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That being said there does not always have to be a massive conspiracy in place for technology to slip through the cracks. Jacque Fresco on making 3D without galsses: "And what I did, is that I had many different applications… I got 3D imaging different ways and the simplest way was projecting the right and left eye...
There are a lot of people commenting how hard drive data transfer speed needs to increase for this to make any sense. While that is a legitimate thing to be concerned with, it is not relevant when talking about mechanical hard drives. Let me explain If you look at the picture in the article you will see the inside of...
I have absolutely no problem paying for Xbox LIVE Gold to play games online with my friends. The service is good enough and consistent enough to justify the price tag of those features. That being said, Microsoft is making a very bad decision requiring a gold level membership to use these services. I can go out and b...
Why's it silly to say you hate them? I had a PS1 and PS2, and then an original Xbox, and now I have a 360. I prefer the 360 controller hands down over any of the other controllers (with the exception of the Gamecube controller), it just fits my hands better, I find it more comfortable. I also prefer the asymmetrical ...
Add an extra level of accounts. Here is my idea: Gold-Does not change at all. The price will stay the same and you will still have party chat, entertainment apps, and online gaming. Silver-These accounts are no longer the basic free ones of today. You will have the ability to access entertainment apps, and possibly...
Because you're being retarded and are using old information to justify it. They had the feature before, it didn't work and they acknowledged that by turning it off, then re-enabled the feature this year when they were sure it did work.
I don't know if it's just a common misconception or just a joke, but we actually have average teeth, whereas America is fixated with having perfect teeth. A couple of my molars don't fit together properly, I could fix with braces I imagine, but they're hardly noticeable imperfections and it doesn't cause any discomfort...
I think Netflix and such should be accessible in Silver. I think XBL Gold is overpriced, and that there should be more benefits for subscribers. That said, I think pitting 360/XBL against PC/Steam or PS3/PS+ is simplifying a complicated difference between the platforms. For example, personally, I like the 360 UI (e...
Actually, I wouldn't even say it's because they're allegedly "pro-Apple", there are plenty of negative Apple articles. They're not hard to find. I wouldn't even quite agree with the rest of what he's saying, to be honest. Yes, a big problem are the flamebait articles but they come in every shape and form, not necess...
Your problem is, pardon my French, that you're an idiot. You're trying to rationalize your hatred for Apple by being wrong. Now, I'm no Apple fanboy, in fact I'm all PC/Android at the moment (although this and iOS 6 are indeed tempting me) but it really isn't as overpriced as it seems. From a utilitarian standpoint, ye...
5 pounds. A paltry 7 hours of battery life which probably amounts to 5 in real usage terms. 16GB of unnecessary dirt cheap RAM which I can only presume is for the numeric super-computing on laptop crowd (or more likely the typical computing-illiterate user that thinks that performance scales linearly with the amount of...
I'm not sure how many people have come to the same conclusion I have, but I'm fairly certain this higher resolution will mean something VERY different to OSX users vs. people who put a different OS on the laptop - let me explain: I think with OSX, the panel will behave as a 4x dpi panel with the same 'working resolut...
Hey cumon now, no need for the French, I actually used to own a macbook (the first white ones that came out) and I loved it...but then I just got tired of Apple's "elitist" products, I mean yea, they have the best looking and some of the most durable products on the market, but its not worth it for me. And let me clari...
You don't seem to understand the concept of encryption, that's ok. An encrypted wifi network simply has all communication encrypted with 128 or 256bit algorithm, which is pretty much uncrackable unless you have the password or find the password. This encryption starts on the connected user's device and ends at THE ...
Of course there's no requirement for intent to defraud in that section. That section sets out the penalties you can face once you're convicted of the offense that requires you do to it "knowingly and with the intent to defraud".
You pay for internet, just to be bombarded with ads. You bought a computer and there's ads on most of the things you do with it. I'm not seeing how that's any different. And yes, you pay for a tablet and they have ads on them. A tablet that they sell at a loss. Amazon's business model for kindles is that they are a m...
