IBM did succeed in defining most of what mainstream PC technology grew into.
Okay, they pushed hard for Microchannel, which didn't stay in the mainstream hardware. PCI isn't IBM's thing. But the whole x86 architecture, the hardware/software stack, is something that IBM started.
We all, even Apple these days, have hardware that lives in IBM's shadow.
An important detail: they are all people who left India to be successful. Sure, they're keen on locating proles there to do the heavy lifting. They're not staying there and working as management under the Indian government's regime.
They understand India and the Indian market better than westerners would.
Basically, we need to do what we can as individuals, and the cheapest (and maybe most important) thing there is voting to get people of sound mind into government.
Is that cheap? It sounds very expensive. These people will then ram through no-cost-too-high restrictions on private industry.
Yes, it's 'cheap' when all you have is a megaphone and all you want to do is burn things down.
Maybe we can settle on an economy based on the game tokens Blizzard now sells for real $$ that can be sold for in-game gold in World of Warcraft. Farming gold in an MMO has to be more fun than sitting there watching your GPUs radiate waste heat.
It's been in continuous publication since the 1830s. Businessmen gladly pay a $130 annual subscription for it because it has journalistic integrity greater than just about any other journal in print.
But dinks on Slashdot know better. I bet Alex Jones has an entire rap he can rattle off about how uncreditble The Economist is.
Some of the nerds are pretty naive about real world matters. They know a lot about 6V6 Audio power output tubes, tantalum capacitors, and the comparative differences between a 74LS04 and a 74HC04 hex inverter chip, but are easily taken advantage of when amateur libertarian hucksters show up to ramble about 'fiat currency.'
These discussions are a social service to the nerd community.
I can go get in the car and in less than ten minutes convert a dollar into a cheeseburger and eat it.
I suppose if I dorked aroung enough I could find somebody who would give me a cheeseburger for some small fraction of bitcoin. I would be pretty hungry by the time I had the burger in hand, though.
The best thing to do, then, is to put all your money in bitcoin. Those offers on the radio for easy credit? The credit card offers in the mail? Accept them all and but into Bitcoin. Don't be a big dummy. Just do it. The big money you get will far offset the 27% interest on the loans.
All the big guys are cheating you. Just go for it, dude!
You, some guy with a psuedonymn on a blog, can say that with no risk. Yet a yearly subscription to The Economist (a newspaper that has been published continuously since the 1830s) is about $130 and many successful business people gladly pay that for the information they get from it.
Here's two cents. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
I paid about $60 for a first gen Charizard card back at the height of the craze for them. A few weeks later I got one in a booster pack that I just paid the regular price for. Ironically, the one I paid $60 for has a tiny impression in the foil so has less collectors value than the other.
Things that you speculate with are by definition a very poor thing to use as a currency.
Without a stabile value, bitcoin is a complete failure as a currency. When I give somebody X amount of bitcoin to pay for a washing machine it would need to remain close to the value of the washing machine for at least a medium-term amount of time.
People can dink around with it speculating, but that destroys it as a currency. It can't even be planted to grow nice looking tulips.
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Times change. My comment was meant as a historical reference. IBM is huge in India now.
IBM is somewhat huge in India now. I referred to the period of the 1960s, when IBM punished India technologically for their nativism.
IBM did succeed in defining most of what mainstream PC technology grew into.
Okay, they pushed hard for Microchannel, which didn't stay in the mainstream hardware. PCI isn't IBM's thing. But the whole x86 architecture, the hardware/software stack, is something that IBM started.
We all, even Apple these days, have hardware that lives in IBM's shadow.
An important detail: they are all people who left India to be successful. Sure, they're keen on locating proles there to do the heavy lifting. They're not staying there and working as management under the Indian government's regime.
They understand India and the Indian market better than westerners would.
Basically, we need to do what we can as individuals, and the cheapest (and maybe most important) thing there is voting to get people of sound mind into government.
Is that cheap? It sounds very expensive. These people will then ram through no-cost-too-high restrictions on private industry.
Yes, it's 'cheap' when all you have is a megaphone and all you want to do is burn things down.
Sorry. Two cents is all the value you've demonstrated.
Log in when you're showing such ignorance. Because you're making all the other A.C. commenters look stupid.
Shouldn't you be out on the Mall near the Student Center selling copies of The Militant?
In Indiana you can put a 'Friends of Coal' licence plate on your car.
"Language is a virus from outer space." William S. Burroughs.
Laurie Anderson's take on it.
In the 1960's, IBM chose to leave the market in India because of how the government tried to force them to do business.
I just bought my first hot-air rework station. It was surprisingly cheap on Amazon.
Access to parts, and knowledge of the arcana to even safely get into the enclosure of lots of modern electronic stuff is a real barrier.
I take it you blew your student loan money on Bitcoins. You should have just registered for class, shown up, and done all the homework.
Maybe we can settle on an economy based on the game tokens Blizzard now sells for real $$ that can be sold for in-game gold in World of Warcraft. Farming gold in an MMO has to be more fun than sitting there watching your GPUs radiate waste heat.
It's been in continuous publication since the 1830s. Businessmen gladly pay a $130 annual subscription for it because it has journalistic integrity greater than just about any other journal in print.
But dinks on Slashdot know better. I bet Alex Jones has an entire rap he can rattle off about how uncreditble The Economist is.
Some of the nerds are pretty naive about real world matters. They know a lot about 6V6 Audio power output tubes, tantalum capacitors, and the comparative differences between a 74LS04 and a 74HC04 hex inverter chip, but are easily taken advantage of when amateur libertarian hucksters show up to ramble about 'fiat currency.'
These discussions are a social service to the nerd community.
I can go get in the car and in less than ten minutes convert a dollar into a cheeseburger and eat it.
I suppose if I dorked aroung enough I could find somebody who would give me a cheeseburger for some small fraction of bitcoin. I would be pretty hungry by the time I had the burger in hand, though.
The grownups.
It's such a drag. Why don't you go out and play some hackey-sack.
So you are saying the currency value of cryptocurrency is anchored by the value of online pornography.
You'd be better off collecting vintage copies of Penthouse, dude.
The best thing to do, then, is to put all your money in bitcoin. Those offers on the radio for easy credit? The credit card offers in the mail? Accept them all and but into Bitcoin. Don't be a big dummy. Just do it. The big money you get will far offset the 27% interest on the loans.
All the big guys are cheating you. Just go for it, dude!
You, some guy with a psuedonymn on a blog, can say that with no risk. Yet a yearly subscription to The Economist (a newspaper that has been published continuously since the 1830s) is about $130 and many successful business people gladly pay that for the information they get from it.
Here's two cents. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
I paid about $60 for a first gen Charizard card back at the height of the craze for them. A few weeks later I got one in a booster pack that I just paid the regular price for. Ironically, the one I paid $60 for has a tiny impression in the foil so has less collectors value than the other.
Hydro or solar power that could have displaced energy used that was created using fossil fuel.
If you want to turn a hand crank generator to make bitcoin go ahead. Otherwise you're effectively comitting an environmental crime.
Things that you speculate with are by definition a very poor thing to use as a currency.
Without a stabile value, bitcoin is a complete failure as a currency. When I give somebody X amount of bitcoin to pay for a washing machine it would need to remain close to the value of the washing machine for at least a medium-term amount of time.
People can dink around with it speculating, but that destroys it as a currency. It can't even be planted to grow nice looking tulips.
You missed the part where tech companies are pushing us all into the third world.