I started with the PalmOS phone and switched to a couple of different Windows Mobile phones... Never again. Just like the desktop versions of Windows OS, the Windows Mobile needed to be periodically rebooted.

I'd miss calls and not receive a notification of voicemail. No texts... And trouble placing a call. So decide to reboot my phone, suddenly I have 5 voice messages and a bunch of text messages flood in.

I was having to reboot the piece of crap once a week on average. Not very good for someone that worked around the clock as a consultant.

I occasionally have the same issue with my iPhone 5, my work email will stop sync'ing until i powercycle it. - Never seem to have these problems with my Android phone. The only downside there is Samsung and Sprint take forever to release updates for their products. So I'm often two Android point revs behind someone on a non-samsung Verizon phone and one point rev behind someone with a non-samsung Sprint phone...

The Windows 10 Tech preview is a memory hog still

Windows 7 Enterprise - Running several applications, large mail box, VCenter Client connected to 5 large clusters, and various other large programs used up 3gb out of 8gb availble.

Windows 10 Tech preview - Fresh install, NOTHING else running on it - used 5gb out of 8gb of RAM. Those "Metro Apps" are still using up memory and updating useless tiles that just make things look pretty. It also constantly calls out over the network looking for other systems, even more so than previous versions of windows.

Likewise, I wont buy any game until I see a review. especially now that games have jumped from $40 to $60+ not counting the added cost of DLC's.

Most single player games i wait till they have been out 6 months or so and then Steam has a sale with the whole game and all DLC's for 1/2 or less the cost of the base game when it originally came out.

Any game that doesnt have a review or is not at least 7.5/10 doesnt get a lick of my money...

Unless you are updating the Kernel there are few times you need to reboot a centos box. Unless your app has a memory leak.

The better way to go about it has already been pointed out above. Have several systems, load balance them in a pool, take one node out of the pool, work on it, return it to the pool then repeat for each remaining system. - No outage time and users are none the wiser to the update.

My company has already started to ditch Microsoft over the gaff that was Vista 2.0 (Win8x). Starting six months ago as peoples machine came up on replacement schedule we started moving everyone to Ubuntu and Libre Office. (Not really all that thrilled with Ubuntu myself...) But what we are seeing here is that even companies are now getting tired of Microsoft flops every other version. With most of our software and applications being web based these days, as long as you have a web browser that works with java script you are pretty much golden. Even in the server environment now we are running nearly 50% Solaris or Linux and 50% Windows Servers, though we are replacing Windows with Unix or Linux as we can.

I wish I had mod points today... I was going to ask the same thing. Yahoo search stopped being relevant 6 or 7 years ago...

There is one angle everyone here is missing. It would be cheaper to buy a new Ipad than go through a court case.

Granted Apple would like that, another sale to boost the bottom line. But why would anyone waste spending $1500 or more in basic legal and court fees for an older/used $300~$400 device.

There have been multiple articles about this in the Navy Times. Military centric news paper...

But if you want, you can simply look up the ammo procurement and allocation break downs on the DOD website, its public domain.

The Marine Corps handles 90 to 95% of all "Peace Time" military actions while subsisting on the hand-me downs from the other branches and a paltry 3% of the Defense Budget. Navy Seal teams get more money for training ammo than the entire Marine Corps.

At the beginning of the 1st Gulf War, the Marines were just getting the M1 Abrahms tanks the Army was swapping out for newer models (before that the Marines were still on old M60 tanks).

In the late 90's (97-98) the Marines were just starting to get the venerable Singars radios. Up till then they were still using post-Vietnam era AN/PRC-77 radios.

Time and time again the Army goes and asks for more men and money, new gear, etc, because they state they cant accomplish the mission with what they have.

And time and time again the Marine Corps happily takes that "old outdated" equipment with fewer men and exceed... There has long been a rivalry between the branches, but maybe its time for the other branches to take a page out of the Corps manual and learn how to do more with less. You could drop military spending by half at least, if not more, by following the Marines lead.

So they are finally thinking about creating a system like in the first Total Recall movie? Granted their are technological challenges, but why didn't they push for something like this before?

then staying on Earth, living out your life and dying is also tantamount to suicide too. So you are damned if you do and damned if you dont...

Exactly, for those that care... The cable industry has gone out of their way to make people forget about OTA. I've gone camping and been places where the OTA regular 4 (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC) digital HD channels came in just as clear if not better than they did over Cable. So why should I pay them $100 a month for channels I dont want? Now full disclosure, I have no intenet on watching the Olympics anyways, they have gotten stale over the years to the point of outright boring. The only entertainment i've gotten out of the Olympics in years has come from the woefully unready Sochi hotels.

This story was ran a couple of months back.

And it was already shown/proven that the ability to remote kill stolen phones is already possible. All current new phones have this ability. Its the CARRIERS that do not want to enable it. They make money off you buying a new phone and off selling service to whomever stole your phone.

The Carriers are the only ones fighting against this.

I went and checked out the beta site while logged in from another (older) work machine. The interface is two dumbed down. The pictures are not necessary and the add space was drastically increased. The little blocks of information (ala Windows 8) doesn't offer enough information. The current site I can scroll down and see the head lines and a heafty preview so I can decide if I want to explore that topic or not. The new site doesn't show enough to hook me to want to check the article. IE, no click through, less Ad impressions. Also with the current site I can scroll down over a dozen or more articles. The new layout only had a handful on the page. Forcing us to click through and drive up Ad impressions? Most of us don't look past the first page. A lot of other tech sites get news a day or two before Slashdot these days. I get more up to date information from theregister, and then find a recap story on Slashdot 3 days later. Its the community input that keeps the stale stories relevant. But its obvious the vast majority of the user base is against the new layout. If they leave, then wheres the incentive to come and read stale stories? The other problem with the beta site is the over sized Ad space On a normal computer the Ads are taking up the right 1/4 of the screen. On the smaller monitor computer I was on, 1024, it was impossible to read the comment section. The strict size of the ad space scrunched up the threads leaving tons of white space to the right and only 4 to 6 words per line. Very difficult to read.

I use to have WD Live devices on each of my TV's pulling from a network share. The problem is once you get a super large library (over 1000 movies, hundreds of tv show episodes) the WD Live units bog down and are slow to scan (5 minutes initially on power up to over 15 for a large library) and you have to wait to use them.

The WD Lives cant be left on or plugged in, each of t he 3 unit I had would get extremely hot, even left plugged in and powered down. We took to unplugging the power from them when we wouldn't be home for a few days just to be safe.

I ended up going from WD Live to Plex and have been much happier with it. I have the Plex media server installed on my PC and then placed Roku 3 s at each of my TV's. We can access the media anywhere in the house now, including our tablets. With plex I can even access my media files at home while traveling using my tablets as long as I have a good Wi-Fi signal.

Plex also automatically locks into my ITunes library seamlessly and allows me to pull up any music or playlists through Plex.

One of my TV's does support DNLA, and so does my R6300 router. I initially tried to use that to serve up my media but it didn't send Metadata. And while the TV will see the DNLA media files from any server, it will not play mkv files. Hence my using Roku 3's everywhere.

With Plex android tablet you can throw any media to any player in the house you want. On the Ipad you can download/sync any media... I do wish both devices supported both features instead of one and one.