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While I think the new opportunities that Kickstarter provides in terms of art funding are quite promising, having seen the financial side of the art world makes me realize that things like the NEA are quite important. True, it is a government bureaucracy, but as far as government bureaucracies go, the NEA is pretty goo...
This is exactly what ancient Sparta did: their ruler devalued (deliberately) their currency to the point that the populace no longer gained any benefit from its use. This essentially caused the businesses that dealt with luxuries to relocate, leaving only the essentials in Sparta. This meant the only jobs left (they go...
But the carrier should be allowed to recoup the cost of their investment that was cut short by the customer, shouldn't they? Well, they've certainly convinced you of their reasonableness. Never mind that it depends entirely on the initial device value, and the monthly rate of service. We are, of course, taking the ...
Yes AND no. 60 fields per second is correct. That this always corresponds to 30 frames per second is not. Basically interlacing and fields was a very primitive "compression" technique which back in the analog days of the 70s allowed the video-broadcaster to chose either resolution or framerate. When you need fl...
I grew up in a rural town, I've had to learn to lead people along when I talk/write, or else they get lost. but you're right. I should have cut off the
because it's generally accepted that there is two kinds of file-sharing: actual, peer to peer torrenting for no cost, like TPB, and then monetised upload sites, like megaupload was. that's why I didn't get all up in arms when the FBI took down MU, they were committing blatant piracy. they were the much larger equivalen...
I've always done this. Even before Steam. If there was a game I was interested in, I would wait until it came down price before buying. The only time I would dish out full price for a game was if it was a game I was actually waiting on to come out. I do no different now. If it is one I'm just not that excited abo...
Looked at your bill lately? I would imagine they are struggling to keep subscribers in the premium channel packages that include these channels. Continuing to pay for channels at the rates content producers are asking isn't supported by customer demand. One could argue that Directv doesn't need to charge their custome...
This is the same thing that happened with G4TV. They wanted more money and DirecTV said no. Now there is no G4 on DirectTV. I'm calling today to find out when I'm paid up til. I'm gonna cancel it and if they don't have these channels back before my time is up I'll go back to Dish or Cable. I'm past being fed up with ...
It's a little more complex than that. This is all endemic of the paradigm shift we're seeing in the fees cable networks receive. Originally fees paid, while heavily based on ratings, was also based on the perceived "need" to be in certain basic subscriptions or premium packages. That's how ESPN can net $4.69 a subscrib...
For those asking about an a-la-carte cable system: An a-la-carte cable system would be the death of your favorite niche networks. Niche networks have a very small fanbase when compared to the major networks. Of that very small fanbase, only a percentage of them are willing to pay, and another percentage is pirating...
That's about what it is here for a 5Mbit internet and digitial TV (with select channels in HD). I don't have cable, but I pay $10 extra for faster download and upload speeds. Amazon Prime and Netflix are damn cheap, so cheap you could get Hulu premium account too if you felt the need. You'd have so much money left over...
Apple has just as much if not more fragmentation then Google's ecosystem for Android. You then go on to complain about changing from the 30-pin to a 19-pin connector, leaving out both the reasons for using a 30-pin connector in the first place (audio, video, and power, not just data connectivity) and the fact that th...
I definitely agree with this decision. For those who want some backstory, basically a child died from eating a few neodymium magnets and the CPSC issued a voluntary total recall of all of them. Their reason was that "The Ages 13+ label is insufficient and not clear enough." An equivalent action would be for the CPSC...
People generally try to blanket ban stuff because they're afraid of them. People are generally afraid of things because they don't understand them. CPSC needs to understand magnets.
i'm familiar with the overall story, but could you
Original Equipment Manufacturer. In short: Someone who builds something for someone else to use. If you buy an HP or Dell or even a prebuilt mom-and-pop-shop PC, the person you're giving the money to is the OEM. If you build your own, there's no OEM, no middleman. OEM Windows licenses are cheaper because the Microsof...
