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Yes, but the current version of Moonlight is behind Silverlight in many features. I think if Silverlight ever becomes popular, they'll always keep Moonlight a few steps behind.
Corporations are considered people in a strict sense. Natural persons are themselves legal entities. Corporations are legal entities. A corporation is not a natural person by virtue of being a legal entity. In legalese, a "legal person" is a a legal entity, but simply "a person" will 99 times out of 100 refer to a n...
I don't download movies and I don't seed movies I've ripped. I don't own any movies, either. The only thing I rip movies for is sometimes I won't have time to watch a netflix delivery so I'll rip it and send it back (I tend to have time in bunches, lately I haven't even had time to do the rip!). When I watch the ri...
This article was written by someone who either hasn't seen the films they think they're poking fun at, or was too busy snorting to pay attention to them. A few examples; AT-AT's are presented as almost indestructible , and are used as heavy guns. That's why there are stormtroopers and scouts all around and ahead ...
The reasons why 3D "will never work" are basically the same as why reading "will never work". The brain isn't actually wired to read text and it certainly isn't designed to read long pieces of text. So how do we overcome this problem? We read a lot. In fact the first part of your school years are designed to help you...
that sure is a bunch of words for something that has nothing to do with the article It has everything to do with the article. The brain can learn how to solve problem, simply because we can't solve the problem right away doesn't mean the problem is impossible to solve. In the case of 3D the reason why you get problem...
I don't see why they should create a desktop app. Netflix's website (and api-based services, aka instantwatcher) work great for finding playable content and being able to play the movie in-browser is awesome! While I've never been a fan of Microsoft, silverlight works without issue.
Yeah, I got nothin' for you there. I got out of the iPhone club and into Android early enough to where I just don't give a shit about its apps, exclusivity, or i-anything anymore. Judging by its current focii, Apple's moving more and more in the direction of mobile and touch and further away from the Mac itself, which ...
No jackass, they don't want 30% of the profit. If that was all they wanted this wouldn't be such a big deal. They want 30% of the REVENUE and that's a nut crusher for almost any business. There probably isn't a business out there today that could survive that. Apple itself couldn't survive if someone was taking 3...
Mixed up profit and revenue ? Banned from Reddit! >They want 30% of the REVENUE ... There probably isn't a business out there today that could survive that. So all these iOS developers will go out of business, the platform will dry up and you can sleep at night. I don't completely agree with these new app sto...
Saying Avatar destroyed the box office because it was 3D is like saying that Snow White's classic status is solely because it is animated. I really do agree with your point, although I try to avoid 3D gimmicky stuff as much as possible, until the fury dies down and more quality products are being made with it. But th...
There are a lot of rules in the English language, most of which have a solid number of exceptions to the point that they're barely rules anymore. Here's [a fun Wikipedia article about pronouncing acronyms and initialisms]( I imagine this sort of thing is difficult for non-native speakers, because it's all willy-nil...
If the colors are muddled, please, PLEASE complain to the manager of the theater. This is not the studio's fault; it's the theaters that don't give a shit. They think (erroneously) that dimming their projector bulbs to half brightness gets more life out of them, and they are ruining your moviegoing experience because t...
Perhaps when you are savaged hard enough by your poverty someone will care enough to support you? TBH there is over 9000 of you sitting around smoking pot not wasting time on reddit whom I will be happy to occasionally listen to. It's a crapshoot for you artsy types and you are all so needy that if nobody paid you anyt...
and what is wrong with bedroom-made computer music? Last time I checked, it was the large studio-made, half assed pop albums (with maaaaybe one song worth kinda hearing) that had people searching for better stuff on Lime Wire or cherry-picking favorite songs instead of buying whole albums in the first place. I'll pay m...
Legal" content delivery is absolutely broken. Here's a Canadian example. The Toronto Blue Jays are my hometown baseball team. I don't own a television, and their broadcast rights (not to mention the team itself) are owned by Canada's largest media company. I was about to pay MLB $100 to watch baseball games live on...
