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I agree completely.
Torrents.ru had torrents of software from 1C Company . Relevant quote from WP: > 1C is also a leader in localizing and publishing Russian-language versions of international software. For instance, more than half of popular Western video games are licensed and published by 1C. The company has over 700 employees, 10,000 business partners, 4,500 authorized retailers, 1,200 training centers, 200 authorized certification locations and over 280 stores in 100 cities. They are a very large Russian company. Large Russian companies have a lot more power in Russia than large torrent sites. See also AllOfMP3, who the RIAA sued for $1.65 trillion, but is still operating. Anonleaks is not attacking Russian interests, so it is unlikely that they will lose the domain.
Protips from a 20 year old computer tech- 1.Tell customer that they need to reinstall windows in the simplest way possible 2.Try and upsell them to Windows 7, if they don't already have it 3.Back stuff up with Linux disc on to an external HDD (optional; alternatively, tell customer that their stuff is too infected to risk it. Most of the stuff they have appear to be pirated anyways, so they can easily get it back themselves.) 4.Wipe main HDD, install windows 7, install drivers, install antivirus (Nod32 if you want your store to make some money, Microsoft Security essentials if you want go give them a free anti-virus solution) 5.Copy data back 6.??? 7.Profit This way, your store makes some money AND you also get hours. It also eliminates the need to waste over 9000 hours of your work time just trying to save their stuff. I also noticed that there were many false positives in there- it seems that many antivirus programs label keygenerators as trojans.
It is a good idea and Apple probably would have released it anyway. Even without Hughes' initial release it probably would have looked a lot like how it does right now. The thing that is disturbing is that they wouldn't allow the guy who made it first, a fair shot in the marketplace. I understand they want to protect their product, but that does not excuse their blatant act to seal up their marketplace from ideas that could potentially compete with their own. The app is obviously good enough to be let in since it is rated so high, so this wasn't a decision of quality. With this latest act it would seem that Apple is no better or worse than Microsoft and should be regarded with the same level of distaste. Downvote me all you want for that last comment, just read the whole thing before you do.
Then that would have been Apple's way of competing. Libre office is an adequate alternative to Microsoft office, and it does most of what Microsoft office does. People are still buying Microsoft office. There are Linux distributions that are simple and easier to use than Windows and OSX. I'd say that 40% of all computer users could make the switch to Ubuntu or Linux Mint without anymore trouble than if one were to make the switch from Windows to OSX or vise versa. These are two examples of free solutions that are not being used despite being good alternatives and of course free.
When someone is well established in a social network that satisfies their needs they don't want to move. Facebook satisfied their needs for something better where myspace failed. When G+ came out they were already well established on facebook. G+ did not offer anything especially new, on top of that they had an invite only system which arbitrarily bared entry to the network. When mainstream users realized they could not get instant access the hype died down because they didn't want to wait for something that offered nothing better than what they already had.
I wish I had the article, but someone basically demonstrated that the utility of money is important, and that money isn't perfectly fungible. Therefore, because of human nature, a poor person who has a few dollars left after expenses is going to be more likely to invest that in a one-in-a-million shot at solving all of their financial woes than if they had hundreds, even if by investing hundreds you have a greater chance. Logically the person who has a few dollars and invests those few dollars would invest the hundreds, if they felt it was a viable enterprise, but most people realize that it is a losing game, and so when given larger sums of money they would rather keep it than gamble on it. Since a few dollars is not seen as worth saving, the lottery is perceived as a better use for the money, even if statistically they end up spending hundreds in the long run.
No, the only chance for most people to earn more than 10million$ within their lifetime. I'm 25 now. With the current diploma and jobs I have, even if I'm as succesfull as can be in my field (publish 1-2 books, invent something usefull and get parts of the arnings), the max I could ever accomplish through hard work is prob. 5-10mill$. This may be enough for most, but it's not the existance-changing, probable foundation of a gloabal family-dynasty amount that $150mill could be.
It's massive. While holding my iPhone 4 in my right hand, I can barely reach from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen without having to adjust the position of the phone in my hand. This reminds me of something else; I went to view a house the other day, and in one of the current tenant's room was a 50" flatscreen TV on a desk, hooked up to a laptop. The guy was sat maybe 30cm from the screen, and physically had to move his head to be able to close the window or access the start menu. The touchpad on his laptop looked like it took 5 strokes to reach from the top to the bottom. It was pretty dumb. I wouldn't want a phone that was inbetween a tablet and a one-hand device as far as size goes. Plus I'd be more scared of dropping it. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
I'm an above average in height white male. I own a Nexus S. I could have gotten the Galaxy Nexus for free. I chose not to get it because its too large for me to feel comfortable. I would have to really stretch to reach the upper left when holding it in my hand. Oh also the larger screen eats more battery and thus it dies faster.
It has largely to do with the CRTC demanding that there's more Canadian content. But what doesn't make sense is that Netflix is a streaming online service, the CRTC regulars TV.
Reading this letter made me think of the internet and this fucking idiot like this: Filesharing was like a free for all in a candy store. so you run in there and grab fucking everything. your pounding every fucking candy you can get. your even smashing those liquorice sandwich things. and you fucking hate those liquorice sandwich things, but your smashing them anyway cos they're fucking free right?! And shit is going real peachy. until... the store manager walks in and tells you to stop. now to be fair, he's losing a shit load of money. and he can't do shit about it. I'm not so worried about this guy. but like the record labels, his job is to make money, and thats not the important bit. BUT what everyone's forgetting is the old guy out the back. he's looking in to the shop with tears in his eyes. he is weeping because you've completely ruined what he created. He knows that the best way to enjoy his candy is one at a time, and at the right place. not all at once. he knows you put all that candy in your mouth and you won't know whats what. he spent his life making this candy for you to enjoy. and you smile like a greedy fuckwit whilst you pound all of it just to get the sugar rush.
The whole point of this rant is that it details the state of the market for most types of entertainment/culture: movies, music, games, etc. By summarizing it you would lose a lot. But if that's what you really want:
Hi, I'm an electrical/electronic engineer who works for a standards body and I have to deal with these laws on a day to day basis. The way it works is like this: We get a customer who is looking to make a new product or has a prototype that want mass produced. In order to do that the product must undergo a series of rigorous tests that will go to show everything from it's functionality when being stressed to how safe it is if an accident were to happen (i.e. the product get's submerged or a product is not properly grounded and electrocutes the user). In a nutshell, we have to test to a worst case scenario. In order to do that, we work by a large number of different standards (a whole fucking library, really) depending on what kind of technology it is (medical, military, machinery, etc.), each of which is tested accordingly. My specialty is testing for electromagnetic compatibility. Essentially, I make sure that when you put the product inside of a big magnet, it doesn't completely fail and verse visa. I also have to test to for certain amounts of radiated emissions to make sure that something like a new cell phone or a new type of MRI machine won't turn you into a Chernobyl victim in the process of doing what it's supposed to do. I'm glad to see someone doing something about making these standards available to the public. The conventional way of thinking about this in terms of my job's longevity is not what you may think. Typically one might think that if we keep failing a product for one reason or another, it would behoove us because then they just have to come spend more money on more retesting when they make the amendments to whatever it is that failed in the first place. This is not the case at all. We make a reputation on a standard of quality for product safety and electromagnetic soundness. But this is where the laws we have to adhere to come into play. Unfortunately, unless you're an engineer who works in a field such as mine, you'll never actually know how nitpicky the law gets when it comes to making sure that a product is compliant. Most of these laws are at my disposal but not to the disposal of a design engineer. This is why a product fails 99/100 times. It's not because a product was deemed "unsafe", but because of something so minute that you wouldn't ever in a million years think of it to be a problem. Things as stupid as a grounding wire being too short, a products noise emissions being 1/10 of a decibel out of tolerance, a ventilation grate having holes that are not compliant by about 1/8 of an inch of what the standard asks for, etc. It get's pretty hairy when having to deal with all of the red tape. There are a few upsides to my job though, the field is always in demand and is always evolving to new technologies that are to be released. Not only that, but we do get a lot of free handouts. (I'm a guitarist and we had a representative from a big name guitar company come in with a bunch of products that needed to be tested. Needless to say, I was pretty fucking excited. When we were done, they never asked for anything back and said we can do what we wish with them.) Plus, it's always fun to blow things up for the sake of science and safety. I fully support the idea of making these laws more transparent. If they are easily accessed by everyone who needs them, then it'll take a huge weight off the problem of technological growth and innovation in this country and all over the world. I would do my part in posting some of the standards that we have but that's how a cool cat like myself gets fired and that's the last thing I need. :P
Only a troll would ignore
Actually, they likely would. Think about it: most of our laws work this way. US law (with one exception) is based on common law. That means that our law is developed through successive court cases that continually refine what the law actually is. Whether you're talking about the standard of negligence for medical malpractice, determining what court has the proper authority to preside over a case, or interpreting what the extent of Congress' power under the commerce clause is, the answer is in court opinions. But, in order to disseminate those court opinions, somebody has to keep track of them, and that duty almost uniformly falls on private, for-profit businesses (namely: Westlaw and LexisNexis). Michigan, for example, hasn't maintained its official court reporter since the 1970s. You may be able to glean a bit of common law precedent from a Google search here and there (mainly Supreme Court decisions that make the news, or the cornerstone cases law students study), but the level of access necessary to, say, mount a legal defense, or get a thorough understanding of a point of law? Locked away behind a paywall. Want to know how the courts apply your state's zoning law that the city is threatening you with? Pay up to find out what the law is. Want to know if the summons somebody left on your doorstep is a valid service of process? Pay up. Getting divorced and want to know what constitutes a marital asset in your state? You get the idea - pay up. Now, technically a lot of this information is freely available in that some court houses might keep a publicly-accessible legal library available, but a lay person has virtually no hope of navigating paper court reporters. And that's assuming the books are up to date and relatively complete in terms of subject matter (and they probably aren't). Online access to Lexis/West is rarely (if ever) provided at these public legal libraries. And private access is done via individually-negotiated contracts/prices that can run into the thousands of dollars a month for search technology that would've been considered limited back in the mid '90s. Or you could just pay tens to hundreds of dollars per search .
