3 years ahead in camera technology, 6 years behind in smartphone OS technology!

The tagline for VIPRE AntiVirus is 'Finally Antivirus Software That Won't Slow Down Your PC!'.

I guess we know why. Who wants to spend all those CPU cycles searching through binaries both in RAM and on disk, comparing them against a database of virus patterns, and performing advanced heuristics checks when it's so much easier to match directory names and call it a day?

My tally is 6 unlocked-at-purchase-time phones, 1 unlocked-after-purchase phone, 1 unlockable phone.

2000: Ericsson T28. Sold unlocked on 2 year contract.
2001: Ericsson A3618s: Sold unlocked outright.
2002: Nokia 8310. Sold unlocked on 2 year contract.
2004: Nokia 6280. Sold locked on 2 year contract, not unlockable (telco never bought unlocking code from Nokia)
2008: iPhone 3G: Sold locked on 2 year contract ($7/mo in handset repayments), unlocked for free
2009: iPhone 3GS: Bought unlocked from Sydney Apple Store.
2010. IPhone 4: Bought unlocked from Sydney Apple Store.
2011: (Replacement) iPhone 4: Unlocked in-warranty replacement from Apple in Canada.

Let's see how that 8 year old Pentium M based laptop does playing back a bunch of 720p H.264-encoded movies on that 'long flight' the author talks about as reason why his ancient laptop and it's replaceable battery is better. No wonder he thinks the iPad will need a second battery, despite being capable of 10+ hours of typical web+music+email usage and 13 hours of continuous 720p playback. You'd be lucky to get 90 minutes out H.264 of his laptop, and it probably wouldn't decode 720p at all.

Laptop is versatile. Tablet does few things outside of content consumption but does them well and efficiency. How are we still seeing articles like this a year after the tech world scoffed at the iPad? It's not a product for them, and they still don't get it.

Sex is one visual very few Wikipedia editors will experience. They need as much information as possible.

You keep making all these comments without RTFA, which clearly states the author's 32-bit version of Chrome needed a 64-bit executable.

The funny thing is that it was released uncensored first. The Shareware version was uncensored and got an MA15+ in Feb 1996. Unfortunately the Port Arthur massacre in April got the new right-wing government in hysterics about violent media.

By the time of it's full release in late May, it was apparently unsuitable for MA15+, but rather than making changes to the code, the distributor decided to force the game's in-built parental control mode on. The uncensored game was still on disc, and within days of its release pretty much every Australian was playing the uncensored version. I remember cracking it myself as a 12 year old -- it wasn't as sophisticated as the 'real' crack -- it forced adult mode ON, but the fact was anyone could modify duke3d.exe even without a hex editor -- opening duke3d.exe in WordPad or DOS Edit and changing the first ASCII 0 to a 1 was all it took.

Alarmed by the prevalence of the uncracked version (it was common to find it running uncensored in PC Gaming stores -- remember those?), the OFLC tried to recall the game but failed because they had been made aware the uncensored game was still on disc. At this point the distributor also submitted the unedited version.

The OFLC has never been known for their consistency -- but definitely not under the old pre-2003 code. Where an 'interactive movie' on DVD-Video could be given an unrestricted M, but the same title on PC CD-ROM went beyond MA15+ and had to be banned.

Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Type of Work: Text
Registration Number / Date: TX0006849489 / 2008-01-24
Application Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Description: Print material + CD-ROMs.
Copyright Claimant: Apple Inc.. Address: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
Date of Creation: 2007
Date of Publication: 2007-10-26
Nation of First Publication: United States
Authorship on Application: Apple Inc., employer for hire; Domicile: United States. Authorship: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program.
Previous Registration: 2006, TX-6-325-148.
Pre-existing Material: Previous versions of "Mac OS" and "Mac OS X" operating system software code.
Basis of Claim: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program.
Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.

5) Despite the fact that the MP3 technology is over a decade old, encoders are still getting better. You only have to look at the progress LAME has made (particularly the 3.90 and 3.97 'milestone' releases) in not just surpassing the quality of other once-popular MP3 encoders such as Fraunhofer and Xing but in some more recent listening tests even equalling its successor, at ~128kbps VBR, let alone the more high quality VBR presets (V0/V2) that many people rip in and that most pirated releases are released in via the scene.