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The slowed growth in hard drive development is not because of technical limitations, it's entirely due to a lack of competition in the market. There are only two major manufacturers of large hard drives left, Seagate and Western Digital. Between them, they've purchased nearly every other manufacturer. They've been...
Use incognito mode when you want to search for something that You would not want Google to record. ...You can also log into your Google account and go in the settings and delete everything they have recorded as far as searches go. Also they can only record if you are signed in. **
This is big topic, but in brief, AOSP is the kernel (linux) + middleware + basic applications, originally developed by Andy Rubin, now Google. It is under a mix of open source licenses. Your typical Google release then adds in proprietary licensed applications, such as Chrome browser and Play store. So pure AOSP has no...
Can we get some sources? I searched for awhile and yeah, google has a ton of government contracts, for infrastructure and software services.... People like Gizmodo then go ahead and make the jump: But theres no source that definitively says "google provided information knowingly and willingly". After the Prism thin...
Perhaps someone can point to a site that provides something like that.
It'd be nicely ironic if Twitter uses the power of their huge audience to convince the world that S&P's ratings are "junk" too. Remember [S&P rating manipulation (along with Moody's and Fitch)]( was arguably the main cause of the housing crisis a few years back. During that crisis it seems the main thing a positive...
That's not what they mean. I understand your concern. However, there are things more important than your convenience. The police would be within their rights to try to remove them and you would be justified in your anger. However, the only way protests become effective is if they're large enough to really inconvenience...
I am German and moved recently to California in the bay area. So for example on the 101 you have like 4 or 5 lines in the same direction. Which lane do you choose now? All of them are 65 mph, so it would not matter where you drive. The more right you drive the more stressful the driving gets to me as there are exits an...
I was born in 74, and I don't consider myself a 70's kid. Sure, I was a kid in the 70's, I played an Atari shortly after it came out, listened to disco, and watched lots of 70's TV shows. But none of it really resonated with me. There is a period of your life, from about 7 to 14 years old, where kids seem to be at ...
Comcast* has rejected those arguments and has repeatedly said that its acquisition of Time Warner Cable won’t decrease competition in either the video or Internet markets because the two companies already don’t compete in the same markets.
Erm, are you aware that Polaroid [did what you described]( sans the disadvantages? They now sell a digital camera with a built-in inkless printer. It's like a Polaroid... well, because it is a Polaroid. EDIT:
I disagree. So, which statement of mine (ideally, from the
complaining to other people is fine, and if you read my initial post you'll see that "stating your opinion is fine". advocating your own opinion is equally good. if you had written this post without the obvious apple/iphone bias i might've actually listened to your advice with an open mind. this entire post looks ide...
And that is a dumb statement How long has the PS3 been out? Such a simple attack should have happened long ago, should it not? The fact that it took this long is more a testament to the fact that it required a very special set of criteria to be in place, such that only recently was it discovered.
It's a fair point, but the fact that so few IT employees are non-exempt doesn't really convince me that they shouldn't get overtime. I mean, even in an industry where most employees are not exempt, those that are should be entitled to overtime. In the labor market, driving down wages of any employee has the potential...
My favorite instance on how Best Buy can easily screw over consumers (albeit unknowingly in my case) happened to me just little over a month ago. I bought a 13" Mac Book Air with 256gb of solid state memory online for in store pickup. After picking it up I walked out the door and looked a the label on the bottom that...
Eh kinda, its more like a further defining and separation of theft and intellectual property offenses (copyright infringement). The only reason Goldman didn't have a copyright on this was they wanted to use the doctrine of trade secret to protect it. Either way a criminal offense was improper in the first place and rea...
I question how the article is worded (badly is the only impression I had). The argument Sergey Aleynikov seems to be using is that the code/files he copied was open source to begin with, meaning that anyone has the right to use/copy it. Now it is probably a very grey area if this is true or not, but it creates enough d...
These drop tests are such terrible science. They aren't from the same height, and hitting at the same angle. The inertia of the devices isn't the same due to the distribution of mass within. They aren't getting it EXACTLY right, and the amount of sheer and tensile forces faced by the devices is different because of ...
You completely missed his point, so I'll repeat it for you. Firearms are already really easy to build with scrap. If you know how to do it, you could probably walk down to Home Depot and get everything you need for a gun for a couple hundred bucks. The instructions for that are available on the internet right now. I ...
Whatever. It's just fucking retarded when people say that anyone who uses apple stuff or instagram is a hipster. That doesn't make sense because they are both popular, mainstream TECHNOLOGY BASED companies. So why would any supposed hipster have any interest in them? And why has it suddenly become elitist for someone t...
