Hmmm typical Dell customers + Linux OS + Dell's legendary support quality = fantastic idea! I'm sure they won't have any problems with people calling in, asking how to do basically everything.
Anyone hear the story about that guy in New York city who walks around the sidewalks with a metal detector and finds a couple hundred dollars a day in gold earrings and chain links and stuff that people drop? Sounds like the greenest way to recover gold to me. I think he nicknamed it urban mining.
That 320 ton number is also bullshit, just case you didn't catch that. That's 1/5 the amount that Earth mines in a year total and considering jewelry vs a CPU uses approx $0.15 in gold, I think someone pulled that number out of their ass.
Also, it makes a high pitched noise that harms your ears and the refresh flicker damages your eyes, costing you and/or the US government money in health care. Other than that, I'm sure it's great.
It may sound bad if you consider the fact that that 320 ton figure is actually complete bullshit, I'd say mining is more cost effective. They're claiming 1/5th of all gold mined in a year on Earth goes into putting an impossibly thing electroplated coat of gold onto contact pins. You could probably build 100 ipads with the gold from 1 wedding ring so I'm not so sure their estimate is anywhere near reality.
The last time I saw someone get gold out of about a dozen really old processors like AMD K6 chips, they ended up with approx $1 worth of gold and spent around $60 on the chemicals needed.
All humans total mine approximately 1714 tons of gold per year in the entire world so I have a hard time believing that 500-micron thick electroplated electronic contact pins result in 320 tons like the article states. Consider how many solid gold rings are made in jewelry stores in every country in the world and how almost every married person has one, it's probably closer to a 10000:1 ratio instead of 5:1 like the article implies.
As long as it's in all caps, nobody should misunderstand it...unless they say "IT'S AN ARM-KILLING TABLET!" which definitely implies it's extremely heavy, lol.
And from the same company, a Geforce 210 card fully assembled costs around $35 so I can't imagine what the GPU originally cost and it's a bit faster. I think 610's just came out too and the price indicates the GPU was less than $35. I'm not sure if that's actually x86 actually but still. I know they're all feature heavy with energy savings and stuff and pricing based on performance isn't the best idea but I bet the electricity handling parts inside a Tegra 3 aren't quite as high grade and expensive as a 50-200W GPU lol.
Good, finally ARM manufacturers will stop having a monopoly where they can charge whatever they want. I've seen hints at OEM chip prices and they're ridiculous compared to even desktop chips. That will help everyone...just in time for x86 tablets to come out so people can actually run whatever they want.
By the way, if you're wondering as I did but were too lazy to look it up, yes, they actually named themselves MIPS without noticing that that's also Millions of Instructions Per Second, a method for measuring the speed of any CPU. Theirs stands for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages and it refers to an instruction set. What an unfortunate oversight. Stages could have been replaced with just about any other word to differentiate it.
I don't quite see the business model of filing an idiotically general patent, waiting around, suing someone for using it, spending millions defending it in court, and getting the patent thrown out and paying the competitor's legal fees.
But what if there's the triumvirate of the LA Times, Wikileaks, and Miss Cleo's pyschic hotline and one of them disagrees and files a minority report? Then how will anyone take this precrime prediction seriously? lol.
I own a repair shop so I install and/or reinstall Windows quite a bit. In every single version of Windows for at least a year and up until a few weeks ago, Google was completely hidden as a search provider from the window that opens after choosing "I want to choose my own search provider" during the first time configuration of IE8. Google wasn't in "most popular" or "newest" and it couldn't be found via a search. Bing was there though.
If you go into Manage Add-Ons and click the link to see more search providers available to add, that loads an identical but different version and Google is on page one and easily findable. Hmmm, imagine that. Because of that, I had to put a hard link directly to google's add-on confirmation page on my flash drive to get there in a reasonable time. Hmmm I wonder why they changed that recently. Strange timing.
The summary seemed to suggest his music was ripped off and used as background music in a Harry Potter movie. Not exactly so. They "MSNBC-ed" a couple words in that sentence to make it sounds more outrageous:
when Rietveldt bought a Harry Potter DVD in 2007, he discovered his music being used in the anti-piracy ad without his permission
Now it makes a bit more sense.
By the way, pretty sure this is not the one they're talking about but I have to post it. I HAVE TO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
I watched the video as well and caught that right away. That's not the only thing they BSed though. Obviously it can only go in 1 eye, as the pixels wouldn't match up perfectly 1:1 between the eyes so the user would be disoriented and have no depth perception. It says that the glasses contain the power source which is rechargeable and shine a laser into your eye. I hope it doesn't miss that impossibly small device and keep hitting your organic cells. I'm sure it'd be fine if you never ever ever move your head (or lose your glasses lol). I just downsampled a random video I had to 24x24 grayscale. It wasn't real pretty. It was actually quite confusing as to what part I was actually watching and I knew the video.
