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I agree completely.
Torrents.ru had torrents of software from 1C Company . Relevant quote from WP: > 1C is also a leader in localizing and publishing Russian-language versions of international software. For instance, more than half of popular Western video games are licensed and published by 1C. The company has over 700 employees, 10,0...
Protips from a 20 year old computer tech- 1.Tell customer that they need to reinstall windows in the simplest way possible 2.Try and upsell them to Windows 7, if they don't already have it 3.Back stuff up with Linux disc on to an external HDD (optional; alternatively, tell customer that their stuff is too infecte...
It is a good idea and Apple probably would have released it anyway. Even without Hughes' initial release it probably would have looked a lot like how it does right now. The thing that is disturbing is that they wouldn't allow the guy who made it first, a fair shot in the marketplace. I understand they want to protect t...
Then that would have been Apple's way of competing. Libre office is an adequate alternative to Microsoft office, and it does most of what Microsoft office does. People are still buying Microsoft office. There are Linux distributions that are simple and easier to use than Windows and OSX. I'd say that 40% of all compute...
When someone is well established in a social network that satisfies their needs they don't want to move. Facebook satisfied their needs for something better where myspace failed. When G+ came out they were already well established on facebook. G+ did not offer anything especially new, on top of that they had an invit...
I wish I had the article, but someone basically demonstrated that the utility of money is important, and that money isn't perfectly fungible. Therefore, because of human nature, a poor person who has a few dollars left after expenses is going to be more likely to invest that in a one-in-a-million shot at solving all of...
No, the only chance for most people to earn more than 10million$ within their lifetime. I'm 25 now. With the current diploma and jobs I have, even if I'm as succesfull as can be in my field (publish 1-2 books, invent something usefull and get parts of the arnings), the max I could ever accomplish through hard work is p...
It's massive. While holding my iPhone 4 in my right hand, I can barely reach from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen without having to adjust the position of the phone in my hand. This reminds me of something else; I went to view a house the other day, and in one of the current tenant's room was a 50" fl...
I'm an above average in height white male. I own a Nexus S. I could have gotten the Galaxy Nexus for free. I chose not to get it because its too large for me to feel comfortable. I would have to really stretch to reach the upper left when holding it in my hand. Oh also the larger screen eats more battery and thus it di...
It has largely to do with the CRTC demanding that there's more Canadian content. But what doesn't make sense is that Netflix is a streaming online service, the CRTC regulars TV.
Reading this letter made me think of the internet and this fucking idiot like this: Filesharing was like a free for all in a candy store. so you run in there and grab fucking everything. your pounding every fucking candy you can get. your even smashing those liquorice sandwich things. and you fucking hate those liquo...
The whole point of this rant is that it details the state of the market for most types of entertainment/culture: movies, music, games, etc. By summarizing it you would lose a lot. But if that's what you really want:
Hi, I'm an electrical/electronic engineer who works for a standards body and I have to deal with these laws on a day to day basis. The way it works is like this: We get a customer who is looking to make a new product or has a prototype that want mass produced. In order to do that the product must undergo a series of ...
Only a troll would ignore
Actually, they likely would. Think about it: most of our laws work this way. US law (with one exception) is based on common law. That means that our law is developed through successive court cases that continually refine what the law actually is. Whether you're talking about the standard of negligence for medical ma...
Bottom line, trolls are like water, they will always find a crack. Somewhere along the line, some troll realized that these codes needed to be printed up, so the troll printed them up and sold them to people, probably for a buck or two. But trolls breed, especially when they've found a crack in which to dwell. So, mos...
This is not a case of you walking down the street minding your own business and getting thrown in jail for laws you have to pay to access. This is a case of (let's say) being an architecture firm who is designing a hotel with a fire stair, and needing to know the limits of tread with and riser height that people can re...
I don't have a lot of time to post, but I work within the mandates of published Standards, as well as assist in WRITING some of them. A few random bullet points: I HATE having to find the guy with the legal copy, or putting in the req'. to purchase the Standards. If the documents were completely paid for by the Gov...
