I think the $30 spike was more likely caused by an influx of noobs who found out that their GPU could print money.
How would that work? People printing money and holding onto it shouldn't affectthe price. People printing money and selling it or otherwise circulating it should depress the price. For the price to go up someone had to be buying.
As far as I understand, the bitcoin generation rate is adapted to the available computing power. Therefore if many new people generate bitcoins without selling them, the bitcoin value of computing power goes down, that is you get less bitcoins per computation. Since the computing power of those selling is not increased by additional non-selling miners, this means that those selling sell less bitcoins (because they get less), and therefore the price goes up. Note that the price giong up is a self-amplifying process (because if the price goes up, people are more likely to keep their bitcoins so they can gain more value, thus further reducing the supply and increasing the price), therefore the initial effect may have been quite modest.
I don't know if this is what actually happened, but unless my understanding is wrong, it's a mechanism by which additional mining can indeed increase the price.
Well, it could randomly pad to larger sizes. That's still less bandwidth than using the maximal size consistently, but you can't tell if a large size is a large tile, or a small tile randomly padded. Especially you'll not get a deterministic pattern; the same view may have dramatically different sizes.
This seems like a terrible idea! People in a hospital are going to be smearing their fingers all over this device, and passing it around. It seems to be a very convenient disease vector. I would not touch it with a 20 foot pole.
Don't worry, 20 foot poles aren't very common in waiting rooms, therefore it's unlikely that you'll touch it with one.
So what can an IDE provide which Emacs can't? (Hint: It can do source highlighting, automatic indentation, search of definitions, compiling, debugging, version control,...)
Hmm perhaps breaking with hiding of implementation details but having a way to tell someone that a thing is an interface (abstract base class) not a specific class seems nice.
Yes. Religion implies, by definition, believing in the supernatural. Soviet communists believed in many things, but definitely not in the supernatural.
I don't know what problems you have with a narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc.
Well, if I really wanted, I definitely could afford a large TV. But I don't see why I should waste my money on it. A big house? I don't see how I could afford that (well, if I'd go to some unattractive region, maybe; or maybe not, because there I'd probably not find work). Big fridges? Well, that's mostly an American thing anyway. Big AC? Well, I have no idea what an AC costs; I'm more concerned about heating prices:-)
Sorry guys, I spent $2500 on a 65" DLP maybe 6 years ago and it still looks great.
I'd never consider spending that much money (or even half of that) for a TV.
Well then you are lucky you dont stay in India. a 46 inch LCD TV costs the equivalent of USD 1200, and thats not adjusting for PPP,etc. just a direct currency conversion
I'm having a hard time understanding why the EU would want to forbid the export of used electronics to Africa.
As far as I know, only non-working stuff (aka waste) is forbidden to export. If it works, you may export it. Of course, non-working stuff which could be repaired is still non-working stuff.
Well, I've heard (can't check it, though, because I don't know Hebrew) that in the original, it reads "Thou shalt nor murder." An important difference, because what is or isn't murder is up to definition. And of course if you claim that some killing is ordered by god then you can claim that it obviously is not murder because, after all, god wants it.
Of course one could ask why god, being almighty, doesn't just kill those people himself if he wishes their death...
They claim different things about that god, but they all claim it's the god of Abraham, thus it's the same. You also don't have two different Lee Harvey Oswald just because some people say he shot JFK and some other people say he didn't.
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Well, you could mine bitcoins with the Raspberry Pi. :-)
You think that Taco left because of a lack of bitcoin articles?
I think the $30 spike was more likely caused by an influx of noobs who found out that their GPU could print money.
How would that work? People printing money and holding onto it shouldn't affectthe price. People printing money and selling it or otherwise circulating it should depress the price. For the price to go up someone had to be buying.
As far as I understand, the bitcoin generation rate is adapted to the available computing power. Therefore if many new people generate bitcoins without selling them, the bitcoin value of computing power goes down, that is you get less bitcoins per computation. Since the computing power of those selling is not increased by additional non-selling miners, this means that those selling sell less bitcoins (because they get less), and therefore the price goes up. Note that the price giong up is a self-amplifying process (because if the price goes up, people are more likely to keep their bitcoins so they can gain more value, thus further reducing the supply and increasing the price), therefore the initial effect may have been quite modest.
I don't know if this is what actually happened, but unless my understanding is wrong, it's a mechanism by which additional mining can indeed increase the price.
The last days of the human race.
No child has been born for 18 years.
Which is a good thing, because we can finally enjoy our internet freedom in peace.
You forgot the terrorists. And the pirates.
Well, it could randomly pad to larger sizes. That's still less bandwidth than using the maximal size consistently, but you can't tell if a large size is a large tile, or a small tile randomly padded. Especially you'll not get a deterministic pattern; the same view may have dramatically different sizes.
This seems like a terrible idea! People in a hospital are going to be smearing their fingers all over this device, and passing it around. It seems to be a very convenient disease vector. I would not touch it with a 20 foot pole.
Don't worry, 20 foot poles aren't very common in waiting rooms, therefore it's unlikely that you'll touch it with one.
So what can an IDE provide which Emacs can't? ...)
(Hint: It can do source highlighting, automatic indentation, search of definitions, compiling, debugging, version control,
Yeah, that's what documentation is for. :-)
Yes. Religion implies, by definition, believing in the supernatural. Soviet communists believed in many things, but definitely not in the supernatural.
#pragma once is non-standard.
So you don't have include guards on your header files?
Maybe that's when they added the part about offensive names into their guidelines.
How about, when naming variables, you have to put the first letter of the typename in the start of the variable name!
Hungarian notation isn't about using the typename at all.
Please tell that to Microsoft.
I don't know what problems you have with a narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc.
Well, at least for the Old Testament, a Hebrew translation would be a bit odd ...
Well, if I really wanted, I definitely could afford a large TV. But I don't see why I should waste my money on it. :-)
A big house? I don't see how I could afford that (well, if I'd go to some unattractive region, maybe; or maybe not, because there I'd probably not find work).
Big fridges? Well, that's mostly an American thing anyway.
Big AC? Well, I have no idea what an AC costs; I'm more concerned about heating prices
I'd never consider spending that much money (or even half of that) for a TV.
Well then you are lucky you dont stay in India. a 46 inch LCD TV costs the equivalent of USD 1200, and thats not adjusting for PPP,etc. just a direct currency conversion
Who needs a 46 inch TV? I certainly don't.
As far as I know, only non-working stuff (aka waste) is forbidden to export. If it works, you may export it. Of course, non-working stuff which could be repaired is still non-working stuff.
Actually AFAIK the only thing banned from export is non-working stuff (i.e. waste). Working used stuff can be exported just fine.
I'd never consider spending that much money (or even half of that) for a TV.
Well according to the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy the meaning of life the universe and everything is wait for it 42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8
No, that's the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.
Well, I've heard (can't check it, though, because I don't know Hebrew) that in the original, it reads "Thou shalt nor murder." An important difference, because what is or isn't murder is up to definition. And of course if you claim that some killing is ordered by god then you can claim that it obviously is not murder because, after all, god wants it.
Of course one could ask why god, being almighty, doesn't just kill those people himself if he wishes their death ...
They claim different things about that god, but they all claim it's the god of Abraham, thus it's the same. You also don't have two different Lee Harvey Oswald just because some people say he shot JFK and some other people say he didn't.
Nope.
I'm sure that phrase already was added to all password cracking tools :-)