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The people making those comments are basing them on a perception that doesnt reflect reality. Windows Vista was a kernel rewrite to fix what XP had become, and in the process made old drivers incompatible. All the hardware manufacturers had to rewrite driver stacks. Vista was Win7 beta, and they used their userbase...
Dude, this isn't really an argument when I have the same opinion as you. Please read my comments again and you'll see that I'm clearly calling my city officials and people in charge of each individual department stupid and cheap and that is why they haven't bothered to upgrade their computers. I'm clearly saying this...
If there's complex information that the customer needs to keep, words are essential. I work in engineering consultation and we generate and transmit visual data at a rate that would be inhumane to ask anyone to write up and put into 'reports.' It is good practice to speak to the results we see on screen and not read ev...
terrible article. author is essentially trying to fear monger- and was probably paid off by insurance companies to pen this piece of garbage (as no insurance will be needed once autonomonus vehicles cover the streets). things to consider: Computers process data faster than humans can. if that were to happen in ...
Apple will make this a trend rather than a standard. If this feature works well then consumers will simply demand the same for their platform. Android users will say "why the fuck can't I pay like that Apple user?" and then someone will launch a similar system for android. Since NFC is a standard, all decent payment ...
Owned a gas station for 10 years. Dealt with every credit card company and their policies. I'm the source. As I stated in another reply, the signature on the back is considered "ID" as long as it matches the one you sign. If the card is not signed, the retailer then has every right and obligation to check ID or ...
Apple likes to test features in their products and make sure they work properly, rather than just throwing shiny stuff to people. When they release Touch ID, it was for Apple's use only, but when the next version of iOS dropped, they introduced an API so that any dev could use Touch ID in their apps. The same thing wil...
I only know about the DMCA on a very superficial level, but I think that DMCA violations are typically a civil tort and not criminal. Notice how I said typically ; the DMCA does explicitly criminalize copyright violation under certain conditions, but the average recepient of a takedown notice is not being charged w...
Unnecessary is an opinion. Comcast being broken up would absolutely without a doubt benefit the state of broadband in the United States. This is uncontestable. Whether a better solution is available is open to debate. "Government owned regional monopolies" have done just fine in the communities that create them. ...
I was going to buy it digitally. Then the news about the song Sony pirated and used in the movie came out. If they don't bother to follow the rules they keep lobbying to put in place, why should I?
Well in theory its not. If it was perfect, it would cut down on pirating without being an inconvenience to the consumer. But that's not how it is in implementation. So far DRMs sometimes require the consuper to jump through many hoops to get to the content they paid for. Like GTA 4 for instance required you to log into...
What is bad about it is that the studio knows you and millions like you did this, and because you can't follow the law they will continue forward with DRM and harder-to-steal models, which means those of us that do follow the law won't be able to watch movies on the internet on the first day of release: because the mo...
I am a statistic. I have my own personal reason why i pirated the movie myself instead of paying to watch it online or go to the cinema to watch it. First off my internet sucks right about now so instead of being patient and waiting a week or two to get faster internet i spent 8 hours downloading the movie to watch a...
I can tell you beyond any possible doubt that you are wrong. I can also, apparently, tell you that you are not very good at your job if you can't tell an HD video from a non-HD video.
Close. The RF aspect of Wifi (the carrier) is a shared medium, equivalent to wired hubs of the old days. Meaning that if two or more devices speak at the same time, the data will collide. Think of it this way. Say you have a bunch of people using two way radios, such as walkie-talkies. There is a base station that...
802.11w adds protected management frames to the protocol. Linux and Free BSD have added the functionality to their kernel and some drivers, whereas the implementation in windows and osx is still problematic.
Obamacare is fundamentally a cluster, honestly. 15%? I'd take that in a heartbeat right now. My costs went up 125% and I honestly have no idea how we're going to square things away. Can anyone but the 1% absorb a $10,000 cut in income? I doubt it. The problem is that Obama didn't stamp his authority on the proce...
