Comment Re:multitasking (Score 1) 1003
And banning talking to other passengers in the car and adjusting the wipers and heating/ac.
Comment Re:Real elements - or theoretical? (Score 1) 157
They breakdown into other elements? Uranium can become gold?
Comment Re:Real elements - or theoretical? (Score 0) 157
Well you're useful.
Comment Re:Real elements - or theoretical? (Score 1) 157
Wow I mangled that post. Why isn't my brain functioning today?
Comment Re:Real elements - or theoretical? (Score 1) 157
By this definition aren't, how can they be classified as elements? Growing up, and being taught in school "elements cannot be broken down any further." If these elements are breaking down into other elements..wtf?
Comment delusional? (Score 1) 129
Did the study differentiate between "Happy" people and delusional people?
How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes 1193
bonch writes "Google only pays a 2.4% tax rate using money-funneling techniques known as the 'Double Irish' and the 'Dutch Sandwich,' even though the US corporate income tax is 35%. By using Irish loopholes, money is transferred legally between subsidiaries and ends up in island sanctuaries that have no income tax, giving Google the lowest tax rate amongst its technology peers. Facebook is planning to use the same strategy."
Comment Re:False (Score 1) 366
There's truth to this too, but I disagree in part with the consensus that this failed because it was online only. I think a large issue was how restrictive they were in selling the subsidized phone to existing T-Mobile users. No one from T-Mobile was eligible to upgrade to the Nexus one for any kind of discounted price, and some other malarkey. I know, I dealt with this problem first hand. I was within the contract renewal time frame and I jumped through a bunch of hoops with T-Mobile trying to get them to change my account or do SOMETHING so that Google's website would see me as A) Eligible to upgrade and B) provide me with the discount. Neither options were allowed as told to me by T-Mobile. All through this I stumbled upon the pending release of the HTC HD2. I called T-Mobile and explained the situation and they gave me the phone right away with the proper discount.
Google lost a sale here because of their restrictive model. Even if the phone was sold in stores they still wouldn't have gotten my money. The sad part is I tried everything I could to give them my money for this phone and they didn't want it, so to speak.
Comment Re:You know what else is flawed? (Score -1, Flamebait) 312
People still use the faux-word "prolly"?
BSA Says Software Theft Exceeded $51B In 2009 350
alphadogg sends a NetworkWorld.com piece going over the Business Software Alliance's latest stats on software theft around the world. "Expanding PC sales in emerging markets is increasing the rate of software piracy, according to the Business Software Alliance and IDC. The rate of global software piracy in 2009 was 43%, meaning that for every $100 worth of legitimate software sold in 2009, an additional $75 worth of unlicensed software also made its way into the market. This is a 2-percentage-point increase from 2008. Software theft exceeded $51 billion in commercial value in 2009, according to the BSA. IDC says lowering software piracy by just 10 percentage points during the next four years would create nearly 500,000 new jobs and pump $140 billion into 'ailing economies.' ... In the United States, software piracy remained at 20%, the lowest level of software theft of any nation in the world. ... The PC markets in Brazil, India, and China accounted for 86% of the growth in PC shipments worldwide." The BSA president said, "Few if any industries could withstand the theft of $51 billion worth of their products." It's unclear whether that was a brag about the industry's robustness, or a result of the industry's low cost of goods sold.
Comment Re:Shit just got real (Score 1) 154
By suing hyperviser vendors who release software that does not explicitly check for Apple hardware? Such a thing would not exactly be out of character for Apple...
Comment Re:OSX on Vmware (Score 5, Informative) 154
A bit offtopic, but yesterday I realized that while quicktime pro can export to MP4 as well as MOV, if you want to use H264, you need to use the MOV container. Why?
That's not true at all. I have QuickTime Pro right here. When I choose "export" from the file menu, you can choose to export to an MP4 file. When you click "options", you can set the codec to H264. Here's a screenshot.
Comment Re:With what host? (Score 5, Informative) 154
That's not true. You can virtualize OS X Server starting with Leopard as long as it's on Apple hardware (host does not need to be OS X, in fact Parallels has a bare metal version for XServes). They've never let you virtualize OS X, just the last 2 versions of Server.
Comment Re:Skyfire... (Score 1) 69
However, you should be aware of the middle man, and in using it you are implicitly trusting them with everything you do through them, and some might have a problem with that.
Sounds interesting, I'll probably try it whenever I need flash support for something, and use my standard browser the rest of the time when I don't.
Sounds interesting, I'll probably try it whenever I need flash support for something, and use my standard browser the rest of the time when I don't.
Comment They perpetrated on me! (Score -1, Troll) 546
How do I get in on this? My PS3's BR drive stopped reading disks, I feel perpetrated by that as well and deserve my money back. Plus $10,000 in damages, of course.
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