Because it is a risk. The company making the machines gets an upfront sale with a good profit margin. The risk taker is hoping that bitcoins stay above some value and hydro does not go up, and he does not spill coffee on his server, and, and, and.
Theoretically, both ventures had (could of had) a good profit margin and were worth undertaking, and the people who undertook the machine building had machine building skills and most likely more aversion to risk, while the miner had skills more suited to that and more propensity for risk.
considering that their is only 6 days to go, yes they will probably get the money.
Considering that if they have any sense they are now citizens of Nigeria, and additionally have maintained and will continue to maintain a layer of anonymity, they will walk away in the clear.
Do people who are defrauded out of money often make a profit in court? I would think that at absolute best you would make your money back + lawyer's fees.
We we had a similar plant in Ontario, it was shut down because of the air pollution. It is still the biggest, by far, smokestack in the city. Burning garbage does not make it disappear, and people would rather the garbage be put somewhere they do not see it, instead of blown into their faces.
The advertising industry has methods of gauging the effect of advertising, and it does not revolve around asking people how heavily watching advertising affects their purchases. It involves crazy things like actually measuring the number of units sold.
I do not know if anyone else recently clicked that Facebook: "give us feedback" link.
I was interested in what Facebook was currently working on, so I did. It was a unabashed survey used to try and make ads less visible and more like the rest of your feed. So I think that FB would agree that 60 odd percent is a failure, but they are continually working at integrating ads better into all of our feeds so that we do not even know that they are there.
"Cultural lines" is just a no evidence claim they put in there to explain away the huge racial and sexual differences we see. You are either good at basketball, good at math, good at writing, good at running, etc. Or you are bad. There is no such thing as relatively good for a white man at running, and in that way comparable to relatively good for a black man at running; The black man is simply better than you.
I personally believe that IQ tests do not measure anything important or specific, and if they can be said to measure anything it would most likely be the amount you will study and try at the test (which is why I think they do somewhat correlate to "success" in life).
This. The only thing that that statistics should tell is that customers are still too aware of the ads (from the advertisers view), and that they need to keep trying to raise that statistic. That said, a majority of people unaware of advertisers influence on them is not bad, I wonder how it compares to TV viewers?
Is a very specialised branch of mathematics. Yes, the basics are important to know, and they can help your understanding of things in general but knowledge of Statistics will not make other subjects easier. Knowing Statists, unlike all other mathematics, does not help with programming. I am not going to make broad generalizations about most students, but university Statistics was the hardest course I ever took. University Calculous was just more of the same, But Statists start out counter intuitive and weird in high school and just get worse the further you go.
Basically post-secondary education was marketed really really well. So we have more and more post-secondary students.
This has wide ranging effects. A diploma is worth less and less, as everyone has one (we have far more graduates than jobs that call for them). A diploma costs more, more demand for a diploma from children means you can charge more. And since the job market is flooded with out of work Professors and Master students the mean salary and working conditions for lecturers/professors falls.
Why would the BIOS underclock it to something below the recommended speed? Are you implying that the proprietary drivers for Linux and Windows default to overclocking to this "proper" speed?
And the article states that the reason it is slower is because it does not overclock the card by a factor or two or three. Or maybe it is making up for being so slow by overclocking the card?
Either way the article is stating. "NVidia Linux users, your graphical woes are over. Download this update and overclock your card to many times its original speed". I am asking if that advice is good advice? If 2X-overclocking a graphics card just something everyone with an NVidia card should do?
So based on this article it sounds like overclocking your video card is something everyone should do? And NVIDIA is a pretty big name. This article is saying that all of htere cards are too slow without overclocking to play most Linux games?
If I invent transistors, resistors, ect, I should be able to patent these. Nobody else should be able to come along and "invent" hooking up these electronic components in some specific sequence.
And how is imprisonment and execution not in violation of any number of rights outlined in every single important general legal document? Because it is not illegal if the government does it.
For the betterment of society individual rights are of secondary concern.
Why? Studies have shown that females far more than males dislike bad jobs that are particularly enjoyable and painful. Bad working conditions is correlated with female uninterest.
next you are going to tell me that the high level of physical danger inherent to all fishing jobs is not what drives women away from the industry?
I have no idea why this sentence ended in a question mark. If you made IT sexy it would inspire more interest in women. If you told them that they would be both a IT nerd and walk around in a miniskirt and a halter top, more women would want the jobs.
Well I think he is saying, that is pretty much what we are already getting to. When you are printing a 10nm wire into the silicon chip, you are not very far from doing it atom by atom as the wire is only like 50 atoms wide.
OK, so has the public facing website been put out of commision (a complete non-story) or has the actual research server been put out of commision putting big gaps in their data?
Slashdot Mirror
Admit it, if you got a chance to do cocaine off of your secretary's cleavage you would do it as well.
Because it is a risk. The company making the machines gets an upfront sale with a good profit margin. The risk taker is hoping that bitcoins stay above some value and hydro does not go up, and he does not spill coffee on his server, and, and, and.