Cure cancer, not prevent it. Cancer is caused by mutation in our own cells - basically, we make so many copies through out or lives that we're sure to make a few errors now and then, some of which are likely to be significant enough to cause mutations that are cancerous. Nearly 1/2 of the population ends up with some...
I work for a company that buys the latest version of SAE standards every few years. I've recently been put in charge of FMVSS compliance, and soon afterward discovered that when the government references outside standards, it never references the latest version. In particular, the regulation for windshield washers da...
No, this is a common law student way of thinking. Yes, that line of legal reasoning is in the books but that is not quite the same as getting to pack up your stuff and leave jail right now. If you have no other option of course a court's going to hear it, you're obliged to zealously defend your client to the best of ...
That's fair. One could posit a counter-argument that quoting the parents of your comment clutters the page and makes you look - excuse my informality - "noob-ish". For me it's reminiscent of people on forums who quote massive posts and append their own reply. The quote in that post adds nothing to the discussion but ...
Apologies, that was not intended as a vaguely racist/imperialist jab. The Internet is a development in human history on par with the discovery of electricity precisely because it belongs to more than one country. The whole world becomes your local community. As far as jingoistic networks go, let's see how those hav...
It's crap like this that makes the software vendors go crazy and keep adding more and more DRM for everyone who legally purchased software to deal with. Yeah... the article says "But there are times when you do own software that you can't access without pirating it.", but that's just B.S. to cover their collective asse...
MarkMonitor is just a full-service domain name registrar. You haven't heard of them because they target the big corporate market, offering services that fit their needs; among them, the promise that no domain in their control will ever be stolen by an unauthorized transfer. Many big names (e.g. Google, Facebook, Apple)...
I think OP meant that if you use another networking site other than reddit, i.e. Facebook, that you should stop it and use Twitter, because Facebook supports CISPA and the likes.
It means that Facebook does not care about pleasing you (the product), it cares about pleasing advertisers (the customers) . In the context of this story, it means Facebook doesn't care about how you are treated or what you think, and thus will not warn you or ask for your permission before fiddling with your account d...
Ok, everyone can flame and hate.....But I got this board the day it came out on newegg. I'm a mac user, and my primary computer is a MBP with thunderbolt, and a thunderbolt monitor..... And now everyone flame again, I will explain. At my last job doing IT, I did all of my companies outside consulting. I use my lapt...
Water is scarce in part because it is contaminated by waste. Waste from sewage. Sewage from improper water sanitation. Improper water sanitation which can be attributed in part to the lack of proper toilets. Improper water sanitation leads to illness and death. More deaths than AIDS. Improper water sanitation leads t...
I think we can all agree that MS has, if anything, hindered the business of making cheap, reliable PCs. Today, many PCs are half the price without MS software, but opting out of this software presents an incredible hindrance to those who wish to do business with the rest of western civilization. MS makes proprietary ...
I've been living in Thailand for a while (I'm American) and they have exactly the kind of handheld sprayers you are talking about, but they also just so happen to offer tissue rolls instead of napkins at the table at most restaurants. What I do is this: I use the handheld sprayer and then I wipe/dry myself off wi...
Thoughts... What if the surviving children that grow up in these areas of contaminated water and disease are actually destined to become some sort of superhuman race which can withstand things that no normal human can endure and are destined to become the next evolution in the human species, but this man, Bill Gates,...
Nowhere anywhere does anything say the FBI threatened his family (other than perhaps mentioning that they knew he had one). Regardless, what the hell would they threaten them with? Foster care? That'd last what, a day if they had other family that could claim them while his ass rots in jail. I hardly think FBI agents...
And to be perfectly honest I don't see what qualifications a "hardcore software developer" would need that would make SSDs so much more attractive. Source code and assets don't use that much space. 500 MB is much for a mid size project. But the ultra low seek times are great if you're seeking through many small files...