Usually one approximately 4 min break in a half hour show, 3 on an hour long one. The first one happens about 10 mins in, back for about 15 mins past the hour. Subsequent breaks happen at 30mins-35 mins, the last at about 45 mins past the hour so that the show finishes at 55 mins.
Why is this on the front page? There's no question that the GOP got up to some sketchy (intimidation, voting machine hijinks) and downright criminal (voter purges, etc.) activities this election, but what is this source? "The Green Party" is asking? Who? Ralph Nader? All they cite are some other, generally un-credible ...
If you step back, why do we have these laws? Well, the dealers would argue, 'Well, we made a big investment, so we deserve to be protected,' " Anwyl says. "But travel agents made a big investment, and they didn't get any protection." What a teaser of a line. I was genuinely hoping they would elaborate on why exactl...
That pretty much reminds me of anthropology and cultural assumptions. My teacher, first day of an anthro class walked into the room, completely silent not looking at anyone. The class quieted down of course. He headed straight for the blackboard, looking disheveled in appearance and starting writing curse words, backwa...
You are so incredibly short sighted, its because of people like you that stifle innovation and keep our technology falling behind other countries. Its not about what can do with it now its what you can do later. If we develop faster internet someone out there will design something that can be used with the faster inter...
I have a problem with google because they actually limit my ability to find information. Google is not a simply a service provider. They are a behavioral marketing company. Because google thinks it "knows" me, the search results it generates will always be different to someone else who searches for the same thing. ...
802.11 is an industry standardized protocol for wi-fi that runs at 2.4ghz (more recently at 5ghz but many devices have yet to be replaced) which is a very crowded frequency as you have to deal with microwave, bluetooth, cordless phone, and every other wi-fi interference, and you can't just change wi-fi channels as ther...
Yeah true schools and business would be the ones benefiting and in some cases or atleast where I live most of the schools have direct fiber to them. The biggest hurdle with deploying this gig fiber network is the training. Fiber splicing is not something the average joe off the street can do. So on top of factoring in ...
technically your "speed" is slower if by latency ... everyone is so concerned about bitrate. if only everyone knew that if you push for better latency then having a good bitrate is no more than an ancillary benefit and a shadow of an afterthought of the problem we have now.
60 gigaBIT right? When I read your comment I first thought you mean actual gigabytes. But yeah we're basically getting bent over a table and told how to live our lives by the cable companies here. And the government, and other things too but I'd rather avoid a debate, plus now I'm ranting.
When Lion first hit, I used the upgrade option to upgrade from SL on my MBP 2009. It was horrendously slow, very similar to all the times I have tried an upgrade from one version of Windows to another. Wiping it clean and doing a clean Lion fixed the slowness.
for the record I am against always on DRM but I think you are taking the consequences too far. There will always be someone who finds a workaround to the DRM. This applies to you being a child of the arcade generation. There really are almost no arcades left, but I have still played arcade games, why? because tech ...
False. Emulators will never be a threat to the console industry because of two factors. 1: The time it takes to develop the code that emulates console hardware. The people who developed the PS2 emulator have only recently nailed down the code that lets it run commercial games with little to no problems. The PS2 cam...
Whatever the outcome, I have my heart set on Wii U and PS4. I had 2 xbox 360s and 1 xbox. I loved Halos 1 through 3 and the main reason I bought a 360 was for halo 3. Many brilliant games came after and I bought a racing wheel for Forza. Good times and I still have a blast with it. But most games I buy now aren't xbo...
stores love when you buy gift cards. The way it's done is that the money is taken and put into a special account until the card is used by the customer. of course the account gains interest. and depending on the store, it can be quite a hefty interest rate (just imagine the interest rate walmart gets.. yikes!)
The microeconomic phenomenon you're describing is called [price discrimination]( and it's not in the least bit specific to AT&T. I think Pyrofallout's point is that price discrimination is neither wholly good nor wholly bad because it aligns your incentive to spend less money with the business's incentive to continue ...
It seems relevant to note that this effort by Google is very likely to be in response to increased heat that it's getting from various Organisations and political groups around the EU. A little insight here: Basically, people are going the usual 'If it's on the web that means it's Google's responsibility' route and...
this will start with CP of course. As we all now know- this will inevitably lead to agencies being able to censor images of protests, police brutality, even allowing the 'alphabet gangs' being able to eradicate all traces of evidence that contradicts the official story. Imagine what the world would be without coverag...
