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I believe those are nominal numbers - ie, shipments per quarter . We'd need to know total shipments per quarter as well, and we could assume that each device has a lifespan of, say, 6 quarters. So go back 6 quarters, sum up the total shipments * shipment share and then you'll have the total number of devices sold b...
None of us. For a start, they make them too long and complicated to read. They all need a "
Based upon rates that only factor the cost of the panels solar is cheap. Its built because it is highly subsidized not just with government grants but with how utilities are forced to carry/take the power even if unnecessary at the time, for home installs, while not being able to charge connection fees for use of the...
My take on this: Reddit is a huge echo chamber when it comes to liberal American politics. There's an equally loud opposing side, but they don't frequent reddit as much. Those that do frequent reddit don't talk politics because they get downvoted into oblivion. Here, the opposition to various governmental defense ...
The Palantir are just a network. It's Sauron who corrupts. That part of Sauron exists in/touches the network means anyone (at that time) accessing the network exposes themselves to that corruption (and their location to Sauron) as well. Once the Palantir are no longer in Sauron's control (or in the control of those...
First, see my edit, in which I linked to the actual court decision, and quoted its logic. > define machine consumption because i can set up a toolchain to process and run traditional source code The point is that source code is often used by humans to talk with each other, and the "Supreme Court has explained that...
One more time, buddy - I'm basically just [quoting this court decision that established First Amendment protections for source code]( because it is a means for humans to express ideas to each other. In the words of the decision, source code is functional and EXPRESSIVE but object code is by default assumed to be me...
object code is indeed human readable The courts would probably argue that source code has an expressive purpose , and that mere readability is not sufficient for this purpose. Object code is the result of taking expressive material (source code) and processing it into a form that is far less optimal for expressio...
Can someone give me a bullet list
The issue is that when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted, people were connecting to the internet with dial-up. The providers generally had nothing to do with the phone line that came into your home. You could choose between AOL, Earthlink, Prodigy, etc etc. The FCC wanted these services to grow and inve...
To be fair, att sales reps tend to be dumb as bricks. Our IT guy made me sit in their sales pitch where they explained that their cloud data warehouse and shiny new VPN services were totally worth $100 extra per month. The look on the guys face when he asked him for clarification about what the 'data warehouse in the c...
It is so weird that you say that. And Haybro too. The article says they claim it will be 51% cheaper than windmills, and 30% less efficient, but you can double the density. In short, if their claims are true, the article suggests they're cheaper.
my upvote count says at least 58 others, too! there are so many potentially interesting articles on reddit everyday, there really is no time to read them all, so skipping the article and going directly to the comments usually provides a good enough overview of the article, especially since comments provide obviousl...
Because 6 seconds would be optimal operation that no one will ever receive. Because streaming adds network overhead and it is actually more efficient to just send the whole file and play it back locally. Our network speeds have been slow enough up until now that the loss in efficiency was actually more beneficial to ...
Quoting directly from the PDF linked earlier ITT. 4. >The browser fetches all available suggested tiles based on country and language from Onyx without using cookies or other user tracking identifiers. 5. >User interactions, such as clicks, pins and blocks, are examples of data that may be measured and processe...
The part where I am confused is that AFAIK phones don't emit radiation in any substantial quantity (no more than say a wristwatch) unless they are transmitting. Was the phone on and in a call the whole time or just sitting there powered up doing nothing beyond displaying the time? Also, was there a control study of pho...
I grew up in upstate NY without cell service, and consequently did not buy a cell phone till I went away to college in NYC a few years ago. After a painful year with a tracfone I bought the iPhone a couple days after it came out. In the beginning life was good, I screwed around and jailbroke...had fun with cool apps,...
I know how this guy feels, to an extent. Back in 2003, I was fired from my Apple retail job for accidentally publishing screenshots of the Apple Internal Software that is used for bug tracking, repair tracking, and the like. I didn't explicitly publish and/or promote it, but when a slashdot story I submitted was accept...
