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I actually have been running Windows 8 on my desktop since the first Consumer Preview was released, and I like it even better than Windows 7. I'm pretty tech savvy, and I know I'm probably in the minority here, but it's just faster and more productive on my desktop. If you are terrified of the "formerly-known-as-Metro"...
I never use the Mac App Store. All the applications I use are still distributed through traditional means (an installer downloaded from the app's website). Some examples are: Chrome, Firefox, Cyberduck, VLC, SuperDuper, Handbrake, TeamViewer, Skype, Minecraft (and multiple variations), Sparrow, MS Office, Adobe CS6 (...
As a computer technician, I hate Windows 8. It feels clunky not having a start menu, often taking more clicks to reach the desired menu. Even the all apps menu appears to be just a clusterfuck of every program that is installed on the computer when it used to be a nice organized menu making everything easy to find. Sur...
One issue with this is that it defaults to programs only but does not skip to the next category if there are no matching programs . So if you're looking for something that isn't a program (I'm not at the computer I installed Win8 on right now, but I think "Control Panel" is one such search item) but does exist on your...
I'm a pretty techinical user with a tablet and a laptop. We all do stuff that "the common user" does, like browse reddit. The tablet is so much more comfortable for that type of use. Right now, I'm laying sideways on a recliner chair with my legs at about a 60° angle. A tablet is much better for this use. Plus the ipa...
Lol no. Prices on SSD's have fallen to $1/GB or less, even on the really high quality drives, like the Intel 330 and the Samsung 840. Pretty much the only drives that'll run you more than $1.25/GB have a capacity of over 250GB ,and even those are falling in price.
Windows 8 was/is a brilliant risk for MS. Time moves forward, and touch screens are being integrated into new computers. Within the next 4 years, I imagine 100%( or close to ) of all new laptops will be touch screen enabled, and 50% of Desktops. Windows 8 is premature -- MS did a bad job in Branding. They should ha...
When you're on a tablet it's a much nicer gesture than having to click in a very specific area of the screen, smaller than your finger. If you're on a desktop, you should already be using Alt+F4 because the X is pretty much a waste of time if you take a moment to learn a few hotkeys.
Fair enough, Launchpad is a bit weird, but it's also optional. Plenty of Lion users probably have no idea it exists. In addition, the fact that macbooks have touch pads makes using Launchpad a lot more intuitive. Metro, on the other hand, seems to be forcing users to change their behavior without giving them an optio...
Windows 7 does need some fixing. It's the slowest worst os on the market compared to both Mac OS and popular Linux distros. Windows only redeeming quality is the plethora of software for it and it's huge market share. I'll admit the Mac's OS is nice but it'll be a cold day in hell before I shell out the extra money for...
I can understand that in large companies, training users for a forced UI would be a major headache. But from my personal experience, Win8 is actually much faster on my system compared to Win7. Again, this is simply my experience but my PC has become a whole lot smoother than it was with Win7. Boot time and shutdown t...
No one seems to like Windows 8. Sure, I've had my problems. But like any other decent OS, I've been able to modify it to meet my needs. Doesn't windows 8 run better in the background? Better than 7? If you can get your Win 8 machine to run like 7, but better, why not take the plunge!?
A friend of mine working for [large east coast city] was saying that part of his job is writing new building codes in response to [large east coast storm]. However, the branch of government that employees my friend does not have access to the same resources other branches of government. Since the two branches of govern...
Well, Apple set the bar for users a while ago, and kept it there. Android has been maturing nicely since 4.0, but there's still room for improvement. I have noticed a lot of developers like working with the less restrictions though. Blackberry, given the right execution, could take back its place on top. If they k...
I'll reply with best of my Knowledge. You don't count as a active google+ member if you have a Google account, as you don't have a Google + account. All his Co-workers don't count even though they are logged into the companies Google Mail account, as they don't have a Google+ account.
I think this is mostly fluff traffic/usage. See, whenever someone signs up for a Youtube, Google Adsense, Google Analytics, or any other type of Google account, it automatically creates a Google+ account for them and logs them in for the first time. People use these other services and are still logged into their Goog...
