This may be. We'll see. How would you get people to use an inflationary version of Bitcoin, though, when they are likely to value the deflationary currency higher?
You jest (I guess), but software actually designed by and for artists does exist. MyPaint is a very good example. The newest versions of Krita do a good job of not getting in the way, too.
Newsday,com, the example used in that article, appears to have a "hard" paywall. You pay, or you don't see the content. NYT has one with many, many holes. The holes are so obvious I find it difficult to believe they are accidental.
Perhaps the Slashdot mentality towards security is not conducive to understanding what NYT is doing. It's perfectly possible they never intended for the paywall to work 100% to keep people out. They just made it less convenient to access the content free of charge. Perhaps the inconvenience of circumventing the paywall is enough to get some people to pay for access. Others will find ways around it, and the NYT doesn't lose that much in terms of exposure via linking. Of course, they may just have created a new ecosystem of forwarder sites that make getting around the paywall easy. I think the question is, will people wanting to read NYT online go to nytimes.com, or will they make some forwarding site their go-to for NYT articles. If they get the balance of nuisance right, using third party services to read the material is enough of a hassle for many not to bother. If they get it wrong, few will bother with the site itself as a starting point any more. The success of the strategy depends on which way it turns out.
I'm not aware of a permanent exchange for WoW gp - BTC, but someone recently sold 80,000 gp for 65 BTC. I don't know what WoW gold generally goes for, but I'd expect the exchange rate to be about the same as if you bought with USD, taking into account the BTC/USD rate.
As for WoW gold's viability... I'd rather not take a currency run by a private company, thank you very much. The moment Blizzard either go under or decide to shut down WoW, that gold is worthless, or at least will plummet in value. Also AFAIK they can make as much as they like.
Mt. Gox accepts EUR as well via bank transfer in the EU, although they will be converted to USD at the current exchange rate. (don't remember which source they use for that, ask them if you're interested.)
That any negotiations were needed to get DigiCash to succeed suggests to me it was doomed from the start. Bitcoin has no central authority, and therefore no company to take the entire currency down with it when it inevitably goes under.
I really like BitCoin, But the biggest problem is the "goldrush" is over.
The biggest problem for you, you mean, since there's no "free money" any more. For Bitcoin as a currency, it's a good thing. There's little value in something that can be easily produced.
Funnily, I was going to reply to GP to point out they're not strictly right, but am instead replying to you with the same message. Yes, the network stores a list of all transactions. All that means is you know which keys a given coin has belonged to in the past. If you don't know who a given key belongs to, you can't link the transaction to a person.
Point #1: The coins are divisible to 8 decimal places. 21 million coins is 21 bilion milliBitcoins, or whatever you want to 1/1000th of a Bitcoin, and it divides much further.
Point #2: masking the origin of a payment should be quite simple. You could, for example, send a sum to some currency exchange and send a different sum to a different Bitcoin address. Having a completely untraceable wallet should not be too difficult.
Care to provide a source for that claim, other than your ass? Consciousness, as I suspect you mean it, is roughly synonymous with self-awareness, although I don't think it's quite that simple. In any case, that has been observed in a number of animals besides homo sapiens, such as certain apes and bottlenose dolphins. Of course due to the nature of the whole concept, it's pretty much impossible to conclusively prove any entity is in possession of consciousness, so cling to that if you wish.
I guess MS is having to gamble a bit here. The recent app store model for mobile devices essentially means cordoning off portions of the web into device-specific apps instead of sites readable on a browser anywhere. At least that's what I suspect Apple are aiming for - get as much popular content as possible into app form so that using the Internet becomes something you need an Apple device for.
For MS the question then becomes whether they can do the same thing and create a viable app ecosystem of their own or not. If they're not sure about that - and they seem to be a bit late into the game - then maybe their best bet would be to try to undermine the whole app concept and instead promote open web standards such as HTML 5. Or maybe they'll act in the slightly confused manner they usually seem to and do both, with an app model for mobile and a more conventional browser-based web experience on PCs.
Precisely. In fact, showy long takes are a poster child for CGI in cinema, since they're so difficult to film. It can be much easier and cheaper to splice together a ton of footage than to spend days on set, with dozens of people trying to make a shot work. Just because it's not flying robots, doesn't mean it's not CGI.
Ironically enough, I seem to recall that in the original e-mail exchange the Cooks source (sic) editor actually stated their editing made the article better.
Voting guarantees nothing. Even a perfectly democratic election does not equal a democratic political system. Much more goes into that than just being able to vote on who your leaders are.
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Half of one.
How would they manage to detect the mp3s I've ripped myself as legal?
This may be. We'll see. How would you get people to use an inflationary version of Bitcoin, though, when they are likely to value the deflationary currency higher?
Evidence where consciousness is concerned is a pretty dodgy subject anyway. You can't even prove consciousness exists.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade Also, drugs, apparently.
How is this relevant?
