So now your holding has a paper value of USD 3,300
Papervalue is meaningless when trading volumes are low. Large volumes of trading causes stabilization.
For instance. I give you a GarbzCoin. It's worth $1000. Try converting it to $1000 by selling it. Personally I won't even given you $1000 for it. I may have told you that's what it's worth but hey that's just the paper value. There's no intrinsic value if no one else will give you $1000 for it, so it's essentially worthless.
Now if I gave you a GarbzCoin. It's worth $1000. Hundreds of other people have GarbzCoins worth $1000 each and they buy and sell them all the time. You're far more likely to find someone who will offer you that much as they can see other people are buying and selling and using it. I may eve take the coin back for $1000. That is stability through trading volume.
No one with hordes of bitcoin cash can sell it now. Doing so would annihilate its value as it is nothing more than paper value.
The problem is nobody learns the basic smalltalk skills anymore
Good. It should die. I'm generally against people using smartphones at social engagements, but "smalltalk" is another way of saying "attempt to bore someone to the point they wish they were alone with the internet".
Maybe the reality is people aren't actually as interested in crappy boring stories as others thought, and those who formerly made other's suffer through smalltalk and now finding that their victims have found a way of ignoring.
If you're unable to keep someone's attention away from their phone, then you haven't learnt how to hold a conversation. You've learnt smalltalk and there's a difference.
Not at all. A good example of this is Youtube actively adopting VP9 for what was at the time the single biggest source of data moving across the internet. Yet the hardware decoding adoption for consumers for VP9 stands precisely at 0%.
Netflix can adopt whatever they want, but unless they screw their entire legacy customer base they will need to maintain compatibility with the old, and unless they want to be in a position where someone else wants to take their streaming crown (and every man and his dog including content producers who also control the end user market (Apple, Google) want to do so), they will provide a format to suit the most popular devices, not the other way around.
Very well, so what is going to be an average height of an American male toward the end of the century?
To that extent we have to put in certain assumptions into our models, kind of like how much carbon we will emit in the future.
Will there be another war + famine which past studies have shown stunts growth quite strongly? Will there be a different medical catastrophe? Well we don't know. But what we do know is that in the USA humans have grown on average about 7cm linearly over the century while remaining stagnant during the war, so assuming another world war (likely) then I'll say 184cm at the end of the century.
Now a harder question will be the average American's girth which appears to be growing almost exponentially. By all accounts by the end of the century the average American will be perfectly round and tend to concentrate the population in valleys and seasides as gravity will roll them down the hills.
Firefox is the Ubuntu of web browsers.
So, perfectly fine for 99% of the population but sends tech nerds into a frothing rage? Sounds about right.
Yeah now that you mention it, the analogy is really poor. Firefox is anything but perfectly fine for 99%. Chrome would fit the Ubuntu analogy better including the potential privacy concerns.
Firefox is a bit more like Microsoft's phone department: "Look at us, we are important, we ARE standards, we can do everything, but we alienated all of our developers and with each subsequent release you're able to do less than before. Hey at least we don't crash much anymore. "
I imagine the amount of voting the Firehose gets from actual Slashdot readers is infinitesimal at this point
And I'm sure you are using the firehose actively and trying to improve the situation rather than just bitching about no one participating on the side lines and then complaining when the default action is that a few people decide on what appears because the site isn't taking an interest in its own future.
You should read the firehose sometime and see what true garbage we get as submissions on Slashdot and then be happy we're in as good a position as we are.
Even more: they have the code for doing both; why not let the user decide?
I'm against this. I think the default experience for what is targeted at a user friendly distro should not only have a limited configuration options but should in it's basic form be presented to the user the same way without the option to change and confuse.
Sure by all means change the entire window manager, but if something looks even a bit like Ubuntu then it should act like Ubuntu.
The same would not apply to something designed specifically for power users.
The great majority of FTP servers are incorrectly set up, especially regarding firewall rules, where the admins (and I use this term loosely) do not understand the difference between incoming and outgoing ports and directions
I would wager that they aren't setup incorrectly because "admins" don't understand. After all "understanding" in the administration of internet servers can be faked by simply following some online guides.
The bigger problem is by having different sets of ports makes it borderline impossible to traverse NAT which would lead to a lot of systems being setup in a best effort way.
The article has nothing to do with changing your console prompt to a set of predefined colours. The change here is that the pre-defined colours have been changed so that you can actually read 34 on 40 for example.
since so many team members were slaving away adding colors to the terminal window
Slashdot fail. When making a hyperbolic claim you need to reference something in TFA, not TFS. There's always a risk someone may read TFS and then point out that this was done by a single summer intern.
Or maybe you're making a subtle joke that all of Windows 10 is managed by one summer intern in which case I tip my hat to you.
You're talking about products, I'm talking about projects.
We have lost control of projects, not we the USA, but we the world. The waste and overhead that goes into contactor and project management, gets bogged down in disputes, legal, and other overheads is crippling.
