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I think you're giving Amazon way too much. I consider myself pretty typical of the average consumer and I buy some things on Amazon but not very often. I use Google multiple times everyday,Amazon maybe once a month at the most and even then I don't buy every time. Even I do buy its usually things I can't find in sto...
My point was purely about the mast geography. The maximum cell size is down to head of poulation served, far more often than maximum range of masts. That is certainly the key point in urban environments, in rural ones things can be pretty spread out. Femto cells can be very handy in a rural situation too. Masts, wh...
Think if it like your TV, it has to be using some power to keep the receiver looking for that signal to turn "on". So in order to work your device, like your TV, is never truly off. It's in a low power standby state. Now one of the problems with cellphones and power usage in standby is that they need to talk to with ...
This blog post is pretty lazy and completely misses every major point. It's not that the technology doesn't yet exist for 1920x1200 and higher monitors. Those were actually more prevalent in 2000-2008. DVI is a non-issue given that even the cheapest desktop pc's come with a discrete graphics card (which almost...
Yes, we've been through this on Reddit a few times but I'd be happy to reiterate. Macintosh computers are PCs unless they're Mac Servers or Mac Workstations in which case they're not PCs, they're servers or workstations respectively. In Apple's advertising, a "PC" is defined as "a home computer running Windows OS". E...
Yes, IBM called it "personal computer", and the instruction book for the TRS-80 called it a "personal computer". Nobody called it an "IBM personal computer" any more than they called it an "IBM 5150", unless you're writing a purchase order. To disagree with me, you'd really want to be finding historical pictures talk...
People, AMD conceded the race when they sold their fabs and rightly so. They know they can't go head to head with Goliath whose R&D budget is more than they net in a year - it's suicide. Selling their fabs gave them the cash to stay alive and [edit] instead of perpetually playing 'follow the leader' and repeating ...
This was 15,000 signatures for something as obscure and specific as software patents. It's not like marijuana or taxes where there is a much public support against it as for it. Those who have an opinion on the subject are most likely middle-class citizens who work in the field and directly see the issues with the curr...
Like some of the folks here have already said, SCOTUS has been aware of the dangers of GPS tracking for a while now and though they did allow warrantless tracking devices in US v. Knotts, the court later limited that decision in US v. Karo by saying that warrantless trackers that went into locations not open to visual ...
Did you fail English or something? I have said nothing whatsoever that could possibly be construed as having a meaning anywhere CLOSE to that of what you just wrote.
This calculation assumes people do not effect other people using wireless service in the same area. It is important to note that wireless service uses bandwidth and each cell phone tries to communicate with the tower for that honeycomb area. With more people in an area you have to have more towers, and it becomes mor...
It wasn't "deregulation" that caused much of the problems, but rather right of way contracts and almost universal ban on above ground cable in most US neighborhoods. Actually, the many ways that the US government subsidizes suburbanization and the lateral expansion of neighborhoods contributes to the fact that most US...
apple most definately does, and has, pulled peoples music from their ipod devices. No. No they don't. >i've witnessed this in person, and recently. No. No you haven't. > friend of mine asked if he could install itunes on my computer to check out some new music he was thinking of buying. as soon as itunes is run...
I've been thinking about this myself. Running an e-mail server, in particular, is really tough to do on a residential internet line. If you have a dynamic IP your netblock is probably on an email blacklist. I'd have to pay an extra $100 to get a Static IP just to run my own e-mail server.
Apple wanted Google to update the maps app on iOS to be on par w/ Android Google wanted more money, integration of Latitude functionality (find friends locally), extra branding of Google Apple said screw-u-guys we gonna make our own shiddy maps app
I love it when people assume that the way they are doing things is the only way they can be done. The entire point was that the entire service area was within a 2 mile radius. The build out was planned to be gradual, and we were taking full advantage of an unusually dense area to avoid a large part of the "last mile"...
I think it depends on what we define as high speed internet. Since satellite broadband only gets a maximum of 10 Mbps, but realistically much lower speeds than that with large caps and high prices (think $130 a month for 25 GB, or 6 movies on netflix) The problem is the low reliability, relatively low speeds and hi...
