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Bingo. Ex-Googler here (2005-2006), can verify it if anyone cares. I've written about Google's interest in AI over on Hacker News before. It is true that Google execs have mused, in public and in private, about maybe advancing strong AI to do search better, and I would expect at least a few people at Google are at leas...
Eh, Out of curiosity, why would porn sites even give a fuck about SOPA, most of their servers are located in foreign countries that don't have rules, and if they do, they're vague as fuck. Maybe they have offices in America but really highly doubt that. Also, the porn industry is a cut throat industry, a day of no serv...
This is very similar to a post I made earlier today. I absolutely think content creators should be compensated for their work. Without the creators, there is nothing to copy. My issue is completely with artificially created scarcity. It's as though you were the sole provider for oil in the whole world; would it b...
Thank you as a foreigner I was very confused on how to do my part, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so. Knowing my lazy self I wouldn't have written such a letter anyway.
There is a reason that the powers-that-be support democracy in all of the countries that we are overturning (arab spring and all). It is complicated, and you could easily say (and be justified) that the governments being overthrown are 'bad', BUT the plain fact is that democracy means little in a country where media is...
Thanks the slide show seems very helpful. I'll take a better look tomorrow as it's really late here but I got up to around page 20, maybe a bit further. It did help me understand better how including ultrasonics can degrade SQ. (
n=6 per group is no robust statistical test. Repeat the test with the another control group and you will get a significantly different answer. The data may suggest something but is in NO WAY scientifically bulletproof.
Control over your phone; jailbreaking your phone allows you to be the administrator, not apple. The rest of the points follow from this one. Installing software that Apple may not deem appropriate (e.g. you can install non-iTunes applications) Other "hard working" devs create very useful software that either isn'...
He either didn't read the article or didn't pay attention. He then makes a blanket statement that is patently incorrect. He then repeats the same argument after it's been refuted several times.
It's far from free. First you have the initial R&D cost. Cost of installation + brand new facility/retrofit. Test runs, calibrations, more testing. Greenlit. But then you have to maintain them. That needs people employed. It also needs a large backlog of (most likely at some level) proprietary parts.
As you can see in your chart the PC market IS shrinking: revenues are getting smaller. [This trend is continuing]( You're right to point out ubiquitous computing (having a smartphone and tablet and PC, and perhaps a smartwatch and alter something like Google Watch), but that pretty much proves my point: some day peop...
I'm pretty sure that the "we've never heard of PRISM" is some lawyering bullshit too. Maybe they've never heard the codename PRISM, but surely they've known that such a program existed. Surely they know more about this shit than me. I'm just a software engineer, not the head of an incredibly powerful communication ...
Not only that....when you think about it.....the plan was a disaster for developers. The whole thing was about controlling the used game market. Developers wanted their cut. They wanted everybody to pay. Realistically, how many times is one game bought and sold before it sits on someone'e shelf? Gets broken, lost...
I will not argue that there isn't a used games market. But by clinging to physical copies you are keeping the prices high. So high, that you create a used games market. I for one, like the idea way better to create a steam on consoles (have you seen their prices?) so that u never look back at the used games market. And...
maybe thats what xbox one actually means... one full revolution @_@
Im pissed. I for one am not on a bandwagon or a fanboy to say the least for any console. I own both the consoles (ps3,xbox360) and enjoy playing both at any given time. What I have a hard time understanding is how a major company like Microsoft put so many hours and man power into creating a complete DRM console and th...
I'm not, but they are one of the more evil bigger players as is Apple and Google. The real evil ones are Raytheon, they make the Active Denial System which is that heat wave pain ray, and I believe they also make the LRAD long range acoustic device which will damage your hearing and I don't see how it's even legal, m...
What DRM question was that? I'm answering a lot of comments here. [Here]( [Here]( >I'd say it's extraordinarily likely that they did exactly that, but that's the difference. They didn't want until they were made to look like idiots before deciding against it. So your only problem with the two decisions is that ...
Right because the NSA definitely doesn't watch the Internet. You here that reddit, we're safe here.
Still buying a PS4 (if I ever get the cash). Don't forget that the XBone still requires the Kinect to always be connected, forcing indie game creators to use a publisher and other stuff (I think). Microsoft's attitude coming into this new generation solidified my support for Sony: they showed utter contempt for it's ...
I could CLEARLY tell the difference in performance between RE4 on the GC and on the PS2 and so could everybody else on the internet. PS2 has longer load times, lower polygon count, worse texturing, and just over all shittier graphics with awful anti-aliasing. When you compare the two side by side it's CLEARLY obvio...