Theoretically, both ventures had (could of had) a good profit margin and were worth undertaking, and the people who undertook the machine building had machine building skills and most likely more aversion to risk, while the miner had skills more suited to that and more propensity for risk.
Well "difficult to mine" sort of goes hand in hand with 20K custom miners now doesn't it?
considering that their is only 6 days to go, yes they will probably get the money.
Considering that if they have any sense they are now citizens of Nigeria, and additionally have maintained and will continue to maintain a layer of anonymity, they will walk away in the clear.
Do people who are defrauded out of money often make a profit in court? I would think that at absolute best you would make your money back + lawyer's fees.
Why would you even be awarded more than you lost?
We we had a similar plant in Ontario, it was shut down because of the air pollution. It is still the biggest, by far, smokestack in the city. Burning garbage does not make it disappear, and people would rather the garbage be put somewhere they do not see it, instead of blown into their faces.
The advertising industry has methods of gauging the effect of advertising, and it does not revolve around asking people how heavily watching advertising affects their purchases. It involves crazy things like actually measuring the number of units sold.
I do not know if anyone else recently clicked that Facebook: "give us feedback" link.
I was interested in what Facebook was currently working on, so I did. It was a unabashed survey used to try and make ads less visible and more like the rest of your feed. So I think that FB would agree that 60 odd percent is a failure, but they are continually working at integrating ads better into all of our feeds so that we do not even know that they are there.
Oh, that is bull.
"Cultural lines" is just a no evidence claim they put in there to explain away the huge racial and sexual differences we see. You are either good at basketball, good at math, good at writing, good at running, etc. Or you are bad. There is no such thing as relatively good for a white man at running, and in that way comparable to relatively good for a black man at running; The black man is simply better than you.
I personally believe that IQ tests do not measure anything important or specific, and if they can be said to measure anything it would most likely be the amount you will study and try at the test (which is why I think they do somewhat correlate to "success" in life).
This. The only thing that that statistics should tell is that customers are still too aware of the ads (from the advertisers view), and that they need to keep trying to raise that statistic. That said, a majority of people unaware of advertisers influence on them is not bad, I wonder how it compares to TV viewers?
Is a very specialised branch of mathematics. Yes, the basics are important to know, and they can help your understanding of things in general but knowledge of Statistics will not make other subjects easier. Knowing Statists, unlike all other mathematics, does not help with programming. I am not going to make broad generalizations about most students, but university Statistics was the hardest course I ever took. University Calculous was just more of the same, But Statists start out counter intuitive and weird in high school and just get worse the further you go.
Lets not delude ourselves. People go to college for the drugs, sex, and booze. The piece of paper at the end is incidental.
Basically post-secondary education was marketed really really well.
So we have more and more post-secondary students.
This has wide ranging effects.
A diploma is worth less and less, as everyone has one (we have far more graduates than jobs that call for them).
A diploma costs more, more demand for a diploma from children means you can charge more.
And since the job market is flooded with out of work Professors and Master students the mean salary and working conditions for lecturers/professors falls.
Why would the BIOS underclock it to something below the recommended speed?
Are you implying that the proprietary drivers for Linux and Windows default to overclocking to this "proper" speed?
And the article states that the reason it is slower is because it does not overclock the card by a factor or two or three. Or maybe it is making up for being so slow by overclocking the card?
Either way the article is stating. "NVidia Linux users, your graphical woes are over. Download this update and overclock your card to many times its original speed". I am asking if that advice is good advice? If 2X-overclocking a graphics card just something everyone with an NVidia card should do?
So based on this article it sounds like overclocking your video card is something everyone should do?
And NVIDIA is a pretty big name. This article is saying that all of htere cards are too slow without overclocking to play most Linux games?
If I invent transistors, resistors, ect, I should be able to patent these.
Nobody else should be able to come along and "invent" hooking up these electronic components in some specific sequence.
And how is imprisonment and execution not in violation of any number of rights outlined in every single important general legal document?
Because it is not illegal if the government does it.
For the betterment of society individual rights are of secondary concern.
"NSA gets 'Creative Accounting' lesson from the Experts"
"Un-Enjoyable"*
Why? Studies have shown that females far more than males dislike bad jobs that are particularly enjoyable and painful.
Bad working conditions is correlated with female uninterest.
next you are going to tell me that the high level of physical danger inherent to all fishing jobs is not what drives women away from the industry?
I have no idea why this sentence ended in a question mark. If you made IT sexy it would inspire more interest in women. If you told them that they would be both a IT nerd and walk around in a miniskirt and a halter top, more women would want the jobs.
Well I think he is saying, that is pretty much what we are already getting to. When you are printing a 10nm wire into the silicon chip, you are not very far from doing it atom by atom as the wire is only like 50 atoms wide.
I think that is how we all read it. I came here wondering how a Shark ate a server.
OK, so has the public facing website been put out of commision (a complete non-story) or has the actual research server been put out of commision putting big gaps in their data?