The biggest issue with scaling is usually the database, and for applications where you are just using the database as a simple persistence store for user settings and simple small data sets, you are probably best to go with one of the many scalable "NoSQL" type solutions such as MongoDB, as they've got scalability baked in for free.
Are you a troll, malicious or just plain not knowledgeable?
The reason being that if you have multiple nations using the same currency, but without a single tax and regulatory structure to cover it, you wind up with situations like this where somebody gets in trouble and everybody else has to help fix it.
The tax is EU membership. It costs the UK 65 billion GBP a year. That is without the money put into bailouts.
I'm not really sure why Europeans have such a hard time with this.
We have politicians in the European government that have ultimate power that are not elected by the peoples of Europe. We cannot vote them in or out and they have an obsession with the Euro project.
Without the 10 Trillion Euro bailout by the rest of EU nobody would have 1 red cent in Cyprus.
To be fair, if Cyprus was allowed to leave the Euro (EU will not allow this) and devalue their own currency (something Iceland did recently), they would have had a stable, working economy by now.
Of course, the politicians do not want anyone leaving the Euro project, or that would send a message it's a failure and so, they force the European populations into further poverty.
Show me one government that; if it doesn't do it's dirty work openly, doesn't have a "secret" agency of some other advertised value, that handles it's hoodlum urges.
Most of the proper scientists abandoned slashdot years ago, though. It's interesting to go back 10 years or so and compare the quality of the posts to what we have today.
I am afraid I cannot accept that information on just face value. Please provide the study you used so we can critique the results properly.
Well the glaring difference is that bitcoin does not have expenses or employees so theres no compelling reason to stop.
I haven't heard in the recent years a story to do with stopping using a currency because staffing the production of it is too expensive as a reason to stop.
Currencies fail because governments fail (or vice versa in a few cases), but bitcoin is not associated with any government so again no reason to stop.
If a nation's economy screws up and people in that nation devalue their services/products to deal with the economic changes, that could have substantial repercussions for others relying on the for-mentioned currency depending on the size of the nation. Bitcoin on a massive scale in my opinion suffer similar problems to the Euro if people were dead set on 'staying' in the currency.
I disagree with the illusion that Bitcoin cannot be influenced by governments, or more precisely, nation-wide economical problems that create waves economically for the rest of the world. It doesn't mater what currency is involved in those situations, but it's those situations that can kill a currency.
Iirc most economists agree that real world or "intrinsic" value is not a desirable property in currency. Currency like the dollar represent value, but aren't in and of themselves valuable (paper and ink).
Indeed. But I still don't agree Gold can be compared to the same standard of Bitcoins since it has very real uses outside of a currency.
Many people are concerned about bitcoin, and rightly so, but everyone starts by thinking it's ridiculous until they understand it better and realize that their concerns are addressed by the design or general economic theory. People are objecting to it because it's a new idea, not because it's a bad idea.
Someone tried to sell me on the idea that I should look into using a currency that is stored in a digital form, which I have to keep on a separate device to ensure that an electronic intrusion is not readily feasible, transaction times taking at least 15 minutes and if someone makes off with my wallet there is no reversing of transactions or blocking of stolen funds even after reporting it. The currency fluctuates significantly and has a significant reliance on having Internet access during transactions and waiting for long periods or either party could end up 'scammed'. Meanwhile, the currency does nothing to stabilize the economy yet people claim that this is the solution when economies are screwing up. But don't worry, you get some more anonymity and lack of government controls/legal support as a feature!
Needless to say, it was a hard sale when it came to me.
Enron was a company. When companies run out of money they close because they can't pay their debts.
You missed my point, which was that, "people say a lot of things", doesn't make it necessarily true.
What is the failure mode of bitcoin?
Currencies collapse when people don't see their worth being above a certain value any more. I don't see this much different from the Enron situation because of that. They can both fail, it doesn't matter how big it is.
What is the failure mode of gold for that matter?
A guess in this matter would be.. Something like Palladium becoming the new precious substance for trading as Gold becomes irrelevant due to the supply being far greater than the needs, as well as say Palladium having far more uses in in electronics and manufacturing as well as replacing Gold usage in various circumstances, therefore weighing it's necessity over Gold etc.
In reality, I suspect comparing Bitcoin to Gold is not really a good comparison since Gold has actual real world applications outside of being just currency.
Invest all bank assets currently held in Cypress, Greece, Italy and Spain, invest them all in Bitcoins, and wait... It will drive the value of bitcoins through the roof, give the currency the universal acceptance it lacks, and save the EU, all in one fell swoop!
The European Union is adamant about maintaining countries and people in the Euro project, they prevented countries from switching back to their own currencies and instead did bad plans like bailouts... Do you really think they will allow the use of Bitcoin on such a scale? You're mental.
As a customer who won't buy DRM-protected stuff, I don't consider the simple act of entering a license key to be DRM... What do you think? As long as the validation of the key happens locally, I don't mind doing this. In a way, it makes the purchase feel a bit more personalized.
