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Yes yes, I understand completely that a closed system is easier to work with since it's closed . Consoles are easier to code for than PC's, one reason being less hardware configurations... Building generic parts and generic software is easy when it just has one hole it has to fit into. Of course that is the most imp...
That's not how this works. Bing uses archived google results as one input of many for their searches. Google's results only significantly impact Bing's results where there is no other inputs. Google's tests were intentionally designed to make the inputs from Google the only source for those terms, and because there was...
They need to pay for this "Online Pass" bullshit too. Why in the hell would they even think to justify making money off of their used games. They've sold their product, why should they make extra cash if the consumer who bought the product wishes to sell or give the game to someone else? This happens with no other prod...
But...but...but if I boycott them, then I can't play Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect! No seriously, there was a screenshot I saw a while back about a steam group that was to boycott Activision because they didn't implement dedicated servers or something in Modern Warfare 2 or something. 90% of all member who were onlin...
Am I the only person in the world who despises SOPA, but also takes serious issue with stealing software? I mean, if it's worth playing, its worth paying for. It's not like there aren't free alternatives, or you could support the companies making the games you enjoy. There's no shortage of demos or reviews these days t...
Maybe most of them, yeah. But that doesn't mean I'm disingenuous. I've never had a worse experience with customer support than dealing with EA over Battlefield 2142. And so I don't buy from them: I don't buy any of their sports games, I didn't buy BF3, I didn't buy Dragon Age 2 (even though I liked DA1), and I don't pl...
I have an 8 GB USB drive that's half the length of my thumb, and as thin as piece of cardboard. I also have a much larger (albeit still small) 128 GB lexar usb flash drive. And then there are people with multiple terabyte hard drives full of pirated material. In a city of a couple hundred thousand, there's bound to be ...
I just stopped playing because it got boring really fast. I still like guessing but when it came time to draw, and I had to draw back to like 15 people I find myself simply saying "I'll do it later"
Zynga turns everything they touch to shit. It was the same thing with WordsWithFriends, it spanked wordfeud until zynga bought it and yes, turned it to shit. edit:
That's why it should be coin based. I mean words are easy. Maybe a slight randomness with starting words. (each person gets a random word pack). Then have update packs, and a better choosing algorithm that doesn't pick the same word within X games?
Oh Yeah, I too remember those days.. I used to play Farmville, Cafe world and then some Mafia something game. All were time based. I used to calculate when I should return to harvest or take food to serve (cafe world).. I literally got addicted that I used some online Farmville cheat sheet to get more points in doing m...
What a false equivalence! North Korea is a country run by an oppressive dictatorship, if they limit free speech or the open exchange of ideas, all of their citizens suffer. Facebook is a private corporation which can do whatever it likes with the product it is selling, if people don't like it, they can get rid of Faceb...
Oh a lot of things are broken about the legal system. Dont try to act as if the law is always perfect and anyone who questions the law by putting one pinky toe out of it should be crucified. This is not about a call for anarchy, so let us not talk in extremes. If that were true, the holiday on Monday 21 Jan (Martin L...
southern california here, couple weeks ago when they announced the 10mb plan going to 15 for free (50% MORE SPEED FOR FREE) in capital letters on their website. Two weeks later (was going to sign up) I go through the order process, and see that the "free" 50% more speed, had its priced upped by 15 dollars a month, and ...
Contracts that you agree to are not legally liable if they are illegal, regardless of what it said when you agreed to it.
I think it's because people have loyalty to franchises, not the companies. For instance, if your favorite tv show moves from one network to another and gets worse. You'll probably still watch it, even if some of the magic is gone, because in a sense, you have a veil over your eyes because you remember how good it used ...
All the previous responses are incomplete. I would say Captain_Salmon is the closest. The biggest thing is that the majority of gamers don't browse r/gaming, don't care about drm, industry politics, or game design. Most gamers simply play for fun. I've been asking people at my school who I know game, if they have hea...
Not everyone keeps up with every EA game. Say you're a Maxis fan, and you don't hang out on gaming sites much. You have The Sims 3, which is pretty good so far, aside from some weird expacs that you just decide not to buy. Then you see SimCity coming out. Awesome! The always-online thing sounds iffy, but it's SimCity....
Probably that a company can just deny you a refund for a game you can't even play. The only way you could guarantee you get your money back is through a chargeback which will get you banned, making all other games you purchased through it unplayable. I get that chargebacks are very serious for companies, and even compa...
It generally works unless the game itself requires a steam connection for some whatever reason, in which case you have to go through the "login->go offline" rigmarole. Sometimes simply starting the game directly instead of through the steam client will work too.
