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Why are Americans more deserving of meaningful work than foreigners?
You're right, they aren't. Neither are Americans or Europeans more deserving of living in a modern society than refugees.
It's not an issue of "deserving". It's a matter of practicality.
Consider the reasons that people want to come to the U.S. in the first place. Then consider WHY the difference exists, and what will happen if the difference is not preserved.
Consider the [second law of thermodynamics]( The concept of [thermodynamic equilibrium]( can also be figuratively applied to other domains. Imagine an economic gradient; people want to move toward concentrated sources of capital. What keeps these sources concentrated is various barriers that have been constructed to prevent it leaking out -- leaking and leaking until reaching the homogeneity of the surrounding background radiation.
So, one way to do this is to put up artificial barriers affecting new workers so that a larger middle-class can enjoy a significantly higher standard of living.
Another way to do this is to put up artificial barriers between owners and employees, such that owners get almost all the profits from productivity gains.
> The top 1 percent of households have secured a very large share of all of the gains in income—59.9 percent of the gains from 1979–2007, while the top 0.1 percent seized an even more disproportionate share—36 percent. In comparison, only 8.6 percent of income gains have gone to the bottom 90 percent. The patterns are similar for wages and capital income.
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[Workers don't share in companies' productivity gains](
> The gap between hourly compensation and productivity is the highest it's been since just after World War II. This divergence is one of the major drivers of the nation's growing income inequality.
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> "A bigger share of what businesses in the U.S. are producing is going to the owners of the firms and the people who lent money to the firm, and a smaller share is going to workers," said Gary Burtless, senior fellow in economic studies at The Brookings Institution.
Essentially, the current rhetoric is designed to guilt the workers into wage concessions (via sympathizing with the plight of foreigners) so that the owners and investors can continue fleecing you both. |
I'm in a building with Novus which does pre-wire each suite. The max speed they currently offer is 300 down but I'm pretty certain they will offer gigabit once someone else does and they are forced to compete again.
I've also sent an email to the company in the article, OneGigabit, and according to them the entire building / strata has to agree for OneGigabit to be the provider to the building. It isn't worth their time to wire to the building if the strata has already agreed to have Novus or if it is a Concord Pacific building, since they always have Novus. |
Content isn't the only thing holding it back. The slow speed of millions of internet users is. I live just outside of Atlanta, GA, one of the biggest cities in the southeast, and I still can't get more than 1.5Mbps internet, which can't even stream a movie in 480p without stuttering. And you can forget anything higher than that without waiting forever.
I remember when my brother had Netflix for a couple months, and if anyone else was online doing just about anything, the video was unwatchable due to it stopping every few seconds. |
ICC may optimize the loops in question away by default , whereas with GCC you have 5 optimization options:
-O0 (no optimization)
-O1 (optimizations that are "easy" to do)
-O2 (optimizations that are "more difficult")
-O3 (optimizations that are not necessarily guaranteed to give the same results as non-optimized code, but speed things up "a lot")
-Os (optimize for the fewest number of instructions or the smallest executable)
All speed optimization options automatically turn on all easier speed optimizations.
GCC does not turn on -O3 by default, but apparently ICC does. So if you insist on using ICC for Intel compilers, even though ICC intentionally disables certain optimizations if you aren't running on an Intel processor (as [nachsicht pointed out]( it would be most appropriate to use the -O3 switch for GCC.
However, if you are comparing hardware, you want to execute the most similar instruction sequence you can, so using the same compiler for all sets of hardware makes the most sense. Because (AFAIK) ICC does not compile for ARM, you would have to use GCC, which would have alleviated this entire problem to begin with.
Due to this incident, and the incident nachsicht linked to, all of Intel's benchmark claims should be scrutinized closely and duplicated if possible. I suggest going to Phoronix or Anandtech for in-depth reviews and proper benchmarks. |
Honestly, if someone can't manage the simplest of 'library skills'... why are they in r/technology?!
But I'm reasonable, so here are some more keywords: bapco, sysmark, SPEC, intel compiler(ICC; profilers; developer 'lock-in' programs), Agner Fog, FTC, Havok, and antitrust. Much of this is about how Intel likes to join/create benchmark foundations and enforce the use of its defective compilers(why Nvidia, Via, among others, left BAPco, for instance).
More fun: kick me prank, corporate welfare, unpaid overtime, fab at Kiryat Gat built on disputed land, Boiling Frogs/EPA/pollution
[Faceintel.com]( is a pretty good site for more dirt on Intel, and everything I've bothered to double-check sources for on that site I've also found additional sources from reputable news organizations amongst many other sources.
>Generally it is up to the person making the claim to cite the source(s). Claims made with only "Go look it up yourself." to go with them waste everyone's time and deserve to be flatly dismissed.
I don't know how you'd ever expect to learn much of anything with that attitude. |
Well, their rockets aren't patented, that's for sure. Elon once mentioned that patents are a problem when you're doing revolutionary stuff because once something is patented, it becomes publicly visible, and people copy it anyway. So parts of the Falcon 9 rocket are simply left unpatented. Then again, they aren't revealed either.
Elon doesn't care for money. He's said it so often. All he wants to do is create start ups which make stuff. He's open to selling off Tesla after proving they can make electric cars totally viable, and he's not open to turning SpaceX into a publicly traded company because then shareholders demand profits - which goes against what he wants SpaceX to do.
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon starts a Hyperloop company, provides open source documentation on how it works, builds one between LA and SF, reaps a bit of profit, then lets others build more elsewhere. |
Hopefully this takes off,
it would bring so many jobs across the country,
giving the opportunity to move somewhere less densely populated,
spread out the population would lessen power usage in major cities,
most likely super green technology,
less impact on Earth,
promoting smaller tight nit communities,
people drive less to work,
spend more time with family,
depression rates go down,
pharmacy super companies lose their pull in DC,
the power goes back to the people,
the newly est government decides to pursue next-gen science breakthroughs,
private sectors start contracting for the govn's new projects,
one has an accident,
one survivor,
dr.freeman. |
1066 is simply the base speed for DDR3, it's the lowest standard. Sure, you can get faster DDR3 memory, such as the 1866 you have, I believe DDR3 currently goes up to 2133, which is the the base speed for the upcoming DDR4. This means that if DDR4 follows a similar upgrade path to DDR3, it'll only get faster and more efficient over time. |
DDR is generic system memory, usually used by the CPU.
GDDR is DDR which has been modified to have higher bandwidth (useful in graphics applications); this is done by increasing the speed of the RAM. This results in higher CAS timings, but the increased speed usually makes up for this. It's more expensive and uses more power though, and main memory rarely benefits nearly as much from the increased bandwidth and graphical applications.
GDDR is based on DDR.
GDDR2 and GDDR3 are based on DDR2
GDDR4 and GDDR5 are based on DDR3
If the pattern continues, GDDR6 and GDDR7 will be based on DDR4. |
I have a different view than most of these comments about waiting. Yes, if you kept waiting for the new stuff you would always be waiting for the next best thing, but you should wait as long as you can. If your laptop is still okay and are just wanting an upgrade, wait as long as you can to upgrade it. If you need a new one by all means get a new one as soon as you can. But if you are going to be able to spend more money later then wait, because even spending $100 more in the lower ranges can give you a significant boost. |
So, like, where is the wide availability of DDR4 motherboards? The adoption is still abysmal non existant not to mention that, afaik, x86 CPUs available now on the PC market do not have DDR4 memory controllers.
It will take at least 2 or 3 years until this RAM has a good market penetration but i feel like people expect too much of a jump in performance which this RAM is guaranteed not to bring.
There is technology involving RAM that promisses huge jumps in performance like HMC but idk if AMD or Intel are willing to adopt them on the non professional market.
DDR4 is an incremental evolution, not a revolution and the lower consumption brings non existant advantage for desktops and laptops since DDR3 already consumes just a few Watts of power. Low voltage RAM has traditionally been considered beneficial in the profesional market where they use TB of this stuff in servers and recently for mobile devices.
Regarding speed 2x is not what CPU memory controllers will support from the begining, not that you'll ever see 4GHz or 5GHz ram for many years now except for multiple thousands of dollars high end PCs that will either be bought by people with more money than brains or people that require it for professional applications where RAM bandwidth is beneficial. |
You are absolutely right. I kinda, sorta read the first paragraph and responded to that. After reading the whole comment, We fully agree: |
Little user want/need for 64 bit, and a lack of competition in that area.