I didn't say that we should be able to watch it for free. I'm not sure if you read my comment or comprehended which side that I was supporting. I was saying that people shouldn't pay for a service that gouges them on the price if they don't want to be gouged. As a community, they should work to lower the price of h...
Yes, I understand what the intended meaning was. My response was a joke playing off of the idea that the subject being discussed was 'logical operators'. The humor of this appears when you consider that the tilde ('~') is a logical operator, meaning negation. This could lead the initial statement to be interpreted tw...
It would have been funny if it ended with:
I don't even... > “Presumably, they were bringing up custom-built gear they didn’t want anyone else to see.” ~ Chris Sharp How on earth could they hide their custom-built gear? > “They had us turn off all overhead lights too, and their guys put on those helmets with lights you see miners wear.” ~ Chris Sharp So...
Or perhaps it was seen as unnecessary to light an entire room full of nothing that actually needs light. I makes a hell of a lot of sense to set up a data centre without lighting; it saves infrastructure costs, saves energy and eliminates waste heat from the redundant lighting. If people need to move around in the data...
This is what nmrk meant. >The guy (lawyer) had not comment, so he thinks the guy (lawyer/client) got a settlemnt and a NDA. But he (client) also could have been under instructions from his lawyer to not talk to the press... (the lawyer, similarly did not talk to the press) Just to add to nmrk's opinion... I agree. ...
Personally, I think it is coupled to the notion that if something is done by enough people, it can not morally be made illegal because the laws are in place as a result of the majority of opinions in the society. By automating something like tracking people you are freeing up an otherwise enormous manpower requiremen...
The reviews don't even have to be fake. There are at least three kinds of genuine low-score reviews that shouldn't exist. 1-3 stars: Product was great! Worked well for 2 years. So happy with it. (Why do these exist?) 1 star: Product was great but delivery took 3 weeks because UPS sent it to China. (Review isn...
Amazon tracks additional information to judge the quality of a review. They track votes for "Was this review helpful?" (as well as a bunch of other stuff, but let's leave those out and keep this conceptually simple). The experienced repairman's review will bubble to the top because more people will find his review usef...
According to wikipedia " The Sun's stellar classification, based on spectral class, is G2V, and is informally designated as a yellow dwarf, because its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum and although its color is white, from the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow becaus...
Okay, this is just fucking pathetic. If it helps, the word "than" is a subordinate conjunction. This means that the pronoun after it is in the subjective form, not objective.
We have outcompeted other animals by predicting and modeling their behaviors. We even do this with each other by imagining how others behave and react, and we even model ourselves. Taking this mental ability a step further, if you were to model or simulate the universe internally, you'd be able to make even better de...
I've thought about this concept a lot ever since I was in high school. If everybody would indulge me with a little thought experiment: The only assumption that is this: At least 1 civilization in the universe/multiverse is able to develop the computational power to run a virtual "universe" simulation before it gets...
This will probably never get seen but, on the off chance it does I feel compelled to share. My first thought after seeing this was: Well it would have been nice if they made space travel (ftl) easier to complish. Which make me think that maybe our simulation exists because space travel is hard to achieve. In the real w...
Answers to the relevant philosophical questions... The fact that we could be living in a simulation should not change your belief structure unless you're under the impression that sense data somehow immediately penetrates into core aspects of reality. This is false, we use conceptual models to make sense out of prett...
I understand what you were trying to do: resolve an inconsistency. The explanation you chose creates a bigger inconsistency: even if the machines taught some humans an elegant physics lie to explain something, other humans outside the matrix obviously have a grasp on the real-world's physics, demonstrated by their us...
Yeah, but there is no are in the original sentence. And that does make a difference. pre-emptive
I agree that seeing these articles every day is disheartening, but where do you get the idea that people who identify as liberal, or really anyone outside of the political and legal fields, is supporting this? I really haven't even seen any discussions on digital privacy being listed as any party or group's platform....
you should always assume anything you send to the internet unencrypted or encrypted publicly is 100% public and will always exist forever, expecting a company or the law to protect you is stupid and foolish. doxxing is almost always the result of stupidity on the person being doxxed and it is usually well deserved. ...
Correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't care to follow this story, I rarely care about stories that affect 1 person. I look at the macro, just the way my brain is wired. This kid got academic journals and made them public, right? He took copyrighted material where the only way the author gets paid for their work is when ...
This is true but keep in mind the students of MIT still aren't back from winter break till next week. Secondly this approval thing you speak of is not how MIT works. Example: the police car on the dome was never approved just ignored. Also i talked to a lawyer protesting outside the office of general counsel at MIT...
So uh, there's this thing, don't know what it's called. But a lot of universities are offering those who publish a sort of "you can put it on the internet for free" loophole. IIRC most of these journals have a "you can't post this anywhere UNLESS you have some stipulation at your institute that REQUIRES you to post ...
Besides all the technical overhead they have to pay, they also have to pay employees or consultants who review and publish the articles. I assume these experts are very highly paid, since they are critiquing and selecting work by the preeminent minds (professors as well as graduate students) in the field. I merely sh...
You pretty much just described civil disobedience, and if you subscribe to that viewpoint, if you disagree with a law you have the responsibly to disobey that law just like Thoreau with taxes he didn't agree with, Gandhi did it by disobeying the laws against harvesting salt (among other things), and MLK jr. did it by d...
PRTs do exist, and could be implemented on a block-by-block functionality, covering an entire city in fewer than three years, with forced re-housing and destruction of current roads (to force obsoletion of most cars, which have no point and no value). No one should own a car now, but most people are too stupid to actua...
TIL you can span out two paragraphs of content into a full page article by: Using three different heading fonts, each of ridiculous size. Using double returns when a single carriage return is needed. Using unnecessary carriage returns between sentences in a quotation. Insert an image that is just barely relat...
This isn't an LTE base station, all this is is a Titanium Rocket M5 (or a few sectors of them) floating on a balloon with some solar panels attached. WISPs generally cram 40 to 50 customers on them before having to add sectors to a tower, although they are offering 3 to 10mbps usually, and are usually hampered by the m...
Incorrect. The round trip latency for geosynchronous satelite internet is 1400ms. The signal has to travel 35,786km each way. For these balloons, the signal has to travel 20km each way. You don't have to do the math to see it will be quick, but I'll do it anyway. Assuming everything but distance is the same as satell...
Like other commonly used flammable substances (propane, natural gas, gasoline, alcohol, etc.), hydrogen requires an ignition source to burn. After launch, the only likely source of ignition would be a lightning strike, or perhaps a short in the electronic systems, both of which are unlikely. Should such an event occu...
Transparency should definitely be a goal that is strives for in the developed countries. However giving shit salaries because the current lot you're stuck with doesn't achieve anything won't increase motivation nor loyalty either. Im not only suggesting giving them a decent payment for what they're supposed to do, tran...
Generally I'm highly against Adblock. There are a few exceptions such as those with very slow speeds or monthly limits, those are fine. Its also fine for use against highly disruptive noisy/large/popup advertisements. The issue comes when people complain about watching a 15 seconds advertisement or having a small banne...
If you’re building a Windows Store app today, or you already have an app in the Store, and want to update your app to Windows 8.1, here’s what you need to know. You can use Visual Studio 2013 to retarget your app package for Windows 8.1, and you may also want to take advantage of some of the new features available in W...
Hearing voices in your head is a common sign of paranoid schizophrenia. So is it more likely that he was a) crazy or b) being controlled by the government to go shoot a bunch of mid level office workers?
Lets me get you in on a little secret of my own. Public internet are not very secure, because they're exactly that! Public! The internet as we know it is made up of an immense amount of people or other entities hosting services and those services being connected (networked). There is nobody who "regulates" the intern...