We have a rep. The problem was I think he had too many accounts at the time and took forever to get back to us. Also, he was completely inept and we had to go through quotes with a fine tooth comb to make sure he didn't fuck it up. There was always at least one mistake, which meant another week or so before we got a...
They meant Mass Effect as others have mentioned. And there are a bunch of false cracks that are probably just malware out. The DRM isn't really a problem with getting a crack, it just takes awhile to code it so it's reliant on your system rather than their servers. As of right now, supposedly has a crack but to downlo...
Second, it's been widely available information that Sim City will have always on DRM and will need a constant connection to the internet, this was informed to us customers from the get-go. So I don't fully understand what all the fuss and moaning is all about, the info has been right there from the start. Yea we don'...
Seems to be the rule in /r/technology - that's why I unsubscribed and only get reassured this was a good idea when I get here from /r/
It's obvious that several correlated chemical attacks were not "Al Qaeda". Anyone who believes otherwise is fooling themselves. "Al Qaeda" was capable of a coordinated attack that resulting in the destruction of the world trade center. Chemicals in your home country with nearby support are not as difficult to com...
This isn't 2005 anymore. Back when cable modems first became relatively common, you would notice a slower speed during peak hours. However, as the telecom infrastructure was improved, more bandwidth was available to the American people as a whole. Now, your average connection speed in America is still pretty friggin'...
I actually look forward to this. Here's why: These big ISPs are not going to relent. They are going to figure out how to do this one way or another - whether we like it or not. To me, it's a flaw in the design of the internet for this to be possible. By doing this, Verizon et al. hasten their demise. There are a few ...
Yes they can. They can say, no device on Verizon can use the Google Marketplace or google services. Would you want a smartphone that can't Gmail/Play Store/Maps/Navigation etc? Sure they can build from source, and institute their own marketplace, but again, half the apps won't work if google refuses to work with them.
The problem being that google, facebook and netflix have very little to lose from this. It is all the small websites that have no bargaining power that will end up getting crushed. Companies like google and facebook will end up paying nothing (or even end up getting PAID to allow their packets to be carried if they ...
I live in southern Illinois and the Verizon network is shit here. I have no service anywhere around my house and when I go into town it just constantly bounces between 4G, 3G, and 1X (this being the most common) networks repeatedly which makes the internet on my phone virtually unusable. The only reason I still have ...
It's not really just lobbying, if you think about that for a minute. Sure, lobbyists at the CCA (if you don't know about these guys, take a second to look into private corrections companies in the USA) are the bridge between the CCA and, for example, a rural southern community. However, the real problem is that the...
And to elaborate.. Since the fuck when was Netscape a 'service?' It was a goddamn browser/suite. People spreading misinformed bullshit like this, people that can't even get the BASICS right are a part of the problem.
Susan, I don't know much and I am not American, but I think, if I can summarise here, you guys are fucked on all 3 points based on how your country is currently operating. It is very clear that the idea of any kind of regulation is anathema to a significant portion of Americans. I can only assume this attitude has b...
Hi, someone who knows about networking and systems administration here. To answer your question in a nutshell, 'not enough' and 'a lot'. To get further in depth: WHERE WE ARE NOW: The main problem with the r/darknetplan idea is in the link-layer. Creating physical data connections between distant points is rea...
This is going to sound ridiculously ignorant, but what is the
I'm fuming about Verizon right now so I'll just vent here. Last month my family switched our primary account holder, right after our monthly bill of $109 was paid. Well yesterday we got a bill charging us last month's $109 AGAIN, plus this month's $109. Obviously they made a mistake, right? So we call customer "support...
So my understanding is that sites/services have a contract with their ISP, customers have a contract with Verizon, and Verizon has contracts with other providers regarding how the links between their networks are paid for and maintained. My vague understanding of those ISP level agreements is that neither side makes mu...
Epsilon is half the size of the H2A, and JAXA reported that > production and development cost three times less - > at 3.8 billion yen (29 million euros, $38 million). $38 million is NOT cheap. India has been launching rockets at less than half that price for many years. Last year, a [launch vehicle that cost aroun...
Generally, in most countries we accept a concept of basic, inalienable human rights. People are considered to be born with these rights. They are not "given", but they always belong to them. The UN document entitled the Universal Declaration of Human Rights covers this. Article 19 states that >Everyone has the r...
The problem is that countries can't just turn around and say to international companies that they aren't allowed to move money around or that they aren't allowed to establish themselves in what ever country they like, certainly not in the EU where all those things are expressly provided for in law. Google will move mon...