If any Hollywood people see this, please just stop. Money is not equal to success...I'd actually pay to see your movies if you'd just shut the fuck up about how actors with millions of dollars are being ripped off because Joe Smith downloaded Avatar. Those actors are just fine, and are being immature assholes if they c...
For a second I thought "Wait, who's the Mafiaa? Is it the regular Mafia, but spelled wrong? But why is it capitalized." And then I realized that people have a stupid and irritating habit of giving dumb names to things they don't like. i.e. NObama, McSame, MAFIAA, and other retardery.
Facebook user information was 'never' private. Trolling employers, creditors, crazy ex-lovers, reporters, and of course the government... It's surprisingly easy to access one's personal information. The more public Facebook becomes, users will inevitably become more and more aware and modify their behavior accordin...
Well, transportation is expensive, and it is a fundamental need, and public transport often suffers from the last mile problem. $3500 is a lot when you think of it as just another nifty gizmo. It might not be a lot if you think of it as a gizmo that lets you buy a house 2 miles further (and $30K cheaper) from the tr...
did you read the part where they're paying for hotel fares, cab fares etc or was it
You know what's funny? Even though MS does so much philanthropy, people still love Apple infinitely more.
Microsoft doesn't make up these numbers - they have focus groups and research that comes up with these numbers. The mere fact that you have a blog and are on reddit proves that you're not an average Windows user. These changes were not done to make YOU more efficient. They were done to make the rest of the folks more e...
Microsoft UI team is a firm believer in function over form. That has actually hurt them recently as major competitors appear more trendy and cool because they go for form over function." I assume you are referring to Apple. And with that assumption I LOL at your statement. Like Steve Jobs said: "Design is not above h...
No it just seems like that. The main issue was integrated graphics not being advanced enough and not running Aero. The slower CPU's from Amd didn't help nor did Intel's Celeron line. The requirements are the same for both Vista and 7. The issue was people upgrading their 5 year old XP machine expecting the same perfo...
Seems a biter hyperbolic, no? Very little functionality is lost in the upgrade (possible none, but I'm not "super" enough to be so confident), it is just that the form changes while functionality is added; for a super-user who may have everything down to muscle memory, this causes more re-learning than every other grou...
Aesthetics and functionality are two separate categories. Generally speaking, I don't give a fuck about aesthetics, I just want something that works. If it looks pretty, too, that's an added bonus. However, this UI is about more than that. This is meant to expose features to users who didn't know they were there. ...
all you people with your fast internet speeds can suck it. 1.5mb with 5gb/month limit. Former Alltel customer that supposedly has a grandfathered contract that Verizon has to honor. They throttle the shit out of me when I exceed 5gb within 1 month. Sure they don't charge me for going over the limit like a normal Verizo...
Are you using the default Netgear wireless router they give you that has 1 antenna and charge $5 a month for letting you borrow it? Because that router is the biggest piece of shit ever created. It's a wireless router and cable modem built all-in-on device that can't do either of those things well. Bring it back to the...
I'm usually a late adopter and I use G+ because it's fucking awesome.
Nothing would benefit the technology space more than eliminating technology patents wholesale. Right now it is impossible to create anything non-trivial without running afoul of someone's absurdly broadly worded patent. The whole thing would be hilarious if people's companies weren't being destroyed by lawyers. M...
I have 2 google tv's. A sony google tv which I bought at launch and a revue i bought for the office for a 3rd of the price. Here's the thing: the update took forever to come and it's not stable. Admittedly it has shortcomings. Shortcomings which can be fixed with adequate third party support such as a decent browser li...
Is it mildly or highly probable that this wasn't done by anonymous and was inserted by legal authorities or it's just bad propaganda for Anonymous? In other words is there room to question this as in not believing everything you read in the news?
