I'm glad to see Slashdot not jumping on the "AHAHAHAHA BITCOIN VALUE DOWN OVER 90%" headline bandwagon.
Not to get in the way of a good headline, but every time I see that I want to rant at the people who ran the story. That 'peak', where the value went over $20 and peaked around $50 lasted for maybe three hours to the best of my recollection. On average, it's barely been above $10-$15 for any extended period of time in the last several months, and before that, the peak was like $8. The price still hasn't dipped as low as it was before the summer. (Hell, only a couple months before the surge in popularity, BTC were still worth less than a dollar!)
I'll tell you though, I'm glad I never put any money into bitcoins, just mining with my GPU when I'm not gaming. I always knew some kind of crash was coming sooner or later, so I was only in it for the free money.:] (Of which I made like $500)
Of course, I wish I'd seen it coming instead of thinking it was just a price dip, I would've dumped the last of my BTC for some Amazon or Newegg giftcards while it was still $8...;P
...some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site.
Aaaand you just ruined it. So yeah, probably not going to surprise anyone now. And what in fuckery are they even trying to do?
Trying to wrap my head around what they hope to accomplish has annoyed me so much, I'm going to go out right now and buy a huge freakin steak for dinner, so I can chew on chunks of nearly-raw beef while I think of other ways to piss PETA off.
I can't imagine any intelligent lifeforms being unable to see that we're never getting off this planet and will either off ourselves, or sit idly by and let a rogue chunk of rock do the job. Now, if the aliens' leader claimed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction on our planet, that's another story.
Once they add some more features like the download of the original files and stuff this could be a great tool for DIY electronics bloggers.
In the meantime, if I weren't such a terrible coder, I'd make a Wordpress plugin that: uploads your Eagle files to your site, creates a Circuitbee embeddable, and places the embeddable and download links right there in your post. (Or something like that.)
I've always liked analog watches just because it's hard to find a sophisticated/respectable-looking digital watch. Though, admittedly, I'm also one of those people who has a (Perhaps overdeveloped and almost nerd-like) appreciation for the form of things, and so they do appeal to me for various other reasons as well. But I think it's mostly that I can't find digital watches I like.
Earlier this week, I was considering the possibility of making a project out of crafting myself an analog wristwatch once I have my own machine tools. It turns out there's tons of sources on eBay for new watch movements, hands, and the tools you need to assemble/craft your own.
All arguments about the guy's maturity and professionalism aside, I've got to admit that 100 hours of community service isn't a bad price to pay for a "Fuck you!" prank like that. And I'll bet his only regret is not being able to see the reactions at the meeting.
It's worth nothing that this 'price crash' was completely artificial, the result of a malicious act, and only really affects the Mt.Gox exchange site. I suppose it probably also affects any sites that set their exchange rate by Mt.Gox, but many don't do that on a real-time basis anyway. I use Bitcoin Market, another trading site, and their prices are unaffected.
The PayPal debit card already fills this role. I mostly use mine for sites that don't take PayPal, but my younger sister uses it as her primary means of paying for stuff in the real world. On countless occasions she's actually called on her cellphone and been like "Hey, I'm at X, do you need anything?" because it's easy for her to swing by on her way home, and I'll be like "Sure!" and put the money in her account.
I remember the first time I did that, she called while she was in line at McDonald's because she had forgotten something, and I asked her where she was, and was like "Man, I haven't had anything to eat yet today..." and it just popped into my head. *Ding!* Barely five minutes later I had food-like substance in the shape of a hamburger, and a serving of fries.
Of course, it also means she's always nagging me to lend her money by putting it in her PayPal...
No shaping, and they only just started enforcing caps in this region last summer. (And by 'enforcing', I mean they get unhappy if I do more than 200% of my monthly cap four months in a row.) I know because they shut me down last June, until I called and they told me that they had sent out an email when they started enforcing the caps (To my comcast email address, like I use that...) they then proceeded to read off my usage for the last several months "February, 1292 gigabytes. March, 937 gigabytes. April, 415 gigabytes. May, 1497 gigabytes..." Needless to say, they weren't impressed when my response was "Well shit, I don't know what happened in April." and they said that if it happens again within 6 months, I'll lose access for a year. Heh.
