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Only partially true. This is entirely dependant on the learning environment the student is in. It is relatively accepted that discourse between parties is more effective for information retention however not all environments operate in this way. For example; a lecture doesn't facilitate the ability to offer peer tuit...
Outside of a subset of tech enthusiasts no one really care about either thing. This post explains it well:
there really is no way to respond specifically to any one thing you said without sounding like a total douche. ...but i guess it's a little late to be worried about that, so... i was taught the basics of photoshop on OS 9 back in 2000 while working at photolab. i actually did custom printing (dark room), but the di...
Specifially: > A unit that is full most of the time at 25 °C (77 °F) irreversibly loses approximately 20% capacity per year. Poor ventilation may increase temperatures, further shortening battery life. Loss rates vary by temperature: 6% loss at 0 °C (32 °F), 20% at 25 °C (77 °F), and 35% at 40 °C (104 °F). When store...
actually, EU said to manufacturers, if you don't make a standard, we will. They all agreed to Micro USB, so they wouldn't be regulated into it, and could move to a new standard in the future if they wanted. Apple said "we won't do it". EU said to Apple, now you must do it too.
I thought this may have been the case until I realised I never installed drivers for the phone. This would be the only way it could negotiate for a higher than default amount of current. Not necessarily. 2.5" USB HDDs need more than 100 mA of power, but you don't have to install a driver for them to request it. I'm...
The imbeciles remaining on Gawker represent the last few internet users willing to drink pure sewage after even the dumbest of their fellows were driven away by the stench of a dead, decaying site. Their arguments have no basis and are often structurally broken or reliant on fallacies. None of them are of interest to...
This is my issue with Apple. I do have an iPod used pretty much only for road trips with our entire digital music collection, but I rely on a Sansa for daily use. Apple just seems dead-set on selling me a lifestyle, when really I just want a gadget. The hype and hyperbole drive me away from their products. Vaguely re...
This is my issue with Pizza Hut. I do order pizza from them pretty much only for pizza night, but I rely on groceries for daily use. Pizza Hut just seems dead-set on selling me a pizza, when really I want a sandwich. The hype and hyperbole drives me away from their food. Vaguely related: I hate their breadsticks b...
ah yes. the classic "just works" argument. can i tell you something? go fuck yourself. your exact anecdote is used every time there is any criticism of Apple anywhere online. it adds absolutely nothing to the argument that Apple distorts facts when it comes to marketing. not only that, i find it completely unlikely tha...
The tougher situation they're in has to do with the shrinking market share of the iPhone, and the fact that it's no longer technologically particularly differentiated from its competition. I think it's pretty likely something similar will happen with tablets. With the original iPhone, and for some time after that, a...
Repost this in the booming metropolis that is /r/ModelRocketry (which I seem to be the only poster in these days)! I bought one of those cameras, and I took one video with it around the house and it died. After reading the reviews, I should have ordered about three or so to get one working device. I'm going to be s...
Agree with your take on Congress and Politics and the total Corruption in America. Politically Nationally maybe even WorldViewwise I feel overwhemed and defeated. I grew up in a secular free country with a HUAC problem. Now I live in an HUAC country with a secular free problem. Today the LA Mayor is blaming cuts on t...
I think you'd be surprised who are using what technologies. My generation does use FB and twitter, own smart phones and use SMS, and so do a lot of those in the age bracket 15 to 20 years above mine. I know a lot of (non-techie) folks in their 70's who use computers. Quite a few old folks were using computers and n...
I absolutely hate the majority of movie/music studios now (if that's what they are called). Its just...meh. They continue to irritate consumers, simply to have another golden swimming pool. I don't think they understand the need to change the way in which they do business for the better of their consumers. The reas...
There is absolutely nothing to investigate. Dodd represents interests that gave money to candidates whom they thought would protect those interests while in office. Now that those candidates have proven that they won't protect their interests, Dodd says they won't get any more campaign contributions. That's exactly equ...
