I bought a few call contracts on Apple for cheap not long ago. The spot price is rapidly approaching my strike price. Everybody just keep saying "Apple" and "$1 Billion" for the next week or so...
Netflix had an opportunity to transform their business and their clientele but chose instead to overreact. They should have slowly phased out DVD-by-mail by paring down the available DVD catalog in favor of streaming offerings without charging their customers higher fees. I personally would not have been offended by having to stream a show or a movie because it was no longer offered as a DVD. I might have been disappointed that Blu-Ray was no longer an option for certain things but doubt I would have quit as a subscriber over that. They took exactly the wrong action: cut down my options and ask me to pay double. Instant ragequit.
There seems to be some confusion in the thread. This isn't some new/offbeat method to generate power. It's an old/offbeat method to store power. Many power plants use methods for storing power when demand is low. Most pump water uphill and use the potential energy to meet a rising demand. Some efficiency is lost but it allows them to keep generating power (read cash) until the power can be sold. On a side note: Utilities count the stored power as actual assets on their balance sheets.
That's just what we need. A full on 3D printer roundup and jamboree. Judge them all for build quality, cost, reliability, cost of material, scope of products, speed....you name it. Best 3d Pinter gets to be the King of Ars Tecnicha for a day. We can even give out 3D printed printers to everyone who attends.
when the self destruct sequence starts. I mean there's a self destruct measure built in, right?....you know to scuttle the thing?...in case it gets captured....oh nvm...jeez
Morgan Freeman
David Attenborough
Mike Rowe
Patrick Stewart ...would all probably be universally accepted.
Unacceptable:
Bobcat Goldthwait
Almost anyone from Pulp Fiction ( Christopher Walken, Steve Buschemi, John Travolta....Sammuel Jackson's voice might not be bad.)
Chairman Kaga
Marlon Brando ...you add some more...
A complete lack of apps (even after installing preware).
Really, it's this. I'll probably use my Touchpad alot more now that I have CM/Android market on it but I already miss flicking stuff off of the screen.
In a perfect world WebOS developement carries on as FOSS.
Do you seriously not see the irony in inhaler companies using ozone-depleting greenhouse gasses in their products? It's almost as bad as GE (PCB polluter extraordinaire) selling water purification systems.
That's not irony. That's a self-sustaining business model.
... inflation, and will globally rise prices if the horde is big enough..For the Horde!/me raises fist . However, the critical point: having a huge horde is a one time deal...Strength and Honor!.../train...
[quote]They generate at a fixed rate up to the defined total number of coins...you don't get more coins the more computing power is dedicated to it...[/quote]
Seems to me that his would be deflationary. The more effort/work put into getting a bitcoin, the more value it has (theoretically). The mostly constant rate that they are generated disallows arbitrarily increasing the number of bitcoins in existence and thereby devaluing the currency. Inflation is the same thing as currency devaluation.
The main advantage of a pool is the steady payout. You get paid a small share of the solved blocks a few times an hour instead waiting weeks to get the payout for entire block. Typically your pool account with allow you to claim you bitcoins every 24 hours. Botnets are going to be comprised of many horribly weak miners (probably CPUs not GPUs) and even a huge botnet won't be able to solve a block in 24 hours. The incentive to use a pool is the same for those mining on a botnet as those mining on their own hardware.
Anyone running a mining pool knew this was out there or should know. One account with hundreds of connections from different machines turning in a relatively small number of shares points straight to botnet activity.
I understand what you're getting at here: cue vs. queue but this is one case where it doesn't really matter. I think the spirit of the OP is equally reflected whether we tell the critics to get in line to start or we give them the signal to start. Personally, I think "queue" is probably more relevant for the Slashdot crowd .
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I bought a few call contracts on Apple for cheap not long ago. The spot price is rapidly approaching my strike price. Everybody just keep saying "Apple" and "$1 Billion" for the next week or so...
I am an IT professional who happens to enjoy smoking a little weed from time to time in my off hours.
Holy crap that never happens.
Netflix had an opportunity to transform their business and their clientele but chose instead to overreact. They should have slowly phased out DVD-by-mail by paring down the available DVD catalog in favor of streaming offerings without charging their customers higher fees. I personally would not have been offended by having to stream a show or a movie because it was no longer offered as a DVD. I might have been disappointed that Blu-Ray was no longer an option for certain things but doubt I would have quit as a subscriber over that. They took exactly the wrong action: cut down my options and ask me to pay double. Instant ragequit.
