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It will take some time for manufacturers, the NEC and local codes to get up to speed before you see this widespread. Many home safety devices would have to come to market. Currently, GFCI outlets are required in bathrooms. AFCI is required in some jurisdiction in bedrooms. Low voltage DC (<30V) would be more prac...
My biggest problem with this process is that companies will fiddle with the nature composition of meat to make it "healthier" (more profitable for themselves). I've already heard people developing this technology talk about modifying meat to have less saturated fat and cholesterol, but the problem is we now have new ...
The problem with Google's solution is that their settlement prevents ANYONE ELSE from doing the same. Timeline: There are (were) many such projects scanning out-of-print works. Google continued, others stopped after legal threats. Google negotiated (or, used it's legal migth to force) a settlement that permits go...
This is cool and all, but I'm reminded of a few companies that came up with this idea as well and went belly-up during the crash. The main one I think of is [SiCortex]( These guys could cram 5,832 cores into a 20kW power window when the system was fully-loaded. Also, they had a crazy low-latency interconnect that helpe...
It's sensible, but not for all server applications. Performance per watt depends on the computer and the workload. It's not apparent from the SPECint benchmarks they mention in the article, but chips like Atom are better than beefy server chips for some server workloads, and worse for others, when measuring performan...
WARNGING: WALL OF TEXT EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED Well one day I checked my bank account online and notice there was a $700($700.00 exactly) charge from paypal on my debit card. I called my bank to cancel my debit card and they told me to try to contact Paypal and see if they can reverse the charge. I tried to call Pay...
No, he said apple's primary FUNCTION is marketing. They don't build the devices, they barely design anything of it and if you look at their numbers then they do indeed spend most of their money, by far, on marketing.
OK, full Blue-Ray is 50 GB per disk, so you'd be limited to 20 full length features per month at 1TB, assuming no further compression. That's still a lot. But the key question is not 'can I fill all my waking hours with Blue-Ray HD given my bandwidth?' but is 'will cable TV be able to offer anything better than broa...
Seems a bit guff to me. Actually, a lot of guff. >1. Integration with Google Services So what? It's not like my Mum, or the majority of non-IT-aware FB users, are going to jump ship for stuff they don't use. If it had been around when FB first got going, then maybe - how 'silly' it may seem jumping out to go to FB ...
Doesn't surprise me that much. SSD and SAS drives are both several times the cost-per-gig. But you can't just nip down to your local branch of PC World to fill it up with drives; you need to use officially certified drives or that fancy maintenance contract your paying for isn't worth the paper it's written on. So yo...
Hey no sweat, and I have thick skin :) For sure we have our issues - and our sales tactics have historically been pretty Iron Fisted (and somewhat duplicitous). We are really making steps in the right direction, however. Your Centera story doesn't make sense though... Centera can't even be used for tier one storage...
As a Senior storage admin, I think you are given some false information. First, 100TB of SAN doesn't cost 1m unless you have all SSDs or cache. With a SAN like that you don't need to upgrade on a yearly bassis. If your existing SAN already had 2ms latency than there was no reason to upgrade. Your pinky comment doesnt...
On your lawn for a mo, just to say that I'm not confident we'll see the same explosion through to terabyte storage that we did through KB>MB>GB. There are a number of reasons why I believe this is so, but it boils down to there being an equilibrium between how much volatile/nonvolatile storage is required to achieve ...
I think we all agree that the industry needs to change, the MPAA and RIAA are clinging to an outdated model, the movies are too highly priced, etc. Now, along with (seemingly) most other people, I don't think this is morally right for me to do, and maybe in a sense it is stealing, but I have a personal example that mig...
If you write a book, yes that book is your property. If you print 10,000 copies those copies are your property. Those are physical objects, the books themselves. If somebody were to want a book it's fair to charge $10. But ideas arent property anymore than corporations are people. It's a legal fiction that is a real-...