The numbers I see for new refineries, nuclear plants, new military equipment developments, digging tunnels and building bridges is simply phenomenal, to say nothing of the minor aspects of projects such as the cost of digging utilities.
Funny...before Obamacare, I wasn't forced to have maternity care as part of my insurance, and it wasn't nearly as expensive as it is now.
Yeah I agree. The single thing that changed before Obamacare and after Obamacare is that you now have maternity cover. That is the only reason the price of your medical insurance changed.
I retract my statement about you not having a clue of insurance and will correct it now: You just have no clue about *anything*, I'm sure that is Obama's fault too.
That should be much cheaper for me
You know what would be much cheaper to you based on healthcare cost vs benefits from different systems around the world? Socialised healthcare.
Or we could remove the profit out of the equation and everything will become much cheaper.
While we're at it:
At the minimum, I can realize that as a single male I really have no use being forced to pay for maternity insurance I do not need.
For someone who advocates insurance as a solution you certainly don't know how it works, that it relies on its collective power, and that your boneheadded suggestion will just result in higher premiums for everyone.
With android all you need is a photograph of the persons face to unlock.
With Android you need no such thing. With a select set of phones from a select set of manufactures you do.
How much you want to bet Apple gets it right, again?
Yep. It is very easy to copy successful implementations of a feature. Apple will get far more right now that they have stopped innovating and let the rest of the market do the heavy lifting for them.
Except the headphone jack, they are on the forefront of that brilliant move.
Not really. Most of those things you listed have also value only in its scarcity. If there was a massive oversupply of gold it wouldn't be worth what it is.
Value of anything is determined by supply and demand. It doesn't matter where this scarcity comes from as long as it exists.
I have no idea how the value of this will play out because it will depend on how strong the support is for each.
Supply and demand. Silliest solution: I now have double the money at half the value. Most likely solution: I now have double the money, half of it is still worth what it was, and the other is worthless.
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So now your holding has a paper value of USD 3,300
Papervalue is meaningless when trading volumes are low. Large volumes of trading causes stabilization.
For instance. I give you a GarbzCoin. It's worth $1000. Try converting it to $1000 by selling it. Personally I won't even given you $1000 for it. I may have told you that's what it's worth but hey that's just the paper value. There's no intrinsic value if no one else will give you $1000 for it, so it's essentially worthless.
Now if I gave you a GarbzCoin. It's worth $1000. Hundreds of other people have GarbzCoins worth $1000 each and they buy and sell them all the time. You're far more likely to find someone who will offer you that much as they can see other people are buying and selling and using it. I may eve take the coin back for $1000. That is stability through trading volume.
No one with hordes of bitcoin cash can sell it now. Doing so would annihilate its value as it is nothing more than paper value.
The problem is nobody learns the basic smalltalk skills anymore
Good. It should die. I'm generally against people using smartphones at social engagements, but "smalltalk" is another way of saying "attempt to bore someone to the point they wish they were alone with the internet".
Maybe the reality is people aren't actually as interested in crappy boring stories as others thought, and those who formerly made other's suffer through smalltalk and now finding that their victims have found a way of ignoring.
If you're unable to keep someone's attention away from their phone, then you haven't learnt how to hold a conversation. You've learnt smalltalk and there's a difference.
Not at all. A good example of this is Youtube actively adopting VP9 for what was at the time the single biggest source of data moving across the internet. Yet the hardware decoding adoption for consumers for VP9 stands precisely at 0%.
Netflix can adopt whatever they want, but unless they screw their entire legacy customer base they will need to maintain compatibility with the old, and unless they want to be in a position where someone else wants to take their streaming crown (and every man and his dog including content producers who also control the end user market (Apple, Google) want to do so), they will provide a format to suit the most popular devices, not the other way around.
Very well, so what is going to be an average height of an American male toward the end of the century?
To that extent we have to put in certain assumptions into our models, kind of like how much carbon we will emit in the future.
Will there be another war + famine which past studies have shown stunts growth quite strongly? Will there be a different medical catastrophe? Well we don't know. But what we do know is that in the USA humans have grown on average about 7cm linearly over the century while remaining stagnant during the war, so assuming another world war (likely) then I'll say 184cm at the end of the century.
Now a harder question will be the average American's girth which appears to be growing almost exponentially. By all accounts by the end of the century the average American will be perfectly round and tend to concentrate the population in valleys and seasides as gravity will roll them down the hills.
Based on your own citation he did beg the question. Scroll down to the section "Modern Usage".
the web is simply too risky
If the web is risky then fundamentally the problem is in the browser itself rather than the plugin that tries to prevent code from running.
Unpleasant, yeah I'll give you that.
Firefox is the Ubuntu of web browsers.
So, perfectly fine for 99% of the population but sends tech nerds into a frothing rage? Sounds about right.
Yeah now that you mention it, the analogy is really poor. Firefox is anything but perfectly fine for 99%. Chrome would fit the Ubuntu analogy better including the potential privacy concerns.