Guys, a big reason for that "crapware" is because the companies that write the software subsidize the laptop, thus reducing the price of it for the end-user. Hence, as mentioned in the article, if you don't want any of that "crapware" (thought it was universally called bloatware amirite?) you have to pay the $99 prem...
That's right, the Surface Pro is not an ARM tablet. I for one was assuming better tricks under the hood to stop it suffering these issues or prices (as were many others) otherwise it would beg the question of why bring out new hardware that doesn't do anything new? And getting it 'with a keyboard' is the final insult...
People are price sensitive, so when you've got the nexus at $250, the ipad mini at $329, the ipad 2 at $399, and the ipad 4 at $499 you need to set the price with what you're device is worth. Putting it at the same price point of the ipad 4 means they think the device is of equal quality, and while the build is nice, ...
Mr Cameron says that when people switch on a new computer, they > will be asked if there are children in the house – and if they answer > yes, they will be automatically prompted to tailor internet filters. > They will include options to block particular kinds of content, > individual sites or restrict access at speci...
Here's a link to Twitter's announcement: [Keeping our users secure]( I'm not certain how they had the nerve to use that title to describe a security breach but I've never taken "Putting a Positive Spin on Bad News 101". Incidents like this are always a great time to remind others to use stronger passwords. Here are...
EDIT: For all of you that have poor reading comprehension skills, I'm going to spell this post out for you right up front: I KNOW THAT HE LIED. The only point I'm trying to make is that there has been NO evidence put forth yet that would demonstrate that this is a CONSPIRACY WITH BIG OIL. If you have some evidence o...
Read the opinion (and watch the show). Tesla actually admitted that Top Gear did not say it wasn't a fully functioning car, and that they did not lie. Tesla merely claimed that the shot of them pushing the car was misleading because some viewers might have been misled to think Top Gear had claimed that the car ...
Actually no - read the actual opinion. Tesla's lawsuit was thrown out for a couple of different reasons. Much of it was poorly drafted, and they mangled their claims for damages beyond repair (basically, they tried to claim for damages for things which they were not claiming were libellous or malicious, which is ob...
This shouldn't come as a surprise to most people in the know. I see a lot of people in this thread calling this "conspiracy theory" but unfortunately this stuff is the norm now and all too real. I know it's a long time for some but think back 12 years ago to a major jumping off point for this stuff. On September 11, ...
I'm sick of this Brave New World outlook. The High school education in a nut shell. Why not a world where being watched is the norm and the main character doesn't care. Instead it's mass paranoia: fight or flight, kill or be killed. If anything my education and research has taught me is that there is this myth concer...
I know it says usage is declining, but I wonder if Google could have turned it around for Reader. I feel like Reader is a useful tool for anyone with a passion for art (music, fashion movies), technology, business, or anything. I don't have any facts to back this up, but I feel like the majority of people on the inte...
Google's business model depends on us thinking we can depend on them. Why the hell do they want to take a giant dump on some of their most dedicated customers? This is your mistake. We aren't it's customers, and that's not really the right way to think about google. Google's primary customers are advertisers, because...
Simple, google reads the stuff that you type in your mails and the stuff you write in your documents. This allows them to serve more relevant ads to you, which is how those services make money. On a off note, gmail is currently offered as a standalone product for business that want to use the gmail infrastructure und...
How in the fuck can you use this to demonize republicans? If you were actually"somewhat" conservative you'd recognize immediately that John McCain is not a traditional republican. He's a rhino. Everyone knows this.
There is no way in hell that this will make TV cheaper. First off, it's clearly more , not less expensive, to even handle a set of channels for each household, compared to providing a handful of options for everyone. So on average, price per channel will go up. Second, anyone who thinks TV distributors will let ...
how could you ever discover new things? cant tell you how many times ive just happened upon something and decided I liked it. mainly FX G4 and TLC. Also, That would mean parents choose what kids will watch, my parents wouldnt pay for Cartoon Network. I want my adventure time, give me my regular show! Plus, you really ...
It really breaks down to what you watch and how much, sports programming isn't cheap and many people only watch two or three channels, where the rest only come into play when their major shows aren't on and they're flipping. Netflix and Hulu really gives the channel surfers more bang for buck so they can flip less vi...
Jesus. I know it sounds appealing, but this would be bad news . The money the media companies make from selling ads on the terrible channels is a big part of what funds the programming on their high end channels. Tyler Perry's Terrible Sitcom makes Game of Thrones possible. The fact that Fox gets to count liberal...
I'm pretty late to the party, but I strongly disagree with the reasoning behind this, and I believe it'll lead to worse quality in television in the years to come. There's no perfect solution to the problem that is cable television right now, but this is throwing water on a grease fire. I work for a major network (t...
