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It is cheaper to give animals antibiotics as a preventative measure then to try to treat an infection that could quickly spread not to mention losing that infected animal. Which is why people have a goddamn problem with it! It might be cheaper right now, but for that cheap price we are paying by creating strains o...
I think it's hilarious that you are calling it a shitty business model only when small companies are the ones "skimming". Apparently when apple (or say, amazon, another quite successful ebook vendor) skims the same amount, giving the authors and the consumers the same price as before, it is somehow miraculously a legit...
Saying 'fuck you, apple' is how we eventually convince people to stop supporting them and demand changes. After a decade of people saying 'fuck you M$', they finally got hit with an anti-trust investigation. This is what we want for Apple, and agitating is part of the process. It's the great big middle finger on the...
Ahh, but as a small company, sometimes you have to focus on a single platform to start things off (cost, staffing, etc.), and someone who chose Apple as that single platform like iFlowReader gets screwed because Apple changed the rules in this manner. Yes, Apple has the right to change the rules. It is possible Apple...
There's a difference though, in the sense that a website works for all platforms already. You build one site for Google, sure it sucks they changed and you drop down a couple pages but at least everything you did is still worth something. Not really the case when all the apps and things they put money into are very ...
What's the perceived value in having multiple vendors if they're all selling the same product for the same price bearing in mind that The content owner/publisher is one of those vendors The pricing was determined by the publisher The purchase and delivery of the product was effectively identical across all vend...
Here's the thing I don't understand aboit Bitcoin: Where's the work? If a business sells something I want that costs $10, I can in theory work for the business for one hour (assuming that's what my work is worth) to acquire the item. Or, I can work for another company for an hour, they give me a piece of paper with A...
Population density is not an issue The article said no such thing: >Meanwhile, the size of the U.S. may be a red herring. Most of the region between Boston and Washington is as densely populated as most of Europe and the UK. So is the California coast between San Francisco and San Diego. And so is the region of the...
The main thing this piece needs - both OP's headline and the Inquirer piece - is a little thing called "journalism". OK, so Zuckerberg has closed off his G+ account (closed or, more likely, switched to private). I've followed the links down through the complete daisy chain, and nowhere can I find a quote from Zucke...
Old way, store locally, backup remotely. New way, store remotely, backup locally. Not that complicated. I have a $50/year Google Apps account with an extra 80GB's of [Google Docs storage]( for another $20/year. So my cost is $70/year for email, documents, file storage, calendars, tasks, bookmarks, and so on. I also u...
Fuck you. He has every right to be pissed off. Also,
Just chiming in... The costs of production whatever they may be are irrelevant in valuation. Basically the product creator charges what the market will bear. If that price is higher than the entire system cost it's a profitable exchance. The entire system cost is the 'big picture' cost. It might include producti...
One of the great things I love about Android is the huge variety of phones. With Apple, you are limited to a new device every year or so and now have a total of what, 5 options if you want iOS? I think this deserves a little focus and appreciation. A "gadget guy" will look at the platforms and see closed and isolate...
I appreciate your utter capitulation, not just the embarrassingly juvenile manner in which you did it.
Wrong. The CMO of T-Mobile has publicly came out and said that [device subsidies are the one thing he would fix in the industry if he could]( First of all, as the CMO says, subsidies distort the real price of the hardware, and lead to a throwaway culture. If everyone knew that their phone actually costs $700, they ma...
While it may not seem like it, you and I are in agreement. I did state that I expect full disclosure. However, I don't expect it from the current gov't. Therefore, I have lost all respect for it. It was more of a general sense of the sentiment. This gov't is broken and must be fixed if there is any hope of survival...
Anyone wanna read it and
Its simple, unless you are paying (or paying the most for something) you are not the customer, you are the product. How many times Firefly or Community fanboys watch reruns is irrelevent in and of itself since you pay nothing. What IS relevant is how much advertising companies are willing to pay for each person who vie...
OK, I just want to jump in here and explain to everyone what sports blackouts are and why they happen. I am typing this from what I recall so please feel free to look it up. Back in the mid to late '80s when cable TV had started to become popular certain cable sports channels struck deals with MLB. Recall HSE (Home ...
Time Warner's doing it wrong. I cancelled TV service a year ago or so, after deciding that Hulu Plus and Netflix served my needs well enough. So I cancelled my TV package, gave back the HD DVR, and kept RoadRunner which cost $57.95/mo alone. Two weeks ago, TWC dude knocks on my door, offers a special deal. I get HD...