Here is the thing about you sheeple... Xbox fans complained about it "always being online" It was once a day. You needed an internet connection, couldn't share games. everyone was all like, "we can't share games and Microsoft is spying on us!! ohh noo".. Well Microsoft heard you all!! Congratulations.. And they have pr...
also samsung phones use AMOLED in where black is really NO POWER, not the dimmest light possible. using the subtitle app on my samsung phone with grey text allows me to comfortably enjoy the movie without neighbors complaining.
Stealing a few bits of data of no recognized importance is a lesser charge than stealing a recognized currency. If I go ahead and steal your lawn chair I'll get a fine, possibly a short jail sentence, and likely community service. The value of the lawn chair doesn't exceed the threshold to be considered a serious cr...
Lets face it, the majority of people save in doc/docx format and open office's compatibility with files in that format is obviously not perfect. There are plenty of formatting bugs when opening MS word files in open office. Unless major companies somehow start using open office as the main file format for word/excel do...
im kinda confused. is this going to be a steam console? or am i gonna need to get another computer to plug into my tv? or am i replacing windows? or is it a steam console computer? will there be a controller, or is it mouse and keyboard?
The current workaround is to run firefox+silverlight in wine. Silverlight is the plug-in that Netflix runs on. It's also a Microsoft product that doesn't support Linux. There's an opensource version, Moonlight, but it doesn't work with Netflix because of DRM.
Well hi there Mr. Cynical. If you did not understand where the ambition is then allow me to explain, the ambition is not in the creation of the product. The ambition I am referring to is in what they expect from the users. Have you paid attention to the startup O.S.s that have been coming out and the fate they met in ...
The RPi is an inexpensive mini ARM based computer that has a multitude of uses. I break it down into three types of people that buy them: 1) Educational institutions and instructors for teaching children/students how to program with scratch or python. There is also uses for it at a more advanced level of education ...
As someone who works in an RMA department for a large memory company it's only somewhat logical to me. Keeping track of something like "RMAs avoided/ rejected" in the sense they are talking about really is just pointless because it's all dependent on the original outlook of the customer; according to their reasoning if...
Why do people keep saying this. Google bought and sold Motorola MOBILITY, which was spun off by Motorola Solutions. The original Motorola company has been spun off many times in history and is still around. From Wikipedia: [Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as th...
TWC ? Well TWC has the worst customer service I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. I am generally a calm guy and they got me to yell at top of voice on the phone and punch the wall. I hate this company so much so that I have saved their number as "Time Warner aka Asshole Collective" I would switch from...
Everyone has their own opinion about them. Personally AT&T has been great for me; Time Warner on the other hand gave me poor service and really didn't care if you were a long term customer. THE SURVEY mentioned in the linked article should not be called a survey it is a list-making site. The 'lists' present no inform...
I can vouch for AT&T's customer service being exceptionally terrible. After trying to explain twice to an agent on the phone that I had already shut down and restarted my computer three times in attempting to solve a wireless internet service. He finally accepted that, but insisted there were still a few basic things w...
Let me detail my last encounter with Time warner customer support for you. I go to visit my parents, they occasionally remotely access files from their home internet and the 1 mbps upload wasn't cutting it anymore so I said I'd help them get service with a 5mbps upload. They pull out their last bill where I find they a...
Allow me to chime in on the ISP hate bandwagon. I have Time Warner Cable. It was that, or AT&T, and AT&T had slower internet speeds in my area. So basically a choice between giant douche or a piece of shit. Time Warner Cable was working just fine, but I wanted some movie channels, so I upgraded. With the upgrade ...
It's not an actual 'point system' per se, it's a ranking system. 1-5, 1 being the lowest (you're losing the company money) and 5 being the highest (they want to keep you as much as possible). They didn't give us many details on it, to be honest but pretty basic stuff like paying your bills on time, how often you call c...
Just preference I guess. I had an out dated windows laptop and an iPhone before I got it and I just didn't like how everything seemed "separate" (I guess that's the word I want). I got a Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13 ultrabook running Windows 8 (8.1 now) and a Windows Phone 8 because I wanted all my devices connected over sim...
I think pay by use is the way to go as it is with electricity, water, driving (gas) etc. Though not before we are done with the whole concept of bandwidths. If i'm going to pay for 1Tb of data, i want that fast. I don't live in USA but from what i've heard its horrible there with the costs compared to the 100Mb/s (tops...
i don't understand companies like this. Time Warner is has a market cap of nearly 60 Billion, they have 1.8 Billion in cash, they have 20 Billion in debt, their profit margin is over 12% and their EBITDA is over 7.8 Billion. They have a lot of money coming in as profits, but they owe a lot of money too. I think havin...