Bottom line, trolls are like water, they will always find a crack. Somewhere along the line, some troll realized that these codes needed to be printed up, so the troll printed them up and sold them to people, probably for a buck or two. But trolls breed, especially when they've found a crack in which to dwell. So, most likely, this printing troll bumped into another troll who realized that if the printed product was copyrighted, then people would have to pay more, AND ... Somewhere the lazy trolls that tend to make it to the government level of handling and defining standards ("let's get paid to decide whether or not you can put a power plug 3 feet from an external door"), these trolls probably sleep-signed some agreement to only use THIS printing troll, so the price went up even further. Finally, after a few years, the printing trolls came to the lazy government trolls and said, "hey, how's about we just make and produce these for you completely, in exchange for all that work, you give us exclusive rights to distribute." ... to which the government trolls responded something like, "snore...zzz... wha? Sure." Now YOU, dear reader, might think that this is the end of the story -- but you are not a troll. Ha! Because once the trolls found this crack, in Flabartum Country, Stupidville, they go to the neighboring Dummytown and do it again ... explaining that "everybody's doing it!" Before you know it ... they've acquired a large region of the state -- they go to the sleepers at the wheel at the State level ... once you've got a State, it's a troll stampede to get to the national level. ...and don't forget, every time a troll gets a wish, and somewhere a freedom dies.
This is not a case of you walking down the street minding your own business and getting thrown in jail for laws you have to pay to access. This is a case of (let's say) being an architecture firm who is designing a hotel with a fire stair, and needing to know the limits of tread with and riser height that people can reliably use without falling down the stairs, also what materials the enclosure can be made of so it will withstand the rest of the building being on fire for 2 hours. Or needing to know if it's 2 hours or 1.5, depending on the size and occupancy class of the building you're designing. Guardrail heights, handrail heights, head clearance above stair nosings, minimum corridor widths per square footage and occupancy class of tributary floor space. The people who determine the optimum numbers for these values are not governmental employees, and can never be (see Physeos' excellent comment here , and a great deal more effort than the majority of commenters here seem to think. Also before you think I'm one of the people who write them, I do not. I'm an architect, and these codes have me tearing my hair out on a daily basis, but they also make sure people survive fires. They make sure buildings stand up in the first place, and can withstand wind loads, seismic loads, vibration from equipment. They make sure that mechanical equipment doesn't burst into flames or that when it does there are sprinklers to put out the fire, alarms to notify building occupants and fire departments. I could go on.
I don't have a lot of time to post, but I work within the mandates of published Standards, as well as assist in WRITING some of them. A few random bullet points: I HATE having to find the guy with the legal copy, or putting in the req'. to purchase the Standards. If the documents were completely paid for by the Govt., you would have government employees writing the standards. Some G-men and women are awesome! I have heard of one, or two, but the Best-n-Brightest don't often go into public service. (pardon my generalization) ;) The Govt hires out to real experts to write technical docs, then mandates them as Regulatory Standards. It you want to build the G1212 Wizzinator^TM then you need to follow ISO X. If you don't want to build it, then don't, and ignore ISO X. But part of the cost of being allowed to build the G1212 Wizzinator, and removing some of the product liability (IANAL), you gotta get the ISO X, and the people that spent the time writing it need to cover their costs. I don't think that many/any of the Standards bodies are for-Profit. TIA, ETSI, OSHA, ISO, etc. Someone can correct me (please!). They need to cover their meeting costs (there's a par- tay you want to be at!), publishing costs, etc. I have been working with the Gov't when they tried to write their own standards. They quickly bailed and asked for expert help. That was actually pretty smart of them. Seemingly pointless standards usually DO have a valid reason for existing. It might be outdated, it might be flat wrong, but there usually is a reason that was valid at some point. In my experience, the US Gov't has gotten 1000% better at cleaning up crap over the years.
Cure cancer, not prevent it. Cancer is caused by mutation in our own cells - basically, we make so many copies through out or lives that we're sure to make a few errors now and then, some of which are likely to be significant enough to cause mutations that are cancerous. Nearly 1/2 of the population ends up with some form of cancer. While I support cancer research charities in the hope that cancer can be cured in my lifetime, I have no illusions that we can prevent it. All we can do is try to catch it early and stop it quickly.
I work for a company that buys the latest version of SAE standards every few years. I've recently been put in charge of FMVSS compliance, and soon afterward discovered that when the government references outside standards, it never references the latest version. In particular, the regulation for windshield washers dates back to the 1960s. I have the latest version on a CD we bought from SAE, but that's no good to me because it's changed, and the paragraphs referenced in the law don't exist anymore. I've also recently discovered that SAE has no vested interest in providing a package of all their standards that are referenced in government regulations. Since the government requires you to have them in order to prove compliance, they'll force you to pay $66 per standard (if I recall, there are 48 SAE standards listed in the INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE section just recently published in the Federal Register).
No, this is a common law student way of thinking. Yes, that line of legal reasoning is in the books but that is not quite the same as getting to pack up your stuff and leave jail right now. If you have no other option of course a court's going to hear it, you're obliged to zealously defend your client to the best of your ability and you really wouldn't believe the variety of shit that courts are constitutionally obliged to sit through. It's difficult to answer if the defence will actually get a positive result for the client in that particular case, ie. be a decent defence, because it depends on the substantive merits of that case. If even the Attorney General tells you that it's legal to do something illegal and you rely on that, that doesn't mean the law has disappeared. It just means you got bad advice. The remedy for receiving bad advice is generally to sue the advisor who gave you it. You're not going to get to break laws because your lawyer was drunk and gave crazy advice.
That's fair. One could posit a counter-argument that quoting the parents of your comment clutters the page and makes you look - excuse my informality - "noob-ish". For me it's reminiscent of people on forums who quote massive posts and append their own reply. The quote in that post adds nothing to the discussion but clutter. One could also say that it would be more socially responsible for you to keep track of the comments you are replying to with something like screenshots, so as to slightly inconvenience yourself but not affect the rest of us.
Apologies, that was not intended as a vaguely racist/imperialist jab. The Internet is a development in human history on par with the discovery of electricity precisely because it belongs to more than one country. The whole world becomes your local community. As far as jingoistic networks go, let's see how those have worked before: 1) France had Minitel, great for booking concert tickets via TTY terminal. 2) America had AOL, the Walmart styled walled garden of pre-Internet networks. This network will offer one advantage over the current "dirty" one Iran already has: control . It's like opening up a "world library" that offers only one doctrine's idea of a good book!
It's crap like this that makes the software vendors go crazy and keep adding more and more DRM for everyone who legally purchased software to deal with. Yeah... the article says "But there are times when you do own software that you can't access without pirating it.", but that's just B.S. to cover their collective asses.
MarkMonitor is just a full-service domain name registrar. You haven't heard of them because they target the big corporate market, offering services that fit their needs; among them, the promise that no domain in their control will ever be stolen by an unauthorized transfer. Many big names (e.g. Google, Facebook, Apple) have chosen to use this service. Domain names are intellectual property, and protecting them better than retail registrars (e.g. GoDaddy) are willing to is what MarkMonitor is paid for. The pastie says "This company has acquired complete access to monitor, eavesdrop, censor and fake any user of these popular Internet services" ; this is false. While MarkMonitor could theoretically snoop Gmail, they could only do so by changing the domain name servers for google.com and gmail.com to ones they control, an extremely visible move that Google and others would instantly notice. They have a CA certificate allowing them to impersonate any site on the Internet, but they don't have the access to the Internet backbone necessary to perform this attack; further, they cannot improperly issue a certificate without leaving a non-repudiable trail; there is no quicker way to get a CA certificate removed from the trust list by all major browsers. The companies that have chosen to use MarkMonitor's services have done so because they trust MarkMonitor to manage their domain names more than they trust other companies, and because they can verify that MarkMonitor is not acting maliciously.
