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My Internet's not limited, and we don't even have time warner or google fiber in my area.
My point exactly! AT&T (U-Verse, DSL), Comcast, Charter , and Verizon (FiOS) all have data caps! Time Warner tried to enforce data caps and failed and Google Fiber has never had data caps.
It would be harder than you expect for Sony to delete your information from their servers. I had a job a few years ago at a major household name company which I won't say. I'm a developer and had lots of knowledge about how they store data. First off, there's no delete button. In the few places there is a delete b...
I had a similar issue with Time Warner, a while back. I was paying for 50mb/s service, and I was getting for a long time. Even after the promotional period ended, I was getting decent service. This is where Time Warner gets sneaky, they slowly, over time, started lowering my service speed. I do a lot of big file uplo...
I got rid of mine so fast when I could, but they give me shit about not using their product when i have problems; they expect me to use their shit product. I have the Motorola SBG6580 ( i needed it due to VPN issues with the comcrap box) and its been great, BUT about every 3rd day, i was getting .5Mbs (coming from 50...
I was having the same problems until I finally got them to send a tech after the third support call for dropped signal in 4 days. It then took three different techs to figure out that the issue was corrosion on the junction box out on the pole causing severe upstream interference. We now get a consistent 50-55 down a...
I think there is enough general evidence, or enough could be gathered, to show that comcast is abusing the Arbitration clause and that clause should be waved. Arbitration is meant to protect them from a short term issue that could affect a large number of customers. So if they had a wide spread outage they basically ...
It's kind of complicated, but judges can and do overrule judge-made rules all the time. The problem with the Federal Arbitration Act is that it's not a judge-made rule: it's an act of Congress. Acts of Congress trump judge-made rules. The only way the Supreme Court could overrule an act of Congress is if the act viol...
It's not more regulations or less regulations that we need that, it's better ones. The ones that we need would be ones that make it harder for Comcast , twc, and the like to be the oppressive monopolies that they are and easier for new companies to enter the marketplace. The ones that we have protect the established pl...
I get that they are using the HBO nordic to experiment with a standalone version of HBO go, it explains the really shitty and customer unfriendly service that lanunched around 2 years ago. Keep in mind that we are talking about the Nordics where most people under ~30 are pirating their shows. They launched by doing e...
How does this relate to the first comment (serious question, want answers)? I don't have enough time to read through a long wikipedia article and I can't find a good
Well I would recommend it. It runs stock CyanogenMod 11 right now. Very customizable. Quad core 2.5ghz with 3gig ram. 64gb hard drive. Not expandable though :( but still great phone. I've bricked mine a few times but always managed to recover it with nandroid backup(I push the limits of what I can/know how to do). The ...
I'm seriously thinking of buying some shares. Anyone know a good way to go about this online? I'm not sure which service is reliable. Last time I felt the need to invest was bitcoins, which I didn't at the time, and I regret it ever since.
Here is why it's important: load factor. It's the percent of power usage versus the total capacity to produce in a given area. In a normal city a graph of power usage looks like a camel hump. Big demand in the am, a dip and then a hump in the evening. Power storage like this can really help shave the high points o...
There really is nothing new under the sun. In that sense, you are right. This is just another implementation of client/server. I think the real difference is the scope though. We are seeing applications move from the desktop into the browser. Examples are obviously google docs and gmail. Also, the scale of this shift s...
The problem with the "fills the gap" argument is that it suggests there is a gap between a smartphone and a laptop/netbook. I don't see a gap in there. If anything, I see an overlap. Also, being that it uses the iPhone OS, an iPhone can do almost anything the iPad can do (besides the apps specifically designed for the ...
Tron Legacy will show you what 3D is capable of. The reason 3D is being viewed as a fad is because its being treated like a cheap trick. It creates so much visual potential, but that potential is completely wasted when it is used to carry a movie. This is why Avatar is a load of shit. James Cameron got so excited when ...