If they could guaranty my current service within 15% of my advertised rates during peak hours I might consider a compromise like this. I like watching Hulu/Netflix about the same time other viewers like to watch their Cable. But I only get peak performance at times when no one is watching TV. That means Amazon Prime an...
Here's an idea which is exactly what they want but wont work because it is going to lose them money. Provide a tiered, open service at specific bandwidths and charge per Gig. Build a model where the higher speed cap gets a fixed cost per Gig. For instance, 100 Mbps for instance pays 15 cents a gig. Kind of exactly...
There are only a few closing tags (two h3's, one h2), which may have been automagically adjusted by MS FrontPage when the user felt brave and changed the HTML by him/herself. IIrc, closing certain tags was not a requirement in HTML 3.2; if you opened "p" and "font" tags and then closed "p", the end tag for "font" was...
reposting my comment from ) Tesla definitely has room for improvement here -- I've hit 0 miles of range on a road trip before. If you use the car as a commuter you may not realize the range estimates are not reliable. If you are looking at the list of superchargers then I think you get an 'as-the-crow' flies (st...
to understand energy estimates are not accurate even in an ICE car This is 100% about a software problem with the car with ~distance~ estimates. One screen shows the supercharger is 113 miles away - once you select it and start driving it is magically 25 miles further away. This has nothing to do with power/range ...
The Hoover dam is referenced in the title, and I would say that it should be in other ways too. The unemployment rate of construction workers is around 10% as of January. The a large publicly funded project could drop that number down a bit by building this! It would create green, renewable energy on a huge scale and s...
Oh absolutely! I'm a huge fan of all of the distributed cryptocurrencies for precisely this reason. Our current monetary system a quasi-private centralized, usurious debt-based banking and monetary system that mathematically favors the big banks over all other entities subject to law, and cedes them power to control ...
True, but if your defense requires an opponent to make calculated decisions in limited timeframes, you've set up a large resource gap that requires a sustainable desire to break. Even then, its possible to setup a dead man switch that makes any attack futile.
I see someone squeezing and not really bending. His fingers are right over his thumbs and the edges of the phone are barely into the inner-corners of his fingers.
It's going to be even worse than that. Looking at Apple's spec page for the iPhone 6. They're using a Li-Ion battery in their phone. It'll look a little more like [this]( than the other video.
It's clearly a case of Caveat emptor. I wouldn't get hire-purchase on a phone I wanted to unlock if the law said that rented phones can't be unlocked by the renter (because we are all bound to the contracts we sign). If you have to unlock your phone, you'll have to buy the phone if the law says that you can't u...
I'm so sorry you've seen the absolute worst of the country here. I can assure you that those people are NOT commonplace. In fact most likely these are the people that were against Net Neutrality in the first place who are here now because they're pissed that corporations don't have unfettered power over the internet. T...
It won't matter. There is a (fantastic!) [book by Lawrence Lessig, called "How Money Corrupts Congress"]( I highly recommend it as an eye-opener to modern-day politics. There is a chapter, called "Beyond Suspicion", that covers how money makes its way into politics by lobbyists. In it, Lessig recalled being astounded...
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But the thing is, going back and playing the games you don't have a fond memory of will lead to either two realizations: 1) The game design is crap. The controls are crap. The hit detection and speed of play are crap. 2) The game is fun. Then five minutes pass and its repetetive. Don't get me wrong, the atari as ...
Partly true - regulation doesn't work if government is not accountable to the public. In the US, regulation has often become a tool for powerful corporate interests to stifle competition and line their pockets, which is obviously completely opposite its intended purpose.
A big part of what perpetuates this lie is the number of lobbyist written regulations that actually greatly benefit the corporations they are supposed to be "regulating" at the expense of the general public. So every once in a while, a piece of this unabashed highway robbery is repealed and we all jump for joy at the...
Gene is a tool for saying what he did, it shows he isn't with the times e.g. > “The music industry was asleep at the wheel,” Well yeah and so are you Gene, why should people drive to a store to buy a piece of plastic with music burned on it? Add to that the people here on Reddit throwing a tantrum and saying Kiss...
OK. fine, FINE. i will be the one guy in here who gets downvoted all to hell, but whatever. Simmons may be over-reacting. he may be a douche, and a sell-out. he may be a has-been. he may have made terrible music. fine. i will give you that. but he's right in the sense that file sharing seriously damaged an industry. ...
Cute ... but ... come on. This is just a pointless exercise in wishful thinking. Thinking outside the box is a great thing, but this guy has no idea where the box actually is. The real visionaries aren't the ones making videos like this one, the real visionaries are guys like cyanogen who understand the constraints of ...
