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I know that i'll get downvoted, but I really think that this will not be as bad as reddit is making it to look like. The oculus team will stay independent, and will continue on the development as it were before the purchase, but now with all the advantages that an almost unlimited budget comes with. The oculus will n...
Turning it down for what? Sure I would take it for free. We could all find something good to do with a lot of money, but that isn't what this string is about. We are talking about giving up your life's work for that money. Not everyone would do that. I certainly wouldn't. I place a lot of value on my work. I certainly ...
No, people are mad because they donated $10 to support an idea the company said they were going to develop, only have that company (in their minds) go on to develop something different. That being said, I think people are overreacting just because it's Facebook when we don't really know how the change in ownership ...
If Oculus were to sell off all the stock they made during this deal at one time how badly would it hurt FB? If it destroys FB's stock then Google can come in and acquire FB, then separate the assets FB has gathered and transfer Facebook into Google+ and at least then Oculus will still have a fighting chance.
1) Calling something a "circlejerk" makes you come across as intelligent. /s 2) If Oculus had only gotten $250k and not $2.5m, it wouldn't have gotten nearly as much money from any investors and FaceBook wouldn't have even looked at it. 3) "We're going to need to see absolutely no change in the way it works..." A...
Isn't that also the case for F1, especially now? I'll rephrase my question. Is it speed, power, downforce or something else which makes it advantageous to have such deep tires? EDIT: I have this friend named Google and found the answer [here.](
F1 is as fake as WWE wrestling, it's not a real sport, I stopped watching it the day Baracello backed off his first race win finish line to Schumacher (who didn't even need the points) on team orders. It's supposed to be a competition of engineering and driving skill, but every-time there is a leap in engineering, it's...
Account holder is deceased / incapacitated Its been my experience that Comcast throws roadblocks for these scenarios as well. My father became incapacitated this year, requiring I establish a Guardianship and take over his affairs. Part of establishing this was to contact Comcast, which he had television / internet...
We could shoot their executives. Right in the mouth. Mouth-shooting for corrupt executives.
PLEASE READ THIS: THE ARSTECHNICA SUMMARY IS FALSE The problem is Ars Technica is simply regurgitating defense claims, which are naturally going to be as sensational and exceptional as possible. It's quite common for the defense to make many claims that they never substantiate or later use in court. These claims a...
The truth is that people are horrible. No one has ideologies that they follow, because we are raised in a society that only makes people do things out of fear or for rewards. I had a conversation earlier today about whether fear is a better motivator than positive reinforcement. We eventually came to this conclusion:...
You are right, but capitalism as a whole seems to contribute. Don't take this to mean I'm against capitalism (I like the idea), it's just I now realized it might be a problem. If you could clear things up that'd be awesome. What I mean is: take several key players, perhaps these guys were founded in 1700's or somethi...
You, my friend, just very clearly explained why the world is the way it is. Shareholders are the scourge of our existence. Not evil themselves, they generate evil by doing 'their job'. And that then propagates and inspires other people in the chain to be 'evil' = not working toward a beneficial goal, but rather very ...
Did no one read this? All the quotes from Comcast and Verizon (made since the vote) said they supported the move to openness. The only quotes saying litigation was eminent was a reporter and some guy who is completely uninvolved. Not to mention the quotes of Verizon from the past had quotes like "we think we should b...
Also, politicians are being bribed by the ISPs, especially Republicans. So even if you could get America's most vocal and active voters (conservatives) to understand that ISPs took taxpayer money and just pocketed it all (something they wouldn't shut up about if it was a Democrat-aligned issue), their politicians would...
I just learned yesterday that, (unfortunately) through bundling, we can get 100Mb/s for less than $100 a month. I'm so thankful I don't live in a Comcast area, but rather a place that has at least 3 different ISPs. I just made the change today to have my internet bumped up to 100, and I couldn't be more excited!
my dad works at a prominent university doing electron microscopy and he just spent a cool 2.5 million on brand new scopes. other than the incredible magnification (he has shown me silicone atoms in their lattice) and the ability to do f transforms one of the best things for him is the huge stacks of lcd monitors so he...