Just for a start: He founded a company for computer security, sold it just before it went bancrupt. He announced to invest in letsbuyit.com, boosted it's stock value, but never did actually help them out. Lied about hacking Citibank and transferring money to Greenpeace In the wake of 9/11, he founded "Y...
These types of articles are somewhat of a necessity. When experimental research discovers something,.. that information needs to be broadcast out somehow so that it may spur more research or inspire new explorations. It's not really desirable to "hide all the information until real-world results can be seen",.. because...
I am pretty much a no look apple hater, but this article is a bunch of worthless crap and I want that 5min of my life back. article
You can't both have speed and energy efficiency. Thats a big generalization, and there are usually work-arounds - this engine, for instance. By going high enough in altitude that you need rockets, the atmosphere is less dense. Its actually a Reagan-era idea (space-plane), covered by a lousy article. A car's frame...
Okay, there's a lot of misconceptions/misinformation here that I'd like to clear up. Source: Degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University (Neil Armstrong went there). SABRE is NOT a jet engine, it is a rocket engine. It is a solution to the age-old rocket problem of excess weight. By drawing oxidizer (air) ...
I do know what it means, I didn't bother to read anything but the first line in the article seeing as it seemed silly. If you'd like to
The problem is that apparently not even the zuckerberg's themselves know how to operate the privacy settings, yet they blamed it on poor etiquette of the blogger, who did nothing wrong. The blogger is friend's with Randi Zuckerberg's sister, who is also tagged in the picture. That is how it got in the blogger's news fe...
The fact that she gets pissed about it shows that she's only there because of the name. If it wasn't the name, then likely someone would have commented about her only being there 'cause she had nice tits. Or she was only there because she knew who to blow. This sort of shit is commonplace, and favoritism of one sort or...
They can't. In the past it has been something like this: Buy tv Tv salesman reports that you bought TV You get a letter stating you should pay If you don't pay they spam mailbox/phone and eventually shows up at the door where you can simply state that you have no tv and that, no, they can't come inside
In Sweden, around 98% own a television. The Radiotjänst knock the doors of people who aren't currently paying, however, they can't enter your house even if you invite them. In fact, they can't do anything really, unless you tell them that you do in fact own a TV, or they can see it. So unless you keep your TV right in ...
That's a problem that often comes back in politics : there are two fees you have to pay, for TV and for radio. You pay once per household. The TV + Radio costs approx 480$/year. Using the appliance or not, or using the appliance to get TV or radio or not, does NOT matter. You have an appliance, then you have to pay ...
In Canada our tax dollars fund the CBC which is frustrating because the only thing the CBC shows that is worth watching is hockey and I'm not a hockey fan. They were also the only major broadcaster that didn't have to convert all their over the air broadcasts to digital a few years ago.
Cause all I do is git clone things for work, not to mention if your company is using git to manage high security R&D development they are obviously doing something wrong. No one here is saying our lives are going to be shorter without extremely fast internet, what we are saying is we are tired of being cheated out of...
No, Linux on the desktop never really happened. It sort of peaked in the late 90's with Corel but was sort of killed off by Windows XP. When it resurged a few years later, it was obliterated by Mac OS X, which got all the major Linux desktop developers as it matured (Panther-Tigerish). Think about it his way: Good de...
Ubuntu is a chunky OS, especially with Unity bogging it down. Debian easily runs circles around it, primarily since it isn't anywhere near as bloated. With a normal Debian netinstall I can still watch 480p videos off youtube on my old Pentium 3 all in one, but under Ubuntu, or the stripped down copy of XP I had on it b...
For example in my hometown, the cops made it illegal for people to be in the park past 11 (as a response to Occupy); now they can hand out tickets all night to homeless people who are mentally disabled. What have YOU done to address this law to your city's people? If there is a big uprising and the laws don't change...
I used to work for Silicon Graphics , 30K$ for an Indigo, and unlimited$ for the high-end stuff. That year, 3dfx released Voodoo Graphics, the first ever consumer PC 3d graphics card, for 300$. Long story short, in 1996, PC gfx couldn't touch SGI gfx, and there was a whole lot of hubris. In the summer of 1997, I wor...
