Bsmith

like said before me it's more of a DRM thingy then just windows, which sucks since I only found out after buying a few blu rays =/ ohh well atleast I can store my photo's on blu ray disks if needed.

it should be fine no problem at all, Im still alive after 20+ years full of allergic's causing a stuffed nose. quickly resorting towards medicine isn't a ideal solution, your body get's used to them.

same here, but sadly you can't play blu ray disks directly within windows

Somehow windows managed to fail an update, which ended up with the boot selection being shuffled around. the SSD I used was put on the bottom of booting order, while, a USB slot that inside my monitor, that isnt recognized by the BIOS/UEFI, got boot priority, but the BIOS/UEFI, couldn't detect/acces it since the monitor wasn't turned on! windows update, you gotta love them.

it probably is one of those free trails where they need $1 transferred to be certain that the given credit card information is legit and the card isn't blocked, this is a common practice for companies that accept payment through credit cards. later(after the trail usually) this $1 will be transferred back to you, this allows them to claim it as "Free" in the US, but not something that really keeps hold in the EU due to laws and lack of credit card users.

well flickr and 500px are two example's that quickly come to mind. two sites that are more leaning to content value instead of the data.

yeah ehmmm.... liquid cooling harddrive like linus said in the end? you have these things.... http://koolance.com/cooling-blocks/hard-drive-coolers?path=29_45

yes that's the size of an reactor, but do you know those giant cooling towers that stand near them? you can't have proper nuclear fission without one of those. no matter how much I like the idea, the amount of cooling required makes this impossible.

I suggest to read this exact Quora answer(link below) and read other answers to the same question, the answers have been given by people that moved to Japan, went on holiday or anything like that. it are a total of 28 answers, each with their own story. the one that I linked is the best rated answer by viewers. since each answer has different tips I suggest to read them all, I picked the most convenient once to link with most general/all-round information, but there is certainly more! exact answer: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-hardest-adjustments-to-make-when-visiting-Japan/answer/Graham-D-Brown?srid=aNCE question in general: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-hardest-adjustments-to-make-when-visiting-Japan

I think that kind of stuff is considered illegal in the EU. Dell once sold a laptop(this is told from memory, roughly 5-10 years ago) that had a small bump on the inside of it, which would cause it to stop working after roughly 2 years since it put stress on an important component, making it fail, with replacement of the part it would last only a few months. Since the warranty period by law here (netherlands) is a minimum of 2 years they nearly got away with it, but luckily we got a consumer protection law that translates to the product having to survive longer then that period. So dell nearly got away with it, but when multiple consumers had the problem a consumer protection organ jumped in, making an independent company look into it, which discovered the small bump on the inside being the cause of it, a design flaw from Dell. In the end Dell ended up replacing all affected laptops along paying the research costs if I'm not mistaken. This set a precedent for similar cases where products suffer the same problem x amount of time after purchase, something similar happened with sony's PsP that suffered of death pixels after a few months, same result in the end. So I am personally not to worried about these things, however if something like the EU or USA doesn't accept such a law it's hard to get rid of it globally.

singular apple devices arent that special in my mind, but once you get a few more you will notice how smooth everything goes into each other and how near perfect the syncing across all devices is, that is what makes apple so hard to get rid off from your house, once it's in and set up properly it works flawless and without any major hiccups.

yes and whose fault is it that they have those high expectations? jokes like that just smack them back to earth, something everyone needs every now and then. if it would "damage" kids so badly then it might be a mental problem that comes into existence when they get raised or through their education. Kids do need protection and love, but protecting them from everything only makes them feel more important and special, then you end up with people that can't relate to each other and try to protect everyone that can't speak for themselves. owh wait...

yes and kids playing jokes on their parents is fine. I mean come on kids aren't stupid, never saw things like funniest home videos? those kids from the 90's came out pretty fine I find(except the PC bs and the ones wanting to protect everyone against small stuff) yes kids are fragile, but guess what? it also prepares them for life, life ain't fair and easy. life ain't always nice, surprises aren't always a nice thing, these parents are actually teaching their kids something, they learn and they toughen up, so what's wrong with a joke? Besides, these boxes have products, do you think they don't get them anyway after the video ended?

whoo yeah windows 10 edition *rolls eyes* not gonna pay a second time for a more locked down version.

it's really weird to say but "just" do it although I personally know the "just" doesnt make any sense since you have the feeling you can't, but trust me you can. Bit more then a year back I had to chance to kiss a girl and see what happened or just let her walk, now I'm able to call her my girlfriend for roughly a year. Why, because I "just" did it.

this is even less useful then knowing that Alan Turing already had ideas describing a rough form as AI that we are currently seeing to come alive. He did a lot for the digital age, but it's sad the the British government decided to kill him off because he was gay and had knowledge of their most fundamental success in the wars.

for Linus his doing this video is quite neutral, I know that there wasn't much time between the shooting/writing and the release, but it feels like Linus lost his magic energy bubble.

Yeah the crop is a bit close, but it was that or a out of focus branch in the foreground of the shot, so I had to make a trade off and ended up chasing this in order not to break the perspective. I would also prefer to go out in the wild instead of a terrarium shot, but that's rather hard here in the Netherlands. just keep the work up and who knows where we might end up with our cameras.

let's not forget that in the USA it's more likely to be in a state where it is legal to have sexual interaction with a horse but illegal to do with someone of the same sex/gender.

Hmm this is hard to rate for me, since I'm not really into this type of photography due to the usual high amount of photoshop used, judging by the smoothness of the skin I assume that also goes for this shot. I like the overal shot, lightning and composition wise. However it feels quite soft, especially when looked at the full resolution the details of the model her clothing fall away rather quickly, along with a (for me) rather unpleasantly smooth skin(like mentioned before) I would rate it 6/10 though since it's pretty flawless in the regards of composition and lightning. my shot. IMG_6743-2 by thommy saltzherr, on Flickr

sounds as a fun project indeed, not easy certainly, but certainly worth the nerd points if it goes viral. NFC is also a possibility with an arduino I thought, would be a hassle thou.