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I would tend to disagree. On one hand they are both motivated solely by profit, but Netflix makes that profit by offering high quality innovative services in a competitive market, whereas Comcast's only strategy is to offer old services and bribe corrupt officials to enforce their monopoly. Fun fact, many cities alread...
I have read your link, and still don't understand what you are claiming. From everything I have read, upgrading the connection at the peering sites is trivial. Cogent AND Level 3 have agreed to do this. Level 3 posted extensively about doing this. The cost is not an issue, the issue is that Comcast said No. (Lets not g...
What? Have you ever looked at your electric bill? It's divided into transmission charges and generation charges. There might not be generation costs associated with digital data, but there are huge transmission costs associated with building and maintaining networks. The internet needs to be billed and regulated ...
You may never read this because I am a bit late for the party..... but, you are completely right. As a child we flew on my grandfather's Cessna everywhere we went, and he had a smaller jet for himself personally, also a Cessna, or when he was in town we flew in a helicopter for short distances. As he got older he ended...
Only if you don't count how they get their power (and why wouldn't you?). Central heating systems run on gas or oil directly. Space heaters use electricity from the electric grid. Efficiency is lost through the power lines between you and the power station.
Funnily enough the Libs wanted to make nuclear weapons back in the 70's. We had the designs and theory from the Brits when we let them detonate nukes at Woomera. When it came to building Australia's first nuclear power plant a change of government came through (now Labor) and nixed the power plant since we were going t...
tl;wr , if you don't shave a lot look into dollar shave club. The didn't options 1$,6$,12$ a month. 6$ ones are decent ^^^^message-me-if-you-want-to-giveme-referals-pls-sorry I do dollar shave club now... I always want to post a refferal link to get me a free month but... For me it works out though. I'm not working...
People blamed the machies for crappy coffee and not the crappy coffee. Then people are dumb. This is why they ship most every machine with a variety pack of coffee that they have selected to showcase the system. Your first six or so cups ought to be an example of the best coffee this fucking machine can make. Then wh...
Keurig and similar machines piss me off. They create all kinds of plastic waste and the coffee is garbage. If you spend the same money on a simple pour-over setup you can afford to buy the high quality locally roasted beans from the nearby hipster coffee joint and make way better coffee. And you can use the grounds and...
You probably wouldn't survive. These days people are driving faster than ever. The insane amount of safety technology in cars is what makes them so expensive. Did you know that in newer cars, in a front-on collision the engine is designed to slide beneath the passenger compartment? That shit costs money to deve...
Yeah but it's actually the aggressive capitalistic American way. When you run out of ideas for profits, you have to cut into services. Privately owned companies don't have this pressure and generally keep their product awesome and have much better customer service.
25Mbps/3Mbps isn't necessary to meet the legal definition of "high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications capability that enables users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications using any technology" Simple fix. Have the cable providers show the bandwidth requir...
Exiting out of any app does not necessarily end the process (which drains battery) My understanding is that this isn't true. Or rather, it is true that exiting out of any app does not necessarily end the process, but not that this drains the battery. To my understanding, background activities do not drain battery,...
It's not as much "hard" to use as it is annoying. For example, i use my iPhone for reading a lot, so the brightness matters a lot to me and I tend to want to move it slightly up and down depending on the ambient light (the auto brightness is not sensitive enough for prolonged reading) Without jailbreak, this means ...
I tried doing this in the early 2002 when the only good standard was 802.11b (802.11a existed, but range was too short for our purposes) The big problems we encountered were: Sparse availability of wireless routers except in large cities -- this is no longer a barrier except in rural areas Huge latency -- This ...
Follow the link to the originator and he admits that his initial conclusion that IE is doing nothing shady is wrong. Quotes pulled from the hacker news site : >By returning immediately out of the loop, Chrome's time drops by a factor of 12.1, whereas IE's stays pretty much constant. >I suspect what's happening he...
