The definition of a shitcoin is one which isn't heavily used. So all you're saying is that Bitcoin is immune to problems specific to shitcoins so long as it doesn't become a shitcoin. But the potential for it to become one certainly exists.
"They don't have to keep letting you download it in the future."
Correct, unless they also offer free "cloud storage" (iCloud). At that point they are deceiving customers into thinking it operates just like every other cloud storage service out there, none of which do this. But iCloud is not actually true cloud storage in the traditional sense.
Sorry for replying twice, but this assertion needs addressing as well: "When the movie companies change their contracts on Apple, this is what happens."
Yet somehow other cloud storage services like Google seem to never have this problem. Seems only Apple signed a contract with the movie companies to promise to screw their cloud customers over if need be.
The way I see it, Apple is being extremely dishonest by branding this "ability to redownload them onto other devices and at a later time" as "Cloud Storage". Cloud Storage to most people means a place to store one's personal files online, such that they can later retrieve them, period. Most iCloud users I know don't keep physical backups and assume everything is retrievable even if their Apple devices are lost.
I have avoided Apple like the plauge for years for precisely these kind of shady business practices. I am shocked that/. has devolved to the point that the majority here would defend this chicanery.
On the other hand, if he gets away with it, he should be awarded for such epic trolling of the market. Bravo, sir. Well played, you filthy, filthy troll.
The reason they don't offer DSL in your area is because they don't want to spend the cost of making it available there. Even though it uses existing phone lines, they still need to install special hardware every mile(?) or so to propagate the signal out to the next DSL switch or nearby customers. This is what I've heard at least.
Right, but if it that inherited genetic difference causes someone to react more strongly to certain types of emotional situations, they may try to rationalize why they are different based on delusional theories like superstition.
Actually it's possible to write template functions which link with other code from one source file to another. Unlike macros, which absolutely do need to be in a header file.
This is not correct though surprisingly many programmers believe it. Sad that here on/. it appears to be everyone.
You CAN implement your template functions outside of the header file provided you include the necessary data types it will operate on, and you make sure to instantiate every possible version you want your other source files to be able to link with. It is very useful if you know which datatypes you plan to run through your templates. And if you don't know your datatypes up front, templates are probably not your best solution anyways.
I for one find it infuriating that they can't balance the budget and must either raise taxes or cut spending simply because pointless expenditures like this apparently take precedence.
And sadly probably half the population is not the least bit upset, instead just thinking "good job guys! serves him right, that no-good trash-talking tweeter!"
The beer? That's one major reason why I would NOT want to move there. Now New Zealand on the other hand...so close geographically, yet their beer tends to be waaay better and also not so ridiculously overpriced.
I think just because "worse" reads so similar to "even worse", some people might feel it has that connotation, even though the speaker often doesn't mean it like that. In the literal sense, I think the original summary is correct.
If they really wanted to be clear, perhaps it should have read "... update intended to worsen its phones". That seems pretty connotation-free.
Well now, LA's average low in winter is lower than that of San Francisco. So if SF is not too cold in the winter, shouldn't it also qualify for your "perfect" designation, as it's certainly not too hot in the summer there? Also, if you live within a kilometer or so of the beach, the fog, moisture, and salt from the ocean air, especially if you park AT the beach very often, will age your car rather rapidly.
I completely agree, my friend. Wish we could get more people to champion the flat income tax idea. It is unfathomable to me how many people can defend such a complex tax system with so many loopholes for investors and corporations to circumvent paying their fair share.
Simple tax scheme with no deductions/loopholes + not juicing poor people with consumption tax = massive win for society
I know everyone's having a jolly good time bashing how stupid Americans are for the weaknesses in their phone plan options, but what about the strengths of what AT+T offers? I will focus on non-data users, where the US offerings are particularly appealing. First of all, it can be really cheap. If you get a few friends on a "family plan" with AT+T, you can basically get unlimited voice calling for a family of four for like $20 per person per month, including free phones for all. Talk to anyone anywhere in the US, any time of day, as much as you like, and don't pay more than $20. Ok now, I'm stretching the truth a little, because the minutes are not actually unlimited, however if your family consists of normal/typical Americans, it's very unlikely that they would all talk enough to use up the minutes that come with the plan. I talked for hours nearly every day, as did my brother, and we never hit the limit. Also, mobile-to-mobile AT+T minutes don't count against your balance, which would typically include a lot of people who you would be calling anyways.
