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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 calle...
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...
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 relig...
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 begi...
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...
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 ...
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 lead...
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 ...
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: Fi...
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 source...
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...
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 g...
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 ...
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 goin...
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 bri...
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 coe...
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 ste...
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 d...
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 ...
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 co...
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 importa...
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 tha...
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 birth...
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 i...
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 ...
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 ...
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 r...
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 servic...
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 req...
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...
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 thei...
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 ...
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 d...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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 replace...
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 finish...
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'...
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, yo...
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...
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 pr...
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 com...
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 ...
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 hee...
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 buy...
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 Goo...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ove...
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 represent...
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. I...
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 sc...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 y...
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 allread...
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 n...
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. Fr...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 lik...
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 wou...
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 M...
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 th...
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) an...
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 logm...
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 ...
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 YouTu...
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 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 ...
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 ho...
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 i...
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 li...
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...
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 pro...
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...
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 abl...
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 ou...
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...
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 insp...
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 tec...
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 expa...