I don't like your blame the victim approach. People have a tremendous amount of things to worry about, their jobs, their health, their children, etc. etc. and you can't expect everyone to be an expert on every aspect of modern life. Also, I have heard that about half of all people are below average in intelligence an...
This probably wont be seen at this point, but something I've been mulling over is proactive privacy legislation. Yes, we live in a surveillance society (Hi!), but what about something that acknowledges it instead of pretending we can roll it back? Say, for instance, a bill that goes "Yes, every piece of information...
I've never had a bad time using IE9, but I only use it when the site requires me to, or when on a user's PC that doesn't have an alternate installed. I just.. I need my add-ons, man. AdBlock Plus, some web music Scrobbling addons for my Last.Fm, NoScript, and Grab-And-Drag for my tablet. Besides that, it's got grea...
I got given a free copy of BF3 by EA because of this. That day a few weeks ago when it was $10, I bought it, or at least thought I did at around 7pm. I was wondering why the email took so long but eventually got to doing something else and forgot about it. The next day the price was back to $39.99 so I was like "fuck i...
Passwords are inherently flawed as anything which requires you to give away your secret to authenticate is. One of the first things I wrote as a young teenager in high school during the 80's was a fake login screen (networked BBC Micros) which captured password as the flaw was obvious even to my young mind. Personall...
What is this, an article for ants? Seriously, why even post this 3rd grade level shit.
I'm so fucking important because I write in bold .
The turn by turn honestly sucks in comparison to Apple Maps. The voice navigation is a lot less descriptive: "turn right" rather than "in 0.5 miles, turn right onto 35th st north". It also tells you to turn about two blocks away from your actual turn. So if you've got the phone in your lap and aren't looking at it, you...
At the risk of getting downvoted to hell.. He didn't die for this. He died because he committed suicide. He (likely) succumbed to the pressure and depression of being prosecuted in court. Its not like he had a choice between this leak and death. Don't get me wrong, I understand the significance of his death. I...
That is incorrect, pc sales have dropped for a variety of reasons, hardware stagnation is only one reason. The classical Desktop Allround PC is indeed dead. Simply because it has been replaced by a series of devices that can do everything it can, "better". For instance, everything office related can easily be done ...
PCI ran at 133MBytes/second. IDE wasn't that fast. Source:
The desktop as a home's digital nerve center has been an idea for a long time, but it hasn't taken off because everyone makes it so complicated. It should store your files, especially media. It should connect to the TV and stereo, play movies and music and photos, run the phone system, home security, and much more. It ...
I've never met a casual PC user who wasn't disappointed / frustrated with windows 8. Scrolling through 8 different windows to get to the one fucking thing I want? Genius! Making me have to scroll over to the main window, then having to type into the search bar for the control panel just to change a setting? Brilliant...
I think you're just bad at having a computer dude.... hes running dX10 which has significantly lower processing requirements thus it improves performance in all aspects.. also most dx11 games that don't detect a dx11 go down to dx9.
This is really only part of the answer and in reality, the role of the desktop in the consumer world has shifted. What really happened is that new products dis-aggregated consumer consumption. Sounds fancy, but what does it really mean? Think back 5 years (give or take) and your only access point at home was eithe...
I think tablets will revitalize the desktop industry. The whole reason people migrated from desktops to laptops was because laptops were more portable and (though providing less power) were able to do most stuff that most people need to do most of the time. For the few big applications that few people use a few times (...
You were downvoted not once, but twice, and I'd like to explain why as neither were from me. WoW's entire, yearlong cost is $180, should you purchase month by month. WoW is an MMO, which means it is a time sink, as is every other form of entertainment. The concept that WoW somehow costs more money than other forms of e...
Does the concept of market saturation no longer exist in tech? I find it pretty awful that all of these manufacturers expect their sales to continually move north, or even to remain stable, when people should be able to buy one and just have it last for a reasonable period of time. I find it kind of offensive that when...
Don't just pick the "best reviewed" parts, though. I am definitely a layperson and I started by picking the parts with the best ratio of reviews/price that I could find, but then I took that part list to literally dozens of pc building forums/communities ( /r/buildapc ) and got advice and alternative options on a lot...
