That's certainly also an issue. My fingers give off basically zero oil ever for some reason but I also like eat food while watching Netflix:-P Speaking of that, try hitting that little fast forward/rewind bar in every media playing interface ever with your finger. It is not possible, lol.
But their extensive user testing shows that people love reading tiny text that they can barely see.
By the way, I hate Apple but I hate vertical touch screens for everyday PC use because it's a stupid gimmick that makes people feel all futuristic when in reality it's 1/3 the speed of a mouse. What a paradox!
If you practice at something for years, you get better at it. I played video games for a lot of years and now I'm a puzzle-solving genius by 100 years ago standards. It's all because of video games.
For all of you that understand the technical inner workings of the bitcoin network (from what I've seen in comments, that's zero of you), you can very easily use the open source source code for the client but rig it to run in more of a litecoin configuration and store text data instead of bitcoin transactions. That would be 100% secure, fake-proof, and block-resistant just like the bitcoin network. Of course, once a block is written, by definition, it is impossible to modify so it would be unmoderatable and heavily spammed. That's actually a problem with my idea and theirs. P2P means anyone can put anything in it they want and there is no master moderator that can delete it.
I guess by "promote healthy pricing" they mean guarantee that every other major country will start their own mining operation and eventually all but put them out of business. I think they really meant they're greedy assholes driving the price up but my proposed end result is more realistic.
Just about every square meter of England is covered in Wifi so I can't imagine anyone being out of range for a meaningful length of time and having to actually use mobile broadband at all.
So now they get no Google maps renewal guaranteed, no screens from Samsung for any products, no licensing for anything Samsung owns, serious 4G LTE patent problems, everyone else in the entire industry hates them and it actively trying to destroy them, and they don't even get their 1 billion in all likelihood. Wow, great business strategy there, Apple.
Exactly. I can do mouse operations 10x faster than a 3 year old so since the UI is about 10x slower and less efficient, that brings us back down to the same level. I keep telling everyone their UI is designed like a tablet for 8 year olds but I may have to drop it to 3.
Well clearly the author is way ahead of you, lol. They're probably thinking that if it was just that, Samsung would embed a secret code to display "Apple sucks" after 100 power cycles on all their screens.
So after all the "bigger screen, MOAR PIXELZ!!!!1!!!" ad campaign for the new iPhone, they made this one lower res and smaller and rebooted old technology. I didn't know Apple customers' top 3 wanted features were decrementing the version number, less pixels, and a smaller viewing area.
You would think it only takes 1 week for people en masse to determine you can't type remotely quickly on a tablet but indeed, it does seem to take 2-3 years. We do seem to be on the tail end of it though. I was more than happy to see netbooks go and these can follow right along.
Yeah, with little if any magnetic field and barely any atmosphere so tons of radiation reaching the surface, and an unlikely chance that alien life has DNA as we know it, that sounds like a great idea.
The total capacity of riders is increasing at a slower rate than their population so technically the "amount" of available high speed rail is going down, lol.
Unfortunately, this will still not stop hardcore Apple fanboys. They don't care about human rights violations, attempted green technology policy violations, etc. The phone could explode and burn half their face off and they'd still treat Steve Jobs like a diety and claim all Apple products are flawless in every way. At least news like this will stop more level-headed customers from buying it.
They're making a Bitcoin credit card right now that's backed by a pretty major processor/underwriter/whatever that does an automatic currency conversion.
I made a lot of money on bitcoins so you're wrong.
No.
You mad a lot of imaginary money which you will never be able to spend on anything tangible.
Uhhhh no, US dollars in my hand right now (well last May). That's what the exchanges do! OBVIOUSLY! I sold off 41 BTC and currently have 0.56 BTC. In fact, I already spent the money. All my mining hardware was paid off as well as the electricity. Then I sold the hardware. I made money. Deal with it.
The bitcoin protocol was designed to have the per-block mining reward split in 2 (50 BTC to 25BTC) after like 180,000 blocks or something like that and we're a couple weeks away from that. That means the supply will drop but whatever the demand currently is will stay the same. In theory, it will eventually double in price. Nobody will ever "run out" of BTC though since it's divisible by like 8 decimal places or something. So if there's not enough to go around, the price would be $1000 USD per BTC and people would be buying stuff for 0.00001 BTC instead of 1 BTC. The only big thing about that is when you bought them and how long you held them. The major plateau prices that held stable for long times over the last 2 or so years were $7/BTC then $33 then $0.01 during a big hack, then $8 then $11 then another big hack so around $3.50-4 then $12-ish now. So there's money to be made if you're patient enough and buy at the right time!
It is absolutely, completely impossible to fake a transaction, get any sort of "chargeback" against you, or have your funds frozen or locked out. So yeah, it's not quite the same as normal currency. There are pros and cons but people are using it because of the pros and guarding against the cons as much as possible. Anyone who says it's a perfect replacement for our current currency system is crazy though.
I wonder how many of these were generated early on and are being hoarded by the early adopters. The rate at which bitcoins can be created out of thin air is artificially controlled to keep production at a steady pace. What I'm curious about is how many bitcoins were created initially before they gained widespread publicity, and are those being hoarded?
A LOT! There are several people on the forums confirmed to have over 100,000 BTC.
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That's certainly also an issue. My fingers give off basically zero oil ever for some reason but I also like eat food while watching Netflix :-P Speaking of that, try hitting that little fast forward/rewind bar in every media playing interface ever with your finger. It is not possible, lol.
