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The main issue I have with the bundling of channels isn't that fact I am paying for channels I don't watch (I mean, that is A issue, but not the main one), it's that it allows content creators to get lazy. For example, I would gladly pay 10 dollars a month for something like AMC. The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Breaking B...
I've heard tell here and there of Google buying up strategic locations for data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and maybe even Chicago; and while it may be forty or fifty years until I get better service out here in the country, I am willing to bet that Google will be trying to put something similar in major cities a...
The issue here is that bundling cuts costs for everyone. You pay about $5 a month for ESPN. However, only 25% of cable subscribers watch ESPN, so the thought is if you go a la carte then prices will have to drastically rise because ESPN will be losing the revenue from the 75% who don't watch it. So there's a real co...
Stand alone channels is not the big savings that most people think it will be. Be ready to pay $5-10 per month for basic channels(maybe more for some like ESPN). It does not take many channels to get to the $60-70 price of a basic cable package. To those that complain about $120 cable bills, they have more than basic c...
the one tier about the "basic" package in the US is too big and covers too many channels, basically. Specifically ESPN and its other channels, which demand a lot of extra $$$ for their channels. Disney owns said channel and often threatens to pull its other stations from the basic package if cable companies dont includ...
The bottom line is that an a la carte system cannot sustainably function within the current model of programming. The main problem is that the popular shows that most people on Reddit hate, but the rest of the world loves, sustain everything else. This is live sporting events, every reality TV show, etc. This is NOT Ga...
They started Apple in a garage because they didn't have any money, not because society shunned them for trying to invent stuff. He then made billions of dollars and achieved worldwide fame, so how was he not rewarded?
First off, I don't mean to pick on you; so if it comes off as though I am, I apologize. Second, the issue of inheritance tax laws came up during this christmas with the family. Apparently my grandparents are getting on in age and they are worrying about what happens to their farm land when they die. Something along the...
Yeah, if there's a Woz and Jobs at Apple right now, they're doing the same thing they had to do with HP: get the fuck out of Apple and into a startup.
I don't see why Apple is considered "king of innovation". If anything Apple is always late to the game. Apples strength is its anal perfectionism. Apple, the latecomer: When the iphone 1 came out it had no apps and despite its very well executed base, it didn't have many expert features. Just take a look at [this ar...
I wrote a response but for some reason it wasn't saved. Basically I think you missed by point and now you're being argumentative. Right...I missed the part where you grasped how news works. >Anyway, I really don't think my judgement is flawed at all, I'm as skeptical of YAN as I would be of any source I've never he...
The sad part is it happened to me on a microcosm scale. Basically it became an inside joke within a group of people I worked with (about 60) without us knowing it was being done as a joke on 4chan. Eventually it grew on us and about 6 months later actually decided to watch the show... and ended up enjoying it. The al...
The opposite. Anonymous is everyone, which means no single source could be representative of Anonymous. The title suggests YAN and Anonymous are the same thing, but as you said Anonymous is everyone, not YAN. As /u/doctorspliffworth said "a lot of what they do is problematic". If people, such as in this title, see YAN ...
I switched from Comcast because every bill in a 12 month period had been different. Like one month some random "technology" fee would pop up. Another month the state taxes doubled for no reason. I switched to AT&T U-Verse and signed up online, and my first 3 bills they never applied the promotional rate, so I had to ...
I have a BS in Economics for what it matters. Economic theory predicts competitive markets are the most socially efficient. Airlines being competitive, by the economic model definition, is what makes them so unprofitable. They have dug themselves into a hole, but airline customers time and again have shown all they ...
While you may be ok with the quality/connection speed you have currently, the biggest thing you have to be cognizant of is that even though you just got a potential huge upgrade, you're still getting a shitty version of what you SHOULD have for the price you pay. I had to finally eat a giant shit sandwich from Brightho...