I agree with every point that article brings up (except the glasses don't have any side-effects on me). I gave it a chance, and was bored of it half way through Avatar . The only other film I've watched in 3D is Toy Story 3 and that was only because it was only being screened in 3D so I didn't have a choice. The g...
I never really understood the need for a special 3D TV... Maybe someone here can explain to me why my line of reasoning is wrong. A screen displays an image in 2D for us all to enjoy... To achive 3D, the image on the screen is changed to work in combination with special glasses to give the illusion of 3 dimensions. Cou...
I got mucho downvotes for grandparent post. I suppose this, plus your reply, means I did not make myself understood. I believe big media is dying because they are not serving their customers. They deserve to be dying, iow. Pirates provide their products to the public in a more convenient format, with near-zero cost...
Root servers only refer queries to the servers responsible for TLDs (.com, .net, .org, etc.) SOPA would affect the secondary DNS servers, the ones that handle queries for .com, .net, .org, and refer those queries to the DNS servers for the domain. So let's say you want to go to www.google.com. First, your machin...
x264 is the name of an open source h.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoder. It does not emulate anything, it is an h.264 encoder (and the best one out there!). It implements the standard. As such it does not circumvent any of the licensing issues (nor does it try to). It features no decoder at all. Xvid is an open source MPEG-4...
I'm impressed that a single headline can capture so many misrepresentations and falsehoods. So some people want to filter their internet access; how is this any different from the average redditor using AdBlock? Sorry..I meant...extremist internet pundit using Ad Block.
Apple is pretty well known for putting the squeeze on its supply chain, so I seriously doubt price increases aren't exhaustively discussed in every contract. I'd be astonished if anyone at Apple was taken by surprise here - more likely just a contractually-permissible increase, and it's highly unlikely Samsung had the ...
No, it's not a massive injustice. Anyone who thinks that needs to read the whole article. Let me explain with a metaphor: Let's say some guy is doing some contracting work for a bank, one where he has a safe deposit box. Let's say he's installing some lights or something, when he realizes that the you can just pull o...
Had to reply and give revenantae a little backup. Kinetic and thermal energy are extremely interchangeable in physics and chemistry. Thermal energy creates kinetic energy and vice versa in systems. Now of course that doesn't mean we can just automagically transmute heat into motion. The turbo is a heat scavenger though...
Thing is, the yellow ones stop at the intersection then become yellow to cross. Meaning there was no reason to portray them as yellow cars, then what's important here, the crossing, requires them to act as white cars.
This is supposed to be the premier auto racing series. The best drivers in the world driving the best cars in the world. It's not anymore. The engineers are handcuffed more and more every year on vehicle design. They keep taking away power by reducing engine size. They force shitty overtaking with KERS and the DRS re...
I don't know if this is similar (most likely not), but about a month ago, I went to comcast and asked if they had any promotions going on (I knew that they can give you a six month premium sometimes). I already have the six month premium twice before, but I decided to give it a try. Now I usually pay $72/month for 25...
I agree. Now, in the future, I can see this blowing up big time. With the return on the investments I've seen talked about in other threads, this seems like it'll be providing a huge amount of income to Google, maybe even enough to make them consider straight up becoming a nationwide ISP. Even if they don't (due to...
2 weeks ago my friend and I bought a sailboat and sailed it across one of the great lakes. At one point we got caught in a blow; 40km/h winds and 2m seas. This is not significant really but my father got unnerverd since we were outside cell range and called the coast guard. They were not overly concerned but contacted ...
That comes from a case in 1975 called State v. Johnson. Most people sign the waiver, actually, for a number of reasons. Maybe they think it will make the traffic stop go faster or they just don't care. Maybe they don't really understand that their refusal to consent would be honored. Because of this, in 2003, in a ...
Uhuh. Have you read his writing in the last 5 years? The sparks gone out of it. It reads like someone trying to poorly imitate Pratchett, rather than actually reading as Pratchett. Also, it's telling that he's embarked on the long earth series, one of the only two collaborations he's ever done, which reads increasingly...