I think OP meant that if you use another networking site other than reddit, i.e. Facebook, that you should stop it and use Twitter, because Facebook supports CISPA and the likes.
It means that Facebook does not care about pleasing you (the product), it cares about pleasing advertisers (the customers) . In the context of this story, it means Facebook doesn't care about how you are treated or what you think, and thus will not warn you or ask for your permission before fiddling with your account details.
Ok, everyone can flame and hate.....But I got this board the day it came out on newegg. I'm a mac user, and my primary computer is a MBP with thunderbolt, and a thunderbolt monitor..... And now everyone flame again, I will explain. At my last job doing IT, I did all of my companies outside consulting. I use my laptop all the time. And when I got back to my office, I didn't want to have to use a different computer, and with that laptop, I could only plug in a single monitor......along with about 6 other cords, audio, usb keyboard/mouse, gig ethernet... So I decided to get a TB Display.....can plug all of that in....with a single cord, and get a giant beautiful screen with it. I LOVE THAT SETUP. So, now my good screen and entire setup is back at home since I have changed jobs. Diablo 3 comes out. My laptop can't handle it nearly as well as I would like. So I decide it is finally time to build a gaming PC....and oh, look at this, they have a TB mobo coming out soon. And it comes out a few days later. So I build my gaming rig, 3770k Sandy Bridge, that mobo, 8gb ram, OCZ vertex 3 max iops(for games, mobo has ssd on it for windows) and a 550ti. All of this running my games now on a 2560x1440 27" Screen. Skyrim with the Hires texture pack looks absolutely amazing.... I'm not saying that this setup is worth it for anyone else, but for ME it is perfect.
Water is scarce in part because it is contaminated by waste. Waste from sewage. Sewage from improper water sanitation. Improper water sanitation which can be attributed in part to the lack of proper toilets. Improper water sanitation leads to illness and death. More deaths than AIDS. Improper water sanitation leads to individuals spending time searching for water. Time that could be spent going to school for children and agricultural work for adults. If children have time for school, they can receive sexual education. They can gain skills. This can lead to job diversification.
I think we can all agree that MS has, if anything, hindered the business of making cheap, reliable PCs. Today, many PCs are half the price without MS software, but opting out of this software presents an incredible hindrance to those who wish to do business with the rest of western civilization. MS makes proprietary software. Extremely useful software, yes. But mostly not open-source and certainly not cheap. The tech startup world and people dropping out of college to start businesses would easily still exist without the building of a monopolistic operating system and "productivity suite". What he did bring to the table was a fantastic foresight into working with patent lawyers to build an empire based on licensed materials. Very, very bright person, extremely shrewd businessman, and yes he did back products, package them and market them in an extraordinary way. Anyhow, yes his company's software have been used by billions of people, but these would likely exist without him. In fact it's easy to argue that where MS does not enjoy a monopoly, software evolves to be more efficient, more responsive to user needs, and certainly cheaper (I respond using Firefox). Many of his humanitarian missions, however, would certainly progress at a snail's pace if not for his vision and blunt force of action/funding. Saving millions of lives, and that is the scale we are talking about here, while also improving their quality of life will certainly be a larger impact (regardless of how it is recorded historically in western civilization) than being the iconic face behind a software giant. I rely on their software because they have designed it to be so and I think the monopoly was built on somewhat douchey, though legal tactics and has certainly slowed the growth of competitors' innovations, but I thaw at these things knowing that the alternative is instead thousands of software millionaires most who would not have the inclination and none who would have the financial largess to achieve what Bill and his wife are achieving.
I've been living in Thailand for a while (I'm American) and they have exactly the kind of handheld sprayers you are talking about, but they also just so happen to offer tissue rolls instead of napkins at the table at most restaurants. What I do is this: I use the handheld sprayer and then I wipe/dry myself off with a handful of tissue I swiped from the table. The combination of the two is the ultimate in cleanliness (sans soap). No occasional discomfort because you missed a spot. And no wet ass making your underwear/pants damp. None of it. And then you toss the tissue, which has a very minimal amount of fecal matter on it, certainly not enough to cause a stink, in the trash as opposed to flushing it and clogging up the septic system.
Thoughts... What if the surviving children that grow up in these areas of contaminated water and disease are actually destined to become some sort of superhuman race which can withstand things that no normal human can endure and are destined to become the next evolution in the human species, but this man, Bill Gates, is some sort of super villain who is hell bent on making them weak like the rest of us while him and his cohorts build up these super immunities themselves? His ultimate plan is to release a worldwide pandemic that he and his minions are immune to but will make the rest of us so weak and powerless that we will be nothing more than slaves to his very will. The only bastion of hope for mankind would be the superhuman species coming from these impoverished countries to fight in the great battle of 2052. Instead of helping these people by letting them develop their immunities, we actually help this evil genius by not only continuing to purchase his products but by helping him achieve his ultimate goal. The only Windows we will someday know is the tiny ones at the top of our prison cells that look out onto the rolling fields of green that our masters now frolic in.
Nowhere anywhere does anything say the FBI threatened his family (other than perhaps mentioning that they knew he had one). Regardless, what the hell would they threaten them with? Foster care? That'd last what, a day if they had other family that could claim them while his ass rots in jail. I hardly think FBI agents threatened violence or harm towards his little kids - you guys act as if as soon as you take the job at the FBI you suddenly become inhuman.
And to be perfectly honest I don't see what qualifications a "hardcore software developer" would need that would make SSDs so much more attractive. Source code and assets don't use that much space. 500 MB is much for a mid size project. But the ultra low seek times are great if you're seeking through many small files - which is what you usually do, when you build a project. Then there's the thing that you can implement more advanced features into your software if you expect your users to have SSD drives.
Just for a start: He founded a company for computer security, sold it just before it went bancrupt. He announced to invest in letsbuyit.com, boosted it's stock value, but never did actually help them out. Lied about hacking Citibank and transferring money to Greenpeace In the wake of 9/11, he founded "Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism", claimed to work with the FBI, never showed any trace of proof or success, just a big PR stunt. Announced "Trendax - the money making machine" wich should make obscene amounts of money, looked for investors, nothing happened.
These types of articles are somewhat of a necessity. When experimental research discovers something,.. that information needs to be broadcast out somehow so that it may spur more research or inspire new explorations. It's not really desirable to "hide all the information until real-world results can be seen",.. because the very act of trying to hide information will slow down the exploration process.
I am pretty much a no look apple hater, but this article is a bunch of worthless crap and I want that 5min of my life back. article
You can't both have speed and energy efficiency. Thats a big generalization, and there are usually work-arounds - this engine, for instance. By going high enough in altitude that you need rockets, the atmosphere is less dense. Its actually a Reagan-era idea (space-plane), covered by a lousy article. A car's frame doesn't leave much surface area to play around with: airplanes are different. Notably how much lift do you need the wings to create, how small can they be? Swept back or straight out? Other things like momentum, gravity & contact patches might all affect an energy/speed ratio.
Okay, there's a lot of misconceptions/misinformation here that I'd like to clear up. Source: Degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University (Neil Armstrong went there). SABRE is NOT a jet engine, it is a rocket engine. It is a solution to the age-old rocket problem of excess weight. By drawing oxidizer (air) from the environment throughout the ascent flight regime, the system requires exponentially less weight in fuel. SABRE does share some similarities with a ramjet in that it uses shock systems at the intake to precompress the air, but all supersonic engines do that anyway (even turbojets) - air must be subsonic before combustion (and ESPECIALLY before any rotating elements if present), except in scramjets. SABRE is emphatically NOT a scramjet, because there is no supersonic combustion of air. The Wikipedia article mentions that it does utilize bypass air (i.e. air that is not traveling through the rocket core to be used as oxidizer) to produce ramjet thrust, which is similar to an afterburner on a conventional turbojet. The bypass ducts utilize their own geometry to compress the air to combustible levels, inject a bit of fuel, and produce thrust. So it does have a ramjet element... but it's not a ramjet engine. In fact, it probably has more in common with a turbojet, since it utilizes a turbocompressor to recompress the cooled air (just like the compressor on a turbojet), and powers that compressor with a gas turbine. The difference is, here the turbine is driven by waste heat from the precooler, whereas in a turbojet the turbine is driven by exhaust air.
I do know what it means, I didn't bother to read anything but the first line in the article seeing as it seemed silly. If you'd like to
The problem is that apparently not even the zuckerberg's themselves know how to operate the privacy settings, yet they blamed it on poor etiquette of the blogger, who did nothing wrong. The blogger is friend's with Randi Zuckerberg's sister, who is also tagged in the picture. That is how it got in the blogger's news feed. Randi needs to go into her "privacy settings" > "who can see my stuff". Select the list, then from the popup, uncheck the box that says "share this with friends of those tagged". Randi ignorantly blames it on etiquette when facebook is operating exactly as it is designed.