Ah, yeah. Absolutely true. You also can't make a sweeping generalization of dietary needs for everyone in America. That 2000 Calorie figure is a good example. It's an overestimate for most women and children, I seem to recall their figure being about 1800-1900 a day. Adult men are closer to 2500 or so. A better ...
It must be my poor command of English that's causing the misunderstanding. Let's take an example of how the US exports intellectual property to any country that's willing to pay for it. France for instance. The engineers at Apple computers design a portable computer. Once they're satisfied, they send the blueprints...
Windstream user here. I live in a place with maybe 500-600 people, right outside of a place with a couple thousand. We were signed up for 3 MBs but were getting 200 kbs if lucky, less during prime time. Ping is over 400 regularly too, so it's impossible to browse or play any online games. Windstream recently installed ...
I live in NYC and never had a single complaint about FiOS. Those guys are saints around here... One time an enormous truck was driving down my street, clearly lost since my street can't even fit a big SUV towards the end. Well this motherfucker drives past my house and we feel the whole house shake and a loud bang. T...
Collectively, we have not, not on things that are relevant for the maintenance and survival of a society, even in relatively primitive conditions. As for electricity, you seem to somehow think that producing it is hard - producing it is easy, once you know how, and nuclear war doesn't suddenly mean every engineer and...
Lets be honest, has any of this been relevant? From my original statement: > I'll admit I don't know if there is some benefit to apple's proprietary charging cables (aside from being able to plug it in either direction) And then you brought up faulty chargers (relevant to asking about legislation to change the type...
It's not about the competition in a symmetrical sense. Windows isn't being beaten by lower cost options - their product is becoming obsolete.
Politics and bullshit pledges are the key to a stable world. If there's anything candidates for this kind of shit are good at, it's pledging bullshit. Our prime minister promised before his rule that he'd work in some home defense rule (y'know, so you wont end up in prison if you accidentally kill that asshole that wan...
I'm really not sure why this is news considering there's not a single major promise that he made that he has followed through on. Before anyone says "What about the ACA" they should consider the vast difference between the promise and what we ended up with. The promise was to cover millions of Americans who don't have...
I wish more people understood the relationship of the facts in your comment with the privacy and surveillance issues tied to the internet's classification. The US government's current legal authority to deny privacy on the internet would be in conflict with its reclassification under Title II. classification as...
Yep. And the reason why Congress don't give a shit about popular policy, including net neutrality, is explained here:
the left blamed everything on the president. Now that a Democrat is in office, I often hear "Well, the president really isn't very powerful. If you actually take the time to study what actually was going on during Bush's term, you'd see that Bush operated 3/4th of his term with a republican supermajority which allowe...
You sound like a small town middle aged man. That's a real rural-ly comment you made there. All these politicians make promises that they can't keep. No one can please everyone, but everyone can vote. So you conjure up some statements to appeal to the masses. Besides Obama is not a monarch. Power is dichotomized am...
Why is cognet allowed to get paid but Comcast isn't for the same service? because comcast does not provide the same service, they do not provide transit nor do they connect to other networks. > If Comcast performed the same service as cognet they would be getting paid for it, and part of that money would go towards...
If you spent some time researching the issue, instead of just looking at Reddit comments all day, you would discover that Comcast is the FCC's biggest ally on net neutrality. They agreed, in a consent decree, to follow the FCC's (prior/old) definition through 2018. They affirmed their commitment to this original defini...
No blood testing or anything like that? I realize it's a pain, but how can you really review a product like this without quantifying its effect? Also, "Our order arrived yesterday afternoon, when USPS dropped off a 40lb. box (about 18kg) on my doorstep." Yesterday?
Spacedawgs trolling method: Step one, inform yourself about the topic you intend to troll people with. Step two, make a reasoned comment based on your years of learning and practical experience that goes against conventional thinking. Step three, wait for someone to tell you that you are wrong in a general way. ...
First of all ALL airspace is public outside of Restricted and Prohibited airspace (labeled R-### or P-### on a sectional). As a US citizen, you can use any of it. That said, there are rules for all airspace. Mainly compliance with the FAR's. [Check them out here for some bedtime reading]( In addition to the FAR's the...
