Another +1 for FFMPEG for video encoding. Love it.

It's 2 miles here. I'm 1.9 miles from them. They used to deliver to me, but now will only deliver across the street from me (I'm not kidding). It's a nice, suburban neighborhood that gets deliveries on one side of the street but not the other. Sometimes if they're slow, I can talk them into delivering me their…

I've had 14 of my 16 3 TB drives in my Seagate-driven NAS fail within 2 years (they RMA'd them all for me and of those, 1 was DOA and another has failed already). It's now 2.5 years later and I'm seeing more failures, so I'm replacing with Toshiba drives. The drives are protected from vibration, humidity, and heat —…

Thank you.. I was about to post the same thing. Go go gadget internet irresponsible writing!

Then you missed out on an excellent tongue-in-cheek flick.

I imagine the next logical step is to consider that the product would collapse on its own weight (some, assuming you could prevent them from spilling over with some kind of adhesive). I'm sure it'd bow in the middle and not actually be nearly as high as you imagine.

Agreed: crap.

Verizon reps told me that preorders will be cancelled (or switched to a tiered plan automatically). You won't get to keep this deal. :/

I spoke with several Verizon supervisors over the phone this morning and they were all very specific that Verizon would not honor the upgrades on unlimited. For preorders, they'll simply cancel the order. For devices that have already queued for shipping, they may be able to cancel them in time or they may need to…

Thank you, I got a good LOL out of this.

Wow, you mean we can manipulate people by being deceitful? Why hasn't everyone thought of this?? The advice some people give...

It's been pointed out that (a) it's people with ACCESS to a toilet, so 5 people living in a home with 2 toilets is still 5 people with access to a toilet... and ... (b) the entire statistic is wrong since they're counting mobile subscriptions worldwide (including tablets, people with multiple cell phones, etc.).

I found some more data:

Here's your answer: they're talking about total worldwide mobile subscriptions, including non-phone devices like tablets or anything else with a SIM card as well as counting phones that use multiple SIMs multiple times:

I second this: there's no report or any data. It's an offhand statement, and I also challenge it. More sensationalism in "journalism".

I hear you... I opened this link from my feed exclusively to point out that typo. Drives me nuts.

It does — dunno who told you otherwise.

Where on earth are you getting "up to 785 MB/s"? It seems impossible based on only 5 desktop drives which are each only capable of a typical ~100-130 MB/s themselves. Also, here are the tech. specs from the page you linked:

I've got three sitting on my desk. I've tried RaspBMC and several other builds. You aren't going to be happy or impressed with its performance, no matter how much tweaking you do (and yes, I'm overclocking... you really have to if you expect HD content to play at all). Also, getting WiFi to work on the RaspBMC…

I agree... this is probably the first time I didn't automatically just skip past this kind of headline in my reader. They will undoubtedly defend why they post this kind of stuff, but they should check if their readership actually cares.