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I really hate the stupid "start screen". My PC isn't a mobile phone. I don't care about "app stores", I want to choose which PROGRAMS I want to install on my PC. Apps are for phones. Also, where the HELL is the "show desktop" button?? It's the single most amazing feature of windows 7, or any other version before it....
First, cloud services should use asymmetric PKI encryption. There's a ton of functionality that gets lost once you do that though. To oversimplify, those services only need to store one copy of every song, movie, tv show, and application that gets sync'd to the cloud. Customers don't even have to upload files that ...
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It looks like an iPhone. Sort of. But then again a Sonata looks like a Lexus es, sorta. Who cares? I love Apple, and I love their stuff. But they can't patent their look and feel. Their stuff looks like other smartphones too. They shouldn't focus on making money from weak patents like these, but from production. ...
Something you must know about Apple. This is a company willing to invest huge sums of money, purchase top-shelf components from market leaders, and pay ridiculous prices for support and service the likes of which other companies can only dream of. The result is an illusion of innovation which hides the real innovators ...
Not that I agree with this but if you're in Apple's shoes how could you do anything but this? I mean you percieve that Windows did nothing but rip off Apple's innovations at a lower price and that lost you a huge amount of the PC marketplace. The truth of that is neither here nor there it is how people inside Apple ...
It doesn't seem like Jobs was pissed because of parts. He was pissed over the design of the whole product and UI being such an obvious copy of the iPhone which Apple had been working on for years. Little things like a sensor that tells when a phone is close to your face so it deactivates the touch ability of the pho...
This. The title of both this link and the article itself are unbelievably misleading. 1) Apple has applied for a patent on this device. They have not been awarded anything as of yet. Something like 90% of initial patent applications are rejected [(Source)]( 2) The device described in the application is NOT a ...
Google is demoting pages that Google receives take down requests for on its search links, not sites that have seen DMCA requests issues directly to the website. This title is very misleading. Again the issue here is that google needs to play ball with the content companies because it is bleeding money fighting their la...
The hard hitting stuff like cancer medications certainly is. Decongestants...not as much. That's not at all how the medical R&D industry works. You can't predict in advance what kinds of drugs you'll end up discovering, and costs certainly aren't correlated to how severe the conditions being treated are. The real ...
ideas aren't a means of production Knowledge and the transfer of knowledge is heavily studied in economics right now. Why? Economics is the study of the allocation of scare resources which are usually the traditional resources: land, capital and labor. However, we've now observed that knowledge is a resource which he...
But let's say society expects these businesses to behave in a more human manner. We demand that, while patents no longer pose a barrier, the only one able to claim "I had the OC" would be the OC content creator. Like Minecraft, with mods. We know most of it is Notch's, but some of the best stuff is modded. Nobody pla...
No it doesn't. According to Apple's most recent 10-Q, the "revenue from sales from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore in addition to sales of iPod services and Apple-branded and third-party iPod accessories." was $2.1 billion last quarter. Apples entire operating expenses last quarter was $2.6 billion. T...
Except you already know what the response is going to be about. DDoSing someone is effectively denying THEIR freedom of speech, not exerting your own. That would be the
OK I'll try to be clear as possible then. A DDos attack sends so much data to the targeted server that it shuts down and crashes (provided that you succeed). That is what I mean when I said "by force". A protest can at most stop people from entering due to the sense of peer/hivemind pressure. Your 800 protester...
I posted this response over at /r/mw3 on how DDoSing works after someone kept claiming it was impossible. Replace Xbox with PC and you have the same deal. Your Xbox is connected to your home network. Your computer is also conencted to your home network. When you connect to other through XBL - via a pregame lobby or a...
I'm starting to have problem with the amount of power that Anonymous is gaining. They have been doing very public things, such as bringing criminals to justice and actively supporting a free and open Internet, which are all good things, but they do it behind a mask. Their power is almost to the point of rivaling a go...
