so all the people using the amazon ec2 to run bitcoin and later altcoin/flavor of the month alt coin clones to make money aren't using cpu power? i looked into altcoins and it is pretty clear each coin launch is a huge way to launder 10 million in money easily.. and ec2 cloud computing is recommended for that use. criminals also use it to get gold and silver in exchange for their mined coins.

"Actually, they have. 14 years + one 14 year renewal; and even that was too long."

i think you should have checked the facts. 'The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
this means that in 2019 some 1923 copyrighted materials will hit the public domain. if they aren't extended before then.

i checked a few sources and got the math right. the surface area of an omnidirectioanl transmission sphere (like old radio towers prior to directional antennas that literaly half the power consumption) is 4 times pi times radius times radius. which means 4 watts at 152 cm assuming a 1 square cm rectenna is some 290,333 square cm or 1,161,332 watts assuming that all the math is right only google helped me and i wasn't sure if i needed to square root the surface area to get square cms or not. in case i did it is then 1077 X 4 watts or 4300 watts at five feet... which is way more sense that the first one, but then the first one would power some 23104 items instead of 1077 devices, again assuming omnidirectional transmission. 4 90degree directional antennas use half the power in either case. since they don't radiate up or down as much. also only 1/4 of the antennas need to be on if all devices are withing a single 90degree directionals... however a multi axis narrow directional beam a single square cm in size uses 1/1,077th or 1/23104th of the power at the caveat of only being able to charge one stationary non vibrating device per directed energy beam aparatus. all this assumes 100% effeciency when realistically more like 75% to 23% efficiency depending on distance etc. things plug into wires for a reason.

i see that the multiply signs got garbled. 152 cm x 2 x 3.14 x 4 watts = 3818.24 watts. i think i made a mistake and it really needs a second 3.14 multiply to make it spherical instead someone correct my maths if possible. this is why wireless energy never took off.

if from 5 feet away a device will charge up 4 watts... and that equals 152 cm radius... and we assume device is 1 cubic centimeter then. 152Ã--2Ã--3.14Ã--4=3818.24 watts because the device uses an omnidirectional antenna (i assume as gps forwarded directional masers fine microwave lasers aren't being used) is more expensive and can no longer charge all devices in range. of course a projected cylindrical formed antenna drops power use in half, but still 2000 watts to drive a 4 watt device cause you're too drunk to charge your phone is crazy.

this is energy use to end civilization. can you imagine if 7 billion humans used 30billion always on 4000 watt omnidirectional wireless power? even if we all used LFTR(thorium) would be hard to come by, and the frequency the devices operate on would be uterly useless for anyone. but yeah we could all wear ambient LED safety lights in all the malls until cancer killed everyone.

so if i put cyanogenmod on my phone, buy it myself and thus have no contract to keep it from running cyanogenmod can i make microsoft pay me the money they collected from the maker of my smart phone?

first of for the record, internet speeds are measured in bits per second this is also the case with video, but not everyone is a movie head. ergo a 60mbps connection is actually a 7.5mBps connection.

http://help.encoding.com/knowledge-base/article/understanding-bitrates-in-video-files/ says a typical 720p will use 2.5 mbps and a 1080p 5 mbps. this is wrong for many reasons. how many audio channels does it have if it's more than 0 it needs at a minimum 64 kbit/s per horrible lossy audio. then the problem with especially rapidly changing graphics causing encode time spikes where the data is not all capable of being stored at the given bitrate, then there is network routing delays and dropped packets. a buffer will usually smooth that out though.

okay then lets see here, every device that is used for youtube and netflix has to work simultaneously on all devices at the same time. sure a 10 mbit/s stream will let you get 2 streams of data, maybe if they're crappy quality you tubes. 60 mbps and then you can possibly stream 8 streams if they're meant to be shared on the internet. while you can thus say 60mbps is plenty fast for home users, there was a time (holidays) when there were 12 people on the wifi at the same time. and consumer wifi can have 50 connections, so realistically people need 375 mbps, so everyone at a party can stream at the same time. no that was a joke... with 6 antennas it is hard to run 50 connections anyways, even with them all being trancievers.

there were people who swore that dialup was enough for them, at the time who would have dared dream of being able to drop $120 for a 128 GigaByte chip the size of a fingernail http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B00IIJ6W4S so saying gigabit networking has no use for home users (though there clearly are for businesses, someone made netflix you know) is to be shortsighted.

"Prepare for the steering wheel in new cars to work in exactly the opposite way, and for the brake pedal and accelerator to be active when released rather than pressed. Surely you won't get into much trouble on the road now that I've told you about that in advance."

nono its no use using a facetious quip. the gas can will now be on the passenger side, not the drivers side, but company b is putting them behing the rear driver plate. or wait the turn signal needs to be on the left side with the lights, no thats where we'll put the cruise control and the wiper blade activations. no wait lets move the lights to their own switch on the dash, no wait we need to put the wiper blades and the lights together...

had you used a real driver issue like the ones all real from above you would have gone further with the software/car analogy.

the push for younger coders is to create a user base for microsoft and facebook. microsoft is still thinking everyone can be converted to their crappy software base by letting kids learn how to code for it. when i was coding ircbots i was totally hooked on using windows, because for most of my life gaming i had played on windows computers and nintendo consoles...

i had some pretty cool projects like an ASCII video player (think ASCII art, replaying static frames manually typed out for playback on mirc) it actually was able to get almost 30fps on a p-120 laptop with about 2gb hdd and 48MB of ram.

anyways compared to what i've seen these days a p-120 is pathetic, yet most of the people who use them don't need the speed hence tablets and laptops being so far behind desktop systems and graphic cards. wikipedia has documents that show that standards for video were all really old tech too, they had a plan to make themselves billionaires and have more gamer addicts whom tend to have the biggest craving for overpriced electronics.

and the bubbles come when people find out they are being suckered into buying stuff that is old and power hungry when they could have just used a iphone or android to get their facebook fix and candy crushing games. which are also overpriced but not if you get a used or 'older' model

the first real world mass market character recognition i used was brain age 2 for nintendo ds and if you didn't start the characters the right stroke for stroke recognition it would screw up on you.

with many millions of users of the ds and it's descendants it is clear that microsoft is reinventing the wheel again.

"Well, actually I do have a Windows VM so I can use Netflix"

you do realize the latest chrome (beta) supports html5 and netflix natively in linux. right?

the problem you see, is ATMs require windows XP software. yes windows XP. http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/20/5326772/windows-xp-powers-95-percent-of-atms-worldwide
So the malware simply connects to a botnet, hops through inadequate satellite networks makes a map and reinfects itself after the system is cleaned. i have seen windows xp machines infected by satellite communications they are after all devices that must obey 'this device must accept any interference received' which is usually a kill switch to make them stop emitting radio waves, but also means viruses that transmit via radio must also be accepted it is the law after all.