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I've been on Linux for six years. I can't say I play every game out there, but I do get around. There's two kinds of games that cannot currently be played on Linux: The DX11-only games that don't have a DX9 fallback The ones with some very specific classes of DRM. These tend to be older games with DRM that does...
Right, because those 41 apps people have on their phone ALL happen to be in the top 100, and all happen to be in that 65 that happen to be on Windows Phone. Did it occur to you that maybe people have particular critical apps they have to be able to run? A quick example is that I run [Amion]( for work and while it's a...
I'm not somebody who uses a lot of big professional Windows (or mac)-exclusive programs such as Photoshop, and I don't play games. (A lot of these programs and games are made compatible under WINE, however!) I have a dated laptop, without much computing strength behind it. Windows was slow and it felt limited to me. ...
Antivirus is a joke in cases like this. Those programs work by an office catching samples of known malware and telling their software to look for evidence of those sampled viruses. If a malware program isn't widely distributed, it's likely not included in the anti virus protection. There are a few other thing antiv...
you can't really compare the cost of a basic cell phone that would have been offered to you at that time with a smartphone like Samsung or Apple can produce now. You just need to stop. In 2002, I paid about $400 for a Nokia 6590 which at the time was a middle of the road device (think Moto G). The Nokia 7650 sold f...
Neither I nor any other reasonable person can or should ever blame you for that sentiment. Honestly, I've become somewhat jaded having spent way too much time fighting this battle for other people, but I sincerely wish you the best of luck as long as you're not a dick about the whole thing. Just realize that the reps ...
All carriers, including Verizon, will handle a warranty claim on behalf of a customer. They mail out the replacement. They provide shipping materials to ship the old phone back. That way, the customer is never without a phone, and they don't have to deal with the OEM (which is stupid hard, especially with Samsung). The...
So my girlfriend has this on her Samsung phone , somehow she installed it or it was installed or whatever, she likely clicked yes to a bunch of crap I dunno. Anyhow one time she was modeling shit for me and I took some pictures of her doing so with her phone. A couple days later, she drops and breaks the phone and it's...
Honesty, I would say I'm a troll- whether a malicious troll or just a smart ass, idk and idc- and I still care a lot for others (usually feels like I care more for others than they do for me) and especially animals. I don't have a "need" or "willingness" to hurt others, enjoy others' suffering, etc. I have remorse, a c...
Does anyone else think that the government shouldn't really be the ones worrying about kids? Child porn is a horrendous thing and I agree it should be stopped and removed from the internet. Its when they mentioned removing extremist videos as well I felt like a boundary was being crossed. I honestly think that parents ...
Scale of attractiveness isn't the only thing to consider. Every person (not just the guys) I've seen pull above their weight have been socially awesome. Not alpha as fuck, just genuine fun to be around. They don't get worked up over little things. They don't judge people, unless in a joking way. And they don't mind bei...
Not sure about this. I believe many states do have laws in place making it illegal to sell restricted items, such as M rated video games to children. Edit: After looking it up, states do indeed have those laws but there is a precedence of the Supreme Court striking them down... sooo... There are/have been laws in pla...
Same deal here, but only two providers if you don't go wireless. I had Cc for years, and was pleased with it. Then I made the mistake of taking the bundle bait, and everything went to hell. My phone would stop working while TV and Internet seemed okay. Then, the Internet would drop leaving everything else intact. Then ...
Coding teaches you logic, and trains you to break down complex problems into smaller, discrete components that can be easily processed. Programming is like philosophy in this regard, and I strongly recommend that people try to learn a bit of both. Coding is a valuable professional skill. Even if you don't intend ...
You're ignoring the fact that between 1918 and now, there was a huge trough in corn acreage. In the 2000s, corn acreage reached levels not seen since the 1930s in the US. So yes, we are planting the same amount as in the 40s, but we haven't planted that much corn in 60 years. You could establish a relationship between ...