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Yes, I am really hoping to bring these to my enterprise. I've had so many users clamoring for tablets but trying to get an iPad to work in a corporate network is just a nightmare. 802.1x wifi is hit and miss, Apple had it working, then it stopped working in iOS 4.4 and didn't get completely fixed until 5.1.1! That w...
DON'T CLICK IT. You won't be able to hit the back button. I hate when sites operate like this.
Throughput capabilities on a per port basis. When running 1 Gbps full duplex on an ethernet port, you are pushing 2 Gbps of data (max) between the client and the switch. The switch has a controller that integrates one, some, or all of the ethernet ports. This controller has a maximum amount of data it can simultaneou...
What a troll article. You'd be singing a different tune if it was your company they attacked or if you were the sysadmin team responsible for cleaning it up. I'm sick of the idea that nothing on the internet matters and this "nerd stuff" is meaningless bits and bytes. No its affects real people and victimizes people. ...
I guess it's for the sake of fashion, appealing to the current trend. Internet crimes are new, interesting, and a majority of people are reading up on them, discussing them etc- if the police crack down on that, it would deter the public from getting involved. Because it's so trendy, the media will pick up and discus...
Lots of negativity in this thread. Let me tell my story. I live in a Comcast monopoly area. The only other cable provider is licencing use from Comcast and they have a ridiculous data cap. DSL exists but it's a fraction of the speed of Comcast for roughly the same price after I'm paying for a phone line, and it also ...
Google did this really shitty thing where they paired GMail with G+. If you sign up for a new gmail account right now, it auto-creates a g+ account for you that is defaulted to somewhat public access. It lets people search for you by default, for one. People may not realize this if they're not paying attention to it....
Facebook is valued at $67.8billion]( At its low when the stock tumbled it was around $40 billion. The $100 Billion number is just something to build hype for its going public. [It was EXPECTED by some firms to rise to being valued at $100 billion when it went public]( but obviously it didn't do that. The stock fell, an...
How does changing your OS or browser somehow help with internet snooping? Edit: actually, that site is mainly bullshit. Bitcoin can really barely be used for anything but drugs, and to say you can replace paypal with bitcoin is BS. The same goes for many things on that list. It tells you to stop using ios altogether...
I will do my best to explain it, I am by no means an expert so take my explanation as a lay man's understanding. The title of this post "Facebook blocks log in by tor, leaving thousands of activists at risk" is best explained in two parts, first with an explanation of what tor is, and secondly, how it relates to acti...
Let me teach you something, little grasshopper. The tactics neckbeards use to criticize Microsoft are very predictable once you learn them. What we see here is a classic "standards attack": In the case where MS ignores or doesn't adopt some technology that is increasingly important (such as 3D printing), then Micr...
The big battery use on my laptop is the screen, just like my phone. I have an i7 3517U which is Ivy Bridge so already a generation old. I can switch the screen off and leave music playing and the battery consumption is tiny. The only way I can see Broadwell increasing battery life by 30% is if you are gaming on battery...
You do understand the reason for this right? It's not that they want to steal your work, but they need to protect themselves from abuse from customers. If I create a nice little game with the web designer, and publish it through the platform (which I have to, because back-end technology is not open) I can claim Googl...
You didn't read the article, did you? It's for shooting down mortars and drones. Damn thing's too big to cart around on convoys. As is, it looks to be used for base defense - although if they could shrink it a bit, I could see it being useful in clearing minefields, IEDs, and other unexploded ordinance.
Business class gets you no better support. I had Comcast business (at my business) for over two years. During that time there were several week+ long issues (10 kilobit downstream, 30% packet loss, etc) where support was no help at all. The only thing I ever got out of support was scheduling a technician visit, even...
I am well aware at the problems with my internet connection. I pay Comcast 75 dollars a month for internet only. The nature of the contract is that I have to give them money and they can provide me with whatever speeds they like. Any speed mentioned is never promised. There is no way to reach anyone who is able to he...
So, I've been working for a small ISP for 5 years, and I can tell you about a lot of fun things. Some of time, it IS the ISP that does the screwing over with absurd taxes and fees that DON'T have to be there, but are there to try to inflate profits (Evenlink, Strato.net, PAOnline, Safe-t.net). A lot of the other on...
