Microsoft has learned that having identical use cases was what made their PC division successful pushing it back and forth between home and work and bringing the youth on board.
Linux has always had the problem that different distros had different guis, the GUI IS the OS for all extents and purposes and since MS needs to remain the one OS to rule them all (or quickly fall into real competition which they aren't directed enough to handle) they need to keep people emailing their mothers and punching spreadsheets at work on "the same system."
They're not the worst offender though, Apple is far worse about this.
I think it may be time to start pointing new users towards Android as it is increasing market-share at an incredible rate and seems to be showing that phone-home-office is the new home-office dominance. It's basically standards compliant enough to support most of what's come from the GNU/Linux model, Google's got the money to bring the gamer/enthusiast community on board (bribing AMD/Nvidia/OpenGL/DirectX to support their vision). Enough cred to compete for "Cool" with Apple. A solid UI team with an established UI brand/metaphor from phonespace. Pretty serious cred and joy from developers.
It's too bad to see google msessing about with "Chrome" on the desktop, HTML5 is not a viable desktop system, they're really blowing their opportunity. Especially since interoperativity with Linux means that there can be Artist distros, CAD distros, receptionist distros et all a click away lending credibility to the Android ecosystem. Android/Linux is. The Cloud is going to be a PR nightmare and the enthusiast space will never even consider it... joe sixpack will have a tablet, and eventually a clouded TV.
If so they should have a CD of roms or something as well. There's a lot of software out there that's not on the apple store and can make a phone more robust (backups) etc.
No reason they can't make a revision C, unless competition from BeagleBox cripples them? br Can we keep the Brit's in charge and userfriendly culture, and get some teamwork you two?
Chemical and Biological agents and tiny bullets... pretty much gone.
Nations who violate the Geneva convention should be on the world "Will nuke ASAP" list.
Screamers(1995) shows what could happen as military robots begin to look more and more like biological agents...
Robots put more power in the hands of the few or the one (anti-democracy) and create a disconnect from violence. Worse it's trivially easy for someone to create a robot army with NO-ONE knowing. Just hire a bunch of people to build the factories who don't know what the factories are for.
This is a no brainer, they need to get on this... NOW... let the world know that developing these weapons is a crime against humanity and nationalism is no excuse. This would already have been acted upon except none of the countries with robot weapons programs want to discuss their current development.
China obviously desperately needs natural resources.
Buying them up at disproportionately high prices would just create an instant bubble, and heighten international tensions (which despite the American media's portrayal they seem to be quite reasonably wary of).
They are better off receiving 100% of what people consume in the precise amounts they consume it, through waste. Also as the major manufacturing center of the world they get the materials shipped in by the brands and corporations that need to produce goods. Also getting waste (E-Waste for example) from the worlds dumping grounds, Africa and South America, is a political boon instead of ratcheting up WW1 style tensions.
It's backed by the opposite, since you DON'T pay taxes on it those taxes don't go to making BOMBS and putting people in PRISONS
Maybe people are better than you think and BTC is a reaction to a state in which taxes legitimize violence?
In many countries you can specifically request where your taxes will go (much like tax credits for donations) though it's a bit of a crapshoot.
Bitcoins will likely find legitimacy through governments controlling mining and using a flat tax... which will destroy the financial services industry (1% of the $7 Trillion in derivatives traded per day is A LOT OF MONEY).
Bitcoins are scary to government because people will realize how small their percentage of the pie actually is, Bill Gates - $30 Billion / American population 300 Million = $10,000 per person, and he's just one of thousands.
Further because BTC are a direct ownership of the underlying value they are a more direct form of ownership than the bank notes in your wallet, your balance at the bank, your temporary (and taxed) ownership of the land on which you reside,
The financial services and instruments industry RELIES on the disconnect between wealth and money, and controlling that disconnect.
Now I'd normally be all in favor of people waking up and going, "My Goodness I thought I was earning an average wage!" but China is still a bit expansionist. And those financial instruments, and the taxes they generate, finance a military that a free population would never condone.
Shutting down Bitcoin would be a big red flag that says "We own your ass, US currency (through the petrodollar) is stability for the rich powerful oligarchs, dictators, and patricians of the world and will remain so". If Waco (IRS calling in the ATF) wasn't enough of an example.
Because money laundering operations, like drugs and other black market trade, is one of the ways terrorists fund their activities.
Most "terrorist" money comes from bribes and deals made for OIL, and DRUGS, businessmen (doing business with your government and industry) trying to make a difference for their people.