I don't know if anyone cares, but I posted and sourced an answer as to why other countries have faster internet. I will cross post it here. It is because South Korea is a much better metropolitan area. Think of it like this, if it was a railroad it would be much easier to enter the game in South Korea. They are much ...
NYT article written highly criticizing Tesla's new electric car. The person who wrote the article after testing the car turned out to have been out for blood, so to speak. He intentionally did not fully charge the car and even drove it in circles in a parking lot at 0 miles remaining to get it to die. Turns out, Tesla ...
Oh good, HALF of them are under 60. These are the people who have a lifetime of bribes and dirty dealings that other people know about and pretty much just get the
I'm sorry I'm busy at work... on a fucking saturday. But can somebody give me the
Yes you will. As someone who's actually 4k tv's running standard def content it looks like something that's been filmed on a potato. Upscaling is never perfect, even from SD to 1080p it still looks shocking on most TV's and you can certainly tell the difference between HD and SD unless you're blind. How upscaling w...
Don't know why you're getting downvotes ( were getting as of now), but this isn't so far off. An important factor to include would be that the gov't is a huge source of information/news for the media and so it is generally in the best interest of the media to not anger it (and hence they often spin things in a positi...
It's a little release valve to take the edge of people's anger.
Accused the hypothetical DEA agents of cherry-picking, not you *Presented a hypothetical scenario as an example of 4th amendment protections being eroded by wide-net surveillance warrants granted by FISA courts. This is not precedented by pre-9/11 wiretap orders which required probable cause on a case-by-case basis...
So with that in mind, you could still pickup a module with the latest CPU/GPU/RAM, and still have your camera be upgradable, upgrade your wifi to support the latest band, improve your screen. I don't know, as someone who used a Droidx for 3 years, and only recently upgraded, I would have loved to give my Droidx the ab...
I know the hypocrisy will be easy to find if you look for it, but in general the reddit community frowns upon comments that add nothing to the discussion; anyone reading such comments can't possibly gain anything of even the most remote value, entertainment, or insight out of them. Most kinds of positive or negative ra...
That's correct. Something many people who aren't engineers seem to forget when they compare the Japanese infrastructure with America is the sheer size difference. The country of Japan is tiny, very tiny, as well as very compact because of it. The cost to build an equally efficient infrastructure system here in the Unit...
This isn't 1999 though. Just look at the downfall of the Concorde, fast simply isn't as commercially significant as it was. Ticket price scale currently better rewards a higher quantity of passengers than a higher travel quality. I would argue this is only so because domestic travel time is relatively short. 12 hour...
The DB is also the absolute reference for the timetables in Europe. Once travelling from Hungary to Romania there was apparently some disturbance on the Romanian side, and in Hungary they printed us the timetables of the Romanian trains from the DB website. Once in Romania, some stations didn't even have any informatio...
There are a number of obstacles in the way of it, but one that I haven't seen mentioned is the extreme NIMBY-ism inherent in massive infrastructure projects like these. There are a number of people who oppose the government doing essentially anything , because of ideological beliefs about the nature of government or w...
LA to SF is not a "small distance". LA to Las Vegas is certainly not a "small distance". LA to SF is ~383 miles (616 km). The longest length of track of the entire Japan "Bullet Train" line is the Tohaku line (spanning almost half of the entire country) which is ~675km, [according to wikipedia]( and it cost Trillio...
I'm no scientist but I know some shit about things man. So here's more words than you wanted. > Wouldn't that other trains speed, relative to you be 200k miles per second? Yes, but nothing is moving faster than c (c being the scientificalised term for the 'speed of light'). Fascinating rabbit hole to go down: my ...
Roughly $780 at amazon's cost for ABS spools. It stays stable/durable between -4f and 170f, so you don't need to worry about storage in most climates. ABS is commonly used in household pipes, and is usually considered to have about a 50 year lifespan. for more info The tensile strength is actually a bit low there, ...