I think that was a very misleading marketing video or investor bait. The theory sort of works though so if they make one 10x better, they might just have something there.
This would pretty much end the vast majority on internet-related crime.
1. ignore do not follow links, follow them anyway, just don't index them or count them in any way. In other words, snoop. Any illegal forums or whatever are always "cloaked" from all robots with a robots.txt file. Then Google would have a hyperintelligent robot constantly scanning the entire internet and determining its content. It could find illegal stuff so easily.
2. stop indexing stuff related to illegal keywords!! Seriously. If someone wants to find something illegal on the web, they're not psychic. They freaking Google it! I know anti-drug and anti-other illegal stuff sites would get a bit mixed out but their robot is pretty darn smart and they have humans review stuff all the time with adsense and certain webmaster tools features.
3. compare all photos purely on a digital scale (like calculate a hash or checksum of it) found by the image search robot to an FBI database that I'm sure exists of hashes or checksums of photos that are deemed illegal like logos from illegal drug sellers or illegal porn and report any instance of it found anywhere ever.
Or how about they throw all that away and tell people that anyone who consistently searches for multiple illegal search terms will have all their google account (if logged in) and IP information logged. That'll scare anyone without TOR into not even searching for it in the first place.
Perhaps the summary needs augmented reality glasses because it missed some things.
In June of 2012, my wife, children, and I traveled to Paris, France, for our summer vacation, in order to give our children the opportunity to learn true Parisian French (we have them enrolled in French immersion at school).
I'm so sure the glasses were the only reason the altercation started. I'm sure it has nothing to do with being a snobby douchebag who thinks he's better than everyone else. If you don't believe me, he signed the post as "Dr. Steve Mann, PhD (MIT '97), PEng (Ontario)" Anyway, reading his account of it makes me want to hit him due to his unbearable writing style and attitude and I'm not even staring into his robo-glasses, getting photos randomly taken of me.
By the way, it was later found that the "two Ranch Wraps, one burger, and one mango McFlurry" were more detrimental to his health than the assault. Someone with such AMAZING education and intelligence should know better than to eat at McDonalds. I'm just a lowely little IT Manager and I haven't eaten there in about 8 years.
Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's
I think he and/or his roboglasses just failed a Turing test lol.
I happened to have joined Associated Content just barely prior to may 2010 so I got one of Yahoo's e-mails on my road runner e-mail account, which is what I used to sign up for AC. It seemed to advise me to change my e-mail password ASAP. AC doesn't know my e-mail address password so I'm not sure I quite understand that one. I'll paste the entire thing below. Does anyone know what they actually stole?! Am I supposed to change my AC account password?
You may have read in press reports that Yahoo! recently confirmed an older file containing approximately 450,000 email addresses and passwords—provided by writers who had joined Associated Content prior to May 2010—was publicly posted on the Internet. This file was a standalone file that was not used to grant access to Yahoo! systems and services. This message is being sent to an email address in this compromised file.
We are taking important steps to address this issue and have now fixed the vulnerability that led to the disclosure of the data and enhanced our underlying security controls. As a non-Yahoo! account holder, we apologize that we cannot provide you a direct means to secure your account. We strongly recommend that you employ the security mechanisms recommended by your email service provider to secure your account.
Additionally, given the high frequency of consumers using the same login information on services across the Internet, we strongly advise users to:
Change their passwords for any account they hold every few months,
Use a different password for each service or website, and
Create passwords using a mixture of characters, symbols, and numbers.
We also suggest that you proactively monitor the activity on any account you have created online. Specifically, be on the lookout for spam originating from your email, and check your sign-in activity from time to time. If you see anything suspicious—like your account was accessed in Romania when you were home in Chicago—you should change your password immediately.
We take security very seriously at Yahoo! and invest heavily in protective measures to ensure the security of our users and their data across all our products. In addition, we will continue to take significant measures to protect our users and their data.
We sincerely apologize for this matter.
Yahoo! Inc.
The ratio of water to rock in an asteroid is lower than the ratio of water to rock on Earth by approximately a whole fucking lot. So this is as idiotic as it sounds. What do scientists think asteroids are structured like, water balloons? Let's see....how else is water made. Oh yeah, expose Hydrogen to heat in the presence of Oxygen. Naw, where would hydrogen and oxygen ever come together and get hot around a planet in space? That's just silly.
For something to be a bubble, people have to want it and be buying it in the first place. You know, like new houses or netbooks. Every survey from the start of this technology on showed that basically nobody wanted it. I think the highest "has to have 3D because I'm actually going to use it" result on a survey was 14%.
Did anyone else find it hilarious that they're British and their recommendation to anyone still having problem is basically "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?"
