If you treat your IT staff like shit, it's no wonder you end up with staff that can't keep drones out of enemy hands.

Since it does SD instead of HD, you get less "Buffering/adjusting playback" issues.

ALL models have Wifi as well.

There was a story recently about computers at drone facilities being infected by Windows-based viruses. And we've known for years now that the connection to the drones is not encrypted (which is why $500 worth of laptop+sat cards allows insurgents to view drone feeds).

Somehow I doubt the drones themselves are of much higher caliber software wise. Wouldn't surprise me if the software and hardware isn't protected.

After wiki-leaks especially, it wouldn't surprise me if Iran had their hands on source code and hardware specs already and DID bring the drone down electronically.

On the touchpad, one of the big selling points was the ability to print to HP printers.

Of course, most HP printers didn't work. Like my LaserJet 1018. Or Color Laserjet 4600.

Come to think of it, never got a single printer working with it. There's a reason HP's profits are down 90%.

Is it so hard to have an ARM version of CUPS that can print to everything?

I've been unable to find anywhere that WebOS for the touchpad will get another upgrade. Source?

You realize that by default it will dual-boot?

So you get the great multi-tasking of WebOS, but with the great app selection (and browser options...) of Android.

Netflix, minecraft, Firefox.... I certainly don't consider it a downgrade. :P

WebOS is really nice; got to love the multi-tasking.

But let's look at some of the bad parts.

A browser that is unusable if you have more than a few websites open. A complete lack of apps (even after installing preware).

Even after overclocking to 1.8Ghz, it takes a good 5 seconds after turning a PDF page for it to "unblur" and come into focus. Oh, and the browser does that same blurry, unfocused crap too. Often for more than 15 seconds.

And we see how well that has worked out for them.

Companies need to realize that they need the developers and not the other way around. If you treat them like shit, they will jump ship as soon as a competitor comes out (instead of, say, developing for both platforms).

Who would you be buying it from? In most cases you'd just be buying a shady company for a pirated ROM regardless. Most of the companies that made these games no longer exist. Any IP is going to be owned by a large corp like Nintendo, who will want you to buy their console and not DIY You are saying you do not want to pirate, while at the same time you want to use this content in an un-authorized/un-approved way. Piracy is your only real option if you want to play "popular" game ROMs.

Quote: "will let Android phones use virtual machine technology to run a second instance of Android"

We're are not talking about virtualizing different operating systems on android here, just Android under Android. Sheesh, read the description of the article at least if you don't read the article.

How is that not able to run multiple full android OSes at the same time? Unless for some reason you want to have Android 2.2 and 2.3 running at the same time. Which seems pretty useless.

Why run several instances of a kernel with all the overhead of a VM when you should just do chroot/jails? Especially with such limited CPU and RAM, just seems like a bad idea.

It's a common practice when you mod your console to play homebrew/backups NEVER to accept another update again.

Obviously something could break (accidentally due to the mod, or on purpose by the company). In other words: DON'T UPDATE IF YOU MOD YOUR HARDWARE.

Everyone gives Nintendo crap about how easily hacked their systems are and how they DIDN'T take many steps to prevent it. Now they're trying to make sure that the 3DS doesn't have the same piracy issues as the other DSes and people are surprised/outraged?

None, which is my point. As a gesture of good-will it isn't much. Would you accept a free month of netflix if they had gotten all their customers CC info stolen? Probably not, since it's next to worthless.

You can download some games for free, but you must remain a PSN+ member to keep playing those games. So in reality they're offering you a free month of a service they expect you to keep paying for. Would be much more impressed with a year of free PSN+