The TellSpec handheld scanner beams a light at the food you wish to analyze, measures the reflected light with its spectrometer, and sends the data via your smartphone, computer, or tablet to the TellSpec servers in the cloud. Those servers use this data to deduce information about your food that is of interest to you.
This will have no impact on consumers other than increased prices from various services. If your VOIP provider uses an excessive amount of data (as stated by the telcos), they'll have to pay an increased fee to upgrade their bandwidth which means you may be charged more. Theoretically, it shouldn't affect your servic...
That's not slowing it down. It's not giving them a speed up. Comcast opened up more channels. That's it. They didn't increase the speed, they opened more ways for it to get through. Think of it as a highway. If they add more lanes, traffic will get through faster, but the speed limit is still the same. It has absol...
from their info section it looks like they have honey pots set up so this is just showing the people who attack them. honey pots are servers that are set up solely to be vulnerable, and are usually set up specifically to analyze attacks and traffic to them.
It's horribly, horribly inefficient. The start menu provides very little information about the state of applications, and it's pretty pathetic as an app launcher. People seem to have this bizarre love affair with an abusive UI conceit that's long past its prime. The start screen's not some ideal model of efficiency, ...
The difference is the business model and type of services. Netflix is like Blockbuster video, only they don't have a physical store. It's either done by mail with physical copies, or online with their streaming service. You pay netflix a monthly fee to have access to their entire library. In essence, when you stream ...
Most people have heard that cables don't matter when they should have heard digital cables don't matter. People scoff and laugh at me when I say that cables can effect the sound in a way that humans can tell with decent equipment. Whether or not the value is worth it to you is debatable but not whether or not it actual...
So, on a slight tangent, I used to work for Cirque du Soleil, and was present for the opening of their show in Macau. This was something of a big deal, because in Vegas, Cirque have a contract with one particular casino company, and they will only do shows in casinos owned by MGM. But in Macau, no such contract, so t...
The speaker market is filled with products whose... and you can spend thousands of dollars on audio cables... while those expenses at least have some technical justifications behind them" No. No they don't. You can't hear what you can't hear. This stuff is well documented and, for a journalist, is readily available i...
The example you're listing is neither science nor proving i'm wrong. Science is a specific process of hypothesis and experimentation. The hypothesis posed in this article in no way refutes what i mentioned, and the experimentation process used would never be able to pass pier review, nor be published anywhere other tha...
I agree that the price is retarded, but I was looking on Audioquest website to see if the whole thing is a joke. I read through the ~$600 diamond USB spec sheet. What is interesting is that the cable WILL produce higher quality audio output, but only if you send the audio as an analog signal through the cable. Audi...
Further down the rabbit hole: Most modern media protocols have fault recovery which can result in skipped sound due to re/buffering. so, in theory, an electrical "error" can interrupt data patterns and affect buffers. faults can be generated by invalid memory blocks, usually physical damage or pre-indicators of phy...
I cannot for the life of me imagine that flash memory would be ANY more noisy than the SoC that runs these digital media recorders and players. I certainly as hell can't imagine the noise from an SD card not being totally swamped by the noise from the FREAKING SWITCH MODE POWER SUPPLY in these things either.
I think you're wrong, but I don't know enough about audio engineering to argue!" All I know is these are the same exact line of reasoning they used for HDMI cables etc... mainly because yes... in professional video recording where you need to send a signal over 15 metres this does come into account. however thanks ...
I understand there are two separate things going on: hypocrisy, wanting to pass laws, but clearly not acting as if you follow the ideals the law pursues, or: bad laws, regardless of whether you follow the actual ideals, laws that are plainly and unambiguously bad for the country/people/etc. I don't care if ...
I honestly don't understand how this shit doesn't qualify as entrapment. 'Oh but they were totally going to commit a crime, whether we set them up with means and method to do so, or not'. Yeah but... Were they? A person can feel strongly about something or be inclined towards a certain type of behaviour, and then nev...