I'm a [panentheist]( and therefore a [monist]( So not unitarian, but certainly not trinitarian in the traditional sense. I'm a literalist with enough sense to look things up in Greek and Hebrew--so while I can say with certainty that a serpent and not The Debbil was doing the tempting in Eden, I'm also comfortable w...
9. Facebook's CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior I heard he raped and murdered a girl in 1990. I'm not saying it's true, but it does raise some interesting concerns. >1. The Facebook application itself sucks
Right on. As strongly as I feel about privacy, I can see how they could mess this one up - it kind of makes sense to look for people you might already know; lots of social apps (I'm thinking of linkedin, facebook) do this in one form or another. The way Path handled this is the right way . Upfront. Honest. Listening...
Gonna gloss over the downsides to that? Like the only form of birth control we do have control over significantly lowers the enjoyment of the act, and in fact makes it impossible to finish for some men? How about the fact that if my girl is on the pill I get to trust her to take it at the same time every day and neve...
I've had corrective surgery on my foreskin because it was too tight, twice. This involves you having to take an anastaetic shot directly in the head of your penis. Let me tell you something, it kinda sucks, like a tiny bee-sting on your dong, but it passes rapidly. I don't think this would be anywhere near that pain ...
I'm going to take the long way around this answer with a rambling story about my father. When I was in my 20's my dad got a vasectomy. As a bit of background, my parents were divorced, my dad didn't want any more kids and was dating a woman who also had her own kids. Anyways, he called me up one day to ask me if I...
No. Anyone else would sue, too - plenty of other companies have already sued for the same thing in the past. This is marketing blackmail, or technically profiteering based on copyright trademark infringement. Chances are, they did try to buy the domain, but the price was disproportionate: if Apple could get it for ...
Depending on how one argues, the SSW could have scored a bigger victory at 4.2% (they're exempt from the 5%-hurdle) because they get to co-form the ruling coalition with SPD and Greens. That coalition has a majority of one seat, so they're going to, if not listen to, then at least make sure not to aggravate the Pirates...
There is no need to worry. This is a 'wake-up call' about phishing. Phishing is a common scam. As the saying goes, "the problem is halfway between the computer and the seat". If the person gives away his account and password (or in this case verification code), he just gave away his account. The trick here is about h...
I used to be a gentoo user, but Ubuntu was just easier to install. I should probably try Arch, and there's probably some neckbearded Arch user reading this, rubbing his hands together methodically, saying "yesssss."
I just came back to windows for the first time since leaving the OS for Mac @ 2003. It seems like the desktop environment is still my go-to environment, and that I use the metro interface like a glorified start menu. Maybe its coming from OSX, it makes sense to me to just use the taskbar like I used my dock in OSX fo...
Don't get me wrong, I've used Microsoft products for over 2 decades - and run multiple medium-size networks built on the software. That doesn't mean I'm not already looking at alternatives - in IT it's your job to stay ahead of the technology years down the road and make sure you don't get painted into a corner. An ...
The secret is to have fun. Iplayed console cod for years, but when I built my PC, I figured that I shouldnt care about KD or anything like that. I aim for fun. I didn't do amazing at first, but with around 500 hours of TF2 under my bealt, I have gotten much better.
I can't agree more with your comment. I really don't understand why they chose to implement consumer ui features in the new server release. It's supposed to be an enterprise utility os, so why the consumer ui attributes that can't be turned off or removed. It makes me want to stick with 2008r2 for a really long time. I...
Yup. And Windows 95? Everyone hated it. The downfall of MSFT. People hate change. They hate change until they eventually adapt and then after a year or so, they'd kick you in the balls if you asked them to go back. People are upset about Windows 8 because they don't want change, Gabe is just upset he might lose money...
As a Linux user, I take the opposite viewpoint. If people are savvy enough, they have Linux as an alternative. But for people like my grandma or my aunt, it would mean I don't have to head out every week because they installed something they shouldn't have. Locked down app store = more stability, more security, more ...
