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A problem in Oz is that there is no 18 cert for computer games. So anything that isn't 'watch with mother' is banned.

Yes but with that sort of primitive technology you have to wait until AFTER the election to know who won!

Ideally it should otherwise you are vulnerable to a range of differential attacks. In practice it's a compromise between performance and security. It might very well touch a large …

Margins on desktops went to nothing. That was helped by people buying laptops for home use. Noticed how a laptop costs twice as much as a PC and isn't upgradeable so only lasts hal…

Of course if you are really smart you build the same car and sell it as an Audi (to mac owners), VW (to laptop buyers), a Skoda (to desktop buyers) and a Seat (to netbook buyers). …

Always tricky to get real figures, a lot of Apple's revenue comes from iphone/itunes and the details of the deals aren't public. MS also has a lot of income from licenses/service/s…

Makes todays XKCD rather apt http://xkcd.com/652/

That's a recent change - it used to be very difficult to get academic staff into the US, even for international research programs. It's why a lot of international scientific projec…

But everytime you write to it every byte in the volume will change and dropbox will have to resync the whole file.

Group pre-order for the hardware though, 8-9 weeks

Microsoft will still make more money from Windows7 than Apple makes form selling computers. They made more from Vista than Apple makes. There is a big difference between 'fails wit…

Does this sound an awful lot like the pleadings of car companies building SUVs when oil hit $150 and those sneaky foreigners started importing subcompacts ?

Pretty much for the same reason BMW don't sell pickups. It's not like BMW's engineers couldn't master the technology of the solid rear axle.

Law of supply and demand. If there was only a 100 science PhDs granted each year in th eUSA then they would be able to demand a high salary as industry fought for their services. T…

To work in the USA with a PhD, even as a professor you need an H1B - you are subject to the same quotas and limitations as other H1B IT workers.