I've reported a site that randomly pops up with childporn for ages. I think i've reported it five-six times? It's an aggregator so it pulls pics from various sites. I got so fucking pissed when the pop up window happens and I see that that I stopped searching for my fave porn >8(.
You assume too much. I did a bit of research and it turns out that there are a few magazines that output the material. When they get busted the parents dont press charges because they are legit businesses. The parents are payed and often put the money in savings, the children are treated well and so on. Also they are s...
My store is severely understaffed right now. In our department (Connected solutions, which is laptops, tablets, and the sort) we are supposed to have 12 part time and 3 fulltime, plus our supervisor. We currently have 8 part time and 1 fulltime. Will they give me fulltime as the top salesperson? Nope, the GM doesn't li...
As a former employee, they go over all of this like CRAZY. Data privacy is Geek Squads #1 priority. I'll preface that I could care less whether Best Buy loses money getting sued. BUT, everyone has an anti-corporation mentality, so 95% of the time that people take Best Buy to small claims, they win since everyone assum...
I have a background doing door to door sales which is why I was hired. I did most of the computer and tablet learning on my own, and I have the ability to easily be the top salesperson, but I stopped trying hard. I do just enough to keep my job. Until I get commission, I refuse to pressure any customers into services. ...
You can't so easily directly attribute the stock price decline to the fire: Also, saying that it lost $2.4 billion in market cap makes it sound so dramatic to the layman, but remember that the market cap of tesla stock is about $21 billion, and they have lost close to this much cap (and gained this much) in a short...
The virtual memory model also provides technical benefits to application designers, as it offloads memory management responsibility to the OS, allows a virtual contiguous memory address space (even if physical RAM is fragmented - another place where compressing instead of paging will help), and likely will help battery...
Very few people really need it now and it would be a lot of work to recreate it. You'd need to build another cross-endian ppc-x86 DBT, write all of the code to make the the current kernel look like an older PPC one and you'd also need to extract all the old frameworks and system services and ship those with it. And t...
I just installed Mavericks on my MacBook Pro and upon my first non-installation reboot, got stuck on Apple's pinwheel and couldn't go any further. Flashing the PRAM did not have any effect, but I was able to get back into my environment by holding Command+R on startup and verifying, then repairing disk permissions. F...
Totally not the same. The Win7 start menu was productive because of hotlists. You can click start, hover over Word, and pick whichever of your 10 most recent/pinned documents to work on. To get access to hotlists in Win8/8.1, you pin your app on the task bar, then same effect. There are no quick lists in the moder...
How much will this weight? It sounds like it needs a power source which means this will not be a viable idea until someone invents better batteries, as the batteries we have now are not good enough for this sort of thing. And once someone invents super batteries, it will be a game changer for weapons as well. So ther...
The DMCA does not govern private systems, as far as I know. That would be absurd. It is well within the rights of any service provider to implement their own copyright claim system independent of the DMCA and official DMCA notices. There are certain requirements . I will reiterate - YouTube's ContentID system is not...
When you send a DMCA complaint, it's worded as follows on a simple level: I swear that I am the authorized owner of Batman Begins. Also, I think this infringes on Batman Begins. If you lie about the first part, it's perjury, if you lie about the second part, it's not. So: I am the owner of Jdownloader, you can't...
I actually bought an unlocked used phone on Amazon for $65. I'm on a third-party virtual carrier called straighttalk with unlimited everything for $45 per month. If you were to go to Verizon and buy it fresh, it would be $450, and to get a similar plan would be at least $90, regardless of contract.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: they aren't essential for survival. HOWEVER, having the internet available at my fingertips, available to see mail, texts, able to search for and look up whatever I need, is pretty darn helpful. Without them, I wouldn't know half the stuff I know today. Neither would you. Thanks to my mobile ...