This article is quite nearsighted. Ethanol biofuel was never touted as the end solution. It was just the tip of the biofuels wedge being driven into a tough to budge fuels market. Ethanol was exceedingly eat to produce via fermentation thus it was the first biofuel to go mainstream. Technologies to transform cellulose ...
No, Netflix isn't complaining about, or paying for, the difference between up and down bandwidth at all. They are complaining because normal web traffic (not Netflix) isn't nearly so "heavy" on the downward side. All that streaming is LOTS more data to flow, and that's what they pay for - total data. There's always an ...
Analogies are useful to draw comparisons and illustrate the ridiculousness of something for people not completely familiar with the intricacies of that something. Some people might think it's perfectly reasonable for Google to have to remove undesirable search results... but ask those same people if Ford should come ...
I do not agree with the logic they are presenting here. I did work for a company who freely gathers and re-publishes legal material such as opinions, orders and miscellaneous documents from courts all over the US, and we were asked on a constant basis to remove documents. Suppose you are sued... upon being sued, a ...
Tesla has already built and sold battery packs to Mercedes, Toyota and Freightliner (with the latter two being more permanent agreements,) so basing the projected sales on only Tesla's sales misses a significant part of the picture. Building the battery factory along with opening their patents hedges their bets. Even i...
If you want to know what went wrong in the development of the F-35 watch the HBO movie [The Pentagon Wars]( It's a dark comedy that shows the problems with the bureaucracy in military design. While it's old and deals specifically with the Bradly Fighting Vehicle, the issues pointed out in that movie translate well to...
I know people here are joking but if/when strong AI does come I have no doubt it will be at Google. Current trends in AI point to being able to do amazing things as long as you have enough data. Google have acquired vast vast quantities on data from voice search tied to clicked meanings to image search terms tied to pa...
That's an excellent question, I've been pondering that today, after all, even Apple has had to kow-tow to AT&T on certain things. Then again, they are bound to 1 carrier, so their fates are tied. It's possible that Google is taking a very well calculated risk here, on groundwork laid by the iPhone. Google's thinking ...
THAT is the question. I know Sprint corporate doesn't want people to keep this plan. I've had people call me from Sprint a couple times and tell me they have to ask me some questions. "Sir, are you a Sprint employee?" At which point I promptly hung up the phone. This was about two months before my 2 year contract ...
You said "no one's scared of Msft anymore" If I can show that some subset of people are scared of MS, then I will have disproved your initial statement. You seemed to concede that reddit is scared of MSFT. If I show that reddit is a subset of "everyone" then someone is scared of MSFT and your assertion is false. It d...
I don't know why you were downvoted. I have been using chrome since the early beta and am on the dev-channel build so I always have the bleeding edge version. I agree in its early days, chrome was wayy better than firefox or any other browser out there. But lately since the 3.6 release of firefox I find myself going ba...
Tell me about it. I have been using Firefox for many years, and have been rather skeptical towards anything but that browser. Just yesterday I decided to introduce some change in my life by stripping my Firefox profile of extensions that might slow down startup time, but soon realized that such a task would take some t...
There are a few things that might be misconceptions from most people reading this. The person in question is a Staff Engineer which is just about the highest level of engineer. This isn't some random mid-level engineer, if this person went the normal management route they would probably be a VP of the company. They p...
I can tell you right now, html5 still doesn't do what it needs to to kill flash. A simple video tag is nice but can you easily do streaming video? Can you do streaming video that adjusts quality on the fly? Although flash isn't very good, there still isn't a proper rival. On mobile platforms, adobe is simply movin...
It's not really PureView. The whole point of PureView is to have a huge amount of MP (41), so when you downscale to standard resolution (8) it looks amazing. Unless you plan to take 1 MP pictures, 8 MP PureView is simply not going to do anything.
Java isn't "worthless" per say; I'm just an elitest fuckhead when it comes to coding. The main reason Java is bad and anyone who teaches it should feel bad: It's bloated as fuck. Java is horribly unoptimized and offers very little options in regards to memory management. Now, by itself, this isn't too bad. If you'r...
