This is only true in the case of a Mac Pro where you can actually get similar cases, and even then Xeons and the appropriate mainboards aren't cheap. I'm not sure where you can get the parts to build something similar to an iMac.

I agree, but third party apps are *the* reason to get a tablet. On a phone you can get away with a lackluster third party app selection, because, well, it's a phone first. With tablets, getting the hardware of a competing device right is one thing, but the really hard part is having a software ecosystem as good as Apple's. I don't Android is there yet (and sadly, I don't think any of the Android manufacturers or even Google are putting up any effort to change that).

They give an 8/10 to everything, though (well, *extremely* bad product get 7/10 and absolutely outstanding ones 9/10).

Would it even be possible to sell the coins for $500000? Is the market at a given time big enough to actually fulfil such a sell order?

I feel like the copies you can download from iTunes via the Match feature are in the same boat legally as rips from CDs, i.e. if you have the physical CD or a legal download, it's legal, otherwise it's just as illegal as if you had a torrented copy. I might be totally wrong, of course, but that's how I understand the situation.

Press release of the Public Prosecutor General of Dresden. They are accusing the kino.to operators of building a criminal organization that infringed in more than one million cases and led to a profit in the seven figures.

That's interesting. It says on Wikipedia that using the PIN to authorize credit card payments seems to be a Scandinavian specialty. That would be awful for me, I've never used my credit cards' PINs and don't even know them :)

No, the law is unclear about the legality of *using* kino.to and the policy is not moving against the users. What the *operators* of kino.to allegedly did in cooperation with their hosting buddies is quite clearly illegal though and that's what is being investigated right now.

The only reason kino.to existed was to make advertising money on piracy and the police suspect that kino.to had mutual agreements with the hosters. Now, the law is unclear whether watching an illegit stream is illegal (probably not), so they are not going against the users of kino.to. But aquiring the source material to stream definitely involves piracy. This is more of an organized crime case (and it is treated as such by the police and state attorney), then a "phonebook" thing.

Here in Europe? At least in Germany you only need the PIN if you want to use your credit card in an ATM. Using debit cards in stores usually (not always) requires using the PIN, but those cards are not VISA or Mastercards but Maestro/girocards.

I'm not sure. Every research institute or university has access to pretty much all relevant journals through site contracts.

It also has Grapher.app, which is actually quite an amazing little plot program (also does differential equations and vector plots).

As Thunderbolt is basically an external PCIe x4 port + DisplayPort, the article basically says that USB is better than PCIe. That doesn't make any sense. Thunderbolt will enable a few things that might be extremely useful, like docking stations that are not tied to a specific laptop model, external GPUs and lots of other things.

make install_on_device?

You don't have to use names for your parameters if you're writing your own classes. [myClassObject method:foo :bar :baz :foobarbaz] can be used if you declare the method that way. Also, runMethod:foo in your example is a bit misleading, because it doesn't mean "run a method called foo", but actually "run a method called runMethod:withParam:andHeresAnotherParm:ohWaitOneMore with parameters foo,bar,baz,foobarbaz]".

Of course, you can't get around the long names if you want to use any pre-existing frameworks...