The fact that she gets pissed about it shows that she's only there because of the name. If it wasn't the name, then likely someone would have commented about her only being there 'cause she had nice tits. Or she was only there because she knew who to blow. This sort of shit is commonplace, and favoritism of one sort or another is always accused, even if just in a joking matter.
They can't. In the past it has been something like this: Buy tv Tv salesman reports that you bought TV You get a letter stating you should pay If you don't pay they spam mailbox/phone and eventually shows up at the door where you can simply state that you have no tv and that, no, they can't come inside
In Sweden, around 98% own a television. The Radiotjänst knock the doors of people who aren't currently paying, however, they can't enter your house even if you invite them. In fact, they can't do anything really, unless you tell them that you do in fact own a TV, or they can see it. So unless you keep your TV right in the entrance hall, they can't prove that you're avoiding the fee. It doesn't even matter if they can clearly hear the TV, they can't do anything as long as you deny it. It is recommended however that when you purchase a new TV, pay with cash and don't submit any personal information, as retailers have been known to report your purchase to the Radiotjänst.
That's a problem that often comes back in politics : there are two fees you have to pay, for TV and for radio. You pay once per household. The TV + Radio costs approx 480$/year. Using the appliance or not, or using the appliance to get TV or radio or not, does NOT matter. You have an appliance, then you have to pay You own a car=> you have to pay for radio (Except if you don't have one in your car, but who doesn't?) You own a TV => you have to pay for TV You own a computer => pay both since you can access both You own a cell phone => you should pay for both, except if you own an old cell that can only get radio, then you would have... but These fees are not billed with your taxes, but rather by an external, private company, that charges the governement around 55 million dollars for doing it (that is, sending one bill a year to each household!). Originally, the company, which is a subsidiary of the state telecom provider (it's now been privatized) was chosen because they had almost every household's address in their database, to print the phone books. But that argument has gotten a bit old now... Anyway, now that the electronics market has evolved towards global affordability, every household has at least one appliance that leads to the obligation to pay the fee, which is why politicians begin to think that the current collecting mode has become too old. However, because the collecting company is a subsidiary of a gigantic telecom provider with many politically influent people in it (or vice-versa), nobody really tries to take the system down.
In Canada our tax dollars fund the CBC which is frustrating because the only thing the CBC shows that is worth watching is hockey and I'm not a hockey fan. They were also the only major broadcaster that didn't have to convert all their over the air broadcasts to digital a few years ago.
Cause all I do is git clone things for work, not to mention if your company is using git to manage high security R&D development they are obviously doing something wrong. No one here is saying our lives are going to be shorter without extremely fast internet, what we are saying is we are tired of being cheated out of our money which is directly related to how happy we are. Spending less money for better quality generally makes people happier. If you won't accept that argument consider all the people whose livelihood depends on faster and faster connections to homes. Imagine if you were an employee at netflix. The more people with faster connection means potentially more clients. The more clients the bigger payday for employers. This is obviously oversimplified, but it shows the general idea that faster connections to the home market generally show an increase in the economy due to new services and companies creating products taking advantage of those speeds. If you still won't accept any of the above consider telemedicine. One of the largest limiting factors is the unavailability of stable high speed connections in first world countries. One of the objectives of the field is to eventually allow doctors to perform surgery from home if need be, saving valuable travel time of the surgeon to the hospital in an emergency. If fact in this case I retract my earlier statement that we aren't complaining that our lives will be shorter. In this case lives can be saved by increasing connection speed, if not to everyone, then to at least important people such as doctors. If an emergency arises a surgeon can perform the surgery at home rather than having to drive to the hospital where it then might be too late.
No, Linux on the desktop never really happened. It sort of peaked in the late 90's with Corel but was sort of killed off by Windows XP. When it resurged a few years later, it was obliterated by Mac OS X, which got all the major Linux desktop developers as it matured (Panther-Tigerish). Think about it his way: Good desktop development is not so much difficult as it is bureaucratic. It requires a lot of mundane attention given to aspects of the system that no one wants to care about. It's the kind of project where you have a lot of "broken shitters", so it's pretty much inevitable that you're going to need paid developers to keep things running smoothly. With volunteer development, everyone wants to be the architect but no one wants to be the plumber. This is fine for headless unixy projects where a developer can craft a whole tool in his spare time. This is not so good for things like KDE. There are a lot of paid developers in Linux space these days, but they all work on server, device, or mobile related projects where the actual money is. So headless Linux systems feel professional but when you start the desktop you go into amateur land. Even Mark Shuttleworth is just dedicating all of Canonical to making a mad dash for the mobile/device market in a desperate attempt to make Ubuntu profitable before he inevitably stops wasting his money bankrolling desktop Linux and just chucks the project.
Ubuntu is a chunky OS, especially with Unity bogging it down. Debian easily runs circles around it, primarily since it isn't anywhere near as bloated. With a normal Debian netinstall I can still watch 480p videos off youtube on my old Pentium 3 all in one, but under Ubuntu, or the stripped down copy of XP I had on it before (nlite is great for stripping down windows btw) it couldn't handle the load. Plus boot times and overall loading times are shorter under Debian, but it is a bit harder to get started with, although its well worth the effort.
For example in my hometown, the cops made it illegal for people to be in the park past 11 (as a response to Occupy); now they can hand out tickets all night to homeless people who are mentally disabled. What have YOU done to address this law to your city's people? If there is a big uprising and the laws don't change, then you have reason to question the powers in place. If no one gives a fuck about the law, and thus no one votes on the issue.. then it sounds like the people have spoken. >You call that "law enforcement"? These people are harassing the weak, beating the defiant, and jailing people who call them on it. They are the criminals. The people don't give a fuck, and (to speak candidly about this situation) they more than likely don't give a fuck specifically because they don't want mentally disabled homeless people in the park. So they (the citizens, your neighbors ) know this; if they don't say anything about being in the park past 11 then it will lower the disabled homeless people in the park count. Maybe YOU should step up and tell others why this is a bad law. Maybe then the next time the ballots come around, the issue will be listed. Those that you have changed may actually vote. Or maybe I'm forgetting that no one lives in a democratic town.
I used to work for Silicon Graphics , 30K$ for an Indigo, and unlimited$ for the high-end stuff. That year, 3dfx released Voodoo Graphics, the first ever consumer PC 3d graphics card, for 300$. Long story short, in 1996, PC gfx couldn't touch SGI gfx, and there was a whole lot of hubris. In the summer of 1997, I worked again for SGI. Something weird had happened: the PC cpus/ram/hdd had surpassed the SGI hardware, but the SGI gfx was still ahead of the PC gfx. I asked my colleagues why we didn't release the PC gfx card we had prototyped that was based on the N64 gfx chip we made . In any case, I worked for SGI one last time the summer of 1998. By then, SGI cpu/ram/hdd/gfx was still the same as in 1996 and so PC was ahead in every respect. I asked my colleagues what the hell we were going to do. It was explained to me that, yes, maybe, PCs could do everything better, but there was one thing they were lacking: 48 bit color (12 bits per component). SGI exited the graphics business in the mid-2000s and went bankrupt (twice) and no longer exists. Granted, it will take a lot longer for this to happen to Microsoft for one simple reason: even if they stopped being profitable, the huge pile of cash they are sitting on would take decades to disappear.
It's illegal for children because they're retards with money. So why give them access to your money in the first place.. 'oh I didn't know they had access' Bull-fucking-shit, at some stage you put that card number and details into that device.. at that stage your brain should be thinking 'wait, does that mean they can use my card whenever they like?' But no.. computers are our friends, they wouldn't record our card details would they? What's all this text about 'accounts' and stuff. Sorry it's 2013 not 1998 What are you talking about 'no verification process' Apple, Google, and just about every company gives you about a hundred different ways you can secure your device or keep an eye on it. It's like setting your password as 'guest' on your PC. You just don't do it anymore.. edit ;
Okay, how are developers of these apps con artists? Try Electronic Arts. I've played Tetris for 25+ years, and wanted to give Tetris Blitz a go. At very nearly every junction between the gameplay sessions, there are actions that lead you to in-app purchases. In each and every case where you are forced to make a choice, the button that performs an in-app purchase (or rather brings up Apple's own in-app purchase dialog) is eight times larger than the one that does not perform an in-app purchase dialog. If you use in-game/bonus items, which you have to do if you want a halfway decent score, and you use all your remaining items, but press through without deselecting the items from the last round (In other words: When you press "play" from the pre-game screen without touching anything), you will be prompted for an in-game purchase. Further, the game sends you push notifications, despite you explicitly saying no to them, and these are also all for in-game pay2win items. Also, it repeatedly nags you about permission to spam your Facebook friends.
