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hah! good one Verizon. I had their DSL since it came to my area in 2002, I was paying for their max at the time of 7mbps down i think 3 up. Hoping for Fios, until i found out they weren't expanding anymore in Pittsburgh and then just...not expanding anywhere at all. Then i noticed my connection went to crap, i called them and they told me i had been reduce to 1down/.5up because that's all they offered in my area now. Thanks for not telling me ahead of time. So I currently have the only other option in my town of Comcast and for what i was paying for Verizon's sneaky services i now have 60d/30u. And i can't complain too much other than price.

The only thing I don't like is that it's so far out of view to your upper right. I imagine you don't want to force the view into your field of vision and restrict you but it looks pretty silly to see someone staring to their upper right to focus on the screen. I guess it looks better than people looking down at their phones all the time.

There's an Eric Schmidt talk where he is explaining Googles internal creep factor. He explains that they have loads of products developed but people would feel they are too creepy right now. The example he gives is your phone recognising faces and giving you social media information about them.

I did the same thing. I need to set the reddit app I have to load all comments instead of a select few. This isn't the first time I've excitedly typed out a message under the illusion that I was helping only to later find out someone beat me to it by many hours.

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You sir have touched on a topic that I have not thought about in ages and it sent chills through me... First, let me give you a short bio.I am not religious in any way, but was raised in a deeply Christian yet modern family. We weren't fanaticals or those that try to convert the world, I was raised to respect all religions and non religious ppl equally . That being said,along with our formal education my brother and I received a religious education from our parents covering almost every aspect and corner of Christianity possible , so I feel confident in saying that I have an understanding of the Bible very few have. The reason your post gave me the chills is because of the book of Revelations. This book was written by a man named John who was sitting on top of a tannery. Now the main ingredient to tanning back then was excrement I.e. shit...so basicly, he might have high as a kite off doodoo and he saw some crazy shit, no pun intended, which be wrote down. He covered a lot of topics but im only going to focus on two of them. The first being this...he wrote about the mark of the Beast a.k.a.. the Antichrist. This mark would go on one of two (or both) places on the body; the forehead or hand. Without this mark you will not be able to buy, sell, trade, work, etc. Being in my mid twenties, in my lifetime ive seen this go from religious bullshit to a very scary possibily esp wiyh the advances in biochips and cellular tech.now im not throwing away my smartphone anytime soon but your post hit that spot in my mind where I have to admit that its abit crazy that a dude 2000 years ago predicted something so possible now that up until a few decades ago man had no means of going about such a thing. The second thing I wanted to talk about is very unrelated to your post(so ill be brief) but is sorta connected due to the subject being about tech that never existed 2000 years ago. John also wrote about how the world would end in a fire that would engulf your body and turn your bones to dust before your body could hit the ground...up until 1945 man never had or seen anything that could do that, now we do. Again id like to point out im the farthest thing you can get from a Bible thumper and am by no means a saint of any kind. Just someone who has a deeper than average understanding of the Bible and a dash of common sense and reasoning

We're not talking about your source. My post was talking about what the school board is doing regarding the text in their textbooks regarding evolution and religion. I wasn't talking about creationism, that's something you brought up. The full video does include discussions about it, but your "

Actually i was making a joke, because so many people out there think that Ayn Rand's philosophy would ultimately lead to Somalia, when in actuality it won't, but thanks for, y'know, letting it fly over your head.

Google Fiber doesn't have to make a lot of money for it to be worth it to them, it doesn't really even have to make any money. It could be a loss leader for them. A loss leader is something like what FOX did with sports, it started out in 1985 trying to become one of the major network shows and struggled in the beginning, losing its first NFL broadcast bid because it was not seen as a major network yet. Then in 1993 it overpaid(paid about 1.58 billion for rights for 4 years) for the NFL taking away games from CBS. It lost money on that deal, I think somewhere in the hundreds of millions, but it didn't matter because they advertised for their other shows during football games and they increased their revenue by more than what they lost off of new viewers on their other shows. Now FOX is a major network in part because it overpaid for that deal with the NFL. This could be the same with Google, more and better internet access and helping to create a more competitive environment for those services only helps nearly everything else they do which is where they make most of their money right now. This could become a big money maker for them in the future but even if it doesn't they will be fine.

I get 7Mb down, 4Mb up from Verizon. These cunts constantly advertise fios here yet it's still not available. The only other provider I can switch to is TWC.

Entrepreneurs thrive when given the chance. Your comment ... >This, my friends, is why capitalism kicks ass. ... got me thinking about how Google fits into the big picture. Free markets can stifle innovation at times, but this is much rarer than the alternative. I do not know if you have ever seen the Christmas cult-classic "It's a Wonderful Life" but in this film, the protagonist gets to view a world where he did not exist and his hometown is a completely different world. At first, he could not see what impact he had until the "higher powers" granted him this perspective. This is relevant to many of the things we take for granted - remove just one of these things and our world would be completely different! So we see Google now that really only exists because of this free market but most importantly as a player in the market with goals. In some ways the corporate body of Google is a manifestation of natural market forces in an otherwise stagnant environment. Imagine a world where Google never fulfills its role and any other company that may have acted similarly is denied from the market. We only need to look at cable television to see how a stagnant locked down industry progresses. The Internet without Google (and arguably Linux) could be ... Censorship may be higher DRM and vendor lock-down would be rampant Indexing, social media, user submission of content, and the speed of information would be drastically different. (an "AOL My Announcements" paid service versus Twitter, who knows) Innovation slowed to some degree preventing potentially large companies today from ever taking shape as we know it. The infrastructure / backbone / network layout would be around the vested interest of connecting providers and less about connecting everyone. Perhaps the caching we see today would be more like content distribution facilities funneling content from a producer more than a collective consumer basis Your post had me wondering, thought I should share... capitalism's success is often overlooked these days. Sure we see side-effects on a day to day basis, human nature is not perfect! But imagine the alternative, a world without the Google(s) or a lesser manifestation of companies as we know it. Although I went into far too much detail, I just meant this as a personal musing from your comment. Thanks for that. cheers!

The amount of people complaining about the content of their facebook, that's down to them. The fact is that websites are usually overvalued on the market due to them being websites and not manufacturers. Information alone is inherently valueless. The more you have of it the less it is worth, especially when you have no obvious way to use it. You have to take something and improve it to add value, not just take something. EDIT: PS, this is a extra note. If you are accustom to the use of data and information in computer technology then what I have said may make more sense if you understood my use of the word information as data. In this respect, what they collect is actually information as it is not raw, it has specifics and can be interpreted. Alternatively, you could understand it as data because it has no purpose until it can be sold. Upon gaining a purpose, it may be referred to as information and sold for monetary value. Hopefully this clears up some of the people who actually appear to be disagreeing. (There is also a psychological point and philosophical impression of this on the human condition, or perhaps it is vice versa, that would be an interesting discussion if anyone is interested aha) 2nd edit: for a

These new combined banking entities have a lot of conflicting responsibilities. They have wealth management divisions and internal trading desks. They are primary issuers of new US debt. They bring IPO's to the market, while also being able to trade them. What I was saying is their inherent conflicts of interest leading to the normal person being shafted 100% of the time. This isn't news to anyone. You did astutely observe that many issuing banks will help pump the IPO at crucial moments during market hours to lure in more open-market investors. However most of the dump and pump occurs during the initial IPO pricing. They will price something through the roof and dump that on their clients and anyone else willing to buy in early. Those people know that they can take advantage of the first day pump, which is of course aided by the underwriting bank. They don't actually risk any capital, however, but they can use their upward biased internal trading desks (huge, leveraged trading happening at the nanosecond level) to buoy prices. They don't risk any personal capital holding the actual stock, they just make sure to alter the interim market sale and purchase prices to make it appear that prices are rising organically. They don't provide price support in the traditional sense of buying and holding the stocks and giving a price floor based on their market position. So in the end the IPO price is knowingly much higher than what it should be, prices go up thanks to their HFT desks, and the initial buyers are able to dump the stock within the first day at a huge profit. The reason why the banks are so interested in the IPO price is because they get a % of what the sum total of all stocks offered (price*shares) was. That's their cut for underwriting the offering and trying to lure in the initial investors. Initial investors are well aware that they can instantly dump their shares on the first day and turn a profit. Everyone else gets screwed by this HFT-traded market.

I don't give a shit about the extradition treaty: I'm not planning on committing an offence in the USA, ever. I'm just not fond of a "National Security Administration" looking exclusively outside their legal and diplomatic juristiction for terrorism plans. 5% of the world's population are US citizens, and I'd hazard a guess that most planned terrorist actions against America are being planned by their own citizens. They run the risk of missing these plans (Boston being a recent, high profile act committed by US citizens) and souring diplomatic relations worldwide if they continue to exclusively target foreigners with this online surveillance. Let diplomacy do it's job. I expect only the British, Australian and German governments to be checking me for terrorist tendencies. I'd also expect them to tell the US "Hey! Just so you know, totheredditmobile searched for 'something something terrorism'. We're keeping our eye on him and we'll let you know if your national security is in jeapordy." if I exhibited these tendencies.

Did you read the paper referenced in the article? [Link]( don't worry, its rather short.

I use computers a lot. Some for recreation, some for work. When I was in law school, I would often be on my laptop until 1AM- sometimes working, but sometimes just screwing around. When my prescription glasses got ratcheted up to the next level, I installed f.lux. The difference is amazing in a couple of respects: First, it lowers the eye-strain. I had about 200+ pages of reading a night at the time I installed it, and it seriously reduced the number of headaches I experienced from this. Second, it protects your circadian rhythm. "Sunlight" causes your eyes to release a hormone that break down melatonin and tells your body that it's daytime. By turning down the temperature of my screen at night, I was staying up until 1AM less often.

Has everyone forgotten the simplest fact? Google is an advertising company not a search engine. The sell advertising, they just happen to use a search engine to do it

No. What you just linked wasn't an anecdote, but what you gave before was. The evidence you gave before was "everyone you know." That's anecdotal. Giving me non anecdotal data now doesn't change that an anecdote is what you gave before. The data from both those articles (which is the same data) isn't very well sourced. It comes from payscale.com, which gave zero info on how it got the data, and simultaneously pushed their survey. If all their data comes from that survey method, it may be flawed. Either way, what I'd like to know is if that includes contractors as employees for that turnover. Do you know the source of the data, so I can get the answer to that question? I don't see it on the payscale page. That could heavily skew the data.

