The VR community had heavily invested in the STEM kickstarter a month or so before PrioVR's kickstarter was up. I think this was a big reason that the first one failed. The marketing of the technology also failed because they didn't show any integration into any existing games like the STEM system was doing at the time. The fact that the Razer Hydra was already in the hands of folks meant they could see other people using what is in sense a prototype for the STEM system.
Also PrioVR is only relational to your own body and doesn't track where you physically are in a room which was one of the major concerns people wanted addressed.
> So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more?
Power will still be needed because the miners do the transaction checking. When generating blocks the miners get transaction fees added to their block for performing work on checking transactions.
With the advent of specially design ASICs to perform bitcoin mining, the new miners will mine 100 fold better than conventional GPU and FPGA methods currently used. The new ASICs use a fractional amount of power compared to current mining. Once the new ASICs are on the network, they will push the GPUs and FPGA miners off the network because the proportion of mining work being done will be low enough to make it not worth mining with these devices. Multiple manufacturers such as Butterfly labs and Avalon are scheduled to ship in a couple months.
As a computer information technology major, I have been looking for other programming challenges since my C# programming has been wrapping up this semester. About to start this right now!
Im a young slashdotter,
>Government teacher is explaining this story in class
>Talks about thumbdrives being walked out of his palace
>Instinctively yell out SNEAKER NET!! with a big smile
>Whole class looks at me
>Dead silence...
>Come to slashdot and read the sneaker net headline
>*face palm*
Not exactly a creative art, but the sega dreamcast was the last sega game console because the copy protection on the games was so easily bypassed that many people didn't buy any games.
Slashdot Mirror
The VR community had heavily invested in the STEM kickstarter a month or so before PrioVR's kickstarter was up. I think this was a big reason that the first one failed. The marketing of the technology also failed because they didn't show any integration into any existing games like the STEM system was doing at the time. The fact that the Razer Hydra was already in the hands of folks meant they could see other people using what is in sense a prototype for the STEM system. Also PrioVR is only relational to your own body and doesn't track where you physically are in a room which was one of the major concerns people wanted addressed.
One word, Shadow Profiles http://m.digitaltrends.com/social-media/what-exactly-is-a-facebook-shadow-profile/
> So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more? Power will still be needed because the miners do the transaction checking. When generating blocks the miners get transaction fees added to their block for performing work on checking transactions.
With the advent of specially design ASICs to perform bitcoin mining, the new miners will mine 100 fold better than conventional GPU and FPGA methods currently used. The new ASICs use a fractional amount of power compared to current mining. Once the new ASICs are on the network, they will push the GPUs and FPGA miners off the network because the proportion of mining work being done will be low enough to make it not worth mining with these devices. Multiple manufacturers such as Butterfly labs and Avalon are scheduled to ship in a couple months.
As a computer information technology major, I have been looking for other programming challenges since my C# programming has been wrapping up this semester. About to start this right now!
Oh SHIT I left billy in the car!
St. Elmos Fire?
If this were to happen the rest of my life would be dedicated to stealing the most valuable minted coin in history
Im a young slashdotter, >Government teacher is explaining this story in class >Talks about thumbdrives being walked out of his palace >Instinctively yell out SNEAKER NET!! with a big smile >Whole class looks at me >Dead silence... >Come to slashdot and read the sneaker net headline >*face palm*
I don't see what the PA department of homeland security has to benefit from giving that info to the companies? Can someone elaborate?
a crazy sensation that then sweeps the nation! or not... :(
Good conversation that just happened two seconds ago to reinforce what they said in this article. Shauna skype Me oook Shauna get on
I was hoping i could play spot the gps tracker with my friends, or also my other favorite, Who wants to faraday the bottom of their car!?
Yet another ground breaking technology just around the corner!
Not exactly a creative art, but the sega dreamcast was the last sega game console because the copy protection on the games was so easily bypassed that many people didn't buy any games.
actually the original article that was submitted was named "kick ass apartment" they renamed it for home page viewing