I've hated iTunes for over a decade now, and that's not just because it's horrible, bloated software with a terrible interface. Almost any other method of buying an album will send more money to the artist than iTunes…
It is a nice shortcut, but I think they added it mostly because they belatedly realized how much metro sucks for accessing settings from the desktop.
If you're a keyboard and mouse user working primarily in the desktop, it is very jarring to jump into the full-screen metro interface every single time you want to do something start-menu related. Metro isn't well…
Here's an interesting line of reasoning: Had Adria posted the photo of the two men and made her claims about their conversation anonymously, would they have been taken as seriously? Probably not. How many people are…
Interesting article. Allow me to add a few fun details... Early agriculturalists actually had it much rougher than this article implies for a real kicker of a reason: Wild plants suck as crop plants. Maize was…
Contrary to the claims of the extremetech article, they have not closed all loopholes in this experiment. Specifically, the detection loophole has not been closed. This loophole is caused by not being able to detect a…
They test a CHSH Bell inequality in this paper. This rules out local hidden variable theories. Non-local hidden variable (NLHV) theories are another matter entirely. Indeed, some NLHV theories may reproduce the…
Hollywood is famous for playing so fast and loose with tax-loopholes that I just can't trust any of the numbers quoted. Practically every Hollywood blockbuster loses money on paper when it comes time to pay taxes, so…
That article is not good. Biased reporting based on a biased study. Yes, all writing is biased, but sometimes evidence suggests it's worse than usual, and this is one of those cases. From the cradle of the study to the…
Let me rephrase the question in way that is probably more likely to be thought about by a second-term president: "Given that you obviously feel you can kill foreign citizens in their own countries along with an…
I sincerely hope Google keeps the cap where it is. That just might motivate copyright holders to reduce the number of erroneous take-down notices they issue.
It's a way to point out how wasteful spending on the TSA has become. People lack intuition for numbers on the scale we are talking about. Does $8.71 billion seem huge compared to $8.70 billion? (I'd sure like to be…
The TSA's budget is just a tad short of half that of NASA's. Cutting back on the little-old-lady-molesting budget and giving the cash to space-explorers seems like a no-brainer to me. However, I'm not an American.
Re: Pricing Fairness The article claims that if the Cable industry offered pricing based on what is fair, it would offer very cheap plans for little old ladies who barely use their connections. This definition of "fair"…
Others have said it, and they're right. Skeuomorphism has become dated and Apple is now playing catch-up with Android and Windows. Apple has been playing catch-up with Android in terms of features for quite some time…
It bothers me when people say that science conflicts with religion. It certainly conflicts with specific religious dogmas, such as young-earth creationism, but the frontiers of science fall well short of proving or…
It is being used in commercial systems (e.g. idquantique). Practical implementations are prone to vulnerabilities, but none have been found that cannot be remedied. Some techniques such as device independent or…
I think it was Margaret Atwood who described civilization as the intelligent trading of "freedoms to" for "freedoms from". For example, you can trade the right for everyone, regardless of criminal background, to buy…
The last I checked the MTBF on SSD's was substantially longer than for hard-drives. Barring firmware bugs you should probably strike that off your list of reasons for not using a SSD. Even if you do think SSD's are…
The author of this article seems to be very concerned about something, but I'm not entirely sure I understood. He implies that, under Obamacare, doctors will be compelled to provide services to patients at rates far…
The truth probably lies somewhere in between what the flaming fanboy and Mr.Disgruntled are saying. Apple seems to make the most money when they open up a new market and lock out the competition for a long period of…
As Neil Young put it, "Piracy is the new radio". A pirate torrent site providing promotion for artists at the artists' request is not something new. Private music torrent trackers have been doing this for several years…
I was rather encouraged by the headline, only to discover that instead of ripping out unnecessary security theater they're actually just wasting more money on new machines. Man do the companies making those things ever…
This article critiques the theatricality of MS's release process quite thoroughly and concludes that it is not the same as Apple's. This is true, but nobody should give a crap. What's important is that Windows 8, the…
Myhrvold is thinking about printer "piracy" in exactly the same way that RIAA thinks about music "piracy", and we all know how productive that's been! Placing artificial legal limits on distribution technology simply…
I've hated iTunes for over a decade now, and that's not just because it's horrible, bloated software with a terrible interface. Almost any other method of buying an album will send more money to the artist than iTunes…
It is a nice shortcut, but I think they added it mostly because they belatedly realized how much metro sucks for accessing settings from the desktop.
