Even if fanbois from various camps jump with joy/sorrow with the news, I still think that the open model that Android brought to the mobile world will be much more beneficial for everyone (end users, developers, companies, etc.) in the long run, all things considered. People saying that the Apple model is better than Android's are not realizing this.

...have you heard of Samba and OpenLDAP perhaps?

An overclocking guide can be found here. You *might* get problems under extreme load, because the 6950 uses the 6-pin power connector, whereas the 6970 can draw more power, because it uses the 9-pin connector.

Yes and you should expect sub-task forces such as OMFG and xD ROFL to be created once some of the results are in from the first task force.

Opera is a fine browser, my only wish is for hardware acceleration, but everything works well as it is nevertheless. I switched to it after ditching Firefox, because FF is rapidly becoming the number one target for malware. A victim of its own success I would say. So I reckon a browser with 2.5% market share is not a great target for malware writers. This is confirmed by my real-time security scanner (Secunia PSI) which tells me that it's the safest of the installed browsers, with IE and FF having gaping holes with NO known remedies...

Precisely, because that's what's bringing the money in I would presume.

They can get all the patents they like, I think it's not worth the hype it's getting. Congrats to the teams and all, I'm sure there were a lot of technologically challenging problems that had to be solved (e.g. compression) but in essence it was always going to be laggy gameplay on the cheap.

Uhm, no. Just because a software project is delayed "several times and several months" doesn't make it better. Just more late than expected...

Have you even RTFA? He says so himself that doing REAL investigative reporting is non-existent anymore. There is no money in it. On the other hand, if you're heading media companies, you get perks for NOT nuancing the government too much, e.g. slots in "embedding" journalists in war zones.

Exactly my point. I think for sensationalist reasons they will not feed it manually with info, but still, as I said, apples with oranges...

I totally agree with parent. And I believe that this will be comparing apple to oranges, because for humans, memory is being tested, whereas for computers, parsing algorithms and expression tree implementations are being tested.

Nothing. There is little background radiation in most places and I'm pretty certain they'll want to avoid taking you to places with higher radiation if they want this tourism thing to last. Don't forget, there are people who *live* in that area and have lived for almost their entire life. So, a visit of a few days, so long as it does not involve taking you to any highly dangerous places, e.g. the core itself, should really be fine.

If they make it look remotely like the Fallout series (esp. the second or New Vegas), then they will probably get plenty of visitors...

It all depends on the actual DDoS load. There's no such thing as infinite bandwidth, you see. Amazon was down for 30 minutes in 4 countries on Sunday. And this by some quasi-organized group of script kiddies. So no, I don't see that being the case yet at all...

That was about 1-2 months ago, but I suspect that with the whole WikiLeaks debacle, those customers are probably looking elsewhere...