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So working in retail, you have never had a negative thought about a customer or said something negative about a customer related to their intelligence?
I don't think /u/dressiertugboat was talking about a customer who is merely uninformed about store sale procedures. I think it was more on the level of the person who screams and yells in the middle of the computer store that we should be stocking our fridge with milk cartons instead of soda and we should all be ashamed of promoting osteoporosis.
Or maybe even just the customer who asks you a question and then refuses to accept the answer from you, your supervisor and the three other customers there.
To take this all the way back to what Zuckerburg said - essentially someone handed him, a relative stranger, the keys and address to their house, car, and said they were going out of town for a month. If someone did that to you, even a fellow collegiate, you would not have a single incredulous or wtf moment? |
If the roads were exclusively occupied by self-driving cars, we would easily get 5-10x the capacity out of our existing infrastructure, and this is assuming the same car/population rate that we have today.
Fully autonomous traffic won't need traffic lights
It will optimally use the entire grid to capacity including smaller roads
It will not need to stop at all unless interrupted by people. Academic work is being done now to develop routing and negotiation rules which allow continuous use of 4 way intersections, see
And this is just the start of the savings, because in reality the ratio of cars to people will be significantly reduced. Most people will opt to have shared ownership of public cars. They'll dial their destination and when they want to get there, and the next available free car will come pick them up within the next few minutes. |
This is FUD.
EFI, when implimented properly, is better than the BIOS system we have been using for 20-30 years. To make a disk bootable, there is no screwing around with MBRs and less bootloader sorcery needed.
Disk needs GPT. Partition1 needs to be FAT32 and marked bootable. Bootloader/OS stub is in EFI\boot\bootx64.efi.
That's it. I don't need to boot a windows/linux disc and reinstall GRUB/N |
I just don't understand people around here. It's like they don't realize you can quote them on their own statements.
>Yes, there is a better deal out there, but I don't know how sustainable or profitable it is.
Let me rephrase this is terms of the topic at hand: "All this talk of bad Comcast is bullshit, because my service is great. Better deals don't mean I should support more choices, because I don't believe those companies are profitable, ergo the choice must be worse...despite its cheaper cost. Also I love cognitive dissonance because I hate limited choices, and I am also just fine paying 10x more than other people do."
>My only point was that everyone talks about how shitty the service that comcast gives is.
My point was no they don't, you're creating straw man arguments. A few people talk about service problems, like any customer. Your view is skewed if that's what you think the issue is. Nobody really cares about customer service or connection issues because Comcast, while not perfect, is fine. Most people care about net neutrality, consumer choice, and cost for service. |
I got mine 3 weeks ago and it sucks. It cuts out half the time and only once have I gotten 200 mbps and then it immediately died. I've been averaging 50mps. It's frustrating because we are paying 70$ and it's cutting out more than xfinity. The fiber google fiber rep said it is more than likely a problem with the fiber optic cable in the ground. I live on 500 N. |
False, Apple released a white paper about their iCloud security practices. They by far exceed industry (and Google's) best practices and are effectively NSA proof. Read more here:
Too many people think because Apple makes simple devices, they must be simple underneath the hood. Apple engineers are fanatical perfectionists, they may be a year or two late to the market with something but the shit had better work flawlessly or someone is fired. I sure as hell would not to work in that environment, but it does get results. |
Google is able to roll out where it is due to local government's open arms and bypassing a bunch of BS regulation which prevent competition. |
We can put whatever names we want on it but Google's structure simply doesn't fit anything we see anywhere else. Its tall and wide, flat and thin all at the same time.
My preference is to decribe it as tall as you can directly track your superior's superior's superior ^7 on the internal employee website, all the way up to regional executives, global executives and the website. Its harder to tell exactly who is on your 'level', because again its also very wide. But not flat. |
Just a little note: Years ago I was absolutely fucked off with the politics at work. I was getting more and more marginalized. I started looking for work however due to a family trauma I had to put that on hold. So I stuck it out for a few more months, getting more and more pissed off.
One day I was in a company meeting where the mgmt presented graphs on how much extra money the company had made in the past year and I suddenly decided to resign there and then. Luckily I called a friend before I did it and they told me to sleep on it. Well thanks to that call I didn't resign, I started interviewing and got a good offer. So I drafted my letter one morning, when an email arrived asking for a meeting between my mgr and the hr mgr later that day. So I thought that would be a good opportunity to present the letter, so I cleared my desk quietly at lunch.
I went in and the long faces in the room and the 15 min "we're sorry, blah blah...challenges... financial cut backs (!!!).. etc." told me that I should hold fire. I was laid off and got enough money that would keep my family going (at a pinch) for 6 months. I started work 2 days later at the new firm.
The best bit was changing my linked in profile just after I signed the paperwork for the new company (the same day as the lay off) so all my mgrs & colleagues got updates the next day telling them about my new job, at the same time everyone got the email telling them about my lay off. |
Many engineers are TLs ("tech leads"), which means they support and mentor a few other engineers, but they aren't that person's manager. They spend most of their time writing code. It's just that they have the most technical expertise, so they're your point of contact for help.
That's exactly what I'm referring to. Even in the case of, for want of a better phrase', the foot soldier, there are teams and subteams with smaller divisions. Its not simply one manager and 30 people reporting into them.
And as you've pointed out there is very little management , even though there is management. Hence, everyone of these small subdivisions is really classified as management . |
How about people actually read the article.
The FCC doesn't care, and isn't supposed to care, about what we think. It's supposed to execute the law. A layperson's opinion about something doesn't mean anything, which is all that this article is saying. The article also goes on to say that form letters are successful when sent to your representatives. |
Yes... of course the apps had to be made. The point is, they already have been.. so you don't need to make more (unless you wanted to add touch capability I guess?).
TCO. Total Cost of Ownership. If you spend more money maintaining or setting up one solution than you would with another, without any REAL benefit, then don't do it. Go with the better TCO. In this case, I firmly believe that's with the Surface. It ties in perfectly with the rest of the network, rather than having to shape the network to suit the device.
As for your stop gap notion, I think you're wrong. The keyboards are different, and take some getting used to, but the device as a whole works extremely well. The stylus is also an incredible and often overlooked addition that could be an entire conversation unto itself.
I don't have a clue why you'd think an iPad would be any more relevant in 20 years time than a Surface Pro 3. |
There will always companies that use old stuff, Dollar General still uses IBM computers from the 80s. Most move on as technology changes.
By stop gap, the only reason it's relevant is because the majority of programs for business are still for non tablets made years ago and slightly changed over the years.
Once they make the jump to a full touch interface, it will be for iPad. I mean IBM just signed on to move some 40,000 business applications over. The Surface is just a Laptop with a touch screen and removable keyboard.
Not to mention judging from Microsoft's numbers the Surface grew to selling a total of around 1 million, and the iPad fell by 1 million got a total of 12 million. I think a lot is saturation on the iPad's part, they last a long time, people don't upgrade like they do the iPhone.
We will see, but I don't see in 20 years physical keyboards being here at all. Like Typewriters, some people still swear by them (even some young kids) most just adapt/died off, as the new generation writes them off. |
While the author identifies the actual root cause i.e. the lack of competition in the market, the solution is apparently to treat a symptom of it and not the actual issue.
ISPs are natural monopolies because the average cost of providing connectivity drops with more customers. To get around this issue in Europe, many regulators mandated local loop unbundling which means challenger ISPs must be given access to the last mile network of the incumbent i.e. from the exchange to the home. Now that the scaling issue was removed from the equation, the markets for broadband became much more competitive. The prices charged for the leased lines need approval from the regulator.
The two obvious issues are (a) how does a challenger ISP compete if they can't differentiate on network speeds and (b) doesn't this still not solve the problem of "no incentive to upgrade the network" as all traffic runs over the same last mile anyway.
(a) ISPs differentiate in a number of ways: price, customer service, bundling of other services e.g. mobile or TV service, extra content, other reward schemes etc.