This. Please stop comparing CISPA to SOPA, all they have in common is that it aims to change things on the internet, and their acronyms end in PA. CISPA is about your private information, SOPA was about blocking anything they didn't like. While I agree, the consequences of CISPA may be worse than those of SOPA, had i...
I'm a Congressional Intern in Washington, D.C. and I can say that alls it takes is 5-10 calls in a House office for the Member to be notified. From what I have gathered, that number is closer to 50-100 in a Senate office. We are required to take detailed notes of ALL constituent calls and mailings and in my office, our...
CISPA is worse in the sense that it tells us, as Americans, that if we fight tooth and nail against one bill and have it shot down then congress will be faced with passing a new, similar bill under a different name shortly thereafter. Because SOPA was "old news", the new bill is like "Old News part 2" and more likely ...
They can use it to take away the power of peoples to fight governments by organizing and deseminating information through it. Because they know what you're saying, so they can find you, and because they know all about you, stop you, without so much as a warrant. Worst possible case I think, but plausible. I'd love to s...
You seem to be one of the gullible types that still believes the government is inherently good... a blind sheep that actually believes in big brother,,, This legislation will give the government the legal backing it needs to do whatever the fuck it wants, they already have laws to classify anyone a terrorist and ho...
I'm against it. The blackout was annoying as hell. I know it was for a good cause, but I (personally) think it hardly did anything. Yeah, SOPA didn't get passed, but that's correlation, and there's no way anyone can be sure that the blackout actually caused (even in part) the bill to fail. Yeah, yeah, I know, what'...
Another part of it that I'm surprised most people don't realize is that, like reddit and imgur, a lot of users would rather look at and post pictures instead of making actual posts. Instagram was also a particularly interesting threat to Facebook. There are a ton of mostly younger people who post their status using app...
25-35. This is a very foolish way to value something, first look at their valuation. Currently at their anticipated IPO they are looking at $95 billion, if they had only 95 stocks to sell and that same valuation each stock would cost $1 billion dollars. Now as many people are doing, look at their revenue, they don't ...
Why I'm not investing in Facebook, is the same reason I didn't invest in apple earlier this year. This sort of hype is synthesized by the shareholders themselves. Its a ploy to cash in their shares before the value of the stock starts deprecating. Facebook is no longer a new and innovative frontier for social network...
Bull shit! For every person in North America bidding on a job there is 20 people in third world countries that will do it for half the cost. Sure their programming sucks and they speak very little English, but no one wants to waft through the shit pool to find the good stuff (???).
Read Million Dollar Consulting and learn to price your work according to the value you provide. Learn to figure out what problems people have and provide simple solutions to them. Find good clients who pay well. Ad agency overflow and medium sized businesses are my favorites (tiny companies have no $/nickel and dime yo...
I don't have anything against Groupon but the fact remains that there is absolutely nothing the service can do to rise above its competitors. As for Facebook, any corporation that harms its users (think user concerns over their data being sold) will ultimately fail when a white knight alternative comes riding in. Goo...
Exactly and RIM was a good company up until about 4 years ago. Their stock price was $148 a share. Further the average executive pay is $7 million which both of them are extremely close to. It's not like they came in from another company, ran RIMM to shit, then left 3 years later with a $60 million severance packag...
In some ways he was exactly right. It took Android until the Galaxy Nexus (ICS) with its dual core CPU to match the graphical smoothness of the original iPhone! Android OS was designed like a normal desktop OS, where thread priority is not given to the UI. This of course makes most sense to engineers - you want the...
Your incredulity indicates to me that you don't know a lot about Android updates, so forgive me if I'm explaining something you already know. Unlike iOS, Android's major updates haven't been coupled with a full change of the version number. The versions have been Cupcake (1.5.x), Donut (1.6.x), Eclair (2.0.x/2.1.x), Fr...
Two points I have to make. First, this is what Android has done to this subset of smartphone users. Since Android phones are so different from one another, running different versions of the OS, and all layered with some awful manufacturer UI like HTC Sense, they expect Apple to give them the same. Like Android device...