GP was obviously being sarcastic.
No way! Really?
Thought that was sarcasmny
There seems to be some confusion in the thread. This isn't some new/offbeat method to generate power. It's an old/offbeat method to store power. Many power plants use methods for storing power when demand is low. Most pump water uphill and use the potential energy to meet a rising demand. Some efficiency is lost but it allows them to keep generating power (read cash) until the power can be sold. On a side note: Utilities count the stored power as actual assets on their balance sheets.
That's just what we need. A full on 3D printer roundup and jamboree. Judge them all for build quality, cost, reliability, cost of material, scope of products, speed....you name it. Best 3d Pinter gets to be the King of Ars Tecnicha for a day. We can even give out 3D printed printers to everyone who attends.
By and large they speak Farsi in Iran. Saying they don't speak Arabic is like saying we don't speak Spanish in America.
when the self destruct sequence starts. I mean there's a self destruct measure built in, right?....you know to scuttle the thing?...in case it gets captured....oh nvm...jeez
Netflix lost 800,000 subscribers.
..and their revenues were up 65% for the quarter.
There was no need to raise their prices the way they did.
I got plenty of other options. Fuck em.
Morgan Freeman
...would all probably be universally accepted.
...you add some more...
David Attenborough
Mike Rowe
Patrick Stewart
Unacceptable:
Bobcat Goldthwait
Almost anyone from Pulp Fiction ( Christopher Walken, Steve Buschemi, John Travolta....Sammuel Jackson's voice might not be bad.)
Chairman Kaga
Marlon Brando
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matsushita-Panasonic-Model-JA-751-8-Floppy-Drive-/370528490698?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item56453814ca
I imagine that movie cameras as welll will be available though ebay or similar for a long ling time to come.
A complete lack of apps (even after installing preware).
Really, it's this. I'll probably use my Touchpad alot more now that I have CM/Android market on it but I already miss flicking stuff off of the screen.
In a perfect world WebOS developement carries on as FOSS.
Do you seriously not see the irony in inhaler companies using ozone-depleting greenhouse gasses in their products? It's almost as bad as GE (PCB polluter extraordinaire) selling water purification systems.
That's not irony. That's a self-sustaining business model.
... inflation, and will globally rise prices if the horde is big enough..For the Horde! /me raises fist . However, the critical point: having a huge horde is a one time deal...Strength and Honor!.../train...
FTFY
...is spinning in his grave.
...the Wicked Witch is dead.
[quote]They generate at a fixed rate up to the defined total number of coins...you don't get more coins the more computing power is dedicated to it...[/quote] Seems to me that his would be deflationary. The more effort/work put into getting a bitcoin, the more value it has (theoretically). The mostly constant rate that they are generated disallows arbitrarily increasing the number of bitcoins in existence and thereby devaluing the currency. Inflation is the same thing as currency devaluation.
The main advantage of a pool is the steady payout. You get paid a small share of the solved blocks a few times an hour instead waiting weeks to get the payout for entire block. Typically your pool account with allow you to claim you bitcoins every 24 hours. Botnets are going to be comprised of many horribly weak miners (probably CPUs not GPUs) and even a huge botnet won't be able to solve a block in 24 hours. The incentive to use a pool is the same for those mining on a botnet as those mining on their own hardware.
Anyone running a mining pool knew this was out there or should know. One account with hundreds of connections from different machines turning in a relatively small number of shares points straight to botnet activity.
I'm so sure how this makes Bitcoins "inflationary". Could you explain?
errr....*not sure...doh
I'm so sure how this makes Bitcoins "inflationary". Could you explain?
I remember that license violations are rampant without slashdot shoving down my throat every god damn day.
No, you don't...and you certainly don't do anything about it.
I understand what you're getting at here: cue vs. queue but this is one case where it doesn't really matter. I think the spirit of the OP is equally reflected whether we tell the critics to get in line to start or we give them the signal to start. Personally, I think "queue" is probably more relevant for the Slashdot crowd .
13,000MPH....blast through the air for about a half hour... Shagging that is gonna be a schlep.