Firefox is a bit more like Microsoft's phone department: "Look at us, we are important, we ARE standards, we can do everything, but we alienated all of our developers and with each subsequent release you're able to do less than before. Hey at least we don't crash much anymore. "
I imagine the amount of voting the Firehose gets from actual Slashdot readers is infinitesimal at this point
And I'm sure you are using the firehose actively and trying to improve the situation rather than just bitching about no one participating on the side lines and then complaining when the default action is that a few people decide on what appears because the site isn't taking an interest in its own future.
You should read the firehose sometime and see what true garbage we get as submissions on Slashdot and then be happy we're in as good a position as we are.
Even more: they have the code for doing both; why not let the user decide?
I'm against this. I think the default experience for what is targeted at a user friendly distro should not only have a limited configuration options but should in it's basic form be presented to the user the same way without the option to change and confuse.
Sure by all means change the entire window manager, but if something looks even a bit like Ubuntu then it should act like Ubuntu.
The same would not apply to something designed specifically for power users.
The great majority of FTP servers are incorrectly set up, especially regarding firewall rules, where the admins (and I use this term loosely) do not understand the difference between incoming and outgoing ports and directions
I would wager that they aren't setup incorrectly because "admins" don't understand. After all "understanding" in the administration of internet servers can be faked by simply following some online guides.
The bigger problem is by having different sets of ports makes it borderline impossible to traverse NAT which would lead to a lot of systems being setup in a best effort way.
The article has nothing to do with changing your console prompt to a set of predefined colours. The change here is that the pre-defined colours have been changed so that you can actually read 34 on 40 for example.
since so many team members were slaving away adding colors to the terminal window
Slashdot fail. When making a hyperbolic claim you need to reference something in TFA, not TFS. There's always a risk someone may read TFS and then point out that this was done by a single summer intern.
Or maybe you're making a subtle joke that all of Windows 10 is managed by one summer intern in which case I tip my hat to you.
Yes but within 10 clicks you always end up at the same place: An article about Hitler.
You're talking about products, I'm talking about projects.
We have lost control of projects, not we the USA, but we the world. The waste and overhead that goes into contactor and project management, gets bogged down in disputes, legal, and other overheads is crippling.
The numbers I see for new refineries, nuclear plants, new military equipment developments, digging tunnels and building bridges is simply phenomenal, to say nothing of the minor aspects of projects such as the cost of digging utilities.
The labour and equipment costs haven't changed.
Funny...before Obamacare, I wasn't forced to have maternity care as part of my insurance, and it wasn't nearly as expensive as it is now.
Yeah I agree. The single thing that changed before Obamacare and after Obamacare is that you now have maternity cover. That is the only reason the price of your medical insurance changed.
I retract my statement about you not having a clue of insurance and will correct it now: You just have no clue about *anything*, I'm sure that is Obama's fault too.
That should be much cheaper for me
You know what would be much cheaper to you based on healthcare cost vs benefits from different systems around the world? Socialised healthcare.
So a bunch of "difficult" problems that were solved in the 70s.
Or we could remove the profit out of the equation and everything will become much cheaper.
While we're at it:
At the minimum, I can realize that as a single male I really have no use being forced to pay for maternity insurance I do not need.
For someone who advocates insurance as a solution you certainly don't know how it works, that it relies on its collective power, and that your boneheadded suggestion will just result in higher premiums for everyone.
With android all you need is a photograph of the persons face to unlock.
With Android you need no such thing. With a select set of phones from a select set of manufactures you do.
How much you want to bet Apple gets it right, again?
Yep. It is very easy to copy successful implementations of a feature. Apple will get far more right now that they have stopped innovating and let the rest of the market do the heavy lifting for them.
Except the headphone jack, they are on the forefront of that brilliant move.
We used to be able to make stuff, now we can't.
There's nothing out of the ordinary in nuclear power. We have lost the ability to make most things with a reasonable cost.
Not really. Most of those things you listed have also value only in its scarcity. If there was a massive oversupply of gold it wouldn't be worth what it is.
Value of anything is determined by supply and demand. It doesn't matter where this scarcity comes from as long as it exists.
I have no idea how the value of this will play out because it will depend on how strong the support is for each.
Supply and demand.
Silliest solution: I now have double the money at half the value.
Most likely solution: I now have double the money, half of it is still worth what it was, and the other is worthless.
Give me 5 minutes with a desk lamp back in the 1980s and I'll have turned it into a covert listening device as well.
The people freaking out about this should look into what the FBI and CIA actually did before the internet (hint: still listened into people).
Who in their right mind thought these tools would be useful to a consumer?
Given digital assistants are the wet dream of pretty much every sci-fi writer, you are just showing a lack of imagination.
I could turn your completely offline device into a covert listening device if I had access to it for 5minutes.
This has been the stuff of spy agencies since they first existed.
In twenty years? In forty years?
Brexit will be here long before that.