Um, I'm not sure I'd call him a true hero — or any sort of hero, for that matter. By all accounts, it sounds like he's not getting a fair shake from the authorities or the MPAA. That's really shitty, and the people need to be aware when authorities and powerful interests opt for expediency and underhanded tactics. ...
Completely omits the part where he was illegally recording stuff and replaces it with some crap about "video buffering" that got stuck in memory capturing just the exact images he needed. No, he explained it pretty clearly. The camera is always active, even if it isn't recording a video or picture. The video feed i...
Patents are full of the most idiotic speculation. Sony has a patent on [using ultrasound to manipulate your brain]( through your skull with the intent of giving you sensations. No explanation or theory how this would work exist, no prototypes exist, and Sony hasn't performed any research in this direction. Yet, the ide...
It should, what Metro PCS suffers from is Bad backhaul & tech problems. They chose CDMA EV-DO, but didn't have proper backhaul which makes it slow. This is also why their LTE is on the slow side. Someone put it like "it's like running a Wireless-N Wifi router on dial up" to show why backhaul is important. Metro PCS has...
I love the S3 for its screen and raw capabilities. It's a pretty sexy looking device too. My employer recently adopted Android devices into or corporate phone contract. Previously we were an all-iPhone shop (3G, 3GS, 4, 4S). Prior to shifting to iPhones, we were using Samsung Blackjacks and similar, so the jump to iP...
I first wanted an iPhone, 6 years ago. But they were too expensive, out of my price range and only for Att. I was on sprint. My brother had just received his Samsung galaxy epic and the thing blew my mind away. Yea I've seen and iPhone and had an iPod touch so I knew what was there. But the android OS is what got me. A...
Absolutely high end VFX are not the only creative professionals, but they are probably the "most intense" users of hardware and software in the sense that whatever you can pack into a box or a package will be most likely pushed to it's limits in terms of performance and output and there is trickle down (same for audi...
This enforcement is utter bull-shit. My own university regularly offers free or inexpensive non-degree courses to anyone, regardless of what state they're from. Oh, did I mention that some of these are online courses for continuing education students? I.E. anyone with an internet connection and half a brain can find th...
As a Electrical and Computer engineer at a Minnesota State school, I can completely confidently say that without online resources such as Udacity, AcademicEarth, Coursea, and KhanAcademy all my 2000+ level courses would be next to impossible. While this law doesn't include Udacity and KhanAcademy (they don't nessicaril...
This is only possible because of a regulation happy, over-sized government on all levels. Every time you add a regulation, you are implicitly giving someone or a group of people the authority to enforce it. Who cares who these people are? Mainly those who are regulated. So while initially effective, all these offic...
That's outrageous!
iPad 4th gen and an iPad mini. I believe that the iPad 4th gen has been announced too soon. This will deter many individuals that just bought an iPad 3rd gen from upgrading when the 5th gen gets announced. To those who were waiting to get an iPad. The 3rd gen will likely be discounted and found cheaper used. Consid...
Having spent most of yesterday installing Windows 8, the software itself is OK, but the installation is a nightmare: My older PC was running XP (this one is Win7), and I figured it was time to upgrade before XP support runs out. The motherboard supports 8 GB, so I wanted the 64 bit version of Win 8 because memory is...
Worst advice? You must not have read the TorrentFreak article: >1. We absolutely do not maintain any VPN logs of any kind. We utilize shared IP addresses rather than dynamic or static IPs, so it is not possible to match a user to an external IP. These are some of the many solutions we have implemented to enable th...
I appreciate your long lecture about the formats, but really it was unnecessary as my comment was specifically about discs containing LPCM tracks, [which certainly are not mandatory and ~8% of blurays contain.]( [again, while the spec lists them as "mandatory", a disk only has to support one of the options.]( Its 2...