Basically, as has been covered and discussed for months on reddit, this will never ever actually do a fucking thing. ISPs don't give a shit. Period. If they did, they'd already be bending over to groups like MGM who out source detection to other groups, who in turn bully the ISP who in turn are supposed to bully the us...
There exists a thing called multiplexing and demultiplexing. Look it up. Plus, they're entirely different interfaces, the whole point of the processor is to convert between them.
I could not imagine any ethical or moral reason as to why one should be allowed to kill other beings... >>I personally prefer not to be bitten by mosquitoes. Is it immoral to kill them? >Are you asking for permission to kill and eat Mosquitos? I think that your goal is to be absurd, so I am not sure how much energy I...
amen, bro. I'm a semi-cord cutter but tried to #SaveHappyEndings, the cool ensemble comedy from cancellation for the past few months. I was met with hostility and blunt rudeness from any/all attempts to get word from ABC, and they cancelled my SHOW.
That's the part that's hilarious. ABC is also afraid of AERO, it is a service where basically a user can rent an antennae to stream shows to any internet capable device (Phone/iPad). I can't install an antenna/don't really want to but for a few bucks a month I can pay this company to stream any over the air content v...
there are three problems here that ABC is failing to recognize. First of all ABC is trying to punish the customers even though the customers are rebelling against the cable company, there monopolistic powers and there ridiculous prices. Secondly, I understand that ABC is trying to lure the customers back by making the ...
Endanger" The people that would continue to drive (and yes as long as there are working manually driven cars that are road worthy there will always be manually driven cars on the road...at least in the us...i can maybe see some european countries banning them), manually for pleasure (rather than due to money, depen...
That last line sums up everything that I, and most people, think. It's the
One could have anticipated the changes and moved from brick and mortar to an online retail system ala amazon. Really the only reason I go to Best Buy is to actually see the device in person. Didn't really take a wizard to see how great Amazon could become. Just took an investment. They probably didn't want to rei...
If you downloaded the torrent from a reputable tracker then there is a near zero chance of getting a virus. If the tracker webpage has a comment section then the virus would be exposed quickly and seeds would stop. If it has a trusted uploader system then it reduces the chances even further. And finally, if the torrent...
I agree that there are plenty of baby boomers that led the charge on the technology revolution, and know more than most of the techies of the younger generations. The problem is that they didn't grow up with it, so the majority don't instinctively think of using technology to automate stuff. I was in the same position ...
But you wouldn't give them more money then the cable companies are. If HBO sold there shows directly to the customer they might make more money but it would be more variable. They would only make a lot of money on the good original shows. On the other hand if they go through the cable providers they get a large gua...
But you wouldn't give them more money then the cable companies are. If HBO sold there shows directly to the customer they might make more money but it would be more variable. They would only make a lot of money on the good original shows. On the other hand if they go through the cable providers they get a large gua...
If HBO sold there shows directly to the customer they might make more money but it would be more variable. They would only make a lot of money on the good original shows. On the other hand if they go through the cable providers they get a large guaranteed chunk of money on a ongoing basis.
If HBO sold there shows directly to the customer they might make more money but it would be more variable. They would only make a lot of money on the good original shows. On the other hand if they go through the cable providers they get a large guaranteed chunk of money on a ongoing basis.
Wow, such a good internet samaritan! You two really are making life better for all of us. Of course, if you take 30 seconds to think about why PayPal survives, it's actually very simple: they make it easy and relatively risk free for the people paying. There are, as I'm sure you're aware, far more people looking to b...
I'm going to tell you why people can't boycott paypal. It essentially has a monopoly within the United States, is used majorly for ebay and other big companies as well for virtual payments. Moneybookers is my prefered payment method however their marketing in the U.S. is virtually zero, you can't add money to moneybook...
I fucking hate when people do this. Every redditor knows how to google. When someone asks a question here they are looking for the collective knowledge of the people to give them an answer that google cannot. I could google alternatives to paypal and spend 30 minutes reading up on advantages and disadvantages, or I cou...