I used to work at a Dish Network call center. And to say that they didn't give a flying fuck about customers would be an understatement. They had HUGE digital clocks on the walls (I think it was 2 or 3 per wall) around the floor. These clocks did not tell the time (the regular clocks were analog wall clocks); those h...
it just confuses the matter. Literally the opposite, for anyone who confuses bites with bytes. It puts it in a perspective that the layperson is used to reading it. There is literally no downside to listing both speeds, and there are upsides. So,
Hey, just wanted to share a video I watched in an IT policies class that I am currently enrolled in. The video is a bit long but talks about how Enron used to do the same thing with energy. They would clog the transmission lines and then charge the company to unclog it so there wouldn't be a blackout. I felt the compar...
The difference between wireless and wired communication is wired communication should always have enough capacity to handle all communications even during peak hours. You know how much bandwidth you sold. Wireless communication makes that impractical because all your subscribers could go to one point. You can't have en...
Did anyone else catch the "wireless broadband Internet access provider" part? Wireless providers like Verizon are already exempt from rules that include throttling Wireline internet access providers, like Comcast, are not.
Out of curiosity I calculated the required space the plant would need to satisfy California's demands. At 6080 acres the solar farm produces 1096 GWh/yr. And California's demand roughly 280,000 GWh/yr The solar plant would have to take up 2,427 sq. miles to be the sole provider of California's power demand. For...
They take the risk, build out the infrastructure, and maintain it. They didn't, for example the 850mhz wireless spectrum that Verizon and ATT use to provide nationwide coverage were attained through acquisitions (FCC handed them out to regional providers who were later bought). Those acquisitions gave them more custo...
Everyone responding to your comment seems to ignore that T-Mobile caught Verizon charging less in roaming areas where they were not in direct competition. Aka Verizon increased rates in order to harm smaller carriers and impede their ability to provide ample coverage at a "reasonable" rate for roaming on ATT and Verizo...
i am no fan of verizon. I am tmobile user and pretty happy with their pricing . But having said this, what kind of precedence will this kind of ruling set? I am all happy about paying less but how can a court order a private company to charge less for their own network? Shoudn't it be based on their demand/suppy? I am...
I think the real problem is not informing drivers what lane to be in before each turn. Ex. "Left turn in 500 yards, please move to 2nd to far left lane" (sorry I can only think of a very technical way to say that). Also telling drivers about quick follow up maneuvers ahead of time. Ex. Turn left onto "Learn to Nav...
I can smash an Android on the ground too and it can't perform.
Well you get to places like that when you do anti-competitive things EDIT: So things don't get buried and comments here is justification for this response. In 2005 there were 2 "choices" of processors: Intel's Prescott series processor against AMD's Athlon 64 processor. The Athlon 64 series processors outperformed ...
The lower end iMacs have just integrated gfx, which is good enough to play some stuff on low. The higher end iMacs have Nvidia's 700M series, which actually isn't [terrible]( if you're content playing on med/low 1080p settings. Enough for 30fps for most stuff. Now, the top tier 27" 5k res iMac has an AMD M290x whic...
I don't disagree with you that Apple will eventually falter -- as nearly every worldwide brand tends to do. But perception of quality, ecosystem, and loyalty goes a very long way in ensuring the success of a company. Yes, there are more powerful and technically able technologies and products out there. I think most i...
That's simply not true. Motorola made chips for Apple right up until Intel transition announcement, and even for a bit beyond it. For high-end desktop chips, Apple switched to the third partner in the PowerPC AIM alliance, IBM, but the G4 was made by [Motorola (later Freescale)]( — meaning that all iMacs and Mac laptop...
I'm an electronics engineer for a utility. I work With batteries daily. I don't see it working for peak times. It would only work with the proper training of the homeowner. You'd need a massive battery to power a home first off, which would be very expensive. You'd need AC/DC converters as well as a charger to regulate...
We have something like this for the UK already - but it is only used by major industry. It's called "Triad" here - it's based on the 3 half hours in a day where demand is highest and only during the 4 coldest months of the year. So it's a fairly limited scope. The large industries have the option of switching to thei...
