Exactly. Plus, a Software Engineer has a very broad basic knowledge because the first years in your engineering studies are common for a lot of fields, so a software engineer also has basic electronics and mechanical (amongst others) knowledge. A programmer could be anybody who had programming lessons or learned by himself. Which is why a software engineer is a lot more useful in projects which combine include software and hardware design.

On the other hand, Apple went into extreme efforts to encrypt the ipod so that it becomes near impossible to have it run your own firmware. Apple will allow you to write apps, as long as they agree with your app and it doesn't duplicate functionality. Try writing a replacement music player app for your ipod. Good luck.

Yay, looking forward to the operation every two years, to upgrade or repair.... seeing how long it takes for electronics to break these days, or how long hardware/software is supported by the manufacturer.

I really want a car that will be completely wet inside after being parked in the rain for some time! Seriously though, I think the folding will remove the stiffness of the frame, and as such the stability while driving and the safety in case of an accident.

How? I don't see any way in Outlook to make it send out of office replies for every afternoon, for example....

On this old and slow XP system here at work chrome starts up in mere seconds (5), so either there is something wrong with your machine, or your OS....

With Google now producing its own browser with a fair marketshare, I think Mozilla made a huge blunder here... I think it will be byebye FF soon, when Google cuts it off from its money. Maybe MS can fund them, but why would they? Once IE is firmly integrated into the next Win version, who's going to bother with FF?

QNAP comes out as best in nearly all tests, yet they still recommend one of the brands that performed way worse? (disclaimer: I run a QNAPclub community forum)

Reshipping centers only exist because some big corporations refuse to sell their goods to the whole world, causing people to look for ways to pretend to be in the US so they can order the stuff.

Somewhere on the page is a detail picture of "one of the 52 units of 27kW", out of which come a few wires that look way too thin to pass a 27kW output.

Get a QNAP NAS, and your opinion will change :)

They run rsync over SSH, and you can even backup to an encrypted USB/eSata disk. All standard linux, so you can read the result on any linux system. And since they run linux, you can tweak as much as you like :)

oops....

So what are parents who have a 5 day workweek going to do? Hire a babysitter on friday? This may work out for older kids, not the younger ones....

How about becoming standard SIP compliant? Combined with a jabber client.... Empathy already combines these things well. All platforms offer standard SIP compliant programs (ok, unsure about Apple, SIP might be too open for them)