There seems to be confusion on LEDs in streetlamps vs traffic signals. LEDs have had some significant hurdles to overcome for general lighting but they were a no brainer for traffic signaling even in the 90s. Why? Here's the ELI5: With a normal bulb in a traffic signal, when we want red, yellow or green, we place a filter in front of the bulb. This allows the color we want through and blocks the colors we don't want. This effectively makes the light dimmer but it's of course still using the same amount of power so the luminous efficacy is lower. How much lower? It depends on the colors the light emits and the colors we filter out but it's safe to say that for a typical incandescent lamp, we can cut it by a factor of four....The Mad Scientist's Lair is unfortunately not equipped with a good light meter to verify this estimate so you get to rely on observations from the good old MK-I Eyeball. So even if we have an old tech LED that is barely 50% better than a regular incandescent in luminous efficacy, we're still way ahead because the LED emits the one color we want without the huge efficiency penalty of a filter that the incandescent traffic signal has to have. Incandescent also has another problem that is particularly important to consider for traffic signals: The efficiency of traffic signal bulbs is particularly low, even by incandescent standards. The long life bulbs used run their filaments slightly cooler and are considerably less efficient than their standard life counterparts used at home. Cooler filaments kill efficiency...just as four 25W bulbs are a LOT dimmer than a single 100W bulb, the cooler running 8000hr bulb is noticeably dimmer than the typical 1000hr life bulb. The incandescent traffic signal thus has a double handicap when compared to its LED replacement. As a bonus, it turns out that red and yellow LEDs are relatively cheap and have been since most of Reddit has been alive, including most of my life (high brightness wasn't cheap until the 90s). As such, red was the first to be converted. Cheap and good green came about in the late 90s/early 2000s and that's when the conversions started big time.

Your average phone charger converts 110v A/C to DC and steps down to a regulated 5V around 1A. Mine (for a Tracphone) is rated at 80mA, though some chargers go much higher. A laptop transformer might be rated at 600mA and most get noticeably hot. The transformer for my surround sound setup is rated for 1 amp and it gets so hot it has a huge heat sink attached to it. A phone chargers transformer and one in an LED light setup serve different purposes, and there is circuitry in the phone setup that aids efficiency that the LED lights do not have. LED lights draw more amperage than a cell phone battery, and that is where the transformer will generate the heat.

LED's]( [Sodium lamps]( First off, Streetlights are High pressure sodium, not low pressure. You're assuming you're replacing the light watt for watt, when you could replace a 120w HPS with a 60w LED array due to the directional nature of LED's compared to HPS's which require reflectors otherwise it may aswell be an incandescent light on a string. LED's also come in pretty much any colour with a wider range of temperatures, the short version of this is that HPS quite obviously only come in warmer yellows which can have a negative effect on someone's concentration which is particularly when said person is in control of a 2 tonne block of metal moving at 100kph... while LED's have a much wider range of temperatures, such that you could install pure white or white with a tinge of blue giving the effect of daylight keeping the driver more alert in some cases. Lifespan: LED's have a longer lifespan, a high quality LED can last up to 100k hours though average around 50k hours (15 years in a street light), while a HPS light is around 20-25k hours. Longer lifespan means money saved on replacing lights every few years. Light decay: LED's decay at around 1-10% in 10k hours and 30% after 50k hours (Assuming a light is on for around 8 hours (7pm-5am) that's around 15 years of light) while HPS lights decay quite rapidly from their original yellowish white before decaying into the amber/yellow you see on the streets. Warm up time: Unlike HPS which can take upto 10 minutes to warm up to full luminosity LED's are instantly on and are at full output in around 2 seconds. Safety: As just a general thing, LED's don't require the high voltages that HPS does, doesn't have as much light pollution, don't reach high temperatures like HPS, lack glass or filament that could break if the light was damaged, don't contain harmful chemicals/elements if broken, don't produce a strong glare like HPS.

Heck yeah! A project I worked on! The company . Said officer spots a suspicious truck, pulls truck over, truck driver pulls over, leaves truck running (no reverse lights flash so truck never comes out of drive), wheels angled out toward the road, the truck positioning & body language told the officer this guy is going to run. The officer arms the system using the laser sight and then steps out of the vehicle with the key fob, used to fire the device remotely, in his hand ready to go. The officer walks to the back of his patrol car to approach the truck from the passenger side (done to make sure the truck doesn't ram him between into his patrol car). As soon as the officer gets to the back of his car the perp hits the gas. At the same time the officer fires the GPS projectile. The officer then calmly gets back into his patrol vehicle and begins coordinating with dispatch. Dispatch is watching this vehicle in real-time 5 second position, direction and speed updates. The truck at first is hauling down the highway at over 90mph. He looks back, sees the cop isn't behind him and his speed begins slowing back to 85, 80 and soon back down to 70mph. He takes an exit and gets on to surface streets. At this point, dispatch is coordinating several police units to converge on the guy. The truck pulls into a neighborhood and parks. The police aren't sure how to get there but the dispatcher, using the StarChase online maps, steers them into the neighborhood and to the truck. By the time they get to the truck the driver has bailed into a safe house in the area (which the cops found about a week later by staking out the area). They go up to the truck in which they expect to find a load of narcotics. Instead they find a truck bed load of 11 to 15 year old Mexican girls - sex slave stuff. The cop that originally spotted the truck admitted he would have been right on the truck and pushing it hard in pursuit. He expected it would have ended in an accident...and after finding the contents of that truck bed admitted there would have been bodies everywhere. There are more anecdotes but this one alone shows the hard work, stress and effort the StarChase team has put into this product has all been worthwhile. It is also very effective when combined with an [LPR system]( Source: I worked with this company on both R&D, marketing and demonstrations across the US for about 5 years starting in ~2004. Still keep in touch with the founders - they're good folks who have been through hell to get this to where it is today.

This guy goes through hell constantly. There might be a common reason for that. In fact, seems like the common element might be him. >Always under fire by larger governments for piracy, always some kind of hacking scandal, can we just give him a break? Sure. Don't be a criminal, get breaks! >All attempts to bring this guy down have been denied and he was found innocent. Bzzzt. Wrong. But he sure runs away a lot and sort of loses his bravado when he gets caught. >It's only been a matter of time before corruption takes him out of this world. Bitch please. Just because this dude helped set up a website that let's you download free warez doesn't make him some kind of saint. It's his other activities that have gotten him into trouble. Dude is no martyr. ಠ_ಠ

I agree completely, but their letters are not an inappropriate reaction to somebody trying to order you around for no reason. They didn't have "brownie points" or any points with these agencies and companies who were often over-reaching their authority. In essence, these agencies and companies were attempting to coerce or scare an organization into doing things that it might not legally have to do... or they had no idea what they were doing and should not be issuing legal threats in that situation anyways. Often, the original letters to TPB were overly aggressive and rude on top of overstepping their boundaries. Come to my house and rudely tell me to stop doing stuff that I do that you have no authority over, and I'm not going to invite you in for tea and take time out of my busy day to kindly explain to you why you have your head in your ass. =P You're getting turned away with as witty as a reply as I feel like uttering to waste your time, like you would be wasting mine in this example. Their sarcastic replies have earned them support from end users, of which there are much more of than these letter-writers, companies, and governments. These users are also sick of companies arbitrarily telling them to do things or face consequences. It happens every day with cable, insurance, utilities, etc. When stupidity strikes at you to drag it down to its level, chase it into the light and point and laugh at it so that everybody can see. Don't do it in a closed room and wait for it to decide to strike the next person.

As horrible as his treatment is, I don't understand why some people are so upset that he's being charged at all. I have no idea if he is guilty or not, but shouldn't the law try anyone who is accused of a crime, founder of Pirate Bay or not? It is after all a pretty serious crime. In Sweden, he stood accused of stealing personal records of people with protected identities (eg. people in witness protection). He was acquitted from that so all's well there. In Denmark, the accusation is that he broke into databases containing records on people with driver's licenses and people wanted in the Schengen area. Not as bad as protected identities, but potentially very serious anyway. Now, this case isn't over, so I'll assume him innocent until proven guilty. BUT, how is it in any way wrong to at least prosecute him since evidence points to him? Why should he be beyond suspicion? Again, the way they treat him is horrible. He was held in solitary confinement in Sweden too, and that's just wrong.

I'm not disagreeing. 3D content is pretty shit right now, not adding any real benefit to the medium it's played on. A 3D music video? 3D movies? 3D user interface? The only two mediums that seem to benefit from 3D are photos and games. Short video clips of detailed objects seem to suit the medium as well. But due to the difficulty of monetizing such a medium for consumer consumption, why not explore 3D photos and games? There are two great consumer 3D cameras out right now, and they both shoot photos in high resolution 3D. One shoots 720p video and one shoots in 1080p video. The additional information about a landscape or scene given to your eyes is a real treat in most shots, and video clips about objects or shots of sports scenes are really awesome. Games are definitely the medium that benefits most from 3D though. Currently, pushing past 1080p monitors is still pretty expensive comparably. But since 3D has been ignored by most consumers, I was able to get a 240hz 1080p 24" 3D monitor for $160. After buying a 3rd-party 3D graphics driver, I'm now able to play most of my favorite modern PC games in 3D. Final Fantasy 14 and Skyrim are my favorites right now. And I play LOL in 3D when my friends make me play a game with them. The added depth to attacks and magical effects is amazing, and weather effects are stunning in both of the RPG's I play. It's awesome.

Also: write letters. When I was forced to be a Comcast customer, I never got anywhere with the phone people, but every time I wrote a letter detailing the situation and what was owed me, I received a call back from a capable, helpful person who resolved the matter promptly and thanked me for taking the time to explain the situation clearly.

I once spent 8 hours (on and off) with them over the course of one day. This was 3 days AFTER they said my service would be 'up and running', but I hadn't checked it until then (we were moving into a new house). After 8 hours and talking to no less than 6 people, I finally got a hold of a woman who assured me she could help me (like the others had said); I went through the whole grind with her again about how all my stuff is hooked up, I'm directly connected to the modem, etc. I am a network admin - so really it's all stuff I'm very familiar with and know well. I was actually so sure she wouldn't be able to help me that my wife and I hopped in the car and went to dinner while on the phone with her. "Yes maam, if you will look through my notes, you'll see my MAC address of my modem is listed there." "Yes maam, it's turned on" "Yes maam, nothing has changed and there is no disruption in the line" Sure enough, that last woman (bless her heart) was able to get the job done without 'sending a tech out'. She was actually probably one of the most pleasant people I've ever talked to on the phone from a customer standpoint. Every other person I talked to earlier that day was AWFUL and just wanted to pass the buck, "we need to send out a tech", despite me griping about how it had been 3 days after the setup should have been completed. No one really cared - except that last sweet angel.