IE8 is written to use it. And it has been back ported (for free) to an old OS that didnt have the feature. This is just another mindless excuse to talk nonsense about MS. The same collection of people would be hear decrying them if they didnt release IE8 for XP.
Some media reports have concluded that Princeton discovered (or diagnosed) a WiFi issue with the iPad, sometimes reporting that the issue Princeton has seen is the cause of iPad WiFi signal issues or connectivity issues others may have described. This conclusion is inaccurate; the issue Princeton has seen is a DHCP cli...
The reddit article title is wrong. The Princeton write-up this is linked to specifically states this is not the cause of any wi-fi connectivity issues, and that they have observed no problems in that area. The DHCP lease issues affect other devices on the network.
I figured -- the hardware isn't as powerful as it should be if they want to implement multitasking.
Let's have a look at this post shall we? Operative words bolded. >It's pretty damn certain that it's not any kind of conspiracy or smear campaign. But >It may be that these two women got pissed off at him for whatever reason > but it's seems pretty clear that it's genuine
Isn't it stupid expensive to go to court? Lawyer fees and all that Why are lawyers, who happen to enjoy a state protected monopoly, so expensive? >The reason suing them wasn't the path America took has nothing to do with protection by the state or lack of free market. Your typical Americans aren't going to sue anyb...
This is actually [really simple]( and has been done effectively in audio players for years now.
You mean if he trespassed and I was not able to forcibly remove him? Yes, he'd be infringing my property rights. He would have initiated violence by purposefully trespassing and not leaving. >Fascism (or more accurately, corporatism) is a functionalist social theory that advocates the ability for the state to engage ...
There was a problem with dropbox where it would accept any password for login, and not just correct passwords. This guy contacted dropbox tech support, who resolved the issue. This guy put the 'story' padded out with some personal info for relevance on pastebin to share. S
The firewall concept comes from the fact that this bill would allow the US Government to block otherwise law-abiding sites via a block of the DNS system - this isn't just taking down offending content, this is blowing up an entire house to kill a single cockroach, if you'll pardon the metaphor. The reason it scares m...
What you're asking for is totally possible; providing you have a reasonable home upload speed. I do something quite similar using my home server and my HTC Desire HD running ICS. Aquire [Subsonic]( Its a great application that you can throw on a spare PC that will stream your music and video to pretty much any Andr...
I'd say some are, and many aren't. I am not (full of shit that is). I used to pirate any music I wanted to hear, any movies I wanted to watch, and any games I wanted to play. Now, there are various ways to listen to music online without downloading it. I have subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu+, and Amazon Prime (...
I'm not saying it's obnoxious if it doesn't work, that is a real pain in the ass. But he isn't "forced." He should take ownership of his actions, not play it off like he has no other course of action (like customer support, cancelling his service, etc) and is obligated to illegally download something.
Dear HBO: Your shows are awesome. But you're fucking stupid as hell for dropping the ball on this and not collecting the EASY money by striking while the iron is hot. I'm an HBO subscriber and EVEN I would likely pay (twice, basically) for a copy of this show- To gift it to friends most likely. In the meantime I ...
I was installing a few computers in a vet clinic once. They got a phone call about a lady who's cat's tail was stuck in a CD-ROM drive and asked me what to do. "Hold down the computer's power button until it shuts off," I said. The secretary/nurse relayed that to the woman on the phone, but she couldn't even manage t...
I don't think that's a very good analogy. The Wild West was sparsely populated and was above all, subject to jurisdiction. The American government could have stamped down on the Wild West. It was within their power because the Wild West consisted of sparse settlements where the majority--and the governing body--of the ...
Save your Bit Coins and visit the the dark corners of the internet where anything from child sex slaves to weapons grade uranium to contract killers can be yours! Not a good idea to be heading that way. Its speculated [citation needed] that the internet we know about (ie, searchable on google) makes up about 20% of A...
