You keep saying 'the way it is done on Windows' when we are talking, literally, about the way it is done on just about any other architecture, anywhere, except on iOS. Linux, Solaris, a BSD operating system. Even MacOS has an exposed filesystem.
It's fine to dislike a hierarchical filesystem architecture if that's your preference. You can probably employ an assistant or purchase a search product to know where the things you care about are 'kept' and remain ignorant of what else might be lurking somewhere, anywhere in that filesystem that you never, ever directly navigate. Don't be surprised, though, that there are probably things in there that other people can find that you wish was not there, because you never look.
The quantity is algorithmically determined? You mean, rather than use more electricity, I can just use a better algorithm? That would mean everybody would be using that algorithm, and the quantity would again immediately be determined by the cost of electricity.
No, I think the quantity of bitcoin that can be 'mined' is dependent on the amount of energy expended, plus of course the equipment cost. Sure people constantly design and implement upgraded mining equipment, but that doesn't linearally scale the quantities.
I have some rare vintage microprocessors. I recognized what they were by the part number when somebody listed five or six tubes of them (25 to the tube) on eBay, and spent about $100 to snap them all up. I can sell them at about $25 each to collectors, but only if I don't try to sell them ten at a time.
That's nerd cred, btw, when you can hustle rare microprocessors for a tidy profit.
Lots of rich collectors interested in buying weird high-end Bitcoin-themed memorabilia.
Not surprising that there would be a high interest in the community in acquiring something that's actually tangible. Burned out GPU cards don't hold much nostalgia value if that's all you have in the end. I guess you can put your large electric bill in a gilt frame, too.
If you had a few cases of those Star Wars figures, you could now crater their value almost immediately. I suppose you could sell them out into the market slowly instead, because there's a slow steady return in that sort of hustle.
Bitcoin will still have nostalgia value. Magic the Gathering cards and Beanie Babies are still worth something, after all. People look back at their youth and smile, even when it is foolish things they did that they remember.
The fact that there is no tangible relic to keep 15 years down the road is sort of a problem. Mount Gox 'investors' of the more recent era don't have trading cards they can get out of a shoebox and look at, like earlier Mount Gox 'investors.' Amway has that problem, too, as the soap is all eventually down a drain... Tulip bulbs grow into flowers and are gone... It's just how it goes.
If you branch out far enough to the left or right, you reach the loopy area where people still attempt to rationally argue about the credibility of Leon Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot. The KKK become like comic book villans or heroes, yer choice which. It's not a place that ordinary rational people can even comprehend if they have never encountered it.
I don't think there are actually that many jew-hating nutbags, but the opportunity anonymnity presents encourages and amplifies their hooting and hollering.
I always look at dualies with the big rearend and think of a fatassed woman in a big skirt. Be careful, because it's a contagious thought. Similar to when you think a bit about Dodge 'Ram' and consider what purpose a farmer has in keeping an actual ram. You'll find yourself calling that ugly chromefront monster pickup in traffic a sheepfucker.
To counter the grandparent commenter's sentiment, perhaps it is not such a good thing for Apple to be sucking so much of the mindshare into a propritary black hole. They ARE sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the room. Android is very farvfrom perfect but it is MUCH more open. The Android tech bounces around between a lot of companies. Apple's stuff is behind a steel door.
What the hell, then. I have some old desktop machines in my collection with 486 processors. Even 'mobile' machines (Toshiba 21xx series laptops. ) Maybe that should be a fair comparison. I think (don't know for certain) that the 486s are Intel brand.
With Android, there is sort of a slider for the SDK that lets you pick how far back in Android versions you want to target your app. With Apple you're pretty much forced forward onto what Apple considers the current and 'correct' API. It could be seen as a cultural difference. Or a political one. Clearly with Apple you are expected, even required, to shitcan the old. For better or worse, and there are definitely cases to be made both ways.
Apple has hated nerds since the Mac introduction in 1984. The Mac was purpose-built as the anti-nerd computer. Jobs made a big deal of that at the time. They were in the process of killing the Apple ][ culture.
You're stuck working within whatever apps you can find that can interconnect. But you're not allowed access to the filesystem. Google has been doing some horky business in recent Android releases with regard to filesystem access, but they've not yet gotten even close to the prohibitiveness that Apple has enforced all along.
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Is APK an alias of Martin Shkreli?
That is not a rare microprossor.
It's about freedumb.
Wow, man. Somebody in Apple Marketing found out there is a filesystem and requested that a browser applet be added?
Why wasn't that one of the keynotes at the event on Tuesday?
I am sooo, sooo trumped by this announcement. Literally speechless.
You keep saying 'the way it is done on Windows' when we are talking, literally, about the way it is done on just about any other architecture, anywhere, except on iOS. Linux, Solaris, a BSD operating system. Even MacOS has an exposed filesystem.