My dad has worked at the WB as well as other companies like it and I will try to explain their logic: The biggest reason for Warner Brothers' lack of a steam like system for movies is that the current system has been doing VERY well making money with their current system. Especially recently, which is probably why th...
Yeah believe me, if there's one thing I've learned through pretty much my whole life, it's to kiss the ass of anyone and everyone in authority over you, or there will be a lot of trouble you don't need. If you defy someone in authority over you, your entire life will end right then and there. Permanently. From a kid'...
Actually, 28 years is rather too much. A single-digit figure even might be more appropriate if we consider the per-year breakdown of profits on most creative works. If taking a more conservative approach (which, ironically, would be quite revolutionary today), I, however, am fond of Jefferson's rational idea that the...
Not enough time for story time, but
As a PC tech/salesperson who sells Lenovo laptops, I agree. The Ideapads would be the higher end of "consumer grade." However if you want a beastly laptop to serve you many years, get a Thinkpad. The inside framing is superheavy. They don't flex. The hinges are metal. And the warranty is boss. You get to talk to an Eng...
Now go to Flint, and tell me capitalism has improved their lives in the past thirty years. Now go look at the things corporate raiders and abusive bankers have done in the US. Still sure capitalism and greed are a clear and unmitigated moral good in all cases? Market forces are highly discriminatory in almost every c...
I don't think the author was saying in any way that Sparrow did not do the right thing. I think he made it quite clear that he felt that Sparrow did what was right for them. I think the point he made, to my understanding and satisfaction at least, is that he fears he himself is wrong in believing that independent sof...
Yeah, I know, there's essentially nothing you could really leave out and summarize in a
Companies should provide
Stories from grandpa: Almost a year ago I was installing MS office in a users office. This particular user is "concerned" about her privacy so she stays in her chair while I talk her through the install. FYI try not to do this to tech guys, they will avoid you at all costs. She asks what this text is and I chuckle sayi...
Fair enough of a point, and that may work great for the US. IIRC though that isn't legal in the UK and a number of other countries. Of course there is the PR aspect of it. About how many milliseconds would it take before the FBI had a press release "Microsoft unwilling to help FBI in tracking down child predators". ...
I was still trying to beat Donkey Kong Country when the 64 came out. So outside of Starfox & SSB - I missed that entire generation...
I've given up on educating the stupid. The ignorant deserve all the help they can get (and I'm always willing to give!), but trying to educate the stupid just wastes your time. I mean, seriously, [read what he said after]( He thinks he understands, so any argument against him will just make him dig in his heels and ...
I'll be honest, of those, only Amazon seems like its going to be hard to give up. Target > Wal-Mart Linux > Win/Mac Android for phones since I don't support Microsoft/Apple Best Buy is easily replaceable if you don't care to see the product in person. Hess Stations for gas because they charge the same for cash an...
Thanks. I'll be sure and remove Apple from my blacklist, and add HP, Lenovo, and Dell to it. Less snarky ... it wasn't my point. My point was that there is a huge list of corporations that are "evil" and who we're told not to buy from. My belief is that most of them conduct just as much evil behavior as they can lega...
About half of that subreddit was Russian teen models and recycled Michael Hamilton pics. Shit considered art photography in other countries that only American immaturity would translate into something perverted (I am American, BTW. No one goes gaga over genitalia like we do.). Most of the other half wasn't even actual...
HTML5 is wonderful for flashy (pun intended) websites built by modern companies. Not being cynical here, I genuinely believe it's a good thing. However, most flash is being used in commercial applications. Back in Ye Olde Days (think 20th century), webinterfaces needed interactive stuff and this was most easily done ...
A few things to consider: Local driving regulations can for the most part all be quantified into an integer or input into a formula, or be set as a special rule given a set of peramiters (such as an emergency vehicle being stopped on the side of a highway). An automated vehicle also has a few benefits - they can op...
I believe the argument is: Space and resources to grow crops is limited on our planet It takes a very large amount of crops to feed a baby animal in to an adult, it takes around 2 years to turn a baby calf to a cow ready for slaughter and that calf needs to eat the entire time. Imagine 2 years worth of crops need...