Fx has very low RAM usage, and rarely goes above 4 GB for normal use cases. I know somebody is going to come around and say they have >1000 tabs open and need more RAM addressable, but that user base is not significant enough to warrant the effort (which is more than the effort of switching to 64 bit on a proper multiarch linux platform).
Furthermore, Fx's biggest competitor, Google Chrome, does not have 64 Windows builds either, so there is less competition in that area. |
i could talk all day long about how xp was good. but there a point to consider... like IPv4 its use would have ben sooner or latter told by its 32bit achitecture. 3gb ram is plenty. but for me ...the lastest game with skype a dozen of firefox tab open and the bit torrent working .sorry that 3 gb is not enouph anymore that the main issue that make me switch to windows 7 even my 5years old core 2 duo geforce 9600 made the switch after using xp for 3years. i wont say i like 100% the gui of windows 7. but its a good damn os most of driver install by itself on most of hardware the update system is a good step in the right direction( still dont understand the fucking fack when you shutdown you cannot say no to update on a laptop) |
I used XP from the time that I was a 5th grader to my senior year in high school. As such, I got to know it very well.
Downvote hell is coming for this, but, in my opinion XP was never good. Let me explain.
So it's 2003 and my father finally decided to order a new computer for the family. This was to replace the Compaq 500 MHZ Celeron running 98se with 64 MB of ram. So being the resident computer wiz at 12, he asks what he should get, and I told him any the of the P4 models they had would be fine but to make sure he got 512 mb of ram cause the machine would last longer.
Instead he listened to the salesman over the phone (he ordered a dell) who told him 256 MB would be fine. When the machine arrived I just sighed and said okay. I was 12 after all, and he was the parent.
Things went great for about a year. It was responsive enough. Then it came. Service Pack 2. It literally destroyed any sense of snappiness this machine had. Having a web browser open pretty much destroyed any extra ram this thing had after the initial amount after booting up. Needless to say me being the computer wiz I got the blame for this. You guys know how it goes, I don't need to explain.
3 years later 2 things finally brought this machine back. One, tinyxp was released to the internet. The moment I found out about that I installed it in secret, late at night when they were all in bed so they would never know. Two, my computer teacher at school and I became buds and he gave me two sticks of 512 ddr ram. He was a life saver.
But at that point I was so sick of XP that I set up a small Linux partition and used that exclusively at home the rest of high school. I never really saw the massive appeal towards it, I always just associated it with bloat since then. Even when I built my first gaming PC in the summer of 09 I put one of the Windows 7 beta's on it, I refused to use an XP machine, and I really have no need for any XP only programs anyway. |
Bad management has nothing to do with it. No matter what standard you invest in, it will eventually become obsolete. Good management knows not to spend money if you can possibly avoid it. Money spent on updating nonessential software (or voluntarily updating usable software) is money that can't be spent on growing your business. New equipment that improves your cash flow is one thing, but hardware and software that are simply for overhead are bad investments unless you can't avoid them. Every dollar you spend on a system that runs on Windows 7 is a dollar you can't spend on marketing, engineering better product, more efficient equipment, or top-shelf staff. Why should I upgrade overhead apparatus once every 6 years when I might be able to stretch 9 out instead? The business that does the former has tied up thousands of dollars in upgrades that the latter was able to spend on growing its business. |
I'm typing this from my laptop, which has Vista. I have not had any issues with it at all in the 7 years I've owned it. Works fine on Reddit, streams netflix and amazon prime just fine. That's mainly what I use it for. I saw no reason to update it to windows 7. If I wanted windows 8 I'd buy a new laptop.
My desktop system is still running XP, although I am getting ready to update it to windows 7 and let my preschooler use it for educational games. Once it's updated I'm building myself a new system, probably with windows 7. I may try to skip over 8, as I haven't been impressed with it. |
It's a self perpetuating circle of incompatibility and added costs for switching over to a new OS really.
No company likes switching over all their users to a new OS in the first place because well, USERS, they're fucking stupid most of the time, these are the kinds of people that get confused when their bin icon disappears.
Most of these users usually use company specific software or otherwise inhouse developed software. These are usually not compatible with new OS software and need to be updated which usually adds more cost due to licensing of new compatible software and patching/updating current out of date hardware to more compatible stations or otherwise implementing a thinapp/virtualization solution, all of which costs LODS O MONE.
Not to mention the retraining costs of your professional staff and support staff. |
Having two of the same thing named different things isn't intuitive.
The My Documents folder is hidden by default. You would have to turn on show hidden folders in order for it to be visible.
>I mean, they have a Navigation sidebar link to the DESKTOP but not to the Named folder. It just doesn't make sense.
Because there is virtually no reason to be in the named folder.
Lets look at whats in it. Desktop folder (no need to be in there, it's already in the side bar and it's your desktop); Favorites, Documents, Downloads (all in the side bar); Links (your favorites folder); Music, Pictures (both included in the sidebar); Saved Games (used by Windows games); Searches (saved searches); Videos (in the sidebar)
Everything else is a hidden folder. If you're unhiding hidden folders and then complaining about them being unintuitive is one of the most idiotic things I've heard. It's like complaining that having to use apt-get from the command line in Ubuntu is unintuitive when the average user is using the software store GUI. |
I've never quite understood people's attachment to XP. I was working at a place selling computers when Vista came out so I got a slightly earlier preview of it than most. I thought it was fine and left it at that. Next thing I know there are a tonne of people screaming about how horrible Vista is. There was talk about it being bloated, but compared to Windows 2k, XP was bloated (or so it seemed to me). I had problems with XP that didn't seem to go away until service pack 2 that I never had with Vista. My opinion was maybe they were putting a new OS on to hardware that was never going to run it as was intended. We'll never know I suppose, Vista has gone down in history as universally reviled. |
My uncle had this line of thinking, till he got some malware on his machine that told him he had to pay to remove a virus. He put in his credit card info and payed, dear god did he pay. 6 months and $3000 dollars later he is now getting a divorce because his wife(who knows something about computers) told him to not turn off the auto update feature. This wasn't the only reason they are getting one, but it really pushed her over the limit. |
Windows 8 upgrade was cheaper -- they offered (still do?) $15 to upgrade to 8 from a previous version of windows.
Granted, you can search 'windows 8 price' and see a triple digits everywhere. In reality though, most people already have an older version of the OS, and have(/had) the opportunity to upgrade at a very reasonable price. Microsoft's success in marketing that upgrade incentive is a completely different story, but at least the option was tried.
Also: It's a moot point. Virtually all consumer OS sales are baked into an OEM package: It's pre-installed on your new computer. MS is not interested in undercutting their bulk OEM price-leverage by offering a competitive consumer license. Why would Dell wanna buy a 100 million licenses direct @ $x-deal, when they could just go to amazon and buy 100M licenses for cheaper. Apple isn't playing the same game, because they aren't selling their OS to Dell. Apple is greedy as fuck & milking consumers from sale to obsolesce. At least MS is primarily playing the greed-game with big vendors. |
I wish tech companies would realize that there's a huge base of fans that simply love what we know and we don't really want to move on yet.
We will because we have to but tech from the early 00's was seriously good and with a few additional security programs, are perfectly acceptable in today's day and age. |
Tricks the OS into thinking it is running on an OEM machine and therefore can use the shared product key that only works if you have an OEM machine and does not use standard authorization. |
No. You're trying to downplay the issue and change the subject.
Free flow of information is necessary to tackle any of those issues and needs to be a very high priority. Without the free flow of information, those other issues can be swept under the carpet. The media outlets that report unfriendly political views can be silenced. Perhaps they won't impinge their freedom of speech, but that's irrelevant if no one can hear them.
The standard television news outlets have already been shown to be heavily biased by moneyed interests. The internet is the low-barrier-to-entry technology that balances the playing field. |
Story after story. Post after post. I have ask, over and over:
> What do you want them to do?
They fought for net neutrality in federal court - and lost.
As of right now, and since January, a federal court said that ISPs can treat traffic differently. The FCC is trying to make rules that limit the damage of that ruling:
A judge may have ruled that you can do whatever you want with traffic on your network, but we're going to say that you can't throttle anyone.
But people don't seem to want the FCC to try to limit the effects of the judges ruling.