Capitalism is often mischaracterized and misunderstood, so people end up supporting systems to "reign it in". I'd argue that we don't have nearly enough capitalism, because a small elite calls the shots for hundreds of millions of people. The Fed sets interest rates, governments create complex and unpredictable (or ...
TheVerge article misses the point: this battery is about how industrialized nations produce electricity, not having a backup generator in your house or using your electric car to ferry "free" power from a charging station to be used at home. If this battery can be produced at an affordable cost and Tesla can get pow...
My biggest problem with Mr. Musk is his idiotic anti-AI bullshit. It's so clearly an attempt to get people to invest in his technologies rather than other technological advancements that could potentially do just as much, if not considerably more for the human species as Mr. Musk's technological advancements.
Not really, almost every website uses google analytics, or if you email anyone with a gmail address, or someone with an android phone stores your phone/address info, etc.
Considering many aspects of current 20th century living would require more effort than I currently have. Young nihilists aside, there are more efforts being made to fundamentally alter the way governance is applied without regard for the basic moral precepts of fundamental liberty politics than for it.
Here's how I see it: I will never pay for a mod. Current free mods, like SkyUI, have been implemented in a TON of other free mods. SkyUI became paid, breaking those free mods. I feel gaming has declined a TON recently because of all the add-ons and skins and microtransactions and pay us for in game money, etc...
The self generated hype in the community around HL3 is greater than Duke Nukem. You are fooling yourself to assume it won't be the same or worse situation. Fair enough on the IP rights but what happens when this out sourced company generates a turd with their name on it? Also imagine the backlash when they simply ann...
People in the 'Google is the next Big Brother' camp can say all they want, but the fact is that Google just acted with goddamn ethics . Any attempt to rationalize this as Google acting in their own financial interest fails here. They just unilaterally shut themselves off from a market with 400 million internet users ...
It's the first time I've ever done it, too! Probably will not do it again (I have yet to enter a pun thread, though), but I'll never understand why anyone would take the time to post a comment in any forum about how they decided not to RTFA. In this case, the
Tell me, if I were to drop you in the middle of an unfamiliar place with a map, would you be able to figure out where you are? The wifi-only iPad can use wifi networks for a pretty inaccurate idea (I have no idea how that actually works...GeoIP of some kind?) of where it is, but it would be supremely useless to give ...
Phone makers and carriers alike just need to let go of the cheek-clenching. First, there needs to be a really affordable Android phone with at least a 320x480 screen (think iPhone 1-3), an at least 3MP camera, BT, WiFi, capacitive touchscreen, sturdy body (not plastic; I hate Nokia) and expandable memory in the price...
Simply watching some of the few interviews on Ive's philosphy on design are quite inspiring. I think his products have influenced the design of just about all consumer electronics since the first iMac. You can thank Steve for finding Ive but Jonathan Ive and his crew are definitely a huge reason for Apple's success o...
Yup. Idea = publish. Good idea = visit the Office of Technology Licensing, get 1/3 of the take, 1/3 to dept, 1/3 to university, but if it's big $$$ university takes dept share too. Awesome Idea = Keep your mouth shut. It's like that at most universities. The result of that is you will NEVER see a research p...
There's a difference between claiming ownership and what's called "shop rights". The general gist of is that you get to "own" what you create, but they can take a portion based on the fact that you created it using their resources. The same exists for companies, where even if you invent something on your own time the...
HE SHOULD PAY THE F*CK UP . He's on the UNIVERSITY'S campus. OBVIOUSLY, The university is entitled to 25% of the funds. MATTER OF FACT, LETS TAKE THIS B*TCH FURTHER. The state should be entitled to 25% of the funds, and then OBAMA PERSONALLY, should get 25% of the app for being the president of USA. THEN- G...