No the meat is not the same. It's full of chemicals and hormones left over from the process which we don't know how they affect humans. The real reason our current food isn't sustainable is because of 3rd world countries that have 10 kids because instinctively they believe 5 of them will die. But then we have foundat...
Nah how about we care for human beings already born and focus on access to economic opportunity and birth control to lower the birth rate.
GMO'S have already shown to fuck up the environment This is [generally false]( with some theoretical exceptions. > and it is actually required in most states that if it is GMO that it be labeled as such [This is literally false]( In fact, California had a famous referendum on the ballot last year that would have ...
Hi, business guy here. It won't matter if we are ready or not, it will simply happen. The economic drivers are far too strong for any other path. I look at it like the electric typewriter and the advent and ubiquity of the PC. The advantages conferred by lab-grown / 3D-printed meat are of a similar order of magnitude. ...
Actually, population control isn't our central, biggest issue, and it hasn't been for decades. The problem has been the distribution of resources, and the technology to make those resources cheaply available. The global reproduction rate is between 2.45 and 2.55 per woman (or 2.45-2.55 for every two parents) and fall...
If Microsoft did this you would hardly even hear about it. Anything Apple does, good or bad, gets an order of magnitude more attention than if it were from a different company. Did you know Microsoft gets a royalty for many Android devices sold (including those sold by Samsung and HTC)? Did you know that they make mo...
This just in: 90% of Americans would cut off their little fingers or sell their firstborn if it meant an 80% reduction in car insurance rates.
Nothing. Sports cars will persevere. It's basically the same case as with, say, computers. 90% of users are perfectly okay having a moderate, low power consumption PC (read as: I don't care, as long as it gets its job done...) But this didn't kill performance gaming machines. There are far too many people, who wan...
This. Also, imagine the extra tax revenue the gov't would generate from people who no longer die in car accidents. And their offspring who would never have been born otherwise. The multigenerational tax benefits from this would likely pay off the national debt. Also, cops would no longer have to patrol to catch spe...
The crux of this article is simply that the computer exhibited an emergent behavior, rather than a hard-programmed one. Programming computers for effect without micromanaging all the details is a very common problem solving method. There's an autopilot program out there that uses a "neural network" type of evolving ...
The report doesn't allege any specific instances of fraud , but rather a widespread failure of accounting processes that have allowed for a staggering quantity of waste and misallocation of resources. "I don't think they're lying and cheating and stealing necessarily, but it's not the right thing to do," Pentagon Compt...
I don't mind it, but maybe I'm too geeky. It's unhuman enough to be nonthreatening (see '[uncanny valley]( but is good enough at expressions to allow reasonable nonverbal confirmations. It would make a good assistant. Now they have the mechanicals pretty well designed, I'd like to see a neural net for learning how t...
I really wish more people would give Wind a chance. Admittedly they aren't available everywhere but they are in most major cities. I'm in the GTA and for $30/mon I have unlimited data (5GB of unthrottled) and unlimited talk/text(and for an extra $15/month I can roam all I want in the US including data). I understand it...
Unfortunately, some places take the "if it ain't broke, don't replace it" approach to IT spending. I've come across many computers that were well past their prime with no plans to replace them. Just recently in fact it was a set of pre-OS X iMacs that the user was allowed to keep because "I refuse to do my document p...
Unless that local PC is a HTPC - in which case you'll ideally want a green (runs cooler and quieter - which is a major concern in HTPC applications). Of course this is for the storage drive only - as you'll also want a smaller SSD for your OS drive (64gb is plenty). And the above is ONLY true if you use your HTPC as ...
Until recently I used to code web apps for a University (we had 3ish programmers for a college). The main goal of offices, like the one I worked in, was to take systems such as grant applications and information filing easier. One of the issues that we always hit was that the client couldn't (or had a hard time) full...
Oh gosh, this doesn't surprise me. I'm a Veteran and I wanted to sign up for a program called My Health eVet. It's an online database of your personal health records that let's you email your doctor and look up appointment dates. Anyway, I went to the website looking for information and I saw the option to 'sign up onl...