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Hmmm typical Dell customers + Linux OS + Dell's legendary support quality = fantastic idea! I'm sure they won't have any problems with people calling in, asking how to do basically everything.
Anyone hear the story about that guy in New York city who walks around the sidewalks with a metal detector and finds a couple hundred dollars a day in gold earrings and chain links and stuff that people drop? Sounds like the greenest way to recover gold to me. I think he nicknamed it urban mining.
That 320 ton number is also bullshit, just case you didn't catch that. That's 1/5 the amount that Earth mines in a year total and considering jewelry vs a CPU uses approx $0.15 in gold, I think someone pulled that number out of their ass.
Of course soil isn't stuffed full of Mercury, Arsenic, Lead, plastics, glass fibers, electrolytic fluid, magnets, etc. It's mostly silicates aka dirt :-P
Also, it makes a high pitched noise that harms your ears and the refresh flicker damages your eyes, costing you and/or the US government money in health care. Other than that, I'm sure it's great.
(I meant "cost" as in cost of gold retrieved so really value)
To retrieve gold off gold-rich processor pins is approximately 60:1 on expense vs costs in the small scale and about 10:1 on a large industrial scale.
It may sound bad if you consider the fact that that 320 ton figure is actually complete bullshit, I'd say mining is more cost effective. They're claiming 1/5th of all gold mined in a year on Earth goes into putting an impossibly thing electroplated coat of gold onto contact pins. You could probably build 100 ipads with the gold from 1 wedding ring so I'm not so sure their estimate is anywhere near reality.
The last time I saw someone get gold out of about a dozen really old processors like AMD K6 chips, they ended up with approx $1 worth of gold and spent around $60 on the chemicals needed.
All humans total mine approximately 1714 tons of gold per year in the entire world so I have a hard time believing that 500-micron thick electroplated electronic contact pins result in 320 tons like the article states. Consider how many solid gold rings are made in jewelry stores in every country in the world and how almost every married person has one, it's probably closer to a 10000:1 ratio instead of 5:1 like the article implies.
As long as it's in all caps, nobody should misunderstand it...unless they say "IT'S AN ARM-KILLING TABLET!" which definitely implies it's extremely heavy, lol.
And from the same company, a Geforce 210 card fully assembled costs around $35 so I can't imagine what the GPU originally cost and it's a bit faster. I think 610's just came out too and the price indicates the GPU was less than $35. I'm not sure if that's actually x86 actually but still. I know they're all feature heavy with energy savings and stuff and pricing based on performance isn't the best idea but I bet the electricity handling parts inside a Tegra 3 aren't quite as high grade and expensive as a 50-200W GPU lol.
Good, finally ARM manufacturers will stop having a monopoly where they can charge whatever they want. I've seen hints at OEM chip prices and they're ridiculous compared to even desktop chips. That will help everyone...just in time for x86 tablets to come out so people can actually run whatever they want.
By the way, if you're wondering as I did but were too lazy to look it up, yes, they actually named themselves MIPS without noticing that that's also Millions of Instructions Per Second, a method for measuring the speed of any CPU. Theirs stands for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages and it refers to an instruction set. What an unfortunate oversight. Stages could have been replaced with just about any other word to differentiate it.
I don't quite see the business model of filing an idiotically general patent, waiting around, suing someone for using it, spending millions defending it in court, and getting the patent thrown out and paying the competitor's legal fees.
But what if there's the triumvirate of the LA Times, Wikileaks, and Miss Cleo's pyschic hotline and one of them disagrees and files a minority report? Then how will anyone take this precrime prediction seriously? lol.
I own a repair shop so I install and/or reinstall Windows quite a bit. In every single version of Windows for at least a year and up until a few weeks ago, Google was completely hidden as a search provider from the window that opens after choosing "I want to choose my own search provider" during the first time configuration of IE8. Google wasn't in "most popular" or "newest" and it couldn't be found via a search. Bing was there though.
If you go into Manage Add-Ons and click the link to see more search providers available to add, that loads an identical but different version and Google is on page one and easily findable. Hmmm, imagine that. Because of that, I had to put a hard link directly to google's add-on confirmation page on my flash drive to get there in a reasonable time. Hmmm I wonder why they changed that recently. Strange timing.
when Rietveldt bought a Harry Potter DVD in 2007, he discovered his music being used in the anti-piracy ad without his permission
Now it makes a bit more sense.
