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Why are Americans more deserving of meaningful work than foreigners? You're right, they aren't. Neither are Americans or Europeans more deserving of living in a modern society than refugees. It's not an issue of "deserving". It's a matter of practicality. Consider the reasons that people want to come to the U.S...
I'm in a building with Novus which does pre-wire each suite. The max speed they currently offer is 300 down but I'm pretty certain they will offer gigabit once someone else does and they are forced to compete again. I've also sent an email to the company in the article, OneGigabit, and according to them the entire bu...
Content isn't the only thing holding it back. The slow speed of millions of internet users is. I live just outside of Atlanta, GA, one of the biggest cities in the southeast, and I still can't get more than 1.5Mbps internet, which can't even stream a movie in 480p without stuttering. And you can forget anything high...
ICC may optimize the loops in question away by default , whereas with GCC you have 5 optimization options: -O0 (no optimization) -O1 (optimizations that are "easy" to do) -O2 (optimizations that are "more difficult") -O3 (optimizations that are not necessarily guaranteed to give the same results as non-optim...
Honestly, if someone can't manage the simplest of 'library skills'... why are they in r/technology?! But I'm reasonable, so here are some more keywords: bapco, sysmark, SPEC, intel compiler(ICC; profilers; developer 'lock-in' programs), Agner Fog, FTC, Havok, and antitrust. Much of this is about how Intel likes to jo...
Well, their rockets aren't patented, that's for sure. Elon once mentioned that patents are a problem when you're doing revolutionary stuff because once something is patented, it becomes publicly visible, and people copy it anyway. So parts of the Falcon 9 rocket are simply left unpatented. Then again, they aren't revea...
Hopefully this takes off, it would bring so many jobs across the country, giving the opportunity to move somewhere less densely populated, spread out the population would lessen power usage in major cities, most likely super green technology, less impact on Earth, promoting smaller tight nit communities, ...
1066 is simply the base speed for DDR3, it's the lowest standard. Sure, you can get faster DDR3 memory, such as the 1866 you have, I believe DDR3 currently goes up to 2133, which is the the base speed for the upcoming DDR4. This means that if DDR4 follows a similar upgrade path to DDR3, it'll only get faster and more e...
DDR is generic system memory, usually used by the CPU. GDDR is DDR which has been modified to have higher bandwidth (useful in graphics applications); this is done by increasing the speed of the RAM. This results in higher CAS timings, but the increased speed usually makes up for this. It's more expensive and uses mo...
I have a different view than most of these comments about waiting. Yes, if you kept waiting for the new stuff you would always be waiting for the next best thing, but you should wait as long as you can. If your laptop is still okay and are just wanting an upgrade, wait as long as you can to upgrade it. If you need a ne...
So, like, where is the wide availability of DDR4 motherboards? The adoption is still abysmal non existant not to mention that, afaik, x86 CPUs available now on the PC market do not have DDR4 memory controllers. It will take at least 2 or 3 years until this RAM has a good market penetration but i feel like people ex...
You are absolutely right. I kinda, sorta read the first paragraph and responded to that. After reading the whole comment, We fully agree:
Little user want/need for 64 bit, and a lack of competition in that area. Fx has very low RAM usage, and rarely goes above 4 GB for normal use cases. I know somebody is going to come around and say they have >1000 tabs open and need more RAM addressable, but that user base is not significant enough to warrant the e...
i could talk all day long about how xp was good. but there a point to consider... like IPv4 its use would have ben sooner or latter told by its 32bit achitecture. 3gb ram is plenty. but for me ...the lastest game with skype a dozen of firefox tab open and the bit torrent working .sorry that 3 gb is not enouph anymore t...
I used XP from the time that I was a 5th grader to my senior year in high school. As such, I got to know it very well. Downvote hell is coming for this, but, in my opinion XP was never good. Let me explain. So it's 2003 and my father finally decided to order a new computer for the family. This was to replace the ...
Bad management has nothing to do with it. No matter what standard you invest in, it will eventually become obsolete. Good management knows not to spend money if you can possibly avoid it. Money spent on updating nonessential software (or voluntarily updating usable software) is money that can't be spent on growing y...
