Microsoft wants to do away with currencies altogether. Bitcoin is the competition. MS Credits works something like a frequent-flyer rewards program:
Joe builds an app, "Fart app in D Flat". In lieu of payment in $US, Joe opts to receive payment in app store credits. So each time someone buys Joe's app, he receives 100 app store credits, which Joe can then use to buy apps or ebooks, add to his music catalogue or rent movies etc.
The Windows Insider program dispenses store credits for every bug report or helpful suggestion. Independent web sites (such as $lashdot) offer tie-ins for up-modded comments to receive 5 store credits for every up-mod. social media offers 1 credit per like. Kid-friendly bricks and mortar stores such as Burger King offer credits on each order, while pizza delivery companies allow for service entirely in MS store credits.
The evil genius is that since no money changes hands, possibly withstanding a supreme court challenge, Microsoft's taxation burden is then liable only at the point of conversion into real hard currency, such as grannie purchasing a block of credits for a birthday present, or big purchases on the store using a payment gateway to traditional currencies.
Attempts to monetize purchases in competition to iTunes/Play/Amazon may be doomed to failure if it's all about profits. Creating their own virtual payment system that rewards users of the Windows ecosystem may well save their 80% desktop monopoly.
You do know that they could have lost 0 people, if they hadn't tried taking over the entire peninsula and subjecting all of its people to poverty, misery, and repression. The 20/20 hindsight that we can and should use in this case
20/20 hindsight would have had Stalin and Truman not fucking over Korea by partitioning it into 2 rival states in the first place.
The leaders have been successful on social media targeting disillusioned youth in western nations to join their global jihad. On the face of it, it's a minuscule group of soldier boys as combatants in a never-ending civil war in a desert wasteland.
I think our deposed former PM, Tony Abbott, gave these war criminals more air time than they deserved by screeching "Death Cult" every 5 minutes, possibly inciting several lone-wolf terrorist incidents in the process. Certainly current PM Malcolm Turnbull has toned down the rhetoric.
A Google employee was on here a few months ago exhorting us to all buy Nexus devices because they received better support than non Google branded devices. I queried why the Nexus 4 received no Marshmallow update when it was a still a perfectly capable piece of hardware and was told, effectively, stiff cheddar.
Maybe there's an aftermarket for IoT; a Galaxy Nexus/Nexus 4 benchmarks competitively with a rPi 2?
I may be missing the "satire" here but Line-Width, seriously? I shouldn't have to scroll vertically to read your text because you've made a stylistic decision to limit the viewable area to 60-80 characters.
Surely that's the responsibility of a window manager to adjust horizontal width?
Well I wasn't around 1000 years ago but based on the 'vowel shifts' throughout the 2nd millennium, I would guess it was pronounced with an 'a' as in 'father' rather than as in 'cat'.
so something like 'arks' but without the 'r' sound rather than 'axe' rhymes with Â'tacks'.
A question: Would health insurance premiums have risen over the past 8 years even if Barry O's healthcare policy hadn't been enacted? I suspect an angry middle-class will be disappointed if they expect premiums to stabilise or fall under President Trump.
Here in Australia, the government attempted to 'Americanize' health care by offering tax incentives to take out private health insurance. Yet premiums are expected to rise 5.6% this year and no one bats an eyelid.
Tree absorbs carbon during its lifecycle. Tree matures, the wood is harvested and sold to a restaurant that cooks you a pizza in a wood-fired oven. CO2 is released and absorbed by the forest and the charcoal is buried to improve soil quality (terra preta)
We had a technology at my university in the early 90s, they were called X-terms - login to a computer running Ultrix or SunOS and graphical programs would render locally on a network connected screen attached to a keyboard and mouse.
I find it hard to take the FBI seriously on iPhones when their own IT department's security is so lax.
Agent Mulder's work issued computer didn't even have a password protected lockscreen when the machine was idle. Thank goodness it was only Scully/Miller/Einstein - anyone from a double agent to a passer-by such as a cleaner or a vending machine technician could have accessed sensitive, classified information.
I realise there are few, affordable, 8K displays on the market but shouldn't a standard assume forward compatibility if it already supports 120Hz at 4K?
With the Greens stitching up a deal with our government to marginalise Ricky and friends, democracy is at a low ebb. I hope Di Natale realises that seats held by the likes of Day, Muir, Leyonhjelm, Madigan and former PUPs might well flow directly back to elect a 3rd liberal/national stooge in every state.
Check out the website above, I'll give serious consideration to putting a plucky kid like Dr Jansson first in senate voting.
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pairing a $35 computer with a $150 drive?
The point about this modest capacity hard disk is that it creates a cheap setup for well under $US100.
Congratulations, you're actually on topic!
Microsoft wants to do away with currencies altogether. Bitcoin is the competition. MS Credits works something like a frequent-flyer rewards program:
Joe builds an app, "Fart app in D Flat". In lieu of payment in $US, Joe opts to receive payment in app store credits. So each time someone buys Joe's app, he receives 100 app store credits, which Joe can then use to buy apps or ebooks, add to his music catalogue or rent movies etc.
