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well this is nothing new, the feminist nowdays have nothing to do with what feminism actually is/was... And if u don't know what I'm talking about...well The Amazing Atheist has few great videos about them: VIDEO1 & VIDEO2

I really hate these clickbait articles. I think that sony isn't personally intrested in making games anymore , that's why they sold their own studio this year... also if the Vita would be dead, no new games would be announced anymore...okay yes in USA it seems to be dead, but that market has always lived its own life compare to rest of the world... anyway PSvita is doing really well in asia (at least in japan) and okay'ish in europe(depends how and where u look), and maybe that's why almost all the games for PSvita are japanese. There are A LOT of games for PSvita that are unforuntely only for the japanese market, okay Sony is trying to get more of those games here to the western market, and they have partially succeeded in that. but if u are one of those people who dont care for japanese games (aka 80% of the good games nowdays) and only care for western games then YES PSvita is 100% dead platform...whose fault is it? western studios, Sony or both, I would say both..maybe little bit more on the western studios. I do admit that the memory card for PS vita are really expensive (at least the biggest ones), and hard to find nowadays (outside of japan at least). I can only find the 16gb versions here in Finland, so that is Sony fault/weird decision.

if u can buy the Xperia M4 aqua with 16GB then I would go with it, otherwise zenfone 2 is better. the 8gb (model) is way too small, so you can't almost do nothing with it, okay when the Android 6 update arrives you can combine the internal memory with your sdcard, so this will fix the small handicap on the phone. so if u are willing to have the small handicap before the android 6 update, then Sony Xperia is always the better choice . what I love about the Sony phones is mostly their great Android support and good or even great hardware (at least on Z-series). M4 aqua was one of the first xperia phone that got MXTP (My Xperia Theft Protection - provides bootloader-level security against thieves)

Sony Mobile statement on change in waterproof policy: Source: xperiablog

It seems people haven't notice or don't understand, that Sony uses their upscaling algorithms from their bravia TVs, so u wont even mostly notice that you are using upscaled version. you may ask why they use upscaling instead of native rendering...well it restrains way less the gpu and that means better battery life. Also apprently that Bravia upscaling algorithm was designed 4k in mind, this apprently was one of the reason why sony went with 4K directly and not 2k or QHD. What I understood it gives the most optimal results... is there any point with this...well that's a whole another debate one more thing...I personally think this is a good way of doing things, all the most not that necessary things are upscalled (to save battery) and only the most important stuff are in native 4K. okay I'm more intrested in the rumored Z5 ultra (6.5" phablet) that has 4K screen with snapdragon 820, Adreno 530 should be way better for 4K

It seems almost everything is actually rendered in 1080p and then upscaled to 4k and this should according to Sony give the 2 day battery life. What do you guys think? is this a good or bad move/idea? source: phonearena

Apprently Moto X Style uses the Sony's new IMX230 camera sensor. I find it little bit amusing that it arrive first to a competitors device then sony's own Xperia Z4/Z3+ phone...maybe it will arrive to Z5 ("Made for Bond"), I hope at least.