I'm typing this from my laptop, which has Vista. I have not had any issues with it at all in the 7 years I've owned it. Works fine on Reddit, streams netflix and amazon prime just fine. That's mainly what I use it for. I saw no reason to update it to windows 7. If I wanted windows 8 I'd buy a new laptop. My desktop s...
It's a self perpetuating circle of incompatibility and added costs for switching over to a new OS really. No company likes switching over all their users to a new OS in the first place because well, USERS, they're fucking stupid most of the time, these are the kinds of people that get confused when their bin icon dis...
Having two of the same thing named different things isn't intuitive. The My Documents folder is hidden by default. You would have to turn on show hidden folders in order for it to be visible. >I mean, they have a Navigation sidebar link to the DESKTOP but not to the Named folder. It just doesn't make sense. Beca...
I've never quite understood people's attachment to XP. I was working at a place selling computers when Vista came out so I got a slightly earlier preview of it than most. I thought it was fine and left it at that. Next thing I know there are a tonne of people screaming about how horrible Vista is. There was talk ab...
My uncle had this line of thinking, till he got some malware on his machine that told him he had to pay to remove a virus. He put in his credit card info and payed, dear god did he pay. 6 months and $3000 dollars later he is now getting a divorce because his wife(who knows something about computers) told him to not tur...
Windows 8 upgrade was cheaper -- they offered (still do?) $15 to upgrade to 8 from a previous version of windows. Granted, you can search 'windows 8 price' and see a triple digits everywhere. In reality though, most people already have an older version of the OS, and have(/had) the opportunity to upgrade at a very re...
I wish tech companies would realize that there's a huge base of fans that simply love what we know and we don't really want to move on yet. We will because we have to but tech from the early 00's was seriously good and with a few additional security programs, are perfectly acceptable in today's day and age.
Tricks the OS into thinking it is running on an OEM machine and therefore can use the shared product key that only works if you have an OEM machine and does not use standard authorization.
No. You're trying to downplay the issue and change the subject. Free flow of information is necessary to tackle any of those issues and needs to be a very high priority. Without the free flow of information, those other issues can be swept under the carpet. The media outlets that report unfriendly political views...
Story after story. Post after post. I have ask, over and over: > What do you want them to do? They fought for net neutrality in federal court - and lost. As of right now, and since January, a federal court said that ISPs can treat traffic differently. The FCC is trying to make rules that limit the damage of that ...
Or we could change the law to allow anyone to copy anything at any time and share it to anyone. You don't get absolute control over something just because you created it. We have decided that a creator gets a lot of rights to their works. But after a set amount of time: your work is no longer yours. After a time the ...
If you know what you're talking about, you know this has nothing to do with Apple being stupid or not. If you don't know what you're talking about, you should do your research before talking.
I've discovered that Charter is either great or terrible in my experience. When I lived just 10 miles from where I am now, I was on a completely different network, and my service was amazing. Never had an outage, and speeds were consistently faster than advertised. Now, I live in a different place, and my Charter se...
I have had great service from Comcast. The tech who setup my account was quick and friendly, even told me how to setup the modem and router sinced I opted out of that service. Internet speed has been good and zero issue with billing. I was the accounts payable person in my old job where I had to pay the Comcast bills...
My summer was spent dealing with apple on this issue. Luckily, my computer was still under warranty when it started to go, but over the course of 6 weeks, apple performed over $3100 in repairs on a computer that cost me $2000 including the warranty. 3 Logic board replacements. 2 HDD replacements. Too many smaller rep...
The problem with this test is that people have no idea about the results they're getting and the company is not publicizing what mutations/DNA sequences they are using to make the assumption that people might have a higher chance for these diseases. Also, it is extremely difficult for someone to outweigh the risk of tr...
Lobbying does not equal illegal deal making "illegal deal making" = legal deal making you don't agree with >and not all lobbyists are equal. A perfect motto for your cognitive dissonance. >There are many lobbyists in washington with legitimate interests that represent them admirably. "legitimate interests" ...