Exactly. Look at home networking. It NEVER works easily. Setting up router connections, MAC addresses and fuck knows what else. It is too much for the average person. Hell, I like computers and it is too annoying. That's why Macs sell. That's why I recommend Macs to people who don't know anything about comput...
People keep saying consoles are obsolete pieces of crap, but I'm on the opposite end. I can't understand how these little boxes of old timey-time hardware can produce what is arguably really pretty graphics, admittedly not at 60fps/1080p, but still. Upscaled 720p doesn't look BAD on my 42" 1080p TV. It just looks "less...
This is very wrong, there's tons of stuff that uses open standards. Almost all AV equipment(tvs, receivers, blu-rays, even apple's appleTV and googles failure copy of it) has the same standard inputs and outputs such as RCA jacks, HDMI, VGA or whatever. They all output standard signals that can go from device to device...
Death to FOX, ABC, NBC, and every other major distributor out there. Nobody wants you or will miss you when you are gone. You are the ones that are destroying the entertainment industry. Who owns FOX? News Corp -- the same people that own 20th Century Fox. Disney owns ABC , NBC is part of NBCUniversal, which owns U...
I purchased a GoPro a few months ago and I've been pretty shocked at how poor that thing is for the price people pay for it. To put simply, the manufacturer doesn't give a shit about the users. I pre-ordered a GoPro 3 and when I received it, I spent a few days trying to figure out how to turn on the wifi streaming fe...
You're see it the way the telcos want you to see it. They don't discount the phone, they just jack up the price of the plan incredibly. T-Mobile is offering unlimited data, text and 100 minutes / mo for 30 bucks. The same plan on the other telcos is at least 60 dollars. So you're paying 30 dollars a month for your ph...
Wow this guy is cool because he swears in public. I'm going to "stop the bullshit" and give him a lot of my money because of his cool swears.
When the carrier says "Unlimited", they have a limit to the data where they come out profitable. If you use less than 5GB (hypothetical number) of data on your unlimited plan, they come out on top. If you use more than 5GB, they come out unprofitable. Essentially, the carriers were betting on how much data you were goi...
It's ironic that everything they accuse their U.S. competitors of their mother company Deutsche Telekom does in Germany. >Two year contracts: check >High prices: check Also: >Suppressing competition: check >Responsible for low internet speeds: check They just recently announced traffic caps for home interne...
Why in the world are unlocked cell phones still so expensive? Let's take an unlocked Galaxy S3. It costs $470 on amazon. Now let's take something like the Nexus 7 tablet. Specifications-wise, compared to the 4g nexus 7 model, they are roughly identical. The Nexus 7 has a slightly bigger screen, but is lacking a rea...
For those saying it isn't subsidized..I can't see where you get that from. You aren't financing the phone over 3 years, you are signing an agreement stating that you agree to exclusively use their service over the three years. Cancellation fees and data fees are to recoup costs of the phone itself if you decide to canc...
No, they are not. You're confusing what a device can do in relation to what we already have around us, rather than actual production cost. Aside from being able to shit these phones out all day long, on what's obviously borrowed tech (little or NO r&d required), it's not like you can play the latest Bioshock on 'em, ...
Just ran into this shit show when I tried to add the Verizon Jetpack. Wanted to have WiFi on the train for my morning commutes so I could stream Netflix. Here were my options: 1GB Monthly Data: I could watch a half hour's worth of HD Netflix on my iPad. Then my data would be gone for the month. $50/month . $600 a ...
It's more like universal / socialized healthcare. Everybody who has the same carrier shares in the cost for everyone to own the latest and greatest smartphone. Except in this case, it's like universal Galaxy / iPhone care.
The basic has a limit before going to a reduced speed. For $10 more, its 2gb. For $20 more, its unlimited (completely). So $70/mo (for the very first line only) for unlimited data, text, and minutes. The second line is an additional $30/mo, and another unlimited is another $20. Grand total for two phones, unlimi...