More interview details here]( >"The FBI does not ask for backdoors. Period." Such misleading language makes me sick. >"No, we didn't ask for a makes finger quotations "backdoor." We only asked Microsoft to secretly create a copy of Bitlocker decryption keys at the time of encryption - just in case we suspect a...
Since no one has provided any form an argument I'm just going to list why your post and sources are terrible: >Had James Clapper lie under oath to us - on camera - to Congress to hide the domestic spying programs Occured in March, revealed in June[1] Clapper didn't think he was lying he said himself he thought that...
I think that despite many jobs becoming obsolete due to automation, there are opportunities for new jobs to arise. I am a mechanic at the port of Long Beach, which is slowly starting the process of automating some of the workforce (A new fully automated terminal is under construction right now). Though much ...
They actually took the 'history of the symbol' section.. directly from the thread's comments.
Lawyer here: To everyone saying this is a troll because of spelling errors, don't judge a book by its cover. Because of the sheer amount of shit we type on a daily basis, there will be errors. It's just not feasible to double or triple check your work for everything. Important documents, (And, I mean that in terms of h...
I was confused while reading this article as well. When the writer says "net neutrality rules" I think she meant rules that either regulated or destroyed net neutrality; not rules that protect net neutrality. Either way, it was badly written or the writer does not know what net neutrality is. As it stands now, there ...
As a pilot I'm genuinely curious whether people would happily get on board an aeroplane with no pilots. The amount of money which goes in to automation by the aviation industry is staggering, the technology is simply incredible and very smart. Although about 80% of plane accidents are due to human error, there is still...
By the way... I wouldn't think of any cryptocurrency as being some kind of 'one time event' or a 'train' that you either catch or miss. These are permutations of a new technology, the values of these coins relative to the dollar will ebb and flow. Sure, some people bought early when coins were cheap and made a profit, ...
This seems like a shrewd move for Nokia and Microsoft. Nokia has carrier and billing connections in more countries than Microsoft by far (and probably Google as well). So, they're in an interesting position to broaden distribution on this. This also frees Microsoft to really push features on Windows Phone geared tow...
If I understand this correctly, Google's modular phones use an endoskeleton with the mobo embedded in it... Even if you managed to make components that were compatible 3, 6, or even 9 years down the road, you'd still be limited by the memory bus speeds on the mobo... meaning you'd need to buy a new endoskeleton to get ...
We are in a city that has been operating a 'Data Threshold' for about a year now...and it sucks. It is like a flashback to the bad old days where you had to keep half an eye on how big your phone bill was going to be after some heavy Modem usage! In a household with two adults and four kids it does not take long for t...
According to comcast we are the 2%!!! On a more serious and related note, these capped plans should not need to exist, because as per comcast only 2% of their customers go over 300gb, what would be the purpose of implementing data caps (besides attempting to take more money from their customers ) be but to overcha...
If the band doesn't sign with google then their content will be blocked and removed from youtube. This is as stupid as they come and the article is correct they have horribly misjudged the market if they think they can get away with this.
Ms Doudet was sued by the owner of Il Giardino restaurant in the Aquitaine region of southwestern France after she wrote a blogpost entitled "the place to avoid in Cap-Ferret: Il Giardino". > According to court documents, the review appeared fourth in the results of a Google search for the restaurant. The judge decid...
Connection speed isn't what I'm referring to but latency. This works fine on a local network since distance isn't an issue. On long distances this doesn't matter for movies since you aren't doing anything dynamic other than stream. But for streaming games from your PC over the internet to your device you've got a pro...
he has bypassed Congress lots of times, and brags about doing it again very soon
I think got a pretty solid theory on why imgur went with h.264(gifv) vs VP8(webm). And it's pretty disappointing and not even really imgur's fault. Apple does not support VP8. iPhones do not have hardware VP8 decoding. I think it is safe to assume that a large chunk of imgur's traffic comes from iOS devices/safari (a...
The ELI5 version is that there are two ways of making the MP4 file being used here. Gfycat uses one that's more widely supported, imgur uses one that is supposed to be better. However, imgur's settings on their version of the files disables the best parts of the format they chose, making it more compatible with a wider...
