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The title of the article makes it sound like Microsoft lied about the number of copies of Windows 7 it sold. From what I can tell, Microsoft added some groups to the Windows division and two other divisions (there are [5 divisions]( meaning that those divisions' sales numbers increased and EDD's decreased. Whatever.
how much training has your employer provided for you in the last 5 years? Not much, but that was by my request. They sent me to a 4 day ESRI GIS training in another town around three years ago. I loved the training, but I never had occasion to use it. A couple of years before that, They sent me to a .NET training t...
It should shape our laws & regulations. Laws & regulations should keep up with technological advances to ensure they represent society's opinion at all times (or most times). But they don't and that's another thing. I'm pretty sure what you mean to say is "another tool in a set of tools for the douche government to...
Nobel-laureate for Physics (1973) Dr. Brian Josephson seems convinced. Even it is a blackbox, every reactor with this small geometric producing ~10kwh over a period of 18h rule out any known energy source. Chemical, battery or whatsoever.. . Update: [Some facts from my point of view.]( .
The comments in this thread put on display what should already be obvious. Peoples' frustrations about their "voice not being heard" are really just shorthand rationalizations for "people disagree with me". I fucking hate the PROTECT IP/E-PARASITE acts as much as anyone on here, but can we stop crying about our e-m...
However, please remember as you write to him to let him know that you will be voting in a way that upholds your standards in and beliefs to do so in as many uncertain terms as possible. If you are too concise, or convey your point properly, then he will understand that you are not on his level. You must not convey your...
I never thought of mesh networks as a usable replacement for the "high-bandwith/low latency" internet that is used for video streaming, gaming, etc, thus rendering it unusable for most of the "casual" uses of the internet. At least not with the current technology, maybe in the future. Where it excels though is the de...
Of course not, but that's irrelevant, you don't have to mandrive the whole nation. That's really a dumbass argument, that's like saying we won't make drugs illegal because the DEA doesn't have the manpower to stop every incident of drug use. Of course they don't, that's a ludicrous requirement. I'm not saying they c...
Based on his report, I would say we are going to need a whole new method of transmitting/recieving data as well as hardware to go with it. As mentioned earlier, mesh does work in small scale, but if you want it to truly work in the large scale, we need a whole new protocol designed purely for meshing.
So I'm at work right now, so this is as specific as I can be right this second.
That is pretty cool but still seems limited by needing 2 kinect cameras to function. A small step towards holograms though! I was a bit more interested in the fact that they are using clear displays. He quickly brushed over having grocery stores use it on their freezers to list prices and ads and it blew me away. ...
If someone cannot look past your username and take your words at face value, then the problem lies within them, not your username. Accordingly, you should be aware that most people may have this problem and thus, while your argument doesn't change, you'll have to deal with these people or have your voice silenced (down...
It really saddens me that Netflix doesn't invest in new DVD or Blu Ray titles as heavily as it used to. People who only stream are really missing out. Netflix used to carry practically everything that came out on disc. Now, I find that I have to turn to Blockbuster online rentals to get almost a more complete selec...
I've worked as an assistant in Hollywood for the past three years. I started in the AV room where ripping DVDs was a job requirement. We have to have multiple copies of shows/movies that our clients have done, which are sent to other executives to get our clients more jobs. These executives are busy and don't have time...
Its silly that you think I do any downloading... I work in Computer Security. I know computer security very very well. Encryption may eventually be cracked, but a new standard will be out way before it gets to the point that our data is free to be read. At that point you can upgrade to that. 128 bit wep was cracked, ...
Web developer here, gonna try to shed some light on HTML5 for someone not so familiar with web developing. I can only speak for myself, but these are very exciting times for web developers. Every week there emerges a new ground breaking site which utilizes the technology in a new way. However, in terms of the actua...
Here's something else I hate. Why when I go into a store are people always asking for something free? Because we have left a society that proposes reasonable prices for reasonable products, and have entered a hardcore free market society, where no part of any cost is actually part of the pricing except for the lower ...