Ok sure. Basically you have goals for certain things. The main ones are. Sales, average handle time, transfer rate, hold percent, and retain. Now some of these were more important then others. Aht, transfers and hold being the most. Sales were pretty important as well. The retain percent was actually not very important. We knew people were calling in to cancell. Most were bluffing trying to get back on year 1 prices. A few were moving and legit couldn't get Comcast and a few just hated comcast. So out of the metrics that one was the most of a crapshoot. We were supposed to be at least at 75%. Which wasn't that hard at all. It was pretty easy considering that 90% of the time people just wanted to get back to promo prices. You got bonuses on sales and other metrics but not on that one. The bonuses weren't really that great. A little boost to your check but if you get an extra 100 a month that was decent. Our center wage started at 12 an hour. Believe it or not, Comcast actually took everything very seriously and the shit that people say happen to them happened not because of comcast, but mostly because of the agent. Agents there just didn't give a shit. Most were 18-22 never had a real job. Just wanted the paid 6 week training and then bullshit around until they got fired. Comcast quality control would listen into random calls and I've seen then overstep even the operations manager and fire people on the spot for fucking over or being rude to customers. Comcast is a shitty company. But they are no worse then EVERY other provider. I actually think they are better then most.

I actually spent over a month cancelling. I called on the 27th of October to dispute charges. The woman on the other end literally laughed at me and said what are you gonna do about it. My bill jumped from 45$ a month to 90$ a month without my knowledge. I told the lady who refused to let speak to a supervisor even that i want to end my services with them right now. She laughed and said ok, then hung up on me. I called for the next couple weeks to cancel where they pussy footed around and said theyd cancel it. Finally on November 28th they turned off our internet. Then we get a bill for 250$ in the mail, since other internet providers dont "service" our area were forced to go back to comcast. Upon calling them about the 250$ bill i was told that it was for the modem, if we returned it our balance would be back to 0, or we can reactivate the modem and itd go back to 0 and we pay their new promotion of 35$ a month. Fast forward to 6 hrs of calling the activation place, them disconnecting me, me calling back, being transfered to billing, and then being told that the bill isnt a modem fee, its them charging me for the month of November and that i cant reactivate the modem, im not allowed. Frustrated, i let my fiancé handle them as ahe somehow manages to get things done with them. They tell her its a modem fee again and to send it in or re activate it, but im the only one that can re activate it. So i call to reactivate it, but in order to i have to pay the 250$ first because its the month of November.... whaaaaaaaaaaaaat the fuck I quit Edit:

Facebook tells you all your friends' latest email addresses, jobs, moves, phone numbers, etc. so you can look them up. It gives you the rundown on people you just met (are they single? do you have friends in common? common interests?). It tells you when friends are visiting town. It tells you when it's their birthday. It tells you when they're having a get-together. It's an insanely useful utility for connecting up in real life. It also gives you a window into your friends' lives through their status updates. Some of these "friends" are really just acquaintances, and some of their updates are inane, but eh, I skim it and learn things to bring up the next time I see someone, or I reply and by expressing interest make it more likely we'll meet up again at some point. Probably at least 95% of my friends (or people I meet) have Facebook accounts. I don't think it has anything to do with being social or antisocial though.

Once, I was asked to look at a laptop, which was running extremely slow (and it couldn't connect to facebook, but that was a simple dns issue). With a bit of investigation, I found that Nortan Anti-virus had been installed but the subscription had run out. Nortan had thrown up a huge fuss about how the computer was in danger, and you must buy another subscription. Instead, someone had installed AVG free edition and somehow convinced Nortan to stop nagging them. But Nortan was still running, and Runtime scanning was enabled, so any files that were opened by any program on the computer would get scanned twice, once by AVG and then again with Nortan's massively out of date signatures. So, with a lot of effort I removed both, and the computer went from a 10min boot a much more reasonable 2min.

Also everyone should note that the memory limit for 32bit is not 4gb of system memory, it is 4gb minus graphics memory (under most situations) a good gfx card can have up to 2gb of ram these days leaving you with only up to 2gb for system memory.

It's not your editor that requires any significant amount of resources obviously. If you are running code with any decent amount of data, the faster your processor, the faster your code will run. So if you are running something that would take an hour, you could cut it down to 10 minutes.

Great technology, it reminds me a lot of firewire in many ways. I'll be the first to adress the elephant in the room though. $$$$$$$$$$ That's right, we all remember that Firewire was a great technology that was faster than USB, more versatile and provided more power to devices but never took off. Why is this/ because when you have a USB keyboard, a USB mouse, a USB storage drive, a USB external blu-ray burner, a USB connection to your printer and a USB coffee warmer, do you honestly give a flying rat-fuck if you have a Thunderbolt port? This is going to be religated to first party applications only because its going to cost an arm and an leg to licence and you're going to have 3 devices in the world that are compatible with it.

Thanks for the cookie, it was delicious. Again, food does not just have chemicals, it is made of chemicals (down to a molecular level, every single bit of it is chemicals). And yes I get the humor of something that is activated by being water resistant, but that's actually quite understandable. Its like having a thin layer of Magnesium Oxide develop around a bar of magnesium (just from being in contact with the air, which contains Oxygen). trying to light the Magnesium Oxide isn't going to ignite very easily(essentially MgO is Magnesium ash), but if you scrape it with a knife, its much more easier to ignite the exposed magnesium bar (it is even easier to ignite if its cut into ribbons). the same principle can be applied to the soap.

The idea is pretty simple - mass boycott! Not only by Americans, but every awakened person on the planet. What starts with SOPA in America quickly ends up as multiple and regional "SOPAS" in every country. From the other side of the coin - Those pushing SOPA from the entertainment industry need to come up with more realistic pricing models in the digital age. When I say realistic, I mean bring the price down by age least 1000%. Provide incentives for purchases! Win us over. If this sounds unrealistic, think of this analogy - If you made a film, would you rather have 1000 people pay 1 dollar for it, or 5 people pay 20 dollars for it, while the rest enjoyed their mkv rips? Steam is an example of things done right (well at least when they have specials). The humble indie bundle is another ground breaking example of what is possible when you trust your audience. &

The general outrage against this bill is quite misinformed. If you look at the full text here you will find it to be quite different than what people typically claim the bill does. The relevant section is Section (4)(a)(h) >Retention of Certain Records- ‘(1) A commercial provider of an electronic communication service shall retain for a period of at least one year a log of the temporarily assigned network addresses the provider assigns to a subscriber to or customer of such service that enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section. The only new thing that the bill requires ISPs to track is the set of IP addresses ("temporarily assigned network addresses") assigned to you for a period of 1 year. The purpose of this is to be able to better link up illegal online behavior with actual people. If, for example, the government used a warrant to get the list of people who accessed a website known to distribute CP then the government needs to be able to figure out who the IP addresses belong to. Because IP addresses turn over, they need a historical record of the IP addresses handed out by ISPs. Perhaps this is infringing on privacy, but it is most certainly not tracking your behavior without a warrant. That said, there is a stretch of a reading of the bill that supports your claim. This bill amends "Title 18, United States Code, with respect to child pornography and child exploitation offenses." If we look at section (c)(2) of the bill here, we find: > (2) A provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall disclose to a governmental entity the— > (A) name; > (B) address; > (C) local and long distance telephone connection records, or records of session times and durations; >(D) length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized; >(E) telephone or instrument number or other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address; and >(F) means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number) The reading of the bill assumes that subsection C also applies to online activity. This seems crazy to me since "records of session times and durations" is equally as valid as "telephone connection records." This implies that they don't care about what you talked about, or even who you talked to. They only care about when you talked. This doesn't, to me, seem to imply that ISPs will be required to track your behavior on the web. With regard to the other things (address, name, credit card, bank account), your ISP already has these things because they bill you. They aren't looking at your banking transactions to find these things out. Lastly, all of these things (A-F) are already in the law. ISPs are already required to be able to turn over your name, address, etc to the government if asked. The only change is that they must now be able to turn over the list of IP addresses given to you.

I'm an engineer for a business that provides colocation, Internet service, and cloud services. I can tell you from a technical standpoint that, even if this were mandated, it would be technically infeasible. If they're requiring any sort of logging beyond this IP connected to this IP at this time and date, it would require an insane amount of storage. Think about this: Let's say for the sake of argument that for the entire facility, there is a steady 1 gigabit in and 1 gigabit out every second. So, let's assume that we log TWO GIGABITS of data every second. That would mean that all of our core routers would have to somehow route the data to its intended destination, and secondarily, route a copy of that data to somewhere in our facility. Conservatively, that would double the load on our routers and switches creating latency and requiring additional (READ: FUCKING EXPENSIVE) equipment. Then we would have to figure out how to store 2 gigabits of data every second on a very expensive disk array (it would have to be a redundant array, we wouldn't want something to happen to that data and open ourselves up to government scrutiny in the case that we lose that data and are unable to comply with a subpoena, request from Lamar Smith’s prayer group leader, or whatever the fuck else they will force us to respond to). Let’s do the math on that: 2 gigabits times 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours times 365 days means each year we would collect 7.884 PETABYTES of data. We would need a 34 of these (17 for the data, but remember this is mirrored, so we need double that): So just for the cabinets alone, we would have spent a crushing $1,312,094. But we have to buy the disk drives right? Let’s do the math on that: Let’s say we take the cheap route and use SATA drives, instead of SAS. So we load it with good 3TB drives, we would need 5,256 drives in a mirrored array at a cost of $1,051,200. We’ve spent $2.36 million so far. This doesn’t include the valuable floor space, cooling and electricity to run all of that extra equipment. So let’s say, extremely conservatively, that the cooling and energy costs an extra $150,000/yr. But wait, you have to buy more routers and gear and horsepower to parse that data, not to mention a team of guys to build and manage this new setup. With health insurance and salaries for another 5 guys, let’s say another $250,000/yr. So all of this would cost us an additional $400,000/yr on top of the $2,000,000+ initial investment. THIS WOULD DESTROY OUR BUSINESS. And who’s going to pay for it? The government? No fucking way. I’m tired of typing all of this shit out. This is an extremely brief way of looking at it too, the technical hurdles are nearly insurmountable. BUT HAE MODEMTHUG THEY’RE ONLY SAYING YOU HAVE TO LOG IPS LOL UR A DUMBASS!!!11 Wrong. FROM THE ARTICLE: "The panel rejected an amendment clarifying that only IP addresses be retained by a 7 to 16 vote." I know, I know, someone will chime in with NO LOL THEY WANT THE CREDIT CARD DATA TOO THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS. We already have that on file, who cares. They need that to get service. What I gather is they think that we can log every piece of information in and out. In fact, I would bet good money that this is the way they think. "ISP snooping" to me means data collection. And this is what my little math rant was relating too. Just thinking out loud. And after all that, anyone up to no good worth their weight in piss will just establish encrypted TCP streams that we can't snoop on anyway. How is it that our legislators are honestly this flagrantly insipid?

