Hmm I heard a rumor about a change. I guess, LIKE I TOLD THEM MONTHS AGO!!!!, it didn't run stable on USB-power. But they did up it to 50GH/s. They upped it to 5000MH/s which is neat but still, that's a shame:-P
Just in case you missed this in other posts
My i5-2400 = 12 MH/s bitcoin mining speed @ 95W approx
My old overclocked Radeon 5830 graphics card = 220MH/s @ 200W approx
The new Jalapeno ASIC miner = 4,500+ MH/s @ 2W
The anticipated difficulty raising on mining due to the new cards is estimated at at least 27x so that means you could run the app 24/7 and likely make less than $0.01/day on the average computer while using a hell of a lot more than that in electricity (closer to $0.50 typically).
We actually built small mortar and pestle-ground bombs out of KNO3, sugar, carbon, and pure sulfur at my high school. Someone used too much and blew theirs clear up and nobody really cared. We almost purposely made chlorine gas and then I accidentally breached the container and got a mouthful and felt immensely sick all day but nobody really cared either, lol. And this was a top rated high school in my state, not some dump like the next town over, lol.
Wow, that will bring it up to almost the same speed as the 2 year old AMD APUs if I'm not mistaken, lol. Talk about being behind! I was amazed when the first couple P-series graphics adapters came out built into the first Sandy Bridge chips. You could actually play Skyrim on an i3-2100 at low settings and it killed at HD video playback. Now for $110, my demo unit at my shop is an A10 APU with a 6.9 graphics rating. It can play Starcraft II at almost maxed settings at 60FPS at 1280x1024 and the CPU is just a hair slower than an i5-2400 for a crap-ton less money. At least $60 if I remember correctly. The 1866 native memory controller helps too since even Ivy Bridge only hits 1600. So then it's better at video encoding and gaming than any i5. Intel is really playing catch-up at this point. I don't know why everyone's all doom and gloom over AMD getting crushed by Intel. I would have thought that was over by now, especially after releasing Trinity, Zambezi, and Vishera. Those 3 really are better than Intel in almost every way.
Too bad Atheros makes the lowest end garbage pile of chips, especially wireless ones. They're in all the cheapest laptops. They fail all the time, generate 1990's era hardware errors, and have the worst driver support imaginable.
Or they're attempting to stand still and the Earth is spinning. If it's a constantly spinning object that never slows down, it's immune to outside energy absorption and any friction that would slow it down or speed it up so it may also not want to travel in the unusual motion that the Earth is spinning at while moving around the sun. Wind in a tornado and water in a drain doesn't appear to want to go straight because it does want to go straight and the Earth doesn't, after all.
Yeah, it might just be immune to all outside forces so it just keeps on keeping on. I think that's what they were getting at in the end about how it can't be used to generate energy. I'd still put my money on it absorbing one of the many sources of energy that would be available in an experiment like that. It could even run on radio waves for all they know.
You and the article are right. There might just be an unlimited supply of oil buried in the Earth. That's right, there's a wormhole open to another galaxy that perpetually creates oil as a spontaneous quantum magic trick.
Let me fast forward this a bit because MintChip was discussed on the bitcoin forums months ago. It's bullshit. It's set up completely wrong. It's horribly insecure. It's like a spy-on-you version of bitcoin. Even the encryption style was massively flawed from what I heard. It's absolute, utter crap.
Maybe if they're going to hire a person to run an entire corporation's Twitter account, they should know basic internet security. They damn well better fire that idiot.
Wasn't there another game that was rigged to slowly fall apart or something? It was a fairly big title too. Certain sounds and graphical files would just delete themselves randomly every time you loaded it after it was determined to be illegal and soon you were using half a game with unskinned 3D files and stuff. Now THAT was funny. Although, an invincible pink opponent stalking you is up there too.