A lot of people here are posting things like, "digitization is a lot harder than you think," and "it all needs to be manually processed." It's all bullshit. We do have the capability. Check out the image track series Banks around the world and just about every state tax agency had 2-4 of these puppies. They scan ~300...
To everyone who thinks this type of situation is a "government" or "public sector" problem only: I recently started working as a contract employee in the billing department of a small division of a very large and well-known U.S. company. One of their larger accounts contains about 8,000 people that this company bills...
Here's one section of Federal Law: [U.S. Code: Title 26 - INTERNAL REVENUE CODE]( Here's one subtitle, A (runs A-K for just this Title) [26 U.S. Code Subtitle A - Income Taxes]( Here's one chapter of that subtitle (runs chapter 1-6 for just that subtitle): [26 U.S. Code Chapter 1 - NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES](...
I am an English teacher in Japan. It wasn't until 2012 that the Japanese beaurocratic system switched from paper filing to electronic... At least where I live anyway. There's a huge misconception about Japan as some place that's super-futuristic, when in reality it's a country that will blindly cling to tradition and...
In a manner of speaking, yes. There is no official youtube consumption application (the youtube Glassware is focused on uploading video). The device has a rudimentary web-browser, so you can navigate to linked youtube videos (from messages/google searches) and play them. The quality when doing such is lackluster,...
I feel so terrible for the reps on the other end of the phone. Just think about them for a minute: Parneet comes in for his 4th shift this week. He just finished up his training class last week which consisted mostly of listening to recorded calls and roughly learning how to navigate the computer systems. He sits ...
I couldnt even listen to this for more then 1 minute without it bringing back chills from my previous work in a call center....... first off call centers hire and fire people as often as they wipe their ass...so when you're on the phone with someone most likely they've worked there for less than a year...when they're...
Yes it is, but you will have to lower your standards by a lot. Block all scripts, embedded videos and large images. Most of the sites today rely on these so you will be limited to mostly text, if they load at all. When 56k was prevalent sites were HTML and small. If your site took too long to load, people would leave.
I feel like I should've recorded my convos with comcast... I had issues that went on for months with multiple calls in and various tech visits... Ultimately they billed me around 300$ for service calls and visits which never resolved issues... I contested them multiple times and finally got one guy that gave me a 60$ c...
I wrote my representative and had a phone conversation with their local secretary. They provided me with information concerning local dark fiber. They also expressed concern and support for the consumer. Then I wrote the Mayor an email espousing the creation of a municipal fiberhood in our town and the benefits it w...
I'm a Brighthouse customer, and somehow I ended up having to call Comcast. Apparently one of their customers wanted her old phone number back. One that she had years ago. She told Comcast that it belonged to her, so they sent an order to request it be ported over to Comcast from my account through Brighthouse. And some...
Month? Just going off of the Comcast entry on wikipedia, in 2002 Comcast had 22 million subscribers. A quick google search tells me that there are currently around 313.9 million people in the United States. Now it's highly likely that Comcast has more than 22 million subscribers now but for the sake of me being too laz...
And I think I already touched on part of the reasoning. The system tempurature rises until a new balance is established. When a breaking point is hit in greenhouse gases, or enough sea ice melts, the temperature begins to rise. I'm guessing you did not study much in the way of chem or physics? Edit: You should al...
I had a similar feeling. These are the exact reasons why the mission creep of a Social Security number ended up being really bad news. By the late 80's everyone from schools to health clubs were taking SS numbers. Later they tried to fix this by issuing ID cards that were not your actual SS number but once again, t...
Corporations are selfish and don't care who they fuck over for a dollar. The government enabled this behavior while the people vote in people to get a piece of the pie.
All the sides seem to have taken a very aggressive 'me first' approach. The price to acquire, legally that is, music/movies is deemed to be too high by the public (also no recourse regarding bad quality) has let the public to collectively say 'If you can't guarantee the quality I'll just "test" it out first and if I ...