(b) This can be true for the actual last mile of infrastructure, but as the core network is not covered in the leased line, there is plenty of incentive to be as efficient as possible at that end of things. It also help an ISP who does want to build their own fibre/cable to scale initially so they don't automatically get screwed over by the economics mentioned in the article. |
There's a lot of attitude like this in the comments. While I understand where it is coming from, I think it's important to point out that this is exactly what those lobbying against initiatives like this count on.
Look what happened when people spoke up to the FCC during the net neutrality debate. Sure no real solution yet, but it at least paused the railroading we were about to get when politicians noticed we were paying attention. Same with CISPA.
This wireless initiative could be spun as the solution to net neutrality. The REAL problem is not the tiering, fast lanes or data caps. It's the lack of competition.
If I could get reliable wireless to replace my wired cable I'd do it in a heartbeat. And overnight, just like when Google Fiber comes to town, speeds would go up 4x and customer service would start to improve dramatically.
I'm as cynical as the next Redditor. But I'm starting to notice more and more how our attitudes (ex: "it will never be any better") are being used against us so that we are complicit with not pushing for something like this! |
I believe that if the government left the market entirely, less competition would happen because at that point there would be no entity that would interfere when it comes to mergers and I believe that mergers would happen, especially without the barrier of government preventing them.
The point of a company is to make money; What makes more money than becoming the biggest player and gaining the power to shut out smaller competitors.
Yes, the government allowed said mergers to happen in our current marketplace, resulting in the beasts that are time warner and comcast but those mergers would have happened without government.
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As usual, the 'everything should be free!' argument is nonsense.
You must associate a cost with any scarce shared resource (in this case, the limited bandwidth that this system would provide). Otherwise, bad actors will be free to abuse the system. |
This]( was the most recent article I saw through a quick google search about Overstock. Read the last section, "Powerful Metrics" of the article for a |
There are actually many ways to backdoor hardware. One of the more insidious one that security researchers are wary of are the new instruction sets from Intel that speed up AES functions.
The idea is that the instructions may very well speed up processing but we don't know if the logic has been tampered with - i.e. pre-programmed with a magic number that the NSA would have so that every time you use the function, the processor uses a seemingly random number but it's derived from something obvious i.e. the local time or a hash from the NSA plus a magic number that could be used to work backwards to break your encryption.
Then there's higher level backdoors like Intel Management Engine that constantly listens to a port whenever connected and is literally (even advertised) as always online.
This would allow anyone with Intel's signing key to update/overwrite their low level firmware and give them direct access to memory (encryption keys, private messages/files, everything would be in memory at one time or another when accessed, not to mention being able to download trojans in secret) which is a very bad thing.
DMA or Direct Memory Access is also present in AMD's processors which until recently patched via BIOS thanks to a security researcher working for free, allowed the thermal co-processor to be attacked via software. In short, a virus that's nigh undetectable if run by exe could be installed and permanently bug your system. With the ability to do pretty much anything it wanted.
All Qualcomm processors have a modem CPU that boots first, called a primary processor running it's own black box firmware that is susceptible not only to backdoors but also security exploits. If the NSA decided to bug the primary processor firmware for example, at boot time it could potentially via DMA inject code into the OS at boot to mask itself and upload everything you access to their servers in secret. |
This is something of a misnomer.
Story time: as graphics cards become more powerful, resolution increases. Once resolution increases to the current highest standard then Nvidia and AMD start ramping up the power to support multiple monitors at that resolution from a single card. After that is stabilized then they work towards clock speeds, memory performance, etc.
Typically when new tech breakthroughs are achieved graphics cards quickly follow, once the graphics cards can support these new standards then monitor companies will start producing them to those new standards, and since TVs and Monitors share a lot of common tech these days you get 4k TVs and monitors typically around the same time.
Next comes mobile devices, usually around the time graphics companies figure out how to support multiple monitors on a single chip set, they can also shrink it down to support that resolution on a single / smaller display (phone/tablet)
Currently phones are coming in 720p, 1080p, and there's about half a dozen 4k phones the last time I checked (including overseas models)
Traditional Monitors are supporting Full HD (FHD) 1080p, and Quad/Ultra HD (QHD/UHD) which is 4k or thereabouts. We skipped right over 2k cinema and will jump into 8k by the next Olympics (some cameras already shoot 8k and 9k like RED)
Apple is putting 5k into their iMacs
Now that being said, larger resolution allows for more pixels. More pixels means more content onscreen at once and a larger amount of detail. However, things like fonts and icons for typical computer and phone usage are a set number of
pixels. If you cram a higher resolution into the same size screen then everything gets smaller - which doesn't make for very good usage because then you have to scale everything to compensate. |
No, I don't see how that could affect torrent download/upload speeds. DNS servers simply resolve hostnames -- that is, given "www.google.com", the DNS server will respond with either the IP address corresponding to that hostname, or the IP address of another DNS server that might know it. Once it's known, though, you no longer need to request it to download or upload data.
In any case, I'm fairly certain BitTorrent clients don't even use hostnames -- I'd expect such a peer-to-peer protocol to use users' IP addresses directly. |
I think GM will murder this just like they did with their last electric car.
And they wonder why they went into bankruptcy.
Edit: Downvoted eh? GM released the EV-1 on a lease program and took them all back with no reason. They then crushed them all. |
Although the company had more than 60 products in 1892, the number 57 was chosen because the numbers "5" and "7" held special significance to Heinz.
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Yes I am arguing semantics. You are accusing Apple of lying, based on your own interpretation of what they said and what you consider the Bamboo Touch to be. Your argument is, by very nature, predicated upon the semantics. There's nothing to argue here but semantics.
Your argument hinges upon several things.
First, it hinges upon the Bamboo Touch being considered a multi-touch trackpad. According to [their own website]( they consider it a "tablet".
Secondly, it hinges upon the interpretation of "The first Multi-Touch trackpad for Mac desktop computers." As you can see from the expanded text in the first paragraph, this is referring to the fact that the Magic Trackpad is the first multi-touch trackpad specifically designed to work with Mac desktop computers. This is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of the phrase "for Mac desktop computers" that was used in the header. It's also not at all common to make a fairly bold claim in a header and then explain in the description how you're supposed to evaluate the bold claim. In this case, you're supposed to evaluate it in the context of peripherals designed for a Mac desktop computer. The Bamboo Touch is definitely not designed for the Mac desktop computer. It's designed as a general-purpose USB addon and it doesn't support any of the classic gestures that Macs provide for trackpads.
And lastly, it hinges upon you actually being right in the first place, even given your assumptions and the context in which you are evaluating the claims. You take issue with Apple claiming it is "The largest Multi-Touch trackpad ever". According to this site is 4.9"x3.4". And according to the [Questions & Answers section of Apple's Online Store]( the Magic Trackpad is 5.17"x5.12". This is definitely larger than the Bamboo Touch. |
This isn't a semantic argument though. And I'm not basing my accusation on my interpretation, I am basing it on the facts and what they said.
They are similar products. Call it a touchpad, a trackpad, or a tablet, it's still the same functionality. Wacom calls all their stuff tablets, that doesn't change what it is. Would a computer manufacturer calling their laptops a "notebook" make it not a laptop? It's the same thing.
I'm not arguing the line that says the first one DESIGNED for Mac desktops, it wasn't designed for them, but it VERY much was designed to work on them. And they are made for Macs. But Apple claimed it was the first for Macs, it's not.
