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Okay, I used it once and officially love it. I've been torrenting whole movies and starting them after download, so I really like that it starts within a minute or so (I don't care so much about all the download vs stream bickering in this thread). What I actually like most though is simply the interface. It shows movies that I actually want to watch. It gives me the IMDB rating, instead of some in-house rating that hardly ever looks right. And it doesn't give me 'New to Netflix' releases that are from the 70s. I read that Netflix ends up paying more when people watch certain movies, so they actively hide a lot of their best content. I got so sick of always struggling to find new movies on there. There wasn't even a way to filter on the number of stars of the movie to sift out all the crap. |
Although I agree with the points both you and /u/scissor_sister make the bigger problem to solve for Netflix and Amazon is the fact that they have competition from television channels around the world.
Game of Thrones, as an example, is sold by HBO to Sky in the UK, to Showcase in Australia, to Prime in New Zealand, etc. When they buy the rights they demand in the contract that they are the first to show the episodes to maximise viewers and, as a result, advertising revenue. Some nations were (maybe still are) weeks behind the original US broadcast dates and so if Netflix were to allowed to show all episodes worldwide at the same time it would contravene clauses HBO has with the other broadcasters.
Netflix can buy the worldwide rights to Arrested Development series 4 and do as they please. But if the production company behind the programme already had deals in the UK and Australia before Netflix got involved then those broadcasters would, quite rightly, be pissed off.
Hope I've explained that ok. |
I also watch Netflix through a VPN, even though I live in the United States and connect to a VPN portal that is also in the United States. Why? So that Comcast can't tell that I'm watching Netflix and throttle my shit. If Sony got its way, Netflix would cut off my VPN, force me to connect directly, and leave me at Comcast's bandwidth-shaping mercy. |
Because a guitar is a stringed percussion instrument which allows it to function in an analog space rather than in binary digital. Good luck trying to program a slide, pressure modification or <gasp> bend.
Slides are necessarily be dynamically limited, going from X to Y in a consistent speed and requiring a lot of pressure sensing and coding to emulate via the fretboard. Detecting pressure makes the neck cost skyrocket. Good luck with bending.
</poindexter> |
Since you don't believe me, let's consult the ultimate authority in this matter: the source code itself. We'll dive into the actual source code and see if there is any web-specific meta data, headers, or other markers in the file structure.
First let's jump right into the webpimg.h header file. This guy contains the function calls that define how to encode/decode the raw pixel/webp data. Let's look at the encoding function:
libwebp/webpimg.h
WebPResult WebPEncode(const uint8* Y,
const uint8* U,
const uint8* V,
int y_width,
int y_height,
int y_stride,
int uv_width,
int uv_height,
int uv_stride,
int QP,
unsigned char** p_out,
int* p_out_size_bytes,
double* psnr);
/* Converts from YUV (with color subsampling) such as produced by the WebPDecode
* routine into 32 bits per pixel RGBA data array. This data array can be
* directly used by the Leptonica Pix in-memory image format.
* Input:
* 1, 2, 3. Y, U, V: the input data buffers
* 4. pixwpl: the desired words per line corresponding to the supplied
* output pixdata.
* 5. width, height: the dimensions of the image whose data resides in Y,
* U, V.
* Output:
* 6. pixdata: the output data buffer. Caller should allocate
* height * pixwpl bytes of memory before calling this routine.
*/
Alright, so the only thing that this returns is the raw pixel data. No web specific functions or data here, but that's to be expected as good code will keep things modular. Let's look into the main of the program, to walk along the route that the image creation/conversion process takes, and see if any metadata gets added in.
libwebp/webpconv.c
else if (strcmp(format, "webp") == 0) {
if (quality >= 0) {
int vp8qp = mapQualityToVP8QP(quality);
if (pixWriteWebP(fileout, pixs, vp8qp) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "pixWriteWebP Failed. See previous error messages. "
"Turn on debug build if you aren't seeing enough detailed "
"error messages\n");
}
}
Here's an excerpt from the main. It's the code that handles the output of the actual webp file itself. What it's doing is first checking to see if the output format has been defined as webp. If so, then it checks to see if the quality has been set and is above 0, and if so it calls the pixWriteWebP() function. The arguments that are passed into here are fileout, pixs, and vp8qp. Let's take a look at each of these to see if there's any web-specific data in them.
fileout is a string (or rather a char*, as this is C) that contains the full path of the output file. It's defined on line 193.
pixs is a struct that's defined on line 220. It contains two things - the first is the raw uncompressed pixel data. Pretty much expected. The second thing is actual metadata which contains the pixel depth function, which takes the human readable 1-100 range, and converts it into a usable number for the encoding function.
So no web specific data in the args there, but that's fine. There might be some static metadata in the actual file creation process that gets added in. The pixWriteWebP() function is in the leptonlib source, in a file called webpio.c. Let's check it out.
leptonlib-1.066/src/webio.c
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
* Writing WebP *
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/*!
* pixWriteWebP()
*
* Input: filename
* pix
* quantparam (quantization parameter), controls quality of
* generated WebP, smaller quantparam == better quality.
* Send -1 to get default value.
* Return: 0 if OK, 1 on error
*/
l_int32
pixWriteWebP(const char *filename,
PIX *pix,
l_int32 quantparam)
{
FILE *fp;
PROCNAME("pixWriteWebP");
if (!pix)
return ERROR_INT("pix not defined", procName, 1);
if (!filename)
return ERROR_INT("filename not defined", procName, 1);
if ((fp = fopen(filename, "wb+")) == NULL)
return ERROR_INT("stream not opened", procName, 1);
if (pixWriteStreamWebP(fp, pix, quantparam) != 0) {
fclose(fp);
return ERROR_INT("pix not written to stream", procName, 1);
}
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
Alright, it looks like this here is just a wrapper function. It simply checks to see if some write permissions are available, that some argumetns are correct, and then calls pixWriteStreamWebP() with the same arguments provided to pixWriteWebP. Let's look into the pixWriteStreamWebP() function.
leptonlib-1.066/src/webio.c
/* Encode Y,U,V and write data to file */
ret = WebPEncode(Y, U, V, w, h, w, uv_width, uv_height, uv_width,
quantparam, &filedata, &nbytes, NULL);
FREE(Y);
if (ret != webp_success) {
if (filedata) free(filedata);
pixDestroy(&pix);
return ERROR_INT("WebPEncode failed", procName, 1);
}
rewind(fp);
if (fwrite(filedata, 1, nbytes, fp) != nbytes) {
pixDestroy(&pix);
return ERROR_INT("Write error", procName, 1);
}
free(filedata);
pixDestroy(&pix);
return 0;
Here's the tail end of the pixWriteStreamWebP() function (specifically lines 230 to 248) that handles the writing of the file. It's the end of the road for the program, if there's no meta data here that pretains to web, then it simply doesn't exist in the file. Let's see what it's doing though. The first thing it does is set ret to the output of WebPEncode (remember this guy? He's the first function that we looked at). The output itself is simply a confirmation that it ran without errors. More importantly though is &filedata argument that gets passed in. In case you're not familiar with C, & before a variable denotes a reference in memory. This particular function uses this reference and modifies this data buffer (remember that from before?). That's really the key here. If the function ran without errors, then it continues on to rewind(fp). All this does is set the position indicator to the beginning of the file . This is the actual file write that we're seeing here, and all of our arguments are accounted for except for nbytes. The nbytes variable is defined earlier in this function on line 221, and is simply an integer containing the size of the file (needed for allocation purposes). If the write here is successful, it deallocates the memory that we reserved, destroys the buffers we were using, and exits the program.
What's this all mean? Well simply put: |
This article is almost completely devoid of references and relies on the hearsay of industry "professionals." What about [wavelength multiplexing]( You can split up a single pipe to carry multiple signal paths over separate wavelengths. Suddenly your 12 pipe cable becomes 12 by 16 by 1 Gigabit. Fiber is about the electronics at the endpoints. 10 Gigabit adapters are proven, available, and stable. |
There is nothing special about the TI. It's a Z80 based computer with a few K of ram. Think a cheap computer from the early 80s. As such, any computer specced equivalently or better than that (which even a dumbphone is by an order of magnitude) can be programmed to do THE SAME THING. In fact, you can emulate the damn thing. Also, the entire point is moot because the HP-48s do many things faster and better than the TIs with EVEN LESS computing power. |
The intensity of the field is greatest near the poles and weaker near the Equator. It is generally reported in nanoteslas (nT) or gauss, with 1 gauss = 100,000 nT. It ranges from about 25,000–65,000 nT, or 0.25–0.65 gauss. By comparison, a strong refrigerator magnet has a field of about 100 gauss. The minimum occurs over South America while there are maxima over northern Canada, Siberia, and the coast of Antarctica south of Australia. |
Do you remember the Raindow Warrior? When we caught some of the terrorists/agents responsible, the French made us give return them to their custody by threatening to exclude our agricultural products from the EEC. Which, at the time, made up a giant chunk of our exports. |
Isn't that the point though? The cops are pretty much the only people we give permission to use physical force inside our borders.
The whole deal is that they are allowed to use force, but they also have to protect people from force, which produced the eternal conflict of how do you stop people required to use force from using it every situation they are required to be in.
I dunno, I don't find it strange that people who use force to get what they want find cops to be their equal, it is basically the point. We should never forget that. The police are government thugs, and not by some loophole, they are entrusted with the ability to be thugs, only restrained by the fact we make the rules.
But like any gang, each member is out to get theirs, and if want the government to really control them, we need to have smart rules for them.