As long as: does not hinder the standard OS from working does not impact on battery life opt in The latter is the most important. If this becomes mandatory we'll only see the rise in custom android builds without this and lose market share from the horrendous PR.... and im sure its in their interest to keep android as the main mobile OS of choice. Google are in a HUGE mobile push investing millions, some could argue billions. But not just in mobiles but also g. glasses.. in fact anything portable... I believe this is an attempt to record not just our search history but well..our life... (think "The Entire History of You" of Charlie Brookers "Black Mirror" series [1]). Essentially they want the "word of mouth" marketing knowledge before anyone else giving Google a huge advantage in terms of statistical data. Getting this from mobile, glasses, "smart" watches and/or other tech doesn't matter to them. IF given the option of having your conversations recorded with the usual 'you' are 'anonymous'... would you? the average person I believe will say yes if they were given something of value back... [1] P.s. Sorry for grammar/spelling

before internet and cell phones, "spying on you" meant paying some guy to follow you around or plant bugs in your house and such. now, you are sending your information and messages and GPS positions THROUGH THEIR HARDWARE . i don't think it's "spying" if a company is simply not deleting the data you generated on their servers. obviously if you didn't generate the data there is an issue. like the google maps cars recording open wifi details, but even then, they were "open" wifi. when i use gmail, i trust that google won't sell my emails to a third party . i don't mind them making money off targeted ads as long as the ad companies don't know who i am unless i follow the ad.

4 years is a great run for a laptop, I'm expecting mine to go another 2 with those user-serviceable upgrades. Good for you. Most professionals dropping $2,500 on a primary work computer don't need it to last 6 years. In fact, any professional that relies on his computer's performance ability isn't going to want to use the same computer for 6 years. And this is what fucking idiots like yourself don't get (likely as a result of not being a professional) - This computer is aimed towards the people who know exactly what sort of power they want for this buying cycle, and will upgrade as a cost of doing business when the time comes. Which will still likely be later than a lot of competing PC notebooks

Oh fuck, why do I even bother? > We were talking about your demonstrably false contention that the MBP has "the same ports as everyone else". [citation needed] Show me where I said macs have the same ports as everyone else as opposed to the ports being redundant and inconquential. >It impresses me how much of a dishonest little weasel you're willing to be to get back into an argument. [citation needed] LOL >It's already been shown that you cannot "do the same" with the PC, and this nonsense "fraction of the price" has been debunked repeatedly in this thread (and all over reddit). All your showing is your ignorant bias. You're not establishing anything against me or bolstering your contentions. [citation needed] >Nope, but it's already clear what rationalizations you're going to employ to get around the inconvenient facts. I don't see what I'm rationalizing, could you show me please? >Then you either have statistically insignificant experience, or you're being dishonest. I think it's a little of column A and little of column B. You've certainly demonstrated a willingness to lie very casually and easily. LOL >Yeah, that's why you're not talking about it. I'm sure I'd just use some "No true Scotsman" fallacy, too, right? I'm flattered you bothered going through my post history. You got me there, I'm certainly not Scottish, I moved to UK when I got a job in IT. >This is a projection of your attitude, and you've demonstrated it repeatedly. This is not how I feel or think about it in any way. Whoa buddy. Get your own points, you just hurt my feelings! >No, we're talking about OS X, which is loaded with open source, and through which I have access to more open source tools than I do on Windows. Hell, I even have access to all the Windows tools. It's not rocket surgery. LOL. What's the point, really. >And you turned it into another strawman. Incredible. I didn't take it personally. You took something out of context and propped up a strawman to argue against. All I did was point that out. The only "taking it personally" seems to be you responding to getting called out on your fallacies. I didn't even acknowledge the insult you'd made. Maybe you're pissed about that. We got a BADASS, I've BEEN TOLD!!11 >You're projecting your own immaturity and probably your own awareness of how trivially you bend the truth to try to prove small things. LOL >You don't even have evidence of "overpriced", something that you'd be easily taken apart on if you pursued. You're just making clichéd little snipes as you tuck tail. LOL >Oh god. Whine and bullshit some more. Poor you. LOL >I didn't. Rationalize some more. LOL >Don't worry, our response history shows pretty clearly which one of us has no respect for context and who is keen on introducing tangents. I'll give you a hint: it's not me LOL

It's probably the SMC (System Management Controller) like playaspec said down below. I envision the OS team noticing that if less time could be spent calculating and updating SMC fan speed tables, certain race conditions would disappear and the end-user experience would improve. They ask the SMC programmers if they could take on that set of calculations if they are provided with the code. The SMC team decides that they would need an upgraded MCU to be able to port the code easily, and ask the hardware team. The hardware team gets a quote from a few vendors for a more modern chip. A high-powered TI sales person argues with his manager about long term prospects, and offers a Apple a great price. Apple's hardware team discovers that the incremental cost for switching from the Cypress CY8C24794-24L is actually negative, since TI wants to secure a large vendor for their new line of micro-controllers. The SMC programmers verify that the code can be ported relatively easily. Everybody is happy except for Joe, who is told by his manager that he now has to spend a few late nights rerouting traces in the already crowded logic board to accommodate the new chip.

I worked out the price difference between the MacBook pro w/ retina and another laptop I considered (MSI ge60). When I finished building it, It was $1300; however, adding a 256GB SSD; $1600, upgrading to 8GB of RAM; $1700. Adding a high definition screen for rendering images...oh wait, that's only apple. With amazing build quality, thunderbolt ports, unmatched thinness, and a kickass screen, I think the extra $300 (student discount) is justifiable. As a college student, portability and a magnificent graphics card with an unfathomable 7 hrs of battery life is a dream come true.

If you use FTP you're doing it wrong. You don't buy a MBP as a gaming machine. I've never once had Chrome lose focus, and I work in Chrome all day, every day doing web development. Two fingers does right click, but I usually use command-click because it's easier. If you want a right mouse button, plug in a mouse. It's not hard. 99% of the time in OS X you don't have to right click. Don't need/want to stream to my PS3 with my MBP. My PC can do it, but more importantly this new MBP has an HDMI port. Also, if you want to stream to your TV with it a $99 AppleTV will do it in 1080p. The PS3 being unable to stream from OS X is on Sony, not Apple. My MBP has never once overheated. Is yours filled with pet hair or covered in a blanket? Sure, it gets warm when playing videos for a while but so does any laptop. Your desktop generates a lot of heat when under load as well, it just has more air volume going through for better cooling due to packaging. (Duh.) You can use any color scheme you want in Terminal, it's completely customizable. puTTy not being available for OS X is on the developer of puTTy and nobody else. Regardless, puTTy/telnet is also doing it wrong. You should be using SSH.

Completely wrong. The "Pro" designated it as a separate line with higher specs when they still made MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

The accidental damage and replacement policies are where the Best Buy plans can work out well. They are often 2, 3, or even 4-year plans. Buy the time your warranty is ending, the same product you insured doesn't exist in the form you bought it in anymore. I went from a 2nd gen iPod to an iPod Video through the replacement plans (battery was covered). The replacement you get is the closest replacement, and that doesn't mean the closest in price. When my digital camera broke, the service tech agreed with me that, based on MP alone, my replacement camera would have cost $100 less than I paid for mine. However, based on features and even button layout (Canon has done some experimenting, sometimes well, sometimes not) the closest replacement was $30 more than my original. This situation also worked out because I had already replaced my camera. When they do the replacement, they give you a gift card for the amount of the replacement and then sell it to you with the gift card. I got a PS3 instead of a new camera.

I think it is important to remember there are people on the other side of the spectrum, also. Geeks that are so geeky that they make lots of money off their geekery. They are too busy to upgrade a laptop. If they want something faster, they will buy a new one online in a matter of minutes and then get back to finishing that next project. I used to think about upgradability, but now I don't have to and I just get to enjoy crazy fast computers while I write my code do builds and whatnot. If I need a better one I just tell my company and they get it without a second thought. They just dropped fifteen grand on new server with RAIDed SSDs so a couple grand for a laptop is nothing.

Ok, you're the kind of person i'd like to talk about this with, so here goes. What you're talking about is trying to curb as opposed to reversing an ongoing trend within the nature of personal computer use. Sure, woz and the rest of the longagos had to build their machines from scratch, and of it weren't for them we'd all be way, way worse off now. And sure, it's tougher and tougher for the longagos to spring up now BECAUSE they don't have to work so hard to unravel the mysteries of machines. And in a world where we all have iPads and nothing else, developers start to dwindle. With you so far. Here's the thing, though. It's already happening. 15 years ago when i was in school, my friends used to think i was a bit weird for using the internet regularly. 12 years ago, the smarter ones realised why i wasn't paying 15 euro an album, and joined in. Over the years the internet (driven by increasing bandwidth worldwide) started to have more mass-appeal applications. Me and my friends would spend time playing TFC (the first one, kids) on dialup. Then more P2P. Forums. Message boards. IM clients. All of this is a long way back from social networking, torrents, XBL, do you see what i'm saying? The technological age has dragged more people in, and it's done so in three basic ways Better infrastructure outside US colleges breaking down economic barriers to entry More everyday uses that appeal to a larger number of people Ease of use of both of the above Point 2 is not too hard to explain. It's saying hi to emigrated friends, sending photos to family, planning events, writing about the world, playing games, watching movies, listening to music, work, email, porn, porn, porn, it's everything. Everything people do now, they do to some extent online, and that's great. So point 3, and this is the one that requires a leap of faith. It because easier to use. Do the likes of lots of the intelligent, early geeks sound scared by having to install something? Shit no! Are we worried about what happens if "it just keeps freezing"? Hell no! But if you ARE one of the people who is, one of the pople that has neither the experience or interest in making the machines work (an interest that i've sadly lost over the years), then you probably just want to press a button and see fucking Facebook. AND THATS OK. But don't for a second think that a major part of the reason apple are successful is that they realised this very early on. They have made FUCK ALL INVENTION but plenty of innovation and streamlining to make their shit extremely intuitive out of the box. Not getting into apple vs windows for any platform, but I think if you try and objectively explain why I see iPads being used by 60 year olds who can't find the internet on their windows destops you'll see what i'm getting at. So the problem, the original point i was trying to make earlier (and i admit, i was hasty with the words and had less time to flesh it out) is this. For those of us who remember the internet being something subversive, outcast, non-ubiquitous and slightly edgy, these days it feels like morons posting cat pictures through instagram to Facebook with their iPhones. It just means that more people want to part of what used to be our party. If they think the cool clothes to wear at the party have apple logos on them, who gives a fuck? We don't care about their clothes, right?