I'd say anything that ignores human emotion is a shitty argument. I use to be like that, fuck emotions they shouldn't count towards anything...and then I realized something. To ignore emotions is to ignore ourselves. We aren't machines that adhere to a set of rules and when we break one of those rules, we're suddenl...
Something that Herrohkitteh didn't hit on, but it probably what DublinBen wanted to emphasize is how parallelism actually affects how you go about doing things. A GPU can crank through computationally expensive tasks if there is parallelism to exploit – One such parallelism that is exemplified by the term Single Inst...
That's incorrect. The server requests password from the user. The client sends password to the server. Server ferries it. If the password is correct the server sends out a token to the client. Only with this token with that timestamp can access the necessary data. This is how LDAP works. Always.
Quote from at&t rep: > "That means increased output, higher quality service, fewer dropped calls, and lower prices to consumers than without the merger." He was on a roll there with "higher quality service, fewer dropped calls". Should have quit while he was ahead. From a technological standpoint, the merger wou...
you could never delete them anyway, fb store everything you do on their network, from posts and photos to interactions and eyetracking. Nothing ever gets deleted, you just opt to hide it or leave it viewable but rest assured you're precise movements throughout the site and the wider fb:connected web are monitored at ...
Some actual stats. Most of which can be found [here]( the US over the last 10 years there are on average about 9k homicides committed with firearms per year. There are also studies done on specific cities that seem to indicate that a criminal record was highly correlated with being a murder victim. For example in 19...
Sorry that linux was too hard for you. It's not too hard. It's not worth the hassle. That's the whole point. It's not worth the trouble. >Sorry that you dislike helping people. I help people for a living. All day long. You don't know what you're talking about. >Sorry that you think that the software is the end...
There's got to be some sort of godwin for people that resort to calling their opponents in a discussion "fanboy". RTFM. (holy shit, this applies in windows as well OMGWTFBBQ) Also, I dual boot. At no point did I say it was irredeemable. Sorry that linux was too hard for you. Sorry that you dislike helping people. S...
This Proview lawsuit is one of the most hilarious corporate lawsuits I've seen in a long time. > The irony is that Proview is trying to get a U.S. court to nullify an agreement that it claims in Chinese courts never existed -- namely the one that Apple says sold them the rights to the iPad trademark in mainland Chin...
Someone killed my friend in a car crash he was unknowingly taking cocaine. The fine for taking cocaine and driving in my country (UK) is £5,000 so yes. $675.000 for pirating 'now thats what i call music 78' losing the artist maybe a second car a year when a man is dead and his killer is serving 3 years maximum in priso...
CD's costs so little to produce, that they might as well be free. It is not the object as such you pay for, but the development-costs previously.
Do you understand that very few bands make much of anything off of album sales due to the tyranny of record companies? Aside from shows, these guys make very little from album sales regardless of the work that goes into it, and it has been like that since long before internet piracy was on anyones radar. Bands get mo...
There are many reasons that your logic is valid, but there is at least one more big piece. 'Potential Profits': The problem with this term is that it assumes that those who download illegally would pay for the copy given there was no other way to get it. If I tell you that I could potentially make $30 billion dollars...
Correct. As much as I hate riaa they do try to settle. Sometimes they get the occasional dick thinking that he can fight it.
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You have him using an expensive, technically poor registrar , with a proven track record against rights. then you say someone else would cost $20 more!? $8 namecheap domain. AWS host $.50/month. extra instance for your own DNS +$.50/mo. You're ripping the poor guy off sending him to godaddy in the first place. tr...
As someone who works in technical support for a web hosting company (not GoDaddy) please don't call in and yell at tech support. Yelling at that person over the phone will NOT bring your site up faster. And I can assure you that it wasn't that person's fault.
Because every time hot women get payed for selling things by using their good looks, the internet gets pissed as fuck, however if the shoe is on the other foot (male gender) internet doesn't care.
She's pretty terrible. It really seems like a publicity stunt. The worst part is that you have to sit through the announcers drive on and on about how 'good' she is racing today when she is currently placed somewhere in the 20s or worse. And even more embarrassing is that she has an amazing team with plenty of money. ...