As for the size claim, first, the Bamboo touch is larger even if the touchable area isn't. But, the Bamboo touch isn't the only multi-touch tablet they offer, they also offer the Bamboo Fun. It's touchable area is 7.5" x 5.1". Much larger than the Magic Trackpad. |
Personal aesthetics are fine, the problem is using university money to buy wireless peripherals that have more problems (they are rare but more common), cost more, and require more maintenance (batteries) just for aesthetic reasons and not usability reasons. What advantage does a bluetooth keyboard give you over a similar wired model? If you are using the keyboard/mouse from across the room for presentations then it is a usability reason and justifiable. |
While that is a valid viewpoint, I think of it like this. Google created a pretty good search engine. Since then, they've had a bunch of flops (wave, orkut), a bunch of tools that haven't gained mass adoption (docs, buzz), and only one tool that is a moderate success (gmail). They found a way to make money off of the one success they had, and it's fueled a bunch of flops. When I think about google, I think of search and ads. I use gmail, but just this morning I started the switch away from it. The problem, I think, is googles engineer-driven solution to everything, not a user driven solution. Wave was really cool- from an engineers perspective. The technology behind it was pretty nice. However, everyone I talked to about wave, my mother for example, just couldn't see why wave was necessary. See, and that's the difference between google and apple. Both companies are trying to create the next way to do something, be it email or videocalling. The difference is that apple knows how to make it work, for anybody, and justifies the existence of everything within it's ecosystem. Google comes up with cool stuff from a technology perspective, but fails really hard at implementing it. The thing is that google is basically printing money off of it's success in search and ads, and seemingly can throw large amounts of cash at multiple failures without it really hurting their bottom line.
Well I've been ranting for a little while now and I don't think I've come to any conclusive point. I don't even know what I'm talking about |
The only mistake the Supreme Leader made was letting random dissidents like you and the other traitorous scum posting their idiotic manifestos in this illegal webzone think that The Wave was a movement they could forget about.
Sorry comrades, The Wave is now a fundamental part of our society, the bleeding edge of bleeding edges that is being integrated into all aspects of your puny lives. |
Well lets look at some of the advantages Thorium reactors have:
There is no risk of proliferation or meltdown.
Thorium reactors can be made of almost any size.
A 500 ton, 100MW SSTAR-sized thorium reactor could fit in a large industrial room, require little maintenance, and only cost $25 million.
A hypothetical 5 ton, truck-sized 1 MW thorium reactor might run for only $250,000 but would generate enough electricity for 1,000 people for the duration of its operating lifetime, using only 20 kg of thorium fuel per year, running almost automatically, and requiring safety checks as infrequently as once a year. That would be as little as $200/year after capital costs are paid off, for a thousand-persons worth of electricity. An annual visit by a safety inspector might add another $200 to the bill. So a town of 1,000 could pool $250K for the reactor at the cost of $250 each, then pay $400/year collectively, or $0.40/year each for fuel and maintenance.
These reactors could be built by the thousands, to last hundreds of years, further driving down manufacturing costs.
We will simultaneously experience the abundance we always wanted from nuclear power with the decentralization we always wanted from solar power.
Star ships in the future will more than likely be powered by Thorium reactors, with only a few tonnes of Thorium needed to travel to distant galaxies.
It is 4 times more abundant than uranium in the earths surface.
It could end our dependence on fossil fuels within 5-10 years.
It can actually be weaponized, it's just harder to do so.
But you know, people are against it because of the start up costs and the fact they don't really understand what Thorium is. Politicians understand nuclear power and already have the infrastructure in place, why would they want to change that? |
Beat me to the punch. Anyway, disregarding the fact that juvenile "console/platform wars" is not the matter at hand, one still has to accept that certain platforms will have games that others won't. As a result, they will appeal to different people based on their preferences regarding their fiction. |
My experience with Windows 7 has been strikingly good since I adopted it during the RC1 phase. That being said, in the back of my mind, whenever a newly released update or service pack releases, the thought of immediately installing it instead of waiting a few days and seeing if any critical failures happen is scary in my mind. |
Sorry, I never really moved beyond traditional stereo as far as my home goes. I dealt a little in more advanced sound stuff when I worked with it but it's been 20 years so ...
But in general about speakers - You need to listen to them, and take your time, compare to other speakers. Bring your own CD with sound you know. If the place is professional they'll have no problem with you playing your own sound (I'm saying sound, to most people that's probably music but I like to also have some high quality recordings of human speech because we know so well how it should sound. Another really good sound source is strings like solo piano and classical guitars they will let you hear the balance between low and high frequency).
Play the speaker very quiet and very loud - the balance should be about the same. When played quiet details should still be clearly defined, when loud it must not sound flat (a sign of mild distortion). Good speakers are still pleasant to listen too even when played very loud. Another thing is that, though cheap speakers easily distort, the most usual source of distortion is actually underpowered amplifiers, and amp generated distortion kills speakers (and ears alike).
An unofficial rule of thumb is that the heavier the speaker the better (same goes for the amp). The reason being that a heavy speaker is an indication of bigger magnets which will give more precise movements of the coil. For the amp a heavier amp is an indication of a bigger power supply.
Personally I really like it when the piano base strings have that deep tight punch while also retaining all of their high frequency crispness and the full midtone body. If the speakers can do that when played at the absolute quietest and also when played at full volume I know that's the speakers I want. |
A 2007 article]( claims that YouTube comprised 10% of total Internet traffic in 2007 - and according to [this Wikipedia article]( global Internet traffic said year was 5,219 PB/month, or 62,628 PB for the year. Ten percent of that would be 6,263 PB of YouTube traffic.
Now, considering YouTube introduced 720p HD videos in 2008 and 1080p in 2009 (as well as general growth), I think we can assume the figures are much, much (orders of magnitude?) higher today. |
I'm sure its been said elsewhere, but I'll put my point across anyway on this rather bias article.
Microsoft isn't going after Google because Google isn't the ones manufacturing the devices, it's down to the hardware vendors as they are ultimately the ones selling the device to the public, this means
Microsoft can get more money from more sources
Microsoft has a better chance of success if it goes to the court room
Microsoft prices the licences so it makes more sense to pay up
Microsoft don't have to go against another Software giant
It puts Google in poor standing with the suppliers like HTC & Samsung
Also to go into depth with Motorola and Google tie-up, Google purchased Motorola because they were months, maybe even weeks away from announcing they and Microsoft are dropping the lawsuit and are going settle. This would be nothing short of Catastrophic for Android (at the moment Microsoft licence more than half of the US Android phones), now 50% in a market is a huge number and all that was left was Motorola as the big player, Google knows they messed up the protection it offered to the hardware manufactures (Which was none) and also disregarded any patents they were stepping on (See Oracle lawsuit) and the fact they now own a manufacture and are actively seeking to defend it against settling, well thats just bad business sense.
(Oh and if Motorola did settle with Microsoft, they would of went after other Andoid manufactures who were patent infringing on them, so Google really had to step in and stop before Android manufactures started suing each other, one thing to have Apple and Microsoft suing your products but when your manufactures start suing each other then you have a problem)
Now it's safe to say Apple are only going after Andoid phones because they have Fuck all support, why not go after Windows phones? Well because those manufactures have the large giant called Microsoft ready to fire all patents at Apple (I mean both have claims to multitouch, the reward for Apple isn't there (and in fact will probably hurt it much more than Microsoft), this is why you are seeing HTC and Samsung ramp up Windows Phone development, you'd be crazy not to hedge your bets (especially with Google owning a hardware manufacture).
Also some rumours that it's not a licensing patent, but protection money where Microsoft will defend you in court if Apple accuse you of stepping on patent's they own (or at least claim to own), theres several ways to word two patents which mean the same thing. |
My biggest problem with IE9 (and 10) is that they increase the number of browser I have to support.
A new chrome comes out, I still only have to support the current chrome - Firefox 5 comes out - I can basically just test in that.
IE 9 comes out - I still need to test in IE6,7 and 8. When IE10 comes out, I'll have to test ie6,7,8,9 and 10. And so on.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really impressed with how MS are turning IE around, and how relatively quickly they are doing it. |
The "correct" answer he gave was worded to be an unreliable guess from a random blogger, rather than as the obviously accurate answer that it was. And it was followed up immediately by the phrase "no such notions" (a contradiction of the blogger's "guess"), and a quote from Google that doesn't support the "no such notions" statement at all. The article basically read like this: "Is it an Apple thing? Or maybe a Starfox thing? Nope, Google says: technical explanation of feature that has nothing to do with its origins. " |
Yes, yes, everyone should get really angry at the interpretation of an out of context excerpt done by someone who says that the EU Council has roughly 40 members. (hint: there are only 27 members)
1) ACTA is aimed at establishing an international framework to improve the enforcement of intellectual property right laws and create improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property. Negotiations were concluded in November 2010.
