(1.) It may be hard to securely erase an SSD. Due to things such as wear leveling, the relationship between sector addresses and physical flash cells isn't transparent to the OS. And ATA Secure Erase isn't implemented or isn't implemented correctly on all SSDs. (2.) SSDs are hard to recover. That's because they may start erasing some blocks containing data (and not just the entry in the file allocation table) shortly after you delete a file in the file system. Again, this happens due to things such as wear leveling and isn't transparent to the OS. Contrast this to a hard drive where, following a file delete, only the entry in the allocation table is deleted but no actual data. I don't see anything contradictory or confusing here

Of course, 24/96 is standard. Even bedroomers produce at higher than 16/44.1. Thus, the issue mentioned in the parent is of no relevance. On the other hand, abuse of compression and dithering plugins during the mixdown (by bedroomers as well as professional mastering engineers!) is a very real issue.

A lot of wrong stuff here. First of all, EUR 30 in the mid-80s is equivalent to roughly EUR 55 today due to the effects of inflation (these are approximate numbers for countries like Germany and the Netherlands). Inflation was slightly higher in the US, so a larger increase in dollar prices was necessary over there to compensate producers for rising input prices. Second, I don't think MSX games are really representative for what OP is referring to. MSX was never really mainstream in the US and Europe. Third, production cost have risen tremendously, yes. But a good chunk of the cost of producing a video game is fixed. And since the market for video games has grown tremendously over the last three decades, those fixed cost are distributed over a much larger number of games sold, therefore facilitating lower video game prices (in real terms).

why the fuck is this question even accepted by /.? Do your research before submitting, there are dozens of solutions: HTPCs, a bunch of the latest Blu-Ray players and TVs, media streamers (a couple of which have been mentioned above), and 7th gen video consoles. hell, even some recently-announced tablets will be able to grab content from SMB (or DLNA) and output it to your screen via HDMI (gotta look closely, though, not all do 1080p)

No, the OP clearly refers to the Postville refresh, which will bring capacities of 160/300/600GB NAND. Lyndonville is the codename of the follow-up to Ephraim, i.e., Intel's series of enterprise drives commonly known as X25-E. Lyndonville is expected in capacities of 100/200/400GB so that's clearly not what the article referred to.

That's correct. It would be more accurate to call it the Postville refresh (which uses 2Xnm NAND Si). "Postville refresh" is the term Intel uses on one of the slides that leaked.

Obviously one of *the* labels for classical music. The awesome thing about their web store is that, in addition to 320kbps MP3s, you can buy FLACs. Very appropriate for fans of classical music which are often crazy about sound quality.

openSUSE is def more aggressive than Ubuntu in integrating the latest packages. Just compare the kernel or gcc versions they've shipped vs Ubuntu on DistroWatch. Among the major distros, openSUSE is less bleeding edge than Fedora. But which major distro isn't? Also, iyam, openSUSE releases are buggier than Ubuntu releases. FWIW, I was a SUSE user for seven years. After I dealt with small inconveniences after every SUSE release (altough I didn't encounter any showstoppers in years), I recently made the switch to Ubuntu. I couldn't be happier.

But if open source implies free, isn't the term FOSS (free and open source software) a pleonasm?