It's illegal for children because they're retards with money. So why give them access to your money in the first place.. 'oh I didn't know they had access' Bull-fucking-shit, at some stage you put that card number and details into that device.. at that stage your brain should be thinking 'wait, does that mean they ca...
Okay, how are developers of these apps con artists? Try Electronic Arts. I've played Tetris for 25+ years, and wanted to give Tetris Blitz a go. At very nearly every junction between the gameplay sessions, there are actions that lead you to in-app purchases. In each and every case where you are forced to make a c...
This happened with my sister recently as well, though not as severe. It was a free kid's game, she let a 6-year-old play it, and $80 showed up on her phone bill a month later. No password was required. No credit card was required. It billed to the phone line rather than Google's Play store. No information was...
To play devil's advocate a bit - the purchasers don't even need the password. If I am an adult who entered the password within a certain period of time, say to install the app, then iOS keeps that password active and you are not prompted for additional purchases. Once you are outside that window you are prompted again.
you're on foodstamps too, by the way Shouldn't have an iphone then. What the hell are you paying $100+ for a luxury when you can't even afford food? >It's not like my life, where I have so much free time I can research something extensively long before I download/buy it. It's not even a matter of research. It's a...
Hold on guys, and read the press release again. Samsung is manufacturing single chips (of 24-layer NAND flash) at densities of 128Gb (32GB) per chip. This press release does not indicate that Samsung is making packaged chips with 24 separate 128-Gb die in the package, but that Samsung has finally gotten a new technol...
Techcrunch's OpEd is sensationalist pigeonshit ; they're allowing themselves to be the mouthpiece for political party lobbying. Please read the article as the GOP regretting how them being buttbuddies with the RIAA/MPAA/etc have made copyright & IP into the true highest laws of the land. You think national security in...
LawHelmet: You're post is all over the place, is contradictory and plain doesn't make any sense. "Techcrunch's OpEd is sensationalist pigeonshit; they're allowing themselves to be the mouthpiece for political party lobbying. Please read the article as the GOP regretting how them being buttbuddies with the RIAA/MPAA/...
ProTip: If you want to process to be a lot smoother, start learning norwegian. We are mostly nice and chill, but there is some negative attitude towards people living in norway and "don't even bother to learn the language". Oh, and don't try to change our laws based on religion. Best way to get hated by the entire nati...
I started torrenting when our internet started to shit on us. Paying for 30/5(?) getting ~5/.5 or so. Something about they messed up when they redid the zones of the area. Either way, with 4 people (5 when my sister comes home) and everyone's on the wifi ( 4 phones, 2 tablets that my dad refuses to turn off when he's n...
I've actually built 4 wireless ISP's from the ground up. It sounds nice in theory but wireless just sucks for reliability. With everyone talking to the same device on the same frequency you end up with collisions when more than one client tries to talk at a time. Then both packets are corrupted and have to be resent....
Well, comparatively (compared to my internet, really), 6Mbps is extremely fast. I'm living with a cap of around 120Kbps right now. I've been complaining to my mom about our slow internet for years and she's only recently realized how slow it really is since she now has a tablet and wants to constantly use the internet ...
You might want to explain to them that their Netflix service won't get better , but rather that Netflix would be paying to not get shafted like all of the other services that are suddenly really slow. On top of that the extra costs will be pushed onto customers, because suddenly Netflix is losing a lot of money.
I'd love to try switching back to Firefox, infact I did just a few months ago. However, in that time I found that Firefox is not really a feasible browser option anymore if you are on Linux, thanks to the deals Adobe and Google have made. With newer versions of Flash for Linux only available as Pepper plugins, and Mozi...
Chrome is faster for me than FF, the open tab sync between devices actually works properly, and I've already sold my soul to Google by buying a droid and having an email address, youtube, google+, and other lovely services.
Artificially supported; meaning they can't fail because the gov. that runs it prints their own money? They very well can fail and are basically bleeding out at this point, but because they are around they are keeping the costs to customers down. You mean the stock market crash of 2008 where the government bailed o...