First of all, I mostly had music and/or video (the general topic of this thread) in mind when I made my comment, but it appears as though you may be trying to attack the institution of copyrighting as a whole, which is ludicrous. I don't want to argue with you about why copyrighting exists because it's here and there'...
There is no question that I am very much against the institutionalized oppression of information that is copyright. Attacking copyright is only ludicrous to someone who can't understand why copyright and ownership of so-called intellectual property is unnecessary and counter-intuitive. Furthermore, it makes sense onl...
I'm glad they aren't motivated. The whole entertainment industry is anal about licensing and squeezing every dime out of its users. And by the way, this is coming from someone who has never pirated software, even when I was low on cash. But I swear, if they start limiting what I can do with my software once I own it,...
I rarely buy used games. Why? Gamestop. They offer next to nothing for trade-ins. The only way to maximize your value is if you're a habitual buyer. You'd have to be someone that buys a new game every week (speculation) in order to see any value at all. You'd then have to trade that game back in within the mont...
This. Let's look at where the technology really is: The cars have trouble with off ramps, snow, rain, and anything else that changes the way a road looks on video. The current technology uses a combination of sensors (video camera, GPS, and I think IR) to navigate. You know how those Google cars have been driving a...
For starters, they'd probably have to re-do all the Bernoulli math to get the spring tension on the head-arms right for the different fluid density. (I have it on good authority, from songs in 1st year engineering, that fluid dynamics produces discomfort in the posterior.) You then would have to make sure it's proper...
I agree. As an example, a single loop to cool my 2600k cost me: XSPC X2O 750 pump/reservoir - $60 XSPC RX360 radiator - $100 XSPC Rasa CPU waterblock - ~$30 PrimoFlex Pro LRT Clear Tubing -7/16in. ID X 5/8in. OD ~$10 Barbs, clamps ~$10 6x 120mm fans (push/pull) ~$60 NZXT Sentry Mesh Fan Controller ~$22 ...
If you are careful about it, know what hardware to use, use clamps, etc, and test your water cooling loop by running it for at least 24 hours inside your case before putting your hardware back in, then you can be pretty confident that you aren't going to spring any leaks. I've had mine up and running for 2 years withou...
With business models you are paying for the premium look/feel, stuff like an aluminum case vs. plastic. Also better support. I generally find that when you have business grade support you will have faster response time on the phone (different numbers) and on replacements I have had nothing but next-day delivers. Again ...
In the context of the sentence it was incorrect. to make it verbose: "...capabilities and is expected to have an expected life span of 50 years." an expected expectancy refers to a thought - "he expected the life expectancy of 50 years to be correct" or "stores between 300-1500GB with a life expectancy of 50 years" a...
I cant help but be anxious of the consequences... it reminds me of an incident that happened a couple of years ago. I cant recall all the specifics now; ill try to find an article about this. Anyway, here is what I remember of the story: A couple of years ago a big organisation started a huge charity-funded project ...
I would hate to think some things would be lost forever due to an unforeseen event. For better or worst, I think they should have unlocked it. I feel like in the not so distant future that most our personal shit is going to be almost public knowledge anyways unless your some kinda hermit who never does anything with an...
This is a not entirely true....I have seen first hand where the activation lock can be disabled. I worked at an Apple Store for almost 5 years and we have had customers come in and under extreme circumstances, a Manager does have the authorization to deactivate the activation lock.
Honestly, yes. How would that be verified? I'd still say it couldn't be done, simply because that could create a precedent for people to submit false documents to scam things. As a business, I wouldn't make it policy to have to spend the time to verify such documents, which would absolutely be necessary and not at all ...
throwaway. I don't know how many people would be interested in this but I will put it here anyway. So the reason why Apple started this Find my iPhone/iPad (FMi) lock was because there were tremendous amount of stolen/lost iphones being brought into Apple for service, and when I saw tremendous it's not a figure o...