A corporation is deemed a "citizen" (for the purpose of subject-matter jurisdiction) of every state and foreign state by which it has been incorporated and of the state or foreign state where it has it's principal place of business. (28 USC section 1332(c)(1)). And for the purpose of personal jurisdiction, Google may b...
Yeah, while TOR is becoming way more prevalent I doubt very honestly that 96% of the content on the internet is through closed/secured networks like that. Almost all of the data is reachable through the browser and or ftp/ssh... This whole infographic reeks of made up factoids. Bitcoin is called a "volatile" curren...
I signed up for the new T-Mobile no contract plans recently. Let me tell you why their Jump program is BS and why this news makes me so happy to have avoided it. I bought a new Nexus 5 outright for $400 plus tax. They tried to sell me so hard on Jump, saying things like "with this you don't ever have to pay for the f...
My middle school runs google apps for education. And I've heard all these deep privacy concerns many times. The truth is: do you trust any Internet service to provide you with privacy and security? Google uses our emails and search history to help their company make decisions and money. We get their apps. Nothing i...
Disclaimer: I am actually trying to ask this question here, not start an argument. I really want someone to explain this to me. If there were no copyright/patent laws, why would someone make something in the first place? A company has to put in all sorts of money and time into researching new technology. Why would th...
This article is awful. It uses extremely specific anecdotal evidence with questionable analysis and conclusions to support a ridiculous stance. The concept and protection of intellectual property is not the problem. To an extent, anyone who creates something deserves copyright/patents. Yes, it protects the big guys, bu...
Economist here, IP (and particularly patents) are a pet area of mine and the issue is not as clear cut as you seem to think. The outcome from patents really depends on the approach you take to looking at them, the empirical work in the area supports both positions as a result. For an example lets look at the HGP & ...
Damn. Okay, here's a very long-winded response. You'll have to bear with me. And sorry if some things aren't completely clear - I'll try to clarify you actually respond to this with questions. > The fact that state 1 was won by a ridiculous landslide doesn't matter, which means 48% of those votes don't "count". ...
I think we need to move to a system of Proportional Representation (PR). This system is stable with an arbitrary number of political parties, whereas the first-past-the-post system we have now is only stable with 2 parties because of the "throwing your vote away" phenomenon. Unfortunately, we need a constitutional am...
I'm not the guy you replied to and while I'll agree it's a bit of a leap to go from the net neutrality issue to the issue of our first past the post system you also clearly oversimplified the issue. First and foremost our current system, despite the rule of law, most closely resembles an oligopoly [(Princeston Study).]...
My father in law said almost the exact same thing to me about my MacBook. I told him that I bought it for durability. He said that the laptops he bought would last just as long. Four years later, my MacBook was still running like new and he was on his third windows machine. Now he carries an iPhone and an iPad. Still u...
Stuff is broken and we need it to be unbroken if we want to move forward as a society. Personally I believe this is not so much flaws in politicians personally, but flaws in their environment. Due to the structure of parties, politicians probably feel they work for the party more than for the country per se. This i...
Last summer I was texting a coworker/moderately close friend of mine about how my family was moving to Texas soon, and that I wouldn't be able to work with him anymore. I, being the naively nice girl that I am, had mentioned how much I was going to miss working with him. He responded with exactly, "Nooowww that I'm not...
That's kind of what
The cooperative agreement and reference to a “tailored solution” strongly suggest that Google and the NSA built a device or a technique for monitoring intrusions into the company’s networks." That's what's mentioned in the article. "According to people familiar with the NSA and Google’s arrangement, it does not giv...
Did anyone read this at all or just start commenting? This is an excerpt from Shane Harris' War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex. A book. He's explaining how complicated the relationship between private companies (including public utilities, transportation systems, public health facilities, etc) and the US (a...
What you say would be ideal, but the roles have already been designated, the products delivered and cost structures differ between each type of business. You can host a web page but the number of viewers and the amount of data you served would be limited to the speed of you connection. You couldn't possibly run YouTu...
What really bugs me is this "opt out culture..." I mean it seems like lots of companies are pulling some shit then making you opt out of it... For example, Verizon has that "super cookie" which you have to opt out of. Edit: I guess I was downvoted for implying you have to opt out of cookies... I put "super cookie" in...
Because you don't want to jeopardize your chance of employment by omitting key information that expected to be on a resume. The employer's preferred method of contact may very well be by mail. Do you want them to shit can your resume because they could not find what they think is an important piece of information?
I have a very similar printer from Samsung. I paid about £40, so roughly 60 of your 'dollars'. It came with a 1000 page cartridge which has lasted me about 1500 pages. The replacement cartridges are 5000 pages though, so well worth it since the printer is still going strong. Good print quality and speed too.