I almost wasn't going to comment but I feel like I have to. I am active duty Air Force and have had comcast for now 4 years. I am one of the lucky few that haven't had problems other than a stupid tech or two and comcast's DNS servers going down every so often, the usual. I attribute this to me being in the military. ...
Wow, thanks for all that information. I probably would (personality-wise) fit into the second category of archivists. At one point I kind of thought I wanted to be a museum curator, but, again, no jobs and a shit ton of money for degrees that probably lead to retail and Starbucks. I'm kind of an organization-minded p...
That's assuming the company actually reads & records your usage and charge based on that data. Where I used to live, power and gas companies would charge based on use for a little while, then charge based on estimated usage without actually referencing meter readings. My mother was charged for a month she was out of ...
doesn't help that people are unable to think critically about it. "Oh nice 5MB/s, never mind the fact that: 5GB cap / 30 days = .1666GB/d .1666 / 24 hours = .00694/h .00694 / 60 mins = .0001157/m .0001157 /60 seconds = .0000019283 GB/s .0000019283 1000000000 = 1928 bytes / s that's a grand fucking total of 1.9KB / s...
I can give Microsoft a few words of advice. First, if I were to rename a donut covered in chocolate frosting, it's still a donut covered in chocolate frosting. Second, The IE brand wasn't so much destroyed as it was never really good from the beginning. Third, Why is that? Well IE ...or rather Windows in general has se...
Here we go. KHTML came out back in like the 90s, it was made by and for KDE on Linux. Safari based their engine WebKit on KHTML Chrome came out and based it on WebKit Chrome forked WebKit to make Blink Opera stopped using it's renderer a few years ago called Presto in favor of Google's Blink.
Downloading them first is necessary in a lot of cases as the final rendered state won't appear in same cases until a resource has been downloaded and run. There are two basic kinds of blocking that those Adblock extensions focus on: Blocking things based on domain (adsite.com/someadcode.js) and/or file name. Bloc...
Why has everyone started to use the term "Reality Distortion Field" in the past 24 hours to describe this thing!? An Appleholic is a person who would buy any Apple product day one. Considering Apples recent track record, this isn't a bad gamble, but it is a poor consumer choice. Don't buy it tomorrow. Instead go to...
we read the dozens of other articles regarding this patent, which more or less made it clear that the patent aims at theft prevention. as does this one, btw. jailbreaking in combination with the other indications from the patent, which are not even mentioned in this article, is a sensible means to determine if there's ...
Alright i'll bite, but only because of the upvotes for this post are alarmingly high imnsho. I use my mac, and gladly pay extra, because its Unix 2003 compliant and largely a hands off unix workstation. I use Linux at work, Aix, Solaris, and Windows, though thats mainly for outlook moreso than anything actually job r...
Sales tax in the US is typically between [5% to 10%]( depending on your state and municipality. That adds another $100 to $200 for a new 13.3" MacBook Pro that retails for $1199. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon have no state sales taxes (though some municipalities might have their own). One mor...
Sony got a head start with PS One and the fact that you could easily pirate games for it. When PS2 came people already had a big bias towards Sony which had big brand loyalty for decades (until recently). Today the PS3 is available anywhere you can buy a Sony product, you just buy it, plug it in and use it, while the...
Because no cellular carrier operates "their own" network. There is a finite amount of spectrum. By being given some of that spectrum, they are taking a long-term lease from American citizens, and therefore "the network" is partially owned by us. The spectrum is a public good, and use of public goods should come with co...
yeah i just don't see much point for the unicycle mode. i doubt any apartment or office building is going to allow you to ride it inside and it would be almost impossible to push it around like that. are you going to store that thing in your apartment after riding it on the filthy streets or while it is dripping wet fr...
If a customer says the trojan Mac Defender is not installed, the support rep has only the customer's word for it. So the instructions in that case (not to confirm or deny infection) are appropriate given the rep's ability to diagnose over the phone. If a customer says "Mac Defender" is installed, they could be correc...