If you use the new USA/Brit definition of terrorism which includes combatants trying to expel foreign troops or establish a theocracy to avoid Westernization you'll find that the price tag there is very low, they don't need BTC... if you drop a gun on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan it'll end up in a (newly) Taliban hand, hence no supply lines, low cost and no need for semi-legitimacy.
5000 BTC is $60,000... yea if you sell that all at once you'll get 1-2% lower return. Just put them on the market at the price and wait a few days.
The reason people aren't selling is because BTC haven't reached maturation yet. BTC speculators expect them to reach $10,000 or so in 2-3 years. Considering the speed of internet technologies adoption it's quite reasonable to see BTC being.01% or higher of internet transactions in the next few years. If you look at the markets you'll find that people are buying units of 100 or so constantly.
The price is where it is because of intentional price dropping (selling all at once instead of placing an order to receive full price) and because people aren't "sure" it'll ever reach that level.
Yes BTC isn't good yet if you need to dump them all at once into the market, but since it's mostly speculation at this point that's not a problem.
If you needed to sell your house today you'd probably get 40-50% less than it's actual value. If you wanted to get out of USD today it'd probably cost you 5-6% in bank and exchange fees, which is why banks suck and BTC will succeed.
You can tell what level people got stupid cynical and stopped figuring out Bitcoin: Level 1. - Internet Money Level 2 - Mining Level 3 - Anonymous Level 4 - Pyramid Scheme Level 5 - Specific Theft vs Overall security Level 6 - Government shutdown
If you're so sure that BTC will drop in value then sell it short, there are resources available.
Selling Short: I talk to someone who owns some Bitcoins or more likely has clients who own Bitcoins. I agree with him to sell those Bitcoins now with an agreement that I will provide them at a future date. The biggest difference between investing (buying long) and short selling is that the money you give the agent is used as a guarantee against (possible)(and potentially unlimited) growth. I.E. if you buy a stock you can lose the price of the stock, if you sell short you can lose everything because the price never hits a 0 point. If you're interested let me know, bakerfinancialinstruments@gmail.com
so they rely on services that do the Bitcoin transfers for them and exchange Bitcoin currency for fiat currency. Those services are going to comply with the law and require things like identification.
This implies that you need another agent to complete a Bitcoin transaction which is not the case.
Yes most bitcoins flow through currency exchanges (though personal transactions such as LocalBitcoins.com are pretty common still).
I suppose of Bitcoin anonymity you could say you can keep track of the contractor you paid the BTC to, but you can't tell where his employees buy their groceries.
Most fascinating about Bitcoin is that you can have it in a sense that applied to gold more than say bank notes, and the effect this will have on fractional reserve banking and other financial instruments, if someone has an article on this I would be happy to read it... or pen one if you'd pay me per word.
DHS has about 1000 times the budget of all the police forces in the U.S., get rid of the CIA and you could return to police the way they were depicted in Leave it to Beaver.
Yea, but it will be increasingly an American problem. The world consumes an unfortunate amount of American (pop) media, but more local content. This will be good for everyone! So happy to get to own things:)
Better off really? They earn less money, work more hours, women have entered and doubled the work force, they have less savings, more debt, higher cost of living... medical services and education are at a higher percentage of personal income.
Yes if you look at averages the west is only in decline since the 80s but if you look at the median you'll see a much longer and more depressing trend.
Depends on Genre I suppose. Some things are better on consoles: driving, sports, hack and slash, in-room multi player fps (baby fps), fight the controller, and arguably adventure games seem to be better designed on consoles.
Obviously there are better stand out titles on the PC in most of those categories but since you need specialized hardware there tend to only be a few of those games (flying, driving etc).
It would certainly be a fascinating element of a new city state. I imagine many brilliant minds would want to live and work in a patent free system where they have access to all technologies and the work they do was broadly shared.
3D printing hugely benefits this as having a more nodular, simple manufacturing, sales and production base would seem to fix one of the larger problems faced by more socialist governments in the past.
This is obviously examined in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age (I'd love some other texts with a similar notion).
It's unclear just how much benefit, say a car manufacturer, would gain by having access to all the technologies in every car but it would seem to be non-trivial.
The current system is so insane that the large companies simply avoid it by using broad cross licensing... which meshes pretty well into their oligopalist tendencies.
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Microsoft has learned that having identical use cases was what made their PC division successful pushing it back and forth between home and work and bringing the youth on board.
Linux has always had the problem that different distros had different guis, the GUI IS the OS for all extents and purposes and since MS needs to remain the one OS to rule them all (or quickly fall into real competition which they aren't directed enough to handle) they need to keep people emailing their mothers and punching spreadsheets at work on "the same system."
They're not the worst offender though, Apple is far worse about this.
