Everything you learn from chess would make you a better computer programmer.
No, it would make you a better chess player. If you want to be a better computer programmer, time is better spend on studying and writing computer programs.
My point stands - if you care about ping times at all then satellites are not on the list unless they are the only thing available. If you don't care much about latency then they are worth considering.
Or you care about latency, and you still want to sell satellite connections, so you just fix the latency issues by improving current substandard technology.
You don't need to send the whole blockchain to confirm a transaction. Just keep the block chain on a well connected server, and let the server send a quick SMS to the vending machine when the coins show up on a certain wallet address.
I'm talking about the fact that my latest international SEPA payments still took more than a day, rather than 2 hours. Also, in the weekends and holidays many banks refuse to do business. I'm also talking about other countries than just the SEPA area. And no, that's not just the US. Also China, Japan, Korea, Russia and India, for example.
And if you think Bitcoin transfers are free, you're conveniently ignoring the non-negligible CPU time involved in verification vs simply changing two numbers in a database.
I never said it was free. Just that it's low cost. So low cost in fact, that I can conveniently ignore it.
For instance: low cost, quick and easy way to transfer money to a person in another country. Alternatives would be paypal (quick and easy, but expensive), or wire transfer (slow and possibly expensive), or credit card (quick and cheap but not easy if neither party is a registered merchant). Another advantage is the lack of charge back (but obviously that can work as a disadvantage for the other party).
What reason would that be exactly ? As I see it, bitcoin has a number of unique properties, which can offer an advantage over other ways to transfer money. It also has some disadvantages, so it would not make a good candidate to replace current fiat money systems. However, bitcoin can happily coexist with fiat money, and people can chose whichever method they prefer for each transactions. They may still buy their groceries with fiat money, but maybe make an international payment for some software design work in bitcoin.
Distance from me to Iridium satellite is less than distance to most other countries in the world. And yet, I can access international websites without too much discomfort.
The Mars One web site is awfully sketchy about the details. If I had a multi million dollar payload, I'd like to see some more details of the design, especially if they're promising to take heavy payloads to the surface.
No, in 1992 we still used floppies. Also, since in Unix everything is a file, the file system also comes into play when accessing device nodes. Without multithreading, the harddisk access could be stuck in the queue behind a floppy or terminal access. This is simply unacceptable.
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It takes 4 hours for the first bit. It takes 4 hours + size/bitrate for the last bit.
And that is a real problem
In what practical way has this ever been a problem ?
Quite a few people (myself included) bought first generation home computers for 4 digit purchase prices.
Everything you learn from chess would make you a better computer programmer.
No, it would make you a better chess player. If you want to be a better computer programmer, time is better spend on studying and writing computer programs.
If you connect those two points, you're leaving out the part where the ground water gets filtered by the soil.
My point stands - if you care about ping times at all then satellites are not on the list unless they are the only thing available. If you don't care much about latency then they are worth considering.
Or you care about latency, and you still want to sell satellite connections, so you just fix the latency issues by improving current substandard technology.
And yanks never make grammatical errors...
No, they filter the shit out. The water doesn't remember shit.
Traditionally these conflicts are resolved by one party eliminating the other.
You don't need to send the whole blockchain to confirm a transaction. Just keep the block chain on a well connected server, and let the server send a quick SMS to the vending machine when the coins show up on a certain wallet address.
Just transmit an uninterrupted stream of everything you look at. No need to turn it on/off or take old fashioned pictures.
If there's no internet coverage, how does the customer make the transaction ?
And if you think Bitcoin transfers are free, you're conveniently ignoring the non-negligible CPU time involved in verification vs simply changing two numbers in a database.
I never said it was free. Just that it's low cost. So low cost in fact, that I can conveniently ignore it.
For instance: low cost, quick and easy way to transfer money to a person in another country. Alternatives would be paypal (quick and easy, but expensive), or wire transfer (slow and possibly expensive), or credit card (quick and cheap but not easy if neither party is a registered merchant). Another advantage is the lack of charge back (but obviously that can work as a disadvantage for the other party).
What reason would that be exactly ? As I see it, bitcoin has a number of unique properties, which can offer an advantage over other ways to transfer money. It also has some disadvantages, so it would not make a good candidate to replace current fiat money systems. However, bitcoin can happily coexist with fiat money, and people can chose whichever method they prefer for each transactions. They may still buy their groceries with fiat money, but maybe make an international payment for some software design work in bitcoin.
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There's no reason why parts of the bitcoin ecosystem couldn't be regulated.
Distance from me to Iridium satellite is less than distance to most other countries in the world. And yet, I can access international websites without too much discomfort.
We are talking about opening up an entire new world
It would be orders of magnitude easier to survive in the Gobi desert, and still I don't see a great rush to move in.
Once satellite is mentioned there is no need to mention ping times
Oh ? You don't need to know the orbit, even ?
The Mars One web site is awfully sketchy about the details. If I had a multi million dollar payload, I'd like to see some more details of the design, especially if they're promising to take heavy payloads to the surface.
Any real time coverage of any big event has numerous reporting mistakes. No news.
... at exactly the right time
No, in 1992 we still used floppies. Also, since in Unix everything is a file, the file system also comes into play when accessing device nodes. Without multithreading, the harddisk access could be stuck in the queue behind a floppy or terminal access. This is simply unacceptable.
We can still hope he'll come to his senses before that.