I've traveled through a LOT of countries in the past couple of years, and for someone who actually likes to TALK on the phone, few places beat the USA pricewise. Many countries, like Australia or Japan, do not offer many "talking" minutes. Prepaid 3G internet via USB stick was surprisingly cheap in NZ and Australia, but voice calls were not. The locals told me they usually only SMS each other since they can't make many calls without paying loads. Japan is similar with messages being used because calls are prohibitively expensive. In Los Angeles, people talk for hours every day while sitting in traffic just to entertain themselves, and they don't have to pay much for it. When I returned to LA from my travels, I added myself to my family's plan for only $15 extra a month, and did not get locked into a contract. $15 a month for virtually unlimited calling and no contract, using my a phone I already owned (a free phone from AT+T would have required a contract). Even without a family plan to mooch off of, prices for plans with massive amounts of talking minutes but additional fees for data or texts are still quite cheap. If you can call instead of text, good luck finding service with that many talking minutes at that price in many other countries.
Almost every country screws you in one way or another on your cell phone communications. In the US, it's tethering fees, expensive data plans, trying to lock you into contracts, and outrageous per-msg fees for sending or receiving(!) texts unless you also pay an outrageous additional $15 per month for unlimited texts. In many countries it's expensive talk times that prohibit your ability to have long unimportant conversations with your friends. At least there's Skype for jailbroken data users:) My cell phone and plan options here in Japan super-suck and I really wish I were getting a US type of plan. On the bright side, having email in your cell phones without a data plan is quite nice though.
One last point of interest. Those "free phones" from AT+T in the US can actually make money for you! I know a guy who would unlock/jailbreak his free iPhone from AT+T, then as soon as he's eligible to upgrade to a new model (for free or heavily discounted) and renew his contract with AT+T, he would sell the unlocked/jailbroken phone on Ebay for a lot of money. Repeating this every year or however often they offer it ends up getting him an awful lot of money back on what he's paying them.
You nailed it. So sad we can't agree upon and implement a better system that would foster actual competition and drive down unnecessary profit margins.
I just wrote that anonymous comment, not intending it to be anonymous. I wasn't logged in and it never gave me the choice between logging in or posting anonymously. It just posted it anonymously! Guess I have to log in beforehand now...
I disagree. I live in Japan, and some if not all major providers don't allow tethering in Japan either, and will charge (or fine) you a whole lot extra to do it, just like AT+T in the states.
It's actually worse here because you can't just pay for a "smartphone plan" and then use whichever unlocked smartphone you like. It's virtually impossible to bring your own smartphone from the US, for example, to Japan, and have them approve it for use on their network with a reasonably-priced unlimited data plan, unless it is the same as one of the models they sell/support. You may still get it to work, but if they detect that you weren't using the phone they approved you to use, they will charge you outrageous metered data/tethering fees. To them, I believe using anything other than the single approved device that goes with your unlimited data contract is considered tethering (whether it actually tethered through another device or not).
What sucks about USA service is that they pay per msg to *receive* text messages. I think Canada may do the same.
They've more than just "convinced" me that I need a plan that includes text messages. "Forced" is more like it. I'm 31 years old and the majority of my friends, around my age, rely on text messages extensively to coordinate all sorts of social events. I've been told that it costs $5.00 a month just to block the ability to receive those messages! Not to mention that half my friends would be too lazy to call me instead of texting, because they aren't used to having to do that for anyone else. So I pay $5.00 extra per month for 200 texts, and I have to be really careful to not go over that limit, which basically means I have to tell certain friends to "just stop texting me".
It's really rotten that the US is one of the only places where they charge you to RECEIVE texts!
Probably the worst example of these sort of ridiculously unfair pricing schemes is text messaging. Remember when text messages first came out in the US, and they were only 5 cents per msg? Over the five years or so following that, their price inched all the way up to where it is now, 25 cents per msg I think (or is it 20?). Either way a 400%+ increase in price, despite the fact that most networks can handle more traffic now than they could back then.
The obvious cause for this is lack of competition. There's simply no incentive for the few companies holding down the monopoly on cell services to charge any less for text messaging.
It's frustrating that our govt either can't or won't do anything to open up the market to more competition.
I think Google's Picasa also has an option for you to upload your photos in full-res without downsizing them, so it could have been downloaded from a Picasa Web Album.
You take a crap because of the guy's name. The phrase wasn't in usage until he came up with his inventions.
According to Wikipedia, your statement is false.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper: 'It is incorrectly claimed that the verb "To crap" comes from Crapper, but the verb first came into use before Crapper was born. It is believed that this could be an example of nominative determinism, in which people are more likely to do a job connected with their name.'
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The definition of a shitcoin is one which isn't heavily used. So all you're saying is that Bitcoin is immune to problems specific to shitcoins so long as it doesn't become a shitcoin. But the potential for it to become one certainly exists.
of course if you ghost your employer resulting in damages then you are an asshole
Not always, sometimes they are the asshole and they deserve it.