But their extensive user testing shows that people love reading tiny text that they can barely see.
By the way, I hate Apple but I hate vertical touch screens for everyday PC use because it's a stupid gimmick that makes people feel all futuristic when in reality it's 1/3 the speed of a mouse. What a paradox!
If you practice at something for years, you get better at it. I played video games for a lot of years and now I'm a puzzle-solving genius by 100 years ago standards. It's all because of video games.
For all of you that understand the technical inner workings of the bitcoin network (from what I've seen in comments, that's zero of you), you can very easily use the open source source code for the client but rig it to run in more of a litecoin configuration and store text data instead of bitcoin transactions. That would be 100% secure, fake-proof, and block-resistant just like the bitcoin network. Of course, once a block is written, by definition, it is impossible to modify so it would be unmoderatable and heavily spammed. That's actually a problem with my idea and theirs. P2P means anyone can put anything in it they want and there is no master moderator that can delete it.
I guess by "promote healthy pricing" they mean guarantee that every other major country will start their own mining operation and eventually all but put them out of business. I think they really meant they're greedy assholes driving the price up but my proposed end result is more realistic.
could just read a stock market ticker too. It's artificial numbers based on pretend money. It's like Monopoly but more fake.
Damn right. Burn the alcohol, lol. Make like 190 proof wine and torch that stuff.
In other words switch to Linux? lol. They're certainly encouraging me.
Just about every square meter of England is covered in Wifi so I can't imagine anyone being out of range for a meaningful length of time and having to actually use mobile broadband at all.
So now they get no Google maps renewal guaranteed, no screens from Samsung for any products, no licensing for anything Samsung owns, serious 4G LTE patent problems, everyone else in the entire industry hates them and it actively trying to destroy them, and they don't even get their 1 billion in all likelihood. Wow, great business strategy there, Apple.
Exactly. I can do mouse operations 10x faster than a 3 year old so since the UI is about 10x slower and less efficient, that brings us back down to the same level. I keep telling everyone their UI is designed like a tablet for 8 year olds but I may have to drop it to 3.
Well clearly the author is way ahead of you, lol. They're probably thinking that if it was just that, Samsung would embed a secret code to display "Apple sucks" after 100 power cycles on all their screens.
So after all the "bigger screen, MOAR PIXELZ!!!!1!!!" ad campaign for the new iPhone, they made this one lower res and smaller and rebooted old technology. I didn't know Apple customers' top 3 wanted features were decrementing the version number, less pixels, and a smaller viewing area.
You would think it only takes 1 week for people en masse to determine you can't type remotely quickly on a tablet but indeed, it does seem to take 2-3 years. We do seem to be on the tail end of it though. I was more than happy to see netbooks go and these can follow right along.
Yeah, with little if any magnetic field and barely any atmosphere so tons of radiation reaching the surface, and an unlikely chance that alien life has DNA as we know it, that sounds like a great idea.
The total capacity of riders is increasing at a slower rate than their population so technically the "amount" of available high speed rail is going down, lol.
Foxconn FFS! What planet are you from?!
except, "In the future all apps will be required to use the Advertising Identifier. However, until then you may still receive targeted ads."
Whoa whoa whoa, there mister technology-whore. Just remember...
Real hipsters use typewriters
Unfortunately, this will still not stop hardcore Apple fanboys. They don't care about human rights violations, attempted green technology policy violations, etc. The phone could explode and burn half their face off and they'd still treat Steve Jobs like a diety and claim all Apple products are flawless in every way. At least news like this will stop more level-headed customers from buying it.
They're making a Bitcoin credit card right now that's backed by a pretty major processor/underwriter/whatever that does an automatic currency conversion.
I made a lot of money on bitcoins so you're wrong.
No.
You mad a lot of imaginary money which you will never be able to spend on anything tangible.
Uhhhh no, US dollars in my hand right now (well last May). That's what the exchanges do! OBVIOUSLY! I sold off 41 BTC and currently have 0.56 BTC. In fact, I already spent the money. All my mining hardware was paid off as well as the electricity. Then I sold the hardware. I made money. Deal with it.
The bitcoin protocol was designed to have the per-block mining reward split in 2 (50 BTC to 25BTC) after like 180,000 blocks or something like that and we're a couple weeks away from that. That means the supply will drop but whatever the demand currently is will stay the same. In theory, it will eventually double in price. Nobody will ever "run out" of BTC though since it's divisible by like 8 decimal places or something. So if there's not enough to go around, the price would be $1000 USD per BTC and people would be buying stuff for 0.00001 BTC instead of 1 BTC. The only big thing about that is when you bought them and how long you held them. The major plateau prices that held stable for long times over the last 2 or so years were $7/BTC then $33 then $0.01 during a big hack, then $8 then $11 then another big hack so around $3.50-4 then $12-ish now. So there's money to be made if you're patient enough and buy at the right time!
It is absolutely, completely impossible to fake a transaction, get any sort of "chargeback" against you, or have your funds frozen or locked out. So yeah, it's not quite the same as normal currency. There are pros and cons but people are using it because of the pros and guarding against the cons as much as possible. Anyone who says it's a perfect replacement for our current currency system is crazy though.
I wonder how many of these were generated early on and are being hoarded by the early adopters. The rate at which bitcoins can be created out of thin air is artificially controlled to keep production at a steady pace. What I'm curious about is how many bitcoins were created initially before they gained widespread publicity, and are those being hoarded?
A LOT! There are several people on the forums confirmed to have over 100,000 BTC.