I wouldn't call them exactly reliable. After all the times I've had to wiggle a headphone connector to get a decent sound in both channels, I wouldn't want to use them for anything digital.
The basic idea seems robust, though. I guess one issue is that all moving parts are in the socket, and they gradually loose (pun intended) contact. Modern plug/socket designs have a religious insistence to have no moving parts in the socket, presumably so because the cable is easier to replace.
I agree on the technical merits of UK plugs, but they are simply overkill for many low-current applications. For instance phone chargers, which I imagine people want to be able to carry in a purse, without shredding everything else in said purse;)
In Europe, we generally have two kinds of plug/socket for these reasons. The larger, grounded one is equally robust to the UK one - the ground rails are supported from the sides. The smaller one, which obviously fits in a large socket too, is slim enough that it doesn't look awkward in a small USB charger.
Having the fuse in each plug is a nice idea I'd like to see in the larger plugs, but then again, a lot of devices have their own internal fuses, and for the really power-hungry behemoths you use something else like three-phase power instead of regular consumer plugs.
I need to be able to hold my finger on a key for pressing on time. I can't imagine how to do this with a "touch"screen. While I generally use a laptop for this, I occasionally use the N900 as a remote (ssh over wlan).
All of my phones have had very erratic latency, even for wifi over LAN. Have yours been consistent enough for this to provide the split-second timing you need?
It's not really about such precise timing, though I agree that WLAN latency can really suck sometimes. It's more about holding the finger in position while looking somewhere else all the time, and then being sure the keypress was registered. Hovering over a screen does not feel very secure when you're in a tight spot. Besides, capacitive screens often register very close hovering as pressing, especially when your hands are sweating.
Obviously, I try to use a real laptop keyboard whenever possible, but I hope this example highlights the complexities behind touch interfaces in general.
the world moved on. When the N900 came out, it was one of the best phones available, both in package and in software. But it has been over four years now. The world has moved on. It has moved on to slimmer phones, larger screens,
I think the N900 is a much nicer form factor to carry around, compared to the slabs that cannot decide whether they want to be tablets or phones.
not to mention better touch screens (yes, I have used the N900, and the screen is way worse than the touch screen of my Galaxy Nexus). I type faster with Swype than I ever did with the QWERTY-keyboard, the screen is better, it fits better in my pocket, it is lighter, etc.
I agree the screen is not very good by current standards, but I won't give up a real keyboard. For example, as a theatre sound guy, I need to be able to hold my finger on a key for pressing on time. I can't imagine how to do this with a "touch"screen. While I generally use a laptop for this, I occasionally use the N900 as a remote (ssh over wlan). Of course, the keyboard is also essential for any other terminal stuff -- for example, to ping a server while fixing cables under a desk.
Obviously, there are cases where money is central to the crime, such as a bank heist. But I hope the Internet analogy is clear -- $x is used for countless different things, some of which may be illegal, but that doesn't mean we need to outlaw free and unrestricted $x.
The same applies for cash, but people dont hesitate to use it. They dont really see it as clean cash and dirty cash. Cash is cash.
Yup. There needs to remain a way for people to use cash, without letting a single "dirty" transaction taint the whole (block)chain of transactions.
This is why I have a problem with money laundering laws -- it's not the money's fault if it's being used for something illegal. Money laundering laws are like monitoring everyone's Internet traffic for the off chance that something illegal takes place online, surely we'd never do anything like that...
It certainly isn't unique to metal, but metal does have a certain barrier to entry and thus tends to have less casual listeners, so the effect is amplified.
I see^Whear what you did there.
Also, the phrase "genericized genre" is so redundant it's not funny.
If HR did chemistry hiring like HR does IT hiring we'd hear stories about
people being underqualified because they used 50 ml beakers at school
instead of 75 ml beakers at $job. Or "You used 2-propanol? Sorry we only
hire people who use isopropyl in that synthesis."
BitCoin had value because of SilkRoad, and the silk-roaders were willing to accept it for... something. Frankly I'm surprised BitCoin still has value after SilkRoad's demise. If something significant replaces SilkRoad, BitCoin will remain valuable. Until then bitcoin's going on momentum. May crash soon, may not. Will crash eventually.
The Silk Road bust put an end to underground drug trade, just like the Suprnova takedown put an end to copyright infringement online.
Also, there's a metric shitload of things you can legally buy with Bitcoins.