The Content-ID system is currently in Google's famous Beta mode. While it is true that there are entities that are definitely illegitimately taking advantage of the Content-ID system and claiming content they have no business claiming what I am sure is happening in the majority of cases is misusage / uneducated usage...
Over the past few months, I've worked on a port of an indie game from C++ to JavaScript. It's a perfect candidate for Flash, but we wanted to try something new. You're right about the fragmentation problem. It's hard to get everything working even across just Chrome and Firefox. In Firefox, fullscreen support is a...
From the bill itself (pdf)]( >Cyber threat intelligence – The term ‘cyber threat intelligence’ means information in the possession of an element of the intelligence community directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity, including information pertainin...
I almost feel like we're going about objecting to all the various proposed bills in the wrong way. I mean this garbage just keeps coming and the constitution obviously doesn't mean shit to these people. Wouldn't it be more practical to support the creation of a proactive bill that expresses limits on governmental intru...
This is the first time I
I'm sorry to break this to you dude, but despite what you see on the internet porn is not a well respected industry. Money counts, and there are porn industry lobbyists, but judges and law makers are also influenced by how reputable it is to support an industry. There's generally a lot less bang for your buck in lobb...
Not everything is a conspiracy. Long-lived bulbs are possible, but require much, much more energy to work. I'm not an engineer, but my understanding is that filaments work by resisting the flow of electricity, and thinner filaments create more light with less waste, but don't last as long. Thicker filaments are bette...
There are two versions: this one is the L Prize bulb, and it meets certain efficiency specs that the previous-but-very-similar bulb does not. The other bulb, presumably the one you have in Europe, is cheaper as well. The L Prize bulb is supposed to sell for $22 as one of its conditions of winning. Apparently Philips...
I'm afraid I need to tell you that this is not a standard. Sometimes 0 will do, sometimes 9 or even # but most of the times, speaking to an operator is not included in the IVR, specially if the IVR asks for identification since the companies use that strategy to hang up before you reach a human for they're charged by t...
For people looking at this map and wondering a little more about it, let me (someone who is pretty familiar with the area) to give you a low down on this. Lets start with Austin. Most of Austin has been cut out of his district. A decent amount of people living in Austin are pretty liberal. San Marcos. San Marcos i...
Google+ offers a Facebook-like format but your actual activity on the site is more like Twitter with substantial posts. You follow people, and you have to put them in categories. There's no way around it. You can limit which categories can see what. And they're built in a way that it's not a hierarchy or anything, an...
Since it's soft and malleable, it can be made into..say a suit. A suit with active camo and anti-infrared capabilities. Since DARPA is making this a news now, it's probably safe to say it's a military top secret specialops standard issue like 10 years ago. Shit.
I've been using Win 8 for months as well and I disagree about it being terrible for any pro user. (key word). The author is spot on. Metro sucks, and so do all default windows apps. But for a "pro" or "advanced" user, I don't use any default windows apps anyway. Firefox/Chrome, VLC/MPC, Thunderbird, etc replace a...
Yes, but their leverage to force their massive base of desktop users into becoming accustomed to Metro/mobile interface would go away too. Microsoft must know Metro is dismal on the desktop but they have no reason to care. The desktop market is saturated with no alternative if you wish to keep running your current so...
As a user of Win8 Pro (no upgrade path from win7 ult x64 -> w8 enterprise x64)for about a week on my personal gaming rig I can say that the majority of this articles' complaints feel like he just doesn't know how to use Win 8 yet. Maybe I see things through a different lens as an admin but I haven't had any problems wi...
Microsoft's claim is that [not metro] is easier and faster but in every practical case I've ever seen it in people don't know how to use it. It isn't intuitive and most people become lost as soon as the first application is open. I like Windows 8 for many things, but the GUI ruins it. Only time will tell whether its su...