Basically it means that an international framework for IP will be established. Without knowing more about what that entails it is more or less meaningless to dwell on the interpretation.
2) EU treaties are primary law and they are taken "as is" by member countries. This isn't a treaty as such whatever comes of it will have to be put in practice by each country in its own way using its own laws, these regulations are not enforceable at an individual level without a national law.
Here it's also worth pointing out that many such regulations are postponed indefinitely by some countries and are put into practice basically at their own leisure. (yes, there are some penalties at EU level but that's not the point here)
Considering it's an agriculture and fisheries meeting, ACTA will most likely refer to other types of copyright and not music, movies and more on the lines of gm crops. In other words it's not an issue concerning Universal and Sony and so on and more on the lines of Monsanto and friends.
So if you do wan't to get riled up about something, wtf are gm crop agreements on the table considering that officially the EU is against them.
Also, don't compare it to SOPA, it doesn't presume to affect the citizens of another country. |
This is entirely incorrect.
Even in normal heart transplants, the parasympathetic and sympathetic fibers are severed. They are not reattached onto the transplanted heart.
Normal heart rate (HR) is controlled by hormones within the blood stream (adrenaline like hormones, which speed up the heart) and parasympathetic nerves (Vagus Nerve) which slow the HR.
The heart has an intrinsic rhythm of ~100bpm, which is usually slowed by the vagus nerve to rates closer to 70bpm (roughly normal).
When the new heart begins to beat, the vagus nerve is not present and the intrinsic rate dominates. There has been some research into regeneration of nerve fibers to the transplanted heart (
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Did anyone else read this and think - if you (no - not you, you) had one of these kind of hearts, and were with someone that had never heard of this, and they figured out you were walking around with no pulse - they might think you're a real-life vampire (or some kind of undead)? |
I've got AT&T. iPhone and a 256mb /month data plan. I reddit, tweet, download apps, browse the web, etc. The only thing I avoid while on 3G is YouTube, and any apps over 20mb or so (most are around 5 or 10). I get good data speed, better coverage than most, and a decent price.
I know what I'm getting, and I'm willing to pay for it. I don't go to McDonalds and to get a burger that looks like the burgers in the commercials. |
Yes and no. Verizon has over 100 million customers, a lion's share of which are on our 3G network. We're trying desperately to move customers that have LTE available in their area to move onto that network. It's not that the network is unused, it's just designed in an entirely different way. 3G is still essentially EVDO rev A. a relatively old technology, only capable of 1 -3 mbps TOP end. LTE I've seen pull 22 mbps on an LG Revolution. I know it's capable of faster speeds, but that's the best I've seen. |
3G devices activate and operate on the same network our 1x devices have and still do. Our LTE devices perform SIMOTA which stands for "SIM Over The Air" activation. When you first SIMOTA a device on a line, the 3G provisioning features immediately drop off and are replaced with 4G provisioning. What does this mean? Our network and database system will code your device for the LTE network and NETOPT will fall off. That means even if you don't live anywhere near LTE, you can still use unlimited data in a 3G network as if you were in 4G. |
Actually, I read your comment and no, that's not exactly what you said.
You simply made a claim, and provided no proof for it. You didn't even say you had proof, like you are now.
In response, I stated that mobile phones and USB devices have completely separate contracts... an entirely 100% factual statement. Then, I asked you to provide evidence that AT&T throttled users pre-dating their announcment to stop selling unlimited contracts strictly talking about mobile phones ... since you know... this thread is about mobile phones (hence me pointing out about the different contracts).
And then you said I was splitting hairs, which I'm not. I simply asked you for your relevant proof to your claim in this conversation. If you have it, provide it.
Don't say "I have no idea what you're on about". I asked you for proof... that's all. How hard is it to understand that? Again, if you have it, provide it. It's quite simple.
Your response of calling me a moron for stating an entirely factual and very relevant statement makes you look completely retarded, and there was no reason for it. |
I'm sorry, but I just had to burrow you (i.e. negatives already, but downvote). How in the holy fucking hell do you not see how much money is made from continued support. No to mention the relative security such support provides.
Not only do people continue to buy a dated product, but they also have years of tested (and potentially positive) experience to justify not forking over the cash for an "upgrade" that will have vulnerabilities.
I'm talking the same shill as Craigellachie, but I think he didn't emphasize enough that many companies rely upon software that works on a specific system. Upgrades and compatibility updates are more than just time consuming and costly. They can genuinely affect your quarter, or even yearly revenue.
One programmer assumes something that's not quite valid in the next release, and your week/month is fucked trying to track it down. Second best response I've seen to that situation is "roll back" to the original OS. It had fewer problems, cheaper, etc.
The best response was to keep up-to-date on OS reqs, but fuck-it-all if some people neglect a few things...
That being said, |
Plus you have issues with being able to actually use this to achieve anything.
You compromised the gear, good start. SSL crypto is still not going to get broken if you don't have a legitimate certificate.
They aren't likely going to be able to spoof a RSA key to intercept anything. |
I'm not a Linux user, but I've dabbled enough to be able to give you the basics. I'm sure someone more familiar can come along and go into more depth/tell me why I'm wrong.
I use a shell replacement in Windows. Start Menu, Taskbar, system tray, desktop full of icons? That's all your shell and I've replaced mine with something I've customized from scratch over the course of four or five years to do exactly what I want. It's taken a lot of work and I have to spend a lot of time buried up to my neck in configuration files, but the reward is worth it for me. I like that kind of thing.
Underneath my shell, however, it's still Windows. Linux is a whole operating system that operates under the same principle. It can be whatever you want - do whatever you want. You just have to be willing to put in the effort. There are distros (like Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc) that offer a place to start from or a common set of tools to work with.
The more functional benefits of Linux are there too - it's ostensibly more secure. Anything that alters, for example, configuration files requires confirmation from the user. Windows User Account Control does its best to replicate this, but Linux offers a more comprehensive security.
There are plenty of other benefits that I'm sure someone who knows more will be able to explain. AS I said, I'm not much more than a dabbler. |
r/technology is mostly consumer technology, and most of the conversation is about marketing / marketshare. Linux is considered not-a-subject because it's not commercial / mainstream / enterprise. |
Cool, but here in England (espcecially the south-east where I live) the issue is NOT how much money / time it takes to build a house. Building a house is relatively cheap, at least compared with buying one. The problem is getting land to build it on. Planning permission for new homes is pretty much impossible to come by, and you basically have to find an existing house and knock it down. It's not really that there's a lack of land: the majority of the land is used for unprofitable farming and a lot is just empty, but councils won't give you planning permission to change it to residential use. |
Most of them exist for safety. The NEC (national electrical code) is also NFPA 70 (the national fire prevention code, section 70). Most building codes are for safety regarding various structural forces that building may encounter (earthquake, wind speed, maximum amount of snow possible on roof) or other problems (moisture buildup causing mold).
There are a lot of codes that are bullshit though, but there are many more that exist for a good reason. For example, many coastal regions now require all outside outlets to be made entirely of stainless steel with anti-oxidizing connectors. The problem is that that rule is enacted at a national level and it's up to local codes to exclude it. The reason for this is that everyone has to use these $10 plugs unless their local rules specifically say that they are not needed in that area. So, rules like this have their ups and downs: They make everyone follow the rule unless their local government can justify not following the rule.
