when and how it goes), then it's loads of fun. Noone says you've got to drive the whole distance from A to B with wheels spinning and in (un)controlled slides, but at times it's nice to take some corners at a drift or turn 180 with a small help from handbrake. Though the latter I do in the summer at times, though it requires some more speed and ain't too healthy on the tires, also requires you to be absolutely alone on the road or otherwise the other drivers will just be shocked witless and might do something stupid.

The usual good difference is that people who can afford to buy a real sports/rally car usually know what they are doing and enjoy the "excitement" in controlled conditions without threatening other people. The idiots who buy a 20 year old beamer and have close to zip experience are the ones who cause most stupid accidents because they want the excitement, but don't choose the conditions.

Mentioned the exact things somewhere else in this thread however from the mockups it seems the 5 will not be wider, but taller. This way the one handed usage and comfort remains the same while getting a tick bigger screen. But I do hope as well that it won't be a monster 4.x" screen just because people want bigger (just recently heard that someone's planning a 5" screen, HTC?, why the hell would you want a phone that's almost as big as a tablet?)

*sigh* people don't buy sports cars because they want to show they can afford it though sure there are some people who do it because of that too, but that doesn't mean we all buy it because of that. I have a sports car and I bought it because I want to enjoy my commute no matter when and where I go. I can't stand the slow progression from point A to B without any excitement in getting there. Even if the excitement is only minimal due to jams or what not. And also I love my sports/rally car during the winter when there is never a dull ride with all the snow etc. Yes, it's a bitch to maintain due to fuel cost and use as well as maintenance and yes I did manage to buy it therefore I could afford it, but none of those are reasons WHY I bought it.

The same goes for iPhone. Maybe to some people it's a fashion statement, but mostly it's because it's well designed and works. And I don't mean just works as a standalone unit, majority of the added value comes from seamless integration between iDevices, your laptop and your Apple TV (the more devices you have the bigger the advantages you get, clever Apple). The fact that I use iPad majority of the time I'm at home instead of the laptop is because of the comfortable use and the available content and the fact that I can close the book on the iPad and pick it up on the iPhone without having to remember where I was in the book or having to worry if my content is backed up IS worth quite a lot.

My only hope is that they don't make the iPhone 5 (or what ever it'll be called) as big as the Galaxy S III. A colleague of mine has the SIII and boy it's way too big for one hand usage. If I want a bigger screen I just pop out the iPad and use that. I'd not mind a minor increase in size as well as pulling the display to the full width and height of the phone, but it still has to be comfortable in hand. I used to wear a cover on the iPhone 4 until waiting for some crap to compile I was fiddling with the cover and after about 6 months with the cover tried the phone in my hand without it. Damn that phone felt comfortable in my hand. It may seem like an innocent additional few mm, but it WAS much better without so I've never put the cover back on again.