People get this wrong all the time. A "republic" is not the opposite of, or a mutually exclusive concept to, a "true democracy," as they like to call it. Au contraire, a true democracy almost necessitates the existence of a republic. A republic is a government whose power is derived from, and resides in, the people, ...
North Korea has a much higher turn out. What part of a democracy do you think can be measured in voter turn out? Maybe people believe their choice is between a dog shit sandwich or a cat shit sandwich or maybe they believe it's between chocolate ice cream and strawberry ice cream. But if they perceive little differe...
If you're unemployed you've got bigger problems than King Jeffrey dying. There's already a bunch of issues surrounding the First Amendment, go take to the streets or write to your congressman. If you really care about censoring (shutting down torrenting sites is not censoring anything or anyone) then worry about how co...
I have a Tesla and a Leaf, and no ICE automobiles. They charge in my garage, when they're parked and not being used. Going to a gas station is a pain in the ass, a waste of time, and a waste of money. I have a 9kW solar array, so charging at home is free in the sense that I've already paid for the array, and net-ze...
I tend to agree with people saying most of it is a non-issue. I do think you're going to end up leasing your batteries in most cases. There WILL be multiple manufacturers of batteries, but like standard sizes of batteries: AA, AAA, C, D, etc there will only be a couple of "shapes". This should limit the amount of infra...
I like the rechargeable [liquid battery]( technology. Far from perfect (so far), but it would help with a number of the issues with EV batteries.
I'm talking about phones and how "they don't have a standard" despite every phone Ive owned in the last decade being micro USB or that one slightly thicker one(trapezoid shape). For there being no standard, sure seems pretty standardized. My point? The analogy sucks. 20 years ago? Sure. Everyone had a proprietar...
Just to make my own estimates: There are about 2 million people in my home county. There are about 100 gas stations. (Just from looking at Google maps.) People fill up their car every 5th day. (Semi-random number, but close enough.) For this estimate, I'm going to guess that there's about one car in service per perso...
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about this issue. Really, the FCC doesn't want to change anything. Before all of this debate began, the ISPs were not common carriers, but the FCC had Net Neutrality rules in place. Then, there was a court ruling that said that Net Neutrality was too severe regulation for the...
Welcome to the trade-off between convenience/productivity and security. Convenience wins on the small scale every single day when something like a small business decides to stick with insecure legacy software because learning the new stuff would cost too much time, money, and effort. Security will never, ever win o...
You remember top kill? Note how they abruptly halted that effort. Rumor is that they fear that stopping the flow up top would cause a massive blowout below the seafloor in one of the casings. Apparently they suspect that mud was escaping the casing 1000 feet below the seafloor which was the reason for top kill failing....
I don't think your cost comparisons are fair. Firstly, a square inch is too small a unit to look at, because the LED cell that they're talking about covers more than 1 square inch. I'd estimate based on the video that the LED pitch is approximately 3 inches. So, you're operating on a 3x3 inch grid. (9 square inches)....
80% of the Internet was created with a poorly-written spec and a reference implementation to clarify behavior, which other implementations strive to be compatible with. That's what the reference implementation is for (this is the reason why MS's ODF implementation stinks, by the way -- they intentionally broke compatib...
Just a partial list of the stuff you can do with a PDF from Wikipedia: Interactive page elements (such as radio buttons and checkboxes); interactive, fill-in forms (AcroForm); Forms Data Format (FDF) for interactive form data that can be imported, exported, transmitted and received from the Web; mouse events; support...
My original post had a part about why I replaced Quicksilver with Alfred, but it was way too long, so I removed it. Quicksilver is great, but outdated. The developer stopped updating it. Alfred doesn't have the same functionality, but it's getting there. You're only using Quicksilver to launch applications, so you ...
If you read the patent, it describes a computer system that would contain "instructions for modifying the standard company logo with at least one of video or audio data." What does this mean? Reddit (and other, lesser sites) only violate the patent if their logo is changed a) by a computer that b) has been programmed ...
