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The case of Richard O'Dwyer predates SOPA (sorry, Wikipedia is down to protest against SOPA). He did nothing illegal - in his country - yet is facing 10 years in a US federal prison. Not a joke, not something in a movie plot, this stuff is very real and happening now.

Interesting piece that uses numbers to throw light on what drives the film industry.

I thought recent developments such as SOPA (and many others) really deserved their own thread. Although the sickness has infected all western countries, the US appears to be leading the charge and unfortunately has overwhelming influence. First up, here's an excellent debunking of the...

That's because it's still too hot to eat dinner at 7pm DST, and going to bed at 10pm DST is diabolical (you need to realize that very few houses are fully air-conditioned). Daylight Saving is supposed to give people more daylight leisure hours, and I've certainly appreciated it in other...

You're nuts. They're both Symbian slide phones with numeric keypads (a design popularized by Samsung, incidentally). Everything else about them is different. The Nokia is a double-slide phone that exposes media player buttons on the reverse slide. The Samsung extends 40% more than the Nokia...

Spoke to Crucial. They officially confirm that: It's 5200 hours and not 5000 hours The firmware update will fix it even if the problem has started The firmware update will be available Monday I estimate I will need to allow 2 days onsite (1 day if everything goes perfectly, and an extra day to...

Wow, have you been reading too many Apple press releases? Just as a quick example, Samsung phones have been black for many years. iPods and iPhones always used to be exclusively white; now they're black and Apple claims that Samsung looks like them - WTF? Apart from the different OS, what's...

So the U2711 HDMI port is really just a rewired DVI port?

Silverstone PS07B 31 liter Mini-tower, 400mm depth, 5x 3.5" + 1x 2.5" HDD, 3x 120mm fans. Very good usability review Manufacturer product page Exceptionally well-thought-out design for large tower coolers and just $79 from NewEgg. Not bad.

I have a site with 7 of these drives in continuous operation since June (plus others that get switched off). That means they may *all* blow up sometime in the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, the site is in a different f**king country, so f**k knows how I'm going to deal with this - Crucial...

The official reps are saying it affects "some" customers. Any fool can see that only "some" customers will have been running their drives 24x7, so very likely it's only a matter of time before *all* customers are affected. How many have they sold? A million? More? I'm expecting Crucial...

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Even before then, port #1 was often provisioned with Auto-MDIX. So you would always use port 1 on one router/switch when connecting to another. Bottom line: we'd all be very surprised if you needed a crossover cable.

So Adcadet, how did your plan pan out for you and your wife?

Garbage. After the iPhone 4/4S, the Galaxy II S is the most popular smartphone on the market. There are heaps of cases for it. You don't need frontal protection for a modern touchscreen phone with Gorilla Glass or equivalent material - the front is the toughest part. It's the corners and edges...

FFS, why would I want it? So I can break some more plugins? I notice that despite the reputedly amazing windfall from Google, Mozilla is still begging for donations. WTF are they doing with all that dough? The whole business smells like a giant scam - the ragtag Mozilla 'suite' sure as hell...

Gilbo, with regard to your question as the OP ... PowerFolder might be worth a try. Although there's a cloud storage component, it's optional; you can use the product to sync directly between any two PCs without touching the cloud. I've only given it a quick test drive so far. It's written in...

I don't normally participate in this sort of jollity, but congratulations to Doug on making it half way. Don't worry, it's all downhill from here.

Extract from a speech by the late Christopher Hitchens

I'm intrigued. What's the coconut cake like at the Canadian Honker? BTW, I assume Adcadet would prefer we didn't name the hospital on this forum ...

Been there, done that. That's what you get with a duopoly, a nice f**k-you from WD.

Do you have a source for that? I know the A5 has a far more powerful GPU, but I didn't realize there was a 50% advantage to Apple's variant of the Cortex-A9 CPU. AFAIK, Apple's performance advantage has far more to do with their faster software runtime environment.

I think I had to do it once with Donut (1.6), or possibly an early build of Eclair (2.1). My own phone is now 100% stable on Eclair, confirming there was never anything wrong with the hardware. Zero problems with our other 3 Android phones (all different models); 1 on Froyo and 2 on Gingerbread...

You're correct. It affects write amplification (and probably random write performance) rather than reads, so it's not surprising Ddrueding didn't see any difference. Of course, for a desktop, it's hard to see how it could matter much. Also, I don't think any of the free tools can manage the...

As I recall, the Marvell controller has some (bad) issues with write performance. This isn't usually very significant for desktop usage, at least, not when comparing an SSD to an HDD. The Intel controller is definitely a better all-round performer, so I would prefer to use it for the SSD, but...

