people have no idea exactly how much linux they are running now -- it's invisible. It's in TVs, DVRs, routers, cable modems, tablets, phones, etc. People just don't realize or understand they have linux already running in all sorts of gadgetry in their homes and offices. People don't notice because in these embedded applications, you don't see it at all.

Google is trying to get their brand "ChromeOS" appreciated -- they don't want to confuse the marketplace. Everybody who understands knows it's linux under the hood, same as for Android, ddWRT, etc.

This is really a very silly argument. 50 lashes for the editors.

I have a DSD (SACD) Player. I have several discs of the same music in CD (red book 44.1 KHz 16-bit) and DSD. DSD is PWM at 2.8 MHz.

I have done A/B tests with myself, and "blind" tests with friends. Everybody prefers the DSD playback. This is on higher end consumer gear, not high-end audiophile stuff by any means.

I have no doubt the DSD versions were mastered more carefully. Perhaps that is the biggest difference. However, they do sound better than PCM CDs to my ears.

yeah, but how attractive will HP's tablet be at $20 less than the "reference" platform -- Google/Asus Nexus 7 -- which has a considerably faster processor?

No offense to Google; I like their products.

HP is going to need to do a lot more than market a Chromebook and an Android tablet to get out of the ditch.

on your car, you have "brakes". if the brakes break, then you have big problems.

Kindly consult the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Duuuh.

Never, ever, switch to a Fedora release until it has been out for at least 6 weeks.

I consider Fedora to be (at best) beta-test RHEL. I've been using it for years, and I can tell you, it *always* sucks at release. Always. Give it a month or two for the worst bugs to get addressed, then install it.

Despite its warts, I'll take Fedora 18 for $0 over Windows 8 any day.

The two happiest days of a uverse user:

2nd happiest: the day they get it installed.
happiest: the day they get real cable.

I had uverse service for 10 days -- 9 days too long. Utter crap. The TV would not stay working, and when it did, the dolby digital would spuriously drop out. Internet? Even worse. crazy amounts of jitter -- when it worked -- which was not that often.

AT&T was unwilling to reconnect my 6 MB conventional DSL after this fiasco, so I advised them to go fuck themselves and took their wire off my house and buried it in the yard.

Comcast is expensive, expensive, but their customer service made AT&T's look bad (which is pretty remarkable.) I get 20+ MB/sec download speeds from them, regardless of how much TV is being watched.

Never again.

That lady was from the People's Democratic Republic of Massachusetts, where the sales tax is 6.25%, that's a cool $1,000 of her $16,000.

That particular mall has an odd shape, one of the buildings has a missing corner, rather than square. The missing corner would have been in Mass., making purchases there liable for Mass sales tax. Look on Google Maps, it says it is the JC Penney Home Furnishings store.

I think this lady was in NH to dodge Mass sales tax, and probably buying up iphones to gray-market. I also think she knew that she was persona non grata in that store, and knew they asked her to leave, and pushed her luck way too far.

OTOH, those cops are pansies. Taser? Girly-men.

I'd say meet the new boss, same as the old boss, except it is the same damned boss.

So much for the Democrats protecting our civil liberties. More like Obama using the Constitution like a roll of Charmin.

This is an interesting article: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/computer_securi_2.html and highly relevant to this discussion... Read the linked article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-security-a-worry-in-an-age-of-digital-espionage.html?_r=0 ) and all the comments.

relying on ssl is not a good idea at all. All it takes is a man-in-the-middle attack with a fake cert and game over. Apparently the Iranians have done this to spy on people using gmail.

Any serious exec is going to use a throw-away laptop for travelling to China. A $400 special will keep you online abroad, and then it can be destroyed as a business expense. Cheap insurance against hacking.

RFIDs don't react well to the microwave oven. I'm just sayin'.

What comes around, goes around. Or perhaps "as you sow, so shall you reap."

The problem for Apple is that Samsung's patents actually matter. If they get a reasonable jury (e.g. not in Apple's back yard with a highly biased foreman) there is a good chance that they should prevail. Apple used Samsung's tech without a license, then made the mistake to sue Samsung as a proxy for Google.

The same is true for Motorola's H.264 and 802.11 patents. Apple used the patented technology without a license, and they are going to end up paying.