It's so dumb when developers start adding totally unrelated features to their software, the more features they add, the more diluted the amount of effort to individual features becomes. Why even bother adding video transcoding support, when it will suck compared to dedicated products, such as Mediacoder. There are…

Oh god, Open Office is about the only open-source alternative for Microsoft software that is vastly inferior to it's commercial counterpart. It's probably the first word-processor I've ever come upon that lags, even on decent computers. It's terribly optimized, and some elements of it's GUI are really poorly designed.

I printed this off and put it up over my computer. Someone give this man a medal.

The constant arguing and superiority complex that nearly all geeks posses for their specific OS is so pointless. The way I look at it, each OS is good for specific uses.

If logitech doesn't sell replacements, then I guess you can't replace it :P. You could always try and track down a wireless transmitter for your specific keyboard on ebay, but I doubt you'll find one.

Trackball mice literally can't be more precise than optical mice (laser/LED), as the trackball is limited by the amount of servos measuring ball rotation, whereas optical mice simply use light, either in the form of an LED or laser.

For gaming mice, the most important thing is getting a mouse with a high enough quality sensor to allow you to disable mouse accelleration in Windows AND games. That means high DPI, so that rather than have a game/windows attempt to predict your movements to compensate for poor mouse dpi, you can play at pretty much…

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@improprietary Um, a lot :P Bacteria are quite resilient and can survive under a wide variety of conditions. 5C is actually the equivalent to a pleasant spa for bacteria, as it is neither too hot to kill most bacteria, nor is it too cold to hinder the development of colonies.

Defrosting meat by leaving it out to slowly warm is a very unsafe method. You're basically providing an opportunity for bacteria to grow and prosper, increasing the chances of bacteria making it through the cooking process.

I was simply pointing out the fact that you said "I have empirical evidence" as if the fact that in your experience clearing the phone's memory speeds it up proves that memory managers must be useful. Empirical evidence is useful, when collected from enough people/experiments. From a single person, it's useless. One…

There shouldn't be any risk. Drive caching shouldn't be applied, except for manually copying pictures to the mass storage partition on it (the only thing that can be done outside of iTunes).

But if you believe that the big bad corporations have orchestrated a clever scheme to capture the pictures of you and your girlfriend drunk at a party, what's to stop them from paying billions to the government to skip the whole "warrant" thing.

If the data is encrypted, the government would not be able to tell whether or not it is financial data. That's kind of the point of encryption. I suggest actually considering what you're saying before attempting to appear superior to others. Might save you from failing miserably all of the time.

Downloading a torrent file (typically under 75kb in size) through Tor is not going to have any more impact than browsing a website. And if you're going to get all moral about "stealing" music (how can you steal something without depriving the owner of the original thing?), one could argue whistleblowing is way worse.…

In general, SLI is less cost-effective than just getting a better card. However, for the few games that actually make good use of multi-GPU rigs (due to good optimization), such as Crysis, a multi-GPU setup will give a big performance boost.

Most cydia apps haven't been updated for iOS 5 yet, hence all of the crashing. The same thing happened when the iOS 4 update came out a while back.

iTunes doesn't treat iDevices like storage drives, rather it uses a proprietary protocol to communicate with them and transfer data. Hence drive caching is never applied.

Or you could just use Tor, which has been around longer and encrypts the data sent between your computer and the tor gateway (hence preventing an ISP from logging what you're doing).

My thoughts exactly. In fact, if they desired to peruse your phone's non-statistical data (i.e pics rather than call drop rate), it's likely they'd be smart enough to use something much smaller and more convert, and likely integrated into the operating system itself, rather than a service PUBLICLY MARKETED that anyone…