Except he's full of shit too. Before their change over on plans, T-Mobile had an Internet-only 100 minutes, unlimited text, and unlimited data prepaid plan for $30/month. Now I have to pay an extra $40 every month for voice minutes I don't use, or can circumvent using VoIP over LTE? And when he bashes other "carrie...
So....here's my thing. I'm half deaf. When I talk on the phone, it consumes all of my focus. I can't do anything else or else I miss what the person is saying and I have to ask "what?" a bunch of times. I'm also all over the place, constantly doing multiple things at once so when my focus is solely on a phone convers...
Well you do need to have something on scientific record. Studies like these exist for more substantial studies to follow them up. That's how psychology works, you start with the correlational then you use that data to set up lab experiments to provide evidence for directionality. You have to do this study because when ...
It's very important to note that this is a correlational study. While the article makes it sound like frequent texting causes shallow thinking, it is equally as likely that being a shallow thinker makes people text more.
Let me say that I believe this is an example of a news website sensationalizing an interesting and impressive story for the purpose of making money. This article is terrible. First off, the first line is "Have we found the next tech millionaire genius?" This is a terrible opener and it draws comparisons to the founde...
FYI, this is just Samsung Electronics revenue. Samsung the conglomerate is even larger - FY2010 generated 280 trillion KWN (~245 billion USD). I wasn't able to find FY2012 revenue for Samsung the conglomerate, but FY2010 Samsung Electronic revenue was 154.63 trillion KWN (~134 billion USD), so everything else equal, Sa...
Sorry, should have been more specific. First, kids don't WEAR SHIRTS that say "Fuck," because of the dress code. Second, I was talking about DIRECTLY CONFRONTING a teacher. Caps to make things easier to see. Also, you made a mistake on your "
Ding Ding Ding. When I was a senior in private high school (5 years ago), I had a Resource Officer walk into my school in full tactical gear and interrogate my little brother until he was shaking and crying, then swore a warrant for my arrest. Apparently some kid at the public school was pursued by the officer off of...
So yeah this is bad, but in reality you do need to watch what you post online. I don't get why people get angry if they get in trouble for underage drinking, stealing, partying, etc... In the real world your employers and colleges look at your Facebook and anything linked to it. Posting stupid shit to a public database...
The only news here is that somebody wrote a script to help schools track their students. Dont you people realize Jonathan Postel and his friends have benn watching everything everybody does online since the beginning of the internet? He has to know this stuff or the internet would have fallen apart long ago.
For those of you throwing out "1st Amendment" and "Freedom of Speech" like they will protect/explain why this is a bad thing, please do a little research. Specifically: 1) The 1st Amendment does NOT protect ALL speech. Libel, fighting words, provocations to violence, and obscenity are all UNprotected. In other words,...
I assume you are saying that there is freedom of expression in schools, which I disagree with for a few reasons (and others): School dress codes. If a student were to wear a shirt that said "Fuck the Government," he/she would be told to cover it to avoid offending anyone who didn't like the word "fuck." Though yo...
Risk management department? Every student bring a risk management department with them: it is their legal guardian(s)/parent(s). If the kids are tweeting inappropriate stuff and it leads to an incident, the ultimate responsibility falls on the parents. If an incident happens at school and they could have caught it ...
So a lot of comments already, and this will probably get lost in the shuffle, but here goes anyway. I am a teacher at a private high school near St. Louis, MO. Although I am unsure about whether or not I want my school to adopt this type of system, I can see its merits. I noticed a lot of posters (most of whom I'm as...
It goes without saying tho, that if a student gets punished for something said on social media, or something they do outside of school, those parents have every right to sue the school, and the parents will win. You are absolutely wrong . In some circumstance , and in some jurisdictions , a student may prevail in...
Narcotics officers that chose that profession specifically? Yes. But the overwhelming majority of cops in general? Absolutely not. My particular town had some nasty cops but the surrounding areas had some really great guys as a rule, not an exception. When I was 19 and back visiting I was robbed at gunpoint by an old...
