I would instead recommend the novel off which that movie is based - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but Dick's best work is found in his short stories.
"The Electric Ant" is especially pertinent, as is "The Mold of Yancey", "Autofac", and, of course, "Second Variety".
That is true, but you also won't accomplish much if you don't know how to play. Not to mention, you won't find many people to raid with (besides fellow hollow 90s). This isn't aimed at new subscribers. It's to keep the old ones interested.
Perhaps it is true that "plenty of scientists take the idea seriously" - but the summary links to a book commissioned by the International Space Elevator Consortium.
Why? I'm asking a serious question - what leads you to believe that (a) it's right to think of Bitcoins as an investment, and (b) that now is an attractive time to invest in them?
I look at it as a VERY short-term investment. If you look at the recent history, after a sharp drop, there has always been a rebound, however temporary. The stuff is up and down like a pogo stick. Don't get me wrong - as a long-term investment, it's far too risky. But I'm certain that in a week, it will have regained much of today's losses.
The NSA would never use shills to alter and/or direct web discussions. Most citizens of the western world misunderstand the intelligence enterprise as it relates to counter-terrorism, which contributes to the NSA's limited ability to develop necessary anticipatory knowledge to mitigate risks, or respond to emerging threats. People who insinuate that there are NSA shills on web forums demonstrate a clear affinity and tendency to support for the cyber-terrorists that infiltrate our webspace.
Actually the problem is that Earth-based solar collection is terribly inefficient. A solar cell (15 - 20% efficient to begin with), fixed to one spot on the Earth, is exposed to sunlight for a fraction of a day, sunlight which has been diffused by the Earth's atmosphere.
Extraplanetary collection is actually a very good idea.
Not surprising, really. The only time companies get punished for non-compliance is when they are the ones accessing protected health information.
No threat of punishment == no compliance.
NAT as a firewall is like venturing out into a hurricane in a friggin windbreaker, and believing the hurricane can't hurt you because it can't see you.
The only reason the world hasn't gone v6 is because the ISPs have to do it first. If Cumcast is serious, 2014 is the year of v6.
Here in Canada, Telus is one of the Big 3 service providers. I toured their central office, and their chief network technician showed me the new transmission infrastructure they were planning "because of Netflix". The increased traffic because of Netflix alone is costing the ISPs money, no doubt about it. It will end up costing us, as consumers. No reason to throttle if they're investing in bandwidth instead, just raise the cost.
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I would instead recommend the novel off which that movie is based - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but Dick's best work is found in his short stories.
"The Electric Ant" is especially pertinent, as is "The Mold of Yancey", "Autofac", and, of course, "Second Variety".
That is true, but you also won't accomplish much if you don't know how to play. Not to mention, you won't find many people to raid with (besides fellow hollow 90s). This isn't aimed at new subscribers. It's to keep the old ones interested.
Once upon a time WoW was worthy of the gaming geek... now it's watered down drivel complete with kung-fu pandas... who even plays this any more?
7.8 million people.
The kung-fu pandas joke is old.
Perhaps it is true that "plenty of scientists take the idea seriously" - but the summary links to a book commissioned by the International Space Elevator Consortium.
Or, you know, use WPA2.
And now CR Best Overall? Tesla's on fire!
*ducks*
These are all excellent points, #1 in particular.
So pick your (radioactive) poison.
Why? I'm asking a serious question - what leads you to believe that (a) it's right to think of Bitcoins as an investment, and (b) that now is an attractive time to invest in them?
I look at it as a VERY short-term investment. If you look at the recent history, after a sharp drop, there has always been a rebound, however temporary. The stuff is up and down like a pogo stick. Don't get me wrong - as a long-term investment, it's far too risky. But I'm certain that in a week, it will have regained much of today's losses.
Now is an excellent time to buy bitcoin.
The NSA would never use shills to alter and/or direct web discussions. Most citizens of the western world misunderstand the intelligence enterprise as it relates to counter-terrorism, which contributes to the NSA's limited ability to develop necessary anticipatory knowledge to mitigate risks, or respond to emerging threats. People who insinuate that there are NSA shills on web forums demonstrate a clear affinity and tendency to support for the cyber-terrorists that infiltrate our webspace.
Besides Clean Sweep and Wipe Out, I hear DICE supports the following classics:
Backlash!
White Space
Fuck-em-Up
Alpha 2.0
Timothy's No Good, Very Bad Day
I for one, can't wait for these "new, cleaner looking!" games.
Fuck DICE fuck BETA.
Hey now, let's be civil about this.
Yeah. It's a CPU-less Arcade Game Emulator. It emulates a box with a lot of wires. They should have called it CAGE.
YOU DON'T SAY?
Actually the problem is that Earth-based solar collection is terribly inefficient. A solar cell (15 - 20% efficient to begin with), fixed to one spot on the Earth, is exposed to sunlight for a fraction of a day, sunlight which has been diffused by the Earth's atmosphere. Extraplanetary collection is actually a very good idea.
s/Timely/oldAsFuck/. Hilarious when Huffington Post beats Slashdot to a story by two and a half months.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
Still pushing the envelope.
Not surprising, really. The only time companies get punished for non-compliance is when they are the ones accessing protected health information. No threat of punishment == no compliance.
NAT as a firewall is like venturing out into a hurricane in a friggin windbreaker, and believing the hurricane can't hurt you because it can't see you. The only reason the world hasn't gone v6 is because the ISPs have to do it first. If Cumcast is serious, 2014 is the year of v6.
Here in Canada, Telus is one of the Big 3 service providers. I toured their central office, and their chief network technician showed me the new transmission infrastructure they were planning "because of Netflix". The increased traffic because of Netflix alone is costing the ISPs money, no doubt about it. It will end up costing us, as consumers. No reason to throttle if they're investing in bandwidth instead, just raise the cost.