But then they told me that for a $200 install fee, I can switch to business class, which has no cap, and costs the same.
I should really do that, because I keep finding myself at like 200/250GB by the 7th of the month... (Sometimes OVER, even...)
Living in Vermont, we had DSL from Verizon, and then Fairpoint, for a number of years. Then we made the mistake of moving...next door. It was a legitimate god-damned nightmare, I tell you. We wanted to have internet up and running in the new place by the time we moved in, and they said no problem. They get the address, and give us a date to expect it by... The date comes, nothing happens. We call, they give us some excuse about a workorder error, and we go through the whole thing again.
The next date comes, nothing happens. We call and they tell us that they couldn't find the service address. We work that out. Next date comes around, NOTHING HAPPENS. It turns out there's NO WIRING IN THE PLACE, and they say they can't install. At this point, we've paid for an extra month on the old apartment, as well as rent on the new apartment. (Something that, frankly, we were not financially capable of doing.)
We actually do the line installation from the box to the apartment ourselves, and get back to Fairpoint. Oh but what's this? The workorder has been cancelled and we have to start all over again. (And yet, for some reason, two days later we receive the DSL starter kit at the new apartment.)
The majority of our problems stem from the fact that they swear up and down that the building only has one unit. (Number TWO, no less. Did that not seem a little STRANGE?) So we gave up and called Comcast. Gave them the address, and they asked "Apartment 1 or Apartment 2?" and we had cable internet and digital voice service a week later. The DSL we had been getting from Fairpoint was 3 megabits down, and 768kbits up...with the wind. The phone service sounded like shit, and both were prone to strange failures on a near-constant basis.
Our Comcast cable is 1.5 megabytes down (with boosts up to 2.4), and 1 megabit up on a bad day. The digital voice service is crystal clear, and we get more services than we did from our traditional carrier...including nationwide free long distance and the whole nut. And it is even CHEAPER than Failpoint's fail-ass DSL and phone service.
And yet half the things the country produces (At least for the domestic market) are either constructed of compressed trash, made from sewage, or explode more readily than most I.E.D.s...;)
...maybe they could stop releasing TERRIBLE GAMES?
I'm still waiting for a proper Chrono Trigger re-release/remake.
High res character sprites, environments in 3D using hand-drawn textures. Leave the original story as-is, but add a bunch of side quests, and some more cause/effect time travel events...
They do that while us original Chrono Trigger players are STILL ALIVE, and they just might make people forget about a couple-few years worth of TERRIBLE GODDAMN GAMES.
On the one hand, I want to say "Oh, cool. I couldn't reach it earlier today." and on the other hand, I have to wonder if we've passed into BIZARRO WORLD.
Why would they have an automated system that opens the store without any operator intervention? I mean, I could understand if they had a system that went through the process of turning everything on and unlocking all the doors once there was someone there to turn a key or something... But to have it just automatically open the store at 8am every morning? The flaw in their system is so painfully obvious.
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"Temporarily blinding laser"? Does anyone else think that sounds roughly as sensible as 'temporarily killing rifle'?
I had similar needs, and got one of those Chinese import USB-based programmers. I don't know if it does GALs, but it does EEPROMs just fine.
It's a GQ-4X from MCUmall. Actually, I think I got it from MCUmall's eBay store because of some discount or cashback or something, but I digress.
No bipedal mecha R&D or anything? Come on, you KNOW they have them! Guess you gotta breach a different Japanese conglomerate... :3
I'm glad to see Slashdot not jumping on the "AHAHAHAHA BITCOIN VALUE DOWN OVER 90%" headline bandwagon.