It's not about what apps exist, but rather what apps will exist. The idea that as a developer I could make a game once, and it would be on desktops and laptops, tablets, and phones with a single store upload, that is extremely appealing. Not to mention the Xbox One, which is an app platform that iOS and Android can nev...
Thats not your iPhones fault either; it's fucking apple. Jackasses make the updates slow down older hardware so you will have to buy their newest shit. Greedy fuckasses. I'm going back to android after my contract is up. I traded my Galaxy Note II with my girlfriend as she really wanted a better phone so I took her i...
I never said I was cheering, I'm just pointing out that sports teams are no different from companies in terms of any logic involved with cheering either. When I watch the Olympics, for the most part, I can appreciate what the athletes have been able to accomplish and celebrate the diversity in culture and stories inv...
Article doesn't say (amazingly), but I'm pretty sure the figures they cite include heater use, which is probably the main reason for the reduced range. As an aside, I love how the Los Angeles Times seems to think its readership is concerned with freezing weather. EDIT: [Here's a real study on the subject.](
Drones are capable of automation. A helicopter that you fly with an RC controller is a radio-controlled helicopter, but it is not a drone. Photographers have been (legally) taking photos with high quality RC copters for years. But if they were to try to do the same with a drone copter they would be in violation of the ...
just a proposition at the moment Yeah, in the same way that Linux is just a proposition at the moment. "Just a proposition" that just so happens to exist, to have been implemented, and people use it and it's working just fine for those who use it. > an unclear one on top of that What part of "Do Not Track" do you...
I'm gonna get down-voted to all hell for this, but the MPAA is somewhat correct here. They might be a bunch of cunts, but there is a valid business reason why reselling hurts artists. Reselling, obviously, cuts into profits the producers make. Instead of buying new with x% of your dollars going to the producers an...
Yeah a lot of the big bands I used to go see live even told people to just torrent their music because they don't make anything off those anyways. They make money from ticket sales and buying shirts and stuff at their booths there. So
Honestly I kinda have to agree with the MPAA on this one. If it were legal to resell a digital movie, then resellers will make all the money instead of the content creators. Imagine: I make a movie, and I sell a digital copy for $5. The a reseller pops up, buying digital copies for $2.50. The sell it back at $4. No o...
This is just wrong .. On so many levels. First, search is not a map. Search is closer to a white pages. Second, IP infringement is not remotely analogous to river pollution (you did read the judgement .. Yes ?). Even if we stick with the naive map analogy, the closest analog would be a disputed county .. and a mapmaker...
Justice Fenlon is a judge on the supreme court of the province of BC. As such, this ruling can be appealed by one of the parties to not only the BC Court of Appeals, but also to the federal courts. (Federal court if they determine that they have jurisdiction, supreme court of Canada if it decides to hear the case) In...
I'm usually skeptic about all future bikes and whatnot but this one actually looks pretty good. I mean, it does look kinda slim and fast and still have all those features. But. It's all integrated. Nice thing about bikes is you can pretty easily just change things if something breaks or isn't quite right for you. G...
The USA is not strictly a democracy - we're a democratic republic / representative democracy. And the problem is that the people in government were supposed to represent us, but now they just represent people that are unimaginably rich instead, and since everybody involved is in on it -- including the only people w...
Usually supply and demand will take care of the market. Right now, regulation is just used to support local monopolies, such as Comcast. Under the free market principles, some one else with better service and cheaper price could replace Comcast for a local market. However, regulations do not allow that. Hence, Govern...
I know that this isn't a story about a tech company, but look into Ferrari banning automotive reporter Chris Harris; IIRC, he condemned Ferrari's practice of having a team of engineers accompany each review car, setting it up for specific tests before journalists were allowed to drive it (track, road, top speed/accel...
Nobody has yet mentioned the coolest thing about this. RRAM is so fast, so high capacity, yet still non-volatile (turn off the power and the data stays) that it will replace all other forms of storage in most computers . When I said storage, you thought HDDs, SSDs, BDs, right? Well, include your RAM in there too. RR...