HAH! I currently have satellite internet, living out in the middle of nowhere. It is some of the worst internet I have ever had. I got Hughesnet back when it was just starting out. I paid $500+ for installation and equipment (which is now offered for free) and $70+ a month. At first it was... okay . It was the only o...
This is how our society is already structured, you just require a bunch of loopholes to receive welfare. It would actually be cheaper to institute mincome, because you wouldn't need any bureaucracy to maintain the same level of welfare. Most people wouldn't be satisfied with mincomes, so they would get a real job. The ...
You wrote lots of words yet didn't actually respond to any of the points I made, misrepresented my position, and don't even seem to understand several important concepts. > Why did you respond at all? It's not as if the few points you made are very good, either. You have either failed to understand most of the things I...
In all actuality, if homosexuality is not a choice, as we better understand its genetic and epigenetic basis, someday we will probably have the ability to choose if someone is homosexual or not. When such a day comes, the people siring offspring will probably choose to have children like themselves. In this eventuality...
Disclaimer: I am an atheist who supports gay marriage, and has never donated to any cause which might come back to bite me. To the extent I have a dog in this fight, it's not on Eich's side. With that out of the way... I think this is just begging the question. If not for political correctness, why would Eich'...
Decentralizing the storage of cloud data has a number of advantages and disadvantages. In order for continual access, it requires a greater degree of duplication of data. The purpose of this of course is for access - if any system goes offline with all or a portion of a piece of data, you require duplicate sources in...
Best we have at the moment for decentralizing everything is CJDNS project. Until Google Fiber (Gigabit internet without cap) is everywhere, it is going to be difficult to make decentralization widespread, but the tool is already there to use publicly. CJDNS should be a go-to tool for this, because it is like a VPN, b...
We'll see how fast this disappears when the cpc gets the boot. I'm guessing not very, you know why? Because politicians are greedy fuckers that do exactly what they're told to do. Yes there are exceptions but it's becoming more difficult to find them through all of the shit standing in their way. Until we change our ...
What the article fails to point out is that it does not say that an organization can request your personal data if the organization has reasonable suspicion that you are breaking a law or about to break a law. What it does say is that the ISP can willingly give up data if the ISP has reasonable suspicion you have brok...
This type of proposed legislation is atypical for Canada. We are a bastion for privacy, and the courts consistently reinforce that point. The article itself recognises that. Harper and his cabinet have pushed a lot of sketchy laws through. In the past year, he has been shut down by the Supreme Court on game-ch...
Wow. You speak "editorially" and I'm suppose to not take you literally, yet you tagged on my edited out "majority" and ran with it like a puppy hell bent on destroying something. No, I'm not upset with you or anyone. I'm just calling out your bullshit about the expectation of implicit privacy once you set foot outsid...
Renderman, as a stand-alone rendering software, doesn't offer much in terms of support for newcomers who aren't willing to spend the time and effort to learn it. It's integration in 3d softwares (3dmax, maya, cinema 4d, softimage... etc. ) usually lacks intuitive usability and requires above average software scripting ...
It would have to know from where the waves or originating from though. Imagine points A, B, C in order. If a quake happens in the middle of A and B, A and B wouldn't be able to warn each other, although C would be warned. Or if it happend just to "the right of B. B would feel it a few seconds later, but it wouldn't k...
Just a quick list for any other californian's that want to know exactly which of our reps voted for this nice bill. I looked over the results of the vote just out of curiosity and was actually somewhat surprised. Sorry for the wall of text in advanced
Try not to target the reps. It's most likely not their fault. I previously worked in sales, as well as retention, for TWC (yes, it's a horrible company) like 2 years ago. I can tell you that there's a very high chance the issue was technical. The software we used for TWC was terrible. It looked like it came straight ...
Which rarely happens. What you free marketers don't understand is that non-competition is profitable for all companies. Only the little guys can compete, but they usually don't because it's too expensive for them because of fiscal problems within the US taxation scheme etc etc. Giant companies who are already top 5 are...