In a way, I agree with you. I pay for Hulu +, I pay for Netflix. Netflix is ad-free, Hulu + is not. What the fuck is going on here?! At the same time... Hulu + has lots of things, in a more timely fashion, that I can't get on Netflix. And yes, they're charging me and advertising to me, but they're charging my $8/mo...
Not that I don't like this idea, but why would the government have anything to do with these unnecessary frivolous luxury services? Shouldn't capitalism handle this on its own? Netflix, Hulu and HBO go will likely lead to this anyway...
Karma shwarma, ain't no problem. (For the record I haven't downvoted you either. Dat reddiquette). But also, to be fair, I am not particularly passionate about this topic either. I get what you're saying, and to be perfectly honest with you I don't even have cable. Between the Netflix, Hulu Plus, and HBOGO accounts I...
John McCain is like a political version of a random number generator. You never know what you're going to get next. Sometimes he happens to come out above the rest of the party, sometimes he happens to come out behind.
the reason is simple and it's what I've been trying to shed light on for you. consumers can get content for free with ads. they can also pay for content with no ads. they can also pay both ways- subscription and ads. this is the exact reason people expect one type of media payment method across different media. wi...
Live streaming for them if they try will take some time and some serious licensing discussion when sports are involved, the cost of it really isn't worth it unless its specific sports package like ESPN offers since they seem to hold quite a few exclusive sporting rights. News is to specific to location and really not...
By this point this is burried but oh well. Why does anyone think they'll save money? What in the hell makes you think Comcast etc is just going to say: ok, $100/month divided by 1000 channels that's 10 cents a month per channel so if you only want 10 channels that's $1/month Get a grip people, you'll pay the same a...
I know it's popular to point out that "artsy" and "niche" channels are dependent on being bundled to get a bunch of subscriptions they couldn't pull on their own (couldn't help but notice that point was in the article), but has anyone actually see what most channels get for cut of your bill? I can tell you the people ...
You don't know much about TV production, do you? It's not really like novel writing where there's one singular author. Not only are there loads of writers in the room, but those shows go through a lot of development with the network. Regardless of who created them, all three of those shows were passed on by the big...
I'm sure this has been said already, but here's the thing. I hate the way cable companies operate. it's monopolistic, expensive, holding back advances in the market, pathetic, and stupid. they need to start to transition their models or die out as the times change around them. Picking which channels you want and pa...
quite so, the fact that Bush Sr. never got re-elected surprised quite a few analysts, mixed feelings about leaving Iraq intact, a poor economic record and 3rd presidential candidate were the nails in his coffin. the popular vote was 43-38 for clinton, so despite the above mentioned and having a 3rd runner taking 19% ...
The NSA is actually most likely actively hurting the national security of the USA with the PRISM program, despite what their intentions are. This is because the access to the data has obviously not been secured properly (proof is that Snowden had access). For every Snowden leaking to the public, there are surely many...
I have the Huawei phone of which you speak. Using it right now, in fact, to reply to you. It's actually not a bad phone. There are a few things I would change but none of them are true deal breakers. Using Straighttalk service, I pay $45 a month, using AT&T towers for signal. Unlimited talk, text and data. Do far ...
Warning - Wall of Text , but if you're interested this is what I've got: >How can someone really ever determine this? Well that's actually exactly what the ITC is for (or an actual court, if the parties were to go there instead). The ITC also felt Apple was acting in bad faith. They could certainly have awarded S...
i think the problem is when you go outside and look around, people are happy. people aren't rioting/ yelling/ anything. we are content with what we have...and unfortunately don't give a shit if nothing we have gets better ever again.
One would expect that countries with more than two parties wouldn't have problems with transparency, yet I don't see that being the case. A more direct approach in my opinion is to make the voters care about it. Right now they don't. Without a majority of voters demanding transparency from government, it's not goin...
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Garbage journalism. Shit like this is just as bad as Fox News. Utilities hate solar not because of lost sales, but because of the unfair cost burden it puts on them. People buying solar aren't buying the grid-friendly $50,000 package, they are buying the $5,000 fuck-the-grid package. Greatly simplifying things, the...
That's pretty cool. I use a similar plugin it works will all browsers called 'Ignore the comment section'
At least on reddit I feel like at least people see my opinions whether they like them or not. On YouTube, I'll receive a reply from someone once in a blue moon. I feel like the YouTube comment section is a cesspool of overused 14 year old humor, spam/trolling, conspiracy theories, 3rd grade level grammar, and nonsens...
