That is only 700% against the United States Dollar. Last time I checked the United States Dollar is anything but a stable store of value, especially compared to Gold.
There are nowhere near $500,000 worth of asks on any of the BitCoin exchanges, selling anywhere near that amount would cause BitCoin's value to drop very quickly.
However I agree that it isn't the best idea to store $500,000 worth of BTC in one BitCoin account.
only to find that there's an update but it's been patiently waiting to restart to install the update.
You are right. That stupid icon in the top right corner of the Chrome window indicating there is an update pending should be replaced. Obviously Google should implement one of those popups so that you can immediately interrupt your work to update your browser. Or better yet they could automatically restart your browser while you are surfing. This way everyone will always have the latest and greatest version.
Obviously, some people on the Chrome team don't use Macs.
I can keep Chrome open for weeks on Windows and on Linux too, that's nothing special.
Which is why places like Korea are working to make their educational systems more like ours? And why people from all over the world pay big bucks to go to college here as well?
I'm not familiar with what Korea is doing. As for people paying big bucks to go to American colleges, America has a very small number of colleges that are exceptionally good and a very large number that are mostly a joke (See GP). Just because the best are really good doesn't mean they all are.
Even if you cannot afford to buy the freedom to listen, you also have the freedom to speak. Copyright doesn't get rid of that, whereas China's censorship does.
How is copyright remotely similar to censorship? If I want to download an mp3 from some american artist I can pay them. If you are in China, you can't just pay to have access to the info China censors.
Why would you upload private data to some file hosting site? These (e.g. RapidShare) aren't the kind of services where you can modify files after uploading (such as Dropbox), so encryption is not much of a hassle. You have no reason not to encrypt the files before uploading them.
PayPal does support authorizing merchants to withdraw funds from your account though, I don't think there is any way to limit how much they can take though.
Ms Lee said last night the compilation was made of songs that were legally downloaded and paid for.
"I'm not a pirate. I have never downloaded anything illegally in my life." Earlier she had told the House she did not even know how file-sharing through peer-to-peer systems worked.
Although it allows for "assembly line programming", that doesn't necessarily make it worse for innovation.
I would argue that.NET has allowed for quite a lot of innovation such as Singularity, which if you didn't know is actually faster than Linux and even faster than *BSD due to it removing the overhead of task switching.
What innovation specifically does it not allow for?
You don't think I could have typed that one sentence by hand within 6 minutes? I admit that my last few comments I've made have been about Microsoft but I have made many comments on other topics too.
Why couldn't he have composed it in advance? The story was posted in advance and anyone with a slashdot subscription could have read it, composed a reply, created a disposable account and then pasted the response into the story. Is it really so hard to copy and paste within 30 seconds if you are given plenty of warning of which 30 seconds it will be?
In case you missed it: supporting pointers/pointer arithmetic is not necessarily a good thing. Also, while it may be in the MSIL, it isn't supported (IIRC) in C# or VB.
It's not necessarily a good thing which is why you aren't required to use them, and they have always been supported in C#. Java does not give you the option.
See also JPA/Hibernate. (Not that LINQ/JPA/Hibernate are all that great to begin with; on the other hand, they are better than ODBC/JDBC gateways and manually loading/serializing objects.)
LINQ does a lot more than that, it allows you to query not only database providers but also in memory objects, with the same syntax. You can even write a LINQ query that queries the database, pulls back some records and then transforms them into something else locally or checks some condition that cannot be performed on the database.
I think you're just talking out of your ass here.
Nope. Java generics are simply syntax sugar, they are implemented using type-erasure. This means that you cannot overload functions with other functions that differ only in the generic parameters of the function's arguments. You also cannot determine the generic parameters at runtime from the type information..NET supports "real" generics.
Technically there's nothing stopping anyone from writing a compiler that translates F# to JVM bytecode.
Technically there would be nothing stopping a lot of things. Nobody has, your point?
Ironically enough your examples only serve to prove TFA's point: you don't know enough about the building blocks of *either* language to be called anything other than a mediocre programmer.
So I'm a mediocre programmer? I should probably stop using the compiler I made then.
You can't claim.NET is Microsoft only either, Mono runs on *nix and works absolutely fine for server code and most windows forms code.