So, using cameras and audio recording in malls, in which scenario is the school more justified in intervening: a student tells his/her friends something in a crowded food court and a school administer overhears it or the student posts something online and Geo Listening catches it? In both cases, it's publicly available...
The idea of this system is a good one, but there are several major flaws with it. Being a student myself, I feel that my tweets/facebook/reddit/etc. posts should be my own. It's none of anyone's business, especially some third party I have never met or seen, to pry into my private life, aggregate my social media info, ...
Sadly schools don't waste money on risk management. And its not the students that are a risk, its those dam employees that district have to worry about. When a Student get hurt we call the parent or the ambulance and generally thats the end of it. We have to really have to legitimately screwed up negligently for pub...
Okay, I'm going to try to explain this as I see a lot of incorrect explanations of quantum teleportation here. First thing you need to know is the no cloning theorem . Basically if I have an arbitrary quantum state, it is impossible to duplicate it. If you measure it in order to try to learn about the state and make...
Another analogy that might help. Imagine a special pair of dice. When rolled, they will always add up to 7, but only on the first roll after touching each other. Now you have no way of encoding information onto the dice, but you can use it to create an encryption key. Say you roll a 4, you know the other die reads 3....
In 1997, quantum bit teleportation was successfully achieved," Oh, so this is old news ??? . . . > "but as I said just now, it was only achieved in a probabilistic sense." Well, I didn't read or hear you say it, but, okay, so this is new news - cool . . . >In 1998, we used a slightly different method to succeed...
That was actually a really good read. Got into a lot of the details without getting too messy with unfamiliar terminology. Thanks! (also, I'd say this is basically the
I think this is exactly his point. Who logically reads a post about one brand and its suspect manufacturing and then tries to justify it by saying others do it too. It seems like someone took offense to something negative coming out about their favorite product. I get it, I do it with the Detroit Lions all the time. ...
I think it's important to differentiate that the article about the xbox "720" was released in may, and the article here was written (as was its chinese source) in the last few days. If you don't think it's news that Sony is assembling at foxconn so be it, but I fail to find the bias you do in the article. They're the...
No, but it seems like these cases always pop up for huge projects with an upcoming global release. I can't prove this, but here's how I believe it works: Foxconn accepts big project (i.e., iphones, PS4, etc...something that's going to be sold globally and that people really want so they need to make a ton) Fo...
Microsoft's business is now based on inertia. Most people just want to "do stuff" on their computer and the thought of changing to something different is literally scary. This is one of the most powerful reasons why people won't even consider switching from Microsoft Office or Windows. Touchscreens was the new tech o...
yeah sure. no wonder, you hate everyone at your job. instead of actually hearing about the problem, you will bitch about why people don't accept your solution. here is a real life tip for you. if you keep solving a different problem than what requires a solution, people will keep whining. so, try and understand the a...
IT guy here. One of the things I do is build custom PCs for offices. Simply because a PC built from parts will always be cheaper, faster, prettier and will have better warranty than anything from the big OEMs. The distributors where I buy my parts all still have Windows 7 and 8 for sale. It depends on the situation...
Shortly after the Note first came out, I knew about its existence but hadn't seen it. I went to view a house and we were meeting the agent, a short chubby lady. Right as we walked up she got a phone call and pulled the Note out of her giant purse and stuck it to her face, and I burst out laughing for a few seconds. Hon...
OpenGL didn't do what was needed. Just ask Carmak after he ported Quake to a mini OpenGL implementation on 3dfx Voodoo. A game custom designed for one video card, and not a cheap one. That is exactly the problem that needed solving. DirectX didn't require consumers to upgrade their hardware every few years, and a ...
Off of the legal portion of their website: "The inclusion of any products or services on this website at a particular time does not imply or warrant that these products or services will be available at any time"
This is wrong. Tracking happens because when you request a page, the website can take a note with your IP, a timestamp and the exact URL you requested. This kind of logging is widespread and won't go away (as it's used to fight spam, take statistics, etc), but it can be used to correlate your IP address to a given acce...