My girlfriend had some sort of weird blip on her phone on Rogers in which her bill claimed 1.8gb of data usage in 1 second (800mb over her limit), while her data was turned off, it was connected to wifi and it was asleep on the table. We contacted CS and they just told us that we must have had some background activity ...
I had an idea similar idea, but I think more well thought out. First, the interface would be through an Emotiv brain computer interface and the display would be a visux augmented reality visor I wanted to get them built into a custom made daft punk helmet, stick some super high quality ear plugs in there, linked up t...
The most reliable way to do this is with someone called something like a "domain drop agent". They will charge a little bit of money, but they have full systems set up to immediately hammer the registration servers the second a domain "drops" or becomes unregistered. I'm at work at the moment - i have a small list ...
Does this remind anyone else of a story in a magazine that was in one of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's books (I don't remember which one)? That some aliens were trying to take over a world, but after scouting it out they realized they couldn't beat them militarily. They did find though, that they used a brand of peanut butter th...
Yes, it would still be hot for a long time. Red-hot magma is radiating energy relatively quickly, but this rate slows as the magma cools to being simply a very hot piece of rock. The radiated light energy at this point drops to the infrared spectrum, which is why it no longer is seen as glowing. Naturally, this light...
I see it like this: Microsoft shafted the tech community by sitting on a lame-duck version of Windows for almost 10 years then finally releasing Windows Vista only to publicly denounce its uselessness and come out wit a replacement just a few years after. Everyone hates IE6 yet Microsoft have refused to do anything...
1) I am so glad they don't enforce auto-updates. I hate auto-updates. I like choosing when I upgrade pieces of software. Do you ever wonder why you get so much junk e-mail? Why every website makes you enter a CAPTCHA? Why the comments section of every poorly-maintained website is filled with advertisements? Spammer...
A jailbroken iPhone blows a rooted Android phone out of the water in my experience. But then again a jailbroken iPhone can run Android or WP7. Hell you can dual or triple boot if you want. The iPhone is a pretty damn solid piece of hardware. I did try to find an Android set I liked but I always had some issue with the ...
That's a poorly studied, but it has been studied, mental phenomena where your brain edits out delays. The poor bastards probably don't know it's happening. It's really noticeable in people who think there is no delay in opening the windows start menu. I first noticed it when working on an ssh terminal over a 200ms la...
Co-Worker: "Could you hand me a Kleenex, please?" Me: "It's not a Kleenex, it's a Puffs." Co-Worker: "What's the difference" Me: "Blah blah blah iPod" Nobody calls it "Facial Tissue" and nobody calls it "Puffs".
you don't have to. you can download redistributable and batch install. are you saying your Mac and Ubuntu machines are not up to date? Please go away and die.
anyone got really uninterested after the first fork? gets boring quick, anyone
Circles...jerk. I like it, but it wouldn't be complete without an anonymous shout-out to the universe capability. Friends and family can suck. Great for Facebook users, but I like non-circle-limited exposure, and the ability to be downvoted to oblivion. But I suppose this is a pretty good shot at battling Facebook. M...
The biggest difference is scientific use vs. daily use. Imperial was based around not having something to measure things so it could be easily guessed as to how big it is. Inch is as big as the middle digit of most peoples fingers. A foot was obviously a large foot. A yard cold be paced out. In cooking it is pretty e...
My fiance teaches spanish. At the beginning of the year they get a carton of copy paper (10 reams), a box of paperclips and three bic pens. On the somewhat okay side, any school supplies she buys are tax write-offs.
Actually, I'm arguing around your point, which I don't like when other people do. Ithaca Hours are pegged at the $10. However, they are also considered to be an "hours" work. If the supply base was not expanded if needed (i.e. instead of a new person offering $10 for a Hour and just printing a new one off, when some...
Not necessarily, but if you look at games now that have these over bearing DRMs. These become the most pirated games. If these businesses want more people to pay for their products, they need to offer more with the product. Forcing your customer to always be online or only giving them three installs is really just an i...
