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• On the post: Turns Out TV Cord Cutters Are, In Fact, Young, Educated And Employed

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2010 @ 04:23am

  Re: From a less than 0.00001 sample size.

  A "Representative sample" doesn't necessarily mean a large percentage. You may want to take a class or at least read up on statistics before making comments like that.

• On the post: Apple Prefers To Keep GPL'd Software Out Of App Store So It Can Keep DRM On All Apps

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2010 @ 06:12am

  Re: Who's denying whom here?

  The FSF isn't demanding the removal of VLC from the app store. They are simply stating that Apple is distributing it with DRM which goes against the license that it is released under. Rather than comply with the license, Apple chose to just remove the app instead.

• On the post: DMCA As Censorship: Citibank Doesn't Want You To Remember What It Said About Obama's Bank Reform Policy

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2010 @ 08:17am

  Correction:

  "So, firms like Citigroup aren't too happy about anyone remembering the fact that it new the regulations weren't at all onerous,"
  
  new = knew

• On the post: Juror Using iPhone To Look Up Definition Of 'Prudence' Leads To Mistrial

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2010 @ 04:26am

  Re: Obvious

  A cell jammer wouldn't prevent anyone from using a dictionary app or any other app that they already have on their phone.

• On the post: Is Yahoo's CEO Really In A Position To Tell Google What It Needs To Do?

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2010 @ 09:36am

  Re:

  that Android thing is becoming quite popular as well.

• On the post: Avatar Sees Theater Attendance Bump After DVD Release

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2010 @ 12:16pm

  Re: its in the DETAILS

  "Even in games, HiRes only takes up MORE RAM, and slows processing. Iv seen games that look Exactly the same from 640x480 as they do at 1900x1200."
  
  The graphics may look similar, but you get a much larger field of view at 1900x1200 than you do at 640x480 which can be very beneficial in some games.

• On the post: Now That Everyone's Seen ACTA, USTR Says 'It's Time To Release It'

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2010 @ 09:38am

  The significance of it being released is that politicians can now officially comment on it which they couldn't do with just the leaked versions.

• On the post: Could Copyright Hold Back iPad Sales In Canada And Elsewhere?

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2010 @ 09:19pm

  Re: iPad

  You mean like how Canada was (or are they still?) trying to add a copyright tax on all ipods?
  
  And isn't Netflix only available in the US? Which would be precisely the type of content limitation this post is referring to.

• On the post: The Fool's Gold At The End Of The iPad Rainbow

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2010 @ 09:09pm

  Re: Re:

  "Apple controlled content delivery device."
  
  Which is what all of their products are becoming. I thought the same thing with the apple TV. And the ipod/iphone may not have started out that way, they have kinda morphed into it.

• On the post: The Fool's Gold At The End Of The iPad Rainbow

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2010 @ 09:02pm

  Time magazine is another "what the hell are they thinking?" $5 per issue on the ipad when they have a free iphone app. Seriously, is anyone going to consistently pay news stand price for a digital magazine?
  
  Maybe I just don't understand regular people but I thought the only time people paid news stand price was when they were in an airport or somewhere where they needed to kill some time and then maybe they would pay that much for a single issue. But I don't see how anyone would pay that much every week for something they could get cheaper elsewhere.

• On the post: Too Little Too Late: Universal Music Finally Realizes That Maybe CDs Were Too Expensive

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2010 @ 03:05pm

  That $6-10 range means that any new stuff from popular artists that most people are looking to buy will be $9 or $10.

• On the post: Truncated RSS Is A Bad Business Decision

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2010 @ 06:44pm

  Re: No More Gizmodo

  http://gizmodo.com/vip.xml
  
  will get you the full feed.

• On the post: Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2010 @ 12:07pm

  I do use an ad blocker most of the time. I try to keep it disabled for sites that I frequently visit because I want to support them. I just temporarily disabled the ad blocker on ars and I saw multiple ads with text and graphics flying all over the ad trying to draw my attention to it. (Same thing on this site.) It is extremely annoying to me so I turned the ad blocking back on.

• On the post: Even Senators Hated NBC Universal's Olympic Coverage

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2010 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Re:

  I think part of the high viewership is that the other networks aired reruns during most primetime hours and there was nothing else to watch.

• On the post: Guy Who Makes Simple Caller ID App For Android Forced To Shut Down Due To Patent Threat

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2010 @ 10:36am

  This same company also sued someone who made a similar app for Blackberries.

• On the post: Bad Publicity, BBB Complaints Causing AT&T To Reconsider Metered Broadband?

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2010 @ 10:23pm

  Re: er..

  They aren't signing up for metered billing plans. If they go over a certain limit they automatically get signed up for it.
  
  "If an average user can't cope with 20Gb, I don't feel at all sorry for them."
  
  20Gb is nothing if you want to do any kind of video streaming.
  
  I use about 80Gb/month. Most of it legal. I don't have cable and use Hulu and the network sites to watch most tv shows.

• On the post: Winning Essay In High School Ethics Writing Competition Argues That File Sharing Isn't Wrong

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2010 @ 09:08am

  The topic of the contest was "Is it OK to download music, movies and games without paying?" so there were probably quite a few essay's out of the 80 submitted that had a similar view point. It isn't as surprising as if it were an open contest on any topic and this was the only one on piracy.

• On the post: WiFi On The School Bus

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2010 @ 10:12pm

  Re:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/education/12bus.html?ref=technology
  "In 2005, it inaugurated Empire High as a digital school, with the district issuing students laptops instead of textbooks,"
  
  They are all provided school laptops.

• On the post: Justice Department Finds No Problems With Text Message Prices

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2010 @ 08:02am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Could be similar to airline fees. One will try adding a new fee and then others will follow, it doesn't necessarily mean they are colluding to all increase and add fees.
  
  @Derek, I agree to an extent, but it's just annoying that they charge extra for texts just because they consider it a different kind of data from the data I already pay for. Also, if there were any kind of regulation on text costs they would just add or increase some other fees to make up the difference.

• On the post: Justice Department Finds No Problems With Text Message Prices

  

  milrtime83 ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 08:21pm

  "Most people who use SMS text messages on any sort of regular basis have bulk plans included with their regular plan."
  
  That's because individual prices are so outrageous. Also, it is only "included with their regular plan" because they pay extra for it. I for one refuse to use text message. I have an Android phone and pay $30 a month for data, there is no reason I should have to pay more for the couple bytes of data in a text message.

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