I feel like this is going to get downvoted deeper than backdoor sluts 9 but I have had google fiber for about 2.5 years now (I live in one of the first trial cities) and it honestly is not all everyone makes it out to be. It frequently disconnects, is often slow, and is only fast if you use an Ethernet cable on the ro...
Cox is the only real option in my area. They have always been very helpful, and offer 150 mbts package which is very fast for this area (unfortunately.) It's way better than the 25 down you get from AT&T. Their service is good, and they can be reasoned with over stupid charges like $60 for some guy to come out, sit i...
I dont think people think of it as "hippie anarchism". I think the notion of these actions have been degraded. For example, riots can just be people trying to make violence sound meaningful, like the London riots. The vast majority where just looters. As for over throwing a government, most of the people you see ment...
Oh, no it doesn't. I understand these things pretty well and I am trying to help you. I just wanted to know the limits of your understanding before I offered anything up. See you can't actually weaken an algorithm, so much. Because random numbers don't truly exist you can do things from hardware/software perspectiv...
Your logic is true except for the chip & pin portion. It's very hard to say "all these guys are bad, all these other guys are good!", I understand that, but to say that chip & pin implementation would have been slacked on by the retailers is an outrageous statement, especially in the banking world. Banks had the ch...
No no no no, no no no. As someone working in the business encryption field, this is inherent fault of banks and credit card. Ignore this lawyer talk of who is at legal fault, cause that's just blame game that will not help consumer. To create a secure system, the technical aspects mean you must originate from the ba...
I can't find any assertions by Merchant Consumer Exchange (MCX), the makers of CurrentC, as to why they need this information. Here's some likely theories, though: When paying with a paper check at a retailer, they'll ask for similar information, usually drivers license to get the DL number. I believe this is used ...
If you're an American citizen you have rights and the states are not supposed to be allowed to take them away. Well, before incorporation of rights (14th amendment iirc), that was the point. The federal government couldn't pick a religion, or restrict arms or whatever, but the states could (as they were sovereign s...
One the other hand, the article says that the banks have used covering the risk of information theft as justification for higher fees the banks charge the merchant any time a credit card is used. This can [hurt small businesses]( more than the large ones. It seems as though small businesses are helping to subsidize big...
But it really isn't. If it really were "extremely dangerous" no one would do it. I get it, millions of traffic deaths per year, etc. etc, preventable, sure. But that doesn't make it inherently more dangerous than other activities like, say, bungee jumping or skydiving. The problem is that 1) driving is an activity th...
Of course I'm being downvoted. Reddit's hivemind skews toward lower wage workers that have never owned or operated a business. Income != Profit. The profit will likely stay roughly the same, the premiums will be lower because there is less payouts in a lower risk situation. I can get insurance against a ninja at...
Why wouldn't they? They'll get sued, they'll pay out $3 million (literally nothing to Google), use it to fix the bug, and then move on. How many times will this happen? 100 times in the first year? That's $300 million, which is nothing more than a moderate-sized startup acquisition for Google, they make a dozen of thes...
As I understand it, Moore's Law deals specifically with our current silicon-based chip design. There are limits to how small components can be made. If they're small enough, the standard model of physics no longer applies. At that point, the parts are governed by quantum mechanics, which are unpredictable and can't be ...
Alright I can give some perspective. At one point in my career I was a government scientist working for a national laboratory. I won't say which one, but everything we worked on was classified. It is the very nature of science and forensics types to want to collect data,we had a large budget, and while we weren't was...
EDIT : Correcting numbers once again. Differential in the summer: 7 cents. Differential in the winter: 4 cents. Average: 5.5 cents. (It should probably be lower, because people use more power in the winter.) So the $2,000 is back when you have used about 2,000/0.055 ≃ 36,400 kWh. Lets assume you use 10 kWh per da...
So what about pale Swedes with platinum blonde hair? Very little contrast among those type of people considering their eyelashed, eyebrows, skin, hair, lips, and teeth are all relatively the same shade. These people are likely picked up fine on this type of software and are plainly visible on most webcams. Drop your wh...