That article is hilariously bad. They don't understand (or don't mention) the new micro-op cache, tweaked frontend decoder, AVX, ring bus, or the redesigned execution hardware. And the physical register file sounds damn sweet. Here is an article written by someone who does know something about CPU architecture: A...
The problem with this is that your numbers seem to imply a single viewing person/party. Think about a family with 4 members (mom, dad, two kids). More often than not, not everyone wants to do the same thing at the same time. Mom and dad want to stream one thing, one kid is gaming, and the other is streaming something e...
Backbone broadband infrastructure may be expanding. It's the so-called 'last mile'--the infrastructure that services your street--that's the problem. ISPs (cable companies in particular) oversold the capacity of that last-mile infrastructure, hoping you would never actually use the bandwith they sold you. They never re...
Wow aren't you brainwashed all to fuck. Both your connection, and your grandparents connection cost your ISP within 20% the same amount of money. So either you are subsidizing your grandparents (doubtful an ISP would only sell a service they make money on). So what this means is your ISP is making $80/month of pure...
Alright I think the rant that follows here is going to be way more information then anyone here is really looking for but I just took a class on telecom and I wrote my paper on this exact topic, it's 3:00AM so what the hell, lets write it out. First, you need to understand that broadband is an industry thats generally...
There was a rubric. Rubrics must be followed. That's why you have a rubric. Not even God himself could have nullified that rubric.
There is no way of using energy from thorium by firing at it with lasers. This is either extremely poorly written article, and/or the Charles Stevens is selling us snake oil. > A 250 MW unit weighing about 500 lbs. (227 kg) would be small and light enough to drop under the hood of a car, he says. ORLY? This is ~300...
Google the DMCA. There's lots written about it. For example: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) -- you know, the people who make technology -- has [an article titled "Death by DMCA"]( > Copyright is being turned from a limited-term incentive designed to encourage creative artists to a broad...
You're a special person with smart friends who all love you and know not to click on spam links.
i completely understand how it doesn't seem to make sense. I didn't believe it either until it happened to me. We had a few servers we took offline and kept as physical (emergency) spares. These servers had been running non-stop for over 5 years and in a pretty warm (around 80F in the server room) environment that enti...
Okay, first, if you get caught pirating 6 times, you should probably follow liar liar's advice and STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE. Or at least be better at it. Second, stoping pirating isn't "censorship" and this isn't really surveillance. The RIAA, MPAA, and other organizations would be able to look at publicly avai...
It's true what you said, and thanks for the rediquette upvote. People have different levels of concern. For example, I don't want my life details in the hands of one single organization. I use google services sparingly (I.e. maps, and admittedly gmail, but I have migrated off gmail almost 100% now to my own personal em...
University generation... I've never heard that term before though there's a response down from you that sort of defines it as millenials which I think I'm just before, having been born in '81. I have an iPhone now though it's because my company opted to go with the device for their provided handsets; I was hoping ...
I'm not saying MS didn't do some asshole vendor lock in's but - as much as I hate to defend MS - apple has been far far far worse. Apple is far, far worse than MS these days , sure, but only because back in the day MS was pulling shit comparable to Apple now, and they were stamped on for it, hard , and over and ov...
Here's my theory. It helps people see through Republican bullshit. Only the internet can educate people to understand the truth about the propaganda, disinformation, and corporate funding of politicians that has served to sabotage the democratic process in the US. The corporate media isn't going to tell the truth, t...
Until you were called out, there was no proclamation of Apple-ownership, let alone a statement lending any credence to "reading things from both sides." I provide research, facts and reasonable counter-points to your assertions. You provide insults and attacks ad hominem. Do you know why "this will go nowhere?" From ...
I'm with you: to hell w\ the
This thread is a combination of "Apple needs to stop doing that" and "Who the hell cares if it's hard to fix?" Apple is not the only one to blame. Other tablets, while getting scores in the 6-8 range, could still be much easier to repair. The only thing that makes Apple special in this case is the huge amount of glue...
Right. However I've found fixing something yourself that you don't do much of (or if ever), you'll end up spending lots of time on it. Followed up with the chance of it being permanently broke out of negligence. Or not being able to get the replacement parts as cheaply. Etc, etc.
how many people are even willing to take apart their own computer? Actually, computers tend to be on the easy-to-take-apart side of electronics. At least, many of the components are. I'm pretty sure that many "common" people would be willing to say, swap out their laptop's hard drive after reading a guide which invol...