This happened with my sister recently as well, though not as severe. It was a free kid's game, she let a 6-year-old play it, and $80 showed up on her phone bill a month later. No password was required. No credit card was required. It billed to the phone line rather than Google's Play store. No information was provided on the bill, other than "Charge for premium service". No app name, nothing. The phone company is willing to block charges like this in the future, for $5 a month.
To play devil's advocate a bit - the purchasers don't even need the password. If I am an adult who entered the password within a certain period of time, say to install the app, then iOS keeps that password active and you are not prompted for additional purchases. Once you are outside that window you are prompted again.
you're on foodstamps too, by the way Shouldn't have an iphone then. What the hell are you paying $100+ for a luxury when you can't even afford food? >It's not like my life, where I have so much free time I can research something extensively long before I download/buy it. It's not even a matter of research. It's a matter of managing your money correctly. Apple even has a little section of their store to help you get your phone setup with account details and parental restrictions. And honestly, if you are so poor you can't afford toys for your kid (or even food), then wouldn't you want to ensure that you aren't spending money you don't have to? On a list of things I pay 100% attention to because of money concerns, my PHONE is #1. There's so many hidden fees and random shit that I can accidently purchase on even my dumb-phone. My iPod touch, as well as pretty much any smartphone I've come across has waay more protection features against accidental purchases. >Why spend $200 on a DS plus another $20 when your kid can play Plants Vs. Zombies on your phone for free? Or you know... Go to the library and check out some free books. Or a thrift store and get some cheap toys. There are plenty of garage sales where you can pick up cheap game consoles and games. Finally, if you are leaving your child unattended why the hell do they have your phone? Especially considering that the phone seems to be the most expensive thing you own.
Hold on guys, and read the press release again. Samsung is manufacturing single chips (of 24-layer NAND flash) at densities of 128Gb (32GB) per chip. This press release does not indicate that Samsung is making packaged chips with 24 separate 128-Gb die in the package, but that Samsung has finally gotten a new technology to the point where it is viable. This is still technically exciting because they have gotten 3D flash to a density which is respectable and can compete with TLC flash, but there is no indication that Samsung will be able to create super-dense flash memories even close to the density that this article suggests. Modern TLC NAND flash chips exist at these densities made by Samsung, Toshiba, Micron and others, but this press release announces that a new technology is reaching a commercially viable density. Also, even if you put a 384 GB flash chip into a smartphone, the processor does not have the nonvolatile memory address space to use the entire chip. The limit on your iPhone's memory capacity is not just the flash chip itself, but also the processor used.
Techcrunch's OpEd is sensationalist pigeonshit ; they're allowing themselves to be the mouthpiece for political party lobbying. Please read the article as the GOP regretting how them being buttbuddies with the RIAA/MPAA/etc have made copyright & IP into the true highest laws of the land. You think national security interests are the US' sole primary concerns? lulz: Y'all remember Kim Dotcom? The evidence the FBI obtained thru [a failed warrant]( which in the US would be [fruit of the poisonous tree]( stayed in the FBI's possession. Dot Com had to appeal to New Zealand's highest court [to even see the evidence against him]( which [has now been released]( Oh, and [TPP?]( The objective reality of unlocking is [kindly provided by EFF here]( Let's not forget that [the EFF filed a lawsuit to expose the NSA in oh, 2008](
LawHelmet: You're post is all over the place, is contradictory and plain doesn't make any sense. "Techcrunch's OpEd is sensationalist pigeonshit; they're allowing themselves to be the mouthpiece for political party lobbying. Please read the article as the GOP regretting how them being buttbuddies with the RIAA/MPAA/etc have made copyright & IP into the true highest laws of the land. You think national security interests are the US' sole primary concerns? lulz:" The GOP will always be buttbuddies with the RIAA/MPAA or any other big corporate machine. Just because the politicians SAY they are regretting being in bed with big corporations doesn't mean they really are. They're fucking politicians, after all. What's funny here is that you don't provide any links like you do about Kim Dotcom or the EFF. "Y'all remember Kim Dotcom? The evidence the FBI obtained thru a failed warrant, which in the US would be fruit of the poisonous tree, stayed in the FBI's possession. Dot Com had to appeal to New Zealand's highest court to even see the evidence against him which has now been released. Oh, and TPP?" What does Kim fucking Dotcom have to do with unlocked phones anyways? "The objective reality of unlocking is kindly provided by EFF here." I read the article that you linked to and it says: "Now, the bad news. While we don’t expect mass lawsuits anytime soon, the threat still looms. " Which means that the carriers can go after individual citizens if they feel like it, just like how the RIAA targets certain individuals who download copyrighted music. There are a lot of people still downloading music than the handful of people that the RIAA has successfully sued. "
ProTip: If you want to process to be a lot smoother, start learning norwegian. We are mostly nice and chill, but there is some negative attitude towards people living in norway and "don't even bother to learn the language". Oh, and don't try to change our laws based on religion. Best way to get hated by the entire nation. If we see that you talk some norwegian, and want to learn and work, you will have a much easier time.
I started torrenting when our internet started to shit on us. Paying for 30/5(?) getting ~5/.5 or so. Something about they messed up when they redid the zones of the area. Either way, with 4 people (5 when my sister comes home) and everyone's on the wifi ( 4 phones, 2 tablets that my dad refuses to turn off when he's not using them all day, 3 laptops - younger sisters, mom, dad - and my computer, my dad's fancy smart TV, bluray player...add another phone/tablet when older sister comes home ) it's not worth streaming. Can't get any quality, and our router doesn't support QoS or custom firmware. I still pay for my Hulu, Crunchyroll, Funimation (I like anime) and maybe another...? I just don't use them as often anymore. My dad has netflix, I haven't used it in a while.
I've actually built 4 wireless ISP's from the ground up. It sounds nice in theory but wireless just sucks for reliability. With everyone talking to the same device on the same frequency you end up with collisions when more than one client tries to talk at a time. Then both packets are corrupted and have to be resent. They keep trying to talk over each other and keep colliding and eventually lower their speeds to try to overcome what they think is probably just a weak signal. When they do this it lengthens the amount of time needed to transmit the same packet by maybe 30 times. Now that the packets are taking 30 times more time to transmit to the access point there is 30 times more likelihood of more collisions. Of course you can fix the transmit speeds of the gear to stop the degradation of service, but you still have the same original collision problem. So, you implement a CTS/RTS in which the clients ask the access point for a "permission packet" before they'll send the data packet. When the network isn't all that busy it works okay. But when people start trying to do things they start sending RTS requests like crazy and talk over other people's RTS and DATA packets and you're right back to having a collision shitstorm on your hands. Both scenarios kill overall throughput and usually send latency through the roof. I've seen 54mbit links drop to near dial-up speeds with 2000+ ms latency because of this. So, your final straw. You implement a polling MAC protocol with expensive proprietary equipment in which the access point is required to tell each client radio when it's allowed to transmit. They queue up their packets in line waiting for the AP to tell them it's their turn. You end up with the same crap latency (although somewhat better) and a loss in overall throughput as well. It costs you a few hundred dollars for each clients radio and equipment to mount on their roof, insurance in case you screw up their roof, wages and insurance for someone to climb on their roof, a vehicle and tools. Then on your end you have bandwidth, servers, tower rental fees (which are crazy freaking high, like $300/mo per 100 feet per item on the tower if you're lucky) as well as paying big bucks to have the tower climbers mount your hardware. You can try to build a wireless backbone between towers but then your furthest clients on the last hop and every client between them and your 2nd hop out are all using the same wireless link and fighting over that shitty 300-600mbit which when you factor in wireless protocol overhead for error checking and such is only really a lot less than advertised speed. Or you can wire your towers together for the backhaul to you, which puts you right back at spending that money for having wired connections or leasing it from the telco or cable company, and you're not going to get it from them cheaper than they're selling it to their own clients. If you're thinking of going mesh and hopping from client to client, you're going to spend a lot of money on proprietary gear capable of healing and monitoring routes correctly. Plus if Joe's tavern 3 miles down the road is your first calling customer, it requires you to have 3-5 clients signed up and operational between you and he first. If the links aren't redundant by a factor of at least 3 then you may as well hang it up. One or two of the clients between you and he does something stupid like not paying their electric bill or gets their roof redone and takes down your equipment, or just quits you, then Joe is screwed for service. Plus then you've got several people sharing a finite slice of bandwidth and adding latency to each hop. All of these are of course going to suffer from even more latency depending on the level of encryption you use, and you have to use pretty good encryption (VPN) to each client or risk someone in the middle being able to sniff the packets from the bank you just picked up as a client. That's about as good as it gets. Things really get shitty when you're in an area with less dense population and trees that attenuate your signal to useless levels over a short distance. That is unless you use wider bands and lower frequencies at higher powers. Those bands not only cost more to use and license, but lower frequencies need more bandwidth to offer the same throughput as a higher frequency with the same channel bandwidth.