Not to get in the way of a good headline, but every time I see that I want to rant at the people who ran the story. That 'peak', where the value went over $20 and peaked around $50 lasted for maybe three hours to the best of my recollection. On average, it's barely been above $10-$15 for any extended period of time in the last several months, and before that, the peak was like $8. The price still hasn't dipped as low as it was before the summer. (Hell, only a couple months before the surge in popularity, BTC were still worth less than a dollar!)
I'll tell you though, I'm glad I never put any money into bitcoins, just mining with my GPU when I'm not gaming. I always knew some kind of crash was coming sooner or later, so I was only in it for the free money. :] (Of which I made like $500)
Of course, I wish I'd seen it coming instead of thinking it was just a price dip, I would've dumped the last of my BTC for some Amazon or Newegg giftcards while it was still $8... ;P
...some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site.
Aaaand you just ruined it. So yeah, probably not going to surprise anyone now. And what in fuckery are they even trying to do?
Trying to wrap my head around what they hope to accomplish has annoyed me so much, I'm going to go out right now and buy a huge freakin steak for dinner, so I can chew on chunks of nearly-raw beef while I think of other ways to piss PETA off.
I was hoping someone had gotten out technical documents of bipedal weapons platforms, or powered armor, or SOMETHING. :(
I can't imagine any intelligent lifeforms being unable to see that we're never getting off this planet and will either off ourselves, or sit idly by and let a rogue chunk of rock do the job. Now, if the aliens' leader claimed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction on our planet, that's another story.
Once they add some more features like the download of the original files and stuff this could be a great tool for DIY electronics bloggers.
In the meantime, if I weren't such a terrible coder, I'd make a Wordpress plugin that: uploads your Eagle files to your site, creates a Circuitbee embeddable, and places the embeddable and download links right there in your post. (Or something like that.)
Wow, yeah. I guess they didn't pay enough for that program, huh?
So I have 4 years to buy a cellphone, huh? D: It's a good thing I don't use my wallet for identification or anything!
I've always liked analog watches just because it's hard to find a sophisticated/respectable-looking digital watch. Though, admittedly, I'm also one of those people who has a (Perhaps overdeveloped and almost nerd-like) appreciation for the form of things, and so they do appeal to me for various other reasons as well. But I think it's mostly that I can't find digital watches I like.
Earlier this week, I was considering the possibility of making a project out of crafting myself an analog wristwatch once I have my own machine tools. It turns out there's tons of sources on eBay for new watch movements, hands, and the tools you need to assemble/craft your own.
All arguments about the guy's maturity and professionalism aside, I've got to admit that 100 hours of community service isn't a bad price to pay for a "Fuck you!" prank like that. And I'll bet his only regret is not being able to see the reactions at the meeting.
It's worth nothing that this 'price crash' was completely artificial, the result of a malicious act, and only really affects the Mt.Gox exchange site. I suppose it probably also affects any sites that set their exchange rate by Mt.Gox, but many don't do that on a real-time basis anyway. I use Bitcoin Market, another trading site, and their prices are unaffected.
The PayPal debit card already fills this role. I mostly use mine for sites that don't take PayPal, but my younger sister uses it as her primary means of paying for stuff in the real world. On countless occasions she's actually called on her cellphone and been like "Hey, I'm at X, do you need anything?" because it's easy for her to swing by on her way home, and I'll be like "Sure!" and put the money in her account.
I remember the first time I did that, she called while she was in line at McDonald's because she had forgotten something, and I asked her where she was, and was like "Man, I haven't had anything to eat yet today..." and it just popped into my head. *Ding!* Barely five minutes later I had food-like substance in the shape of a hamburger, and a serving of fries.
Of course, it also means she's always nagging me to lend her money by putting it in her PayPal...
Ah, thanks. Wasn't sure.
Doesn't R. Talsorian Games have a trademark on 'Chromebook' for the series of cyberware and gear compendiums for the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG?