Bullshit. It was right here in/. that you Windows fanboys said that Mono is a joke compared to "real".NET
Maybe that was the case a couple of years ago, however Mono has caught up. It still has not implemented WPF and there are a few.NET 4.0 library features that they haven't implemented either. But anything designed for.NET 3.5 without WPF will work fine.
And it was here in/. that MS, effectively, threatened to use patents they have in.NET technology.
The libraries is one of the important parts of it, the "yield" keyword, LINQ and extension methods cannot be implemented by libraries alone though.
I write this as someone working on a project in C# where iPads and Android tablets would be ideal platforms for one part of the project, but will never happen because of the poor decision to use C# made because the internal programmers at the company that hired us only knew that language.
So.NET somehow does not work on the iPad and Android?
.NET (like Java and old versions of Visual Basic) lets stupid programmers who usually wouldn't be able to do anything at all, do a bad job of something. So I can see where it gets it's bad reputation from.
However, for intelligent and talented programmers,.NET increases the speed that they can write code greatly. Unless you are someone like Amazon, Google or Oracle then developer time is much more expensive than CPU and RAM costs. Desktop computers have been faster than we need them for years.
.NET is also simultaneously lower level than Java (it supports pointers and pointer arithmetic), and higher level (LINQ, extension methods, better generic support, F#, TPL), so I can't see why you could pick on.NET devs and not on Java devs.
You can't claim.NET is Microsoft only either, Mono runs on *nix and works absolutely fine for server code and most windows forms code.
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Heard of recursion?
That is only 700% against the United States Dollar. Last time I checked the United States Dollar is anything but a stable store of value, especially compared to Gold.
Does that mean that bitcoin clients need to be online all the time in order to keep up to date on what's happening
No, they can download the past transaction data when they go online next.
does that mean that your wallet.dat needs to be accessible to the client all the time?
No, the wallet.dat file stores private keys and is only necessary when sending BitCoins.
There are nowhere near $500,000 worth of asks on any of the BitCoin exchanges, selling anywhere near that amount would cause BitCoin's value to drop very quickly.
However I agree that it isn't the best idea to store $500,000 worth of BTC in one BitCoin account.
only to find that there's an update but it's been patiently waiting to restart to install the update.
You are right. That stupid icon in the top right corner of the Chrome window indicating there is an update pending should be replaced. Obviously Google should implement one of those popups so that you can immediately interrupt your work to update your browser. Or better yet they could automatically restart your browser while you are surfing. This way everyone will always have the latest and greatest version.
Obviously, some people on the Chrome team don't use Macs.
I can keep Chrome open for weeks on Windows and on Linux too, that's nothing special.
Chrome incognito mode disables all browser plugins
This is actually not the case. Go to Tools, Extensions and then click "Allow in incognito".
Right now it's an error, they could implement it if they wanted to.
unfortunately, it would mean that Kazakh users would have a poorer experience as results would no longer be customized for the former Soviet republic
What is wrong with simply using something along the lines of http://www.google.com/kz/ to customize results?
Which is why places like Korea are working to make their educational systems more like ours? And why people from all over the world pay big bucks to go to college here as well?
I'm not familiar with what Korea is doing. As for people paying big bucks to go to American colleges, America has a very small number of colleges that are exceptionally good and a very large number that are mostly a joke (See GP). Just because the best are really good doesn't mean they all are.
Even if you cannot afford to buy the freedom to listen, you also have the freedom to speak. Copyright doesn't get rid of that, whereas China's censorship does.
How is copyright remotely similar to censorship? If I want to download an mp3 from some american artist I can pay them. If you are in China, you can't just pay to have access to the info China censors.
You still have time to mail me a check. I promise not to bank it until the 23rd :)
You have nothing to lose!
Why would you upload private data to some file hosting site? These (e.g. RapidShare) aren't the kind of services where you can modify files after uploading (such as Dropbox), so encryption is not much of a hassle. You have no reason not to encrypt the files before uploading them.
PayPal does support authorizing merchants to withdraw funds from your account though, I don't think there is any way to limit how much they can take though.
The article only shows half the story.
