No, it is not time to start using a cryptocurrency.
The time is after some trust can be put in those backing the currency - not necessarily backed by gold like in "cryptonomicon" but something of value to provide an assurance that it is not a bubble.
I suspect some of those are compiling lists of active numbers at different times of day. But I'm probably just assuming too much competence and they are probably just broken.
I know whatever they trot out will be a disappointment overall
Cutting edge hardware is expensive so they have always gone for the cheaper option than Sony, MS etc. The downside is something not so quick, the upside is no blue rings of death or other cutting edge flakiness.
What about measuring reliability? That's one of the most important performance factors of any system of any sort, including Linux installations.
It's not supposed to be beta software so reliability is assumed. If you don't get it then the software is not ready for release. It's not high turnover commercial software where something has to be out by the end of the month whether it works or not.
Anything other than a single user desktop computer without a network is an out of date concept to the new shinies of systemd and wayland. Let's party like it's 1994!
I'll second that, changing fonts on a Kobo is a very simple task and adding new fonts to the list is possible. It's also easy to side load books from project gutenberg or wherever. I prefer my Boox but it's a large thing to carry around - iPad size. The small Kobo readers are more portable so handy things to avoid being bored while waiting or to have something to read over lunch.
Or use an e-ink reader with Fbreader. There are many. Many have far better hardware than Amazon and Kobo devices (eg. larger and smaller form factor, some are significantly tougher (eg. flexone), better PDF handling, choice of software, ability to install your own fonts, android apps, bluetooth for keyboards etc) The thing that sucks about all of them is they cost more than the ones that are tied to a "store", but it also means that no update is ever going to delete any of the files you put on them.
Even worse, an unresizable rendered box popping taking up less than a quarter of the screen and forcing the user to mess about with the web designers custom scrollbars. A transaction box that cannot show dollar amounts at the same time as where the dollars are supposed to be transferred to is useless guys even if it gets around pop-up blockers.
Badly run monopoly. They could be making a fortune in volume if they had not decided to charge a high price to a limited number of partners for "premium" devices.
Regulated markets are often because free ones piss off the community enough that a government steps in. Hence food safety standards instead of a "free market".
There are also many situations where governments sell rights for money and keep everyone else out - initial taxi regulation, communications spectrum etc. Not so fair for the citizens with that government.
Treating the situation as if it is only the latter instead of a mix of the two is somewhat simplistic and naive, probably deliberately so. Deliberately dumbing things down to that level results in arguing about abstractions that so not apply and justifying the ridiculous (eg. a totally free market where the buyer has to beware of everything).
Now they do which is nice, but not many years back it was not the case. However since parallel ports are becoming rare things it may as well remain on the same hardware until people stop using the legacy software - which may have already happened since it's been used three times in the last eight years and not at all in two. Anyway the point is the 32 bit server line of MS stuff didn't have the design flaw, for a brief period the server and desktop line was the same thing, and that I have an example to hand.
How ridiculous. What an utterly pointless discussion this has been based entirely on your decision that your overly narrow personal definition trumps what the English language has to say.
It's even more pointless because your redefinition changes nothing about the example of a fake story of less of an atrocity than the real events and backfiring because it made people question the real events.
So I doubt, 20,000 voters will make a difference even in New Hampshire
The paradox is that they won't all vote together all the time unless directed in an authoritarian way.
Will it end up as a replay of when Koch decided to be that person? It led to the truly ironic situation of those who cried for freedom seeking to replace George Washington's "tyranny of the masses" with a King George III style aristocracy with Koch and similar as the ruling aristocrats. Bizzaro world. Just as well they didn't succeed that time.
Apparently freedom means not having to make your kids wear seatbelts but you still have to show photo ID to go on a long bus trip. Not to mention the scrotum grabbing if you fly.
Right, you're intentionally misrepresenting who it was. By saying "a person" in a general way, as if you don't know she is an involved party in their government, you make it sound like she must have been a paid actor
An actor is someone who does acting. She acted. She was an actor for the duration of that act. Is there some language barrier here? Your English is quite good otherwise but your lack of a grasp of simple definitions in a textbook simple example, plus your strange insult "You lack even basic theory of mind" suggests it - is that the case? Or are you just being obtuse?
The design flaw I am describing even occurs with multi-cpu systems that should be able to address a full 4GB per CPU/core like Win2k, solaris, linux, etc could do on 32 bit systems. I've got a Win2k system that's still fired up every couple of years to run legacy software (with an evil hardware dongle so no VM replacement) with 6GB of memory since it's got two Pentium Pro CPUs. Vista 32 bit with a pile of cores can't do that due to the design flaw.
Then you would know it was a person pretending to be a person she was not (a nurse) and reading from a script about something that never happened - ie. ACTING. I really do not understand why you wish to pretend that this example was something else and why you want to argue about the example instead of the actual issue at hand.
Typically nothing would have made it to press without someone else looking at it. Thus whiny non-articles would be seen as a total waste of space and cut.
The way I see it though, Stewart Alsop didn't really bring up any complaints that weren't valid
Also Musk reacted in a perfectly valid way to an open letter that started by telling him that he should be personally ashamed.
Valid complaints expressed very publicly in a very insulting manner tend to cause a different reaction to valid complaints not hidden under a pile of insults. Insults tend to get noticed more than anything of worth that is delivered with them.
It doesn't seem that long ago when some poster here had a rant along the lines of "electric and hybrid cars are useless until they come as an SUV". We've seen another "haha solar lightbulb" moment arrive as technology catches up with those who mock it and even their supposedly stupid strawman ideas prove to be practical.