DNS shows your computer where to get "stuff" on the internet by matching addresses that are easy to remember e.g. (www.example.com) to the actual address of the "stuff" which is in a number format. When opening a website your computer checks some places to find the number format address, it does this in some form of ...
Cheap enthusiast/overclocking hardware has only been able to exist (as we have known it in the past) because of the volume of ‘regular CPUs’ that manufacturers produce for normal PC builders. To understand this, we need to have a bit of background on how chip manufacturing works. I will give a rough and perhaps oversim...
Same thing happened with /r/kateeowen (nsfw): she hired a company to send all websites that host her material (including reddit) DMCAs to remove the content. Problem is that the videos keep sprouting up everywhere so it's absolutely not working. She isn't even that special, I mean she has a great body and a nice pair o...
They are fundamentally incomparable. A transistor is an electronic switch and doesn't "hold" anything, not even a bit. Transistors can combine with a little connecting technology to form one bit, but never a qubit. A qubit is a piece of quantum information, but because of entanglement, it's not simple. It's value ...
I initially began working with Linux machines in 1995, when a customer of mine requested help with it. In 1999 Linux had very poor hardware support. Today it is well supported, but it was a headache getting new hardware to work under Linux correctly even through the early 2000s. Also, that quote of yours is referri...
This has been tried and largley failed. FON had a system in Europe where you'd make your wifi open, and that would give you to other FON open wifi's. Turns out internet is cheap, people fear liability/legal issues, and having a bunch of kids torrent off your line opens you up to lawsuits and makes your line too slo...
Oh. In which case. There really is no point in having a huge database of SSID/key pairs. The only function of they pairs is to access a particular wifi network. As I mentioned, there are other, faster ways to get a specific network's SSID/key pair. And once you have access to the network, well, there's not a hell of ...
I saw this guy once on Nat Geo I believe, in that show about Psychopathy with Eli Roth, a couple years back. His method of detecting Psychopathy was questionable, in my opinion. He would derive his PET scans by showing people images of traumatic events that would normally cause the Amygdala and prefrontal cortex to ...
When will people understand that: Breivik is in Norway, not Denmark. Also he was already convicted, where as the TPB Guy's case is still being investigated/build. He can get books etc. if he wants to. He just can not get HIS OWN copies of HIS OWN books. He's a freaking cry baby. Danish jails/prisons is a da...
we are paying extra: by purchasing higher-speed plans. Speed tiers is how you sell your service, so we pay extra for more bits/bytes per second, and we expect to be able to use that rate we paid for. When a letter shows up at our door warning about excessive usage, we don't know what you're complaining about, bec...
I have no problem what so ever with this CEO's philosophy on usage. He runs a company, and said company wants to make money. The problem, is lack of competition. If I don't like AT&T, I can swap to Verizon, T-Mobile, who ever. If I don't like what apple offers for a price, I can buy a samsung. For utilities, this i...
There's a big difference between the available capacity between a major datacenter in Ashburn, VA and a major datacenter in Chicago than the capacity between your cable modem and your provider's cable termination system. Your local cable company didn't design their system to offer every client 100% of their rated spe...
I think we should pay less or get better service for the same prices we pay now but APPARENTLY ISPs are awful in general. As a consumer, there are hardly any options. As far as I know I'd prefer them being classified as a utility or telecomm that has more clear cut pricing and better service.
i'd be fine with this just to stick it to the fat fuck mother fucks who show on computer hardware forums telling us how they need AT LEAST a 1 TB harddrive because of all the movies and TV shows and media they download. then they go on to tell us how they won't settle for anything less than 1080P screen, regardless i...
The issue is that even if they are making 150k a year, 45% of that is being taxed making their effective take home, 75k. Facepalm That's not how it works. Each bracket of their income is taxed at a certain rate. They don't get taxed a fixed percent on all of their income. If you make exactly $8,925 in a year, ...