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This gives them a strong incentive to make sure consumers get their phone from Google. What incentive do they have to buy the phone from Google? Software? It is likely plain Android someone desiring HTC likely wants Sense. Hardware? Any company can put out an incredibly powerful phone. i.e. HTC Evo 3D yet weres the M...
But the reason MS paid the for Skype, let's remember, is that they had Billions offshore(like every big corp) and since skype was a European company they could use that money without repatriating it back into the US, and thus getting taxed. Hooray global capitalism!
I will support this, if you'll agree to let those of us with a sense of direction and a love of cars to keep ours "manual".
Cool, you're better at finding things on the internet than Metal_Mike, please be more condescending about it next time (After Mike already posted the relevant video; considerably narrowing the search down for you). Also, thank you for finding a higher quality video than the other one. I was sure to click your link ov...
please read what I wrote earlier it was never interested in granting copyright protection to authors of works - what is called droit d’auteur or "writer's right" which cannot be transferred - but have instead concentrated on granting commercial monopolies or "copyrights" to performances or "fixations" of a w...
Found a brand-new Blackberry in a park once. Had to fiddle with it 10 times just to find how to call someone that looked like they might be the owner. Ended up finding the owner through her friend and gave it back.
I would completely disagree with you, some of the best social criticism comes from comedians. They give us painful truths but with a spoonful of sugar. George Carlin was the master. Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, the list goes on and on. They have more relevant and accurate things to say t...
That's a bingo...]( >NEW YORK (MainStreet) – Today Google (Stock Quote: GOOG) released its Zeitgeist 2011 report, which tracks the hottest searches of the year. And when we say “hottest,” we don’t mean the things people searched for the most. Rather, Google likes to track the “fastest rising” search terms – those th...
I'm not saying that economies are complicated, move along. I'm saying that economies are complicated, and the way to understand them is not by comparing them to something like a business or a household that is at much higher risk of insolvency. It's like when that politician talked about the internet as a "series of tu...
I really think this is a huge step to bring manufacturing back into the US. In any scenario you run, it's always more cost-effective to offshore your manufacturing labor except for one case-- when you have a process that requires a heavy tacit knowledge of the production process. This knowledge can be craftsmanship (ex...
Ok, I keep reading and commenting on this thread. I think I know where people's heads are at. Most people are thinking: Government spending in the manufacturing realm is unfair. Winners are being picked, and competition is no longer equal, allowing only some to flourish. This mindset would be OK if you only think a...
What the hell do you think the news in the media about people using 3d printers to print off guns I think this is newsworthy because it interests people, and there is no hidden agenda. 3D printing is like the DYI movement, people will push the technology in all areas to see what is possible. Frankly, I'm surprised ...
Public funding can be an effective way to start the momentum behind a good technology. If R&D costs are high and initial scales of production are too low to yield a profit, private investors aren't going to invest in the technology. Take solar panel technologies as an example. The efficiency of both photovoltaic and ...
Or is the competition finall able to catch up. It's hard to measure, a large part of he smart phone market opened up because of the iPhone. A lot of people who got in on Andeoid wanted an iPhone but were carrier locked. I would say its a fairly even pissong match between Android and iPhone now in terms of quality, but ...
i think your on the wrong site - this is reddit - expect plenty of idiots/trolls/and pictures of cute cats.
Nuclear is more cost-efficient, with a standard plant producing around 800 MW of power, some even more than that. Nuclear plants have a lifespan of about 40 years and use relatively little fuel (about 33 tons of uranium). The best wind turbine on the market (Enercon E-126, of which there are only 35 in use) produces ar...
In steam cycles the "Rejected Energy" is mainly due to the cooling water used. [Look at this picture]( The "circulating cooling water" condenses the steam so that it may be pumped back into the boiler or reactor. This heats the cooling water that is usually pumped back into the ocean/river or sprayed into the atmosph...
television is a 1-to-many broadcast, everyone receives the same tv signal over the cable thus you only need to have one incoming signal to server thousands of households. Whether you use it or not the signal is send to your house. For internet (and telephone) you need a dedicated 1-on-1 connection, while they can mul...
