DDR2 has twice the data rate of DDR1, but it's still only 512MB. 1GB is still much more useful than 512MB of RAM. With that, I could possibly compile and run a (very small) Minecraft server on the phone—we'd be taking smartphones into the category of UMPCs with this.

Would you kindly give me a discount on buying this place?

I saw this and assumed Moot was trollin'.

As much as I hate to say it, it may be necessary for DRM or a secondary level of authentication to be implemented on the PS3 to deal with the piracy. It's unreasonable to expect Sony to roll over and take it, but they can still put up a SOFTWARE fight, but a legal fight is (very) unethical. Nintendo hasn't sued…

Funny. The same could be said about jailbreaking the iPhone. After all, the only thing people do with a jailbroken phone is pirate stuff, right? And oddly enough, it was decided that hacking a phone to run unsigned code is perfectly legal.

That's called anarchy, not freedom. In all seriousness: Freedom cannot be bound by politics. While places like Westboro Baptist are on the far end of the scale, they are still protected by freedom of speech. With your freedom, you get hate speech that is constitutionally protected. It sucks, but it's the lesser of two…

And the freedom to use these things to their fullest extent. Having something with plenty of spare processing power that you can SSH into is pretty awesome. You should try it out some time.

Step 1. Install Alfred

Playing devil's advocate here: Laws are an arbitrary set of rules imposed upon the chaotic world of nature by a particular group, often sharing a set of morals. In nature, there are no laws, and as such, it's perfectly okay to run around raping [insert subject here]. Whether or not that's better comes down to opinion,…

I don't know if iTunes has improved at all recently, but when I ditched iTunes on Windows (10.0), it was a buggy mess that often had issues recognizing my first generation iPhone under Win7x64. Additionally, it often griped about not having enough memory when editing tags on a system with 6GB of RAM, 4GB being free.

The 13" MacBook Air is 1440x900. The 11" is 1366x768.

The problem is that this is no longer a budget phone. They've taken a standard smartphone with a theoretical 21mbps throughput, slapped a some fancy hotkeys on it, and called it a Sidekick. The sidekick is designed to be a crippled phone tied to the shackles of the carrier. Yeah, it sucks, but it does keep the data…

The BBC stream I was watching had someone saying that even if it doesn't melt down, the fact that they flooded it with seawater killed the plant forever.

Repeating what kshade needed, and what you have to realize is that Minecraft recently left alpha and entered beta. Generally, the feature-freeze has to happen at some point, and he's working on optimizing and bugfixing. While you don't get any shiny new dyes or anything when he redoes the lighting engine or changes…

MicroDVI.

Why is it that the MBP, which is only SOMETIMES SSD based is the system that gets this? I'd like an update on my Air...

No. Apple is the bad guy for not imposing enough control over their PAYMENT system, not the apps themselves.

I'm going to have to disagree with your cost without benefit statement. The 1440x900 13" screen on my Air is vastly superior to the 1280x800 13" screen on the 2009-era MacBook I used to use, both in terms of contrast, and in usability. While those extra 16,000 pixels may seem minor, the sharpness improvement and…

I can vouch for this. This is what the 13" MacBook Pro should be, and it's so much better than the Pros. If you're getting a 13" laptop, at least make it mobile.

I was hoping for the same thing. I'm not a fan of the glossy black that Quicktime X used, but if they would have just made the current menubar a dark, matte black, it'd be much nicer than before.