I want to run an out of date OS because there are a few things that its successor Windows 7 has removed the ability to do. I happen to want to do a few things that Microsoft doesn't think I need to want to do. First and foremost, springs to mind the ability to read-and-write raw disk data, a la the Unix "dd" utility...
your diatribe against modern recording technology has one merit. analog does sound slightly better than digital, but that's really just down to the compression rate that you use. analog vs. digital video is not even a contest. i don't know where you received or believed that you saw with your own eyes that analog ...
Sounds like I found one of your hot buttons. For your information these types of projects are far, far from my only interest; I'm running Win7 64-bit at home and at work. For serious purposes I have absolutely no objection to using the newest stuff, and am in fact quite resentful of the fact that my wife won't yet l...
My personal take on it is just "meh who cares". It doesn't obstruct my own or anyone elses lives, has the potential to help society, and no real harm unless you go around acting like you want to plant bombs at various public places. There are no escalation of privileges currently going on and TrapWire was founded ab...
He does the right thing and this is how we, as a country, What right thing? The incident was publicly reported to the media the day it occurred, the only thing Manning did was leak a classified video which still showed what was reported. The only difference is the video got public attention because the majority of th...
No fucker reads anything any more. They should rename this site "clickedit".
Throwing all the blame on the current administration isn't just fearmongering, its just flat-out inaccurate. Oh, I completely, 100% agree. My dislike of Obama makes a lot of people jump to conclusions about my reasons or where exactly I place the blame. He's orders of magnitude better than Bush, or Romney, or McCain...
The implications of your statement are truly depressing. You are fucking right, they got him. They. The same bastards that committed the dirty deeds, succeed in taking him, and putting him a hole in broad daylight with all eyes on him, in America. He does the right thing and this is how we, as a country, repay him ...
Did anyone watch the video that was advertised in the link to the venn diagram page. I would really appreciate some input on that. The video is here. This guy basically predicts the financial collapse of the US gov. He then advises investing in gold and silver. He then tries to sell you some more videos of advice. ...
It's not a question of just the ability to use a multi-core chip, it's about how the specific work being done can cleanly be divided into discrete tasks (referred to as threads). Some tasks are very simple to divide. Think of rendering 3D graphics, for instance. When you're rendering frame, you're applying the same...
Windows was just a UI design. Most of the actual OS is different. That's why you have Windows software and Mac software. Smartphones are in the same boat. Android has some similar UI, but the underlying OS is different. Go download an android program (they have a .apk extension) and try to install it on your iPhone. ...
This will probably get buried but... It seems like a move a corporation does when it's floundering and scraping for money. Not because the iPhone isn't a great phone, not because slide/move to unlock is absolutely the deciding factor when people choose a phone. But for the first time, others (i.e. Samsung) are mak...
Tablets up until this point have been like ordinary consumer electronics. As they gain power and features and battery life and connectivity they will become more analogous to general computation devices in the same way the desktop is. This will be especially true as time passes because there will be lots of people out ...
Sadly this will get buried for the late response but this reminded me of an awesome story from my youth. I used to work for a spam company in 2003-2004. We were one of the largest at the time and business was ok. Our major issue was about 15 or so anti-spammers that thought we were the anti-christ. They would opt into ...
Most drug dealers do not know where to get any other drugs, at least not all the time. Even if they do they normally don't want to bother. And GHB is pretty uncommon nowadays I'm willing to bet that most people drugging drinks are putting either roofies or other extremely common benzodiazepines like klonopin, xanax...
It really is embarrassing and shameful. The mind of a rape victim is constantly screaming with self-doubt, disgust (at themselves mostly), fear, hurt and rage. The night is constantly played over and over again in the mind's eye, picking apart every single action and thought infinitely. Life is never the same afterward...
1)Not specifically, but I knew a guy who would regularly use GHB himself - not on others but for personal use (according to him) 2)GHB is relatively easy to make with materials found at home (according to that video) I am sure it is easy enough to search the internet for recipes if you are really that dead set on fin...