In Theory, we redditors should stop being lazy. If there is no gigabit fiber in your subburb / city (there isn't in mine comcast .015Gbps / $60) start thinking about how YOU can build it. Would it be easy? No... But, I think, this is capitalism. There are 25,000-30,000 houses in my subberb. The only number I ca...
For downstream, yes, they most likely could give you much better speed without changing any equipment, and the only reason they don't is that they've either overcrowded your individual node or their network backbone. In those cases they could just flip a switch and increase your download speed, but then the only time ...
You're correct...to a point. Cable companies must sign a "Franchise Agreement" with the local municipalities in order to expand into their areas. While it is technically illegal to sign an exclusive franchise agreement, it becomes de-fact-o impossible for another cable company to come into an area. Why? It's bec...
Seems like no one is taking the FCC to task for dropping the ball over the last 20 years. Didn't the FCC allow the big telecoms to add a few dollars to our monthly phone bill many, many years ago? The purpose was for the telecoms to upgrade our service to include high speed links. Where's that nationwide high speed...
TIL fiber optic cable requires no maintenance, it doesn't require special equipment (with its own maintenance needs) to repair fiber lines, it doesn't require more skills than copper lines to lay/terminate a connection, etc....
10c per page, you are looking at ~100000$, however, realistically you are looking closer to 2 cents a page (you would be going for offset printing), and would be going for a small sheet (maybe 4" * 8", single sided). So cost would be ~20k, delivery cost would run you probably another 40k, costing a grand total of aroun...
So basically you know nothing, but the person here who actually works in this industry, works with fiber (not residential), and is very intrinsic to a small ISP (this is me, not you) knows nothing as well. So let me break this down for you since you can't seem to comprehend anything being told to you >Fiber contracto...
South Korea has widely available broadband service over 200x faster than what Americans have, and it's priced lower than most Americans pay for access through a cable or telephone company. America's average Internet speeds are middling and expensive compared with the rest of the developed world, and unavailable in much...
Sorry for a ton of text, this is more for my understanding of the system than anything. I could be wrong, and it is much more complex than I am making it here, but I think in the long term the risk falls on the public either way. What we are saying by giving out patents is that capitalism itself is not providing eno...
Humans have always used drugs both for fun and to help with work, but in the last 100 years there has been a campaign telling us that it's wrong and we should stop. This is just another form of farmers chewing coca leaves, or ranchers drinking coffee. It may be more or less powerful/dangerous, but it's not a new idea a...
I replaced my Adrall prescription with Modafinil last year, for treatment of sleep apnea induced narcolepsy, (not fat, just have a massive neck and a small jaw/chin. They didn't believe I had apnea until I did a sleep study) and the attention deficiency caused by the lack of good sleep. I love it because it doesn'...
Doubtful as well. The drug is original from the military for pilots on long missions (like most tech). It's not meant to replace sleep altogether, but to keep you alert and functioning as if you had had sleep. It is not an enhancement drug at all. At most think of that time of the day you feel most rested and ther...
Humans have always used drugs both for fun and to help with work" Humans have always killed other humans too, does that mean that murder is a-ok because it's natural? I can agree with your
There is a world of harm available between outright "lethality" and "safe". The worst of it is that especially subtle damage might go completely undetected for years or decades, especially if no one is even attempting to gather data and track subjects health data. Data = observation. Hard to detect something without...
because many of the apps serve a better function because of the ease of use/access not to mention that their simpler layout is more pleasing on the eyes. I use apps often, some of these are background entertainment apps (Musictube is my go to here) some are social media apps that offer better functionality then the a...
personally gave up the idea of getting Windows 8 the second I tested it at Best Buy and had no idea what i was doing. Forgive me but how exactly can yo judge an entire OS's worth on a 5 minute Point of Sale experiance. Download the trial and drop it on a partition or any other device OR as has been the norm for mos...
