masochists on slashdot. Just look how many people voted for WinME.

NaCl and lots of it. :) Good job integrated the Flying Spaghetti Monster into Thanksgiving.

Because Windows 7 only completely supports GPT partitions if the motherboard has a UEFI firmware, and IIRC support for GPT is only on the x64 version.

I purchase my music from amazon.com/mp3 (their 32 bit deb package will run on 10.04 x64 with some work). I buy my directly on my nook. I buy DVD movies. So, while I can't speak for everyone else here, I answered your question. No, not EVERY slashdotter pirates all their content. By the way you got modded though, it sure seems like a lot do.

I thought you was dead...

I'm more curious as to how they are getting Adobe off their lazy asses to port Flash mobile to another OS.

Balmer, is that you?!

Thank you for your daily thought, Jack Handy.

I wish that was the case here. The when the hinge broke, it took the bezel and the hinge arm with it. Total cost to replace would be over $140 after taxes and shipping. I'm going to have my uncle draw up a new bezel in CAD and see how much emachineshop.com will charge to mill the sucker out of aluminum. The pressure from the hinge will be distributed across the whole plate then. If it works out, I'll have the bottom done afterwards. It'll probably half as much as a new laptop, but this machine should last another few years.

N/T

It might have to do with the fact that optical discs the pits and lands don't exactly correspond to binary 1's and 0's.

CDs use EFM Encoding to store their data, DVD's use EFMPlus and BD's use 17PP.

Having a faster switching laser may allow for the run lengths to be different. But that's just my best guess.

I suggest that you try Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2. One of the scenarios is called Wolverines! for just that reason.

If I had a magical land, there would be no ASSHOLES, so your post wouldn't be here to reply to.

Except I believe that the memory on the iPhone is composed of ball grid array chips. So then it becomes an issue of using a reflow gun or oven. Then, once you have removed those, you need to reball the chips or have a bga prototyping socket and then attach it a compatible controller chip. Then unless you have done this to all of the chips to dump their contents so you have a complete filesystem, or all you have is useless bits. So, while not impossible, it is not a 30 second procedure like hooking up a hard drive.

All of its storage is flash memory soldered to the logic board. There is no way to remove the storage.