I have suddenlink too and I get a notice if I torrent any show that's not at least 7 years old. Also, Fuck suddenlink. I have the highest speed internet they offer and even with that they only give you a 350 gig data cap with a $10 dollar charge for every 50 gigs thereafter. It feels like fucking AOL pay for minutes bu...
Prove it. As long as the software is closed source, we cannot say with certainty what it is doing while scanning those files. is it sending a CRC of every file on my PC to EAs servers for further processing? I don't know, and neither do you.
Oh so now I am too blame for this because I don't want to miss out on a great game when EA happens to publish one? Yes. Not every game they put out is great (Battlefield anyone) and you don't need to play every one of their games. If it's the story you want then just watch the cutscenes on Youtube...if it's the gamep...
Not every game they put out is great (Battlefield anyone) I don't play or support Battlefield. Where did I say EVERY game they put out is great? I same some are. I judge them on a case by case basis.   > If it's the story you want then just watch the cutscenes on Youtube...if it's the gameplay find another g...
What that would mean is you could effectively threaten anyone with anything as long as you use rap lyrics (or something similar). Rappers already do this. Do police arrest and indict rappers who brag about their guns, drugs, prostitution, etc in their songs? No (at least not solely based on their lyrics). > You cou...
That's a good analogy. I think a better one is electricity. Your power company doesn't decide what you can plug into the wall or control the brightness of your lights based on the brand of the light bulb. The power company doesn't dim your lights of one brand of light bulbs until the light bulb manufacturer pays a fe...
Full disclosure: I'm a developer at GoDaddy and joined 6 months ago when it was clear they've changed course. Did you read Blake's posting? Check out this useful (and under-publicized) bit of data crunching: > Of the 1.1 million comments you’ve received, just over 800,000 have been made available to the public for ...
Do the large parties even have opinions of heir own or do they just shout what they belive most people think in order to get most votes and then do fuck all? People should really stp voting with "the lesser evil" and start voting with who has their interest at heart. And if no one does should get involved and band to...
So, while this seems great, [this]( cursory analysis/write-up on the Tor Project website gives me pause... According to this, Tribler isn't nearly as secure or anonymous as it claims. ([[tor-dev] N reasons why the spooks love Tribler]( Perhaps someone with more cryptography chops than I could take a glance and veri...
It all comes down to how much access to critical systems the AI has access to or is responsible for. It would be easy enough to pull the plug on a simple none thinking system. However, if the AI is built with protection or survival instincts or it stumbled across learning those traits, it would want to self preserve....
I completely agree. Although copyright laws protect the artist and encourage innovation, or at least that's the original intention, in the wake of the information era it's becoming increasingly clear that information cannot be owned. Copyright laws have become so inflated that instead of protecting the innovator and en...
This actually has potential beyond powering devices. If a big enough device were inserted into an overweight person, their metabolic rate could increase as the device will take away glucose from the blood. Responding to the lack of glucose, the body would begin to access the fat reserves.
Robots already replaced a lot of jobs -- there are many, many robots, each performing a task which otherwise would have required a human. Yet unemployment isn't all that high: low-educated people simply find other stuff to do. Be it providing service, servicing, helpdesk, or doing stuff robots can't (nursing, etc). The...
I'm afraid your appeal to the unknown doesn't sway me. People in Babbage's time might have said: "What if this entirely new "difference engine" of Babbage's ultimately leads to a revolution in AI?" A perfectly legit question, at the time. But today we know the answer: it didn't! So history has at least one example of...
You have the ability to win the argument with the effort of doing a copy and paste, but you wont (ha!). You are transparently stupid Right. You'll admit to it if I provide the link. I don't believe you. You have given every indication that you're simply lying. >I will finish this thread here having been victorio...
I had a hard time finding solid information on the J-20/J-XX as well, although Jane's aircraft and defense publications had some good material. I also have an uncle who used to be in the Air Force, and he had the chance to be trained in the F-22 before he was discharged. According to Jane's the J-20 is much larger a...
OK, this is a vast oversimplification of the issues involved. See the book The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov. The benefits of the internet are usually obvious to those in the West, but there is an entire other side to the issue that deserves equal consideration. The internet has allowed repressive regimes unpreced...