"They don't have to keep letting you download it in the future."
Correct, unless they also offer free "cloud storage" (iCloud). At that point they are deceiving customers into thinking it operates just like every other cloud storage service out there, none of which do this. But iCloud is not actually true cloud storage in the traditional sense.
What you describe was once brilliantly portrayed for an entire episode of South Park. They had Apple pinned for doing this kind of shit years ago.
Sorry for replying twice, but this assertion needs addressing as well:
"When the movie companies change their contracts on Apple, this is what happens."
Yet somehow other cloud storage services like Google seem to never have this problem. Seems only Apple signed a contract with the movie companies to promise to screw their cloud customers over if need be.
The way I see it, Apple is being extremely dishonest by branding this "ability to redownload them onto other devices and at a later time" as "Cloud Storage". Cloud Storage to most people means a place to store one's personal files online, such that they can later retrieve them, period. Most iCloud users I know don't keep physical backups and assume everything is retrievable even if their Apple devices are lost.
I have avoided Apple like the plauge for years for precisely these kind of shady business practices. I am shocked that /. has devolved to the point that the majority here would defend this chicanery.
On the other hand, if he gets away with it, he should be awarded for such epic trolling of the market. Bravo, sir. Well played, you filthy, filthy troll.
You can still unlock the bootloader. I did.
And I agree with your complaints.
The reason they don't offer DSL in your area is because they don't want to spend the cost of making it available there. Even though it uses existing phone lines, they still need to install special hardware every mile(?) or so to propagate the signal out to the next DSL switch or nearby customers. This is what I've heard at least.
Right, but if it that inherited genetic difference causes someone to react more strongly to certain types of emotional situations, they may try to rationalize why they are different based on delusional theories like superstition.
Actually it's possible to write template functions which link with other code from one source file to another. Unlike macros, which absolutely do need to be in a header file.
This is not correct though surprisingly many programmers believe it. Sad that here on /. it appears to be everyone.
You CAN implement your template functions outside of the header file provided you include the necessary data types it will operate on, and you make sure to instantiate every possible version you want your other source files to be able to link with. It is very useful if you know which datatypes you plan to run through your templates. And if you don't know your datatypes up front, templates are probably not your best solution anyways.
Yeah, time I add my two cents to this discussion as well... Beta sucks.
I for one find it infuriating that they can't balance the budget and must either raise taxes or cut spending simply because pointless expenditures like this apparently take precedence.
And sadly probably half the population is not the least bit upset, instead just thinking "good job guys! serves him right, that no-good trash-talking tweeter!"
The beer? That's one major reason why I would NOT want to move there. Now New Zealand on the other hand...so close geographically, yet their beer tends to be waaay better and also not so ridiculously overpriced.
I think just because "worse" reads so similar to "even worse", some people might feel it has that connotation, even though the speaker often doesn't mean it like that. In the literal sense, I think the original summary is correct.
If they really wanted to be clear, perhaps it should have read "... update intended to worsen its phones". That seems pretty connotation-free.
Well now, LA's average low in winter is lower than that of San Francisco. So if SF is not too cold in the winter, shouldn't it also qualify for your "perfect" designation, as it's certainly not too hot in the summer there? Also, if you live within a kilometer or so of the beach, the fog, moisture, and salt from the ocean air, especially if you park AT the beach very often, will age your car rather rapidly.
I completely agree, my friend. Wish we could get more people to champion the flat income tax idea. It is unfathomable to me how many people can defend such a complex tax system with so many loopholes for investors and corporations to circumvent paying their fair share.
Simple tax scheme with no deductions/loopholes + not juicing poor people with consumption tax = massive win for society
I know everyone's having a jolly good time bashing how stupid Americans are for the weaknesses in their phone plan options, but what about the strengths of what AT+T offers? I will focus on non-data users, where the US offerings are particularly appealing. First of all, it can be really cheap. If you get a few friends on a "family plan" with AT+T, you can basically get unlimited voice calling for a family of four for like $20 per person per month, including free phones for all. Talk to anyone anywhere in the US, any time of day, as much as you like, and don't pay more than $20. Ok now, I'm stretching the truth a little, because the minutes are not actually unlimited, however if your family consists of normal/typical Americans, it's very unlikely that they would all talk enough to use up the minutes that come with the plan. I talked for hours nearly every day, as did my brother, and we never hit the limit. Also, mobile-to-mobile AT+T minutes don't count against your balance, which would typically include a lot of people who you would be calling anyways.