Well, comparatively (compared to my internet, really), 6Mbps is extremely fast. I'm living with a cap of around 120Kbps right now. I've been complaining to my mom about our slow internet for years and she's only recently realized how slow it really is since she now has a tablet and wants to constantly use the internet with it. We max out at about 80Kbps with 2 devices on at the same time, I'd say 50Kbps or so with 3 and like 10Kbps with 4. And when my step-dad wants to download anything, everyone drops down to about 2Kbps unless he's the only one connected.
You might want to explain to them that their Netflix service won't get better , but rather that Netflix would be paying to not get shafted like all of the other services that are suddenly really slow. On top of that the extra costs will be pushed onto customers, because suddenly Netflix is losing a lot of money.
I'd love to try switching back to Firefox, infact I did just a few months ago. However, in that time I found that Firefox is not really a feasible browser option anymore if you are on Linux, thanks to the deals Adobe and Google have made. With newer versions of Flash for Linux only available as Pepper plugins, and Mozilla saying they have no plans to ever support Google's format. If you want Flash on Linux, you're stuck with Chrome/Chromium, and sadly there are still large swaths of the internet where that's still your only choice (if you don't want to run an old version from 2+ years ago or something reverse engineered, like Gnash).
Chrome is faster for me than FF, the open tab sync between devices actually works properly, and I've already sold my soul to Google by buying a droid and having an email address, youtube, google+, and other lovely services.
Artificially supported; meaning they can't fail because the gov. that runs it prints their own money? They very well can fail and are basically bleeding out at this point, but because they are around they are keeping the costs to customers down. You mean the stock market crash of 2008 where the government bailed out large corporations because they were "too big to fail"? I actually thought that those greedy companies should have gotten nothing and the bailout should have been paying the people. That way the people would have decided which companies died or thrived. What are your opinions on the government funds given to the telecoms specifically to cover the United States in fiber, and then they didn't? Should they return the money, or face penalties? It's like lending a person money to invest in their business because they have a specific goal in mind you like, and then once they get the money their goals change. You already fronted them the cash and they have spent it on other things that it was not for and now they don't feel like they owe you anything. You feel cheated and your attempts of getting your investment back have all failed.
Do you know that the government also helps regulate state college tuition to "affordable" levels, that the post office controls shipping rates so it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, public transportation allows people to get from point A to B for a low price, and for-profit banks have to compete with federal credit unions (non-profit) which have very few if any fees.
Programming is a cultural artifact that has no bearing on the worth of the person doing it. What matter is how it is used. In 1300AD I imagine SJWs starting a "Girls Who Ride" in the Mongol Empire to encourage women to take to the steppe because it is sexist to think that women can't ride as well as men. And then taking offense when I point out that a donkey is as good as a horse when your goal isn't the sacking of a city but visiting your friends. Meanwhile anyone who had half a brain would be thinking about some way to deal with all this murder, rape and pillage all this horse riding seems to have let loose on the world. Kind of like how anyone with half a brain today is thinking "gee how can we deal with the inequality that all these computers are creating?"
And what the fuck do you say to those of us who do vote? I've voted in every election I can since I turned 18 and so far things have only gotten worse and worse, mostly because the only candidates I can vote for are already bought and paid for by big business. I'm sick and fucking tired of people blaming the dysfunction in government on the people voting (or not voting). Let's put the blame exactly where it lies: on the corrupt politicians who accept bribes and the "lobbyists" who bribe them.
Voting third party wasn't my point. My point was there are candidates out there who support progressive legislation. Look at Warren. If more people voted for her and people like her, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit because they would get rid of money in politics. No one has to die. Everyone calling for revolution in this thread are committing what I consider to be extreme laziness. Just assuming that the same exact problems won't arise in the future, or putting them off for another generation to deal with.
Not to be one of those guys... but it never was a democracy. I believe we're a constitutional republic and still a mere shadow of one at best. I think our current iteration of gov't is best described as an oligarchy.
The attached article is old, but it is very relevant. Background: I run a fat cat video channel on YouTube. Recently one of my videos that I filmed of my cats in my house was inexplicably taken down for "copyright infringement" by Youtube. There was NO explanation or reasoning and the only information I had was that the claimant had a Russian name. I searched youtube and found my video had been reuploaded by a Russian account and that the video was monetized with 500k+ views. Essentially, Russians are filing copyright claims against popular cat videos so that they can steal the content and monetize it. YouTube does NOT care because of the ad revenue they generate. I have filed numerous complaints, counter-copyright suits and flagged the channel and user to no avail. The end result is YouTube's copyright policy allows you to lose your content without any notice or explanation while others can steal it and monetize it with no penalties. Here is a screenshot of the stolen video and a link to my cat channel for proof:
Um, anyone notice the last paragraph? "Although Microsoft Research is demonstrating the technology at this week's Siggraph show, it has not yet announced if and when it will be making it to the Bing Maps, or any other map-embedded Microsoft products or services." Yeah, that's cool, but wake me when I can actually use it. Google's street view may suck in comparison, but it is available now. In fact, it has been available for a few years now.
Exactly. You understand the point I am trying to make here. Auto manufacturers are already catering to, and encouraging, sloppy driving behavior. Autos that can parallel park themselves, lane departure warnings, tire pressure monitoring systems, heck - even automatic transmissions. I do not want, nor do I need, any of these systems. Oh, and didn't Volvo go about demonstrating how their new crash avoidance system would prevent an accident for you? Yeah, here is how that one turned out in case were wondering: [Volvo Crash Avoidance Demonstration](
Didn't you know you can compare a Prius to a [Hammerhead Eagle i Thrust]( Macbook Air >=$1000 ChromeBook >=$250-$0 He complains about the ineptitude of the unreleased hardware like the trackpad, this should really only be done if it's released. Complains about bulkiness by comparing it to the thinnest laptop you can buy. Complains that performance isn't as good as a computer that costs 3 times as much. Complains that boot times aren't quite as fast as they are on much larger solid state drives with much more expensive hardware. He complains about text fonts. Complains that it's made of atoms. He complains about styling, not that it looks bad, but because that look was already done, and it's out of style. He complains that this prototype device only has one USB port, the same number of USB ports found on a macbook air. Complains about ugly air vents. He only really spends one small paragraph of the review actually reviewing what makes using the CR-48 different from every other notebook out, because moving to a new operating system isn't a big deal or something. The real review is what's it's like turning it on for the first time, everything else is what you can expect from a modern laptop.
I understand the draw of this and I've messed around with such things before but I would highly recommend not doing this. The amount of energy involved is enormous and can easily kill you if you do anything wrong. There are also extremely large forces on both the rails of the gun and the projectile and a failure could be extremely deadly.
Because tor doesn't even attempt to hide your user-agent info. Tor just relays your packets to a number of different servers; it doesn't do any of the deep packet inspection that would be required to remove the unique information.
I think that mounting an outer volume wihout also supplying the inner volume password will leave the contents of the inner volume vulnerable to being overwritten.
I think the issue many people have with the NRA (I'm neither pro nor con) is that they make a big deal about protecting the 2nd amendment, saying it is the only thing that truly protects the rest of our rights, yet, nothing is actually done to protect the rest of our rights.
Here's where you don't know what you are talking about. The generators used in nuclear power plants (not counting the AP1000 which these numbskulls are trying to block), do not have the ability to operate without the grid and remain stable. As a result, when the grid is 'lost', which happened during the earthquake, the generator has to trip offline. This is an automatic action, as without any place to send the electrical power to, there is now no resistance on the turbine, and the turbine would overspeed and catastrophically destroy itself. We call this a "Load Reject". When a "Load Reject" happens, the generator and turbine automatically shutdown. This emergency shutdown is required in order to maintain insurance on your plant as it will kill people and potentially damage safety structures, as thrown turbine blades will slice through concrete shield wall like butter. When the turbine trips offline, all the turbine stop valves close, and steam from the reactor gets routed through the bypass valves. Due to design of Gen 2 nuclear power plants, the bypass valves can only handle about 30% of reactor steam, so if the reactor is above 30% power, the reactor will automatically trip, because with no place to go the steam will cause a shock wave of pressure which will reduce the steam fraction (amount of steam) in the reactor, causing a very rapid power excursion which can potentially threaten the fuel cladding. This is a designed accident scenario for nuclear power plants, and has several automatic systems designed to shut the reactor down to prevent fuel damage.