It's fine to dislike a hierarchical filesystem architecture if that's your preference. You can probably employ an assistant or purchase a search product to know where the things you care about are 'kept' and remain ignorant of what else might be lurking somewhere, anywhere in that filesystem that you never, ever directly navigate. Don't be surprised, though, that there are probably things in there that other people can find that you wish was not there, because you never look.
The quantity is algorithmically determined? You mean, rather than use more electricity, I can just use a better algorithm? That would mean everybody would be using that algorithm, and the quantity would again immediately be determined by the cost of electricity.
No, I think the quantity of bitcoin that can be 'mined' is dependent on the amount of energy expended, plus of course the equipment cost. Sure people constantly design and implement upgraded mining equipment, but that doesn't linearally scale the quantities.
I have some rare vintage microprocessors. I recognized what they were by the part number when somebody listed five or six tubes of them (25 to the tube) on eBay, and spent about $100 to snap them all up. I can sell them at about $25 each to collectors, but only if I don't try to sell them ten at a time.
That's nerd cred, btw, when you can hustle rare microprocessors for a tidy profit.
Lots of rich collectors interested in buying weird high-end Bitcoin-themed memorabilia.
Not surprising that there would be a high interest in the community in acquiring something that's actually tangible. Burned out GPU cards don't hold much nostalgia value if that's all you have in the end. I guess you can put your large electric bill in a gilt frame, too.
People trade it with a value that is based on it's scarcity. So the cost to produce it will always be a major factor in it's value.
If you had a few cases of those Star Wars figures, you could now crater their value almost immediately. I suppose you could sell them out into the market slowly instead, because there's a slow steady return in that sort of hustle.
Bitcoin will still have nostalgia value. Magic the Gathering cards and Beanie Babies are still worth something, after all. People look back at their youth and smile, even when it is foolish things they did that they remember.
The fact that there is no tangible relic to keep 15 years down the road is sort of a problem. Mount Gox 'investors' of the more recent era don't have trading cards they can get out of a shoebox and look at, like earlier Mount Gox 'investors.' Amway has that problem, too, as the soap is all eventually down a drain... Tulip bulbs grow into flowers and are gone... It's just how it goes.
You can't really tell that to the rabbits, and just ignore the overpopulation of foxes caused by removal of the foxes predators from the environment.
We need to just stomp out Al Goreism before it corrupts our vital bodily polar icesheves.
If you branch out far enough to the left or right, you reach the loopy area where people still attempt to rationally argue about the credibility of Leon Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot. The KKK become like comic book villans or heroes, yer choice which. It's not a place that ordinary rational people can even comprehend if they have never encountered it.
I don't think there are actually that many jew-hating nutbags, but the opportunity anonymnity presents encourages and amplifies their hooting and hollering.
I always look at dualies with the big rearend and think of a fatassed woman in a big skirt. Be careful, because it's a contagious thought. Similar to when you think a bit about Dodge 'Ram' and consider what purpose a farmer has in keeping an actual ram. You'll find yourself calling that ugly chromefront monster pickup in traffic a sheepfucker.
Even the 8 caught some shade on Tuesday, at it's own introduction event. It was an Osborne moment.
To counter the grandparent commenter's sentiment, perhaps it is not such a good thing for Apple to be sucking so much of the mindshare into a propritary black hole. They ARE sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the room. Android is very farvfrom perfect but it is MUCH more open. The Android tech bounces around between a lot of companies. Apple's stuff is behind a steel door.
It is possible that the North Korean problem will solve Apple's Samsung problem for them. But God help us, let's hope not.
What the hell, then. I have some old desktop machines in my collection with 486 processors. Even 'mobile' machines (Toshiba 21xx series laptops. ) Maybe that should be a fair comparison. I think (don't know for certain) that the 486s are Intel brand.
They copied Microsoft and skipped '9'.
With Android, there is sort of a slider for the SDK that lets you pick how far back in Android versions you want to target your app. With Apple you're pretty much forced forward onto what Apple considers the current and 'correct' API. It could be seen as a cultural difference. Or a political one. Clearly with Apple you are expected, even required, to shitcan the old. For better or worse, and there are definitely cases to be made both ways.
Apple has hated nerds since the Mac introduction in 1984. The Mac was purpose-built as the anti-nerd computer. Jobs made a big deal of that at the time. They were in the process of killing the Apple ][ culture.
You're stuck working within whatever apps you can find that can interconnect. But you're not allowed access to the filesystem. Google has been doing some horky business in recent Android releases with regard to filesystem access, but they've not yet gotten even close to the prohibitiveness that Apple has enforced all along.
Percieved security over measurable speed.
Well, chase after what you wish for.