You have a point there, and regrettably there's no way around that reality. You paying for their cable package gives them part of the revenue they need to pay for content, and I acknowledge that in that fact, I am in a small way indebted to you. You and the current HBO subscribers allow shows like GoT to be paid for....
Hate to break it to you but Microsoft is more business based than you think. They make the the most widely used and accepted operating system(s) the world over. Take Microsoft out of the picture and IBM along with a very larger percentage of the worlds servers run on Microsoft technology. Not to mention there other sof...
Since Reddit have a raging boner for Scandinavia, I will let you in on a secret. We are such a small place so what happens here you don't really hear about out in the rest of the world, this make Scandinavia a good testing sandbox for business ideas. For awhile now have had access to HBO Nordic a streaming service on ...
Agreed. I know this may sound like not a big deal but as a person that uses his phone for nearly everything. I was really pissed to find out my 64GB iPhone only has 57.30GB on it. Why does iOS need to take up 6.7GB of space?! At least on android, all that extra space the OS is taking up is because of actual features. O...
Simply because you don't have a problem does not mean there is no problem. You could argue that a particular device is not suited for whatever task an individual uses it for, but don't presume everyone uses the device in the same way (or, indeed if a way is wrong in your opinion)
UK here as well. I get realistic speeds of 200-225down/20-22up and pay £30/$45 a month for the service. Always flawless as well. Saying that, it has only been the last 2/3 years that I have been getting what I consider to be value for money instead of constantly having to call up the ISP because something is broken or ...
I know this will get buried, but I don't even care. I just needed to share. I just moved from Houston a few months ago to the Austin area. While I lived in Houston, I had ATT DSL because that's all that was offered in the area. I got 6 Mbps which was fine. I could browse the net and game a bit as it was just me and m...
From New Orleans, LA myself and my only options as far as internet is concerned are Cox and AT&T's U-Verse. Considering how long i've been a customer of AT&T I get a permanent discount to their internet service so I pay $55 per month for the 24mbps connection. More than I feel I should be paying but the best option a...
Just to point out, it won't really. The disparity will be huge when considered in terms of GBs or TBs, but we'll be working with EBs, so it won't. I mean, technically it will asymptotically trend towards zero, but when every single atom in the universe is included in the size, we'll have a 50% disparity between the S...
If they voted 3rd party they have a leg to stand on Meh, not really. I mean think about it: the incompetence of the third parties dwarf that of the Republicans and Democrats. They should be building grassroots followings by running strong state and local candidates. Instead, they push all of their resources at pres...
Replying to a comment that was deleted, asking why Total didn't add up. They're adding up all the costs, and then subtracting the $7500 for the credit. I think there are some issues with the page however. They don't add opportunity costs in that specifically, although they do reference the added cost of borrowing ...
I know this is not a neutral source, but they are using reputable sources to promote their point:
So getting your power from coal is somehow superior to getting it from gasoline? You are trading one pollutant for another, and the actual amount has never actually been calculated (at least by an unbiased source). It's all fine and dandy to think you are saving the world by driving an electric car (and I think they ar...
In the long run doesn't it benefit the city driver more? Every day I work, I have to fill my tank. The average commuter fills up once every other week. We each spend $40 at the pump, but I go to the pump 10 times as often as he does. If we could both switch to EVs, he'd save ~$25 every two weeks; I'd save $25 every...
battery replacement] ( Here is a link to a mental exercise in average cost between gas and tesla. This exercise factors in average "fuel" consumption and battery pack replacement and assumes an 8 year replacement (end of warranty) on battery packs and does not take average motor maintenance on gas engines.
First, let me say that I applaud your desire to leave the earth better than you found it. I'm an outdoorsman, and I really do love the great outdoors. My problem isn't with you, it's with the modern environmental movement. Because it is a complete scam. It's the Xzibit of scams, it's a scam within a scam, within a scam...
You know, about 6-7 years ago I interviewed to get a job at a call center. I lived in a fairly small town, 90,000 or so, and jobs were scarce. They were offering slightly higher than minimum wage, like $8.50 an hour or something. But these questions kept coming, like "you know that during these calls you will be requ...