First, I said in my very first comment that the fine was ridiculous. Whether or not everyone does it has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Everyone speeds on the road too... so cops just shouldn't give out speeding tickets? Solid logic. Second, let's not pretend that "pirating" and "stealing" are the same thing...
Well I would say it started with the late 90's early 00's. At that point CD was king and MP3 was just in it's infancy. At that point, the labels had a choice, inovate and grow with the times or begin to die a terrible terrible death (can you guess which one they chose?) So as MP3's rise and the CD starts to die (se...
The pot calling the kettle black.
I was merely pointing out what happened when the Nazis got control of the records, in their words "the transports run so smoothly it is a pleasure to see". About 140,000 in Amsterdam 1941, 35,000 ish left in 1945 after the end. All because of a very good record keeping system being controlled by an entity that had ge...
Microsoft Made surface to make sure that there would be a good product to showcase Windows8/RT on. To make the OEM's step up there game and produce better products. Which the OEM's history has shown they where not likely to do. Microsoft thought Surface would jolt the OEMS and Surface would be only one of numerous R...
I think the article is a bunch of nonsense however I don't necessarily disagree with the premise. I have been predicting the fall of Facebook for a long time. I don't need to reference the fall of Rome to describe why their business model is horribly weak. Apple may have reached a peak and might end up declining. ...
I'm in the north east, and before I had FiOS, I was in an area where it wasn't available, and all that was available was Cox. I was paying like $60 a month for an advertised, "up to" 15/5 connection. I was lucky if I got 5/1. If you called an complained, you got the standard "It can go up to 15/5, tons of people usin...
Not just MS; Facebook, Oracle, every big player. There's plenty of unemployed 50 year old developers. Companies want the H1B's because it's cheap (like $50) to sponsor them and they can pay them less than citizens because it's easier for us to move around. They're being exploited as indentured servants. I'm referri...
I also do IT. I've yet to see anyone who knows anything about computing on an admin level use an iPhone out of choice. It just doesn't happen. Those people want control over what is going on in their device. Easiest way to do that is to get an android. That being said, if it works for you, good on you. Stick with it....
HD-DVD had actually secured the blessing of the porn industry due to tech reasons and support from HD-DVD, while Blu-Ray had been denying the request for licensing of their tech to the major porn industry. In fact, HD-DVD was so sure of their win due to the support of the porn industry that they had planned a pre-CES...
The one thing that questions me most is that I didn't search for these things. Either a) These images that are filtered are for SOME reason blocked... yet people reblog them? I literally can't see the image and see the replacement. And then I ask... "why the hell are people reblogging an image that is blocked and can...
I really don't get why people think that Yahoo is going to ruin tumblr (NSFW stuff aside). For one, even though Yahoos email/search/front-page is barely relevant (and even that statement is being generous) to most people under 50 they aren't really all that bad. Are their competing products as good as Google/MS? R...
It implied that nobody was interested in our data, and that only aggregates were saved and used. The statements did not imply either. >That's like saying it's okay to steal $100 from everyone instead of just $100 from one person. is an improper analogy. In the case of theft, you have no choice. Your money is go...
Misleading headline. They don't track. They DID track ~5 Million users (%0.005 of their userbase) for about two weeks. but it is not a current thing They didn't track WHAT you decide to not post, but WHEN. Is it right that they did this? No. Is it 'evil'? In the implementation that facebook used? No. So no, faceb...
Aside from the Orwellian nightmare this presents, I can't help but think that introverts are absolutely screwed (thinking back to Susan Cain's TED talk). If you don't come up with enough energetic contributions in a meeting then you're a bad employee? Is there genuinely no space for people to work independently of the ...
I love how everyone in this thread appears to believe this can happen without millions of people worldwide deciding to let it happen. It ain't like Google lied and cheated their way into the position they hold. They're providing services people like, and that plenty of people are happy to use. If those millions of ...
From the site... This is a huge deal. Many servers are affected. This vulnerability shipped with a large list of modern Linux OSes over a period of 2 years: Debian Wheezy (stable), OpenSSL 1.0.1e-2+deb7u4 Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, OpenSSL 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.11 CentOS 6.5, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-15 Fedora 18, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-4...