Ok, this turned into a little rant, sorry. |
Now you are starting to see where this type of mentality is headed. This is about NSA surveillance not security.
I could take a company's old office desktops, make them into a cluster serving up kvm vhosts on a locked down selinux server. From there you can replace all of those desktops with raspberry pi computers with a minimal linux OS capable of running qemu. Performance would be nearly identical to the more conventional setup with the added performance benefit of the cluster being able to utilize the processing power and network output of machines that may have previously sat idle at any given moment. The whole setup can now be centrally managed and protected and access to the vm can be set up via ssh or vpn to external network locations.
The cost of this is nominal... in an ideal situation that say raspberri pi computers are compatible with the monitors on hand although even if this weren't the case, all the vm's could run on any cheap cluster or server with with desktops hosting the vm's. |
Thanks for the response. Sometimes I am guilty of quickly reading articles and not picking up on certain details two pages or so into it. I for one find the U.S. Government's Lack of technical expertise disturbing. Even more disturbing is the mass movement to start regulating in broad strokes, a medium which has been crucial for free communication.
Sometimes I wish government officials had to pass some type of competency test regarding a given subject before proposing some bill based on some |
I read a [related article]( about this indicating that it's a long-range laser-ablation electrospray ionization mass spectrometry system. The laser is used to transition compounds on a surface into the gas phase, allowing them to be ionized and analyzed by a mass spectrometer. That much of it is plausible, as devices like this are used in laboratory applications. Still, I have a hard time believing that such a device could work from 50 meters away, simply due to the fact that shooting a laser from that distance would cause the vapor to erupt in all directions, and I am skeptical that any of it would even reach the instrument. However, that's just my inclination; I can't fully substantiate it.
I also think that the claim that this works through clothes, wallets, and body cavities is rather dubious, given that the instrument relies on the detection of a gas that would also have to travel through clothes, wallets, and body cavities.
Further, I would like to point out that this technology doesn't exist yet (the Department of Homeland Security is supposedly planning to roll this out in the next year, although the date on the first article I posted is from 2008). It sounds to me like someone in the Department saw that Genia Photonics has a badass laser platform and thought "wouldn't it be nice if we could use that with a LAESI-MS?" Although the laser might have the range, I'm rather skeptical that it has the capability to deliver samples to the mass spectrometer from such a range. And that's not even taking into account the limitations of the mass spectrometer itself. |
A lot of times when people are upset about something they make empty threats.
"V4 Digg update sucks! If they don't fix it, now, I'm out of here and never coming back."
Only it wasn't an empty threat this time. That's how I ended up here, I'm a displaced Digg user...yeah, yeah bring on the hate, I got it coming.
That was almost 2 years ago, and I never looked back. And that's after using Digg for ~3 yrs. |
I'm not a developer, so correct me if I'm wrong.
When they call the Nexus a developer device, it's because it ships with the Android operating system as Google means for you to experience. Developers need to have Android running without bloatware to test the apps they are building on it.
This means that on Nexus phones, Google can control the Android user experience more, like Apple can on their iPhones. When you buy a NON-Nexus brand like the Galaxy S3, it is runs a different "flavor" of Android, with added things that the manufacturer and carrier think less tech-savvy consumers (which is the general public) would find fancy and neat.
If you're a developer, you don't want all the fancy, neat gimmicky features. Nexus provides developers with Android as it's meant to be, therefore it was built for developers. It is a developer device in the sense that it is intended for and marketed toward DEVELOPERS. Ta-da!
It's NOT THAT COMPLICATED! You could have just looked it up on wikipedia and read the first few lines: |
Basically to access content from US servers, there are two fibre lines that run across the pacific ocean. Currently very expensive to get bandwidth on them, and a butt-tonne of content is hosted in America. There are plenty of higher bandwidth links that already run through SEA. There are links that run to Japan and "the long way around" to USA, but the latency is silly high, 500-800ms. For a lot of uses it is not plausible to use that path (playing any MMO is bad enough because they always make NZ/AU users play on USW servers). |
To be clear: I'm using "monopolist" --loosely-- for companies that hold an unrivaled market share and are, simply put, much more powerful than every competitor.
FB, with about a 140m US-users [1], clearly is in such a position [2]. Their "customers" interests need to be protected because they are the interests of >1/3 of the entire US population! If protecting its citizens interests isn't a governments job , then what is?!
Maybe privacy does not matter to you at all, and you desire total transparency- I can respect that, but guesstimating from my personal milieu this is pretty exceptional- people do care about privacy; it's just that they often only realize it pretty late ;)
I can understand that you want companies as unregulated and unrestricted as possible. I do, too- but once companies exceed a certain size they can not be treated like a medium sized enterprise anymore- legislation has to take them into account!
Just consider the 2008 economy crisis- tax dollars had to be paid to keep big companies "artificially" alive; optimistically speaking, they don't even have a de-facto right to fail anymore (because it might cost society too much to let them collapse). Allowing huge corporations the same freedoms as a small 'club' is simply not a viable option. |
This is not viable because of the dynamics of the whole internet-"market"-- there is a natural tendency towards monopolies (because having a lot of customers alone makes a service more appealing).
It is even desirable in many instances to have such monopolies-- having ten different social networking services instead of one would decrease their usefulness by itself.
IMO it is the governments job to intervene if supply & demand dynamics start to fail. Clearly the private customer is in a much weaker position then the social networking-giant, thus their interests need protection.
FB could do a whole lot of things that every last user would oppose without completely losing their userbase (which is what should happen in a healthy market).
Just look at the communications sector for a prime example of what happens when you simply leave an unhealthy (not enough competition) market alone:
Service providers rake in huge profits without investing in service quality or customer satisfaction, just because they can ( if you are not aware how much american ISP's suck compared to the rest of the world).
This is clearly not desirable. State intervention could improve the whole situation significantly (like it did, basically, everywhere else).
Privacy is something important for all of us . Why not protect it by law? |
This is not viable because of the dynamics of the whole internet-"market"-- there is a natural tendency towards monopolies
There is a difference between a monopoly and a successful business. Facebook is not a monopoly, go join Google+, Google Wave, MySpace or LinkedIn or I'm sure 100 other sites I've never heard of. Go set up a blog, or a website, or a flicker/picasa account. Go join deviantart. That's the beauty of the internet market vs the real world, it's harder to have a monopoly on the internet. In fact, I can't think of a site that I would call a monopoly on the internet.
Facebook is popular. That's why people attack them. They see it as a 'public' institution. They aren't. They are a private business. Hell, they are a 'club'. People like to come into my business and tell me what I have to do, I laugh at them.
>IMO it is the governments job to intervene if supply & demand dynamics start to fail.
I'll agree in aspects of health and safety, like shortages of medical supply, but not over farmville.
>Clearly the private customer is in a much weaker position then the social networking-giant
Don't have an account. David beats Goliath.
>Privacy is something important for all of us. Why not protect it by law?
Why not protect your own privacy by not having an account at all?
> |
I buy a lot of computer equipment and my experiences with DELL have been horrible. While their computers are generally pretty solid, there are several huge issues I have with them.
First, 9 out of 10 times if I order someone a DELL, they're going to miss the promised delivery date. If you order a custom-built server, be prepared to wait up to 3 months for it.
Second, when you order recovery disks because a client never made disks and their hard drive failed, not only do you have to jump through hoops with technical support to get to the point where they agree to send disks, but again 9 or 10 times they end up sending the disks to the person who originally registered the computer--and charging them. Obviously the orders get cancelled, but I don't find out about this until a delivery date is missed. Never have these problems with other hardware manufacturers. |
I had a gaming PC from Dell a few years back. About a year after I bought it, things started to stop working. USB ports wouldn't be detected, Webcams stopped working completely, etc. I go to their website for some help, but oh, would you look at that, my warranty expired JUST last week, and I would need to pay to get any real help. |
Erm, not quite right. Some shareholders care about quarterly profit (short-term investors) and some don't if the company has a good long-term outlook (long-term investors). Those startups have high stock prices because long-term investors are expecting them to do great things in the future.
As far as caring about stock prices -- shareholders SET the stock prices. Stock prices are a measure of what those shareholders are willing to sell or buy the company's stock for. The stock price is a symptom of the shareholders' opinion of the company, not the cause of why they sell. If the shareholders all think the company will do better (either in the short- or long-term), they will buy at higher and higher prices, and the stock will go up. |
I can give my own anecdote for this. Back in 2006 I had a friend buy a Dell desktop computer for me through his company. They had an agreement with Dell, so it was a business class computer but still fairly affordable. I've still got it and the only changes I've made were to upgrade the GPU (556mb>1GB). After that it still runs most new games perfectly fine and I've never had a problem with it. It needs a new hard drive, but that's to be expected of any computer that age. In the end, with the purchase cost and new GPU, this computer cost me about $450-500.
The flip side of the story is this: since this Dell was so good, I decided to buy a regular Dell Latitude laptop for school and such. It was done within a year. First the charger stopped working (seems to be a common problem with laptops these days) so I bought a new one. That one worked, but the computer stopped accepting the charge, saying it wasn't the right voltage. I looked into it and apparently a lot of people had this problem. Turned out to be a motherboard issue, and since it was past warranty when these problems started showing up, I couldn't get it fixed. I found a guide online on how to replace the damaged components, but it required I buy a solder kit, several parts, and a voltometer. Not to mention it was projected to take 5 hours at the least. In total it would have cost $150 for all the parts and equipment, most of which I'd never need again. I threw that laptop out and bought a new Toshiba Satellite and have never had any problems with it. Incidentally, my brother had bought the same laptop around the same time and had the same exact problems with it. Unlike me, he bought another Dell instead of getting a different brand, and now he's getting yet another laptop because his new Dell is already falling apart 6 months down the line. Needless to say he's taking my advice this time and getting a different brand, preferably Toshiba, Asus, or even HP. |
I wasn't saying they made low quality machines, by and large (although definitely worse than when Thinkpad was IBM)... But they shouldn't have shipped Vista on super low spec machines and then said, "Vista Certified," or whatever the logo of the time was.
