You'll get lots of different opinions, but there are plenty of weaknesses
1. Mining is centralized, and there's no incentive to decentralization
2. Mining is quite wasteful
3. The block size is too small for high transaction volume. Solutions require more nodes, but as the blockchain grows running a node becomes more expensive.
4. The prices is too volatile
5. Bitcoins aren't fairly distributed.
My main gripe is that the price of coins is dictated by the cost of mining them, and is not related to the cost of keeping the network secure. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=600436.0)
Despite all this, the increase in adoption in the last twelve months has been phenomenal. Many large retaillers (Expedia, Dell, Newgg) have started accepting bitcoin. Hundreds of ATMs have been rolled out. Numerous financial products featuring Bitcoin have been confirmed. So on the one hand, Bitcoin has some serious problems, but on the other hand, there are a lot of people with a lot of money interested in keeping it going.
Civil disobedience might be called for when democratic/legal means are no longer possible, but current American copyright law wasn't imposed by foreign despots, rather by voters, who are people older and maybe even wiser than you!
Don't take it too seriously. Look at the way the question is framed: "Do you play video games because there's nothing else to do?"
If you posed the same question as "Do you play football because there's nothing else to do?" you might get a similar percentage! Kids will very quickly see the current activity as the only one being worth spending time on. If you give them a series of questions about video games, they will imagine themselves playing their favourite video game, and find it hard to imagine "something else to do"
Ok, I did that. They said it's not a ufo. Then they refused to send the sample back, and they refused to say why.
Now what should I do?
No seriously; which lab could you trust with something like this? I'm much more inclined to send it to a European lab, but given the inherent indivisibility of the sample, I'd be taking a huge risk wherever I send it.
My Dad gave me a piece of metal which was supposed to be part of one of the Roswell saucers. Assuming I can find the thing again, which are these "best labs" where you suggest I send it?
Which seems to beg the question; "how do I know any radio service is free?" My gsm phone is connected to a network even when I'm not making a call. I assume that connection to each individual tower is free, but what if it isn't? What's the difference between what this guy did, and me going out on the balcony because I get a clearer connection to make a phone call?
There are also certain scammers whose business is to pretend to be offering something for free, but then hit the recipient with a bill. This is like coffee shops from putting up "free internet access" signs, with terms and conditions available on a pamphlet under the desk in a back room where it says "$20/hour". This ruling will open the doors for all kinds of such scams.
An explanation of mathematics only needs to provide information such as
Why it's important
What kind of knowledge is involved
What kind of processes are involved
How difficult is it
Who can do it
How you can learn it
Similar to explaining 1 astronomical unit, the reader neither needs to memorize the number, nor fully comprehend the distance, just an idea of where it fits in in the general scheme of measurements.
Haven't heard of most of those, but what about mega-lo-mania ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Lo_Mania ) aka Tyrants: Fight Through Time.
Had almost all of the elements of dune 2, except the smooth scrolling map.
When I originally saw the film I thought they were saying that our computer technology is based on theirs. This would completely explain away the compatibility problem.
Since you certainly sound like your close to the project, I'm replying, although please excuse that it's a completely different topic.
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that extremely strong magnetic fields can have immediate health impacts. Something about the iron in the blood no longer being able to carry oxygen? I've tried finding something about it in google and wikipedia with no success. What I'd love to see is something like wikipedia's great page on "orders of magnitude (power)" or " Table of exposure levels and symptoms of Radiation Sickness".
Yeah, but how long will it take the new rendered versions of pixar films to come out?
Forget input from the real world for a moment, and you'll realise there would be a lot of fun things to look at if you can see colours on tv that normally aren't on tv.
Check the label on your laptop power supply. Of the six currently sitting on my desk (in Europe) three of them are labelled as INPUT 100-240V or similar.
One BBC quote of the definition was that the body in question had to "dominate" its orbit. While that's still a bit unclear, it's not hard to see that Earth dominates its orbit and Pluto does not.
I wonder if this will lead to identifying animals that don't have this gene at all as being permanently happy? Perhaps it will be revealed that koalas or dolphins are also happy the whole time.
I had never given a shit about e3, although I'm quite an avid gamer, if you'd asked me a year ago, I couldn't have told you what e3 was. But since I first heard about spore, I've been counting the days to e3, hoping there'll be an update. I've decided to hold out my next pc upgrade until I know what I'll need to run spore.
Let spore deliver on half of the promises Wright made last year, and I'll buy it. Please please please let it deliver on everything!
oh yeah, and in case you still haven't seen it: spore video on google video (short version)
> As is always said, creationists love the discovery of "missing links", since
> every time one is discovered, the original gap is replaced by two new ones.
The funny thing is, anthropologists and paleontologists love these discoveries for exactly the same reason!
That looks like a qtek s200. Those things are rebranded under 100 different names and still seem good. T-Online MPA II, Vodafone VPA III and so on.
Be sure to check out the qtek 9000 , with UMTS, a 500 Mhz processor and 640x480 pixes, it's even more impressive.
Still, they're a little larger than the form factor the original poster was talking about, and they don't have the 20/30G of the phones the article was talking about.
