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I was with Verizon for 8 years. I loved Verizon, I laughed at people who bought Iphones and were stuck with At&t. Finally a couple months ago my plan was up with Verizon. I decided I would go with Android. I almost got the droid but I didn't want a slide out keyboard. After a couple of months of waiting I decided to ...
First, I have to preface this with the fact that Gawker owns Engadget, so the same people are ultimately in charge of both, further, their leadership has shown to be influential and all Gawker owned sites seem to behave the same. As such, I treat them as a single entity and use Gawker/Engadget interchangeably, and do ...
I'm kind of torn about this. I don't really visit Gizmodo much anymore since the whole stolen iphone thing, and the rest of the gawker sites are on thin ice with me because of the recent password leak fiasco, but I have yet to find a suitable substitute for io9 and lifehacker. I enjoy the commentary and often glean u...
I understand all that frustration. (It doesn't take that long from all libraries; some are faster at ILL than others; also, it shouldn't be more than one webpage to check to see if your library subscribes or not. If it is, they need a better website!) However, I was really directing my comment to Ricktron3030 who s...
I do tech support, and I see countless people that don't have any clue how to use their computers. A lot of the "problems" they have are nothing actually going wrong, but the fact that they don't know how to accomplish a ridiculously simple task like connecting to wireless, typing in the address bar, finding the start ...
Ugh... So as somebody who got into college and the hell out of US high schools pretty recently, let me just say that all students need laptops, and none of them need any other technology. Give them laptops, and turn off wi-fi during assessments/lectures. Now that i'm in college, i save an incredible amount of time by l...
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As much as I dislike the whole Snookie thing it really is stupid to say "Oh, a child died somewhere.. Snookie should've died instead." Fucking stupid. Your logic doesn't work, that's not how the WORLD works, and if it did I hope you make a typographical error or have a brain fart in a conversation, be cosmically set...
While you're absolutely right about Kurzweil, particularly his time line, the brain will fall to the march of understanding at some point in the future (baring the extinction of our species). That aside, there are still important differences between the questions being asked now and the questions that were asked by the...
If they are prepared to oppress one person they're probably prepared to oppress anyone if it becomes in their interests, so really it is oppressing us all - we're no more free just because it's currently not in their interests to violently oppress every person at every sign of discontent (authoritarianism doesn't have ...
I'm I the only one who doesn't like this guy? Okay today's copyright schemes are bullshit designed by greedy assholes, but this guy isn't some brave hero or selfless fighter like they are over at the pirates bay. This guy made money off copyrighted material. You cannot complain about copyrights while making money off t...
More of a novelty than game changer really. $3000 is a lot of fuel lets say £3.40 per gallon at 20mpg would get you 17500 miles in itself or 17647 to be precise. So this system would have to give that gain over it's lifetime to provide any benefit. Now the worst thing about hybrids is that when breaking at slow speeds ...
I will repost this in this thread so maybe some more people can read this: This is a misleading article. What everyone else is forgetting that both the SEJournal and Limited Run's test were only shown based on Facebook like pages. There is no mention (as far as I know) or case study for ads pointing at real landing p...
I can confirm this. I used Facebook to advertise my page and went from ~2000 fans to over 6000 within several months. Awesome, right? Wrong. I thought it was weird that the new fans would never, EVER interact with the pages. So I started stalking their profiles. Guess what? Bots/hijacked accounts/fake accounts. H...
In the old days of the Internet a site would be hosted at a single physical location. Now sites, especially popular sites, are often hosted at many locations to cut down on latency and bandwidth issues. In order to save bandwidth, and to keep Facebook running smoothly, "Likes" from one region of the world, or the US, a...
There's also the problem of context. When you're asking your friends for a good restaurant, for example, you're not asking a robot to do the job -- you're asking that friend for X reasons (trust, likes same foods, talked about it offline a few weeks ago, etc etc). When you're on facebook, you're not looking for answe...