I keep seeing this question being asked in comment threads lately. This is called Title Case. When writing a name or a title, it is a common convention to use capital letters to start the principal words.
I don't get the hate on GIMP. It is all I have ever used for the past 8 years. Now I have a laptop with Adobe Master Collection CS3 and I find myself not enjoying PS after all the hype. It is definitely a different environment, I just don't understand what all this (what sounds like bullshit) FOSS and CMYK issue is. Fo...
If we are talking about recommending Google Chrome for reading PDFs securely It is the insecure browser on the market today. In 2011, Chrome had over 250 security vulnerabilities, more than all the other popular browsers COMBINED for that year... ([Source]( 2012 wasn't much different for Chrome ([Source]( So fa...
But that last part you wrote got me curious now, what was the point you think you made? That complaints about a lack of CMYK support are irrelevant for the majority of users who use Photoshop - namely, the majority that only uses it because they heard they can touch up photos with it, the ordinary Joes and Janes that...
I'm amazed almost every company hasn't put in place data checkpoint software and gone very strict on it. For real, you see what data hits the walls of your network outgoing, and essentially can't go until someone approves it. Do you have a solution that meets the below criteria?: 1) Doesn't slow down normal business...
I see your point, but disagree. I would much rather the law be too strict and over-protect me in this sort of thing than too lenient. I've been crashed into twice by drivers just plain not paying enough attention. Last thing we need is people driving with Google glass popping up tweets. Until we have a way to prove t...
I've been using Android phones as GPS for years. Cool story, bro. >I've had cops see google maps running on my phone that's propped up on a car mount. They weren't doing their jobs properly >Why the fuck would they even make these things if using them was illegal? For the same reason they make loud as fuck mu...
Yes, they're a small piece and it's certainly better than nothing. Every little bit helps, right? The heat thing goes both ways. When studying CFL savings, for example, they found that in cold temperatures the CFLs actually cost more due to the loss of heating. I can't comment on waste/disposal because I don't kno...
Being from the area, I can say that it is some of the most miserable commuting I have ever experienced. When leaving for work in the morning, usually around 5am, I would use a route from Timonium, MD, north of Baltimore, (adjacent to I-83), taking I-695 on the west side of the city to MD-295, continuing on DC-295 and t...
Currently in Japan myself. Sorry to say, but Japanese public transport is overpriced and shit. Public transport being in private hands is always a shitty idea (just look at the shitfest that is the German railway network... privatized because people complained that it's shit and the government was fed up, almost im...
You're still making a mistake here. Unlike in a circuit, humans don't have a fixed destination, or a fixed amount of travel they want to do. If you expand the capacity of the road, that momentarily decreases congestion, which then encourages more residents of Baltimore to decide to go to the Smithsonian for the afterno...
This is a terrible idea for Baltimore. I'm a Baltimore native and the idea of this DC-Balt-Phily-NYC train is nothing new. You see, about 20 years ago the city of Baltimore put a North-South light rail system in to decrease traffic, increase city revenue, ease traffic during ball games, and most importantly of all, put...
If you want to see America, you have to drive. Most American rail was developed for freight. We developed our highway system for people, and that system reflects it. It's why the Greyhound bus ride was more interesting. Basically, Greyhound is to America as trains are to Europe.
Oh, it's got nothing to do with people dying on the tracks. The push-back against the CA High Speed Rail project is primarily coming from Californian farmers and other assorted rural conservatives because they, in classical fashion, don't want to pay for something that they will never personally use . This is in a...
I agree that it was a marketing failure. When I watched the console reveals, I came out thinking - well, xbox kind of went the wrong way about marketing their ideas. PS4 added absolutely nothing to the PS3 outside of some better specs. Xbox family, games that play and change while you're not there all seemed like ste...