However, saying that the rules are "jacking up the price of building homes..." is a slippery slope to homes that are irreparable. Unless they create some very creative wiring mechanisms using existing materials and within accepted building codes, they will have to create new robot specific codes to both standardize the practice and maintain safety. |
No matter what happens, there will always be scarcity. Think about an average person 100 years ago, for example. That person would be very happy with 1/10 of the goods and services that the average person today demands. As time goes on, there are always new things that people want, that you couldn't have even predicted a few decades earlier (e.g. who in 1970 would have thought that having a 1Gb Internet connection in their home would be nice?) What would make you happy today (say a house, car, maybe $80k/year job, health insurance) would only be 1/10 of what a person wants 100 years from now. |
No disrespect to your father, but because they were able to automate his job, goods were able to be delivered to everyone else at a cheaper price. This hurt him, but benefitted the rest of society. The reason you can buy a gallon of milk today for $5 today, instead of $25, is because of efficiencies that put people out of work. If I remember correctly, the average family 100 years ago spent over 60% of their income on food. Today it is like 20%, and we eat MUCH better foods (e.g. fruit, vegitables, more meat) than they did back then. |
i've come about as close as one could reasonably expect to that, i think. i've been a linux enthusiast since high school, and a software developer for just as long. i've also always been a fan of open source software and systems programming.
my job is linux systems programming, contributing to an open-source project that i have personal interest in and used extensively on my own time as well, even prior to being hired.
i actually have very little complaints about my job other than the hours, and have lots of opportunities to "think big". often times that thinking will lead me to adding items to my "wouldn't it be cool if..." list.
but ultimately the #1 focus is profit-driven features, whereas with no burden of needing to support myself i could contribute code/ideas that aren't ultimately tied to a particular corporate strategy (which only in maybe half the cases have any academic value). so that list just keeps getting bigger. |
This is a cool idea, but its still a long way off from being practical. At best this technology could be used to make cheap, functional shelter. The concrete walls look like they would use a massive amount of concrete. Every house would need like 30 truck loads compared with 10 truck loads of brick/wood that's used now. That's going to cause more green house emissions from increased cement production and also wear out residential roads that aren't made for loaded cement trucks to roll through all day long.
Not to mention you'd have stepping effects from this just like all 3d printing methods. He talks a lot about arches and curves and architectural features, but any layer by layer technology suffers from step effect. At a house sized scale it would look awful.
They also can't do a lot of things without having humans come in after walls are laid. Green buildings are the hot thing these days. That means 12 inch or more thick walls to get R values way up. You aren't going to pour 12 inch thick concrete walls. (also his demo wall had no insulation and concrete isn't known for being insulating). You can't do any of the finishing work in a house that we traditionally have with this either. Like drywall or trim or even plastered ceilings.
Someone on youtube said it best. This isn't that much different than current onsite ground up modular construction techniques. This just looks much more expensive. |
I couldn't agree more with this statement! It's time for people to stop looking towards convention economies< conventional governments, and conventional lives. Hopefully technology can be advanced to a point where no one has to work, everyone has shelter, everyone has food, and everyone is free to explore their true callings. A unified world based purely on the resources available to mankind is what I dream of every night when I sleep. Science and technology would thrive if not for the restrictions of 'funding', therefore so would society. I can't wait till technology out paces the archaic monetary based economy we have in place now. I'll be pirating car parts, tools, furniture,a house, and whatever else I can once 3d printing becomes a norm in this world. |
We only had the industrial revolution to test this theory on a massive scale , but today's technology is different : instead of replacing one capability of humans-muscles , it's on the verge of replacing many or every capability of humans and at a faster rate. |
You still gotta pay taxes! Buying land is swell but you will never get out of paying taxes as long as that land is part of an existing country. Not to mention electric bills; that is unless you have your own generators. You will need fuel for machines (and the generators if you dont want to pay the electric bills) and then there are things like television, the internet, and cell phones (or regular phones if you want to be old fationed about it) that are impossible to create independently in such a small society. These things require a sustained income, aka a job. If a systemic societal change (like the one discussed on this thread) is going to happen it would have to happen on a world wide scale. I would love to live in a society with zero employment, it sounds fantastic, but society still has a long way to go before it is feasible. |
You all should get the point that this was a German group and basically there are other rules of free speech and so on.
I'm a German my self and i don't get how people even consider that allowing a group like the KKK is normal in the US.
However there were some attacks of a nazi group about a year or so ago
and it just got so far because nobody cared about the group.
Here in Germany it's normal to report everything which is considered extreme in a political view.
Also every service which wants to run in a country have to keep to their law. |
Then obviously you have comprehension issues.
Copy/paste from the second link:
I understand this is a benefit, but how much space does a Micro-SD card slot take? I don't see why we can't have both.
There's no particular hardware reason a device can't have both. The problem is that there is no good UI for it.
One of the core Android principles is that you never need a file manager. Ever. We wanted to avoid the obnoxious "sneeze and a file picker appears" syndrome of basically every other OS. Local data that apps know how to handle should just be magically available within the apps, or stored in the cloud. You shouldn't have to go spelunking on your SD card to find data.
The problem with having both internal storage and SD cards is that suddenly that goal gets a whole lot harder to achieve. For a given shot, should the camera save to internal-16GB, or to SD card? Should an app from Market be installed to internal or SD? etc.
Yes, we can solve this by letting the user choose, or have it be in settings. But then, that's a file picker, or close enough to the file picker experience that we dislike it just as much.
And besides that, there are API consequences: if you stick in an SD card with photos on it, do you add those to the system media content provider? If you do, you will screw up apps because they aren't designed with the concept that photos can come and go.
What we will probably do eventually is add an import/export concept to removable storage. So the Camera will always save to internal-16GB, and when you pop in an SD card (or insert a thumb drive on USB host devices) you can start a migration or import/export dialog.
But until we have that, devices will generally either have an SD card, or a large internal storage, but not both. I totally get that a lot of people like SD cards, and I miss USB Mass Storage myself. But then, that's why it's great that there are so many devices to choose from. :) |
Well first up let me say I support the concept of a government funded fiber solution within Australia. The issue I have with it is the implementation. But first let me take a back step and go over some of the big issues the Australian internet market has faced.
The single biggest mistake made by government when it comes to telecommunication and the internet is the sale of Telstra. Now I know there's two sides to the coin regarding privatization as a concept so I'm not going to go into that.
What nearly everyone in the know agrees though is that before sale Telstra should at least have been split into two companies. One company would have ownership of all infrastructure the government build and remain in government hands. The other company, Telstra the phone and internet service provider could either be sold or kept and there are advantages to both.
Because Telstra was kept as a single entity we have a bizarre situation where a private company has control of crucial infrastructure that their competitors need access to in order to compete. Telstra have been able to leverage this to stifle advances and keep costs high by charging other providers however much they wish.
Now along comes the NBN and rather than playing hardball and fixing the mistakes of the past Gillard gave Telstra an our and exchanged access to existing Telstra infrastructure for a significant stake in the NBN project for Telstra. What this essentially means is that when we finally had an opportunity to break the monopoly for the first time in over a decade we didn't do it.
So we're going to have the same situation where far too much publicly funded infrastructure is in private hands that have never had to pay for it. So 1 or 2 decades from now when the next step from fiber comes out we're going to be in yet the same situation. |
In this situation the lawyers get up to 1/3rd of the settlement PLUS expenses. Now if math serves me, 1/3rd of $1.1b turns into 363million (PLUS expenses). 50 lawyers on this case?? 100?? Took 5 years to complete??? 100 lawyers working 5 years turns into $726,000 per lawyer-year. I can't imagine 100 lawyers ONLY working on this one case for 5 years straight but I think everyone would agree if they each took in $726,000 a year for 5 years they did ok.
I truly respect and appreciate their work and efforts.
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Seriously, the only ones who "win" are the lawyers involved. Yes, I have gotten the wonderful <$5 check or whatever credit or the obligatory free fry with purchase, etc.
Now look at the lawyers involved, they get 40 to 60% of the total award. While yea, its great they got the end user the dollar two ninety eight they walk away with MILLIONS for their efforts. |
Some points about this:
Opec is just 42%(or was last I saw) of production.
Most of the US's oil comes from Canada and has been sold onto an open exchange since the 70s.
Oil is shipped hundreds/thousands of miles and has a massive production industry behind it for less than a dollar a litre (I'm not including taxes in that).
Profit margins in most of the oil industry is about 7-9%. That's not high by any real evaluation, especially given how inelastic demand is.