If you're a keyboard and mouse user working primarily in the desktop, it is very jarring to jump into the full-screen metro interface every single time you want to do something start-menu related. Metro isn't well…
Here's an interesting line of reasoning: Had Adria posted the photo of the two men and made her claims about their conversation anonymously, would they have been taken as seriously? Probably not. How many people are…
Interesting article. Allow me to add a few fun details... Early agriculturalists actually had it much rougher than this article implies for a real kicker of a reason: Wild plants suck as crop plants. Maize was…
Contrary to the claims of the extremetech article, they have not closed all loopholes in this experiment. Specifically, the detection loophole has not been closed. This loophole is caused by not being able to detect a…
They test a CHSH Bell inequality in this paper. This rules out local hidden variable theories. Non-local hidden variable (NLHV) theories are another matter entirely. Indeed, some NLHV theories may reproduce the…
Hollywood is famous for playing so fast and loose with tax-loopholes that I just can't trust any of the numbers quoted. Practically every Hollywood blockbuster loses money on paper when it comes time to pay taxes, so…
That article is not good. Biased reporting based on a biased study. Yes, all writing is biased, but sometimes evidence suggests it's worse than usual, and this is one of those cases. From the cradle of the study to the…
Let me rephrase the question in way that is probably more likely to be thought about by a second-term president: "Given that you obviously feel you can kill foreign citizens in their own countries along with an…
I sincerely hope Google keeps the cap where it is. That just might motivate copyright holders to reduce the number of erroneous take-down notices they issue.
It's a way to point out how wasteful spending on the TSA has become. People lack intuition for numbers on the scale we are talking about. Does $8.71 billion seem huge compared to $8.70 billion? (I'd sure like to be…
The TSA's budget is just a tad short of half that of NASA's. Cutting back on the little-old-lady-molesting budget and giving the cash to space-explorers seems like a no-brainer to me. However, I'm not an American.
Re: Pricing Fairness The article claims that if the Cable industry offered pricing based on what is fair, it would offer very cheap plans for little old ladies who barely use their connections. This definition of "fair"…
Others have said it, and they're right. Skeuomorphism has become dated and Apple is now playing catch-up with Android and Windows. Apple has been playing catch-up with Android in terms of features for quite some time…
It bothers me when people say that science conflicts with religion. It certainly conflicts with specific religious dogmas, such as young-earth creationism, but the frontiers of science fall well short of proving or…
It is being used in commercial systems (e.g. idquantique). Practical implementations are prone to vulnerabilities, but none have been found that cannot be remedied. Some techniques such as device independent or…
I think it was Margaret Atwood who described civilization as the intelligent trading of "freedoms to" for "freedoms from". For example, you can trade the right for everyone, regardless of criminal background, to buy…
The last I checked the MTBF on SSD's was substantially longer than for hard-drives. Barring firmware bugs you should probably strike that off your list of reasons for not using a SSD. Even if you do think SSD's are…
The author of this article seems to be very concerned about something, but I'm not entirely sure I understood. He implies that, under Obamacare, doctors will be compelled to provide services to patients at rates far…
The truth probably lies somewhere in between what the flaming fanboy and Mr.Disgruntled are saying. Apple seems to make the most money when they open up a new market and lock out the competition for a long period of…
As Neil Young put it, "Piracy is the new radio". A pirate torrent site providing promotion for artists at the artists' request is not something new. Private music torrent trackers have been doing this for several years…
I was rather encouraged by the headline, only to discover that instead of ripping out unnecessary security theater they're actually just wasting more money on new machines. Man do the companies making those things ever…
This article critiques the theatricality of MS's release process quite thoroughly and concludes that it is not the same as Apple's. This is true, but nobody should give a crap. What's important is that Windows 8, the…
Myhrvold is thinking about printer "piracy" in exactly the same way that RIAA thinks about music "piracy", and we all know how productive that's been! Placing artificial legal limits on distribution technology simply…