FTL implies at least backwards communication is possible under any method you can think of. If you get get to Alpha Centauri by stuffing yourself in your ass, it will still allow backwards time travel.
Bitcoin is still somewhat experimental, and we have never claimed to have the be all end all solution to money. If you have a better idea for a digital currency, you are free to fork the project or start your own from scratch, and see how many followers you get.
But if Christians are so sure of themselves, what is it with all the proselytism? Missionary work seems alive and well in the darkest jungles of the world. Even as a first world citizen, I can tell that Christianity was not the native religion of my people, we were ruthlessly converted some centuries ago.
You forgot something: Bitcoin supply decreases exponentially over time.
They're based on prime numbers, which become increasingly rare as the numbers increase.
Can I have some of what you're smoking? The exponential decay curve of Bitcoin supply has nothing whatsoever to do with prime numbers. It is simply a planned feature that after every 210000 blocks produced, the block reward will halve.
Also, as others have already corrected you, Bitcoins are fine for microtransactions. There are currently 8 decimals, with a possibility to increase in the future.
For any sort of data storage the energy barrier between the two states needs to be large enough that the system doesn't thermodynamically fluctuate between them very often. In practice, this means that the barrier needs to be several times larger than kb*T where kb is the boltzman constant. For computation there's not any hard and fast rule about the energy required, but there's lots of practical ones...
Actually, there is a very similar limit for computation. In most of our computing, we destroy a lot of information, and thus entropy is created. For example, adding two 64-bit numbers to produce a third one -- you've just lost 64 bits of information. For each bit lost, you generate about kb*T of heat.
The general idea to counter this problem is called reversible computing, but I'm not sure how it would work in practice, as you'd have to store a lot of useless information.
Music playback doesn't require low latency; it doesn't matter if there is a 500ms delay between when you press the play button and you hear the music.
It does if you're the sound guy in a theatre. This is why old tech like CD players are still used there, because you can keep the disc spinning while paused, to be played instantly when needed. A lot of music player software is also OK, because they can pre-buffer things, but portable gadgets without such optimizations are useless.
On the other hand, audio codecs are designed for streaming, so they cannot take advantage of long-time correlations. Then again, many generic compressors do the same, I guess for memory and I/O reasons, though some like rzip and lzma can use huge buffers.
Do what you love, not what is easy, the life will follow. Not my words but wise ones.
I think this is the key point for the GP: if you only think about monetary gain, you're doing it wrong. I don't exactly have the rich and famous life one should expect from a graduate of a big-name university, but it's been one heck of a ride.
To pull out my standard Slashdot Car Analogy(tm), it's like a mechanic who knew nothing about cars before deciding that fixing cars looked like a stable career and went to trade school but doesn't tinker on his own vehicles because "that's work", vs somebody who's been under the hood of a cars since they were 13.
Sure, those who enter the field later in life might be great at it, but your average worker in that position won't hold a candle to the one who was self-taught through driven interest
One might think that would be eVP Bjorn Halvarti, or some such Norweigan name. Perhaps M$ has so fully taken over Nokia that the damn phone might as well be made in the USA!
Seconded -- I was there in 1998-2002 for a physics degree, and paid about £1000 per year, plus living expenses. As a EU citizen I paid the same as the locals, it was much higher for those outside EU.
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With Blackjack! In fact, forget the hookers.
FTL implies at least backwards communication is possible under any method you can think of. If you get get to Alpha Centauri by stuffing yourself in your ass, it will still allow backwards time travel.
In other words, going ass-backwards in time?
Bitcoin is still somewhat experimental, and we have never claimed to have the be all end all solution to money. If you have a better idea for a digital currency, you are free to fork the project or start your own from scratch, and see how many followers you get.
But if Christians are so sure of themselves, what is it with all the proselytism? Missionary work seems alive and well in the darkest jungles of the world. Even as a first world citizen, I can tell that Christianity was not the native religion of my people, we were ruthlessly converted some centuries ago.
You forgot something: Bitcoin supply decreases exponentially over time.