I have no problem with making things easier and more accessible. I also do see the value in locking down iOS to make it more idiot proof. My problem however is that Apple does everything it can to prevent you from unlocking the device. That is just plain wrong. Despite all it's faults webOS was great in this regard, you just typed in the konami code, tapped a button and it was in "Developer Mode" which let you do whatever the hell you wanted. The average user didn't have to worry about any of that stuff but it was still available to power users. Automotive enthusiasts can relate to the way that it's very hard to buy a car with a manual transmission these days, especially in certain categories, such as minivans. While there aren't many people who want a car with a manual transmission, especially a minivan, the person who does want this is unable to buy such a product because the market volume is so low. In the case of locked down computer's it's even worse since it's an issue of Freedom. Imagine if the hood of you car was locked and the only ones who could do anything , even a simple oil change was the dealership and you had to pay whatever they were charging. That works well if you're the dealship. Now imagine that the company that did this had 75+% of the market like the iPad and everyone else started doing it too. Pretty soon people who like to tinker with their cars and independent mechanics are SOL because everything's been locked down for the profit of the OEMs and dealers. Then imagine that the majority of the population raves about how much better things are that only the dealership is allowed to service their cars.

They're not at all alike. How does the creation of console games result in less choice for consumers? It doesn't. I'm going to guess that you're speaking of console ports to PC, which do not affect consumer choice at all, but I'll address that anyway. Consoles are much cheaper than the standard PC rig needed to play most modern games. They have made gaming more accessible and social, which is good for the gaming industry. Many of the console ports that are accessible to PC gamers today would not exist if consoles did not exist, because said games were targeted towards the console audience and ported to the PC as an afterthought.

In response to the common argument that Apple does this for planned obsolescence and/or profit from AppleCare / battery replacement: • Having the battery replaced costs $199, this is less than AppleCare. Apple has to supply the battery and pay a technician to replace it, as well as shipping and whatnot. They get a profit, sure, but not a crazy one like in an iDevice. These 95Wh batteries are expensive. • Consider the alternative, having an easily removable battery will probably buy a spare to charge for the road. There's a lot of sales there. • The argument that they want to force a new device on you makes no sense. I'm not going to discard a $2000+ laptop for a $200 repair. • Comparing the early 2009 (50Wh) to the mid 2009 (73Wh) battery, you gain about 50% capacity by completely internalizing the battery. Comparing the late 2011 (77,5Wh) to the Retina's battery (95Wh), you can see they gain about 20% battery life there as well, while keeping everything nice and thin.

As someone who upgraded my current MBP (HDD to SSD, Optical Drive to 2nd HDD and 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM) and my sister's old non-unibody MBP (HDD to SSD and 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM) I'm certainly not happy at the prospect of not being able to upgrade the new MBP, I'm not as worried about it knowing the base system specs. It comes with 8GB RAM and a 256GB flash drive, and AFAIK no secondary optical or HDD drive slot, so I'm not sure what people would want to upgrade. The RAM upgrade from 8GB to 16GB from Apple is $200 which costs maybe $50 more than you'd pay to buy the RAM and do it yourself so unless you want a giant flash drive, you're not really going to save a lot of money upgrading it yourself. Sure Apple could have made it 1" thick and kept at least the HDD a standard 2.5" to make it upgradable, but well, that's not Apple's MO. The point is you can only upgrade a laptop so much before it's obsolete anyway as, by and large laptop CPUs and especially GPUs are almost never user upgradable. With 8GB of RAM still being above the average on most desktop computers, this MBP will be fine for at least 2-3 years at which point any laptop is out of date and begins to seem slow.

I've had 8Gb or RAM in my laptop for 3 years. The only laptops with less than 4 gigs or RAM would be the cheap bargain bin laptops. I also have a 500 Gb hdd that I'm going to swap out for a 1 Tb drive this year. In the coming years, I'm going to put 16 Gb or RAM in to replace the 8. Then I'll buy a new CPU and install that. I can keep my laptop up to date a few years after the Macbook has been replaced. The battery, well yes, but no one really cares about the battery. No one's going to try and upgrade a battery pack. I mean really, Most people won't buy extended life AA's for cameras. In terms of repairs, for what it would cost you to repair a damaged hdd in the new macbook, I could probably upgrade mine to a 2 Tb drive. I could also do it in a few minutes. I wouldn't have to drive anywhere, and wouldn't have anyone poking around my files. >...it's going to last you for years. Mmm... Not really. Apple will phase it out in about 4 years, whether it be a brand new design, far superior innards, or an incompatibility with their new OS. You also forgetting Moore's Law completely. Really, it will feel slow after 2 years, which will be when most replace it. Those that hold out will keep them at most 5, by which time its going to feel ancient. I don't think I have any friends that have used the same Macbook throughout all 4 years of school. Really then, what you're paying for is the Apple support, exterior design, name, and exclusivity. I could go out and order a laptop for the same price as a Macbook that would be more powerful, and still be useful after 6 years thanks to upgrades.

I'm New Balance ProCare certified so I'll give it a shot. His article is referring to the heel-to-toe "drop". On standard running shoes, it is 12mm to accommodate for lots of heel cushioning. When running, this causes you to strike on your heel with a jarring impact rather than softly on the midfoot (forefoot and heel at the same time) as you would barefoot. This isn't very beneficial to walking in particular. If your foot has any problems with instability (ie. all your muscles aren't perfect) then unless you go barefoot-monk or something, you're going to need correction and/or stability to keep your feet "OK" (ie. not rolling over on your ankles, dropping your arch, etc.). They're not good for you as they won't correct the problem. They're not harming you, they are simply correcting rather than fixing (no product on the market will "fix" you. Only barefoot will).

That's one way to look at it , but really , does it matter which one is which ? When you buy a product for its purpose , like buying hardware tools : hammer , nails , etc you consider its worth in what you do with it , the material and such . in order words , the caculatable worth of the product. But when you're buying Apple , just like buying clothes and other collectables ( paintings , records , jewelries ... etc ) , the price is entirely made up by the market . you think a tri-ounce gold is really worth that much because of its uses ? NOPE ! the price is almost largely based on the fact that people uses gold to store their fortune . or a another example that reddit likes to talk about : diamonds . it has not that many practical uses ( beside cutting things ) , and yet its worth is through the roof . I believe that most redditors by now already heard enough of debeer and its monopolistic behaviors . you can make your arguement about Apple computer having huge profit margin by selling expensive products that are made cheap , but it hardly matter to 90% of the people out there . a lot of people buy products because it's pretty , and i'll be damned if Apple doesn't know how to design. we all have different tastes , but Apple knows how to get people to DESIRE their products , to the point of self-hyping . i hardly sees much apple commercial until iphone 4s and siri . comparing to everyone else , Apple have got to be the most per-dollar-efficient marketing machine in the market . I mean , ffs , they're making tv news from the conference . Im excited at shit for E3 , and i live in California , yet only cover it briefly with a 10 min segment that talks mostly about the crowd and no product . At this point , Apple is a jugglenaut of hype . the company itself is surround by year round rumor and hype that would only lead to more hype and anticipation . The fact that people desire its products leads to more curiosity and also anticipation from other people . All of that works to make its product worth so much in the aftermarket .

WTF The guy making the threat got his start in the 60's and does not fully understand how people consume music in 2012 "Morris, who launched his music career in the mid-1960s by writing the Chiffons' song "Sweet Talkin' Guy," now is talking tough when it comes to renewing Vevo's contract to distribute its videos on Google's YouTube" and is treating to take away the best way for artist and labels to promote music (YouTube) - If VEVO pulls all the videos off YouTube it be years if ever that those videos will get the kind of exposure they have now. As an example Justin Bieber's Baby has 3/4 of a BILLION views on youtube. No other platform can come close to driving that many views. Also Morris wants to take VEVO public with a $1 Billion valuation, if he pulls the vids from YouTube investors will see a dramatic drop in VEVO traffic and stay far away from a VEVO IPO. If he does this not only will he hurt the Artist and Labels. but pretty much kill his IPO. Just another example of how out of touch the music industry is.

Phone salesman here. I can vouch that many commission based sales people that work at corporate retail stores (Verizon, ATT, Sprint) do talk up the features of many of "last years models" such as the statement made by the gentlemen above about the Galaxy S II. The issue with this is though, is that consumers see dollar signs, and hear what they want to from sales people. To them $150 is more important than the technological differences between the SII and the SIII, or the iPhone 4 and 4S. They don't realize that there's a difference between the "8 megapixel camera" in the SII and the SIII, or that the .3 difference in processor speed is based on generation of proc more than it is actual clock speed. I'm not defending sleazy sales people by any means, because they certainly exist, but most of the time it's at the fault of the customers selective hearing and desire to save a buck on their phone. For those concerned with being screwed around on their next upgrade I would highly recommend doing your own research before entering a store or seeking out non-commission based retailers such as Best Buy Mobile.

I am going to poke holes in the shit you say because addressing the valid points if any are made will lead to more trolling. >Can you tell me one single benefit that putting the Modern UI onto Workstations or Servers is going to provide me? I can, if you cant then you should go download it and try it. Problem #1, servers dont come with metro, they dont even come with aero, its an additional install, you should know that. (oh right you are trolling I forgot). >I have too, I'm a web dev that has to test on IE 10 in the Modern UI because that browser has different functionality then they one on the desktop. You mean, you have to update visual studio to 2012 and press the test compatibility button? I.E. 10 runs with no additions as far the metro version. >My concerns are valid. I have others too such as why did MS put the Modern UI task switcher in the top left corner after years of the close button being in the top right? Because the close button is in the TOP RIGHT CORNER. Holy shit. >There are no visual cues to remind them of this change either. There is no visual cue for alt tab either but yet somehow after 20 years people learned to use it. >Removing the Orb in the bottom left is going to cause similar issues. There are real issues with the way MS integrated the Modern UI into Win8 and you can't just sweep them under the rug in the manner you are attempting too. The real issue here is: Its new. You are afraid of new You are afraid to learn You cannot accept change With this mentality you should not be in I.T. Working in 7 after working in windows 8 for 5 hours, feels like working in XP after using windows 7 for two years. Its not that I like the change, it just bring EVERYTHING from the browser onto the PC, via the metro interface. Like ive posted over and over again, you do not have to juggle windows, tabs, browsers, applications to do basic office work. How do you look up directions now? Oh right, open a tab, go to maps.google.com, or click a shortcut for maps, or do you it on your phone because adding yet another tab to your screen will make your head explode. Windows 8 does not let you clutter the shit out of your computer if you use metro, shit I can look up weather in Sydney without having to change out of my view on desktop, because again, I can suspend the entire desktop and look it up real quick.

because when I'm trying to line up two elements and that are close, but not quite there and I need to launch my ruler app (an app I use often, but not often enough to pin, my colour picker is a similar tool) with the Modern UI Start Screen I lose my place on the screen. Currently I can type Win-"rul"-Enter and my ruler appears and I don't lose my place. Now I get pulled out of my work flow and have to find my place again. Win8 is being touted as the "no compromise OS" and that it's designed so you can "focus on your work". However the first time you switch from the desktop to the start screen and lose sight of your work you lose focus and quickly notice the compromise.

