well... on all forums everywhere it was clear no one liked the metro interface of windows 8, the fact that the ultra fast boot was in fact an illusion just showing the desktop really fast while everything's still loading in the background didnt take too long to realize either
now as far as i read, sales figures havent been lying about the fact microsoft just tried the european way and ignored all of this because THEY are the market leaders, right ?
so... i see expensive commercials telling me how great this interface is, i read nothing of it in the real world though. I see everything pointing towards a failure for microsoft and all i can think of is : they ignored all the writing on the wall that was clearly there. They also forgot it's 2013 probably
so, what about this always online ?
i for one dont want it, so they can tell me five thousand times its the way to the future, if i dont want it, then i dont buy it. Others will, america is still the strong place for microsoft maybe they can call on patriottic pride. Overhere afaik the playstation has long taken over and frankly this gold thing they promote tends to not favour european customers very much. I even have a microsoft game with an achievement that was only available for a limited time (to U.S. customers only) , a poker game. Who cares about achievements ? Well, maybe games do, i didnt lose any sleep over it but it's a blatant sign of disrespect, so is all the other we will tell you what to think crap. I need windows because nothing else runs my games. I dont need the new xbox though and i also have a hunch this kind of thing is exactly what attracts hackers with a middle finger attitude in the first place
time will tell...
so that's where politics always gets it wrong, it's never about creating options is it, it's always about i say what's best for you and now it's mandatory...
i got a disgust for classic 'intellectual' literature because it was shoved down my throat on a weekly basis in school. I'm still not much for the poo-ha most nobel prize literature revolves around. I read my first lord of the rings when i was about nine and i had a moment when i couldnt find any sci-fi book in the library next city that i hadnt already read.
i dont read a lot anymore and the books i still have are mostly there for touch and smell, some of them i hardly dare touch for fear they might disintegrate lol but
this 'mandatory' part is the biggest flaw in the genetic blueprint of politicians and... 'old-worlders' as i call them
you're talking about teenagers, right, how come everyone forgets that? did they just go from the cradle to wearing an expensive suit and skip that part?
you don't want to tell a hormone bomb in conflict that this is mandatory 'or else...' , do you now ?
so you create options... listen to the ted talk on education by mister robinson overthere, you create options and you let your children claim themselves (to quote a black poet), since it is my conviction people will always advance twice as fast in area's they're interested in since it wont be a chore, and the learning wont stop after school hours
but you need the mass to fill up the gaps you created in the labour force?
that's not my problem...
you're being sarcastic here, right ? europe is hardly potty trained, they're good at looking good and pointing fingers, excellent at scaring capital away. Failing human rights in the name of diplomacy (and looking good). Telling others what to do (or did i say that yet) without any kind of military threat to back that up.
and meanwhile harldy capable of keeping some kind of illusion of cohesion. What's going on in germany right now, if that spreads across other countries, this euro-fad might yet crash upon itself.
i'm sure space debris is a huge problem. But frankly, a collective of governments forcing a country to tax everyone who has €100k to fix their bankers (afaik small business owners can have that very well, not just huge mafia lords) and then afterwards has to put out a little note in small print saying 'well, we need another €11 billion or we can't really give any kind of aid we promised to anyone while paying its own personnel excessive wages is
i lost track
so , it needs some polishing this europe you speak about
don't get me wrong, it's the only way forward but most great leaders here of the ancient world still think like the ancient world, and they talk a lot about what should be but substantial solutions are often hard to find
so... they might yet destroy everything they never built so far dragging everyone further down but
without a unified europe no competition at all is possible
unless the solid ones (who for some reason managed to stay out of the actual union) make their own union... the UK, norway, switzerland, hell even little luxembourg (i think the duchy is full member though) seem to be able to manage very well even if the UK has had a little dent in its economy again
They dont even have actual space missions so instead of trying to look good in syria and pointing away at the moon maybe they should leave that to people who have the skill for it and concentrate on consolidation first
i noticed when i go out here anywhere on the street people i converse with range from like 14 to 74 while facebook would have me stuck with people 5 down or up around my own. Not that i'm interested in fb in anyway anymore since a long time but it's not really realistic. The part where it forces me to un-check people who did not accept my request i.o. just letting it go one they decline (like about any other social network i have been on after fb) is very annoying so last time i decided on getting a fb accout, just for research and free bitcoins purposes mostly it kinda got stuck on this bit where this fascist type of page tells me i can't come in unless i do what they say. Now if a nightclub requires me to not wear the shoes i like i tell the bouncer to go fuck himself and pick one the 500 others in the same street, ya know, ya hear? ya dig ?