I want to talk from the point of view of the advertiser. I have not see a lot of advertisers doing Facebook advertising right and I want to share some of the thinks that are working really well for me (and hopefully save you some money). Let’s say you are a Game store. Someone searches on Google for Creed III, you kno...
I have had the same results as everyone else when advertising on Facebook. So I also consider it a scam. What does work, however, is posting good content. The traffic facebook generates to my site is among the best referrals.
Just a personal appeal. It's ads not adds. Sorry, my prof harped on that long enough in school that I do it too. Other wise, thanks for the
Here's my completely unsubstantiated theory, which I am typing up while drinking a few pale ales. It's Googlebot. Google is crawling the shit out of Facebook in an effort to perfect its algorithm, and they've decided they might as well destroy Facebook's reputation by clicking on all those ads at the same time. T...
It could be one of many issues though. Reports show that mobile safari is used significantly more than Android browsers, plus iPhone users download more apps, and the iPhone still sells like hotcakes. It's not too hard to reason that iPhone users therefore use more data than their Android counterparts. Combine all that...
Funny, reddit user complaining about CL interface. And how is CL like MPAA/RIAA? CL charges you nothing to use it while MPAA/RIAA try to squeeze every dime possible out of everything they can get their hands on. CL's data is CL's data and they can deny anybody trying to use it for profit. If Reddit told all their thi...
Have you ever tried to break an iphone, not just the glass, without using tools? Chances are it will give you trouble. I watched a stupid girl try to rip her 4s open to get the sim card out with a hammer, a screw driver and few other tools. Yes. I said stupid.. I came on the scene too late. Anyways, she had dropped it ...
I didn't say there is a 51% failure rate, I said that is all it takes to qualify as "most". I'm not making anything up, it's called a rebuttal to your unsubstantiated claim. Edit: To further explain what I mean... you made the claim that most people don't have problems with these displays. That means there coul...
I don't understand why people think the patent system is so fatally flawed, we are seeing a single well publicized case and now the whole system has to be wrong. The only thing that is wrong is the lack of quality manpower for the Patent Department. If there were more people properly skilled in the field of electro...
It's a deterrent. The range of damages under the statute is from $750 to $30,000 per work, but that can go up to a cap of $150,000 if the infringement is found to be intentional. The idea is that some people/companies might intentionally infringe for business purposes. If they hide their profits well, then those prof...
Government databases are troubling on so many levels. The main question is, what is the benefit of these databases? Data mining them is problematic, the sheer size of them means that they flag up thousands of false positives in most cases. This means that either a) no one looks at anything they do until someone is a ...
That is still complete and total BS. The contract is not a loan, the device is not collateral. You own the phone. A service contract is just that, a contract to retain services for a set amount of time, with an ETF in the event that the contract is broken. The device is still yours to do as you please. As an example, w...
To be sure, the Samsung Galaxy S4 includes Google Play, as confirmed by Michael Gartenberg in the tweet above, but after watching that event I can't help but wonder how long that will be the case Google Play is where the apps are. Even with all these new gimmicky features.
Easy tiger. Your statement that it can happen is based solely on the fact that it's a possible timetable frame. In other words, your opinion is even less informed than parent's whose opinion is based on at least some public information. Tesla is a publicly traded company, and thus we do have some knowledge of their s...
That's why they're rich. If you're able to get a return on your investment of 7% and the cost of borrowing the money is 5% (aka c* or cost of capital), you should leverage the debt to create value. People shouldn't be blindly afraid of debt. It's much different in the business world than it is in the personal world...
It comes with an 8 year warrantee, so you know you're getting at least 3 years out of it. The bigger (85kwh) battery costs $12k. Assuming it drops dead the moment the warrantee is up each time, you're looking at an average annual battery cost of $1500. Higher end luxury cars (S class Mercedes, 7 series BMW, etc) us...
I don't completely disagree, but I don't like ideas that put gun remedies so soon when we have been given so many others. We have many remedies available before threats are justified. For instance we can have complete, non-violent revolution and replacement of government any time we want: A MASSIVE media campaign to...