I develop websites, and am very competent with the standards and technologies used to do so. Indeed. However, you have a very short-term, parochial, non-socially-conscious attitude to the technology, and little feeling for the long-term consequences of such a technological decision. Even from the point of view of ...
Well I didn't mention that they set up a startup script to automatically update my work's internet proxy address in IE only . So I could use chrome if I wanted to manually type this shit in everytime I booted up...
So why don't you just leave? If you never come back to reddit won't it be the same thing? As a bonus, all these people you don't seem to like will stay behind instead of following you to whatever trendy new site you decide to join so you can still feel superior.
I was thinking they could target users based on upvote history. Nice, but probably much harder than it looks. A given user may upvote stories and comments with the word ‘Mac’ in. Or ‘Conan.’ Or ‘Ron Paul.‘ Has that told you whether they’re pro- or anti? Looks like an awful lot of conditioning and analysis. Still, so...
What I don't get is that people are happy to fling money at Reddit and talk about how they're supporting this thing that they like, etc., without realizing that they have NO assurances from anyone at Reddit that this money will stay with Reddit, that a certain amount of $$ means Reddit stays open, or that Conde won't j...
They changed the way you receive content to be focused on who it came from instead of what it was about. You're pretty much forced to subscribe to individual submitters feeds now for most of the sites features to be of any use. Many of the submitters are the content producers themselves and the system is built such t...
an example to reddit of what I - a digger - do for reddit Seriously? No one gives a shit that you came from digg. You sound like a douche when you look down your nose and say "here are all the great things I do, and I'm not even one of you! " There is no rivalry anymore, and there hardly was even when digg was a ...
The question is what are we trying to prevent? Are we trying to prevent people who have access to our physical wallet who also possess the knowledge and incentive to subsequently use a educated brute force attack our passwords out site by site, or are we trying to prevent someone across the ether from using educated b...
In a typical union contract, management will be required to give employees a chance to correct issues, and may be required to provide training if the position changes or if the employee otherwise is found lacking the necessary skills. If the employee then fails to meet the set-upon goals, he or she can then be terminat...
I had it once on my old computer, I waited half a year before doing anything about it, the computer was slow as hell anyway and having the virus stop all the processes that were normally going on gave me the illusion that it was actually making my PC faster, so I let it be. It blocked Internet Explorer but not Firefox,...
I really like my Grado SR225's, crystal clear, can focus in on any part of a good recording. They are even better when hooked up to my portable headphone amp. That said, I actually prefer to listen to lower quality songs on my speakers, the clarity in the grado's lets me really hear everything in the song... includin...
He's definitely a good guy. My fiancée and I have been big fans since he was doing Lucky Louie , and we saw he was doing a small show in Newport RI a couple years ago. It was on the 4th of July so the place was maybe half full, really weird considering he was already taking off by this point. The venue was a small yac...
The patent system was meant to spur innovation, and for a while it did that job very well. It's not working anymore. All the patent system does now is spur legal fees, and I'm tired of it. When Apple and Samsung sue each other into oblivion, the only people who will be hurt are the folks who love their new kickass ph...
I had this image as the final slide on my senior presentation for my finance degree. Nobody got it and nobody was amused. It's pretty much was business/finance is, really. You learn some of the things corporations/people do with our tax code and this image is the definitive representation of it. That and my compute...
Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed from that video. They're acting like for the first time in human history that our interests are being controlled by our search results. I hate to break it to you, but from the clothes we where, to the music we hear, to the movies we watch, are all being controlled. Now that sounds a b...
Disagreement is not the issue. The bias, however is. >But it didn’t take me a week and a half to decide whether the Surface is better than the iPad. At most it took a couple days, and that’s being generous. The author, Farhad, has made up their mind in a couple of days on a new product by comparing it to a product ...