Hm, I managed to reply to the wrong post. Meant to reply to the reply to yours with the jab about pot and flash.
You jest (I guess), but software actually designed by and for artists does exist. MyPaint is a very good example. The newest versions of Krita do a good job of not getting in the way, too.
Newsday,com, the example used in that article, appears to have a "hard" paywall. You pay, or you don't see the content. NYT has one with many, many holes. The holes are so obvious I find it difficult to believe they are accidental.
Perhaps the Slashdot mentality towards security is not conducive to understanding what NYT is doing. It's perfectly possible they never intended for the paywall to work 100% to keep people out. They just made it less convenient to access the content free of charge. Perhaps the inconvenience of circumventing the paywall is enough to get some people to pay for access. Others will find ways around it, and the NYT doesn't lose that much in terms of exposure via linking. Of course, they may just have created a new ecosystem of forwarder sites that make getting around the paywall easy. I think the question is, will people wanting to read NYT online go to nytimes.com, or will they make some forwarding site their go-to for NYT articles. If they get the balance of nuisance right, using third party services to read the material is enough of a hassle for many not to bother. If they get it wrong, few will bother with the site itself as a starting point any more. The success of the strategy depends on which way it turns out.
actually, scratch "plummet in value", since the gp doesn't exist outside WoW AFAIK.
I'm not aware of a permanent exchange for WoW gp - BTC, but someone recently sold 80,000 gp for 65 BTC. I don't know what WoW gold generally goes for, but I'd expect the exchange rate to be about the same as if you bought with USD, taking into account the BTC/USD rate. As for WoW gold's viability... I'd rather not take a currency run by a private company, thank you very much. The moment Blizzard either go under or decide to shut down WoW, that gold is worthless, or at least will plummet in value. Also AFAIK they can make as much as they like.
Mt. Gox accepts EUR as well via bank transfer in the EU, although they will be converted to USD at the current exchange rate. (don't remember which source they use for that, ask them if you're interested.)
As far as I can tell, 8 decimal places isn't a hard limit, but can be increased in the future if need be. Don't quote me on that, though.
That any negotiations were needed to get DigiCash to succeed suggests to me it was doomed from the start. Bitcoin has no central authority, and therefore no company to take the entire currency down with it when it inevitably goes under.
I really like BitCoin, But the biggest problem is the "goldrush" is over.
The biggest problem for you, you mean, since there's no "free money" any more. For Bitcoin as a currency, it's a good thing. There's little value in something that can be easily produced.
In countries where privacy is valued, the phone company has no right to voluntarily give out your information.
Funnily, I was going to reply to GP to point out they're not strictly right, but am instead replying to you with the same message. Yes, the network stores a list of all transactions. All that means is you know which keys a given coin has belonged to in the past. If you don't know who a given key belongs to, you can't link the transaction to a person.
Point #1: The coins are divisible to 8 decimal places. 21 million coins is 21 bilion milliBitcoins, or whatever you want to 1/1000th of a Bitcoin, and it divides much further. Point #2: masking the origin of a payment should be quite simple. You could, for example, send a sum to some currency exchange and send a different sum to a different Bitcoin address. Having a completely untraceable wallet should not be too difficult.
As even the summary mentions, the technique applies to jpeg-compressed images.
Just out of curiosity, any health reason you eat grains at all?
Care to provide a source for that claim, other than your ass? Consciousness, as I suspect you mean it, is roughly synonymous with self-awareness, although I don't think it's quite that simple. In any case, that has been observed in a number of animals besides homo sapiens, such as certain apes and bottlenose dolphins. Of course due to the nature of the whole concept, it's pretty much impossible to conclusively prove any entity is in possession of consciousness, so cling to that if you wish.
I guess MS is having to gamble a bit here. The recent app store model for mobile devices essentially means cordoning off portions of the web into device-specific apps instead of sites readable on a browser anywhere. At least that's what I suspect Apple are aiming for - get as much popular content as possible into app form so that using the Internet becomes something you need an Apple device for.
For MS the question then becomes whether they can do the same thing and create a viable app ecosystem of their own or not. If they're not sure about that - and they seem to be a bit late into the game - then maybe their best bet would be to try to undermine the whole app concept and instead promote open web standards such as HTML 5. Or maybe they'll act in the slightly confused manner they usually seem to and do both, with an app model for mobile and a more conventional browser-based web experience on PCs.
Precisely. In fact, showy long takes are a poster child for CGI in cinema, since they're so difficult to film. It can be much easier and cheaper to splice together a ton of footage than to spend days on set, with dozens of people trying to make a shot work. Just because it's not flying robots, doesn't mean it's not CGI.
Ironically enough, I seem to recall that in the original e-mail exchange the Cooks source (sic) editor actually stated their editing made the article better.
Voting guarantees nothing. Even a perfectly democratic election does not equal a democratic political system. Much more goes into that than just being able to vote on who your leaders are.