Microsoft set minimum specifications for Vista in order to ensure buyers that weren't educated on tech specs didn't have a bad experience upgrading. However, Lenovo was one of a group of OEMs that ignore those minimum specifications and shipped machines with Vista installed bearing the MS "Vista Ready" certification. Then people had a shitty time.
My wife complained about her 'new' laptop from work and I figured 'new' meant 'new to her'. Then she mentioned how she was surprised that it ran so poorly given she literally unboxed it herself. I asked her to bring it home for me to look at and I saw the problem and was floored. |
That means half the people who go to your shop use dells, not much else, I would imagine a great majority of the people who can't/woudln't fix their own computer would buy dell because its exceptionally easy...these same people inherently find more problems because they might not know how to handle them themselves/treat their computers poorly |
1) The IRS itself gets most of the tax advice wrong that it gives out to taxpayers
2) Paying taxes is one of the few transactional relationships you have with your government. If you ask me, a government representative should come to your office and you should pay him in cash, not hide and automate taxes so that they disappear.
3) There is a difference between a simple tax system and a tax system that is simple to operate. Taxpayers deserve a simple tax system. Continuing to automate the byzantine monster we already have is a terrible, terrible idea. How would reform ever take place?
4) Think for a minute what this implies: that a government agency that is responsible for collecting money should also be the sole source for computing how much money is owed. Where else would you allow such a conflict of interest? Should the police come by your house to determine what crimes might have been committed? Would you want inspections by the local health department of your private cookout? Right now we have administrative courts and such, but the principle is fairly clear: reporting by the citizen, oversight and acceptance of reporting by the government, and the court system to sort out problems. You don't start putting everything in one bag under the name of ease-of-operation. That's whacked.
5) I do not believe these candidates campaigned on this. What I believe they said (or meant) was that the system should be simple enough to eliminate the burden on the taxpayer, not that compliance with a bad system should be automated.
As a side note, have any of these people ever created software or worked for a project inside the IRS? The guys I know that have could tell you horror stories. Testing alone should give anybody who knows programming and the IRS nightmares. This is a tremendously bad idea, both from an execution and a structural standpoint. When something doesn't work, the answer isn't to just do it harder or throw computers at it.
Having said all of that, having the IRS give you the information that's already been entered once so you don't ever have to re-enter things? Excellent idea. |
This reminds me of the novel "Blood Music" by Greg Bear. |
Really I think for many people who create art, be they writers, musicians, game developers, etc, the main motivation is to make their art and to get it to an audience. The reason they need to get paid is to put a roof over their heads and food on the table - if that was provided, they'd still make art for free. In fact, this is what we see with a great many writers and so on today who don't make enough money to support themselves and have a day job to pay the bills. |
it's the transition that is [scary]
It's deeply unsettling to see a trade, or skill, that took time to perfect being completed in less time by a machine that requires no pay.
Having travelled to a few "second-world" countries, you can see completely frivolous make-work jobs that exist simply to occupy someone for a working day to justify giving them a minuscule income (eg. the person who holds a door open, or the person who hands you a paper towel after washing your hands at a public toilet).
It would be absurd to imagine us keeping the status quo, giving people make-work as a form of adult babysitting... But the idea of giving people a living allowance for doing nothing is equally unpalatable to decision-makers because it's at odds with the collectively accepted idea of having to earn money through labour. |
Better tire grip means better MPG and a more efficient system over all."
No, considering a car has a huge excess of "grip" such that accelerating normally, going up hills etc does not cause tire slippage at all please tell me where this efficiency comes from.
"Grooves and tread are actually used to increase grip on loose or liquid surfaces and not to reduce friction."
Yes, however this is mainly to increase grip in emergency situations and to provide hydroplaning resistance. As stated above cars generally have an excess of grip when operating normally.
"You are confusing low rolling resistance with low friction. They are very different things."
Yes but they are correlated. Higher friction tread compounds tend to "stick" to the road as they roll, increasing rolling resistance. Go coat a skateboard wheel in tacky glue and tell me how it rolls. Additionally, here is a paper on rolling resistance:
Here is a graph of [UTQG Adjusted Traction Coefficient for Asphalt Versus ISO 28580 Rolling Resistance](
from the paper.
Also note that tire manufacturers do everything they can to reduce rolling resistance before hitting the friction coefficient of the actual tread compound. As you said, reducing tread weight and flex as well as using compounds with the same friction but less internal hysteresis can reduce rolling resistance without hitting the traction. That does not mean that gains are not there to be had by selecting a lower friction compound. The previous generation of LLR tires was even worse in this regard, as tire manufacturers picked the low hanging fruit and simply used harder (aka less friction) tread compounds which resulted in poor braking performance and traction.
Please note this Yokohama tire engineers response when asked about how their new tire solved the grip versus rolling resistance problem, taken from [here](
"Your reader’s astute speculation about the compromise between lower rolling resistance coefficient (RRC) and overall tire grip makes perfect sense if we assume using conventional tire compounding and building methods. The unique feature about the dB Super E-spec is that its compound addresses the mentioned compromise by utilizing the interaction between natural rubber and orange oil. Specifically, this compound, which we call the dual-mode compound, maintains its low RRC mode when in straight-line, non-cornering, non-braking situations. But when the tire is placed under load, whether braking or cornering, it quickly generates heat and the compound’s characteristics change to deliver the grip necessary to negate any compromise I mentioned earlier. When the tire returns to straight-line mode, its characteristics change back to the low RRC mode. It is like having a switch to turn on/off the tire’s behavior, except that the tire takes care of the switching itself!..."
Take note that what he is basically describing here is that in order to reduce rolling resistance they basically created a tire which can change it's friction coefficient in response to traction limited situations.
Also, note this [Honda RND]( paper specifically about trying to overcome the compromise between rolling resistance and traction/friction. I cannot download the actual paper but just read the freaking summary:
"The achievement of reduced rolling resistance and lower braking distances is important in terms of automotive fuel efficiency and safety. These goals are strongly dependent on the performance of the tread rubber used in the tire, but are contradictory in terms of viscoelastic properties, an issue which needs to be addressed if these goals are to be satisfied simultaneously.
The research discussed in this paper involved analyses of the behavior of the contact patch of a vehicle’s tires when the vehicle is cruising and braking. The results show that the two edge sections of a tire in the direction of width make the greatest contribution during braking, and the center section of a tire makes the greatest contribution during cruising. This discovery led to the proposal of a segmented tread configuration. Tires were developed on this basis, using different rubber compounds with optimized viscoelastic properties in the different segments. The distribution of contact pressure on the contact patch was also equalized. The newly developed tires displayed a 5-m reduction in wet braking distance when compared to other tires with identical rolling resistance characteristics." |
I hate to say this, but skateboarders are really conservative about changing anything about the board. Just look at the boards, trucks and wheels: Haven't changed much since the 70s when urethane wheels were introduced.
The shape of the board is the only thing to have evolved since then, but even that is still just 7 pieces of plywood glued together as it has always been. Several companies have tried to invent something new, but all have failed.
I'm not sure we even want less friction or more friction or whatever this cube does. The whole idea of skateboarding is to evolve the tricks using only the standard board and to evolve your own talent. We don't want rocket engines and wings to do this. |
he's completely right, that's why it's called a coefficient of friction, coefficients don't change. the coefficient of friction is a scalar property calculated for the degree of normal resistivity observed between atoms of a certain material. Frictional force is dependent on the coefficient times the normal force: F = mu N. since the normal force is dependent on the weight of the load, F = mu sin(theta) M g (theta being the angle between the plane and the direction of gravity). |
You are kinda right, but the reduced gad mileage is incorrect. The real problems with arise with wear, handling on slippery surfaces, and tire pressure needed.
Starting with wear. If you reduce the contact surface, you increase the force put on the material. Even though rubber is perfect for large deflection, this increased force will still exhibit increases wear over long durations.
Now slippery surfaces. Notice in the video he mentions that "lateral" grib will be maintained, or even improved? Even if thats true, it only means the side to side grib and turning grip is maintained. But if you need to make a sudden stop? The lowered friction that would save you gas milage turns into less ability to reduce momentum, especially in the rain. Not exactly a safty feature.
Lastly, the air pressure. For a car to be held up by tires, we use the nifty tool of air pressure. The amount of pressure can be calculated by: (tire pressure) X (road contact surface area) = (weight of car). Notice what happens if we reduce surface contact? The pressure must be increased to balance the equation. Meaning, either the tire wall must be thicker or reinforced better. This combined with the weird shape is a nightmare for an engineer to keep stong. This would be a very expensive tire.
This all being said, there are many wheel applications to which this design might be superior, but on automobiles? Prolly not. |
The magnetic field emitted by the magnets in the track doesn't change at all. The only thing affected by the heat of the superconductor is the superconductor's resistance to electric current. Resistance is basically how hard it is for electricity to flow through a given substance. Wood has very high resistivity, and does not conduct electricity well. On the other hand, certain metals like copper and gold have low resistivity, and electricity flows through them more easily (but still not perfectly; some electricity is lost as it travels). Superconductors, as their name suggests, are very good at conducting. So good, in fact, that they have no resistance, and no electic current is lost when it travels through the SC; you get 100% of what you put in. Superconductors' resistivity varies with their temperature: as they lose heat, they also lose resistance, until their temperature drops to the SC's critical temperature (the temperature at which the SC loses all resistance and truly becomes a "superconductor").