What do you want the FCC to do?
Bonus Reading: [The FCC isn't allowed to reclassify ISPs as common carriers]( Since the legal review is a more than three paragraphs long, and contains grownup words... |
Or we could change the law to allow anyone to copy anything at any time and share it to anyone.
You don't get absolute control over something just because you created it. We have decided that a creator gets a lot of rights to their works. But after a set amount of time: your work is no longer yours. After a time the thing you created no longer begins to you: it belongs to everyone, and you no longer have any rights to it. The law giveth, and the law taketh away. |
If you know what you're talking about, you know this has nothing to do with Apple being stupid or not.
If you don't know what you're talking about, you should do your research before talking. |
I've discovered that Charter is either great or terrible in my experience. When I lived just 10 miles from where I am now, I was on a completely different network, and my service was amazing. Never had an outage, and speeds were consistently faster than advertised. Now, I live in a different place, and my Charter service is deplorable. Used to be that my connection dropped to slower than DSL speeds during peak hours. Now after the Spectrum "upgrade", that doesn't happen anymore, but now my latency just randomly jumps to insane levels (think 1500-2000ms ping times) and stays there for an hour or so before dropping back down. I've lived at this address for over 2 years and have had problems the entire time. I've never had so much as a month without some problem with my internet (I wish I could say that were an exaggeration).
I've had a couple dozen technicians to my house and they always point the finger back to the engineers at the headend office and claim there is nothing they can do to engage them. They always just say "we will put in a ticket for a line technician", which apparently does nothing except create a ticket for someone to have to close.
It seems like if you have an issue that is anything more complicated than just replacing the modem will fix, then you are solidly fucked... |
I have had great service from Comcast. The tech who setup my account was quick and friendly, even told me how to setup the modem and router sinced I opted out of that service. Internet speed has been good and zero issue with billing.
I was the accounts payable person in my old job where I had to pay the Comcast bills. I had some issues since we had different accounts for the the different we had in other cities. Mainly this came from my accounting system putting the wrong account code on checks. Whenever I had to contact them about issues with billing they have always been friendly and easy to work with. They were proactive when figuring out what was causing the error and often made that I wouldn't trigger late fees. Comcast was one of the best vendors to deal with. |
My summer was spent dealing with apple on this issue.
Luckily, my computer was still under warranty when it started to go, but over the course of 6 weeks, apple performed over $3100 in repairs on a computer that cost me $2000 including the warranty.
3 Logic board replacements. 2 HDD replacements. Too many smaller replacements to count.
Just at the end when I finally made it to the highest tier of apple tech support (I confused two entry level support people, three upper level, 3 engineers who i worked with live on my comp), the last fix did it. They were so unwilling to just give me a new computer, even the guy talking to me on the phone at apple said they should've replaced it when he saw the repair history over 6 weeks.
At this point im really just waiting for this computer to crap out, granted as a college student I know it will be at the most inconvenient time for me.
To be honest though, all of the people at apple are really nice, and i know they are working behind a computer screen and get thrown into a situation with absolutely no background on it. I can say I got frustrated a few times over the phone, and quickly caught myself and apologized. Everybody there all the way up (including their customer relations) was completely understanding, and many of them I had just normal conversations with while tests were running. |
The problem with this test is that people have no idea about the results they're getting and the company is not publicizing what mutations/DNA sequences they are using to make the assumption that people might have a higher chance for these diseases. Also, it is extremely difficult for someone to outweigh the risk of treatment vs the possibility of actually getting the disease. |
Lobbying does not equal illegal deal making
"illegal deal making" = legal deal making you don't agree with
>and not all lobbyists are equal.
A perfect motto for your cognitive dissonance.
>There are many lobbyists in washington with legitimate interests that represent them admirably.
"legitimate interests" = interests you agree with
>There are many more that try to push terrible legislation through shady practices.
"shady practices" = the legal pushing of legislation you disagree with. |
My girlfriend had some sort of weird blip on her phone on Rogers in which her bill claimed 1.8gb of data usage in 1 second (800mb over her limit), while her data was turned off, it was connected to wifi and it was asleep on the table. We contacted CS and they just told us that we must have had some background activity like updates going on. I explained to them the situation and that even a full OS update is only a couple of hundred mb. I also asked them to explain 1.8gb/s download on 3G, but the rep said it must have been an error in how the usage was recorded. The best resolution they offered was to retroactively move her to the 2gb plan for that month with a one time discount to make it equal to the regular price. However, this left her with around 100mb left after the 100 she had actually used, for the rest or the month and we'd have to switch back to the 1gb plan at the end of the month manually, which now tested more than what she had been paying. Needless to say, we opted to move to Koodo instead. |
I had an idea similar idea, but I think more well thought out. First, the interface would be through an Emotiv brain computer interface
and the display would be a visux augmented reality visor
I wanted to get them built into a custom made daft punk helmet, stick some super high quality ear plugs in there, linked up to some microphones so I can hear through the helmet as well as switch back and forth between real world/applications.
Just for fun I want a vocoder so I can play with my voice, and a camera built into the helmet at about eye level. I'd probably also need some sort of air conditioning system in there. This would all run on my nexus phone, and I would also probably have a few extra batery packs strapped to my belt. I'd want to use the cameras for life casting, so I'd have to be dumping my hard drive onto some form of net based storage service, but I'd still probably keep a couple terabytes in portable storage with me in case I go someplace I can't get internet access. |
The most reliable way to do this is with someone called something like a "domain drop agent". They will charge a little bit of money, but they have full systems set up to immediately hammer the registration servers the second a domain "drops" or becomes unregistered.
I'm at work at the moment - i have a small list of drop agents at home somewhere if you'd like me to follow up :)
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if you're looking to "steal" (for lack of a better word) this domain off someone else, this may be a little more difficult these days as most |
Does this remind anyone else of a story in a magazine that was in one of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's books (I don't remember which one)? That some aliens were trying to take over a world, but after scouting it out they realized they couldn't beat them militarily. They did find though, that they used a brand of peanut butter that printed facts about the 'average' person on that planet on their labels. So instead they just infiltrated the peanut butter company and changed the averages so everybody would think they were somehow less than average. The population's morale was totally destroyed over time, and the conquering aliens were able to just waltz in and take the planet and its resources. |
Yes, it would still be hot for a long time.
Red-hot magma is radiating energy relatively quickly, but this rate slows as the magma cools to being simply a very hot piece of rock. The radiated light energy at this point drops to the infrared spectrum, which is why it no longer is seen as glowing. Naturally, this light is lower-energy.
In an atmosphere, the same phenomenon occurs, but there is also a second, more effective form of cooling that occurs as it transfers heat energy into the surrounding air.
Liquid-cooling from a computer would heat the liquid, but if that liquid has no matter into which to transfer its newfound energy, it will simply radiate some of it as infrared light, which is not nearly fast enough to cool a conventional CPU.
By the time the liquid coolant is red-hot enough to radiate energy at an appreciable rate, it's probably a gas or plasma at that point, and either way your CPU's fried. |
I see it like this:
Microsoft shafted the tech community by sitting on a lame-duck version of Windows for almost 10 years then finally releasing Windows Vista only to publicly denounce its uselessness and come out wit a replacement just a few years after.
Everyone hates IE6 yet Microsoft have refused to do anything serious to force a replacement (raw compatibility mode?!) and when they DID finally come up with a replacement they STILL allow IE7, IE8 and now IE9 all to be available for separate downloads.
Its the same for most of the Office applications as well. They stunt progress because they are such large cash-cows for the company they are shit-afraid to make any significant changes. And don't get me started on the 'ribbon' which I think is fucking great, but try telling that to my co-workers, some of whom are STILL on Office 2000, an 11yr old unsupported piece of software.
The Zune was a joke. I fucking wanted one, but they NEVER released an of the later versions in Europe. And the way they handled the Play4Sure system was diabolical. They walked over it after supporting it on 100s of other devices for years.
