A transparent bridging scenario such as this would not make much sense as an SSD can easily saturate the available bandwidth of a 6 Gb/s SATA port. A non-transparent bridging scheme which makes the device look more like a traditional spinning HD with a really big cache would make more sense as the SATA port driver would not have to route every sector write/fetch to specific device. Most likely the driver on the OS side only manages migration of data between the SSD and HD to balance read/write performance favoring keeping as much free space on the SSD as possible to enhance write performance.

Thank goodness this is an IBM product rather than another MS abomination. Future history could have read 2014: The year Clippy became self aware and doomed the fate of Internet in a nanosecond

With the ability to target cells, specifically immunodeficient cancer cells, the total dosage of radioactive material needed should be greatly reduced. This would seem to be favorable to techniques that target all tissues in the vicinity of a tumor.

If you cannot use solder wick properly then you aren't really skilled enough to be modding circuit boards.

WinKey+X brings up a menu of all the OS admin utilities I use frequently. Hitting the WinKey and typing the first few letters of an application name works for everything else. No hacking required.

If you have done the work to become an EE you should know how to code fairly well already and given the current need for skilled software developers you can probably get hired doing embedded systems work in any of the North American technology hubs quite easily. It may not be your preferred line of work but its a living wage until and work experience to tide you over until the wave of change sweeps across the industry.

Keep in mind the Gartner comparison is in number of units sold. Considering Apple is much more vertically integrated than MS they keep a much larger chunk of the unit selling price and therefore earn substantially more revenue from per device sold. Apple should really start rolling their own server and office productivity software to compete against the remaining MS cash cows.

So are you willing to share the details of your /. account with your employer should they deem it a 'social media' site? I, for one, would like to cling to whatever shreds of pseudo-anonymity are left on the Internet.

Those measures only apply to the offsite backups of the Bitcoin wallets, there is nothing preventing a fund manager who routinely performs transactions on these accounts from going rogue.

It only takes one person in the organization who decides to go on permanent holiday to make an illicit copy of the various Bitcoin wallets and then transfer the funds to their own account once they have already landed in a place with no extradition treaty.

It seems these GPUs can also support 4K single monitor gaming quite nicely even if gaming quality 4K displays aren't quite ready for prime time yet.

How long until someone reverse engineers the firmware to allow brute force cracking of the pincode without triggering an automatic data wipe? This isn't a matter of "if" but rather a matter of "when", IMHO.

So how many clicks does it take to get from Tub Girl to Goatse?

Wait...don't answer that.

In the past few years the service I receive from USPS has gone from flawless to awful. I now end up with other peoples mail in my box frequently and packages delivered to the neighborhood lockbox end up having the key delivered to the wrong mailbox. Last month the check I mailed for my mortgage payment never made it to the processing company so now I pay extra for the privilege of paying by phone rather than risk damaged credit due to postal service incompetence. If I did my job half as badly I would at least be held accountable, and most likely be escorted out the door.

While upgrading your older dualcore box may get you playable frame rates on many games you will still suffer from slow load times. This is not likely to be an issue on single player games but for many online multiplayer games you really don't want to be the guy in your group with the slowest load time.