The wonders of machine learning! I wonder if it uses the score it gets as a datapoint on refining it's
The wonders of machine learning! I wonder if it uses the score it gets as a datapoint on refining it's
Actually I've had 7 do what Vista and XP and 2000 do when in their infancy: They've all eaten their own file tables or 'lost' their N
Meh, [crosspost..]( The main difference between stuff like this ( tech-assisted eco-coasting ), and dangerous tailgating: synchronized use of brakes. Automated 100% synchronized use of brakes will minimize manual errors when handling accidents ( bugs will still be fun) and by keeping distances optimized for efficienc...
Yes and no. Some of it is "slickness" as you say (brushed aluminum anyone?), but there is some substance mixed in with that slickness on occasion. e.g., the "scroll bounce" on the iPhone/iPod Touch seems superfluous at first glance. But Android doesn't have it (I have a Droid and an iPod Touch) and when it's gone, ...
Apple doesn’t do feature checklists. Anyone can cram a billion features into a box, but it’s much more difficult to make them accessible and usable. As Pascal once added in postscript: “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Yeah, that's a little bold. I'm a CS guy that's been working in an Engineering group for 5 years, and I'm the only person that doesn't have an engineering degree on my team. I'd NEVER call myself an engineer. I go out of the way to correct people when they assume I'm an engineer. To me it's like a chiropractor callin...
They aren't ridiculous - just the way they want to go about getting what they want. It is no different than any socialists or communists or capitalists. They generally want the same thing, they just have different ways to accomplish their goals. I think it is perfectly reasonable to want the Internet to be open and...
I find it silly to appeal to labels such as "theft" when discussing issues such as this. Apart from labelling opposing viewpoints as 'silly' not helping a debate, the view on the society you want to live in and the price you are willing to pay is shaped by your experience of the world and how you think about it.
I think you misunderstand what I mean by "benefits to society". Basically, I mean the setup which would result in all of society's individuals being as happy as possible. It is difficult of course to quantize happiness/suffering, but some scheme must be chosen, and then the laws are set up so that everyone's happine...
I just want to add to this: I have called Netflix Customer Service on multiple occasions regarding a variety of non-issues and they have been stellar absolutely 100% of the time. Last time I called I learned that their entire 24x7 support team works out of OR. Period. They're all there and being paid a living wage fo...
The issue is piracy. Jailbreaking enables piracy, and piracy is always an issue on any platform where money is charged for content. If Apple didn't try to clamp down on jailbreaking and thus pirating, developers will go "Hmm, Apple doesn't give a damn about preventing my content from being pirated. Let's not develop fo...
NPR No, no, no ! s/NPR/Tim Wu Seriously, stop doing that. This is an editorial written by a guest writer. I see this all the time on Reddit, and it's poor form. Fox News claims this, CNN said that. Using this logic, you could easily quote MSNBC as saying, "Hide your kids, hide your wife" just because some host...
Well, I'll defer to your better technical knowledge, but I'm pretty sure they collected enough to record cleartext passwords etc if they happened to be "on the air" as the g-mobile went past. Of course, I doubt they were looking at the data - more the header stuff, as you point out. i.e. if you catch enough frames, ...
I've installed it both at home and at work. At work it's running on a PC and a Mac. I've now had it running, on my PC, for approximately 48 hours. It's currently sitting at 130MB RAM. Considering how long it's been out, stop your complaining about the memory leak. In fact, if you're pissed off about it, considering i...
They do it because legally they have to protect their brand. If they let it go often & then they want to sue someone that is trying to confuse consumers with a similar logo he can actually point to others that have similar logos as a defense. So in order to legally protect their brand they do everyone.
Coincidentally, 70% of percentages are completely fabricated. Why assume a percentage? It just weakens the point you try to make. I'm still trying to imagine how much of youtube is original content... I've only seen [estimates of other stats from youtube]( I'd guess there are millions of "let's play" videos, frap...
