I know next to nothing about whatsapp but from what wikipedia says, it's basically a bypass for texting and media-data sending fees for cell phone companies. Every one I've ever heard of has been banned by Apple at least and sometimes Android after pressure from carriers. What the heck let this one stick around? The same goes for VOIP services over data preventing people from going over their minutes. Those got banned the day they rolled out of the last 10 years. Now that it's encrypted it's superior to direct cellular sending of texts and pictures but since the NSA can't spy on it, get ready for some fake claims that it's costing the cell companies money in lost overages.
Let me predict the future a little here. Yahoo will realize that everyone with a brain, aka a portion of Firefox users, will immediately switch to Google as the default. That will be followed by either Mozilla locking it in and dropping to 0.0001% market share or Yahoo pulling out because it's not profitable and Google not taking them back, resulting in a drop to 0.0001% market share due to the company self destructing.
SERIOUSLY, just kill them. Just rip their intestines out and hang them by them. I am so fucking sick of people walking into my repair shop and telling me I'm wrong, they're not scammers, they didn't fall for anything, and they don't want to lose their alleged lifetime membership to unlimited support. In fact, everyone stupid enough to fall for this bullshit should be thrown into a volcano with the people who originally did it.
The problem with any new product release whether it be from those morons over at AGPTek or alleged professionals over at Samsung is that you have to wait a few weeks for reviews to outline any massive defects. Like a lot of Rockchip tablets (which is the manufacturer behind at least 50 different low end tablets for various brands) had trouble with the DC charging pin snapping off and with the tablet failing to turn on while charging. I don't care what a company's history of reputation is, they can still get screwed over by Chinese part makers lying to them about the quality of one specific part. That or engineering stupidity like for example the bending iphone 6. Because of that, blindly crowdfunding a tablet that isn't even made yet is a VERY bad idea.
Satellites orbiting earth with atomic clocks have been correcting for time dilation from moving at 24,000 MPH or whatever for decades. They all adapt with leap-milliseconds and if there was something in addition to dilation throwing them off, the anticipated corrections wouldn't be working. They are though.
Here's a question? How many terrorists are stupid enough to discuss their plans on Facebook, Myspace, and freaking Instagram? Not to mention unencrypted cell phones and texts? NOBODY is that stupid!
Satellites? Okay, here's one for you. The Voyager spacecraft. It traveled outside the solar system and the only minute unpredictable change in vector was due to heat radiating infrared photons from its metal. The measurements were THAT sensitive! And it interacted with exactly zero dark matter. You think some GPS satellite orbiting Earth is going to come up with different results?
The sun is free. This is like calculating impact energy without knowing the mass. You HAVE TO specify the variable of the desired payoff period to calculate some sort of pretend parity level. Since maintenance is practically zero, the sun costs zero, and you only pay for solar panels once, it never will "hit parity" with traditional sources because it costs nothing. You have to keep buying coal and natural gas to run a power plant.
In my area there's an extremely well funded (bribed) bill that the electric company is ramming through our legislature that will make the pay for back-fed electricity send into the grid like 5x lower. That's about as blatant as it gets when it comes to CO2-producing assholes being assholes.
OH GOOD! I freaking love wireless mouse delays. Sometimes when I can't get mine to 100ms delay, I just bury my hand in sand instead for the same effect.
PC gamers hate joysticks. Mice, better performance, and mods are the only reason that PC gamers play PC games. Say goodbye to your mouse, goodbye to desktop-level performance (and screen size), and I bet the shield doesn't support game mods very well. So that's 3 for 3. I really don't care about performance numbers on a product that nobody wants and nobody will buy.
Want to know the difference between the 3rd gen Pentium mobile CPU and the 4th gen? The 4th gen is half the speed. I am not kidding. Its passmark rating is under 1000! Wow, now my Satellite can get 10 hours of battery life and it only takes TWICE AS LONG TO DO EVERYTHING. They turned the damn thing into a tablet/smartphone. Its average system operating wattage is 11 watts.
What's AMD up to? Their latest release was a 220 watt desktop CPU that makes the fastest i7 look like crap. Their mobile offerings are poor, although their APUs are typically a better option overall than a dedicated Nvidia GPU plus a fast intel processor but who cares? I know laptops are outselling desktops but I don't think that trend is permanent. Everyone is dropping, overheating, and frying the battery on the computer that they run their whole life on then going back to a desktop. Trust me, I run a custom computer and repair shop and that's what I'm seeing. Intel just shot themselves in the foot.