As explained in the video, a conductor moving relative to a magnetic field will generate its own, opposing magnetic field. In non-superconducting materials like copper, some of the current is lost as it travels, so the magnetic field it generates won't be as strong as the magnet's field, and thus, it will not "levitate" because the magnets are pulling it down harder than it can push back up. In superconductors, on the other hand, none of the current is lost, so the magnetic field generated in the superconductor is always just as string as the magnet's field, and we get levitation. The reason the superconductor falls as it heats up is because, as it gains heat, it also gains resistance, and so some of the current flowing through it (which is maintaining the magnetic field keeping it afloat) is lost, and the superconductor (which is now no longer superconducting) falls. The magnetic field stayed constant the whole time; it was the superconductor's change in resistivity that made it fall. |
Imagine 20 people trying to pull one object, maybe somewhere just over half are trying to pull in one direction. The rest are bumping off things, going the wrong direction, or just screwing off and creating thermal energy by resistance. Take the heat away and suddenly these 20 random people pair up in to 10 teams, they don't create heat or experience (much) resistance at all. Their combined current is much stronger which forms a stronger magnetic field.
I think the |
You're right WQHD isn't that much bigger than HD in fact less than twice the resolution.
My point was that in 1999 the computer I bought came with a 4GB HDD. When TeraByte drives came out I thought there's no way I could come close to filling one of those up but the resolution of everything we capture from a data standpoint is getting higher and higher. Even a simple text document nowadays isn't just a text document it has all sorts of formatting metadata and change history and...etc.
There might be a digital camera in 5 years that is standardized on a raw uncompressed format and some new fangled sensor can capture multiple exposures at the same time and can layer the data... blah blah blah except each image is 1GB or something. |
I feel like we are at a tipping point.
I got a mailer the other day for a Crucial 960GB SSD, on sale for less than $600, and Samsung's 500GB SSD sells for about $350, so it would surprise me if Samsung wanted more than twice that for the 1TB version.
These drives will be in the $100 range in less than 5 years. Maybe a lot less. Once that happens, I think conventional, rotating magnetic media will go into freefall. Yes, current SSDs have a limited life, but with better algorithms, better OS support, and the annealing technologies we're beginning to hear about, it won't be long before it doesn't matter any more.
And then there's all the promise of memristor technology ... |
Slc is fastest, last the longest, and the most expensive. Because it's a single level, density is low, so each geebee costs more dollars.
Tlc is cheapest, lasts the shortest, also the slowest. More geebees for less money, but they wear out faster, along with some performance issues as the drive fills up. If you're an enthusiast you don't want to buy tlc.
Mlc is somewhere in between the two. |
Well, as a Norwegian born in the Netherlands and who reads, writes and speaks both languages, as well as German and English, and with two tears of high school French on top of that, you are somewhat right.
Dutch as a language has been heavily influenced by it's neighbouring languages, too such a degree that you could call it a sort of bastardised mix-match of the three I mentioned earlier. Probably loads of reasons for this, such as the Netherlands being a geographically tiny country, as well as the fact that they've been trading with foreigners a lot. Not that other countries didn't, but the Dutch were in a league of their own. To a certain extent they still are - ask someone involved with trade in Russia about who came there first after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Expample: the Dutch use the French "jus d'orange" when talking about orange juice. The pronounciation on the other hand doesn't sound at all like the way the French use it, it sounds more like "sjudurans". Which, incidentally, was how I tried to spell it in kleuter school..
I could probably find more and better examples, but it's getting late, so maybe someone else wants to contribute..! |
after reading many comments below. i thought, why would the NSA waste so much to crack and listen to these people and why would these people encrypt their messages or calls from the NSA? has anyone been jailed without due process because of this? what does NSA do with all these messages and communication? what effect this snooping does to an average citizen? what is it about your messages and communication that you don't want the NSA to know?
i think the extremes would be, on one side we would all be living in glass houses, naked with microphones on our asses and on all the walls, with loud speakers to broadcast it outside. the other side would be that the government doesn't know anything, some groups of people would take advantage, blow up some big buildings, collapse the economy, topple the government, chaos would rule, religion or a church would take over, we will be under a religious leader who tells us that science and technology is the work of the devil and all will be bliss. but some people wouldn't like this so they detonate all the atomic bombs and blow us all swapping our orbit with venus, obliterating all life on earth and starting life on venus.
me.. well i would boldly go where no one has gone before. to infinity and beyond! please mr. alien take me away from earth. if you can understand me, or feel my insignificant plea. |
Just as crwcomposer has tried to explain, the problem you point out that most/all smartphones are not open source is completely separate from the issue of the devs of hemlis refusing to release all of their source code. If they refuse to release all of the source used in their binary distribution then the code is not open source, period, regardless of dependencies (which the devs have no control over) required to build for a specific platform.
A prime example is the ubuntu phone which is coming out pretty soon. It's supposed to be completely open source from what I understand. That means that if the hemlis devs made their app open source then I would have the ability to compile the app AND the OS and all the dependencies required to run the app by myself, thereby ensuring that I was running a provably secure system. BUT, because the devs are not going to release all of the code for their app, I will never be offered this ability and their app is completely worthless to me and many others because it is not provably secure. |
I'm always bewildered and a little bit amused by people's reactions to social network privacy. Maybe it's because I'm just slightly older (I'm 30), but the solution to all these problems has always been completely obvious to me:
Don't post anything online that you would not want an "important person" to read.
This "important person" could be your boss, your mom, your girlfriend, or (more likely) a virtual combination of all three.
To put it another way, do you ever notice how a high profile individual like, say, Bill Clinton or Bill Gates handles themselves in public? They watch what they say, and how they say it, because not all information is appropriate for a general audience. Especially if it's out of context.
Well, that's how you're supposed to act when you post something public on the internet (and social networks count as public). If you want to say something private, send that person(s) a private message (like email) or talk to them verbally.
This is how this has always worked since the beginning of civilization. Except in the past, this situation was largely reserved for public figures. The difference now is that every member of the public is a "public figure" in a way, and now they have to learn these skills.
I don't know why people expect the internet to be governed by different societal rules than the rest of life. You probably wouldn't say the same things over Thanksgiving dinner with your family that you would say to your friend while hanging out in a club. Why do you think that you can say anything you want on Facebook? |
You know what really pisses me off about Facebook? I deleted my account around the same time I moved several hours away to a new location. Not long ago, I made a new account with the same email address I used for my old account. Recently I have been getting emails from Facebook suggesting friends. The people it is suggesting are from where I moved from and whom I have no mutual friends with. So, Facebook has kept my information in their servers even after I originally deleted my account. Really fucking pisses me off. |
Maybe not, but in an unlawful dismissal case in New Zealand a woman was forced by an employment tribunal to make her FB account available to her employer.
The employer wanted to check that on the days she'd called in sick (i think it was a family illness) that she wasn't doing something else. The tribunal made her provide access to her FB account but she did win the case IIRC.
I don't get it - surely they realise she'd just delete anything incriminating from that day...otherwise the police would get warrants for your FB account anytime you were a suspect.
I'll try to find a link. |
This one is the best, I remember when they were just starting out. Amazingly handy and should be in everyone's bookmarks. Same with [ |
I work for an ISP - there'll be no 'list' created, I can say that with some confidence. We're also heavily restricted into what information we give out (DPA), so even if we had nothing better to do, than browse our customer database (which is basically like reading the phone book :S) the info would never get past the person sat next to you.
And truly - I don't really care if someone I don't know, never heard of, never spoke to has their filter turned off. I'll be having mine turned off - join the club! You've taken your responsibilities on yourself - well done! Sometimes it feels like the impression of ISPs is a group of people all looking at network traffic '..oh look, Tom Whatshisface is on Facebook again..' - it just doesn't happen. We've all got clocks to watch until we get to go home, just like any other job.
I will agree that there's a possible risk for celebrities. But their ISP will be fined for breach of DPA - and possibly sued by said Z lister. This will result in someone in the ISP losing their job, which I would hope would be more important to them, than leaking gossip. |
You should read this again when you're sober. |
Yep, you got it. Basically they charge you for the cost of providing the service and then simply expect you to pay for whichever device to use with the service. If you can buy the phone outright from wherever it's no skin if their back, or you can lease to own from their store. At the end of the day they just want your business. If you decide to switch, give the phone back if you don't already own it and you're off scott free. That phone will then probably become a refurbished device or just used for parts.
Other carriers subsidize the cost of phones into your monthly bill via contract. Meaning that $650 galaxy s4 you just bought for $150 up front gets paid for over the course of your 2 year contract. Hence early termination fees (ETF). Since tmobile doesn't care where you got your device, how long you've had it, or how much it costs (because they aren't looking to make a profit by overcharging for a phone), they can do the current no contract deal.
So let's let's say you go for 24 months with T-Mobile with the $50 unlimited everything plan for one line, plus $24 a month for that shiny new S4. You're looking at $92 or so per bill cycle (taxes) for a brand new phone with unlimited everything. If you pay the phone off early, that drops to $60 ish... meanwhile all the other companies would keep cashing in... Oh, you kept your phone for and extra 6 months past your contract because you didn't need a new one? You just over paid your phone by about $100... maybe you just want the latest and greatest, trade in the s4 for the s5 this fall and restart the lease to own. |
I was happy with it for the first few weeks. I had just gotten a Nexus 5, and I didn't want to wait until Ting received their shipment of SIM cards to use my new phone.