How much of the oil price is taxes?
It's not the oil companies you need to be looking at for high prices, if just for the profit margin reasons alone. Want cheaper oil? Taxes are probably the best place to start. |
This could be a reflection on Bose, too. We purchased a Bose system that had to be sent to the shop for the same problem twice while under warranty. About a year after the warranty expired the problem returned. At that point I had the Bose for nearly 5 years... I called them up, told them it was broken again, that I should have purchase Sony, but no I bought Bose because its supposed to be great and instead its junk. They instructed me to return it to the Bose store and pick up my brand new one... |
Maybe you are just getting old. I don't think the demographic you are describing are the ones with much time to post on facebook. My facebook newsfeed is as busy as ever. |
That still doesn't work, because the copyright is generally owned by their label.
An album is also the product of multiple band members and producers. Jim Morrison died at 27; what happens to The Doors' catalogue?
However, let's say the copyright IS owned by a single person. Let's say it's an author who is 30 years old, supporting his young family, and he has a NYT bestseller.
He gets killed in a car crash. Suddenly it's public domain?
"Sorry your husband/daddy died. Also, we are taking away your family's source of income, effective immediately. Good luck!"
This also would create a perverse incentive to kill off people who are past their productive years. Want the Beatles catalogue to go public domain?
Or if the label retains copyright, but gets to stop paying royalties, then they can off the artists (say, via exploiting known drug-use habits and a resulting OD) and keep the cut for themselves.
Right now, if something happens to you, your beneficiaries keep getting paid (spouse, children, etc.), and if they get offed, the next heir(s) in line get paid, etc., etc. This is a disincentive to a corporate cash-grab, which is generally a good thing .
At the moment, there simply IS NO GOOD ANSWER in the face of human bodies still requiring scarce physical resources. The copyright dilemma will only be resolved when scarcity is no longer an issue -- when everyone has their needs met re: food production, housing, medical, etc. via automation / AI robots / nanotechnology / VR / take your pick.
Until then it's just a matter of trade-offs and compromises.
And why should it be limited to virtual resources? Think of who owns all the land, and WHY they own it, and how it got that way. It's even less fair .
It all comes down to one simple thing: Those with the power make the rules. Historically, that means warlords. World history is all about wars, and who won and conquered and took things that didn't belong to them.
If you were willing to use swords and kill, you could seize land and be a "noble", and make people work on your land for next to nothing, the peasants who either didn't want to participate in the killing of other human beings, or did want to but lacked the weapons and fighting force to mount an effective opposition to your steel-fisted rule. |
That's why you never ask a bureaucracy anything. If you ask for their opinion: they are going to give it.
Pretend they did give their blessing.
You just know someone is going to charge that MTA did something wrong. People are stupid; and like to complain any anything . They're going to want to know who, knew what, and when. They're going to want e-mail trails, and phone records.
> MTA officials denied today any involvement in the production on the map. But new e-mails today revealed communication between MTA officials and the authors. MTA spokesman, Chalise Tabernac, denied that the e-mail represented an official response; saying it was an employee's own private e-mail.
And so rather than have to deal with any shit - it's easier, faster, safer, cheaper, better PR, to say "No".
The lesson is: never ask.
Then, when asked by reporters, the MTA can deny any involvement in, knowledge of, or support of this terrorist training simulator. |
This is sensationalism at its finest. The article states:
>there are a ton of new settings in there now, including many items that were previously only available in the desktop-based Control Panel interface. This is clearly an indication of how we get from here (Windows 8) to there (Windows 9, with potentially no desktop)
So they've added additional features into the "Metro" version of PC Settings previously only represented in the traditional control panel even in today's Windows 8. |
A person can become addicted to anything that gives them an emotional reward. In the case of Facebook and other social media, this comes from the feeling of connectedness that a lonely person experiences when someone interacts with them - I think we're all familiar with the chemical rush you get when you notice a new message, or when someone likes a post that you made, and when this is a rare occurrance (as with someone with few friends, for instance), it can cause a momentary high of sorts. Generally people with social media addictions check their accounts so frequently because they crave that feeling of quantified non-isolation, and like a Pavlovian experiment where you have to press the lever twenty times before getting a treat, they'll continue to repeat the action that leads to the reward (checking Facebook) until it pays out. Also, even when not being directly interacted with, the fact that you're privy to aspects of people's lives that you'd normally never learn outside of actual conversation can cause a more subtle illusion of connectedness. |
The argument shouldn't be whether or not to quit Facebook or stop Redditing. They are fads that advanced as the technology evolved. Think of television, "Oh my gosh my favorite show is on", nine seasons later the show had it's run.
The difference is that Facebook has maintained a share of the Interneterverseosphere by swallowing practically one sixth of the world's population. Think of a television show with a billion viewers and I'll figure out why Facebook doesn't matter. |
Isn't quitting cold turkey far easier than learning to use something in moderation, though? I find it challenging to have just a few drinks or just the occasional cigarette, but it feels more rewarding than tee totalling. There's something about quitting something completely that feels like a surrender, as if i'd be saying to myself "I can't be trusted to do this properly, i can't be around it" |
You are incorrect. Throwaway account as I work for one of these private companies, and I can tell you the speech reco of some of them is amazing especially the more CPU you throw at it. With just a few racks of commodity hardware it is absolutely possible to run speech reco on youtube's daily volume (72 hours/minute -- really small volume actually, that's only 103,680 hours per day), and with an accuracy rate in the 80% range as long as you get uncompressed audio. i am confident the three letter agencies are doing this, and if not on all calls then at least all the interesting calls... |
As someone who works in the IC, and someone who has experience with the FBI's conduct of terrorism investigations, you can all rest assured that neither the NSA, the CIA, or the FBI is just gathering everyone's personal communications up into a huge database somewhere. Any redditors who know, or can Google, anything about the FBI's track record with IT and IT systems would know that collecting everyone's personal communications is a bridge too far, on a number of levels.
Is information collected on Americans, and/or people living in this country? Yes - sometimes, and only with sufficient justification. The rights and information related to US Citizens is highly protected. For Longterm Permanent Residents (green cards), the information is still protected, and the information and communications of non-US Persons (USPERs) has somewhat less restrictions on it.
I realize that trying to throw in my $.02 against this thread is useless, because so many people seem to have preconceived notions of what the government is up to. That being said, as someone "on the inside," for lack of a better way to put it, I can only relate so much information to fellow redditors before I start running into things that have to be kept, well, secret.
As I have heard people say time and time again, "We spend enough time and money going after the terrorists, we have no desire, time, or money, to go after Americans. We're not worried about them."
I'm paraphrasing, but there's enough Real Work to be done without chasing after everyone's cell phone conversations. The IC, including the FBI, is made up of normal people doing good work, and trying to protect this country. Are mistakes made? Yes, because we are only human. But the version of reality that is presented in the news is not the reality I see everyday at work, and as I mentioned previously, it's very hard to defend the IC and the work being done because of the constraints on what can and can't be said. |
I work in a supervisor capacity over the central office equipment in a small rural phone company. I can't speak for what other phone companies do but I can guarantee that phone calls made between our customers are not recorded by anything. If someone in one of our towns calls someone in another one of our towns that call never leaves our network and it is impossible for it to have been recorded by any means that we wouldn't know about. |
You call it being a slave, but what's really happening is that you are consistently making the same choice. If google goes down, then you'd just make a different choice.
By the way... the only reason that a google search is so fast is because they are using tens to hundreds of thousands of computers to precompute things and make it faster. And thousands more to store all their own data.