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You'll get lots of different opinions, but there are plenty of weaknesses 1. Mining is centralized, and there's no incentive to decentralization 2. Mining is quite wasteful 3. The block size is too small for high transaction volume. Solutions require more nodes, but as the blockchain grows running a node becomes more expensive. 4. The prices is too volatile 5. Bitcoins aren't fairly distributed. My main gripe is that the price of coins is dictated by the cost of mining them, and is not related to the cost of keeping the network secure. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=600436.0) Despite all this, the increase in adoption in the last twelve months has been phenomenal. Many large retaillers (Expedia, Dell, Newgg) have started accepting bitcoin. Hundreds of ATMs have been rolled out. Numerous financial products featuring Bitcoin have been confirmed. So on the one hand, Bitcoin has some serious problems, but on the other hand, there are a lot of people with a lot of money interested in keeping it going.
Good, but I think if you really understand evolution, there's a chance you're going to want a bacteriophage instead of an antibiotic anyway.
You're not Gandhi, you're a thief!
Civil disobedience might be called for when democratic/legal means are no longer possible, but current American copyright law wasn't imposed by foreign despots, rather by voters, who are people older and maybe even wiser than you!
Don't take it too seriously. Look at the way the question is framed: "Do you play video games because there's nothing else to do?"
If you posed the same question as "Do you play football because there's nothing else to do?" you might get a similar percentage! Kids will very quickly see the current activity as the only one being worth spending time on. If you give them a series of questions about video games, they will imagine themselves playing their favourite video game, and find it hard to imagine "something else to do"
Ok, I did that. They said it's not a ufo. Then they refused to send the sample back, and they refused to say why. Now what should I do? No seriously; which lab could you trust with something like this? I'm much more inclined to send it to a European lab, but given the inherent indivisibility of the sample, I'd be taking a huge risk wherever I send it.
My Dad gave me a piece of metal which was supposed to be part of one of the Roswell saucers. Assuming I can find the thing again, which are these "best labs" where you suggest I send it?
You mean can't install an alternative browser on your xbox? You are now officially a victim of microsoft lock-in. Not "boo", "boo-hoo".
But anyway, I have a windows mobile device with minimo and opera installed, so I don't know what mobile users your talking about.
Celestia is also highly recommended as a 3d star map, although last time I checked there were only about 6 exoplanets.
Which seems to beg the question; "how do I know any radio service is free?" My gsm phone is connected to a network even when I'm not making a call. I assume that connection to each individual tower is free, but what if it isn't? What's the difference between what this guy did, and me going out on the balcony because I get a clearer connection to make a phone call?
There are also certain scammers whose business is to pretend to be offering something for free, but then hit the recipient with a bill. This is like coffee shops from putting up "free internet access" signs, with terms and conditions available on a pamphlet under the desk in a back room where it says "$20/hour". This ruling will open the doors for all kinds of such scams.
An explanation of mathematics only needs to provide information such as
Similar to explaining 1 astronomical unit, the reader neither needs to memorize the number, nor fully comprehend the distance, just an idea of where it fits in in the general scheme of measurements.
Haven't heard of most of those, but what about mega-lo-mania ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Lo_Mania ) aka Tyrants: Fight Through Time. Had almost all of the elements of dune 2, except the smooth scrolling map.
When I originally saw the film I thought they were saying that our computer technology is based on theirs. This would completely explain away the compatibility problem.
Since you certainly sound like your close to the project, I'm replying, although please excuse that it's a completely different topic.
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that extremely strong magnetic fields can have immediate health impacts. Something about the iron in the blood no longer being able to carry oxygen? I've tried finding something about it in google and wikipedia with no success. What I'd love to see is something like wikipedia's great page on "orders of magnitude (power)" or " Table of exposure levels and symptoms of Radiation Sickness".
Yeah, but how long will it take the new rendered versions of pixar films to come out?
Forget input from the real world for a moment, and you'll realise there would be a lot of fun things to look at if you can see colours on tv that normally aren't on tv.
Check the label on your laptop power supply. Of the six currently sitting on my desk (in Europe) three of them are labelled as INPUT 100-240V or similar.
One BBC quote of the definition was that the body in question had to "dominate" its orbit. While that's still a bit unclear, it's not hard to see that Earth dominates its orbit and Pluto does not.
I wonder if this will lead to identifying animals that don't have this gene at all as being permanently happy? Perhaps it will be revealed that koalas or dolphins are also happy the whole time.
- make robotic goldfish
- ???
- Profit!!!
It's interesting to see today it's actually full of number twos.Anyway, would anyone inside the US read a story about a new sauce on Slashdot? Food journalism isn't what this site's famous for.
I had never given a shit about e3, although I'm quite an avid gamer, if you'd asked me a year ago, I couldn't have told you what e3 was. But since I first heard about spore, I've been counting the days to e3, hoping there'll be an update. I've decided to hold out my next pc upgrade until I know what I'll need to run spore.
Let spore deliver on half of the promises Wright made last year, and I'll buy it. Please please please let it deliver on everything!
oh yeah, and in case you still haven't seen it: spore video on google video (short version)
It looks like rubbish to me, but there was a story on bbc today claiming that the ability to experience pain only develops *after* birth.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4905892.stm
> As is always said, creationists love the discovery of "missing links", since > every time one is discovered, the original gap is replaced by two new ones. The funny thing is, anthropologists and paleontologists love these discoveries for exactly the same reason!
I just saw this story on the bbc, but they say only 2000 people were targeted.
Who's got it wrong?
That looks like a qtek s200. Those things are rebranded under 100 different names and still seem good. T-Online MPA II, Vodafone VPA III and so on. Be sure to check out the qtek 9000 , with UMTS, a 500 Mhz processor and 640x480 pixes, it's even more impressive. Still, they're a little larger than the form factor the original poster was talking about, and they don't have the 20/30G of the phones the article was talking about.
When mine broke, my girlfriend made me one out of lego.
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