The copyright infringement isn't invoked by the content owners; they're automatically suggested by Google in this case. Google has an artificially intelligent system that compares fragments of audio and videos of every clip uploaded against a database of copyrighted works. If fragments hit a similarity level above a ce...
So the judicial system will have the power to take content offline immediately following a request from a copyright holder, under "penalty of perjury".
There's a terrible and wonderful Steve Jobs quote from his Stanford commencement address — "Death is the very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent." I think ultimately that's what it'll take for the government to understand the internet — new blood. I don't know that the current generat...
I only want to say that I find it amusing that Nilay laughs off the slippery slope argument of government regulation, while simultaneously making a slippery slope argument about the impending corporate tyranny that he sees as endemic to any unregulated free market system. When one sees selective reasoning like this, ...
In fact, I think the position that government should get more involved in the flow of information needs a lot of saying. The government has the explicit power to regulate interstate commerce. There's really not much more "saying" to be done, unless you're going to undo the Constitution. Congress is going to use its p...
Let me first just say that I completely agree with this bit. >It would be downright despicable if they were to convince the city to do it for them, like the content producers are trying to do with the internet. The amount of leverage the contest industry have with the government is downright terrifying. Not just th...
The ads are not always skippable. Disney dvds ar the worst. I don't pirate because it's free, I do it because it's convenient. For the reasons I already stated, and becuse it allow me to see if I like the movie/show/music before possibly buying it. Yes, even though I hate all the ads, the 23 diferent versions/packag...
Yes and no. Most pirates will not steal an actual CD from a store because they do fear getting caught. But, also because some of the things they pirate are not available through convenient or different means, as shown with Avatar and Panasonic's business model. The reality is, people will always try to get stuff for fr...
Do you need me to spell it out for you? Morals are of course subjective, but that's not relative to the fact that piracy is, and remains in existence as people create access to media and materials that distribution is either to blind to see or to dumb to act on. Does that mean that people should because they can...
Who cares? Let's do some math. Typical smartphone batteries are 1500 mAh at 3.7 V nominal, which is 5.55 Wh of energy. At $0.10/kWh, each full charging is costing you $0.000555 assuming 100 % efficiency. Let's say you charge from empty to full once per day for a whole year. That will cost you only $0.20. The rectif...
Apple will never use USBs on their devices because USB cannot do the high definition audio/video out that they and us consumers demand. I would rather by a new cable than have choppy or resized video. USB micro is old as dirt itself, so why would Apple trade one old technology for another? It's time to move forward. N...
I don't even see the point of the adapter in that case. That's not complicated-- it's so the plugs fit. Some functionality is still supported, just not all of it. > as I suspected, ipod out is not the same as audio out. I don't recall saying it was. However, the line-level analog audio output is also no longe...
Because this connector and the previous 30-pin ADC transfer a lot more than pictures and power. Micro-USB is fine for things like moving data (using your phone as a thumb-drive) and delivering a steady charge. Where Micro-USB fails is doing HD at full motion (720/1080p @ 24+ FPS) Also USB is generally not conside...
Copyrights are property rights. There is no such thing as "normal property" (to borrow one of your idiotic phrases from that link). All forms of property are government created and government enforced. Rights (of any kind) exist because we want them to, not because we stumbled across them in the forest. Like other for...
You make a good point in identifying how the distribution side for content would get more competitive. You could get your distribution from whoever can do it best instead of who happens to own the copyright (which, as we constantly see, correlates very badly with the ability do content distribution well). What you fa...
From the Comments section of the [linked to]( article: So the dude covering Apple "since 1982" decide to mislead people for his own purpose. I want useful information not re-tittle general warning without substance. (btw, I own an IPhone but this article is so lame). Here's why this article need to improve. Don...