You are buying a physical disc. You own that. Embedded in your purchase is a non-transferable licence to use the intellectual property on the disc, without which you would be entitled to use the disc as a frisbee, or as a beer mat, but you would not be entitled to use it as software. (you could hack it and use it, but ...
pff a mistake!? the DRM controversy is gaining a momentum even before the E3 event, who ever thought that "always online" concept is great idea clearly smoking pot. Plus the NSA and Snowden happening at the time of E3, while Microsoft still stand their ground on "always online" policy clearly show that all PR at Micro...
The EU is all about breaking down barriers to free trade. This regulation is just another example of the EU using regulation to force competition into a disfunctional marketplace.
Yes it can, contracts are bound to the laws in place. For example, if a contract said something obviously illegal like "roaming calls cost 1€/minute" if you used roaming and they charged you that you'd be protected by the law that currently limits maximum prices on roaming so they'd end up paying fines and you not payi...
That's a given. If it were up to them, there would be no such thing as general purpose computing that they aren't in explicit control of. There is a very real war against general purpose computing and this is a big part of it. One of the reasons why companies like Apple and Microsoft have such a hard-on over mobile...
The laziness of the military to upgrade legacy systems is seriously quite sad. If i was to emphasize any sort of military expenditure it would just be modernization, i can't believe how many articles i read that talk about using shit from the 60's and 70's in current infrastructure. That said, they need to just do it...
This is largely symbolic. While it might rein in another government agency, it bears zero pressure on the NSA. What will Congress do if they continue this? With another agency, it'd be a big stink, people would get fired, maybe even indicted. The NSA? Business as usual. Congress might not even learn that they conti...
That's not really true, though. Look back to Ma Bell to see that - before there were regulations to prevent the situations that allowed for it, they formed large regional and nationwide monopolies at various times throughout their history. Due to these, a number of new regulations were enacted to enable competition and...
By testing for various vulnerabilities. Basically, looking for unexpected behaviors through repetitive attack, and then figuring out how to consistently get the desired result(s). Such example could be: Flooding a certain port with a type of trigger Broadcasting various network commands Attempting to conn...
Yeah and what makes it even harder is that they are doing the correct thing by multiplying .002 x 35,893 it will display exactly what they said 71.786.......... cents. See they see 71.anything and it means 71 dollars and some change. They don't just see a number, they see a familiar format which reminds them of somethi...
It may be licensing issues for older games with partnered publishers. It would be a lot of work, but people would re-buy their collection again if it meant not having to get up and change the console. Sell each game at $3-5 and have a family share plan that shares them with those on the same shared network account or s...
Well to be fair I feel like Nintendo's culture seems to stand in their way quite a bit. Whatever it is that keeps them from identifying huge flaws in their international marketing campaigns or cashing in on old IP. A lot of that culture is what people like about Nintendo compared to the other manufacturers. You k...
When Nintendo re-releases a game, they take it apart and re-construct it so it functions perfectly. For one example of a huge setback, many older games used console system clock speeds as timers for functions. If the clock speed isn't the same as the original systems, the trigger for an event might not work, breaking g...
Everything you're thinking about Nintendo is totally wrong]( Everyone has thought of that idea, and it's kind of terrible. It's a prime example of a "short term gains, fuck the future" approach.
Yep.. people forget that Nintendo has been around a long time and has had great success for most of it. They're in a bit of a slump recently but unlike certain other companies they will turn it around slowly and surely.. not with quick schemes to pad this quarters profits with zero regard to what impact it will have ...
Are you retarded? Did you not read my post? Here, I'll help you out: >You're also wrong about people not being able to identify a Rolex by looking at it. I never said this. Here's what I said: >Either than the big names (Rolex, Bretiling, etc) most people wouldn't be able to tell than a watch is high-end anyway...
I disagree entirely. The language we use in a setting governs the tone of that setting. Why do you think we dress nice or speak properly in court? Because it's not a place to play around in. Police officers under camera could respect their profession and establish a tone that permeates everything they do - Professio...