If current trends continue, everybody will have embarrassing pictures on the internet and nobody will care
I try not to judge people from their drunken party photos. On the other hand, I try to be somewhat careful when posting something about myself. I'm sure there are lots of people like me on Slashdot, who like to keep things reasonably private, and don't use Facebook, for example. This might be a problem if social media exhibitionism becomes too much of a norm, if it becomes suspicious to try and stay private.
I also wonder why some people have certain movies they like to watch over and over. I think my (screen) time is too precious for that, I like to watch something new every time. There are too many interesting movies, books etc. made every year, and I always miss some of them anyway.
There's probably a close connection to the way people (not me, "the people"!) use the web and social media, choosing a nice circle of familiarity to dwell in/on. It's a kind of masturbation; self improvement is masturbation -- self destruction is the answer. It's a great line from such a great movie, I've lost count on the times I've seen it.
I'm a Slashdotter because I like to learn new things all the time. So where are my hot grits and Natalie Portman naked and petrified?
I don't think so. I think the intent was that by allowing mining and then making it harder and harder over time you would enhance the currency's stability. Remember that the miners are really just doing a lot of hard house keeping and then getting paid for their efforts in BitCoin. The point was to get a lot of people processing the transactions to keep the ratio of honest brokers to fraudsters high enough so no one entity could possibly take over and "fake" transactions. I don't think the intent was to somehow create or control value, even though it does seem interesting.
This is pretty much it. It takes resources to run the network and this is a way to reward the volunteers willing to do that. At the same time, it is a somewhat fair way to distribute the initial coins into circulation.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the last coin is issued and mining comes to an abrupt end. I have a feeling that if BitCoin is still viable, they will revise their final count and issue more coins to keep the mining industry in business.
There isn't really one last coin, because the fixed reward is halved periodically. However, there are also transaction fees which won't go away -- they are really the long-term point of rewarding people who bother to keep up the network. (Generally, you can send payments without the fee, but those with fees take priority.)
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De minimis non curat lex. Laws were invented to prevent harm, not categories of behaviour.
Hence the war on hippies smoking herbs?
I wouldn't call them exactly reliable. After all the times I've had to wiggle a headphone connector to get a decent sound in both channels, I wouldn't want to use them for anything digital.
The basic idea seems robust, though. I guess one issue is that all moving parts are in the socket, and they gradually loose (pun intended) contact. Modern plug/socket designs have a religious insistence to have no moving parts in the socket, presumably so because the cable is easier to replace.
I agree on the technical merits of UK plugs, but they are simply overkill for many low-current applications. For instance phone chargers, which I imagine people want to be able to carry in a purse, without shredding everything else in said purse ;)
In Europe, we generally have two kinds of plug/socket for these reasons. The larger, grounded one is equally robust to the UK one - the ground rails are supported from the sides. The smaller one, which obviously fits in a large socket too, is slim enough that it doesn't look awkward in a small USB charger.
Having the fuse in each plug is a nice idea I'd like to see in the larger plugs, but then again, a lot of devices have their own internal fuses, and for the really power-hungry behemoths you use something else like three-phase power instead of regular consumer plugs.
I can hash Zuckerberger?
All of my phones have had very erratic latency, even for wifi over LAN. Have yours been consistent enough for this to provide the split-second timing you need?
It's not really about such precise timing, though I agree that WLAN latency can really suck sometimes. It's more about holding the finger in position while looking somewhere else all the time, and then being sure the keypress was registered. Hovering over a screen does not feel very secure when you're in a tight spot. Besides, capacitive screens often register very close hovering as pressing, especially when your hands are sweating.
Obviously, I try to use a real laptop keyboard whenever possible, but I hope this example highlights the complexities behind touch interfaces in general.
Nick is that you?
No that's not me... wait.. I didn't post the GP, it looks like someone Nicked my account...
..I am Satoshi Nakamoto.
the world moved on. When the N900 came out, it was one of the best phones available, both in package and in software. But it has been over four years now. The world has moved on. It has moved on to slimmer phones, larger screens,
I think the N900 is a much nicer form factor to carry around, compared to the slabs that cannot decide whether they want to be tablets or phones.
not to mention better touch screens (yes, I have used the N900, and the screen is way worse than the touch screen of my Galaxy Nexus). I type faster with Swype than I ever did with the QWERTY-keyboard, the screen is better, it fits better in my pocket, it is lighter, etc.
I agree the screen is not very good by current standards, but I won't give up a real keyboard. For example, as a theatre sound guy, I need to be able to hold my finger on a key for pressing on time. I can't imagine how to do this with a "touch"screen. While I generally use a laptop for this, I occasionally use the N900 as a remote (ssh over wlan). Of course, the keyboard is also essential for any other terminal stuff -- for example, to ping a server while fixing cables under a desk.