Are you for real or just a troll? First of all it's only directly competing with 2 consoles above it (PS2 & wii). Dude you provided a link, I read it. The link you provided shows it to be the ninth best selling console in the world. >Do you understand business strategy at all? Yes I do. It involved ROI. Return o...
Are you for real or just a troll? First of all it's only directly competing with 2 consoles above it (PS2 & wii). Do you understand business strategy at all? Their original goal was not to be profitable right away. It was a market penetration strategy to basically put as many fucking units as they could into homes. T...
In the enterprise IT world, if you are even a single update behind, you are completely insecure. The author of that article is super upset but he doesn't even know the name of the current version of the OS. It's not $129 dollars for an antiquated version of the OS, it was like $50 to upgrade to that OS. Not to be an ...
If that's how you choose to take it. I believe that if something has a 3 year product cycle and you expect 10, that's a mistake on your behalf. If you want something with a 10 year product cycle, buy something with that cycle, but don't expect Apple to be something it's not. Apple is pretty clear about the fact they ...
Like you read my mind. I'm a programmer. I'm a student. I'm a power user. A normal day for me is being hooked up to one virtual machine and two remote machines with 4-5 browser windows up with 5 - 20 tabs open in each, not to mention graphical tools, documentation, and multiple dev projects... If I've been using a...
Right, but they put it at the bottom of the Q&A at the bottom of the page so you'd have to read something to get there. When people just put the answer on forums like you just did, it defeats the purpose as a simple google search will tell them how to get around this inconvenience; and learn nothing about SOPA/PIPA.
As a German, I think I can help putting this into perspective. First of all, Youtube is obligated to block videos on copyright grounds, Youtube already does this. The videos which were part of this lawsuit were merely blocked "too late". Therefore nothing new here. Second of all, Youtube was ordered to use filtering so...
1) There are more channels in the states than you can shake a stick at. 2) Radio TV is usually local programming and some really crappy channels. 3) Some channels (like Discovery, History, Animal Planet, etc) are only on cable or satellite. Yes, they're starting to get REALLY crappy, but there is still the odd gem....
Does this violate their contracts with the networks? I don't know, I'd have to read the contracts. But you can't simply assume it doesn't just because you like the feature. I highly, highly, highly doubt Dish Networks legal team didn't mull these thoughts over as they were designing this new feature. It would be fla...
For television commercials: Less reruns. I actually like commercials, what I don't like however, is the fact that I can watch Series 1 on Station 2 and watch Series 2 on Station 1 and see the same commercial 15 times. If you people actually had any interesting twists instead of being the same block as it was before t...
As a mobile developer, I would hate this . The key reason, in my mind, that iOS apps just look/feel better than Android apps is that UI programming is overwhelmingly more pleasant for an iOS app. Every device has the exact same screen ratio, and one of two resolutions (one of which is just double the other). For An...
I'm a technology blogger, I have covered Apple and the iPhone, specifically, for six to seven years. I've worked at gizmodo, techcrunch, and cnet. I know how tech companies do "leaks" like the one you're proposing. Apple is very rarely one of those companies, especially with it's iPhone line. I can tell you with absolu...
Oh I certainly have. But for that you need to test on Chrome, Firefox, Safari (also webkit, so maybe not), and what's current practice, back to IE 6? That's 7 browsers. Seven. You can run them all on one machine. (We had one, called the shit box, at my old office). Have you tried testing UI for an android app? How m...
Power usage prediction is extremely important for utilities, especially if it provides the necessary minimum usage profile. People think you can just turn on or off power plants. For coal (which represents the non-peak steady power) it can take hours even days to significantly change production rates. To top it off...
Let's put it another way. As a consumer of electricity, you care about the cost of your power. As a producer of electricity, you care about reliability. Reliability is created through knowing exactly how much power you will need to produce. If you know in advance, you can use cheap power (like coal) which takes hou...
As a consumer of electricity, you care about the cost of your power. As a producer of electricity, you care about reliability. Reliability is created through knowing exactly how much power you will need to produce. If you know in advance, you can use cheap power (like coal) which takes hours or even days to set opera...