The post I responded appears to combine local police and federal agencies into a non-existing entity called "the government." The argument that local police have to wear body cameras because the NSA can read publicly broadcast messages doesn't make any sense, and even less sense when you think about the fact that the N...
I'm all for body cameras at calls. I know in many instances it would cut down on the lying and nonsense on not only us the police, but also the criminals. My only major thing against body cams is the feeling of being constantly watched. I am not always at a call, sometimes I am eating a meal with a fellow officer or ...
It's only a terrible analogy because you walked into the conversation an hour late (or 2-3 comments late). I'll help you and quote myself. >
You can't "sellout" if your intentions were clear to begin with, they wanted to make money via the entertainment industry. If you don't like them, that's fine, but calling them a sellout is a completely incorrect term. Now on to the larger issue. >Any information-distribution-medium that blocks free access to inform...
I'd venture to say that most pirates wouldn't buy the stuff they're pirating if it purchasing was their only option. Some would. Those are potentially lost sales. The people who pirate it like it and talk about it, there's also the possibility that people hear good things and purchase who wouldn't have otherwise. T...
Fix the computers, design better computers, research (which will lead to more research and applications that need human instructions initially), creative pursuits (arts, music, etc). Computers can only make so many projections and improvements on their own because they're limited by code. Eventually some person will ...
Because I sail via VPN like most pirates do, and TPB has a decent clean UI and a great search function and works as you'd expect it to. Other sites are clunky and just don't work well. ISOHunt for example, try sorting by seeds and it doesn't work, therefore the site is useless to me. KAT while better than ISOHunt is cl...
Also, in states where small claims court will not collect your debt for you, you can send someone to collections for a fee if you've won your case.
True story of shit we had with TWC a while back: We've been with Time Warner for well over a decade, we started service with them back when it was still called Road Runner. We'd been having connectivity issues with what we believed was our router and we got on the phone with TW support, amongst the trouble shooting w...
We have some questions/reservations about GDI’s numbers. All versions of OS X are lumped together under a single “OS X” line entry. However, all major Windows versions are given their own separate line entries. Take out that little bit of creative reporting, and Windows tops the list with 248 vulnerabilities. Even gi...
Superior in only in its inferiority. Arguably the only reason to get a Mac over a traditional PC is because there are far fewer viruses that affect their OS, because so many fewer people use Macs, and also because it has a comparatively dumbed down user interface. There is very little a PC is not capable of in both the...
I wrote one to them and got a reply. Me: Hi, everytime I receive a link to your US site the address gets changed to include .AU and the link breaks. This is annoying the hell out of me. Would love it if you could not do that! Tim Them: Dear Tim, Apologies for the delay in getting a response back to your comme...
It would be a good thing if marketers and advertisers were to use this kind of technology. Good ads could be detected more effectively, emulated, and improved upon while ineffective ones are cut. New demographic areas that we are currently unable to identify may emerge. The more our voices, opinions, and actions are ef...
Sigh. It isn't theft. Theft has a very specific legal definition. It is a copyright infringement, which is a civil rather than a criminal infraction in this case. If you would like, I will explain the difference to you using very small words.
Their profit margins don't really effect who they are for, their prices do. If Apple somehow created a way to create the MacBook Air for 1 dollar, and then sold it for 100, would you not buy it because the profit margin was higher then the current profit margin? And honestly, in the US, if you can afford a decent l...
Here's the thing, that kind of verbal beating does not improve things. A much shorter explanation of what's wrong and what needs to change can sufficiently express disappointment and bring about the needed change. Once the point has been made continuing to express anger over it doesn't improve the team's ability to do ...
He made no standard for being a good human being, he simply stated that Jobs wasn't, and if you agree, you can connect some of the terrible things he did to that, and if you disagree, you are more likely to connect the good things he did to it. Also, while the CEOs of all of the listed companies are problematic, mz w...