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I live in a apartment complex and have comcast as my isp. I pay for 50 mbps of internet but in when I run the speedtest I get around 2 mbps. So I called comcast and wanted to know the reason for the sluggish internet but all I got from them was the generic "everythings good on ourside"... I then asked for a technician ...
I'd be fine with just internet too in most cases (there's really only one or two channels that have shows I can't easily get online; and legally). The open source option is unlikely to work though. 1st, you'd have to have the delivery network. Unless they're coming in over your internet connection, then the provider ...
I enjoy researching energy and have been doing so for almost fifteen years. The US has had production plants for many decades now. While the initial cost could be large, depending on the size and number, there are significant tax breaks for projects such as these as well as tax depreciation over X years. One such e...
Hence > Not defending it in any way Just explaining how it works. It's like someone built a Dick-Punching machine, and complaints about being punched in the dick. That's what the thing does.
It was probably my fault. My thesis was never stated explicitly, it was the combination of "good communities need barriers to entry" and "subreddits get swamped because there's no barrier to entry from the rest of reddit." One could tack on the following
making money is not required > There is tons of investment capital out there Are you on crazy pills? Do you understand what "investment capital" is really all about? Google bought YouTube because it allowed them to increase their user base and add to their enormous data warehouse about their users. (That's what...
I posted this a while back. Based solely on observations and horrible math skills. Observation #1 : Gold = 276.46 minutes of server* time per ("Buy gold for yourself to gain access to extra features and special benefits. A month of gold pays for 276.46 minutes of reddit server time!") No specifications as to whet...
Someone posted on askreddit the question "what is the most obsolete technology still used in modern society?". The replies read "fax machine; fax machine; fax machine; land line telephones; fax machine; fax machine; cheques; fax machine; tom cruise; max fachine..." you get the idea. All the intelligent discussion of th...
Because we are bombarded (as Americans especially) with ads literally every waking minute of every day. Anything you watch on TV is going to involve some sort of ad, even during the program or event you're watching. This is especially true for any sporting event. Listening to the radio, ads. Driving your car, ads...
No, he meant to tell you that someone creating a Google account in order to store a Youtube favorite should not be forced into creating a Google+ social profile with their real name etc. exposed. Your real name isn't exposed. Here's what Google has to say about it: > Note: There is no public link between your new...
Ignore this sensationalist headline. The 60%+ price reduction affects a subset so it won't correlate to the bottom line mentioned for one thing, so that's misleading. But industry insiders have been speculating on the impact to insurers of GPS-enabled Pay As You Drive insurance for many years, so this is nothing new. B...
See, here's the thing. 1- I disagree with this post. Vista's problem was very simple: its features were ahead of its time. Vista had more than double the minimum requirements of XP, and the hardware just wasn't ready for it. Because of that most people disliked it and complained about it being slow and whatnot. If ...
Always been a Microsoft fan (even after actually having Windows ME) and was extremely excited to buy my first actual decent computer. Had never even seen Win 8 how different could it be? Was pretty annoying at first but I got the hang of it pretty quick. Oh people are saying Win 8.1 is out and it gives you a start butt...
Windows 8 is better.. with touch I’ve tried Windows 8 on a Surface, and it is absolutely better than Windows 7, but I’m not going to purchase a new device with a touchscreen just for Windows 8. Touch can be uncomfortable, so advantages can be lost when in a desktop environment I know someone who loves his Surface...
Yes, the K menu looks to be what you want. Do you know how Windows has several UI settings? 'Classic', regular, etc.? Same thing on Kubuntu. You may find that you prefer the [classic setting on it (see #1)]( I do. To change, unlock widgets if needed, right click the K and select 'Switch to Classic Menu Style'. If you...
Why not both? I've recently started using XMing, and now my Win7 and my Win8 tablet are full-window terminals for my research CentOS beast using X over SSH. I'm also privately using Ubuntu as a dual boot option, and it IS kinda slick, but as long as Steam and Netflix don't run I don't have much of a home usecase for Li...