No matter how much you want to, even if Google literally gave you all the code, you would never be able to run it yourself. |
Actually you couldn't create frictionless wetted surfaces (it would do the opposite) with this since the water would be pushed out of the way when the two surfaces would come in contact. This is the same reason it stops surfaces from being "slippery when wet". Any good lubricant combines 1) adhesion to the surface to be lubricated and 2) repulsion of the opposing surface which is coming in contact with it. NeverWet would violate #1 |
The edge is such a cool phone, but it's so effin expensive. I understand you pay a premium for capability, but it's twice the price of a nexus now . That's going to be the hardest part to compete with because there's still a whole year of unannounced phones that are going to be cheaper and have better specs by that time. |
Wrong . I assume OP doesn't work in finance. The S-1 is filed when a company shows interest in an initial public offering. Approximately 50% of companies that file an S-1 choose to stay private. |
They showed enough interest to announce that they filed the form and are actively planning an IPO.
So, is Twitter going public? Yes, unless some kind of business catastrophe happens. Big companies don't announce confidential filings like this unless they're planning to follow through. |
In the 8+ years I've used Linux I've never had that happen except once when I'd manually installed the Nvidia driver (I needed the latest version for the hardware I was using) and forgot to update it when I got a kernel update.
This is an issue of the makers of your distribution not keeping dependent package versions in sync and could happen with other solely free software too (e.g. mismatching glibc and kernel versions). |
Actually, that's exactly the truth. We use both NVidia Quadro and AMD FireGL at work.
The NVidia cards are supported by the proprietary drivers for decades, so that's what I generally recommend to home users, especially budget minded users who don't upgrade regularly. We use them in our designers workstations, but occasionally we get an AMD card here.
The AMD cards are supported for a only couple of years by the proprietary drivers, but they are great for GPGPU work, something NVidia still isn't very good at. By the time AMD drops proprietary driver support, we're upgrading anyway. Faster cards means faster simulations and time is money... all that. Aside from the GPGPU, both vendors drivers are equally good IMHO.
The big difference is that by the time AMD drops support from their proprietary drivers, the OSS drivers are actually getting some good performance. So I recommend AMD to home users who want to do GPGPU for whatever reason or that are a bit technically advanced and just wanted AMD for some reason (it was cheaper, didn't have a fan, whatever). With AMD there is a year or two where either you can't upgrade X11 and maybe even your kernel if you want the proprietary driver to keep working, during which the OSS driver will work, but with less performance. The performance catches up over time, though, so after that year or two, just switch to the OSS and move happily on your way. |
AMD has the console hardware market cornered.
Why did that happen anyway?
Edit: Never mind, figured it out - Profits for them off of consoles sucked - [Source]( - |
That said, they are providing a product, and constructive criticism is the most important part of drawing the teams attention to flaws - its already well known that everyone loves VLC, so pretty much any criticism aimed at it is less "this blows", and more "it would be even better if"type stuff.
Free or not, you can complain, you could boycott, you could release a competitor and claim VLC blows ass, but since the VLC team actually cares about their consumers, that's why worthless criticism is bad. |
So they pushed this MacBook Air clone that lacked the speed, battery life, screen, panache, and general usability of the Air, all for more money than an Air"
I have the Asus Zenbook, and it's fantastic.
As fast as an air (it's an SSD, they don't get much faster, sure you can have a variety in speed between brands, but in real life use you won't notice that 1/10th of a second)
Battery life is 6-8 hours, I have Ivy bridge and it's pretty standard. Compared to Haswell, Ivy is bad, but it shouldn't be compared, it's a new generation.
Screen, LOLWUT, Apple still won't adopt a 1080p display, you either get "high def" or their retina display for an extra grand, and it doesn't even surpass what other companies are putting out there now, and since it's an odd resolution most non-apple things don't scale to it anyways.
Panache: I personally think the brushed aluminum/glass of ultrabooks is much sexier than the plain aluminum apple uses, but that's a preference.
Usability? Has this person even used a windows machine (or any windows software at all), it's perfectly usable.
Price? I got a 3lb 13" laptop, with a 256gig SSD, i7 CPU, and 1080p display, for $1000. Apple comes NOWHERE near beating that price. |
would lead to extreme Internet censorship
[Citation Fucking Required!]
I'm serious, I've tried to figure out which sections of it they're actually referring to (their "three sources" are useless) but it seems like everybody screaming the word "censorship" is either:
Mindlessly parroting it from some other petition site or Youtube comment
Deliberately trying to trick us by using the wrong word because it sounds extra-scary
Look, if the RIAA sues a guy for a bajillion dollars for sharing a song, that can be many bad, stupid, or greedy things... but "censorship" is not the right term for that! Just like how "thief" isn't the right term for the person the RIAA is suing.
> Trans-Pacific Partnership contains extreme SOPA-like Internet Censorship Plan
There are 96 pages in the PDF, so tell me where! Exactly what kinds of exploitable rules or penalties are involved, and how do they compare to SOPA? Where there are multiple versions under negotiation, why do you believe this version or that version will be in the final product? (Is the section even supported by the same country you want to petition?) |
The article states that China is the largest new driver of money flushing into the bitcoin economy. If we logically follow the fact that Chinese markets are hot right now per their policy of flooding local banks via loan creation, backed by their central bank (a policy rigidly enforced to maintain the appearance of growth), then we can easily see that bitcoin is simply another avenue of speculation and gambling, and not something that will continue to have immense value when the Chinese bubble pops. Essentially they are having a hard time controlling prices of all sorts there, thus the bitcoin legislation, and earlier controls on duration you could hold a housing unit for in some of the really heated cities. |
Although I may act like it sometimes, I'm significantly older than 12 years.
I have, however, read the federal Legal Tender statute codified at 31 USC § 5103 are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts."
Again, state laws vary, but most (all?) states treat a debtor's tender as performance of the debt. If the creditor refuses an otherwise valid tender, then the debt is extinguished. And unless the Uniform Commercial Code has changed it's position since 1978, the most substantive commercial law on the books throughout most states [recognizes the defense of legal tender for financial obligations.](
As an example of state-by-state variation, in my state of Louisiana, [tender must be accomplished by offering the sum of money owed, and if refused, depositing that money into the registry of the court.]( But, assuming the debtor does this, the obligation to perform for the creditor is extinguished.
Bringing this back full circle, if a Louisiana tenant signed a lease with a landlord that did NOT require payment via check, bank wire, bitcoin, litecoin, chickens, bartered services, or some other nonsense, then I would feel fairly comfortable arguing to the court that a debtor who offered $500 U.S. cash for a rent obligation valued at $500 -- which was refused by the creditor and but then deposited into the Court's registry -- satisfied the debt.
Further, if the landlord continued to complain, I'd feel comfortable arguing to the judge that the landlord's refusal to accept cash constituted a breach of contract, entitling the debtor to specific performance or recession of the lease (including attorney's fees, if provided in the lease agreement).
Would any of this be necessary or worth the tenant's time or money? Especially if the landlord was simply asking for the convenience of a check or bank wire? Of course not.
But do creditors who have bargaining power over debtors frequently demand things for which they're not entitled? Absolutely. Hopefully that's when the debtor calls his or her local, friendly, neighborhood litigator to discuss the issue. |
This is actually a pretty well written and detailed article. The internet and things like Twitter do not give people an excuse to threaten women, and other people. What I never seem to understand though is that things like Twitter are inviting the entire world to comment and are easily turned off.
If I decided to broadcast my thoughts and feelings to over 1bn people I wouldn't be surprised if a small number of the responses were violent in nature. The disconnect with the point of this article and the reality of the internet is that posting something on twitter is not like having a conversation with your colleague or friend. Its like having a conversation with the entire world and therefore you should not expect a measured response 100% of the time. This does not just happen to women either, which the article seems to suggest. To add to this the beauty about twitter is that you can ignore it. Its virtual and not real. If you suffer abuse on twitter then ignore it... By retaliating you are just fueling the fire. |
Yes unlawful because you likely could no longer afford insurance for it.
I love how car lovers think some robo law is going to force them into an automated car. That is not going to happen. Except for the already existing law requiring insurance.
When I purchase a car in 2025. The insurance comes with the car. The insurance is in case the automation fails and causes an accident. And it is GOOD insurance because accidents hardly happen.