As for Windows Mobile. I had an old SPV C600, 3 actually, I had the same phone for years because it was awesome. it did things no other phone could at the time and synced perfectly with my PC and replaced my Mp3 player. I upgraded to a HTC Desire after this, another WinMo phone, it was awful. And you know what, I was in denial - I thought it was great but MAN was I wrong. This was WAY before Android was mature enough to compete with the iPhone yet Microsoft just let Google steam roll them. As soon as I saw a decent version of Android I jumped and never looked back. WinMo is fucked, even with the Nokia partnership - which EVERYONE at Nokia resents - it will find it hard to compete. Where are the apps? Where is the marketing? Where is the innovation and killer features? WinMo 7 is just a less-substantial option when you look at the wider market and if they don't do something about that it will forever be laughed at and mocked.
The only thing Microsoft have somehow fluked right over the past 10 years is the Xbox, they owe J Allard a FUCKING LOT for this insight, if I had the power I'd throw Steve Ballmer out and give Allard the job. Hell, I'd also spin out the Office apps to a separate company with new leadership. Maybe even do the same for their entertainment division.
This is why I dislike Microsoft these days. Don't get me wrong, I still use Windows, I waited like a sad fucking puppy for Vista and was one of the first to upgrade and build a new PC around it. It was a real fuck up, I hated it, it ran like shit and even though Win7 IS better I can't help thinking its still too sluggish and too fucking heavy to be called a 'modern OS'.
FYI, I have an Xbox 360, I had WinMo phones for around 4 years, I run Win7 on my office and home PC but I also have a MacBook and Android phone - I have zero allegiance to any brand or company these days and its got a lot to do with my bad experience with Microsoft. I remember a friend and I used to REALLY fucking love Microsoft and what they stood for and how they came into being, we were real MS nerds/fanboys who developed using SQL Server and ASP.Net along with SharePoint on the site while reading TechNet in our spare time.
These days my friend runs Ubunto and develops in PHP and I use WordPress and gave up on SharePoint and MS enterprise development a long time ago for similar reasons to what I've stated above.
Its geeks like us that MS have pissed off, this I think has less of an effect on general tech users but they feel the pain just as much as us guys.
I hope that helps you understand where the hate comes from.
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1) I am so glad they don't enforce auto-updates. I hate auto-updates. I like choosing when I upgrade pieces of software.
Do you ever wonder why you get so much junk e-mail? Why every website makes you enter a CAPTCHA? Why the comments section of every poorly-maintained website is filled with advertisements?
Spammers exist, but by themselves they don't have enough computers to cause any of the above. If they used only their own computers, they'd be easily caught and arrested (or blocked, if located in a country that didn't care).
No, spammers send their spam using other people's computers, infected by viruses. It's estimated that around half of all computers in the world are infected, and they're infected one of two ways:
People who get tricked into downloading and running scam software. This is fairly difficult to do, since people don't recommend bad software, Google usually ranks it low, and even most places that distribute pirated software pride themselves on being virus-free.
People who don't update their vulnerable software. There have been maybe five total cases of viruses being released before the vulnerability was closed by an update—the vast majority happens after the update, infecting people who don't update.
So, congratulations. You're one of the reasons why I have to have to dig through my spam box whenever I didn't receive an e-mail I was expecting. You're one of the reasons why I have to squint at misshapen letters every time I use a new website. |
A jailbroken iPhone blows a rooted Android phone out of the water in my experience. But then again a jailbroken iPhone can run Android or WP7. Hell you can dual or triple boot if you want. The iPhone is a pretty damn solid piece of hardware. I did try to find an Android set I liked but I always had some issue with the hardware. I don't really like the iPhone 4 but the 3GS did it right. The EVO 4 came closest to fulfilling my expectations but something was off about that set.
Of course the argument is going to be you shouldn't have to jailbreak the iPhone. Sure. But Cydia and Installous have made me very happy.
Anybody know of an Android set better than EVO 4 or Nexus One? Can an Android set dual or triple boot? If those answers are yes I may have to give an Android set a swing when my 3GS dies. |
That's a poorly studied, but it has been studied, mental phenomena where your brain edits out delays. The poor bastards probably don't know it's happening. It's really noticeable in people who think there is no delay in opening the windows start menu.
I first noticed it when working on an ssh terminal over a 200ms latency link. At first it was annoying, but then the time flew by as a 30min job took hours. The really weird bit was logging out and returning to the local terminal where text appeared before I pressed the keys. |
Co-Worker: "Could you hand me a Kleenex, please?"
Me: "It's not a Kleenex, it's a Puffs."
Co-Worker: "What's the difference"
Me: "Blah blah blah iPod"
Nobody calls it "Facial Tissue" and nobody calls it "Puffs". |
you don't have to. you can download redistributable and batch install. are you saying your Mac and Ubuntu machines are not up to date? Please go away and die. |
anyone got really uninterested after the first fork?
gets boring quick, anyone |
Circles...jerk. I like it, but it wouldn't be complete without an anonymous shout-out to the universe capability. Friends and family can suck. Great for Facebook users, but I like non-circle-limited exposure, and the ability to be downvoted to oblivion. But I suppose this is a pretty good shot at battling Facebook. Maybe if they tied it in with Twitter? |
The biggest difference is scientific use vs. daily use.
Imperial was based around not having something to measure things so it could be easily guessed as to how big it is. Inch is as big as the middle digit of most peoples fingers. A foot was obviously a large foot. A yard cold be paced out. In cooking it is pretty easy to eyeball different sizes. That isn't as relevant now though.
The major thing is it is suited for fractions which can be easily done in your head. Gallon=1, Quart =1/4 G, Pint =1/8 G, Cup =1/16 G ect. Also there are 12 inches in a foot which can be evenly divided into 2,3,4, and 6 instead of metrics 10 which is 2 and 5. There are no 1.333 repeating divisions and no messy 1/5s.
Also it is easier to guess fractions of inches. If you work on cars you can look at an imperial bolt and tell it is 1/2" 5/8" 3/4" without checking a bunch of wrenchs. The divisions are (usually) much larger. This also helps prevent using the wrong bolt and rounding the corners when you fuck up.
Other things can be eyeballed and told how big they are. This board is 3/4", that jug is 1 gallon, that block is 4 inches wide, ect.. I can walk up to something and even if I can't tell by eye I can put my hand up to it and say it is exactly 8 inches or I can pick something up and tell that it is 1 lb. I can look at a steel line and tell if it is 1/32" 1/16" 1/8" 1/4" ect.
Obviously if something is very specific you will measure it anyways but you will be able to tell easily if something is more than 1/8" off or whatever else.
It is a lot harder to tell if something is 5 or 6 mm or if something is 600 or 700 ml or whatever else.
ALL OF THAT SAID, metric is far superior to imperial in scientific applications. People just need to spend the few seconds to learn unit conversions and they could save all sorts of time for the rest of their lives by using the most applicable units. |
My fiance teaches spanish. At the beginning of the year they get a carton of copy paper (10 reams), a box of paperclips and three bic pens. On the somewhat okay side, any school supplies she buys are tax write-offs. |
Actually, I'm arguing around your point, which I don't like when other people do. Ithaca Hours are pegged at the $10. However, they are also considered to be an "hours" work. If the supply base was not expanded if needed (i.e. instead of a new person offering $10 for a Hour and just printing a new one off, when someone offer $10 for an Hour you say "sorry that's the whole supply", forcing them to pay $11 for an Hour). Demand could potentially go up, and so would value. This happens with currencies around the world. I was using Ithaca Hours as an example of a community created currency. But your right, since it is pegged, it is a poor example. This in itself doesn't break my point on currency value based on availability, but I should have chosen another one.
Further, I agree that bitcoin won't work. I said "I'm no bitcoin advocate" for multiple reasons, one of the biggest being that there are too many manipulators out there set to get rich if bitcoin does take off. However, this doesn't make it a pyramid scheme. As you said with stocks, you could be betting on the benefit of having a digital currency (no charge backs, set increase in supply, near instantaneous transfer all over the world, near anonymity). Just like a stock, if you feel this is "worth it", then you would buy in. But if I bought in now, I would get those features, and I would have roughly the value that I payed in cash in bitcoin. No one will say "you only get paid if you bring in new members".
