Anyone throwing a huge amount of money at ASIC mining doesn't know where the profitability is in cryptocurrency. The place to earn your money is in the first few weeks of any new coin, even more so if they offer a hashing algorithm that is resistant to ASICs or GPUs.
It's savvy technicians getting pools up for the launch of new coins that should be doing well, not bloated companies who mindlessly throw more SHA-256 hash at bitcoin.
Anyone wanting to rebut the carbon footprint of cryptocurrency should invite the other party to stand behind a running armoured car that's being used to deliver cash to an ATM.
I love the idea of Gridcoin, but the implementation is shocking. For a start, way too much trust is placed in the client to identify BIONC and increase rewards. This will get hacked so you don't have to run BOINC. Also, it only cares about CPU usages. I have a 2000-series ATI card that's no good for hashing, but will accelerate SETI@home. The Gridcoin client doesn't consider I'm doing work if I'm using a GPU, so I'm encouraged to drop GPU accelerated work and use a less efficient CPU. Not to mention that mining with the wallet is the only way to earn a bonus, making a range of hardware useless, plus making pools unattractive.
The girl told police that Cesmat had taken away her cell phone away when she went to bed, telling her he did not want her texting all night.
So the girl had no phone, just her iPod, which I assume was an iPod touch. She wasn't able to make a call from it, or an SMS, but she could send a Facebook message (or an email, or with the right software an IM to pretty much any service).
This is a story about how important communication can now be made by devices other than a phone. Or how children now not only have a mobile phone, but often a second gadget capable of keeping them connected.
And it's not like she didn't use Facebook and an iPod.
While other manufacturers hardly have a spotless record (I'm looking at you, Sony, Acer and Gateway) Dell has been well below average for years now. For those of you that got a Dell and never had any problems with it, congratulations. But just like how it being cold where you are today doesn't mean global warming isn't real, just because your one PC didn't have any problems doesn't mean Dell's quality control has been shit for coming on 10 years.
But somehow, when it comes to management, Dell is Teflon coated. I wish this was the death knell for Dell, but it just isn't going to be.
I have my keys on a Carabiner. The core set stay there all the time, other groups (like car keys) or tools (like a little USB Swiss army knife) get clipped on and off as needed. The set then gets clipped on the belt loop nearest my pocket and slipped into the top of the pocket. The weight never pulls on the pocket itself.
A small, fast flash drive is preferable to a big slow hard drive. I know, because someone at work bought one of the newer EeePCs with a 160Gig drive and it was basically unusable until we swapped in an expensive flash drive as a replacement. Until the extra money was spent on it, my 4G Eee was much better, even if I do have to manage my use of the system drive very carefully.
Since I'm posting, the AA batteries are a HUGE advantage. I've refused to buy any digital camera that doesn't take AAs for ages now and the result is that the last three cameras I've bought are all still perfectly usable. Meanwhile, I'm onto the second battery for my Eee (which I effectively got by buying an entire 2G Eee fairly cheap), and my early digital cameras (which I spent quite a bit on) are glorified paperweights. There are some very, very nice rechargeable AA options out there and some seriously good chargers. I've invested in some of this stuff and would love to be able to use it with my netbook.
Paypal specialises in dodging regulation and being an arsehole. There may well be times when you can sing the praises of the wondrous capitalist market and how it solves everything, but this is not one of them.
Fox make roughly the same number of mistakes and bad calls as everyone else, but on top of that they deliberately mislead in order to sell their agenda.
I live in Western Australia and this sounds like standard ticket parking to me. Not particularly "smart", but hardly offensive to the degree suggested by the writeup.
Those folding kick scooters are currently my top pick for urban personal transport if you don't have anywhere to stash something as large as a bike. Recently I've tried; an A-bike, inline skates and a folding kick scooter. The A-bike is too large and heavy for walking around once you've folded it up and moved into areas where you can't ride a bike. The inline skates are a pain in the *rse (literally) if there are problems with the path you're skating on (sand, holes, bumps, etc). The kick scooter is trivially easy to learn to ride, folds up into a really small, light package and is easy to jump on and off as the situation warrants.
Next up I'm going to test springy stilts. I just have to lose about 8kg first.
I've used BeTwin to run two simultaneous instances of Diablo 2 for a small LAN game. It worked okay, but at US$99 for a single license, there are probably cheaper ways to run old games.
I don't know if it was this bill that I heard about a little while ago or something similar, but there are serious risks in any sort of taxation that encourages people to move away from products with real sugar and towards products with artificial sweeteners.
My EeePC runs XP Home. And Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird. None of the extra license fees you invoke are required. I think the only commercial app I have installed is my old copy of Photoshop 3.
The OS is largely irrelevant. What is important is that they're small and cheap.
If I have to rent a VPN plan and connect to a server in the US to bypass this stupid filter, then I will.
Since I've been looking at VPN solutions so I can safely use free WiFi spots, I might as well just sign up for a cheap US service so I can bypass The Great Firewall of Australia too.
A couple of months ago AVG decided that Portable Thunderbird was a trojan. After an update, hey, no it's not.
I used to recommend it to anyone who needed anti-virus for a home PC but now I recommend Avast and I'll be removing the last remaining AVG install on any of my PCs the next time it screws up in any way.
My Eee PC is great, but occasionally I'd like more screen real estate and a DVD drive. I have suggested this on the site in question, but I'll repeat it here.
I'd like a clamshell device with the same outer shell as the Eee PC and the same screen as the Eee PC, even the same battery as the Eee PC, but instead of being a computer I'd like it to be a portable DVD player, BUT with a VGA in so that the screen can be used as the second screen for my Eee PC AND with a USB port that lets you connect the DVD drive as an external drive for the Eee PC.