That is just plain wrong... The cost for putting up the service (and the global cost for the planet) is data transference, not bandwidth, just as the cost of driving a car is gasoline usage, not estimated average liters/gallons spent by km/mile. ISP are selling you data tranference, that is their product and what you...
But the back story of technology isn't really technology. Still misses the point that people who are interested in technology are likely also interested in the business, economics, and politics of large technology players. If I was interested in just the tech itself I'd likely subscribe to /r/gadgets and some other...
But the back story of technology isn't really technology. Still misses the point that people who are interested in technology are likely also interested in the business, economics, and politics of large technology players. If I was interested in just the tech itself I'd likely subscribe to /r/gadgets and some other...
Probably not in the way you're thinking. A supercomputer is pretty much just a computer that does many things at once, as opposed to most computers which do one thing at a time but switch between jobs many times a second. (Though these days, it's not uncommon for normal computers to be able to do 4 things at once.) A...
I agree with the complaints in this article, spare one: > 1. It's not a "supercomputer," it's a chatbot. It's a script made to mimic human conversation. There is no intelligence , artificial or not involved. It's just a chatbot. (emphasis mine) This author is falling into the same trap that the Turing test was s...
If I know that you think that poker is a pure game of math, then I know that you assume that I play a mathematically sound game. With that information in mind, I can make mathematically unsound plays and still turn a profit because you will be reading my range based on a mathematical standpoint, and therefore would m...
My story: I received a call one day on my drive home from work from Comcast offering to double my internet speed and add TV service ( I only had internet at the time) w/ 2 HD DVRs. If I agreed to all of these upgrades, by bill would be reduced by $5/month. I had no interest in the TV service (I'm a cord cutter), but...
I live in the Netherlands. I do have great options for ISPs, but the cables in the ground in my area are so far away from the installations I can't get much more than 10 mbit/s. If only we'd get something like Google Fiber over here! (Before anyone tells me to sign up for fiber:
I live on the West coast, and five years ago I decided that I didn't want to be a part of Verizon anymore. Paying $60.00 for a phone with unlimited text and minutes, but zero data, and a contract, was stupid. With the intent to leave Verizon, I waited for my contract to end so I wouldn't be charged for an early termina...
I'm currently in my own battle with Comcast. They sent a letter out advising us to upgrade our modem free of charge, and stated clearly that we should dispose of the old modem properly. I filled out the online form, received a confirmation that a new modem would be shipped, and about a week later got an empty box deliv...
I'm stuck in that purgatory as we speak. Not at your extent, but constant outages (8 in 3 weeks) and I've tried to contact everyone and their mother to have it fixed, cancelled, repaired or otherwise. I can't get out of it, my only hope is to downgrade to a much crappier service (DSL) or live through the $180 bills for...
Same here. No other options. I recently moved and had to contact them about hooking service up. After being told that service already was active at the house, I had to wait almost a week for them to turn it on. My livelihood depends on a connection. I spoke to more than 12 people who all said something different. A c...
When I first attempted to get an ISP (dial up with BT the former GPO) I got through 5 CDs attempting to get their Surf package. I ended up with a pay as you go bill one telephone respondent thought a reasonable rate. As it happened it was but it wasn't the deal I was supposed to be on. I wrote a letter. To the comp...
I know people love their highspeed internet, but it's about time we started BOYCOTTING Comcast. I recently cancelled it and switched to Century Link and couldn't be happier. Hell, my Android just tethered with Tmobiles unlimited data plan and it's AWESOME. Torrenting, World of Warcraft on two systems raiding, etc. ...
Ok, listen up guys, I'm going to write this out and hopefully it makes sense. I worked for a huge telecomm company here in canada that offers TV, Internet, Cell Phone and house phone services to the majority of Canada. The sheer amount of business that goes into this company is insane. Literally. I worked in severa...