?
that was actually real funny, but it doesnt go about five appreciations and im out of mod points anyway so i will hail you by spamming your email if you put that checkbox on
the writer of TFA is clearly a septic sceptic who lacks imagination of any kind and treats any kind of alien possibility from a human point of view. I mean Sagan could imagine floating sacks on Jupiter and he was a scientist (exact science is not know for its imagination, except the scorned ones who lead to quantum leaps because they diverted from the calculations for a second, right?)
to claim to know what any kind of 'alien' would do or think like is homo-centric, SETI is nice and has probably lead to some discoveries but is looking for patterns you sapiens consider to be patterns, tell me otherwise , what does an 'alien' pattern look like since you seem to be looking for familiar patterns there.
On the other hand if i were to give it some thought, i would either go with Klaatu or the star trek prime directive depending on how many planets are habitable (considering the fact they would be carbon-based in need of oxygen andd sustenance for starters)
The possibilities of an encounter are limitless, aliens might not need ships at all or might never have gotten to the point where communication relied on learning words other people invented, they might have been here as gods, von daniken style, they might have planted some algae to come back and harvest, only to see the farm turned into an interesting experiment
they might not exist (although the larger the place gets the more probably they do but never certain since even with dimensions you might just get an infinite number of copies of this one and not all possibilites like wishful thinkers like to think)
i think the writer is an attention whore trying to be a septic sceptic lacking imagination about it
maybe he's religious, or an atheist
which are the same to me since both are categorical and dogmatic and leave no room for anything but their own point of view
the bipolar nature of the sapiens, why don't you just follow the rules of evolution and go extinct already ?
in the broader picture, whatever attracts mainstream use to a technology like this will bring us closer to the star trek dispenser somehow (i'm not a real trekkie since i don't believe in -isms but i can acknowledge its merits and have spent many a merry moment with james t. kirk and ole leanord where no one ever went before) so i forgot its name which is probably sacrilege in nerd-land but shouldnt be in geek land afaik...
the point being
even if its about printing guns as effectively as possible and hardly rocket science this is just what's needed in my twistedd andd most of the time somewhat less humble opinion. It advances, it attracts, more energy gets directed at it, the pool grows larger, more people get more access to it and they get more control over it, in the end freedom should benefit from it (no i'm not high but i'd like to be right now)
i have no issues with the man and his decisions since he's the guy making it happen it's 100% his business since it's his business BUT
i use windows since that's the only platform that runs my somewhat medium sized steam collection at full HD resolution and maximum fps (1)
and
unbunt unity did nothing but crash, reset its settings on its own and more unpleasant things which didnt happen anymore after i switched to mint, where i discovered the cinnamon desktop is actually right up my alley
so it's not a personal thing, it's a practical thing, i dont feel like making it a statement and torturing myself while there's an alternative that works without hassle (maybe it's the ati card, but it's also the ati-card that gets me a way better hashrate when mining so i stick with what works without stress)
to me... anyone promoting linux can't really be the bad guy
lol, yea that's why i keep a cellphone that doesn't run anything but sms and an alarm clock and has no gps unless the federales get a triangular warrant. Never had any malware on it. If that stuff works for those people and it's still efficient then why upgrade to windows 8 ?