I have a few general complaints, which most people who have used T-Mobile generally complain about. I didn't get any reception where I worked (basement of a building in my University), but that wasn't a big deal. What did cause me to switch from T-Mobile is that I couldn't get any data when I drove home from school. I'm not the best at planning for a trip so data would have been very useful.
I'm back on Ting, which I'm more than happy with. I don't receive LTE where I live, but Sprint's 3G speeds where I live and go to school is surprisingly adequate. |
Anything that fucks with AT&T is good with me.
Ive said this story multiple times, but it always bears repeating, as it perfectly illustrates how bad they plan to fuck their customers over.
Living in military housing, there are different rules. AT&T is the only group allowed (by contract) to work on military infrastructure, at least at this location. The housing here only has to be up to military standard, which I assume is less than the standards required for other locations, as the wiring is not made of copper, among other things.
Anyhow, DSL is the only option for me, as I would have to pay to have AT&T come out and install fiber optic lines, an expense that would run $300 (from what I gathered) for the initial survey alone. To make matters worse, the amount I pay for is only the amount measured at the meter. With the shitty wiring in the house, I drop from around 7Mbps at meter(sp?) to around 3 at computer. |
VZW bill with 3 lines (2 grand-fathered unlimited and 1 dumb phone) was $235/month (including taxes)!
Tmo new bill is $124/month (1 line with 2.5gb, 2 lines with 500mb). After I pay off the phones, bill will be $100/month (plus taxes). |
If parent is still reading, I'm in the Baltimore/DC area also (Baltimore, to be exact), and yes, it's better to switch. Coverage is phenomenal here, partly because DC/Baltimore is one of the original markets. In the 1990s, Sprint started a GSM network called Sprint Spectrum. Fast forward a few years, and they decide to bail out of the GSM game for CDMA and the Sprint we know today. They sold their GSM infrastructure, and it became OmniPoint. Which then became Voicestream, which then became T-Mobile. |
I did not read the article, but I did stint with another very large company (apple rival, have a guess) who I feel had the same attitude. It was ok for those who walked in and asked for what we were want, but a lot of really talented people (usually the younger more naive) get starstruck and just get raped by the company, and its really not fair.
Not sure how apple worked, but in said IT company, it was all rank and file. You had a level that dictated your pay level, and the only way to get up the chain was to get rave reviews. IF you didn't want to manage, you can only go so far, so the really smart ones who wanted to stay programming eventually fuck off. I think they realised this and there was work in progress to change it.
Anyway, the process in a lot of these companies are fucked. You go to work for them for experience, realise they just blow smoke up your arse, so you fuck of 6 months later. There is a lot of jumping up and down, and senior guys taking you out to dinner and drinks all the time. they send you off on courses, they try to motivate you with bullshit talk about how good the company is and make you go to internal conferences and team building bullshit. Meh, back then I just wanted to program cutting edge stuff, i did not want courses or travel (done all that shit). |
All of this is based on a single employee
That single employee worked there for just one month
That single employee was just a contractor
All of his bad experiences were based on just a single boss
At no point did the employee try to work things out by trying to talk about it or move to another team. |
my brother is a pretty well known motion graphics artist and apple contacted him for a project. they wanted to pay an insultingly low per diem rate and he told them that his rates were much higher. he said they refused to budge, relying on the "but you get to work for us" effect to kick in. but it didn't work and my brother turned them down. he said he was terrified that he had seriously messed up, but knew he had made the right decision. the next day apple capitulated and gave him his usual, much higher rate and was vindicated. so proud of him for that. he kept his self respect and was rewarded for it. it doesn't hurt that he's unbelievably good at his craft. |
HR departments are a joke. I worked Apple retail for a few years in my early twenties as a lowly Genius Bar schlub. We had a manager who made inappropriate comments about people you associated with in the store "those aren't the kind of people you should hang around with". He would criticize people's appearance "maybe of you lost weight you would be able to fit into your clothes properly". He exhibited textbook sociopathic behavior running the store in a Putinesque fashion where if you tried to quote store policy in relation to his own personal guidelines you were blacklisted from any chance of raise or position change. He instilled his own personal dress code which in no way correlated to the one issued by Apple. Rearranged the store as he saw fit, made at least 7 female employees I knew cry during conversations. Sat people down to explicitly discuss their responses in the "anonymous" employee feedback submissions. I could go on but this is already a bloated post. In any event over the 10 year period he was a store leader he had HR review him on three separate occasions and they never in any way reprimanded him. Which of course lead to more spiteful insane manager. Only after myself and about a dozen of the stores beat employees left and he made the mistake of creating a physical list of employees he wanted fired for not justifiable reason was he finally done in. The moral is that unless you have hard evidence you're better off finding a new job than engaging HR because if someone is in HR they are likely about as effective as a pet rock at resolving work related issues. |
Actually, in this case Netflix is now connecting directly to Comcast. So for all intents and purposes Comcast is becoming an ISP for Netflix. Surely you don't think that should be free?
The real problem in this whole situation was Cogent. If Netflix used something like Akamai (which makes localized copies and serves up the closest copy to the request) there wouldn't be the huge issue that arose. Instead they used a cheaper provider, Cogent, which just connects via a limited number of switches regardless of the request origin and has the user's ISP do the majority of the trip. That wouldn't be an issue if Cogent was getting an equal amount of traffic from the networks it connected to - many peering arrangements are free when that's the case. The issue is with Netflix as a client it's almost impossible for there to be equal peering - Netflix pumps out more data than anyone else. This keeps Cogent's costs down (traffic exits their network relatively quickly), but actually raises the cost for your ISP (in many cases it has to travel pretty far along the network to get to its destination, increasing general congestion).
Also, when you're talking companies the size of Netflix that are generating as much data as they do, comparing how their internet service contracts work to yours as a residential consumer breaks down pretty fast. |
Exuse me mr President, but part of your post is perpetuating a lie about the pharmaceutical industry
[BritishMedicalJournal](
This is a study done on drug development costs done by the british journal of medicine
Bullet points:
1, 3% of pharma profits go to research
4/5 of the total r&d costs are covered by public sources |
Whenever I see something here, and in the news subreddit about the FBI being intrusive in the public's privacy, I always try to be the devil's advocate. As much as I want to believe that each intrusion to the peoples private information was for a reason, and with probable cause, they don't. They'll always be exigent circumstances where law enforcement officials need fast responses and they don't always have time to wait, but that doesn't men every circumstance is exigent. Hopefully Congress sees that they're are people within law enforcement that will think the constitution is just a suggestion and deny this request. |
What happened here is that an intermediate Certificate Authority (CA) of CNNIC in Egypt, MDS Holdings, apparently issued certificates (including www.gmail.com) to themselves and installed them in a web proxy server (in a "test network"). These proxies work by effectively doing a MitM attack on the traffic. This is normally done on a corporate LAN (and according to Google it was in this case), but by using the falsely issued www.gmail.com certificate, the proxy that was redirecting traffic does not issue a certificate warning (because the chain of trust isn't broken). If this were deployed publicly that means anyone whose traffic passed through that proxy would likely be completely unaware the traffic was intercepted.
This might actually have been an innocent mistake by local engineers in Egypt that did not realize this was improper practice and simply didn't want their users to get a browser error. It's also possible that this company was contracted by someone (likely the national government in Egypt) to issue this cert and deploy this proxy so Gmail traffic in Egypt could be silently intercepted for espionage purposes.
For various technical reasons, it's not enough for Google that CNNIC issued a revocation for the certificate, and even the intermediate CA, to resolve the problem. They are revoking CNNIC's CA root cert, distrusting ALL of the certificates CNNIC has issued. They want CNNIC to create a new root certificate, which means re-issuing all certificates for all web sites in China (the .cn domain). It is likely other vendors will follow Google's move. CNNIC obviously does not want to do this as it means a lot of work for CNNIC and Chinese web engineers.
CNNIC has disputed Google's version of events, but it doesn't really matter. It's Google's decision alone as to what root CAs they choose to trust and at the moment they don't consider CNNIC trustworthy. |
No, I do not think anyone's shaming anyone for wanting to make a profit. But it is dangerous to think that a company should have a sole goal of making a profit because that is one step towards a business losing it's true direction and purpose. In US economics, the intent is for a business to be balanced by the consumer's desire to purchase their goods and/or services by giving the consumer the crowd source strength of refusing to purchase their goods or services. When businesses realized that in order to maintain growth they needed to raise loads of capital and took on the concept of IPO's, those businesses then gained two customers who's views are often totally opposed. Having the symbiotic relationship between consumer and business is what actually drives business to improve and competition to thrive, many corporations have lost their way over the past few decades (ok, century) causing them to seek a way to lock in users so they have no alternatives (Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, John Deere, any US domestic auto manufacturer, Walmart, Blockbuster Video (RIPieces), Verizon, just to name a few) to purchase or service. I'm going to provide two scenarios here, one hypothetical (probably less so than I think) and another real world.
Imagine someone who's wealthy enough to invest seven figures into Walmart (for whatever their reasons may be.) They are unlikely to use Walmart's services because it is not typically a business that upper middle class to wealthy people shop but they will demand that Walmart's business keeps making a profit and they won't care how it happens. As long as they get returns within a margin they expect, they will keep investing and Walmart will focus on those investors before they focus on their consumers.