Source? How does a country that is founded upon the concept that government is of, by and for the people suddenly become one where government (read our ) employees are there to protect the state, and not us?
From /u/downhomegroove on /r/Starcraft: "Thanks for doing an article on this, Slasher. I was the person in the AMA that posed the TWC question to Mr. Shear. Although I am currently away on business this week, I can say without question, that the situation has NOT improved as of last week. In fact, I had to purchase a...
we've only had FiOS available for about a year. signed up immediately and it's been great. was supposed to have half price hbo for 6months and they have not yet bumped it up, plus they randomly added showtime to my package for free. internet did go down one day(tv still worked). i used my phone to tweet at their supp...
Among other things, this phone would be a brick , not a block. People vastly underestimate how much effort goes into integration of phone systems. Those little "blocks" would be microscopic segments of a chipset on most phones. This thing is going to be huge . Additionally, simple things like GPS rely completely ...
Well, everyone knew that was Job's M.O. Shareholder expectations was part of the reason he was run off in the first place, and they brought in Sculley. When he came back, Apple's stock was so shitty, that they were willing to give him free reign to do whatever he wanted. By the time they were booming, cash was flow...
Taking on the power of babel headfirst! Google vs old testament god; Its on! (This is in my opinion, the most fucked up thing old testament god ever did...) From Wikipedia; [The Tower of Babel]( forms the focus of a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Bible. According to the story, a united humanity of the gen...
It'll be a while before Google Translate can even hope to get Indonesian right. I'm a translator for Indonesian-English and vice versa and while I have to admit Google Translate does make my job easier, it will never be able to translate like a normal person.
Google is an example of capatilism done perfectly. They pool together some of the smartest minds in the world, along with their titanic amount of resources and use them to work on projects that, if successful, would greatly benefit the human race as a whole. They do this all while taking the long view, and creating the...
There is one other critical detail, at least for PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) customers (and probably SDG&E and SCE too). The utility does not pay out at a rate of 35c/kWh. They apply the positive credit to your account up to $0. Any credit earned above $0 is only paid out if the meter is a net-energy producer ove...
A 10 year lifespan is a wild assumption. The only thing that could even facilitate something like that will be the CPU slowdown in the next half of this decade, and even then GPUs(Where a shit tonne of the processing power goes these days) will keep on going for a while longer until the thermodynamics no longer permit ...
The simple truth is that Microsoft's Windows, Office and enterprise business is very high margin and high return on capital. Bing is just a poorly positioned brand and doesn't merit more capital expenditure. Xbox is a good brand in a bad business. The idea of a corporation is to make money for shareholders. Selling the...
Much of the extra cost was due to the rather deliberate decision to make it a blu-ray player. When the PS3 was released the blue lasers were scarce and expensive, making that a costly decision. But the resulting early lead in "players sold" may have been the deciding factor in blu-ray defeating HD-DVD. I think tha...
Also, without Bing around, Google would have no real competition and could be deemed anti-competitive.
I spent more time deciding whether or not it was a mullet than I did reading the article. Then I remembered that I could just Google him.
It was more like $150 The practice of selling the console at a loss and making the money back selling games was first used by sony for the PS2. Sega knew that sony was going to include a DVD player but assumed that they could survive it because the PS2 would have a much higher launch price. Instead Sony launched at $...
Personally I just wish Microsoft would support the existing OSes. If they did that, [we'd be stuck with Windows 3]( Not that there aren't some crazy people out there who thinks Windows attained UI perfection in Windows 3.1. My father still thinks [his TI-99/4a was the most usable interface ever]( He even orders t...
That's not how corporations work. Either Microsoft owns the company or they don't. Putting the subsidiary offshore might give them a tax benefit, but will not excuse them from responding to a US court order. If Microsoft owns the company, controls the company, or just has access to the data, they will be subject t...
The main complaint is there is a significant number of companies out there that just buy rights to patents or grab as many patents as possible and then sit on them until the patent expires. This creates several issues. It stagnates the industry because you can't use that particular patent now nor can you build off it. ...