where light is the absolute limit. I have always and will always with my limited capabilities and understanding feel and think that it is the framework, the theoretical limit in the framework used by people today when trying to understandd the all and everything of reality as it is perceived, not just the absolute limit because einstein said so, did he actually say so, or did he just pone it as an IF... THEN conditional statement from which all others were derived ?
i have a picture here of the man but he doesn't do much more than just sit there and smile this buddha smile like 'i know something you will never understand and if i explain then you will never understand since when you dont figure it out yourself, you will miss all the heavenly glory that comes with it, like a finger, pointing away at the moon'
i sometimes get confused, i can always blame it on one of the brands they labelled me with that's not the problem but why is this so absolute ?
i have seen and read about a few things that surpass light speed so , sometimes i think me as the guy who doesn't get it gets it better than some who do
but i dont have the math to slap others around with so
i just shut up
and sit there
smiling...
(lol)
carry on now
lots of stuff, mostly demo's, games and linux isos yea, i usually let it run until i need the space back or it's format c: time, lots of games use it, since these days 10gb for a single mmo or similar is not a rarity anymore (something local ISP's dont seem to get since i sometimes get warnings about too much traffic on this 'unlimited downloading' pack subscription when i check out some stuff on steam. It's probably most useful since the load is distributed and that probably save money serverside. Also the clientside doesnt need to worry about a broken http download so yea, i see lots of uses
at the risk of repeating you, yup, in any kind of work based on set hours, the option of skipping lunch and going home thirty minutes or an hour earlier i have always deemed most attractive. It's virtually non-existent here as far as i'm aware and ofcourse i never had the honour of being googles or spacex's leading programmer (i dont think i will ever be either) which might bring with it a different point of view
or market them all the way to some 'cloud' service where they can use it indefinitely by logging their favourite browser/terminal into the mainframe/cloud without ever having to worry about the skeletons breaking their backbones to make things run. Isn't windows supposed to be 100% backwards
compatible either?
has no clue on the small print since it's a gaming partition to me mostly which i'd gladly drop if i could run all valve dx11 and gfwl games on my versatile and superfastswitching useful minty desktop here
but i can't
but this should be the time to lure those people to 'the cloud' right ?
For a minimal fee (they just have to keep paying it for a lifetime or lose access ofcourse as i understand it) and no more worries about upgrading anything at all ever ? Could practically run it from any tabbelet that way ?
umh , when not too long ago here a sever pedo got exposed by an undercover journalist who actually infiltrated some network instead of just shamelessly monitoring the whole countries email traffic i remember the local cyberpolice putting out a similar call. Most likely because they were embarassed or something i dont know. What's the point. Is Tor the only way to be anonymous? IF people buy crack on streetcorners with dollars instead of using bitcoin on the silk road should street corners and dollars be banned ? Is the egg to blame for the chicken like that? I'm losing track but what's the point in blocking it ? Sometimes it's as crime was invented by the internet since when did (heres the war on dope again) did the war on dope actually stop anything ?
someone tell the japanese police as well as other 'crime' units... infiltration means working on it, not just sitting there waiting for some script to ring the bell on a bad word in someone's traffic somewhere. Don't look at me, i'm an ex-con myself, i didnt do it but i dont really like police either
in short, if this John here lives in belgium and he buys... let's say a first print version of a zelazny novel from a guy living in say California if this law would apply then the guy selling me the second-hand crisp book to be put in a shrine and worshipped forever would have to add the tax to the price and charge it through to me ?
or does it only get more expensive for u.s.-residents but not the rest of the world ?
i agree on one thing, if you're conservative and scared of change, stay away from it. I don't agree on plunge though, it had a spike and is on a normal course now. But i wonder... who is steve forbes, should i have heard of him ?
ah, you've finally arrived, it was getting lonely here among the natives isn't this something like sending data over a wi-fi without passing it through an encrypted 'tunnel' so anyone in the vicinity with a homemade model built on schematics from when it was hacked about one day after release could just record the signal and gain instant access just as well?