Do you know that the government also helps regulate state college tuition to "affordable" levels, that the post office controls shipping rates so it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, public transportation allows people to get from point A to B for a low price, and for-profit banks have to compete with federal credit union...
Programming is a cultural artifact that has no bearing on the worth of the person doing it. What matter is how it is used. In 1300AD I imagine SJWs starting a "Girls Who Ride" in the Mongol Empire to encourage women to take to the steppe because it is sexist to think that women can't ride as well as men. And then tak...
And what the fuck do you say to those of us who do vote? I've voted in every election I can since I turned 18 and so far things have only gotten worse and worse, mostly because the only candidates I can vote for are already bought and paid for by big business. I'm sick and fucking tired of people blaming the dysfun...
Voting third party wasn't my point. My point was there are candidates out there who support progressive legislation. Look at Warren. If more people voted for her and people like her, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit because they would get rid of money in politics. No one has to die. Everyone calling for revo...
Not to be one of those guys... but it never was a democracy. I believe we're a constitutional republic and still a mere shadow of one at best. I think our current iteration of gov't is best described as an oligarchy.
The attached article is old, but it is very relevant. Background: I run a fat cat video channel on YouTube. Recently one of my videos that I filmed of my cats in my house was inexplicably taken down for "copyright infringement" by Youtube. There was NO explanation or reasoning and the only information I had was that ...
Um, anyone notice the last paragraph? "Although Microsoft Research is demonstrating the technology at this week's Siggraph show, it has not yet announced if and when it will be making it to the Bing Maps, or any other map-embedded Microsoft products or services." Yeah, that's cool, but wake me when I can actually ...
Exactly. You understand the point I am trying to make here. Auto manufacturers are already catering to, and encouraging, sloppy driving behavior. Autos that can parallel park themselves, lane departure warnings, tire pressure monitoring systems, heck - even automatic transmissions. I do not want, nor do I need, a...
Didn't you know you can compare a Prius to a [Hammerhead Eagle i Thrust]( Macbook Air >=$1000 ChromeBook >=$250-$0 He complains about the ineptitude of the unreleased hardware like the trackpad, this should really only be done if it's released. Complains about bulkiness by comparing it to the thinnest laptop you...
I understand the draw of this and I've messed around with such things before but I would highly recommend not doing this. The amount of energy involved is enormous and can easily kill you if you do anything wrong. There are also extremely large forces on both the rails of the gun and the projectile and a failure could ...
Because tor doesn't even attempt to hide your user-agent info. Tor just relays your packets to a number of different servers; it doesn't do any of the deep packet inspection that would be required to remove the unique information.
I think that mounting an outer volume wihout also supplying the inner volume password will leave the contents of the inner volume vulnerable to being overwritten.
I think the issue many people have with the NRA (I'm neither pro nor con) is that they make a big deal about protecting the 2nd amendment, saying it is the only thing that truly protects the rest of our rights, yet, nothing is actually done to protect the rest of our rights.
Here's where you don't know what you are talking about. The generators used in nuclear power plants (not counting the AP1000 which these numbskulls are trying to block), do not have the ability to operate without the grid and remain stable. As a result, when the grid is 'lost', which happened during the earthquake, t...
I think we're going to need to invest in nuclear long term. The AP1000 is a pretty good design. Solar and wind aren't a reliable continuous source of electricity. Not to mention, the manufacturing process for solar cells uses some pretty nasty chemicals. There needs to be an effective energy storage system for these ...
False - you have to be absolutely kidding me into another dimension with that comment. Seriously - that is just utterly ridiculous levels of ignorance. Yes war is a racket thanks Smeddley Buttler, we are all aware of it, but if you think for one mother fucking second they go in and start these wars PURELY for the M...
The story is a similar incident from Australia, basically they call and offer a fix or a security upgrade for a payment of X dollars. Then after the payment has gone through they direct you to install the host only TeamViewer, then they disable your antivirus and install a keylogger disguised as a "fix" remotely. i rea...