It still seems like every one of those points is simply conducive to good design though. Of course Samsung would make the touch screen rectangular, it's functional: developers utilize the xy coordinates in their programming. Of course Samsung would make the phone rectangular, why would they have the housing uni...
There is no such thing as security, there are only ways to temporarily prevent unauthorized users from gaining what they want. The battle between cryptographer and cryptanalyst has been going back and forth since the dawn of time, and every time an "unbreakable" system is invented, it is thereafter broken. Sometimes it...
Interesting article but nothing in it contradicts my position or my reasoned opinion. In fact, there's probably much more alignment than not. Bear in mind too, that I wasn't addressing why Metro was designed the way it was, rather why the desktop remained in place. There are probably numerous reasons why the desktop ...
To all the "Do we need a study for this hurrrrrr?" comments. Yes, even if you have ideas about the outcome there are real benefits to quantifying the relationship between the factors you are interested in. Sure, it's easy to say "patent trolls are bad for jobs or innovation". But if you stop there you don't actuall...
Haha. I have a story for you. I am part of a racing club at my university. We build a formula SAE car every year from the ground up. Designed and built by students (with the exception of really rims, tires and wheels those are purchased). There is another club that is ASME (american society of mechanical engineers). Mo...
That seems to be Nissan's "design language". I bought a Leaf about 2 weeks ago. Walking around the Nissan dealership, there are random edges sticking out where they don't belong all over that place. The Leaf isn't close to the only car with headlights that don't fit in. I also saw taillights that don't fit with th...
Looking at how he started the company: Before him, "personal computers" weren't really a thing. They were mostly electronics kits, which were marketed to, bought and used by electronics geeks. The whole field was produced and consumed by mostly a small group of university students and graduates. It was basically a ...
You like paying for a costless service? Digital copying and down/uploading is costless. Taking musicians as an example, they shifted their income generation to live shows instead of records sales. Encouraging obsolete product sales through enforcement is unhealthy for the industry. Selling infinitely, costlessly co...
I think the main objection is that it's opt-out, i.e. preselected so if you don't carefully examine every page/option in the installation process you will (unwittingly) get it installed. One could always argue that people should read through every single page and the full contents of every EULA of every software they...
Yeah, I know what you mean. Shareware has made me read very carefully through offers during installers. I learned the hard way a LONG time ago. I still think this is being blown out of proportion though. uTorrent has been bundling stuff with their software for a long time. Hell, even the JRE does it with Ask toolbar.
Essentially, bitcoins (a type of anonymous currency) needed a distribution system. Since they designers didn't want to cause inflation by just "making" more bitcoins, they decided to create a finite amount of bitcoins, but bitcoins are no good until they are "mined", kind of like gold. The way bitcoins are mined is b...
VLC is still a good option for certain tasks, especially the task it was designed for: streaming/transcoding within a local network. But in most areas which matter to the average consumer (video playback), players like MPC-HC are objectively superior. VLC's selling point was that it plays everything, that it's free...
The tech can't get "more efficient" in terms of energy per unit of surface area. Actually it can get more efficient in terms of energy per unit of surface area. And it does. It'll be the key driver of solar cost decrease as time goes on, as the PV cell cost in a solar power system is becoming a small fraction, the ...
Fuck all that. Just switch to an ISP which doesn't throttle or censor. Why would you ever give money to the shitty bix-box ISPs who fuck with your packets, bitch about it, then go through all this bullshit rigmarole to get around the restrictions put in place by a company you're paying money to . It makes no sense...
Options are mainly for hedging, offsetting risks from other positions. Unless you have inside information, a detailed understanding of a particular business, or a sophisticated computer model, you should assume the market is efficient and sets accurate prices.
I currently work in tech in the SF Bay Area/Silicon Valley and my office is in the same building Twitter is in. People are comparing what is going on to a the .com bubble. While there is no way of knowing this for sure, I don't think these are similar events. People have been around the Bay Area long enough to still ...