I think it may be time to start pointing new users towards Android as it is increasing market-share at an incredible rate and seems to be showing that phone-home-office is the new home-office dominance. It's basically standards compliant enough to support most of what's come from the GNU/Linux model, Google's got the money to bring the gamer/enthusiast community on board (bribing AMD/Nvidia/OpenGL/DirectX to support their vision). Enough cred to compete for "Cool" with Apple. A solid UI team with an established UI brand/metaphor from phonespace. Pretty serious cred and joy from developers.
It's too bad to see google msessing about with "Chrome" on the desktop, HTML5 is not a viable desktop system, they're really blowing their opportunity. Especially since interoperativity with Linux means that there can be Artist distros, CAD distros, receptionist distros et all a click away lending credibility to the Android ecosystem. Android/Linux is. The Cloud is going to be a PR nightmare and the enthusiast space will never even consider it... joe sixpack will have a tablet, and eventually a clouded TV.
If so they should have a CD of roms or something as well. There's a lot of software out there that's not on the apple store and can make a phone more robust (backups) etc.
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They'll reconstruct it from the NSA records!
It's a bit sad that the Pi won't run off a standard powered usb hub (for the micro-usb power), while, running devices off that hub... Only complaint.
No reason they can't make a revision C, unless competition from BeagleBox cripples them?
br Can we keep the Brit's in charge and userfriendly culture, and get some teamwork you two?
2 Watts? For the Pi, power hungry? Also, why does it need 2 net connections to perform as your and others' Tor node?
Chemical and Biological agents and tiny bullets... pretty much gone.
Nations who violate the Geneva convention should be on the world "Will nuke ASAP" list.
Screamers(1995) shows what could happen as military robots begin to look more and more like biological agents...
Robots put more power in the hands of the few or the one (anti-democracy) and create a disconnect from violence. Worse it's trivially easy for someone to create a robot army with NO-ONE knowing. Just hire a bunch of people to build the factories who don't know what the factories are for.
This is a no brainer, they need to get on this... NOW... let the world know that developing these weapons is a crime against humanity and nationalism is no excuse. This would already have been acted upon except none of the countries with robot weapons programs want to discuss their current development.
China obviously desperately needs natural resources.
Buying them up at disproportionately high prices would just create an instant bubble, and heighten international tensions (which despite the American media's portrayal they seem to be quite reasonably wary of).
They are better off receiving 100% of what people consume in the precise amounts they consume it, through waste. Also as the major manufacturing center of the world they get the materials shipped in by the brands and corporations that need to produce goods. Also getting waste (E-Waste for example) from the worlds dumping grounds, Africa and South America, is a political boon instead of ratcheting up WW1 style tensions.
It's backed by the opposite, since you DON'T pay taxes on it those taxes don't go to making BOMBS and putting people in PRISONS
Maybe people are better than you think and BTC is a reaction to a state in which taxes legitimize violence?
In many countries you can specifically request where your taxes will go (much like tax credits for donations) though it's a bit of a crapshoot.
Bitcoins will likely find legitimacy through governments controlling mining and using a flat tax... which will destroy the financial services industry (1% of the $7 Trillion in derivatives traded per day is A LOT OF MONEY).
Bitcoins are scary to government because people will realize how small their percentage of the pie actually is, Bill Gates - $30 Billion / American population 300 Million = $10,000 per person, and he's just one of thousands.
Further because BTC are a direct ownership of the underlying value they are a more direct form of ownership than the bank notes in your wallet, your balance at the bank, your temporary (and taxed) ownership of the land on which you reside,
The financial services and instruments industry RELIES on the disconnect between wealth and money, and controlling that disconnect.
Now I'd normally be all in favor of people waking up and going, "My Goodness I thought I was earning an average wage!" but China is still a bit expansionist. And those financial instruments, and the taxes they generate, finance a military that a free population would never condone.
Shutting down Bitcoin would be a big red flag that says "We own your ass, US currency (through the petrodollar) is stability for the rich powerful oligarchs, dictators, and patricians of the world and will remain so".
If Waco (IRS calling in the ATF) wasn't enough of an example.
Because money laundering operations, like drugs and other black market trade, is one of the ways terrorists fund their activities.
Most "terrorist" money comes from bribes and deals made for OIL, and DRUGS, businessmen (doing business with your government and industry) trying to make a difference for their people.
If you use the new USA/Brit definition of terrorism which includes combatants trying to expel foreign troops or establish a theocracy to avoid Westernization you'll find that the price tag there is very low, they don't need BTC... if you drop a gun on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan it'll end up in a (newly) Taliban hand, hence no supply lines, low cost and no need for semi-legitimacy.