So, from this we can determine you do not buy any modern Windows systems or Apple systems (since they both have "DRM protected stuff" in the OS/hardware). In which case, if you buy anything modern, you likely rely on free and opensource software mostly and probably not the target audience for this software developer.
Nearly all the software on pirate sites has been cracked, so the pirate's version won't require the user to enter a serial number or be calling home on the first install anyway. Even these simple anti-piracy methods hurt the user and not the pirate.
I don't believe you. I am convinced most pirate software does not even remove call home functionality and instead just patch a response to trying a key to always make it believe it is valid. I also believe they also still require a key, that is included with the installer in a text file.
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Are you a troll, malicious or just plain not knowledgeable?
It never asks, so it never got it.
My mail server scans the body for spam and various malware.
The tax is EU membership. It costs the UK 65 billion GBP a year. That is without the money put into bailouts.
We have politicians in the European government that have ultimate power that are not elected by the peoples of Europe. We cannot vote them in or out and they have an obsession with the Euro project.
To be fair, if Cyprus was allowed to leave the Euro (EU will not allow this) and devalue their own currency (something Iceland did recently), they would have had a stable, working economy by now.
Of course, the politicians do not want anyone leaving the Euro project, or that would send a message it's a failure and so, they force the European populations into further poverty.
Tokelau?
I have less digits than you.
If I was approaching this scientifically, I would.
I thought we used Twitter or Google+ to communicate with users now?
I am afraid I cannot accept that information on just face value. Please provide the study you used so we can critique the results properly.
They screwed everyone over with the Neon Genesis Evangelion?
There was a decent movie about Enron? What was it called?
I haven't heard in the recent years a story to do with stopping using a currency because staffing the production of it is too expensive as a reason to stop.
If a nation's economy screws up and people in that nation devalue their services/products to deal with the economic changes, that could have substantial repercussions for others relying on the for-mentioned currency depending on the size of the nation. Bitcoin on a massive scale in my opinion suffer similar problems to the Euro if people were dead set on 'staying' in the currency.
I disagree with the illusion that Bitcoin cannot be influenced by governments, or more precisely, nation-wide economical problems that create waves economically for the rest of the world. It doesn't mater what currency is involved in those situations, but it's those situations that can kill a currency.
Indeed. But I still don't agree Gold can be compared to the same standard of Bitcoins since it has very real uses outside of a currency.
Someone tried to sell me on the idea that I should look into using a currency that is stored in a digital form, which I have to keep on a separate device to ensure that an electronic intrusion is not readily feasible, transaction times taking at least 15 minutes and if someone makes off with my wallet there is no reversing of transactions or blocking of stolen funds even after reporting it. The currency fluctuates significantly and has a significant reliance on having Internet access during transactions and waiting for long periods or either party could end up 'scammed'. Meanwhile, the currency does nothing to stabilize the economy yet people claim that this is the solution when economies are screwing up. But don't worry, you get some more anonymity and lack of government controls/legal support as a feature!
Needless to say, it was a hard sale when it came to me.
You missed my point, which was that, "people say a lot of things", doesn't make it necessarily true.
Currencies collapse when people don't see their worth being above a certain value any more. I don't see this much different from the Enron situation because of that. They can both fail, it doesn't matter how big it is.
A guess in this matter would be.. Something like Palladium becoming the new precious substance for trading as Gold becomes irrelevant due to the supply being far greater than the needs, as well as say Palladium having far more uses in in electronics and manufacturing as well as replacing Gold usage in various circumstances, therefore weighing it's necessity over Gold etc.
In reality, I suspect comparing Bitcoin to Gold is not really a good comparison since Gold has actual real world applications outside of being just currency.
The European Union is adamant about maintaining countries and people in the Euro project, they prevented countries from switching back to their own currencies and instead did bad plans like bailouts... Do you really think they will allow the use of Bitcoin on such a scale? You're mental.
Reminds me of what people told me about investing in Enron.
It's not corrupt, the moderation system is working as intended. :)
It's not an attempt if it was done. :)
I do not believe that is a goal of his, but rather a side effect of his campaign against the super power known as APK. :)
Woha, you just mentioned using something other than hosts files, you are clearly an imposter. :O
What about nucleic acids?
Slashdot does support unicode, it's just that the majority of unicode is blacklisted in their slashcode setup.
Such as?
That is really only an issue in the states. This doesn't effect the majority of people.
You failed to give a reason as to why.
http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2008/06/24/evernote-public-launch/
Google Reader: Survived eight years
Evernote: Has only five years history.
So far Evernote hasn't proven to be longer service than Google Reader. Your logic is flawed.
So, from this we can determine you do not buy any modern Windows systems or Apple systems (since they both have "DRM protected stuff" in the OS/hardware). In which case, if you buy anything modern, you likely rely on free and opensource software mostly and probably not the target audience for this software developer.
I don't believe you. I am convinced most pirate software does not even remove call home functionality and instead just patch a response to trying a key to always make it believe it is valid. I also believe they also still require a key, that is included with the installer in a text file.