These guys show their fancy visual aided video of airflow as if it is true fact. I want to see at least a CFD simulation if possible in a populated room, truly this ad was horrendous. They didn't even show any velocity measurements, nor the efficiency of their "fan". The other video that they've shown only demonstrate ...
Here's a link to Twitter's announcement: [Keeping our users secure]( Incidents like this are always a great time to remind others to use stronger passwords. Here are a [few tips on creating strong passwords](
Compression could theoretically be many many times better. There are a lot of techniques that are impractical due to memory or computation requirements. They can't be done now, but who is to say in the future. Easy concepts are things like keeping all previous frames around to use as a dictionary for simila...
I dunno, if a team of developers works years on a really awesome and unique codec, I feel like they should be able to try to make money off it. It can be very good for everyone if a team of people are able to work full time on projects like this. Just because you invest a lot of money in developing a product it does ...
Right now there is a general paranoia about posting anything online. This is the correct response to what the US government has been doing, but the solution is not technophobia, but (unsurprisingly, hopefully) education. Anyone can be 99% confident in their data's security and their own privacy if they take some time t...
Bing gets a lot of hate and most of it is just elitist bullshit without any actual data to back up the state of mind, ie; your post. It's fucking amazing for video searches and image searches. All of the google searches for stock images give watermarked istock bullshit, and on bing you can find the same things withou...
Also the reason to decentralize search entirely. [Tribler]( accomplishes this with searching across a DHT shared over the bittorrent network. No servers, and the search gets better as more people use tribler. From experience, it works pretty well, though until more people are using it, you'll probably still find you...
blah Literally nothing you said applies to casual downloaders. I also said nothing about filelockers. Everything I said was 100% true, you aren't doing anything illegal unless you upload content, and most casual downloaders do that with any P2P software involuntarily. Most people I know that torrent don't even know...
Same. Told my friends, they laugh at me, but all it takes is one try with Bing and they're hooked. Also doesn't help Google that for some reason their new Chrome update seems to have really slowed down their image results. Bing runs surprisingly smooth.
Lets face facts. 90% of us work nonsense jobs that are completely unnecessary other than to serve other nonsense jobs. Governments encourage this because bored citizens who don't feel they have a purpose are more likely to rebel or become criminals and this disrupts things.
If applied technilogijavascript:;es eliminated the need for people to occupy themselves with work, everyone would have the ability to go out and enjoy the finer things in life. When the entire world has access to the finer things in life, these things no longer become enjoyable. Every fine piece of land, beach, and b...
Upvoted. I read this yesterday when it was posted in the "Intern Dies from Overwork" thread. I'll agree that there are some bullshit jobs (people just showing up) and I think it is interesting that this does persist, but the author is ill-equipped to discuss this, lacking data and coming at it with a clear bias. I...
I work second shift in an analytical chemistry lab. When my peers on first shift get in at 7:30 they eat breakfast, then dick around until the department meeting at 9 to tell them what to do for the day. lunch is anywhere from 11-1 and then leave by 4:30 or 5. Total productive hours: 4-6. When I get in, I get right...
But does the army ever really need that equipment yesterday? Yes, regularly. Until you're actually in a specific war, against a specific set of enemies with specific terrain etc. you're building equipment that's sort of kind of suitable for either the last war, or for some general capability that is hopefully 'good...
Worse than apathy, it's because of people's pessimism. Apathetic people just wouldn't care and you could coerce them to be involved. Pessimistic people are convinced that we can't change anything and so actively avoid trying to get involved. I register students to vote as a large part of my job. Often people will be ...
Thanks for demonstrating my point further. Everyone's concern is their next annual review, not actually working a full shift just because you are getting paid to WORK and it is the right thing to do. People didn't have this mindset 50+ years ago... Back then you worked because they gave you a paycheck, not because yo...
Maybe . For most office jobs, yea. But not for some other main fields as: sales health care food services security traffic control garbage processing energy, etc Some of these fields (if not all of them) require 24/7 support from their teams, so these may need a different strategy to promote t...