So guess what? Without economies of scale you suddenly jump into ultra-uber-hyper risk category and have to pay top dollar for even liability. |
This is a bit short sighted and is potentially misleading to people who do not have in depth knowledge of an ISP. These would be installed at what is called a headend. This location will serve a specific geographical area. So while it may be true 20-30k to have the equipment for the fiber to reach be installed at the headend that does not include a lot of expenses. I work with probally around 100 CMTS's (equipment that is in charge of a cable modem) and the largest one that we have serves ~7000 modems. Not only is that not pennies per subscriber but that it at the larges head end. Furthermore speeds are not just determined based on how much bandwidth can get to a CMTS but by existing infrastructure. All of this does not even count the largest cost and that is the cost for the 10 Gigs (if not redundant) that must be spent by the ISP to whomever is the backbone carrier (eg Level 3) for that area each month. |
Yeah, that article is very uninformed. The author is correct in that the FCC's current proposal would lead to FCC AND ISP control over the internet. The ISPs will inspect every piece of data users send. It could even be compared to our terrible healthcare system here in the US. You'd have two sets of eyes inspecting everything doing no good and just increasing costs.
The term "legal content" jumps out at me as well. That's why this proposal sucks. It has the ISPs fingering your data along with increased costs of the FCC examining their techniques. Eventually it will be used to keep the Edward Snowdens out of the public spotlight. Granted, the tech sector will always find ways around this trash.
BUT, what we are all fighting for is the ISPs to be regulated under Title II. This regulates them in a way so that they themselves cannot regulate the content themselves. They will be paid to provide a service of transferring data. That's it. They will not be allowed to inspect every single packet flowing through their lines. Exactly as phone lines have been regulated for a few decades now.
Which is another point nobody ever brings up with this argument for Title II. I'm pretty sure the ISPs are pushing all of their customers with landline phones to the newer VOIP phone systems. I'm pretty sure that when telephone operates through VOIP that they are no longer falling under the Title II regulations. |
This won't pass, as lately everything in congress has so many additional, unrelated add-ons that someone is just going to filibuster it. We need so many changes to this government it's sickening, and the only people that can change it are the idiots in office that are so corrupt that they won't. |
The two Republican commissioners voted for no government regulation whatsoever. Republicans contend that the ISP's should not be hindered if they choose to enact fast lanes or charge whatever the market will bear. It's actually worse than Wheeler's plan who has at least installed provisions for checks. |
Internet service providers want to change the internet from "equal speeds for everyone" (how it is now) to "each company pays more for more speed." So Netflix would have to pay Comcast or Time Warner a bunch of money in order to keep up their streaming quality. Comcast or Time Warner could also charge end users for the same "fast lane" access, so you pay more on top of your general subscription to keep up the stream quality, too.
This bill would ban the latter. ISPs can still make "fast lanes" and charge Netflix and YouTube for quality access to their network, but they can't also charge you for it.
It's still good, but it's only addressing one small problem, not the whole thing. If this is all they do, we'd still end up paying more for Netflix, Hulu, etc., in what we have to pay to them, just not the ISPs. It'll give the ISPs a scapegoat for bad streaming quality, when really it's still the ISPs strangling the system for money. |
It's a disgustingly weak attempt at relevance by legislators starting to realize they're going to lose big in the next election.
See, they could have actually mandated net neutrality in law.. they don't need to order the FCC to do anything, they could have skipped past policy and classification and outright stated that net neutrality is the way the Internet in the US works. But that's risky for them because it might have unintended consequences, or at the very least upset communications companies. If those companies don't support the officials in question, they can surely support their opponents.
They could also force the FCC to reclassify ISPs as common carriers, possibly solving the problem as well. They have the authority to do that, too. It's still too risky for them, because they might offend the same communications companies with the reclassification for similar reasons.
So they put forward this BS, which is meant to take advantage of the public sentiment in favor of net neutrality to hedge their bets... the corporations running the show know these guys chose not to do anything to actually upset the apple cart, but the public generally won't know that, so they get to try to look good to both sides. Since this legislation probably will be edited out or defeated without actually being voted on, it's low risk. Even if it did get enacted, it's doubtful whether it would actually be binding and if it was whether it would actually work.
Sadly, there are in fact plenty of members of the public who will believe that these individuals are making a serious attempt to defend net neutrality. |
The republican commissioners did not vote against the proposal at the May 15th open meeting because they are opposed to "fast lanes". They voted against the proposal because they don't believe the FCC has statutory authority to promulgate any rules related to Open Internet (Net Neutrality) regulations.
Commissioner Pai's [Statement]( "For another, the legal consequences of moving forward with net-neutrality regulation are sure to
wreak havoc on the Internet economy, no matter which legal path we take." |
Throwaway for reasons that will become apparent.
I have just started training for Comcast. It is long, and 'different' than how Comcast has been training and doing things in the past. It is outsourced to a domestic company that is NOT getting anything near these kind of problems for the other companies they outsource for.
The training classes are ramping up heavy and fast, more than they have in the past, with an absolute focus on quality. My previous tech support background tells me they are, in fact, doing it right in the training.
I doubt it will be an 'instant turnaround', as it takes time (a lot of time) to train everyone up; there are many procedures, as well as federal regulations involved in this. But, I believe they will make a turnaround, here.
I have been told I'm a good tech, and my sense of ethics simply won't allow stuff like this call to take place under my watch (the company has already stated that ownership of the issue is very, very high priority; end-to-end). I admit I cannot personally turn around such problems in such a large corporation, but I know how I want to be treated, and I will treat callers that way. If they won't allow it because of red tape, then I'll know to look elsewhere for employment.
Too little, too late? For some people, yes. Is the oligopoly system broken; definitely. But, in many ways, Google has monopoly on many aspects of Internet use, and they do a decent job of not being evil. No reason why another company can't do the same. |
It is illegal in some states/provinces to record people without their consent. Where I work on the phone, I'm allowed to defend my privacy by ending the call if it is actively being recorded.
Please consider the miserable sod on the other side before recording. Odds are, outside of shit companies, they are gonna do whatever they can to sort you out. Give folks a chance before going YouTube on someone. DYK I deal with well over 100 people per shift who feel they've been wronged by my company. Yet we still somehow receive commendations on our product and customer service. Still some people feel they have the "right" to record me doing my job. How would you feel if I did the same? Not so pleasant is it... Having everything you've ever done at your job being on tape to begin with, then throwing in the factor of some shit-ass customer posting it online and framing you as the bad guy. Treat it as a last resort not a hobby.
The real benefit here is hopefully getting a union for over the phone customer service. Violating someone's rights tends to leave some civil suits wide open. And honestly it actually favors the big-wigs as well protecting their shit on under-paid help without a dime in the bucket.
I know Comcast is evil and such. But I'm talking about all customer service, not just this shit company. Please consider those who have more to lose than you do with your package arriving a day late, or your website generating less cash because you tried to sneak one passed the system, or because it takes a few days for an authorization to fall off your card (no one controls that but your bank, regardless of what they tell you). We're all just trying to get by. |
In case we forgot... it's the prosecutor's job to attempt to justify the evidence brought forth, and it's the judge's job to decide whether or not that evidence is actually legal/permissible. |
Not quite.... The tech industry would stall out almost immediately. IP protects your interest in producing new tech., and makes it possible for you to get paid for what you come up with. Developers would have no reason to develop anything, since manufacturers wouldn't have any reason to pay them. So, really the "tool box" would be getting bigger in the short-term, but would never be added to again.
Over the last hundred years there has been an exponential growth in technology. This growth would nearly flat-line, and the global economy would stagnate and collapse. Not only would original tech producers disapear, but our infrastructure would become wildly vulnerable to cyber attacks. The only way I could think of saving the global economy would be some kind of alternative government intervention where the government uses taxes to pay developers to create new software, just to keep up with entropy.
Sorry to go off on a rant there, but |
Latency is complicated; it could be any number of things. The actual physical internet connection to the tower could be causing it. There could be too many users on the mobile tower, or it could be your mobile phone not having enough juice to transmit to the tower. (I'm not an expert on mobile for the record, just the internet.) |
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