There goes my ideas of The Bomb, Splosion, or H2OMG. Seriously? You're not allowed to drive around in an unmarked car with explosives but you can drive a car made out of explosives? But then again this is the agency that makes you drive a certain model truck with tons of markings and fill out endless forms to drive an HIV sample across the country in a sealed biohazard transport module and doesn't make you do anything if the driver has HIV. Lots of logic at the DOT.
I was thinking the same thing but in addition, how are you supposed to give money to common hidden services? They're hidden. What are they going to do, ask nicely for them to give a paypal e-mail address? I don't think so. They could go the bitcoin route but seriously, throwing money at better servers doesn't mean there's a smarter person running it. You "zoom out" to just reserach and development on better Tor protocols and it still leaves it wide open to stupid people. You can't just throw money at stupid people running hidden services so oh well.
There are three options. First, run a hand-written HTML non-interactive page. Nobody is likely to hack that.
Two, run a canned PHP solution like phpBB and get hacked.
Three, write a flawless interactive, database-driven site all yourself from scratch and then never use that code at any job or on any resume or any semblance of the same thing on the open web which is a giant waste.
Oh boy, it combined personal facebook accounts with work, will have ads, will be a privacy nightmare, and Zuckerberg will personally read all your spreadsheets. Sounds like a great plan!
"Supercomputing is one of those things that we can step up and lead the world again,"
Here's a thought. 100% of chip making companies that make chips that are actually good/fast are American companies. So just don't sell to any other countries in bulk for supercomputer use. Win by cutting off the supply.
But seriously, every single country has proven that if you give computer technology to a 3rd world country, they commit crimes on a massive scale with them. So I'd prefer it be NOBODY.
I cannot believe how loud our GTX660's from EVGA are. Wherever you're sitting in whatever country you're in right now, you can probably hear it. Some of our 550ti's and GTX650's are the same. The 650's aren't even high wattage! It's just completely unacceptable. I can hear up to about 40KHz so I've had my fair share of loud electronics that only I can hear. At least this frequency is within normal human range so more people can complain about it.
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I say microwave some potatoes and Skype it up from home if traffic is bad. Then at least the dinner can't turn into a fist fight, lol.
I know next to nothing about whatsapp but from what wikipedia says, it's basically a bypass for texting and media-data sending fees for cell phone companies. Every one I've ever heard of has been banned by Apple at least and sometimes Android after pressure from carriers. What the heck let this one stick around? The same goes for VOIP services over data preventing people from going over their minutes. Those got banned the day they rolled out of the last 10 years. Now that it's encrypted it's superior to direct cellular sending of texts and pictures but since the NSA can't spy on it, get ready for some fake claims that it's costing the cell companies money in lost overages.
Let me predict the future a little here. Yahoo will realize that everyone with a brain, aka a portion of Firefox users, will immediately switch to Google as the default. That will be followed by either Mozilla locking it in and dropping to 0.0001% market share or Yahoo pulling out because it's not profitable and Google not taking them back, resulting in a drop to 0.0001% market share due to the company self destructing.
SERIOUSLY, just kill them. Just rip their intestines out and hang them by them. I am so fucking sick of people walking into my repair shop and telling me I'm wrong, they're not scammers, they didn't fall for anything, and they don't want to lose their alleged lifetime membership to unlimited support. In fact, everyone stupid enough to fall for this bullshit should be thrown into a volcano with the people who originally did it.
You know how consoles usually stay unchanged for 7 years performance-wise? That'll be fun in the near future.
Now I have to tell my boss that clouds aren't made out of magical unicorn cotton candy crystals after all!
Juuuuust kiiiiiddding. We don't use cloud services.
The problem with any new product release whether it be from those morons over at AGPTek or alleged professionals over at Samsung is that you have to wait a few weeks for reviews to outline any massive defects. Like a lot of Rockchip tablets (which is the manufacturer behind at least 50 different low end tablets for various brands) had trouble with the DC charging pin snapping off and with the tablet failing to turn on while charging. I don't care what a company's history of reputation is, they can still get screwed over by Chinese part makers lying to them about the quality of one specific part. That or engineering stupidity like for example the bending iphone 6. Because of that, blindly crowdfunding a tablet that isn't even made yet is a VERY bad idea.
Hey guys, Obama's approval rating is in the toilet partially because of the NSA scandal? You know what we should do? HOP ON BOARD!
Satellites orbiting earth with atomic clocks have been correcting for time dilation from moving at 24,000 MPH or whatever for decades. They all adapt with leap-milliseconds and if there was something in addition to dilation throwing them off, the anticipated corrections wouldn't be working. They are though.
Here's a question? How many terrorists are stupid enough to discuss their plans on Facebook, Myspace, and freaking Instagram? Not to mention unencrypted cell phones and texts? NOBODY is that stupid!
