Well, you actually don't have to do all the work of a traditional payment processing network and there is much more room for competition, driving prices down. The current players are already much cheaper than the alternatives. Mining fees will be kept low due to, again, competition. Raise the fees you require to process a transaction and someone else will process that block instead. The protocol is very well designed in this regard (IMO).
And when you can't buy a legally unregulated upper, a trigger assembly, and an 80% lower reciever blank then just mill the blank and assemble a fully working, untraceable and unserialed AR-15?
I'm sure large numbers are interested in many things (cars, hiking, motorcycles, music, fashion etc) but that doesn't make them suitable fodder for this site.
It's not known what counts as an "observer". This is a major problem with the Copenhagen interpretation (not that other interpretations don't have their own issues).
There is no plan but if it were possible to have one, it would probably be something along the lines of voting for the most likely or most palatable that is *not* a D or R even if they *are* the most evil. At this stage, even a "less evil" D or R is an enabler for the evillest ones.
Mind you, I reckon 1/2 or more of the stuff that turns up at my door is direct from China or Hong Kong, being delivered with no income to the USPS due to peering type agreements for international mail (postage paid only to originating service). I can't think that even a small fraction of similar packages are heading in the other direction so the USPS must really be taking a bath on that.
There's more of a smooth continuum between that kind of virtualization and cloud. I doubt you could draw a sharp cut-off. Cloud is kind-of like virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.
Your thermodynamics are atrocious (all the energy ends up as heat) but you're correct that it can provide significant overall energy and cost savings (The energy provides useful work before ending up as heat rather then just being used for idling).
There are other advantages to various cloud options too. Need 10000 CPU hours for a parallel task? Just fire up 10000 CPUs for an hour rather than have to buy 10 CPUs and run for 1000 hours or even 100 for 100. The flexibility is tremendous.
I have by no means drunk the kool-aid on cloud computing but there are some very interesting use cases it serves very well.
I'd be willing to posit that whether 3D TVs are a gimmick or not is yet to be determined. My suspicion is that it will (and is) turn out to be as much a gimmick as the last two or three times it rolled around.
I think it potentially has some staying power for games. Not many support it though.
The sensor is flat so the screen should be flat. If you bend the screen, you introduce distortions which you will have to correct for. This includes for the "optimal" position.
Though in truth, the distortion is pretty insignificant. Otherwise they couldn't get away with the hogwash.
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Yes it's dumb. That's the way that kind of joke works.
Well, you actually don't have to do all the work of a traditional payment processing network and there is much more room for competition, driving prices down. The current players are already much cheaper than the alternatives. Mining fees will be kept low due to, again, competition. Raise the fees you require to process a transaction and someone else will process that block instead. The protocol is very well designed in this regard (IMO).
Just solder a bunch of SMT LEDSs together with thin wire and laminate.
You might start here
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Why can't it possibly be cheaper than the traditional payment processing networks? I'd like to see an explanation.
Gun license? Not in these parts.
(Points up). The, uh, 3d printed gun?
And when you can't buy a legally unregulated upper, a trigger assembly, and an 80% lower reciever blank then just mill the blank and assemble a fully working, untraceable and unserialed AR-15?
Actually, Phi would have been a far superior Greek letter to use when you look at it given that the circumference of a circle is 2*pi*r
But we're always being told the criminals will grab the guns and use them against us.
So this is a win.
I'm sure large numbers are interested in many things (cars, hiking, motorcycles, music, fashion etc) but that doesn't make them suitable fodder for this site.
It's not known what counts as an "observer". This is a major problem with the Copenhagen interpretation (not that other interpretations don't have their own issues).
Not just cumulative, exponential. In a few years, the site will be destroying the earth, in a few decades, most of the known universe.
There is no plan but if it were possible to have one, it would probably be something along the lines of voting for the most likely or most palatable that is *not* a D or R even if they *are* the most evil. At this stage, even a "less evil" D or R is an enabler for the evillest ones.
No reason to expect a force sensitive glass screen to fare any better when decently designed buttons are typically rated in the millions of presses.
Not usually harder, just less pleasant.
Mind you, I reckon 1/2 or more of the stuff that turns up at my door is direct from China or Hong Kong, being delivered with no income to the USPS due to peering type agreements for international mail (postage paid only to originating service). I can't think that even a small fraction of similar packages are heading in the other direction so the USPS must really be taking a bath on that.
There's more of a smooth continuum between that kind of virtualization and cloud. I doubt you could draw a sharp cut-off. Cloud is kind-of like virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.
Your thermodynamics are atrocious (all the energy ends up as heat) but you're correct that it can provide significant overall energy and cost savings (The energy provides useful work before ending up as heat rather then just being used for idling).
There are other advantages to various cloud options too. Need 10000 CPU hours for a parallel task? Just fire up 10000 CPUs for an hour rather than have to buy 10 CPUs and run for 1000 hours or even 100 for 100. The flexibility is tremendous.
I have by no means drunk the kool-aid on cloud computing but there are some very interesting use cases it serves very well.
Last four words of that read using the voice of Zapp Brannigan
It makes sense in a monitor. Unless you're OCD about your desktop metaphor remaining flat, the improved viewing experience is all gain.
Surely they could just make a flat screen look curved with the 3D glasses.
I'd be willing to posit that whether 3D TVs are a gimmick or not is yet to be determined. My suspicion is that it will (and is) turn out to be as much a gimmick as the last two or three times it rolled around.
I think it potentially has some staying power for games. Not many support it though.
The sensor is flat so the screen should be flat. If you bend the screen, you introduce distortions which you will have to correct for. This includes for the "optimal" position.
Though in truth, the distortion is pretty insignificant. Otherwise they couldn't get away with the hogwash.
Thunderbirds never looked better.