I think we're going to need to invest in nuclear long term. The AP1000 is a pretty good design. Solar and wind aren't a reliable continuous source of electricity. Not to mention, the manufacturing process for solar cells uses some pretty nasty chemicals. There needs to be an effective energy storage system for these sources of energy to provide continuous power. Quite frankly, I don't think there are enough natural resources to support building all of the batteries that would be required. There were ideas of hooking them up to large air compressors to pressurize a vessel or in pockets in the ground, but the energy losses are far to great at this time for it to be economically feasible. They could also use the power to pump water uphill to a reservoir and then use hydro generators at night, but at night is when power is the cheapest and again not economically feasible. With this you are still limited by the geography. Hydroelectric is a sound power source, but there are only so many places to build dams. What if there is a drought and the water level gets too low? You're also disrupting commercial boat traffic, reducing the water supply downstream, and not allowing marine life up/or downstream. I've seen channels to help fish get up/downstream, but they're pretty elaborate and fish are stupid. The only renewables we are left with is geothermal and tidal power. Tidal isn't going to help inland due to the significant line loss. Geothermal isn't accessible easily in many places due to the sheer distance down you would have to drill. So that leaves us with Natural Gas, Oil, Coal, and Nuclear. Natural Gas is pretty abundant in the US, especially with the Marcellus shale. The fracking process isn't exactly environmentally friendly, but burning natural gas is a whole lot cleaner than coal. Combined Cycle plants have been pretty popular in the past decade, which is good for picking up load on the grid quickly (Gas Turbine, exhaust from that heats up water to spin steam turbine.) Oil is too expensive to run all the time. The only place it's used is to heat up a coal fired boiler and ignite the coal, then they shut it off. Coal is pretty abundant and the EPA's regulations are shutting down more and more plants every year. Older plants simply can't afford to spend all the money to meet the clean air requirements. For example, they are required to remove ultrafine particulates with a fabric filter, remove NOx usually by injecting ammonia, remove sulphur usually by injecting limestone, and sometimes injecting activated carbon to remove mercury. The EPA is essentially forcing these energy companies to upgrade their bigger plants and shut down their inefficient ones all while asking the public utility commission if they can charge us more for it. The permitting, insurance, and financial backing for a new coal fired plant is pretty much impossible to get these days. Power companies are also required by law to buy solar/wind even if the price per MWh is more expensive. So we have solar and wind that aren't reliable on their own to base load the US. Natural Gas is there, but there are environmental concerns with drilling. Coal can't grow anymore due to EPA regulations and permitting issues. So what do we do? Any choice we have is going to have an impact on the environment. Nothing is free. I think we are doing a good job diversifying the different sources of power, but long term we either need to build more coal plants or build nuke plants.
False - you have to be absolutely kidding me into another dimension with that comment. Seriously - that is just utterly ridiculous levels of ignorance. Yes war is a racket thanks Smeddley Buttler, we are all aware of it, but if you think for one mother fucking second they go in and start these wars PURELY for the MIC kick back you are retarded in a very very serious way. Its about the oil - 100% its about the oil. The MIC is going to massively profit of it and any other war and be the loudest in the peanut gallery urging these idiots on, but its about oil, energy and resources. Make no mistake about that ever, ever. How significant is the oil you ask ? Think about the SIZE of the US military, the vast hugeness of it and the absolutely insane amount of oil it needs- and then think how much oil it needs strategically over the next 20 years, there is no way teh military is going to convert its planes, ships, tanks, personnel carriers, landing, attack craft, generators etc, etc, etc oil to batter operated and replace the entire system in 20 years. What is happening is that Saudi Arabia was sucked dry, Iraq and Iran were put into hybernation during this period with dribs and drabs coming out, Iraq was meant to come on line for US use about now, things went pear shaped, and this has been delayed - but will happen. Iran is ramping up its production to countries like India and China which is bad as it provides them with a cheap economy and also uses the oil mean for the US. Hence Iran needs to be shut down again. Oil is about control of the product, not simply owning it for yourself, preventing competitors from accessing it is half the requirement. Attacking Iran will be all about attacking their oil infrastructure - so if China India does not play ball the US will attack that infrastructure reducing India and China's oil flow by about 20% - that is a massive, massive kick in the nuts, whats more the Oil infrastructure will be set back decades. China wont stand for that for a second and will launch counter attacks against Israel, or America (not direct strikes) but will become highly engaged in activity especially in Africa where china rules America in destabilizing oil production - China will supply Iran and whoever else they can with some pretty serious weaponry as well. This is also about control of the south east asia sea - wars like that between the US and China are always played out in proxy - as we see right now. But if the US pushes China, China will respond with some very serious actions in the south east china region . Finally India has said unequivocally that any attack on Iranian nuclear infrastructure will be seen as an act of war on India and Pakistan as the radio active debris cloud would drift straight over Indian population centers - India very publicly stated it would engage militarily as it had issued its warning and any action would be in complete disregard for Indian concerns - Pakistan has already stated the same. I think people should also consider the ramifications of the massive Chinese troop build up now occurring in Tibet and the Pakistan / Chinese cooperation occurring. Finally Russia has issued a stark warning to Georgia that if it engages in a strike on Iran with the US, Israel and allows them to use their air space the Russians will engage in direct war with them, Georgia pulled out. Israel has since been arming Azerbaijan on behalf of the US which provides more direct access to the Caspian and assault vector on Iran via Georgia. These things take a lot of time, years to put into place, they are highly strategic long term plans and absolutely, ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY about OIL, and ABSO-FUCKING_LUTELY NOT, 100% NOT simply to provide halliburton with some cash. If the US / Israel goes into Iran it will be a global cluster fuck of insane proportions, very much a hot world war three. We are already in the early stages of a hot world war three with at least half a dozen countries experiencing modern military intervention from western nation in the middle east.
The story is a similar incident from Australia, basically they call and offer a fix or a security upgrade for a payment of X dollars. Then after the payment has gone through they direct you to install the host only TeamViewer, then they disable your antivirus and install a keylogger disguised as a "fix" remotely. i realize most of reddit wouldn't fall for this crap, but if you happen to have relatives that are computer inept, then they have a reasonable chance of being caught in the scam.
I don't think anyone's ever liked plagiarism, if that's where you're going. You can be in favor of a particular instance of using an idea without attribution, and some people might see very little to nothing wrong with absolute free information, but even the ACLU doesn't want a brand like pro-plagiarism. Good ideas take a lot of energy and effort. Regular folks should be allowed to copy and modify ideas for whatever they want, and potentially commercial applications should require royalties (unless the idea was actually just research--that's an entirely different business model). Perhaps the only problem with the current model is how creators of ideas can exercise however much control they want on derivative ideas (that took someone else's energy and effort); in my opinion, they should only be guaranteed control over an essentially unmodified/unimproved form of the idea and their own derivatives. That would ensure the maximum of innovation while protecting companies' existing interests. But... If I take the Big Mac recipe and make something I think will be tastier for palates in my local area, then sell it as "Big Ass Big Mac" in my shop called "I Can Haz McDonald's," I should expect that people will sometimes conflate my shop's reputation with that of McDonald's. But if I only mentioned I got the base recipe from McDonald's in the legal documentation and in small print on the wrappers while using more original names, that too is a misrepresentation and more like plagiarism. How do regular people adapt an IP like that fairly? If you ask me, it's impossible. If you have an awesome McD's idea you want to see made real, your best bet is to spend half your life studying and working to get into their R&D. Or, you could just make other burgers. They did a lot to enhance the unpatentable idea of burgers in the Western world, but you can rip off the culture crib sheet all you want guilt-free.
There must be some quid for pro quo there. It is because they have put up an artificial barrier to entry. They have, and will continue to, engage in payola like practices (whether legal or illegal) to get whatever songs they want on heavy rotation on the radio. This is the reason why stations will play the same 40 songs over and over again indefinitely, and when a new song comes out that they are supposed to promote, they play it 4+ times per hour. Because such a small number of companies own most radio stations, and there are only a small number of major publishers, it makes collusion to be the gatekeepers of "popular music" very easy.
My source is that I've done it at least three times so far since September (months after they implemented tiered data). The first time was an early upgrade from an OG Droid to a Droid Bionic. I gave that device to my wife and swapped her HTC Incredible onto my line and I needed to get a new SIM card for her. Again, nothing changed as far as the unlimited data plans we both had. Then in late March I bought a Galaxy Nexus from Swappa to play with and went into a Verizon store and asked for a SIM card for it. The lady there programmed my number into it and activated the Nexus for me right there at the counter. This line was technically already under a new contract since I used my upgrade in September for the Bionic and extended my contract out 2 years while my wife's line had gone into month-to-month since October. Then I was dissatisfied with the Nexus's poor reception (couldn't get 4G to stay connected anywhere while the Bionic right next to it had a solid signal) so I sold it on Swappa to recover my investment. I then went back to an HTC Incredible for a few weeks (again, 3G unlimited data still in effect) and then bought the Rezound online when it was on sale for $50 last month. I went through the entire process on vzw.com to check out and it never said anything about changing my data plan. In fact, it even let me transfer my wife's upgrade eligibility to my line in the process, all online. When I got the phone I put the SIM card in, activated it, and have been using it ever since. I've used 4GB out of "unlimited" data so far this period according to the little Verizon widget and the web site.