I realize there are more reasons to this than what I am about to say but take Dell's recent conversion back to a private business. Michael Dell felt that the company was going in the wrong direction when it was being run as a public business and while he's given many explanations, I think the simplest is he simply felt that the company's investors were not in focus with what they were trying to provide. To clarify what I see, I keep picturing this image in my head of largely an army of Apple users being the ones to invest the most (Apple, after all, is seen as the wealthy person's tech...this doesn't mean it's the best tech, just more money than brains...I know, incoming downvotes but you know it's true) and Apple's vision for Dell is clearly not going to be the best direction for a Windows and Linux based computer technology company. |
my step dad used to sell phones for cellular one during the initial boom. He then got into ATT for a few years. Once cingular bought out ATT is when we started having problems. Mostly with billing and customer service though, which went down the shitter quick. When i went to renew my contract with cingular for the first time (previoulsy i was on one of those ATT blue network contracts, they tried to tell me the upgrade features i had been given for years as an ATT customer were no longer valid (200 anytime minutes for a renewal, free nights and weekends at 7 for another renewal, with my plan starting at 19.99 for the third renewal.) They told me i had reduce minutes on my plan to stay at 19.99, the 200 anytime minutes werent valid, and the free nights and weekend was like 8.00USD a month. They told me that while i was an existing customer with ATT, in cingulars eyes i was a new customer, and that since my contract ended and there was no ATT to resign with, that they didnt have to honor a thing. So i asked to be released from the contract and have my number freed, and they told me that would cost me an outrageous nominal fee.
Then a few years back, cingular changed their name back to the "new" ATT, which coincided nicely with several years of reports that their coverage was shit and their customer service and billing was even shittier.
I went to verizon, but their phones were horrible, sprint sucked, and done even get me started on t-mobile or worse, Boost. So i went back with ATT and got an iphone. I dont have issues making calls like i used to. And with the iphone, my reception seems better (for whatever reason) than it was aith my Blackjack (ive read reports of their internal antennas shitting the bed and needing replacing, and resulting in horrible signal). Once i got the plan set, and the monthly billing squared away, i simply dont call customer service, as they will invariably hand you off to some other asshole who will do the same. If i have an issue, i got to the store (usually where i bought the phone) and have them fuck with shit. Since they are commission based, and in a public arena, they are more apt to help than shoo you away. |
Here is the 100% accurate way to find out if your Wifi connection is secure:
1) Look at your Wifi Access Point.
2) Is the Power light active?
3) Is the LAN active?
4) is the WiFi light active?
If yes to 2,3, and 4, then your WiFi connection is NOT secure. |
Spotify is great. It streams quickly, has all the music you want (apart from the occassional obscure song) and best of all is free.
The free version plays adverts at what seems like random intervals, sometimes you'll go a couple of hours without hearing an ad and others you'll hear one every other song.
I used to go premium for a day at a time for 99p when I had parties at my house to remove the ads, otherwise I was happy to listen to them. There are iPhone apps which let you listen on the go - I haven't tried it but my brother loves it.. He's swapped from iTunes to be a full time premium member.
The great thing is that you can download the songs to listen offline - I never tried putting the music on an mp3 player as I'm not a huge portable music listener, so can't comment on that. |
Analogy: If some guy were seeding the entire CIA database in a torrent somewhere, but the tracker was only available on the pirate bay, it wouldn't have too much impact.
Your analogy is ok, but it's not a sure thing. It's sort of like how things go viral, it's fairly unpredictable. All it would take would be one news organization finding that torrent, or one big thread on reddit about it, or any other similar scenario, and the ball would be kicked off on basically the same situation that we have now with wikileaks.
i think the |
Do you have any stock picks to recommend? |
You've never had to deal with date/time issues in code before, I bet. Programming around moments in time is surprisingly difficult. You have to be aware of timezones, different methods of representation, synchronizing with official clocks, frequently complicated APIs, and possibly bugs in the underlying APIs.
At one project I was on we had an bug arise because timestamps in our dev and QA environments were in Central Standard, but production was in Pacific time. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice to say this bug slipped by both code review and QA, and while everyone was embarrassed no one felt particularly dumb about it. |
While I'm not defending the fact that this is a major bug (I was affected by it today, it sucked), it's not as simple as you might think. Time is a very difficult thing to handle. There are so many exceptions and trivialities that it can drive you insane. I've programmed time applications before - leap years, time zones, and DST are a royal pain in the ass. Every country does it differently, and sometimes it varies by city. It is very easy to get stuff wrong. When I was writing my time application, I submitted a few bug reports with google because their time application was wrong for non-DST time in northern Australia. |
I tried out this software earlier this week. Here's my take:
Pros:
Near-instant meta search for lots of torrent sites
Search results sorted by popularity
Clean interface
Cons:
Not actually decentralized tracking. Tribbler simply uses existing trackers in the same fashion as all other torrent software
No advanced settings
No fancy graphs
Buggy features when stats are displayed about individual torrents being downloaded
Mediocre interface |
I have VERY briefly skimmed the article so maybe I'm missing some internet black magic, but why do people keep writing things like this headline?
I'm not even a professional net admin and I know its BS. There are so many ways to stop anything you don't want on the internet. I got as far as this protocol saying "requests data from a peer" before I spotted how easy it would be to take it down.
All you have to do is NAT everyone. If you can't upload, you can't upload to peers.
If you had to, and you don't, you could even go so far as to force people to only access whitelisted IP ranges/servers. Or blacklist all residential ones. Either way, the internet stays up and your ability to use P2P dies instantly.
You could also just use layer 7 filtering to force everyone to only use approved protocols, like HTTP. You can even allow HTTPS and get back to whitelisting, even to the level of whitelisting based on who has signed their certs. If you block all self signed certs, P2P that hides itself behind SSL pretending to be HTTPS instantly goes down.
On top of that, theres so much you can do with just bandwidth shaping. Limit people to 500mb of upload per hour. Again, most people wouldn't even notice, internet stays up, but P2p collapses in on itself.
I'm not saying any of the big isps care enough to do this, but frankly the big isps wouldn't even stop napster, they just don't care. |
A word of warning from someone who has tried using it this program in the past: The UI is pretty buggy and glitchy. Streaming playback is done using VLC, but it uses its own copy of the program and it often breaks itself and won't stream, or the buttons will get stuck and you can't change volume or whatever. It also got locked on fullscreen for me once and nothing would take it out. It sometimes won't open up, and when it does, you have to manually restart seeding of what you want. For a BitTorrent program that lacks frills, it ends up having more glitches and lag than Vuze/Azureus.
The search is also a little slow. If you want my advice, skip it and just use a good private tracker. It's less frustrating than doing a search and getting nothing at all. |
We, and I use the term "we" to refer to the vast majority of technology minded individuals, hate the term "cloud" for the same reasons marketeers and other simple minded, smash your face against the wall inducing dimwits love it. It means ab-so-fucking-lute-ly nothing and people go completely apeshit for anything that they slap it on. Its like "Hi-Fi" and "HD", "smart" the ubiquitous "i" and "eco". You can just stick it in there and suddenly the boring and confusing "network transparency" becomes the fuzzy, awe inspiring "cloud computing." Why do marketeers love it? Because it means they can use it however the fuck they want, make people believe it means whatever the fuck they want it to and no one can call bullshit and whip out a dictionary because it doesn't mean fuck. |
Lol, how do you think childporn works exactly? You don't just type in childporn.com and start fapping... Most sites that traffic hard candy (c-p) are either message boards like 4chan where the occasional photos leak out yet it is not the sole purpose of the site... it would be like banning access to a subway system to prevent muggings. Then there is the Deep Net on the TOR browser whose websites cannot be blocked by ISPs because all the traffic on the TOR network is encrypted to prevent and protect the users from prosecution. Any site that you find on a google search offering child porn is insanely sketch and is almost certainly a honey pot set up by law enforcement. |
There were a bunch of guys on belgian tv who did the exact same thing just to prove a point: they created a press agency and released random fake stories and where suprised of how many actually got published in mayor newspapers and even picked up by foreign news.
Of all the stories that got published only one journalist called for a background check. |
IE7 was IE6 with a few features from CSS2 like :hover and min-height (which every other browser already supported, and which was from a 1995 standard), and a few other features like support for PNG transparency and tabs finally added. IE7 fixed the largest feature deficiencies in IE6, but it still had tons of bugs and missing features it needed to take care of before it could be considered a modern browser.
IE8 was the first version that actually tried to fix all the horrible IE6 bugs that made everyone hate IE. While horribly slow and not a modern browser by any means, and not supporting any of the newer features like CSS3 opacity, it at least was bug-free enough that as long as you didn't try to use a feature it didn't support, you didn't have to workaround its bugs much, especially not compared to IE6 and IE7.
IE9 improved performance and added support for a lot of HTML5 stuff. I remains the only browser that doesn't have my pet HTML5 features (drag-and-drop upload, JavaScript history API), but it's definitely far closer to a modern browser than any previous IE version. |
Really? Because people seemed to have forgiven Microsoft fairly quickly for Vista since W7 came out.
Please find me an alternative to Windows that will run all the programs and games a Windows user uses.
There isn't one.
Yet I can think of three browsers on par or superior to IE9. They have no reason to even try IE9, let alone "forgive" Microsoft for anything.