By the way, pretty sure this is not the one they're talking about but I have to post it. I HAVE TO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
Blind and unable to see or remember where you left your glasses that you didn't sleep in :-P
I watched the video as well and caught that right away. That's not the only thing they BSed though. Obviously it can only go in 1 eye, as the pixels wouldn't match up perfectly 1:1 between the eyes so the user would be disoriented and have no depth perception. It says that the glasses contain the power source which is rechargeable and shine a laser into your eye. I hope it doesn't miss that impossibly small device and keep hitting your organic cells. I'm sure it'd be fine if you never ever ever move your head (or lose your glasses lol). I just downsampled a random video I had to 24x24 grayscale. It wasn't real pretty. It was actually quite confusing as to what part I was actually watching and I knew the video.
I think that was a very misleading marketing video or investor bait. The theory sort of works though so if they make one 10x better, they might just have something there.
You know it's intended for blind people, right? Also, it can't run Minecraft (yet).
This would pretty much end the vast majority on internet-related crime.
1. ignore do not follow links, follow them anyway, just don't index them or count them in any way. In other words, snoop. Any illegal forums or whatever are always "cloaked" from all robots with a robots.txt file. Then Google would have a hyperintelligent robot constantly scanning the entire internet and determining its content. It could find illegal stuff so easily.
2. stop indexing stuff related to illegal keywords!! Seriously. If someone wants to find something illegal on the web, they're not psychic. They freaking Google it! I know anti-drug and anti-other illegal stuff sites would get a bit mixed out but their robot is pretty darn smart and they have humans review stuff all the time with adsense and certain webmaster tools features.
3. compare all photos purely on a digital scale (like calculate a hash or checksum of it) found by the image search robot to an FBI database that I'm sure exists of hashes or checksums of photos that are deemed illegal like logos from illegal drug sellers or illegal porn and report any instance of it found anywhere ever.
Or how about they throw all that away and tell people that anyone who consistently searches for multiple illegal search terms will have all their google account (if logged in) and IP information logged. That'll scare anyone without TOR into not even searching for it in the first place.
Problem solved.
In June of 2012, my wife, children, and I traveled to Paris, France, for our summer vacation, in order to give our children the opportunity to learn true Parisian French (we have them enrolled in French immersion at school).
I'm so sure the glasses were the only reason the altercation started. I'm sure it has nothing to do with being a snobby douchebag who thinks he's better than everyone else. If you don't believe me, he signed the post as "Dr. Steve Mann, PhD (MIT '97), PEng (Ontario)" Anyway, reading his account of it makes me want to hit him due to his unbearable writing style and attitude and I'm not even staring into his robo-glasses, getting photos randomly taken of me.
By the way, it was later found that the "two Ranch Wraps, one burger, and one mango McFlurry" were more detrimental to his health than the assault. Someone with such AMAZING education and intelligence should know better than to eat at McDonalds. I'm just a lowely little IT Manager and I haven't eaten there in about 8 years.
Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's
I think he and/or his roboglasses just failed a Turing test lol.
You may have read in press reports that Yahoo! recently confirmed an older file containing approximately 450,000 email addresses and passwords—provided by writers who had joined Associated Content prior to May 2010—was publicly posted on the Internet. This file was a standalone file that was not used to grant access to Yahoo! systems and services. This message is being sent to an email address in this compromised file.
We are taking important steps to address this issue and have now fixed the vulnerability that led to the disclosure of the data and enhanced our underlying security controls. As a non-Yahoo! account holder, we apologize that we cannot provide you a direct means to secure your account. We strongly recommend that you employ the security mechanisms recommended by your email service provider to secure your account.
Additionally, given the high frequency of consumers using the same login information on services across the Internet, we strongly advise users to:
Change their passwords for any account they hold every few months,
Use a different password for each service or website, and
Create passwords using a mixture of characters, symbols, and numbers.
We also suggest that you proactively monitor the activity on any account you have created online. Specifically, be on the lookout for spam originating from your email, and check your sign-in activity from time to time. If you see anything suspicious—like your account was accessed in Romania when you were home in Chicago—you should change your password immediately.
We take security very seriously at Yahoo! and invest heavily in protective measures to ensure the security of our users and their data across all our products. In addition, we will continue to take significant measures to protect our users and their data.
We sincerely apologize for this matter. Yahoo! Inc.
The ratio of water to rock in an asteroid is lower than the ratio of water to rock on Earth by approximately a whole fucking lot. So this is as idiotic as it sounds. What do scientists think asteroids are structured like, water balloons? Let's see....how else is water made. Oh yeah, expose Hydrogen to heat in the presence of Oxygen. Naw, where would hydrogen and oxygen ever come together and get hot around a planet in space? That's just silly.
For something to be a bubble, people have to want it and be buying it in the first place. You know, like new houses or netbooks. Every survey from the start of this technology on showed that basically nobody wanted it. I think the highest "has to have 3D because I'm actually going to use it" result on a survey was 14%.
Did anyone else find it hilarious that they're British and their recommendation to anyone still having problem is basically "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?"