I've been down with a cold watching netflix all weekend. I'm noticing repeated stutters (on three different device a TiVo HD, and Apple TV and on a Mac laptop) - speedtests on my connection comeback at 34mbit down 8 up both to the speedtest.net sites and to my own colo cluster. My first assumption was netflix is overloaded but I'm also seeing strutters with vimeo and youtube (but a test download of an ubuntu image came in at full speed) Which leads me to wonder if Comcast is playing traffic shaping games with video? This is where the power of reddit comes in - if nobody else is seeing this then it's probably local but if it's a bigger patter we should be able to see it really easily in across reddit users. So: Is anybody else seeing netflix stutters if so what is your ISP and connections speed?

I just got a $355 bill from Bell. $70 of it I understand. My normal monthly charges. What's fucked is that I spent a week in the US, and while there sent around 250 text messages, which Bell want to charge me about $1 each for, even though I have unlimited texting as a part of my plan, and I asked the bell representative directly if it included in the US which she assured me it was. I've already emailed bell, and am going to go into the bell store tomorrow and complain, but I'm kinda freaking out about it, thought I'd ask if anyone had any more advice or experience to share.

As a person who doesn't appreciate being taken for a fool, any good point for (or) against my comment will do.

I have a merc ku-0453 ideazon gaming keyboard. Through much research I have found various drivers to download. Unfortunately I have a MAC and brought this keyboard out of retirement to enjoy some steam games. I have not found a driver that is mac compatible and am unable to use the gaming aspect of this keyboard. If you have had the same problem or know of a solution or link to a driver please let me know.

So I bought a motherboard last month from NewEgg. It arrived and wouldn't boot. I tried different processors, memory, etc and nothing. So I got an RMA approved and sent it back. Then I got an email saying the processor pins were damaged and they denied my RMA. They sent it back and it looks like somebody took a screwdriver to both sockets and just went to town. NewEgg customer service won't do anything because it's now "physically damaged". Is there anything I can do? Has anyone had this experience before?

As a 25 year old male, I have basically spent my entire life attached to computers, from the good old NES to the computer sitting in my room today. Reading that article earlier made me think what kind of changes I could be capable of if I unplugged for a while. So, as of 12:00am mountain time, I am officially going to unplug from the grid, for a period of 3 months, and see what, if any, changes I can make. I am listing all the information that may be relevant so I can look back and see what kind of changes I have made. Anyone else wanna join? RULES: *No internet browsing unless work related *No TV *No video games *No computer use unless work related Here are the things I hope to change. I probably waste about 3-4 hrs a day using some electronic device, so I want to see what 3-4 hours of productivity can help me accomplish. *Hrs/week playing guitar - 3 *Books read in last 30 days - 1 *Artwork finished in last 30 days - 1 *Hrs spent in gym last 30 days - 0 *Debt - about 3500 *Interests - Music, art If anyone can think of any other things I should list, or if anyone has suggestions for things for me to try and accomplish during the next 3 months, please comment before 12:00am Mountain time. If not, I'll post an update on April 19th, 2011.

I was very excited at the release of Google Instant, reading about it before release and being pumped for an exciting new way to search. When it was released, I found it delivered as expected (I admit it doesn't often seem like it helps THAT much, but it doesn't hurt and it's cool). Around the same time, I started to be frustrated with a change in how the arrow keys functioned on the main page. Instead of scrolling a bit at a time like any other website, they control a small arrow that jumps from result to result. This is NOT a good thing. It results in an erratic and hard to follow scrolling experience. As a laptop owner with a crappy touchpad, the arrow keys are my only quick scrolling option, so this is especially tough for me. I understand that they made a mistake. but what I don't understand is why after many complaint threads formed on Google's own forums, they have yet to fix this issue. It has got to be the easiest thing in the world for them to fix. All it would take is an option to turn only the remapped keys off, and everyone could be happy. That they have ignored the complaints for this long really bothers me.

Dear Reddit, I have recently got a rear channel for my AV receiver and, naturally, I have to use ProLogic II for EVERYTHING that is encoded in stereo. I was wondering how it actually works. I just don't get how it can work out what should be on a rear channel when it is given an MP3. I tried getting information out of the Wikipedia article but it didn't seem too helpful to me. Does anyone know how to explain it in relatively simple terms?

Anybody see that robot whose able to decipher clever tricky questions on Jeopardy the other day? What if there were thousands of them datamining our conversations through illegaly intercepted emails, telephone conversations, text messages, Internet activities, financial records, health care records every contact in your telephone, and every contact on your email list... The technology exists now to destroy individuality. For example, imagine that Watson was able to dissect your telephone conversations, text messages, emails, financial transactions, Internet activity, GPS location, your contacts, your friends, your family history... They can. Don't pretend that Watson is a one-of-a-kind creation. He is the PATRIOT Act incarnated and visible for the whole world to see. He is a spy. And only a tool to be used by people who have money and power.

I am in the middle of my second year in i guess you could call it swedens high-school and we are suppoused to do some kind of project about technology and we have about one and a half year on us to do it. I totally do not have a clue about what to do, at first I was thinking about building a computer but I have allready done that once and I would want to do something new now.

My girlfriend's friend lost her cellphone the other day. She went through the normal steps and reported it missing to the police. She now has an iPhone and is using the same number as her stolen blackberry. Today something weird happened though. The friend's Blackberry Messenger details changed. Her display name is now "Tatuxca" . So I have a nickname and a BBM Pin. I've tried to do some investigation on the display name but since I live in South Africa I don't see any relation to the Tatuxca search results. My plan at the moment is to trick the person using the phone into revealing information. Either by changing my girlfriend's nickname who is already her BBM friend (which she would be notified of the change) or by using another friend's blackberry and adding her. It might require a special nickname like "RIM Surveys or Competitions" and hoping she's stupid enough to accept and then answer random questions. Does anyone have any other creative ideas?

I recently started a new job at EZ Tech Support. It was a sales position for selling software (That's what I was told). This is what my job entails. I receive inbound calls from people who state they received a system error on their computer. And it instructs them to call a specific number for a diagnostic test. From this point on I follow a script that explains I am a "diagnostic specialist" and convince them to allow me to remote into their computer to perform a diagnostic. We use the service logmein123.com to remote in. From there, I run some silly software known as Webroot Analyzer which performs some bogus test and rates your computer on a scale out of 100. It creates bogus warning messages about memory leaked, temporary files, and cookies. My "job" is to convince them to participate in our program which one of our "technicians" will fix the issue over the next 48 hours for anywhere from $130-$300. From there, it is also my job to offer them a "full-spectrum" anti virus software known as Defender Pro to make sure they are always protected. This ranges from $130-$300 as well. On top of all that, if I'm able to convince them to go through any of that, to perform any of the work, we need to collect the customers login information. First, by having them type in their password for the computer which sends us a bunch of certifications for later use. Then we have them verbally tell us their password and we keep them in our notes. Lastly, if someone does purchase any of these services we hand write the credit card number on a piece of paper and hand it to our boss who generates a payment page... HAND WRITTEN. A little research shows that Defender Pro is an unknown antivirus software. You literally can't find it by googling it. The only results are "Defender Pro 2015" which is malware disguised as antivirus software. Coincidence? I finally found their software page at defender-pro.com. Which explains their different products. This company is owned by "Bling Software". Which is based out of the U.S. Bling Software also produces many other programs. 123 DVD Copy Express is an example. Nothing but poor reviews and "fraud" listed for that software. Further research shows that this "company" has many others ran by the same person across the country. I've found four so far. All linked to each other via paper work I found only for LLC type stuff. All of them operate under different names, but do the exact same thing. What can I do to stop this? This is obviously the U.S. based version of the "Microsoft Tech-Support" scam that used to be very common.

Hey Folks, I'm on my way to Iceland for a while and I'm hoping to do some natural radio experiments while there. But first I need to find some data that will make it possible. Maybe someone here can help. Natural radio works like this: the Earth's magnetic field lines vibrate in various ways. Some of those vibrations occur within the audible range. Natural Radio is the process of sonifying those low frequency vibrations. The auroras create a special sound and I'd like to hear it live, with the light show. The natural radio rigs I see online all use small antennae plus amplifiers. I'd like to use just an enormous multi-loop of wire and a small speaker. I like the directness and simplicity. I've heard talk of unamplified natural radio, but I can't find any references anywhere. Does anyone know of a working example? I'm trying to calculate how much wire I'll need. It should come right out of Ampere's law. And I can find calculations of the Earth's B-field strength and fluctuations over long periods. But I haven't found any data about the flux in the 1/40Hz-1/16,000Hz range of periods. Anyone know where to get such data? I keep thinking this data must be out there and I'm just not googling right. thanks!

I recently got into a debate, as I always do with some friends about sweatshops. I'm opposed to sweatshops for many obvious reasons. I only buy ethical clothes, I don't have a mortgage nor am I 'customer' at any for profit bank, I do my grocery shopping at farmers market. I'm not perfect but I actively try. I'm not going to start some anti-capitalist thread. I just want to know, is there anybody out there in the world that can provide technology that doesn't use exploited labour? I love my tech and I love r/technology but it's hard to come to this reddit page after seeing almost every other page up in e-arms over corporate malpractices. In r/technology we almost worship the companies that are so harmful to humanity in general (except apple).

Hello Reddit, I've had an iPhone ever since it first came out and always have enjoyed them. But lately I've started getting bored with iOS, and the phone in general. DO you think I should switch over to Android, and if so which phone should I get?

