It's not surprising that banks are interested in blockchain technology, if not necessarily Bitcoin itself.
Patenting technology is very common by these companies and it is almost always a protection measure against them being sued for using it.
Someone living near my parents looks to have uploaded a hundred or so "chemtrail attack" videos. I honestly had no idea that people in the UK were into that sort of thing, but that's the internet I guess.
Having just gone through all of the tutorials and documentation, I can see this type of thing shaking up configuration management in enterprise environments quite significantly. The amount of headaches I have keeping several environments (Dev, Staging, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, Prod) in sync - across any project I've worked on - would be far better maintained using this kind of container-based management.
Hmm. I must say I'm amazed you could generalise in that fashion - I can't speak for your personal experience, but we certainly don't treat English people as 'the enemy', and to claim that that is a consideration for an English person choosing to work in Scotland is rather laughable.
I have endless TextEdit files strewn around my hard disk with very similar contents, I need to hoover them up every now and again. It's really useful to type something out like this, even just to map the problem out in your mind.
I quite liked the look of EBean, though I haven't really used it much. Even so, it's fairly easy to plug in a JPA manager (in my case, Hibernate) and use the helper classes provided for DB management.
Edit: should add that I'm mainly familiar with the Java play framework aspects, not so much the Scala end.
Relating a specific thread to a "subreddit" and not mentioning that _all_ of the discussion was driven by users is a bit disingenuous of the BBC. From an outsider's perspective it makes Reddit sound like a gossip blog or a news/opinion site written by journalists.
I've worked next to someone that was extremely harsh on their keyboard - full blown hammering the keys, with the whole desk shaking - and even in a medium-noise office it was infuriating to work next to.
After a few light-hearted suggestions that he be a bit lighter on the keys, I ended up having to point out how much it was putting me off my work. Thankfully he was good enough to change his habits while he remembered, but he would soon idly begin bashing again.
On a similar note personal space invaders are even worse, but I'll contain my vitriol on that subject for now.
It allows you to copy pretty much anything, including "Apps" of which Games are a subtype. PSP hacker websites like Wololo are already poring over encrypted .psvimg files.
I know this because I own one, and I ran out of space on my 4GB Vita memory card within a day just by downloading games from PSN. The CMA is a life saver because I can use my PC as backup storage, essentially, without being forced to buy a larger, more expensive, memory card.
Of course, this just leaves the matter of convenience, which is why the performance of the media is such an annoying factor.
As for the CMA itself, it simply acts as a daemon once it is set up - there's no GUI and all file transfers are handled on the Vita itself.
Your second (third?) point is moot, since Sony's own Content Manager Assistant[1] can copy anything from your Vita memory card onto a Mac or PC. The piracy chat from Sony's spokespersons is pure marketing dross.
As for their right to earn money, I don't think anyone is debating that - Digital Foundary's main criticism is the speed of the media, which is (through empirical testing of course) significantly worse than standard microSD cards that are much cheaper.
The best comparison though is to Nintendo's 3DS which comes bundled with a standard SD card, and it hasn't fallen to piracy yet.
This, exactly. Most of the TV shows I do watch are American and are shown on TV the next day at best, and never at worst. I don't feel bad downloading and viewing something that I'm already paying for to get it in advance, and I'm certain millions of others on both sides of the pond feel the same.