Satellites? Okay, here's one for you. The Voyager spacecraft. It traveled outside the solar system and the only minute unpredictable change in vector was due to heat radiating infrared photons from its metal. The measurements were THAT sensitive! And it interacted with exactly zero dark matter. You think some GPS satellite orbiting Earth is going to come up with different results?
The sun is free. This is like calculating impact energy without knowing the mass. You HAVE TO specify the variable of the desired payoff period to calculate some sort of pretend parity level. Since maintenance is practically zero, the sun costs zero, and you only pay for solar panels once, it never will "hit parity" with traditional sources because it costs nothing. You have to keep buying coal and natural gas to run a power plant.
In my area there's an extremely well funded (bribed) bill that the electric company is ramming through our legislature that will make the pay for back-fed electricity send into the grid like 5x lower. That's about as blatant as it gets when it comes to CO2-producing assholes being assholes.
OH GOOD! I freaking love wireless mouse delays. Sometimes when I can't get mine to 100ms delay, I just bury my hand in sand instead for the same effect.
Flying and racing games need multi-level directional steering from joysticks. Shooters and every other type of game ever made needs a mouse.
My PC is faster than an Xbox One. See you in 7 years!
PC gamers hate joysticks. Mice, better performance, and mods are the only reason that PC gamers play PC games. Say goodbye to your mouse, goodbye to desktop-level performance (and screen size), and I bet the shield doesn't support game mods very well. So that's 3 for 3. I really don't care about performance numbers on a product that nobody wants and nobody will buy.
Want to know the difference between the 3rd gen Pentium mobile CPU and the 4th gen? The 4th gen is half the speed. I am not kidding. Its passmark rating is under 1000! Wow, now my Satellite can get 10 hours of battery life and it only takes TWICE AS LONG TO DO EVERYTHING. They turned the damn thing into a tablet/smartphone. Its average system operating wattage is 11 watts.
What's AMD up to? Their latest release was a 220 watt desktop CPU that makes the fastest i7 look like crap. Their mobile offerings are poor, although their APUs are typically a better option overall than a dedicated Nvidia GPU plus a fast intel processor but who cares? I know laptops are outselling desktops but I don't think that trend is permanent. Everyone is dropping, overheating, and frying the battery on the computer that they run their whole life on then going back to a desktop. Trust me, I run a custom computer and repair shop and that's what I'm seeing. Intel just shot themselves in the foot.
Obvious to me. I work on computers so I've been shocked so many times I think I've built up an immunity.
There goes my ideas of The Bomb, Splosion, or H2OMG. Seriously? You're not allowed to drive around in an unmarked car with explosives but you can drive a car made out of explosives? But then again this is the agency that makes you drive a certain model truck with tons of markings and fill out endless forms to drive an HIV sample across the country in a sealed biohazard transport module and doesn't make you do anything if the driver has HIV. Lots of logic at the DOT.
I was thinking the same thing but in addition, how are you supposed to give money to common hidden services? They're hidden. What are they going to do, ask nicely for them to give a paypal e-mail address? I don't think so. They could go the bitcoin route but seriously, throwing money at better servers doesn't mean there's a smarter person running it. You "zoom out" to just reserach and development on better Tor protocols and it still leaves it wide open to stupid people. You can't just throw money at stupid people running hidden services so oh well.
There are three options. First, run a hand-written HTML non-interactive page. Nobody is likely to hack that.
Two, run a canned PHP solution like phpBB and get hacked.
Three, write a flawless interactive, database-driven site all yourself from scratch and then never use that code at any job or on any resume or any semblance of the same thing on the open web which is a giant waste.
Oh boy, it combined personal facebook accounts with work, will have ads, will be a privacy nightmare, and Zuckerberg will personally read all your spreadsheets. Sounds like a great plan!
"Supercomputing is one of those things that we can step up and lead the world again,"
Here's a thought. 100% of chip making companies that make chips that are actually good/fast are American companies. So just don't sell to any other countries in bulk for supercomputer use. Win by cutting off the supply.
But seriously, every single country has proven that if you give computer technology to a 3rd world country, they commit crimes on a massive scale with them. So I'd prefer it be NOBODY.
I cannot believe how loud our GTX660's from EVGA are. Wherever you're sitting in whatever country you're in right now, you can probably hear it. Some of our 550ti's and GTX650's are the same. The 650's aren't even high wattage! It's just completely unacceptable. I can hear up to about 40KHz so I've had my fair share of loud electronics that only I can hear. At least this frequency is within normal human range so more people can complain about it.