Asus should be able to do this using exactly the same molding as the Eee PC, except for the panel where the keyboard currently is. I reckon it'd look really cool pulling out what looks like two Eee PCs then hooking them up as a pair to make a fairly useful portable workstation. (Frankly, given the frequency with which designs are ripped off by Chinese manufacturers, I'm surprised there isn't already a portable DVD player that looks like an Eee.)
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If a goverment needs to have tax, It is better to tax things that you want to discourage.
To be fair, Australia's current government would like to discourage poor people.
Anyone throwing a huge amount of money at ASIC mining doesn't know where the profitability is in cryptocurrency. The place to earn your money is in the first few weeks of any new coin, even more so if they offer a hashing algorithm that is resistant to ASICs or GPUs. It's savvy technicians getting pools up for the launch of new coins that should be doing well, not bloated companies who mindlessly throw more SHA-256 hash at bitcoin.
Anyone wanting to rebut the carbon footprint of cryptocurrency should invite the other party to stand behind a running armoured car that's being used to deliver cash to an ATM.
I love the idea of Gridcoin, but the implementation is shocking. For a start, way too much trust is placed in the client to identify BIONC and increase rewards. This will get hacked so you don't have to run BOINC. Also, it only cares about CPU usages. I have a 2000-series ATI card that's no good for hashing, but will accelerate SETI@home. The Gridcoin client doesn't consider I'm doing work if I'm using a GPU, so I'm encouraged to drop GPU accelerated work and use a less efficient CPU. Not to mention that mining with the wallet is the only way to earn a bonus, making a range of hardware useless, plus making pools unattractive.
So the girl had no phone, just her iPod, which I assume was an iPod touch. She wasn't able to make a call from it, or an SMS, but she could send a Facebook message (or an email, or with the right software an IM to pretty much any service).
This is a story about how important communication can now be made by devices other than a phone. Or how children now not only have a mobile phone, but often a second gadget capable of keeping them connected.
And it's not like she didn't use Facebook and an iPod.
But somehow, when it comes to management, Dell is Teflon coated. I wish this was the death knell for Dell, but it just isn't going to be.
I have my keys on a Carabiner. The core set stay there all the time, other groups (like car keys) or tools (like a little USB Swiss army knife) get clipped on and off as needed. The set then gets clipped on the belt loop nearest my pocket and slipped into the top of the pocket. The weight never pulls on the pocket itself.
A small, fast flash drive is preferable to a big slow hard drive. I know, because someone at work bought one of the newer EeePCs with a 160Gig drive and it was basically unusable until we swapped in an expensive flash drive as a replacement. Until the extra money was spent on it, my 4G Eee was much better, even if I do have to manage my use of the system drive very carefully.
Since I'm posting, the AA batteries are a HUGE advantage. I've refused to buy any digital camera that doesn't take AAs for ages now and the result is that the last three cameras I've bought are all still perfectly usable. Meanwhile, I'm onto the second battery for my Eee (which I effectively got by buying an entire 2G Eee fairly cheap), and my early digital cameras (which I spent quite a bit on) are glorified paperweights. There are some very, very nice rechargeable AA options out there and some seriously good chargers. I've invested in some of this stuff and would love to be able to use it with my netbook.
Paypal specialises in dodging regulation and being an arsehole. There may well be times when you can sing the praises of the wondrous capitalist market and how it solves everything, but this is not one of them.
Fox make roughly the same number of mistakes and bad calls as everyone else, but on top of that they deliberately mislead in order to sell their agenda.
All around the bike path network of Perth, Australia. And I'd like the job of riding it 'round them.
I live in Western Australia and this sounds like standard ticket parking to me. Not particularly "smart", but hardly offensive to the degree suggested by the writeup.
Next up I'm going to test springy stilts. I just have to lose about 8kg first.
RAID.
Just like how I installed Windows over the Linux version at work! ^_^ Isn't choice a wonderful thing?
I've used BeTwin to run two simultaneous instances of Diablo 2 for a small LAN game. It worked okay, but at US$99 for a single license, there are probably cheaper ways to run old games.
As do I. I even have experience I can put on my CV. Anyone know where I would inquire about this job in Western Australia?
I don't know if it was this bill that I heard about a little while ago or something similar, but there are serious risks in any sort of taxation that encourages people to move away from products with real sugar and towards products with artificial sweeteners.
The OS is largely irrelevant. What is important is that they're small and cheap.
And that software would be Maxivista.
Since I've been looking at VPN solutions so I can safely use free WiFi spots, I might as well just sign up for a cheap US service so I can bypass The Great Firewall of Australia too.
A couple of months ago AVG decided that Portable Thunderbird was a trojan. After an update, hey, no it's not.
I used to recommend it to anyone who needed anti-virus for a home PC but now I recommend Avast and I'll be removing the last remaining AVG install on any of my PCs the next time it screws up in any way.
My Eee PC is great, but occasionally I'd like more screen real estate and a DVD drive. I have suggested this on the site in question, but I'll repeat it here.
I'd like a clamshell device with the same outer shell as the Eee PC and the same screen as the Eee PC, even the same battery as the Eee PC, but instead of being a computer I'd like it to be a portable DVD player, BUT with a VGA in so that the screen can be used as the second screen for my Eee PC AND with a USB port that lets you connect the DVD drive as an external drive for the Eee PC.
Asus should be able to do this using exactly the same molding as the Eee PC, except for the panel where the keyboard currently is. I reckon it'd look really cool pulling out what looks like two Eee PCs then hooking them up as a pair to make a fairly useful portable workstation. (Frankly, given the frequency with which designs are ripped off by Chinese manufacturers, I'm surprised there isn't already a portable DVD player that looks like an Eee.)