about half the roof of this house is solar panels (chinese model, cheap with just as much lifetime expectancy put there while the govt still subsidised it) so how does that translate into carbon footprint ? i have no clue but it should be less, right ?
the question you might wanna ask is who cares if its a pyramid scheme or not as long as everyone involved is making bitcents ? What you can mine with a few ATI-card exchanged to dollars at a high point could probably feed half a town in an underdeveloped country for a week. There's also no guarantee whatsoever that the coin will have a set value at any time in the future but you're absolutely right it's highly probable someone on the bottom is sitting on a pile of usb-sticks. I'm so far convinced it's not a bad thing at all, if anything it's like a bank giving out new bills backed by nothing to increase money supply only this happens bottom up and its not as untraceable as everyone says since the blockexplorer lets you follow any wallet (i supposed indefinitely or as long as this 'blockchain' is there i'm not really 100% sure on how it all works) as well as any transactions made to and from (afai know i havent really made hundreds of transactions) so any wallet id used in public is subject to tracking and my idea some room full of expensive ties and suits with lots of degrees and more paranoia than me already found this out as well and are doing or trying to chart it all in the name of the children, freedom, and ofcourse the fight against terrorists (that's maybe a bit hard considering the tragedy in boston but it's just making a point... or two.. i usually lose track of where i started by the end of a paragraph must be the excessive use of Thc in the past or maybe i'm just a mad wannabe scientist confused about his place in time and space all the time see i'm totally off topic now... )
so i'm gonna put a periodd after it. No really it is somewhat but not a classic scheme since the amount of people behind 'the first ones' give no guarantee it will rise in value. It's pure supply and demand (i tried calculating something and if the smallest satoshi or eight decimal of a bitcoin were ever to value $2000 then when all 21mln coins are mined they would equal the value of the total world supply in the world today... or last year so its hardly a threat, if anything it can boost economy as long as it flows back and forth in exchange for goods and services and as long as people dont just go sitting on it)
right sorry for the chaos but there's some points in there i wanted to make if you jumble it a bit it might become readable
well, does it matter where the money comes from really ? now if vlad and barack and maybe the chinese collective and japan if they can overcome their past would please be so kind as to get round the table before this turns into a race where no one benefits from in the end and all that's left is epic presidential speeches and conspiracy theories so many years later ?
i'm still stuck at the same question every time i read something like this. Im just as convinced that overpopulation will be the end of man-unkind since resources are limited but i always have to wonder. If there's a limited amount of physical matter available. How many humans would it take before the whole globe is turned to humans. Do we get like (pardon my unprofessional jargon here) do we get like input from the outside ? Extra matter and particles and the stuff that builds atoms and subsequent molecules or is this just a contained system where as far as i understand, nothing gets destroyed but everything transforms all the time, that means if there's one billion people more than there's so much building blocks less for the rest of the planet. Maybe i should just watch more tv instead of thinking too much but it always comes to mind on topics like this and i absolutely couldnt do the math myself.
that would just mean the world around you's changing while you're doing it ( to your sig)
As to the topic, if google is investing $300kk in a datacenter in belgium no one would really mind if they break the isp-duopoly we have here by providing something they couldnt possibly compete against. One major isp stems from the old days of the state, i think belgacom used to be the state in fact somehow and the other one, afaicsee what's happening is slowly being stripped and mined for profit and fast returns since it was taken over by some american investors.
privacy is mostly an illusion anyway and there's always vpn tunnels so please... by all means... shake the foundations
yea, first reaction here as well : what's the problem? running out of cheap labour force. Might have a point thought with education in the states slacking behind
my trusty core2duo is still holding out with the best of the rest only xpense was the ATI 6970 but that one's slowly paying itself back in part-time bit cents now. What i was thinking more along the lines like : what the hell in the last years has not been held responsible for slacking pc sales. How many years has the pc been dying out never to return by now ? It's not even july yet and the news is already suffering from summeritis...