What i mean is that a retailer will often offer a "we'll match any better price!" deal, and require that they are the exact same model number to confirm. But then they'll slightly alter the model number in their registry, so it's "1234 TD-5" instead of "1234T D5", or they'll add a letter or remove one or something. So ...
Assuming the only thing the data does is make advertisements relevant to people's interests, I am wholeheartedly against DNT being default. People are under the mistaken impression that this is going to stop advertisements. It is going to have no effect on how many advertisements you see. What it IS going to do, ho...
wait until ad companys hear that we can block all their servers with a customized HOSTS file[1] Wait until they hear? Hosts file blocking has been around longer than you I am guessing. And advertisers have known about it the entire time . Not only that, but hosts file blocking is a bad idea. It fills up the DNS ...
I agree with the last point, but I do not think it is a coincidence that post WWI psychological problems related to warfare became an immense problem. just because humanity can invent supreme weapons does not mean we are psychologically or physically equipped to deal with the fallout. Again WWI illustrates this excell...
Assuming there was such a thing as ubiquitous Wi-Fi .... then I think the obvious answer is "Yes" (why the fuck would you pay for Cellular if you had ubiquitous Wi-Fi ?) Course... ubiquitous Wi-Fi is probably still a long way off (technologically I think we can do it now... but the logistics, politics and coordinatio...
Apple's claim is that Samsung is making phones that directly imitate iPhone to confuse buyers. People that are not geeks don't know anything about operating systems, appstores and etc. They want an iphone because they saw an ad or one of their friends have one and they liked it or for any other reason they want to buy...
Apple won anything because they filed silly design patents on everything they did. They also convinced the patent examiners, who have their souls sucked out by crawlies from the dungeon dimension and are now walking husks with luminous worms writhing in their eyes, that their patents should be granted regardless of any...
Oh, you mean the five whopping posts on varying subreddits in the last few days? If you search for Dennis Ritchie and sort the posts relevance as "new" you'll see that the seventh post is a month old, the twelfth is seven months old. Whereas if you search Steve Jobs it takes six full pages to find a post rega...
Incorrect. Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie died with a couple of days. The media attention to Steve Jobs's death was overwhelming while there wasn't even a peep in the media about Dennis Ritchie. This brought about a stark contrast to what people value today. One was a great businessman and the other guy was a great comp...
In fact probably easier without a microscope. Just look at some of the
I like how people think Stargate is scifi. It's just the wormhole xtreme of our world, creates deniability if a leak happens. I mean come on, they had someone from the Air Force on site as an adviser, for a scifi show on basic cable. Also: >The show’s producers maintained a close working relationship with the US...
did they use any actual military equipment to save money building set pieces/props/vehicles themselves? if so,there would have been coordination with military personnel to ensure positive portrayal of the military in exchange for the loaned equipment. this would also explain the aforementioned award.
My feedback(and what would keep me from buying it): It can't dive. I want my water toy to be able to dive and snoop around underwater. Put in a flood chamber and small pump to purge flood water. IDK. I could maybe engineer something but this is napkin-work/brainstorming.
So.. I hate DRM in all it's forms, but particularly with Blu-ray encoding. I bought a new laptop last year that has a BD drive and unfortunately both Asus and Roxio stopped supporting the program used to play the Blu-rays, so it stopped getting updates to let it read the newest movies to come out in that format. I ha...
Yeah, but that is not a list of how happy people are (aka "life satisfaction") but an entirely different measure that happens to have "happy" in the title".
This is Skat just trying to milk more money out of a company, I hope Microsoft fights them tooth and nail. Microsoft already paid taxes on what they internally sold Navision for. Skat just wants more money so now they have invented a ludicrous amount that Navision "should have" sold for and is saying that Microsoft n...
Reddit isn't against Apple, but Reddit is against Apple in this case. Why? Because this type of behavior is something Apple would do. Hell, after looking at the evidence, even the judge thinks Apple is guilty, yet every Apple fan out there is still claiming Apple is innocent. If Google was in this same position, my...
That's a large part of the problem, but I think that another approach is altering the concentrations of power within our governmental systems. I believe that any sufficient concentration of power, by the very nature of being possible to abuse, will be abused at some point. The three branches of government/checks and ...
But the ability to speak out on a national scale is blocked by a sympathetic media.| Anybody in ... oh say Madagascar care to comment on the audience /u/Eireannach has? Madagascar was a stretch. How about Norway?
Do you know what happens when a big ship is moving full steam and suddenly drops anchor? Lavabit was tiny compared to Google, or Microsoft. Shutting down isn't the decision of one man. They have obligations to clients and stockholders that would make shutting down disatsterous, to the point of impossiblilty. Even i...