I've been scanning /r/technology, /r/iphone, and /r/android for the past two days. Aside from the expected fanboy banter, I've been noticing a lot of mixed feelings on the recently announced iPhone4S. Most of it is not necessarily negative, but it certainly is disappointing. With disappointment comes the backlash from those who feel Apple was never promising a total upgrade and that the 4S is good enough. I, however, do think it is appropriate to feel disappointment towards the iPhone4S. My reasoning stems from the closely controlled ecosystem that is iOS and Apple. You see, when looking at the Android ecosystem, one can't really see a total revolution from one generation of handset to the next--much like the iPhone4 and the iPhone4S. The difference is, however, that Android handsets are released in shorter, more frequent periods, and by several manufacturers. There is no yearly release schedule that these companies adhere to. When new technology is released, the Android handset manufacturers evolve their hardware incrementally, but in a much more timely manner. Having said this, when Apple waits an entire year to release something that would be considered an incremental upgrade and not a new product offering, it's easy to see why people are so upset. It isn't 2007 anymore; mobile technology is innovating on a daily basis. Looking back on Apple's last release, the iPhone4 catapulted the company ahead of the competition. Some new Android handsets are just now catching up to the speed, consistency, and style of the original iPhone4. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case on Tuesday. What we have, although a nice upgrade in speed, is catch-up to the latest and greatest Android devices--available today. I'm afraid the coming announcement of the Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich will not help. I was expecting much more from a company that usually packs a few surprises up its sleeve. Sadly, it looks like another year of stagnation in the iOS ecosystem will leave iPhone in the dust. Sure, sales will most likely not suffer--especially with Sprint jumping on board--but I feel like we are witnessing a shift in mobile dominance. To sum up my main argument, it's the tightly controlled system that Apple has put in place which causes the most concern for such a disappointing announcement. The fact that iOS consumers do not have a readily presented choice featuring bleeding-edge technology is a bit upsetting. Perhaps Google and Samsung will be able to capitalize next week with growing buzz of the next Android heavyweight: the Nexus Prime.

I own a Droid (1st), and have an upgrade coming up in a month or so. I'm trying to decide what kind of phone I want. I have loved my droid. It's been very functional, but there are some things that are very lacking. The camera software sucks and same for the music player (when compared even to my iPod classic). I like the thought of the new iPhone, because my music player is close to quitting, and I'd like a device that I could do everything with. It has a fantastic screen and lots of apps. I also like that it's still smaller, so it fits in a pocket easily. But I love the philosophy of android users, that is functionality and productivity over style. I've spent the last 2 years getting to know Android. I'm going to miss Wireless Tether if I switch to Apple. I guess I just wanted to ask everyone what they think about their iPhone/Android device. Ups and downs of both. I feel like I'm leaning towards the iPhone, but I'm still hesitant to jump the boat.

I’ve only been able to find the theoretical download rates, ie 7Mb/s or 21 Mb/s… but that’s for a single device download rates. Currently cell phones can’t take advantage of those speeds but what is the total capacity of a single tower (I’m hoping for a value such as 500Mb/s which can be split across x users)? That would give us an idea on how many users the network can support and when you’re downloading at 5Mb/s you have an idea how many 2kB phone calls you’re preventing. Always been curious, I’ve never found the answer.

Cross-posted from Askreddit: So my Dad, a normally tech-savvy individual, did something pretty foolish. He tried to format a partition of his USB flash drive and ended up formatting the whole thing. Since he's a teacher, he just did a whole bunch of work to get ready for the school year, and as anyone familiar with Murphy's Law or the situation comedy probably already guessed, he hadn't backed it up yet. So we're looking into data recovery options. He says a friend recommended Stellar Phoenix to him, but I'm curious if reddit has a better option, or has heard bad things about this company, or what. In his words, $50 is a bargain if it does what it advertises, so more expensive options are welcome. Free/open source options are also, obviously, welcome - I've tried [recuva]( to no avail. Thanks in advance guys.

Ok so i've built a couple computers in my time and i'm concidering building a new one because the last one i made has served its purpose for the past 4 or 5 years. My confusion is coming in the way of choosing the proper motherboard and case, I have hopes of making this a gaming computer and would like some input on the matter. I was looking on new egg and found both a motherboard and case i liked, my question is if the motherboard would be compatible with this case. the case is this one and the motherboard is this one now i'm not to knowledgable when it comes to choosing a good motherboard so any input or suggestions of really good motherboards in the $150 dollar range that would work with this case would be appreciated. And also, i can't recall if i bought my previous motherboard with the processor or not, an adequate gaming processor would also help me out with this build. thanks for the help.

I'm not an Apple fan, but I really like the iPad. My loving wife bought me one for our wedding anniversary (thank you honey) and I was pretty excited. A couple hours into this fiasco I am starting to wonder how Apple came to be known for their superior usability. This is my first Apple product (since the 80s Macs) and I was blown away by how many hoops you have to jump through just to use it. If you think a 30 second countdown on a button from Microsoft is frustrating, try getting an iPad. You have to connect it to a PC before you can even use it, which is a bit ridiculous since this piece of equipment could potentially substitute for a PC in many homes. But connecting to a PC is not enough, you have to download iTunes first. Then after you download the wrong iTunes because you have a 64-bit version of Windows you click on a link(marked for 64-bit Windows) and download the incorrect version again because you have to change your download option to 64-bit on that screen. You finally get iTunes loaded and register your iPad to make Apple (Big Brother) happy. Now I have iTunes installed and there is a newer version of the system software available so I figure I will go ahead and install that. Apparently it's not an update, but rather an entirely new copy of the system software because it's a 1 GB download! Pretty incredible if they have an entire GB of updates with a 0.0.1 version increase. So that takes an hour and then I finally get to install it. Yay! Getting close now! OK, time for an application. I want to download one to see how the process works so I chose Google Earth. I do it through iTunes because I was a registered iTunes user from the first month, but left iTunes in favor of Napster when they reemerged. Now I don't remember how to log in and I need the "forgot password" thing. Well after visiting iforgot.apple.com at least four times I am able to log in to iTunes. I try to download the free application but I cannot until I update my outdated credit card info. So I do and click continue. Then they ask for my username and password again despite being logged in. I check the box to remember it and click continue. Then I try downloading again and have to enter my password in again to verify my billing info. Didn't I just do that? Do it again anyways. Then I get it downloaded and I try to install it on my iPad. Woah buddy! Not so fast! You can't just log into iTunes on the computer that you registered your iPad on, with the account you registered your iPad with, and install an application you downloaded using said account with your iPad synced. You must first authorize this computer to install applications on your iPad by once again providing your password despite having checked the box to remember it which no longer shows up on the dialog boxes. I didn't event mention the user agreements. There were at least 5, but I am thinking more like 7 user agreements throughout this process. Well I finally have Google Earth installed, but it's now one in the morning and I have to get up in a few hours for work. Looks like I will try to run it later today.

i work help desk and most of the people i support are not on location. therefore i do most of my work via remote support, and we, like many other IT companies, use logmein as our primary support application. a standard calls goes like "i need to log onto your computer, if you could open internet explorer and go to logmein123.com" some people get there no problem, most don't know what i mean and so i say "go to the address bar and type logmein123.com" this probably confuses them more, i think what i should do say "google logmein for me" people might understand that.

Reddit, over the years I've been burning my movies, usually in the form of either AVI, MPG, and sometimes the off-handed MOV files, with ever increasing speed. At one point I was using Nero vision, and thought that burning a movie from start to finish in 75 minutes was awesome! This was only 2 years ago. I started using ConvertXToDVD in January after I built my new computer. This program takes advantage of my 4-core i7 processor, and in the options allows me to set the number of cores to use. This software allows me to convert and burn movies, in under 12 minutes. Most of the time, I'm finished in 10 - and again, that includes 5 minutes of burning time. That last part, I believe is more DVD-burner-dependent than anything else, but again - Nero Vision would take 15 minutes to burn the very same files that take my new software only 5. What gives, Nero? Why is your software so expensive, yet so easily trampled-over by a much less-expensive competitor? I usually watch the statistics during my conversions for a minute to see how fast things get converted. For example, my new software give me a 13.5x on average during conversion, which works out to just under 325 frames/sec. This same computer, running Nero Vision, took 35 minutes, as a minimum, to convert and burn my AVI files to DVD. Again, from start to finish, 12 minutes max with the new software. Given this, I know that the software used in these two tasks is equally important to hardware. Reddit - what do you use to burn standard A/V formats to DVD? Can you recommend software that will beat ConvertXToDVD for me?

Hai guyz, I live in a pretty crappy country where the internet is crap, but I got some pretty decent internet a couple of months ago, and it isn't really that bad (faster, can dl and ul more...) but still pretty crappy. The first problem is that I've got a 4GB dl and ul (4GB each) limit per month, so Torrents and YouTube videos are pretty rare on my laptop, and I try not to browse too many pics and shit, so as to not go over the limit. The second problem is my fucking router, I think. So, usually I don't turn my laptop (Dell inspiron) off much, I just hibernate it. The thing is, when I am connected to the internet, and I hibernate, then "wake it up" again, FUCK! No internet. So I have to do this: Windows - Connect To Disconnect from my network Turn router off Wait 10 seconds Turn router on Spam F5 until my network appears Connect to the network And sometimes, I have to repeat this maybe 5 times until it finally works. So, am I doing anything wrong? Should this be happening, because it never happens at anybody else's house (I used to think it was pretty normal). Is the router the problem? My laptop? The ISP? Me? My cat lasers with her mind to interfere with the signal? Some more details: The router is connected to my computer (PC) and the internet. This also happens on the PC, but not as much. The wireless range/interference is probably not the problem, since I am literally able to do all these steps without moving an inch, it is less than an arm's length far. I've got Windows Vista on my laptop and XP on the PC. I have been doing this for months. I am using Google Chrome version 6.0.472.53 beta, but that is not the problem, I think, since everything shits itself, not just chrome. Sometimes, if I'm connected to the internet and wasting my ti- I mean... WORKING and doing research and shit, the internet suddenly dies (connection lost), and I have to repeat the steps. I literally scream "FFFFFFUUUUUUUU-" whenever I see the little Windows live icon get a huge red "X", because it means no internet for 10-15 minutes, and websites will give me the old "this page cannot be displayed". Also, if I sound like a complete retard, it's because I have little or no experience when it comes to technology. So please don't start making fun of my crappy knowledge of that shit.

I've been with Telus for about ten months now. I've always had trouble logging into the website, and they could never offer me any solutions. They'd send new passwords, reset the account, create new ones, but basically I'd resigned myself to waiting for the bill to come in the mail and then paying through my bank. I'm visiting family in Ontario, and can't pick up my bills or access them online, so I call there customer service line. Within a minute she says "Are you using IE?". "No, I'm using Google Chrome, but have access to a computer with Safari and Firefox". Apparently, you can not log in to their site using any of those. The problem, to me, is absurd, but what's flabbergasting is that none of the people I have talked to at Telus have ever bothered mentioning this. I don't know. I would consider my computer knowledge and skills to be basic (which translates to neanderthal when in reddit:technology), but can that really be hard for them to fix or patch or whatever? Could they not have foreseen something like this? Frustrating.