>Let's also not forget Windows 95, ME, Office 2007, Windows CE, Windows Phone, Microsoft CRM, the various genius projects that Microsoft CORP has crushed from Microsoft Research, etc. People and companies make mistakes. Hating on IE still is something that I only give the right to IT personnel that have administrated or continue to administrate IE6. Otherwise, it's merely low hanging fruit that the general, compute illiterate population can hate "M$" for. I suppose I'll throw in hardcore *nix fans into the "it's okay to hate IE" group but they are sort of inherited in that group if they hate "M$" by and large. Otherwise, for those running W7 while going "lulz IE susk", that's silly. |
OK, I'm thinking this whilst I'm writing it, so possibly not going to be the best idea...
The MPAA and the AMA seem to be bribing your politicians, in the name of protecting their intellectual property.
Boycott them.
As far as I can tell, the demand for entertainment (in the UK at least) is as strong as ever, and while there are people who download, there are a lot of people who love to go to the cinema and go to music gigs/concerts.
I love music and movies, I go to the cinema at least once a week, and I averaged at least 2 music gigs a month in 2011, not counting festivals, of which there were 3 I can think of.
I get "blacking out the internet", but what if we make a campaign to boycott cinemas, music (Large) events?
What if no one turned up to see the next (presumed) Blockbuster, and many MILLIONS of $$$$ were lost on opening weekend?
Like I said. not sure how possible it would be to do this based on die hard Twilight fans desperately craving to see the next installment etc. But maybe? |
Yes, exactly why one should never keep wild animals as pets :)
Or, at the very LEAST (I believe Travis was a 'hollywood' animal, and worked in movies and commercials) take extreme care whenever handling with them. Because you just never know when theyre gunna tear off your face and hands. |
wrong. Your missing his point. SOPA had no offensive material other than the legislation. The average person never reads past the title of a bill. H.R. 1981 just with the title alone is going to be unstoppable as was mentioned above because no one is going to argue against protecting children for the porn industry. SOPA was easy to attack because it offered no distractions from the legislation it contains. While HR 1981 right now appears harmless, it could be bad later and that could be their strategy.
SOPA was an outright attack on our freedoms and liberties and had to be stopped. H.R. 1981 is a possible trojan horse. It looks harmless now but they can add amendments to it before its signed to make it what they really want after everyone is on board with ending child pornography. |
If the attack is a 0day you can't do anything about it. By definition the AV doesn't know about it so you're fucked whether or not there's a picture of a fruit stuck to your machine. The OS itself isn't the weak point anymore, things like Flash are easier to hit. Although, Windows does still keep getting patched for vulnerabilities but that could just be that it gets the most attention.
For dumb malware that just asks you for your password there's not much you need to do, provided you know what you're doing. The problem is the UAC dialog in Windows comes up too often and novice users will just pick one button and press it every time rather than understanding what it means, probably the positive answer of "Allow". The privilege escalation window is a lot rarer on OSX and Linux distros and, by asking for a password, is probably more likely to engage the user to think before they act.
User-mode malware is another problem that's only fixable with rigorous sandboxing to stop apps, say, injecting themselves into other processes or reading keystrokes. It's easier to do that on Windows than on OSX, I've no idea about Linux though. |
As someone who uses his computer quite past its maximum capabilities, and has gotten his hands on multiple mac's as well as windows, antivirus really has quite an impact. now, what is going on here is the bottlenecks are what hold things back, and a AV uses all. HDD, CPU, RAM, network, everything. If none of these are stressed to the max, an AV will easily go unnoticed, but for me and many other users, we use computers quite heavily. as an example, all of my webcomics that I read are in one bookmark folder, to check them I simply open all 27 with "open all in tabs". Here is where I notice AV vs no AV the most. opening many tabs means that the cache of data on the HDD needs to be checked vs data from the website, many sites have javascript or flash do-dads that need CPU and RAM (this is where bottlenecks come in). At my current desktop I must wait some seconds before my browser is responsive again (and different browsers are not helpful, all buckle under the many-tab loading test).
now, onto your comment about the i5 or i7. Both are amazing processors, but beasts of infinite power they are not. Laptops normally have the lower power mobile processors (apple is no exception), which are very different in CPU power. here and cause noticeable lag with the AV. |
People who own PCs for the most part don't know shit about how their computers work, and that's fine by them. So they install AV software and think they're invulnerable, and that AV software is just a fact of PC owning life. The truth is that AV software is often a sham: It is possible to have a secure computer without it.
You're right, it's not about hardware. Windows is historically insecure. Later versions are far better, but there are still issues. The hassle of dealing with pop-ups for "Are you sure you want to copy this file? Open this file? Visit this web site?" is still there. Put Linux or Hackintosh on the same hardware and you'll be starting off several steps ahead of Windows as far as security is concerned.
Some day maybe Macs or Linux will need to install AV software. Shrug. Mac haters have been telling me for 15 years my day is coming. Meanwhile, I, and most of my family and friends, have had 15 years of hassle-free computing. Every now and then a threat bubbles up, and I read up on it. So far all I see is another one that I'm not losing sleep over. If it gets to the point where you can't connect a Mac to the net without fearing for infection, then I'll re-evaluate my choices. Meanwhile, my few friends/fammily that made the choice to use Windows have had a lot of pain. |
It really bothers me that people think a certain brand is more susceptible to viruses. Security through obscurity is not security at all. Most people have Windows ([one of many sources]( therefore there will be more exploits found for that OS because that's what everyone is using. I'm not gonna focus my time finding exploits on 10% of computer users. I'm gonna go with the majority. Windows is the majority. Now when you start claiming that your OS is more secure, of course people will take that as a challenge and prove you wrong. You want to secure your computer. Don't connect it to the internet. Even better, don't turn it on. There you go. The most secure computer. |
This comment will probably never be read. In my stint in IT, I always describe OS as humans. There are several immune systems as well as operating systems.
All immune systems can be compromised. Even if you are someone who is healthy you can get a virus. It is wise get your vaccines just in case. Take your vitamins. Do regular check ups. You wouldn't stick your dick in just anything. You still might get sick, you never know.
Similarly, Operating systems can be compromised, someone who is healthy = OSX, Linux, Android. Get your vaccines= run an anti virus. Take your vitamins = update your software. Do regular check ups = back up your information/run the antivirus. You wouldn't put your dick in just anything = be careful what you install/click/open because it might get you infected. You still might get sick = new exploits are created daily. |
The Air is indeed super quick... if you have not used any new computers in the past year, and when I mean new, I mean using new parts . Not the best, just within the last generation or two of computer components.
For what it is great? I will say that I am glad that Microsoft has a competitor in the willing-to-spend-thousands department, there really were no others (ignoring servers running linux here, we are talking desktops). But the hardware you get in Macs is just... out of date when they are released. As well as the usability of wanting to do ANYTHING that is not "part of the mac experience" means you mostly can't, and if you do want usability, Lixux has gotten to the point where people run it without their grandparents noticing. Or if you play any games, why run OSX? just look at any game database and you will find many more for windows, as well as windows can still be customised fairly heavily(at least more than OSX is willing to go)
For light usage, such as browsing the web with less than 100 tabs (that is about my current count, as well as I'm running on an old AMD athalon computer) if you are not opening multiple at once (around 25 is where I notice at all) then a computer that is about 6-8 years old can handle all you do, make it 4-5 if you want to run a AV in the background without noticing. The Air is way more than that, and, frankly most people that complain about underpowered computers are what I consider "normal", this is because programming a operating system, programs and all in-between to be fast is very expensive, so under normal conditions, all programs expand to the size of the computer [see Jevons paradox]( |
I made a few edits but, this is something I posted in this [submission]( a few weeks ago. Not sure what the virus was but it was a visible issue on our network. For the record I am a huge fan of Apple products...
>I used to work for a major cable ISP back in the day (about 8 years ago) and we had the ability to monitor your SMTP traffic. Not like reading your emails, but we would monitor the amount of mail traffic. If you were using a large part of your bandwidth for port 25, you were either a.) infected with a spambot virus b.) a piece of shit spammer scumbag. If you fell into case a or b we put a virtual firewall on your cable modem and blocked your mail traffic. We would call you first and then send you a physical letter when we blocked you.
>These were my favorite and most frustrating tickets, because no joke over half the cases were apple users for about a period of a few months. I'd release the FW straight up do a simple ping on their cable modem and see 50% dropped packets. They were spamming like crazy. I'd reenable the port25 virtual FW and the pings would return to normal. I'd ask they shut off their Macs and the pings returned to normal. It was obvious their computer was causing the traffic.
>I'd explain either they were infected or they were violation of ToS for spamming and they would go ape shit. "I have a Mac and I can't have a virus, you guys are terrible...". They seemed more concerned that I was a perceived douchebag (I was by far one of the nicest and knowledgeable techs you'd speak to) or that Cabletown was evil (which it was but I was in full support of stopping spammers intentional or otherwise), than the fact their Apples were infected and their personal information was at stake. I was even an Apple user at the time and tried to point them in helpful directions. A lot of these guys canceled their service or we eventually just banned them for ToS violations (they would callback and lie and say they were fixed and would get firewalled again) instead of contacting apple tech support. The network traffic monitor was pretty dead on, these guys were infected big time and refused to just reinstall OSX or install an AV, but in their eyes I was the idiot.
> |
Hey I've got a technical question for y'all internet experts out there.
So, the way I understand it, your IP address in IPv6 will be unique from everyone using the same router, because IPv6 does not need/use a NAT. So because of this, if more than 1 person uses the same router, they will still have distinct IP addresses to the outside world.