Notice the defense fund link at the bottom of the page. There has been a lot of discussion on Reddit about doing something about the NSA. Most of congress doesn't support us. The best avenue may be the courts and here is a someone that has been willing to do the right thing and is also willing to push the legal chall...
Osama's goal wasn't to have the US government take away our rights. He wanted US influence the fuck out of the Middle East. He thought his attack would make Americans question the motives of such an attack and in turn learn that America was kind of an empire. In his own eyes, he did not succeed because there is even mo...
Perhaps, if there is some grand oppressive conspiracy. However, I think what we are dealing with is several competing power hungry people. In situations like this, those seeking more power may employ strategies that undermine those in power. Which may result in less access to food and/or technology to greater porti...
unbuklethis 1 point 3 months ago* Lavabit still will still gladly hand over your ass to the authorities when 'they' approach with the right amount of leverage, instead of fight the mighty on your side for your inbox for $7 bux/mo a pop. They are housed in the US, and the letter of the law says they have to co-operate...
Not really. Exchanges don't charge transaction fees unless there's actually a transaction. It's just matter of waiting for the right deal to arise.
This article is just fanboy bait, and I don't mean it as "apple fanboys so dumb", I mean this is just not news at all. Wether it was android to windows, windows to iphone, iphone to android, this isn't significant. People always need to fanboy over stuff, leading to bad decisions, in this case the bad decision of act...
It would be the only way it could be seriously considered secure. Skype has been considered secure in the past, they've touted decentralisation, encryption and other similar features in the past. But they're (part of) an American company, which means the NSA can (and does!) just walk up to them with a backdoor requ...
With Korea, it's really, really, really understandable. South Korea is the only country where eSports has national popularity and the best players in games like Starcraft and League of Legends are put on a pedestal as national celebrities. A lot of the successful professional gamers had to basically defy the wishes of ...
Amazonian here. I can't speak officially for the company, but I feel I have some insight to these arguements. I want to clear up some things, both the articles that /u/hampa9 listed and OP's article brought up. With regard to Heating and A/C: It's really expensive to heat a warehouse. A GM at one of the fulfillment c...
Exactly, that's what I took from this article as well. They're not trying to pull an Apple here and tell you what you can and cannot do, they're merely upgrading the security of the browser so that illegitimate apps and malware won't be interfering and changing your homepage/search provider, etc. For people who want ...
As a VFX artist I can tell you that Offshoring of jobs isn't what's killing studios. It's Hollywood under paying studios for the work and VFX studios being run by project driven artists rather than savvy business men. Studios would rather chase big movies like Life of Pi and underbid the hell out of everyone else, ju...
The inevitable effect of an "unregulated" global free market is everyone, even in first world countries gets paid the lowest wage the market can bare The economics of scarcity dictate this inevitability, don't they? As long as labor and resources are limited, the ultimate end of any economic system would be to minimi...
I have a LOT of trouble understanding why some journalists think I want to spend 10 minutes reading their article waiting for the information they promised in the title. > "Before getting to the case at hand, it is worth reviewing how..." => I'm getting the fuck out of here. Thank reddit for
Basically, (if I understand correctly) the American visual arts industry is going to use the MPAA's court filing suggesting that if the visual effects for a movie are done over seas, then the whole film should be considered an import, against them. To make a film an import subjects it to import taxes that to my knowle...
Just be careful because a lot of the time the
I think you're in that it could have been paraphrased to something much shorter, but sometimes I do like long articles with a lot of detail. In a way, it would be awesome if journalism adopted
I was starting to think "Wow, I'm too dumb to understand all this, and what the MPAA had to do with this" after reading the first 1/3 and throwing in the towel. I'm glad the top comment is
Negative, I'm half sleep and it didn't seem too bad. There's nothing wrong with an article that is written more than 3 paragraphs long. It stayed on point and helped the reader understand the current state of the visual artists vs the studios. I know I didn't have a firm grasp of it before reading the article. It's k...
Haha. I do get your point, and considered not adding them in the first place. But it is a nuisance scrolling through a hundred nonsense comments and finding that noone has explained it clearly. If the top voted comment/replies were simply a request for a
Indeed, I read the first 20 or so comments and still didn't quite understand what happened until /u/notian's
I didn't get too far in the article until I came here hoping for a
OK, now we've started the movement. We're on their radar but haven't caused a scratch. We need to keep on phoning in and pestering them for reclassification. However, we also need the tech giants behind us. We need Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, eBay, Netflix, Reddit, 4chan, all the major web businesses a...