Nothing "over the top" here. International postal regulations specify that the SENDER is the only one able to make a claim for a lost package. Even if the recipient paid for it, they still have to go through the sender to claim. Now since it's a postal service that messed-up, they will pay the sender back the ins...
Am I the only one who thinks that this actually is NOT an example of great customer service? It's an example of a great customer service policy , but if you read the chat log you'll see that the customer service rep himself could have done a much better job. For one thing, the representative never answered the or...
Something similar happened to me with a package from ThinkGeek. I placed an order and mistakenly entered the wrong house number. The number I entered actually did not exist. Imagine my surprise when I got an email from UPS telling me the package was delivered. I hunted all over my yard for that damn thing, asked the do...
had my phone stolen in Portugal and 1200 minutes of international calls to Romania were placed. Vodafone cared not about the police reports I had. I didn't report it within 12 hours, and so they said there was "nothing they could do". Vodafone UK paying Vodafone Portugal, and there was nothing they could do. Then...
wtf are you smoking? i couldnt see a difference so i moved the picture into photoshop and overlayed the two layers on top of each other and theres NO difference other than the number 1 placement. i even set the top layer to "difference" and yeah, its all black except where the 1 is.
This is the right mentality. Anyone who would threaten to destroy the open and free internet - arguably the greatest achievement of mankind yet - deserves nothing less than complete annihilation their brands, reputation, and corporations. In a more just world, the people behind these companies responsible for things li...
This is quite correct. If when a company gives in to the boycotter's demands (which GD did by withdrawing support from SOPA) and the boycotters don't end the boycott, then there's no reason for companies to ever give into boycotter's demands. If we want the power of the boycott to be preserved we must use it as a too...
Yes this is soooo horrible they listened to their customers and changed their stance, this is such a terrible loss and that they won't budge on this is terrible fuck you and you ash online attitude, godaddy did their part they reversed their stance, what more do you want the to do bleed to death and cease to exist. I ...
It's kind of tricky, though isn't it? It LOOKS like it's what we wanted, but we all know that it is only a PR move. In reality, GoDaddy helped to WRITE aspects of SOPA, and they benefit greatly by using their immunity (which will be granted by SOPA) to destroy their competition. What's going to happen is, publicly ...
My computer was recently confiscated because I "might have ordered heroin from the Internet". While they were at it, I implicated my ISP and power provider in the deal and insisted they confiscate router, phone lines, power lines etc.
I actually did teach elementary school for 3 years. You're right I wouldn't have used this broadly, but would have been helpful to identify issues for the students that were struggling. If you doubt that there are teachers dedicated enough to do this on a regular basis look closer at the good teachers in the school. ...
The WinRT API only allows for Metro style apps. Windows is not allowing developers to use their desktop API to develop anything at all only WinRT and Metro. It's amazing how people just refuse to believe this even after Google and Mozilla speaking up about it. WindowsRT/WOA will be following the lead of iOS and be ...
Their bubble is bursting, that is all. Within a year the social media companies will be valuated according to their respective value again, not according to what people are willing to pay for their shares.
I don't think you will, windows 8 x86 seems no different than windows 7 in regards to boot (granted I'm using BIOS and not UEFI). That being said, I've used Win 8 on a HP tablet and it works beautifully. I'm not sure why you'd hamper your experience on a tablet by going back to windows 7. Desktops and laptops are an...
Gabe is just saying that because he is afraid for the competition that microsoft will bring with their own appstore. in reality, windows 8 actually brings lots of improvements over 7, but people like gabe, who works for a company that makes the majority of their money by selling games through an "appstore", say these k...
If ANYONE is found guilty of breaking the law thru FBI surveillance, if it's something the F.B.I. deems important enough to prosecute over, then I'm all for it. The reason I'd be all for it, is because I'm not stupid enough to believe that the F.B.I. would even waste their time over petty little bullshit like buying a ...
Vote for a secondary party, not Republican or Democrat. Find one that you support most (one that strongly supports more freedoms and wants to stop the tyranny and all of the bullshit that is happening in the government) and vote for them, and that will REALLY show a large divide. If all of a sudden you have a whole loa...