That's not true. A lot of people are aware of the extent that google monitors them. I am. I just don't care enough not to use their services. I've never met anyone who did. The reality of it is their data mining has never negatively impacted me, where as their products have greatly benefitted me. Google has to make m...
Im just going to throw this out there, at the time of the last midterms Congress had a 14% approval and a 95% re-election rate. If we don't like the fact that it's legal to bribe a politician so long as the bribe is large, than we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
This article is misleading. Google has been relatively quiet in the current push for net neutrality. While it's possible they could be pushing behind closed doors, we still have FCC ex parte records, and those don't show much activity. The blind assumption Google stands to benefit from net neutrality is itself disputab...
It's not exactly an argument. It's anti competitive action on the part of car manufacturers who know that if Tesla succeeds, they wil go out of business, and also oil companies who want to continue making money as well. Lack of education here allows politicians to convince the general public that our hyper-capitalistic...
I'm going to share a viewpoint more from a macro economic/wealth inequality standpoint. One very good thing that a franchise/dealer model does is distribute wealth to marginally more individuals (employees/dealership owners/partners/creditors). In a direct-to-consumer model all profits are owned by the manufacturer ...
Say they go to factory direct. All Chrysler dealerships then become a place where you go to order your new car, or where it is dropped when you order your car online and that is where you go to pick it up. All the dealership does is sell used cars, provide service work (warranty) on the cars that Chrysler sells direc...
I don't understand how running the apps in 64-bit mode improves anything, or even how it works. Good links anybody? Apps have access to 64b address spaces instead of 32b (regardless of the kernel's addressing), which means they can use more than 4GB of VMEM per process (which isn't possible with 32b apps, even with a...
Because the kernel can't use more than 4GB of RAM (or 16GB if the kernel uses PAE) PAE handles up to 64GB (not 16), and every version of OSX since 10.4.4 (the first one running on x86) has full PAE enabled.
Repair guys are prone to this kind of behavior, especially at independently owned shops IME it's as much large shops as small ones. When I was a kid in my early 20s, I happily snooped in my boss's office when I worked the weekend shift. On occasion he gave me a reason to go in there, but one time I mentioned having...
i just saw it and said to myself "ahhh the jokes probably hidden somewhere,
I highly doubt someone who's just doing email, video chat and looking at pictures needs that much maintenance.
I've actually had some decent experiences there with two big purchases in the past year: a laptop and a camera. The laptop was a brand new Toshiba model, a Best Buy exclusive that's now selling for $120 more on Amazon (I got it for even less with a trade-in and a sales tax holiday!) Yeah, it had bloatware, but that t...
here's the simple facts about most situations involving software and hardware and what you are allowed to do and what they care about: The companies don't care what you do with the software or hardware as long as it doesn't threaten their business model, or allows pirating or other illegal activity that they can be l...
I don't think it's a liability issue as much as a warning to non-techies that if they can't grok the tutorial they shouldn't blindly start sort of following it because the forum is not part of [insert-phone-manufacturer] and does not offer support ( though they'd likely try to help ). It's not so much a CYA from laws...
Because they're bought by the media industry. This method was originally intended to have another way to settle those cases, beside going to court. Media companys pay lawyers some money so they would serve a notice and collect a fine. Lawyers soon noticed that they could demand basically any fine they wanted (assuming...
Yeah, every time I hear about some brand new file sharing technology that's "impossible to shut down", I get a chuckle. It's not as if people haven't considered this idea before (hello there Gnutella, circa-2001!). The concept of "de-centralizing" the service is great, but the buck has to stop somewhere . At some p...
Interesting points, if I could, I'd like to respond to them. This isn't really a problem. Even if there are malicious nodes, they wouldn't be able to participate in swarms or publish search results for very long. Any shared data would fail hash checks very quickly and the node would lose the trust of peers/become i...
Ok, hold up. I hear those sorts of statementes a lot, and it stems from a very common misconception about our freedom of speech and press. To clarify, let me explain [ how censorships actually works ]( for you: The basics Censorship doesn't work by preventing everybody from accessing all sources. Its mechanism...