Technically the phone functionality is an app, so I'm pretty sure he has at least some core apps. I actually wouldn't miss the app ecosystem if I got a WP7 or BB10 phone, as long as the basics are there (email, browser, contacts, memo, weather, maps, messaging, soundhound, music, camera, flixster, calculator, dictionar...
Honestly, don't listen too carefully to him. Or do if you want, but also spend a lot of time reading and listening to other people and opinions. Learning Java is a huge asset mainly for the fact that it is still extremely relevant in the enterprise area. I can assure you that, given today's markey, you are more lik...
probably not as good thats exactly what matters. in fact its exactly how iphone beat android in many ways, simply by putting the finishing touches on an idea some android fan came up with. don't be mad that nokia is beating them at their apple at their own game.
If you can get anyone off the street to do the job, it's unskilled labor. They can't. If that was true, nobody at Foxconn would dare to strike. > And these companies do that by the tens of thousands drawing from a severely under-educated populace. Mostly true. The supply of cheap labor obviously is very high in C...
You got your source. Not our job to
Thank you for this reply. I was looking through all the posts and its like nobody even read the article. All I see are posts about suicide rates and pay rate. That isn't what the article is even about. It's about the employees not being trained correctly to do their job and having very high standards of the finish prod...
This is probably going to get buried as it is, but I should preface it by saying, as a developer, I do feel bad for those that lost their jobs. Now for the "mean" part. Employees in high stakes industries like game development need to keep their skills on point. Things are a' changin? You need to make sure you're o...
Actually, piracy does make a statement — it’s just the wrong statement. If you truly want to pressure content providers to adapt new distribution channels, and you’re not just trying to justify getting everything for free, piracy is hurting your cause. >Most geeks try to justify piracy because the content isn’t avail...
Let me break it down for you. The REAL ACTUAL issue is NOT that piracy is good/bad or is/isn't stealing (it isn't btw). The ISSUE is that the Internet has changed the COST of intangible goods. Art, software, whatever all had costs associated with their creation, replication, and distribution. Since the availability of ...
What I would like to see introduced would be "rent-to-own" kind of system implemented. Somewhat similar to what Adobe started doing with some of it's products. So assume the regular cost of the high-end software is like 500-700 dollars. You would have two options: The first would be the normal situation where you pay...
This is why downloading isn't really illegal in Canada - We've been paying for the ability through the added cost of writable/rewriteable media. Blank CDs, DVDs, flash memory, MP3 players, hard drives and more cost more in Canada with the idea that these extra monies will go to artists, etc to make up for anyone potent...
Movies, books and professional software are vastly different from each other. Movies: should cost money, yes, but should have MUCH better service at cinemas. Online movie downloads? Film companies, distributors and streaming services can't get their acts together. If a film is out in the US, its expected worldwide th...
I always avoided pirating of any kind, learned as much as others, in some ways maybe even more (like how to do the same in the same time with less comfortable software), and don't really regret not having pirated any of the shiny stuff. I never had any of the shiny stuff on any of my computers, and when I worked with i...
There are developer options and yes, this would be a brilliant addition. Manufacturers are still stuck in their "proprietary software being right" mindset, like Sony Ericsson's godawful old Xperia Mediascape (or whatever). They don't like you fiddling, even though those interfaces offer the manufacturer zero monetary...
This seems like suspect moral reasoning to me. There are many skills most people will likely never learn because of financial barriers. For example, I will likely never learn how to drive a formula 1 race car or a space shuttle (or whatever we eventually roll out to replace the shuttle). The fact that these skills have...
You act like this is some sort of unanswerable mythical paradox, whereby all inquiry should stop at the boundaries of your personal understanding of the topic; or lack thereof.
To all the people saying 8 cores are impractical, if you read the article, it says that 8 cores will not be active at once, and the processer will switch between quad core A15 for high end tasks and quad core A7 for low end tasks but never run them simultaneously.Think Big.LITTLE tech.The battery life will not suicide ...