I had a similar situation with unreturned equipment fees. Fortunately I had returned the box via mail with tracking so I was able to provide the date and time and person who signed for my package. I had also copied all the numbers on the equipment so I could verify everything I sent back. It was a hassle, but I learne...
basically. I have trouble getting the idea of a market of large numbers across to even my parents. My mothers an accountant and I can't get her to see why, for example with movies or tv, if you drop the price and open up availability using the internet it's win win. would I rather 600 million people pay me 1$ on a w...
Nothing will ever prevent me from typing whatever my brain comes up with into a computer and giving it to someone else for free." -Theo De Raadt
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I disagree. For the simple reason that tons of people need to touch and feel before they buy. Nerds are one of the few demographics that predominately do not care about this part of the purchase. I worked at Best Buy for what felt like an eternity. A huge portion of their customers were people that knew they were get...
Well, kinda. In Canada, Circuit City bought them from InterTAN and rebranded it "The Source by Circuit City" (weird - I've never seen a Circuit City here...) Then the real Radio Shack cried foul and decided to move into Canada themselves (slowly) and compete with The Source, which was sold to Bell - the biggest broadca...
Okay, I have been waiting forever for a chance to tell this story. It's kind of relevant here. I worked in a small, locally owned electronics store a few years back. One time, we had a sale on Bluray players for $250. This was not long after Bluray had taken down HD-DVD, so it was a pretty good deal. This guy comes...
Bracing for downvotes, but I have to say: I buy almost everything on the internet, but every once in a while I do the go-to-the-actual-store-for-buying-stuff thing. Usually it's because it's an emergency (I need this thing THIS AFTERNOON) or because I want to actually feel/try something (like a mouse) in a physical...
I'm probably way too late for this. But here's my two cents: I work for Best Buy Mobile. It's a store-within-a-store. We sort of run things our own way. I've only worked in that department while working for BBY (2.5 years now). I came out of another cell phone retailer so I have experience in that field. And on...
I came in here expecting hot booth babes, but all I got was some chubby chum. Can someone do a
Samsungs model is archaic and barbaric. Should we go after the handlers? yesish/no. We (when it hits public) prosecute such practices as crimes against humanity (ok, maybe a little much, but without a doubt crimes against human brethren) More so, since we can't very well take down a corporation, we should (though I...
Let me relate to some parts of your comment because I feel pain even reading it. >Nokia WP device sales have doubled for the last 2 quarters now so it's moving forward. I'm interested where you're getting those numbers from? > Steve Ballmer offered them $1 billion, Which they were doing almost for any WinPhone ...
McDonald's coffee lawsuit is an example| Actually, look into that. I agree there are way too many silly lawsuits, but that wasn't one of them. That lady got burned pretty bad, and that store was warned several times that the coffee was too hot to serve in paper cups.
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If you actually read the indictment it clearly states that MU was massively compliant with take-down notices. The indictment then classifies all of the take-downs MU did as "not really counting" because they said that since the way DeDupe file sharing worked that removing the users version of the file and not the mast...
Here are the current broadband plans for the EU: For
People will pay money to see or get anything that makes them feel better or brings them pleasure or importance. Why do people buy lottery tickets? The odds are outrageous for a piece of paper that you are more likely to get nothing or break even than ever win anything of real value. Yet, people still come buy 30-60 of ...
That's a fine comparison to bring a gigabyte to layman terms. No it isn't, it's fuckin' retarded - which by my calculations is a hunnert times more than average retarded. How many sheets of paper in a 500 page e-book? How many in a 12 page blog? That's how fuckin' retarded it is. Answer for those not paying atten...
I don't mean this as an insult but Alberta certainly helped. Sorry guys, I really like Alberta! You are just our most conservative province! You also have the most money, so it makes sense you are conservative! EDIT: Alright, alright! Alberta didn't get the most Conservative votes. I was just trying to show how powerf...