Slashdot Mirror
well ... on all forums everywhere it was clear no one liked the metro interface of windows 8, the fact that the ultra fast boot was in fact an illusion just showing the desktop really fast while everything's still loading in the background didnt take too long to realize either ... i see expensive commercials telling me how great this interface is, i read nothing of it in the real world though. I see everything pointing towards a failure for microsoft and all i can think of is : they ignored all the writing on the wall that was clearly there. They also forgot it's 2013 probably
...
now as far as i read, sales figures havent been lying about the fact microsoft just tried the european way and ignored all of this because THEY are the market leaders, right ?
so
so, what about this always online ?
i for one dont want it, so they can tell me five thousand times its the way to the future, if i dont want it, then i dont buy it. Others will, america is still the strong place for microsoft maybe they can call on patriottic pride. Overhere afaik the playstation has long taken over and frankly this gold thing they promote tends to not favour european customers very much. I even have a microsoft game with an achievement that was only available for a limited time (to U.S. customers only) , a poker game. Who cares about achievements ? Well, maybe games do, i didnt lose any sleep over it but it's a blatant sign of disrespect, so is all the other we will tell you what to think crap. I need windows because nothing else runs my games. I dont need the new xbox though and i also have a hunch this kind of thing is exactly what attracts hackers with a middle finger attitude in the first place
time will tell
so that's where politics always gets it wrong, it's never about creating options is it, it's always about i say what's best for you and now it's mandatory ... ... 'old-worlders' as i call them
... listen to the ted talk on education by mister robinson overthere, you create options and you let your children claim themselves (to quote a black poet), since it is my conviction people will always advance twice as fast in area's they're interested in since it wont be a chore, and the learning wont stop after school hours
...
i got a disgust for classic 'intellectual' literature because it was shoved down my throat on a weekly basis in school. I'm still not much for the poo-ha most nobel prize literature revolves around. I read my first lord of the rings when i was about nine and i had a moment when i couldnt find any sci-fi book in the library next city that i hadnt already read.
i dont read a lot anymore and the books i still have are mostly there for touch and smell, some of them i hardly dare touch for fear they might disintegrate lol but
this 'mandatory' part is the biggest flaw in the genetic blueprint of politicians and
you're talking about teenagers, right, how come everyone forgets that? did they just go from the cradle to wearing an expensive suit and skip that part?
you don't want to tell a hormone bomb in conflict that this is mandatory 'or else...' , do you now ?
so you create options
but you need the mass to fill up the gaps you created in the labour force?
that's not my problem
you're being sarcastic here, right ? europe is hardly potty trained, they're good at looking good and pointing fingers, excellent at scaring capital away. Failing human rights in the name of diplomacy (and looking good). Telling others what to do (or did i say that yet) without any kind of military threat to back that up. ... they might yet destroy everything they never built so far dragging everyone further down but
... the UK, norway, switzerland, hell even little luxembourg (i think the duchy is full member though) seem to be able to manage very well even if the UK has had a little dent in its economy again
They dont even have actual space missions so instead of trying to look good in syria and pointing away at the moon maybe they should leave that to people who have the skill for it and concentrate on consolidation first
and meanwhile harldy capable of keeping some kind of illusion of cohesion. What's going on in germany right now, if that spreads across other countries, this euro-fad might yet crash upon itself.
i'm sure space debris is a huge problem. But frankly, a collective of governments forcing a country to tax everyone who has €100k to fix their bankers (afaik small business owners can have that very well, not just huge mafia lords) and then afterwards has to put out a little note in small print saying 'well, we need another €11 billion or we can't really give any kind of aid we promised to anyone while paying its own personnel excessive wages is
i lost track
so , it needs some polishing this europe you speak about
don't get me wrong, it's the only way forward but most great leaders here of the ancient world still think like the ancient world, and they talk a lot about what should be but substantial solutions are often hard to find
so
without a unified europe no competition at all is possible
unless the solid ones (who for some reason managed to stay out of the actual union) make their own union
i noticed when i go out here anywhere on the street people i converse with range from like 14 to 74 while facebook would have me stuck with people 5 down or up around my own. Not that i'm interested in fb in anyway anymore since a long time but it's not really realistic. The part where it forces me to un-check people who did not accept my request i.o. just letting it go one they decline (like about any other social network i have been on after fb) is very annoying so last time i decided on getting a fb accout, just for research and free bitcoins purposes mostly it kinda got stuck on this bit where this fascist type of page tells me i can't come in unless i do what they say. Now if a nightclub requires me to not wear the shoes i like i tell the bouncer to go fuck himself and pick one the 500 others in the same street, ya know, ya hear? ya dig ?