Someone already made this point. But he was just saying, the Media would have been up in arms over Romney for doing this. As someone that was VERY active politically during the Bush years, it was pretty much Armageddon against Bush, anytime he did something awful. Media would go crazy over it. Left leaning people would...
I had a great VAR; Canada Computers. I spent around $15,000 at their store over the last 2-3 years. Then I bought a new Asus X58 motherboard to replace one that died after a couple years, but the RAM slots were DOA when I installed it! It happens...not a big deal, I'll return it next week when I've got some time...me...
I understand what you're saying, but I work for a consulting system integrator. A retailer is not a VAR. A VAR adds value to computer hardware by integrating it with their system or customizing it for an industry. Take a cash register, for example. The same cash register might be used in a grocery store, a clothing sto...
can we the whooshing curious get some
However once the ball was rolling it probably couldn't be stopped all that easily. A speech along the following lines would easily clean it up: I, believe this lawsuit to be ill advised. It neglects how Apple came about. It ignores the reality that no idea or concept is created in a vacuum. The Samsung devices clea...
The spec is the spec. The laser simply will not pull data off the disk at faster that 46 (not 48, due to slop)Mbps. The tool he's using is giving him a estimate, not an actual, and it apparently has 2 or more points of inaccuracy. >You CAN encode video at a higher bitrate to Blu-Ray, but it won't play (in a standard ...
He's speaking the truth. The most Internet 99% of users will need is enough to stream HD video and play video games. 30 Mbps is much more than enough to do this. Only 1% of users, of which a large number are represented here, routinely download large amounts of data and would pay extra for extremely fast Internet spe...
I have Comcast in Minneapolis. After it was set-up, I haven't had any problems and find it to be quite fast. I would like a lower price ($80 for basic channels and internet), but I think everyone always wants that. However, getting it set-up was a living nightmare. My roommate and I had to go wait for 2 hours to pick...
I have a supposed 20 Mbps download from TWC, but my roommates and I notice the throttle very often. Any YouTube videos are throttled, as well as every so often at some peak internet times. Any speed test with a TWC server comes up much higher than with any other server (at my old place we were getting about 0.2 MB do...
Oddly enough, I have AT&T for television and Charter for internet. Never had a problem with Charter. Well, except for the one time they sent my dad a letter because he wasn't being careful enough with his torrenting.
It's hard for me to get my head around how ISPs are allowed to hold back such an important market in one of the worlds most developed countries. I pay 900 roubles (about 30 usd) per month for my optic fiber connection in Russia, and have a varying speed cap. 50 Mb down/up daytime, while from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. the cap...
I'm going to take this time to tell a story, and forgive any mistakes, this is from my phone. So I live in a small town in Pennsylvania that at one point had steam heat that ran to all the downtown buildings from a steam plant. Eventually this goes out of business and the building sits empty (1960's). Years later (...
No, they just wanna keep telling people this so that there's no demand for them to spend money to allow for this kind of connection. I sure as hell demand it! The initial service costs will be expensive, but as they regain the money spent on supplying the equipment the price will lower. Just gotta convince them to unde...
It's funny because in Florida, the car accident state, the rear driver in a car accident is presumed negligent. Not only that, but slamming on your brakes for a yellow light, just to avoid a red light ticket (like people always do), still places the fault on the rear driver. So now approaching a traffic light becomes a...
Lol you've made it abundantly clear that you have no idea what "margin of error" means. Almost no one can tell the difference on their speedometer between 55mph and 56mph unless they have a digital one, and even if they could/did, the car may not even be accurately reporting it with that kind of accuracy.
It is a scam the motorist cannot win." They could win by going the speed limit... Edit: I admit I'm probably a little biased, since a friend of mine was killed by a speeding driver (going just 40 in a 30 zone), and as a result I am vehemently against speeding in any form but, while I agree that private companies sh...
You fail to realize that media companies don't exist to entertain you and tell you want you want to hear. That's just what they want you to believe. They exist to tell you what they want you to hear. Don't ever forget that. How the media portrays these events has little to no bearing on the story itself and the sto...