The problem isn't if your email is hacked, it is if their site is hacked. Nobody gives a shit about your email. Taking time to hack one email in the hopes it is connected to a paypal account? No thanks. Taking time to hack a small website with 10000 emails and passwords? Yes please! If only 3% of those people have a pa...
Honestly though.. I like being able to see a whole season, I hate waiting a whole week for the next episode to come out. I lose interest in the show.. So far if I'm watching a show back to back it seems amazing, if I take a break from it for a couple of days and watch the next episode it seems like a below average sh...
I mean that for free, there is tonnes of awesome content offered, outside of Netflix. For example the latest episode of Top Gear was only first broadcasted 5 hours ago, on BBC 2. If you live in the UK, you can watch it for free, right now, online (I did about two hours ago). My point is that we produce a lot of goo...
They have 4 main TV stations; BBC One, for main shows, BBC 2, for alternative but popular stuff, BBC Three, for trash (like shows about celebrities who believe in UFOs), and BBC Four, for mature content, like documentories on science and history, or lectures on justice. Then they have BBC News 24, their news channel,...
The problem Netflix is trying to address is content. Currently, it has to purchase content from other providers. The problem is they purchase on a contract for a certain amount of years. Originally, the contracts were cheap, as content providers didn't consider it competition to their main delivery streams (i.e. TV ...
iTunes backup only restores standard features, you shouldn't have any significant problems restoring a jail broken phone. Lets say 4 months from now you want to sell your phone, just go to iTunes and restore, and it will be mostly back to normal. On occasion, there can be a rare instance where some 'left over' data...
You have to experiment. Some apps will crash each other for sure, especially with all these updates about to come out. When this happens springboard (basically your iPhone UI) will boot in 'safe mode' which disables jail-broken extensions. You can then go into cydia and uninstall the suspect packages. That being said...
Thought experiment: If I ran a newspaper and used an anonymous (or at most pseudonymous) form to accept columns, and printed them the next day without looking at them (this is how webforum software works) I would be liable for the copyright infringement if I published copies of Robert Frost's poems, or for libel for th...
Reading a text and believing it to be true by no means makes a person a blind follower. Taking the Bible as an example (since that's the holy text I am most familiar with), a holy text is a collection of stories, poetry, historical accounts, and idioms. The Quran would also include Hadiths, and I'm not sure about other...
Apparently you didn't read the title or even look at the link. A ton of people with no followers and nonsense tweets won.
By default, Model S charges to the STANDARD charge level, which provides the fastest charging time and maximizes the life of the Battery by charging it to less than its full capacity. To drive as far as possible, change the charge level to MAX RANGE. Although this setting charges the Battery to full capacity, using i...
Skype isn't a peer-to-peer protocol, the server is already maintaining the session. Of course the server holds both sets of keys used to maintain the encryption. Each session probably uses a standard session encryption protocol (HTTPS, SRTP, whatever). It's "end to end" because all endpoints are encrypted relative to t...
I think you are confusing PRISM with standard government user data requests. Google has never denied they did the latter. Now because PRISM has hid the news and Google has been accused of giving the NSA direct access to their data Google suddenly starts to be "open and honest" about the data requests and is asking th...
The author interchangeably using FTP and sFTP in the article really does underscore just how little she understands about the subject. This is also burying the needle on the bullshit detector since this is talking about (as has been previously noted by /u/Kalahan7) government user data requests, not PRISM. It's lik...
No, I don't doubt that the NSA (and every other intelligence agency in the world) saw the data harvesting opportunity that is Google and got an erection that nothing but unrestricted access to the servers would satiate, with the political response being "so long as you pinky swear to keep it super secret, we'll make it...
The leaked PRISM slides never say that it is anything different from these companies giving the NSA account data for users they receive a court order for.
Okay, let's just start by saying that this is an amazing product, it makes your TV a Smart TV, but this is not the point, the point is what Google plans to do with this device: So, suppose this becomes a thing, and a lot of people have them. They are happy, they watch youtube videos on their TV, and Netflix also. B...