The real cost is that people who would have bought your product pirate it instead. Then they would have bought it. I love your analogy, because you give me 'unlimited seats'. I say, screw it, incentivize the crap out of the paid line (you want seats in the "center" coloumns? pay $), a la carte the incentives so tha...
I've never hear a convincing argument from the piracy side. What argument does there need to be? As long as there is no convincing argument from those demanding people to change their behaviour... why would people need to explain why they aren't changing their behaviour? A: "Stop playing tennis!" B: "Why should ...
It will affect content generation, however that effect is not necessarily a negative one, at least in terms of long term implications. I personally believe that the consumer base has out passed the content distributors and in the next decade or so we will be seeing more shifts in the way content is sold and delivered. ...
It's not the"end". Just the slow death and shedding of the masses. In which only "older generation" will still use it. Versus the people not "stuck" in their ways, that can adapt to a changing environment, which is the internet and culture. For a few other trends that went that way look at: the dot com boom, Frien...
netflix is a great step in the right direction, but i will take years for hollywood to come around to the fact that people want real options. why cant i stream a movie the same day it comes out on dvd, not rent it, not buy it for $20 but simply watch it and not worry about it either getting locked in the future like ...
I cannot stress this enough. I've said it once I'll say it again. If netflix or a similar service had everything available i wanted to watch, tv, movies, old show no longer on the air, in theater movies.. I'd drop a good amount of cash on that per year. but no, they wont come to their sense and they'd rather try to nic...
Original content on Netflix is paid for by user subscription fees (which is around $3.1 billion a year), that's shows like House of Cards, Lillehammer and so on. Everything else is contracted out like syndication of a show to another network. Netflix agrees to pay a certain amount to the rights holder for every episo...
SO what I'm getting from this post (as in, all the comments I'm reading) is that i can pay 2-3 or maybe more companies and have to sign in to this or that blah blah blah or i can just go onto the web and casually watch/download anything and everything, as long as i don't mind a bit of grain. I don't like to pirate st...
I actually do this. No problems so far. Did it with a vpn as well. I don't think they should care, for all intents and purposes they're serving to an allegedly US browser. It is I, the user, who is at fault here. While I do understand the restrictions of international licensing, it is just a load of crap. I used ...
Just buy the DVD then. If you can't afford it, go without. I don't care, I'm rich either way.
Told by whom? A marketing guy who is really good at schmoozing at hip bars and making connections? Or someone with an extensive knowledge of UI design principles and human learning? The marketing folks I've met almost all fall into the former bucket. This myth that somehow engineers who spend their entire lives think...
UI design principles and human learning? Show me these guys as I've seen no average engineer be able to pull off a UI. Hell even UI specialists just make google/apple clones > A marketing guy who is really good at schmoozing at hip bars and making connections? These would be the sales guys not the marketing ana...
Well to consider the true loss of money you need to factor in that that 12-mo U.S. bonds were at 0.147% last May. That means you're also looking at an additional loss of $0.0559, meaning that it's about 20 cents lost per share, not 15. This is under the assumption that you would've invested in the lowest risk inves...
I had an ad blocker for a little while, but no longer use them. I don't have too much of a problem with pop-up and ads at all. In fact, I can't think of the last time I had to close a popup on a non-NSFW page. As I see it, I'm getting all this content for free (especially on Youtube). The least I can do is let ads ro...
I think I understand it pretty well. advertisers absolutely are parasites, they fit the definition perfectly. they require a host to live, and they diminish the host somehow - that's what it means to be a parasite. there are varying degrees of parasitism, some bordering on or overlapping mutualism. for example, fig was...
Although electric cars are not entry-level cars yet the model 2 is very competitive in its price range(0-60 mph in 4.4 fucking seconds), nearly everywhere electricity is factors cheaper than gas, and many workplaces are starting offer free charging stations that will only expand with electric car adoption.