Prescient president / general: "We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty can prosper together." Eisenhower's final message as pres...
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So let me get this straight: 1) Your purchase decision for one of the most expensive tablets on the market was a YouTube app. You never considered buying a Nexus tablet instead...you know, a Google product like YouTube? Or any other cheap Android tablet since you had such a small tablet need? 2) AppleCare+ is one o...
Absolutely, I was thinking more in the line of project-based work. As for IT, I can provide first-hand experience that it's not really all that necessary to always be there, so many things can be automated or done remotely. It naturally helps and is useful when things come tumbling down, but in general, many jobs could...
Windows XP was the current version of Windows for 5 years. Snow Leopard was current for less than 2. I'm sure MS would have preferred to end LTS for XP a lot sooner, but since they waited so long to put Vista on the market, XP became so entrenched in so many areas that Redmond has essentially been forced to continue su...
Even if it is free, you still have to devote time doing it and there are always going to be issues. You have to back all of your files up, delete everything, install the new OS, and then spend hours with tech support because the program that you want to use won't work unless you manually tweak your computer options. ...
what op and everyone here fails to see is that apple is in it for the quick cash grab. they dont give a shit about their customers aka fanboys who made them rich. yeah that's right you apple fanboys will literally swallow anything apple dishes out so until you stop being such imbecile hipster fanboys shit like this w...
Not sure the downvotes. Is this just emotional brand attachment? I'm in graphic design and am like an atheist in the bible belt in terms of colleagues and Macs. I've abandoned the platform and have been fine with Windows 7. I like Macs but the cost and lack of upgradeability led me to move on. There's a few OSX thing...
It should also be noted that for long periods of time, the follow up OS's to XP were horrendous. People consistently downgraded back to XP or refused to update past it because of the problems that came with it until they finally made a decent OS with Windows 7. Which, is basically Windows Vista with UI tweaks and a lau...
Things are getting to smell pretty fishy around here. Have you heard of [Antique Jetpack]( Antique Jetpack is a marketing firm that we only know about because of the Stratfor leaks. It's run by Alexis Ohanian and Erik Martin. Ohanian is a co-founder of reddit, and Martin is reddit's General Manager. Until about ...
Sorry but your reasoning here is super thin, and I do not like how you intentionally use langugage to make him (one of the most important people when it came to stopping SOPA) sound bad. Your post is classical conspiracy theory without any evidence and I am appaled that it got voted so high. >he runs a PR firm we wer...
A Co-Founder of the largest social interaction website founding a marketing PR firm is VERY SUSPECT first of all let me correct the above statement a bit >>A Co-Founder of the largest social interaction website which he sold years ago founding a marketing PR firm Someone who is a sought-after public speaker and...
I wonder what the efficiency of internal combustion engines was when they were barely a prototype... Though I do know, that with a century of common use we've gotten some of them up to 60%.
I worked for a third-party callcenter that did outbound promotional calling on behalf of directv to current customers. one of the promotions we were pushing while I worked there was just to people on "expired" grandfathered packages that directv didn't want to offer anymore. The promotion included 'free' NFL Sunday Tic...
huh, tbh I didnt expect an answer that actually made real sense. My original post WAS an extreme oversimplification just to give some background, but your points still stand. And to answer your question earlier about the monopoly status, they were initially granted by the government. In many areas that needed broad...
States have spoken and said we should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace, a sector of our economy that invests tens of billions of dollars each year, accounts for tens off thousands of jobs, and serves millions of consumers.” Excuse me? We're already the...
Someone has to put all the wires in. Back when there weren't any, the government funded it at vast expense, keeping their economy competitive. The ISPs in 'murrica did the barest minimum they could and pocketed the rest of the money, carving up the country into cartel-like regions so they didn't have too much overlap. ...
Im going to piggy back off your analogy because I think it's pretty good. First of all, Comcast doesn't reduce the quality to VHS, they just refuse to increase connectivity when needed... It's like buy.com is running three trucks an hout to UPS and all is well and good. Well, buy.com gets big and now three truck...