It's say it was something like 10 years ahead of the PC. While the PC was making beeps and showing 16 hideous colours on a DOS screen, with no proper scrolling, hardware sprites, multi-tasking, etc. Oh, and paying about 3 times as much for it.
And the |BM PC with its beeps and clunky graphics was able to run Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect and dBase. The best computer hardware in the World is no good if it won't run the software that people want to use.
Slavery in the USA would be gone by now. The USA was the only Western style country where a war was the means of making slavery illegal. Internal and external political pressure would have made it illegal in the end anyway, just as it did in the British empire.
You're asking for the President of the United States to be assassinated. Given that there are a number of constitutional and legal means to dump him, I think that would be a low - although not a new one.
It only has cross border transfer value if it is worth more than $0. So, that's a circular argument.
It's not harder than gold. It's an abstract entity. At least when the price of gold plummets, you still have some shiny yellow metal that looks good when fashioned as jewellery and is a great electrical conductor,
The total number of bitcoins is irrelevant if nobody wants to buy it. The total number of turds I have crapped is finite and will remain finite unless I achieve immortality, and yet, people don't pay me for them.
The authentication and trust issue is bollocks. I don't have to trust a third party, true, but I do have to trust the other party in the transaction. If I give them bitcoins and they fail to supply the goods, there's no way to get my bitcoins back. If I use a credit card, I can get a refund from the credit card company when I am defrauded.
So tell me, what is the real reason, if any, why b bitcoin could not go to $0.
"not centrally controlled" might confer some advantage, but there's nothing in the Bitcoin technology that can prevent it from being centrally controlled. If one person controls 51% of the mining capability, Bitcoin is then centrally controlled. In any case, not being centrally controlled does not, of itself confer utility. My credit card is centrally controlled and it is a more effective means of transferring value than bitcoin, at least for legal transactions.
"digitally transferring value" is utility, but, if Bitcoin is tanking for any other reason, it loses its utility for digitally transferring value.
Thus Bitcoin absolutely can drop to zero and at some point in the future, it will. The only question is will it be in the near future or the distant future.
Yes he is an alleged rapist. Sweden has withdrawn the European Arrest Warrant, but that doesn't mean they have dropped the allegations.
Anyway, I allege he is a rapist. His actions in fleeing Sweden to Britain and then fleeing justice are only explicable if he thinks the allegations are true.
He obviously thinks he is guilty of rape, otherwise he wouldn't have become a fugitive from justice. He would have been a lot safer from extradition to the US in Sweden than in the UK.
Frankly, he has a better chance of avoiding extradition to the USA if he is in Sweden than if he is in the UK. Unless you mean he was right not to go to Sweden because he would have been convicted of rape, if he did.
Not only that, she hasn't actually taken over the reins. Musk is still the CEO and is running the company. She is there to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Good luck to her, I say.
I'd like to see some evidence to support that assertion.
Anyway, even if only (say) 5% of phones make it to three years, that is still a lot of phones. Also, you might find that manufacturers' update policies are one of the drivers for why phones have fairly short life spans.
Anecdotally, most people I know buy a phone and keep it until it stops working properly. I myself seem to have averaged a new phone every three years (all iPhones). My mother has a cheap Android phone that she hasn't changed in about the last five years. I don't think she ever updated the software on it, but she also permanently disables the data and uses the phone only for phone calls and SMS.
Google did not come up with Android. They bought it.
From Google's point of view that was probably a mistake because it put them in competition with one of the major channels for delivering their products.
Most professionals in other industries use the best gear they can get. Professional photographers generally have good cameras. Professional musicians have the best instruments they can afford. It amazes me that IT professionals, especially developers, are often supposed to put up with crappy hardware. This is the tool you use to do your work. Why wouldn't you insist on getting the best you can?
Np this is not true. If what he did were legal in the UK, he would not be extradited to Sweden. However, the British court ruled that what he was accused of would be considered a crime in the UK which is why he is holed up in the Ecuador Embassy instead of living in freedom.
Frankly, I think he did the rape. If you are trying to avoid extradition to the USA, Sweden is a better place to be than Britain.
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It's say it was something like 10 years ahead of the PC. While the PC was making beeps and showing 16 hideous colours on a DOS screen, with no proper scrolling, hardware sprites, multi-tasking, etc. Oh, and paying about 3 times as much for it.
And the |BM PC with its beeps and clunky graphics was able to run Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect and dBase. The best computer hardware in the World is no good if it won't run the software that people want to use.
Yes. The world had one blockchain developer for four years. Then last year, somebody hired another thirty two.
The battery in an ICE isn't half a ton of lithium. That certainly contributes to the cost of an EV (environmental and economical).
my relationship with a wonderful woman who is a terrific lover already.
Lucky you. Not everybody has that. In fact, it's a meme here that most Slashdot readers do not have that.