The $42K prosthetic cost $42K because it is a custom one-off design, fitted specifically for him. It's like saying a Honda Accord is a better car than an Aston Martin DB5. (In fact, a Honda Accord is a much better car in many ways -- according to Top Gear, it has better performance, handling, engine, etc. But there a...
As Barryicide pointed out the FA does consider this a medical device and regulate them. Yes a covering could be very simple but I'm just trying to show how this was not an apples to apples comparison. I've used 3D printers and like them but I'm also going to guess the 3d printed is no where near as strong or durable...
The $500 price tag isn't stateside. That's for a DIY kit from Robohand - a semi-commercial organization in South Africa, which mainly services Africa. e-NABLE is a volunteer network of hobbyists, most of whom have 3d printers. When we find someone who could use one of these devices, the nearest available member with ...
These aren't even remotely similar devices, and the 3d printed hand did not come even close to outperforming the commercial prosthesis in a way that makes sense from the standpoint of a commercial prosthesis. First, as a preface to my probable rant below, I'm all for 3d printing, I've got lots of experience using mil...
I can see how you would get that from those two sentences, but no. Most ideas for new social systems I have read about seem to start from the position of an ideal - a thing that is wanted, and that appeals to a lot of people - and then try to work out how to get there. I think this methodology is back to front. I thi...
I went to business school in the early 80's, trickle down was considered a fact by almost everybody. I live in what some Americans consider a socialist country, and we have a Social Democrat leading the government, and they still believe this stupid shit, and lowered company taxes as late as last year, to stimulate inv...
If your issues are being managed by restarting your phone, then it's a fair guess that you have some kind of natural software corruption that just happens through normal use. It's not planned, but it does happen after someone has been using the phone for a while so it's easy to make a cynical assumption that it was tim...
A long time ago my housemate had the phone line in his name and he signed up for Qwest long distance for some reason (we're in California). Guess he got a good rate? Anyway when he moved out he cancelled the phone line, but you don't really cancel long distance service in the US. Through some accounting error his long ...
I just moved in and signed up for then a week ago. My apt is wired and ready to go so I just got the self installation kit and received it on Thursday Plugged everything in and nothing worked. So I called them and they said that the service order wasn't supposed to be out it until Monday. Since I was out of town on th...
umm no. When OP moved in he was offered bother internet and cable. The price for the internet was $49.99 and the cable was free due to a contract with his complex. At the time though there was a promotion going on for the same internet plan (same speeds any everything) but only if it wasn't bundled. Since OP didn't ne...
I had a similar issue when they changed my speed from 12 mbps to 50mbps. I was confused and somewhat ticked off with my price jumping from $20 to $50 for internet alone, so when I talked to them, they said that they had grandfathered the 12 mbps, something I hadn't been told about. I then told them to drop it to 20 mbp...
Virgin wireless services cosistently "short change" me about 10% EVERY.FUCKIN.TIME! How come Vodafone CAN tell me down to the Mb, how much data I've used BUT Virgin, says, that although "they know" when I've 'used up' my pre-paid data limit! , BUT they cannot tell me 'within 200 MEGABYTES (out of 4Gigs prepai...
I've experienced something like this. I called in to complain about my internet. I had low signal strength, the tech came out and changed out a splitter from the main line. The next day I still would randomly drop and the modem log lit up with errors. So I called back in to complain again and guy at Comcast asks me a...
personally, the surface sounds like it would be a better choice, mostly because that the convertibles have never been that great, they seem a bit unbalanced in overall design. In saying that, the surface actually can double as a laptop for all/any of your productivity needs because of the keyboard attachment. Specifica...
16 years ago, in 1998, Citicorp announced a merger with Travelers to became Citigroup. Only a year later in 1999 the remaining restrictions left by the Glass-Steagall Act that were put in place during the Great Depression to prevent mergers like this were overturned by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. This act allowed the C...