I never used to understand the hate people had for paypal, before i had to deal with them myself. My account which I had not used in a while was taken over. I had ~$5 on it, so it was more of a blow to my ego then my wallet. I never bothered reporting it, I figured $5 wasn't worth the hassle. Instead I changed the pa...
The list in the comment you replied to goes like this: bad, okay, okay, good, good, good, bad, good, good, bad, good, good, bad, good, and finally okay, because people have differing opinions on W8. If we count them, the score ends up like this: 4 bad 3 okay 8 good There's over half that are good, and only 26...
I honestly believe a lot of Redditors believe XP should be alive and supported 10-20 years from now. I can speak only for myself, but yes, I stand firmly in that camp. The endless cycle of operating system obsolescence-for-obsolescence's sake is a Bad Thing in many different ways. it is clearly driven by corpora...
It bit the driver/software compatibility/hardware requirement bullet for windows 7. Installing laptop drivers in XP was a huge pain that, as computer shop employee, we had to fix a lot. Windows 7 was so much more compatible and I very much liked that. And I suppose Vista had the same since it used the same method, ...
I've aggressively purged work of Windows XP and Server 2003 Windows 7 was the cure. The computers that ran XP were failing left and right due to age and although we never got a virus due to me being an awesome and somewhat paranoid admin, I always feared its lack of security compared to NT6 platforms (Vista, 7, 8)....
If you're going to count all the minor update OS's for apple you really need to count the SP updates for Windows. Apples to Apples. We can even leave off the minor service packs. XP SP2 Vista SP1 8 SP1 .1 So to be fair I would say it is 7 to 10. I could also knock down some of the Apple revisions as being no mo...
God damn it Microsoft. You basically told wanna be hackers how to hack XP using security updates for newer OSes. Then press release the fact that this could happen, in an attempt to get money from people as they flocked to newer OSes. When they didn't just hand you cash in droves you then pretty much said "fuck 'em".
Wrong again, please stop. I do say "Oh my God", because it is a common expression, I also say anything I want without projecting any ancient moral or societal constructs. I am a human. I used to hate all religions, but this was a result of a life I don't have the time nor intention to share with you. But I outgrew it, ...
I am one of those people who will keep buying digital cameras and DSLRs. This is the key sentence. Once you will become one of those few people companies will stop producing affordable mid range equipment as it will not be profitable or affordable for them anymore. Basic economy - you can make cheaper shit the more...
I think Blue Ocean is at work here. Rather than say "objective camera quality is the primary value in the market for cameras", and thus extrapolating "a camera of inferior quality is not valuable in the market", a 'market based value' would be, 'what best allows purchasers of cameras to fulfill their desires'? And ...
Typical displays refresh what is on the screen at a set interval (most at 60 times per second). Graphics cards render frames in an animation as quickly as possible, and it varies (80 times one second, then a big explosion in game drops it to 30 the next). This constant mismatch results in tearing (the display was half ...
Actually several municipalities in the US have done this . Chattanooga, TN was one of the first to offer gigabit speeds and now more municipalities are following suit. Local legislators from Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Ireland, Brazil, as well as from all over the US have come to Chattanooga to see how they did it...
Let's see. I make a statement that says the US has laws preventing municipal broadband. You go off on a tangent about how the US did it first and we have it in few these places, something that I was not addressing in my original post at all. I mean shit if you're going to argue you should at least argue on topic at ...
True.. For some reason though I imagined the elevator zipping off to space at mind blowing speeds (like 10km/s kinda speeds). With that kind of velocity the forces due to acceleration on the 'tether' wouldn't be irrelevant in my opinion. I suppose I should've said something more along the lines of "depends how fast you...
Worked for Verizon customer service for 6 months, they have so much money but they don't care, the Call waiting queue at around 2PM there are ~600 callers waiting to be helped, this queue status is like that every day for around 4 hours, all other hours there are also people in queue but less than 200. I also saw so ma...