Please give us your real phone number for "safety". >The reasoning? Two step verification to protect accounts from being stolen or compromised, thus being used for spam, or gaining personal information, or other purposes. Google's stated intentions here are a smokescreen that you've bought hook, line, and sinker. Y...
And even with that I'd be fine with GMO as long as foods containing GMOs are labeled as such. Because while there is no danger, I as someone living in the developed world can pick what to consume for any damn reason. If people can pick what wine to drink by how cool the label looks, I damn well ought to be able to not ...
Thanks for this post. There is a lot of misinformation to be seen, likely purposeful on the part of firms like Monsanto.
One of my favorite pros about GMO foods is the story of how Norman Borlaug created better, stronger, more fertile and more pest resistant wheat to feed the world. I love it because to me it is the most anti-GMO example, which is almost always used as pro-GMO. I think of it as anti-GMO because Norman Borlaug's work wa...
Speaking from experience in the industry, often gmail is used when the client doesn't want to pay for business grade email. In those situations, they get mad that their free service messes up, even blaming us for the outage. Same thing with home grade computers, needing to pay to upgrade a home version of windows becau...
plus.net (An ISP in the UK, SUCK!) A family friend recently called sky.com (an ISP) to inquire about changing broadband provider to them and he agreed to move from plus.net (ISP) to sky.com (ISP) over the phone. It was dead simple to switch as sky.com contacted plus.net and arranged the transfer. It was done a day be...
Hotmail inexplicably blocks entire domains. They used to block EVERY email sent by my bank, yet would let through phishing emails from Nigerians pretending to be my bank. They blocked emails from several sources that were vital to me to the point where I had to stop using the account. I used to get dozens of spam a da...
Important thing to understand is that the City of London is not London . It's a relatively tiny city with a population of about 7,000 people in the center of London, with a significantly larger working population. As you can imagine a lot of its politics are influenced by the businesses that operate there.
You dumbass, where did you learn to solder? Everyone knows you never melt the solder and drip it into the material you're soldering. You heat up the joint and the solder melts when you touch it to the hot material.
Well, let's see. Copper is a fantastic heat conductor, I agree; it's just about twice as good as aluminum. That said, it's not what almost every heat exchanger is made of - that would be aluminum, for reasons of cost and density. As for passive air-metal contact, it's not good enough in almost any PC on the mar...
Someone already did that and found no office there. The project leader answered the question about that in an interview here: [Computerbase.de (german)](
definitely not silent, but a good/high quality pump is almost unnoticeable. The fan/s for the radiator will be noticeable, but because the water system allows you to move the heat radiation point to the edge of even out side of the case you need less fans total. Most of the fan noise from a computer is from multiple...
Revenue Increase US$ 64.657 billion (2013) [5] Increase US$ 62.57 billion (2012) [5] Operating income Increase US$ 13.563 billion (2013) [5] Increase US$ 12.179 billion (2012) [5] Net income Increase US$ 6.816 billion (2013) [5] Increase US$ 6.203 billion (2012) [5] Total assets Increase US$ 158.813 billion (2013) ...
I live in Colorado and have century link. Their customer service is just the same. Full of idiots and people you can't understand whether it be a thick accent or simply mumbling. However the actual techs they send out are amazing. This past week we called because we were only getting half the speed we pay for. He insta...
This is the second time I've seen someone post about a problem they had with self installation. What I'm learning from this is that you should just suck it up and let the fucking tech come out to setup your service. I could have done a self install when I moved into my apartment 3 years ago, but I opted not to. The i...
I fucking know Comcast makes enough money to pay them They don't, actually. There's a reason for it, and it's in no way exclusive to Comcast, either. Cable work is VERY seasonal. We usually get about 3 months of balls-to-the-wall, slammed every day workload, with about a month and a half on each side of that, where i...
Thank you for the post! I have AT & T for Internet access with a max speed of 3Mbit/sec. No other providers offer service where I live. I would give my left but for a comcast connection (and both for a Google fiber connection) that provided a decent speed. Comcast may have shitty customer service but if the end g...
I'm not really impressed by the phone. I do like the fact that you can pay using your finger print instead of a pin code like google wallet, and I really hope their iPay takes off as it could cause a trend and force other digital wallets to keep up (like google wallet, 4 years old and still can't get it in Canada unles...
I'm honestly guessing it has something to do with the history. What has it been...the evens are bad and the odds are good? I would think that they're making this one (which should be an odd) be an even, so that when windows...11 comes out, people will think that it will be good (instead of bad). this is hearsay thoug...
There are agreed upon minimal standards on what a good cup of coffee is, similar to a red wine. There may be quite a bit of subjective preference within these generally agreed upon standards, but if it doesn't meet them, it's unanimously rejected.