For desktops and laptops, Im sure Windows 8 (and beyond) will work out ok. But by the time that desktop and laptop conditioning takes effect, MS will have fallen that much further behind, and IMO Windows will not achieve the tablet penetration it has been so desperately designed for.
You admit to violating their terms of service (that you presumably agreed to when you got API access) and then complain when Google enforces them? It's not Google's fault that you built your business on a violation of the ToS you agreed to. And just because lots of people are doing it doesn't mean that Google should ha...
I left Digg for good after I tried to correct someone for messing up one of the comment-sing-a-longs... in the first line of the song. Immediately got downvoted (or whatever it used to be called there) into oblivion.
Unlikely that it would hit him in thw face really. Also unlikely that this would do any long term damage, in the context of young people doing plenty pf things that are far more likely to damage hearing. Spot on about the bathtub tho. That and the shower curtain makes it much louder. If it was in the garden it would ...
I liked him as a politician. He was consistent, actively tried to stick to the constitution, and seemed like the most intelligent politician around in 08...so I voted for him in the primary, donated $20 and even bought a coffee mug and bumper sticker. Something must've changed in me between 08 and 12 because I think ...
I was there when she set sail on her maiden voyage in all her text-like glory and I was there when she hit that 4.0 berg that tore her cleanly in two. As the refugees and I rowed away to better shores, we stared on helplessly as the slow eventual sink began. In our hearts, we knew, begrudgingly, that an era had passed....
I'm 31 and still an idealist. How you describe it, that's how i've seen it for the last 15 years or so. Eventually they "grow up" or people get nailed down to commitment (career or family), sometimes not even to themselves. As i grow older, i'm less cynical towards those that do things out of "necessity" like this, ...
Where does the regress end? Before it begins. The counterclaim is not the opposite of the claim made, it's the sum of the probability of every conceivable claim that contradicts with the claim. > The rest of your post You did not indicate to what point you bothered to read. Curious how someone who believes people...
Well, let me just list sources I follow, foreign or not, institutions or individuals. I thought about explaining why I follow each one, but it quickly became too heavy. I'll add more as I remember them. Investigative: [Nir Rosen]( [Jeremy Scahill]( [The Bureau of Investigative Journalism]( [ProPublica]( ...
Does anyone on Reddit have a clue as to how Apple, iTunes, and copyrighting actually works? These rules are not Apple's doing. They don't own the music either. It goes back to the copyright holder.....the big record companies. The record companies are so fucktarded when it comes to understanding technology in the 21s...
because the first and last time i ever bought a dvd it didn't let me play it on the tv-out of my video card. let it sink in: a BOUGHT dvd did not allow me to use it. funny, the movie i downloaded right then and there worked perfectly.
Maybe we don't have money, do you expect me to pay for music rather than food? I don't think so. Do you expect me to pay for music rather than buying a new computer? I don't think so. Do you expect me to pay for music rather than Internet? I don't think so. Do you expect me to pay for music rather than rent? I do...
I simply don't buy Big Media content; I only purchase from the (mostly indie) artistes. Big Media doesn't deserve my money (I wouldn't even waste money on postage to send a package of shit to them), and I can listen to their stuff FOR FREE on sites like Youtube because hordes of unthinking idiots will keep uploading th...
Hold two of them in the fingers of your right hand like you would chopsticks. That is what you use to pull any troublesome turds the rest of the way out of your sphincter. You have to remember that Taco Bell in the future is 80% fiber and 20% grease. The use of the third sea shell varies by culture. Some use it as...
As a PC repair tech, I assure you that people who don't know they can change their homepage NEVER have msn.com or Windows Live as their homepages. Ten minutes after they get on the internet, their homepage will be changed via popup box agreement or predatory installer packages. In related news, this is exactly why Y...
Something not happening doesn't explain why they would fix it. If, on the other hand, it was fixed already, then that would explain why i don't see it.