You may misunderstand, as campaign finance reform is not about getting rid of campaigns or financing. In fact, there are frameworks of financing which free the politicians to not hunt for donations all the time. Have a look at the [Fair Elections Now Act]( for instance, and its Fair Elections Fund. [More reforms are li...
Well if all internet packages just specify "up to" 30 mb/s, then the speed that consumers "paid for" could be 0.1 mb/s. It's worse than that. What you've paid for is not a speed , it's a width . Nobody's ever advertised a ping time (possibly outside of extremely niche dedicated gamer-focused ISPs, if those have eve...
reddit has already placed the "Call the FCC" logo on the side of the site, but they need to take it a step further. This is a really, really big deal. Admins should sticky this post at the top of reddit for a week or so to ensure millions of people see it. It's the top post now but will disappear before the end of th...
I've called and sent emails. It didn'take a difference. Apparently only money does, if we want this to stop than reddit and netflix and all the other big websites will have to throw more money at the gov than the ISPs have. We need to boycott the websites untill they lobby congress. Our phone calls are worthless. They ...
It is fucked up. But it's not beyond repair. I keep hearing everyone complain on here how big business owns everything and everyone and how the government is bought and paid for and has no intention of representing the people. And you know what? Honestly, there's more and more truth in that every day. But as long as ...
Alright, so I'm going to hijack the top comment to post something I just put in r/teachers. Basically, it is my idea for organizing large demonstrations for important issues like this one. Here goes: To get right down to it, teaching isn't a very well-respected profession. We aren't well-paid, and are generally perce...
The problem is the bribes aren't paid up front in cash. They're paid by mean like apparently arbitrarily high speakers fees after office. The person being bribed has to have faith that the laundered bribe will be paid afterwards since they can't sue for it, and that requires being in the "gentlemen's club" that broke...
Your comment will stay mostly at the bottom, because this is a circlejerk, and I get the impression that a lot of people haven't even been out of the country (this place I've only been a tourist in is SOO AWEOSME, GAIS!), but as someone who's just gotten back from traveling in 3 non-English speaking countries, I have t...
I took it to mean that Americans don't know what they're missing. I moved to South Korea 10 years ago. Upon returning to the states 2 years ago, it was like nothing about American ISPs had changed. Little speed difference, costs about the same or higher as a decade ago. In comparison, South Korea grew by leaps and ...
Oh and one last thing, the reason why very fast (1gbps available in basically all medium to large cities for $50 a month from literally dozens of available ISPs) is because NTT, which is the largest Telco in the world is the one who lays the lines and the infrastructure and then even small ISPs can use their fiber line...
Oh they do, but they don't now why they suck. I have spent hours and hours drinking in my local watering hole, and the majority of patrons are working class. Great folks. (not sarcastic, they are really awesome and my best friends ever. And there are a few Progressive among us, but we have more education, or more l...
a long standing grant for the expantion of fiber into new households and once you have built those line you must sell the data connection at cost to your competion. this means diging down your own fiber cable isn't worth it if they allready have fiber and selling the connection at cost to your competion means people ca...
FAT largely became a de-facto filesystem since windows was such a major desktop operating system and relied on FAT. For interoperability with what a large number of users used, the majority of vendors implemented FAT with their products (hard drives, compact flash, secure digital media, mp3 players, digital cameras,...
Somebody works for Lockheed-Martin or one of their subcontractors! >Overall the A-10 lacks the firepower to engage modern tanks with only a 30mm cannon, while weapons like guided missiles can penetrate and destroy tanks with ease. CAS isn't just about tanks. In fact in the wars we're likely to be involved in, it's ...
Overall the A-10 lacks the firepower to engage modern tanks with only a 30mm cannon, while weapons like guided missiles can penetrate and destroy tanks with ease. Also on the affordability note the A-10 is a massive waste of money in repair and maintenance costs while the F-35 was made to be affordable in that regard.
I'm just going off of the reported age group of the workers who came down with leukemia in OP's article. It's obviously not a great statistical analysis on my part, but I feel comfortable enough with it to do an order of magnitude analysis. We're talking about a 10x greater incidence than expected in this factory for t...
100% wrong. 1) Apple doesn't ignore potentially emerging issues like this. In fact, they have a team of people who closely watch support cases from a network of THOUSANDS a of AppleCare, Apple Authorized Service Providers and Apple Retail Stores for trends that may indicate a widespread problem. It's simple math: If ...