Ms Lee said last night the compilation was made of songs that were legally downloaded and paid for. "I'm not a pirate. I have never downloaded anything illegally in my life." Earlier she had told the House she did not even know how file-sharing through peer-to-peer systems worked.
Source
In New Zealand, format shifting is legal.
Wow thanks for that.
It included a large list of sites that apparently I have been uploading content to without my knowledge, I pay per GB so this is very ridiculous.
Who left-clicks on /. links? Do you reload the page for the comments?
Although it allows for "assembly line programming", that doesn't necessarily make it worse for innovation.
I would argue that .NET has allowed for quite a lot of innovation such as Singularity, which if you didn't know is actually faster than Linux and even faster than *BSD due to it removing the overhead of task switching.
What innovation specifically does it not allow for?
I think it would be much better if they changed it for everyone, live. Perhaps only 1 in 1000 people would have rights to modify them.
You don't think I could have typed that one sentence by hand within 6 minutes? I admit that my last few comments I've made have been about Microsoft but I have made many comments on other topics too.
Why couldn't he have composed it in advance? The story was posted in advance and anyone with a slashdot subscription could have read it, composed a reply, created a disposable account and then pasted the response into the story. Is it really so hard to copy and paste within 30 seconds if you are given plenty of warning of which 30 seconds it will be?
Or whoever posted it has a subscription on another account perhaps?
In case you missed it: supporting pointers/pointer arithmetic is not necessarily a good thing. Also, while it may be in the MSIL, it isn't supported (IIRC) in C# or VB.
It's not necessarily a good thing which is why you aren't required to use them, and they have always been supported in C#. Java does not give you the option.
See also JPA/Hibernate. (Not that LINQ/JPA/Hibernate are all that great to begin with; on the other hand, they are better than ODBC/JDBC gateways and manually loading/serializing objects.)
LINQ does a lot more than that, it allows you to query not only database providers but also in memory objects, with the same syntax. You can even write a LINQ query that queries the database, pulls back some records and then transforms them into something else locally or checks some condition that cannot be performed on the database.
I think you're just talking out of your ass here.
Nope. Java generics are simply syntax sugar, they are implemented using type-erasure. This means that you cannot overload functions with other functions that differ only in the generic parameters of the function's arguments. You also cannot determine the generic parameters at runtime from the type information. .NET supports "real" generics.
Technically there's nothing stopping anyone from writing a compiler that translates F# to JVM bytecode.
Technically there would be nothing stopping a lot of things. Nobody has, your point?
Ironically enough your examples only serve to prove TFA's point: you don't know enough about the building blocks of *either* language to be called anything other than a mediocre programmer.
So I'm a mediocre programmer? I should probably stop using the compiler I made then.
You can't claim .NET is Microsoft only either, Mono runs on *nix and works absolutely fine for server code and most windows forms code.
Bullshit. It was right here in /. that you Windows fanboys said that Mono is a joke compared to "real" .NET
Maybe that was the case a couple of years ago, however Mono has caught up. It still has not implemented WPF and there are a few .NET 4.0 library features that they haven't implemented either. But anything designed for .NET 3.5 without WPF will work fine.
And it was here in /. that MS, effectively, threatened to use patents they have in .NET technology.
The libraries is one of the important parts of it, the "yield" keyword, LINQ and extension methods cannot be implemented by libraries alone though.
I write this as someone working on a project in C# where iPads and Android tablets would be ideal platforms for one part of the project, but will never happen because of the poor decision to use C# made because the internal programmers at the company that hired us only knew that language.
So .NET somehow does not work on the iPad and Android?
.NET (like Java and old versions of Visual Basic) lets stupid programmers who usually wouldn't be able to do anything at all, do a bad job of something. So I can see where it gets it's bad reputation from.
However, for intelligent and talented programmers, .NET increases the speed that they can write code greatly. Unless you are someone like Amazon, Google or Oracle then developer time is much more expensive than CPU and RAM costs. Desktop computers have been faster than we need them for years.
.NET is also simultaneously lower level than Java (it supports pointers and pointer arithmetic), and higher level (LINQ, extension methods, better generic support, F#, TPL), so I can't see why you could pick on .NET devs and not on Java devs.
You can't claim .NET is Microsoft only either, Mono runs on *nix and works absolutely fine for server code and most windows forms code.