Actually no this isn't my job, I'm just a student who has done his homework and has paid attention in history and macroeconomics. In regards to the "DOD angle," I have never heard of that position before but I would consider that speculation/conspiracy. It does "make sense" or seems reasonable but take it with a grai...
I found a Seagate 5TB at Newegg for $200 on sale.]( If you bulk ordered those, you'd need 635 / 5 = 127 of them. 127 * $200.00 = $25 400.00 This is assuming you have the sort of network to handle incoming data of that magnitude and the right setup to store it. For reference, that's more than the base mod...
I'm a broadcast engineer This is actually because the law was passed without any discussion with technical TV people of how it is to be done. Since this happened so quickly, there hasn't been a really good piece of gear that can effectively control the baseline audio level. Since nearly all audio is embedded in pr...
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Interestingly enough, I always hated writing cursive (not sure if this really is the correct translation but that's the word the article uses so lets go with that). I thought it was stupid and overly complicated. Much later I noticed that the letters on my handwriting begun to resemble those of that cursive style. Su...
Well I'm sorry that you're bitter and angry about the situation. I'm not bitching from my computer, I'm running a grass fed beef farm, supplying food to my local area which has enormous amounts less embedded energy in it. The issue is not technological, it's political. There are a variety of technologies which are ...
Keep in mind that coal is, in fact, a fossil fuel, and coal liquefaction is what supplied Nazi Germany (the Fischer-Tropsch process, and more commonly hydration) As well, synthetics supplied a mere 9% of Germany's at the beginning of the war, to as high as 50% by some sources in 1943, and only 24% in the desperate fi...
Most hydrogen is made from fossil fuels. Electrolysis(using electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen) is very inefficient. We get most of our hydrogen from Natural gas production.
Yeah despite being the poster child for conservatives and Reaganomics being the "model of Republican success" (quotes to denote sarcasm, it was pretty terrible), he spent more money than any president before him by a long shot, and even spent a lot of it in typically liberal fashion.
What a shocker. People are actually friendly. I went to a gay get together, and I didn't get hit on (I'm straight and apparently ugly enough to not proposition) and people were friendly and warm and genuine. I got into firearms, and other people were more than happy to share their input and love of their sport of ...
Well that sounds very virtuous and noble, but this country is a democracy. Experiences such as mass unemployment and malnutrition during the Great Depression (itself due to the excesses of unregulated capitalism) motivated people in great numbers to vote for those government services that you find so distasteful.
Though I truly do appreciate you encouraging people to look inward for their own happiness (because that's the only place anyone will ever find it), I'm going to have to slightly disagree with you here. The people that are still pissed about this aren't necessarily people who feel personally powerless and/or victimiz...
To be frank, the Freedom Act almost seems worse in certain aspects. Where the Patriot Act was much too broad, and had more room for interpretation, the Freedom Act turns some of the more worrisome interpretations into law, so there's no more ambiguity, and the things that courts are now ruling illegal, all of those wil...
As far as I understand the only thing you really risk is getting banned from forums (see [this conversation, from the administrator over at the 8chan imageboard]( Because Hola lets people pay to use your connection to post on those forums, the forum will think you're the one posting stuff that's against the rules and b...
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, you’re right, this has been possible for a couple of weeks, for sure. Confusion might have arisen because it has been rolled out to all accounts just now. New GMail features tend to appear only in a subset of user accounts, and I doubt that Google would openly post about a new f...
From chuck_the_plant below: >Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, you’re right, this has been possible for a couple of weeks, for sure. Confusion might have arisen because it has been rolled out to all accounts just now. New GMail features tend to appear only in a subset of user accounts, and I doubt that Google wo...
The deleted comment was: >Filming police is illegal in three states. Yet it remains legal federally. Explain. (by [interweb_repairman]( My response: If there is no federal law regarding the specific state law then the state law is applicable. There are not federal laws for a lot of things. That doesn't mean the...
