actually, the PSN network is again one of the items that IS marketed with the device. Unlike xbox, PS3 allows free online play as a reason to pay sony for the hardware in the first place.

Removing it after the fact (other than for breach of contract terms) should be considered bait and switch as well.

Along these lines, could you not simply have a "testing" user, and set their shell in /etc/passwd to be "/path/to/testing/app". so what if they change ttys, etc. if they dont have credentials to login to system (except as the kiosk/testing user), they wont be able to "launch browsers, change system settings, etc". at least thats how I used to handle it... (though that was console mode vs inside window manager).

bluetooth single ear headphone thingy. just lay on you side, then if you doze off, etc you can hear the phone ring but nobody else will. in theory.

and if all else fails...e.g. headset falls off..., ducttape the headset to the side of your noggin!

unless you are using an lcd monitor(no glass panel) instead of crt. then using markers would really be a problem.

original user could check disk queue length, and then start running their apps. then when it starts chugging, go check the stats to see if there is a spike in disk io, or queue length.

As the drive(s) get busy, pending operations get queued up (disk queue depth) and as such, the machine starts "hanging" waiting for the IOs to finish.

It is obvious. The point here is that the paging operation of the machine makes the problem worse. Especially if you have slow disk(s), or the pagefile/swap space dynamically changes.

primarily, linux does a much better job about not paging unless it starts running out of memory. whereas windows seems to start using it as soon as it boots.

1) Pagefile/swapping. - the os thinks it is from the 90s and trying to do memory swapping (no matter how much ram you have).

2) disk controller drivers run in kernel mode. any rise in disk queue length (pending requests) hangs the system. arggh.

LOL!!! ..."handling more packages..." -- nice!

nice calculation. based on those numbers -- looks like they are ATA (SATA) disks. i am not aware if SAS drives have that density (off the top of my head).

2. The bar is to keep the mammoth from tripping over on its non-existent face. watch the vid again, looks like it is about to trip over itself.

what if the bank has a financial interest in the car, and instead of the judge, it is you. is it ok for the bank to put a tracking device on your car until the loan is completely paid off? this is starting to get really grey area, and freaking me out about people putting tracking devices on our (the people) stuff without our knowledge, and without a warrant.

is there hidden messages if you play it backwards?

so someone deemed to have started [frivolous] lawsuit, pays the court fees for the defendant. if you/company simply [loses], everything stays as normal. ex: if you are filing in east texas and lose because you dont have a leg to stand on, then you get slapped with the fees from the defendant.

Doesnt netflix require silverlight? will microsoft be migrating this to something else, or include "microsoft silverlight runtime" for future windows os, but no new feature releases?

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