Interesting argument, and I'll buy that the real money auctions necessitate that multiplayer characters be run through a server in an mmo style arrangement to reduce the risk of cheating. The problem I have with that decision is it massively lessens the value of diablo 3 to me as a gamer. I've got decent internet, bu...
My thoughts exactly. I work in a datacenter every day and when I read that they lost a PDU my first thought was "Why don't they have a redundant PDU in the rack" followed by "why didn't they just go to the hardware store and buy a power strip or something to get them by until it's replaced". The lack of redundancy i...
I remember when Metallica came out against Napster... Okay, let me try to explain a few things to you kids: Metallica was a rather popular "heavy" metal band, especially at that time. A band is a group of people that play instruments to make music. Napster was one of the originators in peer-to-peer (p2p) file transfe...
Seeding will consume a portion of your upload bandwidth (speedtest.net will test your connection speeds), but it is usually not enough to interrupt most online activities. Regardless if you seed or not you are still visible to the swarm and your BT client is announcing what has been downloaded and what it needs to do...
I'm fourteen, had a Cholesteatoma since I was five, until it was removed when I was eleven? Anyways, I've had seven operations to remove the bastard and it was cleared For now last year. I tried the Cros and absolutely HATED it. So, since I have basically nothing but an 1/8 inch space between my inner ear and my brai...
I'm fourteen, had a Cholesteatoma since I was five, until it was removed when I was eleven? Anyways, I've had seven operations to remove the bastard and it was cleared For now last year. I tried the Cros and absolutely HATED it. So, since I have basically nothing but an 1/8 inch space between my inner ear and my brain,...
I hate to rip /r/technology but this is getting ridiculous. If samsung were in this position, people would be up in arms about how bullshit it is. But it's Apple. This happened with the major patent litigation. A majority /r/technology redditors were outraged at the series of patent wins by Apple. At the same time, the...
I previously never took the time to look up the original statement, but damn. It's not even really on the front page and can only found as a link hidden in the footer of the UK site. It's also [ the most blatantly spun, douchey-sounding statement in the history of business (read it here) ]( No wonder they want a re-wri...
lmao, i never called apple evil (matter of fact I said apple 0 times). i fully respect their right to control their platform. their tight controll has done them well 99% of the time. I think we can both agree that letting google maps sit in the queue to be approved for the new iOS was the other 1% though. Even though a...
You people are fucking sheep. I submitted this article as a joke to see if it would get upvoted by the "OMG OMG OMG THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT PIRACY IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!1!1!" hivemind. Looks like I was right. Honestly, this isn't a big deal at all. It will only affect a small portion of people who are d...
RES tagged as "doesn't read article, criticizes reporting."
On Telsa's [blog release]( Musk brings to light "our highest per capita sales are in Norway, where customers drive our cars during Arctic winters in permanent midnight, and in Switzerland, high among the snowy Alps. About half of all Tesla Roadster and Model S customers drive in temperatures well below freezing in wint...
You're right that for the fastest possible 0-30 time the grip will dominate. You're also right that power is what you want for acceleration. What I'm trying to say is that most people are just judging the car on how much "pick up" it has. When they push the throttle, does it jump forward? They probably won't break th...
Now if they just let me "clear recent viewing history". I still don't understand their reluctance to add such a simple feature. They can still keep the data for themselves, just remove it from my personal viewing list. No need for my kids to see a list of movies mom and dad watched. I've seen a very well-written and ...
the argument that monsanto is making is that they own the rights to the seed, which cannot be grown and re-seeded without paying royalties. obviously re-seeding is natural in farming, but they're arguing that since they developed the GM seed they own it and its progeny. i doubt that 2nd gen issues like seed will get ...
I've have extensive experience and knowledge of this particular case and I think the media and Reddit oversimplified the issue here. I think the supreme court got this right but NO ONE has spoken about the negatives. First, what the court ruled was that there was no importation bar to things that were lawfully purch...
DMCA anti-circumvention still applies. You can dispose of your stuff however you want (sell it, rent it, paint it orange and call it art, etc.), but you still can't copy it or circumvent DRM.