Barring total mutual destruction, the total war effort will have insufficient time to develop a radical new technology in 5 years. Most likely we'll see improvements, refinements and the perfection of current and nascent technologies such as autonomous armed drones, much improved satellite killers, wider adoption of ...
The funny thing is, they're still on all the traffic lights, just freaking people out, I'd wager. That's actually how I found out. I mistimed a yellow and was raging at the possibility of the camera ticket. My wife kindly informed me that they had been declared unconstitutional and were not active. Which is weird, ...
It's a timing thing. If I'm 500ft from the yellow, then I have room to stop, but not when I'm 100ft out towing 10k lbs of cargo. On top of that, 45-55mph isn't speeding. There are just times when running the yellow light that may change to red as I'm going through it , is perfectly acceptable. I've never even come clo...
Couldn't agree more During an otherwise excellent edition of how to circlejerk, I tried to get [congressman Jared]( to talk about copyright but unfortunatly my question was pretty long and there were plenty of circlejerkin redditors needing his attention I strongly recommend that people watch the coming war on gen...
It's an honor to have you reply to one of my comments, good sir.
I knew it. the timing of when I switched from loving google to finding them annoying is too perfect on this, it has to be a little bit true at least,
You know, it's not okay to respond solely based on your notions of cultural misogyny. It degenerates the level of the conversation and belittles the actual problem of having "so few women in technology." Marissa's the epitome of a class act, she's hot, has brains to boot (BS/MS Stanford), and has an extremely success...
That should be what circles are for, but it's not how my phone currently treats them. There is no list of my circles in my contacts sync that I can individually turn off and on. It either syncs everyone I have in any circle or no one at all. Under my "Accounts and Synchronization", I can turn off Google+, but that ...
The negative effects and potential harm to Google's image is far outweighed by the risks of not entering social media. The main issue at hand has not been competing with Facebook, the main issue is that Facebook, with all of its insider information on its users, could potentially dominate search in the future by making...
Come on now, Google is not that bad. Send me to down vote hell for this, I do not care. People get their panties in a bunch because a business does something that gasp MAKES THEM MONEY. In all honesty, the whole issue with Google tracking anyone's information and selling it to other businesses is not a great discrepa...
It isn't at all. It's very simple. When the upload creates a link that's connected to the file, it's the file, not the link that DMCA cares about. The file itself is copyrighted, not just one instance of the file. Here, I'll go get my takedown form to quote for you. >I represent EMPLOYER, for the purpose of copyrig...
Messing with servers in the root zone of the DNS system isn't going to get you far. The importance of those particular servers isn't because they contain some secret code that makes the system function, their power is derived from the fact that people say they are authoritative. If any of the root servers were to be...
That's your reasoning? Okay here is how your torrent works. [Your 40mbps connection is not actually 40 Megabytes download speed per second]( but rather around 5MB per second. That is the maximum speed your internet connection can download it. now various inefficiencies may drop that number further, but that's the b...
Is anyone else beyond fed up with how bad You Tube is now being plagued with commercials? I had minimum complaints when you could skip it right away. If they want to have that five second delay before we can skip, fine... I don't like it but I can live with it. But now you run into those 30 second no skip commercial...
That's not cut and dry. I can argue the opposite - if they stopped paying for those commercials, I guarantee you they'd still charge you the same, because you've already shown that you're willing to pay it. (Might be different if EVERYONE stopped advertising, but that seems implausible). Additionally, they'd sell less ...
Actually while I agree with the root of your sentiment the advertisers are actually paying the tv networks for the right to include advertising. Similarly, the cable companies ALSO pay the networks for the right to provide the network's content to CableCo's customers. And as a kicker the networks were granted license...
Nobody is pointing out that this is actually good for the networks. More people will get to watch those shows now and as they get hooked, they'll watch it the same night (less than 24 hours past) in which the auto-hop feature is not active yet and the shows will need to be skipped like a regular DVR'ed event or if real...
yup. I always hated shitty miracle whip but the GF likes it so we'd normally have that in the house (since I hardly use any mayonnaise). I saw those awful awful commercials about extreme mayonnaise and almost threw up. Seriously? what are they trying to say with those ads? "Our mayo is so fucking tits brah, you'll be...
People could discuss "Justice" or "Freedom" with 10 friends without realizing that each person has a completely different association in their mind. This reminded me of a conversation I had a while back in re: Richard Stallman. If you've ever seen, heard, or read an argument [debate] with Stallman you'll know it us...
The FDA was given their power by the American citizenry, which in turn has their power lent to them by the design of the American government. Also to say that an organization cannot come to power despite other powers being present is ludicrous, where exactly do you think powerful people come from? Sure you can be...