Windows is still shit with a touch interface unless you're using metro full time. Try using a windowed application however and you'll realize there are some glaring flaws that can't be fixed if you keep the desktop. Convention has the minimize, maximize and close buttons for each window right next to each other. The...
Thank you! The metro screen is just a glorified start menu that works functionally a lot better for me. The Windows 7 start menu had 2 functions for me: shortcuts for common programs, and search for less frequent programs. My 8.1 start screen can do both of those better. My frequent programs are organized into column...
I definitely wouldn't prefer Windows 8 over 7 at all, but it's all that's available on new PCs. I got a new laptop a few weeks ago, and believe me I tried to make the Metro thing suit my needs, but I just got too frustrated with it. It just felt like I was using two OS's. I installed StartIsBack and it's made using...
I downloaded and paid for "startisback" to get my start menu back. I rarely have to deal with the tiled menu crap. I so so hate that shit. I had Vista, and was ho-hum about it, I had Windows 7, and really really liked.. But since Windows 95, 2000, NT and the ones mentioned.. Windows 8 is a fucking disaster. It's a fu...
I'm forced to use Win8 at work... the entire interface is just so goddamn un-intuitive for someone who has been using computers in one way or another for over 15 years. I don't know how to do the simplest actions (I just want to look at a folder with all of my pictures! Not scroll through my 1,000+ pictures one at a go...
I didn't know about the way "mod" privileges were coveted. I've no desire to be on a subreddit where ANY moderator moderates that many subreddits. There's no way to do it effectively. It's like people that put a whole bunch of letters after their name on their resume for every accomplishment they've done. It's like...
My 63 old father who doesn't even use or have a FB account doesn't want his picture so much as uploaded to Facebook. So you're essentially wrong as I know my father is not the only person like this and he's certainly not part of the internet minority that is very vocal and knows everything about Facebook's past by any ...
ITT: Lots of people who put down IE without understating the actual issue involved or why people especially in an enterprise environment might actually want/need/be forced to use IE or why the original bad reputation of IE for bad security from half a decade or more ago is not really all that justified anymore. Reall...
Mostly no. Imagine trying to model real world climates by sampling 50 random dudes apartment thermostats.
95% of posts are spam, but 94% of them are filtered out. I've got a site that gets 1000 unique views a day, and it has a form. I was playing with the db and got a dump of all the posts. there where only 100 or so comments but 10,000+ records. The bots posting had been posting without a reply ID, even though it was in...
I'm actually at work and can't watch this.
1]( [2]( [3]( Every single year someone writes an article about how apple products are going to break through into corporate usage, usually when a few companies are trying it out. Funny how it never seems to catch on. Maybe the problem is that reporting on the industry is sloppy as shit.
As an Android user and someone who personally doesn't have much use for iPhone's or Apple products in general, I hate this kind of unthinking fanboyism. People have different needs and different options suit them better. My father got an iPhone because it works for him (he doesn't have to tinker with it, and it wor...
So, using Photoshop at $700 boxed vs a $35 per month subscription is $700 vs $840 if major releases come out every two years. You pay more. You don't own anything. There's no concept of equity that would allow you eventually own anything. You don't get anything extra (ie: some kind of added value that is an ongoing...
I am drunk and I don't want to read all that someone
As a Canadian this makes me so jealous. Our home broadband installations include a complimentary POV video shoot for Brazzers. Then we have to listen to all the ISPs brag about how great the penetration is, like it's an excuse for the lack of quality, even when we know it's way better in most other countries. Our IS...
To clear up a few misunderstandings here: When a video refers to SD/480p/480i, 720p, 1080i and 1080p, it's a reference to the resolution of the video - specifically how many horizontal lines that are displayed simultaneously. The 1080p means that a picture is made up of 1080 lines, painted in one pass - if a format has...