Coverage is pretty good here (Twin Cities). I was pulling about 15 Mbit on 4G, comparable to the cable service I have. I actually switched to them as my primary ISP, since I had the hotspot feature with (allegedly) unlimited bandwidth. They eliminated unlimited bandwidth for hotspots (which was an "add-on" and not part of the contract, so it wasn't considered grounds for pulling out without ETFs). I began streaming music through my phone rather than through the hotspot feature of my phone, and got a nastygram a few months later. FWIW, when I talked to them in-depth about it, they explained that Sprint was threatening to cancel the contract, and that if they did that, no ETFs would apply.
After reading this thread last night, I checked vzw.com and went all the way up to checkout while keeping my unlimited plan. There was a page showing removing the 3G service and adding the 4G stuff, this is on a personal plan with just one line (I have no idea if commercial is different). So not wanting to wait for shipping, I waited until this morning to go to the store, and I upgraded my D1 to a razr maxx. The sales guy said nothing about changing of plans, and I confirmed I would be able to stay unlimited before I signed. It didn't seem to be a big deal at all, pretty sure I would have kept the unlimited even if I had said nothing about it.
I'm amazed at how much of this is a polarizing issue. If the ad servers that host the ads weren't poisoned with malicious or deceitful software/tactics and the ads weren't so annoying/intrusive people would consider not automatically defaulting to having advertisements blocked. Another issue is third party tracking cookies. I know advertisers want to know the general demographic but some of the advertisements I've seen are downright ridiculous and counter-intuitive to the actual hosters content. Look at a science or tech based article and see a sexual based advertisement just because you have been to a porn site in your previous surfing history; this is why people chose to block ads, they incur a slight invasion of privacy. I know most will think I'm coming off as a self-entitled prick, but its more of the fact that content providers and the advertisers they use can seem a bit intrusive and deceitful. Also, poisoned ad servers and malicious advertisers don't help the cause either. Content providers need to stop allowing malcontent and malicious advertisers host dangerous ads. Same goes for the advertisers themselves. Instead of just signing up every John, Dick and Harry to advertise a product, use some form of screening to filter out malicious advertisers. Also, don't use vulnerable software to display said ads so malcontents can't poison ad servers and serve malicious software embedded in said ads.
Oh my God please no, holy fuck how in the earth will they EVER reprogram input libraries if they don't port directly? Such a grueling task requires sooo much effort. OH NO RE-DOING A SOUND LIBRARY, SO IMPOSSIBLE. The "problems" you present are a fucking joke. The gap from Windows to Mac is greater than that of Mac to Linux, and they already fucking make games for both Windows and Mac, so I'm pretty fucking positive they could easily do it on linux like EVERYBODY ELSE IS. Watch and see, all this "BUT LINUX IS SO HARD TO PROGRAM FOR" talk is just bullshit because it's not harder to program for, it's just that Windows and Mac took dominance before Linux came around, being the 2 most widely used by every business and person companies made all other people who want to make things to put on those computers have to choose between one of those two, because to choose an open source OS that not a majority uses wouldn't make any money. Now that it's becoming more legitimate because people are sick of Microsoft and Apple bullshit, you're starting to see more companies make things for it like Valve and even fucking Skype which is owned by Microsoft, even fucking Microsoft knows that people are using Linux now such to an extent that they can make money by having Skype on it.
I'm incredibly confused by your comment(I think you might have missed a few words). Also, please note the reason all of my examples are Thinkpads is because they are the only laptop I've had significant experience with that is comparable in quality to Macs. So I'm acknowledging that Macs are quality products, I just don't think they are the only quality product and I think they are over priced for what you get, just so that you can have a logo on the back. Anyway, yes, some thinkpads are very heavy(W series comes to mind) but those are really meant as desktop replacements. The X series is on par with the MB Air in terms of size and weight(at least when I looked at them both a year or so ago). So yes choosing the right machine for the needs of the job is important. As for noise and crappy procs, It has been many years since the Thinkpads used celerons (at least to my knowledge which is admittedly not perfect) so you are using a machine that is more than 6 years old, a point at which even most desktops are looking to be replaced(depending on the business). As for travel, I'm not sure what your travel is like so I can't say that I've carried it around as much as you, but I did haul the machine(T60) to every class I had at college which works out to ~150 day/year of laptop moving. Again, I assume your travel was probably more extensive than that, but I don't think the design is terrible for travel.
Personally I detest the UI in OSX, but that is my opinion (I also dislike the post 2000 windows UI, though for different reasons) and I know people who swear by it. Everything else you mentioned about the OS says that it is second-best at all things. If I want things to generally just work, I use Windows. If I want to tinker and play with my OS, nix. Mac pretends to give me a tinkerable OS, but doesn't really and while things mostly just work, I can't run many things on it. In the end, for a non-gamer/non-power user, OSX may be good enough, it doesn't shine to me. Also, if you are running nix and Windows, why would you need OSX, I can't think of anything it would give you that you can't get in one of the other two(honestly curious here)? As for Laptop hardware(can't comment on their desktops as I haven't really been in the market for pre-built one recently) I can get as good or better quality out of the Thinkpad (Ideapads sucks) with an equivalent warranty for a competitive price. MBP may have higher resolution screens now, but that is only because Apple that deep enough pockets they can force display manufactures to make screens in the resolutions they did 5 years ago before the display OEMs decided "screw resolution, HD is all anyone needs". Also, I have a T60 I got mid 2006 that runs just fine(and I still use as my primary laptop), MBP from that era I have encountered barely work.
So brave, young neckbeard. > Also, if you are running *nix and Windows, why would you need OSX, I can't think of anything it would give you that you can't get in one of the other two(honestly curious here)? Because if you run OS X, you don't need either. The fact that you think running two OSes is a viable option is exactly why Apple is a successful company. What exactly has Lenovo innovated? I'm honestly curious as to why you consider them a great innovator.
Never said Lenovo was innovative, I said that the Thinkpad series was on the same level as the MBP and the oft-touted screen resolution of the new MBP was on Thinkpads years ago, until the panel OEMs decided to stop producing panels of that quality. On the OSes, Apple's core OS code is not open source so if I want to run a system where I can look at everything, I need to run a nix. Also, OSX does not run most PC games(some yes, but not most though this is changing) so I can't only run OSX if I want to game. If I am running Windows to game and a second nix flavor OS, why would I run OSX and get an restricted OS when I want the freedom of a system I can screw around with everything in (also OSX does not support nearly as many file systems nor does it have the breath of utilities that most *nix distros have). I fail to see how Lenovo has a 50s mindset, they produce hardware that they sell. Yes they sell to corporations, but their business class machines are nice because they are easy to service. MS may have poor licensing practices, but they still make a product that for the most part just works and is widely used. Also, MS has a massive and well respected research division, Apple does not. Apple's great innovations are loudly trumpeted look and feel decisions as well as some UI ideas, many of which were just general trends in the industry that they marketed better. I don't really care if you like Apple products or not, that is your choice, I simply was pointing out that most of the things people cheer about for Apple are things that Apple took from other parts of the industry and marketed better. BTW, yes I do have a neckbeard and it is quite lovely if I do say so myself(though everyone seems to be of the opinion that I should cut it off) but that does not change the validity of my opinion.
You're full of shit. The 'hefty' computer of the Tesla is essentially a low voltage Linux 'mini PC'/Tablet. Your 'friend' or you clearly knows fuck all about technology because many computers, even laptops do not draw '10s of watts' in their idle state. [They go as low as %ges of watts!]( And we're talking about a garden variety consumer laptop in that example, whereas an electric car's computer is undoubtedly tuned for even more efficiency.
The case with the windows sticker on it. I had to replace a broken case once and reinstall a Microsoft product, i had to call for activation and when told that the case had been changed they refused to allow me to activate. With the same person on the phone I suddenly changed my story and said no i didn't change the case, he immediately gave me an activation code and didn't even care that i had just blatantly lied.
We had a copy of Office 2010 with ten activations, and we have 8 employees. Note I said ten activations, not ten licenses. In the last few years we installed, and activated that copy of Office on more than ten times, which was fine beside m because we thought we were honoring the spirit of the license - 10 computers. After a while we would have to call the automated system and get the override key to let it activate. Then one day it stopped working. We called up Microsoft and they explained that we didn't have ten " licenses", we had ten "activations". So why did it allow us to activate more than ten times? Because there is a grace period. Once the next version comes out that grave period I'd over.
Because during a war, figuring out that an individual is really the hacker who caused something is going to be near impossible. It's like if a hacker uses a SYN or DNS reflection attack, you think innocent servers are attacking your network. If that DDoS were to be interrupting military life support systems somehow, I can totally see a hotheaded commander ordering a missile strike against some poor 3rd party because they (a) don't understand the underlying technical issues, and (b) they believe it within their right/duty based on this sort of ruling.

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