Here's the world's worst barely formatted copy-paste job for those of you who can't access the site because it got slashdotted (and cloudflare dropped the ball)
When we released our very first game, Game Dev Tycoon (for Mac, Windows and Linux) yesterday, we did something unusual and as far as I know unique. We released a cracked version of the game ourselves, minutes after opening our Store.
I uploaded the torrent to the number one torrent sharing site, gave it a description imitating the scene and asked a few friends to help seed it.
A minute after we uploaded it, my torrent client looked like this:
Soon my upload speed was maxed out (and as of the time of writing still is) and my friends and I had connections from all over the world and for all three platforms!
How does piracy feel?
The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn’t want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers. So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message:
Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally.
If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.
Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.
Some of the responses I found online (identities obscured to protect the guilty):
Is there some way to avoid that? I mean can I research DRM or something
And another user:
Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!
As a gamer I laughed out loud: the IRONY!!!
However, as the developer, who spent over a year creating this game and hasn’t drawn a salary yet, I wanted to cry. Surely, for most of these players, the 8 dollars wouldn’t hurt them but it makes a huge difference to our future!
Trying to appeal to pirates
I know that some people just don’t even think about buying games. They will immediately search for a cracked version. For this reason, when we released the game, we also published a page which targets people who search for a cracked/illegal version. Unfortunately, due to my lack in search-engine-optimization skills, that page has had no impact yet, but I hope it will convince some to buy the game in the future.
[]if years down the track you wonder why there are no games like these anymore and all you get to play is pay-to-play and social games designed to suck money out of your pockets then the reason will stare back at you in the mirror.
I do think it’s important to try to communicate what piracy means to game developers to our consumers. I also tried to appeal to a particular forum a day earlier after someone who I gave early-access to the Store seemed to have passed on the copy to others:
We’re just a start-up and really need your support. The game is only 7.99USD, DRM free
Clearly, my post hadn’t worked too well since on the same forum someone posted the earlier screenshot (“Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!) just a bit after I made my appeal and this was followed by many others complaining about piracy.
I still hope that it made a difference to someone.
Anyway, how many really did buy and how many did pirate our game during this first day?
The awesome/depressing results
Today, one day after release, our usage stats look like this:
Genuine version: 214 users
Cracked version: at least 3104 users
Over 93.6% of players stole the game. We know this because our game
It really is down due to traffic. And cloudflare really is playing medical insurance company again. If you're not familiar, it's where you pay and pay and pay for their protection and then that one time when you critically need them, they're useless and refuse to properly do their one single job that they had (they claim there's allegedly no cached version of the page for them to serve up off their servers).
I would only believe this story if he then got in return an accepted patent for a specific type of "rejection response raging." That would approximately sum up their open application, flip a coin, go watch TV methodology that they appear to use.
This might be one of those times when everyone in the market is pissing people off with features they don't want getting shoved down their throat (a gigantic, fragile screen with an impossible to type on touchscreen) then one company comes in with exactly what people want. We switched from blackberries to Android phones at my business and now we have zero control over them. There's no centralized anything. It's like a free for all. That is not how you run a business phone system. Also, our salesmen hate the phones and Activesync is a pain in the ass.
Unfortunately, Blackberry's software was memory leaking, server-controlling garbage so hopefully they fixed that this time around. If so, tough and nice to use phones with central control software and easy exchange integration would be lovely. They'll take over the business market instantly.
They should take all their fracking gear, fracking sell it, and build some fracking wind turbines, solar towers, and solar panel arrays. That's really the only camp out there, assuming everyone allowed to go camping has a basic understanding of chemistry and the atmosphere.
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Hmm I heard a rumor about a change. I guess, LIKE I TOLD THEM MONTHS AGO!!!!, it didn't run stable on USB-power. But they did up it to 50GH/s. They upped it to 5000MH/s which is neat but still, that's a shame :-P
Just in case you missed this in other posts
My i5-2400 = 12 MH/s bitcoin mining speed @ 95W approx
My old overclocked Radeon 5830 graphics card = 220MH/s @ 200W approx
The new Jalapeno ASIC miner = 4,500+ MH/s @ 2W
The anticipated difficulty raising on mining due to the new cards is estimated at at least 27x so that means you could run the app 24/7 and likely make less than $0.01/day on the average computer while using a hell of a lot more than that in electricity (closer to $0.50 typically).