Okay, I think you're exaggerating here (sorry if I missed the sarcasm). The point is that Google Play Store (as any other software repository) tends to operate on a good faith. Yes, they should be paranoid, but in general most developers don't make malicious apps. And here's the key: Malicious. An app which doesn't ste...
I personally like Apple's approach. It is true that Android is more "open", but in reality most people don't need or want that. Even the guys in my office don't really write apps for themselves(some of us have side projects to make extra cash though). The average person has never even thought of writing their own app. ...
and absence of competition. You do realize that's because of the state, right? The state created those monopolistic sectors to begin with. And now you're getting angry that people took advantage of it? I realize those money hungry bastards are in the wrong, but none of this would be happening if it weren't for the fa...
r/technology is so predictable. To the everyday, non-audiophile, both Bose and Beats make great products. Bose's noise-canceling headphones are outstanding and set a new standard for noise-canceling technology. There may be better options out there, but that doesn't matter to the thousands of satisfied customers of...
Yes, pretty much exactly that. I guess that might be true, but you wouldn't be able to use any of the copyrighted software you already have. Say you have an iPhone. There is a TON of stuff that would need to be replaced if you set the restriction that you can't modify software. Even the BootROM, which is often refe...
Lol, your argument is analogous to having a car that the manufacturer says you shouldn't drive on the freeway because the tires are shit. However they install locking lugnuts to prevent you from changing the tire. Jailbreaking lets you change the tires.
If you could have stretched your assertion into multiple paragraphs, this could have been a
There hasn't been a radio shack in Canada since 2005. Circuit city bought it and renamed it to the source, then they sold it to bell.
There are areas of the USA much larger than your Nordic country with as many guns & hunters per capita, and likewise few homicides. The USA is the size of Western Europe but suffers from tremendous localized poverty and crime . Most of the violence occurs in specific neighborhoods. Most Europeans I've brought over...
HEADLINE IS WRONG!!! It seemed absurd when I saw it on /r/bitcoin so I went and asked /r/law about this, [here]( The top comments there were: >>activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States >Foreign hackers--Snowden's activities occurred whil...
The thing is ICANN really doesn't do a whole lot beyond administering the top-level domains, and getting people to agree on / implement a new administration system is basically impossible. >And they can be pressured by world governments to act in favour of spying and censorship. The good news is they can do squat t...
Very awesome step towards bionic augmentation indeed, however it seems to only be a camera within the prosthetic eye with a wireless transmitter. What will really make me excited is hooking such devices up via neural implants to the visual cortex, which has already been done once or twice for blind people. With it di...
The image doesn't support your argument, it talks about people going through and making videos where they read the shit in the video. I meant for my tone to be rude because of your stupidity. You asked for someone to create something on blogspot.... go do it yourself? Your point about the automated cables-to-video...
So? Do you remember DARPA and ARPANET? How about the projects and research at MIT that were funded by the DoD? Does that mean that the internet is bad and MIT is just a gov't front? I don't know if you read that entire NetworkWorld article, but Tor is not run by any gov't whatsoever. From Tor's own website: "It w...
Well it's nuclear powered so it will out live some of us, so there's that. I doubt the solar panel would do so well on mars without human intervention. The rovers had to be positioned in such away that sunlight was consistently provided to the solar cells. Plus unless positioned correctly they could have gotten so cold...
Its not like he was teaching us anything either. He kept attacking people by giving them bad sounding names, but there was no reasoning behind any of his points.
is this the mortgage case where they have voice recordings of laptop owner telling husband that incriminating evidence is on laptop?
I would jump at the chance if I had the opportunity to have a solid-state storage device implanted in my brain to supplement my own, flaky, biological memories. I would literally trade my left testicle for a device which could record everything my eyes picked up, giving me the ability to recall the things I've seen or...