The arbitrary "placing" of products is one of the more annoying features of these reviews. The better ones just outline the competitive differences and deficiencies of the products and let a knowledgeable user determine which fits their needs (value for money potentially being one of those needs), and then follow it up with corresponding information on how to determine which fits their needs for those less knowledgeable.
"Normal" users play games in their VM?
Actually now that you raise that point, it's not as bizarre as it sounds. I was getting ready to ridicule it but giving Linux the ability to play Wine unsupported games and Windows 7 the ability to play WinXP-dependant games with decent performance may be one of the main consumer drivers of virtual machines. Though I'm not holding my breath on it being widespread just yet.
I wonder if the phrase 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.' indicates any competitive advantages they might have...
OTOH, I think I just really like that phrase and intend to reuse it whereever possible given it's one I never thought I'd see anyone utter in complete seriousness.
They are when politicians think they can convince people to vote for them based on it...
Plus sex and swear words don't have a real lobby group, unlike police brutality, marketing, and religion.
Exactly! I know my wife and I occasionally let slip expletives of our choice... the natural follow-up to this law would be to remove our children because of it, or install devices in their ears that beeps out any such word until they're 16, 18 or 21 (depending on where you are in the world).
My wife and I were grabbing lunch in a cafe in Edinburgh Castle right next to the cannon, blissfully unaware of both the time and the custom. That bang scared the crap out of us until we saw the (literally) smoking gun through the cafe's windows. Next time I'll remember to keep an eye out for dragons.
I've found Hotmail to be one of the most secure. At least I'm assuming so since often not even I can access my own email.
East Asia has a serious problem with violence and discrimatino between different religions and/or regions within countries. Against Christians and Acehnese in Indonesia, against Chinese in Malaysia, similar stories in Thailand, India, Japan, the Phillipines and China. The exceptions seem to be South Korea and Vietnam, possibly because the former is more dependent on the west while the latter you just don't hear about it.
Strictly speaking they ruled the banning of regionless DVD players illegal (well, anticompetitive but effectively the same thing given the ACCC's powers). So if someone wants to sell regionless DVD players and advertise it as such, they are free to do so. I know the first thing my wife and I check when we're buying a new DVD player is whether it can be easily made regionfree, and most can.
One minor nitpick... in the scheme of polls, very few poll results are boolean due to the inclusion of undecideds/unsures. Their inclusion obviously depends upon the particular polling firm's methodology but in what I've seen of the big pollers, the straight boolean figures, e.g. 51-49, are the exception rather than the other samples, e.g. 48-46 with an unmentioned 6 undecided.
You also realize most of the popular sites Australians visit are hosted locally in Australia, right? This reduces costs for the content providers as well as the ISPs.
This is quite simply wrong. Facebook/Twitter? YouTube? BitTorrent downloads? Even a significant number of our "local" sites are hosted overseas last time I remember anyone checking, often because the company is a local division of a multinational or they found cheaper hosting in the U.S.
Back at university I had a lecturer that based his assignment evaluation off Test Driven Development (though I didn't realise it at the time, being a process-noob). Basically he gave us a list of test cases and the spec for the first assignment, a couple of extra requirements and more test cases in the second, and again for the third. I didn't realise the cleverness of this approach until several years out of uni and in the real world.
It all sounds pretty much right but I'd move back the hard drive companies doing this earlier. I remember getting hard drives of several hundred megabytes size and "losing" an appropriate percentage once I looked at the size in an OS. I seem to remember back then they'd even count the MBs as unformatted, because that'd give them even more wiggle room.
After flicking through the majority of up-modded comments, it seems that people are missing the main reason the FDA panel is recommended removing these drugs from the market. Vicodin and drugs like it that combine a opiate painkiller with acetaminophen that are taken long-term require larger doses over time to be as effective as the body builds up resistances (see House as a fairly accurate example). This results in a high risk of acetaminophen overdose as these larger doses are taken.
By removing the acetaminophen and just prescribing the base drug, this risk is obviously removed. This is a _good thing_ because acetaminophen overdose is a very very nasty way to die, and surprisingly easy given the lack of any feedback mechanism to indicate you're taking too many.
I didn't read this TFA, but I read an article on this prior to it making on
Considering that that was long enough ago that it's entired the collective repository of
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