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This isnt the first time starbucks has completely fucked up and allowed people to get free money via their giftcard system. Back in 2013 they offered a deal of $5 credit to any newly registered giftcards. Now the original intention was to credit new customers that were giftcard buyers, but people decided to buy $5 gi...
Corporations need a formal process documented for the public for things like this, and incentives, like Google for example. Unfortunately, that's not the case for many. So much hate! I read about this last night in /r/hacking, before it got cool in tech. Yes, it took Starbucks a couple weeks to figure it out, but O...
Corporations are legal fictions. They are not "people," but we pretend that they are for certain purposes. Starting a business is an expensive proposition. You have to buy/rent property, buy tons of equipment, borrow tons of money. And, businesses often fail. So, if you want to open a business, there’s a good cha...
Why is the Reddit title as alarmist and melodramatic as the CNN one? Because they're both terrible, and the opposite of the actual content or conclusion of the article.
The days of military battles fought as huge set pieces are over. If somebody wanted to hurt the U.S., they could easily do so, and billion-dollar fighter jets would be of no use. Yes, and that's thanks to things like the F-22. Do you think people would have stooped as low as to strap bombs to cars, drive them near c...
Note that the WikiLeaks website was attacked (hosting, domain name), some of their finances were cut off (bank account closed, online payment methods shut down), and that Julian is currently in jail for the only dirt they could get on him: he supposedly violated some obscure Swedish law regarding condoms (and note that...
I call BS. There are a lot of advantages to towers, not the least of which include: Limiting the public's exposure to radiation / dense waves / etc. They want to put these indoors? The public is already worried about getting cancer from their cell phone. Physical security! Radios on lampposts will get trashed...
I had one of the original 30 gb Zunes. I had it in a plastic case the entire time I owned it. I ran out of space and decided I wanted more. Zunes only had up to 120 gb players and iPods had up to 160 gb. I went with the iPod; it also worked with my car stereo and much of my other technology.
This is actually a great point that a lot of people won't appreciate. The whole point of University back in the ye' olde days was much like a PhD today - hands-off/group based learning. You'd get lectures and guidance, but then were expected to hit the books and pass tests. University today, particularly in the US,...
Here's the thing.... A few thousand people leaving Digg.com is crippling. A few thousand people leaving Godaddy.com doesn't even register as a blip on their radar. As others have said, they gain and lose more in a typical week than they've lost as a result of the SOPA/GoDaddy fiasco. And let's take a look at Redd...
Can we do this for John Barrow now? He is one of the co-sponsors and his seat is in peril this next election due to redistricting. The redistricting means he has lost Savannah, a Democratic stronghold (not advocating for repubs here) and he no longer lives in the district for in which he will be running. My brother and...
The molten salt used as a moderator/coolant is fairly corrosive over time. Probably the biggest hurdle to LFTR right now is materials science research into an appropriate metal that can be used to build the containment vessel, which needs to hold up to constant neutron bombardment and corrosive salts. The last I chec...
Reddit (And Kirk) would have you believe there is a US wide conspiracy keeping nuclear tech down. I've personally spoken with people [high in regulatory positions]( and unfortunately the problem is a lot less glamorous than usually made out. Even plain vanilla technology which has been around for 60 years (aka most e...
Solar thermal storage (in my opinion) is a much more viable use of molten salts. They can get away with using different salt mixtures which melt at much lower temperatures (common nitrate salt mixtures melt around 120C, very exotic expensive mixtures as low as 65C). Some companies are dumping a large chunk of money int...
As much as I love thorium and fluid fuel reactors, the reality is this: Investment in efficient photovoltaics is a smarter plan in the long run. with a higher energy ceiling. That's how trees did it, that's how life does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far.
This is a myth, molten salts are not corrosive to properly selected wall materials, from Ni-Mo alloys to graphite or SiC composites. ORNL solved the corrosion issues already in the 1960s. Also, containment and reactor vessel are completely different things, please do not confuse the two.