The Windows Insider program dispenses store credits for every bug report or helpful suggestion. Independent web sites (such as $lashdot) offer tie-ins for up-modded comments to receive 5 store credits for every up-mod. social media offers 1 credit per like. Kid-friendly bricks and mortar stores such as Burger King offer credits on each order, while pizza delivery companies allow for service entirely in MS store credits.
The evil genius is that since no money changes hands, possibly withstanding a supreme court challenge, Microsoft's taxation burden is then liable only at the point of conversion into real hard currency, such as grannie purchasing a block of credits for a birthday present, or big purchases on the store using a payment gateway to traditional currencies.
Attempts to monetize purchases in competition to iTunes/Play/Amazon may be doomed to failure if it's all about profits. Creating their own virtual payment system that rewards users of the Windows ecosystem may well save their 80% desktop monopoly.
And what percentage of users with problems filed bug reports with their distro instead of just profanely complaining about it on reddit and slashdot?
(Admittedly Ubuntu dropped the ball by disabling hibernate/suspend by default - which I had to re-enable on my working hardware)
Kernel developers can only fix what users report, so keep submitting helpful diagnostics...
20/20 hindsight would have had Stalin and Truman not fucking over Korea by partitioning it into 2 rival states in the first place.
I thought he was advocating a return to good old Canadian know-how, i.e. his trusty Blackberry.
Pesky US companies such as Google and Apple can't be trusted to follow the script...
You raise a good point.
The leaders have been successful on social media targeting disillusioned youth in western nations to join their global jihad. On the face of it, it's a minuscule group of soldier boys as combatants in a never-ending civil war in a desert wasteland.
I think our deposed former PM, Tony Abbott, gave these war criminals more air time than they deserved by screeching "Death Cult" every 5 minutes, possibly inciting several lone-wolf terrorist incidents in the process. Certainly current PM Malcolm Turnbull has toned down the rhetoric.
500ft, far out, it always sounds scarier in US units. :)
I'm pretty sure that wave that killed Patrick Swayze in Point Break was nowhere near 150m.
A Google employee was on here a few months ago exhorting us to all buy Nexus devices because they received better support than non Google branded devices. I queried why the Nexus 4 received no Marshmallow update when it was a still a perfectly capable piece of hardware and was told, effectively, stiff cheddar.
Maybe there's an aftermarket for IoT; a Galaxy Nexus/Nexus 4 benchmarks competitively with a rPi 2?
I may be missing the "satire" here but Line-Width, seriously? I shouldn't have to scroll vertically to read your text because you've made a stylistic decision to limit the viewable area to 60-80 characters.
Surely that's the responsibility of a window manager to adjust horizontal width?
*whoosh* ?
Darl McBride sues US Government at $32/drone for embedding Linux in their firmware?
Well I wasn't around 1000 years ago but based on the 'vowel shifts' throughout the 2nd millennium, I would guess it was pronounced with an 'a' as in 'father' rather than as in 'cat'.
so something like 'arks' but without the 'r' sound rather than 'axe' rhymes with Â'tacks'.
Consult any historical old/middle English textbook. The pronunciation went aks => ask
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
According to dictionary.com, Origin 1740-50; when Washington was a boy.
Oh, the ironing.
I've personally moderated many of your idiotic posts over the past decade!
Cheap beachside holidays on the black sea, what's not to love?
A Norwegian family I used to know used to spend annual vacations there.
A question: Would health insurance premiums have risen over the past 8 years even if Barry O's healthcare policy hadn't been enacted? I suspect an angry middle-class will be disappointed if they expect premiums to stabilise or fall under President Trump.
Here in Australia, the government attempted to 'Americanize' health care by offering tax incentives to take out private health insurance. Yet premiums are expected to rise 5.6% this year and no one bats an eyelid.
In a sense trees are nature's batteries.
Tree absorbs carbon during its lifecycle. Tree matures, the wood is harvested and sold to a restaurant that cooks you a pizza in a wood-fired oven. CO2 is released and absorbed by the forest and the charcoal is buried to improve soil quality (terra preta)
With all the depressed people in society can't they just 'mine' the lithium from waste treatment plants using osmosis?
Apple do own the IP to the Lightning connector though.
We had a technology at my university in the early 90s, they were called X-terms - login to a computer running Ultrix or SunOS and graphical programs would render locally on a network connected screen attached to a keyboard and mouse.
Yeah thanks.
India sounds half a world away, while Westchester sounds positively British.
I find it hard to take the FBI seriously on iPhones when their own IT department's security is so lax.
Agent Mulder's work issued computer didn't even have a password protected lockscreen when the machine was idle. Thank goodness it was only Scully/Miller/Einstein - anyone from a double agent to a passer-by such as a cleaner or a vending machine technician could have accessed sensitive, classified information.
I realise there are few, affordable, 8K displays on the market but shouldn't a standard assume forward compatibility if it already supports 120Hz at 4K?
With the Greens stitching up a deal with our government to marginalise Ricky and friends, democracy is at a low ebb. I hope Di Natale realises that seats held by the likes of Day, Muir, Leyonhjelm, Madigan and former PUPs might well flow directly back to elect a 3rd liberal/national stooge in every state.
Check out the website above, I'll give serious consideration to putting a plucky kid like Dr Jansson first in senate voting.
Well that's more than double my net worth but that doesn't sound "rich" to me by any means.
Come to Australia and see how modest a house that buys in Sydney or Melbourne.