How so? You're given more free time to do things you care about. Automation takes the monotony out of things. I don't need to waste time making a list of errands, my stuff does it for me. Instead of running out and ordering things and going to get stuff I can get a list put in front of me, and confirm or edit it while ...
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That's the part of people's dislike for the iPad that confuses me. For me, screen size makes the device so much more useful (replacing the kindle, wacom tablet, nintendo ds, and 90% of computer usage). At this stage in tablet software, I could care less about processing power (what would I use it for?). If I want to us...
It all stems from Ma Bell. In the beginning, there was Bell, and she was a pervasive monopoly who built the entire system. The thought, for a long while, was that telecom was a natural monopoly, and that to have a unified telecom system required one company to manage it. And so, Bell, or AT&T, whatever you want to c...
Forget about it. A solar panel might generate 200 watts in peak sun. If you're lucky you might get 6 peak-sun-hours in a day, so 1200 Wh. According to the article, a car needs 18 hours to charge at 110 V (I assume that's 1200W... Sorry, I'm in Australia where we use 220 V). So 21600 Wh for a charge. So you'd need 18 ...
The way I think of it is this, the friends that I talk to I already have their phone-number. If you want to talk to me you can phone me or come over to my house, it's more 'human'. This goes without saying that all relationships that are based off of drama-inducing facebook whores are almost all completely without wo...
I took Amtrak to Miami, it did take a while, but it was pretty cool and very worth it if you have a group of friends. You can take anything you want on the train. Like a cooler full of food and alcohol if you want. There is no checking whatsoever of anything you have for security. There was a lounge car which had some ...
I learned something valuable recently about public transportation in the USA. It seems that if you get rid of public transportation in your city then the poor people move to another one that has public transportation. Witness Clayton County, GA. Before the '96 Olympics everyone who lived there was affluent middle cl...
I agree that the wiggle room is a serious problem. However, have you ever actually studied the structure of the Internet and Internet routing? Internet routing is split into two levels: internal autonomous system (AS) routing (e.g. inside AT&T's network) using protocols like OSPF and external routing between ASes using...
Very impressed, but I'm not really feeling intimidated here. The "what is leg" answer really reveals Watson's limitations. The clue was: >It was the anatomical oddity of U.S. gymnast George Eyser, who won a gold medal on the parallel bars in 1904. The problem here is that the answer is a prepositional phrase acti...
Actually, "Turn of Phrase" is a very common turn of phrase.
I think you're overanalyzing this. "What is a wooden leg" would have been a perfectly fine answer and "What is a missing leg" was probably the "official answer", as Mason11987 says below. "What is " __ "?" demands a noun; offering an answer like "missing a leg" does not showcase people's ability to think abstractly, ...
That is exactly how Windows 7 behaves. There is a dialog with a countdown but since I was in a full screen game I didn't see it. Here is the [article]( with the steps I followed to disable to auto restart after this happened. The situation I stated is the default, without going into gpedit.msc like the article I link...
I hope you all see the blatant hole this can be exploited through. Any cyber attack can be left up for determination of rather it's an act of war, which would allow for unprecedented power to get the ones who staged the attack. I bet if someone DDoS'ed a large company's site they'll find a loophole to classify it as le...
That's fairly well thought-out for disk encryption, but in the case where you're sending any network traffic you're still vulnerable. It would be fairly easy to set up a packet sniffing / spoofing program on your network, albeit not on your machine, but on another computer in your network unless you're directly connect...
If you can't turn the metro UI completely off if you really want to then I already hate it honestly. I just don't like the metro UI, and I don't want to be constantly switching back and forth. Sure, it may work well on tablets but on PC I don't think it's going to be successful. As a few others in the comments have...
This is not why they were shut down. All the poker sites of any user base have a third party run over their their logs and audit them regularly. They don't cheat and would be stupid to do so since it's a cash machine. It'll be super easy to check anyway through statistics. Some of them were running ponzi schemes and ...