As a person from Michigan, we are trying. He has spent shit tons of money in advertising and lawyers to try to convince people that the bridge is useless and a waste of money despite us not paying for it. Every time I drive by that bridge it has miles of trucks backed up waiting to cross.
I've been dealing with this crap for WEEKS. They've merged checkout into wallet which is fine, except my information was apparently out of date and now I have to verify my account. How do you do that? Send them a scan of some sort of ID and a utility bill or bank statement with my address. How can that go wrong?...
Places like Reddit and Facebook and Myspace before it have lulled people into thinking they're even a little safe on the internet. Just have to remember that it can all be copied and saved for later.
This is something I think about every time I see acquaintances post bigotted anti-gay comments. What if everyone living through the civil rights era had a searchable history of the thoughts they had at the time. In 10 years (give or take) when the vast majority of people have moved past homophobia, these people are...
Yes, private the board of directors usually cares more about the company because usually they helped start it. Public has a large amount of shares, so they boost profit margins so that other people buy in increasing the worth of their shares. It also allows them to give larger dividends which line their pockets and mak...
protect? What they can gather: Anything that goes through the internet may be captured, linked to you and a profile built if you are within three steps of someone that is under an investigation. Anything on the internet that uses "cloud" storage may be accessed and stored. Search terms and patterns of usage, we...
The US is not the only country doing it, they are just the ones in the media spotlight. The UK has different rules for instance and is less picky. They also have standing arrangements to share with the US. Some other European democratic countries are overtly doing it and it is expected and understood. China dire...
A small german company called CargoLifter tried this a few years ago. They went full-on Bond villain and built the largest free-standing dome on the world as an assembly hall for their zeppelins. They went bankrupt, and people decided to put AN ENTIRE FUCKING ISLAND into that dome. I'm not even kidding, it's a holiday ...
Who is to say that they will let anyone know what they're doing at all? They don't have to block Netflix/whatever entirely, just randomly degrade its performance while ensuring their own alternative performs well. Even if the tech savvy realize that they're doing that, the vast majority of people won't and will only h...
Good thing it's fake and designed to scare and manipulate you. ISPs COULD do all sorts of things. They COULD spy on you. They COULD force you to only buy their products. They COULD throttle your speeds at peak times. Everyone gets all antsy about what they COULD do under the law, but no one thinks about why it doesn't ...
Dismissing a moral concern as "whiny" is extremely flippant. Companies are collectives of people, not unconscious amoral monstrous entities. Seeking profit is fine, but they should have limits placed to prevent some of the more egregious problems we have today.
What I don't get is that game theoretically it would make more sense for all 4 or 5 of the 'big providers' to gravitate towards net neutrality. Why? Well let's say they all move towards non-net neutrality. You have a bunch of pissed off consumers looking to find a service that doesnt fuck them hard. So ATT (hypothetica...
It means (if it ends in favor of the telcos), that you will see fewer small companies and fewer new companies on the internet. More of those you see will be related to/owned by the telcos. Over a longer amount of time, you might see new companies only able to survive long enough to compete when they grow in countries w...
This is why terrorists exist. Tonight, after all things Flyers hockey and Breaking Bad.. I sat down upstairs in front of my computer and loaded up Netflix to watch some LOST. The episode was stuck in the lower quality (after just upgrading my modem to a DOCSIS3). I hit ctrl+alt+shift+S and selected the 3000kbps strea...
If your Internet is slow, it's a problem with the cable signal 90% of the time. Usually (but not always) if the modem fails, it's completely dead. Typically the issue is local at the house, sometimes it's an area issue. Upgrading to a Docsis 3 modem can help because it bonds with multiple channels and can range to a di...
I] am consistently losing more faith in Apple's ability to sustain innovations in their products. At some point, they're going to need to stop polishing that turd and make something new. And what are other companies "innovating" that are really blowing your mind right now? Has Samsung or Google released some new hard...
It wasn't a key to decrypt emails, it was a key to snoop on internet connections between users and lavabit (over A unique secret key is generated for such connections, but a known public key and a secret private key are used to exchange that secret key between server and client when the connection is set up. And the...