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No, it is not time to start using a cryptocurrency.
The time is after some trust can be put in those backing the currency - not necessarily backed by gold like in "cryptonomicon" but something of value to provide an assurance that it is not a bubble.
I suspect some of those are compiling lists of active numbers at different times of day.
But I'm probably just assuming too much competence and they are probably just broken.
Cutting edge hardware is expensive so they have always gone for the cheaper option than Sony, MS etc. The downside is something not so quick, the upside is no blue rings of death or other cutting edge flakiness.
Seriously guys, there was a sleep tracking application for the Nokia N900 not long after release.
It's not supposed to be beta software so reliability is assumed. If you don't get it then the software is not ready for release. It's not high turnover commercial software where something has to be out by the end of the month whether it works or not.
Anything other than a single user desktop computer without a network is an out of date concept to the new shinies of systemd and wayland.
Let's party like it's 1994!
I'll second that, changing fonts on a Kobo is a very simple task and adding new fonts to the list is possible. It's also easy to side load books from project gutenberg or wherever.
I prefer my Boox but it's a large thing to carry around - iPad size. The small Kobo readers are more portable so handy things to avoid being bored while waiting or to have something to read over lunch.
All the e-readers I've used allow you to choose a different font as well. I have not used a Kindle but it probably has that option somewhere.
Or use an e-ink reader with Fbreader. There are many. Many have far better hardware than Amazon and Kobo devices (eg. larger and smaller form factor, some are significantly tougher (eg. flexone), better PDF handling, choice of software, ability to install your own fonts, android apps, bluetooth for keyboards etc) The thing that sucks about all of them is they cost more than the ones that are tied to a "store", but it also means that no update is ever going to delete any of the files you put on them.
Even worse, an unresizable rendered box popping taking up less than a quarter of the screen and forcing the user to mess about with the web designers custom scrollbars.
A transaction box that cannot show dollar amounts at the same time as where the dollars are supposed to be transferred to is useless guys even if it gets around pop-up blockers.
Badly run monopoly.
They could be making a fortune in volume if they had not decided to charge a high price to a limited number of partners for "premium" devices.
Regulated markets are often because free ones piss off the community enough that a government steps in. Hence food safety standards instead of a "free market".
There are also many situations where governments sell rights for money and keep everyone else out - initial taxi regulation, communications spectrum etc. Not so fair for the citizens with that government.
Treating the situation as if it is only the latter instead of a mix of the two is somewhat simplistic and naive, probably deliberately so. Deliberately dumbing things down to that level results in arguing about abstractions that so not apply and justifying the ridiculous (eg. a totally free market where the buyer has to beware of everything).
Now they do which is nice, but not many years back it was not the case. However since parallel ports are becoming rare things it may as well remain on the same hardware until people stop using the legacy software - which may have already happened since it's been used three times in the last eight years and not at all in two.
Anyway the point is the 32 bit server line of MS stuff didn't have the design flaw, for a brief period the server and desktop line was the same thing, and that I have an example to hand.
The woman who was acting did not write the script that she read.
How ridiculous.
What an utterly pointless discussion this has been based entirely on your decision that your overly narrow personal definition trumps what the English language has to say.
It's even more pointless because your redefinition changes nothing about the example of a fake story of less of an atrocity than the real events and backfiring because it made people question the real events.
The paradox is that they won't all vote together all the time unless directed in an authoritarian way.
Will it end up as a replay of when Koch decided to be that person? It led to the truly ironic situation of those who cried for freedom seeking to replace George Washington's "tyranny of the masses" with a King George III style aristocracy with Koch and similar as the ruling aristocrats. Bizzaro world. Just as well they didn't succeed that time.
Apparently freedom means not having to make your kids wear seatbelts but you still have to show photo ID to go on a long bus trip.
Not to mention the scrotum grabbing if you fly.
Thousands for a trip on New Years eve is normal? Pull the other one.
An actor is someone who does acting. She acted. She was an actor for the duration of that act.
Is there some language barrier here? Your English is quite good otherwise but your lack of a grasp of simple definitions in a textbook simple example, plus your strange insult "You lack even basic theory of mind" suggests it - is that the case?
Or are you just being obtuse?
Cheaper? I'm seeing uncapped peak pricing making up the difference.
The design flaw I am describing even occurs with multi-cpu systems that should be able to address a full 4GB per CPU/core like Win2k, solaris, linux, etc could do on 32 bit systems. I've got a Win2k system that's still fired up every couple of years to run legacy software (with an evil hardware dongle so no VM replacement) with 6GB of memory since it's got two Pentium Pro CPUs. Vista 32 bit with a pile of cores can't do that due to the design flaw.
Then you would know it was a person pretending to be a person she was not (a nurse) and reading from a script about something that never happened - ie. ACTING.
I really do not understand why you wish to pretend that this example was something else and why you want to argue about the example instead of the actual issue at hand.
Typically nothing would have made it to press without someone else looking at it.
Thus whiny non-articles would be seen as a total waste of space and cut.
Also Musk reacted in a perfectly valid way to an open letter that started by telling him that he should be personally ashamed.
Valid complaints expressed very publicly in a very insulting manner tend to cause a different reaction to valid complaints not hidden under a pile of insults. Insults tend to get noticed more than anything of worth that is delivered with them.
It doesn't seem that long ago when some poster here had a rant along the lines of "electric and hybrid cars are useless until they come as an SUV".
We've seen another "haha solar lightbulb" moment arrive as technology catches up with those who mock it and even their supposedly stupid strawman ideas prove to be practical.