I've been researching the drilling into Lake Vostok for a project (Lake Vostok is the model used by NASA for developing and testing this idea for Europa). Here's a video with some nice anims explaining one method of sterilization they may use for the Lake Vostok robot: [ Wikipedia's info on Lake Vostok: [
That's actually a pretty normal price for core-network solutions, especially a collapsed core where everything filters down to a single cisco device. T1 lines are basically dedicated copper lines to the phone company, that provide guaranteed speeds, and redundancy if multiple lines are used. They're useful for segre...
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I work for an internet advertising company and I hear quite a bit of bs from companies who "advertise on Facebook".. Here's my 2 cents, albeit possibly biased.. First, some company yesterday dropped all of their Facebook marketing bc 80% of the clicks were from bots ( source would never click on any of those ads. ...
It's plain CSS. If you check the source code for the CSS of that page you'll see that #separator3 has relative position (it moves with the page) and within that you have the .bg4 class that have fixed position (it's "sticky"), which makes it look like the page scrolls past the background image. Also I think you...
Missing the point? The point was you said I didn't know what I am talking about. I gave counter-evidence.
That is more or less what I'm saying. Most people I've met in grad school (at MIT anyway) and during my time at a few national labs and in China do not consider non-violent crimes to be crimes at all, and wouldn't feel comfortable sending anyone to prison for them. I personally would have an incredibly hard time re...
Stealing" is depriving another person of a possessory right in property. There is a fundamental aspect to "ownership," and digital property is a real thing. So if you have an idea... That idea is pretty much fair game to the world... But if you put that idea into a tangible medium, then you own that expression of an ...
You're exactly right however what you just said doesn't fit with reddit's opinion of "I am entitled to free stuff because anyone who tries to protect their creative property is inherently evil", therefore they like to use the word censorship because it makes people think evil government and evil corporations. The rea...
Well in Pirate Bay's case you are right. Thing is though - the way they are being suppressed is basically copyright conglomerates pushing them off the internet. They may have the right to do so in this case, but the very possibility of a website being suppressed like this, terminated by all hosting services across the ...
If people want it, it gets made? No, lol, if people buy it it gets made. I am in the industry. I am a CG artist that has worked on movies that I am sure you have seen, and some that you have probably loved. Our DVD sales have been steadily and quickly tanking and are going to die very soon now even as box office ...
Wonderful quote from Max Planck, "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die off and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." The
I'm completely against this ruling, but I can bring some actual data to the table here with the congestion question. I'm an engineer for a medium sized ISP. Somewhere between 1 and 2 million data subscribers, and also do backhaul for all the major cell companies. Netflix alone, accounts for roughly 30% of data usag...
Imagine it this way. You have a road with 3 lanes. Everyone is trying to go from point A. to Point B. in a car. They occupy one of those lanes. Now some shipping company comes along with a giant truck that fully takes up 1 of those lanes. Now you only have 2 lanes for the rest of the traffic. That traffic gets ba...
It is in no way like "Bridgegate". A company wants to do all it can do to grow and protect its profit. They don't WANT to be a terrible service it just happens to be more profitable to be terrible. Christie on the other hand forced a special election weeks before the already planned elections, costing NJ tax payers...
Oh man, Hughesnet pissed me off so badly, when I lived out in the boonies they were the only reliable service (I mean that didn't cut out all the time if the wind even started blowing) and I had my choice of a 12GB per month cap for $80 a month, or a 20GB cap for $100/month. What they neglected to tell me is that their...
Good damn, I love Bloomberg. It's like Fox News without all the shouting; a pitch perfect parody of itself. EDIT: I know this isn't very technical, but neither are most people on the internet. I'm trying to call attention to the process of stilted media at work. Hopefully this isn't considered wasteful. So we juxta...
A lot of members of the court (and famously Antonin Scalia), believe strongly in the separation of powers. Whether or not the a network should shape traffic is not a constitutional question. It is one that the people must decide. And the constitution defines the mechanism for people to get something: Call your sena...
There are costs to such decisions too. I pretty much quit using Google's services because of their inconsistent and generally poor design. Consistent design instills trust. A/B testing is always going to get you these sort of small incremental wins, but at what expense? Design chaos. Here's the catch 22: data will...