That's not cheating. Having an app keeping stats for you is quite common for anyone who plays online poker regularly. Online poker is also all about stats. You can't see the other player so there are no tells. Ofcourse there is the amount of time he takes and the amount he bets, but those aren't tells in the normal s...
I'm assuming that the plaintiffs are going to argue that Comcast is guilty of "predatory pricing." People are generally wary of predatory pricing because of this hypothetical scenario: Comcast costs $50 a month in Nowhereville, and it's the only ISP. LittleNet decides to open up and charge $40, which is only $1 abo...
This is true. I find it most depressing that they are just so out of touch with their customers on the consumer end of business though. Enterprise isn't perfect, but they do have a better understanding of the corporate environment than the home. What I want to see is the "Microsoft" brand say with Businesses, but t...
The problem is allowing companies to patent vague ideas, while having no actual intention of actually creating any invention, usually due to a lack of perceived purpose at the time. When someone else comes along and actually produces and finds a market for said invention, said patent troll swoops in and threatens to su...
The bigger problem is that everything builds off of more basic building blocks. Lets say he has created a wormhole generator, so he goes and patents 2 of the 10 integral parts to the generator (like patenting the wormhole EM stabilization gizmo) leaving the actual key ideas to creating the wormhole a trade-secret. He n...
sigh Here we go. The accusations against Amy have to do with a fan board, Evthreads. They have nothing to do with her personally, as she rarely visits the board. This whole thing sprouted from some fan drama a couple years ago, as Evheads are notorious for fan drama. The theory is a butthurt fan (Sam Smith, who create...
Nah, it's because Apple is now the most valuable (and arguably the most popular) tech company. People don't whine about Microsoft any more because they're no longer the biggest target.
You will always feel most comfortable on the OS you use the most and do what you like on, which for you seems to be Windows. I do a lot of cross-platform work that forces me to switch between Mac, Windows, and Linux (Ubuntu with Gnome3) constantly, so I really notice the differences. I also cannot remap the keystrokes...
Did you read the article? The difference is due to how the space is calculated (decimal vs. binary). The reason the usable HDD space is less is because of the installed programs and the OS. Notice that in the case of the 32 GB drive (which is reported as 29 GB by File Explorer) you lose 5 GB for Windows recovery to...
Tmobile is rapidly converting markets to 1900mhz HSPA+, and a good number of major markets have already been converted to HSPA+ on 1900mhz, which is fully compatible with the iPhone 5. Additionally, the are about to launch LTE on 1700mhz, which is fully supported by the iPhone 5.
The correct answer is, 2 step authentication requiring a physical object in combination with a password. In this case you keep the "good enough" security aproach of a password, and combine it with an object. In this way you do 2 things. If the object is ever lost, comrpomising of the account that the object protects ...
This is only partially true (the administrative difficulty and 'a bit more security'). The real problem with single-factor passwords is that you face one of three primary challenges: 1) The password remains consistent and not changed: this is easily recalled by a human and is the easiest for the user. (Tied in: pa...
Passwords are only a problem, because it is difficult for humans to remember sufficiently strong passwords, especially at a rate of one-per-website, especially especially when pretty much every website wants you to create an account. Password generators and managers like SuperGenPass and LastPass are working to fix thi...
God damn it. I am so fucking tired of this bullshit of password security. Authenticators are the best way to fix it but there is a problem with logins. Every password is supposed to be unique. The problem is that we don't have the memories or the time to deal with 8 different passwords (a conservative number) at a give...
By no means am I familiar with all the Sinologists in the world or universities. But my question was, Who the fuck is Wes Cecil? I took a look at his credentials as a "PhD" and his appeal to authority is only in those there letters. He didn't study China, his website doesn't suggest he even studies China. On the facu...
The 21" (245/35/R21) summer tires have a lower profile than the 19" (245/45/19) all seasons which means that their overall radius is almost identical. The actual radius of the tire is the radius of the rim plus the height of the sidewall. The overall difference in speed should be about 0.3% or 0.2mph difference at 60...