I agree, but poor analogies never really help an explanation, and kind of piss me off, though they are good for making stupid people understand/nod their head once you break it down into something they can compare it to. Trying on clothes before buying is like watching a preview, not watching an entire movie. You ge...
Ok, well first off: stealing is taking anything without the owners explicit permission, so you are stealing since you are taking copyrighted property without permission from the copyright holder. Second, POTENTIAL REVENUE is sacrificed through piracy. Which means the time investment made by the artist and the capital...
If you are referring to Alexa.com rankings, those really aren't very accurate. They vastly over-represent the traffic of websites for tech-savvy crowds (and who is more tech-savvy than people who use torrents?), and vastly under-represent the traffic of any websites that draw a non-techy crowd. This occurs because they...
That something "special" is in the software. Specs and bigger screens don't mean jack without awesome software. Unfortunately, Samsung is a Korean company, and Koreans aren't exactly knowledgable in the software sector. Have you seen their websites? Its like geocities had sex with yahoo. In order to get that some...
small nutshell ]( I feel we're in agreement on a vast majority of the points being made but the conversation has strayed from the original discussion points. Perhaps this was my fault. Regardless this is what I was trying to say. Someone provided information on how to destroy your device. The information was prov...
Shit article. The only think this serves a commentary on, is that people are too fucking stupid to think for themselves. Just as bad, too lazy to check for a second source before acting. /b/'s header since forever: The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool wou...
It's best to stay away from mainstream subreddits or threads like this on those subreddits/threads on 4chan since they've mostly turned into /r/circlejerk 2.0s. Even though the mainstream/default ones have somewhat good posts, the lesser, sometimes unknown ones are my favs since they seem to stick more to the point and...
Let's say you have a PC at home, admin rights and all. You're logged in, look around on the web. >Wow, I can boost my computer performance by entering this in CMD!: C: cd windows del system32 -Removes System32 and bricks windows- I still can't see how you can blame Microsoft for entering those things in CMD, re...
Man, first they kill my mom's PC with that GTAV thing, and now the XBone that cost me three whole weeks of allowance? Whatta buncha assholes !"
I retweeted it before I had a chance to finish reading the story."
RSA is not officially an acronym but it is an initialism, whereby the definition of acronym is slowly evolving to include initialisms too. Therefore RSA is unofficially an acronym based on the pejorative definition of acronym.
I work at the Rat Shack, I'll find out what's going on at my location in about 45 minutes.... Their main problem is that their Advertising sucks. We got a very breif surge after the superbowl ad, but that faded fast. We are basicly under orders to pitch "Wireless" (aka Cell Phones) to everyone in the door, and are ...
As a previous worker at Radio Shack I would like to say that your feedback is very valuable to us, just as valuable as our 2 year replacement plan for $19.99 on select items. This replacement plan doesn't have any hoops to jump through just a quick bit of information and a purchase and if that product ever breaks on yo...
I completely agree. I actually remember the exact moment I decided I would never shop there again. Years ago - I'd guess 1997 or so, I bought a couple of short TOSLink . Generic Radio Shack brand 5 foot cables cost me something like $6-$8. A few years later (circa 1999-2000, not precisely sure) I returned to b...
I hadn't really been to the local Radio Shack for years due to these typical stereotypes which were clearly present at the store the previous times I had gone. So I was cleaning the GPU on my video card and needed some Thermal Paste for the heat sink and I was totally expecting a blank stare from the girl behind the c...
twenty minutes to buy a cell phone... Maybe at walmart, usually there is a monster amount of time involved, there are credit checks, there are calls to the carrier for weird reasons, you have to transfer contacts from some antique pos, not to mention the sale itself.
I worked at RadioShack for years and I have to defend some of the salespeople who work there because there are some people who still enjoy the electronics and I can tell you, it sucks for them too. Sales for EACH employee are tracked, they have to login to use the cashier. It tracks a daily, weekly and monthly record...
