Wow! I had no idea the iPad came with a copy of Microsoft Office preinstalled! Also, the available space could be expanded via SD card or external USB storage. What are your options again? ;-)

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Not to mention that the "article" is making it sound as AMD and Qualcomm are even in the same market: "Qualcomm, on the other hand, dominates this space". What space is the author talking about, exactly?

Also, Qualcomm is licensing ARM Holdings PLC's technology, like just about everybody else, but you won't find many people waxing lyrical about them.

And yes, we need AMD around -- unless we want to go back to days when a Pentium costed an arm and a leg just because Intel said so.

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You make it sound as if law makers are just naive/dumb/lazy/whatever rather than, say, people who put corporations' best interest front and center. If they were, replacing them could be a first step towards cleaning this mess but, unfortunately, things are the way they are by design, not by incompetence.

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You can download maps for entire countries (plus voice guidance in several languages, with or without street names) with Nokia maps too -- for quite a few years now. Also, they can work completely offline, i.e. you could get by with GPS alone.

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There's nothing inferior about Nokia's mapping system. In fact they've been in this business for several years. Look up NavTeq, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia, when you have time.

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The point, and the real issue, is that Valve is licensing, not selling anything. What do you thing is going to happen to the games I "bought" from them if I should decide to refuse the new terms?

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What about nettops, then? Okay, they cost more than the Raspberry PI, but you get a fairly decent, low power and small footprint desktop computer that can run your OS of choice while being a more than competent HTPC.

For what it's worth, I've been using a ZOTAC ZBOX HD-AD01 for more than one year as my main computer (while much more capable hardware is mostly gathering dust) and just the other day Tom's Hardware compared seven of them in great detail.

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Pity, because the article is actually well done, bias free and from a fairly reputable site like The Tech Report. The Infinity even gets a "conditional recommendation" (if paired with the optional keyboard dock) but you couldn't tell from the summary because the submitter had to interject his own opinion. Repeatedly.

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I've been using BlackVPN.com for 2 years and it's €5.00 a month or €13.00 for 3 months for a single server (i.e. tied to a specific geographic location) but they offer several different packages ingluding "global" for €9.50 a month.

Just a word to the wise: they don't like P2P traffic on the US server -- actually I think it's disabled altogether, as I couldn't even update WoW through that. ;-)

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True, but then why is Apple boasting about 2x, 4x, whatever?

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Then why did Apple start (and then lose) a design lawsuit against Spanish tablet maker NT-K? It's not that their products are even remotely similar, are they?

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Unzipping an archive, reading a file called README.txt (if you are feeling so inclined) and basically double-clicking an icon doesn't strike me as rocket science.

If, on the other hand, you wanted to imply that if you are used to running VMs you're not really a "non techie", that's a different matter altogether! ;-)

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Anywhere you can run any of the products in the VMware family, or VirtualBox, but they're clearly saying:

If nothing else, we like to think of VirtualBSD as a technology demonstrator -- and a good looking one at that!

and:

We think that FreeBSD really deserves a bigger following, so if we can motivate even a single person to upgrade from this virtual installation to a real one we'll feel that our mission has been accomplished

And while there's nothing really unique about this offer, the goal seems somewhat "noble" (for lack of a better word) to me.

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Slow, but definitely not dead... make a brew while you wait! ;-)

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In all fairness, upgrading from 7.1 to 9.0 would be a big jump for any OS. I am not saying that it can't be done, but I usually prefer a clean install while moving from major release to major release.

Out of curiosity, what have you been doing with the FreeBSD 7.1 VM that getting the new one and move from there is not a viable solution? Honest question, mind.

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