No, the difference between the US and the world is unregulated cable vs "open access" cable. The later was created by the US but dropped in the 90's in favor of unregulated cable. According to the famous Harvard FEC report, "open access" ALWAYS leads to more competition with lower prices and higher innovation while the...
In Russia it was the exact opposite of this. Telephone lines were in monopoly's hands. Isp's had to use those lines and the private phone lines were prohibitively expensive. But then the Soviet loophole helped (that many story houses, cable poles and etc are city or smaller local servicing companies owned). Suddenly e...
A kind like me. Redundancy in infrastructure makes infrastructure robust, and provides a platform for competition and improvement. Natural monopolies may exist, but are short-lived and should die when someone else thinks they can provide service that's cheaper, faster, nicer, or different. Competing rail lines also s...
I'd suggest the same for you Jesus, you are rude. I am trying to be patient and not pull out the expert card, but yeah: maybe it's not clear from the incredibly long amount of time I spent trying to patiently explain the basics to you, but this is my profession. I'm trying my best to engage and break things down into...
In that theory, there are two possible states the universe could be in. Your information bias left out the one where space is a true vacuum. Regardless, we can still consider it a vacuum compared to our living conditions, most especially in this context. Also, while OP's comparison to Star Trek is inaccurate & unf...
Between the Steam client, games like league and Blizzard games (and many many more) the number of "legitimate" uses of p2p probably represents a large fraction of overall use. Most people I know have no clue what p2p download is but have used p2p services many times for legit software without even knowing it.
If you read carefully and acknowledge that Microsoft is horrible at marketing and double-speak when compared to Apple (my perception is that the employees of Microsoft are incredibly awkward socially and don't understand how they are perceived to the outside world), you will realize that the content of the two disclosu...
u/Bolusop is acknowledging the prevalence of doublespeak in ... everywhere, but especially statements directed to 'the public.' It's when you say something that is "technically true" but misleading. It's the deliberate misuse of language. It's like the husband who says to his wife "I never slept with that whore!" And...
250,000 per day, doubling every week. From 2008, when it started, to now, the fines would have been more than the total cost of the steel used to hypothetically create a Death Star. thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands TIMES more money than exists on Earth, let alone the entire worth of natural resour...
I did the math for this. > Let me just start off that nobody will be constantly clicking links for a full 30 month day. Take into account that we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep. That's shortens it to 20 days (480 hours, 28,800 minutes, 1,728,000 seconds) which accounts for 10.8 million megabytes. That's about 10,800 G...
Just wanted to point out that the title contradicts the article. The cause of the NK outage was acknowledged as unknown in the article and although there is speculation that a DOS might be responsible for some instability there is nothing to suggest a 'Massive Denial of Service attack' is taking place.
The way the gov has it structured is stupid, but that's a different rant. The digital signature will be linked to a digital account housing their information? Your paper copies are only accessible to someone standing in front of them - your digital penpad transfers the data (Sig) to be stored with or on that person...
Actual audiophiles probably aren't listening to the main artists who where excluisive to Tidal or using any streaming service for that matter. Most intense audiophiles (dropping $15,000 to $250,000 on home speaker systems) don't care about streaming anything. The quality of streaming is too unreliable if they do offe...
Most of the DoS-attacks I see on hosting networks are in the line of IP-nastygrams, either TCP SYN, or UDP. Occasionally I see actual HTTP requests, but those require round-trip links, so they can't used spoofed IPs. If you're seeing more than 65K source IPs, chances are the traffic is spoofed and not trying to do ac...
I never thought of the ashy byproduct though that seems silly in hindsight. I will look up what makes the ash radioactive. I am curious but don't feel like getting a LMGTFY.com sort of response. :) I also didn't think of storing CO2 in another form. That makes much more sense.