I can't see a problem mixing 1GB and 2GB sticks. The board should select the slower timings from the SPDs automatically if they're not the same. This would solve your dilemma by giving you 6GB total while limiting your outlay on RAM to $60. That seems about right considering it can't be used in...

I thought they had the same resolution, but I see it goes from 2560 x 1440 to 2560 x 1600. The increase in overall size should result in roughly the same scale of pixels per inch. Very cool purchase for $1400.

Not to mention the huge saving in download quota that Opera Mini provides; have you checked the stats under Help - Data Usage?

Shit.

I noticed these a few weeks ago, but haven't bought one yet. The US price appears to be inflated, I can buy the 23" version (IPS236V) for less than the 21.5" model you cited. There's also the IPS231P, which drops the HDMI input but adds speakers and a height-adjustable stand with pivot...

So no-one uses Bluetooth with anything other than mouse/keyboard or audio?

Apparently, Bluetooth dongles don't necessarily play nice with Windows 7. I think the blame lies mainly with Microsoft, but I'm amazed how few devices actually have a Windows 7 64-bit driver. I noticed this because someone had weird BSOD problems on their PC, which turned out to be due to the...

Okay, I'll bite. What does "balanced" mean with regard to headphones? It can't mean noise reduction, because we're talking volts, not millivolts let alone microvolts.

Couple of pieces about Firefox's inevitable demise (apologies that it's ZDNet and people may not think much of their OpEds): Mozilla to enterprise customers: "Drop dead" Firefox faces uncertain future as Google deal apparently ends I can easily replace Firefox with other browsers; I'm more...

Nice summary update plus yet another water leak 8 per cent of Japan has been contaminated by caesium fallout

Even ignoring price, this makes some heroic assumptions. Firstly, that the working set is mostly contained within the "up to 1TB" SDRAM cache, and secondly, that the locally attached SSD is not an ultra-low-latency implementation such as Ddrueding's Revo cards, the latest version of which can...

:o Did I miss something?

I'm not into noise-cancelling headphones, but 10dB reduction seems poor. Wouldn't you get that level of attenuation just by wearing any good-fitting set of in-ear phones, without any noise cancellation function?

Stereodude, I was trying to point out the consequences of excessive returns, not that it's necessarily already the case. When return rates across a product category are likely to be low anyway, margins can be thin.

Excellent points, Greg. Clearance stock will have its cost base marked right down, so the manufacturer's unit margin will still be high.

Indeed. But being immune to the RDF, we both already know the answer.

Then it's an extra cost that manufacturers have to build in. Bottom line is that the loss incurred from returned but working goods has to be passed on to customers. Or in other words, manufacturers need to reserve their crappiest products for Costco in order to be able to maintain the...

Has it occurred to you that abusing this customer-friendly policy is raising the prices for everyone else? It's unreasonable to expect silver service with hamburgers, but you seem to have a sense of entitlement.

Even 300W is unlikely; I'd guess it would have spent most of its time at maybe 60% load, peaking at not much more than 300W. If 98% of the tasks were reading and writing to disk, then CPU usage would be modest, and 4 tasks at once just means more I/O waits. But 8 years plus @24x7 from a power...

Sound good. Which board and how much did you manage to underclock/undervolt it?

Awesome, there is just no shortage of potential applications. I could do with a couple of those myself. They help fulfill my vision of the future where there are big screens on walls everywhere and you just pick up a wireless input device to interact with them.

Thanks for bringing the device to our attention. I thought I might have a use for it, but when I looked at the mousing demo on the AcceleGlove site, I thought it was very poor. Apart from anything else, have you considered how much of a strain it would be to hold your hand up in the air like...

The Galaxy II already matches those numbers with Cyanogen Mod based on Android 2.3, and the stronger graphics hardware is already much faster. When the Galaxy II moves to Android 4.0 (I don't know if Samsung has confirmed an official version yet, but Cyanogen has already started work on it), it...

I also prefer the AMD solutions for budget file servers. They tend to come with up to six 6Gb/s SATA ports (use an IDE or USB DVD) and a really easy to use configuration tool; 4 drive RAID 5 is a breeze. In contrast, Intel drive support is a mess, with typically two 6Gb/s ports and two to three...

That's not logical. The proximity of the physical GPU to the CPU doesn't affect the quality of the software driver. AMD and Intel were already providing their own GPU hardware in their own chipsets, yet if anything, the discrete GPUs on cards saw better software support.