This is the key point. I'm not defending bitcoin "which is what you seem to think I am doing", and I am not invested in it. But technical discourse on this site is dropping... quickly. "Virtual" has a meaning that does not describe bitcoin, as does "pyramid scheme". You can say "people are using it like a pyramid scheme", and that would be a viable argument. But bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme in itself. My distrust in bitcoin is that it's continued deflation is encouraging hoarding, and many within the community are trying to conspire to increase demand so they make more money. However, a pyramid scheme pays you on the number of people you bring in. I could buy a bitcoin right now for $5, then sell them for $5 and not bring in a single other person. I won't loose money so long as there is an active community supporting it. Even if 5 different people used bitcoin as a medium of exchange for 5 different products, there would still be an economy. |
Not necessarily, but if you look at games now that have these over bearing DRMs. These become the most pirated games. If these businesses want more people to pay for their products, they need to offer more with the product. Forcing your customer to always be online or only giving them three installs is really just an insult.
Look at the movie industry, you buy a dvd and then you're forced to sit through ads before the title screen, every time you want to watch it. |
Interesting argument, and I'll buy that the real money auctions necessitate that multiplayer characters be run through a server in an mmo style arrangement to reduce the risk of cheating.
The problem I have with that decision is it massively lessens the value of diablo 3 to me as a gamer. I've got decent internet, but occasionally it goes down. I've got a laptop that can run games decently, but I don't always have internet available, especially wifi that I trust to do something securely over. The problem here is they've taken a game that I was looking forward to and turned into one that I'm having to convince myself to buy. The decision to run it like an mmo; and their decision not to include a way to make it work offline even if I can never take that offline character online, has taken this from a "must have" game to a "must convince myself it'll be worth it" game.
And don't get me wrong, I like MMOs. I played Eve fanatically for a couple years. I enjoyed my short stint in WoW, and I'm fanatically devoted to guild wars 2.
The problem I have is that I played diablo and diablo 2 single player almost as much as I played with my friends online. In most cases I created separate characters just for playing online with friends so we'd be at the same place in the story and roughly the same level. This system means you can only play online. sure I can make another character to play with friends, but when the internet goes down or I'm out in the boonies, it means no chance to play. That really bothers me.
Not to mention what happens if blizzard ever goes under, or if they shut the servers down in ten years. I can still go back and play D2 if I want, and play mods and custom games and all sorts off shit. I can play online using hamachi lan too. Right now, I can't look forward to that with D3. Having to deal with those concerns is not worth the upshot of a real money auction house to me.
Beyond that, I'm not convinced we won't see the same influx of massive farming and other crap that can make MMO auction systems such a total drag in D3, so the online only model may not even be a significant improvement there, other than getting rid of the really egregious crap. |
My thoughts exactly. I work in a datacenter every day and when I read that they lost a PDU my first thought was "Why don't they have a redundant PDU in the rack" followed by "why didn't they just go to the hardware store and buy a power strip or something to get them by until it's replaced".
The lack of redundancy is more disturbing, though. I'm wondering if they have UPS or generator power where they're at or if they just have a commercial feed. This is a pretty amateur mistake, assuming it's even true. |
I remember when Metallica came out against Napster...
Okay, let me try to explain a few things to you kids: Metallica was a rather popular "heavy" metal band, especially at that time. A band is a group of people that play instruments to make music. Napster was one of the originators in peer-to-peer (p2p) file transfers which eventually lead to distributed peer networks like BitTorrent.
Napster was geared toward the easy sharing of mp3 audio files. How easy? You enter something into the search, look over the results, click one, and it downloads at a rather decent speed (at least at that time). The downfall of Napster was copyright infringement.
Around the release of the movie Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Metallica discovered a demo (a demo is a song before it has been refined/edited, which is also before it is released to the public - or, in other terms it was a "leaked track") of their song "I Disappear" was on the radio. A song that wasn't released was being played on the radio. That caused the band to look into the issue more where they discovered their entire catalog was available...for free. At that time Metallica had a few albums (periodic releases of their music), which, if acquired normally would have cost a person a good amount of money. That made Metallica sad (although they didn't realize that the sizable portion of their money came from concerts and merchandise, not album sales).
So, Napster was sued by Metallica, and a short time later by Dr. Dre as well. The artists piled on, which lead to the eventual termination of Napster as we knew it. Some time later, Roxio acquired Napster (logos and rights) at a bankruptcy auction. They turned it into a pay music service sort of like iTunes.
During that whole litigation period where Napster was in this precarious state, I know several people downloaded multiple copies of the entire Metallica music collection just to delete it and download it again. |
Seeding will consume a portion of your upload bandwidth (speedtest.net will test your connection speeds), but it is usually not enough to interrupt most online activities.
Regardless if you seed or not you are still visible to the swarm and your BT client is announcing what has been downloaded and what it needs to download. You are never hidden when you are using bittorrent because everyone connected to the swarm is visible to everyone else in the swarm.
This is where one of the key differences between public and private trackers comes into play. With a public tracker (the Pirate Bay), anyone and everyone has access, even those seeking to monitor traffic and bust your ass for downloading "Gang Bang Grannies 17."
Private trackers (Demonoid r.i.p.), on the other hand are smaller, less popular, less visible to the outside world making it a less favorable target for the monitors to spend their time/money/resources to keep an eye on. I am unsure if the "terms of service" would prevent any "bad" guys from joining the tracker, but the login and rules/restrictions make it more difficult, which makes it even less likely they would be monitored.
A large portion of what those monitors do revolves around "return on investment" (commonly called ROI). Just like it sounds, when you invest in something you want something out of it - if the RIAA dumps $40 million (made up figure) into some watchdog group to track down those scoundrels who are downloading episodes of "Honey Boo Boo" in order to sue them, then the RIAA better get back more than $40 million dollars. That's just good business.
That doesn't mean that someone isn't spending a lot of money just to go after a few people, it just means that it is less likely. As long as you are doing something illegal , someone will be looking to bust you. Groups like the RIAA and MPAA receive a portion of their funding from their respective members - sort of like a union - but unfortunately (for them), fewer and fewer artists are joining, which means less revenue, and less monitoring. Again, you aren't safe, just safer.
Of the very few convictions for copyright infringement (that guy who was a moron and kept seeding after he was clearly told that they were going to bust him for it) are for downloading, but rather the uploading. The issue with uploading is that it is one of the easier portions of copyright infringement to convict on (unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material) |
I'm fourteen, had a Cholesteatoma since I was five, until it was removed when I was eleven? Anyways, I've had seven operations to remove the bastard and it was cleared For now last year. I tried the Cros and absolutely HATED it. So, since I have basically nothing but an 1/8 inch space between my inner ear and my brain, we decided to at least experiment with the BAHA, and surprisingly it worked better than expected. When I first tested it, I was practically in tears to be able to hear. It was astonishing to be able to hear for the first time in eight years So needless to say we got the go ahead for the surgery, and I couldn't be happier! Now I'm off to the Neurologist to see about my balance. |
I'm fourteen, had a Cholesteatoma since I was five, until it was removed when I was eleven? Anyways, I've had seven operations to remove the bastard and it was cleared For now last year. I tried the Cros and absolutely HATED it. So, since I have basically nothing but an 1/8 inch space between my inner ear and my brain, we decided to at least experiment with the BAHA, and surprisingly it worked better than expected. When I first tested it, I was practically in tears to be able to hear. It was astonishing to be able to hear for the first time in eight years So needless to say we got the go ahead for the surgery, and I couldn't be happier! Now I'm off to the Neurologist to see about my balance. |
I hate to rip /r/technology but this is getting ridiculous. If samsung were in this position, people would be up in arms about how bullshit it is. But it's Apple. This happened with the major patent litigation. A majority /r/technology redditors were outraged at the series of patent wins by Apple. At the same time, these same people said they hated the patent system. And then android vendors started piling up the patent wins and all of a sudden, the patent system was the best thing since sliced bread because the loser in the litigation was Apple. This is not a one way street where the patent system sucks when Apple wins and its the best when Android vendors win. |
I previously never took the time to look up the original statement, but damn. It's not even really on the front page and can only found as a link hidden in the footer of the UK site. It's also [ the most blatantly spun, douchey-sounding statement in the history of business (read it here) ]( No wonder they want a re-write.
Apple's Apology |
lmao, i never called apple evil (matter of fact I said apple 0 times). i fully respect their right to control their platform. their tight controll has done them well 99% of the time. I think we can both agree that letting google maps sit in the queue to be approved for the new iOS was the other 1% though. Even though apple maps isn't really that terrible, it was a PR disaster and it hurt sales of their phone and [adoption of ios 6]( |
You people are fucking sheep. I submitted this article as a joke to see if it would get upvoted by the "OMG OMG OMG THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT PIRACY IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!1!1!" hivemind. Looks like I was right.