Well put. Perhaps a better visual would be if a US bank decided to open up a movie-plot-Swiss-Bank style deposit box. That is, if you open an account, the bank gives you a super hard to forge key and a serial number -- no names, no paper work. And the boxes have thermite in them to destroy the contents if the lock is d...
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Big promises, questionable assumptions. For one, the VASIMR project makes claims about using a power source "equivalent to a nuclear submarine", which sounds good until you realize that is 20,000 times more power than any space based nuclear source ever launched and nuclear powered subs have the infinite heat sink of...
To answer many of the questions in this thread. Start with the wiki page: AdAstra, the guys who make the thing. A rather in depth and technical explanation of the potentials of these thrusters Power: Many people expressed concerns and questions regarding powering these thrusters. The current module being placed o...
Hey guys! I'm a scientist! The problem here is that, while you do get small thrust that adds up over time, it's not as simple as traveling in a straight line and accelerating at a constant rate. The fact that everything is in orbit around the sun (or the Earth, or whatever) complicates things quite a bit. Basically, it...
Hahah, you really cracked me up. I was thinking maybe with all these negative people claiming I'm wrong, maybe I don't remember my aerospace classes as well as I thought. But I thought about it, and then you link this neat program that shows exactly what my intuition was - it is extremely difficult to find a trajectory...
Have fun with samshit, your are paying for so much shit your can't even use on those phones. Like half that processor you can't even use. S4's are poorly optimized, with proper optimization you could easily get a full day to a day and half out of its stock battery with normal use. So your basically saying : I'm going t...
In my opinion, I feel like the advancement in the phone war has slowed down. There hasn't been a phone released in a while that makes a huge impact in the retail market. It seems that phone companies are becoming complacent. They have their fans, followers and intense loyal supporters. For example, apple took the smart...
No yeah, everything can be effected by bad news. It's just silly to think the tech industry will suddenly crumble tomorrow based on a temporary stock drop when most of the people here had never bothered to look at that same stock beforehand. The reality is so long as people keep buying product (and for now they are) ...
I think you are right, but that doesn't mean that this is uncalled for. The problem is that this bootcamps promise to be an alternative to school. They promise all the same benefits and claim to be a good schooling system, but can't back up their stance. Bootcamps are great, but they are not replacement for school,...
I recommend linux mint (cinnamon edition). The desktop is really close to what win7/vista is like. The installation process is easy. All the applications you need to function are included at installation. There is a lot of support for Linux Mint as well. Mint uses all the same software as Ubuntu so if you have any is...
Windows XP is "enough" for many users. It runs fast enough. It does enough. It is familiar enough. It is comfortable enough. These may be people who still have VCR's for a video collection, who have a 16*9 flatscreen TV and think that "HD" is a stretched SD image, who buy a car when the old one dies, or who don't...
It wasn't the the carriers who decided to redefine the definition of 4G, it was everyone. When the standard was created the technology existed but was economically unfeasible to deploy by basically anyone. And I'm not even talking just cell towers, I'm talking radios in phone itself. It's no surprise that the countries...
I'm confused by this. As someone who used to work at a cell phone store, we sold unlocked phones all the time. I'm really confused by what would constitute as bulk unlocking. If I, a cell phone service dealer, bought 10 phones, unlocked them, and then sold them, this sounds like bulk unlocking. However, it states...
I just don't understand why they don't allow tethering and whatever the hell you want but just cap your speed severely over, say, 2GB. Because I'm in a stupid situation where I have unlimited but with zero tethering. Normally I'd think that was reasonable, but one day I was stuck with some urgent work emails to send ...
Actually, I support basic income and I believe it would free people's minds from having to meet basic survival needs and allow them to focus their attention on what they find interesting or what they're passionate about. Maybe I am optimistic, but if everyone had a 30k income for nothing, I don't think they would just ...