I've traveled through a LOT of countries in the past couple of years, and for someone who actually likes to TALK on the phone, few places beat the USA pricewise. Many countries, like Australia or Japan, do not offer many "talking" minutes. Prepaid 3G internet via USB stick was surprisingly cheap in NZ and Australia, but voice calls were not. The locals told me they usually only SMS each other since they can't make many calls without paying loads. Japan is similar with messages being used because calls are prohibitively expensive. In Los Angeles, people talk for hours every day while sitting in traffic just to entertain themselves, and they don't have to pay much for it. When I returned to LA from my travels, I added myself to my family's plan for only $15 extra a month, and did not get locked into a contract. $15 a month for virtually unlimited calling and no contract, using my a phone I already owned (a free phone from AT+T would have required a contract). Even without a family plan to mooch off of, prices for plans with massive amounts of talking minutes but additional fees for data or texts are still quite cheap. If you can call instead of text, good luck finding service with that many talking minutes at that price in many other countries.
Almost every country screws you in one way or another on your cell phone communications. In the US, it's tethering fees, expensive data plans, trying to lock you into contracts, and outrageous per-msg fees for sending or receiving(!) texts unless you also pay an outrageous additional $15 per month for unlimited texts. In many countries it's expensive talk times that prohibit your ability to have long unimportant conversations with your friends. At least there's Skype for jailbroken data users :) My cell phone and plan options here in Japan super-suck and I really wish I were getting a US type of plan. On the bright side, having email in your cell phones without a data plan is quite nice though.
One last point of interest. Those "free phones" from AT+T in the US can actually make money for you! I know a guy who would unlock/jailbreak his free iPhone from AT+T, then as soon as he's eligible to upgrade to a new model (for free or heavily discounted) and renew his contract with AT+T, he would sell the unlocked/jailbroken phone on Ebay for a lot of money. Repeating this every year or however often they offer it ends up getting him an awful lot of money back on what he's paying them.
You nailed it. So sad we can't agree upon and implement a better system that would foster actual competition and drive down unnecessary profit margins.
Boooooooo new slashdot format.
I just wrote that anonymous comment, not intending it to be anonymous. I wasn't logged in and it never gave me the choice between logging in or posting anonymously. It just posted it anonymously! Guess I have to log in beforehand now...
I disagree. I live in Japan, and some if not all major providers don't allow tethering in Japan either, and will charge (or fine) you a whole lot extra to do it, just like AT+T in the states.
It's actually worse here because you can't just pay for a "smartphone plan" and then use whichever unlocked smartphone you like. It's virtually impossible to bring your own smartphone from the US, for example, to Japan, and have them approve it for use on their network with a reasonably-priced unlimited data plan, unless it is the same as one of the models they sell/support. You may still get it to work, but if they detect that you weren't using the phone they approved you to use, they will charge you outrageous metered data/tethering fees. To them, I believe using anything other than the single approved device that goes with your unlimited data contract is considered tethering (whether it actually tethered through another device or not).
What sucks about USA service is that they pay per msg to *receive* text messages. I think Canada may do the same.
They've more than just "convinced" me that I need a plan that includes text messages. "Forced" is more like it. I'm 31 years old and the majority of my friends, around my age, rely on text messages extensively to coordinate all sorts of social events. I've been told that it costs $5.00 a month just to block the ability to receive those messages! Not to mention that half my friends would be too lazy to call me instead of texting, because they aren't used to having to do that for anyone else. So I pay $5.00 extra per month for 200 texts, and I have to be really careful to not go over that limit, which basically means I have to tell certain friends to "just stop texting me".
It's really rotten that the US is one of the only places where they charge you to RECEIVE texts!
Probably the worst example of these sort of ridiculously unfair pricing schemes is text messaging. Remember when text messages first came out in the US, and they were only 5 cents per msg? Over the five years or so following that, their price inched all the way up to where it is now, 25 cents per msg I think (or is it 20?). Either way a 400%+ increase in price, despite the fact that most networks can handle more traffic now than they could back then.
The obvious cause for this is lack of competition. There's simply no incentive for the few companies holding down the monopoly on cell services to charge any less for text messaging.
It's frustrating that our govt either can't or won't do anything to open up the market to more competition.
I think Google's Picasa also has an option for you to upload your photos in full-res without downsizing them, so it could have been downloaded from a Picasa Web Album.
You take a crap because of the guy's name. The phrase wasn't in usage until he came up with his inventions.
According to Wikipedia, your statement is false.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper:
'It is incorrectly claimed that the verb "To crap" comes from Crapper, but the verb first came into use before Crapper was born. It is believed that this could be an example of nominative determinism, in which people are more likely to do a job connected with their name.'