No shaping, and they only just started enforcing caps in this region last summer. (And by 'enforcing', I mean they get unhappy if I do more than 200% of my monthly cap four months in a row.) I know because they shut me down last June, until I called and they told me that they had sent out an email when they started enforcing the caps (To my comcast email address, like I use that...) they then proceeded to read off my usage for the last several months "February, 1292 gigabytes. March, 937 gigabytes. April, 415 gigabytes. May, 1497 gigabytes..." Needless to say, they weren't impressed when my response was "Well shit, I don't know what happened in April." and they said that if it happens again within 6 months, I'll lose access for a year. Heh.
But then they told me that for a $200 install fee, I can switch to business class, which has no cap, and costs the same.
I should really do that, because I keep finding myself at like 200/250GB by the 7th of the month... (Sometimes OVER, even...)
Living in Vermont, we had DSL from Verizon, and then Fairpoint, for a number of years. Then we made the mistake of moving...next door. It was a legitimate god-damned nightmare, I tell you. We wanted to have internet up and running in the new place by the time we moved in, and they said no problem. They get the address, and give us a date to expect it by... The date comes, nothing happens. We call, they give us some excuse about a workorder error, and we go through the whole thing again.
The next date comes, nothing happens. We call and they tell us that they couldn't find the service address. We work that out. Next date comes around, NOTHING HAPPENS. It turns out there's NO WIRING IN THE PLACE, and they say they can't install. At this point, we've paid for an extra month on the old apartment, as well as rent on the new apartment. (Something that, frankly, we were not financially capable of doing.)
We actually do the line installation from the box to the apartment ourselves, and get back to Fairpoint. Oh but what's this? The workorder has been cancelled and we have to start all over again. (And yet, for some reason, two days later we receive the DSL starter kit at the new apartment.)
The majority of our problems stem from the fact that they swear up and down that the building only has one unit. (Number TWO, no less. Did that not seem a little STRANGE?) So we gave up and called Comcast. Gave them the address, and they asked "Apartment 1 or Apartment 2?" and we had cable internet and digital voice service a week later. The DSL we had been getting from Fairpoint was 3 megabits down, and 768kbits up...with the wind. The phone service sounded like shit, and both were prone to strange failures on a near-constant basis.
Our Comcast cable is 1.5 megabytes down (with boosts up to 2.4), and 1 megabit up on a bad day. The digital voice service is crystal clear, and we get more services than we did from our traditional carrier...including nationwide free long distance and the whole nut. And it is even CHEAPER than Failpoint's fail-ass DSL and phone service.
So, I guess what I'm saying is, FUCK FAILPOINT.
And yet half the things the country produces (At least for the domestic market) are either constructed of compressed trash, made from sewage, or explode more readily than most I.E.D.s... ;)
Must be nice, being able to legally steal peoples' iPads (and presumably other devices, like laptops) for no apparent reason.
...maybe they could stop releasing TERRIBLE GAMES?
I'm still waiting for a proper Chrono Trigger re-release/remake.
High res character sprites, environments in 3D using hand-drawn textures. Leave the original story as-is, but add a bunch of side quests, and some more cause/effect time travel events...
They do that while us original Chrono Trigger players are STILL ALIVE, and they just might make people forget about a couple-few years worth of TERRIBLE GODDAMN GAMES.
On the one hand, I want to say "Oh, cool. I couldn't reach it earlier today." and on the other hand, I have to wonder if we've passed into BIZARRO WORLD.
"That's no moon, it's a strip-mine!" Somebody had to say it.
Why would they have an automated system that opens the store without any operator intervention? I mean, I could understand if they had a system that went through the process of turning everything on and unlocking all the doors once there was someone there to turn a key or something... But to have it just automatically open the store at 8am every morning? The flaw in their system is so painfully obvious.
It's a week and a half late for April Fools, and it's on the FBI website...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
For those interested, the PDF metadata indicate it was created 8/18/2004, and modified on 03/31/2011. So... I have no goddamn idea.