I don't think anyone's ever liked plagiarism, if that's where you're going. You can be in favor of a particular instance of using an idea without attribution, and some people might see very little to nothing wrong with absolute free information, but even the ACLU doesn't want a brand like pro-plagiarism. Good ideas ...
There must be some quid for pro quo there. It is because they have put up an artificial barrier to entry. They have, and will continue to, engage in payola like practices (whether legal or illegal) to get whatever songs they want on heavy rotation on the radio. This is the reason why stations will play the same 40 ...
My source is that I've done it at least three times so far since September (months after they implemented tiered data). The first time was an early upgrade from an OG Droid to a Droid Bionic. I gave that device to my wife and swapped her HTC Incredible onto my line and I needed to get a new SIM card for her. Again, ...
Coverage is pretty good here (Twin Cities). I was pulling about 15 Mbit on 4G, comparable to the cable service I have. I actually switched to them as my primary ISP, since I had the hotspot feature with (allegedly) unlimited bandwidth. They eliminated unlimited bandwidth for hotspots (which was an "add-on" and not part...
After reading this thread last night, I checked vzw.com and went all the way up to checkout while keeping my unlimited plan. There was a page showing removing the 3G service and adding the 4G stuff, this is on a personal plan with just one line (I have no idea if commercial is different). So not wanting to wait for ...
I'm amazed at how much of this is a polarizing issue. If the ad servers that host the ads weren't poisoned with malicious or deceitful software/tactics and the ads weren't so annoying/intrusive people would consider not automatically defaulting to having advertisements blocked. Another issue is third party tracking c...
Oh my God please no, holy fuck how in the earth will they EVER reprogram input libraries if they don't port directly? Such a grueling task requires sooo much effort. OH NO RE-DOING A SOUND LIBRARY, SO IMPOSSIBLE. The "problems" you present are a fucking joke. The gap from Windows to Mac is greater than that of Mac ...
I'm incredibly confused by your comment(I think you might have missed a few words). Also, please note the reason all of my examples are Thinkpads is because they are the only laptop I've had significant experience with that is comparable in quality to Macs. So I'm acknowledging that Macs are quality products, I just do...
Personally I detest the UI in OSX, but that is my opinion (I also dislike the post 2000 windows UI, though for different reasons) and I know people who swear by it. Everything else you mentioned about the OS says that it is second-best at all things. If I want things to generally just work, I use Windows. If I want to ...
So brave, young neckbeard. > Also, if you are running *nix and Windows, why would you need OSX, I can't think of anything it would give you that you can't get in one of the other two(honestly curious here)? Because if you run OS X, you don't need either. The fact that you think running two OSes is a viable option i...
Never said Lenovo was innovative, I said that the Thinkpad series was on the same level as the MBP and the oft-touted screen resolution of the new MBP was on Thinkpads years ago, until the panel OEMs decided to stop producing panels of that quality. On the OSes, Apple's core OS code is not open source so if I want to...
You're full of shit. The 'hefty' computer of the Tesla is essentially a low voltage Linux 'mini PC'/Tablet. Your 'friend' or you clearly knows fuck all about technology because many computers, even laptops do not draw '10s of watts' in their idle state. [They go as low as %ges of watts!]( And we're talking about a ...
The case with the windows sticker on it. I had to replace a broken case once and reinstall a Microsoft product, i had to call for activation and when told that the case had been changed they refused to allow me to activate. With the same person on the phone I suddenly changed my story and said no i didn't change the ca...
We had a copy of Office 2010 with ten activations, and we have 8 employees. Note I said ten activations, not ten licenses. In the last few years we installed, and activated that copy of Office on more than ten times, which was fine beside m because we thought we were honoring the spirit of the license - 10 computer...
Because during a war, figuring out that an individual is really the hacker who caused something is going to be near impossible. It's like if a hacker uses a SYN or DNS reflection attack, you think innocent servers are attacking your network. If that DDoS were to be interrupting military life support systems somehow...