I think we're seeing a replay of what happened when Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 only now there is no hope of him ever making a comeback. With Apple suing everyone over rectangles and the shape of a friggin' leaf . You also have to consider that Apple's products aren't really even that much better than anything els...
Calli Cox and Lex Steele both have college degrees. that's just off the top of my head. I bet you'd be surprised how many went to school.
I went back and averaged all the ones I would not bang.
No shit, really? And I said "I" felt dirty reading that. I never stated that the individuals/sex were dirty/bad. You misinterpreted my comment. Just because I felt a cringe at the shear magnitude of partners, this was not a reflection of my attitude towards sex or the person's character. Let me be more clear so that yo...
The random numbers are generated from a key. Most programming languages you create a random number generator and "seed" it with a key/seed number. So for example new Random(50).nextInt() might give you 12345, and new Random(51).nextInt() might give you 920, completely unrelated. If you took say rng = new Random(50) and...
This is a really bad/dangerous suggestion. If a hacker brute-forces your password on one site and figures out that it is "Reddit 29Ojf6n3q0f72a" then you had better believe that they will try "Gmail 29Ojf6n3q0f72a" to get into your email. It doesn't matter that the hashes will be different or that the entropy is appare...
Eh, I work in IT. I've done a bunch of random things in an around it. I know how computers work, I know how passwords work. But my fucking corporate gig requires me to have a new password every 30 days, that isn't one of the last 18 passwords I've used. So I have a generic password and put the month + year after it...
it is not difficult if they use a simple MD5 hash. It gets significantly more complicated if the hash is "salted" from what I understand. He does talk about this in the article as well. The problem I see is that the databases of some of those random internet message boards you are registered at might not have this ad...
Well you could also use [this]( but the thing about streaming people don't realise is that's it's the same as downloading but worse. When you stream anything, your computer downloads it as a temp file for viewing then deletes it after. While there are programs that allow you to save the temp file before deletion, yo...
Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual: > To form the possessive of a plural noun ending in s, add only an apostrophe: photographers' exhibit > >To form the possessive of any singular proper noun, add an apostrophe and an s: Dickens's reputation, Descartes's philosophy, Marx's precepts, Venus's beauty > >...
Chill the fuck out man. All this raging with CAPS and
On a cryptographically secure system, the disk is filled with random noise. The hidden volume should be completely undetectable. However there are problems. I recently had a hidden volume [all of my porn] get corrupted. I blame Windows... I never had any problems before when running Linux. I expect that Windows t...
What you say about Verisign is not true. The key exchange for an connection is encrypted with data derived from the private key that goes with the public key that is part of the certificate for the site. This private key is never sent out by the maker, not even to to make the cert. To make the cert, Verisign (or whi...
I got half way through and decided you probably know what you're talking about. Skipped to the
Since the NSA happens to be the topic, I'll point out that HTTPS isn't of any use if the NSA either already has access to decrypted information a company holds (Google, Apple), or even worse, if the NSA gets the decryption keys from the holders such as VeriSign, which the NSA is actually trying to do. If the NSA forces...
Dear Verizon: Have fun when you finally get a court and the FCC to slap "common carrier" status on the internet, and fail miserably. Ok, so that's just me being overly optimistic. It's the best potential outcome. They've argued for a long time that they, the ISPs, fall under Title II of the communications act, wh...
I find this comment very ironic, as it's supporting a comment talking about people not understanding what they are reading, but yet the comment is actually wrong as well. The correct idea would be "hear, hear" not here here! Perhaps before supporting arguments of discouraging discussion until they have read the mater...
I'm actually up voting because you make a good point, but it's not fully right. See it's very different when you have your website. You host data on your servers and choose what to do with them. When you choose to block a user, or delete a post on your website, you are deleting things that are in your servers is perf...
No its not, you are not renting property from Verizon I'm not practicing my religion in their church either. >they are providing you a service. Yes, exactly. They are providing a service. So is a landlord when you rent an apartment from him. A landlord is allowed to make certain restrictions on what you can and c...