I'm not fine with Net Neutrality at all, since it screws with Internet "fast lanes." Reddit loves to harp on the big telecom companies about screwing people over via throttling or whatever, but there absolutely must be different priorities for traffic flow across the Internet. Too many people jump on the bandwagon wh...
You're right, I told me parents about what Ted Cruz said and they were immediately against net neutrality. After I explained it they still didnt think it was a good thing because "why would someone compare it to obamacare?" I eventually convinced them that this was a political ploy and that Ted Cruz is an educated ass ...
I don't think he wants to be president. I'd argue he doesn't even want to be the Senate leader. He's already influential enough and being in an official leadership role would put him under more scrutiny and under heavier criticism and attack. Right now he can say whatever he wants and influence policy from his safe sea...
Who'd a thunk a webcomic would be
This is my business and I'll explain why this is utter nonsense and propaganda. >First, the FBI says its analysis spotted distinct similarities between the type of malware used in the Sony Pictures hack and code used in an attack on South Korea last year. This is known as an off-the-shelf attack toolkit. Unsurpris...
Because he pegged it all on the republicans. While the republicans are responsible for most of this, he made it seem that they make up 100% of the people who are causing the problem. So now the republicans are downvoting him for oversimplifying things and implying that all republicans are bad/share identical views. ...
There is no such thing as Imaginary Property. There is no scarcity of knowledge. There is a scarcity of knowledgeable humans. We as a civilization must stand up and protect ourselves from this menace.
A lot of things are not idiot proof. This does not mean the whole world needs to be Nerfed so as to avoid injury. Just put it in there with a warning. Those who don't follow the warnings can bare the consequences without holding back the rest of humanity.
I'd like to inform you that Apple also bundles Flash with Mac OS X. It isn't because they believe in it or support it. It's because a shitload of people want/need it for shitload of reasons that Google and Apple are not able to control. The least they can do is not using it on their sites, which they already do, promot...
A similar thing happened in the 80s: Everyone thought buttons and LEDs were the shit (and the price was coming down), so we swapped out all of our nice dials and knobs and switches for buttons and 7-segment displays. [Car speedometers]( radio tuners, synthesizers and even [multimeters]( and oscilloscopes were all butto...
Well, the real bulk of the comment is actually identifying that what's happening now in this situation is analogous to an older situation, and then saying what happened in that case (we got back to a happy medium). The meaning of Ecclesiastes 1:9 follows (kinda...). So,
One gives a shady scareware vendor their credit card info. If people weren't doing it, utorrebt wouldn't have a disclaimer on their website and software telling you not to pay for it.
The Admin's of the site, if you just click the link, are shutting down the site. They don't believe that they will be capable of existing in today's hostile internet. I believe this is direct result of the ACTA legislation.
A terrific satirical piece on an important subject. We have a copyright system in the US that is screwed up to a point that has become unworkable. Our old copyright system granted copyright for a term of 28 years, after which it could be renewed for another 47, for a total of 75 years. The Sonny Bono law extended t...
But those were not facial animations . They were seriously just compressed videos that were mapped out on to a virtual head. If you look carefully, you could see that everything on their faces, say for their noses, were completely flat. Yeah they would start off with a 3d mesh during the scanning process but when they...
I think they mean 100 hours of CPU time... And as far as I know the industry rule is 1 hour render time per frame which translate in a lot more than 100 hours CPU time...
You actually expect me to check everyone's SteamID when they talk about pirating games to see if they are legit? Plus, like all your other arguments, it's unfounded. I didn't ask if you bought some games (which I've bought a lot more than that if we are measuring sticks), I said you're a pirate trying to justify your a...
It doesn't look that good ... Oh wait, changes quality to 720HD, that's impressive!
whoosh The point was that the majority of people who are purchasing iPads aren't doing so because they're in the market for a tablet computer, and the iPad just happens to fit their needs best. They're coming at it from the mindset that in order to appear "cool" they have to be seen using the latest device from Apple...
I honestly do not believe the pre-built models are expensive at all for what they offer. The Samsung chronos 7 laptop that I bought has a quad core i7 third gen processors. An SSD fast boot hdd (I'm up and running 8 seconds after pressing the power button) 1tb hard drive, back lit keyboard, gaming graphic card (plays a...
I've been saying for years that as a marketing tool, MSFT is doing this correctly. Say it's the late 90's people have been using Windows 98 for a few years now and everyone loves it, as a company we don't really have any new ideas on what to come up with so we'll try something wild, with a few "enhancements" and call i...