It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a good time for an update. At Backblaze, as of December 31, 2014, we had 41,213 disk drives spinning in our data center, storing all of the data for our unlimited backup service. That is up from 27,134 at the end of 2013. This year, most of the new drives are 4 TB drives, and a few are the new 6 TB drives. Hard Drive Failure Rates for 2014Let’s get right to the heart of the post. The table below shows the annual failure rate through the year 2014. Only models where we have 45 or more drives are shown. I chose 45 because that’s the number of drives in a Backblaze Storage Pod and it’s usually enough drives to start getting a meaningful failure rate if they’ve been running for a while. Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Rates Through December 31, 2014 Name/Model Size Number of Drives Average Age in years Annual Failure Rate 95% Confidence Interval HGST Deskstar 7K2000 (HDS722020ALA330) 2.0 TB 4,641 3.9 1.1% 0.8% – 1.4% HGST Deskstar 5K3000 (HDS5C3030ALA630) 3.0 TB 4,595 2.6 0.6% 0.4% – 0.9% HGST Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) 3.0 TB 1,016 3.1 2.3% 1.4% – 3.4% HGST Deskstar 5K4000 (HDS5C4040ALE630) 4.0 TB 2,598 1.8 0.9% 0.6% – 1.4% HGST Megascale 4000 (HGST HMS5C4040ALE640) 4.0 TB 6,949 0.4 1.4% 1.0% – 2.0% HGST Megascale 4000.B (HGST HMS5C4040BLE640) 4.0 TB 3,103 0.7 0.5% 0.2% – 1.0% Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31500341AS) 1.5 TB 306 4.7 23.5% 18.9% – 28.9% Seagate Barracuda LP (ST31500541AS) 1.5 TB 1,505 4.9 9.5% 8.1% – 11.1% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (ST3000DM001) 3.0 TB 1,163 2.2 43.1% 40.8% – 45.4% Seagate Barracuda XT (ST33000651AS) 3.0 TB 279 2.9 4.8% 2.6% – 8.0% Seagate Barracuda XT (ST4000DX000) 4.0 TB 177 1.7 1.1% 0.1% – 4.1% Seagate Desktop HDD.15 (ST4000DM000) 4.0 TB 12,098 0.9 2.6% 2.3% – 2.9% Seagate 6 TB SATA 3.5 (ST6000DX000) 6.0 TB 45 0.4 0.0% 0.0% – 21.1% Toshiba DT01ACA Series (TOSHIBA DT01ACA300) 3.0 TB 47 1.7 3.7% 0.4% – 13.3% Western Digital Red 3 TB (WDC WD30EFRX) 3.0 TB 859 0.9 6.9% 5.0% – 9.3% Western Digital 4 TB (WDC WD40EFRX) 4.0 TB 45 0.8 0.0% 0.0% – 10.0% Western Digital Red 6 TB (WDC WD60EFRX) 6.0 TB 270 0.1 3.1% 0.1% – 17.1% Notes: The total number of drives in this chart is 39,696. As noted, we removed from this chart any model of which we had less than 45 drives in service as of December 31, 2014. We also removed Storage Pod boot drives. When these are added back in we have 41,213 spinning drives. Some of the HGST drives listed were manufactured under their previous brand, Hitachi. We’ve been asked to use the HGST name and we have honored that request. What Is A Drive Failure For BackblazeA drive is recorded as failed when we remove it from a Storage Pod for one or more of the following reasons: The drive will not spin up or connect to the OS. The drive will not sync, or stay synced, in a RAID Array. The Smart Stats we use show values above our thresholds. Sometimes we’ll remove all of the drives in a Storage Pod after the data has been copied to other (usually higher-capacity) drives. This is called a migration. Some of the older pods with 1.5 TB drives have been migrated to 4 TB drives. In general, migrated drives don’t count as failures because the drives that were removed are still working fine and were returned to inventory to use as spares. This past year, there were several pods where we replaced all the drives because the RAID storage was getting unstable, and we wanted to keep the data safe. After removing the drives, we ran each of them through a third-party drive tester. The tester takes about 20 minutes to check the drive; it doesn’t read or write the entire drive. Drives that failed this test were counted as failed and removed from service. Takeaways: What are The Best Hard Drives4 TB Drives Are Great We like every one of the 4 TB drives we bought this year. For the price, you get a lot of storage, and the drive failure rates have been really low. The Seagate Desktop HDD.15 has had the best price, and we have a LOT of them. Over 12 thousand of them. The failure rate is a nice low 2.6% per year. Low price and reliability is good for business. The HGST drives, while priced a little higher, have an even lower failure rate, at 1.4%. It’s not enough of a difference to be a big factor in our purchasing, but when there’s a good price, we grab some. We have over 12 thousand of these drives. Where are the WD 4 TB Drives? There is only one Storage Pod of Western Digital 4 TB drives. Why? The reason is simple: price. We purchase drives through various channel partners for each manufacturer. We’ll put out an RFQ (Request for Quote) for say 2,000 – 4 TB drives, and list the brands and models we have validated for use in our Storage Pods. Over the course of the last year, Western Digital drives were often not quoted and when they were, they were never the lowest price. Generally the WD drives were $15-$20 more per drive. That’s too much of a premium to pay when the Seagate and HGST drives are performing so well. 3 TB Drives Are Not So Great The HGST Deskstar 5K3000 3 TB drives have proven to be very reliable, but expensive relative to other models (including similar 4 TB drives by HGST). The Western Digital Red 3 TB drives annual failure rate of 7.6% is a bit high but acceptable. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3 TB drives are another story. We’ll cover how we handled their failure rates in a future blog post. Confidence in Seagate 4 TB Drives You might ask why we think the 4 TB Seagate drives we have now will fare better than the 3 TB Seagate drives we bought a couple years ago. We wondered the same thing. When the 3 TB drives were new and in their first year of service, their annual failure rate was 9.3%. The 4 TB drives, in their first year of service, are showing a failure rate of only 2.6%. I’m quite optimistic that the 4 TB drives will continue to do better over time. 6 TB Drives and beyond: Not Sure Yet We’re beginning the transition from using 4 TB to using 6 TB drives. Currently we have 270 of the Western Digital Red 6 TB drives. The failure rate is 3.1%, but there have been only 3 failures. The statistics give a 95% confidence that the failure rate is somewhere between 0.1% and 17.1%. We need to run the drives longer, and see more failures, before we can get a better number. We have just 45 of the Seagate 6 TB SATA 3.5 drives, although more are on order. They’ve only been running a few months, and none have failed so far. When we have more drives, and some have failed, we can start to compute failure rates. Which Hard Drive Should I Buy? All hard drives will eventually fail, but based on our environment if you are looking for good drive at a good value, it’s hard to beat the current crop of 4 TB drives from HGST and Seagate. As we get more data on the 6 TB drives, we’ll let you know. What About The Hard Drive Reliability Data? We will publish the data underlying this study in the next couple of weeks. There are over 12 million records covering 2014, which were used to produce the failure data in this blog post. There are over 5 million records from 2013. Along with the data, I’ll explain step by step how to compute an annual failure rate. Source page

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Source: http://360.here.com/2015/01/07/raise-smart-glasses-ces-gets-eyes/

source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Engineer-Finds-Critical-Vulnerability-in-Windows-8-1-Makes-It-Public-468730.shtml

I think I found my next monitor, if the FreeSync is any good compare to G-sync SOURCE : http://wccftech.com/lg-wide-freesync-ips-panels-2015/

I have planned to buy an intel nuc to make an Kodi (xbmc) media center, but never had extra money for one -_-'

I think the slogan should be; Nokia N1 - fancy way of saying that Windows was a mistake