I don't know if I'm just easy to please, but I've been running Windows 8 since the dev preview, and am now on the final build I grabbed from TechNet last week and I like Windows 8. As a tech junkie and IT guy by trade, here's my take on it: PROS It is fast. The resource footprint seems to be as low as Windows 7's...
This is a horrible article and most of his points are pretty retarded.
Shit. Shit, shit, shit. I was expecting it to be bad but this sounds unusable. What the hell, Microsoft? Is competing in touchscreens really so important that it's worth sacrificing all core functionality? It's called WINDOWS for shit sake, but all the core functions don't work in actual "windows"? Unbelievabl...
I was simply going with a number off the top of my head. But here you go.
If I had to summarize my experience (of around 4 months) with Windows 8, I would say that it is Windows 7 just with attempts to add extra UI that to 95% of the world is a waste of space. However I would never get upset with MS and say that this OS is a piece of shit. It runs quicker than Win7 and has a few features t...
Video driver problems? I didn't have any issues with either Developer Preview or Release Candidate. All applications and even things like Daemon Tools ran with little or no problems. However GUI navigation was as bad as the author of the OP's article complains. I hope soon flow of critique like that will acquire mome...
What are these basic useful aspects? I do consider myself a power user, generally I will run Debian Linux for personal use, but I have been testing Windows 8 lately as a development platform and I must say it seems rather adequate. The only valid argument I can see against Windows 8 might be that the search behaves sli...
Thank you. I shouldn't have to go out on a limb to say something like: "I think Metro is awesome." Previously? I had to leave a browser window open to receive Facebook messages. If I was browsing , I'd have to navigate back to that tab to check for messages. It was a horrendous user experience. With W8? I get a ...
No it doesn't, assuming by 'follows' you mean 'is entailed by'. Take the set of sentences, let's call it M, {'Marijuana should be legal' , "Marijuana should not be legal'}. You would hold that the sentence 'Marijuana should be legal' follows from 'Marijuana should not be legal'. But M is logically inconsistent, i.e i...
To compare a piece of software to Newtonian principles or the Lorentz factor - underlying natural truths which would exist regardless of whether they were discovered by the aforementioned, or by anybody at all - is entirely absurd You are not patenting Microsoft Word or gmail. You are patenting algorithms, mathematic...
i am an apple "fanboi" my dad was a graphic designer in the 80's in london and i could use a one button mouse with a GUI before i could walk, i remember going to friends houses and wondering why they where typing to launch an app in DOS. i remember getting a 16 bit colour card and how cool the original prince of Persia...
here's the kicker. It's been shown time and time again that iOS apps make more money than Android apps. Sadly, the only way to ensure you will be able to continuously run an iOS dev environment is to buy a mac to run XCode. So you have to spend a minimum of $1000 on a macbook air plus $100 a year for the pleasure of se...
Of course software should be patentable. A patent exists to grant the holder exclusive rights over an invention so that they may exploit it to financial gain. And the innovative and critical thinking involved in developing a new piece of software is every bit as valid as the innovative and critical thinking involved in...
I used to work with Samsung for 3-4 years right up to the time the Galaxy SII came out. In our meetings, there were vibrant discussions on how take market share from Apple, everything from starting an iTunes-like marketplace to the many iPhone features were discussed. It was the phone to beat. In fact at pre-launch, th...
It doesn't matter what the correct verdict is based on current patent laws. This has serious implications for how technology is developed on this planet, and on how quickly innovation can propagate. The only purpose of these laws is to give abusive companies like Apple more money and keep technology out of the hands of...
Look people, there are two sides to this story. Neither of them should have won in my opinion, but that doesn't matter here. What does matter is that the patent system is clearly broken which is leading to these kinds of things. There is a lot to be said about Samsung specifically, especially the blatant copying that t...
i work with cell phones for a living and android 4.0 phones will not do mass storage mode on a mac. fuckin pissing match between apple and google. we just work around it in my office by using PCs or bluetooth or whatever, but it'd be nice to just plug in the cable and bam, file access. i still run android 2.3 on my pho...
Can I get the