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY!!! In 100000 miles, the SUV's improvement would mean 1667 gallons less fuel required. In 100000 miles, the gas-sipper's improvement would mean 1111 gallons less fuel required. In reality, the car at 30mpg would have to improve to 60mpg in order to save the same amount of fuel. ...
I will look into this more. I have heard from my Physics prof that we are running out of air space. Basically, TV got assigned a shit ton, and now, certain frequencies go for [billions]( due to the lack of airspace. The capacity of each cell tower is only so much (this is what I will look into). I assume this is gear...
Get well Crunchman. This is the guy who figured out that with a plastic whistle that came in a cereal box, you can create the 2600 hz told your phone network, OK nobody picked up the other end, don't bother charging for this call. Steve Wozniak went on to make a Blue Box to generate this and other signals automatical...
I'd nuance it a bit; what I personally due is assume everyone has a side on what they are trying to say, whether it is CNN or the BBC or The Guardian whomever is writing the article has an opinion of his own. As for Internet comments why the hell would you bother commenting if you didn't have an opinion of your own? ...
For those of you in here shouting "lolz AMD is going to build mobile ARM CPUs and kill Intel!", you should understand that this license is a result of AMD's recent announcement that they will be embedding an ARM Cortex in their PC (x86) CPUs, so as to use ARM's "Trustzone" technology. The ARM core will only be a low-po...
That's a non-sequitur. Take a look back at the beginning of the industrial revolution, where farmers went from having to hire people to till the land and harvest the crops to using machines to do the same thing. What this did was it freed up this now-excess labor to do other, more productive things in the economy. Di...
Why does Google having your information bug you? They're the last guy to want to use it against you. I can almost guarantee you that unless you have been running totally anonymously since you first signed onto AOL online or some shit that Google has some form of user information on you. Hundreds of millions of people...
How many of you actually read the article? This sensationalist title really is a bad one. For those who don't have time to read it and want to comment only, a quick summary involves a college student who was having his family buy text books from overseas, and selling them in the U.S. which undercut the price of the ...
I think Reddit's dislike of Apple is for a simpler reason: Apple is mainstream and popular . Back in the late 90s it was cool to hate Microsoft and Bill Gates; but when Apple started to take over their position at the top, all the insecure geeks with something to prove started bashing them as a way to standout fro...
That's not entirely true, though to at least some degree I think it must be. A lot of people hate Apple because they feel they sold out and betrayed the fans. Both Woz and Jobs were hippys. Free information and all that stuff, when Jobs started looking to profit off of apple in the 80's they sold out, to a degree, ...
It astounds me how much you're having a discussion that has nothing to do with what's going on . > No, the Samsung vs Apple case wan't just about hardware infringements. Oh, here we go. This is why you sound like a lunatic. Because you've *completely misinterpreted the discussion. For something like the 50th tim...
Alright well, the issue with Africa is the former colonial powers' negligent attitude towards it. F.ex. people like king leopold of belgium created a massive humanitarian catastrophe via his euro-centric attitude. Look what his policies of racial classification caused: rwandan genocide and social inequality all of cent...
Think of it this way, you have to put gas in your car, it doesn't go anywhere without it. No gas, no vroom. Cellphone is the same, wifi is alright, but you can't really call or use it as intended in the sense of "Mobile phone" Yes they come with contracts, but Rogers for example has the flex-tab. Which is much like...
I recently cut my contract off ( Just two weeks ago ) With Tmobile. They sold us bunk Sidekick 4gs that never received signal and basically never worked properly. It took me going through four supervisors ( all the way up to Rene! .... ) to get anyone to give a flying fuck. After 1 1/2 years of dealing with shit servic...
Thinking about it, naming conventions probably have quite a noticeable impact actually. If you manage to knock out a stellar product that does what you intend from a PR point of view (i.e. win hearts and minds and the man on the street) the next step is to do the Apple game and successfully pitch the next product in tu...
Their statements about barrel length helping are the opposite of true. In a real gun, the extended barrel length does help because it allows the powder to burn and it keeps the gases released by the gunpowder burning confined longer. While there is an upper end to a barrel length being helpful, in general the longer th...