If the solution of the jobs problem is "stop technological innovation", I think you can see how backwards this philosophy is. Not only that, but even if one company refuses to replace labor with technology, there will inevitably arise another one willing to do it, driving everyone out of business. In an overcompetete...
Yeah, it's a so called "case film". Meaning, it's an highly optimized (and often idealized) representation of an advertising idea. (Which undoubtedly can be very clever and funny). These films don't exist to sell products but are used by agencies to sell their idea to juries at important advertising award shows. The ju...
Swimmer here. Been swimming for well over 20 years competitively. I swim ten miles a week and I have tried just about every device that has been made over the years for listening to music underwater while training. Underwater earbuds never work and always hinder your workout with the frustrations they cause. Trying to...
Often people try to equate how smart computers are compared to something biological. This is good public relations, but it is deceptive. A dog is not brilliant at chess nor can it search the entire internet under half a second and come up with interesting results (often porn, sure, whatever - you get my point).
Binary blobs are a great solution - provided they are decrypted locally, and not server side. If they are decrypted server side then, there is the potential to intercept the password while it is being sent. If it's decrypted on the user end, then the same problem applies to bandwidth useage as using pgp or a truecrypt ...
true that. Automation should been seen as a boon to an industry, not a guillotine. There's two ways to look at it: You have a newspaper that employs 25 reporters. A quarter of these are the indepth stories and whatnot, the rest are beat reporters and fact checkers. You now have software that does the job of the 7...
Rant This is tantamount to outsourcing your job to some guy in china for a 1/3 of your pay while you do nothing, people get pretty pissed about that, Same difference, getting something to do your job for you while you masturbate. Why pay you when we can pay someone or something nothing or less. Capitalism 101, but an e...
Exactly. From the article: "The Los Angeles Times was the first newspaper to publish a story about an earthquake on Monday - thanks to a robot writer" Also: "The LA Times is a pioneer in the technology which draws on trusted sources - such as the US Geological Survey - and places data into a pre-written template." ...
Is there competition between Verizon and AT&T? They charge the same prices or almost the same, for the same sort of packages, and similar coverage. There's no competition there. Even Sprint is sucking at competing. Tmobile is the only one bringing any competition to the game, and if Sprint buys them, that's it, it's ga...
It most definitely makes the carrier more money in most situations. Let's say you have 2 Lines with 3 GB of data. That's $40 per line, plus the data charge of $60, netting $140 per month. Same situation, now with "edge". Your cost of $40 per line just went down to $30(taking your cost from $140 to $120... Sounds ...
Comcast CEO would be the devil regardless. People all have the things that are important to them, and will use whatever means are as available to "win." In /r/technology they dislike Verizon/Comcast more than they dislike the word "rape." This seems obvious from context... If you take this to tumblr you will find the...
It works great. The two aforementioned tablets are running exactly the same OS my desktop runs, no problems at all. Speed-wise, it's faster than you'd think. The Surface has a Core-i5 processor (mobile version, but rather poky nonetheless) and the Encore is using one of Intel's Bay Trail processors - which is signifi...
I don't think it's exactly like that. The case that everyone looks at is the Otis elevator company losing it's trademark on the word "Escalator". But one of the reasons they lost it is because Otis themselves advertised that they offered "the latest in elevator and escalator design". This showed that Otis themselves we...
Micro$ucks should go back to what they used to do best. MS Office (Sans Outlook which Sucks!!!) and their bloated DRM licensing.
I think there's an interesting discussion from this: could someone who makes a living with the look of their body (like Kelly) have a copyright on that? Therefore, making the distribution of naked photos a crime of copyright infringement?
It is possible. However, that is the same line of thinking that got us here. These people, politicians, are the deadliest of sneaks. The kind that steals your life and money without you even realizing it. I'd rather assume they are actively trying to screw everyone, then I am at least not surprised when they inev...
If something isn't transmitted over the open internet doesn't mean it doesn't interact with it. Take the example of car transmitting data. They're, like you said, not going to browse to a server and fill their data into a formula on this website, in fact they probably won't communicate with a server at all but use hive...