At my college they had Intel GMA graphics so we hit ctrl-alt-arrow key to flip all the displays upside down. He thought it was pretty funny.
"T-Platforms may be illegally assisting the Russian military and/or its nuclear program."
Oh no! We can't let Russia develop a nuclear program!
We actually built small mortar and pestle-ground bombs out of KNO3, sugar, carbon, and pure sulfur at my high school. Someone used too much and blew theirs clear up and nobody really cared. We almost purposely made chlorine gas and then I accidentally breached the container and got a mouthful and felt immensely sick all day but nobody really cared either, lol. And this was a top rated high school in my state, not some dump like the next town over, lol.
Wow, that will bring it up to almost the same speed as the 2 year old AMD APUs if I'm not mistaken, lol. Talk about being behind! I was amazed when the first couple P-series graphics adapters came out built into the first Sandy Bridge chips. You could actually play Skyrim on an i3-2100 at low settings and it killed at HD video playback. Now for $110, my demo unit at my shop is an A10 APU with a 6.9 graphics rating. It can play Starcraft II at almost maxed settings at 60FPS at 1280x1024 and the CPU is just a hair slower than an i5-2400 for a crap-ton less money. At least $60 if I remember correctly. The 1866 native memory controller helps too since even Ivy Bridge only hits 1600. So then it's better at video encoding and gaming than any i5. Intel is really playing catch-up at this point. I don't know why everyone's all doom and gloom over AMD getting crushed by Intel. I would have thought that was over by now, especially after releasing Trinity, Zambezi, and Vishera. Those 3 really are better than Intel in almost every way.
My and every Slashdot reader's first question is: fuck you.
And who exactly pulled that out of their ass? No personal devices at my work, period. Same everywhere that has an IT dept worth half a shit.
Too bad Atheros makes the lowest end garbage pile of chips, especially wireless ones. They're in all the cheapest laptops. They fail all the time, generate 1990's era hardware errors, and have the worst driver support imaginable.
They're just going to pass along the amount they pay to their customers so I really don't care.
Or they're attempting to stand still and the Earth is spinning. If it's a constantly spinning object that never slows down, it's immune to outside energy absorption and any friction that would slow it down or speed it up so it may also not want to travel in the unusual motion that the Earth is spinning at while moving around the sun. Wind in a tornado and water in a drain doesn't appear to want to go straight because it does want to go straight and the Earth doesn't, after all.
Yeah, it might just be immune to all outside forces so it just keeps on keeping on. I think that's what they were getting at in the end about how it can't be used to generate energy. I'd still put my money on it absorbing one of the many sources of energy that would be available in an experiment like that. It could even run on radio waves for all they know.
You and the article are right. There might just be an unlimited supply of oil buried in the Earth. That's right, there's a wormhole open to another galaxy that perpetually creates oil as a spontaneous quantum magic trick.
Why would a graphics card want to use virtual memory? Also, what motherboard takes GDDR5? Who the heck wrote this nonsense?
Let me fast forward this a bit because MintChip was discussed on the bitcoin forums months ago. It's bullshit. It's set up completely wrong. It's horribly insecure. It's like a spy-on-you version of bitcoin. Even the encryption style was massively flawed from what I heard. It's absolute, utter crap.
You forgot run 5% of your software that you were running before
Maybe if they're going to hire a person to run an entire corporation's Twitter account, they should know basic internet security. They damn well better fire that idiot.
Wasn't there another game that was rigged to slowly fall apart or something? It was a fairly big title too. Certain sounds and graphical files would just delete themselves randomly every time you loaded it after it was determined to be illegal and soon you were using half a game with unskinned 3D files and stuff. Now THAT was funny. Although, an invincible pink opponent stalking you is up there too.