I think that the US government isn't just doing this because they want to spy on everyday people's business, I think that they are trying to do the best in the interest of national security. It's admittedly scary to think that there are faceless agencies monitoring you in an Orwellian kind of way. The tone of that link...
Exactly. The people getting outraged at things like this are the same people voting for Obama, who renewed the most controversial portions of the Patriot Act. Yet when Bush signed the Patriot Act into law, those very same people cried "HitlerfascistNaziStazi1984BigBrotheriswatchingBraveNewWorld911wasaninsidejobwakeup...
You have to remember that only a very, very, very small percentage of cell phone users know anything at all about the programming and operation of their cell phones. I'm a recruiter for telecom, have been in the industry since '99, and I'm amazed everyday at how little people know. It always got me when commercials ...
Yes, the FBI are storing several exabytes of people's data per year. I'm sure that if they had the capacity to do that they wouldn't set up a data storage service and make more money with that than is in their entire budget. I'm also certain they'd also be able to keep this sort of thing a secret from everybody, es...
While that's a very... interesting comment, I don't think it was aimed in the direction you intended. The point that I made was that this was a royal screwup on Apple's part. There's no denying that. However, an ad like the #iLost one is very dicey ground to be playing in. And to make such a misleading, hell down...
Here's the thing about Instagram and companies like it. Very few companies will do something without getting users approval. When you download an app it always has terms of service. In the terms of service the company will explain exactly what you allow the company to do. Furthermore, many of the companies require ...
By your logic, it should be impossible to establish any notion of "property" absent a state. In reality, there is a more primitive notion of physical "property". Namely, property is what I can defend with force from being seized, i.e. removed from my possession or usage, by others. This "force" is violence in some se...
In a way they already are making serious in-roads. Massage and prostitution have traditionally had a tendency to overlap somewhat and robots are making serious progress in massage. I had tried other people's pricey massage chairs and really loved the tireless effort but I wasn't going to fork over a few grand for a c...
From [A History of MySpace]( > Though DeWolf and Anderson always had plans to expand their new social network site internationally, MySpace began locally in Southern California and catered to actors, musicians, and artists. In spirit, the site reflected its Southern California roots with its idiosyncratic performers,...
In a few years, we'll all be wearing Glass, and as Android, it will be directly connected to G+. For this reason alone, FB already lost. That said, FB is doing everything at the moment to fuck up their last bit of reputation with professionals/businesses on the platform. I'm working for a creative agency with [pmd st...
I urge anyone with an opinion on this post to read 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell. It's a short essay that completely changed how I go about writing, and actually upped my performance in English class when I was young.
I want CHEAP eBooks!!!! I want CHEAP cars. Unfortunately a cheap car would either be impossible to make or absolute crap. A very very common misconception about ebooks is that because they are digital they are basically free to distribute and have zero costs so are all profit. So while a paper book may cost $10, ...
Actually that's incorrect. In fact, that is what this court case was about. In brief, initially Amazon (and other e-book sellers such as Sony and Apple) would negotiate prices for copies of e-books. Similar to how a grocery store negotiates the price of its food from the manufacturers. Once Amazon (and others) bought t...
That is not correct. In the agency pricing model the publishers of the book set the price and the seller of the book receives a certain percentage of the sale. The agency model was introduced into the ebook industry by Apple and a collaboration of major publishing houses. Before the agency model Amazon and other sell...
Betamax, I think you mean. Where'd you pull the porn-prohibited line from? > While VHS machines' lower retail price was a major factor, the principal battleground proved to be recording time. The original Sony Betamax video recorder for the NTSC television system could only record for 60 minutes, identical to the pre...
Something about her taking away the option for employees to work from home. Didn't seem all that bad until it was shown that some of those people who did work from home had no Yahoo! office anywhere near where they lived. Which means quite a bit of employees lost their jobs because they couldn't "go" to work anymore. I...
It's a business and they can do what they want. If I don't like their business practices, then I won't use their service. Rather than being "furious," they should just stop using it. Dip-shits. Actually, maybe this title is just the douchenozzle.