BTC are backed by the very same trust that allows exchange for goods using US Dollars.
Using BTC is indeed a way to extinguish some obligations (if i want to buy a good, the buyer is obligued to give it to you and you are obligated to pay the price) between parties that allows them. Also i fail to see how tax law is related to this, since the whole point of BTC is being unregulated currency so taxes play no role whatsoever on any transaction involving bitcoins.
While I do recognize that the trust behind us dollars is greater than in BTC, the issues they face are common. They are just different in magnitude.
"I’ve contacted both the vendor involved and AMI to alert them to the issue. Obviously, I won’t be releasing the name of the vendor, the FTP address, or anything that was seen on the server."
Consumers don't want to pay what it costs to produce decent hardware, so it's a race to the bottom. HP is no exception to market forces.
Thanks for the accurate fix. Maybe i'm bad at judging good hardware but i own 2 samsung laptops (the newer has less that a month, the older 3 years) with no issues... even after i usually run heavy simulations on them. That stability along the years has made me trust samsung more than HP and i don't think they are racing to the bottom.
I've been always an HP fan, so i'm sad to say this.
Long history short, HP really need to focus on a market they can serve well. Let it be big data software or hardware, but they need to hurry since they already have lost a lot of revenue over the years and some big projects didn't go well (such as HP tablets). Sadly if this adquisition is so known to be a "fraud" there will be less demand for those Big Data tools or they will have to set lower prices.
The sad thing is that HP is really sloppy at hardware right now. I bought a HP laptop (a DV6 envy) very powerful and pretty (i was delighted by the design), BUT with windows 8. I thought "just buy it and then unistall that piece of malware" so i did buy it. BTW i tried to use W8, but i just failed to turn it off properly, (how in the world the shutdown options are in the charm bar at the desktop under "Settings"!!), to get rid of those pesky apps, to make the Metro less bloated and a lot of etc.
After one hour of looking for a way to disable UEFI (some shady forums helped me actually) and boot from a windows 7 dvd (changing the order of the boot devices doesn't work) i tried for what it seems an hour to install windows 7. At the very last step i had an error of incompatible hardware. I just went mad, i don't get it how an OS that isn't old (last year was the most advanced windows OS) was incompatible with a brand new laptop. I asked for a refund so i got a samsung instead (not that pretty but the inside is what it counts).
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so... it finally expired?
BTC are backed by the very same trust that allows exchange for goods using US Dollars.
Using BTC is indeed a way to extinguish some obligations (if i want to buy a good, the buyer is obligued to give it to you and you are obligated to pay the price) between parties that allows them. Also i fail to see how tax law is related to this, since the whole point of BTC is being unregulated currency so taxes play no role whatsoever on any transaction involving bitcoins.
While I do recognize that the trust behind us dollars is greater than in BTC, the issues they face are common. They are just different in magnitude.
please mod up... finally someone nails the concept of fiat money. Many people here think that dollars are backed by something (gold??)
More than one please
an interesting evidence about some "recent" mass extintion event:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_extinction#Lesser_extinctions
North Korea?
actually it comes from this article:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/150207-chinese-physicists-measure-speed-of-einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance-at-least-10000-times-faster-than-light
But I'm sure most civilians prefer an empty computer rather than being dead...
News at 11
oh for the irony...
Seig hail to our new Sintax Nazi Overlord
From one of the features FA:
"I’ve contacted both the vendor involved and AMI to alert them to the issue. Obviously, I won’t be releasing the name of the vendor, the FTP address, or anything that was seen on the server."
Maybe we won't see it ever :(
Care to elaborate a little?? Please?
It just adds to the confusion, making 8 even more of a disaster than it already was.
So it's a win :)
Consumers don't want to pay what it costs to produce decent hardware, so it's a race to the bottom. HP is no exception to market forces.
Thanks for the accurate fix. Maybe i'm bad at judging good hardware but i own 2 samsung laptops (the newer has less that a month, the older 3 years) with no issues... even after i usually run heavy simulations on them. That stability along the years has made me trust samsung more than HP and i don't think they are racing to the bottom.
I got a envy dv6-7280... but with incompatible software :(
I've been always an HP fan, so i'm sad to say this.
Long history short, HP really need to focus on a market they can serve well. Let it be big data software or hardware, but they need to hurry since they already have lost a lot of revenue over the years and some big projects didn't go well (such as HP tablets). Sadly if this adquisition is so known to be a "fraud" there will be less demand for those Big Data tools or they will have to set lower prices.
The sad thing is that HP is really sloppy at hardware right now. I bought a HP laptop (a DV6 envy) very powerful and pretty (i was delighted by the design), BUT with windows 8. I thought "just buy it and then unistall that piece of malware" so i did buy it. BTW i tried to use W8, but i just failed to turn it off properly, (how in the world the shutdown options are in the charm bar at the desktop under "Settings"!!), to get rid of those pesky apps, to make the Metro less bloated and a lot of etc.
After one hour of looking for a way to disable UEFI (some shady forums helped me actually) and boot from a windows 7 dvd (changing the order of the boot devices doesn't work) i tried for what it seems an hour to install windows 7. At the very last step i had an error of incompatible hardware. I just went mad, i don't get it how an OS that isn't old (last year was the most advanced windows OS) was incompatible with a brand new laptop. I asked for a refund so i got a samsung instead (not that pretty but the inside is what it counts).
Your proposed solution will not stop robocalls because you are not using a host file
FTFY
oh god, this post made my day!
damn!, i just spent all my mod points
Obligatory xkcd http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
The question is... can someone outside cern replicate the experiments?? I think not, so concensus is the best we can get
So let's innocents pay for the sinners, well thought