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  1. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Your upper speed being 1 gig doesn't mean websites instantly become any bigger.

  2. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Stats around here generally pointed to people not buying the top packages from their provider before google finer existed. A lot of co-workers have a middle of the road package. So while I think they shouldn't wait he is likely right that having that speed isn't a priority over feeding your family or some other more important expense.

  3. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's a web app, let the client generate it. You generate the free sub domains with a script or something a bit more intelligent but either way the cost should be minimal. I assume as well you wouldn't necessarily need to fill it completely. A gig or two might ruin the browser's performance.

  4. They're stupid on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, get a tablet if you want something big. iPhone 5 is a bit too big but the S3 and others are even bigger. The iPhone 4S is the perfect size, imo.

  5. Re:digital killing music on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    CDs were always DRM free. I still buy them becaue often they can be cheaper on Amazon than the digital files and I get to rip them to the format of my choice. Plus Amazon was (maybe still is) giving you the cloud version of your CDs for free so CDs are all around the best value.

  6. Re:Media distortion on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    It probably did help. Being completely happy to let people have things for free wouldn't have helped make a profit.

  7. Re:Keep your guard up on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    What's this one song you wanted that didn't make it onto a single? That and only suckers who didn't shop around paid top dollar for CDs. I don't think I played that much except for when I got my first CD player and bought a few disks in those big ugly cardboard boxes.

  8. Re:And STILL No 64 Bit on Google Releases Chrome 25 With Voice Recognition Support · · Score: 1

    Will need doing and I'd say it can't be that much work. In fact it looks like they've actually done it. http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/64-bit-support

    They're just not releasing it even though they claim it would take little to make it work on Windows.

  9. Re:This is why people hate MS on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Are you surprised that a company that sells hardware and gives its OS upgrades away for free prods people into buying new hardware eventually? I'd rather lose Siri than only get one real update like I got for my Android phone.

  10. Re:This is why people hate MS on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wrong. Apple doesn't artifically limit it. They make it clear they move on and don't support old stuff because that's what they want to do not because it's physically impossibe.

  11. Tons of ways on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even in the "old" days we did it with camcorders, cameras and cassette recorders. You get that all in phones, portable games consoles or a laptop now. I would use something like google glass though. You'll look stupid, it's in the cloud and can disappear at any time and google is an advertising company so you'll no doubt be tracked and monetized.

  12. Re:Not a new development on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    Both the DS and 3ds had a slow start and the DS is one of the best selling systems ever if not the top one. The 3ds is out performing it when compared to the same timeframes from their launches. Everyone is waiting for the Nintendo games or to see what both Sony and MS offer and the fact is the Wii u doesn't have enough games for being the most expensive system. But one the mario and Zelda games come it'll pick up

  13. No games on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    They're first out the door on the next generation so they have the most expensive system with the least games and the least budget options and their third party titles are mostly ports. People are waiting for the Nintendo games. I'll get one but when there is a Zelda or good mario game out.

  14. Re:What? on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    I think it's that despite having a large population the culture varies little so being lazy and doing your studying across this large population is pointless.

  15. Re:If you wanted to know about humans, on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    As someone who grew up in rural Pennsylvania, I'll happily confirm this. A lot of the state is pure redneck territory.

  16. Re:If you wanted to know about humans, on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    The overall population seems primitive to keep swallow the poop shovelled by the corporations and government no matter how negatively it affects them. You know, the whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mentality you got going on.

  17. Management will have nothing to do on Why Working Remotely Needs To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    The 18 layers of managers wouldn't have anything to do if people worked from home. Many of them may be sacked. We can't be having that.

  18. Re:Screw you, Metallica! on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The black album was definitely a turn in the wrong direction. I think it was tolerable (even if I haven't really listened to it in decades) but that may be me being kind because it's a freaking gold compared to Load.

    But I do think it would have been better if they called it quits after Justice.

  19. Re:Screw you, Metallica! on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think Load was when Metallica went over the edge and I'm sure they do sell out but they're way too pop and shit since that. They didn't handle their black album success well. The napster thing was lame I guess but i don't blame them. I just don't listen to their music because it's poor now.

  20. Re:See Also on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 2

    I felt Audiogalaxy was better than napster for finding rare things and complete songs. It was a shame to lose it.

  21. I'll pay for them to disappear from this planet on Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons · · Score: 1

    People used to do this sort of thing for free and he wants, at a minimum $5,000 for supposedly creating from scratch images that are a copy of something that has already been done a thousand times over for free. This sounds like a kid's kickstarter project to avoid having to get a real job.

  22. Re:And STILL No 64 Bit on Google Releases Chrome 25 With Voice Recognition Support · · Score: 1

    For Windows but that's the other thing. It's not so much that everyone else doesn't want to move on. It's that Microsoft is yet again very accommodating to people who want to stick in the past and Google seems to be just worrying about the lowest common denominator in the Microsoft world and the rest of us don't exist apparently. I'm sure some of it has to do with supporting XP too but if a company like Firefox or Opera can do a 32 and 64 bit release then one of the biggest companies in the world shouldn't have a problem. It's not like Webkit hasn't been done in 64-bit. Safari has it.

  23. Re:And STILL No 64 Bit on Google Releases Chrome 25 With Voice Recognition Support · · Score: 1

    Google is the only one still on 32-bit. I'm going to put that down to laziness. This is the company after all that relied on wine on Linux for some of their software. For such a bunch of intelligent people they're lazy and half assed a lot of the times, imo.

  24. The real reason they like it on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    I think degrees in the US especially are a must because it proves you're a debt slave and you'll play ball out of fear of not being able to pay your debt. US businesses didn't realise the north won the war and are still trying to turn everyone into their slave.

  25. Re:Signalling on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty expensive way to prove you can complete a task. If the role involves money I'd be concerned they don't know value for money and wouldn't hire them.