I too have decreased my P2P usage, I get most of my music from Rdio, and the same goes for Netflix for most of my videos. I still download GoT though because there's absolutely no way to get it legally.
It has a wealth of content, just a metric ton of it. For me, it was a change of mindset. I'd flop down in bed and think, "I'm in the mood for a comedy/docu/sci-fi/etc" - and then browse the genres till I found something that piqued my interest. I use Hulu+ to keep up with any shows I might be interested in. I ho...
Even though this one may not have super strong arguments in a few places, the fact that it was written at all makes it superior to the original in my opinion. It doesn't need to have strong supporting arguments to be valuable; it just needs to have different conclusions with supporting arguments that aren't any weake...
ANYTHING that can take place without a trial is so- just... it's the ultimate level of bullshit. How can any person or entity be trusted or respected when they just completely deny you an opportunity to defend yourself. Also, how is this not getting flamed for being a fucking pre-crime program? The plaintiff defen...
The problem is, is that its not just a "people" problem in most cases. Its a problem of the head not knowing what the arms truly need, but getting sold on something that "should do the job", but really makes the job harder. For example, I look to where I work. I work at a group home. When I started, we did all pape...
I think it's worth explaining why people are downvoting you. There's a difference between incoming and outgoing ports. Most computers and ISPs wouldn't block the OUTGOING port 25, since that's still commonly used to send email. What you're probably thinking of is that some ISPs might block the INCOMING port 25, and...
Not wiped clean, they are requested them to go through pre-pub, verifying that they do not contain any inappropriate information (classified information). They are not trying to get things removed from their resume or trying to get any sort of deniability. Nor because they don't want people to know they worked at th...
Also, when setting it up, the chromecast extension has to do some crazy crap by inspecting your network cards, finding the right network card, then searching it for the wifi network your chromecast exposes, once it has found it, it changes the network to that of the chromecast, prompts you for the main wireless network...
Greetings. I am Zorp. I come from the future. We have planet-wide 25G network where everything is already downloaded. Our phones are too small to be visible to the naked eye and deliver 256K resolution scalable holographic screens wherever you want and are powered simply by your breathing movements. What? Your phones...
those are present on the new s6; Samsung manufactures the newest chips, so it will be a little longer before other phone brands get them.
So the next time you're interviewing for that job: "Can I work from home?" "Sure work anywhere you like, we care about what you do not where you do it." "Fuck you, I'm not taking my work home with me you bastards!"
Owning a home doesn't immediately mean wealth. Almost every home purchase that gets recorded as an asset in someone's net worth is also accompanied by a debt of 80% of that value called a mortgage. With the mortgage market issues from several years ago, many of those assets were accompanied by debts of 85-100% of the...
There's no multitouch in the browser or in the map, but I think at this point that's more of a legal consideration than a technical one, since many phones that run Android have the capability of supporting multitouch on a hardware level. I still haven't seen good clarification on this. Does the phone support multi-t...
A lot of circlejerking all up in here. In any case, PC gaming in 3d is an entirely different kettle of fish from movies or TV in 3d. The film and TV 3d effects are generally very mild and generally not configured very well and frankly aren't even that good when they are. However, gaming in 3d is a pretty amazing e...
Didn't people learn anything by going to the movies? I'll shoot myself if I watch another 3D movie in the theater. The sad thing is, if I want to go and watch a movie in the movie theater I have no choice but to watch on 3D, because they don't give me the 2D option. FFS, Avatar came out last year and people are alread...
Seriously, its been stated enough times that you need to get up and call Ford Corporate. Talking to managers/techs/dealership is obviously just a infinite loop of blame and doubletalk. The ultimate goal in this is to get you either frustrated or confused enough that you break down and pay the bill. On top of that, e...
I'm on a business package from my ISP. All they asked for was the business name, address and phone number. I put the name as "Home" and with my house address and number, and never got asked even when calling their tech support every day for about a month because their service was so shit.