My wife just asked me why the Verizon bill went up again. I haven't had time to investigate it but we just recently got rid of a top box we don't use and turned off our premium channels, except HBO, to try to save some money. Of course we couldn't do this without changing our plan and since the speeds we had were 35/35...
That's what Intel said about the cpuid instruction when it came out "Oh, that software accessible unique per chip id query instruction will be user controlled, disable in bios if you want and a reboot will be necessary to enable it again". Yeah about that... hackers (Chaos Computer Club) discovered you can reenable a...
Here's a point of view to contrast with all the paranoid, anti-government types: Both sides introduce stupid bills all the time which aim to solve one problem, but in a worst-case scenario could be used for some terrible, unintended purpose. This isn't happening because every level of government is made up of Trots...
Right. Some consumers may want this feature added to their devices, and that's great. But that change should come from a dialog between the manufacturers and an informed consumer base. The state of California should have nothing to say about this feature being mandatory because there is no genuine or serious public saf...
It's important to note that this comparison only measures the company's operational energy usage, not the impact of the products they produce. Apple has made huge strides to be able to claim they only use renewable energy to produce their products, even though the products themselves may create a lot of e-waste. ...
The Internet is shitty on campus for reasons beyond TWC. I want you to go to a library computer and run a speedtest. Or even run a speed test on your computer with an ethernet cord. The library being the best case, you'll probably pull 800 mbps down (that is not a typo). Internet on campus isn't being destroyed by the ...
Years ago some scientists strapped a monkey's arms to it's side and implanted a controller into the base of his brain for a robotic arm. They put an apple in front of it and it flailed around until realizing that it could control the robot arm. It eventually had no problem feeding itself with the arm, the brain just ki...
there is so much negativity towards him in this thread over this... I'm not sure I understand why. Don't worry, reddit always shits on any new potential product, development, design, idea, etc. Don't take it too personally, most of the dissenters are too insecure to accomplish much in their own lives and need to pout...
CPA, here. Tesla is only 12-years-old. Some could still classify it as a start up, and negative cash flow is expected in a company's infancy. Makes sense given their investments in manufacturing/infrastructure. Between [2012 and 2013]( total assets more than doubled -- and revenues quadrupled. Once they start paying ...
Tesla - and indeed cars like them, need to be the future. It is foolish to assume that we should sit on this dated technology that we know is negatively effecting our environment. No one is questioning that the industrial revolution wasn't amazing. It was an incredible time for technology, and we managed to do amazing ...
Togetherness, Veep, True Detective, Silicon Valley, John Oliver, Vice, and Hard Knocks are all top notch current shows. From the back catalog, Deadwood, Rome, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Newsroom, Eastbound & Down, The Wire, Flight of the Conchords, and Da Ali G Show are all worth watching beginning to end. The Larry S...
That is true. Everyone seems to think that when Goolge announces that they're coming to a city, it just magically gets hooked up. I live in Kansas City, and it took them two years AFTER the announcement just to offer sign-ups in my area. It has now been over a year since the whole rally and "Yeah, our Fiberhood is gett...
I switched from AT&T to my cities internet. AT&T was charging me prices for speeds that I never got. I was probably getting about half on a good day and when I called them about it they told me they couldn't give the speed they offered in my area. Not sure how that's legal...
I've been 100% pleased with my FiOS for the last 4 years, even brought my account with me through a move. They even gave me free HBO after downgrading my TV package to basic (from deluxe). That was a year ago and I still watch HBO almost everyday.
Skepticism is fine. In order to be a good skeptic you need to attack supporting evidence for an idea or point out a lack of evidence supporting an idea. The person who he is responding to gave no details on why it was bad and made pretty bold claims of their own that now need to be supported, which they did not do. T...
I want to preface this by saying that I am a supporter of net neutrality. However, I have a problem with the first conceit in this argument. He asserts that data is data, and implies that there is no difference between delivery of 1GB of text data, and 1GB of video data. I can say with certainty after three years try...
This is the biggest thing that upsets me in this debate. All these "technical" redditors don't understand that streaming quality video without interruption is significantly different than text/image files. I'm not making excuses for ISPs but yeah, I can see where they're coming from. What they need to do is upgrade the...