The price of the coffee cartridges is their business. The machine itself is sold at-cost. Keurig was stupid to sell their first machines without some kind of protection from a gray market.
micro usb is a pile of shit that I am glad apple stayed away from. I just basically jam in the lightning connector without looking, either way works. USB needs a much more precice insertion in the right orientation and is limited in how much power it can transfer and speeds it can do it at.
Is this something new in the US? We have these machines in Europe forever and of course at the beginning the companies wanted to cash in with the cups/pads. It's the same principle as with razors and blades. But nowadays you can buy other coffee thingies for all(?) systems. And basically it's the same with the ink ...
I didn't think this was a new idea. That's how the industrial age started. People in England were digging for coal but their mines kept on getting flooded and it was too difficult to pump out the water manually so somebody built a water pump that ran off of coal power.
So this is sort of my situation. I never really accepted being single, but stopped bitching about it. I made a lot of friends, and most of them are girls, and I'm really happy with it all. Of course, one of these girls and I have had on and off feelings for one another, and I asked her out, but missed my mark, as sh...
This is exactly what happened to me. I watched all my (middle school) friends changing girlfriends more often than I changed my socks, which was frustrating because at that age your object of infatuation tends to take priority over friends and family. I had my first girlfriend for less than a year, and it filled me w...
Hang in there dude(?) I was single (and a virgin) about twice as long as everyone else seemed to be. It bothered me a lot . Then one day, I looked at my life and decided that I liked it (and myself) this way and it was all probably for the best. I stopped actively trying to pick up girls. Being no longer obsessed wi...
Dude you need to quit fucking snap chatting mckenna. Stop. She doesn't respond with anything meaningful for a reason and she's not interested in you. Who am I? The man whom she is in love with. She already told me not to worry, she's not interested in you. Sorry I bothered you kid. I've dated her since 2 summers ago. I...
Personally, I use LastPass, but there are several alternatives available as well, just not as good as this. It's fast, has multi-factor authentication support, has options to organize things, supports form fills for registration, shopping, banking, also has secure notes, you can make offline encrypted backups, etc. It ...
When you open your browser, you only need to log in to LastPass with your master password. From there on, LastPass will do the job for you using the site log in information you gave it. Sometimes websites block auto-filling username and password, you just have to click the asterisk icon and tell it to fill it manually....
By refusing ads for legal services, Google is making a provocative stand against that legal service.
Please reply to my comment! I'm extremely curious. I genuinely would like to know, what made you comment? Did you not watch the video? It's understandable, as the article is linked and if you're in
I was involved in PEM Fuel Cell Research in 2003, and there were some "BIG NAMES" on board then, too, with tons of press. We had a gag order from Plug Power not disclose any reliability figures whatsoever, even though our research was the residential feasibility of PEM fuel cells. Well, the fuel cell ended up around ...
Not true, price is determined by supply versus demand, if supply cannot meet demand, the price goes up, if costs go down, supply meets demand easily and will remain artificially inflated unless there is competition that brings cost down.. Unfortunately if there is only one author and one publisher that holds the rights...
They'd love to improve the infrastructure! Unfortunately, improving the infrastructure means upgrading existing equipment, running new lines, installing new transformers, and so on. Upgrading existing equipment costs money. Running new transmission lines is a problem. Requests to run new lines are sued into oblivion...
Are you... are you just completely ignoring the GUI? I'm not saying it wouldn't have happened, but Jobs (and thus Apple) were the only ones who gave a shit about it in the 80s. Would someone just be marketing the GUI now? Who the fuck knows. And the command line isn't accessible to anyone. And then there's the iPad, ...
Actually, the Maginot line was never breached until the French abandoned their lines due to the Blitz to the north. The line was never extended to the sea mostly because of bickering with the low countries about mutual defense (having a line through France seemed to tell them that they would be abandoned once war brok...
One day, I couldn't figure out what the word was that described taking a word or phrase and rearranging the letters in order to make a new word or phrase. So I googled it, and got my answer, using "rearranging letters of a word to make a new word" . They even provided anagram engines. Try it in Bing, you get a lot o...
The only reason to use microsoft over google in this case, is similar to the reasons for wearing a suit, you do it because everyone is doing it. If google's current software was entrenched in business, and microsoft was trying to break in, even with identical software on both sides to what we have today, you would se...
The thing is, whether or not this ad makes sense depends on how well Google Apps generally is on the radar for people. With you this ad obviously was just harmful, but for people (managers, CTOs etc.) who are thinking about evaluating Google Apps this ad may very well bring up some uncomfortable questions and reinforce...