Slavery in the USA would be gone by now. The USA was the only Western style country where a war was the means of making slavery illegal. Internal and external political pressure would have made it illegal in the end anyway, just as it did in the British empire.
So how long does it take the average sex starved teenager to engage in 1000 sex acts?
Did you try reading that sentence back to yourself before posting it? Did you look up the meaning of the verb "to starve"?
You're asking for the President of the United States to be assassinated. Given that there are a number of constitutional and legal means to dump him, I think that would be a low - although not a new one.
So my implementation in Apple's Open Source language should be called Tayler + Swift?
It only has cross border transfer value if it is worth more than $0. So, that's a circular argument.
It's not harder than gold. It's an abstract entity. At least when the price of gold plummets, you still have some shiny yellow metal that looks good when fashioned as jewellery and is a great electrical conductor,
The total number of bitcoins is irrelevant if nobody wants to buy it. The total number of turds I have crapped is finite and will remain finite unless I achieve immortality, and yet, people don't pay me for them.
The authentication and trust issue is bollocks. I don't have to trust a third party, true, but I do have to trust the other party in the transaction. If I give them bitcoins and they fail to supply the goods, there's no way to get my bitcoins back. If I use a credit card, I can get a refund from the credit card company when I am defrauded.
So tell me, what is the real reason, if any, why b bitcoin could not go to $0.
"not a copycat" doesn't confer utility.
"not centrally controlled" might confer some advantage, but there's nothing in the Bitcoin technology that can prevent it from being centrally controlled. If one person controls 51% of the mining capability, Bitcoin is then centrally controlled. In any case, not being centrally controlled does not, of itself confer utility. My credit card is centrally controlled and it is a more effective means of transferring value than bitcoin, at least for legal transactions.
"digitally transferring value" is utility, but, if Bitcoin is tanking for any other reason, it loses its utility for digitally transferring value.
Thus Bitcoin absolutely can drop to zero and at some point in the future, it will. The only question is will it be in the near future or the distant future.
Yes he is an alleged rapist. Sweden has withdrawn the European Arrest Warrant, but that doesn't mean they have dropped the allegations.
Anyway, I allege he is a rapist. His actions in fleeing Sweden to Britain and then fleeing justice are only explicable if he thinks the allegations are true.
He obviously thinks he is guilty of rape, otherwise he wouldn't have become a fugitive from justice. He would have been a lot safer from extradition to the US in Sweden than in the UK.
Nobody isn persecuting him. He's in the Ecuador embassy of his own free will.
Right now the only people who want Assange are the British and that is because he undeniably jumped bail to avoid facing rape charges in Sweden.
Frankly, he has a better chance of avoiding extradition to the USA if he is in Sweden than if he is in the UK. Unless you mean he was right not to go to Sweden because he would have been convicted of rape, if he did.
Why? He's a rapist.
Not only that, she hasn't actually taken over the reins. Musk is still the CEO and is running the company. She is there to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Good luck to her, I say.
I'd like to see some evidence to support that assertion.
Anyway, even if only (say) 5% of phones make it to three years, that is still a lot of phones. Also, you might find that manufacturers' update policies are one of the drivers for why phones have fairly short life spans.
Anecdotally, most people I know buy a phone and keep it until it stops working properly. I myself seem to have averaged a new phone every three years (all iPhones). My mother has a cheap Android phone that she hasn't changed in about the last five years. I don't think she ever updated the software on it, but she also permanently disables the data and uses the phone only for phone calls and SMS.
Google did not come up with Android. They bought it.
From Google's point of view that was probably a mistake because it put them in competition with one of the major channels for delivering their products.
What plan was that then?
Sorry, you are very slightly *less* likely to kill a pedestrian in the UK.
The UK has about half the number of road deaths per billion vehicle kilometres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If the percentages given are correct, then you are very slightly more likely to kill a pedestrian for each mile you travel in your car than in the US.
The flexible array member of a struct is not the same as a variable length array.
Most professionals in other industries use the best gear they can get. Professional photographers generally have good cameras. Professional musicians have the best instruments they can afford. It amazes me that IT professionals, especially developers, are often supposed to put up with crappy hardware. This is the tool you use to do your work. Why wouldn't you insist on getting the best you can?
Well, I suppose, to many IBMers, PowerPC based AIX servers probably do look like embedded, especially compared to a z-series mainframe.
You probably shouldn't have talked about other people's complete ignorance though.
Np this is not true. If what he did were legal in the UK, he would not be extradited to Sweden. However, the British court ruled that what he was accused of would be considered a crime in the UK which is why he is holed up in the Ecuador Embassy instead of living in freedom.
Frankly, I think he did the rape. If you are trying to avoid extradition to the USA, Sweden is a better place to be than Britain.