?
that was actually real funny, but it doesnt go about five appreciations and im out of mod points anyway so i will hail you by spamming your email if you put that checkbox on
pwned
the writer of TFA is clearly a septic sceptic who lacks imagination of any kind and treats any kind of alien possibility from a human point of view. I mean Sagan could imagine floating sacks on Jupiter and he was a scientist (exact science is not know for its imagination, except the scorned ones who lead to quantum leaps because they diverted from the calculations for a second, right?)
to claim to know what any kind of 'alien' would do or think like is homo-centric, SETI is nice and has probably lead to some discoveries but is looking for patterns you sapiens consider to be patterns, tell me otherwise , what does an 'alien' pattern look like since you seem to be looking for familiar patterns there.
On the other hand if i were to give it some thought, i would either go with Klaatu or the star trek prime directive depending on how many planets are habitable (considering the fact they would be carbon-based in need of oxygen andd sustenance for starters)
The possibilities of an encounter are limitless, aliens might not need ships at all or might never have gotten to the point where communication relied on learning words other people invented, they might have been here as gods, von daniken style, they might have planted some algae to come back and harvest, only to see the farm turned into an interesting experiment
they might not exist (although the larger the place gets the more probably they do but never certain since even with dimensions you might just get an infinite number of copies of this one and not all possibilites like wishful thinkers like to think)
i think the writer is an attention whore trying to be a septic sceptic lacking imagination about it
maybe he's religious, or an atheist
which are the same to me since both are categorical and dogmatic and leave no room for anything but their own point of view
the bipolar nature of the sapiens, why don't you just follow the rules of evolution and go extinct already ?
in the broader picture, whatever attracts mainstream use to a technology like this will bring us closer to the star trek dispenser somehow (i'm not a real trekkie since i don't believe in -isms but i can acknowledge its merits and have spent many a merry moment with james t. kirk and ole leanord where no one ever went before) so i forgot its name which is probably sacrilege in nerd-land but shouldnt be in geek land afaik ...
the point being
even if its about printing guns as effectively as possible and hardly rocket science this is just what's needed in my twistedd andd most of the time somewhat less humble opinion. It advances, it attracts, more energy gets directed at it, the pool grows larger, more people get more access to it and they get more control over it, in the end freedom should benefit from it (no i'm not high but i'd like to be right now)
i have no issues with the man and his decisions since he's the guy making it happen it's 100% his business since it's his business BUT ... anyone promoting linux can't really be the bad guy
i use windows since that's the only platform that runs my somewhat medium sized steam collection at full HD resolution and maximum fps (1)
and
unbunt unity did nothing but crash, reset its settings on its own and more unpleasant things which didnt happen anymore after i switched to mint, where i discovered the cinnamon desktop is actually right up my alley
so it's not a personal thing, it's a practical thing, i dont feel like making it a statement and torturing myself while there's an alternative that works without hassle (maybe it's the ati card, but it's also the ati-card that gets me a way better hashrate when mining so i stick with what works without stress)
to me
lol, yea that's why i keep a cellphone that doesn't run anything but sms and an alarm clock and has no gps unless the federales get a triangular warrant. Never had any malware on it. If that stuff works for those people and it's still efficient then why upgrade to windows 8 ?
where light is the absolute limit. I have always and will always with my limited capabilities and understanding feel and think that it is the framework, the theoretical limit in the framework used by people today when trying to understandd the all and everything of reality as it is perceived, not just the absolute limit because einstein said so, did he actually say so, or did he just pone it as an IF ... THEN conditional statement from which all others were derived ?