3D printing is nothing but a pretentious toy for people who've read too many sci-fi novels and not enough engineering tables. For exactly the same cost as a RepRap you can get a decent metalwork lathe or milling machine. Which can machine in plastic, but also metal, wood, even glass and ceramics. Lathes can be used t...
Hah, thanks, I got a bit carried away because I find the subject of 3D printing really interesting. I don't see posts that long on reddit too often, that's why I felt the need for a "
In an open eco system anyone can change the software. There is no pre-approval system (such as Apples app store) that can be used to accept or deny a piece of software on a device. The end choice is the end users's and only the end user's. The reason being is, google's play store is only one method of obtaining, and ...
Since I ended up with a Chromebox (thanks Google IO 2011,) here's how it works for different tasks: Productivity: PDFs: Fine for reading, but you'll need import stuff in Google Docs for editing, and that'll be a bit limited. Word Processing/Spreadsheets/Powerpoint: I hope you like Google Docs/Drive or MyOffice/...
I back-ordered a Chromebook on a lark a few months back and forgot about it until Amazon sent me the shipping notice. Since it was too late to cancel and I was getting ready to go into the hospital for surgery, I decided to keep it figuring if I ended up in the hospital for a while, I'd have the Chromebook and be out ...
Honestly, the first time I heard someone I knew IRL say that they couldn't read any captchas it really surprised me. I guess I've gotten so used to it over time that it just comes easily.
They might not be able to do it now, but in the future possibly. People are cable cutting left and right, because they know they are getting ripped off and over-advertised too, and because the cable networks provide huge piles of shit programming. Eventually they'll have to adopt on demand or channel subscription m...
The truth is there really is no profit to be had in coupling crap with non-crap. If people are willing to pay a price for non-crap with crap, they will likely pay slightly less or the same for just the non-crap. If you factor in the cost to produce the crap, companies make a higher profit without the crap. Someone ...
I think the cost-balance argument is a bunch of fear mongering, actually. No company will offer a product out of the price range of the consumer, because it won't sell, and they won't generate profit. I can foresee a marginal increase in per-channel prices, but it wouldn't be substantial. Cable companies would be for...
I actually think $0.99 is still too expensive. Before you call me cheap, let me explain. Many U.S. shows are well over 20 episodes. Personally, I watch around five sitcoms a year, and about five dramas (Game of Thrones, Dexter, and similar shows). Now, the dramas are rarely more than 16 episodes a season, most are ...
At first this will be a god spaghetti monster send but soon enough a $1.50 channel will cost $15 because is is rated most subscribed then a pricing war will induce, then an agreement that all shit channels will only cost us $0.99 and "premium" channels will cost us $6.99, then due to inflation, and again pricing...
I watch MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show online for free every night that there is a show. I just have to wait 1.5-2 hours after original airing ends, and then I get to watch the whole thing with about 5 commercials total. MSNBC shows all of their other shows this way too, just not as well organized/easy to find as Maddow's ...
Everyone I know who has moved out in their own are subscribing to internet and mobile phones only. You're falling victim to the "everyone I know" fallacy. Yes, there are many young, tech-savvy people who live this way, and they tend to hang out together and read the same blogs/reddit, but that is not a representativ...
I don't think your cheap, you sound spot on to me. Let's use a typical 'average' sitcom as an example. According to Wikipedia, 'How I Met Your Mother' (CBS sitcom) ' a typical first-run episode of HIMYM has about 8-9 million viewers. (neilson rating numbers, ignoring all online streaming, reruns, ect) An average si...
Thanks to the low weight of the bullet only a fraction of the kinetic energy will be transfered to a heavy object like the helmet. Low mass, high speed projectiles have a low energy/impulse relation, and the impulse is what gets transferred to the helmet Imagine you got a 10g projectile that hits a 1990g helmet (don'...