Honestly, this isn't a big deal at all. It will only affect a small portion of people who are dumb enough to pirate movies and games and not non-pirates. |
RES tagged as "doesn't read article, criticizes reporting." |
On Telsa's [blog release]( Musk brings to light "our highest per capita sales are in Norway, where customers drive our cars during Arctic winters in permanent midnight, and in Switzerland, high among the snowy Alps. About half of all Tesla Roadster and Model S customers drive in temperatures well below freezing in winter. While no car is perfect, after extremely thorough testing, the Model S was declared to be the best new car in the world by the most discerning authorities in the automotive industry."
I feel like Broder is trying milk the "it was too cold" excuse for as long as he possibly can. But in the end, that argument is totally inconsequential. The majority of these cars are sold in a place where it's freezing cold almost all the time . There's no doubt that extreme cold will affect the battery's chemistry. But to assert that the "extreme cold" had as much as an effect on the car's performance/range as he claims is total and complete bullshit. He kept making a points on the cold weather as if the car was completely crippled in it. Even if his range was affected because of the cold weather, it would be by an amount that is negligible had he properly charged the car completely at every power station as he was supposed to . |
You're right that for the fastest possible 0-30 time the grip will dominate. You're also right that power is what you want for acceleration.
What I'm trying to say is that most people are just judging the car on how much "pick up" it has. When they push the throttle, does it jump forward? They probably won't break the tires loose (so grip isn't a factor). Also, while, as I said, you're right about power vs. torque, the fact that electric motors develop max torque @ 0 rpm means that their low end power is very good. After all, power = torque*rpm |
Now if they just let me "clear recent viewing history". I still don't understand their reluctance to add such a simple feature. They can still keep the data for themselves, just remove it from my personal viewing list. No need for my kids to see a list of movies mom and dad watched.
I've seen a very well-written and well-received post detailing that the reason they specifically do not add this feature is because it's a way better alternative to cracking down on account sharing.
In your example, they want you to pay for two accounts. One kid-friendly account and one for you and the missus.
The reasoning goes: the latest things you've watched will be clearly displayed as soon as you load up the website. You can also very easily see a complete viewing history. So, Netflix doesn't care if you're piggybacking on somebody else's account, but if you don't want your friend to know that you watched Nymphoid Barbarion in Dinosaur Hell, or that tastefully done anime which just happens to have some very pornographic-looking girls on the cover, then you'll buy your own damned account.
That's just one part of it, though. There's also the recommendation algorithms. Netflix is pretty personal with what it recommends based on what you've watched before and how you've rated things while keeping things fairly decently hard to find if you don't know they're there. So, if you're sharing an account with mom, chances are you're going to get recommendations which don't particularly suit your fancy. So, if you want a viewing experience tailored to your tastes, you'll buy your own damned account. |
the argument that monsanto is making is that they own the rights to the seed, which cannot be grown and re-seeded without paying royalties. obviously re-seeding is natural in farming, but they're arguing that since they developed the GM seed they own it and its progeny.
i doubt that 2nd gen issues like seed will get any positive treatment. if you can't rip and resell a copyrighted book or cd, you won't be allowed to resell seed grown from the original seeds - regardless of where you bought it, because the patent holder can still claim ownership.
to draw an analogy: if you buy a CD at a used music store, copy and resell it, you're still selling copies of the original (which is still protected by someone else's copyright). the copyright or patent doesn't expire, so you can't reproduce it ad infinitum. monsanto probably has the same reasoning. it's shitty, but that's how it'll play out most likely. |
I've have extensive experience and knowledge of this particular case and I think the media and Reddit oversimplified the issue here. I think the supreme court got this right but NO ONE has spoken about the negatives.
First, what the court ruled was that there was no importation bar to things that were lawfully purchased abroad. You always owned copyright material. But the limitation that was believed to exist, based on our interpretation of the Copyright Act of 1976, was that you couldnt IMPORT what you bought. Thats what this case was about. Kirtsaeng was buy cheap Asian books and selling them for profit in the US.
Second the drawback to this is that publishers were selling things at lower more affordable prices in countries with lower per capita incomes. Kirtsaeng bought them at the supply and demand driven prices of vietnam/Thailand and sold them at the supply and demand prices of the US. So sucks for the Asian countries from here on out. The costs of copyright material will go up over there and the price should fall somewhat here in the US.
Here's an example of why the first sale doctrine is banned in pharmaceuticals. Prescription Drugs can sell for 30 bucks a bottle in Africa and 300 in the us. Because Africans can't afford those prices but we can. If the first sale doctrine was upheld and u could buy in Africa and resell in the us the exact same drug. The price in Africa will go up to 200 and the us price would fall to 230 (completely made up numbers but u get the point). Africans would start being completely denied these pharmaceuticals because of pricing. |
DMCA anti-circumvention still applies. You can dispose of your stuff however you want (sell it, rent it, paint it orange and call it art, etc.), but you still can't copy it or circumvent DRM. |
I'm sorry to have offended you, but you said something that an English learner might say after reading or hearing the phrase and not having developed a thorough understanding of how it's normally used. Also I live in a country with more English learners than there are native speakers in America, so I guess I'm hyper-aware of the fact that not everybody is a native speaker and I try to be considerate to them. |
You do know that vitamin A is made from a gene right?
If you put that gene in ANY organism in the right position (so it's not being interfered by other genes or other forms of interference)
And that's exactly what I'm saying. Vitamin A is made by a gene JUST LIKE what they spliced into the crops.
As a biology major, I laugh at your ignorance. If it were me, I would ban every single one of you from using anything that's been genetically modified or medicine resulting from any of these techniques that speeds up evolution and bring about the necessary attributes we desire in a organism. |
You don't need one to install the update. You need one for any other app tho. I just tested cause I've never used the store till now.
Edit: Once it installed, there was a page where it had me log into my desktop account, then it was all "sign into a microsoft account" and I was like fuck that. But there was no way I could see to bypass it. You actually have to back out and look for a "Im not <username>" and then it took me right to my regular desktop login screen. |
I should probably mention I'm an IT guy, I do training sessions and some of the minor ones I do are Windows 8 enterprise client. I'll offer you my best explanation, but take it with a grain of salt because I'm merely a MCT and not a MSFT employee.
.iso's ARE available for the 8.1 preview, mostly because they are rapidly deployable to VM's, but that is not a very industry-accepted standard for distributing RTM operating systems. There are about a dozen free, legal ways for you to create your own .iso of any operating system image, but I hardly doubt you want to go down that road. An OS image is also pretty much free, whether it be a torrent, or a VM image, what you're really paying for is the license.
OEM copies of the OS (like the one shipped with a Win8-bound computer) are often pre-activated licenses, so if you install a fresh copy then that goes away. Often times the mfgr will put a license sticker on the bottom in case you do have to do a clean install. Presumably, you still have the license (which is likely a special upgrade SKU, not a full retail one), but YMMV on doing the upgrade. |
I will take away your doubt. Yes, HTTPS ensures end to end encryption. No man in the middle (like ISP, sea cable hackers, local wifi god) can read or modify the data-stream. The only thing the man in the middle can do is disrupt the data-stream (making the website unavailable).
Regarding Whiterhino123 question about private messages on IRC: There are actually two data-stream. From you to the IRC server and from the IRC server to the receiver (Fun fact: a IRC "private" messages always passes the IRC server and the server operator will always be able to view the private message). Both data-streams need to be secured to prevent eavesdropping or modifying the private message. Some (most?) IRC server operators provide the ability to connect to the IRC server using SSL (This provides end to end encryption). You can do this, but you are never sure if the receiver has done this. |
Points" equals more fans equals higher in the page view listing. I've worked at multiple fortune 500 companies where $50 is pissing money. Shit, as an intern I ordered a couple hundred dollars of equipment. We were shorted one, which I was irate about, but my superior told me to ignore it as the cost of labor to remediate it was greater than the actual instrument. |
I think it just needs more work. Atm glass looks like shit. If they managed to get it looking at least a bit like normal glasses, people would be more likely to wear them. The point is, after all, to make integration with the web less noticeable. Doen't help that you van see this beast from a mile away. |
it isn't about selling the idea to the outside world. Google Glass is a flawed idea based on a terrible idea of how technology is used or works. Robert is a pitch perfect example of this wrong view of technology. Thinking that computers should replace interactions or ways of doing things. When you look at Apple and you look at how THEY use tech, and then how they sell that tech, then it should be more apparent that they have a different starting point.