I mean I know my way around software and hardware very well, like, I've used Windows on a daily basis for like nine years, and during that time I've solved countless viruses, overheating issues, malfunctioning hardware issues and glitches and stuff like that, but it's all casual you know? the reason I'm asking this is I don't want to finally get a good job like this but then find I have no clue what I'm doing.

So, I have spent the last week digging to the depths of a laptop that ran rampant with porn related vira and other ungodliness (it all starts with "yeah, it wont run video in full screen without freezing" and suddenly you are battling boot sector disorders and cant recognize the HD...). So I know what I use here at home, but honestly I dont get out and around the deep dark depths of porn too much, so it hasnt really been put to the test. If I want this laptop, running Vista, to be as secure as possible without any human intervention while still serving its main purpose as porn-searcher for a guy with no idea how to avoid the bugs, what protection should I put on it? (other than a plastic bag?) Avira? MSE? Super-AntiSpyware? Whaddayathink?

Soooo i like to partake in gaming activities... whether it be TF2, HF, CS, LFD, and SCII don't matter to me... what does however is the fail of having to always play on the lowest settings.... Thus I am interested in building my very own hackintosh... I am not super savvy when it comes to comps... but I have looked into the mechanics of Hackintosh and it seems simple enough...except the hardware... I haven't been able to find many different websites with lists of approved hardware. So I was hoping you guys could help me build a perfect one for gaming... Only looking for what you guys think would be the best hardware for gaming, or even links to lists... Thanks!

I recently purchased a new Arduino microcontroller on Amazon from a company called Hacktronics to send me another microcontroller free of charge. Just got the new one today, perfect condition, 2 free lolipops, you guys fucking rock.

Hello fellow redditors. I need a little advice here. I used to have a 1.5TB WD hard drive that I would keep all my dumb stuff on and carry around to class, gaming, study, whatever. Well, over break I decided to run a DnD game at the Uni library for my friends who are stuck in town. I had my external hooked up to a library laptop, but I had a lot on my mind and plugged the hard drive into the wall instead of the floor. My friend didn't tried to walk around the table behind me, but she didn't see the cord, so my external ended up doing a swan dive off the table and into the concrete pool (floor). We tried hooking it back up, but windows disavowed its existence on a vista laptop, 7 laptop, and XP desktop, so I got in touch with customer support to see if it was fixable. The prognosis was that it was basically screwed. I talked with both Western Digital and Newegg, and the customer support was very nice, but they both told me they couldn't do anything because I bought it last summer and it's out of warranty now. I'm not going to ask her to replace it because she's a really sweet person who makes burritos for a living and there's no way in hell I'm letting a hard drive happen to her budget... and I thought I got a really good deal on it at the time too so I'm not to broken up over it. For $100... I'm a little out of the loop on PC hardware, so I'm not really sure what to look for or look to avoid in getting a replacement. I can get something in the $100-150 range, but I'd like to avoid going much over 100. I was thinking I'd want to take the opportunity to switch to USB 3.0, but I'm not sure if I should be looking for that or something else with regards to forward-compatibility (my desky is only 2.0, but my uni has newer computers and so do my friends). The drive I had was a little on the large side, and aside from the drop worked pretty reliably. I'd like to switch to something smaller and maybe something that is USB powered so I don't have to lug around a power supply cable anymore, but are the smaller usb powered drives as reliable? I've been looking through newegg and tigerdirect, but I'm really not sure what to go with. I know a lot of stores like those have deals this time of year, but when do they usually have their best deals? Do you know of any really good deals on quality drives right now that I'm missing?

Please understand the following if you're moving from GoDaddy to namecheap: 1) Read their "how to avoid downtime during a transfer" tutorial first... (however, this is not the root cause of my problems I'm about to rant about) 2) Understand that you're leaving GD on principle and choosing Namecheap not because they're an awesome registrar... So, here comes my problems with namecheap during my past few days: 1) Their tutorial on moving from GoDaddy fails to mention some important details, like: You can't set up DNS entries on NameCheap's DNS servers pre-emptively, for "when they arrive"... unless you do it BEFORE initiating a transfer. For some reason I cannot understand, you can't do this during / while waiting for completion of a transfer. I have NO idea why. There doesn't seem to be any technical reason why I shouldn't be able to create a bunch of host records in the interim. I realize they wouldn't WORK in the interim... but why stop me from creating them? 2) Their tech support (chat, at least) is rather poor. I had a big problem with a domain of mine not resolving (while most of my others, transferred at the SAME time, DO resolve)... unfortunately, the end conclusion was that while DNS records were set up just fine, the name server change hadn't yet propagated everywhere... Based on error messages I was giving them, THEY should've figured this out, but they didn't. I did. They instead gave me some bogus "well, it works here!" bullshit, and then in what seemed to be an attempt to just get me to shut up, suggested I change a totally unrelated host record. Now that I've learned more about DNS, etc - I realized rather quickly that the SERVFAIL message I told them about should've been a dead giveaway of what the problem was -- but the guy I was talking to hadn't a clue. 3) Also, during this particular support interaction, the guy disappeared for 16 minutes without a word. I said "hello?" and he responded simply "Please wait a moment", or something to that effect. Not "I'm still looking into the issue, sorry", or anything like that... Um, what? Minor quibble perhaps without the other issues I've had, but still...

I mean, if you look at smaller manufacturers or just guys that are working out of their garage, what they're capable of is quite amazing when you look at their resources as compared to a company like Apple. Obviously, the difference is that Apple has to make sure everything works perfectly before they can release a product, but I still feel like they could be advancing SO much faster if it wasn't for the business aspect of it. The business aspect being releasing something just a tad better than the previous so your make people buy the same product twice.

Look, I hate SOPA as much as the next guy, but I think everyone is missing the point here: the internet is fundamentally flawed if one bill could effectively take down the web as we know it. Think of a similar situation from the past: It was 2001 and over 25 million people were using Napster to share music. There was no bit torrent. Peer-to-peer wasn't as popular. Everyone was having a grand old time. Until everyone realized that there was a single point of failure and the whole thing could be brought down in an instant. The fact that Napster came down (instead of, say, the RIAA partnering with them, if they had had half a brain) was the best thing that could have happened. Peer-to-peer became popular (although it was riddled with problems at first), and eventually became much more refined (although we still have single points of failure with sites like PirateBay, although they are working on the problem). So, again, I hate SOPA as much as the next guy, but maybe what really needs to happen here is that this thing needs to pass and people need to wake up and realize that our internet is NOT structured the way that the "founding fathers" intended. It has numerous points of failure and is under the control of a small handful of people who can be bought or manipulated or have laws passed against. Would reddit still exist under this "new" internet? I don't know. Would we all be on Tor? That has it's faults too. I don't know what would happen but maybe it's just the kick in the ass we all need.

Earlier I was reading an article about how many companies could listen in on cell phones and track the users, no surprises there. But I had a thought. Considering that the cell companies operate the cell towers all the information is being sent through would it be possible to actually block themselves from being able access this information? It seems analogous to a catch 22 where you can't block yourself out because you created the password.

So I was having some network issues, so I decided to capture data from all devices on my network, including the computer in my roomate's room (to see if he was torrenting and thus causing the problems) His computer name is tandum, my computer is 192.181.1.8 Can anybody explain why the only requests he is putting out have a destination of my computer? He isn't home He IS a networking person I don't know what protocol's are used for what, but I figure you guys may.

ok so with droid phones, iphones and other phones becoming more and more popular, more and more people set up lock screens, either the pattern or numbers or whatnot, i have it. But if someone loses their phone and it happens to be picked up by a good samaritan, which is easily possible, and it's locked, they can't find anyone to contact about the phone. they have to take it into a cell phone store, probably the phone carrier's one in particular. wouldn't it be a lot easier if simply next to the "emergency dial" button there was something like a Lost and Found button, where u push that and several numbers come up, which the owner of the phone programs, that the person who finds the phone can call. instead of having to go to the store, you can just select that button and call the phone owners brother, wife, friend, etc. ISN'T THAT A GOOD IDEA?

I contacted T-Mobile support recently because since launch my G2 has been freezing completely and is unresponsive until I remove and reseat the battery. This was apparently fixed with an OTA update back in October/November of 2010 however this never stopped the problem for me. When I contacted them, they had me inspect the battery for damage or bulging (there was none) and then had me check the litmus paper which was partially red. They said this meant the phone was water damaged and voided my warranty for the device. I explained that I've never had the phone in the water, save for talking possibly in the rain briefly on the way to my car and they simply responded by telling me even a hot or cold room can damage my device. I refuse to believe that the issue is caused by water damage when it has persisted throughout the life of my entire device since I've owned it but the representative posed no help other than telling me to replace my phone. Is there anyone in Reddit that can help?

So I've noticed black hat techniques are frowned upon by Google. However the owner of the company I work for swears by link building and has me hire teams of cheap overseas link builders generating upwards of 1000 links per week. I'm no SEO expert (I'm meant to be a web designer at this place) but these black hat techniques scare the crap out of me. I've voiced my opinion to the boss but he's one of those pig-headed people who thinks he knows it all. In fact, he's insisting that I hire even more link builders. So here's my dilemma: there is no changing my boss' mind about black hat SEO. But I know Google can dish out severe punishments for these practices. 100% of the company's sales come from the website, so a plummet in the rankings could have dire consequences. With over 50 people employed by the company, I feel like I am carrying a heavy burden. My questions are: What is the risk of us getting caught by Google? What kind of punishment would we likely receive? What alternatives are there to hiring a team of cheap link builders? Where would the money be better spent? To any SEO experts, or anyone who knows how to deal with stubborn, micro-managing brutes: what would you say to my boss? What's the deal with web designers and copywriters being expected to be fully-fledged SEO experts at the same time? Where can I go to take my intermediate knowledge up to advanced?

I run a small film production company and we're constantly running into storage issues (we basically are just buying 1TB Glyph drive after drive and at this point there are around 20 drives daisy chained into one another). It seems to be getting more and more unstable, and we really need to establish some kind of expandable infrastructure or I'm afraid we'll lose data in some epic drive crash. What have people had success with? I've tried the Drobo but found it to be finnicky and overall a pretty dissatisfying experience. Budget wise I'd say we're working, at the absolute most, with $5K for this "project". Thoughts? Thanks!