Except utility status will regulate the shitty practices of the current players in the market. As far as new competitors and innovation are concerned, I have Google Fiber and can tell you that the infrastructure currently in place is so far beyond what normally connected users can even imagine. I'm not even worried abo...
Well, the thing is, almost every cable company in the U.S. is already a monopoly in the cities it services. It dates back to the earliest days of cable TV when it was decided that cable TV was a "natural monopoly" like, say, the water company. Each local cable company (no matter if it served 200 cities overall or just ...
I suppose I draw a distinction between TV and Internet videos that you don't. TV, to me, involves TV networks and TV production values and all of those corporate top-down assumptions. Those budgets require large-scale advertising, which demands every show appeal to a very broad audience. Internet videos are most li...
rant As OperaFanboy I always liked Firefox vs Opera flamewars. Then Chrome came out and I see all these firefox users starting to switch for one and only attribute - speed. Which as for Opera vs firefox flamewars has always been on Opera's side. Anyway these firefox-->chrome users seems to me as, hmmm how to say it...
When will the gov't learn to stop messing with the internet? It's great how it is and would benefit from MINOR tweaking on the pricing of said service. seriously...this isn't a "level playing field" bill, it's the "we're calling it a dog and giving you flaming turd" bill.
I glanced at the page. Yeah, he is complaining about how thumbnails images are set. But, it's an online social media application + video viewer. So I'm surprised at that complaint at all. He is specifically complaining about the post to boxee-proxy.appspot.com which goes to thetvdb.com to get images. He mentions want...
The answer to this (implied) question ("Why?!?") is that Korea was so far ahead of the curve WRT Internet banking that 128-bit SSL hadn't been implemented in browsers, so the government created an IE plug-in and mandated it for use in transactions. Remember back then? Netscape had lost, Mozilla was in nightlies, and P...
I couldn't get past page 2... can somebody kindly
merika fuck yeah praise jeebus watch your mouth around my children that young lady's skirt is too short don't be a slut yes your brother could date at your age but not you because you're a girl and it's 'different' plymouth rock puritans jeebus jeebus jeebus jeebus fucking morons I wish they'd die. Fuck.
Oh god you guys are so hilarious circlejerking. Downvote me all you want but this is what I hate most about reddit; the overly-sensationalized articles being spewed everyday. Listen, it's illegal for the government to spy on citizens, and it's especially illegal for the government to spy on you in your homes or priva...
In java you have to say what your variable type is on both sides of the equal sign on both sides of the equal sign redundantly. Repeating things so many times for no other reason then to remind you of how the internal workings work can really be annoying just to remind you how the internal processes work when much les...
Yet they can protect works from piracy They can try, but it is ultimately a losing battle. Look at the games industry legitimate customers can often get screwed by DRM and draconian anti piracy schemes. Whilst the pirates enjoy a completely hassle free experience. > and they are probably going to ramp those effor...
Indeed! And if people want to celebrate the birth of Jesus, than good for them. Also, if other people want to celebrate christmas as a time to sing along to Wham! songs, spending time with family, then that's great too. Lastly, I reckon plenty of people combine the two.
I think you might be slightly misleading here. Philosophical semantics is meaning. But semantics used in everyday conversation links more to interpretation of what's being said: ie meaning of a word, phrase, etc. In this scenario, Christmas warriors are arguing over semantics, as many people say "happy holidays" inte...
Merry Christmas' wouldn't actually make a whole lot of sense in my country. 'Happy Holidays' does though. We celebrate something called 'Jul' at the same time some other countries celebrate 'Christmas'. Jul is essentially just a month from the old Germanic time table, a month where people always celebrated the rising...
the objected doodle is from the 24th. the 25th doodle is traditionally a "Merry Christmas" doodle, complaints about the 24th doodle being "Happy Holidays" has resulted in the "Merry Christmas" Doodle being canceled.
If I'm understanding his comment correctly, the difference between then and now is simply that he is now older and wiser and less of an angsty teenager insecure about his religion. No one was ever shoving Christianity down his throat as a Jew, it just felt like that to him and he was wrong.