Instead of building glasses that go on your face and capture every moment of your life (Creepy) they build the device that you already carry with you everyday into a thing that can easily be brought out and used to capture the special events, then placed back into your pocket to continue having human interactions. (useful).
Then the conversation/design process is based on humans and human interactions and how technology can improve those. Instead of focusing on what tech can do and just doing it for the sake of doing it. Does that make any sense? |
I've had Glass for a couple months now . Before I got it, I was decidedly skeptical and thought it was an incredible waste of money and utterly useless. Now that I have it, despite the massive price tag, I love it.
Here is the one thing that no-one in this thread seems to understand about the true purpose of Glass and what makes it unique and awesome - I can document the world around me without interfering with it or missing out on it.
Case study: Thanksgiving dinner with 25+ people at the dinner table.
Option A) I can have my smart phone out in front of me while I'm snapping photos - I can't drink my wine, eat my food, and I'm distracting others. Moreover, I'm not taking in anything around me, I'm instead staring at my tiny display trying to get a good shot.
Option B) I push a tiny button on glass and it immediately takes an in the moment photo - I don't need to be ready for anything. Someone tells a funny joke or proposes a toast - I'm ready. I hold the button a little longer and I'm filming a video. I don't bother anyone with this, people go on as before, it's hands free, instant, and ready when I need it.
Glass is unique in that it liberates me from my phone. This may sound presumptuous and lofty but it is nothing of the sort. It's a completely different experience and until you spend a few days or even weeks with it, you can't really appreciate it.
Lastly, I've worn it out in public a LOT and so has my wife. I have never gotten a single negative comment. I've only ever gotten curiosity, excitement, and enthusiasm. I'm in Washington D.C. so maybe that's why but who knows. I love it and everyone that's played with it that I know has too. |
A free server for 3 years... ok not bad. Upgraded to dual core with a couple gigs of ram with half the free allocated credits... fine.
I guess it's neat if you are absolutely totally broke, but you it's too 'cloudy'. Their intent is to make it easy to use and readily scalable so that if your project starts to take off, they can steeply jack up the price.
For the cost of what you would pay to buy some used rack servers and the fact that in lots of places a basic business symetric line is hardly any more expensive than domestic cable... you will likely find it far cheaper to host yourself in the long run... at least while you are getting started. |
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
Luke 18:2-5
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. And there was a widow in that same town who kept coming to him and pleading for her rights, saying, ‘Help me against my opponent!’ For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or respect people, yet because of all the trouble this widow is giving me, I will see to it that she gets her rights. If I don't, she will keep on coming and finally wear me out!’” |
True that speed may not always be a factor but this is politics and all that's needed is a precedent. These big companies like Comcast don't like to lose money and if they control all the internet (or a big enough percentage as to make no difference), then do you think they'll let speeds get that high? Who would compete against them? And assuming something does make speed irrelevant then they'll have a precedent to charge companies a premium for access to consumers. |
It'd be rather outrageous, but it changes nothing. It's not their business.
I think that nowadays everyone should press RECORD on their phone the moment they face the situation like this one (phone from your ISP) and the operator should be asked for his named and informed that this whole discussion is recorded and will be presented to the public.
Each time people are asked about something like why they are using TOR they should demand legal grounds for such a question, and an explanation whether ISP (as ridiculous as it sounds) actually checks what they are doing, aka intrude their privacy etc, etc.
...and such cases should flood the Internet for everyone out there to learn that on the other side of the cable is no human, but cold, greedy, insatiable construct. |
So the rings themselves are not flexible from the description. Nylon will flex a bit but it wont stretch too much before breaking. The strong and flexible is the nylon plastic used in a process called SLS or Selective Laser Sinering. Think BIG LASER melting powdered nylon into a part.
The Elasto Plastic seems similar.
The rubber from Stratasys is pretty badass. They dub it Tango and it is some amazing stuff. Literally just like rubber, flexible, strong, waterproof. I have held a shoe made with the Tango Black and was completely floored with how awesome it is.
Unfortunately the Stratasys machine to do it is pretty expensive, however I am in the process of working on the acquisition of the 500 connex 3. This will be down the road, but definitely possible.
Obviously you have to add your own magnets, but this is definitely possible using Nylon and the Tango. I will inquire to Stratasys if they have a flexible plastic type of material when I see the high ups on the 3rd. |
I realize that, but coal infrastructure is already there, at this point the cost is in maintenance and fuel. I'm just saying it's too early to claim that this is the last improvement to solar that will make people buy so much more of it.
Some places get up to 85% efficiency out of their heat capture process, using the extra heat that can't be turned into electricity to heat or cool water for heating and air conditioning. This brings costs even further for some people, even though it isn't a whole lot of people.
If enough people will buy solar, the power companies are going to have to start charging less in order to make themselves competitive again, which would inevitably lead to either downsizing the grid resource or starting research to improve efficiency, cleanliness, or new plant designs. We don't want to abolish grid power, it is very necessary to be able to control the amount of capacity you have and not have to rely on the weather. What we want instead is for the grid power to be supplied using clean technologies, at a sustainable rate. This equilibrium will only be reached if both grid power and solar (and other renewables) still continue to exist. |
It's not quite that. WiFi has 13 channels iirc in the United States. Only three of them are completely separated from each other. Thus, if you have more than three wireless sources, they WILL interfere with each other to some degree, even if they have different names. Because of this, all the other networks are taking performance from marriot's simply by existing, giving the impression to legitimate users that it's crap.
Now, I'm extremely apprehensive about marriot's "solution". I don't know of a good way to solve this. Perhaps use one channel and blow up only the ones that could interfere? I think they need to use multiple to efficiently cover the building. I solve this problem by tethering with my phone by cable at hotels. Also note that 5ghz 802.11n is much less susceptible to this problem. But their strategy isn't entirely due to megalomaniacal profiteering. |
My stance is:
A) I can only understand a company choosing to do this when their product can sustain the amount of people using it. Right now its like having 200 people trying to get on a bus that only has room for 100 and telling the other 100 to figure it out. So, if they offered solid wifi, I could understand purely from a company standpoint going at this direction.
B) From a consumer, me, standpoint, I don't like this one bit. Even if they had solid wifi, and even if it was free, the point of it is that they are forcibly blocking something that I actually pay money for. Hotspot ain't free, my cell phone wasn't free, so why would a hotel, a place I spend money to stay in, have the right to block things i pay to do?
Also by doing this, they can start choosing to block certain websites, and limit certain activities while telling their customers to go F themselves. |
It's like our government is a jealous paranoid ex-lover who obsessively checks the current SO's social media on the off chance that they'll catch them about to cheat. The reality is that even if Uncle Sam catches them, it's too late, the damage is done. Cheaters will cheat no matter how vigilant you are and someone somewhere is going to commit an act of terrorism no matter how closely you spy on people.
You can't stop your current SO from leaving you by treating them like your cheater ex anymore than you can stop future crime by treating innocent Americans like they're all one tweet away from becoming terrorists. In fact, just like an innocent SO, punishing them for someone else's behavior and acting paranoid and controlling will create exactly what you fear, because they'll lose faith in you and eventually turn on you. |
Does More;
A) Runs more software. (ie: Their is more software available for PCs)
B) Works with more hardware (ie: Hardware that I might like to use will not work with mac).
C) Given any apple hardware spec, the same spec costs less from vendors other than Apple. Put another way (as I do above), If I spend $X I can get more hardware from another vendor. |
Some facts:
The software installed was Apple Remote Desktop, like windows remote desktop (several have noted that this was only alleged in a few articles and not proven. The exact software used is not confirmed)
The student who was disciplined and photo'd was a laptop thief. The laptop was stolen and the owner requested that the remote viewing ability be enabled so they could catch the thief.
What I was unable to determine was whether the laptops were given as personal laptops or as managed laptops belonging to the school. If personal, they've made a huge oversight by not notifying the uses of the software. If managed, they made a slight oversight.