This should be at the top. One thing I will contest to, and unfortunately I can contest to this from experience, is that the FBI has and may *sometimes** follow-up on people who have made statements as you just did on the internet. Even with no prior provocations or history. I've noted "sometimes" because protocol mi...
Strictly speaking, the Supreme Court would be very likely to throw out some or all of FISA if a case were to reach them and they were not convinced to throw it out (moot point; it's next to impossible to prove that you have standing to challenge this law). In that event, Section 302 of HR 4681 would prevent section 3...
EDIT: I'M A BUNDLE OF STICKS! Please downvote to oblivion. Another edit: Maybe not that much of a bundle of sticks. Section 302 of the same law states that no part of the bill is to be construed as authorizing any activities not otherwise authorized under other laws or the United States Constitution. So this isn't ...
I've witnessed this happen with several other social sites, a couple of my own country, MySpace, now Facebook. Even Twitter. The young people come first. They make it popular. They make it great, they post pictures, and often more sexy ones. That attracts other friends. Then it gets popular, and the ''older'' people ...
Hmmm...Concerning the song "C-Walk", Daz made the beat and produced it. It was released on Kurupt's CD "Kuruption! - West Coast Edition" in 1998 under Antra Records, which is a sub label of A&M Records. In late 1998 A&M's parent company, PolyGram, was bought by Universal Music Group. A&M transferred to Antra all of it'...
The percentage of cases, yes even civil, that go to trial is astronomically low](
Yeah; god forbid they don't make more money somehow. The networks take every chance they can get to get more money, not explicitly in the advertising contract? Fuck the advertiser, let's charge someone else for that space. Hulu is included in this fucked contact-ridden cross fulfillment scheme. This year's Super Bo...
No, it's explicitly independent and governed by the BBC Trust. However, since it is granted authority by a Royal Charter, it's terms have to be renegotiated with the govt every few years. And since in attempting to be impartial it inevitably upsets the govt of the day at some point, it means that it comes under a great...
I exist almost exclusively in the server space. LOTS of servers. I can't remember the last time I wrote a server spec that included spinning drives. The only use case we have for spinning platters is huge amounts of really slow disk space. Think online archiving. Even then if we take power and cooling into accoun...
that is a bad thing. The evo has to read multiple times over because of voltage drift........ The problem gets worse when you increase densities because there are much less electrons holding the state of the cell. > I suspect that the algorithm didn't take the change in cell voltage properly into account This l...
Great - lets make them utilities... How do they charge utilities? By use. Now we pay per GB. FUCK THAT. Edit - I completely agree that internet use is different than water/gas/electric, and should be treated differently. Where I differ, is that I dont see the powers in charge making an informed decision on a pr...
Electricity: We will not need the Government much longer for electricity. Elon Musk of Tesla is working with solar city to provide micro grids that are powdered by solar panels. This will soon replace any dependence on the government grid. Also solar in general is put pacing our need to rely on the grid. The Governme...
That's always been the case, Google perfectly emulates the ghosts' signature AI. The main idea is that all four ghosts have different AI so that they can trap you rather than just having all four be a few squares behind you. Blinky does directly chase you, Pinky goes for the shortest route to a point determined by wh...
Hi, I found a problem in that your site doesn't ask for alternatives when choosing a route. Here's an example. Travelling from Haltwhistle in Northumberland, UK, to Brampton in Cumbria, UK. There is more than one Brampton and in this case it chose the wrong one.
The setup was PS3 -> Receiver -> TV, and it used two very cheap ($2) HDMI cables. This gave me quite noticable sparklies on the screen, which I first thought were a fault in the Receiver (never even heard of them up till that point). I tried several other devices that worked fine, it was only the PS3 that was giving ...
Considering broadband internet is like a utility in many ways, this would make sense. Is the power company going to cap your use? No, they'll just charge you for what you use. And while some might say that one could live without the internet, and thus the internet is not a utility, what about those who rely on the in...