They're based on prime numbers, which become increasingly rare as the numbers increase.
Can I have some of what you're smoking? The exponential decay curve of Bitcoin supply has nothing whatsoever to do with prime numbers. It is simply a planned feature that after every 210000 blocks produced, the block reward will halve.
Also, as others have already corrected you, Bitcoins are fine for microtransactions. There are currently 8 decimals, with a possibility to increase in the future.
I'll drink to that!
There is also xpra, which is basically "screen" for X. It is not perfect, but gets the job done.
You live just below LinuxGrrl? Lucky bastard.
Threads like this is why I read /. (which, a friend of mine once noted, can be seen as a rather phallic symbol).
http://everything2.org/?node=penises+have+higher+bandwidth+than+cable+modems
Easy for you to say, Mr. Doctor, when you can just policebox back to when 4294967296 addresses was enough for everyone.
So? Most people are supposed to settle with their roles as docile consumers. Only big businesses need public IP addresses. It's the new TV, baby!
For any sort of data storage the energy barrier between the two states needs to be large enough that the system doesn't thermodynamically fluctuate between them very often. In practice, this means that the barrier needs to be several times larger than kb*T where kb is the boltzman constant. For computation there's not any hard and fast rule about the energy required, but there's lots of practical ones...
Actually, there is a very similar limit for computation. In most of our computing, we destroy a lot of information, and thus entropy is created. For example, adding two 64-bit numbers to produce a third one -- you've just lost 64 bits of information. For each bit lost, you generate about kb*T of heat.
The general idea to counter this problem is called reversible computing, but I'm not sure how it would work in practice, as you'd have to store a lot of useless information.
Music playback doesn't require low latency; it doesn't matter if there is a 500ms delay between when you press the play button and you hear the music.
It does if you're the sound guy in a theatre. This is why old tech like CD players are still used there, because you can keep the disc spinning while paused, to be played instantly when needed. A lot of music player software is also OK, because they can pre-buffer things, but portable gadgets without such optimizations are useless.
On the other hand, audio codecs are designed for streaming, so they cannot take advantage of long-time correlations. Then again, many generic compressors do the same, I guess for memory and I/O reasons, though some like rzip and lzma can use huge buffers.
Wireless charging's killer app is at home. One charging "area" for multiple devices. Make it cheap enough I can afford one by my desk, in my kitchen
They could call it something like "induction stove".
Do what you love, not what is easy, the life will follow. Not my words but wise ones.
I think this is the key point for the GP: if you only think about monetary gain, you're doing it wrong. I don't exactly have the rich and famous life one should expect from a graduate of a big-name university, but it's been one heck of a ride.
To pull out my standard Slashdot Car Analogy(tm), it's like a mechanic who knew nothing about cars before deciding that fixing cars looked like a stable career and went to trade school but doesn't tinker on his own vehicles because "that's work", vs somebody who's been under the hood of a cars since they were 13.
Sure, those who enter the field later in life might be great at it, but your average worker in that position won't hold a candle to the one who was self-taught through driven interest
I see what you did there.
you can be someone who worked on cars their entire life, have a mechanical engineering degree, too - those are the guys who work on F1 cars.
The best candidates will have proper academic training AND drive.
I agree, it would be a shame if an F1 mechanic could not drive.
I'd rather be #1 in quality than quantity.
Now you know why they call it the COCKpit.
One might think that would be eVP Bjorn Halvarti, or some such Norweigan name. Perhaps M$ has so fully taken over Nokia that the damn phone might as well be made in the USA!
Nokia is Finnish, not Norwegian. Perkele!
Primus: Space Farm
I think we can all agree that one of these universities is the best for science, and the other for arts. *ducks*
Seconded -- I was there in 1998-2002 for a physics degree, and paid about £1000 per year, plus living expenses. As a EU citizen I paid the same as the locals, it was much higher for those outside EU.
I thought everything showed up on the front page of Slashdot. Is there a back page?
Yes. Basically everything submitted is there, and you can vote for articles to get them to the front page.