...
i have a picture here of the man but he doesn't do much more than just sit there and smile this buddha smile like 'i know something you will never understand and if i explain then you will never understand since when you dont figure it out yourself, you will miss all the heavenly glory that comes with it, like a finger, pointing away at the moon'
i sometimes get confused, i can always blame it on one of the brands they labelled me with that's not the problem but why is this so absolute ?
i have seen and read about a few things that surpass light speed so , sometimes i think me as the guy who doesn't get it gets it better than some who do
but i dont have the math to slap others around with so
i just shut up
and sit there
smiling
(lol)
carry on now
lots of stuff, mostly demo's, games and linux isos yea, i usually let it run until i need the space back or it's format c: time, lots of games use it, since these days 10gb for a single mmo or similar is not a rarity anymore (something local ISP's dont seem to get since i sometimes get warnings about too much traffic on this 'unlimited downloading' pack subscription when i check out some stuff on steam. It's probably most useful since the load is distributed and that probably save money serverside. Also the clientside doesnt need to worry about a broken http download so yea, i see lots of uses
at the risk of repeating you, yup, in any kind of work based on set hours, the option of skipping lunch and going home thirty minutes or an hour earlier i have always deemed most attractive. It's virtually non-existent here as far as i'm aware and ofcourse i never had the honour of being googles or spacex's leading programmer (i dont think i will ever be either) which might bring with it a different point of view
or market them all the way to some 'cloud' service where they can use it indefinitely by logging their favourite browser/terminal into the mainframe/cloud without ever having to worry about the skeletons breaking their backbones to make things run.
Isn't windows supposed to be 100% backwards
compatible either?
has no clue on the small print since it's a gaming partition to me mostly which i'd gladly drop if i could run all valve dx11 and gfwl games on my versatile and superfastswitching useful minty desktop here
but i can't
but this should be the time to lure those people to 'the cloud' right ? For a minimal fee (they just have to keep paying it for a lifetime or lose access ofcourse as i understand it) and no more worries about upgrading anything at all ever ? Could practically run it from any tabbelet that way ?
umh , when not too long ago here a sever pedo got exposed by an undercover journalist who actually infiltrated some network instead of just shamelessly monitoring the whole countries email traffic i remember the local cyberpolice putting out a similar call. Most likely because they were embarassed or something i dont know. What's the point. Is Tor the only way to be anonymous? IF people buy crack on streetcorners with dollars instead of using bitcoin on the silk road should street corners and dollars be banned ? Is the egg to blame for the chicken like that? I'm losing track but what's the point in blocking it ? Sometimes it's as crime was invented by the internet since when did (heres the war on dope again) did the war on dope actually stop anything ? ... infiltration means working on it, not just sitting there waiting for some script to ring the bell on a bad word in someone's traffic somewhere. Don't look at me, i'm an ex-con myself, i didnt do it but i dont really like police either
someone tell the japanese police as well as other 'crime' units
in short, if this John here lives in belgium and he buys ... let's say a first print version of a zelazny novel from a guy living in say California if this law would apply then the guy selling me the second-hand crisp book to be put in a shrine and worshipped forever would have to add the tax to the price and charge it through to me ?
or does it only get more expensive for u.s.-residents but not the rest of the world ?
i agree on one thing, if you're conservative and scared of change, stay away from it. I don't agree on plunge though, it had a spike and is on a normal course now. But i wonder ... who is steve forbes, should i have heard of him ?
ah, you've finally arrived, it was getting lonely here among the natives
isn't this something like sending data over a wi-fi without passing it through an encrypted 'tunnel' so anyone in the vicinity with a homemade model built on schematics from when it was hacked about one day after release could just record the signal and gain instant access just as well?