Part 3 of 3 This third part is just to proactively show that there's not some major tax difference between Australia and Canada which would make them really be getting ripped off after all. Let's have a look at [Australian income tax]( and compare it to [Canadian income tax]( The Canadian federal tax on the fir...
It's depressing that one of my best jobs ever was being a designer for a truly student-run college paper. We were paid salary ($35/day was AWESOME), and I would often get my work done well in 3 hours, later if we had night sports games. It wasn't in my interest to slack or suck at my job, because I'd have to stay late ...
My take: In the private sector, the money one receives for doing a job originates with the consumers (i.e. society), but, because humans need organization and leadership to get things done, this money is filtered through employers and their interests. Thus, compensation is based not on the value that job adds to soci...
Currently in a job like this myself, joined as a project admin for a data migration but due to schedule screw ups I have been without any real work for 5 months. I come in, sit at my desk, eat my breakfast and then figure out what to do for the next 8 hours. It is serious soul destroying when everyone around you in the...
This quote is from "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and its really similar to the argument... What more can they ask for? True," he added, "they might ask for shorter hours. And of course we could give them shorter hours. Technically, it would be perfectly simple to reduce all lower-caste working hours to three o...
Members of the public also have first amendment rights; including the right to access communications services on a non-discriminatory basis. If Verizon doesn't want the job, then they're free to exit the business so a provider who respects the public's rights can use the utility poles, conduits, cabling vaults and ot...
and the circle jerk continues... Definitely not surprising though, they're responsible for developing the technologies that make our world work. I feel I should mention that university degrees for visual arts is a terrible idea. I was in a program for a couple of years. The problem seems to me that a lot of visual ...
Management structure is a pyramid; no company has more bosses than workers. A project management role is defined by having a minimum of 4 subordinates, per the state/provincial Professional Engineering Organization, so by definition, it can't be average. And no, the ones at the very top aren't making huge sums over and...
That is not their conclusion. > The report points to the results of a consumer tracking study by the U.K. communications regulator Ofcom that found that file sharers in the U.K. spent more on content than those who only consumed legal content. This shouldn't be all that surprising. The largest consumers both buy an...
If I took a physical album, that's theft. If I copied the album electronically, it is not theft. It is copyright infringement. There's no way to get around that basic fact. It's not a criminal act, it's a civil issue (except at large-scale commercial piracy operations). Even the large lawsuits that the MPAA brings ar...
True - but there was a band that posted their music for sale online and said - pay what you think its worth. They made very little money off that album - someone with better recall can list tge specifics. More importantly your desire to have something shouldnt overcome someone else's desire to make money with what ...
That's only if you signed up with your REAL name on Google+ I don't get the bitching and moaning about Google+ and Youtube the comment section on YouTube has ALWAYS been a circlejerk, trolls everywhere. Since the creation of Youtube comments way back before YouTube got bought by Google. You use to use a "Username...
A potential sale (and thus money) was lost. The amount lost isn't 100% of the value of what you pirated, but it's certainly not 0%. You bring up a very, very important point. A potential sale was lost, and while it's not a 100% gain, it's CERTAINLY not a 100% loss. FOR THE ARTIST. Someone downloads a track is not n...
What does pizza and cars have to do with digital goods? Digital products are different than physical ones, and they require different kinds of property rights. False. You can't apply a whole new set of rules just because one goods attributes are different than anothers. A digital good is still a good. You can't preve...
I disagree. A CS major myself (and a confessed lifelong nerd). I've worked with people in dingy bars, shitty cafes, crappy retail jobs, cleaning and delivery my whole life - and honestly some people - most people even - particularly those with less formal education, are just happier away from technology. They use wha...
Mark Zuckerberg has accomplished so much and really has done so much more good than bad. Why do people hate him? Why? I think that anyone who becomes absurdly rich, for whatever reason, even if they give it all to charity, will automatically be shat on for stupid reasons. It's subconsciously jealousy, but everyone el...