I used to work as a customer service tech for an ISP, helped various internet issues and such. This was actually a fairly common occurrence. A person would call in and ask why there internet wasn't working and they were actually trying to connect through dial up to get online. Id ask why they were trying to connect usi...
I remember on this one TV show I watched 10 years ago, the host got the audience to chant "Stop the piracy! Stop the piracy!" The show only showed one side of the problem with piracy, and I remember thinking "Stupid bitch". The same applies today. Stopping piracy is very simple - BRING THE PRICE DOWN DRAMATICALLY. ...
Yeah, I completely agree. I guess it just seems like people always seem to forget that when they talk about Anonymous now, couldn't it be a completely different group of people than it was, say, a few weeks ago? It's not like they have badges or something. Maybe the [poorly thought out] analogy I'd use is what if rio...
Last night I was ensured by two different employees, three times, that I would absolutely be able to come back today and get a price match. Before I pressed the "Yes" button on the credit card machine, I asked again if she was positive, and she replied, "absolutely." Sure enough, they wouldn't price match today. They...
That is not always the worst part. The quality of teaching has gone down hill quite a bit over time. Pay has stayed the same and cost of living has gone up. Giving teachers the attitude to not give a fuck. Not all teachers are bad, just a lot of them now. I found there was 1-2 amazing teachers in each school. Still thi...
nope, I didn't because I read the rest of the post. Future reference:
And you're incorrect, the tablet design is novel. If a tablet absolutely has to be a flat, black, pane of glass with a single button on it, what about [this]( prior art, or [this bad boy]( Just because all the tablet makers have copied Apple's design in an attempt to create a commercially successful device doesn't me...
The intertropical convergence, or ITC, is an area of consistently severe weather near the equator. As is often the case, it has spawned a string of very large thunderstorms, some of which stretch into the stratosphere. Unlike some of the other planes's crews flying in the region this evening, the crew of AF447 has not ...
How do I transfer my domain name to a new registrar? > If you wish to move your domain name from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another, you may initiate the transfer process by contacting the registrar to which you wish to transfer the name. This registrar is required to confirm your intent to transfer your domai...
I was in a similar situation in having renewed a few recently. In the end I picked namecheap.com since they offered to honor my domains' expiration dates AND add a year. So for example one of my domains was set to expire in January of 2015 but now, after moving to namecheap and paying 6.99 it is now set to expire in ...
I haven't been able to transfer my domain off of godaddy for the past couple days. When I created the domain back in 2005 I used an old adelphia email address that we no longer have access to. A couple years ago I updated my godaddy account with my new gmail account but my domainsbyproxy account never was updated. I've...
So, remember when home prices started tanking in 2008? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started hemorrhaging money and had to eventually be bailed out by the federal government, at enormous taxpayer expense. Want to guess who stood up on the floor of the US Senate and denied that they were in trouble the whole time? Then-Sen...
Economic models of industrial dynamics are traditionally based in Schumpeterian theories of producer innovation. Recently, this framework has been advanced toward models of open innovation in which production and innovation occur over networks of firms. However, a further extension is toward consumer-producer co-creati...
Peripheral Comment: In the TV ad at the bottom (which I remember hearing at the time cost an astronomical amount just for the song license) they emphasize using the computer to learn. That's often been how computers are pushed, and is in some ways legitimate. But look at the ad now. All those massive bulky monitors. An...
Film industry worker here. We are concerned because for the past 10 years budjets for new projects have disapeared and studio profits have sky rocketed. Reality TV leaned out the industry and actually helped along the cream of the crop. As did DVD sales. So what we are seeing is eager film entrepreneurs developing ...
It would be a whole lot easier if we only had to hover in the middle of the right screen rather than at a corner. Doesn't that logically make sense since that's where touch users go to get the charm bar? In the Developer preview I found it really easy to just go to the middle of the left side of the screen to switch ...
Actually, that's not how Android works. On Android, a badly behaved app can continue to run in the background and suck up the battery. In Windows 8, metro apps behave like iOS apps. If they aren't running the foreground they are completely suspended, except for a few constrained types of background tasks they can ru...