Check the number of fails on youtube for steve jobs keynotes. You'll be impressed (even more in the early years of OSX). You'll also notice that Steve Jobs handles handled it way better than the presenter in this video, who's trying to hide it from view as if we didn't know what happened.
At least in that case Bill had the sense of humor to laugh about what happened. The guy in the Surface presentation totally could've laughed it off and done the same thing, explained that this was still pre-release software, but instead he was too nervous to react in a natural way, and therefore made the whole freeze-u...
The problem is, a blue screen was a huge wall of text that often didn't tell professionals anything the memory dump or event log couldn't. It was user hostile and extracting any useful information from a user who experienced one was pretty fantastically rare. So they decided, well, if the professionals already can di...
If I recall I actually watched that full keynote, I thought he threw it off stage to a stagehand who worked with it and handed it back to Steve? (
Interesting. A very similar law applies in Australia. Although our consumer protection outfit (ACCC) hasn't come out with a big stick yet, all Aussie consumers are also protected by a statutory warranty, which basically states that an item's warranty should extend to cover "a reasonable expectation of product life"....
I've never understood the complaints about the TSA. Sure, the patdowns and TSA security procedures are certainly a nuisance and may infringe on one's personal privacy, but really, all they're doing is trying to make sure our flights are safe. 9/11 happened and it sucked, and one of the unfortunate repercussions is th...
I unssubbed from /r/politics because, well, it was a bit too liberal. Then /r/worldnews started getting extremely political too. Now, politics is encroaching into /r/technology too. Point is: I am not here to hear about you guys advocate for our rights and freedoms. There are other more appropriate sub-reddits for...
Put simply, yes. However -- like everything involving patent law -- it is usually more complicated than what meets the eye. The court could decide on a settlement due from Apple to Google. This may or may not include lawyer fees. Alternatively, Google may have to cover Apple's lawyer fees if they lose the case. Goo...
Wrong. Apple did not license the GUI or Mouse technology from Xerox. Steve Jobs sold 100,000 shares for $1M to Xerox for a tour of PARC. At PARC he was shown the Alto which was Xerox's version of the personal computer which ran an early version of the STAR operating system. As part of the deal Xerox asked Apple...
When you buy stock, you are investing (giving somebody money so that they can go make stuff or provide a service). Loaning money has a return, otherwise nobody would do it, and we wouldn't have modern economies or technology.
You're even looking at their business model through rose colored glasses. Lets take IOS for example and their permissions system. Recently its come to light that apps like Path and more malicious apps can take your contacts, location, and other related data.. for ads, etc. Apple is closing this hole in IO6 by allowi...
I am not talking about /r/technology - most people in /r/technology are at least half way informed of events within the technology world that do not revolve around the latest apple or microsoft or google development. The people I am talking about are the people on the streets who do not have a clue what is going on. ...
Of course it is. Was that up for debate? (Unless you are talking about your windmill thing, in which case, it's not really controlled. There are no inputs to control it with.) You are never going to 3d print something that sorts and requires an electronic sensor. Yes, you can print the housing and control mechanisims...
We have to deal with complaints sometimes at work, more so in my last job. The problem is if we as a company dispute it, we become liable. We notify the customer who would then be responsible and liable for the complaint and dispute unless they don't respond. At that time we have the right to administratively down the ...
It used to be that the vision of the future, was that technology would make life easier for us i.e. washing machines, vacuum cleaners or remote controls. The thing that seems to be missing now, is the intuitiveness that we associate with handling things in the physical realm. The interface in minority report certainly ...
Dont know about an ELI10, but
fuck you, and fuck links to your stupid pseudoscience spam blog. (for those /r/technology readers who may not be familiar with zephir_banned_banned, those two "banned"s on the end of his name are there for a reason. He is a pathological troll who is fixated on a bullshit pseudoscientific handwavy pile of nonsense he...
By changing the image and then re-saving you are creating a new file. You have no guarantee the the card will write it into the same place as the old one. Even if you use low-level system tools to explicitly tell the card to zero out a particular sector and write something over it the card is free to redirect the wri...
Yup! A lot of people here seem to work for larger companies. I work for a 20 person company for my 9-5 where I am the only IT personnel on site. I also run not one, but two companies now on the side and its literally a one man show most of the time. Although we're hiring some people for the side gigs, it's not as eas...
Get out. I fell for that for 6 years with a "small business that needs time to grow, then we'll be able to pay you more." Meanwhile, I watched two of the owners cheat the third partner out of everything, and do whatever they could to convince everyone they were working SO HARD, all while one of them was robbing the c...