Have the Wii and Kinect actually changed the way we interact with computers? No. Wiis and Kinects were shovelware that just sits in the closet. They're closer to the pet rock in terms of technological advances than they are to, say, rockets or jets. The iPhone/iPad have changed things, I'll give you that. They finall...
I remember when I first moved here it was great but since, its all fallen apart. Edit: So were playing the blame game now. Great. I will say that NC used to be awesome, and still is, except for the government. As for what has been going on: /u/armstad and /u/flurben pretty much sum up what I have to say but I will ...
The reason I believe Tesla is keeping it in-house is so that the consumer has to pay a lower price on their cars, and thus are more likely to buy their cars. They would get payed the same, but customers wouldn't be as likely to buy it. If less customers buy their cars, they sell less to the dealers.
i'm a south carolinian prisoner of war being held across the border in NC. When I moved here it was a state known for electing conservatives into national office, but centrist democrats would always win the state government. This was remarkably consistent, for something like 100 years. I'm not particularly liber...
I think another main reason is, they are trying to create something new here and build a system around a product. There is a tipping point at which a larger charging network becomes economically feasible, so they need to get the product out there. Making it cheaper will help this. Granted what, 70-90k isn't exactly ...
You might as well give up. You are refuting blatant ignorance with less than a glowing smile and hand holding. Also, Libertarian think trains are pretty deeply engrained here. I feel the pain, but most people won't see the valid rebuttals because of the downvote system, so ignorance still wins.
Historically yes, from company towns to slave plantations to the current sex/slavery trade we've seen that of there is the tiniest bit of profit to be made from systematic exploitation of anyone weaker than you that it will be done. The thing to remember is that government didn't drop from heaven and we aren't the fir...
It's been done before - emulated a rare few times in high budget video games, blasphemed in many a film, and requires a lot of "fooling" the listener; when you record an environment like this - even with the best microphones - you are limiting yourself to the perspective of the microphone recording from your vantage po...
There's a lot more to it, but in the simplest terms: Header compression and using one single connection to access multiple forms of data. So, for example, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, images - anything hosted on that same page will be delivered on one connection, rather than the current model which uses multiple connection...
I don't think most humans can notice the difference. However, if you take a 16bit 44.1kHz sound sample and slow it down or speed it up slightly, then save it as 16bit 44.1kHz again, you will hear aliasing effects in that result. If you take a 24bit 96kHz sound sample of the same sound, and do the same speedup/slowd...
I can feel you on that. I've long since switched over to post-hardcore, skramz, emo, metal, shoegaze, math-rock, etc, where the focus isn't on the quality of the vocals but more so about how they're used. You still get tons of passionate, emotional performances, but no one's really hitting any insane notes like a more ...
Most of your post is simply FUD, and unjustified. You haven't in any way demonstrated that Chrome is a botnet, your claim that all input goes straight to GoogleHQ could pretty trivially be demonstrated false via Wireshark or other sniffing tools. And your claim about passwords is similarly FUD. They're not stored ...
Not even close. Mori Seiki isn't going to deliver to Iran, which means that the machine would have to be moved from its original install location, at which point it locks up. I have been to their manufacturing plants, these machines are incredibly heavy and require extreme care in proper installation and calibration, ...
I hate to break it to you guys but Facebook isn't going anywhere, it's largely a reddit opinion that it is. I had mine deactivated for 2 years a recently brought it back. Although it is a bit annoying I deleted a bunch of "friends" who had the most annoying drama which caused me to deactivate in the first place. Alt...
A bit of advice, most of the people that you're friends with in your 20's aren't still your friends in your 40's. It's not a statement that your friends are bad or anything, it's just that most people, as they get older, have less and less time, and the old friend from college that you text and email with loses priorit...
The problem is that the chat program is vulnerable to any attacks on the HTTPS protocol, because that is how the javascript is delivered. Since there are attacks based on the attacker breaking HTTPS between your site and the client, you cannot rely on your code & checksum being delivered to the client without being m...