Comment Re: Intel already tried something similar (Score 1) 192
If you don't like our welfare state, you are more than welcome to move to another country where your demands for no taxes and no service will be served.
Comment Not sweden (Score 1) 381
We have FRA snooping on us.
Comment Applications is not the real problem for Linux (Score 1) 889
* Me as a private person: ALL games, Pages (OS X application)
* Me as a professional: MS Excel, MS Outlook or other Exchange client equivalent
* My colleagues: SPSS, Nvivo, MS Outlook or other Exchange client equivalent
* My father as a professional: Adobe CS
The real reason why I don't switch to Linux on any of my computers at home: usability. Linux for the desktop is still too difficult to work with, even for a power user like me. EVERYTHING that reasonably needs to be configured has to be configurable in the GUI. You should never ever need to open a Terminal to fix things.
Comment Just give them unrestricted access (Score 1) 267
If they can't handle that responsibility then they might not be the best fit for your company.
Comment I am an ISP (Score 1) 125
you insensitive clod!
Comment Danger danger! (Score 5, Insightful) 510
The secret police state is at risk!
Comment Re:Sad Sad Sad (Score 2) 443
It deeply saddens me that people continue to support companies that pull this kind of crap.
I'm sure that Sony/Microsoft et al would change their tune of their products weren't selling. But, when their selling millions of crippled or bugged titles, my lone voice is crushed by the cacophonous accusations of paranoia.
The problem is that if we stop buying them, they will claim it was due to piracy or whatever and have the legislators make up new rules forcing us to purchase their products.
Comment All cool sites are already running IPv6. (Score 5, Informative) 241
Like youtube, google, facebook and slashdot.
ok, all except slashdot.
Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing 294
theodp writes "A newly-granted Google patent on Dynamic Pricing of Electronic Content describes how information gleaned from your search history and social networking activity can be used against you by providing tell-tale clues for your propensity to pay jacked-up prices to 'reconsume' electronic content, such as 'watching a video recording, reading an electronic book, playing a game, or listening to an audio recording.' The patent is illustrated with drawings showing how some individuals can be convinced to pay 4x what others will be charged for the same item. From the patent: 'According to one innovative aspect of the subject matter described by this specification, a system may use this information to tailor the price that is offered to the particular user to repurchase the particular item of electronic content. By not applying discounts for users that may, in relation to a typical user, be more inclined to repurchase a particular product, profits may increase.' Hey, wasn't this kind of dynamic pricing once considered evil?"
Comment Re:checkpointing and restoring TCP connections (Score 1) 277
saving the entire state of a process to storage such that it can start up again where it left off and not know the difference.
But what is the point to save and restore a TCP state? While local endpoint sleeps, the remote endpoint does not receive any reply. After a while it will reset the connexion, and the local endpoint will not even know. Or is it just for connexions to localhost?
One use case that comes to mind is to restore the state on a different machine. For failover or live migration.
Comment Re:It's not lying (Score 2, Insightful) 359
Institutions and companies as well for that matter, REALLY need to learn how to; read contracts and agreements, formulate needs and demands (preferably with help of a third party) and not to trust the seller of a product or service.
How hard can it really be? REALLY!? (If you really wanted and devoted resources to it, that is)
Comment Boooring (Score 1) 502
"Sell at a mass market price", "Embrace the cloudloosely", "Incorporate Kinect into the box", "Keep building out the entertainment functionality", "Launch with major franchises"...
Come on!!!
What an extremely unimaginative list of suggestions. Here's a proper list:
* Max amount of RAM that fits in to the SRP, preferably 16 GB, at least 8 GB, probably more important than CPU nowadays for consoles
* Blu-Ray
* Expansion through USB-ports, connect any USB harddrive
Comment Re:No. (Score 2, Insightful) 645
There are 100 times as many white teenagers plastered to their monitor messing around with their computer as there are black teenagers. Since successful tech entrepreneurs tend to be the kids who spent thousands of hours in front of their computer when they were kids, and the kids spending thousands of hours in front of their computer are almost all white (or asian), then of course almost all the tech entrepreneurs will be white.
It's got nothing to do with silicon valley. It's due to the comparative lack of computer availability to young black teens, and a cultural difference where American black culture has a much lower opinion on average of nerdy endeavors as opposed to American white culture.
In regard to an issue as important as this (why a certain sector is not reflecting society), it would be a lot easier to accept someone's opinion if they could refer to some kind of research or statistics instead of just offering blunt statements and/or rants.
Comment Re:This can only make the work place more awkward. (Score 2) 205
"click to enlarge" suddenly has a new ring to it...
Comment What about you? (Score 1) 735
Your only REAL loyalty is to yourself. Make the choice that will make your life better. It's as "easy" as that.
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