You should expect a managed resource to have, well, management software installed. Even without management software, if you're not the admin of the machine the owner of the laptop can potentially install anything. Simply because this management software has remote viewing built in is incidental. The potential for this kind of monitoring exists for any computer you don't own yourself. In this case, they made a minor oversight. Minor because it would be pointing out the obvious "Hey, idiots. If you don't own the laptop and you're not admin, the admin of the laptop has full access to everything ."
edit Citations requested.
Some of the less alarmist cites mention the intent of the software:
They also mention this on their official statement on their website.
The court case will tell all, but hey "School Catches Laptop Thief with Remote Administration Software" doesn't make near as catchy of a headline.
edit 2
Here's the schools laptop [policy](
Here's the full policy, where they do mention security software being installed that limits end user use:
[Full Policy](
The full policy also mentioned monitoring of student activity, logging of sites visiting, prohibition against installing software, and other limitations.
edit 3
Some posters have questioned the School's right to search laptops or other school resources saying it violates the 4th amendment. The following court case clarifies the schools rights in this situation ( |
Actually, what you probably mean by "fully 'free' speech", as it is commonly understood in the US, cannot be allowed in Germany.
The reason for this is simple, the reasoning behind it is a bit more complex. Article 1 of the Basic Law reads "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority." Another article protects it, along with a few other things, from being changed (see 'militant democracy' below.) It also is the most important principle of German law, even more important than the free expression of ones personality, which is the German equivalent of free speech. It limits free speech where human dignity is affected, and hate speech is considered to fall into this category. It also has other consequences, like the barring of life imprisonment without parole.
Like all constitutions, the Basic Law reflects the events that lead to it. The high priority of Human Dignity obviously is based on the Holocaust. Other parts of the Basic Law enforce the principle that democracy and the constitution should be 'militant', as explained here |
This is why I am afraid of Google.
They act like a small friendly garage company not because they want to do you any good but because it serves their scope of business. They employ people that tell them how to keep up this image. You hand them all your personal data and have a warm fuzzy feeling while doing it. Meanwhile they create the most powerful and influencial company earth has ever seen.
They try to form a monopoly on information which can than be directly converted into power. I always wonder if people realize this, but with the amount of knowledge Google is collecting, they are or at least will be able to predict the stock markets better than everyone else. Personally I think a company should not have that much power. |
95% of the people on facebook suck at life, let alone the internet. There the people who open "the blue e, thats the internet, right?" then type in the bing search engine that pops up "facebook" and click the first link. If someone posts a neat article on facebook and over takes the first spot, they complain about how much it changed over night and how it doesn't even make sense.
These are the people that post pictures of themselves eating a sheet of acid while camping with their secret lover, while there conservative wives are at home with the kids while hubby is on a "business trip". These people are your uncle who posts on his wall "hey i can type with two fingeers !1"
They think facebook is the internet, and have no idea what they are doing and being taken advantage of. Since they do not know, they do not care. when 95% of people do not care, it becomes okay. And the internet falls to shit. So we are banding together to try to fight "the man" to keep the internet the way we like it. |
Yes, probably. However, I seriously doubt they are saving every retarded conversation. They probably could if they wanted to, but I'm sure that information disappears as soon as the user ends the conversation.
Here's the deal. I understand that this seems like a slippery slope, but you have to look at facebook's intentions here. Do they have anything to gain by sharing your data in ways that would get you fired from a job or separated from your partner? Do they gain anything by publicly embarrassing you or losing you friends? Absolutely not. The only thing they have to gain from using your data is creating better targeted advertisements and possibly improving their search algorithms. I hate ads as much as the next guy, but I hardly think that warrants all of the faux outrage from the tech savvy internet population. |
These ideas would be revolutionary a few years ago. Now it just comes across as a mashup of the old digg, twitter and facebook.
I think the biggest mistake digg made was forgetting it's raison d'etre. It was launched into popularity because it provided a technology savvy news niche. As more users joined, less of these articles appeared and digg became more "mainstream". The core demographic fled to other sites (like reddit).
The problem for them now is that mainstream users are fickle, whereas the technological intelligentsia will stick around to enable a community to flourish. |
If you are going to be downvoted it's because you are wrong. First off, the poster is talking about HDMI cables where the article you reference compares the DAC jitter in toslink cables vs. coaxial cables. So either you're deliberately trying to confuse the issue or it was simply a case of you being so eager to link to something that you didn't realize that the article had no relevance.
Secondly, if you were streaming raw PCM data over HDMI I suppose jitter could be an issue... but more likely is a lossless compressed datastream that includes audio and video. By definition jitter cannot be an issue here.
Sterophile magazines have an incentive to overstate the importance of this sort of thing -- they are either beholden to companies that sell overpriced equipment, or they simply want to justify their own silly expenditures. A much better source is a place like Consumer Reports. Much more rigorous testing and they don't receive advertising dollars. |
240 watts into the ball.
is what you mean :)
60 watt hours is 216 kilojoules. According to this that 25% of that energy goes towards charging the battery (only 50% of that 25% actually makes it into the battery, following silence7's numbers). 25% of 270 is 67.5 Joules/Beckham Kick. 216 000/67.5 = 3200 Beckham Kicks in 15 minutes? That's 3.5 BK/s. Seems pretty dubious to me. |
I don't want any monopolies either, but you simply can't say that Apple has some monopolistic stranglehold on any market when in reality their install bases are currently smaller than competitors.
What? Where did I do that? I simply would like that Apple is hold to the same standards as others.
>Android has a higher install base than iOS across mobile phones, meaning that it's improabble to consider iOS to be a monopoly when a competitor controls a larger share of the market.
Now - but prior to the huge success this wasn't the case and IOS pretty much had the largest percentage in app-sales and the like. At that time Apple didn't even bother to tell devs what their guidelines were and accepted/denied apps in the app-store seemingly at will.
Now the market's changed - but Apple still has the edge in app-sales.
Mid 2010 it was estimated that the Apple app-store had TWICE the number of sales than the Android app-store. Apple simply dominates the market in that aspect (mind you, I wasn't talking about phone-sales) |
Yea, I didnt know exactly where you were going with this until I read your |
I own plenty of Apple stock and hate the company in and out. I boycott them and actively inform people of the problems with Apple and it's products. I'll just sell if things ever start to go pear shape. Until then, it is an excellent vehicle for making me money. |
30% is extremely steep, I'm curious how this plays out. I could see probably a 10% to 15% "finders fee", but a third is just rediculous.
I own a small ruby shop business and we give clients/people a 10-15% cut out of a project as a "finders fee." It's worth it to us because we didn't spend the time finding the client and establishing the contacts. Customers enjoy finding us business because they get a cut, but we also make more money too in quantity. Plus, we're always busy.
What am I talking about exactly? That companies should accept Apple taking a cut; it's inevitable. They're developing on Apple's platform, so Apple can call all the shots. Sure, it's not open like Android (though... what's so open about Android either if carriers have their hands on everything, haha), but there are [ millions of app downloads per day]( so there is a lot of potential revenue here. Remember, the App Store is just one of infinite ways to sell your application. You can sell it on Android, PC, OSX, Web, Xbox, etc.
Say what you want about Apple, but you don't have to use the platform. Just remember, if you have a quality system then the quantity will come with it. If iOS brought in 100,000 new Netflix customers in because of the ease of use and the advantage of one-click impulse buying over the course of 6 months, then it's about 60,000 more customers Netflix didn't have before. The iOS market is a huge market to miss out on, so this whole incident isn't just going to be taken lightly. I can see businesses accepting this, but businesses and customers should fight for a smaller cut given to Apple. |
developers are free to make their own choices of where they develop, but they also need to make a living.
…but don’t they choose to develop in the markets where they can best make a living? Isn’t that why there are so many iOS apps, and relatively few for BlackBerry? Where would be the fun in being ‘relevant’ in a market where your sales don’t make money?
It’s not quite the IE example, though. You can build apps just for Android if you like. If you find a market and people pay, what’s wrong with that? If clients want and pay you to build for iOS, they’re footing the bill and you don’t (immediately) care about the revenue one way or the other. |
RAIN DOWN THE VOTES!
I read every criticism of Apple, and I believed them. Then I looked at what Apple was actually doing and realized you were all completely, and totally confused. That confusion is neither my fault nor Apple's.
So when I see this criticism now, I think: well, you've been unambiguously WRONG on almost every single occasion. Why should I believe you now? |
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