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With a 100 Mbit/sec connection, that would become "Less than 10 hours". That's still quite fast.

A self-contained fire, caused by hitting a large object, which only started spreading once emergency services broke through the battery casing. Exactly how is this a 'hardware mishap'?

That's definitely false. PRAM only contains firmware settings and boot parameters. It isn't big enough to contain drivers.

If the display driver is at fault, grandparent wouldn't even see a mouse cursor.

I don't know anything about 'properly cleaning the kernel caches', but it's clearly not a problem since grandparent was able to continue by rebooting.

I run several virtual machines on my 8 GB MBP and I have never seen swap issues. Are you sure your problems are actually caused by swap?

"purge" doesn't touch swap, it discards disk cache. Its use (according to the man page) is to simulate cold boot disk performance. The command has no use for memory management, because disk cache is automatically discarded when free memory runs out.

The half-blank pages you're seeing is a feature that's recently been enabled. This is a case of latency improvement that visually appears to be worse.

When rendering can't keep up with your rate of scrolling, Chrome will display the part that has been rendered so far and display a checkerboard pattern for the not yet rendered part. Previously, Chrome would just flip the display buffers less often if rendering can't keep up.

Some people like moving the scroll bar (which seems to be your preference). Other people like moving the document (which is my preference).

There's no right or wrong choice here. The current default logically makes sense -- your cursor is located at a document, and when you're moving your fingers upward, the document also moves upward.

But like any changed default, there are people who liked the previous setting. And there are of course people who want to use (or have to use) other OSes where this setting can't easily be changed. Those people can change the OS X setting at will.

USB doesn't impose a simultaneous key press limit that low, the keyboard does. The 'Report count' field of the 'Key codes' usage page of the keyboard's USB endpoint descriptor determines the maximum number of simultaneous key presses. This field is a byte, so it could be up to 255.

The keyboard endpoint example in the USB HID spec does have 'Report count' set to 6.

I can easily see stereographic images where you have to focus on a plane in front of the picture, but with this implementation you should focus behind the picture. That's hard for me to do, and this implementation doesn't allow this to be toggled.

There are other ways of contributing to a project besides committing code changes.

Actually, graphics drivers provide the OpenGL interface, just like they provide the rendering backend to DirectX. People are going to install graphics drivers anyway if they're going to do GPU stuff.

> It doesn't say "information was requested" or "information was provided" for only 9,000-10,000 devices but that only that number were specified.

Actually, it does say that: "were specified in those requests".

Google already publishes this: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US...

But the fact is that they haven't upgraded, regardless of whether that's due to unwillingness or due to unavailability. Willingness to upgrade doesn't matter if you can't upgrade; you're still stuck on the old version.

> and possibly on some ARM systems

Disabling Secure Boot is forbidden on ARM systems. Point 18 ends with:

    Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.

That is actually the case. Point 17 states:

    Mandatory. On non-ARM systems, the platform MUST implement 
    the ability for a physically present user to select
    between two Secure Boot modes in firmware setup: "Custom"
    and "Standard".

Surely a physically present user (mentioned by the requirement of point 18) can disconnect the boot device in order to prevent Windows from booting. The firmware then has ample time to set up USB and allow the user to enter firmware setup.

Alternatively, as a workaround, find someone who has already accepted said agreement elsewhere and have them accept it on your device, disable secure boot and wipe the boot device.

Secure Boot isn't about lock-in, at least not on PCs. To qualify for the Windows Logo program, it must be possible to disable Secure Boot.

The three vibrations at the start of the workout might be a bit superfluous; the watchapp already has my attention when starting.

200 KB for a 1600x1078 photo sounds quite reasonable to me. The 300 KB PNG wrist photo on the other hand...

> It would crash all clients after injecting just a single message to any node of the network. Message would also be persisted in datastore so it would recrash the client on restart.

Wouldn't that fail to propagate through the network? Crashing nodes can't forward messages to other nodes.

You don't need a special doctype for that. Just don't include any DRM if you don't want to include any DRM.

It's mentioned on the About Raspberry IO page[2].

"The goal of Raspberry IO is to create, share, learn and teach the open-source community about using Raspberry Pi with Python."

[2]: http://raspberry.io/about-raspberry-io/

CoffeeScript doesn't actually create any objects you're not telling it to do so. It does return the value of the final expression, but you placed that expression there to be executed. Its value will be returned and that might cause it to remain reachable for some additional time, but the value was created by your expression, not by CoffeeScript's return semantics.

For me, the method of installation is one of the less important reasons why I started using rbenv instead of rvm. rbenv's simplicity and speed appealed to me, and the trigger for switching was rvm destroying itself again (or otherwise rendering itself unusable) after updating it.

Why would it be disastrous?

Anecdotally, as a kid, I remember having a book containing cross-eyed stereographic images. As far as I'm aware, today, my eyesight is normal.

I can't believe XP is still being used as primary gaming OS by 8.35% of Steam users.

Are so many gamers still using ancient hardware incapable of running Windows 7 or 8? Or are they unwilling or afraid to upgrade?

At least, XP usage has dropped by 0.62 percentage points since the month before. Since this rate will likely decrease, XP will not be gone in less than 14 months.

That might have disabled the malfunctioning part or otherwise worked around it. If it's merely a firmware issue, everyone would have that problem.

Besides, some people in the referenced Apple discussions thread report that even after flashing the firmware, the problems continue.

No, it's the behavior of malfunctioning hardware. The new drivers happen to trigger the malfunction in a different way.

That's probably done to prevent iPad 1 owners from purchasing the game. Besides requiring iOS 6.0, requiring a camera is currently the only way to exclude the first-generation iPad.

'User styles' is a common name for user-applied CSS stylesheets; it's not necessarily about applying styles in the English sense of the word. According to the author, these stylesheets remove some of the clutter, which presumably includes some or all ads.