about half the roof of this house is solar panels (chinese model, cheap with just as much lifetime expectancy put there while the govt still subsidised it) so how does that translate into carbon footprint ? i have no clue but it should be less, right ?
the question you might wanna ask is who cares if its a pyramid scheme or not as long as everyone involved is making bitcents ? What you can mine with a few ATI-card exchanged to dollars at a high point could probably feed half a town in an underdeveloped country for a week. There's also no guarantee whatsoever that the coin will have a set value at any time in the future but you're absolutely right it's highly probable someone on the bottom is sitting on a pile of usb-sticks. I'm so far convinced it's not a bad thing at all, if anything it's like a bank giving out new bills backed by nothing to increase money supply only this happens bottom up and its not as untraceable as everyone says since the blockexplorer lets you follow any wallet (i supposed indefinitely or as long as this 'blockchain' is there i'm not really 100% sure on how it all works) as well as any transactions made to and from (afai know i havent really made hundreds of transactions) so any wallet id used in public is subject to tracking and my idea some room full of expensive ties and suits with lots of degrees and more paranoia than me already found this out as well and are doing or trying to chart it all in the name of the children, freedom, and ofcourse the fight against terrorists (that's maybe a bit hard considering the tragedy in boston but it's just making a point ... or two .. i usually lose track of where i started by the end of a paragraph must be the excessive use of Thc in the past or maybe i'm just a mad wannabe scientist confused about his place in time and space all the time see i'm totally off topic now ... )
... or last year so its hardly a threat, if anything it can boost economy as long as it flows back and forth in exchange for goods and services and as long as people dont just go sitting on it)
right sorry for the chaos but there's some points in there i wanted to make if you jumble it a bit it might become readable
so i'm gonna put a periodd after it. No really it is somewhat but not a classic scheme since the amount of people behind 'the first ones' give no guarantee it will rise in value. It's pure supply and demand (i tried calculating something and if the smallest satoshi or eight decimal of a bitcoin were ever to value $2000 then when all 21mln coins are mined they would equal the value of the total world supply in the world today
well, does it matter where the money comes from really ? now if vlad and barack and maybe the chinese collective and japan if they can overcome their past would please be so kind as to get round the table before this turns into a race where no one benefits from in the end and all that's left is epic presidential speeches and conspiracy theories so many years later ?
i'm still stuck at the same question every time i read something like this. Im just as convinced that overpopulation will be the end of man-unkind since resources are limited but i always have to wonder. If there's a limited amount of physical matter available. How many humans would it take before the whole globe is turned to humans. Do we get like (pardon my unprofessional jargon here) do we get like input from the outside ? Extra matter and particles and the stuff that builds atoms and subsequent molecules or is this just a contained system where as far as i understand, nothing gets destroyed but everything transforms all the time, that means if there's one billion people more than there's so much building blocks less for the rest of the planet. Maybe i should just watch more tv instead of thinking too much but it always comes to mind on topics like this and i absolutely couldnt do the math myself.
that would just mean the world around you's changing while you're doing it ( to your sig) As to the topic, if google is investing $300kk in a datacenter in belgium no one would really mind if they break the isp-duopoly we have here by providing something they couldnt possibly compete against. One major isp stems from the old days of the state, i think belgacom used to be the state in fact somehow and the other one, afaicsee what's happening is slowly being stripped and mined for profit and fast returns since it was taken over by some american investors. ... by all means ... shake the foundations
privacy is mostly an illusion anyway and there's always vpn tunnels so please
yea, first reaction here as well : what's the problem? running out of cheap labour force. Might have a point thought with education in the states slacking behind
my trusty core2duo is still holding out with the best of the rest only xpense was the ATI 6970 but that one's slowly paying itself back in part-time bit cents now. What i was thinking more along the lines like : what the hell in the last years has not been held responsible for slacking pc sales. How many years has the pc been dying out never to return by now ? It's not even july yet and the news is already suffering from summeritis ...