Here's the world's worst barely formatted copy-paste job for those of you who can't access the site because it got slashdotted (and cloudflare dropped the ball)
When we released our very first game, Game Dev Tycoon (for Mac, Windows and Linux) yesterday, we did something unusual and as far as I know unique. We released a cracked version of the game ourselves, minutes after opening our Store.
I uploaded the torrent to the number one torrent sharing site, gave it a description imitating the scene and asked a few friends to help seed it.
A minute after we uploaded it, my torrent client looked like this:
Soon my upload speed was maxed out (and as of the time of writing still is) and my friends and I had connections from all over the world and for all three platforms! How does piracy feel?
The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn’t want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers. So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message:
Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally. If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.
Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.
Some of the responses I found online (identities obscured to protect the guilty):
Is there some way to avoid that? I mean can I research DRM or something
And another user:
Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!
As a gamer I laughed out loud: the IRONY!!!
However, as the developer, who spent over a year creating this game and hasn’t drawn a salary yet, I wanted to cry. Surely, for most of these players, the 8 dollars wouldn’t hurt them but it makes a huge difference to our future! Trying to appeal to pirates
I know that some people just don’t even think about buying games. They will immediately search for a cracked version. For this reason, when we released the game, we also published a page which targets people who search for a cracked/illegal version. Unfortunately, due to my lack in search-engine-optimization skills, that page has had no impact yet, but I hope it will convince some to buy the game in the future.
[]if years down the track you wonder why there are no games like these anymore and all you get to play is pay-to-play and social games designed to suck money out of your pockets then the reason will stare back at you in the mirror.
I do think it’s important to try to communicate what piracy means to game developers to our consumers. I also tried to appeal to a particular forum a day earlier after someone who I gave early-access to the Store seemed to have passed on the copy to others:
We’re just a start-up and really need your support. The game is only 7.99USD, DRM free
Clearly, my post hadn’t worked too well since on the same forum someone posted the earlier screenshot (“Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!) just a bit after I made my appeal and this was followed by many others complaining about piracy.
I still hope that it made a difference to someone.
Anyway, how many really did buy and how many did pirate our game during this first day? The awesome/depressing results
Today, one day after release, our usage stats look like this:
Genuine version: 214 users
Cracked version: at least 3104 users
Over 93.6% of players stole the game. We know this because our game
It really is down due to traffic. And cloudflare really is playing medical insurance company again. If you're not familiar, it's where you pay and pay and pay for their protection and then that one time when you critically need them, they're useless and refuse to properly do their one single job that they had (they claim there's allegedly no cached version of the page for them to serve up off their servers).
I would only believe this story if he then got in return an accepted patent for a specific type of "rejection response raging." That would approximately sum up their open application, flip a coin, go watch TV methodology that they appear to use.
That is the mother of all trolls. Definitely pirate troll level: British admiral hat and solid gold scabbard
This might be one of those times when everyone in the market is pissing people off with features they don't want getting shoved down their throat (a gigantic, fragile screen with an impossible to type on touchscreen) then one company comes in with exactly what people want. We switched from blackberries to Android phones at my business and now we have zero control over them. There's no centralized anything. It's like a free for all. That is not how you run a business phone system. Also, our salesmen hate the phones and Activesync is a pain in the ass.
Unfortunately, Blackberry's software was memory leaking, server-controlling garbage so hopefully they fixed that this time around. If so, tough and nice to use phones with central control software and easy exchange integration would be lovely. They'll take over the business market instantly.
They should take all their fracking gear, fracking sell it, and build some fracking wind turbines, solar towers, and solar panel arrays. That's really the only camp out there, assuming everyone allowed to go camping has a basic understanding of chemistry and the atmosphere.
NOBODY is going to use anything but a .com ending so it really doesn't matter.