The advertised proliferation resistance of MSRs with Thorium is that another by product is U-232, which is too radioactive to have humans around when building a bomb. Thats not all that proliferation-proof. 1) The gammas are not just killing workers. THey will trash the electronics, degrade the explosives, and tell e...
Have you ever worked with a splallation neutron source? They're not the most reliable pieces of equipment in the world. Beam interruptions that last tens of minutes to hours are regular occurences. Not to mention the [maintainence cycle]( Not to mention the engineering challenges associated with injecting the neutr...
That seems so obvious, so why aren't we doing it? In fact, the sun has always been shining (as far as humans have been around), so why use anything else? "That's how trees did it, that's how life does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far." Indeed; and if you want the standard of living of a subsistence farmer o...
i dont need to post links cause i dont care what you think (not to be a douche, just being honest) the point is when i think by itself, i think inside a reactor core in a functional reactor. you dont think that. fissile doesnt mean fissile sitting on the ground or when its supercritical or whatever you are trying t...
If you leave a back door open, hackers aren't supposed to use it at a hack off? Or use prior work? You never met or seen a hack off have you? They'll punch holes in walls at a black Box to get past a few firewalls. And plan out their moves weeks in advance just to get sometimes only a hour a head of the others. Ap...
I don't think you have a grasp of even basic sentence structure...that aside, working in a group still has no bearing on your original statement, but feel free to continue conflating ideas in an attempt to seem like you know what you're talking about. Grammar Nazi, Grammar Nazi, Grammar Nazi. I have no real point bu...
OK here's some feedback for you. Background/bias: I'm a proponent of free (as in freedom) software but I'm also pragmatic when it comes to my devices. The freeer the better, and while Android isn't as free as it should be, it's much better than Apple's proprietary model for me. I have an Android phone that I use ext...
That is correct, sorry if I came across a harsh earlier. I was worried someone was providing false interpretations of our laws, for he
I think you were hoping no one would read that document. You are citing the allegations but the findings were in Facebooks favor mostly. To quote from your same document under the application section >239. In making our determinations, we applied Principles 4.1.4(d), 4.5, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.3.8, and 4.8. The applica...
Can you elaborate what you mean, how is it misunderstood The explanation is a little long, but bear with me here: Let's get a little background info here, Moore's Law is often applied to processor speed, which is usually measured in Ghz (gigahertz), but it goes like hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz, terahert...
You underestimate the quality people are willing to deal with, especially when it comes to high profile movies which may not even be in stores yet. There's several tiers of captures that end up in filesharing circles. The lowest quality would be any kind of in-theatre video capture. This is usually quite literally ju...
I just don't see why not being able to unlock your phone is illegal. The phone companies put that clause in the contract so that they don't have to (quite rightly) deal with stupid shit people do to their phones cause they think they're tech wizards. I myself have rooted an android device (not a phone) and take the ris...
As others have commented here a lot of people have issue getting carriers to accept unlocked devices. That may be, but that has nothing to do with the law. I've never had any trouble activating unlocked phones on Verizon. >Also, I was under the impression that sharing unlocking techniques was illegal, even if the i...
so we go from owning discs/cartridges that we could play as long as they last as long as the console doesn't die. pay once and play till it breaks. older consoles lasted a long time. you can still plug in a N64 and play games. With Xbox One you just pay for a license which is the same cost as buying a game now, and ...
Pwn" is common parlance in some segments of the hacker community; i.e. "pwning a box" = gaining high-level access (usually administrator or root) on a computer, usually through a combination of various attacks (social engineering, privilege escalation, etc.). It spilled over from the gaming community, where it origin...
I can understand the need of a sniper to know all the physics calculations. He's in the field. This childish notion that you will be doing advanced calc on the side of a piece of scrap metal in the middle of a city is a little strange. If your computer crashes, you grab your buddy's laptop and load your variables. ...
One day just not on current technologies. Not even the 256 Quantum computer systems can do the calculations we need reliably. Why? Because all computational data is based on stepped data patterns with a cut off point. Floating point data comes close but still is not high enough resolution to create the same kind of dat...