5000 BTC is $60,000... yea if you sell that all at once you'll get 1-2% lower return. Just put them on the market at the price and wait a few days.
.01% or higher of internet transactions in the next few years. If you look at the markets you'll find that people are buying units of 100 or so constantly.
The reason people aren't selling is because BTC haven't reached maturation yet. BTC speculators expect them to reach $10,000 or so in 2-3 years. Considering the speed of internet technologies adoption it's quite reasonable to see BTC being
The price is where it is because of intentional price dropping (selling all at once instead of placing an order to receive full price) and because people aren't "sure" it'll ever reach that level.
Yes BTC isn't good yet if you need to dump them all at once into the market, but since it's mostly speculation at this point that's not a problem.
If you needed to sell your house today you'd probably get 40-50% less than it's actual value. If you wanted to get out of USD today it'd probably cost you 5-6% in bank and exchange fees, which is why banks suck and BTC will succeed.
The F35 was the losing plane in the bidding. Hope the chinese don't steal the competing design :P
You can tell what level people got stupid cynical and stopped figuring out Bitcoin:
Level 1. - Internet Money
Level 2 - Mining
Level 3 - Anonymous
Level 4 - Pyramid Scheme
Level 5 - Specific Theft vs Overall security
Level 6 - Government shutdown
If you're so sure that BTC will drop in value then sell it short, there are resources available.
Selling Short: I talk to someone who owns some Bitcoins or more likely has clients who own Bitcoins. I agree with him to sell those Bitcoins now with an agreement that I will provide them at a future date. The biggest difference between investing (buying long) and short selling is that the money you give the agent is used as a guarantee against (possible)(and potentially unlimited) growth. I.E. if you buy a stock you can lose the price of the stock, if you sell short you can lose everything because the price never hits a 0 point.
If you're interested let me know, bakerfinancialinstruments@gmail.com
so they rely on services that do the Bitcoin transfers for them and exchange Bitcoin currency for fiat currency. Those services are going to comply with the law and require things like identification.
This implies that you need another agent to complete a Bitcoin transaction which is not the case.
Yes most bitcoins flow through currency exchanges (though personal transactions such as LocalBitcoins.com are pretty common still).
I suppose of Bitcoin anonymity you could say you can keep track of the contractor you paid the BTC to, but you can't tell where his employees buy their groceries.
Most fascinating about Bitcoin is that you can have it in a sense that applied to gold more than say bank notes, and the effect this will have on fractional reserve banking and other financial instruments, if someone has an article on this I would be happy to read it... or pen one if you'd pay me per word.
DHS has about 1000 times the budget of all the police forces in the U.S., get rid of the CIA and you could return to police the way they were depicted in Leave it to Beaver.
It'd also solve unemployment.
Yea, but it will be increasingly an American problem. The world consumes an unfortunate amount of American (pop) media, but more local content. This will be good for everyone! So happy to get to own things :)
As opposed to the current system where just to keep up with inflation you need to invest your money in a corporation you likely think is evil?
You think the banks want to open up to be DDOSed. Like having their phone lines overloaded? They need to follow some rules one would think.
I do find calling back in another language tends to work well.
Losing your bitcoins doesn't seem to be the irony you're looking for. The one you're looking for is they drop to almost no value.
Better off really? They earn less money, work more hours, women have entered and doubled the work force, they have less savings, more debt, higher cost of living... medical services and education are at a higher percentage of personal income.
Yes if you look at averages the west is only in decline since the 80s but if you look at the median you'll see a much longer and more depressing trend.
"get paid when... play songs on FM, XM, or Internet radio (BMI and ASCAP)"... um you mean the radio station?
Depends on Genre I suppose. Some things are better on consoles: driving, sports, hack and slash, in-room multi player fps (baby fps), fight the controller, and arguably adventure games seem to be better designed on consoles.
Obviously there are better stand out titles on the PC in most of those categories but since you need specialized hardware there tend to only be a few of those games (flying, driving etc).
Idea for UI designers, two more common functionality elements Mute and Always on Top. Should be up there with minimize, max, and close.
It would certainly be a fascinating element of a new city state. I imagine many brilliant minds would want to live and work in a patent free system where they have access to all technologies and the work they do was broadly shared.
3D printing hugely benefits this as having a more nodular, simple manufacturing, sales and production base would seem to fix one of the larger problems faced by more socialist governments in the past.
This is obviously examined in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age (I'd love some other texts with a similar notion).
It's unclear just how much benefit, say a car manufacturer, would gain by having access to all the technologies in every car but it would seem to be non-trivial.
The current system is so insane that the large companies simply avoid it by using broad cross licensing... which meshes pretty well into their oligopalist tendencies.