Question is, will these new legal cases dealing with "and IP address is not a person" change significantly with IPv6? If an IP address was temporary, your ISP could still determine through logs who had which address. Will this make it easier for torrenters to be prosecuted? |
MegaUpload's counter-argument on jurisdiction:
> Megaupload's argument turns around rule 4 of the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure which is said to pose a hurdle to serving a corporation that resides on foreign soil as it requires that "a summons is served on an organization by delivering a copy to an officer, to a managing or general agent, or to another agent appointed or legally authorized to receive service of process."
> The second part of the rule also requires that a copy of the summons "must also be mailed to the organization's last known address within the district or to its principal place of business elsewhere in the United States."
> To date, the government has not served a summons on any officer or agent of Megaupload, according to the proposed motion, as Megaupload does not have any officers or authorized agents for service of process in the U.S., according to the motion.
> As Megaupload does not have an office in the U.S., nor has it had one previously, the service of a criminal summons on Megaupload is therefore impossible, which forecloses the government from prosecuting Megaupload, the counsels have argued in the filing.
> Even if Dotcom is extradited to the U.S., the government cannot properly serve Megaupload, because the second part of rule 4 will still not be satisfied. |
Savulescu has been pretty vocal in saying that humans should be genetically enhancing their children. It is nothing new for him to say stuff like this. The writer of this article used horrible vocabulary to explain his position by saying "screen in" and "screen out". While this is technically correct, it leads to problems with meanings of the word "screen". It is actually using 3 different terms: "screen" "screen in" and "screen out" which have 3 different meanings.
Screening just means to look at what genes the embryo has in order to have an idea of the genetic state the baby will be born. You can test for all sorts of things.
Savulescu is actually saying we should weed out or change get rid of certain genes. This is different than actually screening an embryos genetic make up to find any potential problems. This goes beyond testing to see if a child will have Down's Syndrome at an embryonic state. This is saying we should actually weed out the gene. |
Hi there, I'm a psychology grad student who does research in the area of genetic correlates of personality traits.
This article is really frightening, partly because we are not there yet. This guy is acting like this sort of thing is right around the corner, yet we still do not really have a handle on the genetic components of personality. Some research shows results with one gene, some with another, some with neither. And that can be for just one personality trait. And how those genes then interact with each other and with the environment to create an individual personality? We are not even close to fully understanding this sort of thing.
Additionally, he doesn't understand that we need personality diversity in order to have a functional society. Sometimes you need that aggressive asshole boss to get shit done. Sometimes you need someone who's willing to take a huge risk to make some important discovery. We need people who love being around other people AND people who don't. And the whole creativity issue has already been mentioned by others.
Not to mention that a genetic predisposition for aggression and violence does not necessarily mean a person will be violent (same goes for any other personality trait). Genes interact with each other and environmental factors play a huge role. It's way more complicated than this guy is making it.
I understand wanting to screen out severe illnesses with a very obvious and focused genetic cause, like with Down's Syndrome, but this is taking it too far and I don't think we would get the kind of results this guy is imagining. |
The biggest danger of genetic modification is that we change a few small things, then a few more then a few more. Finally we get to a point where the entire race is dependent on technology to survive.
Optimizing humans genetically requires the assumption that our civilization will never collapse.
Not that it matters, people will start having tall blonde blue eyed kids the second it is possible, whether it is smart in the long run or not.
On the topic of whether modifying your children is morally wrong.
Once genetic modification is viable, not genetically modifying your kids will be seen as criminal, and probably actually be illegal. At this point parents will be able to decide whether their child will have a life span of 100 years or 300 years, whether their child will have down syndrome or not. Choose between 80 IQ points and 160. Can you expect that anyone will not use genetic modification on their kids? Think of how fat and ugly people are excluded now, then imagine a world where your parents could have made you beautiful and thin for an extra $1000.
There will be a genetic modification arms race. Think of the money we spend on education now, then imagine what will happen when it costs $2000 for an IQ of 200. An extra $5000 if you want your son to be over six feet tall, and another $3000 for blue eyes. Then there will be a debate over whether being genetically modified is a human right, and whether the government should pay for it. The rich will feverishly resist public genemod to retain the advantage of being a modified god in a world with unmodified peons. |
You have no clue what my understanding is, as far as this thread has gone it has been nothing but two separate opinions on how this nation should move forward. Some people prefer to have more control over their own lives, and what their money goes to.
I stuck to the topic for the entire argument, If it is one thing it is another, eventually all rights will be removed. First they want A, then they want B, next up comes C, and before you know it they have the entire alphabet. As for a strawman argument, I fully understood your point. It is a pretty simple one, you are the one who is claiming that I am essentially an Anarchist by telling me that I think all government is bad, which I repeatedly corrected. Apparently you missed it, must be too occupied drinking the kool-aid.
More government and more taxes are two related, but entirely different points I made.
More government-clearly, because more people would be needed and blah blah blah, it is pretty simple stuff. Government would have more power, there is no denying this.
Higher taxes- You must not like keeping money you earn (assuming you work, giving benefit of doubt). Maybe you could throw a couple hundred this way? Since you enjoy paying taxes so much, just reimburse me for what I pay? I mean..you are so ready to just throw stuff out there for the rest of the nation to pay for. Given this "we need to help the society" stance you have, please tell me you are not like 90% of others who have this stance and never bother donating to charitable causes, or giving a homeless man a few bucks.
You must not have read the post, it is hard to debate with an idiot. (Referring to the debt) Every penny the government spends needs to be looked at, not just the "top three" How ignorant do you have to be to 1)not read the part where I answered that question, and 2) be a smartass about it while it is right in front of you? |
Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Coca Cola and Apple just called. They said they're going to stop branding their products because they all come from the same sweatshops and assembly lines as their competitors that make the same exact products. |
The citation for that is right in the article the OP links to. I'll try to translate:
>"Es ist ja klar, dass der Verlag dagegen vorgeht, wenn mein Buch auf einer Homepage zum Download steht. Ich sehe darin auch keinen Widerspruch. Ich lehne nicht das Urheberrecht, sondern den Begriff des geistigen Eigentums ab, weil er ein Kampfbegriff ist", verteidigte sich die Piraten-Politikerin.
>"It's obvious that the publisher takes action when my book is available as a download on some homepage. I don't see a contradiction in that. I'm not against copyright, but against the term of intellectual property, because it is a fighting word (don't know if there is a proper translation for "Kampfbegriff")", the pirate politician defended herself. |
I'd say the biggest practical difference is that you as an individual taxpayer have almost zero impact on...well...anything. You and I have no public face or position that anyone pays attention to and nobody in the broader public associates you personally with an idea in any meaningful way.
As the leader of a party which has the abolition of copyright as one of its basic tenets she has a responsibility to promote that viewpoint, especially since the party is just now emerging out of political obscurity. The takedown notices are a talking point for those wishing to undermine the party goals, so she's hurting the party for her personal profits, and nascent political powers are fragile enough as it is. |
Neural Networks have been around for centuries. The only new thing is the scale of the network, which is not necessarily a good thing. The more layers and components the network has, the more it tends to overfit, therefore not generalizing any information at all. In my opinion it is much more interesting how they tied the multiple components together to prevent such overfitting. |
Reading their regulations:
>55 7.1 If a Member exercises its right in accordance with the Convention to suspend international telecommunication services partially or totally , that Member shall immediately notify the Secretary-General of the suspension and of the subsequent return to normal conditions by the most appropriate means of communication. (emphasis added).
The regulations talk in depth about fees and payments. This is troubling. I also found troubling the fact the SDR is the official currency of this organization. If the number of SDRs in circulation fluctuated with the currency stock of the basket currencies this would not be a problem. The fact is the IMF has control over the issuance and stock of SDRs. It gives the IMF a certain amount of control over the basket currencies that make up SDRs.
For simplicity assume 1 SDR = 1 Dollar + 1 Euro. If this organization is mandated to take SDRs you could show up with 1 Dollar and 1 Euro to pay your 1 SDR bill. The Organization would tell you "sorry we dont take Dollars or Euros, we take SDRs." That means you would have to go buy an SDR, and it would not necessarily cost you 1 Dollar and 1 Euro.
It would give the IMF control over the value of Dollars, Euros, Pounds, and Yen for settlements with these international organizations, which could be completely different from their values on the international currency markets. We would just have to trust the IMF would act in the interest of keeping balance in the markets instead of using SDRs as a vehicle to transfer wealth from basket currency countries to the IMF or SDR investors (I personally dont trust them with that power). They could (and have already talked about this) sell SDR bonds to the highest bidders.
I will admit the current organizations are somewhat supranational already, but I definitely think this is a step in the wrong direction. It will put even more layers between voters and officials making decisions on the internet. |
It only matters in the long term, I think. Where they are going with it, and probably not with the current people in charge.
Google seems to understand our generation. That sharing, and open content is where the money is, not regulating everyone to death and copyrighting or patenting every bloody thing.
Hopefully when these people retire they will hire new people with the same understanding. Even better would be if others learned from them. |
I'm currently waiting on some general cleanup stuff on a WinXP install on a laptop with a busted hinge, trying to salvage it as an XBMC setup. For the setup process, I decide to go headless like any linux system could do just fine with sshd, since I don't want to sit there holding it open with one hand, typing with the other. Being Windows with all it's oddities, it just disappeared off the network and I got bored and decided to tell reddit. Tried XBMCbuntu on it, but the intel graphics on it don't work with that for some reason. |
In my real world experience with AT&T's HSPA+ is that it is rarely faster than verizon or sprints EVDO due to overloaded networks. That's not always the case though and while the point you make is valid, it has never held up in real world situations for me. |
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