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Because if there is no alternative ISP, then it doesn't matter how much redundant fibre there is, the point is only one ISP is providing the service and it is that service that is in low supply. You misrepresented my point entirely because I wasn't talking about the internet connection speed as the goods, I was talking...
Throwaway because i'm talking about work. I work at a company that makes things. We make them here in America, and have for a long time, and they are good things, so put away the torches. We market. It's how the world works. Enjoy some commercial TV, on us. Anyway, we do a certain amount of online advertising, beca...
Sure, but they're doing so very poorly (I have done this several times, and I have always been able to identify Google's page, even on searches I had never performed before) and in a biased way (primarily towards Bing, although that's more subjective). The only way to actually accomplish that goal is to provide a lis...
This is a bit of a nothing statement, and it will be interesting if a wrongful dismissal lawsuit comes soon after. What it boils down to is that she doesn't feel she owes anyone an apology. I can't blame her if I'm honest, especially due to everything that has happened and if a lawsuit is in the works, but I do wonder ...
You want to some data in your compression, keeping data that does not add to your model is pointless to have an adds to overhead. The compression of the data REDUCES the time spent analysing the data. The way you guys think this stuff works is insane. You have take the sensor data which is just points and figure out ...
I worked on robot control systems for a few years. One of the we take for granted is the incredible ability of our bodies to integrate sensory data and make conclusions from it. FOr example, a driver can tell if their car has blown a tire almost instantly by recognizing the sound, physical sensation of the car shifting...
Yeah, yeah. It's legalese. A way of saying something that seems like it means something but doesn't say what they say it says, all the while employing armies of lawyers and dazzling those too busy to try and decode what is ultimately a simple idea that would usually be dismissed outright as stupid if people could take ...
I don't understand why so many people complain about the commercials. It's one 30 second commercial every couple songs, and it's a great (free!) music streaming service. If its that bothersome maybe you could lay down the whopping $4 a month for Pandora One.
that would be nice..if i used that radio for music and pandora had stations for my music..
You're joking, right? There are plenty of decent factories in China, plenty that are inspected regularly by foreign owners, plenty that meet Chinese labour laws. Apple chose not to run their production like this, instead turning a blind eye for maximum profit. But they're not the first foreign company to do so - MacD...
Okay. There's a good chance I will receive down votes galore for what I'm about to type, so as a disclaimer: I understand that working in a sweatshop has additional factors that make it ultra-sucky. Still, consider the following: (a) The article specifies that workers receive two 30-minute breaks per 12-hour shift. ...
the stronger arguments about open source hiding bugs is that not all the eyeballs (or the most qualified eyeballs) are looking in the right spots; see the years-old bug in the linux kernel (all versions of 2.4 and 2.6): There's a party at Ring 0 and you're all invited ) there was another (more well known) 10-year-st...
I love my Surface RT. I use it every day, and I don't even remember the last time I turned on my personal laptop.. it's been weeks. It is maybe a little underpowered, but to me that tradeoff is worth it for a cheaper device than Surface Pro, more battery life, and a lighter weight and slightly thinner device. I feel...
PC hardware is the same as top of the line macs for half the price. When you look at real world stats on speed and meaningful numbers like 5MB file open time, basic usage.. the price for performance... PCs blow macs away. If Windows was cheaper, I'm talking cheap (10$ cheap), for new OS's you have yourself one awesom...
I love how everyone jumps on the FUCK AT&T/COMCAST/TW/VERIZON because they don't care bandwagon. Cable companies put caps on you for a reason. In particular because if you are hitting the cap - you are the problem. And your neighbors are hitting the cap because they are the problem. If you think it is free to ru...
I was referring to peer as in the sense of an IX. "half a cent a GB" Data providers sell by the bit/s not by the bit, Comcast resells by the bit (now atleast) and transfer in the sense of international transfer that connects you to a tier 1 provider, that is not sold by a fibre's capacity because they ration different ...
Correction. The cabby is refusing to drive you there because you're only willing to pay him half his fare. I'm not justifying Comcast's actions regarding their monopoly status, which are bad. The issue is not the way Comcast is displaying the limit - a "dumb pipe" no longer needs to be dumb after you've used it all. ...
I know how you feel. My phone number was registered with an area code in a region different from where my service was. The genius routing system used the phone number you were calling with to determine what center to send your call. So, I would call Comcast presumably to complain about my service, get routed to a cal...
I really Hate Comcast myself. I've only had them for 4 Months, and have spent countless hours and over 20 calls to them already. They once had caps before, and if you are a customer you can still see the 250gb cap on your internet usage with a message stating the cap has been removed for now. Something else they ju...