I'm sorry to have offended you, but you said something that an English learner might say after reading or hearing the phrase and not having developed a thorough understanding of how it's normally used. Also I live in a country with more English learners than there are native speakers in America, so I guess I'm hyper-a...
You do know that vitamin A is made from a gene right? If you put that gene in ANY organism in the right position (so it's not being interfered by other genes or other forms of interference) And that's exactly what I'm saying. Vitamin A is made by a gene JUST LIKE what they spliced into the crops. As a biology major...
You don't need one to install the update. You need one for any other app tho. I just tested cause I've never used the store till now. Edit: Once it installed, there was a page where it had me log into my desktop account, then it was all "sign into a microsoft account" and I was like fuck that. But there was no way I ...
I should probably mention I'm an IT guy, I do training sessions and some of the minor ones I do are Windows 8 enterprise client. I'll offer you my best explanation, but take it with a grain of salt because I'm merely a MCT and not a MSFT employee. .iso's ARE available for the 8.1 preview, mostly because they are rap...
I will take away your doubt. Yes, HTTPS ensures end to end encryption. No man in the middle (like ISP, sea cable hackers, local wifi god) can read or modify the data-stream. The only thing the man in the middle can do is disrupt the data-stream (making the website unavailable). Regarding Whiterhino123 question about ...
Points" equals more fans equals higher in the page view listing. I've worked at multiple fortune 500 companies where $50 is pissing money. Shit, as an intern I ordered a couple hundred dollars of equipment. We were shorted one, which I was irate about, but my superior told me to ignore it as the cost of labor to remedi...
I think it just needs more work. Atm glass looks like shit. If they managed to get it looking at least a bit like normal glasses, people would be more likely to wear them. The point is, after all, to make integration with the web less noticeable. Doen't help that you van see this beast from a mile away.
it isn't about selling the idea to the outside world. Google Glass is a flawed idea based on a terrible idea of how technology is used or works. Robert is a pitch perfect example of this wrong view of technology. Thinking that computers should replace interactions or ways of doing things. When you look at Apple and you...
I've had Glass for a couple months now . Before I got it, I was decidedly skeptical and thought it was an incredible waste of money and utterly useless. Now that I have it, despite the massive price tag, I love it. Here is the one thing that no-one in this thread seems to understand about the true purpose of Glass an...
A free server for 3 years... ok not bad. Upgraded to dual core with a couple gigs of ram with half the free allocated credits... fine. I guess it's neat if you are absolutely totally broke, but you it's too 'cloudy'. Their intent is to make it easy to use and readily scalable so that if your project starts to take ...
the squeaky wheel gets the grease Luke 18:2-5 “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. And there was a widow in that same town who kept coming to him and pleading for her rights, saying, ‘Help me against my opponent!’ For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he sa...
True that speed may not always be a factor but this is politics and all that's needed is a precedent. These big companies like Comcast don't like to lose money and if they control all the internet (or a big enough percentage as to make no difference), then do you think they'll let speeds get that high? Who would compet...
It'd be rather outrageous, but it changes nothing. It's not their business. I think that nowadays everyone should press RECORD on their phone the moment they face the situation like this one (phone from your ISP) and the operator should be asked for his named and informed that this whole discussion is recorded and wi...
So the rings themselves are not flexible from the description. Nylon will flex a bit but it wont stretch too much before breaking. The strong and flexible is the nylon plastic used in a process called SLS or Selective Laser Sinering. Think BIG LASER melting powdered nylon into a part. The Elasto Plastic seems simi...
I realize that, but coal infrastructure is already there, at this point the cost is in maintenance and fuel. I'm just saying it's too early to claim that this is the last improvement to solar that will make people buy so much more of it. Some places get up to 85% efficiency out of their heat capture process, using t...
It's not quite that. WiFi has 13 channels iirc in the United States. Only three of them are completely separated from each other. Thus, if you have more than three wireless sources, they WILL interfere with each other to some degree, even if they have different names. Because of this, all the other networks are taking ...