Obviously, there are cases where money is central to the crime, such as a bank heist. But I hope the Internet analogy is clear -- $x is used for countless different things, some of which may be illegal, but that doesn't mean we need to outlaw free and unrestricted $x.
The same applies for cash, but people dont hesitate to use it. They dont really see it as clean cash and dirty cash. Cash is cash.
Yup. There needs to remain a way for people to use cash, without letting a single "dirty" transaction taint the whole (block)chain of transactions.
This is why I have a problem with money laundering laws -- it's not the money's fault if it's being used for something illegal. Money laundering laws are like monitoring everyone's Internet traffic for the off chance that something illegal takes place online, surely we'd never do anything like that...
It certainly isn't unique to metal, but metal does have a certain barrier to entry and thus tends to have less casual listeners, so the effect is amplified.
I see^Whear what you did there.
Also, the phrase "genericized genre" is so redundant it's not funny.
If HR did chemistry hiring like HR does IT hiring we'd hear stories about people being underqualified because they used 50 ml beakers at school instead of 75 ml beakers at $job. Or "You used 2-propanol? Sorry we only hire people who use isopropyl in that synthesis."
My own job is programming Moodle, an LMS with over a million lines of code. That's roughly equal to an entire Linux distribution.
What are you smoking? Just the linux *kernel* is roughly 12 million lines of code.
I was wondering that too, but if you're an organization behind a Linux distro, you probably don't have to maintain all upstream code directly.
BitCoin had value because of SilkRoad, and the silk-roaders were willing to accept it for... something. Frankly I'm surprised BitCoin still has value after SilkRoad's demise. If something significant replaces SilkRoad, BitCoin will remain valuable. Until then bitcoin's going on momentum. May crash soon, may not. Will crash eventually.
The Silk Road bust put an end to underground drug trade, just like the Suprnova takedown put an end to copyright infringement online.
Also, there's a metric shitload of things you can legally buy with Bitcoins.
I look forward to the first Bitcoin Panic, it should be interesting to see what happens...
People will invest in tulip bulbs again, because they are great for sending money online?
Yes! I remember how convenient tulips were for instant, global, pseudonymous payments.
That’s just like, your opinion, man.
If current trends continue, everybody will have embarrassing pictures on the internet and nobody will care
I try not to judge people from their drunken party photos. On the other hand, I try to be somewhat careful when posting something about myself. I'm sure there are lots of people like me on Slashdot, who like to keep things reasonably private, and don't use Facebook, for example. This might be a problem if social media exhibitionism becomes too much of a norm, if it becomes suspicious to try and stay private.
I also wonder why some people have certain movies they like to watch over and over. I think my (screen) time is too precious for that, I like to watch something new every time. There are too many interesting movies, books etc. made every year, and I always miss some of them anyway.
There's probably a close connection to the way people (not me, "the people"!) use the web and social media, choosing a nice circle of familiarity to dwell in/on. It's a kind of masturbation; self improvement is masturbation -- self destruction is the answer. It's a great line from such a great movie, I've lost count on the times I've seen it.
I'm a Slashdotter because I like to learn new things all the time. So where are my hot grits and Natalie Portman naked and petrified?
What's this nun-piece doing in my versioning system?
Also, Real Programmers(TM) use Fortran where array indices start at 1 by default, though you can also define your own way.
I feel for you, bro. My parents were hippies too.
I don't think so. I think the intent was that by allowing mining and then making it harder and harder over time you would enhance the currency's stability. Remember that the miners are really just doing a lot of hard house keeping and then getting paid for their efforts in BitCoin. The point was to get a lot of people processing the transactions to keep the ratio of honest brokers to fraudsters high enough so no one entity could possibly take over and "fake" transactions. I don't think the intent was to somehow create or control value, even though it does seem interesting.
This is pretty much it. It takes resources to run the network and this is a way to reward the volunteers willing to do that. At the same time, it is a somewhat fair way to distribute the initial coins into circulation.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the last coin is issued and mining comes to an abrupt end. I have a feeling that if BitCoin is still viable, they will revise their final count and issue more coins to keep the mining industry in business.
There isn't really one last coin, because the fixed reward is halved periodically. However, there are also transaction fees which won't go away -- they are really the long-term point of rewarding people who bother to keep up the network. (Generally, you can send payments without the fee, but those with fees take priority.)
Since web == http + html, I have a hard time understanding how Web 2.0 can operate with HTTP 1.x.
So it averages to 12.5 years, not too shabby for a HD.