I worked at CC 2002-2005, was only on commission for maybe 6 months while I was there. Worked at Fry's for about a year after that, who still has commissioned sales people. Both places I worked in PC sales, PDAs/cell phones, and every now and then would cover for someone in TVs/Camcorders/Cameras, so basically everywhe...
You have failed to take into account the reality of the whole situation that has led to the current paradigms within gaming. DirectX was perpetuated mostly because Microsoft Windows was the choice platform due to ease of use. Linux and Mac are capable of being gaming platforms as well, but often lack the game choic...
the issue is the cost of the DMR and the inconvenience you pose to already paying customers. some people steal that is a fact of life. anyone that tries to totally prevent anything from being stolen is going to waist a large amount of time/ money and piss off their paying customers. at some point it becomes cheaper t...
As a side note: I bought 10-dollar software in a used bookstore designed for windows 95/98. It runs on my windows 8 pc (although it crashes occasionally, but it is to be expected...), although I had to cheat a bit with the executable because the installer was 16 bit, and I run 64.
Haha yah I was about to make one-but I figured I had better check every single comment first, because it would just be impossible that someone hadn't already done it.
That having a refresh rate of 240fps isn't useful and that through other technologies (eye tracking?) you could probably lower the processing requirements and attain better video quality.
As a guy on other side of world any
I'm not sure google is the good guy. I love the company, and yes, they are forcing ISP's to become more competative by setting up shop with fiber optics in multiple cities. That's great! But they're buying up a lot of technology, applications, and services. What keeps them honest when they have no competition of their ...
Well i can only assume that the rest of the world would see it as America trying to cover up all the misdeeds that they have been doing to the rest of us by killing him. Also, it reminds me heavily of how WWI started. Sure he's not a duke, like Franz Ferdinand was, but he get's just about as much attention as him, and ...
I understand the point you're trying to make being that my professional background is in network security and pretty much feel the same way too, but I'm curious as to what you'd describe the DoS as? Just a net attack? While it isn't gaining access through a backdoor or installing some kind of script, it is utilizing ...
I have them, and their network is super reliable in areas that have been expanded to HSPA+42 or LTE . Areas still running HSPA+21 tend to suffer from saturation issues during the day, but it's still usable as long as you aren't trying to stream Spotify on Extreme Quality. Less than HSPA (which includes UMTS (displays ...
I picked up a T-Mobile phone to test out with my end users at work since their pricing was so much better and they offer unlimited talk, text and web. We currently use AT&T and our international charges are outrageous [(check out their latest rates)]( so I picked up a T-Mobile phone to test out their international data...
Woot lost all of the appeal that made it what it was. It once sold unwanted semi-obscure products at dirt cheap prices. Now it sells common items at sale prices or refurbished items at refurbished item prices. I think all successful businesses do this over time. Zappos sells fucking knives and everything else. Overstoc...
It's a risk free way to not only test the market to see if your idea is viable, but to also infuse it with capital. It eliminates the need for a loan, which cuts out the blood sucking middle - man banks, and passes on fewer costs to the consumer. It's a win-win. Anyone who complains about kickstarter is an idiot. It...
I actually dont mind too much. Of course many companies/groups have and can abuse the system and people will back things unnecessarily, but the lack of equity sometimes is a worthy sacrafice to these small time backers who in return get to have a thing they want to actually exist. For many of these projects the idea th...
Well that's not necessarily true. It depends on the business. I have a well to do friend who started a company with his brother. They made a kickstarter and raised hella money, but he still throws in 5 figures a month because kickstarter won't cover all their costs... (They deal in textiles though so there's actual ...
Because it is misleading. The research talked about it as a technical "back door" (has always written it like that, too). He never said it was an NSA backdoor or anything like that. Just that Apple left a "back door/door in the back" in its system, to do certain things (like say for enterprise customers), and that it...
Okay, that's fine. Let's look at "the system" first then. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and research, as a researcher at Harvard, Aaron had the rights to access JSTOR. As a guest at MIT he also was on a network which had the rights (MIT allows access to it's openCampus members). That's pretty si...