My stance is: A) I can only understand a company choosing to do this when their product can sustain the amount of people using it. Right now its like having 200 people trying to get on a bus that only has room for 100 and telling the other 100 to figure it out. So, if they offered solid wifi, I could understand purel...
It's like our government is a jealous paranoid ex-lover who obsessively checks the current SO's social media on the off chance that they'll catch them about to cheat. The reality is that even if Uncle Sam catches them, it's too late, the damage is done. Cheaters will cheat no matter how vigilant you are and someone som...
Does More; A) Runs more software. (ie: Their is more software available for PCs) B) Works with more hardware (ie: Hardware that I might like to use will not work with mac). C) Given any apple hardware spec, the same spec costs less from vendors other than Apple. Put another way (as I do above), If I spend $X...
Some facts: The software installed was Apple Remote Desktop, like windows remote desktop (several have noted that this was only alleged in a few articles and not proven. The exact software used is not confirmed) The student who was disciplined and photo'd was a laptop thief. The laptop was stolen and the owner ...
Actually, what you probably mean by "fully 'free' speech", as it is commonly understood in the US, cannot be allowed in Germany. The reason for this is simple, the reasoning behind it is a bit more complex. Article 1 of the Basic Law reads "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the d...
This is why I am afraid of Google. They act like a small friendly garage company not because they want to do you any good but because it serves their scope of business. They employ people that tell them how to keep up this image. You hand them all your personal data and have a warm fuzzy feeling while doing it. Meanw...
95% of the people on facebook suck at life, let alone the internet. There the people who open "the blue e, thats the internet, right?" then type in the bing search engine that pops up "facebook" and click the first link. If someone posts a neat article on facebook and over takes the first spot, they complain about how ...
Yes, probably. However, I seriously doubt they are saving every retarded conversation. They probably could if they wanted to, but I'm sure that information disappears as soon as the user ends the conversation. Here's the deal. I understand that this seems like a slippery slope, but you have to look at facebook's inte...
These ideas would be revolutionary a few years ago. Now it just comes across as a mashup of the old digg, twitter and facebook. I think the biggest mistake digg made was forgetting it's raison d'etre. It was launched into popularity because it provided a technology savvy news niche. As more users joined, less of thes...
If you are going to be downvoted it's because you are wrong. First off, the poster is talking about HDMI cables where the article you reference compares the DAC jitter in toslink cables vs. coaxial cables. So either you're deliberately trying to confuse the issue or it was simply a case of you being so eager to link ...
240 watts into the ball. is what you mean :) 60 watt hours is 216 kilojoules. According to this that 25% of that energy goes towards charging the battery (only 50% of that 25% actually makes it into the battery, following silence7's numbers). 25% of 270 is 67.5 Joules/Beckham Kick. 216 000/67.5 = 3200 Beckham Kic...
I don't want any monopolies either, but you simply can't say that Apple has some monopolistic stranglehold on any market when in reality their install bases are currently smaller than competitors. What? Where did I do that? I simply would like that Apple is hold to the same standards as others. >Android has a highe...
Yea, I didnt know exactly where you were going with this until I read your
I own plenty of Apple stock and hate the company in and out. I boycott them and actively inform people of the problems with Apple and it's products. I'll just sell if things ever start to go pear shape. Until then, it is an excellent vehicle for making me money.
30% is extremely steep, I'm curious how this plays out. I could see probably a 10% to 15% "finders fee", but a third is just rediculous. I own a small ruby shop business and we give clients/people a 10-15% cut out of a project as a "finders fee." It's worth it to us because we didn't spend the time finding the client...
developers are free to make their own choices of where they develop, but they also need to make a living. …but don’t they choose to develop in the markets where they can best make a living? Isn’t that why there are so many iOS apps, and relatively few for BlackBerry? Where would be the fun in being ‘relevant’ in a ma...
RAIN DOWN THE VOTES! I read every criticism of Apple, and I believed them. Then I looked at what Apple was actually doing and realized you were all completely, and totally confused. That confusion is neither my fault nor Apple's. So when I see this criticism now, I think: well, you've been unambiguously WRONG on al...